Lionel Nation - DAILY BRIEFING: American Music Tribute
Aired: 2022-05-22
Duration: 45:41


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[00:01:39]  Welcome to today's Sunday Daily Briefing.
[00:01:45]  I say a hearty hello and a hi-oh silver to you and you and you.
[00:01:49]  Two announcements that I want to make.
[00:01:53]  First, for reasons I do not know, my dear brother-in-arms, our great honeyman, Chris Stose brought this up, another one of you.
[00:02:08]  I'm going to be at the cutting room on July.

=== Want to See Motown? (15:18) ===

[00:02:14]  July 16. I think I was saying September.
[00:02:18]  I don't know why.
[00:02:20]  I have no idea.
[00:02:24]  July.
[00:02:26]  July 16. July.
[00:02:33]  Let me get a thing for you right now.
[00:02:36]  I'll pin this up for you.
[00:02:38]  How about that?
[00:02:42]  This is going to be a little different than usual.
[00:02:45]  First, do I have my stuff handy?
[00:02:48]  Let me see.
[00:02:50]  I'll get that later for you.
[00:02:52]  Just go online.
[00:02:54]  July, July, July, July, July.
[00:02:56]  Not September, July.
[00:02:58]  Don't know why.
[00:02:59]  July.
[00:03:01]  Number two, comments are open.
[00:03:07]  I'm not going to go through And that's that.
[00:03:36]  Now, The other day, I get hit by things.
[00:03:44]  Sometimes I'll think of something like, oh, that's odd, which is the way I am.
[00:03:52]  Coming out around, going into the Lincoln Tunnel, the helix, as we call it, and you're coming from Route 3, if you're Jersey-bound, you make this big loop, and you go into the city.
[00:04:07]  Big sign for Eric Clapton at the Garden.
[00:04:12]  Eric Clapton, still going on.
[00:04:14]  Bless us, still doing this thing.
[00:04:18]  And let me tell you what I thought.
[00:04:23]  Maybe this is...
[00:04:26]  As one...
[00:04:28]  I don't know if it's because one gets older or if it's because we get bored or...
[00:04:37]  I don't know if it's a matter of age, per se.
[00:04:40]  But I never, I mean, the last concert we went to, I went to, was Steely Dan at the Beacon.
[00:04:48]  Here, that's it.
[00:04:51]  I have absolutely no interest in sporting events, especially sporting events.
[00:04:56]  Concerts, going there, what do we do?
[00:05:02]  I don't know, I don't, I don't know why.
[00:05:07]  What happened?
[00:05:09]  Are you like that?
[00:05:10]  Does this make you think to yourself, wait a minute.
[00:05:16]  What happened?
[00:05:18]  Maybe because they were more fun then?
[00:05:20]  I don't know.
[00:05:22]  Is it because I don't like the human spirit of interaction?
[00:05:26]  No.
[00:05:27]  I think it's important.
[00:05:29]  I thought to myself, at the garden?
[00:05:30]  Oh, God, no.
[00:05:32]  No, no, no.
[00:05:32]  And immediately I'm thinking, oh, I've got to hang around with people.
[00:05:35]  Oh, no, no.
[00:05:37]  You've got to wait.
[00:05:39]  Forget getting a good seat.
[00:05:42]  I don't know what happened.
[00:05:43]  Now, there was a time when that, in a weird way, would have actually enticed me, the brutality of the event.
[00:05:53]  Anyway, it got me thinking, as I'm creeping along the helix, I'm looking at Clapton, thinking about this.
[00:06:01]  When do we really enjoy Yes, Crystal says the Jones Beach event.
[00:06:11]  Went to Jones Beach to see Hall of Notes, I think.
[00:06:15]  Walked in.
[00:06:16]  I've never been to Jones Beach.
[00:06:20]  I show up and immediately they say there's what was it?
[00:06:25]  A purse inspection?
[00:06:28]  Oh, no purses, and you know what?
[00:06:34]  See, you know what?
[00:06:35]  The hell with it.
[00:06:36]  Turned around and went back.
[00:06:39]  Hall of Notes.
[00:06:40]  I can see Hall of Notes.
[00:06:41]  Why do I want to go see Hall of Notes while I'm there?
[00:06:43]  I have no idea.
[00:06:46]  So July, July 16th, at the cutting room in New York City, that's different.
[00:06:52]  That's Q&A.
[00:06:53]  That's different.
[00:06:54]  That's completely different.
[00:06:56]  That's another story.
[00:06:58]  Now, when you meet somebody and you want to make some time, so to speak, and you want to just...
[00:07:04]  Not that you'd be doing this, but let's say you're on a date or something, or maybe you're looking for a job, or you just want to kind of break the ice with a question.
[00:07:19]  That's kind of an interesting thing.
[00:07:22]  One question is, people love to talk about, what was your first car?
[00:07:28]  Everybody loves that.
[00:07:29]  I don't know why.
[00:07:30]  I don't know why.
[00:07:31]  You remember it.
[00:07:33]  You remember it, and it meant it was the first time that you were able to be mobile.
[00:07:38]  And a lot of kids today, unfortunately, are not experiencing that.
[00:07:41]  Because there appears to be not the same degree of desire to want to get away and cruise or do whatever you're supposed to do.
[00:07:49]  And the other one is, speaking of Clapton, your first concert.
[00:07:57]  And why does that matter?
[00:07:58]  What is it?
[00:07:59]  Why do we go to these things?
[00:08:01]  Why?
[00:08:01]  Is it to see the person?
[00:08:04]  Sort of.
[00:08:05]  Sort of.
[00:08:07]  Let me ask you a question.
[00:08:09]  Assuming you wanted to go see Clapton, which is good.
[00:08:11]  And I saw him, oh my god, in high school.
