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Welcome everyone to episode 478 of Signals from
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Mars. I'm your host, Victor. And for this episode,
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we bring you the 1970 countdown. Yes, that is
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the year 1970. Not the decade of the 70s. We'll
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get to that eventually. But we just kicked off
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our countdowns for the decade. Let me send a
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shout out to all of my patrons. We have Corey
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.com forward slash signalsfromars. These countdown
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episodes are always fun. not only because I get
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together with other music nerds like myself,
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but we get to talk about albums that, in this
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case from 1970, that maybe others haven't listened
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to or others haven't given a chance to. So it's
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cool to go back in time and renew our interest
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in some of these bands. And these are really
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important years. I'll get to it during the episode,
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but these are kind of the foundation of what
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got us to hard rock and metal that we know and
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love. And essentially, you know, where we're
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at in 2026, there are a lot of bands and I've
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interviewed people over the years where I've
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said, you know, that, Sounds like you got it
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from this person. And I'll give you a perfect
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example. There's a song that had a big Dave Mustaine
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influence to it. And I said to the person I was
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interviewing, I know where you got that from.
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You got it from Mustaine. You got it from Megadeth.
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But did you know that comes from Michael Shanker?
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And that comes from the song Love to Love. from
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UFO. And they were like, what? I go, yeah, the
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progression. I go, have you ever heard the song?
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No, I've never heard it. Okay, check the song
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out and tell me later on what you think. Because
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Love to Love, Desert Song by MSG later on, where
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Michael kind of revisits that style of composition
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is where it's very prevalent. So they listened
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to it and they were surprised. So that's the
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thing. We're at a stage here where we're touching
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on albums that influenced who influenced who
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we love in a lot of cases. So I think these are
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important years. And I think it's important to
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go back and recognize what these artists have
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done and the impact of these albums themselves.
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Why we do these episodes in any event. Thank
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you for listening. SignalsFromMars .com and let's
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get on with it. Welcome everyone to the latest
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episode of Signals From Mars. I am your host,
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Victor. Joining me are the president of Yarg
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Metal, Mr. Brad Dahl. It's me. And what are you
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the president of, Jeremy? Nothing. The president
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of nothing, Jeremy. This is what will end up
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being 478 of Signals from Mars. This is our 1970
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episode. People voted for their favorite albums
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of 1970. And I will say this. I've been thinking
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all day about how to put a positive spin on things
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because I have gotten a lot of different responses
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from people. And this is what I'm going to say.
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I think that people missed out on an enriching
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experience of listening to some music from 1970.
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Instead of saying tough year, I wasn't into what
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came out that year, especially the people that
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I have on Patreon. You had a month almost to
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vote on these. So there was ample time to listen
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to. Albums that came out in 1970. And with all
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the voting that I receive, I always say this.
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Yes, I asked for 10 albums. But if I only get
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one album from you, that's good enough for me
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to work with. So there's a bunch of people that
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sent me three, that sent me four. And that's
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cool. I get it. And I get that not everything
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this year. skews towards what we usually listen
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to. Listen, there's no Iron Maiden. There's no
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Metallica. There's no Kiss yet. There's no ACDC
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yet. There will be soon. But I think this is
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a cool year to see what kind of got us there.
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Because this is probably the most non -metal
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list that we've ever had. And that's fine because,
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again, I think that it shows us the blueprint
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of how we got to where we are today and how we
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got to some of these albums that we really love.
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And it's funny because I voted for bands that
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I can't say that I particularly care for. But
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at the same time, I'm looking at the album and
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I'm thinking, damn it, I hate this band, but
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I can't. I cannot say no to the influence of
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this album or how good some of these songs are.
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So anyway, Victor, that's what, that's what makes
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you such a great music host. It's you're not,
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you know, you're willing to listen to things
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and you're willing to judge them on their, their
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merit. And, and also maybe it's not what you
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listen to or what you cared about, but I mean,
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you can't deny the impact. something has had
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in the history of music. And yeah, that's, and,
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and also I got to say that when you first proposed
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doing 1970, I kind of felt the same way as a
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lot of people. I was like 70. I mean, holy crap.
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I didn't own an album in 1970. And as I looked
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through the list, there were, there were, I did
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own some of the, eventually own some of these
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albums, but I know my brother did. And. Anyway,
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I think when you talked about the historical
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aspect of it and how these are the building blocks
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of the music that we love, I was like, yeah,
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you're right, man. Damn it, Victor's right again.
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Victor's right more than he is wrong, by the
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way. Just want to say that. I appreciate that.
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But even looking at this list, my number one
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is an album that I've listened to a lot. over
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the years. I wasn't born when this album came
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out, but it doesn't mean that I don't love it.
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And even though I may be sick of a lot of songs
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on the album currently doesn't mean that I didn't
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play it to death. Doesn't mean that I don't understand
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the magnitude of this album. And it wasn't a
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lot of people's number one, but it's, it's up
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there. I'll say this. Every album that made the
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top 10 was voted on by more than one person.
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The number one and two appear on everybody's
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list. Yeah. Number three appeared on actually
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three and four appeared on almost everybody's
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lists. So that goes that goes to show how important
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those first four albums are. And there's there's
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a lot of albums that kind of meandered back and
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forth that were very close in voting. But when
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it all settled, I think this is a solid bunch
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of albums. So hear me out for a second, Victor.
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I'm sorry to keep hijacking this. But, you know,
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one thing that blew my mind is thinking about,
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OK, 1970, that was 56. Years ago. So if we were
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in 1970 right now, 56 years before that would
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be 1914, right? How much music from 1914 were
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people listening to in 1970? Not too much. Well,
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I guess you're going to have your World War I
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vets probably listening to some of what? They
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listened to when they were shipped off or, you
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know. Call to arms, right, Jeremy? Okay, sorry.
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All right. But anyway, didn't it kind of, you
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know, all these people that want to say rock
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is dead and all this crap. It's like, holy crap,
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this music has endured. I mean, yeah, it's not,
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it's, you know, real rock, at least in the U
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.S., is not everywhere you look. But 56 years.
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And we're still listening to, you still hear
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these so many songs, more than a few of these.
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Yeah, the other thing to mention with this, just
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before we go into the top 10, is that, you know,
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we're talking about 1970s, so we're heading into
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the 70s, but really these are 60s albums. This
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is the end of the 60s. So there's a lot of influences
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coming in from the 60s. And you can hear it in
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these albums that we're going to talk about now,
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how some of them have these 60s influences still
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in there, and some of them are starting to forge
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a new sound. And I think that's what's really
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interesting. And that new sound is what we still
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listen to today in various bits of our music.
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The two of us have listened to an album that
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we'll be talking about next week. We have an
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Excel spreadsheet where we're able to say, well,
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I listened to this. We can kind of point that
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out to one another. And we try to not overlap.
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But there's one album specifically, Jeremy, that
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you and I listened to that is heavily influenced
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by what's on Brad's t -shirt. Yes, of course.
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And they're not. the only band, you know? So,
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and, and there's other things on here that as
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I'm, as I was going through some of these albums,
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I'm thinking, shit, I haven't listened to this
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in a long time. And this is a really good album.
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This is a great track. This is an important track.
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The last person that I interviewed played with
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one of these bands. that's going to appear on
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our
list so uh oh oh no was that uh rev i i i
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listened to that today by the way everybody watching
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this go listen to uh victor's uh interview with
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rev jones um yeah the dude's dude's got some
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great stories yeah it's it's funny too because
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on one of the shorts somebody's criticized what
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he said of about preferring to see metallic alive
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over mega death mega death because he just and
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and somebody was like oh you know well uh it
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isn't all about the show blah blah blah what
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does this guy know and i respond to the guy i
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said you know thanks for watching you do know
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he's a professional traveling musician right
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so i've only seen him once i know but here we
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are going off track again and it was playing
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with michael shanker and i was like i had no
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idea who he was i'm like Who the hell is this
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guy? And he's, like, just shredding all over
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Michael's stuff on the bass. And it's like, I'm
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not sure that's what Michael was looking for,
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but maybe what do I know? Of course, Carmine,
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a piece, was playing the drums on that show,
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too. That was kind of weird. Weird things. All
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right, never mind. Back to the 70s. So here we
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go. Number 10. Okay. The title of this album
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comes from a line in West Side Story. One of
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the band's favorite films. I'm thinking Brad
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will probably get this just from this. I don't
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know. It's the band's second album and last on
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Frank Zappa's straight label before they moved
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to Warner Brothers. Oh, that's going to be Alice
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Cooper. Drummer Neil Smith said producer David
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Briggs. Disliked the band's music. Briggs also
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co -produced Neil Young's After the Gold Rush,
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another 1970s album that got a vote in this year's
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countdown. I actually voted for that. The closing
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track, Lay Down and Die, Goodbye, opens with
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a sample of Tom Smothers saying, you are the
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only censor. It sold poorly. A few early U .S.
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copies were pressed with Zappa's Bizarre Label
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instead of Straight. Let's see. It was released
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in March of 1970 on Straight Records, recorded
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at SunWest Studios, Hollywood, November to December
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1969, as you guys mentioned. Producer David Briggs.
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And interestingly enough, Not voted number one
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by anybody. But at number 10, it is easy action
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by Alice Cooper. Alice is on the phone calling
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Brad. He's calling. Brad, you guessed it. What
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do you mean? He wants to know why he's only number
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10. He's pulling a Johan on us here. He's like,
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10? I should be number 10. Three. So what's your
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comment on Easy Action? I've got to be honest.
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I really haven't spent much time with this album,
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so I can't make an intelligent comment. Have
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you listened to this album at all? I didn't even
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realize this was out in 1970. When I looked through
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all the 1970 albums, I didn't see this one, so
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I can't comment. Can you just remind me where
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it was in his canon of albums? How early in his
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career? Second album? Second album. And second
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album and last on Frank Zappa's straight label
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before moving to Warner Brothers and love it
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to death. All I can say about Alice Cooper is
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he should always listen to his early stuff. I've
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not listened to this particular one, and so I
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will go away and listen to it and probably take
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something out of it, yeah, because he's an important
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part of rock music at the time, really, and is
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now. You know, he's still going. He's still playing
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live. And not only that, but doing a great job.
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He still performs and sounds great. Yeah. And
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I bet there's a lot of young people now who might
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even go and see him because they've just heard
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of him or they know he's got a great show. And
00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.579
they probably don't realize that this guy was
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releasing albums in 1970. 56 years ago. Yeah.
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It's crazy. Crazy. There you go. Okay. So. Number
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nine. Released in December of 1970 on Mercury
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Records. Recorded at Vantone Studios in New Jersey.
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Mixed at Electric Ladyland Studios in New York.
00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.220
Producers, the producer was Mike Appel and Jim
00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.079
Kritekos. I don't know how to pronounce that.
00:19:46.329 --> 00:19:54.230
Engineered by Eddie Kramer and Kim King. No first
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place votes either, but let's see. In 1971, Cream
00:19:58.789 --> 00:20:02.289
reviewed this album as one of the earliest documented
00:20:02.289 --> 00:20:06.269
uses of heavy metal to describe a style of music.
00:20:08.309 --> 00:20:12.410
Producer Mike Appel later became Bruce Springsteen's
00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:17.109
manager, and he and Creed Techos produced Springsteen's
00:20:17.109 --> 00:20:19.509
debut Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey.
00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.839
Engineer Eddie Kramer was famous for his work
00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.440
with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, and the mix
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was done at Hendrix Electric Lady Studios. The
00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.119
band was a power trio from Brooklyn. John Garner
00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:43.960
on drums and lead vocals, Louis Dombra on guitar,
00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:50.059
and Gary Justin on bass. It is now regarded as
00:20:50.059 --> 00:20:52.299
one of the earliest heavy metal records and a
00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:56.890
forerunner of stoner rock. Despite its reputation,
00:20:57.509 --> 00:21:02.190
today it sold poorly and the band made only one
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more album in that era. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
00:21:10.660 --> 00:21:15.259
I should know this stuff. I should know. I feel
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like Dan. How do I not know this? No, I can't
00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:22.660
recognize the names of them. I don't even recognize
00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:24.819
any of the guys in the band. I was three years
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old. Oh, yes, Sir Lord Baltimore. Oh, yes. Now
00:21:31.099 --> 00:21:33.599
I did listen to this. Kingdom Come by Sir Lord
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Baltimore. Well, since you did listen to it,
00:21:35.700 --> 00:21:39.670
Jeremy, your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, it sounded
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of its time. It did have some heavy rock influences
00:21:44.849 --> 00:21:48.349
into it. I can't say I thoroughly enjoyed it
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because it wasn't – No, the reason was because
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I'm comparing it to the very best of that year.
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And we're going to come on to those in a minute,
00:21:56.710 --> 00:21:59.950
the four or five that are at the top. So for
00:21:59.950 --> 00:22:02.750
me, I was always comparing it to those, but I
00:22:02.750 --> 00:22:05.710
could see that it had something about it. And
00:22:05.710 --> 00:22:07.829
it was certainly something that you want to dig
00:22:07.829 --> 00:22:11.230
into. It had all those sort of proto -rock influences.
00:22:11.430 --> 00:22:14.049
It had a little bit of sort of doomy sounds to
00:22:14.049 --> 00:22:17.849
it. And there was just something a little bit.
