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The Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
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Giles and Steve scratch their heads and wonder aloud about the future of the podcast. Have they reached the bottom of the barrel? What lies ahead for their self-referential and (hopefully) entertaining musical odyssey?
Luckily for everyone involved, after a short period of reflection, they decide to carry on with business as usual.
Warning: contains health issues talk and potentially offensive material (especially if you were in a Derby band called Scribble during the 1990s).
Also includes:
- PSAs: a PSA
- Bleeps
- Predictable music
- Unity through chips.
- Was Enos Boss Hogg’s son?
Related audiovisual material is, like, on the blog, dude…
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Theme
00:00:00
Speaker
Wanna jump, but I'm afraid I'll fall. Wanna holler, but the joint's too small. Young man rhythm's got a hold of me too. I've got the rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu.
00:00:14
Speaker
Want some loving baby, that ain't all. wanna kiss her, but the girl's too tall. Young man rhythm's got a hold of me too. I've got the rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu.
00:00:56
Speaker
A welcome return of the Hard House remix of the theme tune there. Yeah, I thought, yeah you know, I did put quite a bit of work into it and I thought, I can't just play it once.
00:01:08
Speaker
Welcome to the This Art Johnny Domino podcast. I am Giles, and this is Steve. We're brothers, and we're going to talk about old music and stuff, because that's what we do.
00:01:23
Speaker
It's a self-referential and entertaining music-based podcast where we listen to and react to songs that we recorded in our distant past. Yeah.
Podcast Direction and Personal Health
00:01:33
Speaker
and Earlier on in the week, we had a phone call and you sounded a bit negative about the podcast or the future of the podcast. It's always a bit of a concern when we're trying to choose songs to talk about.
00:01:47
Speaker
Have we reached the bottom of our shallow barrel? You know what I mean? Yeah. It's always a bit of a concern. I don't want to just i don't want to be serving up, you know, fluff.
00:02:00
Speaker
I want to get some good stuff out. That's all. Yeah, maybe. But, like, you know, if the quality of the songs goes down, maybe the quality of the chat will go up, the quality of the banter will up. You know, might, it might improve, right? Let's get on the front of us.
00:02:14
Speaker
Yeah. Are you still feeling a little bit, are genuinely, are you feeling a bit down about it? I'm all right. You know, I'm, you know me, I'm up and down like a bride's night. Yeah. I was, you know, that's, that's how I am. You know, that's, you can't say that anymore, Steve.
00:02:27
Speaker
Okay. It's a bit blue. That's a bit blue. light it Yeah. You know, we can repeat songs though, can't we? Yeah. And we can play other people's stuff. Yeah. To be honest, there is still loads of shit to play.
00:02:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. there's ah With the emphasis on the word. And we can write more songs. Yes. You know, I've set you little task. You've set me task, yeah. Let's get something going, you know.
00:02:51
Speaker
And the Gaviscon thing went well last episode, didn't it? Yeah, it was great. Exactly. So, you know, we need to get ourselves G'd up again, man. Yes. All right. You know, you know, we can diversify.
00:03:03
Speaker
okay We could, I was thinking we could turn it into a music and health issues podcast as well. Yes, we could do. And what? So this is ah it's a seamless segue. Advanced warning, I've got some shit to talk about.
00:03:18
Speaker
um a lot of people know this already. 20 years ago, i was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is a chronic, progressively disabling neurological condition.
00:03:29
Speaker
And Giles? have got I have got the cancer. I have got the prostate cancer. And as someone more eloquent than me wants put it, it's a shit business.
00:03:41
Speaker
But I am very brave. I am a very brave, brave man. yeah And Steve, you know, weveve we've both got issues, haven't we? I mean, you've of course, you've got your issues. I've got my issues. You're a chronically irritating personality.
00:03:54
Speaker
oh home And, you know, maybe we could sort of bring some of that into it. Like it could be an old music and health issues podcast. Yeah, possibly. i mean, no, I think i just think ah think it's worth mentioning just because the frequency of podcasts may get spotty over the next couple of months.
00:04:14
Speaker
Yeah, mean, because going have some treatment next month, which might disrupt things a bit, but we'll see, you know what I mean? I mean, you know, we're going to keep things going somehow, anyway, you know, and the podcast is a good thing.
00:04:28
Speaker
Yes. Anyway, I just wanted to bring it up. And also, just as a public health announcement, you know, if you are a man over 50,
00:04:38
Speaker
45 go and get a PSA test from the doctors and make sure that you're clear from the old prostate cancer because if i hadn't you know i would be in a way worse situation two or three years down the line from now if I you know if I hadn't gone and had that random test for some random reason so you know go and do it just you know just to make sure yeah and it's also it's not necessarily a case of finger up the bum No, no, it's blood test.
00:05:07
Speaker
It's a blood test. Yeah. ah Are we feeling a bit melancholy today? ah Is this sounding a bit melancholy? i'm I'm not sure.