[00:08:16]  Not exactly the most exciting performer, but still.
[00:08:20]  I think the most boring performer ever was Robert Palmer.
[00:08:24]  Just didn't move.
[00:08:28]  Whatever.
[00:08:29]  Leo Kotke was up there as well.
[00:08:31]  Not exactly riveting.
[00:08:34]  But what is it?
[00:08:35]  Do you want to...
[00:08:36]  Think about this.
[00:08:37]  Do you go to a concert because you want to be with other people?
[00:08:39]  Or do you go to a concert because you want to see this person?
[00:08:42]  You say, I want to see.
[00:08:43]  I want to see this person.
[00:08:45]  I've got to see whether he's really alive.
[00:08:47]  Yep, that's him, alright.
[00:08:48]  Let's go.
[00:08:50]  No, I want to see him.
[00:08:51]  Well, that's him.
[00:08:52]  He's playing live.
[00:08:53]  What does live mean?
[00:08:54]  What is it?
[00:08:56]  What does it matter?
[00:08:57]  I don't know.
[00:08:59]  I ask you.
[00:09:01]  It's a conviviality.
[00:09:04]  A conviviation.
[00:09:06]  It is you are a part of a human circuitry.
[00:09:10]  You are part of this event.
[00:09:15]  This event where you are sharing your You're like a transistor.
[00:09:23]  You're part of the circuitry.
[00:09:27]  You and whatever.
[00:09:30]  In addition to seeing the person.
[00:09:32]  There are certain things you have to go see.
[00:09:35]  Broadway.
[00:09:37]  I wish every one of you could see a really great Broadway show kind of the way it used to be.
[00:09:45]  The way it used to be.
[00:09:48]  With actually a curtain.
[00:09:50]  You know, not this weird thing they're doing now, but a real Broadway, something serious.
[00:09:56]  There is nothing like it.
[00:09:58]  There is nothing.
[00:10:00]  I'm not a musical person, but that you have to see.
[00:10:04]  You don't want to see, you know, whatever.
[00:10:07]  You have to see it live.
[00:10:11]  Going to a bar can only be done there.
[00:10:14]  It's one of the reasons why you don't want to drink at home.
[00:10:16]  You want to go to a bar with other people to be served.
[00:10:19]  To see what happens.
[00:10:21]  To see people in their various stages of interbriety.
[00:10:23]  So there's sometimes when you have to do something.
[00:10:26]  Woodstock was an example of a...
[00:10:29]  That is the classic Gustave Le Bon kind of a crowd movement.
[00:10:35]  This is not...
[00:10:36]  That wasn't just a concert.
[00:10:38]  That was...
[00:10:38]  They didn't even know what happened.
[00:10:41]  And if all of the people who claimed to have been at Woodstock actually were there, you would need the state of Wyoming.
[00:10:49]  To handle all these people who swear they were there.
[00:10:53]  It is quasi-religious.
[00:10:56]  I agree with you.
[00:10:57]  It is.
[00:10:57]  There is something spiritual about that.
[00:11:05]  The notion of sharing something with the humanity, kind of like we're doing now, in a weird way, in a strange way.
[00:11:13]  But it's something that I don't know if people...
[00:11:18]  Because we are getting away from mass celebrations.
[00:11:24]  We are getting away from people there who want to be a part of the cacophony, the melange of humans.
[00:11:35]  People are not into that.
[00:11:38]  But, in my lifetime, concerts were great.
[00:11:45]  I loved it in high school in particular.
[00:11:47]  My first concert, Three Dog Night, Tampa Stadium.
[00:11:51]  Opening act.
[00:11:52]  A friend of mine told me he was Buddy Miles, too.
[00:11:55]  I don't know.
[00:11:56]  But it was...
[00:11:57]  Oh, God.
[00:12:05]  Not Proko Harum.
[00:12:09]  Oh, God.
[00:12:12]  Steve Marriott.
[00:12:13]  Who is Steve Marriott?
[00:12:17]  Come on, what was the group?
[00:12:20]  Humble Pie, Humble Pie.
[00:12:22]  Hot and Nasty, still one of the greatest songs ever.
[00:12:24]  Peter Frampton was in Humble Pie.
[00:12:28]  That was the most incredible thing.
[00:12:29]  Three Dog Night, nobody gets how big they were.
[00:12:33]  Nobody gets, nobody understands it.
[00:12:35]  They think, oh, joy to the world.
[00:12:36]  They were unbelievable.
[00:12:40]  Unbelievable.
[00:12:41]  There was a riot.
[00:12:42]  There was a riot on the field.
[00:12:45]  I couldn't believe it.
[00:12:49]  You know, I mean, it was there.
[00:12:52]  I think I took my sister and her friend.
[00:12:55]  I'm kind of like the quasi-adult.
[00:12:58]  I was just a couple of years older.
[00:13:00]  But it was great.
[00:13:01]  You walked in there.
[00:13:02]  It was festival seating.
[00:13:03]  Remember, this is weird to say this, but the smell of weed when it was actual grown, it kind of smelled nice.
[00:13:14]  Spooky Tooth, by the way, was...
[00:13:16]  Gary Wright.
[00:13:17]  Remember that, Gary Wright?
[00:13:18]  Dreamweaver?
[00:13:18]  Anyway.
[00:13:19]  It was different.
[00:13:21]  The beach ball.
[00:13:23]  You got there at noon.
[00:13:24]  Gates opened at noon.
[00:13:26]  You walked in with coolers.
[00:13:27]  Nobody checked anything.
[00:13:28]  You just sat around?
[00:13:30]  Nobody.
[00:13:32]  I don't know.
[00:13:33]  They just did this thing.
[00:13:38]  Loved it.
[00:13:40]  I don't know why.