00:22:18.589 --> 00:22:20.549
eccentric about it which is kind of what the
00:22:20.549 --> 00:22:23.970
70s was all about i guess so yeah there was something
00:22:23.970 --> 00:22:29.380
there okay uh and i you know i'd heard the band
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before i'd heard the band name before but never
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really i'd never really dug into it i'd never
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really sort of heard any music yeah same same
00:22:35.859 --> 00:22:37.660
for me and this is one that i'm going to go back
00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:39.319
and listen to there are others that i didn't
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get a chance to listen to there was this there
00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.519
was the the cactus album as well which i listened
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to part of There's a few others from 1970 that
00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:52.519
I want to go back and revisit. Yeah. Brad, anything
00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.509
on this album? No, other than this is a band
00:22:56.509 --> 00:22:59.289
that when anybody talks about the beginnings
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of heavy metal, they always get lumped in there
00:23:01.529 --> 00:23:04.369
as one of those bands. And I feel like at one
00:23:04.369 --> 00:23:06.190
point I'm like, okay, I got to listen to this
00:23:06.190 --> 00:23:08.789
and I didn't get very deep into it. So it just
00:23:08.789 --> 00:23:12.049
didn't, it didn't really strike me as like, Ooh,
00:23:12.109 --> 00:23:14.960
I want to listen to this. Okay. No problem. But
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I will also give it a listen. Number eight. All
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right. Released June 26th, 1970 on Island Records.
00:23:29.069 --> 00:23:32.289
Recorded at Trident and Island Studios in London,
00:23:32.430 --> 00:23:38.349
January to June 1970. Produced by the band. Assisted
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by Roy Thomas Baker. And let's see the tidbits
00:23:45.460 --> 00:23:51.089
here. So the one big song off of this, a huge
00:23:51.089 --> 00:23:54.710
song off of this, was released as a single in
00:23:54.710 --> 00:23:58.130
May of 1970, reached number two in the UK, number
00:23:58.130 --> 00:24:01.029
four in the US. It remains a classic rock radio
00:24:01.029 --> 00:24:12.119
staple. Wow. Let's see. I think it's the drummer,
00:24:12.180 --> 00:24:15.380
and I know the lead singer, wrote this song after
00:24:15.380 --> 00:24:19.190
a gig that went overly... went over badly, wanting
00:24:19.190 --> 00:24:23.519
an upbeat song to close their shows. Oh, no,
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.720
it's the bass player. Okay. The band was remarkably
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:31.079
young. The bass player was just 17 when the sessions
00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:34.440
began.
Roy Thomas Baker, who helped produce it,
00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:37.660
later produced Queen, including Bohemian Rhapsody.
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It reached number two on the UK album chart,
00:24:40.900 --> 00:24:44.460
spending 18 weeks there and number 17 in the
00:24:44.460 --> 00:24:49.559
US. The band played the Isle of Wight Festival
00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:56.390
in August of 1970 at the height of the album's
00:24:56.390 --> 00:25:03.700
success. Okay. Take a stab, Jeremy. I think I'm
00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:08.440
guessing it might be free. You are guessing.
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:13.240
Maybe not. Oh, I'm right. It is Fire and Water
00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:16.650
by Free. All Right Now was released as a single
00:25:16.650 --> 00:25:19.450
in May of 1970 and reached number two in the
00:25:19.450 --> 00:25:24.069
UK and four in the US. And Andy Frazier and Paul
00:25:24.069 --> 00:25:27.309
Rogers wrote All Right Now after a gig that went
00:25:27.309 --> 00:25:31.470
over badly, wanting an upbeat song to close their
00:25:31.470 --> 00:25:35.349
shows. And Andy Frazier was only 17 when the
00:25:35.349 --> 00:25:40.569
session began. Huge song. And let's hear it.
00:25:40.630 --> 00:25:45.019
Still huge. Still hear it. Yeah. All the time.
00:25:46.009 --> 00:25:49.130
Wow. But it also has that song Mr. Big on it.
00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:51.410
Absolutely, yeah. That's another one. Which is
00:25:51.410 --> 00:25:55.150
another great song. And not only the name of
00:25:55.150 --> 00:26:02.359
the band that they influenced. Yeah. So I'm going
00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.160
to say that this is the first on our list album
00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:09.799
that is still relevant today. Okay. Because,
00:26:09.859 --> 00:26:12.579
I mean, I don't know a single song off those
00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:17.900
other two albums. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, if
00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:20.380
you write a hit, you're going to be known, aren't
00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:22.099
you? You're going to be remembered if you do
00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:24.759
write a hit. And they certainly did write a hit
00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:27.119
on it. Also, they had one of the greatest lead
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:29.960
singers of all time at that time. There were
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.839
a few around. He's still an incredible singer.
00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:36.799
He's got an amazing voice. And David Kossoff
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:39.359
was a great guitarist as well. Yes. Not David
00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:41.380
Kossoff, Paul Kossoff. David was his father.
00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:45.900
Paul Kossoff, yeah. He was great, but the whole
00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:47.680
band was great. They were a very bluesy band.
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.660
Yeah. Paul Rogers is great so long as he's not
00:26:50.660 --> 00:26:57.319
fronting Queen. Yeah. Yeah. But they had all
00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:59.380
that blues. It was a very, very loose album.
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.099
If you listen to
it, there's a lot of looseness
00:27:02.099 --> 00:27:04.099
about it. It's very sort of, you know, let's
00:27:04.099 --> 00:27:09.039
take something and let's play. And that's kind
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:13.759
of what it was in the 1970s. But they were great
00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:18.200
live. A lot of people really liked them. But
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:19.839
they just kind of got that balance right with
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.759
getting that hit single, which is what you need,
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:28.049
and also being true to your roots. And that's
00:27:28.049 --> 00:27:30.609
kind of what they did. It would have been interesting
00:27:30.609 --> 00:27:33.609
to see if they'd have been all around today if
00:27:33.609 --> 00:27:36.859
they were still doing that kind of stuff. I mean,
00:27:36.859 --> 00:27:39.019
they've still released albums over the years.
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.799
My thing that I want to bring up now that I brought
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:47.759
the whole Paul Rogers and Queen thing, because
00:27:48.299 --> 00:27:50.740
I've seen this with Paul Rogers and Queen, I've
00:27:50.740 --> 00:27:54.039
seen it with Ian Gillen and Black Sabbath, and
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:58.460
now we're seeing it with Sebastian Bach and Twisted
00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:03.680
Sister. Should those bands, who are arguably
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:08.880
bigger than the bands from where the singers
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:13.890
are coming from, Should they be covering their
00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:18.279
hits? Should Queen have been doing free songs
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.619
live? Should Twisted Sister be doing Skid Row
00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:24.740
songs live? And should Black Sabbath have been
00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:30.349
doing Deep Purple live? Oh, that's a weird suggestion.
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.240
Yeah, I'm pretty liberal on this type of thing.
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:39.400
I'm like, hey, if a band wants to play a song,
00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:41.500
go ahead. As long as it's not, won't be fooled
00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:51.359
again. Yes. Yes. And they are fooling. They're
00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:53.539
saying won't get fooled again as they're fooling
00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:57.339
us, as they're trying to fool us. Right. Right.
00:28:57.640 --> 00:28:59.960
But I mean, I don't know. I actually thought,
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:02.980
I mean, Black Sabbath doing smoke on the water
00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:08.299
was no doubt just weird as hell, but I thought
00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:10.259
it was kind of cool. I mean, it was like, man,
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:13.900
that, that, I don't know. Queen doing. Yeah.
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.160
You had the voice, you had the voice that sang
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:20.640
it. It'd be different if like Ozzy was singing,
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:26.460
then it would have been really weird. And as
00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:31.329
far as Paul Rogers and queen, I don't even know
00:29:31.329 --> 00:29:34.029
what to say about that other than, you know,
00:29:34.029 --> 00:29:36.569
those poor guys having to deal with that, but
00:29:36.569 --> 00:29:38.250
they are losing Freddie Mercury and then trying
00:29:38.250 --> 00:29:44.009
to figure out a way forward. Yeah. That was just
00:29:44.009 --> 00:29:47.769
tough. That was just tough. And, you know, what
00:29:47.769 --> 00:29:51.730
they decided to do didn't really work. So, and
00:29:51.859 --> 00:29:54.680
what about Sebastian now doing it with Twisted
00:29:54.680 --> 00:30:01.140
Sister? Twisted Sister, Twisted Sister being
00:30:01.140 --> 00:30:03.299
the bigger of the two bands. I mean, this would,
00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:08.839
I mean, I get it. Let's, let's say, let's devil's
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.369
advocate. Dee Snider joined Skid Row. I would
00:30:14.369 --> 00:30:17.809
understand. I understand them doing I want to
00:30:17.809 --> 00:30:21.670
rock and we're not going to take it because those
00:30:21.670 --> 00:30:26.130
songs are massive. Were youth gone wild and 18
00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:30.740
in life as big as those two songs? No, they weren't.
00:30:32.710 --> 00:30:36.509
No. Was all right now bigger than Bohemian Rhapsody,
00:30:36.630 --> 00:30:43.839
bigger than. Well, OK, it'd be like when Axl
00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:47.160
sang for AC. But he didn't do any Guns N' Roses
00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:50.420
with them. I know, but can you imagine them ACDC
00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:53.299
doing welcome to the jungle? Because that makes
00:30:53.299 --> 00:30:58.380
no sense. No, no, but it would have been, I don't
00:30:58.380 --> 00:31:04.000
know. Now I want to hear that. Can Angus play
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.519
it? Let's, let's, let's, let's keep going here.
00:31:06.619 --> 00:31:09.240
Cause if not, it's going to be a four hour show.
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:12.740
You say that. Yeah, you're right. I apologize.
00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:20.650
No, that's fine. Number seven. Okay. Released
00:31:20.650 --> 00:31:26.609
the 9th of February, 1970, on Elektra Records.
00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:32.599
Recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles,
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:39.160
from November 1969 to January 1970. Producer,
00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:44.829
Paul A. Rothschild, engineered by Bruce Botnick.
00:31:48.150 --> 00:31:55.940
Harry Diltz. Shot the cover. You're just making
00:31:55.940 --> 00:32:00.539
this up. In downtown L .A. The band had no permission,
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:03.619
so they ran in while the desk clerk stepped away.
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:09.099
The back cover shows the Hard Rock Cafe, a bar
00:32:09.099 --> 00:32:14.319
on East 5th Street, which gave Side 1 its title.
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:22.470
Side 2 is titled the actual name of the album.
00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:28.849
John Sebastian plays harmonica on one of the
00:32:28.849 --> 00:32:35.380
big singles credited as G Pugliese because of
00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:38.640
his record contract.
Lonnie Mack plays bass on
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:45.390
it. No shit. One of the tracks, Indian Summer,
00:32:45.490 --> 00:32:50.349
dates back to August 1966 from the sessions for
00:32:50.349 --> 00:32:53.480
the band's debut album. It reached number four
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:57.180
in the US, number 12 in the UK. It is the highest
00:32:57.180 --> 00:33:04.869
charting album in Britain. The old Hard Rock
00:33:04.869 --> 00:33:08.730
Cafe building later appeared in Michael Jackson's
00:33:08.730 --> 00:33:19.400
Beated video. The Morrison Hotel building was
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:26.480
badly damaged by fire in December of 2024. The
00:33:27.410 --> 00:33:34.269
album is... One of your favorite bands. Morrison
00:33:34.269 --> 00:33:41.400
Hotel by The Doors this is a band that I've never
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.339
been a fan of and this is what I mentioned at
00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:46.700
the beginning because I've listened to this album
00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:51.019
quite a bit thanks to US Radio and due to it
00:33:51.019 --> 00:33:54.230
being for the longest time my wife's favorite
00:33:54.230 --> 00:34:03.789
band Roadhouse Blues what's that? You still married
00:34:03.789 --> 00:34:06.150
her. Still married her. Yeah. Well, Metallica
00:34:06.150 --> 00:34:10.030
is her favorite band now. So there were some
00:34:10.030 --> 00:34:13.630
things that changed along the way. But Roadhouse
00:34:13.630 --> 00:34:17.869
Blues appears on this. Peace Frog. There's a
00:34:17.869 --> 00:34:20.610
bunch of other songs that have appeared on U
00:34:20.610 --> 00:34:24.309
.S. radio a ton over the years. I can't deny
00:34:24.309 --> 00:34:27.489
the magnitude of this album. How many people
00:34:27.489 --> 00:34:32.329
were influenced by Jim Morrison? whether I agreed
00:34:32.329 --> 00:34:37.269
with his lifestyle or not. It was his life ultimately.
00:34:38.150 --> 00:34:41.650
And there's so many people that have come after
00:34:41.650 --> 00:34:46.349
him that have been influenced by him. And this
00:34:46.349 --> 00:34:48.630
band and the musicians in this band were never
00:34:48.630 --> 00:34:55.579
the same after he died. So the proof is in the
00:34:55.579 --> 00:34:58.840
fact that anytime the band, any of the members.
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:03.760
that are alive still or have since passed away.
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:09.460
Anything notable has been a cover of an old Doors
00:35:09.460 --> 00:35:12.380
track with them being featured, specifically
00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:15.599
Ray Manzarek playing keyboards on different covers
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:21.019
of Doors songs. It deserves to be on here because
00:35:21.019 --> 00:35:30.920
of its influence. I agree. I agree. And this
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.079
is one album that was in my house in 1970, but
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:41.349
yeah, it wasn't in my room. But I heard it through
00:35:41.349 --> 00:35:45.119
the walls. There you go. Jeremy, this is their
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:50.500
biggest chart -topping success in Britain. Yeah,
00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:54.840
never heard it. Never heard it. Because, no,
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:56.840
there's a reason. I know you're laughing, but
00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:59.280
there's a reason. I was far too young to get
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.860
into The Doors. The Doors kind of finished at
00:36:01.860 --> 00:36:05.519
a certain point in time when I was too young,
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.539
whereas other bands that we might come on to
00:36:08.539 --> 00:36:11.039
talk about have kept going. And so obviously
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:14.340
I would get into those bands. But no, honestly,
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:16.980
I never really got into The Doors very much.