00:05:18
Speaker
I mean, we've got some fairly jaunty songs to talk about.
Nostalgia and Social Media Reflections
00:05:21
Speaker
Yes. Do you think we need to go for a commercial break before we launch into the songs? Can't we? You know, I can still remember the very first sweets given to me by my grandfather. They were Werther's original, and I was poor.
00:05:37
Speaker
I had a bit of trouble opening that shiny golden wrapper, but then, well, I'll never forget that first taste. Sweet and creamy and uncommonly good.
00:05:48
Speaker
I remember feeling I must be someone very special when my granddad gave me his wonderful butter candy. Well, now I'm the granddad. And what else would I give my little grandson but my worth as original?
00:06:03
Speaker
After all, he's someone very special too, you
00:06:10
Speaker
know. like that sound at the end. ah what what Yeah, the granddad kisses his grandson on ah on his head. Just at the end, you know, sort of way. In that sort of like dry-lipped granddad sort of way. And then the little boy goes...
00:06:26
Speaker
Ah. Yeah, enjoyed that. and and is just He's got a lovely voice, hasn't he? He's got a lovely voice, that fella. The Gwanda. Yeah. Not the... What am I going to give my little grandson? The deliciously creamy Werther's Original.
00:06:42
Speaker
There you go. that's i think that's what which we should be be aspiring to, to be honest. There we go. That's what that's the future. That's what we're heading towards. What? Towards Grandad? Becoming the Werther's Original Grandad. Hey, well, there's an idea for potentially a product placement song.
00:06:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah. You know, come on, people. Write some. don't Don't just sit on your hands. Yes. Come on, granddad. Get in the loft. The podcast is not moving that quickly. You know, you've got time to do it over a period of weeks.
00:07:13
Speaker
Yes. So there. So there. So, yeah, engagement opportunities. Do it. Yeah, that cheered me up. But you know what would really cheer me up, Steve? I don't know. Tell me. I think listening to some weird comedy music that you recorded with your mates way back in the olden days. Yeah.
00:07:33
Speaker
I can actually hear the scalps itching on some of the people that I know who played on this. ah This is a band that was it was formed as a choke heavy metal band.
00:07:46
Speaker
called Ringworm in a kind of hilarious pastiche of bands called Anthrax, for example. And it doesn't sound anything like Anthrax. No, this song doesn't. This song sounds quite a bit like Galaxy 500 to start off with, I think. Just a little bit, yeah. It's it's obviously trying to go down the whole...
00:08:03
Speaker
Guns N' Roses, lighters in the air type thing, but it doesn't really carry it off quite as well. um This is from the period of music that a lot of people go through, which is saying outrageous things to make your mates laugh.
00:08:17
Speaker
Probably quite a well-sourced and wide-ranging genre of music. Do you think so? Yeah. Is it safe to broadcast this one? I've put a couple of bleeps in just for more sensitive listeners.
Music Scene Memories and Analysis
00:08:49
Speaker
Back in those old days You were my lemon pie Oh, back in those old days You had the sweetest of smart Back in those old days
00:09:17
Speaker
Let's go back and look at your head.
00:09:54
Speaker
We would sit on the ground and watch the stars come out of my eyes. Back in those days, you were my woman. You had the sweetest stars.
00:10:39
Speaker
You are the highest to Oh yeah, you are the best f***ing child. You are the highest. now you're everybody. You're the biggest f***ing child.
00:11:33
Speaker
Thanks so much.
00:12:02
Speaker
Interesting narrative. Led by the wandering melodic sensibility of Rich, our old mate, Dickie Rock. It's a spirited performance that, Steve.
00:12:15
Speaker
Could you lift the veil somewhat and just tell us a little bit about how that piece of music came about? Was it rehearsed? Was it composed? Did you practice it before you recorded it? No.
00:12:25
Speaker
What we tended to do is that was recorded on Dick's farm. So it's John on drums, Albert on bass, Jim on rhythm guitar, me on lead guitar, and whoever can get near a microphone on backing vocals and Dickie Rock taking the lead vocal.
00:12:43
Speaker
and he would say, here's a song title, or some kind of, he'd say, I want to write a song which is like this, and this is the title, and I would make up some chords.
Song Reflections and Personal Connections
00:12:57
Speaker
He'd be a bit like Captain B for it in that sense. Dickie Rock? Yeah, because he's kind of like directing the band kind of. There's a bit of that, yeah. And then we'd probably knock it together slightly and then we'd record it.
00:13:11
Speaker
Actually, there were two false starts. No one cares about this. There were two false starts of that song and they just fell apart because... then he burped. No, that was at the start of the third take.
00:13:23
Speaker
It's hard to really get your head around the fact that the first two takes fell apart because my guitar was out of tune because it wasn't in tune on the third one. it's all The tuning's all over the place.
00:13:34
Speaker
I'm not sure which guitar's out of tune, but it's... I don't know whether people were noticing that. No. thought they might have been distracted more with the bleeps. I'm glad I just added... it i I didn't realise you noticed them. um I thought they were quite subtle.
