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Takin' A Walk - Music History with Buzz Knight
This Week in Music History on the "takin ' a walk" podcast 3-17
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Buzz Knight
I'm Buzz Knight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast. And welcome to another look at this week in music history for the week of March 17th. And we're going to go to the master of music history over at the music history desk, my pal Harry Jacobs.
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Harry Jacobs
Hello Harry, Buzz, Great to be here. Happy St. Patrick's Week to you.
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Buzz Knight
You got it.
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Harry Jacobs
Back at you a pretty good week I think musically. Van Morrison's Moon Dance came out actually on the 17th. 55 years since that came out in 1970.
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Buzz Knight
There's a lot of those 50 year anniversaries that are popping up or 55 year old anniversary seems to be a regular occurrence.
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Harry Jacobs
We're old, but Van is much older.
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Buzz Knight
That's right. And one of the most iconic albums certainly ever and certainly in his great catalog as well.
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Harry Jacobs
Van Morrison. One of my arena friends told me about him showing up at a gig in New York City and he, you know, came apparently a little slightly inebriated.
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Buzz Knight
How shocking.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah. Went to the back door and they wouldn't let him in. He didn't. You know, Van Morrison looks like a, you know, a. No offense to any short fat accountants, but he looks like a short fat accountant. He doesn't look like a rock star. And, and, and he promptly left after they wouldn't let him in. And, and that gig didn't happen that night. I don't know what the lesson learned is, but you don't piss him off, you know, he'll go home.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah. There's some great stories, of course, about Van in the. The new Peter Wolf book, which I think we'll be talking about in the future in some form. So definite guys are characters over the years around Boston and Cambridge and the like, so.
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Harry Jacobs
Sure. No, that's. That'd be great. I'm looking forward to. To that. The 18th of March is the 30th anniversary of Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, certified as Triple Platinum in 1995. Big deal for them back in the day. And, and, and a bunch of great tracks on that. Right. Corduroy. And one of my favorites of all time is Better Man.
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Buzz Knight
Oh yeah. What a great one. Have you ever seen Pearl Jam? Because I've never been fortunate to see him.
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Harry Jacobs
That's where I was going next. It's. It's on my bucket list. Here's. Here's my problem. And, and this may solidify the. The fact that I'm the get off my Lawn guy. My patience for music that I don't really know is thin. And the music I really love the most was the stuff we played on rock radio and the, the deeper tracks. Like, to me, I go, I. I go about as deep as Pendulum. You know Pendulum? That song, Pendulum?
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Buzz Knight
Yes.
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Harry Jacobs
That's about as deep as I get for an unknown. And I only know that because of Blacklist, but I never would have known that. So. I'd love to see him. I think I would. I would be cool with the experience. I just, I Get a little impatient with music. I don't. No. Is that bad?
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Buzz Knight
We all have that. That's. That's. That's a natural thing. We've witnessed it at concerts ourselves when that's the time people get up to go to the bathroom or go buy a beer.
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Harry Jacobs
Right. Yeah. So that's the thing. But I. I would love to see him. I know it's an experience. And. And the more time goes on, the more respect I have for Eddie. You know, he's a. First of all, he's a big classic rock guy, so he's a big Tom Petty guy. He's a big Bruce Springsteen guy. He knows where he came from. And I think that's, you know, there's something to be said about that. Have you ever heard his version of the Waiting with. With Tom Petty?
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Buzz Knight
It's awesome. Oh, my God, it's so good. Yeah.
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Harry Jacobs
So, so good. So I. I love his appreciation for. For classic rock, especially for those two artists I just mentioned. And, you know, his. He just seems like a good dude.
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Buzz Knight
He does. That's right. I agree.
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Harry Jacobs
Couple of important things happened for Bob Dylan on this date, the 19th of March. Bob Dylan and the band wrapped up their reunion tour in 1974. So a big deal for them.
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Buzz Knight
This is what would yield the album before the Flood, right?
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah, that's correct.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah. So I have a little story about that, Mr. Jacobs. So I was in high school then. I was a member of something called the Key Club, which, for the life of me, I'm not sure what the purpose of the Key Club was. It was something that was about future business people or. I don't even know how to make keys, how to be a locksmith, I couldn't tell you. But it was how I wasted some of my high school time as a member of the Key Club.
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Harry Jacobs
And I'll tell you this real quick, I just googled it while you were talking. Apparently the Key Club is a student organization that makes the world a better place through service. So you were doing service, Buzz?