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:19.900
I'd probably heard a few tracks by them, but
00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:22.599
never really. I didn't even know this album existed.
00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:28.239
Till now. Never heard of it. There you go. All
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:33.909
right. Wow. Yeah. Moving on. Number six. Okay.
00:36:34.750 --> 00:36:41.239
So this was released 7th of March, 1970 on windfall
00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.840
records recorded at the record plant, New York
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:51.789
city from 69 to 1970. I mentioned who produced
00:36:51.789 --> 00:36:57.159
it. I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure you guys will get
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.199
it. So let's see if I can slide some of these
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:02.820
other tidbits in there without giving it away.
00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:06.619
Because the first few, there's no exact way that
00:37:06.619 --> 00:37:12.670
I can do it. Okay. So the cover was painted by
00:37:12.670 --> 00:37:19.590
Gail Collins. Done. You got it? It's Mountain.
00:37:20.730 --> 00:37:27.860
Okay. No. How'd you get that? I was going to
00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:30.519
bet money that I would get this one right. How
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:33.599
did you get that from the name Gail Collins?
00:37:35.150 --> 00:37:42.000
She co -wrote some of the songs. Okay, so, yeah,
00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:47.250
so it's the bass player Felix Papalardi's wife
00:37:47.250 --> 00:37:50.849
and mountain lyricist who appears on it standing
00:37:50.849 --> 00:37:57.880
in front of a mountain. The album reached number
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:03.199
17 on the Billboard 200, spending 39 weeks on
00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:06.599
the charts and went gold in August of 1970. The
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:09.579
lineup was Leslie West, who Rev Jones worked
00:38:09.579 --> 00:38:13.199
with, on guitars and vocals, Felix Pappalardi
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:17.480
on bass and vocals, Corky Lang on drums, and
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.440
Steve Knight on keyboards. Mississippi Queen
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:24.010
was the band's first single. Released in February
00:38:24.010 --> 00:38:28.739
of 1970 and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard
00:38:28.739 --> 00:38:32.360
Hot 100, Pappalardi had already made his name
00:38:32.360
--> 00:38:41.059
producing Creams, Disraeli Gear, and Wheels of
00:38:41.059 --> 00:38:45.039
Fire. Theme of an imaginary Western was written
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:48.599
by Creams' Jack Bruce and lyricist Pete Brown.
00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:57.719
must to learn on the drums. If you ever purchase
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:02.420
a cowbell, which I did. And it was one of the
00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:05.960
first things that when I got it, I remember my
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:09.320
brother played the trombone, but knew enough
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.360
about music to, you know, hit the, hit the cowbell
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:18.010
in the right rhythm and say, you need to learn
00:39:18.010 --> 00:39:22.460
how to play Mississippi queen. All right. So,
00:39:22.579 --> 00:39:30.719
Brad, tell us about climbing. Oh, you know, mountain.
00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:35.619
The funny thing is that I heard the song Mississippi
00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:41.269
Queen on radio. And then this was obviously when
00:39:41.269 --> 00:39:44.489
I was, what, 10, 11. And I had no idea who it
00:39:44.489 --> 00:39:49.050
was. And I was just transfixed by the song. It
00:39:49.050 --> 00:39:53.920
had. It had everything I wanted in music, including
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:57.679
the cowbell. And I had no idea who it was. It
00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:59.659
took me years before I found out who it was.
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:03.039
And then I'm like, Holy crap. I need to, I need
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:06.480
to know all about this band. And so, yeah, got
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:11.269
this, got, got, I got it all. And, um, I just,
00:40:11.289 --> 00:40:15.289
I just love them. I, I, and, uh, yeah, this is.
00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:20.179
I think there's way too many people that don't
00:40:20.179 --> 00:40:22.559
know about Mountain. We'll see what Jeremy has
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:26.119
to say about them. I never did get to see them,
00:40:26.449 --> 00:40:33.559
unfortunately. But, yeah, Corky Lang. You've
00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:37.800
seen Corky Lang play, right? Yes. Victor? Yeah.
00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:42.239
His fame is for throwing his sticks off the cymbals,
00:40:42.340 --> 00:40:44.820
trying to hit Leslie in the back of the head.
00:40:45.219 --> 00:40:47.559
Yeah. And it's just hilarious. And then Leslie
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:49.780
later in their career, Leslie would get to where
00:40:49.780 --> 00:40:51.739
you could catch them. He tried to catch them
00:40:51.739 --> 00:40:56.500
as they come flying by. Yeah, so in that way,
00:40:56.500 --> 00:41:00.019
they were a bit of showmen on stage for really
00:41:00.019 --> 00:41:02.639
basically a three -piece band. The keyboard guy,
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:05.739
like most keyboard guys, I don't even know why
00:41:05.739 --> 00:41:10.880
you got credit. Sorry, keyboard guys. Yeah, put
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:16.389
that in one of your shorts. I just have to say
00:41:16.389 --> 00:41:19.570
I was in a band once and they
brought along this
00:41:19.570 --> 00:41:22.150
guy to play keyboards. And I was like, I'm not
00:41:22.150 --> 00:41:23.829
even going to bother to learn this guy's name.
00:41:23.989 --> 00:41:26.329
I'm just going to call him keyboard guy. And
00:41:26.329 --> 00:41:28.889
I was right at doing that because he only lasted
00:41:28.889 --> 00:41:33.119
one gig. Jeremy, your thoughts on this album?
00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:37.190
yeah it's a bit similar to free really because
00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:39.510
you've got all right now on the free album which
00:41:39.510 --> 00:41:41.769
was amazing and then you've got this mississippi
00:41:41.769 --> 00:41:44.510
queen song that two and a half minutes opens
00:41:44.510 --> 00:41:47.469
the opens the album up and if it wasn't for that
00:41:47.469 --> 00:41:49.510
song i don't think many people will have ever
00:41:49.510 --> 00:41:52.309
heard of mountain or leslie west or in the uk
00:41:52.309 --> 00:41:55.150
i mean because it you know it was just such a
00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:58.510
an amazing song it still is today you know when
00:41:58.510 --> 00:42:01.409
you hear it and it's been covered by many artists
00:42:01.409 --> 00:42:04.010
and that's the um what we're trying to get across
00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:06.829
today is the influences of these kind of albums
00:42:06.829 --> 00:42:09.949
and bands. And, you know, although Mountain were
00:42:09.949 --> 00:42:12.670
not as big a band as some of those that we might
00:42:12.670 --> 00:42:16.550
come on to talk about in a minute, they, you
00:42:16.550 --> 00:42:20.659
know, that particular song is just... is up there
00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:23.460
isn't it it's one of the one of the absolute
00:42:23.460 --> 00:42:26.659
classics of all time the riff and you know just
00:42:26.659 --> 00:42:29.519
the way it's sung and the way it's it's put across
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:33.059
to you it's so different from the 60s it's it's
00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:36.800
suddenly it's in your face it's 1970s it's um
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:40.619
pushing forward a new kind of music to you And
00:42:40.619 --> 00:42:42.699
it kind of overshadows the rest of the album
00:42:42.699 --> 00:42:46.079
a little bit for me. But I think, yeah, they
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:49.059
were definitely a band that I heard of when I
00:42:49.059 --> 00:42:52.260
was quite young because of that. So, yeah, they
00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:56.539
were there and it's great. Yeah. Yeah. These
00:42:56.539 --> 00:43:00.340
guys were extremely big in the Northeast because
00:43:00.340 --> 00:43:03.699
they're from New York. Howard Stern used to have
00:43:03.699 --> 00:43:07.880
Leslie West on his show all the time. I remember
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:11.460
the old Howard Stern show, which was on WOR in
00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:17.570
New York. That's when I saw Corky Lang throwing
00:43:17.570 --> 00:43:19.989
the sticks at Leslie West for the first time.
00:43:20.469 --> 00:43:23.530
Base player for that was somebody else that I
00:43:23.530 --> 00:43:25.610
met in person and talked to. So I've actually
00:43:25.610 --> 00:43:29.590
talked to two base players that have worked with
00:43:29.590 --> 00:43:32.960
Leslie West over the years. The other one being
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.739
Richie Scarlett, best known for his work with
00:43:35.739 --> 00:43:40.840
Ace Fraley. Rev Jones just recently talked about
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.159
what a big influence Leslie was on Michael Shanker
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:48.320
and a lot of those early guitarists that would
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:51.920
go on to influence your Dave Mustaine's and James
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:57.260
Hetfield's and people like that. So there's stuff
00:43:57.260 --> 00:44:02.119
in his playing that's vicariously gone through
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:04.980
other players and reached other bigger players
00:44:04.980 --> 00:44:11.039
along the way um whether whether they know it
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:15.889
or not so yeah the interesting thing about leslie's
00:44:15.889 --> 00:44:18.829
playing is that it's not you're not going to
00:44:18.829 --> 00:44:20.969
listen to him go holy crap how did he do that
00:44:20.969 --> 00:44:26.429
you know that's he's just like but his uh just
00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:29.840
his sense of of what he was playing and his tone
00:44:30.789 --> 00:44:33.409
His vibrato is, you know, I think that's where
00:44:33.409 --> 00:44:36.050
a lot of these guitars have taken away from him.
00:44:37.730 --> 00:44:40.409
It's just his approach, his approach to playing
00:44:40.409 --> 00:44:49.860
a guitar solo in a song. And yeah, yeah, a legend.
00:44:49.980 --> 00:44:53.239
So I think Jeremy said it best about this. This
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:55.679
is right there with Free. And it's because of
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:59.739
a big hit song. All right. So let's move on to
00:44:59.739 --> 00:45:03.619
number five. This is going to be so easy for
00:45:03.619 --> 00:45:09.719
you guys to get, I think. Okay. How do I tiptoe
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:13.719
around this without giving it away? Oh, wow.
00:45:13.780 --> 00:45:16.380
So this was released on my wife's birthday, May
00:45:16.380 --> 00:45:23.599
8th, 1970, five years before she was born. Recorded
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:30.949
mainly in January of 69 in Twinkleham. Oh, wow.
00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:37.440
At a famous studio and also on the roof of this
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:42.329
studio. Oh, I think I might have it. I might
00:45:42.329 --> 00:45:45.929
know it. I'm not sure. Take a stab. Is it the
00:45:45.929 --> 00:45:52.719
Beatles? So it was recorded in Apple Studio and
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:56.079
on the rooftop of Apple Studio, overdubs in January
00:45:56.079 --> 00:46:00.320
and April of 1970. Producer was Phil Spector.
00:46:01.289 --> 00:46:03.389
Although George Martin produced the original
00:46:03.389 --> 00:46:10.539
sessions uncredited. It was the last Beatles
00:46:10.539 --> 00:46:15.369
album released, but not the last recorded. Abbey
00:46:15.369 --> 00:46:19.730
Road was made after these sessions and came out
00:46:19.730 --> 00:46:24.730
first in September of 1969. The three tracks
00:46:24.730 --> 00:46:27.969
come from the famous or three tracks come from
00:46:27.969 --> 00:46:33.110
the famous rooftop concert. of january 30th 1969
00:46:33.110 --> 00:46:39.809
i've got a feeling one after 909 and dig a pony
00:46:39.809 --> 00:46:41.929
yeah you would think get back because there was
00:46:41.929 --> 00:46:45.150
a famous video for that right right right that's
00:46:45.150 --> 00:46:50.389
okay but no glenn johns assembled two versions
00:46:50.389 --> 00:46:53.690
called get back and the band rejected both his
00:46:53.690 --> 00:46:59.250
1969 mix was finally released in the 2021 special
00:46:59.250 --> 00:47:03.940
edition Paul McCartney disliked Spectre's orchestral
00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:07.440
and choir overdubs, which led to the strip act
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:13.159
Let It Be Naked in 2003. The Beatles won an Academy
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:17.840
Award for the film's songs, and the album won
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:21.940
Grammy for the best original score. It went to
00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:25.579
number one in the UK and US, and both Let It
00:47:25.579 --> 00:47:29.019
Be and The Long and Winding Road were US number
00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:35.909
one. And as we've already said, it is let it
00:47:35.909 --> 00:47:41.809
be by the Beatles. I think this is the first
00:47:41.809 --> 00:47:44.789
time Beatles have ever raised their head here
00:47:44.789 --> 00:47:47.510
on the signal. Yes, absolutely. Well, we've never
00:47:47.510 --> 00:47:50.829
really done a show where we've been in the vicinity
00:47:50.829 --> 00:47:54.489
where they could actually, you know, make a dent.
00:47:55.610 --> 00:48:00.369
Right. Just, I mean, there's three colossal songs
00:48:00.369 --> 00:48:03.559
off of this. As someone who isn't an avid Beatles
00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:05.940
fan, I just mentioned two of them, the title
00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:08.900
track, let it be and the long and winding road,
00:48:09.019 --> 00:48:11.360
but get back as the last song off of this, get
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:16.440
back as a kid who even then was kind of tired
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:19.179
of listening to the Beatles on the radio was
00:48:19.179 --> 00:48:21.480
still a song that I enjoyed and seeing that whole
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:26.179
rooftop concert, you know, I thought was, was
00:48:26.179 --> 00:48:34.260
amazing. So, um, There's no denying their influence.
