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Classic Replay with Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult
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Please welcome aboard the Johnson Family.
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Buzz Knight
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Buck Dharma
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Buck Dharma
Walk I've lived my life with very little planning as far as you know, or intention actually even, you know, I would say that all I've done my whole life is just seeing doors open and walking through them. That's basically what it is.
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Buzz Knight
Welcome to the Taking a walk podcast with your host Buzz Knight. Buzz speaks with musicians talking about their latest projects and their inspirations and their stories behind the music. Today, Buzz speaks with the legendary guitarist for Blue Oyster Cult, Buck Darma. Buzz Knight speaks with Buck about his latest work and a walk down memory lane with his great career. Here's Buzz Knight with Buck Duck on Taking a Walk.
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Podcast Host
Well, thanks for being on Taking a walk. Buck Darma, I want to ask you out of the gate, did you ever have a plan B if you weren't going to be a musician?
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Buck Dharma
I wasn't thinking that far ahead. I assumed when we got a recording contract that if you follow the arc of most artists careers, you know, they make two or three albums and then they do something else for the rest of their life. And at least that was my impression, you know, and at every increment of Blue Oyster Cult's history, the record company would make allow us to make another record. So you know, we made the first record, we made the second record, the third record and the fourth. That was our first goal record, the on your feet or on your knees live record. And then we made agents of fortune and Specters which went platinum. And so I didn't really think about it, you know, in the, in the 80s when we stopped playing arenas and things like that, you know, I thought about doing other stuff, but we were doing very well just performing live. So didn't occur to me to really change gears. I think if, if I failed early on I would have gone into recording engineering and production because I've always enjoyed that, that part of it, you know. And I know a lot of artists did. In fact, if you talk to a lot of record producers, they were originally artists themselves and got into the production side.
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Podcast Host
Can you take us inside the audition that you did for Clive Davis?
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, have you heard about that?
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Podcast Host
I think there's a little bit of a notorious story involved.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, yeah. You know, we'd made demos for several companies in New York. The band was New York based and we made one for Columbia. And when it came time to Make a decision on signing us. We auditioned for Clive in the then CBS office building on 6th Avenue and 40 and 52nd street actually was like 48th Street. 40, yeah, 48th Street. It was 50 seconds where the studios were and they call it Blackrock. And because it was a black granite building in a conference room which is not really that big, you know, had a big table in it which, which was moved to, to the side on its edge. And the band set up at one end and there were some chairs at the other end. And Clive came in and he brought with him Harry Nilsson and, and Bobby Columbia, the drummer of Blood, Sweat and Tears. And we played four songs, I think, for them, you know, and, you know, this. I wouldn't say that they were an enthusiastic audience. Well, you know, I think, you know, we were, we were going over, I guess, but again, you know, they weren't jumping up and down. And at one point, Harry Nielsen gets up and he walks out of the room and we're thinking he doesn't like it. So when it was over, he said, oh, thanks very much, boys, we'll get back to you, you know. And we had a conversation with Harry later on. He said, no, no, I like you guys. I told Clive to sign, you know, I just wise. I had to have a cigarette, that's all.
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Podcast Host
How, how nerve wracking.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, it was, you know, it was a little hectic. But, you know, he did, he did sign us, you know, and he never brags about us when he talks about the artists he signs. But that's okay, you know, he can, he can talk about Whitney Houston, you know, so much.
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Podcast Host
I mean, I wonder if he really knew though, that he was signing a piece of, you know, music history.
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Buck Dharma
Right. I think probably everything he did is historical in one way or another. But no, I, you know, I applaud Columbia for sticking with us and letting us build our audience. And I think at that time that was the way they did business. You know, they, they signed artists to like seven record deals, you know, out of the gate, you know, they kept it tied up. But on the other side of that coin is that if they believed in you, they, they would continue to back you, you know, even. Even if you didn't go platinum the first time. And obviously later on the business changed to the point where, you know, you had one shot to succeed and then you'd be gone if you didn't, you know.
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Podcast Host
Was Clive hands on after the signing?
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Buck Dharma
Not so much. It might have been better if he was, but, but no, we had real, real Autonomy with, With the record company. They let us do what we wanted to.
