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100. Hundredth Episode Special
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As the Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll Podcast reaches 100 episodes, Laz & Felipe look back on their favourite moments and best discoveries from their time podcasting together!
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00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Long Live Rock and Roll podcast. In 2025, having done 99 episodes together, Laz and Felipe embarked. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. Welcome back everyone and welcome to episode special.
00:00:17
Speaker
We're going to take it very easy. Myself and Felipe are kind of celebrating amongst ourselves. 100 episodes, really happy with how we've done, where we are, and all these episodes we've done. And we're just going to basically have a recap of our time doing the Long Live Rock and Roll podcast, talk about our favourite episodes, some of our favourite moments, some discoveries that we made, you know albums we didn't know were as good as they were until we found them.
00:00:38
Speaker
And just basically reminiscing over the last 99 episodes, really. um So with that in mind, introduce you to, as usual, my co-host, Mr. Felipe Amriem. How's it going, man? Doing great, man. And you? did Yeah. Did you like my little fake intro there? Yeah, that was funny. Now start with my written opening. I was like, yeah. I thought, what's pretty big of thing? There's nothing written for today's episode, is there? No, we're just talking.
00:01:00
Speaker
No, we're just shooting the shit, as they say, and just enjoying ourselves and looking back over. course i i mean I'm really proud of what we've done, bro. 100 episodes is really good. I feel like you know when you look at the first 10 episodes, where we went from then to where we are now,
00:01:16
Speaker
I think unless viewers disagree, unless you all disagree, we'll go back to the old format. But I think all the feedback we've had has been really positive. I just remember ah like when we did the first episodes, I was so formulaic. I was like, right, we've got to talk about all the songs one after the other. Okay, done talking about the songs, now we do the album cover.
00:01:33
Speaker
And it's like, you know, just the way we freed up our episodes more. And you said it as well. You know, you said to what you said to me, mean should we should we shouldn't really necessarily go through song to song. We should just talk about the overarching musical themes, yeah this the characteristics.
00:01:46
Speaker
And then that was episodes 20 to 40. And then from 40 onwards, we were like, Laz, actually, i might find I might find a story to tell about each album. And the way it's progressed, man, I just love what we've done. And I really enjoy um really enjoy the content we put out, you know, because I think you have to enjoy it because we're not paid for it. We do it for free. It's our own. ah We're an independent podcast and we support ourselves and we do everything. All the work you see is not done by a production company. It's all down to myself and Felipe. um So, you know, you've got to love it, haven't you? You've got to love what you do or it's not worth doing. And I do really love what we do.
00:02:19
Speaker
Exactly, man. Well said. I love it too. and And it's interesting because I think it started in a very like rock and roll way. That's why we didn't we didn't have a format like at the beginning because you gave me the idea. So like we should do this because we were having these conversations and in the car or going you know from one gig to another, try to convince each other to listen to a certain album and try to prove why that album was good.
00:02:45
Speaker
And yeah, And I thought, well, if we're going to do a podcast, we need to do a lot of research. We need to um prepare the episodes and we need to have a structure and all this stuff.
00:02:56
Speaker
Of course, all of that is part of it. But we actually didn't know how the thing would unfold at the beginning. We just started doing. And we recorded some episodes in the car. We recorded episodes in hotel rooms, like, you know, in any any possible way until we...
00:03:13
Speaker
we figure out how to do it online properly. And, um, and that's the format we've been doing for the last, last year or last couple of I don't know how far we've been doing this. joel So I looked in the episodes at least since 2021. remember that's when we did it, uh, at least, um, I should, I mean, I've got all the episodes and the stuff I'm going to get the episodes up. So I make sure all of our information is correct in terms of when we did stuff. But, um, those first, those early, yeah, those early days, man, doing the, um,
00:03:41
Speaker
you remember we were just like, oh, can we squeeze an episode in now? You know, what should we do And we'd we'd be on tour and I'd be that we'd like, we'd just finished playing. yeah I remember the Creedence Clearwater revival episode. We just finished a gig. And we went to the hotel room. Yeah. And I was like, man, like, you know,
00:03:54
Speaker
we could get up early tomorrow at 9am to do the episode like we planned or or should we just go back to the room and it now? And you're like, yeah, man, let's do it. so with we We also did the Dark Side of the Moon episode in a green room before a gig. Yes, yes. Just before a gig. We had like about 40 minutes before the gig started or whatever, and then and we recorded it. That's it. So our first episode, 16th of August, 2021. So three and a half years. ago I know, it's crazy, man.
00:04:20
Speaker
a hundred episodes later. And obviously you've got to remember we were doing once every two weeks at the start, because it was really hard for myself and Felipe to get together when we weren't on tour. Cause Felipe lives in London. I live up near Warwick.
00:04:31
Speaker
We're about two hours away from each other drive. And you know, you're busy. I'm busy. When we were on tour, was so easy because we'd be able to be like, Oh, should you just do one in the car quickly? And, um, you know, Jack was very understanding, wasn't he, of like, sorry, we just need to record an episode, you know, so it was nice. but But it came from people like Jack, Julia, shout out to those people, people who were, you know, gave myself and Felipe work for a good few years as ah as a touring musicians. um We'd be sitting in the car or the tour van just, you know, um the one that always sticks to mind is when Jack thought we were arguing about Black Sabbath because I was like, dude, you know, Black Sabbath, arguably, you know,
00:05:11
Speaker
probably the best and most important heavy metal band of all time. And then Felipe turned around and be like, well, I hear what you're saying, but but they are hard rock. Felipe, no, they're heavy metal, man. theyd that That was a load. Heavy metal is fast, lads. Heavy metal is fast and it's loads of solos and it's it's fast and there' screaming.
00:05:29
Speaker
No, Felipe, heavy metal is dark sound. And we just went on and on we had this debate and it got to the point, I was like, Felipe, you can't say it's not heavy metal. Lads, I'm telling you, it's hard rock. And the guy, Jack was like, guys, guys, like settle down. And then after we were like, oh, bro, no, it's fine. We're just, this is just how we talk.
00:05:45
Speaker
is this Yeah, that's our normal conversation. And then even when we were doing the Britpop show with Julia and the guys there, shout to everyone. um Natasha, Niall, rest in peace, he's passed away.
00:05:57
Speaker
um All of them, who was there? Adam, Todd, Christy, Tracy, all of those, the the girl from Mars Britpop show, um shout out to all of them. would'd It'd be the same thing. We'd be in the green room green room chatting about some random album that I just heard and we'd either debate it or we'd talk about it and I'd be like, oh the drums are so good and you'd respond and you'd say, yeah, but the production, did you listen to the production on the snare?
