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May 28, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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From Derringer to Hendrix: 10 Rockers Who Changed Everything
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Hope everybody's groovy.
Let me move this over here.
I don't have my jack put in.
I don't give jack, you know what I'm saying.
Where's my, let me go.
So I've got just the regular mic here.
Hope you can dig this.
Are you following this?
Is everybody okay?
Is everybody here?
Sorry about that.
Camera's on that end.
This morning, it is now 12.30.
In the morning, it is now exactly...
Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Today's jury duty for me.
Pray for me.
Pray for me.
Is everybody there?
Let's go.
I need to have a check-in.
Everybody?
Can you hear me?
There we go.
There we go, Bradley.
There we go, you rat bastards.
You crazy people.
Good for you, good for you, good for you.
In any event...
I'm in this position now where a lot of this stuff bores me.
What is the subject?
What is the subject that you absolutely, positively despise?
That you've heard everything about?
That you don't want to hear?
You don't know?
I'll give you an example.
January 6th.
What are we supposed to say about this?
Seriously.
What new news?
What is it?
January the 6th.
What am I supposed to say?
What am I supposed to add?
How am I supposed to add anything to this?
How?
How?
Have you heard enough of it?
What's the subject you don't want to hear about anymore?
You say, I can't take it anymore.
I've lost all interest.
January 6th.
It's over.
We've got to talk about new stuff.
There's this thing in the world of conservative politics that they repeat the same stuff over and over and over.
I don't know what it is and I don't, and I don't even know how to explain.
What are we supposed to do?
Hang on a minute.
Let me see this.
Is this an ex?
That was the most beautiful thing in the world.
Is that better?
Five by five.
Yes, sound.
Okay, sound is fine.
I hear him fine.
What is this?
By the way, that's a great troll.
Does anybody hear it?
Am I the only one?
Is this not good?
What's that buzzing?
What?
What's that buzzing?
What's that buzzing?
I know what you're doing, you rat bastard.
Rick Derringer died.
Rick Derringer, rock and roll hoochie-coo.
I think, what, wasn't he with Edgar Winner?
Did you see this?
Rick Derringer, good guy.
Rick Derringer, good guy.
Rock and roll hoochie-coo.
Bloody mama.
Is this something or what?
Rick Derringer.
Let's see what Rick Derringer did.
I think he was with the McCoys.
Hang on, Sloopy.
That's what I want to talk about.
That's what I want to talk about.
Rick Derringer.
Bless his heart.
Music legend Rick Derringer.
77 years old.
Because his heart suddenly gave out.
Guitar icon and legendary performer Rick Derringer died on Memorial Day.
It's because his heart suddenly gave out.
Well, I think so.
Do you know anybody who died because the heart?
It's like, of course, it gave out.
Who wrote this?
Rick's longtime wife, Jenda Derringer, said he died peacefully after being taken off life support.
His caretaker and close friend, Tony Wilson, tells us he had a triple bypass just months ago.
He was doing fine.
He adds he seemed totally fine over the weekend.
In any event, I think he died in Ormond Beach.
He was with The McCoys.
Hang On Sloopy.
He played with Alice Cooper, Weird Al.
I think Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo.
Wasn't Edgar Winter, what was his big...
Let me look.
Let's look what this looks like.
His big songs were in the 70s.
I think...
He played guitar on almost Steely Dan's Gaucho.
Really, really had a tremendous, tremendous...
What was his big stuff?
I think it was.
Was he Edgar Winner?
Rick Derringer, big hits with what groups?
That's me all the time.
McCoy's Fever.
Come on, hang on, Sloopy.
Why do you think?
Rock and roll Hoochie Coo.
Did he ever play with Edgar Winner?
Where is it?
Is it me?
Devenger additionally performed with, yep, Edward Winner Group, producing the 1972 Frankenstein.
So anyway, there's a good one, too.
You know what my favorite one is?
They'll say to you, he died peacefully in his sleep.
He died peacefully in his sleep.
A lot of people do not have that sudden kind of a death, that pow!
There was a comedian who says, I don't know why people say people died peacefully in their sleep because you can wake up even if a cat walks on your leg.
You're going to wake up.
So if you're in some huge thrombus, you're probably going to be aware of it.
I hope it's true, but what are you going to do in any event?
That's my story.
But January 6th, what are we supposed to do with that?
What are we supposed to do?
President Trump versus Harvard.
Who gives a shit?
Do you care about Harvard?
Seriously, is it me or what?
