Episode 616
Still Fretless, Still Fancy Free
Todd is still away, so the Fretless party keeps rolling. Sean is joined again by Duane and Dan from Mixtapes From Hell and by Tracy, the voice behind Voicesbytracy.
Sean has a mystery track for the panel that you won’t find anywhere else. There’s more Pass or Go, with songs from far across the ocean and a band from much closer to home. One of the songs has a Montreal connection with a story behind it, and the band’s lineup has everybody’s attention. Plus, a few news items from the music world and the friends who keep the show going.
Press play, see who gets the last laugh, and find out whether Todd is ever going to hear the end of it.
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Transcript
Listen to the Sean, Sean Geek.
Speaker A:Sean Geek and Crash Site podcast.
Speaker B:Yeah, you got it, folks.
Speaker B:It's me again with a little aptitude for all you out here in white bread land.
Speaker B:Let's see, we're on 92 FM.
Speaker B:It feels like a nice, clean little band so far.
Speaker B:No one else is using it.
Speaker B:The price is right, don't you find you Crusty Dave?
Speaker B:This is bigger than friendship.
Speaker C:This is what you call cosm.
Speaker B:And the Buddhist is called it.
Speaker D:Let me see.
Speaker B:Reincarnation.
Speaker D:Musi Mushi.
Speaker A:Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker A:Since when is Pismo beach inside a cave, I wonder.
Speaker B:You know, I just think we should have turned left at Albuquerque and then.
Speaker C:Maybe a right turn at La Jolla.
Speaker D:Shush, hush, please, okay?
Speaker B:I'm trying to find.
Speaker B:And you know what?
Speaker B:Well, I've had a shitty, like two or three weeks.
Speaker B:I. I haven't really shared too much what's going on.
Speaker B:I don't think I will tonight, but it's been.
Speaker B:It's been a rough time for Corey.
Speaker B:It's been a rough time for me.
Speaker B:Scott Haskins having some problems right now.
Speaker B:Look, we just gotta play some music.
Speaker B:Smile and laugh.
Speaker B:I'm gonna play something else for you if you guys are ready.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Now, do we want something funny now?
Speaker B:We're gonna play something funny.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker B:We're gonna play something funny.
Speaker C:Hey, Sean, could you play something funny?
Speaker B:Yeah, I think I can do that.
Speaker B:I don't think I can do that.
Speaker B:All right, all right, let's.
Speaker B:Let's.
Speaker B:Here it is.
Speaker B:Is this the one I'm gonna play now?
Speaker B:This is not available.
Speaker B:So this is.
Speaker B:I'm playing a wav file off my freaking computer.
Speaker B:All right, let's see.
Speaker E:So if we like it, we can't get it?
Speaker B:Pretty much.
Speaker B:I can get you in touch with it, though.
Speaker C:Go.
Speaker C:Go to Sean's bandcamp page.
Speaker B:You guys hear that?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Don't believe all the words they play because these are all lies to make you break.
Speaker D:They will push you into other directions that is further away than the place you intend to.
Speaker D:Damn these judges of character.
Speaker D:Remember all the.
Speaker D:This is all she wanted.
Speaker D:Broken, broken, Broken, Broken.
Speaker A:I hear that the singer's really hot.
Speaker A:Like, he's hot.
Speaker E:Is a song called Broken.
Speaker B:That's a good call.
Speaker B:Yeah, good call.
Speaker C:A little different than Dole.
Speaker B:That's quick.
Speaker C:But this is a lot more in my lane too.
Speaker C:I mean, this is.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:Would fit perfectly into the musician side of the 80s hair metal scene.
Speaker C:You know, the.
Speaker C:Where the music first, as opposed to the image type of band.
Speaker C:This Is.
Speaker C:Yeah, I really, really liked that.
Speaker B:That guitar player must be a tall, tall drink of water there.
Speaker A:I think he's all hooked up on.
Speaker C:The goofball Betty is.
Speaker C:Obviously.
Speaker C:This was before he started his trip.
Speaker A:I was just.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker A:I love that song.
Speaker C:So when are you guys gonna break that out loud?
Speaker B:I'm gonna say, you know what?
Speaker B:And so there was.
Speaker B:There was an offer some time ago that I contemplated doing, but.
Speaker B:Oh, so by the way, that's me and Todd that playing everything.
Speaker B:That's our song, Todd.
Speaker B:Actually, the reason I played, I. I missed Todd.
Speaker B:So I was like, what's up?
Speaker B:I want to hear Todd's fucking tone.
Speaker C:You know, Todd is here over us.
Speaker B:Oh, I love his tone.
Speaker B:I love his tone.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:And Todd's actually singing background.
Speaker E:There's.
Speaker B:He's singing a background vocal part in there.
Speaker E:I could hear that.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So that's shreds like no one else.
Speaker B:Oh, he's so good.
