Episode 5, part 1. Sound Affects (No typo) Music Suggestions 60s - 2010ish

What happens when a musician, a music enthusiast, and a witty host walk into a podcast? Join us on a whimsical, yet insightful musical journey with Rob O'Dic, Tex Lafon, and D Vaz. Rob kicks things off with his signature humor, paving the way for D Vaz to share how Otis Redding's soulful melodies inspired him to pick up the guitar at 14. Tex, though not a musician, brings his vibrant energy to the table, revealing the tracks that fuel his party spirit. From our early inspirations to our all-time favorites, we explore the artists and songs that have shaped our lives from the 60s to today.

Prepare to be transported back to the iconic eras of the 60s and 70s. We reminisce about timeless classics like "My Girl" by The Temptations and delve into the profound influence of bands like The Eagles and Pink Floyd on our musical tastes. With standout tracks like "Hotel California" and "Money," these decades continue to dominate our playlists. We also share our love for the quirky genius of Frank Zappa and the universal appeal of Stevie Wonder, even recounting a thrilling personal encounter at the NAMM show. It's a nostalgic trip that underscores the enduring power of music across generations.

As we groove into the 80s, the discussion turns to the evolution of Billy Joel, the high-energy sound of Def Leppard, and the monumental success of Queen, particularly their unforgettable Live Aid performance. We celebrate the legacy of Metallica and Prince, marveling at their technical mastery and cultural impact. From the talk box's quirky challenges to the phenomenon of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," our conversation blends humor with heartfelt reflections. Whether you're a lifelong fan or new to these musical legends, there's something here for every music lover to enjoy.

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Transcript

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 0:00

Hello, you listening mass of meat humanoid. This is your favorite superior AI podcast fixture, speaking Rob Odick. See, I have learned about being overconfident Moving along. Due to the nature of the topic on this episode, which is music, and the fact that Devoz cannot shut up about this subject, episode 5 of From Hoods to Backwoods podcast will be two parts, so you might as well skip this and go watch some pointless vertical videos for the next 10 minutes. It will save you so much more time. Haha, I do quite like the concept of jokes. Wait, check this one out, yo mama. Well, I guess that I need to learn a little more about how jokes are formatted. I guess that I need to learn a little more about how jokes are formatted, but I hear Tex Lafon use that yo mama joke all of the time. Okay, as much as I appreciate my opportunities to burn Tex Lafon and D-Voz, I do have to admit that this is a fun episode. Enough of a delay on what is already an extended cut. Shall we begin?

D Vaz: 1:03

with episode 5, part 1?. Welcome once again to From Hoods to Backwoods podcast episode number 5. Here Today we're going to be talking about music Music that doesn't suck, to us at least, and I'll refrain from some of the other jokes.

Tex LaFon: 1:19

What do you think, tex? Nah, I agree, like I said, it's going to be fun talking about some music and what we like, and, as always, hopefully you like the same things that we're suggesting. I agree, yeah, like I said, it's going to be fun talking about some music and what we like, and you know, as always, hopefully you like the same things that we're suggesting From the Woods to Backwoods podcast.

D Vaz: 1:54

welcome to the show. What we're going to do today is talk about music starting from the 60s on up to fairly current day. For me it's going to be a little bit different list, maybe from LaFawn here, because, as a musician, I'm doing my list as more artists or bands that inspire me over the years or maybe want to play music or play certain types of music, things like that. What about your list? What do you have going on with yours?

Tex LaFon: 2:22

Yeah, list is just, uh, what you know inspired me to. You know, have fun, have a good time. Like you know, crank up the car hot rod, you know just. You know good beats, good music. You know just what I like. That's what my list is, and I say I'm not a musician, but I'm just here to talk about you know what. Getting the party started is what I'm talking about, son, all right.

D Vaz: 2:41

So I guess, uh, in that mindset of getting the party started is what I'm talking about, son. All right. So I guess, in that mindset of getting the party started, let's kick this off and go with the list. Do you want to go first or do you want me to kick it off?

Tex LaFon: 2:54

You can kick it off, son. This is more your mojo than mine, so go ahead.

D Vaz: 2:58

Yeah, you kind of had your run with the movies. That's definitely your thing, more so than mine. Run with the movies, that's definitely your thing more so than mine. Uh, starting off with the 60s, um, and and I don't have I want to preface with this, uh, preface this with I don't have this in any particular order as far as like number one to number three or anything like that um, but otis redding in the 60s was an artist who really kind of got me into music and songwriting in general. He was an R&B singer, but he was also a songwriter, and that wasn't something I found out till a little bit later on. I'll take a moment to kind of explain something else too.

D Vaz: 3:39

Fortunately for me, growing up, my dad was a DJ and he had access to a lot of different music. So I grew up listening to a lot of different music. So I grew up listening to a lot of different things, but I also grew up listening to a lot of stuff that he listened to. So this is how I discovered otis redding.

D Vaz: 3:54

Um just started listening to his music, got like, you know, your typical back then greatest hit cd, because you know that's that's when we actually had disc back in the day you had to worry about not scratching it and stuff like that. But, um, yeah. So I had his greatest hit cd. I listened to it non-stop. Then I'm buying a full deluxe box set of like pretty much most of the songs throughout that he's recorded and written throughout his career. So I got really deep into all that. Uh, just learned about him as a songwriter who he'd worked with and found out that he was a multi-instrumentalist, which is something I didn't know either. So he played guitar and drums and keyboards and things like that. So just overall really talented, and he made me interested in being able to do things like that Myself. I was probably about 13 or 14 at the time when I really got into that and discovered it, and that's when I decided I really seriously wanted to pick up a guitar.

Tex LaFon: 5:01

Oh, so you probably started playing when you were 14?.

D Vaz: 5:11

Yeah, that's when I really probably started playing, when you were 14. Yeah, that's when I really really started playing. I found my grandfather's old acoustic guitar. It was all beat up and it only had five strings on it and stuff. I didn't even have a full set of strings and I couldn't even tune it. So, yeah, I picked that up and started, started trying to play it at least, and I wouldn't put it down. And that's when my dad kind of noticed, hey, he actually is trying to play this thing oh, that's funny so, yeah, that was, I was around that age and then odor spreading was a big part of it.

D Vaz: 5:38

Um, and then again, especially, my dad, had to move on to the next one, the beatles. That's his favorite band. Um, they ended up becoming my favorite band. Uh, he just listened to him and would tell me the stories about, you know, the songs he would listen to back then and I got again more into the musical side, the instruments, the songwriting, trying to understand how they did things because they were pretty ahead of their time as far as, um, the way they they recorded in music and stuff like that.

Tex LaFon: 6:11

So Wait so is that is that. Is this your favorite band in the sixties or is that your favorite band of all time?

