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We want to take a look at.
Music history for the week of November the eighteenth, and for that I want to turn to the Taking a Walk Music History Desk to a dear friend of mine, a partner in crime, a co conspirator for a long time, Harry Jacobs.
We have a long history going back to our days.
At w ZX in Boston and maybe even before that period in time. Harry is the host of a new podcast called The Rachel Cancer Scam. But I want to take it over to Harry at the Taking a Walk Music History ask for a look at the week.
Harry, Nice to see you. Well, it's a pleasure to see you as well.
And it's funny because I feel like I've heard a lot here I'm taking a Walk.
That's right.
Well, you're the opening announcer that you give a little, you know, preview of what folks are going to hear, and then there is also a little you know, taking a Walk theme. In fact, it's your music, So why don't you give a few riffs of the theme there, Harry.
Welcome to this episode of Taking a Walk where your host Plus Night speaks to Harry Jacobs.
There you go, I love it. Listen.
We're both music nuts, right, That's why we're here. That's why you started this and that's why I'm along for the ride. And one of the things that's joined us in our friendship is the mutual love of music.
I know every week has its twists and turns in terms of music histories. So what happened on this particular week, the week of November eighteenth.
This is an interesting week for music when you think about I mean, there's so much opportunity for us to talk every single week. In nineteen ninety four, the Stones actually became the first band to live stream a concert. Nirvana was on MTV Unplugged in New York. And this week in nineteen ninety three, this is the week that the Beatles released the White Album in the UK.
I would imagine in any week.
That we choose to do this, there's going to be some sort of Beatles news.
Oh, without a doubt from the week, Oh yeah, from Minutia to Big News, no doubt.
Yeah, and that White album, I mean was just a historic, you know, double album, and it meant so much, as so much of their music does to.
All of us.
Going back to the Stones, Harry, the Stones broke some ground years before that when they were the first band that I think I knew of that had that sponsorship. Remember Joe Vaughn was the sponsor of the Stones tour. People went nuts. They couldn't understand why the Stones sold out. And now, come on, it's commonplace for bands to be sponsored.
You know, these guys when you look when you look at at guys that run bands, that do it really well. And you got Mick Jagger, who you know has an unbelievable brain on him. You look at Gene Simmons from Kiss. You look at these guys that looked at their brands, their bands as brands.
And Jagger did that with Joe Vn, he did that.
You know, Hey, they embraced disco when it wasn't popular for stations like the ones you and I worked for to be playing disco. But you think about you know, nineteen seventy eight for some girls and they wrapped their arms around something that wasn't a popular thing for rock bands at that point.
Think about that, Yeah, Trailblazers to this day.
In nineteen ninety four, Paul was part of the Bob Geldoff band Aid project. Do they know It's a Christmas Time? Along with it just a slew of huge artists at the time, But Paul was a big part of that.
Yeah, I had forgotten his role there.
I remember the song and obviously the mission of why the song came out, but I had forgotten McCartney's role in it for some reason. The guy is a genius of our time. But sure, you know, obviously most respected for his catalog rather than the new music he creates. Don't you find that a little sad in that regard?
I do, you know, especially when you look at what they're doing. You know, we have such little patients these days for what people put out for new music. But when you listen to what guys like McCartney are putting out now, how holds eighty eighty or eighty one years old?
Yeah, boy, he's putting out magnificent music.
And it also shouldn't be lost on anyone that has an appreciation for music that McCartney's a guy that plays guitar, plays bass, he plays piano, he plays drums, or have been a number of his projects where he's played everything. He listened we love Ringo, but he helped Ringo, you know, with his drumming, and Ringo's widely considered to be a very good drummer. So he's a multi talented guy.
I just interviewed for a Future taking a walk to photographer and filmmaker, producer, musician even Lynn Goldsmith, who just wrote this new book about or Patty Smith. Actually her photographs make up this book on Patty Smith. And we were talking because she saw in the background the.
Photos back there.
One of them is a picture of McCartney's well actually it's a cover of the Beatles albums, you know, signed by McCartney. And I knew Lynn came from the camp of Rolling Stones rather than Beatles, you know, because there were those camps. But she said something interesting, she said, you know, I have to just really after watching the most recent documentary on the Beatles, I have to really give Paul the props because he didn't do this real pile on to John about the whole Yoko thing.
He kind of, you know, came around to it by saying.
Look, that's that's his choice of the person that he loves, and far be it from me to kind of single her out.
For, you know, breaking up the Beatles or whatever.
So in Lynn's view, Paul was elevated even further because of that sort of classy response to all that.
I love that response.
But my you know, my question for Paul would be, that's great that you say that now, and it's wonderful, and it's.
You know, it's you know, all you need is love, right, it's noble. It's noble right at this moment.
But how did he feel in nineteen sixty eight, in nineteen sixty nine when that was going on, and she, you know, inserted herself into their process.
She was there in the midst of it all, just there now, you know, she was kind of observing. It was a little odd how she was just observing. But yeah, you're you make a good point.
