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Feb. 7, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Live Immersion: Music — @LionelNation

Soothing the savage breast.

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Good day, my friend.
Do you remember the first time in your life when you found a song you liked?
Do you remember when you were a kid, and it wasn't a song that you heard, but a song that you liked.
You said, I want to hear that myself.
Not I want to sing it, not happy birthday, but when I was a kid, I had a 45 somewhere of Ricky Nelson singing My Bucket's Got a Hole in It.
And I had a 45 There was metal that was not grounded, and I would get shocked constantly.
And I never said, hey, I've got to get rid of this thing.
I'm getting shocked.
I thought, okay, I'm just going to have to wear maybe woolen socks or something.
But I would hear, my bucket's got to hold it.
I had a.45 of stones doing get off of my cloud.
Remember London?
I remember the 45s you could tell by the label.
That was it.
Then there was like my sister got into like Bobby Sherman.
Remember that kind of thing?
Bobby Sherman.
Hey, Julie, Julie, Julie, do you love me?
That's okay.
But you kind of would like, I like guy music.
And you started to create.
Your sense of who you were by what your music was.
It's the first time.
It told people, kind of, sort of, this is who I'm about.
This is me.
This defines me.
And I can remember when radio was AM radio at the time.
And, you know, going to school in the morning, you'd hear, I can remember King of the Road.
My father playing King of the Road and Nat King Cole, Hazy Daisy, leave him some.
One of my favorite songs I liked was Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is.
Tell me that's not the greatest song.
Is that all there is?
Then there was, um...
Oh, remember that song?
Michael rode the boat ashore.
Because in the early...
So I was born in 58, by the way, same year.
Madonna's 10 days older than I am.
The class of 58, I want to tell you, gave us Prince and everybody else in Madonna.
But when I was like five...
You know, that was 63, 64. I remember that.
Rock and roll wasn't really there yet.
You know, there was Jerry Lee Lewis.
No, but there was still the, you know, the four freshmen.
You know, Michael Rowe, the boat ashore.
Why did he ride?
I never understood.
Why did he ride the boat ashore?
What was he doing?
Hallelujah!
I understand.
What is he doing?
Why is he going on the shore?
I don't understand.
Puff, the magic dragon.
Very sad song.
Remember that?
Peter, Paul and Mary?
And little Johnny, little, what's his name?
Little Christopher Robin?
No, I got the wrong one.
Little, whatever his name is.
And Puff goes crazy and lets out a roar.
Oh my God.
But there was this...
That was music.
It was who you were.
But it didn't really define me.
It wasn't really saying, like, you know, that's kind of what I like.
That's me.
You know, that's my...
That defines who I am.
And then I started again.
It was AM, rock, and then later on, you know, the 60s.
This is interesting.
And then we got into, right after AM, In the, really, I would say more towards the early 70s, was FM.
And FM was Robert Klein, who was a tremendous, was Child of the 50s, is still the greatest comedy album, in my opinion.
He may despise me, but nonetheless, his music, or his album, his 50s, was just superb.
Just superb.
We talked about AM and FM and the difference between the two.
And it was a different thing.
And then it was like more, wow, experimental.
And the music defined who you were.
We'd even have bumper stickers to tell people, this is my station.
Mine was 102.5 WQSR.
Really?
This is where the avant-garde...
This was in high school.
This is where you could hear Brian Auger, Bill Evans, but there was no...
And then there was alternative, and then we had WUSF, the Underground Railroad, with Brock Whaley.
Oh, it was wonderful.
At whatever time it was, you put on your COS headphones, and you would hear this train.
It was when stereos were like, wow!
Look at this.
And then, kind of psychedelic.
I remember listening in my living room.
We had that old wooden, you know, the wooden stereo with a lid.
This lid was so, you stick your head in there.
If that lid fell on you, you're dead.
What are you, 50 pounds?
It was furniture.
It was just a turntable and a little space on the side for you to put maybe five albums.
But I put on And I got a DeVita.
My parents never told me.
Turn that off!
It was like, wow!
This was hard.
It was heavy metal.
Hard rock, I think they called it.
Hard rock became heavy metal.
But oh man, that was great.
The fuzz and the wah-wah.
Oh, it was great.
Summertime blues.
I mean, that distortion.
It was like, what is this?
