I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taken o Walk podcast, and here's another look at this week in music history for the week of February tenth, and we go over to the music history desk to musicologist, radio historian, radio legend, media executive. What else can I pile on to your resume? Harry Jacobs Welcome.

I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taken o Walk podcast, and here's another look at this week in music history for the week of February tenth, and we go over to the music history desk to musicologist, radio historian, radio legend, media executive. What else can I pile on to your resume? Harry Jacobs Welcome.

I appreciate the kind words and the musicologist. I kind of like that. That's my favorite. And that's what we're doing right because we're fans of music. That's it. The week of February tenth kind of a kind of a neat week. Some fun things to talk about. You know, Alex van Halen's book just came out in October, and it was this week in nineteen seventy eight that the first Van Halen album came out. Remember hearing Eruption or You Really Got Me? Remember how powerful that was to hear Eddie van Halen ripping through You Really Got Me? Those opening chords of that song, the way that they did it.

I appreciate the kind words and the musicologist. I kind of like that. That's my favorite. And that's what we're doing right because we're fans of music. That's it. The week of February tenth kind of a kind of a neat week. Some fun things to talk about. You know, Alex van Halen's book just came out in October, and it was this week in nineteen seventy eight that the first Van Halen album came out. Remember hearing Eruption or You Really Got Me? Remember how powerful that was to hear Eddie van Halen ripping through You Really Got Me? Those opening chords of that song, the way that they did it.

Yeah, they just burst down the scene and it just was just like we hadn't really heard anything really like this. This was something that kind of took us all on a real ride and you know, through various generations of the band, they continued to do that, you know, easily.

Yeah, they just burst down the scene and it just was just like we hadn't really heard anything really like this. This was something that kind of took us all on a real ride and you know, through various generations of the band, they continued to do that, you know, easily.

I love a half a dozen of those songs, if not more. Shame now that he's gone and Van Halen is probably done, you know, forever at this point. Yep. In two thousand and eight, the fiftieth Annual Grammy Awards happened. Amy Winehouse won five of them, including Best New Artists and Record of the Year for Rehab. I always love the Rehab. That's a song, Boy, that's a song.

I love a half a dozen of those songs, if not more. Shame now that he's gone and Van Halen is probably done, you know, forever at this point. Yep. In two thousand and eight, the fiftieth Annual Grammy Awards happened. Amy Winehouse won five of them, including Best New Artists and Record of the Year for Rehab. I always love the Rehab. That's a song, Boy, that's a song.

We did not comprehend all of her amazing talent until she left us Earth, and we also, I think didn't really understand and the depth of her darkness either.

We did not comprehend all of her amazing talent until she left us Earth, and we also, I think didn't really understand and the depth of her darkness either.

She was a troubled individual. There's no question the opioids got their hook into her. And that rarely finishes well, It really has a rarely has a really good ending. There's a handful of people that you know that did it at that level, that recovered. You know, Robert Downey's got a good story, right, remember the horror stories, right, you know, climbing into someone else's bed, in someone else's house, and the craziness he did, and he got straight and on the straight and narrow but then you you know, you see Amy and she's the rule versus the exception. It would seem right unfortunately, so yep. In nineteen sixty three, February eleventh, the Beatles recorded Please Please Me, and it was a one day session. It lasted ten hours at Abbey Road Studios. Incredible ten hours of those boys driving each other crazy, for sure. Twenty twelve, Whitney Houston passed away in Beverly Hills. Speaking of torture, right, a lot of torture there. Yeah, did you ever watch the reality show with her and Bobby Brown? I did not. Oh, this was, you know, right around the time I'm assuming right after the Osborne's. I don't know where we are chronologically with that, but that was a shit show. She was another one. I mean it kind of goes hand in hand with this Amy Winehouse conversation out about drugs and just a sad, sad story from an unbelieve another unbelievably talented singer and woman. Did you stay close? I mean, you've been a rock guy your entire career, you know, musically, and now since taking a walk and music Save Me, you know, you're branching out the country. You're dealing with pop, you're dealing with rap, You're dealing with all kinds of different music. Have you been a guy that's been out of that rock realm. I've known each other for forty years. I've never asked you that question. Do you enjoy Did you enjoy you know, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse and pop? Do you appreciate it? Tell me talk to me about it?

She was a troubled individual. There's no question the opioids got their hook into her. And that rarely finishes well, It really has a rarely has a really good ending. There's a handful of people that you know that did it at that level, that recovered. You know, Robert Downey's got a good story, right, remember the horror stories, right, you know, climbing into someone else's bed, in someone else's house, and the craziness he did, and he got straight and on the straight and narrow but then you you know, you see Amy and she's the rule versus the exception. It would seem right unfortunately, so yep. In nineteen sixty three, February eleventh, the Beatles recorded Please Please Me, and it was a one day session. It lasted ten hours at Abbey Road Studios. Incredible ten hours of those boys driving each other crazy, for sure. Twenty twelve, Whitney Houston passed away in Beverly Hills. Speaking of torture, right, a lot of torture there. Yeah, did you ever watch the reality show with her and Bobby Brown? I did not. Oh, this was, you know, right around the time I'm assuming right after the Osborne's. I don't know where we are chronologically with that, but that was a shit show. She was another one. I mean it kind of goes hand in hand with this Amy Winehouse conversation out about drugs and just a sad, sad story from an unbelieve another unbelievably talented singer and woman. Did you stay close? I mean, you've been a rock guy your entire career, you know, musically, and now since taking a walk and music Save Me, you know, you're branching out the country. You're dealing with pop, you're dealing with rap, You're dealing with all kinds of different music. Have you been a guy that's been out of that rock realm. I've known each other for forty years. I've never asked you that question. Do you enjoy Did you enjoy you know, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse and pop? Do you appreciate it? Tell me talk to me about it?