[00:13:41]  It was just, I loved it.
[00:13:42]  It's just people watching.
[00:13:45]  How about just walking around?
[00:13:48]  That's the greatest thing in the world.
[00:13:49]  Nobody got into fights.
[00:13:50]  No fights.
[00:13:51]  No nothing.
[00:13:53]  It was wonderful.
[00:13:55]  I loved it.
[00:13:56]  Loved it.
[00:13:58]  Loved those concerts.
[00:14:00]  I remember going to see Motown.
[00:14:02]  My cousin.
[00:14:03]  We were, I don't know, young.
[00:14:06]  That was something.
[00:14:08]  Motown is still the greatest.
[00:14:09]  That's an act.
[00:14:10]  Seeing, yes.
[00:14:12]  With Rick Wakeman?
[00:14:14]  With laser lights?
[00:14:15]  Oh my God!
[00:14:17]  It was incredible.
[00:14:18]  I saw Chicago a million times.
[00:14:19]  I saw Bob Seger so many times, it's not even funny.
[00:14:22]  Lakeland Civic Center.
[00:14:24]  I saw Steely Dan open for Chicago.
[00:14:27]  Steely Dan wearing baseball uniforms.
[00:14:31]  Is it Steely Dan?
[00:14:32]  Nobody remembers that one, but I saw it.
[00:14:34]  I loved it.
[00:14:35]  Don't have any interest in it.
[00:14:37]  Don't want to have a ticket with a number L3.
[00:14:41]  Are we in the loge?
[00:14:43]  Where is this?
[00:14:44]  We can't see.
[00:14:45]  It didn't matter.
[00:14:48]  Remember the feeling when you were a kid and all of a sudden, at night, you're waiting and you're hearing the music.
[00:14:58]  And then in the...
[00:14:59]  I never understood this.
[00:15:01]  In the...
[00:15:02]  kind of like...
[00:15:04]  they weren't really...
[00:15:06]  Tailgate parties.
[00:15:07]  But somebody would be outside with the door open of like some big muscle car with playing the music of...
[00:15:17]  I'd say, what are you doing?
[00:15:19]  One time I saw, was it the Meadowlands or whatever, the Stones?
[00:15:23]  And somebody was playing the Stones in the parking lot.
[00:15:25]  I was like, can you wait?
[00:15:28]  I don't want to hear, bitch, you know, or...
[00:15:32]  Can't you hear me knocking?
[00:15:33]  I mean, we're going to see it.
[00:15:35]  Can't you wait?
[00:15:35]  It's like it ruins it.
[00:15:37]  Don't play.
[00:15:38]  Anyway.
[00:15:41]  But that's not the one that got me.
[00:15:44]  Look at this.
[00:15:44]  MC5.
[00:15:45]  Oh my God.
[00:15:48]  Kramer.
[00:15:51]  Wayne Kramer.
[00:15:52]  MC5 was an exceedingly important critic.
[00:15:57]  Let me stop for just a second.
[00:15:58]  Miles Davis.
[00:16:01]  Miles Davis is deity.
[00:16:06]  Edgar and Johnny Winter, ACDC, look at this, In the Round.
[00:16:10]  I love this.
[00:16:11]  Those days are gone.
[00:16:12]  I think so.
[00:16:13]  I think so.
[00:16:13]  Blood, Sweat and Tears with David Clayton Thomas.
[00:16:16]  David Clayton Thomas.
[00:16:19]  David Clayton Thomas, in my pantheon of white singers who did not sound gratuitously soulful.
[00:16:30]  Or inauthentic.
[00:16:31]  David Clayton Thomas.
[00:16:33]  Bill Champlin, who played with Chicago for years.
[00:16:37]  He was like Sons of Champlin.
[00:16:38]  Listen to him on a song.
[00:16:40]  Listen to him on Isn't She Lovely on Captain Fingers, Lee Rittenour.
[00:16:45]  Listen to him.
[00:16:47]  And when you tell somebody, when you say he sounds authentically like a black blues singer, and you say with the utmost respect, not like Michael Bolton, but somebody who has their own style.
[00:17:00]  Their own...
[00:17:01]  Terry Cass from Chicago had their own...
[00:17:04]  It's not a rip-off, but it's as close to it.
[00:17:12]  Bobby Caldwell.

=== Graham And Jaco: Southern Cool Brothers (07:42) ===

[00:17:14]  What you won't do for love?
[00:17:16]  They thought he was black.
[00:17:18]  They thought Charlie Pryde was white.
[00:17:21]  Because nobody knew.
[00:17:23]  Nobody knew what Tony Orlando from Dawn, because he was a CBS employee and couldn't show his face.
[00:17:31]  Van Morrison, yes.
[00:17:33]  Van Morrison.
[00:17:33]  Where did that come from?
[00:17:35]  That is a real sound.
[00:17:38]  A real...
[00:17:39]  I used to have a list I could just rattle off.
[00:17:43]  The people who sounded so...
[00:17:46]  Bill Medley.
[00:17:50]  And that's the ultimate respect.
[00:17:54]  There's this...
[00:17:55]  I remember years ago people would say, you can't say that.
[00:17:57]  Yes, you can.
[00:17:58]  Anybody who says this, you don't think you can hear John Lee Hooker?
[00:18:02]  You think John Lee Hooker could be anything but this black blues man who spent his whole life in honky-tonks and cigarettes and booze?
[00:18:13]  I mean, are you kidding me?
[00:18:15]  Or Muddy Waters?
[00:18:17]  I mean, stop it!
[00:18:20]  Stop!
[00:18:21]  Steve Winwood!
[00:18:23]  Steve Winwood!
[00:18:26]  Weather Report.
[00:18:27]  Jaco Pastorius.