I guess it's important.
I guess it's important.
This is the most important thing in the world.
Today, wrestling with bull.
Hang on a minute.
I hope you caught yesterday's piece I did with our friend who was, the young lady who was watching, what am I trying to say?
The woman who had the affair or had the romantic affair with Andre the Giant.
It was phenomenal.
Did you catch that by any chance?
Let me see.
Let me turn this down.
You know, whenever I wake up, whenever I find myself in the position of doing this, So Wi-Fi, you've got to turn off and I've got to go to 5G.
So I've got to turn all my stuff off.
This is my whole thing.
Now I can read.
I'm a real American.
Rick DeRainer.
Noel O 'Reilly can't read.
Can't write.
A great Canadian musician.
Today's broadcast, Wrestling With Love.
Bold.
Unfiltered.
Provocative.
The Other Side of Midnight with Lionel.
Thank you, Loco Valdez.
A.K.A.
Dick McCarthy.
Here we go.
Lionel from the Florida Keys.
Where is it?
Not Monroe County.
Is Monroe County the...
It was interesting.
Send it better past that damn bill.
Ah, the hell with the bill.
What are you going to do?
Lionel brings his signature style, combining intellect and desire and satire.
Does Uncle Lenny ever sleep?
Yes, as a matter of fact, yesterday it was a...
I mean, I just collapsed.
I was watching last night The Zodiac Killer.
Did you watch that one?
I love these stories about killers.
My favorite, Albert Fish.
I was talking to some young folks in the family.
They were watching this story about cannibalism.
So I said, well, the story you want to hear about is Albert Fish, because Albert Fish detailed at great length the...
And he said the butt, the buttocks were the best part.
He wrote this to the family of a little girl that he consumed and did horrible things with.
Today I told you I've got jury duty, which I'm dreading.
I've got to be there at 9 o 'clock, so I'm going to go home at 5. Maybe get a couple hours of sleep.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Jump down, go down.
And try to talk to these people and say, listen, get me out of here.
And I don't want to put it off because you want to get it out of the way.
And I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's my, it's my, it's my duty.
It's my, yeah, but I say, you know what?
That's complete bullshit.
Nobody really wants to, nobody really wants to go do the, anyway.
So you don't care about that.
So that's my story.
Sleep today?
By the way, sleep?
Bob Lefsitz.
Have you ever heard a guy named Bob Lefsetz?
He does a great, great, great, great, great piece.
It's a newsletter.
And he writes, and we, he was only 17, and we don't know the McCoys didn't play, and we don't know the McCoys didn't play on their hit single.
As far as Hang On Sloopy, it was one of those songs like Louie Louie, in that it was perceived to have dirty underpinning.
Not that we could decipher it.
That was one of the biggest stories around.
Did you know this?
But Hang On Sloopy was a giant hit and followed up Fever was a pretty big one too.
But that's all they wrote for the McCoys, at least in the top 40 version.
Now Rick Derringer came in.
His real name was Zerringer.
And in 1970s, he worked Johnny Winters' breakthrough, Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo, Johnny Winters.
I thought, I thought...
Wow.
It's a very interesting thing.
I thought Derringer...
Forgive me if I...
Forgive me.
I thought Derringer was...
I thought...
Okay.
Let me see something.
Hang on a minute.
Let me see about this one.
Rock and Roll, Hoochie Coo.
This was Rock and Roll, Hoochie Coo.
It's an American soundtrack by Rick Derringer.
It was first recorded by Johnny Winter.
I thought he did it.
I thought he did it.
Did not know that.
Rick Derringer.
Born Rick Zerringer.
Okay, enough with the Rick Derringer stuff.
Let me ask you a question.
Whose death?
Whose death affected you?
Every now and then I'll tell you this.
Whose rock and roll death?
Oh, I'm looking at Fox News.
I'm looking at Kash Patel.
Waste my time.
Whose death?
Whose rock and roll death affected you the most?
Come on, my friends.
Let's go.
Madness.
They call it madness.
Come on.
Remember that madness?
Our house.
In the middle of a street.
Our house.
Where's the Sunday best?
Mr. Earl doesn't need to act.
He's for real.
That's right, Al.
John Lennon.
Honor Monkey.
John Lennon.
Yep.
Yep.
He died.
Damn.
Yep.
It's 5.42 here in Scotland.
5.42 a.m.
God bless you in Scotland.
John Lennon.
Gary Richrath.
Gary Richrath from REO Speedwagon.