This is great!
My parents never said, turn that off!
But, I also was into Engelbert Humperdinck, Please Release Me, Hello Dolly, Louis Armstrong, Herb Alpert.
Oh, Herb Alpert, the Tijuana.
I'm doing it myself.
It's Tijuana.
Tijuana.
T-I-J-U, not T-I-A-J.
So last night with the Grammys, I've been through this before.
Yeah, but this guy had a devil suit on.
Do you remember the, what was the album called?
I've got it right here.
I'm not going to play it.
It's called The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
I am the God of Hellfire!
And I'll bring you fire.
Remember that?
I'll take you to burn.
I'll see you burn.
What?
That was kind of scary.
But we knew it's kind of amusing.
Take it easy.
But people are going crazy.
Now let me tell you something before we forget.
I did a Twitter.
Oh, are people getting upset?
Oh my God, they're getting so upset.
And I gave you my version of the devil.
Because a lot of people On certain panels, certain whatever, we're talking about the devil.
And by the way, I ask you to like this video, to subscribe to the video, subscribe to the channel.
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They are just chopping me apart.
And whatever you say, hey, I can't believe I'm losing all that.
Well, we're just, you know, maybe the bots.
Bots!
So I need your help.
Please.
But I did a very interesting video on my private channel about this thing called the devil.
People are going crazy over it.
Some guy comes out dressed in red horns.
Come on.
Come on, man.
Is that the best you can do?
In Catholic school, I loved the devil.
Every year, Halloween, the devil.
I just...
The horns...
And I did so much research.
Where did this come from?
How come other people don't have...
Anyway, I did a great piece on that.
But if you notice, there's a lot of folks today who think like they just discovered this.
And they're saying, we've got to do something about this music because they're...
You're still doing this?
My whole life has been told this.
My whole life.
Has been nothing but the music.
Okay.
Fair enough.
That's alright.
That's okay.
But if you want to see the real truth, that's it.
And by the way, in this particular one, I do a juxtaposition regarding the abolicio and intelligent design.
This is something that people do not want to hear.
Because it is the subject matter that is still so fascinating.
Whenever I do it, last time we did our live performance, I asked people, what was your scariest movie?
Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist.
It's a very powerful issue.
And during the course of this, when people come out, they're talking about poor Madonna.
Gee, she looks like this.
Really?
She looks like Mike Mazurky.
Okay, fine.
What are you going to do?
Is this really it?
They think that for some reason this is the end of civilization.
I can remember like it was yesterday.
And my parents kind of understood it.
They said, well, that's, you know.
Alice Cooper, we forget.
This guy was into guillotines.
People were coming.
I guess you don't have a guillotine at home.
This guy was beheading and this and that.
Salvador Dali.
We understood it as art.
We understood it as art.
I mean, few people got upset by it, but not now.
Because now we have the artificial alarmist, and we've got to do something!
Oh, please, take it easy for the love of God.
I want to talk about music and the Grammys.
This is me the whole time.
Who's that?
Who's that?
I like to listen as much as possible.
I keep a very open mind regarding music.
I don't want to be one of those people that, oh, I don't like that.
No, no, no.
There's some stuff.
I heard some stuff last night that was terrific.
Who was it that I picked out?
I said, hey, that's pretty good.
Do you know why?
Do you know why?
They were singing.
Singing songs, lyrics, vocalizations, vocalese.
Singing.
Not hip-hop, per se.
Which is fine.
Not my bag.
Though, though, Quincy Jones, listen, remember Back on the Block?
That was very good.
But it was a, and again, I don't want to go back and tell people, but nothing's new.
Who was the first rap artist?
Who?
Who?
Hard to say.
But I would say that Debbie Harry, Debbie Harry was so important.
She did it, I think, one of the first.
Before that, Cab Calloway did it, but one of my absolute, and I love him, Gil Scott Heron.
One L, two Ts, no I. I love that.
Oh, Lady Day and John Coltrane, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Oh!
Drinking Life or whatever.
Oh my God.
The Bottle.
Excuse me.
The Bottle.
Loved him.
Johannesburg.
Great.
Gil Scott Heron.
Give him the heat.
That was a style.
The Fender Rhodes.
Beautiful.
Loved it.
There's nothing new.
Hank Snow.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere.