00:13:45
Speaker
They were quite. Even in the redacted version, I did enjoy that. But do love the original. Yes. But we can't play the original. Absolutely can't.
00:13:57
Speaker
But yeah, that was a lovely thing. And a lemon pie girl. I always liked that as a thing. You know, the idea of lemon pie girl. That's a nice title. It's such a weird combination of words.
00:14:09
Speaker
Yeah. You know, like lemon pie. yeah I like lemon meringue pie. I love lemon meringue pie. But yeah, lemon pie girl. Don't know. We can always ask him, find out what he was thinking of.
00:14:23
Speaker
I don't think he was thinking of anything, but it was a good thing to come up with, that's for sure. yes I think he has got a good comic timing. ah that comes across sorry i'm just laughing at bits that popped into my head when you're talking the bits that were unfortunately redacted but a shout out to anybody who has heard the unedited version of that song and knows which words were missing and please don't put it online no no ah hopefully they haven't got copies of it no There are lots of things i am envious of the younger generation.
00:14:58
Speaker
I'm very envious of certain things. I am not envious about the ready availability of opportunities to ruin your own life. And ah think being able to put songs like that online at a young age would have been ah temptation. It would have impossible to avoid.
00:15:21
Speaker
And it would have been completely the worst thing that could possibly have ever happened. ah so i mean, we used to make videos. I could have blown up on TikTok, Steve. The videos of us doing like a Friday night TV program featuring performances by Twats Garden and Jesus Woodward, that would have been all over YouTube.
00:15:41
Speaker
No, Steve, it'd be on TikTok, mate. No. If it was happening now, be... Everything's happening on TikTok. And that would be on TikTok, and it would be... <unk> be ah There'd be a segment of it, and people it would... It would blow up.
00:15:55
Speaker
All right, Gwanda, explaining TikTok. It would blow up, but um thankfully not. No. angel ah Last episode, I did mention... um at the end about watching the Beastie Boys documentary on Apple TV.
00:16:13
Speaker
And was really, it is it is very good. I've i've watched it again, actually. I really enjoyed it. But I wrongly said that you should get Apple on TV because you can watch White Lotus on it because White Lotus is not on Apple TV, obviously.
00:16:26
Speaker
It's on Thingy, another one. You can tell I'm not in charge of the TV at ARAS, but I have been watching Ted Lasso, which is really good. have you ever seen Ted Lasso? Nope. It's really funny.
00:16:38
Speaker
It's a heartwarming comedy about a football manager. I hate football. I'm watching a program about football, but it's so good. So if you ever get chance to watch that, it's really good. Anyway, that's also a very that's very funny.
00:16:51
Speaker
That was the link with Ringworm, you see, because it was funny. Okay. On the 90s, Derby scene.
Music Recommendation and Appreciation
00:17:00
Speaker
I just want to be seen.
00:17:02
Speaker
On the 90s, Derby scene. Where have you been? On the 90s, Derby scene. I just want to be seen. What musical cuisine, Stephen Jiveman, going to serve today.
00:17:18
Speaker
Hey! The beautiful sounds of i Am Wilbraham, bringing us into our new feature, about the Derby music scene. the ninety s In the Well, particularly in the ninety s as far as we're concerned.
00:17:31
Speaker
Yes. And we were just chatting before we press record about the song that we're talking about today. I don't think either of us know anything about this band. We don't know anything about this band.
00:17:43
Speaker
We neither of us saw them either. No, and we didn't do any gigs with them. No, but it was on a compilation, wasn't It was a compilation that was put out by, there was a free music listings magazine put out in the 90s on the Derby scene called Home Cooking.
00:17:59
Speaker
And, you know, it was good. You know, they reviewed demos and records and gigs for local Derby bands, interviewed local Derby bands, interviewed us.
00:18:10
Speaker
and reviewed us a few times. Yeah. So it was one of those things that you pick up just to make sure that you're in it when you're a young, egotistical musician. That might be why you did. that Yeah, well, it's exactly why. I was obviously trying to find out what was cool.
00:18:25
Speaker
and And one of the cool things was a band called Scribble. No, well, and one of the cool things about home cooking is they made the compilation CD, which I used to have a copy of. I'm sure I had a copy of it.
00:18:37
Speaker
um But our friend Frankie ma Machine copied it for us, so we have ah whole CD to go at for this particular feature. Now, the only thing I can remember about Scribble is through a friend...
00:18:53
Speaker
When I was at college, I think he must have gone to school with the lead singer of the band. His name was Ivano. Right. But obviously, being sarky, miserable, slightly older gits, we either called him Ivanhoe or Ufafu.
00:19:11
Speaker
Or Iranu. Or Iranu, yes, depending on on which which way your fingers are going. But yeah, so that was Scribble. Yeah, I don't think I ever saw them. And the song they put on the home cooking compilation CD was called God Bless the Kids.