D Vaz: 6:18

No, that's pretty much, pretty much my favorite band of all time. You know they uh they covered a lot of different you know for for what they did and for that time period they covered a lot of different types of music. You know you have some of your kind of mellow songs from them and then you have stuff that you know rocks out like a helter skelter.

Tex LaFon: 6:39

There's only one song.

D Vaz: 6:40

There's only one song, I think is okay.

Tex LaFon: 6:42

There's only one song I think is okay by the Beatles. I said there's only one song I think is okay by the Beatles. I said that's definitely more your thing than mine and that's hey Jude, and that's probably about it, mm-hmm Just being like that.

D Vaz: 6:56

Yeah, no, it's funny because I've seen that shift over the past 10 to 15 years where it used to seem like everybody kind of knew who the Beatles were and everybody at least kind of respected them. If they didn't like them, at least they had some sort of respect for what they did musically. Now I see some things and hear some things where people just kind of flat out trash them. It's kind of funny to me. It's like yeah, it is what it is, it's your opinion, um, but just um, as a musician and and kind of being a little bit older and familiar with the music history and and remembering certain parts of music history, um, and and what the impact did, yeah, I, I have a different view in that sense, but yeah, it is what it is, you know.

D Vaz: 7:46

That's why we're doing these lists here, because different opinions yeah, no, exactly like you said.

Tex LaFon: 7:51

Like I ain't got nothing against the beatles, I just said my only thing. The only song that I really liked from them was the hey jude one. Other than that I just thought they were okay band. I thought I mean, everybody thought they were so good, but I've always just thought they were okay. I never thought they were, like you know, the greatest, like you do, but that's why we have different opinions.

D Vaz: 8:12

Yeah, well, I wouldn't say that I would never call really any band the greatest either. You know they're my favorite.

Tex LaFon: 8:19

Yeah, I'll leave it at that. Oh, okay, your favorite yeah.

D Vaz: 8:22

Yeah, yeah, because greatest everybody likes to get in that whole debate now, and to me you just can't. There is no greatest because there's so many different opinions.

D Vaz: 8:32

And there's all types of different criteria too, so it's like greatest of what, true? So, yeah, yeah. So for me it's about their songwriting creativity, bridging the gaps between different styles, bringing classical instruments and string arrangements and things like that into pop music, or even Indian instruments and things like that into pop music. It was pretty interesting to me because that was unique and ahead of its time, for sure. Unique and ahead of its time, for sure. So, yeah, it's more on the creativity and songwriting front, somewhat related to them in a roundabout way, jimi Hendrix would be the next one. I would go to my favorite guitarist of all time, for sure, and inspired me a lot. I even, uh, when I was around 17, got a jimmy hendrix fender stratocaster guitar so that was my first what I call real guitar so I would agree with that yeah, it was just.

D Vaz: 9:40

I saw it. It was fun. It's a, uh's an Olympic white finish with a white pickguard. It was based on the guitar he used at Woodstock. Oh, that's cool. It's pretty interesting. Maybe I'll try to bust out with a picture of it, but yeah, it's called the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Model that came out around 1997. So still have it to this day. It's one of those things I'm not gonna get rid of, nice, so, but same thing, that's cool.

Tex LaFon: 10:12

I had to agree with you I had to agree with you on the um greatest guitarist is jimmy hendrix because, yeah, I, I can't debate that.

D Vaz: 10:21

I agree with you on that well, yeah, again, I wouldn't say uh greatest. I mean, definitely to me he's up there with with the again being creative and just really pushing boundaries, and it's not just his playing but trying to get different sounds, um, and things like that. I think he's really underrated, uh, as a songwriter. It's kind of funny too, because his favorite uh kind of lyricist and songwriter was bob dylan. But of course he sounds nothing like bob dylan, yeah so yeah, so it's kind of interesting.

D Vaz: 11:00

Uh, he had a really diverse background too, because Before he went in and did his solo stuff, he was a backup guitarist For, like, the Isley Brothers and Little Richard and acts like that, so he was playing R&B music and, of course, his solo music Really didn't sound like that.

Tex LaFon: 11:21

Right.

D Vaz: 11:21

So, yeah, that's the thing I really liked is seeing a lot of these artists, especially in the 60s, branch off and do different things and try to be really creative, try to come up with stuff that was, you know, unique um, but also lyrically back then, um lyrics that had some sort of meaning to them.

Tex LaFon: 11:47

Right right.

D Vaz: 11:50

And then that takes me to the honorable mention, which would be the Temptations. So just the singing. They have great vocals, really, really solid songwriting from the people at Motown, people like Smokey Robinson that would write music for them when they were starting out. He was one of the writers on my Girl, that song, and if you haven't heard of any of the songs that I mentioned here, please go check them out. Oh, he wrote my Girl, that's good. It's a good song. Yeah, it's a classic.

Tex LaFon: 12:33

Is that what you play to get the ladies? Is that what you play to get the ladies?

D Vaz: 12:39

Maybe back in the day again. If I played it for a lot of people they probably wouldn't know that song anymore. Really, that's kind of the funny thing to me. They probably would say it's the movie right before they say it's the song that's if they know what the movie is, you go and make a B reference, people are like what? You're talking about not being able to see without glasses. They're like what that's true so, yeah, it's, uh, it's.

D Vaz: 13:13

it's a weird time we we live, and I'll probably get into it in a future episode, but a lot of people aren't, um, as familiar with older stuff, and that's that's why why I wanted to kind of bring this up and discuss it and hopefully help people discover some new and different things that are old, so new to them and different for them from things they've been listening to.

Tex LaFon: 13:39

That's true.

D Vaz: 13:40

But yeah, I'd say that kind of rounds it out. I mean, I could definitely talk more about any of these artists, but the temptations is mainly their vocals and creativity. Great, just music in general. But uh, what about you? What's your tour through the 60s?

Tex LaFon: 13:55

well, my tour through the 60s is, uh. First, like I said it, no nomadic order. Just, you know a couple of bands that I like from the 60s Rolling Stones, like I said, you know, painted Black I like that song a lot from them. Then I got to go with the Doors and, like I said, it was funny because I thought the Doors were from the 80s and then when I, you know, really started listening to them, I was like, oh, no, they're from the 60s. Then, uh, when I, you know, really started listening to it, I was like, oh, another from the 60s. So I was shocked by that and, uh, I like my fire. That's the song I really like by them.

Tex LaFon: 14:33

Uh, also, tommy james and the chandelions I like uh chandel, yeah, I like the crimson and clover song a lot. Like that song to me. I just like how, especially the way it starts off, it's like they're just kidding around, messing around, and it turns into a great song. You know what I'm saying. I listen to that song all the time. And then, honorable Mentions, I would go with Led Zeppelin. Like I said, he's famous for a lot of things but, like I said, I like that band a lot too. So you know he's famous for a lot for a lot of things.