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:40.440
For me, what sort of trivialized them was just
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.179
how much they were on the radio. But I mean,
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.900
that's no different than every generation having
00:48:45.900 --> 00:48:49.579
their own Nickelback. And no, I'm not saying
00:48:49.579 --> 00:48:52.599
Nickelback
is the same as the Beatles. I'm just
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:57.739
saying that every wave of big music has bands
00:48:57.739 --> 00:49:00.679
that are oversaturated, that are loved by many.
00:49:01.230 --> 00:49:04.750
but also loathed by a lot of others because they're
00:49:04.750 --> 00:49:10.619
tired of hearing. I'm going to go out on a limb
00:49:10.619 --> 00:49:13.039
and say that I know more Beatles songs than Nickelback
00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:19.159
songs. Well, yeah. Yeah, that is easy. But Brad,
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:20.800
do you have anything to say about Let It Be?
00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:26.760
No, other than I think you're spot on there with
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.639
the influence. And yeah, I mean, let's face it.
00:49:30.659 --> 00:49:35.150
I'm not a big Beatles fan. I'm just not. But
00:49:35.150 --> 00:49:39.769
I can't deny what they've done for rock music
00:49:39.769 --> 00:49:42.489
and the influence they still have today. And
00:49:42.489 --> 00:49:46.250
they're still huge today. So 100 years from now,
00:49:46.309 --> 00:49:49.730
they'll still be playing Beatles songs. Jeremy?
00:49:51.059 --> 00:49:54.619
Yeah, just quickly. Obviously, a lot of metal
00:49:54.619 --> 00:49:57.590
bands have covered at least one. Beatles songs
00:49:57.590 --> 00:50:00.030
sometimes. We even know Motley Crue have done
00:50:00.030 --> 00:50:04.570
one, Whitesnake. And you name lots and lots of
00:50:04.570 --> 00:50:06.429
bands, they've all done a Beatles song because
00:50:06.429 --> 00:50:09.710
they're timeless songs. This particular album,
00:50:09.869 --> 00:50:11.489
it's amazing, isn't it? They're still going in
00:50:11.489 --> 00:50:14.230
the 70s when we're going to be talking about
00:50:14.230 --> 00:50:16.349
a lot of heavy metal. And yet they were still
00:50:16.349 --> 00:50:19.849
playing their kind of brand of rock and roll,
00:50:20.030 --> 00:50:24.909
folky, whatever it was. And Oasis is still doing
00:50:24.909 --> 00:50:28.360
it today. They're still the proponents of Beatles
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:33.219
-type music in a way. So, yeah, they were amazing,
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:37.360
and they've had a massive influence on our genre
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:40.760
of music. They've had an influence there as well.
00:50:41.960 --> 00:50:44.480
Agreed. And there's still two of them that are
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:48.860
playing live now. Yeah, yeah. And doing it well.
00:50:49.099 --> 00:50:51.769
Yeah. Incredible. It'd be interesting if they
00:50:51.769 --> 00:50:53.869
were all alive today, if they were still playing
00:50:53.869 --> 00:50:56.750
a festival somewhere. I mean, they'd be playing
00:50:56.750 --> 00:51:00.769
Glastonbury, I guess, headlining there. It'd
00:51:00.769 --> 00:51:04.710
be amazing. Yeah, that's probably the biggest
00:51:04.710 --> 00:51:09.329
what -if question regarding music because of
00:51:09.329 --> 00:51:12.429
all the rumors, all the things that were talked
00:51:12.429 --> 00:51:15.369
about with, you know, Lennon and McCartney actually
00:51:15.369 --> 00:51:19.739
speaking to one another before John's assassination.
00:51:22.010 --> 00:51:25.610
I mean, how many bands have gotten back together
00:51:25.610 --> 00:51:30.670
over the years? Mark Wayne Chapman doesn't happen.
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:36.239
And at some point in the 80s, with all the money
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:39.820
that there's to be had with, you know, We Are
00:51:39.820 --> 00:51:42.260
The World or something like that, you're telling
00:51:42.260 --> 00:51:45.139
me that, or Live Aid, Live Aid, you're telling
00:51:45.139 --> 00:51:48.780
me that they wouldn't have shelled out millions
00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:52.409
at that point. They get the Beatles to play Live
00:51:52.409 --> 00:51:57.349
Aid. Yeah. The other interesting thing to say
00:51:57.349 --> 00:51:59.070
about the Beatles is obviously they were classed
00:51:59.070 --> 00:52:01.849
as Mersey Beat, and it had a certain 60s sound,
00:52:01.909 --> 00:52:05.750
which they pushed forward. But they were very
00:52:05.750 --> 00:52:08.389
uncomfortable, I think, playing harder rock music,
00:52:08.409 --> 00:52:11.510
but they did sometimes just veer into that in
00:52:11.510 --> 00:52:14.829
the very 70s way. But there were other bands
00:52:14.829 --> 00:52:17.130
that we'll come on to who were much happier in
00:52:17.130 --> 00:52:20.219
that genre, whereas the Beatles weren't. And
00:52:20.219 --> 00:52:22.400
I think that's quite an interesting thing as
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:25.659
well. The funny thing with that is that over
00:52:25.659 --> 00:52:30.380
the years, there have been people like Paul McCartney.
00:52:30.460 --> 00:52:33.559
There have been people like Neil Young, like
00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:40.980
Bob Dylan, and maybe McCartney to a lesser extent.
00:52:41.340 --> 00:52:46.079
I think maybe Ringo is probably closer to a metal
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:49.840
-like arena, maybe. All these guys that I've
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:53.300
mentioned have kind of tipped their hat to hard
00:52:53.300 --> 00:52:56.480
rock bands over the years. I know that, you know,
00:52:56.480 --> 00:53:00.320
members of Kiss have been photographed with Paul
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:02.780
McCartney and stuff like that. But I'm talking
00:53:02.780 --> 00:53:05.920
about like Bob Dylan going to see Metallica or
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:09.159
Neil Young and stuff like that. Why? Because
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:11.699
of their kids getting into these bands and them
00:53:11.699 --> 00:53:15.400
ultimately getting into that music as well. And
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.460
having some of these artists talk about. you
00:53:19.460 --> 00:53:22.619
know what a mind fuck it is for them to see a
00:53:22.619 --> 00:53:26.000
Bob Dylan show up to a show and say, Oh my God,
00:53:26.019 --> 00:53:27.539
I love this song of yours. And they're like,
00:53:27.619 --> 00:53:30.739
wait a second. It's Bob
Dylan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:30.739 --> 00:53:32.539
Yeah. And my kid plays the song all the time.
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:34.320
I absolutely love it. And I love how the chord
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:37.079
progression is and it's no different than whatever,
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:41.860
or, you know, so I think even though there are
00:53:41.860 --> 00:53:46.969
some people that maybe poo poo, some of the stuff
00:53:46.969 --> 00:53:52.210
that we, normally love and talk about, I think
00:53:52.210 --> 00:53:54.849
that there's still influences there that get
00:53:54.849 --> 00:53:59.250
through. You can't deny Helter Skelter, She's
00:53:59.250 --> 00:54:05.260
So Heavy, and quite a few other Beatles songs
00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:09.639
that directly influenced hard rock over the years.
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:12.099
Even Get Back, we're talking about that chugging
00:54:12.099 --> 00:54:15.170
part at the beginning. You know, how much is
00:54:15.170 --> 00:54:22.130
that influenced over the years? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
00:54:22.170 --> 00:54:27.769
the song that hit me when I was a wee lad, I
00:54:27.769 --> 00:54:30.489
think it was when my sisters had a stack of 45s,
00:54:30.489 --> 00:54:33.889
and one of them was Revolution. There's one.
00:54:34.070 --> 00:54:36.670
And when I put that on, I was like, whoa, whoa,
00:54:36.670 --> 00:54:40.150
whoa, what's going on here? Of course, the beginning
00:54:40.150 --> 00:54:42.590
of it is a little heavier than the song calms
00:54:42.590 --> 00:54:46.570
down, but it's like that. I was like, yeah, this
00:54:46.570 --> 00:54:50.820
is pretty cool. They had their moments. They
00:54:50.820 --> 00:54:55.500
could rock. All right. So we're going to get
00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:59.170
into the meat and potatoes of the voting here.
00:55:01.250 --> 00:55:04.530
These top four albums account for two thirds
00:55:04.530 --> 00:55:11.809
of the total vote. So consider that. Number four
00:55:11.809 --> 00:55:21.769
was my number one. So this was before the advent
00:55:21.769 --> 00:55:24.190
of Napster. because people would have, well,
00:55:24.230 --> 00:55:30.119
it's only a few weeks difference, but released
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:36.599
in October 5th, 1970 in the U S first. Wow. That's
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:41.659
a shock to me. And then October 23rd in the UK,
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:43.639
I'm not going to say the label because that'll
00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:50.360
give it away. I think. Why are you saying that
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:55.250
Jeremy? Cause I think I know what it is. Do you
00:55:55.250 --> 00:55:58.429
want me to guess now or wait? Let me guess. I
00:55:58.429 --> 00:56:00.550
think it's Led Zeppelin. Brad, you're saying
00:56:00.550 --> 00:56:05.610
it's... It's one song. Yes, I'm saying it's three.
00:56:05.909 --> 00:56:07.289
He's saying it's three. This was released on
00:56:07.289 --> 00:56:17.219
Atlantic. Atlantic label, yeah. Okay. It's still
00:56:17.219 --> 00:56:19.280
Led Zeppelin. It's still what? It's still...
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.380
It's still Led Zeppelin. It's still saying it's
00:56:22.380 --> 00:56:26.710
Led Zeppelin. Okay. Recorded at... Heedley Grange,
00:56:26.869 --> 00:56:29.670
Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Olympic and Island
00:56:29.670 --> 00:56:33.570
Studios in London, mixed at Arden in Memphis,
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:39.679
recorded between November 69 and August 1970.
00:56:41.730 --> 00:56:47.980
Wow. The producer was the band's guitarist, ranked
00:56:47.980 --> 00:56:54.820
number one by Sean and myself. Way to go, Sean.
00:56:55.659 --> 00:57:04.809
Was voted on by almost everybody. Let's see.
00:57:04.889 --> 00:57:11.949
How do I put this? Let's out the people who didn't
00:57:11.949 --> 00:57:20.630
vote for this one. Let's see. No, I'll get to
00:57:20.630 --> 00:57:27.400
that tidbit last. Okay. The cover had a rotating
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:36.070
paper wheel. I've got it designed by Zachary.
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:42.239
It's complexity delayed the album by about two
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:49.320
months. Uh, one of the, probably the biggest
00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.940
single off of the album still appearing in movies
00:57:52.940 --> 00:57:56.719
and commercials and different things today was
00:57:56.840 --> 00:58:01.099
inspired by the band's 1970s trip to Iceland.
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:08.519
and became a top 20 single in the U .S. The album
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:11.159
entered the U .S. charts at number three and
00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:13.940
hit number one the following week. Wow. It was
00:58:13.940 --> 00:58:22.739
also number one in the U .K. The run -out grooves
00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:25.739
of original U .K. pressing carried the inscription,
00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:35.210
Do what thou wilt, and so mote it be, from Aleister
00:58:35.210 --> 00:58:39.260
Crowley. France gave it a completely different
00:58:39.260 --> 00:58:42.239
cover, a photo of the band. Why would they do
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:48.690
that? The French being the French, I guess. Much
00:58:48.690 --> 00:58:51.550
of the material grew out of pageant plant stay
00:58:51.550 --> 00:58:56.050
at Brannior, a 18th century cottage in Wales
00:58:56.050 --> 00:58:59.929
with no electricity or running water. I'm sure
00:58:59.929 --> 00:59:07.210
they smelt great. Anyway, so Led Zeppelin III,
00:59:07.349 --> 00:59:15.619
as you guys alluded to. This has some of my favorite
00:59:15.619 --> 00:59:17.760
Zeppelin tracks. This has some of my all -time
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:22.320
favorite songs on it. Unfortunately, I've heard
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:31.010
some of these songs so many times that a lot
00:59:31.010 --> 00:59:35.860
of Zeppelin albums, for me, I can listen to them
00:59:35.860 --> 00:59:41.500
once a year. And that's it. Because the radio
00:59:41.500 --> 00:59:44.440
has just destroyed most of these albums for me.
00:59:44.869 --> 00:59:47.909
And growing up as a kid, as a drummer, listening
00:59:47.909 --> 00:59:51.090
to John Bonham playing and trying to mimic John
00:59:51.090 --> 00:59:58.579
Bonham, these were huge albums for me. The Immigrant
00:59:58.579 --> 01:00:03.480
Song, Friends, Celebration Day, Out on the Tiles,
01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:08.300
Gallows Pole, Tangerine, Brawny Your Stomp. These
01:00:08.300 --> 01:00:11.300
are all songs that I've played to death. Songs
01:00:11.300 --> 01:00:13.699
off of this that I can still play without getting
01:00:13.699 --> 01:00:18.679
sick of. I absolutely love friends. I absolutely
01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:22.340
love gallows pole. And I absolutely love Ronnie
01:00:22.340 --> 01:00:30.530
or stump. They have little to do with metal.