[00:18:29]  A friend of mine told me one time he thought he was at a bar in New York.
[00:18:34]  It was ladies and gentlemen.
[00:18:36]  Special guest, Jaco Pastorius.
[00:18:38]  He thought he said Jaco from Astoria.
[00:18:42]  From Astoria, Queens.
[00:18:44]  Jaco Pastorius.
[00:18:46]  Oh, look at this.
[00:18:47]  Christos.
[00:18:47]  Christos.
[00:18:48]  Rory Gallagher.
[00:18:50]  You're like fixated.
[00:18:51]  Rory Gallagher.
[00:18:52]  Nothing wrong with Rory Gallagher, but anyway.
[00:18:57]  Jaco Pastorius.
[00:19:01]  Stanley Clark.
[00:19:03]  Bootsy Collins.
[00:19:04]  Jamerson from the Motown.
[00:19:09]  Paul McCartney.
[00:19:11]  You're going to laugh at this one.
[00:19:13]  Peter Cetera.
[00:19:14]  Lewis Johnson from the Brothers Johnson.
[00:19:19]  Larry Graham from Graham Central Station and Sly, the family's known.
[00:19:23]  Those, they...
[00:19:28]  They created jazz bass.
[00:19:30]  Not jazz bass, but...
[00:19:32]  Oh, my God.
[00:19:33]  Jaco came along and said, what is he doing?
[00:19:36]  Phoebe Snow.
[00:19:37]  Phoebe Snow was a great, great friend of ours.
[00:19:41]  She was one of the funniest people she could tell a joke.
[00:19:48]  Outlaws.
[00:19:48]  Outlaws from Tampa.
[00:19:51]  Is it Monty Yoho?
[00:19:53]  I went to school with a guy, Robbie.
[00:19:55]  I think his brother was in Outlaws.
[00:19:58]  Remember, now listen to this.
[00:20:00]  See, I love doing this stuff.
[00:20:01]  This is my favorite.
[00:20:05]  Outlaws was a very important part of that time.
[00:20:12]  My great friend, Jerry Wexler, they formed Capricorn Records.
[00:20:18]  He and his buddy, they were both Capricorns.
[00:20:21]  That was the time of Marshall Tucker, Wet Willy, 38th Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Outlaws, Molly Hatchett to an extent, but not really, but sort of, yeah, yeah.
[00:20:39]  Atlanta Rhythm Section.
[00:20:41]  That was Southern Rock.
[00:20:46]  Oh, can't you see?
[00:20:47]  Toy Carwell, Charlie Daniels, CDB, all that stuff.
[00:20:50]  That's Southern Rock.
[00:20:53]  Now, listen carefully, but in the middle, there was this incredibly, this natural biologic connector, the missing link, so to speak, was Graham Parsons.
[00:21:11]  Graham Parsons came along and gave us the birds, eagles, Flying Burrito Brothers, little Emmylou Harris, and made it.
[00:21:21]  Clarence White, the bender, you know, the bee bender, whatever that Kelly he had, playing with the birds, and a little bit of Dylan, because of his coordination with Johnny Cash, but Graham Parsons was this link that connected.
[00:21:46]  Because remember, country was always there.
[00:21:49]  Keith Richards loved George Jones.
[00:21:52]  That's my picture back there, me and the possum.
[00:21:54]  George Jones, hardcore.
[00:21:57]  That was, of course, a precursor to rock.
[00:22:00]  Rockabelly was country.
[00:22:01]  Prior to that, prior to that was, of course, blues, electric blues, right?
[00:22:07]  But Graham Parsons, absolutely critical.
[00:22:11]  He countryfied it.
[00:22:14]  But Southern, Allman Brothers.
[00:22:22]  Leonard Skinner, that was a whole different thing.
[00:22:26]  And nobody will ever understand this.
[00:22:30]  During that time, growing up in the South, I know people don't think Florida is in the South.
[00:22:36]  Believe me, it is.
[00:22:38]  Because Leonard Skinner is from Jacksonville.
[00:22:40]  Tom Petty is from Gainesville.
[00:22:42]  Florida's got a big, you know.
[00:22:44]  Anyway.
[00:22:46]  There was this preponderance and this love of the battle flag, Stars and Mars.
[00:22:55]  Nobody thought at all about slavery.
[00:22:59]  It was that thing about the South.
[00:23:05]  Nobody will ever understand this.
[00:23:07]  Nobody.
[00:23:10]  It was about saying We're not very cool.
[00:23:14]  Are we cool?
[00:23:15]  Yeah, we're cool.
[00:23:16]  We are?
[00:23:17]  Oh, they like us?
[00:23:19]  Yes.
[00:23:20]  And all of a sudden we had the resistols and those whatever the rest...
[00:23:23]  Well, not resistols.
[00:23:24]  Those hats to it have steamed and bent down.
[00:23:30]  I mean, it was something.
[00:23:33]  Buffett.
[00:23:34]  Buffett was critical living there because his whole thing was the beach thing.
[00:23:39]  He made us...
[00:23:40]  Buffett taught people from flora.
[00:23:44]  That it was cool to be part of that beach thing.
[00:23:48]  Because, I mean, it was a beach, but Buffett made it cool.
[00:23:54]  A1A, changes in latitudes of sound, drinking, oh, Key West, that whole thing.
[00:24:04]  Those are really critical moments.
[00:24:07]  Then, Detroit, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Bob Seger.
[00:24:13]  I think, who else was a big...
[00:24:16]  Well, the Boston groups.
[00:24:19]  Of course, Chicago.
[00:24:21]  Chicago.
[00:24:23]  See, this is...
[00:24:25]  That whole scene.
[00:24:28]  I don't know if we even have that anymore.
[00:24:30]  But there was a real...