Yes, and more so in later years, as the work I would do for radio companies would expand beyond rock, so I had to buy the nature of that as well. I had to understand, you know, pop or just different genres, never forgetting that pop actually is short for popular, which is always interesting to come around and talk about. But I had to branch out, and you know, it's it's fun to do that, especially when there's music that can kind of, you know, once again in a moment, just you know, be that guilty pleasure.

Yes, and more so in later years, as the work I would do for radio companies would expand beyond rock, so I had to buy the nature of that as well. I had to understand, you know, pop or just different genres, never forgetting that pop actually is short for popular, which is always interesting to come around and talk about. But I had to branch out, and you know, it's it's fun to do that, especially when there's music that can kind of, you know, once again in a moment, just you know, be that guilty pleasure.

You know. At the end of twenty twenty four, I think the last week of the year, you re ran your top five guests on taking a Walk, and I went through that list blindly. Generally, we know what we're going to talk about when we when we talk and and I was so curious to see what you had, what you had picked, And Carlos Santana was on that that list and in two thousand, on February twelfth, he won eight Grammy Awards for Supernatural. This is a perfect example of someone getting a whole another life and a whole nother audience. It's almost like the lives that Aerosmith has had in terms of, you know, different iterations of their music and you know, pre MTV, MTV, you know, their breakup, all this stuff. Santana was, you know, a classic rock artist that didn't have a lot of mainstream exposure at that time. Certainly, you know, there were some hits that got radio play, pop pop music, but this album was unbelievable. Whole bunch of guest singers, I think, uh.

You know. At the end of twenty twenty four, I think the last week of the year, you re ran your top five guests on taking a Walk, and I went through that list blindly. Generally, we know what we're going to talk about when we when we talk and and I was so curious to see what you had, what you had picked, And Carlos Santana was on that that list and in two thousand, on February twelfth, he won eight Grammy Awards for Supernatural. This is a perfect example of someone getting a whole another life and a whole nother audience. It's almost like the lives that Aerosmith has had in terms of, you know, different iterations of their music and you know, pre MTV, MTV, you know, their breakup, all this stuff. Santana was, you know, a classic rock artist that didn't have a lot of mainstream exposure at that time. Certainly, you know, there were some hits that got radio play, pop pop music, but this album was unbelievable. Whole bunch of guest singers, I think, uh.

Rob Thomas from Matchbox twenty yeah, and Carlos is still, you know, reimagining things in the way that he creates these days. You know, we had on Music Saved Me and on a Future Taking a Walk, Darryl run dmc McDaniels, and Darryl and Carlos teamed up on this latest album of Carlos's on some Music as well. So it's so admirable that a guy is still curious.

Rob Thomas from Matchbox twenty yeah, and Carlos is still, you know, reimagining things in the way that he creates these days. You know, we had on Music Saved Me and on a Future Taking a Walk, Darryl run dmc McDaniels, and Darryl and Carlos teamed up on this latest album of Carlos's on some Music as well. So it's so admirable that a guy is still curious.

He still you.

He still you.

Know, bends the genres a bit along the way and still is experimenting.

Know, bends the genres a bit along the way and still is experimenting.

And and for those of you that are fans of you know, Run DMC and Darryl just you know, a quick shameless plug. Our other podcast Music Saved Me and Taking Away Walk both feature time with him. There are recent releases and if you haven't checked them out, check them out. Linn Hoffin did an amazing job with him and you, as always with Carlos. Were you on zoom with him? Did you actually? Yeah? See all right, tell me about a fanboy moment. Tell me about that.

And and for those of you that are fans of you know, Run DMC and Darryl just you know, a quick shameless plug. Our other podcast Music Saved Me and Taking Away Walk both feature time with him. There are recent releases and if you haven't checked them out, check them out. Linn Hoffin did an amazing job with him and you, as always with Carlos. Were you on zoom with him? Did you actually? Yeah? See all right, tell me about a fanboy moment. Tell me about that.

It's just the wildest thing when because it came together very quickly. It was the last minute, come together thing. They're promoting tour dates for Live Nation, and it's just surreal when you sign on and there you see the legend himself right before your very eyes. You know, it's just it's surreal. I can't put it any other way. So I ultimately have to contain my fanboy noess, but I can't contain it all Harry, you know that.