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Buzz Knight
I was. The Key Club got a hold of two tickets to raffle off for that Bob Dylan and the band reunion concert at Madison Square Garden. Well, lo and behold, I bought, I'm sure either 1 or 2 or 200, I don't remember. But I bought tickets to it and I won tickets to it and took a young lady by the name of Michelle Caputo, who has since passed on from this. This world, asked her to go. She was. She was someone I pined for in high school. And I said, michelle you want to go to this, this, this concert? So she was like, yeah, so took Michelle to that. We had nosebleed seats and it was an incredible experience seeing Bob and the band and, you know, obviously listening to that many times over when it became the before the Flood album. And I just remember it as a great concert and a memory I shall never forget.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah, I'm sure not. And I would caution you, by the way, on your use of the word pine to describe missing somebody.
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Buzz Knight
Is that wrong?
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Harry Jacobs
Well, you know, I dated a younger woman for a while a minute ago, and at one point I said, you know, when we're not together, I pine for you. And she said, okay, grandpa. What does that mean? So I'm just saying that you, you know, just be careful of that because you don't want some sort of a, an age discrimination situation to happen. You don't want anyone saying, okay, grandpa. Right. That's all. I mean, you are a grandfather. But I'm just saying you don't need people calling you out.
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Buzz Knight
Yeah. Any more than they already do. Exactly.
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Harry Jacobs
That's right.
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Buzz Knight
Don't bring it upon myself. Right.
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Harry Jacobs
Don't, don't, don't pile on yourself. March 20th, Jim Morrison's birthday. Jim, you know, another one that the life just cut way too short. What? You know, when you think about that group of folks that lost their lives in their mid-20s, you know, it was 27, right. Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. And it's just drugs and abuse of the body and you know, who knows what. But, but, but that, you know, obviously we celebrate the birth today, but, but you can't think about him without thinking about the tragedy of, of his death, how critical he is to classic rock music.
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Buzz Knight
Oh, definitely. Yeah. Somebody says he's still alive. There's something going on saying that he's alive somewhere. So, you know, maybe there'll be a reunion concert. I don't know.
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Harry Jacobs
Whoever's saying that's as high as a lab rat. Guy's dead in the grave in France. This is the, the date of the release of 461 Ocean Boulevard, the Clapton, the legendary Clapton album from, from 1974.
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Buzz Knight
And Harry, speaking of high as a lab rat, I'm sure they were then, so.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah, absolutely, I'm sure they were. Oh, by the, by the way, I want to go back for one second because there is something important that happened the day before on the 19th. Let's just talk about this for a minute. That was the day they released the Bob Dylan self titled album, his debut album. Came out on the 19th. I didn't know any of those tracks a month ago. And when I looked at it this morning, before we did this, I saw the tribute to Woody on. On the track list. Did you know that that was there, the song to Woody? You would know it if you saw the Bob Dylan movie, which I believe maybe you haven't yet.
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Buzz Knight
That's correct. Still, my wife does not want to pay for the $26 to look at it at home or whatever until the price lowers on cable.
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Harry Jacobs
Okay?
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Buzz Knight
I kid you not.
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Harry Jacobs
Well, you'll pine for that movie until. Until you can get it for 599 anyway.
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Buzz Knight
It's an ongoing running gag now in the house. I can't help it, so.
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Harry Jacobs
All right, well, you know, there is the theater option, too. Again, milk, popcorn. All right.
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Buzz Knight
You have encountered my wife, so you know the stubbornness that my lovable wife has so.
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Harry Jacobs
Well, you're. You're both stubborn. The sheep, they find each other. Anyway, back to March 20, 461 Ocean Boulevard. Clapped and I Shot the Sheriff, uh, is on there. Let it Grow.
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Buzz Knight
Great one.
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Harry Jacobs
And. And how about Motherless Children?
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Buzz Knight
Oh, yeah, and Mainline Florida, too.
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Harry Jacobs
Oh, I forgot about mainland Florida. That's right. Was Mainline Florida on that one, too?
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Buzz Knight
Well, if I. Oh, yeah, it was.
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Harry Jacobs
Track 10.
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Buzz Knight
Incredible. Yeah, it's a great album.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah, absolutely. It is. March 21st. Bruce Springsteen's born to Run inducted into the Grammy hall of fame in 03. I think it's probably my favorite Bruce album. Right. Start to Finish, Thunder Road to Clarence's Sax Solo, and Jungle Land. Just. I don't think there's a. In my opinion, to me, number one, Born to Run.