[00:24:31]  Oh, and then Jersey.
[00:24:33]  The people who...
[00:24:34]  Springsteen, Bon Jovi to an extent.
[00:24:38]  Southside Johnny.
[00:24:40]  Then, there was the New York story.

=== Heard On Spotify (15:52) ===

[00:24:43]  Long Island versus the city.
[00:24:46]  Billy Joel was Long Island.
[00:24:48]  This was great stuff.
[00:24:51]  Who knew?
[00:24:53]  Who knew?
[00:24:55]  How?
[00:24:58]  By the way, Jimmy Carter was president.
[00:25:00]  That's a fascinating connection.
[00:25:02]  A fascinating connection.
[00:25:06]  Kimberly's from Florida.
[00:25:07]  Now, are you born?
[00:25:08]  Are you a cracker?
[00:25:10]  That's right, too.
[00:25:15]  Those...
[00:25:15]  I listen on my Spotify, my thing.
[00:25:20]  I don't...
[00:25:22]  And it's not because...
[00:25:23]  I mean, there's certain...
[00:25:24]  There's new things I know.
[00:25:25]  There's new bluegrass I love.
[00:25:26]  Billy Strings is just...
[00:25:28]  He's not really sort of new.
[00:25:31]  I have no real problem with...
[00:25:33]  I don't know anything about Top 40. I don't...
[00:25:35]  Understand any of it.
[00:25:37]  Herb Alpert was important.
[00:25:39]  Herb Alpert was critical.
[00:25:43]  Herb Alpert is critical.
[00:25:47]  Married to Lonnie Hall.
[00:25:49]  Remember Herb Alpert?
[00:25:50]  A&M Records, Tijuana Brass, and the Baja Marimba Band.
[00:25:54]  Does anybody even care about the Baja Marimba?
[00:25:57]  This was the knockoff.
[00:26:01]  Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart.
[00:26:03]  Do you know Jeff Beck, who is this?
[00:26:08]  Have you seen...
[00:26:09]  Oh, I've got to tell you something right now.
[00:26:11]  By the way, I hope you enjoy this as much as I do because I'm sorry.
[00:26:16]  You're stuck with this.
[00:26:18]  Have you heard Tal Wilkenfeld?
[00:26:21]  Tal Wilkenfeld?
[00:26:23]  I think she's from Australia.
[00:26:25]  She's 35?
[00:26:27]  Wow.
[00:26:28]  She's been playing with...
[00:26:30]  She looks 10. Maybe it's an old video.
[00:26:33]  I don't know.
[00:26:35]  Tal Wilkenfeld is, I think she's Australia, right?
[00:26:39]  Yep.
[00:26:40]  It's from Sydney.
[00:26:41]  Is a monster.
[00:26:44]  Monster bass.
[00:26:46]  Let me tell you one thing which is great about YouTube in particular.
[00:26:50]  They have introduced us to some of the greatest women drummers, bass players, bass players, Just Have you seen Tal?
[00:27:06]  She?
[00:27:07]  T-A-L.
[00:27:08]  Tal.
[00:27:09]  Tal.
[00:27:10]  T-A-L.
[00:27:13]  Wilkenfeld.
[00:27:14]  W-I-L-K-E-N-F-E-L-D.
[00:27:18]  Have you also heard this one?
[00:27:21]  Now this.
[00:27:22]  How about J.D. Beck and Domi?
[00:27:26]  Tell me one person.
[00:27:28]  Have you ever heard that this J.D. Beck?
[00:27:34]  He looks 10. He looks...
[00:27:38]  The outfit, the overalls.
[00:27:41]  Have you ever heard of him?
[00:27:44]  He plays drums.
[00:27:46]  They're going to stare very, very...
[00:27:48]  They put a box on top or a towel or something to mute the sounds.
[00:27:55]  J.D. Beck is...
[00:27:57]  And Domi, I guess it's his girlfriend, she plays...
[00:28:02]  I think she was Juilliard.
[00:28:03]  She plays keyboards.
[00:28:06]  I've never seen anything else.
[00:28:10]  It's unbelievable to see this.
[00:28:14]  There are some...
[00:28:16]  Here's one.
[00:28:17]  Another one, too.
[00:28:18]  I was listening to you the other day.
[00:28:23]  I know it's Randolph.
[00:28:27]  I think it's The Family.
[00:28:29]  Robert Randolph.
[00:28:32]  Robert Randolph is an African-American young man playing the pedal steel, playing 12-string and 7-string pedal steel guitar.
[00:28:45]  Robert Randolph, I think his family plays it as well.
[00:28:49]  Now this is a guy, if anybody came along and said, where do you think the likelihood of finding a hip black musician playing pedal steel, which has always been associated with country music, He reinvented it.
[00:29:05]  Completely reinvented it.
[00:29:07]  I've never heard anything like that.
[00:29:10]  He's J.D. Maness from Desert Rose Band.
[00:29:14]  I think he's the best.
[00:29:15]  I love to watch him.
[00:29:16]  But that's old style.
[00:29:17]  This is amazing.
[00:29:18]  So what I'm trying to say, my dear friends, is there is so much great music.
[00:29:25]  I don't really necessarily have to Go to concerts.
[00:29:31]  I see concerts all the time.
[00:29:32]  Now, let me see what you're saying.
[00:29:33]  Billy Cobham.
[00:29:34]  Billy Cobham with George Duke.
[00:29:36]  George Duke.
[00:29:37]  George Duke played with Zappa and the Mothers.
[00:29:40]  Billy Cobham, one of the mainstays.
[00:29:44]  One of the...
[00:29:45]  I guess you would call him maybe in the Pantheon.
[00:29:53]  Boots Randolph.
[00:29:55]  Yakety Yak.
[00:29:56]  Oh, Steve Gadd.