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Podcast Host
And I remember as somebody who was on the radio side, they always had a really tremendous promotion staff that worked, you know, rock, rock music. I think they. They really knew their. Their craft and they were passionate about it, you know.
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Buck Dharma
Yes, that was demonstrated by when Don't Fear the Reaper broke out at radio and it sort of just bubbled up. It wasn't even a single, you know, became a single. But when that happened, the Columbia muscle was evident. You know, they could get the albums into record stores and move them through retail, you know, so that was. That was impressive.
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Podcast Host
Was it a geographic breakout first there was.
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Buck Dharma
Was it.
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Podcast Host
First east coast and then it sort of worked its way across the country in terms of popularity for the band.
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Buck Dharma
Not to my recollection. I think once the song was added at AOR Radio, album radio, FM radio. No, it's. It just sort of was an organic thing that everybody picked up on. And then the single got to be. It got to be 9 on cashbox and I think 11 on billboard 11 or 12, you know, so. And it didn't get higher because it never got added on New York radio, of all places, or, you know, we were a New York band and, you know, WBC said, nah, we're not playing that song.
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Podcast Host
How fascinating that would have been, you.
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Buck Dharma
Know, that would have been top 10 if it would have done that, you know.
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Podcast Host
Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't realize that.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, I think the programmer was Rick Sklar, if I remember. Anyway, you know, I saw about a reaper. I don't think so, you know.
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Podcast Host
So what was the first moment you realized that you were hooked on music in your life?
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Buck Dharma
I always liked music as a kid. My dad was a horn player. He played sax and clarinet and flute, and he always worked weekends and he was. He played in combo bands, you know, four piece, five piece. He worked clubs and he played weddings and did things like that. You know, he had a day job. He was in the defense industry and. But he. He used to take me on gigs when I was a kid. You know, I would just sit there and drink a ginger ale and really, really, you know, listen to the music and dig it. And I played accordion when I was 9 years old. Took it for about a year and then I. I didn't really think I was the accordion was that cool. So I was a drummer later on when I was a teenager, and I started playing guitar when I was about 15. And when I started guitar, I didn't.
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Podcast Host
Look back what was the first guitar you bought?
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Buck Dharma
First guitar I had was a Premier 2 pickup, no cutaway, sort of jazz box that my dad had found. You know, one of his compadres had it, you know, and it was not really a rock instrument. And. And it looked to me like, you know, you know, the Mexican guitar owns that they bass guitar with a big thick body. That's what it looked like on me because I'm a little guy, you know. So I played that for a while. And then my second guitar was a. A Hagstrom Fender Stratocaster copy.
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Podcast Host
And who then were the guitarists that you looked up to?
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Buck Dharma
I was playing surf music. So it was all the surf bands, you know, the Safaris, the Shanties, the Beach Boys. But we're playing instrumentals pretty much. Not. Not with a little bit of vocals, but in my high school band, you know, but that's what we were doing. So anybody with, you know, the Ventures, a huge influence, you know, the. Anybody that played Fender guitars and had Fender amps, you know, that was where we're at.
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Podcast Host
And what was the first concert that you ever attended?
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Buck Dharma
First one I ever went to was rather late in my life. It must have been. Must have been 18 at the time. It never occurred to me to go see music live. I was very much into recordings, but it was. It was the Young Rascals and the Beau Brummels and. And the Seeds, Sky Saxon and the Seeds and.
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Podcast Host
Pushing Too hard. Pushing Too hard.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, and that was the bill. It was all three of those acts and then they were all great, you know, and it was in a. It was in a large club. It was like a dance hall in Suffolk County. So that was. And of course, seeing, seeing bands live just opened my mind to that. And after that I became a big fan of live music.
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Podcast Host
And what was the first album that you remember ever buying?
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Buck Dharma
The Ventures. Walk Don't Run the Ventures. Yep, I bought the single and the lp. Yeah.
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Podcast Host
So when you think of your hall of fame of guitarists, that really made an impact and still impact you to this day. Who is in Buck Dharma's guitar Hall of Fame?