00:06:19
Speaker
And everyone we've ever talked with has always been like, guys, you should do something to do with music because like the way you talk is just so good and the connection you guys have. And I'm i'm really glad we've done it. We took the advice. i think Julia was the first one to suggest to it.
00:06:31
Speaker
um Jack then was sort reinforced it through the numerous conversations we had in the car. um It was just like, yeah, get on with it. And so we've done it. And it was easy at the start, but not easy, easier because we saw each other more often. And we did take a while to transition to this Zoom thing because we liked,
00:06:48
Speaker
being in each other's company. We liked being in the same room. And I think it's hard on Zoom because if I'm in the middle of a point and your and and my point is lagging a bit internet wise, and you say your point, it's almost like you cut each other off. Whereas yeah when if you're in a room together,
00:07:05
Speaker
it's instantaneous. And I know if I'm about to speak, I see you, you talk, I'll stop. It's just like live music versus recording. Yes. But in that sense, we've learned to accommodate that sort of stuff over zoom.
00:07:20
Speaker
You know i know numerous times I might start saying something, but then I can see you're already saying something. So I'll sort of hold back and vice versa. And it's just gotten better and better, man. And I hope you guys as the audience listen and agree, ah are listening and agreeing with this.
00:07:34
Speaker
Although it's the 100th episode special, I will still do the terms and conditions because it means us to it means more than us now more to us now than ever, people. If you are listening to us on Apple, Spotify, or Amazon, please do us a massive favour. We've delivered 100 episodes. I believe they were pretty consistent in quality.
00:07:50
Speaker
and humour and fun, scroll down, go to our show, give us a good review, write a sentence, just tap the five stars, and it means we're going to be seen by more and more people and fly up the algorithms and the charts and everything. If you're watching on YouTube, like and subscribe so that you can stay up to date with our new episodes. We might not always do an album you like. We might not always talk about a a band that you like, but I feel like the passion we have for this project and the passion for guys I've done albums I don't like I've come away from doing albums way I'm sure you have as well Felipe you're you're you do very well to hide what you don't like I normally have to talk to you after and be like so did you like the album you're like not really because you're you're pro but I kind of wear my musical heart on my sleeve and I think through numerous episodes I've said didn't really like the album but here's what is good about it I've done albums we don't like but the important thing about this show and what we're trying to bring is we're trying to
00:08:45
Speaker
shut in a world full of Taylor Swifts and Lady Gaga's and they're fine. No, no, nothing against anyone who likes them. But there is what I consider good music hidden in the past, in the present that people are maybe forgetting about. I'm not talking about Sergeant Pepper. I'm talking about those albums that yeah just go under the radar, you know, the...
00:09:06
Speaker
all those kinds of ones. But yeah, anyway, that was my opening little five minutes about what love about the show and why I love doing it. Anything say? Well, I would say that I like the fact that the show started on the road, like good old rock and roll, isn't it? Yes, yes. So I think it's funny for me to think about...
00:09:26
Speaker
ah the whole concept of talking about music was something I like doing, ah you know, with my friends and doing in a platform like a podcast for me, wasn't wasn't something I wanted to do initially because I thought like, what's the point, right? What's the point about talking about music? I'd rather just listen to music and talk to music to, you to my friends. But like, do people need this? Do people need a music podcast?
00:09:50
Speaker
And then it makes me think about, When I was a really young back in Brazil, ah was ah well, when I was young, so that's a few decades ago, um um i I used to get my information about the bands I liked through like magazines. You would have to buy this rock magazine in Brazil.
00:10:08
Speaker
ah in a find a place where, being know because you couldn't find them everywhere, so ah it's not it wasn't that popular. um So you go if I wanted to to know who were the guys playing you know in Pink Floyd, yeah I had to find a magazine and read about it.
00:10:23
Speaker
um and And so started to remember how curious as I was about you know Who are the people involved in the album? How did that band start? like ah you know Who were they listening to?
00:10:36
Speaker
And I think when you really, really like music, you start asking yourself a lot of ah lot of questions about you know why that music sounds the way it sounds. and um And I think that probably the main purpose of a podcast about music is to to give people those stories, the background, and also to encourage people to to go and listen to stuff they probably wouldn't listen to. So again, if you follow if you follow the podcast, because we did an episode about the Rolling Stones, but...
00:11:04
Speaker
you don't like Britpop and there's an episode about Oasis well have a listen to it you you might be surprised but by one of their albums you know and so we tried to kind of cover a little bit of everything in rock music and one thing that was really good for me is the actual rock and roll because we did episodes about Little Richard, ah Elvis, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and I love that kind of music and it gave me the chance to go back and listen to it and ah And it's a different format, isn't it? it's yeah Because we're in ah we're in a world of when you and me were born, we're in a world of albums.
00:11:42
Speaker
We're not used to what happened in the 40s and 50s where it was singles. Yeah. You know, so just to go back and experience how it would have been back then in terms of, OK, you've heard one song. And now we're judging an artist on that one song.
00:11:54
Speaker
It's just very interesting, yeah thought. but yeah there that this There's one thing that um I thought this morning as well, which is a podcast is an alternative to traditional rock journalism, right? Because it's it's it's a different take on...
00:12:09
Speaker
um how to talk or write about music, whatever. So I actually have a quote from your favorite musician, from Frank Zappa. Oh, I believe it's actually from him because a lot of quotes are attributed to him, but this seems to be about ah from him, really. for So he said, definition of rock journalism, people who can't write doing interviews with people who can't think in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
00:12:37
Speaker
so that That sounds like Frank Zappa. I'd be very surprised if you read that to me and it wasn't him. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, so with did so it's, ah well, just just that was just to, you know bring some humor to yeah to the conversation. but like a But sometimes we question why writing about music or talking about music. or And I think it's ah ah the the experience you have when you listen to a good album goes way beyond the sounds. It's like all the questioning that comes with it. Like, how did they make that sound? you know
00:13:10
Speaker
Why why is this thing so... um Why does it sound so good to me? you know yeah so And how, yeah, how was that sound achieved? Yeah. um Well, bro, you choose. I've got sort of few categories that i just want to talk about. i've got my favourite moments where I saw a moment in an episode where i went, oh, that's really cool.
00:13:30
Speaker
I've got my favourite episodes, as in episodes that I sort of really enjoyed doing. And then I've got my my top five discoveries. The albums that I didn't know about that we did that I went, oh, my God, that's good. So do you want to save the discoveries until the end?
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay, let's start with moments then, all right? My first moment was when we did the dark Dark Side of the Moon episode. And you have to remember, remember I said at the start, at the start of the podcast, episode five this was, I was all about, right, got to talk about the music.