Speaker B:He's so good.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:So I had an offer.
Speaker B:There was a drummer in Winnipeg that said, look, because I wanted to reform Dome, I wanted to like, let's.
Speaker B:Let's just do it.
Speaker B:But Dome's not going to happen.
Speaker B:Dome's never going to happen.
Speaker B:It was a four person thing.
Speaker B:And with Oli passed away, you know, it's just.
Speaker B:It's just not going to happen.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:Just like Cinderella.
Speaker C:No, Jeff.
Speaker C:No, Cinderella.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The offer was there was a drummer said, like, why don't you just go do a greatest hits thing?
Speaker B:I'm like, greatest hit Grace.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:I don't have any hits.
Speaker B:No, no, no.
Speaker B:Just go play your Salty Bear stuff.
Speaker B:Go play your Dome stuff.
Speaker B:Go play your Bros Before Gin stuff.
Speaker B:Bring your brother on.
Speaker B:On guitar.
Speaker B:You come out and sing, I'll play drums for you.
Speaker B:We can find a bass player and we'll just play your catalog.
Speaker B:And I'm like, I guess I do have a catalog.
Speaker B:I mean, most people haven't heard the catalog.
Speaker B:Like, it's, you know, just available on Bandcamp stuff.
Speaker B:But I don't know, it's something I'd like to do at some point.
Speaker B:But anyway, that'd be awesome.
Speaker A:Incredible library of amazing music.
Speaker C:Dwayne and I'll meet up somewhere on the remote part of the Minnesota border.
Speaker C:We'll.
Speaker C:We'll.
Speaker C:We'll slip over the edge.
Speaker C:We're right there in the front row for you.
Speaker B:Nice.
Speaker B:I. I wouldn't mind going out and playing again.
Speaker B:It'd be fun.
Speaker B:But, you know, for now, Just the podcast.
Speaker B:But anyway, we've heard enough of that tune.
Speaker B:I just played out.
Speaker B:Really miss my bro.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Shout out to.
Speaker C:I came prepared for this.
Speaker C:If you want to give something a.
Speaker B:Spin, I would, I would love to give something a spin.
Speaker B:Now, do you want to keep it secret and just between you and I, and send me something on the, on the dit chord or here's.
Speaker C:I just sent you a YouTube right here on the Zoom Chat.
Speaker B:On the Zoom Chat.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So if you pull that up.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:I'll preface it this way.
Speaker C:This is I.
Speaker C:And I'm guessing none of you guys have heard of this thing.
Speaker C:Possible.
Speaker C:I mean, Dwayne knows everything, but this is a band.
Speaker C:I'm just going to say that it's a current band.
Speaker B:I don't see it.
Speaker C:Well, I can do the Discord as well.
Speaker C:If you pull up that you didn't hit.
Speaker C:Where did I put.
Speaker C:Says everyone.
Speaker C:I can do Discord too.
Speaker B:That's, that's, I don't know why I'm not seeing it here.
Speaker E:I saw it flash on my screen.
Speaker E:That went away.
Speaker A:While we're waiting.
Speaker C:Oh, there's, so this is a, there's Discord too now.
Speaker C:So this is a band, current band.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Not, not from North America anywhere, but it is a band that would perfectly fit in to the 80s, into the 80s Sunset Strip type of scene.
Speaker C:So, you know, to prove that, that there are new kids, you know, these, they're probably 20 somethings, I don't know for sure, but they probably are.
Speaker C:But just to say that, that this music has some legacy, it has some legs and it's still out there and it's still not only just a bunch of legacy acts, but you know, the, the, the, the 20 somethings of today are still out there trying to keep this flame alive.
Speaker C:So that's what this song is.
Speaker C:This band is.
Speaker B:I, I, I like that stuff.
Speaker B:Like Tony, Tony Griggs or one of our patrons, he's, he's keeps, he sends me all the time and it's, it's like, wow, like how, how come I've never heard of this band?
Speaker B:It's because it's the same bands that get promoted all the time.
Speaker B:You have to have a show like this, you know, a community like this to discover this stuff is very, very, very difficult nowadays.
Speaker B:Okay, I'm ready to try this out.
Speaker B:I, I, I like the logo right off the hop.
Speaker B:I like the name, the name of the band.
Speaker B:But here we go.
Speaker B:Are you guys ready?
Speaker B:I'm ready.
Speaker E:Let's do it.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Let's go.
Speaker D:My way, your way?
Speaker D:Let's get it on.
Speaker D:Once you let a bodies take a man try and like it I won't fight it?
Speaker D:Just ride along with the good night?
Speaker D:You have a spell I monitor?
Speaker D:Give me your best maybe understand maybe?
Speaker D:Won't you do me like that?
Speaker D:I heard somebody say that you a bad, bad?
Speaker D:Oh, how you do me like that?