00:19:27
Speaker
And literally I can find nothing about them online. Maybe our listener might be able to fill in the gaps perhaps. Yeah, let us know if you know anything about this band.
00:19:38
Speaker
But yeah, i've I've listened to it a couple of times in preparation for the podcast. I've got some thoughts about it. I think it's kind of interesting. I'm interested to know what you think about it. Let's go.
00:20:14
Speaker
This world's for the kids who yet to come Grab the last misto, stop those let them go
00:20:23
Speaker
This world's for the, this world's for the kids who yet to bless this though Stop those let them go
00:20:53
Speaker
Miss Worms for the kids who get to come. God bless this stuff. Stuff those
00:21:02
Speaker
damn gone. Miss Worms for the kids who get to come. God bless this stuff. Stuff those damn gone.
00:21:55
Speaker
This one's for the kids who've to come. I'll bless this stuff, stuff that have gone.
00:22:04
Speaker
This one's for the kids who've yet to come. bless this stuff, stuff that have gone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:15
Speaker
Oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.
00:22:33
Speaker
o Good ending. i'll do like a song that ends very slowly. I do. You can imagine the 90s Derby kids jumping up and down to that one, can't you? Having a right old jump around and a bit of a mosh to that. The Victoria Inn or the Loft or somewhere like that.
00:22:54
Speaker
But we weren't there. I can't verify that that actually happened. But that's the visual picture that I'm getting. Well... What i do remember is I think Ivano, Nurano, Farfu, was quite a good-looking lad. um think there was Power Tree. I can't remember what the other two looked like. yeah So, you know, obviously my eye was drawn to Ivano. So he might have got some ugly mates to to back him to back him up.
00:23:21
Speaker
And I'm sure they did quite well. Like I say... ah What, with the ladies? Well, with whoever... was interested. um ah say I say like songs that end suddenly. I could have done with that one ending a little bit earlier. Oh, Stephen.
00:23:36
Speaker
o <unk>s not It's not my bag. It's but is that Kingmaker. Yes. Like, ooh, I'm slightly edgier Wonderstuff type thing. there' There's a bit of the Miles Hunt about those vocals and there is no rhyming slang going on in that sentence. Oh, dear. Yeah.
00:23:51
Speaker
I really like the name Scribble. I think the name Scribble is a good name for a band, in my opinion, right? And looking on ah Spotify, there is another band from Portland, Oregon called Scribble. So it's not the only Scribble in the world.
00:24:06
Speaker
no but yeah i like that and the um the guitar solo i thought was quite scribbly as well yeah it's kind of a scribbly sound to it which i liked and i think they could have played on that that thing more and been more literal with their their sounds perhaps and sounded more scribbly do you know as in written songs lyrics which i like oh i can't read my writing with the lyrics ah but also the mute the mute yeah And then so we're going, this one's for the... Yeah, and then the music could be more scribbly as well. Do you know what i mean?
00:24:38
Speaker
Yes, I agree. There was ah another band Derby at the time who we did do gigs with, and they were called Stumble. So there's a bit of a... Oh. this Bull type thing. Shall we have a listen to them and see if they sound a bit like they're stumbling?
00:24:55
Speaker
What, do you want us do it now? No, next time on the Derby scene. Well, let's do that because we knew them, did gigs with them, and they went on to various levels of ongoing fame and employment in the music biz.
00:25:08
Speaker
Oh, there you I played Scribble to my youngest son and his girlfriend the other night. I would say a smarter or more discerning a woman you would never really meet.
00:25:23
Speaker
And her review was just three words, horrible and predictable. That's not my review ah The Scribble Soul, but that's Vivienne's review.
00:25:36
Speaker
I could sort of see where she's going with the predictable thing, but sometimes, what do we think about predictability of music? It can be quite good, can't it? Yeah, and when you listen to songs a lot, you you can usually figure where the song is going to go. you know and You've been listening to songs for years and years and years, in particular sort of like milieu of ah recorded music.
00:26:00
Speaker
And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. You know, when you like the ink spots, know, they've got the same plonky, plonky, plonky, plonky start, and then they all sing, and then there's a talky bit in the middle, then they all come back and sing.
00:26:14
Speaker
And i I love that about the ink spots. Exactly. The Ramones are predictable. Yeah, exactly. You know, and, you know, my my daughter is really into Green Day at the moment.
00:26:24
Speaker
Very predictable. And, you know, exactly where the chords are going. And if anything, Green Day songs are like 50s rock and roll songs. So predictability, I don't think predictability is a is really a valid criticism. Yeah. i Because, you know, i mean, ah kind of see what she's getting at.
00:26:41
Speaker
But if so if you like something and it's predictable, it's a good thing. If you don't like something that's predictable, then... you're not going to like it anymore. So that was the on the Derby music scene the 1990s.
00:26:55
Speaker
I actually went into the current Nottingham music scene last night. o And I went to see ah my youngest boy's band, the Rossettis. And I have to say, i think they're onto something.