I guess to your point of you know Stones or or Beatles, did you? I know you're a huge fan of both, but I would imagine that that you were more in the Beatles camp, knowing what I know about you and what you know, what a nut you are for the Beatles, and what a big deal their music has always been for you.
At first I was the Beatles camp, no doubt, you know, getting everything new that came out as soon as I could get it days before it was officially available, that kind of thing. So yes, at first I was in that Beatles camp. But after then seeing the Stones for the first time, then I was like, Okay, I'm not really siding with camps.
I love both these bands. You know so much, you know.
And when the music comes out, you know, you and I were together in I guess nineteen ninety five when the anthology stuff came out, so the first couple events. I think there were three of those, but maybe the first two had come out, and it was a huge deal for you. I remember looking at you as the as the merchandise came into the to the radio station. They sent pins and they sent little you know, we call them Chatsky's right that it's an all I think it's a Yiddish expression, but they sent you know. I still have the pins that they that they sent out that you that you gave me.
I came along with it, but looking at you is a memory I'll have forever.
When those anthologies came out because of how important that music was, and then how engrossed you became.
I remember talking to you a day later or two.
Days later after we had the music, and you asked me what I listened to and listened for. And I wasn't that kind of Beatles nut at that point, but you were listening, you know, the outtakes.
Everything meant something to you. It was incredible to see that. Yeah, we dissected it to death, you know.
Yeah, and it was a good way, you know, and you know, the Beatles estate, you know, really had a sense on how to keep pumping stuff out, to keep it you know, vital, you know, for quite some time.
You know.
Yeah, this is also an just kind of from a pop culture perspective, and this expressed on everyone's mind. And I'm guessing that we're going to release this, you know, next week during this week, but this is the week we record this. On November twenty second, that Mike Tyson won the heavyweight championship of the world.
He was the youngest heavyweight champion and as.
We sit here right now, in two days, Mike Tyson fights again for the first time at fifty eight years old. He fights twenty seven year old Jake Paul and I have been a Mike Tyson Nutt for as long as.
As I can recall. He gave me boxing lessons. He did give me.
A boxing lesson, and I will never forget because I in another year is term.
I hawked him for days. After I met him.
We did some work for him in his house and I said, listen, I want your help. I'm a guy who's been around martial arts and boxing for a long time.
And I said, I want your help.
Just watch me box, watch me stand up, watch my hands and feet move. And I bothered him and I bothered him, and then one day I got him in his house alone and he came up to me. He's very manic. He's really hot and happy or he's really low. And one day when he was really high and happy, he grabbed me by the arm and he pulled me into his office and he said, stand up and show me what.
You got and I'll never forget it.
And I put my hands up and he sat on his chair and he said, you're not moving your feet. You're gonna get killed. He said, but your hands look great. He said, I'm surprised, and I said well, you never moved your feet, because he didn't if you think about how he thought he shoveled his feet. And then I thought to myself, you just told Mike Tyson that he didn't move his feet.
And you're arguing at a boxing lesson who do you think you are? And this is what he did. He stood up.
I'll never forget this, and he took off his jacket and he took the cigar out of his mouth, and he put his hands up, his fists up, and he did what we call measuring and fighting. And he put his hands in my chests and took a step back so that he was still touching my chest, just barely, and he said, don't move, don't blink, don't breathe, and he let his fists fly and I felt the wind of his fist going by my face and I looked at that tattoo and I thought, I will never.
Forget this for as long as I live. Oh wow. And that's my So we don't know, as we're sitting here.
We don't know whether he beat j Paul, which is my prediction, or whether the twenty eight year old YouTuber you know ended up beating him. But yeah, I'm a huge Tyson fan. I'm gonna put me too. I'm gonna put my money on him. I don't know.
I just feel from what I understand, he's been supremely prepared for this and is not taking it lightly. So I'm gonna but maybe no money. It's just that sounds a braggadocio. I'm gonna put my money on my.
Tyson listen as a gentleman's bet. I you know I'm on your side with that as well. I just think that he now has something to prove. His last bunch of professional fights he didn't care about. He wasn't the animal that he was, And I feel like now at this point, I've been watching the lead up on Netflix with it.
He's a dangerous man. At fifty eight years old.
He may not be as fast as he was, but he's faster than Jake Paul and he's incredibly powerful.
And I think it's gonna be a great fight either way.
The only questions are what Cannabis has done to him, positively or negatively, or what what is that the other thing he was into snake mushroom or something in mushroom.
I don't know about the snake venoms.
But they you know, they claimed he was eating raw meat, which he doesn't do because he's a vegan, and that was nonsense. But the mushrooms and the and the weed, and he claims to not be on either of them. But he's still very fast and he hits harder. His trainer is a guy named Rafael Cordero, and I saw some video of him hitting Rafael training last week. And Rafael is wearing this big body suit that's like five inches thick, and Tyson hit him through it.