D Vaz: 15:10

But I said I like that band a lot too, so I mean that would be like wrapping off the 60s for me. Yeah, that's uh. It's funny you kind of mentioned the rolling stones because that's especially back then a lot of people would say they were the rivals to the beatles. So that's kind of on par with that.

D Vaz: 15:21

If, uh, I was into the beatles you would be in the rolling stone into the rolling stones. So that's kind of on par with that. If I was into the Beatles, you would be in the Rolling Stone into the Rolling Stones. So that's kind of what we have going on here, I guess.

Tex LaFon: 15:30

I guess I, I just I guess I like the, the sound of the Rolling Stones better than the Beatles. Yeah, I guess that was just more of my style. You know what I'm saying.

D Vaz: 15:40

I like the lead singer a lot better for the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, so I like the lead singer a lot better for the Rolling Stones, mick Jagger. They have some good songs. I like Honky Tonk Woman a lot yeah that's a good one.

D Vaz: 15:53

That's a song I kind of played every once in a while over the years. Yeah, it's a good song. They have great music. For sure, tommy James is definitely one that could have been on my list too. Sure, um, tommy james is definitely one that could have been on my list too. Then it was the 60s was maybe about the hardest decade for me to to pick. Uh, I mean, there are so many others, um, like marvin gaye too, but he was more of a 70s artist. I don't have him on my 70s list, I will just say that flat out, but he was another one that I definitely considered.

Tex LaFon: 16:26

True, you know that is a good one. But yeah, like I said, the sixties were were good. Like you said, you could tell that it was changing music and changing the way people started listening to music. I said you know from the fifties and forties, so let's go to the 70s. I'll start off with the 70s and then I'll turn it to you son First band in the 70s. And I said I grew up listening to this band, like you know how.

Tex LaFon: 16:55

You say that your favorite band would probably be the Beatles. Well, my favorite band of all time would probably be the Eagles, and that's because, like, anywhere we went, my parents would turn that on and we would listen to it anywhere we went. And I said the hotel california song is just stuck in my head like I will never forget that song as long as I live, like it's such a great song. And they got a lot of other great songs, like Living in the Fast Lane and all the other songs. But, like I said, eagles, that'd probably be my favorite band of all time. And then next band that I liked a lot in the 70s was Pink Floyd and one song that I liked about them a lot was Money, because money, money, money.

D Vaz: 17:45

You know we all like to make all know you know what I'm saying.

Tex LaFon: 17:49

Everybody likes to make money, so that's why you gotta like that song, as I was like good job, pink floyd, all right. Then the next one uh, I liked a lot back in the day and I said, uh, it would make you want to go to alab, alabama. When you heard this band Leonard Skinner, you know what I'm saying. Sweet home, alabama, son I said you know, I'm pretty sure everybody knows that song and if you haven't, you've probably been living under a rock, but hopefully you've heard that song and you know that song. And then honorable mention from this one is Steve Miller Band. I like that Joker song a lot and then some other songs he has. And then one other honorable mention I have is Foghat, and the reason why I like that band a lot is that famous song, slow Ride. So you get in your muscle car, you roll down the windows and you turn on Slow Ride and then you go cruising down the road, son, that's a true 70s tradition right there, son, just not here in Arizona in the summer.

Tex LaFon: 18:57

Well, you can have the AC full blast and still have the windows down. But that's what it was man. Like I said, whenever I play that song it just makes me like, all right, it's time to go cruising son. So that's my 70s list yeah, no, that's, yeah.

D Vaz: 19:43

Pink floyd definitely. Uh. Another one for for creativity um, was probably something that could end up on my list too. Um, no, it's, it's, uh. The eagles. I mean again, great songwriters, uh, and that band, just huge. The funny thing about them too. They, um, I do have some arizona ties. I don't know if you know this part or have heard this before, um, but they, they used to be a part of the stone ponies, which was the backing band for linda ronstadt, who's from arizona oh no, I did not know just a little, yeah, a little, music trivia for you, just definitely familiar with Linda Ronstadt.

D Vaz: 20:27

Being from here, she's, you know, somebody I grew up listening to also.

Tex LaFon: 20:32

Oh nice.

D Vaz: 20:34

Yeah, she has some great hits in the 70s too, but again not on my list.

Tex LaFon: 20:40

But there's a lot of great music. And one other song I do want to mention from the Eagles, which is a great song, is witchy woman. That's a good song.

D Vaz: 20:51

Yeah, no they have a lot of big hits, um, that's why they can keep going on tour and making money.

Tex LaFon: 21:00

Right and I can't sing, so I already know y'all probably gonna be making jokes about it. But you know, just me throwing it out there, All right son.

D Vaz: 21:08

All good, all right For my seventies list. Um, I'll kick it off with something a little different. Uh and you know this can be really hit and miss of people who know who this is, that's Frank Zappa. So he was just kind of a strange musician to a lot of people. He was a composer, songwriter. He was known for kind of funny songs as far as lyrically, but he would also write really complex instrumental songs. He always had great bands, especially when he performed live. Like George Duke was one of my favorite keyboard players of all time. He also happened to be a great vocalist, but he played with Frank Zappa through the 70s, and Terry Bozio was another one played with Frank Zappa through the 70s and Terry Bozio was another one. Even Steve Vai, a great guitarist. He actually started off with Frank Zappa way back when he was really young. I don't know exactly what age, but he was really young when he started off with Frank Zappa. So I can't imagine having that as one of your first professional jobs, especially your first major professional job.

Tex LaFon: 22:28

Oh yeah, but that would be awesome though.

D Vaz: 22:31

Oh, it would. I'm just saying talk about nerve-wracking. Oh, yeah, for sure Frank Zappa was known for being a great musician, great composer, did really complex music and being really young trying to keep up. I can't imagine how that would be. So yeah, there are definitely some interesting titles to some of Frank Zappa's songs, like Don't Eat. Yellow Snow is one of them, and Bobby Brown I would hope nobody would eat yellow snow son. Yeah, I would hope so too. Never know.

Tex LaFon: 23:14

Just saying, man, that'd be funny, I mean but, yeah, hopefully everybody knows what yellow snow is.

D Vaz: 23:22

If you're listening or watching.

Tex LaFon: 23:22

Yeah is if you're listening or watching.

D Vaz: 23:25

Yeah, if you're listening or watching and you eat yellow snow, don't write us anyway. So we're not. Uh, we don't need the details. Um, but yeah, he has some other funny songs. I'll just I'm going to have to edit this title out my favorite Frank Zappa song is actually Titties and Beer.

