You Can't Tell Me The Who Sucks. Now Get Out.

The stories of the girls that don't like prog rock and screaming guitar bands. The true pronunciation of the incredible Rush drummer's last name who nobody has ever gotten right confidently until it came from the horses mouth to my mouth. What dope girl tells the towns most iconic disc jockey that "The Who sucks" right to his face? The guitar riffs you hear will make any haters of these bands look foolish.
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Blade: 0:06

You don't clutch no straws. We have chosen the musical composition entitled Lazy from the famed and acclaimed authors and poets Deep Purple. Welcome to Poetry Corner. Please allow me to read to you verses one and two You're lazy, you just stay in bed. You're lazy, you just stay in bed. You don't want no money, you don't want no bread. If you're drowning, you don't clutch no straw. If you're drowning, you don't clutch no straw. Well, my trying ain't done, no good. Well, my crying ain't done no good. You don't make no effort, no, no, not like you should. You're lazy, you just stay in bed. It's fine. And that concludes this today's poetry reading lazy from deep. You don't want no money, you don't want no bread, you're just lazy, you just stay in bed. What am I supposed to do with this? Got back from the doctor and you know they gave you this little card. I don't know why they do that, because you know you just, you know really rely on the emails they send you for your next appointment. But what am I supposed to think of this? You know I had a podcast last week with rock radio disc jockeys Tom Gild and Bob Walton, who are old friends of mine, and at one point they were authority figures, musical directors and program directors, right, and really.

Blade: 2:28

For the most part, though, they were just friends and they were stuck in that job. They were given that job and they didn't want it, but someone had to do it, kind of thing, and so they're thrust from being your friend and your guy that loves going in there for four hours and playing the great rock songs into a guy who's a pencil pusher and he's got to order all his friends around who likes that. These guys didn't like it, but they did it because they were deemed responsible. You know guys you could count on reliable, trustworthy unlike somebody that I know. But I'm here to tell you I did that on purpose. I didn't want that job, and the only way I knew that I would not be offered that job or asked to assume that position was to be as irresponsible as I could, and I did it.

Blade: 3:19

But I had this podcast with these cats who I really love both of them. I call them music colleges because both of them are but and the podcast was this the rock bands that chicks don't dig, and they were both kind of scratching their heads. Well, wait a minute, what do you mean? You guys are musical directors. You know what what girls don't like and what they do like. It's your job. And and Walton would tell me, no, it wasn't my job, because we were a men's rock station, so we played music that men like, and Kyle did the same thing. He said, okay, what an easy job. All, yeah, you have to do is listen to good songs and put them on there, cause you know, guys are going to like it, in which they did for the most part, you know, over the years. But the top five bands, the chicks don't dig.

Blade: 4:03

And I start with number five, and it's as Tom Gild would say you paint it with a brush and it's all progressive rock, prog rock as we call it, cause progressive, we don't have time to say that word, prog rock. Nobody likes prog rock. And when you think of prog rock, who do you think of? Yes, genesis, you know, emerson Lake and Palmer, which are bands that both of those guys mentioned when we did our, our podcast, you know, and I can go deeper and guys like Merleian and and dream theater and stuff like that. But no need to do that. But why would any girl like a song called Siberian catru, you know, which is Armenian, for as you wish. That's true. John Anderson wrote that Armenian for as you wish. So that's what catru means Now why he put in Siberian I have no girls. Girls don't like that kind of stuff, that kind of weird artsy stuff, you know. And as Bob Walton said in the podcast, you know, I've never been to a yes concert and heard a girl yell. Please, roundabout, roundabout, roundabout. You know. That was my number five.

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My number four was Steely Dan, which shocked everybody when I said it, because I mean, who would think of Steely Dan as a non girls band, which it is? Think about it. What girls have ever said I love Steely Dan? Think about that. The only song girls ever like and they don't know the name of it from Steely Dan is dirty work, and that was from their first album. Can't buy a thrill, right? And it's like the one song that doesn't sound anything like Steely Dan. It's a top 40 hit song and it's awful, you know, but that's the one. If any girl likes a Steely Dan song that they like. I knew a girl once had liked it. Her name was Lynn Cody. You know, I always say this every song reminds you of one person, and she worked at the college radio station with us and she was pretty, you know, and she'd love Steely Dan, but she only liked that one song. It's the only one she knew, and she had this incredible golden MG midget which I just loved, and she drove it off a verily road into the Masonboro sound one night. Damn Lynn, that was a nice car.