And knocked knocked him on the ground, knocked. I mean it hurt him.
So I think he's I think he's still got it, so I believe any right.
You know.
One one other odd thing of note musically, November twenty first, that was the date that that Don Henley, who were both huge fans of because of his work in the Wallden Project, got arrested after paramedics found a teenage girl in his home suffering from an overdose.
And that that hurt the band for a minute.
And that that was a difficult thing with that recent trial that he went through over the theft of his music, you know, the sheets, original sheets to stuff that was you know that really sent that trial into kind of a different place when that was you know, brought up in that. So, you know, even though he and the band certainly were able to move on from that, it's still something you know, he's had to deal with to this day. And if I recall his comments, certainly his comments to the court were certainly feeling you know, bad and.
Embarrassed and sorry for what had happened.
You know, I always found interesting about him and what he said about the band, and it was a selfless thing from a guy who I didn't always find to be selfless in the way he conducted himself interview wise. There was always an element of ego to me with Henley, but he during the documentary that we saw, he said, this is Glenn's band, right, this is I have no He didn't mince any words about it, even though the Henley Fry credits are there on all the songs that matter.
This is Glenn's band.
And I thought that was an incredibly selfless thing of him to say, certainly before Glenn died, and he's continued to say that after the passing plant.
And then of course you know, as we're talking, the band is in your Neck of the Woods at the Sphere in Las Vegas, breaking records. Certainly with these performances rake it in some big cash. Anybody that I've sort of communicated with who's been there to see the Eagles at the Sphere has just completely raved about it.
This is an interesting thing to me.
This is I think this is the the you know, the golden ticket, if you will, for musicians to get an act in Vegas like this. The Sphere is a whole another universe, however you think about it. From their perspective. These guys get to come to Vegas two days a week, every weekend for as long as they want. They're probably making a quarter million bucks a pop to work ninety minutes. They're probably staying at the you know, at the Four Seasons, you know, or at one of Steve one Wins property right next door to the to the Sphere, and they get to play their hits. And I guarantee you that they're walking into that beautiful building that there's only one of in the entire world and looking around at the desert scenery behind them, and every time they play Hotel California or Take It Easy or Life in the Fast Lane, they're thinking this is our life and.
They earned it. They earned it, and I have not gotten to see it yet.
I'm looking forward to to go and to see that show. But it's it's interesting to see that, to see that happen. But they've they've they've hit the pinnacle, I think for.
Sure, Harry.
Before we close out, I want to throw out for this week what will be out for the Taking a Walk podcast, And we haven't really gotten to talk about this.
Episode too much.
Got to speak with Noodles, the great guitarists from the band The Offspring, who has been added cranking out great rock music and punk music for decades, still out creating. Really enjoyed talking to him, just a genuine good soul, really sharing in terms of the stories there and really still enjoying the creative process with the band. He in dex Or from the band have known each other since they were kids, and they still enjoy the love of the road, the love of creating, and he certainly shares that and more on an episode.
So it was really cool to talk to Noodles.
I love you know, by the way, noodle is an expression that we as guitar players have, So when I pick up a guitar.
If I walk into someone's house.
Or if I sit on my couch, or I grab this guitar that's right next to me, what do I do with it? I noodle around. You know, I don't necessarily pick up to play a song. I noodle on something. And I would be very curious to see what to see what noodles noodles with? And if that's how he came up with that name, well he.
Did, and you'll be happy to know I didn't go the cheesebag route and ask him what his favorite noodles were because I knew.
That it came from the noodling, So.
I would I would love well And to me, as a guitar player, would say, listen, I don't want to talk about noodles because I also am a noodle fan.
But my question would be when you pick up.
A guitar, if you walk in, if you were to pick up my you know, my Yamaha here and pick that up, what would you noodle around with? What would you what would you play? Would you ask me would I like to play with it?
What do you know? What's your go to?
And as a guitar player, I love it when you interview guitar guys, right, because the more I know about their process and what they're doing.
So I'm curious to hear what Noodles you know, has to say.
I love talking to them, and I love just saying the name Noodles, you know.
Yeah, well yeah, there you go. Fun and I love.
Noodles as well, But Noodles from the offspring on taking a walk.
And the last thing I'll say is, I'm just.
Going to tease this upcoming that will release probably early in December.
Let's just say, a.
Big piece of one of the biggest bands, if not the biggest band in music history, not from that band, but from that tree, from that lineage. So that's all I'm going to say, and really super excited and wanting to promote that one in the upcoming weeks.
I will tell you that when you told me that this was a possibility before you even had it, before it was even booked, I hung up the phone with you, and I wrote the introduction and pulled out my guitar and couldn't wait to be able to hear my voice introduce that guy who we have to remain nameless right now.
But yeah, we're going to keep it that way just because I don't want to be an idiot and jinx it, but well listen, Harry, thanks for giving us a look at music history for the week of November the eighteenth, and it was.
Great to be able to noodle around with you. I love that buzz night. Thank you so much for having me
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