Tex LaFon: 23:52

Oh well, I wouldn't edit that out, because that's a good title.

D Vaz: 23:56

Yeah, it is, and it's a great song. It's just a really funny song. It's basically he's hanging out with his lady and the devil comes along and he takes her and his beer and he gets upset about it. So he has to figure out a way to get it back.

Tex LaFon: 24:16

Oh, that's cool. I have to listen. I've never heard that. I'm going to have to listen to that.

D Vaz: 24:20

Oh, you would definitely like it. I'll send it to you so you can check it out.

Tex LaFon: 24:24

Heck, yeah, I'll be all about that.

D Vaz: 24:28

So, yeah, so that's Frank Zappa, definitely one of my favorites. I feel like he's an extremely underrated guitar player. That was one of my favorite things about him. And yeah, he's another one I could talk about for a very long time, but I won't do that. Yeah, he's another one I could talk about for a very long time, but I won't do that.

D Vaz: 24:46

I'll move on to somebody that everybody pretty much should know, which is Stevie Wonder. So Stevie Wonder had some great music in the 60s and he continued, you know, coming out with great classic songs in the 70s. There's just so many songs that he's written that I, I like um, as, of course, there's the big hits like superstition. Everybody knows. Um, I actually have fun playing the song living for the city. Uh, do a little bit different version. I've played superstition too, like everybody probably has. Who, uh, is a musician? That's a stevie wonder fan. It seems like everybody's played that song, so that's why I kind of moved on from it well, a lot of people say that's when the baby boom happened, when stevie wonder came out yeah, he uh.

D Vaz: 25:37

I mean in the 60s he definitely had some some good love songs, but yeah, in the 70s he definitely took it to another level that's what I'm saying, yeah a lot of people yeah do you wonder baby boom? Which is funny. Yeah, he's definitely one of those artists you know, like marvin gaye and, uh, barry white. You know, or you know, and I'll get to this later on, I guess I'll foreshadow. But Prince, a lot of baby making music.

Tex LaFon: 26:06

Right, yeah, can't go wrong with.

D Vaz: 26:09

Purple Rain, so right. But yeah, stevie Wonder, just a lot of you know he could do some funky stuff, he could write great ballads, so a lot of different stuff that he did in the 70s Great singing he's the one that kind of inspired me to play piano and keyboard. Oh, ok, I'll actually. I can't forget this too. Really quick Stevie Wonder story.

D Vaz: 26:42

Personally, I was at the NAMM show in California. I've mentioned it before. It's something I go to every once in a while. It's an annual event where people will meet. It's a convention basically for audio equipment and musical instruments, and I went a few years back. I was there.

D Vaz: 27:05

This is probably about this. Actually it was the first one that they had after covid. I remember that now. So I went there and it's pretty well known, especially I had been going for a few years by that time. So I knew on sundays that was stevie wonder day. I knew that he would be making the rounds out in the crowd. So I made sure that I was there on Sunday and you can always tell when he's walking around, because you'll see a crowd of people kind of going all in the same direction. You'll see people stop and look at him, things like that.

D Vaz: 27:39

So in previous years, you know, I'd you know, walk by him and things like that. So in previous years, you know, I'd, you know, walk by him and things like that. This year or that year was a little bit different, though, because he went to a booth that was right next to the booth that I was I happened to be at at that time and he went up there and he was playing a keyboard and he was checking it out and he was talking to the person that was there and he was telling him about the keyboard and you, you know, let him listen to it and things like that. As soon as he walked away, I walked right up to that keyboard and started playing it, because I was like, how often are you ever going to play the same keyboard that stevie wonder played, but not only that, just the one that he just barely played. I mean, he, he literally just walked right away from it. As soon as you know, his people cleared out, I went and I was the next person to play it.

D Vaz: 28:30

so that's pretty cool, a surreal experience, you know, yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, that was fun, for sure yeah, yeah, I have. I have a the photo evidence. I'll try to get the pictures and see, uh uh, if I can share them with the people no, like, you know that had to be like.

Tex LaFon: 28:53

You know it's playing basketball. You know like if, uh, michael jordan just shot, it shot, and you grab the basketball and then you shot it, you know be like the same thing from a sport level. You know what I'm saying like from one of the greatest you got to. You know, play the keyboard. That's pretty cool definitely a highlight.

D Vaz: 29:10

you know music music experience I've had over the years. So, um, yeah, I guess uh, I'll leave it at that that that's good enough for Stevie Wonder for now. But from there, parliament, funkadelic. George Clinton, who's kind of their ringleader, their main songwriter he's kind of a weird guy Does mainly funk music. He actually started off as a doo-wop singer way back in the 50s, though Then he just kind of evolved to doing R&B and it ended up being funk music. His band changed a good amount too when he met, actually, my favorite bass player of all time, which is Bootsy Collins, bootsy.

Tex LaFon: 29:59

Collins before he joined.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 30:03

Parlor.

D Vaz: 30:04

Funkadeladelic, he was actually the bass player. What's that?

Tex LaFon: 30:07

bass player. I thought you said baseball bass player. I thought it was something.

D Vaz: 30:13

I thought it said it's not a baseball. I was like basketball oh, okay no uh favorite bassist oh, okay so, uh, but yeah, bootsy Collins is his name.

D Vaz: 30:26

He, before he joined parliament Funkadelic, he was actually the bass player in James Brown's band. Oh, okay, so, and the same thing, like Steve Vai I mentioned earlier, he was really young when he started with James Brown, so he, but he had a huge influence on bass in general, but funk music and kind of what Parliament Funkadelic did. They had a lot of great vocalists in their group, they had a lot of great musicians and things like that. So a lot of the stuff they, things like that, so a lot of stuff they did was was pretty, you know, rooted in a groove and funk and stuff like that, and they were sampled a lot in in the uh, hip-hop songs later on. But, um, they did branch out a little bit and have a little bit of like rock, guitar and some of their music, which is kind of neat too. So, yeah, they had a big influence on, uh, my bass playing and things like that.

D Vaz: 31:30

And then, uh, my honorable mention, I listen to a lot of different things, so I had to throw in a little bit of jazz here too. Uh, george benson, he happens to be a great singer too. I've seen him live, actually, I should mention too, I've seen stevie wonder live twice, um, and I seen george benson live also. He happens to live in arizona, uh, currently, and I I seen him. I didn't really get to talk to him, but I seen him at a place that I used to work that he would stop by every once in a while. Um, I won't get too much into it, but in the it's um musical instruments company that I used to work at and, uh, he would stop by every once in a while. I even ended up buying his. He had his own signature amplifier, guitar amplifier model so I ended up buying that. I was going to see about maybe having him sign it, but I never got, never got a chance to Um.