If you can sing this, good for you.
It's hard to read.
Syncopated lyrics?
Come on!
I still say Cab Calloway.
Everything is...
Always give music a chance.
But I tell you something that happened.
And I want to explain to you a couple of things which are the most important aspects of my life until...
and how...
Gorgeous George changed everything.
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Okay.
Let's talk about this.
My friends, I don't know why, but everybody's been always talking about this idea that, oh, the music today.
Look.
Everybody's gone crazy.
There was a picture last night of some guy with a...
You see that guy, honey?
He had a cape on or something.
I don't know what.
He was dressed in red.
Talley did that.
What's his name from Vogue?
Yeah.
Sam Smith.
Okay.
But he had a devil outfit.
Like a cape or something.
Who is the guy Talley from Vogue?
Andre Leon Talley.
He used to walk around with a benchbread.
He walked around for years.
Where have you been with this?
Do you know where it all changed?
Do you know where it all happened?
Do you know where it happened?
One of the most important, pivotal moments.
And I keep telling you, professional wrestling.
People think, is he talking about wrestling again?
Yes!
You don't understand it.
Gorgeous George.
Gorgeous George.
Gorgeous George changed everything.
Gorgeous George did something, which you know, which a lot of people don't, they don't really understand.
George Wagner, he died in, let me see, he died in 63. Gorgeous George.
Now understand something, what he did.
He was...
How old was he?
He was pretty young, wasn't he?
Oh, 48 years old.
Now let me explain something to you.
Understand what he did.
And then you'll get the full impact.
I hope.
I trust.
I believe you will.
I think you'll get it.
And it works something like this.
Post-World War II.
We are the biggest, baddest, We are it.
There it was.
TV was about the good guys and, you know, the white hats and the, you know, it was also kind of at the beginning of the Cold War, you know, America, leave it to Beaver, and we're doing great, the man in the gray flannel suit and all that kind of stuff.
But we were American.
By God.
God, we are tough.
And here's this, professional wrestling.
Now, wrestling, in the days of Luthez, I met Luthez.
Luthez was the original hooker.
Hooker is the, in the world of professional wrestling, it is the highest compliment.
These are serious.
His mentor was Ed Strangler Lewis, Carl Gotch.
These people were cripplers.
They will cripple you.
Luthez used to work the carnival circuit.
And they would work where they would say, who's the toughest guy?
And he would lose basically all day long.
Oh, whatever it is.
And then eventually some big tough, some guy would come in and Luthez, he was a great wrestler, but they would snap stuff.
I mean, it was serious.
So Luthez came from the era of Ed Strangler, serious people.
It wasn't at all.
I mean, they were into submission holes.
Luthez was to wrestling what Ty Cobb was to baseball.
Ty Cobb was like stealing bases and bunts and all.
And then later on the home runs came.
But real baseball is Ty Cobb stuff.
And real wrestling is Luthez.
Luthez will just...
We saw Luthez in a shoot one time.
And I asked him.
We met him in New Jersey with Gordon Soley.
And there was a shoot meaning a real...
He was really...
He had to teach this kid a lesson.
Somebody...
They thought he was old or something.
Some guy maybe juiced up a little bit.
So he said, okay.
And the finish was something.
I forget.
He had to put him over.
I don't know what it was.
So Lou, in the meantime, said, I'm going to teach this guy a lesson.
So Lou did this thing where he basically took his legs and spread them apart like a wishbone.
And the guy's conceding.
And the referee says, that's not the finish.
So it was a weird match.
The guy's going like this, like he's tapping out.
And the referee's like, what is this?
But it was a shoot.
Anyway.
They didn't like this fancy, fancy, schmancy stuff.
Wrestling was.
Remember Kevin Sullivan?
The Purple Haze, the Buddha Dean, all this stuff.
There was this weird kind of mystical occult.
They didn't like that.
Well, here comes gorgeous George.
Blonde tresses, blonde hair, curls, golden bobby pins, the capes, the robes, sequins, cost of fortune.
He would throw bobby pins and he would, you know, and they didn't know what to do.
They said, what?
The wrestlers said this.
After World War II, this, this, he was the greatest heel ever.
Babyface's heels.
Good guys, bad guys.
He was the heel of them all.