00:27:10
Speaker
There's something pretty good there. And they played at The Grove, which is a really nice little venue in Snenton Market. And they're putting lots of little bands on. It's a very snug little place.
00:27:21
Speaker
And there's another venue not that far away from it called JT Saw that's like a similar size. But those kind of places, that's where it's happening. That's where bands can do it, you know, and actually perform to their first audiences and things. And that's great, you know.
00:27:37
Speaker
So I really hope those sort of places keep going. But yeah, the Rossettis, watch this space. Actually, no, don't watch this space. Watch a space where cool new music is happening.
00:27:49
Speaker
This space is more like cool old music, I suppose. Or shit old music. Or shit old music. But yeah, I don't want to make their band less cool by talking about them that much on the podcast. so But anyway, I've done it now.
00:28:02
Speaker
want me to redact their name from the edit? I could beat them What, the Rossettis? Yes, I could beat them out. No, no, no, you don't have to. No, it's cool. You can mention it. The This Art Johnny Domino podcast.
00:28:14
Speaker
It's got bongos. We've mentioned in the past that one day, it was a bank holiday Monday, it was very wet, and we decided let's form a band called Jimmy Dorito, write eight song titles down, and write and record them within four hours.
00:28:30
Speaker
And this is one of those songs taken from that first session. And it's a song about the universal thing that brings us all together.
00:30:40
Speaker
predictable i don't think so i don't think so yes chips are the one thing that's going to bring us together according to that and we did write and record it within four hours so we didn't really put a huge amount of thought into that particular manifesto but stream of consciousness really one thing i do remember about recording that is i got a blister on my important finger when i was playing the bass bet you did.
00:31:05
Speaker
Just doing all that sliding. I didn't even didn't think that through, did I? You should have put a bit of Vaseline on the end of your finger or something for that. yeah But yeah, I can't really remember what we were going for there.
00:31:16
Speaker
But I do think it's like a righteous preaching MC5 kind of aller energy. Nation of Ulysses, that kind of thing. yeah Yeah, that kind of thing, perhaps, right?
00:31:28
Speaker
But we didn't quite have the political content. So we just made it about chips and nicking somebody's chips and then saying, you know...
00:31:40
Speaker
It's all about sharing, man. It's unity. you know Unity through chips. you know We all agree on chips. We all like chips. What's yours is mine. Give me your chips. Give me your chips. Give me some chips.
00:31:51
Speaker
It was like bunch of seagulls writing a song about chips. Exactly. you know Possession is theft. yeah but They're your chips, but they're my chips as well. Property property is theft. Yeah, yeah that's it.
00:32:03
Speaker
Property is theft. yeah but I do like your keyboard playing on that. I think that's definitely you playing the keyboards. Yeah. You reckon, you reckon? I do think so because we didn't have that many tracks.
00:32:15
Speaker
Yeah. ah So I think we were probably, I think at the very least I was doing a guitar bit at the same time as you played your keyboards. Yeah. I can just see your silly little face like laughing at this.
00:32:28
Speaker
yeah I don't really, i don't really, i mean, I just, I don't really listen to and think all who played what really. i just, I've just listened to it and just hearing the whole thing and just thinking, That's us just squeezing one out.
00:32:40
Speaker
And i yeah, I enjoyed that very much. Squeezing one out. Squeezing one out. But it's good. Every episode, we do try and choose a song that is going to end up on one of our...
00:32:55
Speaker
it's the third one now, best of compilations of yeah this old Johnny Domino. There are two already out there, so have a give a listen. But there's another one coming at some point, and we're deciding which songs are going to go on it.
00:33:09
Speaker
And that one's up for contention. But I think I've got another one today that could possibly, i think this this could beat it, but we'll see.
00:33:21
Speaker
We'll see which one ends up on the compilation out of Chips and this one. This one's called Enos, and it's a song that I ignored and decided I hated it for about 25 years.
00:33:33
Speaker
But now, well, I listened to it this week, and I hear things in it that I like. I think it's an enjoyable dirge with lyrics that make me sit up and go,
00:33:45
Speaker
hello
00:34:07
Speaker
I left my mind as in a hedge Had me to untie my thread Now I need to clear my head Feels like I've lived the life Don't think that I could do it twice Can't you tell that I'm half-price?
00:34:31
Speaker
I'm on the shelf, you can help yourself
00:34:55
Speaker
I left you hanging from a ledge Breathing in too much sweat Can't believe the words you said I'm lost but I'm still strong You've won the shoulder to cry on What's the heinous boss heart song My brain is gone, you're a time bomb Throw me a deal, I think I can make it Make me a promise, so you can break it We had a prize but it slipped away Pull back and spray, it's not our
00:36:07
Speaker
I took an egg I left my manners on a hatch Help me to untie my thread Now I need to clear my head I'm lost but I'm still strong You want a shoulder to cry on Was the Enos boss on the stone My brain is gone, you're at
00:36:41
Speaker
I think I can make it Make me a promise so you can break it We had a prize but it slipped away Pull back and spray, it's not our day
00:37:29
Speaker
I'm not such a fool When my glasses fall I'm not such a fool When my glasses fall I'm not such a fool I think I can make you When my glasses fall I'm not such a fool So you can break you When my glasses fall
00:37:59
Speaker
It's not out there.