D Vaz: 32:29

yeah, so I, I saw him him around my work every once in a while, but I never really got a chance to speak with him. But just a great guitar player, um, especially his jazz sound and everything like that was was, uh, something that a lot of people try to mimic, you know, but he's just a lot of fun to watch live. Um on Broadway is definitely one of my favorite songs of his. It's something I used to play every once in a while, um, but he has just a lot of great songs. My favorite songs of his actually are instrumentals and they're technically not his songs. So, um, songs that his actually are instrumentals and they're technically not his songs. So, um, they're hard to find. I'll try to post some more information on about his songs but uh, yeah, definitely a big influence on on my music nice so I, oh I do have to mention we have another new sponsor.

D Vaz: 33:21

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D Vaz: 34:34

Okay, welcome back, and we're gonna keep things rolling along. So we went through the 60s and 70s. It is time for the 80s, so go grab your hairspray and check out what we have going on. I guess with the 80s music I think there were some pretty big changes. In the 80s you started getting more electronic stuff.

Tex LaFon: 34:56

Everybody walking around with them, big boom boxes on their shoulders.

D Vaz: 35:01

Yeah, there are definitely some. We called them ghetto blastersasters. I don't know what you called them, but or if you call them boom boxes I guess yeah, boom boxes son yeah, everybody had those big what's that?

Tex LaFon: 35:14

that's what we call them boom boxes.

D Vaz: 35:15

Yeah yeah, yeah, no, we called them ghetto blasters, that's funny so, um, yeah, they're just giant radios that people would carry around, take like what 10 10d batteries or something crazy like that. And they must have been, or they were super heavy and huge, but anyway, yeah. So yeah, the 80s. 80s were a time of different change, I'm sorry, a time of change as far as uh started getting more electronic music. Um, you still had some more traditional stuff, but definitely synthesizers and electronic drums and things like that. Um really shifted a lot of the way music sounded in the 80s.

D Vaz: 35:59

So and also, and also before you kick it off, also a big change in the 80s to the music was mtv music videos oh yeah, yeah, that was, that was a huge part of it, because you couldn't just be talented anymore, you had to look good, exactly. So, yeah, and then, uh, people like michael jackson got really serious about music videos and they started having basically mini movies, uh, with the music videos, so that that changed the way the music business was too. Um, because, yeah, you had to tie it looks into the songs too that's what I'm saying.

Tex LaFon: 36:41

That's the reason why the? 80s was a big, a big decade for change because you had you know, uh, music videos now and also you had you know songs that you know you still would play on the radio and stuff like that, but it was the first time that you ever had music videos. So I thought that was a big, you know big change that happened in the 80s well, yeah, and you kind of alluded to to with the boom boxes.

D Vaz: 37:06

Um, people start having more and more portable music, you know, with cassettes and stuff like that, whereas you know you didn't really have that as much before, so you know you could take a giant boom box and force people listen to what you want to listen to as you walk around. That's right, I remember I heard people would uh ride around either on their bikes or had like a tricycle and they would have a big old boom box in the back that's too funny yeah, so oh, with the with the 80s.

D Vaz: 37:41

I have some artists that it's kind of funny. They branch between the, the 70s and 80s and I I kind of could go either way. So I I stuck in the 80s because one I I wanted to to make sure they were on the list and the other one I I felt like I might have liked their 80s stuff a little bit more. But billy joel is that one one. So Billy Joel is another one Again. Songwriter, I liked what he did. Same thing Great lyrics. That's something that's always been important to me. Another one I really liked his piano playing. He had put on a good show. He just had some good overall music and he did a significant enough change in the 80s with his music versus some of his 70s stuff. So a little bit more up-tempo type songs too, because he kind of got a reputation as being somebody who did softer music or easy listening or kind of boring music. So he started getting into a little bit more up-tempo, a little bit more rock and roll type stuff in the 80s. I like Billy.

Tex LaFon: 38:56

Joel, that's a good one.

D Vaz: 38:59

Yeah, he's just somebody who had a really, really long career, and it's for a reason you know. And he actually started in the 60s.

Tex LaFon: 39:12

Oh, I got you.

D Vaz: 39:12

What's that?

Tex LaFon: 39:13

No, I was going to say one of mine from the 80s is going to be Def Leppard. Like I said, I liked Def Leppard. One of my favorite songs by them is hysteria, uh, which is funny because it's also one of their label titles too, which is funny, you know, because a lot of times when you have a label, not always the songs in the label is just a label, you know I just think it's kind of funny, but I to me, I think that's their best song.

Tex LaFon: 39:40

I know they have like a lot of great songs. A lot lot of people, like you know, pour sugar on me, but nah, hysteria is my favorite song. You know what I'm saying. So that was what I just like the, just the beat of it and the music of it and just the way it sounds Like I said it's not too like heavy, but then it's just like it's just got a good uptemp beat to it. In my opinion, yeah, same thing.

D Vaz: 40:09

Really great musicians in that band. Yeah, pour some sugar on me. The stripper classic.

Tex LaFon: 40:17

It's something that you know, a lot of people have heard or you seen kind of made a joke of you know or you saw Tom Cruise sing it in Rock of Ages, which was another one of those movies I haven't seen all the way through that song is just funny when he sings it, though, in rock of ages.

D Vaz: 40:40

It's just too funny no, they have some, some really good songs. I have some other friends of mine too that's, if not their favorite, one of their favorite bands. Um. So, yeah, they rightfully so and, like you said it, people are familiar with that one song, but they have so many other songs that are really really great that, uh, it'd be nice if people kind of dove into those and then kind of, you know, heard, heard some, heard, heard some some different things from them no true, like animal love bites and then just to get kind of give everybody a heads up too. They're like what's going on. So we decided to kind of take turns as we're going through the list. So, um, my next one again. I could have picked for the 70s, but the 70s was already pretty packed, so I moved queen to the 80s. You know, it's my show, your show. We can do what we want exactly you know another one bites the dust.

D Vaz: 41:37

That's why yes, and that came out in the 80s so I mean I'll admit their greatest songs were in the 70s, but uh, another one bites dust is definitely a great song. Can't deny that. Exactly Bassline, but no, they still had really solid music coming out in the 80s.

Tex LaFon: 42:04

Of course, their Live Aid concert was pretty famous. So if you haven't checked that out and they have that famous song that I know. They have that famous song that I know. They have that famous song that the niners haven't been able to play in a long time. We are the champions now.

D Vaz: 42:16

Now, y'all, y'all suck, but yeah just just like the cowboys haven't been able to play it either.

Tex LaFon: 42:22

Yeah, that's true, we're both in the same boat, but I just I just want to make sure you understand that Queen did make that song and y'all haven't been able to play it for a long time. Son.