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Buck Dharma
Well, first of all, more than you can mention. Many, many, many. You know, certainly the, the. When I was learning it was. It was the surf instrumentalist. You know, it's funny, Dick Dale was not big on. On the east coast like he was on the West Coast. But, you know, he would have been mentioned if, if, If I heard him. But it was, you know, who was ever playing on the Beach Boys record. I thought it was Carl Wilson. But it was probably Tommy Tedesco or somebody like that, or even Glenn Campbell. It could have been, you know, I don't know who played those parts, but, you know, but it was sort of like Chuck Berry has filtered through the Beach Boys, you know, that. That kind of stuff. So obviously Chuck Berry, we were very influenced by the early psychedelic bands, you know, Robbie Krieger's a big influence on me. You know, the Jerry Garcia, very big, you know, through the Grateful Dead and of course, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver messenger service, all those guys, you know, and all the English guitar players which are playing the. The American Chicago blues players, you know, so sort of got around to the Chicago blues men through the early English guys who were covering that stuff, the Stones and Jeff Beck and, you know, all those guys. Clapton, Richie Blackmore. Very important stylist, you know, I mean, all. There's so many great players, you know, it's. It's. One of my favorite players now is Robin Ford. You know, I think he's awesome. Tommy Emanuel as a acoustic player, but he plays a great electric, too. You know, there's. There's too many great players to mention. You just feel bad for leaving anybody out, but they're all good.
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Podcast Host
I think what's amazing, thinking about the soft white underbelly, which was obviously, you know, before Blue Oyster Cult, it was really like a. Like a psychedelic jam band, wasn't it?
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Buck Dharma
Yeah. I would say we would be called a jam band, you know, if. If we could be transported, you know, that era.
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Buzz Knight
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Buck Dharma
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Buck Dharma
To play, didn't I mean it?
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Podcast Announcer
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Buck Dharma
We can get massages at Sense's Spa, have a meet and greet with Black Panther.
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Podcast Announcer
Ooh, I love him. And I can't wait to sunbathe on the private island. And the kids will be fine.
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Buck Dharma
Girl, they're good. Exactly.
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Podcast Announcer
While they hang in the kids club with Mickey Mouse, we can do our.
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Buck Dharma
Thing and do it well all day.
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Podcast Announcer
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Ryan Seacrest
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Buzz Knight
Welcome back to the Taking a Walk podcast.
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Podcast Host
So take us inside a couple of sessions if you can. First of all, don't fear the reaper. What do you remember about that session? I know there was a lot of prep beforehand that went into it. So you didn't really waste studio time and were really, you know, on top of it. But bring us inside what you remember of that session, what kind of guitar you used and what it was like creating that.
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Buck Dharma
We were always pretty prepared before we went studio. And the Age of Fortune record was the first one where the band members had made pretty advanced or evolved demos of the song as a writer before bringing it to the band because we had just gotten home four track recorders which previous to that no one could afford. But when TIAC came out with theirs, we all had gotten four track recorders. So the demo that I brought in for the Reaper was. Was pretty well arranged so that it was not too different than, than what the band recorded. Of course, the band, you know, did its own thing on it, but it's essentially the same. The. The demo is out on. On one of the box set type compilations of BoC, so you could compare them if you wanted to. The iconic riff of the Reaper was recorded on Murray Krugman's ES175 Gibson, which is again, a hollow body with one cutaway, two pickups. And it sounds unique in that. In the sense that that's not the guitar. I play it live and never have. So it's. It doesn't sound exactly like the record, but, you know, you get close.
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Podcast Host
Sorry, Elmer's barking in the background there. There must be a delivery guy coming to the house. So I'll try to ignore his. His big vocal cords down there. So.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, well, we all work from home now, don't we?
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Podcast Host
Yeah, it's got to be a delivery. He thinks he's the, the watchdog here.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, yeah.
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Podcast Host
So how about taking us inside the session that produced the great song Burning for your. What was that like now?