01:00:31.010 --> 01:00:34.670
If you think about it, because these all are
01:00:34.670 --> 01:00:39.030
heavily acoustic songs, you know, could you could,
01:00:39.190 --> 01:00:41.829
and with me saying that they have absolutely
01:00:41.829 --> 01:00:44.090
everything to do with metal at the same time
01:00:44.090 --> 01:00:48.639
with their how the songs are put together, how
01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:54.050
you got songs, how they progressed after this,
01:00:54.190 --> 01:01:00.780
how they were, how they influenced a lot of thrash.
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:03.960
I think, I think a lot of thrash with a lot of
01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:08.039
acoustic intros and things like that came from
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:13.690
this. I think also the fact that you even had
01:01:13.690 --> 01:01:16.829
Sabbath doing a lot of acoustic stuff. And I
01:01:16.829 --> 01:01:20.420
don't think that's, I think that's by design.
01:01:20.659 --> 01:01:25.219
I think that's by blues influencing both bands.
01:01:25.380 --> 01:01:27.800
But I do think that since both bands were from
01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:31.820
Birmingham, they did kind of rub off on one another,
01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:34.139
whether Led Zeppelin wanted to admit that or
01:01:34.139 --> 01:01:41.579
not. It's a good thing Johan's not here to tell
01:01:41.579 --> 01:01:44.380
us that Led Zeppelin has nothing to do with Heavy
01:01:44.380 --> 01:01:52.920
Metal. Anyway. Led Zeppelin III. Jeremy, you
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:57.659
said that you own it. Yeah, I do own it. I bought
01:01:57.659 --> 01:02:01.539
most of the Zeppelin albums during the 70s, well,
01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:04.400
probably the 80s, actually, early 80s. So I was
01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:07.900
listening to them with a bit of hindsight. I
01:02:07.900 --> 01:02:10.239
always thought this one was, at the time, the
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:12.340
sort of poor sister, the poor brother of the
01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:15.860
other albums, because I really liked... Physical
01:02:15.860 --> 01:02:18.739
Graffiti and Led Zepp 4 and Led Zepp 2. And Led
01:02:18.739 --> 01:02:21.320
Zepp 3 for me was a little bit more folky, a
01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:25.039
little bit laid back. But I put it on after I
01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:29.340
sent you
my list and I very much regretted that
01:02:29.340 --> 01:02:31.219
I didn't put it as number one. And the reason
01:02:31.219 --> 01:02:33.699
is because it's the most professional sounding
01:02:33.699 --> 01:02:38.500
album of all of them. It shows them to be the
01:02:38.500 --> 01:02:42.960
most professional group of all. in the 70s, I
01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:46.539
think. I'm not denigrating other bands like Deep
01:02:46.539 --> 01:02:48.239
Purple and Black Sabbath that we're going to
01:02:48.239 --> 01:02:51.599
come on to because they contributed just as much.
01:02:51.739 --> 01:02:55.500
But they're just so good at what they do. And
01:02:55.500 --> 01:02:57.360
they were at the top of their game with this
01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.079
album as they were around this period, as we
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:04.460
know, with the few albums around it. I agree
01:03:04.460 --> 01:03:06.320
with you on the song choices that you've picked.
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:08.239
I'd also picked Since I've Been Loving You because
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:12.440
obviously I'm a blues man. There's a lot of great
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:15.239
songs on this album, and the quality of the production
01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:19.960
is superlative for 1970. If we think back to
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:23.940
that year, and it sounds absolutely amazing on
01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:27.400
vinyl today, as it did when they released it,
01:03:27.460 --> 01:03:31.699
I would imagine, because I was too young. Yeah,
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:35.440
I mean, it is an incredible album, and they had
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:38.699
so many at the time, but I'm surprised that I
01:03:38.699 --> 01:03:40.420
didn't pick it number one. I should have done.
01:03:40.940 --> 01:03:44.280
It was a big, big mistake, really. That's interesting.
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:51.849
I'm trying to imagine what the ultimate, how
01:03:51.849 --> 01:03:56.420
it would have shifted things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:57.619 --> 01:04:00.539
But that's not to say I don't, I dislike the
01:04:00.539 --> 01:04:02.340
ones above it. You know, it's just that it could
01:04:02.340 --> 01:04:06.619
be fine margins. No, it would have only gone
01:04:06.619 --> 01:04:13.000
up a spot. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Brad, anything to
01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:18.579
add on regarding Led Zeppelin III? No, I think
01:04:18.579 --> 01:04:22.329
you guys have covered it really well. I mean,
01:04:22.349 --> 01:04:24.889
there's no doubt of the influence of Led Zeppelin
01:04:24.889 --> 01:04:29.570
and the music that we still love today. Well,
01:04:29.690 --> 01:04:32.429
yeah, that we talk about on a regular basis.
01:04:34.090 --> 01:04:37.949
Yeah, I mean, there's some bands on this list
01:04:37.949 --> 01:04:43.670
that without them, who knows where we'd be now.
01:04:43.710 --> 01:04:46.309
Right. You know what I mean? I mean, their DNA
01:04:46.309 --> 01:04:50.309
is everywhere in the music that we love now.
01:04:51.230 --> 01:04:56.699
Agreed. Do you guys want to guess on the order
01:04:56.699 --> 01:05:00.619
of the top three? Yeah. Go ahead. What do you
01:05:00.619 --> 01:05:06.239
think the order is? No. Now I'm thinking of it.
01:05:06.300 --> 01:05:08.699
I stepped in a little too early on that because
01:05:08.699 --> 01:05:11.360
the three of them are very difficult. I'm going
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:14.239
to say that Deep Purple's next. I'm going to
01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:16.500
say the Black Sabbath, two Black Sabbaths, one
01:05:16.500 --> 01:05:19.159
and two. And I don't know. I'm thinking paranoid
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:22.639
is just pipped it. You think paranoid is what?
01:05:22.739 --> 01:05:25.320
What did you say? It's number one. Number one.
01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:29.360
Brad, what do you think? I'm going to back it
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:32.760
up. I'm going to go all in with this, that Jeremy
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.719
is correct. We don't accept those here. You know,
01:05:36.860 --> 01:05:40.159
it's not worth a lot here either, Jeremy. It's
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.300
not legal currency. I'm not taking it. Okay,
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:48.500
fine. I'm fresh out of euros. I'm sorry. Well,
01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:50.300
of course, you wouldn't take that either. No.
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:54.219
Out with the euros. You need some sterling, right?
01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:56.460
I need something with the king's hat on it. Maybe
01:05:56.460 --> 01:06:03.550
shortly. Who knows? Okay. Well, let's go. You're
01:06:03.550 --> 01:06:05.610
killing us with the suspense here. All right.
01:06:05.849 --> 01:06:09.289
Number three. Number three released on. It should
01:06:09.289 --> 01:06:11.449
have been Led Zeppelin 3. It could have. Now,
01:06:11.449 --> 01:06:19.139
had. Had Jeremy got off his duff there and voted
01:06:19.139 --> 01:06:21.619
correctly, it would have been number three. What
01:06:21.619 --> 01:06:24.519
was it for you, Jeremy? It was number, let me
01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:31.699
see. Was it four? I think it was four. I think
01:06:31.699 --> 01:06:34.880
it was number four. Your number three. My number
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:38.889
three, okay. See, he had it right. Okay. Okay.
01:06:39.670 --> 01:06:41.829
It's my fault. It's my fault I didn't make it
01:06:41.829 --> 01:06:44.349
to number three, okay? I'll take the hit on this
01:06:44.349 --> 01:06:48.409
one. Cause I had it way down. Yeah. You had it
01:06:48.409 --> 01:06:52.789
at, um, what is that? Seven. Come on, bring it
01:06:52.789 --> 01:06:56.869
on. Uh, okay. Anyway, next album released June
01:06:56.869 --> 01:07:02.750
5th, 1970 in the UK on harvest and in the U S
01:07:02.750 --> 01:07:08.809
on Warner brothers recorded at IBC, the lane
01:07:08.809 --> 01:07:12.590
Leah and Abby road studios in London from October
01:07:12.590 --> 01:07:19.420
69 to March. 1970, produced by the band and engineered
01:07:19.420 --> 01:07:30.780
by Martin Birch. Son of a Birch.
Yep. Oh, no
01:07:30.780 --> 01:07:41.360
shit. Okay, so let's see. The tidbits that I
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:44.019
can say without giving it away. Reached number
01:07:44.019 --> 01:07:47.199
four in the UK and stayed on the charts for over
01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:50.219
a year. Wow. It went to number one in Germany
01:07:50.219 --> 01:07:54.670
and Austria. In the U .S., it stalled at 143
01:07:54.670 --> 01:08:00.300
after the band's American label, Tetragrammaton,
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.920
went bankrupt and Warner Brothers took over.
01:08:04.789 --> 01:08:07.690
Well, they weren't a big band at the moment.
01:08:07.730 --> 01:08:10.340
All right, so I get it. So anyway, it was the
01:08:10.340 --> 01:08:13.239
first album with the classic Mach 2 lineup with
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:15.980
Ian Gillen and Roger Glover, who joined in 69.
01:08:16.359 --> 01:08:18.920
The cover puts the five members of the band's
01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:23.619
faces on Mount Rushmore. My oh shit that I mentioned
01:08:23.619 --> 01:08:26.819
was Black Knight came out as a single on the
01:08:26.819 --> 01:08:31.300
same day, but it isn't on the album. It was written
01:08:31.300 --> 01:08:34.399
because management worried that the album had
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:38.140
had no hit and it reached number two in the UK.
01:08:38.829 --> 01:08:42.170
Child in Time runs about 10 minutes and later
01:08:42.170 --> 01:08:46.170
became an anthem for anti -communist resistance
01:08:46.170 --> 01:08:53.119
group in Eastern Europe. So it is the purple
01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:59.199
in rock. Jeremy was correct. Jeremy, this was
01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:05.310
your number one. Yeah. What do you have to say?
01:09:05.329 --> 01:09:09.430
What do you have to say for yourself? There's
01:09:09.430 --> 01:09:11.710
every reason why it shouldn't be number one.
01:09:11.770 --> 01:09:14.029
There's every reason why it shouldn't have been
01:09:14.029 --> 01:09:16.750
a massive hit because, like you say, it should
01:09:16.750 --> 01:09:19.010
have had a single on there like Black Knight
01:09:19.010 --> 01:09:21.770
to push it a little bit. It had a song that was
01:09:21.770 --> 01:09:24.010
10 minutes long. It had two other songs that
01:09:24.010 --> 01:09:27.810
were over seven minutes long. But when you listen
01:09:27.810 --> 01:09:33.210
to it, that organ of sounding of John Lord is
01:09:33.210 --> 01:09:36.819
all through it. You've got that amazing guitar
01:09:36.819 --> 01:09:40.840
by Ritchie Blackmore. I mean, they're all great.
01:09:40.979 --> 01:09:45.020
I mean, Ian Gillan's voice. This is a band that
01:09:45.020 --> 01:09:47.859
was just incredible of its time. It kept going
01:09:47.859 --> 01:09:51.079
for many years in various forms, obviously, but
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:53.920
that particular version and, you know, songs
01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:57.930
like Child in Time and Speed King. And then you
01:09:57.930 --> 01:09:59.729
listen back to it and you realize a song like
01:09:59.729 --> 01:10:02.130
Bloodsucker, which I never really got into at
01:10:02.130 --> 01:10:05.529
the time, but listened to again and again recently.
01:10:05.529 --> 01:10:07.970
And I realized, hey, that's a really good song.
01:10:08.670 --> 01:10:10.590
And then you listen to the others and you think,
01:10:10.750 --> 01:10:13.510
wow, this is amazing. The production's incredible
01:10:13.510 --> 01:10:16.069
on it. And I think they were really pushing boundaries
01:10:16.069 --> 01:10:17.850
that other bands weren't doing, but they were
01:10:17.850 --> 01:10:20.529
making proper songs, whereas some other bands
01:10:20.529 --> 01:10:22.569
were a little bit loose. They weren't sort of
01:10:22.569 --> 01:10:24.529
formulating these great songs. They were just
01:10:24.529 --> 01:10:27.649
playing as a band, whereas Deep Purple were formulating
01:10:27.649 --> 01:10:30.130
these amazing songs, which would stand the test
01:10:30.130 --> 01:10:33.829
of time. And that's what sort of singled them
01:10:33.829 --> 01:10:37.210
out, really. Very different to a band like Led
01:10:37.210 --> 01:10:39.310
Zeppelin, as I mentioned, I might have put them
01:10:39.310 --> 01:10:41.329
as number one. But, you know, you can't knock
01:10:41.329 --> 01:10:44.449
Deep Purple. They've had an amazing influence
01:10:44.449 --> 01:10:47.869
on our genre of music and they still are today.
01:10:47.970 --> 01:10:50.409
You know, we even saw Richie Blackmore come on
01:10:50.409 --> 01:10:54.310
stage with the new band just this year. And that
01:10:54.310 --> 01:10:57.850
was the moment of the year, you know, 50 odd
01:10:57.850 --> 01:11:01.329
years later to see him come out and play Smoke
01:11:01.329 --> 01:11:04.909
on the Water. But, yeah, it rocks one of those
01:11:04.909 --> 01:11:07.470
great albums by them, and they've got a few of
01:11:07.470 --> 01:11:13.369
them. I love it. It's great. Yeah, Brad? I can't.