Speaker D:I heard somebody say that you go round around?
Speaker D:Yeah, you go up and down you go in the night let sp around yeah, you go round around?
Speaker D:Yeah, you go up and down.
Speaker B:Was that one of you or was that in the song?
Speaker C:That was the song.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker B:Oh, Tracy, you're on mute.
Speaker E:Hello.
Speaker A:That was epic.
Speaker A:Who the hell was that?
Speaker A:That's fire.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:That's literally what's in the logo.
Speaker C:Good.
Speaker C:Cause the name of the band.
Speaker C:They're from Finland.
Speaker C:Temple Balls is the name of the band.
Speaker C:I think I.
Speaker C:This was a discovery, I want to say, from the website.
Speaker C:Sleaze Rocks, I think is probably, if I remember right.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But it's just.
Speaker C:It was one of those things that just.
Speaker C:I mean, the.
Speaker C:The lyrics, Zeke would love it because, you know, they're.
Speaker C:They're pure 80s inappropriate sleaze, but playful.
Speaker C:You know, it still sounds earnest.
Speaker C:Isn't the quite the right word raw, but.
Speaker A:Or just.
Speaker A:No, nonsense.
Speaker C:They're not.
Speaker C:They're.
Speaker C:They're.
Speaker C:They're.
Speaker C:They mean it right?
Speaker C:They're not winking at.
Speaker C:See.
Speaker C:See how.
Speaker C:See how dirty we can sound?
Speaker C:They're just.
Speaker C:They're writing it and like I said.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Tell me this.
Speaker C: If I told you this was: Speaker C:Would anybody say no?
Speaker C:Maybe production wise.
Speaker C:But other than that, would anybody say no?
Speaker A:I don't think that it would be.
Speaker A:I. I totally think it would be accepted as.
Speaker A:As something like, viable of being a hit for sure.
Speaker C:Yeah, but this is.
Speaker A:I know, I know.
Speaker E:But I mean, I don't know if you noticed.
Speaker E:It did say let's get it on in the.
Speaker E:One of the first verses.
Speaker A:Oh, look at you.
Speaker B:And how did they say it?
Speaker B:How did they say it?
Speaker B:Do it.
Speaker B:Get it on my way your way.
Speaker C:Let's get it on.
Speaker D:Damn.
Speaker C:It all ties together.
Speaker E:It ties.
Speaker B:It's awesome.
Speaker A:It's not even Wednesday.
Speaker C:I'm still coming down from Wednesday.
Speaker B:Not even supposed to be at work today.
Speaker D:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:That's funny.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Oh, that's hilarious.
Speaker E:Oh, what's the name of that band again?
Speaker E:Temple Balls.
Speaker C:Temple balls.
Speaker C:They got five albums already.
Speaker C: y've been going since the mid: Speaker C:And then they just put one out again this year.
Speaker C:Now they just lost a guitar player.
Speaker C:So there's some question whether they want to go on without.
Speaker C:The guy passed away.
Speaker C:You know, cancer took him young.
Speaker C:I passed away.
Speaker C:So there's some question there again that now if they're going to continue.
Speaker C:I mean this is.
Speaker C:That was like a month or two ago.
Speaker C:So that's a.
Speaker C:Still a pretty raw topic for them.
Speaker C:But this, this song, I mean I play this and paying just looks at me.
Speaker C:I mean, what, what?
Speaker C:She hears the lyrics and.
Speaker C:Because this is a far cry from Brian White.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:You know, if you know, you know, and kicks.
Speaker C:Well, no, it's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's right there with kicks and hand in hand, you know, lyric wise.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:This guy.
Speaker E:Blow.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:Excuse me, are we talking about birthday candles here?
Speaker C:Are you ready?
Speaker C:Steve Whiteman wants that.
Speaker C:Are you ready to blow my fuse?
Speaker C:You do understand what I'm asking you?
Speaker C:He says to the crowd in one of his shows, because why are the guys saying yes?
Speaker C:You know,.
Speaker B:Rob Halford in the.
Speaker B:In the front row.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker B:Sounds good to me.
Speaker A:I'll buy that for a dollar.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Let's listen a little bit more here.
Speaker B:We we.
Speaker B:Let's get more flavor here going on.
Speaker D:Just close your eyes and move your lips like you're in friends into the land down under.
Speaker D:Get down.
Speaker D:We're running out of time.
Speaker D:Oh, everyone can do me like that.
Speaker D:I heard somebody said that you a bad, bad, bad.
Speaker D:Oh honey, won't you do me like that?
Speaker D:I heard somebody say that you a bad, bad.
Speaker D:You go round round you you go up and down and I go in and out let.
Speaker D:Oh baby won't you do me like that?
Speaker D:I heard somebody say that you a bad, bad bad.
Speaker D:Oh honey, won't you do me like that?