00:38:32
Speaker
I think that song is the essence of Johnny Domino. It's essence, essence de Domino. I think it's an essence of a particular sort of Johnny Domino song.
00:38:46
Speaker
It's quite lumbering and kind of morose and there are a lot of seventh chords in it.
00:38:58
Speaker
ah like the seventh chords. Well, I think I must have really obsessively loved. Can you hear the dog bark in the background? Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it's pen in the else it's not your dog. It's not dog either.
00:39:10
Speaker
on.
00:39:14
Speaker
and fuck on Oh, what abandoned. He's not going to show off. That dog is an absolute bellend.
00:39:25
Speaker
It's not going to stop, is it? No, it's not enough to pause for a bit. Oh, he's such a prick. I wasn't sure about the Johnny Domino podcast, but I gave it a chance, and now I think I love it.
00:39:36
Speaker
So you really liked that song? I did. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was ah ah thought it was really good. I've been listening to it a lot, actually. Yeah. I like the guitar sound. I think it's quite it's got quite a deranged guitar sound that gets madder as the song goes on and you get really, really high at one point.
00:39:56
Speaker
I don't know, I just think it's good. Your strumming gets a bit more wilder. You were saying that you think it's like an essence of Johnny Domino and I think it's an essence for a particular sort of Johnny Domino song, definitely.
00:40:08
Speaker
um It's kind of lumbering and it's got fairly daft lyrics delivered in quite a morose kind of way. There's a whole world of seventh chords on everything.
00:40:21
Speaker
When were listening to it, I got my guitar to remind myself of how I played it. And it does get incredibly high. But it's got this really weird sort of like, it's all very kind of woozy and slidey.
00:40:35
Speaker
ah Capo and the seventh fret guys. Yeah. Well, you know, Happy Mondays, but a bit more sort of like four on the floor kind of version of Happy Mondays, really. yeah um But yeah, that was good. And it's got some really weird lyrics in it.
00:40:52
Speaker
I mean, it's called Enus, right? It's called Enus, which yeah I liked because it obviously it's it's reference to the Dukes of Hazard. And we like the name Enus because it sounds a little bit like Anus.
00:41:07
Speaker
I think that's probably the main reason, yeah. I used to love the Dukes of Hazzard. I used to love that program because I liked programs where people drove cars in stupid ways and wore jeans and stuff.
00:41:21
Speaker
And you liked Daisy Duke? I was so young, mate. I don't think I even realized what Daisy Duke was. was all about the cars. All right. and the chasing.
00:41:31
Speaker
I definitely remember days that you, I may have been slightly older than you. Yeah. i'm I'm aware of her work now and what she brings to the party now. But I mean, when was it, when did it actually come out? was like, I was talking about the TV program.
00:41:46
Speaker
and on CBS between 1979 and 1985. Can't believe was on that long. It's the good old boys. Never meaning no harm.
00:41:57
Speaker
Waylon Jennings, classic. it was a good It was actually... I don't remember much about it at all, apart from the car chases and Daisy Duke. But yeah I remember Enos.
00:42:08
Speaker
Enos, yeah. just just And that the song asks a question, is Enos Boss Hogg's son? And this is clearly from a time before the into internet because, you know, three seconds of Googling, you can find out that Enos, no, he was not Boss Hogg's son.
00:42:26
Speaker
So the the question could have been answered very quickly if we'd had... if we'd had the internet in those days, and perhaps the song wouldn't have happened. Yeah. Because we would we would have we would have known that Enos was not Boss Hog's son.
00:42:39
Speaker
But we did record another version of it. We kept the song title as Enos, but we took that lyric about him being Boss Hog's son. Wow. Got rid Yeah. so Because we got we got rid of – actually, the the other version is lame.
00:42:55
Speaker
um it's awful. And we got rid of like pretty much everything that was good about the song and the weirdness of the lyrics and made the lyrics way more boring. yeah so maybe that's why i hated so and i thought I hated the song because I'd forgotten the earlier version that we did.
00:43:11
Speaker
It wasn't until i was listening to both versions because I couldn't figure out which one you were on about. i did i couldn't I could not remember for the life of me that we took that lyric out. Very strange. Yeah, no, we changed lots of the lyrics yeah in the second one.
00:43:24
Speaker
Yeah. And also, um as a point of fact, we misspelled Enos's name. Did we? Yeah, because his name was Enos, E-N-O-S, not E-N-U-S.
00:43:38
Speaker
But the way it was it was pronounced in the show, it was definitely, it was like Enos. If only I could remember any a anything about like what Enos would sound like. No, well, I can't remember what Enos sounds like, but I do know what his... Because he was the deputy.