00:13:59
Speaker
I'm here to talk about the music, the, you know, what's going on musically. So I was going song by song and discussing the music a bit. You came to that episode with all the stories about how Roger Waters was going around the studio, asking the the people who work in the studio random questions.
00:14:15
Speaker
Like, you know, what do you think about dying? And that's where you get the, I'm not frightened of dying. and i I had no idea that happened. And I had no idea, you know, I don't want I don't want to decredit myself. I don't want to not give myself enough credit, but I think if I go back three and a half years to 2021, I think I've matured so much since then in understanding,
00:14:40
Speaker
what's behind the music because up until then you have to remember I was a professional musician and it was all about learning the song, understanding chords, understanding how the melody fits with this harmony, this, that, and the other.
00:14:51
Speaker
I don't think I ever really dug in behind the music. And so having that moment where you told me those stories about Dark Side of the Moon, i was like, my God, some of those moments in Dark Side of the Moon are some of the best moments where you just get these random little conversation snippets.
00:15:06
Speaker
Lars, you've got to understand that you're a proper musician, so you play notes and scales and cause a lot to think about. I'm a drummer. We have a lot of free time, so so we do dig into the stories. that's that stuff But yeah, that's ah that's another one. I mean, do you have an any moments? Should I just go through mine and you go through yours? Yeah, I like um i like the fact that we had to... to the record at any location at any point like the hotel room thing I remember as being really tired really inaccurate and that clean room thing with the outside of the moon because several people came in and I remember like turning and being like guys we're recording a podcast here yeah exactly so so um one great moment for was so was the interview we did with uh Steve Rosen um about Edwin Haley so that was
00:15:57
Speaker
Definitely. Probably my favourite episode as well. so But we've got to talk about... Yeah. yeah so So, again, these when I say moments, we're so broad. It's just anything that sort of we remember.
00:16:09
Speaker
And I remember two moments. um Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, episode 34. That's on my list. in Chains, Tripod, episode 97.
00:16:21
Speaker
Realising how much beauty can come from albums of tragedy and hardship. for very different reasons. When you listen to rumors for the first time, there are, play obviously the lyrics are a bit morbid in that sense, but there are plenty, there are plenty of hopeful, happy musical moments in that song.
00:16:41
Speaker
So although you'll know you can go your own way, literally the song is gone, then get, get lost. The music's nice. You listen to it in a pop way and you think, Oh, this is nice, nice melody. When you find out what went on behind the album,
00:16:53
Speaker
and how at war this band were with with each other, yet to still push through the adversity and find and produce something stunning. In the same way, Alice in Chains, Layne Staley dealing with the hardships of a heroin addiction, the band not being able to write with him because he was absent so much of the time, but on both of these occasions for two very different reasons, both associated with tragedy, hardship and problems,
00:17:22
Speaker
two incredible albums have come out of it. And realizing that when we did Alice in Chains a few episodes ago, that was kind of special. Some of the best music ever produced wasn't done under like the most favorable conditions, right?
00:17:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Good point. um Another one I had, i mean, Earth's favorite ones, realizing how much has changed. in music because it's all good doing the innovative albums of the 70s and 80s, but realising that actually there are still bands in the 90s and the 2000s doing important stuff. And I don't mean like Nirvana, never mind. That's just oh it's obviously like a landmark album.
00:18:03
Speaker
I mean the albums we did, Stereophonics, episode 77, Muse, episode Audio episode modern bands who with Muse, there was a little bit of innovation there in terms of the electronicness, the ambience, the production techniques, the stereophonics, how the simplicity of singing about their hometown, an audio slave, just mixing Rage Against the Machine music with Soundgarden vocals and coming up with this new project.
00:18:32
Speaker
i like Yeah, I like to think about like, how it started with guys like Fats Domino, and then now we have Muse, just to compare two completely different artists.
00:18:44
Speaker
And we still put all of them under the same umbrella of rock. Yeah. And then that's why like we sometimes struggle to to actually... describe what rock music is.
00:18:56
Speaker
yeah How can Fats Domino and Muse be in the same? the same I think we said it well in episode one where we said rock and roll is musical freedom. Yeah. And i love I love that we caught that but because we we we didn't even rehearse that. That was a test. yeah For all those who don't know, episode one was a test. We just thought, should we just give it a go?
00:19:14
Speaker
We can analyze it after. We can look through the episode, see what worked, what didn't, and then re-record it. We did that in one take and the conversation just flowed so well. And I'm so glad we got that moment in time. But I think it was you said that, who said rock and roll is musical freedom. Musical freedom.
00:19:28
Speaker
Yeah, is that that is the statement that has defined this show because we have done odd stuff. We've done rock and roll. We've done metal. We've done country. We've done rock, you know. Yeah, but that's the thing, though, because maybe like pop music in general is...
00:19:45
Speaker
more formulaic in a way. It's it's designed to be um commercially ah accepted by people and then designed to be ah good product. Whilst rock music normally comes from from true creativity and people who really want to do something different than whatever everyone else is doing. yeah So I think that's proper rock music in a way.
00:20:11
Speaker
But you could say that jazz is full of um but musical freedom as well. I'll just say maybe. So if if you want to be more specific, rock and roll is musical freedom, but not really posh.
00:20:25
Speaker
Oh my God. Brilliant. So we've done a hundred albums. We've done a hundred episodes on rock and roll equals musical freedom. And what we've learned can't be poor yeah yeah but fun learn over those hundred episodes, we're now going to alter that to rock and roll is musical freedom, but not posh.
00:20:40
Speaker
So I love it. I love That's going to be the new banner for the next hundred episodes. If you need to wear a suit and drink expensive whiskey, that musical freedom is called jazz. yeah great ah my My final moment is, and again, I've been quite vague with the last three or two moments, but live albums, I'm really happy that we've started doing more of them because yeah the only one we did in the first...
00:21:08
Speaker
90 episodes was Peter Frampton. And we did that because if you put it into Google, it turns out as one of the most best-selling albums of all time. And his career-defining album. Yes, exactly. But I think it's so important because we're plagued nowadays.
00:21:23
Speaker
And i use I chose that word. We are plagued with miming, backing tracks, auto-tune, these pop stars who will deliver a seamless performance Because the people who are watching it and listening don't want to hear anything other than what they listen to on the radio.
00:21:44
Speaker
And so it's seamless. My favourite, I should have done this. I should have associated with it. It's a Frank Zappa quote. And he's talking, an interviewer um says to him, first she asks him who your favorite guitarists, and then she says, why?
00:21:59
Speaker
And he says, oh, because they do different stuff. and she And she said, what do you mean? He said, well, I play different solos every night for the same song. And she said, you play different solos? He said, yeah. He goes, well, why'd you do that? And he said, well,
00:22:10
Speaker
Imagine playing the same solo every night. ah you know And you hear some of these bands, they go out there and the solo they play is just terrific and spotless. um But I want to do something different. I want to give the audience the experience they will never have again.