And later on, Elvis, Elton John, James Brown, everybody, Recognize him.
The cape.
Theatric.
I know what you're thinking.
You mean nobody thought of that?
Nobody thought of that.
Liberace.
This wasn't done.
For a man to act, quote, flamboyant, it wasn't done.
Nobody did this.
Gorgeous George changed everything.
So when you see somebody come out dressed as a devil, come on.
Where have you been?
This is now.
Seriously?
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Do you know the history of Beelzebub?
The history of it.
How it developed was fascinating.
Now, let me ask that question.
What was the first music you listened to where your parents said, stop that!
Turn that off!
Or, what are you listening to?
Maybe it wasn't your parents, but maybe the people during that time.
Because music, for me, and to me it's music, politics, food, ideology.
I love when people, I'm sorry, but I love when people say, you can't listen to that.
Really?
And by the way, the story of Ty Cobb was so overdone and unfair, many people will suggest it.
See, Kiss.
Kiss did this.
Kiss, thank you very much.
Glassy and Jimmy and Pete.
Lisa says Led Zeppelin.
Led Zeppelin.
Cashmere.
Scary stuff.
I mean, but Kiss?
You look at Gene Simmons.
What is that?
This was fun.
You knew what it was.
Why do you think we like Twisted Sister?
Look at Liz Sola.
Yes!
Why do you think we love monsters?
Why?
This is it.
You mentioned, for example, Dee talks about reggae.
Remember when reggae...
I've interviewed, and I love him so much, Monty Alexander.
Reggae, prior to that, Calypso, Ska, that sort of thing.
Bob Marley put it on the map.
Bob Marley is it.
Bob Marley is to reggae what Jobim is to Bossa Nova.
Absolutely.
And that was its own thing.
But these were Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Nobody yelled at you for John McLaughlin.
No, nobody did that.
I did, however, see...
Did you catch that documentary I came across on Frank Zappa?
Frank Zappa was...
There was nobody like Frank Zappa.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the music.
But he was something else.
You understand something?
It was something that I have never...
There was nothing like that.
And then people came along.
But look at this.
So, let me just say something.
There's a couple of folks, and I'm not going to mention their names, and they're young, and they love to act.
How do I say this?
They want to be the vanguard, the protector of of how do I say this?
They want to be the protector of morality.
And they think that they've just found this.
Look at this.
This is, you know, satanic, whatever.
Where have you been?
This is why...
Oh, Rob Zombie, yes.
Look at...
Remember Jello Biafra?
By the way, from the 58 Club.
Glamrock, David Bowie, T-Rex.
That's scaring people.
Mark Bolin.
Absolutely.
Correct.
Gigi Allen.
I'm the only one who knows about G.G.L.
I remember in the seventh grade, Blood Rock sung D.O.A.
But my parents didn't go crazy over it.
Nobody went nuts.
They said, okay, well, whatever.
It's about that.
That's the thing.
And one of the reasons why it's important is to understand that this is...
The best thing you can do is just say, what are you going to do?
The New York Dolls.
I one time, Glassy, I think I told you this, I walked I was standing outside of a place on 57th Street and this guy walked by.
I didn't know what it was.
It looked like a little boy.
With, like, long hair.
This is weird.
With rock clothes.
It was David Johansson.
His face looked like five miles of bad road.
But I've never seen somebody so skinny in my life.
I've never seen him.
I've seen Keith Richards up close, under a light.
That was another story.
But I've never seen the Enlightened.
The New York Dolls.
Remember that, honey?
You know about that.
That's the downtown scene.
When Madonna!
And by the way, they're making fun of Madonna!
Okay, Madonna was part of a very, very, very important...
Yeah, look at her music history.
Yeah, this is just...
But then again, people do things and, you know, what are you going to do?
I don't know.
I just wish people would understand that for the love of God, please stop thinking that everything is new.
Please, please recognize the fact that part of the fact of music...
Is not just the music, but what the song means.
And when it comes to hip-hop, when it comes to gangster rap, when it comes to whatever it is, what are you going to do?
I mean, do you think you're going to argue this away?
I'm sorry, but do I think there's a positive?
It's not up for me to decide.
Devo.
To me, the 80s...
Devo was 80s, right?
It was the worst music I've ever seen in my life.
I do not understand Devo.
I don't understand it.