[00:29:58]  Christos is right.
[00:29:59]  Steve Gadd is just...
[00:30:02]  How about Steve Gadd?
[00:30:03]  Is it Asia?
[00:30:06]  Rick Beato did a piece, I think, on some of the...
[00:30:11]  Steve Gadd...
[00:30:13]  There's one thing about Steely Dan, too.
[00:30:16]  All of the guitar solos, all of them, are so unique.
[00:30:22]  Larry Carlton played with them.
[00:30:23]  Denny Dias played with them.
[00:30:24]  There's others as well.
[00:30:26]  I think Elliot...
[00:30:29]  Randall, who did, of course, Reeling in the Ears, completely different, but all of their stuff.
[00:30:37]  Walter Becker's no slouch either.
[00:30:41]  Steve Wolfe, Golden Earring, Sugarhill Gang, Old School Rap.
[00:30:50]  Sugarhill Rap, remember where it came from.
[00:30:53]  This is Uptown.
[00:30:54]  It's in the Bronx, right?
[00:30:55]  It's in Harlem or the Bronx.
[00:30:58]  Bronx, they narrowed it down to an apartment.
[00:31:03]  I loved that.
[00:31:05]  That's syncopated.
[00:31:06]  But you're going to think I'm crazy.
[00:31:07]  Go back and listen to Hank Snow with I've Been Everywhere.
[00:31:10]  Talking about syncopated lyrics.
[00:31:11]  Very, very difficult things to say.
[00:31:17]  Look at this song.
[00:31:18]  Tao with Jeff Bex 12 years ago.
[00:31:20]  Awesome.
[00:31:21]  It's unbelievable.
[00:31:24]  They're just...
[00:31:26]  Bob James is great.
[00:31:27]  Bob James played Yogi with...
[00:31:30]  Remember he did that great...
[00:31:31]  I think I mentioned it the other day.
[00:31:32]  Played Angela.
[00:31:34]  On the great Fender Roads, the theme from Taxi.
[00:31:37]  Skunk Baxter.
[00:31:39]  Excellent with the Doobies and Silly Dan.
[00:31:43]  Tommy Emanuel.
[00:31:45]  Larry Coriel.
[00:31:46]  Larry Coriel.
[00:31:47]  A sad story.
[00:31:49]  Larry Coriel was part of that...
[00:31:51]  I'm sorry, Harlem.
[00:31:53]  Oh, Harlem.
[00:31:54]  Okay.
[00:31:55]  Larry Coriel was part of the Larry Carlton Larry Coriel I don't want to speak.
[00:32:03]  He was yeah, he died in 2017.
[00:32:09]  That was he was excellent.
[00:32:13]  What was died of heart failure?
[00:32:16]  Yeah, he was at the Iridium.
[00:32:18]  By the way, the Iridium right there on Broadway Is where Les Paul would play every Monday night.
[00:32:32]  That used to be in...
[00:32:35]  Remember when the Iridium was across from Lincoln Center in a hotel that was in the basement?
[00:32:40]  And then they moved.
[00:32:41]  You never knew who would show up there.
[00:32:43]  You never knew who would play.
[00:32:44]  Anyway, but Coriel, I'm reading your...
[00:32:49]  By the way, this is just for me today.
[00:32:52]  So, I'm sorry.
[00:32:55]  Tommy Emanuel, as I said, is a monster.
[00:32:58]  Tommy Emanuel.
[00:33:00]  Carlos Santana.
[00:33:01]  Christos has got it right.
[00:33:03]  Dance Sister Dance off Moonflower is, I think, the greatest guitar solo ever.
[00:33:12]  He does everything from wah-wahs to sustains.
[00:33:17]  Carlos Santana is incredible.
[00:33:23]  Lionel Hampton.
[00:33:24]  Remember when Lionel Hampton's house, his apartment caught on fire?
[00:33:26]  Remember that?
[00:33:27]  Here in New York, he had all his stuff.
[00:33:31]  Curtis Blow.
[00:33:36]  I'm looking at your things.
[00:33:39]  Okay.
[00:33:40]  So, going back to where I started from.
[00:33:46]  It is wonderful for us sometimes to stop The Cacophony of Lunacy that we have to go through.
[00:33:54]  And through...
[00:33:56]  I love Spotify.
[00:33:57]  I love when all of a sudden I will hear someone...
[00:34:00]  I was rediscovering Diane Shore the other day.
[00:34:03]  Great piano player.
[00:34:04]  Art Tatum.
[00:34:06]  I love the way you can just put in classic jazz piano.
[00:34:12]  Oscar Peterson is my favorite.
[00:34:14]  Monty Alexander.
[00:34:16]  A friend of mine.
[00:34:17]  Lives in the city here.
[00:34:19]  A monster.
[00:34:21]  Monster!
[00:34:24]  There's just...
[00:34:25]  It is the thing that I hope to God we can...
[00:34:32]  I don't know.
[00:34:34]  I'm afraid we're not...
[00:34:36]  I'm afraid for the newer...
[00:34:38]  Maybe I'm wrong.
[00:34:39]  Maybe I'm wrong.
[00:34:40]  But I don't know if they are as attuned to our music because when we were...
[00:34:45]  When you were growing up and you were 15 or 16 or whatever years old, your music, your music that you listened to was a part of your experience.
[00:34:58]  It was your statement.
[00:35:01]  Otis Taylor.
[00:35:02]  I play Otis Taylor for the Lionel Media.
[00:35:05]  I have all, all.
[00:35:08]  I have, for the subscribers, the video portion, some pros.
[00:35:14]  Then a song.
[00:35:18]  Something that I've been listening to.
[00:35:20]  Something that I think is incredible.
[00:35:22]  Something that is just.