Speaker D:I heard somebody say that you a bad, bad bad.
Speaker D:Baby won't you do me like that.
Speaker D:I heard somebody said that you a bad, bad, bad.
Speaker D:Around, around.
Speaker B:Oh, this is good.
Speaker B:Quite enjoy this.
Speaker C:Even I wouldn't try to add a sax to that.
Speaker C:Don't touch it.
Speaker C:It's perfect.
Speaker A:No sax needed.
Speaker B:The legendary singer or flutist float playing on purple balls.
Speaker A:He actually reminds me of Robert Mason.
Speaker A:Who?
Speaker A:Okay, sure.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D:Old.
Speaker A:Okay, well.
Speaker A:Warrant and lynch mob.
Speaker C:And lynch mob on and off.
Speaker A:Now the end machine and God, he's got killer vocals, but I mean, wow.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That slaps, man.
Speaker A:That's just epic.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker C:The end machine.
Speaker C:Oh God.
Speaker B:Tom is saying I can hear this on an 80s teen movie soundtrack.
Speaker D:Totally.
Speaker C:Well, and that's exact.
Speaker C:And that's exactly the way I introduced it.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:You know, this is something that keeps that era alive.
Speaker C:Something new, you know, it honors it, but does it with something new.
Speaker C:And that's what you need.
Speaker C:You want it to live on beyond.
Speaker A:There are definitely people out there, like younger generations that have been taught well and that are picking up the mantle and just running with it and giving it their own spin, but keeping the essence of, you know, that hard rock, balls to the wall attitude and, and it's nice, it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's nice to see that that music is, you know, being kept alive by the younger generation now.
Speaker C:What does it say though, that you have to go to Finland to find something like that?
Speaker C:When did we lose our way here?
Speaker B:You know, the shit going on over there with all those, like, new age of British heavy metal or whatever, all in Finland and Switzerland and, you know, all those countries, like, they got it right, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah, the guess who sucked the jets were lousy anyway, but, you know, that's.
Speaker E:Well, I mean, Finland, that's where the world championship of air guitar is held, right?
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:They love, they love real music with real instruments.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, what a novel concept, real instruments.
Speaker C:Oh, man, it's so crazy.
Speaker C:It just might work.
Speaker A:They're less influenced by, I guess, you know, convention and you know, kind of trends and stuff like that.
Speaker A:They just, they have more of a pioneering attitude.
Speaker A:Just, you know, blow open, blow blow out the doors and just go for it.
Speaker A:Because it's.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's really.
Speaker A:And that's the creative fire and energy that you need.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:I think it's stifled here or at least because there's so much like different music that's competing.
Speaker A:Like I was talking about before, I.
Speaker C:Mean, obviously the auto tune has not found its way to Finland yet and thank God.
Speaker A:Well, I.
Speaker A:Like I said, I think there's definitely pockets of people who still have an interest and a, A passion for good music.
Speaker A:That's like in your face.
Speaker B:I think there's a resurgence of real music coming through.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:It's good.
Speaker B:Tracy, I think I want you to play like I want to play one of your songs.
Speaker B:You just sent me something in our private chat.
Speaker B:Do you want me to play something from that band?
Speaker C:Oh, sure.
Speaker C:She put something there.
Speaker A:You can find Dan, actually I had.
Speaker A:And thank you for being so open and wanting to, you know, and trusting me to give you good music.
Speaker A:This, this, this is a band called Dwight.
Speaker B:Oh, no, you can't spoil it yet.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna say.
Speaker A:Okay, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:But, like, you'll recognize the vocals from a band that I reckon, that I recommended to you not too long ago.
Speaker B:Did, you know, like, so I.
Speaker B:So one of those songs, the one that you.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So just a little bit of history here.
Speaker B:Would Sylvia lived or.
Speaker B:Sylvia, My God.
Speaker B:Tracy lives in Montreal, and I lived there, and then I moved to Winnipeg, and then we kept in touch.
Speaker B:So we would send cassettes to each other.
Speaker B:We would make mixtapes for each other.
Speaker B:Like, oh, shit, you gotta hear this stuff that I just discovered.
Speaker B:So I have behind me one of the ones that Tracy sent me right behind the Count.
Speaker B:Count Von Count.
Speaker B:This was this side rocks, that side Bops.
Speaker B:I can't remember what you called it, but the band that I'm gonna play was on there.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So I popped it.
Speaker B:I popped the cassette in, and I was listening to it, and I spent two weeks seeing if I could sing that song.
Speaker B:But that's not a song on a play.
Speaker B:I played that one on.
Speaker B:On.
Speaker B:On Metal Ship.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Omen played it on Metal Shop.
Speaker B:But I want to play another.
Speaker B:Should we play.
Speaker B:Do you think we should play, like, maybe the.
Speaker B:The single?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, the one they had the video for.