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Buzz Knight
And one thing that goes unsaid about great albums, including this one, is the way each track is situated and the ordering of it. The way it all sort of flows as. As an album which is. Is often lost to this day, not completely, but the way from start to finish, each song flows in this story. It's. I think it's brilliant if you think.
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Harry Jacobs
About it, you know, the way that we listen has changed so much since, you know, 1975, when that album came out. We're not listening to albums anymore. We're not listening to, you know, know, 10, 11 tracks, you know, in a row, start to finish. We're. We're streaming songs, so. You're right in. In. In that. March 22nd, the 45th anniversary of Floyd's the Wall Tour performance, 1980. That was a. A legendary tour, you know, just an. An unbelievable album.
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Buzz Knight
Absolutely. And you Know, once again, you talk about the construction of an album that manifests itself as well as so brilliantly put together as an album, you know, in a world of album tracks back then, right.
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Harry Jacobs
It's, it's another one of those, like, Dark side, like, you know, sergeant Pepper, like, you know, Born to Run. There's a, there, there are probably 15, maybe 20 albums I have in my itunes as playlists. Everything else is just, you know, artists or songs or individual playlists. But, but the wall completely is, is in there as a playlist, and I just love it. Mother, run like hell. Hey, you Comfortably numb?
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Buzz Knight
Of course.
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Harry Jacobs
I mean, just, just great. Everything but another brick in the wall, which drives me crazy, I think, just because we played it so much on the radio.
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Buzz Knight
That's right. Yep. Was great when you first heard it after the 8,000th time. Well, maybe not as much, you know.
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Harry Jacobs
On March 22, 1976, Kiss released Destroyer. We talked in depth about Destroyer and its meaning to out loud, do you love me? King of the nighttime. I can go through that. I can go through that one all the way, too. But that was 1976, and as I.
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Buzz Knight
Was watching you talk about it, I was trying to envision you, Harry, with the makeup of Kiss on you. What you would look like. That would be an A look.
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Harry Jacobs
I will tell you that. When I was 76, I was 10, I think probably 77. I had one of my uncles do my parents were away or something on Halloween, and I had my parents, my uncle, rather, do the Gene Simmons makeup for me. I don't know what the rest of the costume looked like, but I remember sitting down and having him look at the picture and do the makeup for me.
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Buzz Knight
See, I was right.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah, absolutely. 100%. March 23, 55 years since the who performed Tommy for the first time in 1970. Another legendary album. And, and the performance. I mean, crazy. And the movie.
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Buzz Knight
Oh, yeah, I, I, absolutely. And I think it's been sort of quiet out of the Peter Towns and Roger Daltrey camp these days. I, I, I don't know if this means they're working on music together, but there have been some rumors that those two might be working on something, so that would be pretty cool.
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Harry Jacobs
You just saw him at the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. How'd he look?
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Buzz Knight
Looked fantastic. Yeah, yeah, he looked, he looked absolutely great and energized and, you know, just a man of the people.
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Harry Jacobs
I mentioned this once before when we talked about the who in, In. What's impressive about him is that he does not need a lyric sheet. He doesn't need a songbook if they're going to rehearsals. Everything is in his steel trap, which is, you know, he's now 80 or something, which is pretty incredible.
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Buzz Knight
I admire that because in a world where it seems like everybody is reading off the teleprompter, if there's one person out there who's not and, and they make a mistake, fine. But, you know, the fact that he's, he's confident in that and believes in that, I absolutely love that.
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Harry Jacobs
When you look at these artists that are doing that, it's like million dollar karaoke.
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Buzz Knight
Oh, yeah, right. And just when you hope they're not doing it. And then if you're seeing some, you know, live performance footage or something, you're like, another one is reading off the teleprompter now, by the way, I'm sure I would be, too.
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Harry Jacobs
Yeah. Let's not forget how bad our own memories are. Right?
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Buzz Knight
Right.
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Harry Jacobs
All right. Well, that's it. Week of week of March 17th. Buzz.
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Buzz Knight
Well, as I read off of my teleprompt, Henry Jacobs. Oh, I'm sorry, Harry Jacobs. Oh, Harry Jacobs, master of all, thanks for being on and giving us a look at the week of March 17th. And for all of you, thanks for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
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