01:11:15.010 --> 01:11:17.329
It'd be silly for me to try to add to that. Jeremy,
01:11:17.390 --> 01:11:20.310
fantastic. Yeah, the only thing that I want to
01:11:20.310 --> 01:11:25.310
add is that look at all the albums we've talked
01:11:25.310 --> 01:11:29.399
about up to here. They're all completely different.
01:11:31.109 --> 01:11:33.850
There aren't any two bands that you could say,
01:11:33.989 --> 01:11:36.449
well, you know, that sounds like this or that
01:11:36.449 --> 01:11:39.390
sounds like that. They're each adding their own
01:11:39.390 --> 01:11:45.420
spice to the recipe to what made this an important
01:11:45.420 --> 01:11:48.960
year and what makes the music that we love so
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:52.720
enjoyable and so good. There's no denying what
01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:56.420
Deep Purple did to a young Lars Ulrich to want
01:11:56.420 --> 01:12:00.250
to make him a musician. Again, the well that
01:12:00.250 --> 01:12:04.550
he's drinking from is Deep Purple and some of
01:12:04.550 -->
01:12:06.890
these other bands that are on this list. And
01:12:06.890 --> 01:12:10.350
that ultimately translates to what he does in
01:12:10.350 --> 01:12:15.710
Metallica. How does Child and Time work its way
01:12:15.710 --> 01:12:19.880
into what Metallica does with their composition?
01:12:20.899 --> 01:12:27.229
Because Metallica can give you a fast song. two,
01:12:27.270 --> 01:12:29.829
three minute song in your face, or they can give
01:12:29.829 --> 01:12:33.189
you a 10 minute child in time like prog rock
01:12:33.189 --> 01:12:38.670
song as well. So I think that Deep Purple, just
01:12:38.670 --> 01:12:41.289
for the fact that they were such a huge influence
01:12:41.289 --> 01:12:45.859
on someone as important as Lars Ulrich makes
01:12:45.859 --> 01:12:51.869
their place on this indisputable. And would you
01:12:51.869 --> 01:12:54.149
say Iron Maiden as well? Iron Maiden do those
01:12:54.149 --> 01:12:56.449
sort of faster songs and they do the proggy stuff
01:12:56.449 --> 01:12:59.130
now as well, you know, the slower build stuff.
01:12:59.229 --> 01:13:01.029
I'm not saying it's the same type of music, but
01:13:01.029 --> 01:13:03.710
I'm saying that kind of, you know, the different
01:13:03.710 --> 01:13:08.409
progressions. I mean, I think that's a fair point.
01:13:09.609 --> 01:13:14.670
I think you would have to throw in, you know,
01:13:14.670 --> 01:13:19.220
a band like Yes for... iron maiden as well i
01:13:19.220 --> 01:13:21.460
think you'd have to throw in a king crimson as
01:13:21.460 --> 01:13:28.270
well um and i don't think that like steve harris
01:13:28.270 --> 01:13:31.350
is i mean i've never heard him come out and say
01:13:31.350 --> 01:13:34.250
roger glover you know oh my god he's just so
01:13:34.250 --> 01:13:37.189
important i've i've heard bruce dickinson profess
01:13:37.189 --> 01:13:40.670
his love for deep purple to no extent and he
01:13:40.670 --> 01:13:44.369
appears on various different tribute shows to
01:13:44.369 --> 01:13:48.569
john lord or cover tracks that they do Bruce
01:13:48.569 --> 01:13:51.829
has come out and talked about them. And also
01:13:51.829 --> 01:13:55.170
Yannick has played with Ian Gillen as well. So
01:13:55.170 --> 01:14:02.829
there is that connection, but I agree with you.
01:14:02.890 --> 01:14:11.020
I just think that child in time being 10 minutes
01:14:11.020 --> 01:14:16.090
still makes sense to me. Death of the Celts at
01:14:16.090 --> 01:14:24.079
like 13, 14 minutes does not. By the way, I was
01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:26.779
going to see Deep Purple this month, and they've
01:14:26.779 --> 01:14:29.380
actually cancelled. So we wish Ian Gillan all
01:14:29.380 --> 01:14:32.119
the best, and we hope he gets back on his feet
01:14:32.119 --> 01:14:37.619
soon. Yes. Let's hope. Yes, get well, Ian. He
01:14:37.619 --> 01:14:40.720
was sounding, you know, that when Richie got
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:42.960
up and played with him, the thing that blew me
01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:45.380
away about that, I mean, just how incredible
01:14:45.380 --> 01:14:47.760
it was seeing Richie Blackmore up there, but
01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:53.359
how good Ian Gillan sounded. I mean, I... Yeah.
01:14:53.460 --> 01:14:55.619
I mean, we all know his voices and what it used
01:14:55.619 --> 01:15:00.729
to be, but he sounded fantastic. Yeah. How many,
01:15:00.750 --> 01:15:05.439
how many guys that are 20, 30 years younger than,
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:10.000
than him? 10 years younger. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:15.680
Sound nowhere as good as what he does now. Can,
01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:19.319
can he hit the notes in highway star? No, but
01:15:19.579 --> 01:15:24.859
he's still good enough to pull off. 90 % of their
01:15:24.859 --> 01:15:29.319
catalog? Yeah, yeah. You have singers who couldn't
01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:34.189
pull off their catalog in 83. So when their album
01:15:34.189 --> 01:15:40.670
first came out, nonetheless, in 2026. Yeah, he's
01:15:40.670 --> 01:15:46.909
81 years old. He is 81. Wow. He's 81. Yeah. So,
01:15:46.930 --> 01:15:50.470
you know, whatever he's doing is amazing. If
01:15:50.470 --> 01:15:56.770
I'm even standing up at 81, I'll be glad. Yeah.
01:15:56.770 --> 01:16:02.130
The thing is also the uniqueness of his voice.
01:16:02.310 --> 01:16:04.670
And I realized it wasn't like a lot of people
01:16:04.670 --> 01:16:08.909
competing in this type of music back then. But
01:16:08.909 --> 01:16:12.640
I don't know anybody can even really imitate
01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:16.539
him. You know, they even come close to his voice.
01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:21.020
Whereas Robert Plant, again, Robert Plant's probably
01:16:21.020 --> 01:16:24.079
one of the most influential. singers on rock
01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:27.560
music, rock singers out of all these people.
01:16:27.859 --> 01:16:30.039
I mean, you think of all these new bands that
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:32.920
are, you know, younger people coming up, putting
01:16:32.920 --> 01:16:34.960
out rock music and how many of these guys sound
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.579
like, you know, try to sound like Robert Plant.
01:16:37.699 --> 01:16:39.800
It's, it's pretty, it's, it's pretty interesting,
01:16:39.880 --> 01:16:43.500
but not one of them can sound like Ian Killen.
01:16:43.500 --> 01:16:48.220
Well, funny enough, when I interviewed the late
01:16:48.220 --> 01:16:50.520
Eric Wagner, who used to be the singer trouble.
01:16:52.850 --> 01:16:56.649
He mentioned to me because I brought up, you
01:16:56.649 --> 01:16:59.210
know, Ozzy being an influence and this and that.
01:16:59.270 --> 01:17:01.710
And he flat out said, he goes, Ozzy was never
01:17:01.710 --> 01:17:05.289
an influence. He goes, it's Ian Gillen's my influence.
01:17:05.590 --> 01:17:10.329
He goes, maybe the color in my voice may sound
01:17:10.329 --> 01:17:14.130
closer to Ozzy. But if you listen to my attack,
01:17:14.289 --> 01:17:18.279
how I sing,
the cadence is like Ian Gillen's.
01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:25.489
And now that I mentioned that, if you have any
01:17:25.489 --> 01:17:31.770
of their music, listen to it later and see if
01:17:31.770 --> 01:17:39.640
you agree with that or not. The other thing to
01:17:39.640 --> 01:17:41.340
mention with Deep Purple, by the way, obviously
01:17:41.340 --> 01:17:43.640
we've just mentioned Ian Gillan, but Roger Glover's
01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:49.680
80 years old as well. Ian Pace is 78. Not only
01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:52.159
have they influenced other bands, but they've
01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:54.000
been in other bands. They've been in White Snake.
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:57.420
They've been in Rainbow. So they've had a part
01:17:57.420 --> 01:18:00.239
in the progression of our music that we love
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:04.020
over the years. So they've been part of it, which
01:18:04.020 --> 01:18:07.359
is interesting as well, I think. And still putting
01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:09.920
out good music, by the way. And the late John
01:18:09.920 --> 01:18:12.359
Lord, of course, as well. You know, I saw live.
01:18:12.460 --> 01:18:14.979
One of my first gigs was White Snake live. Saw
01:18:14.979 --> 01:18:23.600
John Lord. Incredible. Yeah. Did Glover or Lorde
01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:27.600
play on any of the hits, the original versions
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:29.979
of the hits that Whitesnake had years later?
01:18:30.140 --> 01:18:35.979
I mean, I'm not a huge Whitesnake fan. Pace played
01:18:35.979 --> 01:18:40.539
on, he played on Ready and Willing, I think,
01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:44.310
didn't he? What? Well. So he was on Full Fear
01:18:44.310 --> 01:18:48.350
Loving. So Full Fear Loving and Here I Go Again
01:18:48.350 --> 01:18:50.670
was the other. Well, that obviously was the huge
01:18:50.670 --> 01:18:53.729
re -record. That was a bit later. Yeah, yeah,
01:18:53.750 --> 01:19:04.369
yeah. All right. So down to two. I wonder who
01:19:04.369 --> 01:19:08.989
this could be. These two albums, well, three
01:19:08.989 --> 01:19:18.159
and four are separated by two points. It's my
01:19:18.159 --> 01:19:23.380
fault. Number two is 20 points ahead of number
01:19:23.380 --> 01:19:29.229
three. Right. Number one and number two are separated
01:19:29.229 --> 01:19:36.909
by one point. Wow. Well, it's tricky. It's a
01:19:36.909 --> 01:19:40.939
tricky choice. Number two. You can't go wrong.
01:19:42.029 --> 01:19:48.390
Number two, recorded September 7th in 1970. Released.
01:19:49.630 --> 01:19:54.489
September 18th, 1970. Released on Vertigo in
01:19:54.489 --> 01:20:00.949
the UK. January 7th, 71. The US on Warner Brothers.
01:20:01.130 --> 01:20:04.470
Recorded at Regent Sound in Island Studios, London.
01:20:04.890 --> 01:20:14.229
June 1970. Producer Roger Bain. Voted number
01:20:14.329 --> 01:20:21.119
one by two people, including Brad. The album
01:20:21.119 --> 01:20:23.739
was meant to be called War Pigs. The title changed,
01:20:23.960 --> 01:20:27.359
but the cover of a man with a sword and a shield
01:20:27.359 --> 01:20:34.569
shot to fit the original title stayed. They weren't
01:20:34.569 --> 01:20:37.770
doing drugs at all when that album cover was
01:20:37.770 --> 01:20:40.890
shot. I mean, let's be honest. They had a series
01:20:40.890 --> 01:20:43.250
of terrible album covers. That's one of the worst
01:20:43.250 --> 01:20:46.630
album covers ever. It really is. It's like, what
01:20:46.630 --> 01:20:51.210
the? The title track was written as filler when
01:20:51.210 --> 01:20:54.069
the album came up short. Bill Ward says it took
01:20:54.069 --> 01:20:57.550
20 to 25 minutes while geezer Butler records.
01:20:57.750 --> 01:21:03.010
The lyrics took about two hours. War pigs started
01:21:03.010 --> 01:21:08.149
life as well. Purchase an iron man was originally
01:21:08.149 --> 01:21:14.680
called iron bloke. We're going to name it. We're
01:21:14.680 --> 01:21:20.159
going to do another one called iron bloke. Got
01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:24.100
to do Iron Bloke, mate. Right, mate. We're going
01:21:24.100 --> 01:21:30.479
to do Iron Bloke next. It hit number one. He's
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:32.899
got his black Sabbath box there looking great.
01:21:32.939 --> 01:21:36.920
It hit number one in the UK. The band's only
01:21:36.920 --> 01:21:41.399
chart -topping album until their 13th album in
01:21:41.399 --> 01:21:45.199
2013. The single Paranoid reached number one
01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:50.989
in the UK. The band's only. Top five hit single.
01:21:51.750 --> 01:21:56.010
A U .S. release was held back to January 71 because
01:21:56.010 --> 01:22:01.310
the debut was still selling. It since has gone
01:22:01.310 --> 01:22:09.880
four times platinum in the U .S. I'm trying to
01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:16.659
think. Actually, Iron Bloke is the third track
01:22:16.659 --> 01:22:27.130
off of this album. Iron Bloke. so okay so it
01:22:27.130 --> 01:22:31.000
is obviously Paranoid by Black Sabbath do we
01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:33.260
want to talk about each album individually or
01:22:33.260 --> 01:22:36.199
do we want to talk about yeah let's give it a
01:22:36.199 --> 01:22:38.119
whirl yeah because you know there's a lot to
01:22:38.119 --> 01:22:40.500
talk about each one I guess okay Jeremy so let's
01:22:40.500 --> 01:22:43.420
go Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I love this album
01:22:43.420 --> 01:22:45.979
because of War Pigs. I mean, I just think War
01:22:45.979 --> 01:22:49.439
Pigs is an outstanding song. I mean, the way
01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:53.560
it's constructed, what it's about, the war situation.
01:22:53.699 --> 01:22:56.640
And, you know, people used to think Black Sabbath
01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:00.579
were just this evil, doomy, satanistic band.