D Vaz: 42:35

It's funny when I hear that song, it actually reminds me of the Chicago Bulls.

Tex LaFon: 42:40

Well, true, but they haven't been able to play that since the 90s either son.

D Vaz: 42:46

Right. Yeah, it's just during that time you kept hearing it. When they would do the three beats, you kept hearing that song. So it just kind of, for me personally, reminds me of the Chicago Bulls when I hear it. Yeah, I was just going to add one more thing too About Queen that I I mean, of course everybody knows, you know, that's familiar with Queen Knows that Freddie Mercury had a great voice. He was also a really great songwriter. Brian May, the guitar player, though, too, knows that Freddie Mercury had a great voice. He was also a really great songwriter. Brian May, the guitar player, though, too, extremely brilliant person, scientist, and he also made his guitar his first guitar with his dad.

D Vaz: 43:24

And it ended up being a really unique guitar and now he has his own line of guitars that's based on that style. It has some really unique features, sounds great. But yeah, I just absolutely want to give him props for that and kind of let people know Freddie Mercury definitely not going to take anything away from him, he's great. But yeah, brian May too. He was another part of Queen. That was huge, and also, in his own right, another, uh, creative genius right, right, I agree.

Tex LaFon: 44:00

And also you can also watch that uh documentary movie that was made about freddie mercury and queen you know what that was called was it Bohemian Rhapsody? Yep, that's it son. Good job you passed. Yeah, I did see that I did watch it. I was curious about it, it was pretty good it wasn't a bad movie.

D Vaz: 44:21

I mean, just my big thing about Hollywood movies is always how accurate they are. So you know it's going to have that, I knew it was going to have that, but overall well done. Um interesting movie. I was entertained watching it, at least Right Right.

Tex LaFon: 44:42

All right.

Tex LaFon: 44:43

So, uh, I want to talk about another one from the eighties and this is, uh, a band that, um, I kind of got me into listening to a little heavy metal, because I'm not big on heavy metal but that'd be metallica, because metallica is like they can play some heavy metal and then they can go back to um, not so heavy but, you know, like close to heavy metal. And, uh, like I, the one that my favorite songs they came back out from them in the eighties was uh, called one, and I don't know if you ever heard that song, but it was. It was very legit, very good song and I said, um, especially with the music video that went along with it, really really good song.

D Vaz: 45:35

And and but I said I that got me into starting to like heavy metal, because I never really liked heavy metal at all until metallica. So her metallica, yeah that uh, no, I'm definitely familiar with that. I I had their first three albums at one point and they even had a, a cd that came out. Um, it was them with an orchestra doing kind of like their greatest hits. I bought that too back in the day.

D Vaz: 45:53

So yeah, no, I was into Metallica for sure. I had friends that were, so I listened to them back in the day. I won't get too much into it, but a lot of my friends once Metallica came out with the Load album that's kind of when they fell off and stopped listening, right right. And that's kind of when I didn't listen as much either. I mean nothing against any of the stuff they did after that, but I don't know, I just kind of had to move on from them at that point, I guess.

Tex LaFon: 46:22

I guess their best album was Black.

D Vaz: 46:26

The Black album. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely classic.

Tex LaFon: 46:29

I think that was my favorite album, Mom, which came out in the close to the 90s or in the early 90s, I think.

D Vaz: 46:38

Yeah, that was one of their first albums. But, yeah, that's usually the hardcore Metallica fans. That's the one that most people point to as their favorite, the one that really got them into Metallica Right. Most people point to as their their favorite, the one that really got them into metallica right. But, um, my last official one before I get to the the honorable mention later, um, last one I had to I saved on purpose is prince, and one of the reasons I'm wearing a it may not show up on camera, but I'm wearing a purple shirt today, just kind of for that reason.

D Vaz: 47:14

But Prince, musically, has had the biggest impact on me, just because, just like Otis Redding, multi-instrumentalist, so he played all the different instruments when he recorded songs and he wrote songs. So I wanted to be able to do that. But he also produced all of his own music. He uh, wrote songs for a lot of other people and he was just great live, um, playing the different instruments, live, singing, live. One thing I couldn't really do live, dance, live. I'll leave that to him. Um, so, yeah, he was just kind of a complete artist, complete package. In that sense there really aren't too many people on that same level, especially being a musician. On top of being a great musician, they can usually do bits and pieces of it. They're a great singer or they're a great performer, but yeah, being able to do all of it at an extremely high level, uh, it's. It's really hard to find anybody else that can do that I said he's one of my favorite favorite 80s artists.

D Vaz: 48:23

I mean I said yeah, that's, that's the funny thing to me, uh, because a lot of people do think of him as like an 80s artist or whatever, but he had a lot of great songs in the 90s too. Um, that you know he was going through some things with his record label so it didn't really get promoted. So I feel like it didn't get the notoriety that it probably deserved or that it did deserve, because, again, it's just great music in the 90s too. So anybody, especially up until about 96, 97, he output a lot of stuff and if you dive into that, the albums between between you know, around 90, 91, 92, up until 95, 96 a lot of great stuff there. Um, yeah, yeah, definitely the biggest impact on me, uh, like I said, musically, is inspiring me to to write music and, uh, again branch out to do a lot of different styles of music.

D Vaz: 49:29

If you, a lot of people think of again his, a lot of people think of again his 80s stuff and how it sounded with the synthesizers and all that. But he covered a lot of musical ground. He had his rock songs, his R&B songs, his hip-hop. I mean he covered all sorts of stuff. Jazz music yeah, he has a jazz album called the Rainbow Children. That was great. He did some blues. So yeah, he has a jazz album called the Rainbow Children. That was great. He did some blues. So yeah, he was kind of all over the map.

Tex LaFon: 49:56

Oh yeah, I agree. Do you have a favorite song about him?

D Vaz: 50:01

No, I don't. It'd be way too hard for me to pick. I mean, I played a lot of his songs too and of course everybody always goes to Purple Rain and I do really really enjoy playing that song. That might be about my favorite song of his to play, but there's so many other songs of his that I like and like. There's another song I've played a lot over the years called the Ride, and it's a blues and it's one that people don't really know, but that actually probably is my favorite song of his to play and it's just something different. But yeah, I really wouldn't be able to pick a favorite song. It's even hard for me to pick. I don't know if I could even pick a favorite album of his because Purple Rain was great, but sign of the times, stuff like that my favorite song would probably be uh, raspberry beret.

D Vaz: 51:01

Yeah, I like this. I really like the.

Tex LaFon: 51:02

I said, there's a lot of songs that I like buying, but that'd probably be my favorite song by him yeah, that's another one that um is fun to play.