[00:35:24]  And American blues.
[00:35:27]  American blues and American jazz.
[00:35:30]  That's it.
[00:35:31]  This is fundamental.
[00:35:34]  You do not.
[00:35:35]  The greatest thing that we do as a country.
[00:35:37]  The greatest has been our music.
[00:35:39]  Period.
[00:35:40]  Period.
[00:35:41]  I will say that unabashedly.
[00:35:43]  I'm not going to compare it to Mozart.
[00:35:45]  No, no, no.
[00:35:45]  I'm talking about popular music.
[00:35:47]  From Broadway to rock to blues to electric blues to Robert Johnson blues to ragtime to Stride, Fats Waller to name it.
[00:36:03]  Hip-hop, rap, metal.
[00:36:09]  Just the type.
[00:36:11]  Just the country music.
[00:36:13]  And country music got a little bit from Gaelic, but country music is bluegrass.
[00:36:18]  This is Bill Monroe.
[00:36:19]  Torch and Twang.
[00:36:21]  Kitty Wells.
[00:36:21]  Kitty Wells one day will get her due.
[00:36:23]  Kitty Wells is one of the most important female artists ever.
[00:36:27]  This was a mom, Mary, singing about honky-tonk angels and fallen women.
[00:36:33]  Anyway, Kitty Wells.
[00:36:34]  Lefty Frizzell was honky-tonk.
[00:36:36]  The man, George Jones's.
[00:36:39]  Country and Western.
[00:36:41]  Western was Bob Wills.
[00:36:44]  The Texas Playboys.
[00:36:45]  Bob Wills.
[00:36:47]  And Western, to an extent, maybe a little, you know, Eddie Arnold and Slim Whitman, the great.
[00:36:55]  But Ray Benson from A Sleeper in the Wheel took that over.
[00:36:58]  So, so far we've got all of those.
[00:37:02]  Then, Rockability came along, which was country.
[00:37:05]  Carl Perkins, these guys, these were country singers.
[00:37:09]  Ever fool yourself.
[00:37:10]  You'll never forget what Elvis was.
[00:37:12]  This was country.
[00:37:13]  Yeah, gospel true to an extent.
[00:37:15]  Then they kept going.
[00:37:18]  And the most important, the most important was the outlaw group who basically told Nashville, we're going to do what we want.
[00:37:25]  When Red-Headed Stranger came out, it was one of the most explosive.
[00:37:29]  1976.
[00:37:30]  I remember at the time, everybody had this.
[00:37:32]  Willie Nelson, who's that?
[00:37:35]  Waylon Jennings, it was Tom Paul Glazer, Jesse Coulter.
[00:37:39]  They broke away from Nashville.
[00:37:41]  They said, we're going to do what we want.
[00:37:42]  Johnny Cash, in my opinion.
[00:37:45]  In my opinion, Johnny Cash is absolutely an outlaw.
[00:37:49]  Roy Acuff told him, no drums.
[00:37:53]  He played mariachis.
[00:37:55]  He got drums.
[00:37:55]  Ring of Fire.
[00:37:59]  I mean, come on.
[00:38:00]  He broke away from everything.
[00:38:05]  And the one today, I'm telling you, who's kind of sort of doing it from Bill Monroe is Ricky Skaggs, but Billy Strings.
[00:38:15]  Billy Strings is a monster.
[00:38:18]  Listen to him.
[00:38:19]  He's got it.
[00:38:21]  Absolutely got it.
[00:38:22]  Look at this.
[00:38:23]  UB Blake playing piano on Bill Boggs.
[00:38:26]  Remember UB Blake's fingers?
[00:38:28]  His fingers were just like...
[00:38:31]  UB Blake was incredible.
[00:38:33]  Ah, Sister...
[00:38:34]  Rosetta Tharp, absolutely.
[00:38:39]  This is a very, very enlightened group here.
[00:38:42]  Stevie Ray was wonderful.
[00:38:44]  Of course, it goes without saying.
[00:38:46]  Glenn Campbell, one of the monsters.
[00:38:50]  Monsters.
[00:38:54]  Jimmy Vaughn.
[00:38:55]  Jimmy Vaughn's opening for...
[00:38:57]  Jimmy Vaughn, bless his heart, to have Stevie Ray as your brother.
[00:39:01]  But...
[00:39:04]  He's opening up for Clapton.
[00:39:07]  By the way, John Jorgensen, remember the Helicasters?
[00:39:12]  He was also with Desert Rose Band, a great, great, with Herb Peterson and Chris Hillman.
[00:39:17]  But we saw him at Lincoln Center.
[00:39:21]  No, Jazz at Lincoln Center, excuse me.
[00:39:24]  And it was a tribute to...
[00:39:33]  Django Reinhardt.
[00:39:35]  And he had all these gypsy guitars from all over the world.
[00:39:38]  Merle Haggard.
[00:39:39]  In my mind, I'm going to Carolina.
[00:39:41]  I think that's true.
[00:39:43]  George Jones is the greatest.
[00:39:46]  Full stop.
[00:39:47]  That's it.
[00:39:50]  George Jones.
[00:39:51]  Nobody.
[00:39:52]  But nobody.
[00:39:54]  And He Stopped Loving Her Today is the greatest country song that's ever lived.
[00:39:57]  And that's it.
[00:39:58]  That's it.
[00:40:00]  That's it.
[00:40:02]  Haggard, number two.
[00:40:06]  I hear Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, and they're very, very good.
[00:40:10]  But that's, maybe it's before my time.
[00:40:13]  But today, the two are George Strait and Alan Jackson.
[00:40:16]  I think they are, they are, they can really do it.

=== Listen to the Alligator Records (03:50) ===

[00:40:20]  And I'll tell you another guy, too.