01:23:00.699 --> 01:23:02.579
But no, no, they weren't. They were talking about
01:23:02.579 --> 01:23:05.140
things that needed to be talked about. And they
01:23:05.140 --> 01:23:07.720
always tried to
distance themselves from it.
01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:11.520
But they, you know, just... That song in particular
01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:14.680
has such an influence on me and the kind of music
01:23:14.680 --> 01:23:17.119
that we like. But, you know, if you listen to
01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:21.090
the whole of that side, you've got Paranoid.
01:23:21.090 --> 01:23:22.890
Obviously, it's been overplayed to death, but
01:23:22.890 --> 01:23:26.590
it's an amazing single. And then Planet Caravan
01:23:26.590 --> 01:23:29.569
sort of brings it down a little bit, but it still
01:23:29.569 --> 01:23:34.489
sounds heavy, even though it's so slow and doomy.
01:23:35.050 --> 01:23:36.829
And then you've got Iron Man with that amazing
01:23:36.829 --> 01:23:38.989
riff. And then it goes on to Electric Funeral
01:23:38.989 --> 01:23:42.329
on the other side and keeps going. And, you know,
01:23:42.329 --> 01:23:44.909
just love all those songs on it. I think they
01:23:44.909 --> 01:23:47.189
really push themselves a bit further from the
01:23:47.189 --> 01:23:49.810
first album. But I understand why the first album
01:23:49.810 --> 01:23:51.210
we're going to talk about in a minute might be
01:23:51.210 --> 01:23:52.689
number one. And we'll go on to that in a minute.
01:23:54.010 --> 01:23:56.569
I just think there are certain people out there
01:23:56.569 --> 01:23:59.649
that, and I'll give you an example. My wife does
01:23:59.649 --> 01:24:02.380
not like Iron Maiden. She does not like Metallica.
01:24:02.420 --> 01:24:04.760
She doesn't like a lot of heavy metal. She likes
01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:07.840
a lot of hard rock. But does she love Black Sabbath?
01:24:08.180 --> 01:24:10.840
Yes, she does, because she was brought up in
01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:14.479
an era of Sabbath. And she sees them as a little
01:24:14.479 --> 01:24:17.159
bit different, you know, just not the run -of
01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:19.159
-the -mill sort of metal -y band. They've got
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:21.840
that bluesy influence. They've got that hard
01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:24.100
rock. They've got that sort of 60s influence
01:24:24.100 --> 01:24:27.319
in there. And they were just something very,
01:24:27.380 --> 01:24:29.590
very different. As we know, you know, we could
01:24:29.590 --> 01:24:31.789
talk about them all day, but that's all I'm going
01:24:31.789 --> 01:24:34.329
to say about that particular album. It's really
01:24:34.329 --> 01:24:42.500
superb, and I play it quite a lot. Brad? I don't
01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:45.140
like following Jeremy. He's too good. He's too
01:24:45.140 --> 01:24:49.859
damn good. And you want to fill in for Ed during
01:24:49.859 --> 01:24:55.220
one of the monthly album reviews. I would insist
01:24:55.220 --> 01:24:58.220
I'm going before Jeremy. I have to follow both
01:24:58.220 --> 01:25:03.470
of them. And think, how underprepared am I? I
01:25:03.470 --> 01:25:07.029
got to talk after these two guys and sound somewhat
01:25:07.029 --> 01:25:12.319
relevant and coherent. Tell us what you feel
01:25:12.319 --> 01:25:15.479
about it, Brad. What do you feel? Well, War Pigs
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:20.039
just by itself puts this number one for me, just
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:24.449
because that song. it is so powerful man i mean
01:25:24.449 --> 01:25:26.510
you play that anywhere if you're at a concert
01:25:26.510 --> 01:25:29.810
and they're they play that in between bands you
01:25:29.810 --> 01:25:32.189
know even at the lower lower level everybody
01:25:32.189 --> 01:25:35.489
sings with it everybody everybody stops you know
01:25:35.489 --> 01:25:37.250
everybody's out chatting and then this song comes
01:25:37.250 --> 01:25:39.970
on and it's like everybody stops and they all
01:25:39.970 --> 01:25:45.899
sing along i i i i'm still If I was a professional
01:25:45.899 --> 01:25:47.899
baseball player, this would be my song to come
01:25:47.899 --> 01:25:50.560
into because then you'd get everybody in the
01:25:50.560 --> 01:25:52.939
stadium would sing along. They would. It would
01:25:52.939 --> 01:25:56.340
and it would just be a magical moment. And it
01:25:56.340 --> 01:25:59.399
is for those of you who don't know, I do play
01:25:59.399 --> 01:26:03.260
bass. This is my favorite song of all songs to
01:26:03.260 --> 01:26:06.180
play bass to. I just love it. Love it. Love it.
01:26:06.199 --> 01:26:10.500
It just it's just something even. Yeah. Even
01:26:10.500 --> 01:26:13.340
though the verse is just two notes. It's just
01:26:13.340 --> 01:26:16.840
the most powerful two notes in the history of
01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:22.039
music. Sorry to interrupt. There's something
01:26:22.039 --> 01:26:23.800
about the interval, isn't there, in that song
01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:27.399
that is as heavy as the sound itself. It's kind
01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:32.199
of like that interval between the riff. You need
01:26:32.199 --> 01:26:37.380
the hi -hat at the right spot. It's like, Bill,
01:26:37.479 --> 01:26:40.100
that was just genius even putting that in there,
01:26:40.220 --> 01:26:44.020
Bill. I mean, was that there the whole time?
01:26:44.500 --> 01:26:46.920
I know they played this live a lot before they
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:49.119
recorded it, so it probably developed. It'd be
01:26:49.119 --> 01:26:50.859
interesting. I know there's an old recording
01:26:50.859 --> 01:26:55.420
on one of Ozzy's best of albums of this with
01:26:55.420 --> 01:26:57.560
different lyrics. I'll have to listen to that
01:26:57.560 --> 01:26:59.859
and see if the drums are the same. But anyway,
01:27:00.220 --> 01:27:02.579
it's just everything about this, the leads in
01:27:02.579 --> 01:27:06.000
it, the bass playing. But as far as the album,
01:27:06.079 --> 01:27:07.979
this is what made it number one for me, is that
01:27:07.979 --> 01:27:10.880
the quality. I mean, how many great songs there
01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:13.279
are on here. That's what put it over the top
01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:17.300
for me and made it number one. And we'll talk
01:27:17.300 --> 01:27:22.199
about the first album here in a second. But these
01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:26.439
songs, yeah, these songs will live forever. Iron
01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:31.819
Man will live forever. Watching the Major League
01:27:31.819 --> 01:27:34.750
Baseball playoffs here in the U .S., This year,
01:27:34.850 --> 01:27:37.550
so many of these stadiums, they would play the
01:27:37.550 --> 01:27:40.609
beginning of Iron Man at certain points of the
01:27:40.609 --> 01:27:50.100
game. You know, just. And I know it for 56 years
01:27:50.100 --> 01:27:53.779
later, this is like it's it's an album that you're
01:27:53.779 --> 01:28:02.369
hearing everywhere. And yeah, that's I don't
01:28:02.369 --> 01:28:06.689
know what else to say other than it's just. Incredible,
01:28:06.750 --> 01:28:11.819
incredible album. In spite of the cover. Probably
01:28:11.819 --> 01:28:14.699
one thing to say about it is how many of us don't
01:28:14.699 --> 01:28:19.779
have a copy of it? We're into a certain brand
01:28:19.779 --> 01:28:22.520
of music here, aren't we? We're heavy metal freaks.
01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:25.859
How many of us don't have a copy of it? I'd say
01:28:25.859 --> 01:28:29.039
none of us because it's part and parcel of our
01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:32.420
DNA. I'm going to say even Metal Dan has a copy
01:28:32.420 --> 01:28:36.210
of it. Yeah, yeah. I have to – I'm not going
01:28:36.210 --> 01:28:39.369
to turn around now. I didn't go through the archives.
01:28:40.130 --> 01:28:46.010
But I used to definitely have it on CD. You'll
01:28:46.010 --> 01:28:48.449
have had it at some point. At some point, yeah.
01:28:48.850 --> 01:28:51.050
Everyone's bought it at some point because it's
01:28:51.050 --> 01:28:54.970
part of our DNA. You cannot be a metal fan without
01:28:54.970 --> 01:28:57.890
certain albums, and that's one of them. And,
01:28:57.909 --> 01:29:00.920
I mean, I have it digitally. But I'm trying to
01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:05.329
figure out if I have a physical copy of it. Yeah.
01:29:05.930 --> 01:29:09.729
I do. I have it on vinyl. Yeah. There you go.
01:29:09.770 --> 01:29:13.590
I knew you would. I just knew it. You know, I
01:29:13.590 --> 01:29:17.390
was just waiting for you to say. Because it,
01:29:17.470 --> 01:29:20.130
you know, that's what it is. So if you're watching
01:29:20.130 --> 01:29:24.489
this and you never listened to this album, it's
01:29:24.489 --> 01:29:25.989
okay if you don't own it. I'm going to give you
01:29:25.989 --> 01:29:27.970
permission. I'll give you a pass on that one.
01:29:29.500 --> 01:29:31.800
If you've never listened to this album, you need
01:29:31.800 --> 01:29:34.500
to do that. Today would probably be a good time.
01:29:35.020 --> 01:29:38.640
Okay. Forget skip dinner. Listen to this album
01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:41.659
instead. And then, and then come back and down
01:29:41.659 --> 01:29:44.659
here in the comments, tell us, tell us that we
01:29:44.659 --> 01:29:48.840
were right. Cause we are. So real quickly here,
01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:51.220
war pigs is one of my favorite songs to play
01:29:51.220 --> 01:29:55.850
on the drums. Paranoid is one of the only songs
01:29:55.850 --> 01:30:01.279
that I can play almost entirely on guitar. Yeah.
01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:06.279
Yeah, it's not one of my favorite Sabbath songs
01:30:06.279 --> 01:30:09.220
to play. I've played it more times than I can
01:30:09.220 --> 01:30:12.319
count with various bands. It's just kind of,
01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:18.000
I don't know. It's like a more interesting version
01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.539
of Crossroads. That seems to be the other song
01:30:20.539 --> 01:30:22.659
that everybody wants to play when you jam. Let's
01:30:22.659 --> 01:30:25.640
play Crossroads. Let's not. Thankfully, I've
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:30.210
never been in that situation. you've lived a
01:30:30.210 --> 01:30:33.689
charmed life yes yes but yeah so if you got comments
01:30:33.689 --> 01:30:36.050
about crossroads put them down here in the comments
01:30:36.050 --> 01:30:41.960
uh all right anyway so uh this was this was my
01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:47.909
number two so i preferred over the debut album
01:30:47.909 --> 01:30:51.210
because of a lot of these songs that we're discussing
01:30:51.210 --> 01:30:58.619
but um number one so Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
01:30:58.619 --> 01:31:04.439
released on February 13th, 1970 in the UK. June
01:31:04.439 --> 01:31:12.640
1st, 1970 on Warner Brothers in the US. Same
01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:15.460
exact setup. Regent Sound, Trident Studios in
01:31:15.460 --> 01:31:21.779
London in late 69. Roger Bain, producer. Ranked
01:31:21.779 --> 01:31:25.260
number one by four different people. That's where
01:31:25.260 --> 01:31:28.340
we got there. By the way, this is a proper album
01:31:28.340 --> 01:31:31.260
cover, right, Jeremy? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's
01:31:31.260 --> 01:31:34.579
heavy metal all over. This is legendary. This
01:31:34.579 --> 01:31:37.220
album cover, I'm going to say this is absolutely
01:31:37.220 --> 01:31:40.560
the best Black Sabbath album cover. Yeah. I mean,
01:31:40.579 --> 01:31:45.340
it's the scariest shit. People still go to this
01:31:45.340 --> 01:31:48.380
house like now. Yeah. I mean, it's a major tourist
01:31:48.380 --> 01:31:51.800
destination. That's right. I won't go because
01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:55.529
I'll just be so spooked I can't go. Yeah, this
01:31:55.529 --> 01:31:59.569
woman here is still alive and she sings. Yeah,
01:31:59.569 --> 01:32:04.710
yeah. Does she sing the song Black Sabbath? That's
01:32:04.710 --> 01:32:08.310
a great question. I don't know. I saw a news
01:32:08.310 --> 01:32:10.130
story on her recently. So let's see. The album
01:32:10.130 --> 01:32:14.229
came out on Friday the 13th, February 1970, a
01:32:14.229 --> 01:32:17.189
fitting date for the
band that invented doom.
01:32:17.869 --> 01:32:21.640
Most of the album was... cut in a single 12 -hour
01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:24.100
session at Regent Sound. The band essentially
01:32:24.100 --> 01:32:31.619
played it live, set straight to tape. The cover
01:32:31.619 --> 01:32:36.380
was shot at Maple Durham Mill Watermill on the
01:32:36.380 --> 01:32:42.470
River Thames. I'm thinking, how many people,
01:32:42.529 --> 01:32:44.770
instead of saying River Thames, especially in
01:32:44.770 --> 01:32:51.960
the U .S., are saying the River Thames? The cloaked
01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:57.640
figure was model Louisa Livingston. Louisa Livingston,
01:32:57.800 --> 01:33:02.500
whose identity only became widely known in 2020.
01:33:03.340 --> 01:33:07.619
I guess she was bored during the pandemic. Yes.