Speaker B:I think that's, like, very accessible and.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And amazing.
Speaker B:Amazing stuff.
Speaker E:Are we.
Speaker B:We're supposed to be playing Pastor Go.
Speaker B:We totally forgot I'd see it.
Speaker B:So what's going on on this song?
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:It's a go for me.
Speaker A:A total go.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Go all the way.
Speaker B:Dwayne.
Speaker E:Go.
Speaker E:Let's definitely go.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:And Dan, obviously, that's fine, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Check out some more.
Speaker B:I will check out some more.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:And then the.
Speaker B:The New Age Renegade by Moontan.
Speaker B:Was that a pass or a go?
Speaker A:Total total go.
Speaker C:Go, go, go.
Speaker B:Okay, let's see if we can keep.
Speaker B:Keep it.
Speaker B:Keep it going here.
Speaker B:Okay, again, pass or go rules.
Speaker B:Raise your hand when you go.
Speaker B:This is absolute horseshit.
Speaker E:Or.
Speaker B:Holy.
Speaker B:Let's talk about it, you guys.
Speaker D:Mental fo.
Speaker D:Where a knife at the throat.
Speaker D:It's a problem for you, but not for me.
Speaker D:And I'm the trouble.
Speaker B:Nice breakdown.
Speaker B:Holy.
Speaker B:We're gonna play the whole song here.
Speaker B:What are you guys thinking?
Speaker C:I got voice.
Speaker E:That voice sounds familiar.
Speaker E:Is it?
Speaker E:I'm not sure.
Speaker C:I mean, I don't know what this is, but it's.
Speaker E:Yeah, I don't either.
Speaker C:Ynt during their Copy Bon Jovi Contagious era is totally what this thing is giving me.
Speaker C:Which I'm.
Speaker C:Which.
Speaker A:I'm a big fan.
Speaker A:I could see that.
Speaker C:Well on.
Speaker C:On their Contagious album.
Speaker A:I love the contagious 10.
Speaker C:Sounds a little like David Men and Keddie.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's a little bit.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:Yeah, this is the fist pumping stuff.
Speaker C:So, I mean, absolutely.
Speaker C:I. I don't want to hear this one get spoiled either.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker C:It can't.
Speaker C:I. I don't think it can come down off of a goal.
Speaker A:Dan, you've heard this vocalist, though, before.
Speaker A:I'm telling you.
Speaker C:I have heard.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:Yes, you have.
Speaker A:Yes, you have.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:Tom is saying that Tracy needs to guest on Soul Rock.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:There I am.
Speaker B:Go do it.
Speaker A:I'm gonna have to, like, get some hairspray, find my leather jacket.
Speaker A:Although I don't think Aquanet.
Speaker B:Do you still get Aquanet?
Speaker A:I think so.
Speaker B:I don't have hair.
Speaker B:I have no idea.
Speaker B:I haven't done no shopping.
Speaker B:I used to use Aquanet back in the day.
Speaker B:That's probably why I have no hair.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And yeah, my fringe metal leather jacket rip.
Speaker B:Let's listen a little more here.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Sam,.
Speaker C:It's not Robin McCauley, is it?
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker E:I was getting a vibe.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker B:Good call.
Speaker B:Robin McCauley.
Speaker D:Wow.
Speaker B:I can hear that.
Speaker A:I can.
Speaker A:I can call.
Speaker C:I was starting to think, like Black Swan, you know that the project that he's a part of right now with.
Speaker C:With Jeff Pilsen and Red beach and.
Speaker C:Who's the.
Speaker C:The drummer?
Speaker C:Matt Starr.
Speaker D:Oh.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I gotta.
Speaker B:I gotta listen to that.
Speaker B:That sounds awesome, but so it's not him.
Speaker A:Oh, I gotta segue, though.
Speaker C:Go ahead and spoil it.
Speaker C:I gotta know.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker C:Who am I supposed to know here?
Speaker A:This is your call for this band.
Speaker A:His name is Rick Hughes and he before he fronted Saints and Sinners, he fronted a band called Sword.
Speaker A:They celebrated their 40th anniversary.
Speaker A:They're actually from the south shore of Montreal and he comes from an incredibly talented family.
Speaker A:His sister Lulu, I think, is also a singer.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So they celebrated their 40th anniversary and I got to see them play.
Speaker A:And he sounds exactly like he does on that album.
Speaker A:I have video and I got to see them play.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, you sent me a lot of that video.
Speaker A:Best shape of his life.
Speaker A:Like, he is a force of nature, this guy.
Speaker A:And like, so down to earth.
Speaker A:And yeah, he's actually in a new band, or at least he's doing a new collaboration with.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Trying to think White Snake drummer.
Speaker C:Help me out Rudy, the last guy.
Speaker E:Tommy Aldridge.
Speaker A:Yes, Tommy Aldridge.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Brian Aldridge.