[00:40:21]  Nobody wants to give him any credit, because he's sometimes, I think he's a misnomer.
[00:40:25]  It's Toby Keith.
[00:40:27]  Toby Keith is a monster.
[00:40:30]  Toby Keith and Merle Haggard doing Mama Tried.
[00:40:33]  Oh!
[00:40:36]  I spent 21 in prison doing life without parole.
[00:40:40]  No one can set me right.
[00:40:42]  Mama Tried.
[00:40:43]  Mama Tried.
[00:40:44]  Alright.
[00:40:45]  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
[00:40:47]  Loved it.
[00:40:48]  Tony Rice.
[00:40:49]  Oh!
[00:40:51]  Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Larry Sparks, Jerry Reed, Coco Taylor.
[00:40:59]  Listen to anything from the Alligator.
[00:41:02]  Just go online.
[00:41:03]  Alligator Records.
[00:41:04]  Coco Taylor is...
[00:41:08]  Big Mama Thornton, but Coco Taylor is just...
[00:41:13]  She does woman, voodoo woman too.
[00:41:16]  Incredible.
[00:41:18]  Funkadelic.
[00:41:21]  Explain funk to someone.
[00:41:24]  Explain that.
[00:41:28]  What is it?
[00:41:30]  Is it soul?
[00:41:32]  Well, souls.
[00:41:34]  Come on, James Brown.
[00:41:37]  Explain fun.
[00:41:38]  To really understand it, the greatest proponents today, and always has been, Tower of Power.
[00:41:47]  Absolutely.
[00:41:50]  Emilio Doc, remember Rocco on base?
[00:41:55]  Uh...
[00:41:56]  I think they've had like 180 people throughout the years.
[00:42:01]  Funk.
[00:42:02]  Funkadelic.
[00:42:03]  Parliament.
[00:42:05]  Here's one for you.
[00:42:07]  Ohio Players.
[00:42:08]  Sweet Sticky Thing.
[00:42:10]  Greatest song.
[00:42:12]  Deodato.
[00:42:14]  Deodato's son-in-law is Stephen Baldwin.
[00:42:18]  Dave Brubeck.
[00:42:20]  Dave Brubeck.
[00:42:22]  Is responsible for giving us Paul Desmond.
[00:42:24]  Paul Desmond was the greatest, sweetest, most incredible.
[00:42:30]  Randy Backman.
[00:42:32]  Not Bachman.
[00:42:34]  Backman, as he pronounces it.
[00:42:36]  Incredible.
[00:42:37]  Part of that wonderful Canadian influence.
[00:42:41]  Guess who?
[00:42:42]  Burton Cummings.
[00:42:43]  My favorite.
[00:42:44]  Power in the Music.
[00:42:46]  Road Food.
[00:42:47]  Star Baby, of course.
[00:42:49]  Rain Dance.
[00:42:53]  Listen to the Power in the Music album with Dominic Troiano.
[00:43:00]  Do you remember CTI?
[00:43:01]  Creed Taylor.
[00:43:03]  Gary Moore.
[00:43:04]  Incredible.
[00:43:05]  Maceo Parker.
[00:43:06]  Yes.
[00:43:06]  James Brown.
[00:43:11]  Eddie Van Halen.
[00:43:16]  On his own.
[00:43:18]  Just on his own.
[00:43:21]  Louis Armstrong.
[00:43:22]  Louis Armstrong or Louis Armstrong.
[00:43:25]  Nobody understands the significance of him and how he was.
[00:43:32]  His house is still in Queens, right?
[00:43:34]  You can go see it.
[00:43:37]  John Prine.
[00:43:39]  It broke my heart when he died.
[00:43:41]  Love John Prine.
[00:43:43]  One of the simplest guitar players.
[00:43:47]  That's it.
[00:43:48]  Two fingers.
[00:43:49]  What is this?

=== Thank You, Lin's Warriors (01:47) ===

[00:43:55]  Anyway.
[00:43:55]  Thank you for letting me do this.
[00:43:59]  Thank you.
[00:44:00]  Thank you.
[00:44:02]  Let's continue talking.
[00:44:03]  Continue commenting.
[00:44:06]  Let us go back to what we are.
[00:44:09]  We are proud.
[00:44:10]  And everybody from around the world, God bless you.
[00:44:12]  By the way, I don't know if our friend Eric is here.
[00:44:15]  The Italian group...
[00:44:17]  PFM, Primiata, Funeria, Marconi.
[00:44:20]  Il Banquetto, one of my favorites.
[00:44:24]  Joni Mitchell, by the way.
[00:44:25]  You never can hum a Joni Mitchell song, but Joni Mitchell and her tribute to Mingus and the work she did with Pat Metheny.
[00:44:33]  Have you seen that?
[00:44:33]  Coyote and...
[00:44:35]  With Jocko and Pat Metheny.
[00:44:41]  I can go on and on in there.
[00:44:44]  I'm not going to...
[00:44:45]  Mickey Gilley.
[00:44:46]  We just lost Mickey.
[00:44:49]  Brian Stelter.
[00:44:49]  Remember Stray Cats?
[00:44:50]  Remember when that swing stuff?
[00:44:56]  I don't know if it was called Swing.
[00:44:58]  Whatever that was.
[00:45:00]  I was overwhelmed with it for a while.
[00:45:05]  But it's very, very good.
[00:45:07]  Played the big arch top.
[00:45:09]  Very good stuff.
[00:45:10]  Alright, my friends.
[00:45:11]  Thank you.
[00:45:12]  Don't forget.
[00:45:15]  July 16th at the Cutting Room.
[00:45:17]  July.
[00:45:19]  July.
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[00:45:38]  Thank you so much.
[00:45:39]  Have a great day.
[00:45:40]  See you tomorrow.