00:22:24
Speaker
and I can't remember what she says to respond to that. and she goes, so every night every night's different. And what does that do for you? And he says, well, can you imagine playing the same thing every night? It's like punching a clock in the face. Yeah.
00:22:35
Speaker
so You know, why would you want to do that? Yeah. And I just love it, man. Do you know what I think, rock music doesn't need to be right, correct, or perfect. It needs to be good.
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah. And so he says, he says, I'm willing to make a mistake so that the audience go home with a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Yeah. that's what matters. And with that all in mind, live albums are so important because Made in Japan, how much for any those episode 94, Deep Purple, Made in Japan,
00:23:03
Speaker
I was going on and on about the mistakes and I made clear that I did not mean it in a bad way because mistakes are part of live music because you are doing something that is on the, it's off the cuff. It's impromptu, it's improvised.
00:23:18
Speaker
And my favorite moment in the whole album is when Richie Blackboy is shredding his solo. And when he gets to the next section, the first two notes, that the bum notes, I don't care. i love it. He's there. He's human.
00:23:30
Speaker
He's doing this and he's giving us an experience that we'll never forget. And in the same way, the James Brown one is almost, almost the opposite of um ah Made in Japan in the sense that it's so perfect because the musicians he hired are so good that he does not have to worry about the music.
00:23:47
Speaker
The person that that gig is all about, James Brown, does not have to worry about the band making a mistake. And I'm not saying that James Brown's band is better than Deep Purple. It's a different kind of music. And James Brown's band, he hired them because they had to be good.
00:24:01
Speaker
There's a famous story about James Brown where You see footage of him from really sort of his early days. And he's turning around, he's singing his songs and you hear something.
00:24:11
Speaker
And the James Brown turns around and he goes like that to to to one of the band members. And he plays again, something somebody sounds a little odd. He goes like that. And they say, well, he's going, that is how much heat the the musician got fined for the mistake.
00:24:27
Speaker
So he's $5 or $50? Five probably. Five would have been a lot back in the 60s. But yeah, so you hear a mistake and James Brown's like, right, $5 is fine. yeah So James Brown had to have a tight band so that he could do whatever the hell he wanted because that was his persona.
00:24:43
Speaker
Whereas Deep Purple were an organized band playing hard rock slash heavy metal music. But the impromptu improvised stuff like the solos, just go off, man, have a good time, give the audience an energetic performance and try something different Try not to be perfect for the sake of the audience getting something unique.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, that is, that's definitely what it is. And and I think that that was, Made in Japan was the album that got me into rock music. was the first CD I bought back in the day.
00:25:13
Speaker
and And listening to it nowadays, ah Still really impressive, again, because of that experience, I think, the real life performance, mistakes included, ah ah proper improvisation when you don't know where you're going with the song. and i think, yeah, again, I agree with you. That's kind of missing nowadays in music. People expect, even even rock bands are doing a lot of this, like ah using backing tracks and playing. the So this song is three and a half minutes. Can't be any longer than that. Can't be any slower. Can't be any faster.
00:25:46
Speaker
You can't extend the solo. You can't even let the audience sing along with the chorus for one extra time because it's all pre-programmed to be um you know always always the same. And I think yeah i think that's like, um ah but you just mentioned James Brown, Live at the Apollo.
00:26:04
Speaker
um So Made in Japan, ah Frampton Comes Alive, those albums will be covered. They're fine examples of proper live music. and And I like it. i ah I'm a really big fan of live albums. I think I should do more of them.
00:26:19
Speaker
Let's do it. And I'm in complete agreement with you. Just for anyone watching this who hasn't watched any of our episodes, every album we mention, I'm going to just tell you the episode number in case you want to go back and listen. and So Frampton Comes Alive was 57, Made in Japan was episode 94, and James Brown Live the Apollo was episode 92.
00:26:36
Speaker
Cool. So should we go on to our favourite episodes? Yes. Okay. Now there's reasons. I've got five favourite discoveries. So new bands and new apple albums that I hadn't heard that I ended up loving.
00:26:47
Speaker
And I got four favorite episodes. My first one was episode 29, Thin Lizzy. That was the album, or that was the moment, where I listened.
00:27:00
Speaker
We've stopped doing full band episodes, and I think that's right to do, because I don't think it's fair on the bands or the albums that we only have 50 minutes to talk about a band and their career.
00:27:13
Speaker
yeah And I think it was after this episode I made the decision to say no more bands, because i because when was doing my research... research I couldn't stop listening to Thin Lizzy.
00:27:23
Speaker
I loved it. And I ah haven't fallen in love with them. They're not one of my top favourite bands now, but hearing what they did and the diversity in their music, you know, Thin Lizzy are tipped as one of the the pioneers of heavy metal music. And you wouldn't think that listening to some of their Irish traditional folk songs, but it's it's more the technicality of what they did, the two harmonising guitars,
00:27:46
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the thumping bass, you base of the songs as well. as it a yes Yeah. Yeah. But thin Lizzy, just found, I got on with so much their music and I, could what we normally do is we might find, um,
00:27:58
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with a band episode, we might do their top 10 songs and just listen to them and get an idea from that. I couldn't do it. I had to go and listen to every album. And I, do you remember I delayed the recording of that episode by a week because I was like, bro, I need more time with this. I can't do it just on 10 songs. That was a favorite episode of mine because it really introduced me to thin Lizzy.
00:28:19
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So yeah, there's one. What a band. What about one of yours? Oh, one of mine. I have a list of 10, man. I mean, I've got 10 episodes here. Take few of them. Go for it.
00:28:31
Speaker
I'll tell you what. um I really enjoyed doing Band on the Run. Oh yeah. Wings. yeah because that Because of the story behind it. i love the album, I love the songs, but the stories behind it, I was really surprised to read about it. And the album cover might have been my favorite album cover because of the story of Paul McCartney getting ah all these famous people to be in the album yeah cover with him. And they actually are standing against the wall, they're leaning against the wall because they were really hammered because they had a night a but really wild party the night before the photo shoot.
00:29:04
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That was a great story. And plus the story of his band ah not wanting to work with him just a couple of days before he he started recording the album. So it's it's again one of those um great ah masterpieces that came out of ah Hardship.
00:29:23
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yeah So that was one of my favorites. Yeah. you have another one? Are we going to alternate this? No, no, you've got more than I have. So you you do one more or something, then I'll another. Well, you've mentioned so episode 34, Rumours, by Fleetwood Mac. Again, because of the the the the the relationship struggles, i again I didn't know the... the the band, they were going through those things in their personal lives. And I think it's really impressive how it it was turned into beautiful music, you know, instead of anything else. So yeah um ah one album that surprised me, two albums, two albums that really surprised me.