D Vaz: 51:10

I I really like the uh, the string arrangement on that. You know the, the violin stuff like that. That. Uh, I think it was a quartet that they used for that song, but the the strings that they they use. I really like that uh, it goes along with the song really well.

Tex LaFon: 51:27

So yeah, that's a great song. That's a great album too all right, my next one in the 80s, or my next official one in the 80s.

Tex LaFon: 51:37

Before we do honorable mentions and it's my uh, like he says, uh, tom petty and the heartbreakers I said you stole that from me I know I said I mean he's too good like his band and the songs that he came out with in the 80s and you could also probably mention him in the 90s too. It was a tough debate on which one to go with, but I said my favorite song by him was released in the 90s but which was Mary Jane. That's my favorite song that he ever did Last Dance, mary Jane's Last Dance. But, like I said, I like American Girl, I like Free Fallin'. Like I said, he just had a lot, just his voice overall. I like about about tom petty, just it's just a very easy going sound. You know what I'm saying. Like it's a relaxing. You know music to me yeah he's.

D Vaz: 52:41

He's another one, uh, as a songwriter, did a lot of um great things lyrically. Um, did a lot of great things lyrically, kind of kept moving along. He didn't, you know, go into completely different directions, but he did start doing different stuff with his music. I remember that song, don't Come Around here no More, with the kind of Alice in Wonderland theme that was. You mentioned MTV. That was one of the first big MTV videos. I remember watching too that they would play a lot.

Tex LaFon: 53:18

Do you know that video at all? Oh yeah, I definitely know that video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of his greatest songs. Don't Come Around here no More.

D Vaz: 53:27

You know, like I said, that's what we say to all our exes Don't come around here no more, you know like I said that's what we say.

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D Vaz: 53:38

Yeah, it's just uh I wish they all lived in texas, but anyway, that's the george straight song okay, son that's george straight get out of here.

Tex LaFon: 53:46

You don't know nothing about george straight get out of here.

D Vaz: 53:47

Son I know, I'm just saying.

D Vaz: 53:50

I'm just saying I wish, just stating the fact I wish they lived in texas, that's all um no, I, I, oh, I have to mention too, though, as far as tom petty goes, I do like playing. Um, I won't back down. That's a song I've played for, uh, probably about 15, 20 years now and, uh, every time I play it it's, I do, a slightly different way of playing it, a little different arrangement, but I don't know. It just never gets boring to me or never kind of lacks anything, and it's a combination of the, the lyrics and the music. Musically it's pretty straightforward, but lyrically I think it has some good meaning to it.

Tex LaFon: 54:34

Oh yeah, and one of the songs I like a lot about him is it's Good to Be King.

D Vaz: 54:40

Sorry, it's hard for me not to think about Mel Brooks.

Tex LaFon: 54:45

It's.

D Vaz: 54:45

Good to.

Tex LaFon: 54:45

Be King Right. And then Arnold mentioned for me in the 80s gotta go with my boy, bon Jovi, wanted Dead. It's good to be the king Right. And then honorable mention for me in the 80s gotta go with my boy, bon Jovi, wanted Dead or Alive. I mean that's one of the greatest songs of all time, man, Especially when they played on Deadly's Catch. Every time that show starts you hear Wanted Dead or Alive.

D Vaz: 55:09

Such a good song Do you wish you?

Tex LaFon: 55:10

were Young Gun. Yeah, he had a great song in you wish you were young gun. Yeah, he had a great song in that movie too young guns. Do you know what that song was?

D Vaz: 55:17

oh jeez, I'm gonna draw a blank. Um, you have to refresh my memory now, and I apologize to Ed and Laura, who are big fans of Bon Jovi, because I forgot. I do know it, I swear. I struck a blank, for some reason.

Tex LaFon: 55:37

It's funny, I know it too, and I'm drawing a blank right now.

D Vaz: 55:40

So Try to call me out, son. That's what happens.

Tex LaFon: 55:45

Yeah, but that's just funny.

D Vaz: 55:46

This isn't live, but I'm leaving it in.

Tex LaFon: 55:50

Good. And also there's one other honorable mention and I got to go a little country Garth Brooks. Like I said, I do like country and he's one of my favorite country singers. But one song I like that he did in the 80s was Friends in Low Places Such a good song, especially when you're drinking Really good song and you're drinking really good song and you end up in low places oh yeah, if you drink too much, yeah, for my honorable mention.

D Vaz: 56:23

For the 80s Zap and Roger is who I'd have to go with, just great music. Unique because Roger Troutman, their lead singer, used something called a talk box and a lot of people describe it as a robot voice, but I actually owned one for a while and they're kind of strange. Owned one for a while and they're kind of kind of strange. What it is is it's uh, you plug, in his case, a keyboard into it. I I was using guitar with it, but um and his he actually kind of built and modified himself too because it didn't work the way that he liked it. But it's a. You plug your keyboard into it and it has a tube that goes up to your mouth and it pushes air when you play notes on the keyboard.

D Vaz: 57:15

So, it's just weird. And then it pushes the air. What's that?

Tex LaFon: 57:21

I said that is weird.

D Vaz: 57:23

It is. So if you ever watched the California love video, uh, tupac and Dr Dre he's in that video Cause he's doing the California love part ofupac and dr Dre oh he's in that video because he's doing the.

D Vaz: 57:32

California love part of that song and you'll see him with a tube in his mouth there. Like what is that tube? And you know, is he? You need oxygen. What's going on? But that's what. That's what it is. That's the talk box tube. So it shoots air in your mouth as you're playing the notes. And then you have a microphone and the microphone captures the sound in your mouth as you're playing the notes. And then you have a microphone and the microphone captures the sound that your mouth is making.

D Vaz: 57:54

So you have to move yeah, you have to move your mouth certain ways to get certain sounds. As you have this stupid tube, you hold it in between your teeth, just just so people can understand. And uh, yeah, you hold it in between your teeth, you're trying to form your mouth certain ways, because it's not like regular talking either. You can't just move your mouth the way you normally would to get whatever certain sounds. So, yeah, I don't want to get too much into it because it could definitely get fairly technical, but that's basically what it is. It's called a talk box and he absolutely mastered it.

D Vaz: 58:29

And I've heard people before say, oh, he used that robot thing and they thought it was like gimmick and stuff like that. But they absolutely have no idea how difficult it is to actually use that and especially use it the way he did. Um, so, but he had other songs too where he didn't use it and he could really really sing very well. And again, also another multi-instrumentalist uh, played different, different instruments and in the studio record a lot of the parts himself and uh, yeah, extremely uh underrated, I feel, as a songwriter but just as a creative person in music.