It's just the wildest thing when because it came together very quickly. It was the last minute, come together thing. They're promoting tour dates for Live Nation, and it's just surreal when you sign on and there you see the legend himself right before your very eyes. You know, it's just it's surreal. I can't put it any other way. So I ultimately have to contain my fanboy noess, but I can't contain it all Harry, you know that.

Yeah, it's and then when you got some one like him, it was just you know, a monster, It's it's amazing. Nineteen seventy. February thirteenth, Black Sabbath released. Black Sabbath, often regarded as the first real heavy metal album Paranoid and iron Man.

Yeah, it's and then when you got some one like him, it was just you know, a monster, It's it's amazing. Nineteen seventy. February thirteenth, Black Sabbath released. Black Sabbath, often regarded as the first real heavy metal album Paranoid and iron Man.

I don't think back then we understood how significant it was when it came out. I think it was it was just different because of it. You know, it's hard, and you know the heavy metal side and everything. But when you really reflect on that one, for you know, the core songs in particular, which are staples of you know, rock radio, classic rock radio, it is really awesome to this day to see what Black Sabbath did and was all about.

I don't think back then we understood how significant it was when it came out. I think it was it was just different because of it. You know, it's hard, and you know the heavy metal side and everything. But when you really reflect on that one, for you know, the core songs in particular, which are staples of you know, rock radio, classic rock radio, it is really awesome to this day to see what Black Sabbath did and was all about.

There are these comparisons to you know, satanic and cults and craziness. You know that people concocted about Black Sabbath back then and for years then. Right oh, in two thousand and five, Ray Charles won five Grammys and at that point in two thousand and five, Ray Charles had passed away, so he received those Grammys posthumously.

There are these comparisons to you know, satanic and cults and craziness. You know that people concocted about Black Sabbath back then and for years then. Right oh, in two thousand and five, Ray Charles won five Grammys and at that point in two thousand and five, Ray Charles had passed away, so he received those Grammys posthumously.

Always rather see them when they're alive, get them, That's all I'll say on that.

Always rather see them when they're alive, get them, That's all I'll say on that.

You know, one of my favorite Beatles songs, All you Need Is Love. February fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, John and Yoko felt that all they needed was love and decided to spend their week long stay in and Bet the Presidential Suite the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel promoting world peace.

You know, one of my favorite Beatles songs, All you Need Is Love. February fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, John and Yoko felt that all they needed was love and decided to spend their week long stay in and Bet the Presidential Suite the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel promoting world peace.

Pretty badass move if you think about it.

Pretty badass move if you think about it.

Huge, huge move, huge move. I mean it's listen, it's right up there with Bob Rivers staying on the radio for ninety days when the Baltimore Orioles were losing. I look at those two things similarly. That's right, it's a moment. Yeah, there you go. I'll leave you with two more things here. February sixteenth, Quickly, Sergeant Pepper's won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. It was the first rock album to win Album of the Year.

Huge, huge move, huge move. I mean it's listen, it's right up there with Bob Rivers staying on the radio for ninety days when the Baltimore Orioles were losing. I look at those two things similarly. That's right, it's a moment. Yeah, there you go. I'll leave you with two more things here. February sixteenth, Quickly, Sergeant Pepper's won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. It was the first rock album to win Album of the Year.

I would have to say, my opinion, number one album of all time.

I would have to say, my opinion, number one album of all time.

You're not going to get a disagreement from me at all. And this album set people like Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, who we talked about in the last week's episode. This set guys like that that were the geniuses that kind of looked at themselves as competing with each other, you know, at that time, and this set that world, especially Brian Wilson on his side when Sergeant Pepper's came out, and I agree, probably the best album, best rock album of all time. Yep, quick last topic for this week in music history. Also on February sixteenth, Ike Turner was incarcerated for cocaine possession. Where can get another troubling chapter in the life of Ike Turner. I cannot, for the life of me think of a kind thing to say, so I'm going to listen to my mother and what she used to say, which was, if you don't have anything nice to say, Harry, say nothing at all, And I'll leave you with a final thought on Ike Turner. Talented, but ugh, the ick It's just the ick factor is high heavy ick factor.

You're not going to get a disagreement from me at all. And this album set people like Brian Wilson and Phil Spector, who we talked about in the last week's episode. This set guys like that that were the geniuses that kind of looked at themselves as competing with each other, you know, at that time, and this set that world, especially Brian Wilson on his side when Sergeant Pepper's came out, and I agree, probably the best album, best rock album of all time. Yep, quick last topic for this week in music history. Also on February sixteenth, Ike Turner was incarcerated for cocaine possession. Where can get another troubling chapter in the life of Ike Turner. I cannot, for the life of me think of a kind thing to say, so I'm going to listen to my mother and what she used to say, which was, if you don't have anything nice to say, Harry, say nothing at all, And I'll leave you with a final thought on Ike Turner. Talented, but ugh, the ick It's just the ick factor is high heavy ick factor.

Well, Harry, thanks for wrapping up another week in music history the week of February tenth, and thanks for checking out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are part of the iHeart Podcast Network and available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Well, Harry, thanks for wrapping up another week in music history the week of February tenth, and thanks for checking out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are part of the iHeart Podcast Network and available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.