Great guitar player.
Roll with the changes.
Oh, my God.
Madness.
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Spells it V-O-N.
John Lennon, Jessie's Girl.
Jessie's Girl is a good song by Rick Springfield.
Jerry Garcia.
Hello, everyone.
Just finished watching M.M. and Crew.
What's M.M. and Crew?
What is that?
Whenever it happens to Mark Knopfler, Bob Dylan, too, I'll be sad to see you go.
What about Dave Mason?
Dave Mason's fantastic.
He was my friend.
Tommy Bolin, T-Rex.
Remember him?
Roy Orbison.
I love your spelling.
It's fantastic.
Roy Orbison.
Who?
David Bowie?
Get out!
Just kidding.
We're with a good crew here.
We're going to liven this baby up.
Daddy's home.
Jerry Garcia.
Elvis.
Mine was Terry Kat.
Terry Kath killed me.
77. Terry Kath absolutely got me.
That was my only one.
Terry Kath was, I think, still one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
He died January 23rd, 1978.
31 years old.
I'm over, over twice his age.
And he will always be incredible.
I'm reading some of your things.
He was my friend.
Who was your friend, Shay?
Be specific.
Be specific.
God bless you.
I'm still getting over Roy Orbison.
Billy Vader?
T-Rex went early.
Crashes Roll Royce.
It's not T-Rex.
It was Bolin, Mark Bolin.
T-Rex was a group.
Prince?
You know, Prince, there were all kinds of rumors as to what really got Prince.
I don't know if that's true.
I'm just saying.
Gotta wish Jimmy...
Remember Jimmy Morrison and...
27. Prince died of age.
Ryan Myers, you know I heard that, and I don't know if it's true, and I can't verify it, but that's what I had heard as well.
Que bueno esta día.
Now I lay me down to sleep.
Terry Catt, very soon.
Chicago was shaken up after that.
Quite the comeback.
Well, Kimberly, they sort of did.
Remember, after him, I think it was Donnie Dacus played.
Alive Again was a very interesting song.
Chris Pinnock played.
But nobody liked Catt.
Nobody.
The 27 Club, Janice Joplin.
Lemmy?
Yeah.
Lemmy had that big meatball keratosis on his face.
You know what I mean?
Kurt Cobain.
Murdered.
You know, I heard that too.
There's all kinds of stuff about that.
All kinds of stuff.
Lowell George.
Oh, Lowell George.
Little Feet.
Dixie Chicken.
Time Loves a Hero.
My album.
My favorite album.
One of my favorites is Time Loves a Hero.
With Time Loves a Hero.
And Red Streamliner.
With Michael McDonald.
Was leader of the Wild Wild West.
Sam Kinison, yep, it's tragic.
Sam Kinison, by the way, hit by a drunk driver.
Sam Kinison never did anything to, in any way, involve himself.
That's a good call there, Adder Shine.
Remember Samantha Fox?
Yeah, Samantha Fox.
Was she a...
She wasn't a...
Growing up in a Hollywood business family, I didn't really get too wrapped up in these people.
I was rather bummed.
When Dick Dale died, because I had to remember to see him before he could.
Dick Dale from the guitar?
That surfer kind of stuff?
Gary Moore.
Oh my god, Gary Moore.
We're not talking about the talk show host.
Gary Moore, did you see that piece that he did?
Gary Moore and B.B. King?
Dear God.
Rory Gallagher?
My good friend Christo Stavro.
The sugar man loves this one.
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I'll never forget this.
When Lynyrd Skynyrd died, a bunch of my friends were out.
We were just out of high school.
I think we're still like in college.
We're kind of like, you know, stuck in this transition from high school to college.
We were still kind of stupid.
Anyway, when Lynyrd Skynyrd died, when Lynyrd Skynyrd died, Walter Cronkite, Could not pronounce their name, you see.
Today the rock music, today the rock music mourns the loss of Linyard Skinnyard.
Cracked me up like he couldn't believe.
Eda Peach, Dwayne Allman, of course.
Carl Weinrich.
You gotta help me on that one, my friend.
Robert Varner, Bobby Varner.
Bobby, help us on Carl Weinrich.
Star Shine.
Yes, it was called Balmoral.
Remember Star?
Star Castle was a knockoff wannabe of Yes.
I remember them.
Steve Marriott.
I played Steve Marriott on my Hot and Nasty.
Played Steve Marriott on my Lionel, my private channel.