Speaker C:Got it.
Speaker A:So he's now.
Speaker A:He created a.
Speaker A:A super group, I guess, if you will, with Tommy Aldridge, Brad Gillis, Rudy Zarzo, of all people.
Speaker B:Speaking of the man not working on anything right now.
Speaker B:I'm going to give up my AI career and go join this band.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:But you just made Tom Armbruster very happy when you mentioned Gillis, so.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, that's true.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker A:They decided to do this.
Speaker A:This super group, and they have.
Speaker A:They came up with a cover of the who's classic the Real Me, which was also covered by.
Speaker A:Tell me.
Speaker A:I was just gonna.
Speaker A:Don't tell me.
Speaker B:Say nothing.
Speaker C:No, he.
Speaker C:He absolutely did not say wasp.
Speaker A:No, he did not say was.
Speaker D:I went back to the doctor to get another drink I sit here tell him about my weekend but it never could change what it seems can you see the real me, doctor?
Speaker D:Can you see the real me, doctor?
Speaker A:Anyways, yeah.
Speaker A:So, I mean, I. I cannot say enough good things about.
Speaker A:And I have to stipulate one last thing, because he actually created this mega album.
Speaker A:And, Sean, I gave you a copy of.
Speaker A:Basically, it's an album.
Speaker A:It's a compilation album called A World With Heroes.
Speaker A:I keep calling it Without Heroes.
Speaker C:Sent me that.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it is a double album, basically, of songs that were originally done by Kiss, and they were remade by all kinds of different artists.
Speaker A:I think Firehouse was one of them.
Speaker A:Anyways, I got him to sign that cd.
Speaker B:I have it behind here somewhere.
Speaker A:But the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker A:The funds raised from the purchase of this album, this cd, were going towards the palliative care unit or.
Speaker A:Or house that my mom was part of and his father was part of.
Speaker A: this, like, this was back in: Speaker A:And I didn't realize it was going to come back full circle and that I would get him to sign it.
Speaker A:When I got to see him in October, when they came and he was telling me, he started telling me about this story about Jeff Tate and how he was replaced by somebody else on the album or something like that, or.
Speaker A:Or he replaced someone.
Speaker A:Anyways, I wished that I would have had more time to speak with him because I'm sure that he has incredible stories to tell.
Speaker B:So when are you gonna have him on your podcast, Tracy?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I'm working towards it, actually.
Speaker A:One of my friends.
Speaker A:His.
Speaker A:One of his friends took vocal lessons from Rick Hughes.
Speaker A:So, you know, but that is an amazing challenge.
Speaker A:And I. I Will accept that challenge.
Speaker A:But no, I just have to create a podcast, that's all.
Speaker A:You know, hey, no big deal.
Speaker B:You knew people who are podcasting, you know.
Speaker A:You know, I know.
Speaker C:They give these podcast shows out to just anybody now, right?
Speaker B:It's really true.
Speaker A:With a microphone.
Speaker A:Oh, wait, look what I have here.
Speaker E:I didn't even have a microphone.
Speaker B:Tony.
Speaker B:Tony.
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker B:Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Speaker B:That's a great podcast.
Speaker B:And Murray podcast coming next September.
Speaker A:I used to think that they were three people.
Speaker A:Tony Orlando and Don.
Speaker A:But that's just.
Speaker A:Anyway, that's me.
Speaker A:Oh, you know, my brain works.
Speaker B:But anyway, yes, I saw Orlando perform one time.
Speaker B:Let me tell you,.
Speaker A:He has some kind of talented.
Speaker A:But she did peep that Tony guy.
Speaker A:Not so much.
Speaker A:And done.
Speaker A:We don't know this.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:So now this sword, though, just.
Speaker C:I want to get this straight in my head before I forget to ask.
Speaker C:This was before Satan Sinners.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, this is.
Speaker B:They're formed in 8.
Speaker C:1980.
Speaker B:I don't remember when this album was.
Speaker A:Well, their first album was Metalized and then they came out.
Speaker B: Yeah,: Speaker A:Yeah, Metalized.
Speaker A:And then the second album came out in 88.
Speaker B:88.
Speaker B: And then they did a: Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:EP or.
Speaker B:No, it's got an E on it.
Speaker B:So that E means extremely good.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:That's what that E stands for.
Speaker C:I think so.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But yeah, explicitly.
Speaker C:Good.
Speaker A:Yeah, explicitly.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker E:So they're different than the Sword, because I saw a band called the Sword from Texas.
Speaker E:They're more.
Speaker B:They're not the same.
Speaker A:Oh, yes.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker A:They're from Montreal.
Speaker A:They're based on.
Speaker B:Yeah, the.
Speaker B:The Sword is actually great too.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That got played on the.
Speaker B:That Noman and Rory show.
Speaker C:Yeah, I saw them a couple times.