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Buck Dharma
Burn it for you is a song that I wrote intending to put it on my 1981 solo record Flat out. And obviously it's Sandy Perlman who managed us at the time and of course is our mentor and chief lyricist for a lot of years. He convinced me to let Blue Oyster Cult record it because he thought it would be, you know, better served, you know, as a BoC song. And he was probably right. So we made that recording with Martin Birch. It was the second record we did with Martin Birch producing and engineering. And I think he did a great job of, you know, taking the. Taking the tune and really bringing it home, you know, with the sound and the performance.
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Podcast Host
It must really make you feel great when you still know those two songs. In particular, of course, Godzilla 2 that they're, you know, still part of our music culture today.
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, that's. That's. That's. That's been gratifying as I see what Blue Original's done ripple out into the larger culture. You know, it's. It always. It makes me feel good.
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Podcast Host
How many times a week does somebody come up to you and say, hey, Buck, more cowbell?
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Buck Dharma
It's. I think that's peaked, but there was a time when. When you couldn't get away from the cowbell.
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Podcast Host
And did you see that in real time?
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Buck Dharma
Not as. Not exactly. My wife's mom called us up when it was on, saying. Because she was watching Saturday Night, you know, and she said, turn on Saturday Night right now. Of course, I saw it pretty shortly thereafter. I don't know who had it recorded. It was really the beginning of the VHS era.
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Podcast Host
I promise anybody, if you're ever in a bad mood and you want to put yourself in a good mood, just watch that, because it's. It's guaranteed to lift your spirits every time.
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Buck Dharma
It's. It's still funny, you know, and for that I'm grateful. You know, we just did a interview with the Peacock Channel that's doing a special on SNL this summer, and it's going to be four episodes, and one episode is devoted to the. To the Capital Sketch. So it's amazing that it's. It has endured because it's been a lot of years since that was aired.
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Podcast Host
So throughout the touring career, the robust years of touring that were part of that grind. What were some of your favorite concert venues to play?
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Buck Dharma
We were very popular up and down the west coast, like from Seattle to San Diego. That's sort of where we, you know, had our arena era. And once. Once the reaper was ahead, we went into the big rooms, and the Midwest is always good for us. Ironically, we did okay in New York, but being a New York band was never an advantage, you know, for us, I would say, you know, and I just like to go to places that are nice places. I enjoy that. You know, I like going overseas. I like going to Hawaii, I like going to New Orleans, and I like Chicago. And, you know, it's not really that much different one place or another.
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Podcast Host
And how about some of the favorite bands that you toured with over the years that you really enjoyed either just, you know, being with or, you know, sharing audiences with? Who were some of the bands?
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, you know, in those days, I think the bands are a lot more competitive with each other in terms of personal relationships. Nowadays, everybody's Good buddies, you know. I think anyone who's survived and is still out there is, you know, very cordial and friendly. And of course, anyone that's still doing it, you know, I pretty much know at this point and at the time I think we had the best time and closest personal relationship with Nazareth. Nazareth is a Scottish band. You know, they were great guys. Still are. There's only one original left now, but Pete Agnew. But they were, they were great fellows. We had just some wonderful times together.
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Podcast Host
So I know with some stuff that you've been involved with and the band's been involved with the use of artificial intelligence was involved to sort of, you know, help in the process there. Maybe you can talk about that a little bit, how that benefited that process and overall what your feelings are on AI and music.
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Buck Dharma
Hmm. I think you're specifically talking about the Ghost Stories record, which is our latest release. And the AI tools were used to deconstruct stereo mixes of pre production sessions that enabled us to augment and add to recordings that were basically done in the time period 1979 to about 84. That's the same tools that Peter Jackson used on the Beatles recordings. And of course it's amazing what AI can do in just about every field now. It's inescapable. You know, that's another horse you have to ride in the direction it's going. I think, I think the ability to construct music instantly in, in any genre or, or whatever is. It's going to probably make obsolete a lot of, a lot of the incidental music, music for videos, that kind of thing. As far as creativity, I don't, I think it's. It could be useful to humans, you know, and cut down a lot of the, the grunt work of making music. But I, I don't think that computers are going to create stuff that's. That really nails what people identify with in a song that. That's popular, you know, I could be wrong, but I have yet to see it. You know, everything sounds generic. I know I asked Chat DP GPT sort of early on to write a Blue Oyster Cult lyric. And what it came up with, I mean, had some of the vernacular and some of the, some of the basic themes, but it was nothing like any blue lyric, you know, just. It wouldn't have made, made the cut, you know, if that song had been brought in, you know, to the band. That's. No, that's terrible. So again, it's. Maybe it's possible, but I've yet to see it and I think that, you know, real, real, you know, feeling humans at the helm will, will endure. You know, when it comes to creative.