Sean says, I'm trying to persuade myself I'm not too old for rock and roll.
I'll come around.
You think you're too old for rock and roll?
How can you say that?
That's like being too old for, you know, Mozart.
It doesn't make any sense.
This was the music of our lifetime, my friends.
Scott Buchanan says, when Danny Partridge played a 13-minute guitar lead, Danny Partridge in Osaka, they see all the chicks in the front row became pregnant.
True story.
Danny Partridge?
You mean Danny Bonaduce with the Partridge family?
What are you talking about?
Peter Green.
Peter Green with the great Fleetwood Mac.
Johnny Winter.
ZZ Top sucks.
Tin Lizzy versus Thin Lizzy.
Thank you for that, Lauren Nolan.
I know what you mean, doll.
I know what you mean.
Karen needed to eat a peach.
Karen Carpenter was an absolute treasure.
And her death is so, so incredibly sad.
Let me see what else is going on.
Let's don't talk about Jimmy Comey.
We're going to talk about music.
Music.
Do you think RFK Jr. made a video on Shmooley's casting couch to get the role?
You know, I've got to tell you something.
Mrs. L and I were walking last night.
I hope you caught it.
It was kind of late in the afternoon.
We're up and down the West Side Highway.
We went to the West Side.
And we walked by the glass house, and the glass house is where Shmuley and Bobby Kennedy went for their kind of schmaltzfest, where he kind of did the contrition act.
It was unseemly to make it.
Keith Moon, yes.
Sorry is my accent, my Irish accent, with talk text.
Larry Nolan, you bastard.
You crazy bastard.
Doff to the mickey.
Al says, okay, I love music.
Saw you guys walking in New York City today.
Very nice, thank you.
John Bonham.
Oh, my God, John Bonham.
Randy Rose.
Otis Redding.
Remember when they pulled him?
They fished him up.
Sam Cooke.
Members of The Temptations.
Paul Williams.
Remember that one?
Oh, my God, from Eddie Kendrick.
See, that's the story.
You know, that's what I'm going to talk about today.
That's what I'm going to talk about.
Not January 6th.
Muddy Waters.
Sid Barrett.
Yes.
Tower of Power.
Oh, my God.
Emilio and Doc.
Is Rocco still with us?
King Crimson.
Harry Chapin.
Fish from the Dock of the Bay.
Toto Payne Diaz, you're a sick mother.
Carlos Santana is still alive.
Edgar Winter.
You know, this is a very interesting subject.
When people pass, what will be, who will be the person that you absolutely are transfixed by?
Eric Clapton is one of them.
Janis Joplin.
I'm going to see what ChatGPT says.
You know I love ChatGPT.
Love ChatGPT.
Oh my God.
Just watch this.
Give me a list of some of the most noteworthy and less than noteworthy deaths of rock musicians over the past 30, 40 years, including those who die tragically in accidents or murders or what have you.
List them numerically in terms of The most impact.
And there's no information too obscure.
Alright, let's see what ChatGPT says.
I love this name.
Kurt Cobain.
Freddie Mercury.
Chris Cornell.
He was a sound garden.
Suicide by Hanging.
Chester Bennington.
Linkin Park frontman.
Lane Staley.
Heroin.
Alice in Chainsinger.
Prince.
Taylor Hawkins.
Sudden Death.
Foo Fighters drummer.
Eddie Van Halen.
Scott Wayland.
Overdose.
Stone Temple pilot.
Michael Hutchins.
Remember him?
Remember him from NXS?
Remember that one?
Randy Rose.
Plane Crash.
Ozzy Osbourne guitarist.
Less publicized.
Jeff Buckley from Cult Figure from Hallelujah fame.
Shannon Hoon.
Blind Melon.
Dimebag Daryl.
That's not good.
That's not good.
Obscure But Tragic.
Mia Zapata.
Michael Hutchins.
Give me the list of Die Too Soon musical notables from 1 to 50. In no particular order.
Let's see what it says.
Let me tell you something.
You sick bastards, you gave me a show tonight.
Because I'm walking in here and I'm going to start in about five minutes and I don't want to do this January 6th stuff.
I don't care about this.
So anyway, thank you for that.
I'm going to run.
Remember, make sure you are subscribed.
And make sure everybody is subscribed to this, okay?
Make sure everybody is subscribed.
I'm also going to change the title of today's show from...
Thank you.
In any event, have a great day, folks.
We love you.
Don't forget, monkey's dead.
Show's over.
Sue you.
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