Speaker E:Open up for people.
Speaker B:Those.
Speaker C:Yikes.
Speaker E:I know.
Speaker E:They're from Texas.
Speaker C:They're not from Norman and Rory.
Speaker B:Yeah, Texas.
Speaker E:I don't know.
Speaker A:That's not like Sigmund and Roy, is it?
Speaker A:Completely different.
Speaker B:Sigmund and Roy.
Speaker C:Well, anyway, that's.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:Tracy, you.
Speaker C:You have got the absolute best stuff that there.
Speaker C:That, you know, that I've never heard of because, you know, there's an Internet international border in the way there.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker A:It's imaginary.
Speaker A:It's imaginary.
Speaker A:And, you know, I mean, this is the beauty of the interweb and.
Speaker A:And, you know, music, and it has this power to bring people together and that you would have had no idea.
Speaker A:Like, I don't.
Speaker A:I don't even know anybody From Wisconsin or Ohio until now.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I'm just like, you know, all the better for it.
Speaker A:And God bless Sean for.
Speaker A:For, you know, kind of like, hey, Sean, can you put me on your podass.
Speaker A:Sean, can you put me on Cheryl?
Speaker B:Remember, though, I. I want to remind you, I wanted to be the co host of the show 10 years ago.
Speaker A:I know, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker A:But again, my.
Speaker C:And then instead we get Todd.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker C:Which is a good wait.
Speaker C:Yeah, Good thing.
Speaker C:Good thing.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Hi, Todd.
Speaker A:He's taller than me, but I have a better rack, I think.
Speaker A:I've never seen John, so, you know.
Speaker B:Well, I don't know.
Speaker B:Todd used to have a pretty good rack once upon a time.
Speaker B:The ladies loved his rack.
Speaker C:Hell, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker C:I bet he went to town with it.
Speaker A:And shout out to Todd, I think.
Speaker A:What is it?
Speaker A:Is it Eddie Van Halen's?
Speaker A:The anniversary of his passing.
Speaker A:Was it yesterday or today?
Speaker E:It was here yesterday or day before?
Speaker C:Yeah, it was the eighth.
Speaker E:No, so then today.
Speaker E:No, no, it was the seventh.
Speaker C:It was the seventh yesterday as we record.
Speaker E:Mike.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Because, you know, dates are just, you know, they're.
Speaker A:They're consequential.
Speaker A:Incon.
Speaker A:Inconsequential.
Speaker A:That's a big word, like mayonnaise.
Speaker E:But anyways, it was the same.
Speaker E:It was two days ago.
Speaker E:Either way, still dead.
Speaker A:Albuquerque.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Well, you guys.
Speaker B:No, no, that's.
Speaker B:I was just.
Speaker B:And my wife actually just came down and said, Mr. McGinnity, we're playing.
Speaker B:We're killing some zombies here.
Speaker B:Oh, get your ass upstairs.
Speaker B:So I want to thank you guys for coming on.
Speaker B:This was actually a lot of fun.
Speaker B:We had no script.
Speaker B:We never have a script script.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker B:I get to play with my little toy, which is good.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Happy birthday to me.
Speaker A:Yay.
Speaker A:Happy birthday.
Speaker B:Of course, I don't have my glasses on, so I cannot see any of the buttons that tell me what the sounds are.
Speaker A:What does this button do?
Speaker B:I can't.
Speaker C:Oh, boy.
Speaker E:Famous last words.
Speaker A:What does this button do?
Speaker B:Okay, we're gonna play this one just because I can't read it.
Speaker B:So let's just get another sound.
Speaker B:Is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins?
Speaker B:Is it better to burn out than to fade away?
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:That was when talking about Stevie Wonder.
Speaker B:Can you still deem him a genius?
Speaker B:When he released the album, I just called to say I love you.
Speaker B:Can you still say he's a credible artist for his entire body work until that Point.
Speaker B:Is he still a genius or did that eradicate everything he did before?
Speaker C:Well, that's why we have to shout out more friends of ours.
Speaker C:That's why we have a podcast called the Regarding Series.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:What a beautiful segue.
Speaker A:Look at you, Dan.
Speaker A:You're not just a pretty face.
Speaker C:All right, that doesn't get said often.
Speaker B:No, all the great.
Speaker E:All the greats had their missteps, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker C:You try something different, you don't hit every time.
Speaker B:Except for Kiss.
Speaker B:The elder was like, they're at their apex there.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:So, okay, so let's.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We all.
Speaker B:We all gotta get off there.
Speaker B:You guys got another show to get to.
Speaker B:I gotta go kill some zombies.
Speaker B:We'll start with Tracy.
Speaker B:Tracy, do you have a show?
Speaker A:Do I have a show?
Speaker B:And if your answer is no, why not?
Speaker A:What show?