00:43:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah. But he worked for Boss Hogg and his bumbling and corrupt sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane. Dude, boy. Dude, boy.
00:44:08
Speaker
They'll be coming by here just any moment now. I can feel it in my bones. I just can't wait to get there. Yeah, that's the only thing I really remember about Roscoe P. Coltrane is that stupid voice, stupid laugh. can you Yeah. yeah That was his entire character.
00:44:23
Speaker
So he was he was the sheriff working for Boss Hogg, and and enus or Enos was the deputy. But he was a friend of Bo and Luke Duke, and he was in love with Daisy.
00:44:38
Speaker
and Yeah. Enos, I'm reading Wikipedia. Enos has a crush on Daisy Duke that she often uses to the Duke's advantage in unraveling Hogg and Roscoe's schemes.
00:44:50
Speaker
Enos is very much in love with Daisy, and although Daisy seems to love him back, it's supposedly only as a close friend. Oh, I feel already Enos in the in the friend zone of life.
00:45:01
Speaker
is it There's more depth to it than just car chases. No, I really wasn't interested all in that kind of thing. ah There's a lot of things about guest appearances. And there was something which I can't really remember called the celebrity speed trap, where the show's writers, again, reading Wikipedia, began incorporating a celebrity speed trap. It was,
00:45:22
Speaker
as a means to feature top country stars of the day performing their hits. celebrity speed track feature was essentially the same each time. Aware that a big name country star was passing through the area, boss Hogg would order Roscoe to lower the speed limit on a particular road so that the targeted singer would be in violation of the posted limit.
00:45:37
Speaker
They would be required to give a free performance in exchange for having the citations forgiven. That's really good. Yeah, yeah. And it included, i mean, i'm going to read the ones that I've heard of.
00:45:49
Speaker
ah Roy Orbison. Not bad. Buck Owens, Johnny Paycheck, and obviously Waylon Jennings and Tammy Wynette. Wow. You know, to not not so not too shabby. that was in the earlier episodes? No, it was during the show's second season. Oh, I need to find some of that.
00:46:09
Speaker
Yeah. If I can find it, I'll put it on the show notes. Yes. But that's the the song Enos. And, yeah, we did re-record It's an unbelievably lame version. It's got nothing of interest about it. We recorded it when we were – well, we recorded it again. It was rubbish.
00:46:27
Speaker
i think this I think that version is good, though. It's pretty good. I like the weirdness of the sound as well. It's got kind of a slightly wonky. I think the sound balance is a bit mad.
00:46:37
Speaker
It's like the guitar really loud and stuff. And the bass is like crazy loud. Yeah. And there's a bit of bass playing in it that is like, if you're talking about the essence of Domino, I think there's a bit of bass playing that is the essence of my entire being.
00:46:52
Speaker
you ah Can you remember which bit it is? No. Which bit it is? Well, you put a bit of a clip of it. It's like I just hang on to a note, basically. I go, boom, boom.
00:47:04
Speaker
Okay, well, I'll find it, and I won't include this description. Yeah,
00:47:15
Speaker
okay. Got a very strong memory of recording that in Mark's house. but Okay. So we took the four-track on tour. to Mark's house and recorded quite a few songs in his what was then his music nook and is now as is the way of time ah one of his kids bedrooms I see but I think most of his music equipment is still in that room it's just he doesn't get chance to use anymore still does a bit as do many of our listeners yes so get recording put some stuff together
00:47:54
Speaker
i I was just trying to make a link to something, but I can't do it. I can't think of a good link. So I'm just going to tell you, in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to go to Skegness, Steve.
00:48:06
Speaker
Yes. And I'm going to go Skegness Butlins. I'm going to stay there, and there's going to be lots of old bands playing.
00:48:18
Speaker
Yeah. It's the Shine On Festival. It's got many eyes in the shine. Okay. And this there's a myriad of old bands playing in spiral carpets.
00:48:31
Speaker
Yeah. Peter Hook and his band, The Light, The Wondestuff. and many others so i'm quite excited about this i'm i'm saying now i'm gonna buy one of those little kind of microphone things for my phone and i'm going to try and record some live reporting for the next podcast at the shine on weekender you know why it's called shine with all the eyes is it Is it the Oasis thing?
00:49:01
Speaker
Yes, it's Shi'ine. It's Shi'ine on. I'm not. ah know no No, I know you don't want to borrow of that. i was thinking it was just like House of Love.
00:49:12
Speaker
You know what I thought of? She, she, she shine on first as well. But that's just because we're a bit older and we've heard of that house of love, but we're not as old as Guy Chadwick, who is older than her. No.
00:49:24
Speaker
Anyway, I'm going to give you a report on that next episode. So that's something to look forward to. it ti you know There's some bands on there. I do not envy you. But if you do see Steve Lemack, but if you do see steve leman I've all heard him but about the fact that he turned down Johnny Domino, as discussed in a former episode of the podcast. Don't worry, i'll i'll i've I'll go and grab him by the lapels.