01:33:07.739 --> 01:33:11.859
The inverted cross inside the original gatefold
01:33:11.859 --> 01:33:14.840
was the label's idea, not the band's. It fueled
01:33:14.840 --> 01:33:18.520
years of Satanism accusations the band resented.
01:33:19.109 --> 01:33:22.979
Evil Woman, the band's first single, is a cover
01:33:22.979 --> 01:33:27.600
of a song by the American band Crow. Critics
01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:29.720
mostly panned it, but it reached number eight
01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:32.659
in the UK, number 23 in the US, and widely cited
01:33:32.659 --> 01:33:39.920
as the first true heavy metal album. Brad, your
01:33:39.920 --> 01:33:46.159
thoughts on this one? Yes. This started it all.
01:33:47.699 --> 01:33:55.369
Yeah. You know, here's the amazing thing. What,
01:33:55.409 --> 01:33:57.630
they recorded it in just like 12 hours or something
01:33:57.630 --> 01:34:00.010
like that. They had the whole thing and played
01:34:00.010 --> 01:34:03.010
it all live together. It still sounds really,
01:34:03.189 --> 01:34:05.569
really good. I mean, put on some good headphones
01:34:05.569 --> 01:34:08.010
and throw this on. And it's like, holy crap,
01:34:08.109 --> 01:34:11.050
how does this sound so good when you got Def
01:34:11.050 --> 01:34:14.210
Leppard spending three years trying to get one
01:34:14.210 --> 01:34:17.329
song, trying to get photographed to sound like
01:34:17.329 --> 01:34:21.529
it does. These guys did this one day, basically.
01:34:23.789 --> 01:34:28.119
That's actually really funny. That's a great
01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:34.470
analogy because... My job is done then. Jeremy,
01:34:34.550 --> 01:34:40.069
give us the clever bits. I mean, like you say,
01:34:40.149 --> 01:34:44.170
it started it all off. I remember listening to
01:34:44.170 --> 01:34:47.369
the first track on this album, which is obviously
01:34:47.369 --> 01:34:52.770
the standout. Well, it is for me. It was so scary.
01:34:53.470 --> 01:34:55.689
because I was a young lad when I heard this,
01:34:55.710 --> 01:34:57.350
and somebody played it to me, and they said,
01:34:57.369 --> 01:34:59.630
listen to this band, Black Sabbath. You'll never
01:34:59.630 --> 01:35:03.369
hear anything like this again. And I listened
01:35:03.369 --> 01:35:05.670
to it, and I couldn't believe it, because it
01:35:05.670 --> 01:35:08.189
was played quite loud as well. Black Sabbath
01:35:08.189 --> 01:35:10.909
was not a band you would play quite low. You'd
01:35:10.909 --> 01:35:13.869
want to turn it up. And to hear that, I don't
01:35:13.869 --> 01:35:17.069
think I would play that on my own, and I don't
01:35:17.069 --> 01:35:19.109
think I played it again on my own. I was quite
01:35:19.109 --> 01:35:22.930
scared of the band. was quite wary of them as
01:35:22.930 --> 01:35:25.210
people. I thought, well, what are these people?
01:35:25.310 --> 01:35:28.270
Are they devil worshippers? Are they just mad?
01:35:28.630 --> 01:35:32.590
What are they doing here? But I did enjoy it.
01:35:32.649 --> 01:35:36.630
I enjoyed the riffs and I enjoyed the doom and
01:35:36.630 --> 01:35:39.710
the atmosphere of it all. I'd never heard anything
01:35:39.710 --> 01:35:42.289
like it. No other band ever was doing anything
01:35:42.289 --> 01:35:45.449
like it. And we're still listening to that stuff
01:35:45.449 --> 01:35:49.210
today. It started them off on a massive career.
01:35:50.140 --> 01:35:52.779
And we certainly knew who Ozzy Osbourne was after
01:35:52.779 --> 01:35:56.100
that album and obviously Tony Iommi. Well, all
01:35:56.100 --> 01:35:58.079
of them, you know, they all played the part.
01:35:59.399 --> 01:36:03.399
It was a big thing over here. You can imagine,
01:36:03.479 --> 01:36:05.560
you know, you come out of the 60s and then you
01:36:05.560 --> 01:36:07.180
come into that, something like that. And I was
01:36:07.180 --> 01:36:10.220
listening to it probably 10 years later than,
01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:12.720
you know, after it come out. But we were still
01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.840
listening to it then. Older brothers and sisters
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:19.060
were playing you this Black Sabbath album. this
01:36:19.060 --> 01:36:21.819
debut album by them listen to this because they
01:36:21.819 --> 01:36:28.869
are incredible yeah yeah playing the title track
01:36:28.869 --> 01:36:32.390
with a band i've done that many times and uh
01:36:32.390 --> 01:36:34.189
you gotta have the right drummer for this by
01:36:34.189 --> 01:36:40.100
the way it is so powerful it is just yeah it's
01:36:40.100 --> 01:36:43.340
it's undeniable it's almost they don't have to
01:36:43.340 --> 01:36:45.819
try too hard because that riff you know the the
01:36:45.819 --> 01:36:49.539
initial the initial sound of the song is just
01:36:49.899 --> 01:36:53.420
it's so laid back and yet it's so powerful. And
01:36:53.420 --> 01:36:55.100
that's what Black Sabbath were all about. Really.
01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:57.159
They didn't always have to give you the heaviest,
01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:00.619
loudest riff. They gave you the doomest, scariest
01:37:00.619 --> 01:37:05.180
riff. And that's what made them metal. And it's
01:37:05.180 --> 01:37:06.899
all about the dynamics there. And of course,
01:37:06.899 --> 01:37:10.659
Ozzy, Ozzy just pushed it over the top. Yeah.
01:37:10.699 --> 01:37:13.659
Especially his laugh in there. It's just, yeah.
01:37:15.329 --> 01:37:18.880
All right. It deserves to be number one. So my,
01:37:18.939 --> 01:37:22.420
my favorite, track on this album which I've played
01:37:22.420 --> 01:37:26.479
a million times and I've actually covered at
01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:30.739
one point with a band I was trying out with and
01:37:30.739 --> 01:37:36.029
because no one knew the lyrics I ended up having
01:37:36.029 --> 01:37:40.010
to put a microphone between my legs as I'm drumming
01:37:40.010 --> 01:37:46.550
and singing the song as well so it is NIB oh
01:37:46.899 --> 01:37:54.180
yeah great song yeah so Yeah. It is a justly
01:37:54.180 --> 01:37:57.000
deserved number one, although I prefer Paranoid.
01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:02.220
There's no going wrong with this. Some quick
01:38:02.220 --> 01:38:09.659
tidbits here is that, let's see, obviously Roger
01:38:09.659 --> 01:38:13.119
Bain produced the top two albums that were recorded
01:38:13.119 --> 01:38:17.750
seven months apart. Sabbath Purple and Zeppelin,
01:38:17.770 --> 01:38:19.569
as I mentioned before, got two thirds of the
01:38:19.569 --> 01:38:25.659
total vote. And those are probably the two things
01:38:25.659 --> 01:38:28.760
that kind of stand out the most. Before wrapping
01:38:28.760 --> 01:38:33.340
up, I have a question for you guys. Yeah. So
01:38:33.340 --> 01:38:38.180
with the 80s, although we saw that ultimately
01:38:38.180 --> 01:38:43.800
what people voted for their favorite album of
01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:47.760
the 80s didn't reflect the band that won the
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:50.159
most amount of countdowns because Iron Maiden
01:38:50.159 --> 01:38:55.960
won the most amount of countdowns. Okay. Will
01:38:55.960 --> 01:39:02.039
there be a band that dominates the 70s like Iron
01:39:02.039 --> 01:39:08.100
Maiden did the 80s for us? I'm going to say straight
01:39:08.100 --> 01:39:11.399
off the top, no. Because I think a lot of bands
01:39:11.399 --> 01:39:13.659
are coming in through the 70s and we're going
01:39:13.659 --> 01:39:16.680
to pick some other bands. There's going to be
01:39:16.680 --> 01:39:21.510
more of a variety, I think. I think Black Sabbath
01:39:21.510 --> 01:39:30.100
will continue to rule. Okay. We'll see. Maybe
01:39:30.100 --> 01:39:36.260
I'm biased, but I think once KISS gets involved,
01:39:36.500 --> 01:39:42.720
it's... Oh, you're right. You're right. They
01:39:42.720 --> 01:39:46.159
say that, but they may do. But I think we're
01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:55.119
going to see KISS, Black Sabbath, Queen, ACDC,
01:39:55.579 --> 01:40:01.869
Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin. Perhaps the Purple,
01:40:02.270 --> 01:40:06.760
perhaps Motorhead, you know, when they come around
01:40:06.760 --> 01:40:11.060
as well. Van Halen, 79.
Van Halen, there you
01:40:11.060 --> 01:40:17.829
go. 77, 78. Yeah, 77, 78. So I think there's
01:40:17.829 --> 01:40:19.850
going to be quite a lot to choose from as we
01:40:19.850 --> 01:40:22.310
keep going on. There's going to be some monumental
01:40:22.310 --> 01:40:28.930
albums. Rush as well. You know what we're doing
01:40:28.930 --> 01:40:31.090
here, Victor? We're building the house of rock.
01:40:31.090 --> 01:40:33.649
We're building the house of rock. This is the
01:40:33.649 --> 01:40:37.850
foundation right here. To close the show on a
01:40:37.850 --> 01:40:42.630
similar subject as how we started it. That's
01:40:42.630 --> 01:40:46.109
why I think these first few years where there
01:40:46.109 --> 01:40:51.409
isn't like a clear cut and maybe early on Sabbath
01:40:51.409 --> 01:40:55.409
is going to be who rules these early few years.
01:40:57.180 --> 01:40:59.819
Let's not forget, you know, you've got. We'll
01:40:59.819 --> 01:41:03.420
see. I mean, what you had in that box set right
01:41:03.420 --> 01:41:06.199
there. You're going to have Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath.
01:41:06.380 --> 01:41:08.840
You're going to have Volume 4. You're going to
01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:13.739
have Masters of Reality. That's coming up next
01:41:13.739 --> 01:41:19.779
year. Those are all huge albums. We're going
01:41:19.779 --> 01:41:25.859
to have bands. Well, Sabbath here had two albums
01:41:25.859 --> 01:41:28.039
in one year. We're going to have Kiss with multiple
01:41:28.039 --> 01:41:31.100
albums in one year. We're going to have other
01:41:31.100 --> 01:41:36.319
bands that are similar. So I think this is going
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:39.520
to be great. If you're listening to this and
01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:43.420
want to vote for upcoming episodes, please do
01:41:43.420 --> 01:41:49.020
so. Your vote counts. That goes for you, Edgar.
01:41:49.180 --> 01:41:52.939
You know who you are. Also. Get in there. If
01:41:52.939 --> 01:41:55.920
there's a year where, you know, you say, oh,
01:41:56.060 --> 01:41:59.399
just not my year, not enough albums that I enjoy.
01:42:01.439 --> 01:42:06.859
Explore the year. Explore the year. You have
01:42:06.859 --> 01:42:10.000
plenty of time. The next time that we do, when
01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:13.079
we do 71 is going to be like three or four months
01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:19.750
from now. Okay. So you've got time to check it
01:42:19.750 --> 01:42:24.260
out. You've got ample time. We're going to need
01:42:24.260 --> 01:42:26.460
to hurry this up a little bit, Victor, because
01:42:26.460 --> 01:42:29.880
I'm not getting younger. Well, historically.
01:42:30.100 --> 01:42:34.119
We can't drag the 70s out until I'm 70. Historically,
01:42:34.199 --> 01:42:40.279
we've done a year, a band, and a subject. Right,
01:42:40.359 --> 01:42:44.500
right. We could potentially do all the years
01:42:44.500 --> 01:42:47.039
straight. That's something that I've contemplated.
01:42:49.390 --> 01:42:53.130
If more people want to do that, vote on years.
01:42:53.210 --> 01:42:56.310
We can do that because we've got plenty of albums
01:42:56.310 --> 01:42:59.630
and subject matter to talk about. We can do all
01:42:59.630 --> 01:43:03.350
the 70s and then I propose doing the 90s as well.
01:43:05.260 --> 01:43:12.479
So we'll see. Yeah. In any event, thank you,
01:43:12.479 --> 01:43:16.939
Brad, Jeremy. Thank you, anyone who is watching
01:43:16.939 --> 01:43:19.880
the replay of this, who's in the chat while we
01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:24.050
initially. broadcast this. Anyone that listens
01:43:24.050 --> 01:43:27.350
to the episode or checks out any of the shorts
01:43:27.350 --> 01:43:29.989
or just goes to the page and reads the ultimate
01:43:29.989 --> 01:43:35.470
countdown. So thank you to anyone that spends
01:43:35.470 --> 01:43:38.029
more than a second to check out this episode
01:43:38.029 --> 01:43:42.189
or anything surrounding it. And like I said,
01:43:42.250 --> 01:43:45.590
vote. Next time that we have a episode where
01:43:45.590 --> 01:43:50.369
we vote on things, I invite you to do so. On
01:43:50.369 --> 01:43:56.359
that note, We will see you next time. Wait. Oh,
01:43:56.500 --> 01:43:58.760
you went the DL route. I was expecting you to
01:43:58.760 --> 01:44:02.619
go the Aussie route. I did that earlier. Inceleration
01:44:02.619 --> 01:44:05.640
of one and two. My stuff isn't working anymore.
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:09.140
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