00:30:01
Speaker
Hold on. Can you keep these for the discoveries? Okay, cool. Yeah, keep them for the discoveries, all right? ah Yeah, move on to your next. Okay, no, no. So another episode. I love doing Bo Diddley because...
00:30:14
Speaker
He sometimes is overlooked in in in the history of of rock music in general. ah He's heavily associated with blues, but I think he's like rock and roll through and through.
00:30:26
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Yeah. And that is the transition between blues and rock and roll is really clear when you hear Bo Diddley's music. Absolutely. Yeah. ah Tying that in with my next one, yeah all rock and roll ones.
00:30:38
Speaker
Fats Domino, episode 79. Jerry Lee Lewis, episode 83. Little Richard, episode 68. Bo Diddley, episode 28. And Chuck Berry, episode 93. i love... Do you know who else I've forgotten? It's Elvis. And that is episode 14.
00:30:53
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All of those ones, just seeing...
00:30:59
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ah to Two episodes before Bo Diddley, we did Audio Slave. And Audioslave, there was, I'm just trying to make this connection here. there was a There's a little bit of bluesiness in Audioslave, isn't there?
00:31:10
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Yeah. So to talk about an album 2006 that has bluesy hints and thumping rhythms that could be a result of what Bo Diddley did all the way back in 1956 something...
00:31:24
Speaker
it It just it humbles me, man. I sit here humbled thinking, wow, but look at what I'm listening to now because of what these guys, Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, because of what they did back in the 50s.
00:31:38
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Yeah, and it's amazing how that music is still part of of rock music. most is you can You can hear the connection there. like yeah and And again, that that that freedom was there. when they're breaking away from the formula of blues and country and doing their own thing. And I think it's it's it's impressive how you can still associate ah modern rock music to to the stuff that Elvis was recording and Little Richard was writing back in the day. Yeah. so Excellent. um Another one, a favorite episode is because of what the album means to me, Rainbow Rising, like Ronnie James Dio of my favorite vocalists.
00:32:16
Speaker
Stargazer is one of my all-time favorite songs, probably a top five easily. And to have the chance to dissect that with you and just talk about it and enjoy it was was was really fun for me.
00:32:28
Speaker
And then my final favorite episode in terms of what we enjoyed doing, American Pie, when we did the song. It's on my list, Jeffy. Is it? ah Because I love the song. The song has been with me for decades in terms of being that staple song, one of those songs I was played as a kid.
00:32:45
Speaker
and just love the melody, and you love the story, and I'm thinking that the jester and the king and queen, who like all this, I'm thinking in my head, I'm thinking like a medieval fantasy going on, and there is a jester there, but you learn, i can't remember what we said, but the jester's Bob Dylan, and the king's Elvis, and the queen was Nina Simone, and just the all the all the metaphors in there, and what he's singing about, and how he's, he encapsulated was it 15 years of American history in that song?
00:33:12
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I would say all of this is unconfirmed. We don't know, but from what analysis has been done, yeah all these metaphors. Yeah, he's telling them, you know, ah American, well, recent history at the time, ah basically going back a few years and... and and um and ah He covers a whole decade for sure, but it's really hard to find every single reference. I think it's the the deepest song in terms of meaning that we ever talked about. like ah To the point we had to do the whole episode on that one. we We wanted to do the album, but we had to separate in two episodes. One about the album and another one just for that song.
00:33:49
Speaker
And that song still impresses me every time I listen to it. i' like oh that's what it means. And um yeah, and it's... but it's I'm glad we've done that one because I didn't know the song that well. I didn't know what the song was all about. It's just amazing. just me yeah Anyway, that's my favorite episode. Do have any more?
00:34:06
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Well, the interview we did with ah Steve Rosen about Edivan Hayling because he was a good friend with him. um It was his neighbor as well, wasn't it? and like He gave us the book, which is it's a brilliant book.
00:34:19
Speaker
Tone Chaser was the name of the book. so Tone Chaser by Steve Rosen. Yeah, it came out last year or the end of end of year before or something. Yeah, and there's something, yeah, the thing I like the most when I asked him a question about ah the...
00:34:33
Speaker
the Eddie Van Halen he met for the first time and the one he met for the last time. What's the difference between that? That's a great question. I'm just trying to... Episode 59, for those who are wondering... Oh, yeah, got it here, 59. There we go. We interviewed Steve Rosen, who was good friends with Eddie Van Halen and wrote his book, Tone Chaser, which came out a year and a half ago. So get stuck into that if you're interested. Yeah, so basically he said that... I think the last conversation was about... ah Edvon Haley is still talking about trying to find his tone.
00:35:05
Speaker
That's what tone changed. Trying to find his music, trying to improve. And it was like he was talking about his life as a whole and music. Like, well, I'm not there yet. you know After accomplishing everything.
00:35:16
Speaker
He was still like, I don't know, there's still things to do. There's still things to discover. There's still like a sound to find or a meaning for your life. And I think getting a, ah because it that his book wasn't about ah Van Halen's music, was about the person.
00:35:33
Speaker
yeah um Having an insight on how that man ah lived his life and and and and understanding his personality through the conversations makes you realize that good music comes out of people who are very complex and and in in character, personality, and they're always trying something, never happy, never satisfied.
00:36:00
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So it was was really, really interesting moment for me to talk to him about Edmund Hallen. And that was a great question. I remember you asking that and thinking, my God, do you know what? I don't want to toot our own trumpets here. It's up to other people to tell us how good or bad we are.
00:36:13
Speaker
But um Steve said himself, some of the questions we asked, he'd never been asked before. And do you remember several mur turk times he had to take a minute to think, How am I going to answer this?
00:36:25
Speaker
Because, again, with without tweeting own trumpets, we asked some really good questions. We prepared really well for the episode. um So, yeah, that was ah that was really fun. Yeah, I was really happy with the with ah with all the work we did on that one. I'm really happy to interview such an interesting character as well. Yeah.
00:36:39
Speaker
Any others on your favourite episodes list? I think, well, I loved Brothers in Arms by Darius Traits because of the story behind Money for Nothing, which that' that's yeah one of the first CDs I bought as well. I didn't i didn't know the story.
00:36:54
Speaker
So listen to the episode. That's episode 12. The story is there. I think it was one of the ah first episodes that got more than a thousand downloads, wasn't it? So that was was an important one for us.
00:37:06
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um Yeah. Shall we talk about the ah and discover discoveries? I just have one more just for me to say. You know, you understand anyone who knows me, and I know you know me as well, is that my thing is heavy metal.