00:49:47
Speaker
I don't think he'll put in much of a fight. I think he'll be okay. I think you can take him. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it It's going to be a weekend of old people listening to old people's music.
00:49:57
Speaker
So I'm not sure how that's going to go in terms of my mental health. So we'll see. Hey, well, good luck, soldier. Yeah, thanks. I'll report back. Okay, so we have reached the end of the podcast. We have, as my brother discussed earlier, we've reached the point where we need to select one of the songs that we have discussed to go on the next volume of the best of This Art Johnny Domino.
00:50:23
Speaker
It's a head-to-head, Steve, because we're not goingnna we're not going to put Lemon Pie Girl on. Absolutely. And obviously, Scribble are out of the options there. Yeah. Predictable Scribble.
00:50:34
Speaker
yeah And horrible. So so is that it's a head-to-head between Enos or Chips, right? Personally, I think Enos...
00:50:46
Speaker
nudges it slightly because it's more quintessentially Johnny Domino. And I think it's, don't know, man. I think it's, it's, it's, it's the kind of tune that gets me off my feet and stumbling around my kitchen.
00:51:01
Speaker
Okay. I can understand that, but I'd like to keep chips in the conversation when we come around to choosing the tracks, because i very much enjoyed that song.
00:51:13
Speaker
Oh, it was good too. was good too. It's just i kind of wish we could have seen the potential in that and reworked that and played it maybe more than just once. Well, yeah, most of these songs we only played once recorded, moved on.
00:51:26
Speaker
Next. Next. Okay, well, let's go with that then. Thank you for listening to the This Our Johnny Domino podcast. If you're enjoying the podcast, then please do share it.
00:51:40
Speaker
I'm going to just stop you okay there because we are at the end of the podcast. But, right, and this is important, I found another song that I think could have been written by Ween but wasn't written by Ween.
00:52:04
Speaker
Okay. So... I've got to tell you about it. um Please do. This is a song that I was turned on to by my eldest son, actually.
00:52:15
Speaker
And it's by a country artist called Sanford Clark. And it's a song called They Call Me Country from 1956 from the album also called They Call Me Country.
00:52:30
Speaker
I know that Ween wrote a country album. I'm not a fan of it. i'm not I hate that one. It's not one of their best works, right? And I think it was a missed opportunity by that band because they could have done something really good.
00:52:45
Speaker
But I think they went a bit too far with the crass lyrics and stuff. yeah Can I say something about it? think there's something where people think country music is easy. yeah You know, but everyone's having a go at at the moment.
00:52:58
Speaker
Chapel Rhone, her new single is a country song, but it's the sort of country music that I hate. It's the very glossy Nashville hit machine type country music.
00:53:10
Speaker
And you know if you go back to things being predictable, Hank Williams songs are incredibly predictable. It all ties together, Steve. Yeah, exactly. But the thing is that Hank Williams songs are beautifully written. They are. The lyrics are incredible.
00:53:24
Speaker
You know, they follow a format, but working within those strict limitations, he creates art pretty much every time. That's bit like, I think, Johnny Domino would like that as well, to be honest.
00:53:37
Speaker
But um Sanford Clark. Yeah. Amazing. That's not the kind of country music that you think is predictable. run He was in that kind of slightly psychedelic side of country music.
00:53:50
Speaker
And this track is astoundingly good. And one of the key things to listen out for is the refrain. All I can play is Dow, Dow, Dow, Dow.
00:54:04
Speaker
Right? Which is great. And I want you to put a little clip of that in. I only get my hair cut once a year and they call me country If I done a day's work it ain't been around to hear and they call me country I just sit around with my old guitar I know someday I'm gonna be a star and they call me country Yeah, they call me country
00:54:36
Speaker
And all I can play is down, down, down, down.
00:54:42
Speaker
I got me a job in little... The song's about, you know, it's about the life of a country musician, basically. The whole album's got great sounds to it. The opening track, The Fool... is insane it's completely a mental sounding song but yeah samford clark they call me country it's a bit of a jam so give it a listen there you go just what that was that was that was my end bit i've done the end bit now yeah sorry i've just kind of sucked into looking at the page on the numero group website about that very album because you can get it on opaque blue vinyl yeah it's not on spotify
00:55:23
Speaker
It's an album that's not on Spotify, but it is on YouTube, so you can listen to on there. Cool. I think we're about at the end of the podcast now, aren't we? Seriously, though. I think so, too. um It's been very nice. I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed talking to you today. i think we've had some quite nice tunes.
00:55:39
Speaker
It's been fun, hasn't it? ah i've I've enjoyed myself. I've had a good time. And I hope you've had a good time. We hope you have too. Boys and girls. Good. So um take it easy.
00:55:51
Speaker
Look after each other. And we'll see you soon. And get your prostate tested. Yeah. You repeat. You don't need to stick a finger up your bum.
00:56:03
Speaker
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