Doesn't matter what I think.
By the way, let me just explain something to you.
Please, from Devolution, do not think that you have to like everybody.
Do not think that you have to like people.
I do not understand, for me, The Ramones.
But I understand what they did.
I got it.
I never liked Elvis.
But I understand what he did.
And what he meant.
The Beatles.
We saw this thing last night on...
I guess it was something on Abbey Road.
Okay.
I'm just Beatle...
I just heard everything there is about the Beatles.
To me, the group...
That was my, everything I loved them, who they were, was Chicago.
Chicago was the best they were.
Oh my God!
They did something that nobody did.
They talked about, Jimmy Panko in particular, the trombone player, would arrange the brass, not as a...
Background kind of a rhythm thing, but as the front and center of it.
It was the...
The brass sections were almost like lead guitar or vocals.
Nobody else did this.
And I'm not talking about Saturday in the Park.
I'm talking about other songs that...
What's this world coming to you?
They were so ahead of the game.
A Better End Soon, Carnegie Hall.
Oh, my God.
During the war?
A song for Richard and his friends about Nixon.
Something in the City Changes People.
Hollywood, I love.
Robert Lamb, his first album.
Five Plays in Ivies.
Love Song, I think, could have been Top 40. Cetera was one of the greatest vocalists.
One of the best bass players anybody's ever seen, but he didn't like it.
And most people, they think of, you know...
Just you and me.
That's nice.
But that's not it.
But that was me.
And if you don't like it, I understand.
I had a friend of mine in high school.
He was crazy about Jethro Tull.
Just crazy about Jethro Tull.
And then it was weird.
In the 70s, it was so great.
We had prog rock.
Remember?
Yes.
And then Rick Wakeman.
There was a group called Star Castle, which I think the only one who's ever bought their albums.
I liked PFM.
Which is progress from Italian.
They did Il Banquetto.
And I like that.
This was my high school.
It was very progressive.
And then, oh my God, remember when Chick Corea, Return to Forever, Aldi Miola, Mahavishnu, Stanley Clark.
And then in the 80s, that weird kind of...
Cool Jazz, CD 101.9 stuff, Fatburger, Spyrogyra, Dave Grusin, Lee Rittenauer, Earl Clue, GRP, and before GRP was CTI, Creed Taylor, with the Brazilian stuff, Deodato, Flora Purim, Ayrton, that.
I love that.
There was so much.
I mean, I was all over the place.
I could not believe what I was hearing.
And there were so many, and Yes was, oh my God, a Yes concert?
I remember seeing a Yes concert at Tampa Stadium.
There are people I know didn't understand, and I get it, but I'm never going to be one of these people who says that the music is bad.
I'm never going to be somebody who says, and I understand you're going to, look, people have to go out and they have to shock.
Oh, 10cc?
Thank you.
I'm not in love.
By the way, you know, Godly and Cream.
That version of that.
I'm Not Love is so brilliant.
It's like the Ernie Kovacs of music.
The way they had, they just basically did these loops.
They had like, they came in and they would do tones and brilliant.
The things we do for love.
Chief Trick.
very, very underrated.
So, so, I understand what they're trying to do.
And there's something that's always been about shocking.
Remember when Chris Christopherson won something for country music?
He was drunk.
He got up there.
There's always been this country music.
Remember when country music went Outlaw?
Remember what happened then?
When Waylon, Willie, Tom Paul Glaser, Jesse Coulter, and Willie and Red-Headed Stranger, 1976, 75, that thing blew up!
They told Nashville, forget it!
The same thing, the same thing that Johnny Cash did.
Johnny Cash was beyond, he was very, very important, very, very critical.
And what's very important is, those people were entrees.
Willie Nelson brought you into this.
Andrea Bocelli brought a lot of people into opera.
Kenny G, I'm sorry to say this, brought people into jazz, even though we kind of laugh at it.
And they were like, they just introduced you to it.
Garth Brooks brought people into country.
I got it.
I understand it.
But I am not going to ever sit there and say that the music is not good.
Humble Pie.
I saw them opening up for Three Dog Night.
Remember Steve Marriott?
Hot and Nasty?
My favorite.
Ricky Lee Jones?
Very interesting.
Oh, Chucky's in love.
Danny's all-star joint I love.
Cool jazz.