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Number three is Jethro Tall. What girls like Jethro Tall? I mean none. I mean it's that simple. I've never met a girl that said I love Jethro Tall. You can just imagine a girl saying hey, would you play, wondering a loud, cheap day return, or him 43, or teacher for me. I never got any kind of request from girls for that or anything, for Jethro Tall for that matter. And I love Jethro Tall.

Blade: 6:42

You could put him in the Prague rock thing. That guy is amazing. How did he do? The whole rock thing was so great, had so many passionate followers and be so unique, so different. And so himself. And I met him once at a concert in Durham. He's a super nice cat, really great, fun guy to talk to. And he put me on stage once with Judd Patterson, a buddy of mine, you know, and I got to watch the show on stage and he asked me a question what do you do in your spare time blade? And I said golf. And he said, oh really, I don't golf. And that's all he said to me. But that's okay, what do you mean? I was thinking to myself what do you mean you're British. What do you mean you don't golf? And number two in my particular list, done by years of experience, no research at all Number two band rock band the girls don't dig is the who. They don't. They just don't like the who because it's a Gois band.

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I talked with John N Twistle one time on the phone on a phone interview and he had a buddy with him. Kind of weird 2006 or seven or eight before he died, nine, something like that, 2010 possibly. But I talked with him because he had a solo album out and I couldn't believe I was talking to John N Twistle and I would say a couple of things to him and there'd be dead air silence and then you'd hear his friend chirp up and say something you know. And I found out after the interview that John N Twistle was basically deaf and he couldn't hear anything. I said he was doing a radio interview and he can't hear the but his interpreter I guess you could call him, would answer the questions for me. And at one point I heard John Entwistle, when he could talk, when he could hear back in the day, say we're a guys band. We would tell ourselves that all the girls were in the back. And John Entwistle says that who is a guys band? They're a guys band.

Blade: 8:35

Girls don't particularly love the who and you know, like I said, the who always reminds you of one person, happens to remind me of this one girl, that there was one night laid at the West End when that closed in Raleigh many, many, many years ago. And somehow I talked this girl and we were going to go to Denny's, you know, and I, you know, to go have drunk food like we do, as hey, let's go talk about the first thing that pops up. Hey, it worked. You know, I was so stupid then and she's getting ready to get in the car and we were talking about music of some sort and she knew who I was and what I did and she said I hate the who, the who sucks, you can. It took me a minute to ingest what she was saying. It's like you can't say that to me. That's like me going in to a country, disc jockeys, girls car and saying George straight sucks, you know. And I said, okay, well, listen, we're not going to be going out for any grand slam at Denny's now. You could just leave. And I did it like that, you can just leave by by, and I just kind of tapped her out and close the door. You know, there there was no grand slam that night, if you know what I'm saying.

Blade: 9:52

The who is not dug by chicks and Walton and I agreed on this and Tom agreed to Gile but he'd forgotten about this band I mean, it wasn't thinking about him and the number one band that chicks do not dig the most is rush. How are you going to like rush? How is any girl going to like rush? Gile even admitted that it took a while for him to catch on to rush and I think in my little head that he never liked them at all. But that's what he said.

Blade: 10:20

You know, it took me a while to to to to get them because I joined in early and they got better and better and better as they went on. If it weren't for them in the eighties kind of those horrible British pop eighties I don't know what we would have done. They did the synthesizer thing and they did it really well, power windows, and you know, just like ZZ top did it. They did the synthesizer thing, which was sacrilegious in the rock world, and did it really well. But the more I got to know them, the more I loved and loved and loved them, and I love them so much to this day. And they don't have many girl fans. But every song reminds you of one person and I knew this girl named Shelley. I don't know what her relationship to me was, but I knew this girl named Shelley and she claimed to love Rush and, and she mentioned Red Barketta once, or is it Barcetta? I've never really known that, which gets us into the.

Blade: 11:12

How do you pronounce the drummer's name? Is it Neil Peart or Pert? You know, and I've heard him say himself on Rockline with Bob Cobra in 1992, that his I heard him call himself Peart. I mean, that's pretty good authority, don't you think? And it's funny because I live here in the middle of the desert and there's a road called Peart Road here and it's named after one of the big developers here, and and and, but they call it Pert and I always call it Peart and I always will. I'm going to call it Peart Road and I get corrected every time I say it, but I don't care.

Blade: 11:46

But she mentioned Red Barketta Cheta at one time and I was like, wow, that's, I mean, she must really like Rush. And I thought that, you know, the more I've got to know her, the more I realized that this was her ex drumming Rush into her head. She didn't, I think. She meant closer to the heart, which is a beautiful song, which which anyone can love, and so that wraps it up. Ladies and gents, absolutely the one band that chicks do not dig the most is Rush. You don't clutch no straws, you're lazy.