The Greatest Big Hair Anthem and These %^%#!! Cables

The Big Hair Era: 1988-1992

Says I.

From Winger's "Seventeen" to Mötley Crüe's "Dr. Feelgood", to my favorite Big Hair ballads. I'll explain, because I always have a good reason for my choices, and I'll get you one of my favorite rocker quotes EVER in this podcast. It comes courtesy of Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes.

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Transcript

Blade: 0:07

Hey, I was just watching Winger. Kip Winger, you know she's only 17. And she'll show you love like you've never seen. Now Telling you this is my favorite big hair song, 1988, through what 199?. I guess, Winger, look at them. They do it all. They got the big hair and they wear their sister's clothing like all the rest. I love the movement. Only four years. You know, I go back and forth between Winger 17 and Motley Crue, Dr Feelgood, this is my favorites, but Motley Crue really was. That was a card carrying rock band. I don't think I'd put them in the big hair thing. But Winger, no question about it. You look at Kip Winger and he's just too pretty and we're the same age. You know. I wonder how he looks. Now. You want ugly rockers? I think it was Chris Robinson, it was. It was Chris Robinson of the Black Crows. It said look, I don't shower, I don't wash my hair, I'm just an ugly rocker, you know.

Music: 1:37

The way it should be.

Blade: 1:44

You know, welcome to my studio. It's a full blown studio, which I just love, having my own studio, doing my own quote unquote, radio show or podcast or whatever they're called, because I can do whatever I want and say whatever I want, play whatever I want. Here I don't have to go into some program director's office at the end of my show saying why did you say, you know, in him asking me or grilling me, why did you say that? Trying to be nice and all that? You know I have to worry about pissing off sponsors Because I don't have any. You know the thing I'm most proud about in the studio? Look around Not a cable More on that coming up in just a couple of minutes Cables, straps and cords the bane of my existence. The only thing you can see is my little child's toys and they're all over the house. You know I've got three kids. You know I've got three young children, and when I say young I don't mean 15 and 14 and 11. You know I mean young children and you know you walk around and you step on their toys and you crack your ankle in half and all that, all that stuff and all that stuff that goes along with it. But the jokes are endless when you have an old man that's got young children and the toughest part is that, well, I figured out how to do it. You know, with nine out of 10 people, they all see you and you've got your little kids there with you and every nine out of 10 will say, oh, you got grandkids duty today. You know, I've learned to say yeah, yeah, and then just walk on, so I don't have to explain the whole thing, you know. And then one out of 10 will be very tactful and this is the greatest tactful response I had Are those your children or are those your grandchildren? Old man asked me that and you know, maybe it's the late in life fathers that have the tact to ask that. I said those are actually my real children and he said, oh, by looking at you, it could have gone either way. You know it could have been your children or your grandchildren. I said, thank you, you know, that was one out of 10.

Blade: 3:47

And I was at home depot the other day and I was just doing my normal. You know things, you know getting some drill bits and picking up some paint, you know, and getting some pads for my grinder. Do a couple of things around the house. I mean the checkout line and there's an Indian woman, you know, with her long Indian dress and the dot and all that, and she's very nice and happy and outgoing, like 50, 55 or something like that, the beautiful smile and nice accent, and she was saying, oh, are those your children or your grandchildren? Very, you know. And I said, oh, this sounds like a set up. You just know a set up when you hear one. I said those are actually my children.

Blade: 4:24

Big frown, big scowl. Did you marry a Filipino woman? Uh said because you know what they do, right, the Filipino women come over to the United States of America and find an old man and marry him for their money, you know, in her English, in her Indian accent and I try and get out of there and I know they're my real children Well, they come over here to America and they married these old men for their money and then they have them killed and you know, that's one of a million things that you hear and that you have to deal with. The other day I overheard my oldest daughter telling one of her friends yeah, my dad, he's super old, you know, and that's fine. I guess Back to the cables and the straps and the cords, the bane of my existence as an old man.

Blade: 5:21

Things begin to irritate you more than they ever did and it gets worse and worse. It's an incurable syndrome and the syndrome is irritable bastard syndrome. It's IBS and it just gets worse and worse. I tell you, and I just want to say this, I will die at the hands of a fucking cable. I promise you, I will trip on a cable and split my head wide open, you know, or one of these cables will choke me, and it's anything that's circular, or some garden hoses count too, and so it's called a mangled entangle. So you spend your life unmangling and untangling cords, you know, and you're doing this and taking forever, and then you can't do it and it's irritating, it's crap, it's all crap.

Blade: 6:07

And that's what I love about my studio is, if you look around, show them around, guys, give them a quick tour. A little camera here you know my two or three little studio setups here and if you look carefully you'll find zero cables. I have every single one of them hidden. I hate cables, you know. But back to the big hair thing. Okay, you know, and I was telling you that winger is my favorite big hair song, and when you go to the big hair anthems, you know the one anthem that tells it all and there's one I always like to you know speak in superlatives, and the one that tells it all to me is poison. Every rose has its thorn. That's what I love about my studio, you know, and it's it's it's. Every rose has its tone. T-h-o-n-e.

Music: 6:58

Fabulously written song.

Blade: 7:04

Incredible To me and it's a ballad. So it's by far the greatest big-hair ballad, you know, and I still love it to this day, to this day, and I always will. But you know, sometimes there's the battle between these two. I go back and forth on and it's from this Danish band, you know, 1988 or 1989 or something like that, and is it the Netherlands or Holland or Denmark? I, I, I never quite might tramp singing the song and the co-writer, white lion, the guitar playing is beautiful. It's really a fabulous anthem. Little child, dry your crying eyes. How can I explain the fear you feel inside Because you were born into this evil world? What have we become? Just look what we have done, you know it's so relatable.

Blade: 8:21

I just remember when I was five years old and waking up crying one day and my mother would ask me little blade, what's wrong, child? And I would tell her. I remember I would tell her, mama, why have you brought me into this evil world? And she would tell me but you know, when the children sing, this new world begins, child. Thank you, mama. You must show the way to a better day for all the young. When the children cry, let them know that we tried.

Music: 9:04

All the world to seek that. We're all good. Love, but love and peace. No more precedence and all the wars. We live One united world under God. When the children cry, let them know we tried. Just when the children sing, then the new world begins.