Speaker B:Like, you got to promote a show.
Speaker B:What are you promoting?
Speaker C:Promote something.
Speaker A:Oh, okay, well, Mixtapes from Hell.
Speaker A:I'll just go and mixtape from Hell.
Speaker A:Or, you know, Sean Geek and Fast Fret.
Speaker A:Podcast.
Speaker A:Like those are both neck and neck.
Speaker A:I. I just.
Speaker A:I can't choose because, you know, they're just both equally above board in.
Speaker A:In every level.
Speaker D:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:So I would seek them out on any of your favorite podcast platforms for sure.
Speaker A:So that's Sean Geek and Fast Fret and the Mixtapes from Hell with Corey Morrissette, Dan Papa, and Dwayne Hoffman.
Speaker E:Wow.
Speaker C:So well done.
Speaker B:We should actually like, like, clip that back to you.
Speaker B:Use that as a.
Speaker C:No kidding.
Speaker B:Steal that away.
Speaker C:I could have used that.
Speaker C:In an hour from now.
Speaker A:You can hire me for all of your Outros intros.
Speaker B:Can you do one for Dwayne so that Dwayne can play when he goes in.
Speaker B:Into the other room and greets his wife?
Speaker B:Hi, this is Dwayne.
Speaker B:He's a podcast legend.
Speaker A:I got something in my bag for you.
Speaker C:That old sack.
Speaker E:Hopefully it's not an express delivery.
Speaker A:Oh, no, this is the pony express.
Speaker A:No, no, no, no.
Speaker B:Dwayne and Dan, what do you guys got going on?
Speaker B:Promote your stuff.
Speaker C:We're soldiering on during the Corey sabbatical.
Speaker C:We are doing a few tracks off of the Tom Keefer solo wheels because we're keeping the Cinderella for.
Speaker C:For Corey when he's ready to come back.
Speaker C:We're finding that, you know, there's some missteps there and.
Speaker C:And a little bit of fun too.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And we're not going to get to it all.
Speaker C:We don't think the Sabbatical will be that long.
Speaker C:But we're having a lot of fun of it with it just the same to branch out just that little bit.
Speaker C:But yeah, mix tapes from hell.
Speaker C:We're breaking down Cinderella one track at a time.
Speaker C:We're assembling that 18 track mix tape and 90 minute Maxel mixtape.
Speaker C:We're into the phase of the show now where we are with the tape is full.
Speaker C:So whenever we find another song that in the catalog that has to go on, well, something's got to make room because there's only 90 minutes on that tape and we're having some fun arguing with each other doing it.
Speaker C:Tracy, former guest and.
Speaker C:And, and believe me, Tracy, you will be back.
Speaker C:You will be back.
Speaker C:Sean, we.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker C:Sean has been the best friend of the show.
Speaker C:We've had, you know, the, the theme songs he's written for us, performed for us.
Speaker C:Incredible stuff.
Speaker C:You will.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:When schedules align, we will get you on and I. I think you're gonna have some fun with us,.
Speaker A:Sean.
Speaker A:Sean is a guaranteed good time.
Speaker A:That's a fact.
Speaker A:You can take that to the bank to town.
Speaker E:Take down.
Speaker B:You guys are gonna have to give me a heads up for the next season so I can do all the songs for the next season.
Speaker B:I gotta get working on my.
Speaker B:Steve.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:We really don't have it.
Speaker C:We're.
Speaker C:We're still living in the moment really, and enjoy it.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker C:We don't know.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker C:We really don't know.
Speaker C:I mean, we've thrown around ideas, but really haven't actually had any serious discussions yet.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, but.
Speaker B:All right, well, I got one piece of business to do.
Speaker B:I'm gonna try to do this quickly.
Speaker B:Join our Patreon.
Speaker B:You get early.
Speaker B:And other stuff and I hate promoting the.
Speaker A:I know, but I mean, you know, you need to bring people to the wonder that is the Sean geek and fast fret so.
Speaker A:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker B:So as a promise, I gotta call out the names on the Patreon.
Speaker B:So we've got Riggum, Ronald, George Moore, Manitoba Money Shot podcast, one of the best podcasts on the face of the planet.
Speaker B:Sam Thompson, from which Police Radio highly recommend.
Speaker B:All they play is Manitoba Music.
Speaker B:Manitoba Gold, Ruby from Living Through Extinction.
Speaker B:The infamous Antony Katane, also known as Tony Griggs, Morissette, Kevin Brown, Danny Pabst, Duane.
Speaker B:And new Patreon Andrew from the band Lift.
Speaker B:His album last year is the one that shattered me in half.
Speaker B:The saddest piece of great music I heard last year was his album.
Speaker B:Thank you for being Patreons.
Speaker B:Thank you for tuning in and we'll see you on the flip side.
Speaker D:Stop.
Speaker C:Stop the recording.