Tom Waits was the love of her life.
Remember that?
We were coming from D.C. We had that audio taping of her.
Oh, my God.
Dear God.
Ricky Lee was terrific.
Oh, no, man.
Danny's all-star joint.
They got a jukebox.
It goes doin, doin.
And they figured over there...
That was like this jazz sort of great stuff.
Rush, Geddy Lee, and those monsters.
They laughed at them, and they persisted, and now they're just, oh my gosh.
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Now, This is what we need to know.
And this is what we need to know.
Is that I hope all of you, at some point in your life, especially now, maybe you're retired, that thanks to YouTube, you can learn to play any instrument you want.
Anything.
You can play a guitar, piano, keyboard, harmonica.
The instructions are here.
In the old days, you had to go to a guy.
I had to go to Robert's Music.
Robert's Music.
And I had a guy teach me guitar.
My first...
His name was...
I don't want to mention his name.
He might not want to...
He might not even be alive.
Probably not even alive.
But he was in Bill Haley and the Comets.
He was one of the original.
And he writes down...
I'll never forget.
He takes this...
He taught me how to read notes.
Read music.
Had this little boy...
And he writes down, Greg.
I said, who's Greg?
He goes, oh...
I don't know, I thought you were Greg.
I said, no, I'm not Greg.
So he scratches it out.
I'll never forget that.
Years later, we had a birthday party for me.
My mother joined, put me in this birthday club at Jerry's on Dale Mabry, South Dale Mabry.
Went in there, brought out a cake.
Happy birthday, Greg.
I don't know what this Greg thing is, but I'm Greg.
Greg Brady, Greg.
And Greg is also Gurg background.
Gurg, Gurgle, David Gergen, do the math.
But I'm telling you, there is nothing better than being able to pick up a guitar and just sit there for yourself.
And there you are, you are connecting, you are taking your cord and you are connecting into this world, into this stratum, and you are taking nothing, which is space, And you're breaking up into bars and measures and 4-4 and beats and rhythms.
And you're just, out of nowhere, you've created this structure.
The frame of the music.
The frame of the tempo.
The speed.
And I used to love to sit back and just make up songs.
Make up.
And when you make up a song, the key is, when you do a verse, Think of the last verse, not the verse you're singing.
So when you're thinking of a song, think of girl.
You're going to end it on the word girl.
It's going to rhyme with girl.
So therefore, here you're going to have whirl, swirl, pearl, whatever it is.
When you write a song, you think ahead of time.
And then you back into it.
And I have had some of the best times.
I remember one time in a thing called Beach Week.
I would just sing songs.
And once you sing them, they're gone.
A couple I remember, but they're gone.
Learn a couple of standard beats.
And then as you go as deep as you want to go, shout out to the great Rick Beato, who I think does a wonderful job.
Wonderful, wonderful job explaining to you the beauty and the math and the glory of music.
And why some people are so good, and why this song is so good.
And I just want you to understand this one, please.
A song that means something to you, I cannot disagree with you.
The song that you heard when your wife gave birth, or whatever, your first birthday, or your marriage, whatever it was.
It might have been a song playing.
It's the soundtrack of your life.
Remember 7th grade?
Remember when somebody died?
Remember how your Uncle Dave liked this?
It reminds you of the time you were with your family.
A song, it sears into you.
It is the soundtrack of your life.
It really is.
Soundtrack, I should say.
It's the most powerful thing in the world.
And today, what we might not like, what we might not care for, to somebody else.
It's going to be hard for me to imagine somebody saying...
And remember one thing.
When you are not older, but when you're from a different type of...
For example, a younger person cannot understand your music.
Not because you're old.
Not because they're young.
No, it's different.
You cannot understand a younger person or older person because...
Not because of anything inherent in you, but because of just...
Frame of reference.
Same thing with diet, or food, or...
I remember I've known people who just had a hard time with Indian flavors.
There's so many.
I get it.
I understand it.
You weren't raised with it.
You didn't understand it.
Never detract from music.
Never declaim it.
Never make fun of it.
It's just not for you.
But if somebody's happy, if somebody's tapping a foot or whatever it is, or saying it, I do think it's nice not to roll your window down and to blast it in neighborhoods at 3 in the morning with bass.
I'm just saying.
