Apr 28, 2021
The twins talk about the passing of Les McKeown and Jim Steinman - and continue down a rabbit hole of memories from the Magic Hotel, random thoughts about judgmental drunks, Oscar contenders, digitizing cassettes and more - including another original tune from the archive.
PHOTO: Chris with Les McKeown - Magic Hotel circa 1979
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - "Dirty Blue" by Chris Yale
3:00 - Greetings and about the song / Roland TD-4S Drum Kit
3:50 - Chris' hair / Nobody understands Chris / Roger's back hair
4:55 - Roz not Roz
5:28 - Les McKeown dead at 65 / Magic Hotel (Now Magic Castle Hotel) / The friends we made when Les stayed at the hotel
6:43 - Nylon jumpsuits / Bla Bla Cafe / Pop world 1979 / Duran Duran / Pantages Theatre
8:00 - More about Les McKeown / Ego Trip / Big in Japan / All Washed Up / Budokan / Tartan Army
8:50 - Busting our niece Cathy kissing a Shaun Cassidy album.
9:15 - Adventures with our new friends / Chasing Bowie / Trip to Big Bear Lake
9:45 Weed culture then and now
10:44 - Drunks judging stoners
11:23 - "You became 'The Man'" / Hippies / Slackers / Is Chris a hippie?
12:51 - Roger's nose hair
13:14 - How to use a coaster
14:00 - Our first band / Uncle Roger at the Magic Hotel / The Babys / John Waite
14:54 - More hippies / Chris apologizes / Haight-Ashbury after the Summer of Love / Charles Manson / Drugs and drinking
17:51 - As good as you are going to feel all day
18:25 - Jim Steinman dead at 73 / Bat Out of Hell album / Watershed / Joe Oestreich / Hitless Wonder / Rock On, Mr. Chips
20:15 - Steinman songs / Bonnie Tyler / Meat Loaf / Celine Deon / Paradise by the Dashboard Light / Bat Out of Hell on Broadway
22:37 - Who would or would have produced us / Steve Lillywhite / Nick Lowe / Gus Dudgeon / Glyn Johns
24:05 - Roger's crappy cassette-to-MP3 converter / WAV versus MP3
25:25 - Chris begrudgingly shares his digitizing knowledge
28:01 - Hanging out with Miles, aka Squish / Elijah / Katie and Bill (Chris' daughter's family)
30:02 - 12 Rules for Life (Peterson) / The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion) /Alone with God (McAlpine) / The Gift (Hafiz) / Encyclopedia Walking (Kanis)
31:19 - Oscar contenders - One Night in Miami / Mank / Sound of Metal / Judas and the Black Messiah
32:40 - Coconut Grove
33:11 - Being at home versus being at work
33:40 - More Uncle Roger
34.20 - Our friends at House of Blues Myrtle Beach
35.25 - Shout-out to the friends we made during the Les McKeown days