00:37:18
Speaker
And I love that I've also been able to get my heavy metal fix on this show. Whether it's been as obvious as Osmosis, episode 96, Power Slave, episode 71, Paranoid, episode 20, Metallica a band, episode 23.
00:37:33
Speaker
or finding the proto-metal stuff, you know, deep Deep Purple's Machine Head, episode 16, Rainbow Rising, episode 47, Rush, Permanent Waves, episode 65, and then figuring the the progressive side of it as well. And that's what I've really enjoyed as well. I've got an album here.
00:37:50
Speaker
ive thought ah I've picked out my vinyls that I have, so this one was important. Caught in the Crimson King. I've heard this album before, 10 years or so ago, and hearing it,
00:38:02
Speaker
in the context of more than just if this is prog rock looking at what it did for heavy music that was really important um i got this one out because it was the second episode we did uh led's up to um power slave and rainbow rising and my other two um but yeah more just talking about the fact that hearing what aqua lung did as well ah could remember that one aqua lung by jethro tol episode 30 um Van Halen.
00:38:28
Speaker
Van Halen 1 we did, wasn't it? Is the first album. Yeah, episode 24. um Just seeing pre-metal. right man I just loved it I just wanted to say, i just listed those albums because something we've got to say. Actually, you know what?
00:38:44
Speaker
I'll say it now. We are going to be bringing some new content to the Long Live Rock and Roll podcast and it's not going to be a podcast. It's going to be exclusively on YouTube. And these are going to be little videos and I'll explain why.
00:38:55
Speaker
We love what we do here. And we love that each week we get to talk about one album that has shaped or done something significant for the world of music or just means something to us. But myself, I think I can talk for you as well, Felipe. We love music and we love talking about things that we love.
00:39:12
Speaker
I'm a bass player and I love heavy metal. Felipe's a drummer and he loves blues and prog and stuff. We're going to be bringing you little videos now. We're going to aim to do one each, one from me and one from Philippe week that we'll just be discussing some subjects.
00:39:25
Speaker
So we're not going to give too much away, but we like little debates. You know, this album versus that album, this singer or that singer. What happened if this band carried on after they broke up? You know, Little videos like that that will not be long, maybe between 5, 10, 15 minutes, where we're just going to talk to you about our thoughts and opinions on the music, bands, artists, genres that we love. And so, like I said, you you might get a little bit more heavy metal from me. You might get a bit more blues from Felipe. You might get a few little bassists from me and you might get some drummers from Felipe. So look out for that because from next week on, going be starting to bring you this. We're going to aim to do two a week, one from myself and one from Felipe.
00:40:02
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um So, yeah, we're very excited to bring you that. um And so in that vein, like I said, it's not, I'm happy that I've got 10, think 10 albums I can loosely maybe associate with heavy metal in the last hundred episodes.
00:40:17
Speaker
I'm sure we'll add more to that list for sure. But um like I said, I'm going to try and get my fix from doing these little videos and Felipe can get his fix as well. So yeah, look forward to that. That's going to be on YouTube. So if you're listening to the podcast on Apple, Amazon or Spotify, make sure you head over to YouTube, get stuck in hit the like, hit the subscribe button so you can get those little videos as well.
00:40:34
Speaker
um Discoveries? Discoveries, yes. Go on, right. i I haven't really got them in favourite order, but I suppose I could actually. Yeah, all right. My number five, Live at the Apollo, James Brown, episode 92. feel like we've covered that one already, so I'm happy to move on. But it was a great live album. And I didn't know, yeah, I thought he was brilliant. And just hearing James Brown, it's one thing hearing him on an album, but to hear him live delivering what he does best, yeah untouchable.
00:41:03
Speaker
Yeah, that that's that's a good choice. Well, i have one I need to mention is Fire and Water by Free. Nice. Because, you know, I wasn't for familiar there with that music at all.
00:41:15
Speaker
And um you have it there. No, no, no, no. Okay. i was getting my number one out. yeah Okay. No, so that is that was really a surprise because the album is, for me, basically soul music played by a rock band.
00:41:29
Speaker
Yes. Really, really impressive album. And the album is, bathed what's known about the album is all right now. and And it doesn't reflect that the, it's it's one of the best songs in rock history, but it doesn't reflect what the album is in terms of style. And I think I said it to be clickbaity, but I actually think All Right Now for me is one of the weakest songs on the album compared to what you hear yeah compared to what you hear around it.
00:41:53
Speaker
but yeah it's It's just so different from the rest of the album. I think it's really interesting that they came up with that song at the end of a whole soul music experience. Agreed. Next, number four for me is We're an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad.
00:42:08
Speaker
Episode 55, that was. um I just remember listening to the first time and thinking... this is an American band. As in, like, we got everything.
00:42:19
Speaker
It's a bit soul-y here, a bit R&B-y there, but overall, it's just a good rock album, man. Great musicians, and they sounded like they were having fun playing the songs and recording the songs. And for that reason, yeah, that that was my number four of my discoveries.
00:42:35
Speaker
Well, have to mention American Pie again, because the the episode was about the... um ah The song, for sure. It's for for all the reasons we already said. So that yeah was so surprise. That was a surprise to me, like all that meaning in one song.
00:42:50
Speaker
Lovely. Number three for me was Dookie by Green Day. Really? Yes, it was, because I've heard Green Day before. i was I was kind of into them a bit when the American Idiot came out.
00:43:01
Speaker
And I never bothered. No, that's not true. I'd heard Basket Case. And at the time I listened to Basket Case for the first time, it was fine. Like, it was cool. Enjoyed it. Nice little punk rock song, whatever.
00:43:13
Speaker
But going back and doing Dookie, seeing them... Was that their second album or their first? Anyway, seeing them at the start of their career was really nice. Just to see an innocent little punk band talking about some actually quite mature themes that when you looked into the lyrics, you know, drug addiction, stuff like that, it was eye-opening and just interesting to hear it.
00:43:36
Speaker
I don't know to just enjoyed it. And I hear the music was accessible punk. I think of songs like She, which really, you know, it plays on my musical heartstrings. The chord choices are nice. The melodies are really simple and nice, but yet he's talking about some serious stuff. And I've always liked that blend. So yeah, Ducky, Green Day at number three for me.
00:43:57
Speaker
Right. I'm going to mention Word Gets Around by Stereophonics. Cool. So that's episode 77. Yeah. Because I knew all their hits and was familiar with a couple of their albums. So the album was a really good surprise.
00:44:12
Speaker
It's very simple in a way, very straightforward. But again, reflects the lifestyle of those young men and in in Wales. um So it's a reality that I don't understand for me. It's like, it's really interesting. like someone telling me the story of their lives and they have a completely different background and different ah interesting stories to tell that I would never know if it wasn't for an album like that. So that was a really, really cool surprise.