But other than that, I respect it.
Whatever your music is, no matter.
Have you ever seen the tabla players?
Oh my God!
Listen to other people.
That Mongolian throat singing?
I love that!
There is these on YouTube.
There's these three sisters.
They're Georgian.
And it's...
I don't know what they're saying.
But they have that genetic harmony.
It's beautiful.
And I respect it.
And it's great.
And it's glorious.
And it's perfect.
And it's what human beings do.
It's what we do as humans.
And it's one of the best things that we do.
Because...
You can't be evil or you can't hurt anybody if you're singing.
There is a goodness.
There is something.
It's the most beautiful thing in the world.
It's spiritual.
You connect into something.
You have to do it.
In any event.
Now later on today, let me remind you, I'm going to be putting out a newsletter.
And it is a beaut.
And I suggest, very much, that you sign up for it.
But please don't say, can you read it too much?
It's a wonderful pastiche, a mosaic of glyphs and ideas.
And just go through them very quickly.
Don't ever tell somebody, it's too much to read.
Don't ever say that.
Don't ever say that.
Does it sound good?
Say, too much to read?
Where are you from?
Where are you from?
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Have you seen what she's...
She's got some great guests.
She is so good.
Follow her on Twitter right here.
Do me a favor.
Do this.
It is incredible.
The stuff she's doing.
The coverage.
That which she is covering.
It's just beautiful.
And it's beauteous.
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In any event, that's it.
Please, please enjoy music.
Please enjoy it.
Please, please, please.
And also, do yourself a favor.
Do not be like most people and just take it easy when you have a Grammy Award or whatever it is.
If you don't understand, I don't know what to tell you.
People are always trying to do something to shock you, to say something.
And today, Let's face it, to stay awake, you have to be, you know, get your metrics and your numbers and your likes and retweets and all this and to go viral.
And say what you want about Madonna, you know, you can laugh at her, you can do whatever you want, but she's out there and you're talking about her.
That's all I got to say.
You are talking about her.
Who was, let's say, was it Tungstall or whatever who did...
She did Coal Miner's Daughter.
Casey Musgrave.
She did Coal Miner's Daughter.
Fantastic.
Great.
But I'm saying, but she just played an acoustic.
Beautiful.
Oh my God.
You know, there's some people you don't realize how good they were.
One of the greatest piano players of all time was Nat King Cole.
Unbelievable.
Jerry Reed, Glenn Campbell.
Oh my lord.
And then there are some people who try.
You know who's not bad?
Believe it or not, who's not bad?
Johnny Depp?
And oh, oh, oh, oh!
And we saw this wonderful...
I'm glad I saw it.
I think it was around for a while.
But it was a little documentary on Joan Jett.
Joan Jett from then in the...
What was it?
The Heartbreakers?
Or the Runarounds?
What are they called?
No, that's not Heartbreakers.
Joan Jett and the...
The Heartbreakers?
Wasn't it the run-arounds or the paddle-arounds?
Anyway, remember Joan Jett and Lita Ford and they were legitimate.
There was such sexism because they wouldn't be taken seriously.
I'm telling you right now, the Go-Go's were great.
I'm telling you right now, whether you like it or not, the Bangles were great.
They were incredible.
Joan Jett.
Joan Jett, she was The Blackhearts.
I get the names confused.
Whatever.
I like that.
Whatever.
She, by the way, is another one too, born in 1958.
She's a little younger than me.
She was born in September 22, right on the cusp.
So she's a Virgo.
She was born Joan Marie Larkin.
Out of Wynwood, Pennsylvania.
She was great!
Patti Smith didn't necessarily, didn't punk Iggy Pop, that whole thing.
Look, I respect it.
Props to you.
Just because I don't get it doesn't mean anything.
Very, very important.
We need those folks.
So, I think as you can see from the way I speak, I have great reverence for anybody.
Anybody who was responsible for contributing anything to music.
Period.
And I cannot suggest it enough.
If you have any inclination, it's never too late to learn.
All right, my dear friends.
Look, thank you so much for being with us.
Have a great and a glorious day.
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Alright my friends, until tomorrow, as I always end with this particular valedictory, this particular sayonara, until tomorrow, remember...
This is your new best friend, Lionel, reminding you of the monkeys dead.
The show's over.
See ya.
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