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Podcast Host
Stuff, a human touch, a human connection.
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Podcast Sponsor Voice
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Buck Dharma
Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if, you know, if the large language model AI is, you know, just are trained on what has been in terms of songs language, you know, musical phrases, chord progressions, you know, as it is popular music is, is really narrow in terms of how many chords get used and in what order. You know, most of the, most of the big hits, you know, follow those same four chords that, you know, Journey used 25, 30 years ago. You know.
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Podcast Host
So let's talk about some new music of yours. The new song, the end of every song. Great video, great song. How did that song come about? And let's sort of talk about it in today's terms of, you know, I think the starkness of the song that really struck me emotionally.
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Buck Dharma
I was commissioned to write this song from a lyric that was based on a poem by a English poet, Ernest Christopher Dowson. Now he, he wrote he only lived 32 years. He was not in good health, but he had a fairly prolific output at that time. He's. He's known for coining the phrase gone with the wind and days of wine and roses. So it's, you know, his phrases anyway have been lifted by other creators for other stuff. The poem is called Dregs and it was a foreword in a book written by Michael Moorcock. Now Michael Moorcock is a writer mostly in the sci fi fantasy realm and he has provided lyrics for us previously. Veteran of the psychic wars is his words. And he's also written for Hawkwind. And currently his books are set to music by a project called the Spirits Burning. And they've done several records of. Based on Moorcock's writing. And I wrote the song for. With the intention of the Spirits Burning releasing it. And there's a version of my song, of course. I wrote the song that the Spirits Burning have completed and at the time I began this I. I intended to do my own version of it because I was. I thought that I had something to say here, you know, through the, through the words of Ernest Dawson. And that's taken a few years to come to fruition and here it is, I just completed a video. I think that what Dawson says here is it just strikes a chord with the way people are feeling in 2024. And I think it's like the video touches on that and it's also sort of a. An overview of the arc of my career from, from the beginning. The beginning of the band till present day and looking forward. And there's. There's a lot to it and I'm quite proud of it and glad to see it out. It's. It's the first thing that I've done just on my own since the Flat out record, which is several decades ago now.
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Podcast Host
Congratulations on it. It's really. It's profound work.
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Buck Dharma
Thank you. I'm glad you. Glad it struck you because it certainly struck me. And so far, the jukebox jury on it has been very strong.
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Podcast Host
So, Buck, in closing, knowing that collaboration is so critical for bands to thrive and survive, is there anything about collaboration as you sort of think back on it, that you wish you learned or did differently?
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Buck Dharma
I've lived my life with very little planning as far as, you know, or intention, actually, even, you know, I would say that all I've done my whole life is just seeing doors open and walking through them is. And that's basically what it is. I, I think if I'd been geographically closer to some of the. The music cities like Los angeles in the 70s or, you know, maybe Nashville in the 90s or something, I would have, you know, collaborated with more people. But I'm still open to it. I. I enjoy working with everybody. I enjoy playing with different people, even though I haven't done too much of it. I'm good with. Good with music. You know, what can I say?
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Podcast Host
Thanks for the music you continue to give us and that you have given us. And thanks, Buck, for being on Taking a Walk and walking down memory lane.
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Buck Dharma
Okay, I just want to just plug the end of every song again. There's. There's a website, the endofeverysong.com. if you go there, you could see be a story in the song, the entire credits. You know, usually when you see a rock video, you don't really know who did what, but you can find everything out there and it's. It also has. There's a lot of personalities in the song, in the song, in the video that, you know, you want to know who it is. They're all listed there.
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Podcast Host
Awesome. Thank you, Buck.
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Buzz Knight
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