00:44:37
Speaker
Oh, nice. ah Number two for me was a surprise. It was episode 66, Who's Next by The Who. I was always very... I was never anti the Who.
00:44:50
Speaker
i like i got no reason to dislike them. I just remember hearing a few songs. And when I was in my Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks phase, they never did they never did it for me five, 10 years ago, whenever that was. It never it never never clicked for me.
00:45:05
Speaker
But then I listened to the album in full and I got it. And I was like, this is amazing because you've got some great rock musicians there behind, is it Roger Daltrey, the singer? lay between Roger Daltrey's really lovely vocals and he's great he's so dynamic you know his his shouts and his screams are high energy but his soft vocals are so soft and smooth and yeah I just remember listening to that and there were several songs on there that really really and they weren't necessarily the hit songs on the album they just really resonated and it was a massive surprise and since then I've really enjoyed listening to the album again and again and checking out the other Who stuff as well
00:45:41
Speaker
It's interesting, isn't it? We sometimes become addicted to albums we didn't know before the podcast. What's your number two? It's actually really difficult to... um Because I didn't i i didn't put my my list in the same way as you. circle i But I have... yeah i have ah I'll give you a number two, a number one here.
00:46:02
Speaker
um Well, number number one after yours. So I'll put Elton John, episode 98, some of the recent One of the last ones, yeah. Yeah, ah because... I love his music, but I didn't know the first album. Well, it's not really the first album. It was the second album. It's called Elton John, released in 1970. And it's one of the best production, like, it's probable in terms of of the production of choices and the style and... and
00:46:34
Speaker
the the layers and the choices and everything they they put in there is is my favorite production of all the albums we covered you know the musical choices the orchestra and pop music and all that stuff yeah and and it was recorded around the corner to a place where I lived for a couple of years so it's ah just like every time I walk in that area now i I think about this moment in time where Elton John was there recording and writing songs and trying to establish himself as as a solo artist.
00:47:05
Speaker
And yeah, I mean, phenomenal album, but really surprised me. Nice, nice. Okay, yeah, and I agree, man, that was a lovely album. and um Same thing with Elton John, as I said about The Who. I'd heard stuff and I heard your song on repeat when I was about 10 years ago when I was in school because they all covered it.
00:47:23
Speaker
It never clicked. But then this album I heard really good stuff. Really good stuff. My number one... I'm going to do build up to me, maybe anticipation, drum roll, drummer. Yeah. The thing that I knew this band before, and I knew what the world thought of them, and I knew their place in history was cemented and their legacy established.
00:47:45
Speaker
What I didn't realise, and you can put it down to one man, but I didn't realise how well crafted the music was and how,
00:47:56
Speaker
the kind of mind and the kind of brain it takes to make music as good as that. And the whole band are responsible for the execution, but one man's vision, writing, talent, orchestration, compositional prowess has turned this into one of my favorite albums of all time.
00:48:14
Speaker
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys are my number one. and i'd heard I'd heard most of the songs before. Um, I know what they're about. i got it. I knew where this album sat, you know, but to what I didn't know is the little unspoken competition they had with the Beatles.
00:48:32
Speaker
Yeah. In a sense of but Brian Wilson, he wasn't like, oh, those damn Beatles. I got to do something. He was like, Sergeant Pepper is a fucking good album. ah and Now I've got to do something to do that. And it was like really healthy competition in terms of fans trying to,
00:48:46
Speaker
healthily one-up each other and say, fuck, he's just done Sergeant Pepper. What the hell am I going to do now until he does pet sounds? it's just Or maybe it was the other way around. But I just love that, and the idea that...
00:48:58
Speaker
you've got these musical geniuses. maybe Maybe Brian Wilson was more of a musical genius than Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Maybe Lennon and McCartney were more about writing a melody that sounded nice, going to this from this chord to that chord because it sounded good.
00:49:12
Speaker
Brian Wilson definitely seemed like he was more into the classical theory aspect of it in terms of some songs like... um That's Not Me, one of my favourite tracks. The chord changes in that and the amount of times the key changes as well.
00:49:28
Speaker
The Beatles didn't do that often, but just hearing these two geniuses, you've the Beatles and the Beach Boys doing their thing so different, so unusual, so talented, but still 60s pop music.
00:49:41
Speaker
And for that reason, it's just elevated my my opinion of of the Beach Boys. And yeah, Pet Sounds has now become... easily a top 20 album of mine now. So yeah, that's my number one.
00:49:52
Speaker
Nice. well And I discovered it because of this podcast. So that's why, yeah. Anyway, go on, give us your number one. My number one discovery is not necessarily my favorite album of all the ones we covered, but yeah it's definitely the biggest discovery in a way for me.
00:50:07
Speaker
Purple. Yeah. Yeah. Purple by by Stone Temple Pilots. Yeah. so were you Excellent. What were you about to ask? I was going ask you, it did you is it is it that you you didn't realise it was good?
00:50:21
Speaker
You didn't realise it was that good, but then you yeah did some research and you found... Well, exactly, when because when we do this for the podcast, it's like we've got to listen to the songs in detail, take some notes and... like pay attention to what each instrument is doing it's not it's not like you're listening to it as as background music or whatever you're actually listening and paying a lot of attention to the details so and i think yeah it's it's the whole well the way it was recorded the production the way that the musicians are playing in the album and and i think there's a there's a ah lot of um hard rock a classic rock
00:50:54
Speaker
in the way they play. yeah you know ah which So i'm ah you know my favorite band is Led Zeppelin. Everyone knows that. So I love them. And and there's a lot of that Led Zeppelin energy in their music without copying any specific riffs from Led Zeppelin. So it's the energy. It's that classic rock vibe.
00:51:11
Speaker
And because being considered like a grunge band, doing that sort of stuff in the 90s that really relates to classic rock, I think the album was was the biggest surprise for me. I knew the songs, but i i I couldn't say that I knew the album for real until I listened to it for for the episode. so So what an album.
00:51:33
Speaker
Yeah, those so those two albums, um Beach Boys was episode 45 and Stone Temple Pilots was episode 91. So go and check them out. So yeah.
00:51:44
Speaker
been a great journey man loved it and there's only more to come so for listeners yeah let's do another hundred yeah for sure 100% um for episode uh for viewers and listeners what you can expect from us is the same sort of thing I think we're in a really good format with doing these albums what I'd like to do more more live albums as you've said and I think we need to do more songs I've forgotten I've done this schedule at Christmas time I did the schedule for the start of this year and I completely forgot that we're doing individual songs and I think they're great there is one week There is one week in a month where Felipe is flat out busy with all his gigs. um So we we said on that week, we'll choose my album because it's easier for me. But I say we just do a song because it be easier for both of them, for you, for your schedule.