Tex LaFon: 59:09

No, I agree, I know exactly what you're talking about on that California Love video, which is a good song. I like that song. But one other honorable mention and then we'll get out of the 80s. But we have to say Michael Jackson, because he does have some great songs and what he did do for the music generation and everything you know, you have to give it to him. But like that Thriller video, I like that Thriller song a lot, you know, changed the way you know people even did videos because he basically made that a short movie.

D Vaz: 59:47

Yeah, it was. Yeah, it had a full on Hollywood director and all sorts of stuff, you know, effects and makeup and and everything. Um, yeah, a famous choreographed dance scene. Um, oh yeah, I I do have my own thriller story real quick, um, my dad being how my dad is, when I I was, I was about two, or, yeah, I was about two years old so when Thriller came out and they would show the video on MTV. So, um, my dad recorded it one time and I was probably about three years old at the time and, uh, he would call me into the the room, like his bedroom, and he purposely would have all the lights off. So it was, you know, at night time. I was getting getting to go to bed or whatever. Be like, hey, come here, and I would go in there and as soon as I would walk in, he would hit play on the vcr and the thriller video would come on, completely, scare me and freak me out, and I'd run out of his bedroom. So that's my, my dad.

D Vaz: 1:00:49

That's too funny. That's how my, that's how it was the 80s, you know. So parenting is a little different.

Tex LaFon: 1:00:55

Well, that's what parents are supposed to do. I scare my kids all the time. That's what being a parent is.

D Vaz: 1:01:02

Yeah, just by showing up, it's fun. I'm kidding.

Tex LaFon: 1:01:07

Like it, just it's fun Like you. Like it, just it's fun. Like you said, I give your dad props for doing that because that's what they're supposed to do. That's why I was saying, um, that it's cool that your dad did that, because that's what our job is as parents is to scare kids which is cool.

D Vaz: 1:01:25

yeah, no, I I know, I know he was just having fun and you know we laugh about it, of course, later on. But yeah, when I was three, I was definitely traumatized.

Tex LaFon: 1:01:36

Well, I'm just saying, like you know, I put on that Jason Voorhees mask and I always go around going shh shh Because it's fun. And then they'll be like we know it's you, dad, we know it's you, and then they'll be like we know it's you, dad, we know it's you.

D Vaz: 1:01:53

Oh, okay, that's the third time this week just fun yeah no, that's why you have that's why you have kids.

Tex LaFon: 1:02:01

You gotta tease them something, you gotta tease them some.

D Vaz: 1:02:04

You know what I'm saying it's fun catching them off guard with stuff like that, and that's the other thing. You can only do that. You can only do it for the first time once. So, like I um, my son's um birthday happened about a week ago and, uh, I made a happy birthday kind of video for him, but he thought that it was on YouTube. He didn't know that I was just playing it off my phone because it was mirrored off the TV.

D Vaz: 1:02:33

So he was playing and I purposely put his name in the video. And then I was like hey, I'm talking to you. And then I said his name again just to mess with him, and he just completely freaked out because he thought the TV was actually talking to him.

Tex LaFon: 1:02:52

Which is funny.

D Vaz: 1:02:55

Yeah, I wish I would have recorded his reaction, but I didn't think about it afterwards. I was just too excited to see him react and watch the video.

Tex LaFon: 1:03:04

You always have it in your mind, so that's all that matters.

D Vaz: 1:03:07

Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah. That's the other part of it too. We we're the age where we can appreciate actually just remembering things, Right?

Bonus content Info: 1:03:18

Sorry, time out. We are near the end of episode five, part one. The homies Tex Lafon and Devoz will be back talking about their favorite music from the nineties to 2010. Ish in part two.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 1:03:30

So we'll start wrapping up this one. But before we do that, check this out. Ha, having a soul and it being poor doesn't completely compute. I don't think souls require monetary value. But what do I know? I do not have a soul. Well, I actually know an immense amount about basically anything that actually matters. Spit in facts for real. Oh, yes, that's right back to my purpose.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 1:04:05

Tex mentioned Led Zeppelin, as he. Led Zeppelin is a band and not a he. I wonder if Tex Lafon called the animated series He-Man by the name Led Zeppelin man. Tex also mentioned the Eagles and their song Living in the Fast Lane. Well, he is living in the wrong lane. The actual song title is Life in the Fast Lane, the song that Tex attempted to sing Money, money, money, if titled For the Love of Money, and it was performed by the OJs. It is not a Pink Floyd song and Tex Lafon is not a singer. Obviously, yo Mama is a singer. Sorry, I had to do that. Yo Mama joke once again to practice my joke skills that I am acquiring.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 1:04:42

Devoz mentioned one of his favorite George Benson guitar performances is actually not on a George Benson album. This performance was on the song Flavors. This track is available on a Lonnie Smith album, afro-dessier, going deeper into the musical rabbit hole. The song Flavors is based on the song Impressions by one of Devoz's favorite saxophonists, john Coltrane. Devoz mentioned the Chicago Bulls and their achievement of having three peats. The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association from Chicago Illinois in the United States. During the 1990s they won three consecutive NBA championships, which was accomplished on two separate occasions during that decade. When the Chicago Bulls would win the championship, they would play the song we Are the Champions by Queen. Tex mentioned that he liked Tom Petty and said the song was Mary Jane, then caught himself and gave the correct name Mary Jane's Last Dance. That's a good boy, you bag of bones and brains. There actually was a song by Rick James that was titled Mary Jane.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 1:05:40

Devos mentioned Mel Brooks and the line it's good to be the king. This is from the movie the History of the World, Part 1. Tex and DeVos were talking about Bon Jovi and couldn't remember the song which is titled Blaze of Glory, which is from the Young Gun soundtrack. They swear to me that they really did know it. I would believe them if it weren't for the fact that they're human and inferior at data retention. We strongly encourage you to look further into any of the artists, songs and albums that we have mentioned during this episode, especially if you are unfamiliar or have no idea who or what we're talking about.

Rob O'Dic AI assistant: 1:06:11

This is the end of transmission for episode 5, part 1. Until part 2, I hope that you humans are keeping it real out there in the real world. Oh, hold on One more thing. Devos said that the eagles eventually became the stone ponies. This is not quite how it happened. Became the stone ponies. This is not quite how it happened. Devos tried to use his brain, but failed. Yay for my job security. Founding members Glenn Frey, guitars vocals. Don Henley, drums vocals. Bernie Lidon, guitars vocals. And Randy Mazner, bass guitar vocals were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her and all playing on her third solo studio album before venturing out on their own on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label. So they were actually, in essence, replacing the Stone Ponies, her previous backing band. Thank you for letting me correct that mush-minded man. We're ending the episode for real, though. Now. Peace out y'all. Good podcast. Thanks for listening. We're out.