00:52:23
Speaker
um and and And it's important to talk about songs, man. It's important to talk about one song. and And how can we do Led Zepp 4 and not talk about Stairway to Heaven for 30 minutes? Do know what I mean?
00:52:36
Speaker
it's going to be important. So we're going to do more live albums, more songs, We haven't actually done a covers versus originals episode in a while. So we guys really hope you've enjoyed the content. um And we're going to be bringing you more of the same that you've had in the last six months, the same kind of discussion, the same kind of formula with our episodes.
00:52:54
Speaker
um I think that's all we have to say. Anything else you want to say? Well, I just want to thank everyone who has been listening, downloading and commenting and loving and hating what we do. I don't care. as long as As long as it brings some emotion ah to you in any way. no honestly... um it's um When you told me the first numbers of like ah downloads and stuff, I said, well, do people really ah like what we're doing? to this That's good. I'm really happy that um people are interacting with what we're producing in a way.
00:53:24
Speaker
And it's... it's It's a real pleasure. You know, life is busy. And to find the time to be here talking to two my really, really, really, really good friend, Lass, you know, one one of the best human beings I met in his life, for sure. See, there you go. Yeah, he paid me five five pounds to say that. Can someone on clip that put it as a review, you know, think.
00:53:47
Speaker
ah I'll give the last five stars to have the opportunity to be here talking to you about, uh, the subject we love every week and to know that people, um, want to listen to this. And, uh,
00:53:59
Speaker
um the ait That that a is a real pleasure. And I hope we can ah bring some new information or encourage people to ah listen to music as an experience. you know Stop everything you're doing and have a listen to a good album start to finish.
00:54:15
Speaker
ah just Just enjoy the experience because that's what music is all about. I think this year, well, I say this year, this month, I've had a whole new a re a revitalization of how I consume music because bands, there's a but there's a few metal bands, right? There's a band called Bleed From Within, Architects, Machine Head, and there's another one, Whitechapel. They're very heavy metal bands, these guys.
00:54:41
Speaker
They all have new albums coming out. And I haven't felt excited about new albums coming out in... I take exactly when it was broke pre-university because something happened in university. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe it's the university's fault. Maybe it's education's fault.
00:54:59
Speaker
I don't know. i turned from a music fan into music as a career. You become a scientist, isn't it? In a way. There you go. And so instead of, instead of enjoying new albums coming out, I'd be analyzing them and I'd be like, what am I doing?
00:55:17
Speaker
Like, why can't I just enjoy this album? Like, listened to a song and like, okay, I'm enjoying this riff. And suddenly it goes to a chord that I didn't think worked. And I'm sat there going, I should have gone to that chord instead.
00:55:30
Speaker
And I'm stifling my own enjoyment of the music because some creative person had a different opinion for me. And I thought, that's not right. It's not right. And nothing, I haven't sat, i haven't sat meditating or gone to therapy to fix this. Something has just happened this year where,
00:55:48
Speaker
that that all those bands I mentioned have put out a single and I've really enjoyed the first single. And so I've listened to that over and over again, or two months later, a new single. I want a third one.
00:55:59
Speaker
And I've been consuming music just like I did before I went to university when I was a kid and the singles have come out. And then the, the architect's album dropped this week and it was brilliant. I'm thrilled with it. And because I gave the singles that time, I'm now like, Oh my God, if architects did that,
00:56:16
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I like Bleed From Within more and their three singles I like better. What their album's better than the singles as well? And I'm just getting excited again, which is really nice feeling for me because like I said, it has been a long, long, long, long time.
00:56:30
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where I've enjoyed music for what it is. And um I think, bro, part of that is us doing this as well. The way that episodes were so formulaic at the start. Again, i was in my last analysis mode trying to figure out, okay, well, I have to tell them that this is the first guitar solo that did this. No, enjoy it. And I think you, you know, this why I say thank you to you. And, you know, this is why I love doing this with you. It's because you take me away from,
00:56:55
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things being so black and white and into just, well, they recorded this album when they were stuck on a, on a hill in in New Zealand. How cool is that? That's a good story. I don't think that actually, that never happened, but we need to record an album. But yeah, man, it's awesome. um and that And yeah, to the, to the listeners and viewers on YouTube and on all the podcasts, thank you for your continued support and for joining us. The one thing I'll say, and I'm not saying this in a, in a way of, in a begging way,
00:57:25
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Get in touch with us. we we have We don't get a lot of emails. And I put the email in the in the description in the show notes every time. We want to know your thoughts. If you email us, we're going to talk about it. I'd love to put a section at the start of show. is great, yeah, because social media sucks. Yeah.
00:57:41
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Yeah, you can do the social. I that i i just don't do it. I'd welcome a five-minute part of the start of the show where actually I address, oh, well, you know, Ed from Brighton has actually said that we got it wrong about Jimi Hendrix using this pedal and that pedal. He actually used this one.
00:57:57
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Thanks for letting us know, Ed. We're here, and as I said, we are not being paid for this. We are not doing this for any other reason than we love the music we talk about. And if you guys love that music as much as we do, get involved. Send us an email. Tell us albums you want us to do.
00:58:11
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If you think we've done a Beatles album and we'd like this album to do as ah back off the back of that, let us know. Get in touch. And the show can be more about what you guys want as well. Give us a song. Give us an album. Give us feedback.
00:58:24
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And we can make the show and, you know, sort mould it more around the content that you guys like. So with that in mind, happy 100 episodes, bro. Congratulations. You've done well. Congratulations, yes. And thanks ah for everyone for being with us for 100 episodes. That's really remarkable. i Like, yeah, wow. so What an achievement.
00:58:43
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thanks Thanks, everyone. Well, thank you for joining us for another episode of the Long Live Rock and Roll podcast. I will say again, if you're listening to us on Amazon, Spotify or Apple, do us a massive favour. Come on, we've done 100 episodes. Do us a favour. Scroll down, hit the five stars, give us a nice comment and we're going to be seen by loads more people. We're shoot up the music charts.
00:59:01
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not Not the music charts that matter, not the Billboard 100, the podcast music charts. And if you're watching us on YouTube, recommend us to a friend, share any episode you like with someone who likes that band or album.
00:59:12
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Like and subscribe so you stay up to date with all our content. Thank you, and we'll see you next time. Yeah, thanks for being with us once again. Thanks for being with us for 100 episodes. Keep on rocking, everyone, and don't do anything I wouldn't do And as usual, ah can't believe this, for the hundredth time, take care and long live rock and roll.