Was the Music Industry Destroyed by Streaming Services and the Record Labels?

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ears. For the greatest friend that
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so too. Welcome everybody to back
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I want to thank everybody who's listened, who's taking the time right now to

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back to the eighties Radio. Today we

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have a killer show because today's topic, of course, has to do if

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streaming has killed the music industry.
Today, Chang, I do want to

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give a special shout out to everybody
from the Ukraine who is fighting for their

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life, for those who are fighting, for those in the trenches, for

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the leaders of that country, for
the people who had to flee, for

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the people who had to stay,
and for the people who are suffering losses

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and injury from that nation. I
concur with everything you said. A special

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shout out to shout out Ray Oh
my god, I can't believe that with

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such a tongue with Jared Tuts.
Anyway, my shout out to everybody out

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there that is wearing a gu Jitsu
keshirt right now. And I want to

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give a special shout out to all
our armed forces and everybody out there that

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is on first response and first defense, and we all know who I'm talking

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about, everybody in our medical staff, our police forces, are fire forces,

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and everybody in between. I also
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all you single moms, single dads, special shout out to all your school

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teachers, you go above and beyond. A shout out to you. Also

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a big shout out to everybody out
there wearing plaid shirts. You know who

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you are. That note. This
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Toscato and Chang and welcome on another
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And of course, as my compadre
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to introduce him. For those of
you who just joined us right now.

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We can't do, of course,
this program alone. It's not a one

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man show. It is a show
where we need the man who some say

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that under his head of hair he
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and that underneath that head of hair, he's got a poster of Robert

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Smith from The Cure. He has
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of the Thompson Twins, and it
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the one responsible for firing Donald Trump. Today with us is the one and

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only Chang, So Chang, how'd
you like that one? Oo Oh,

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My credibility just lives on way beyond
any legacy I could ever leave. Today,

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we have a great show because today
we have actually something very informative to

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share with all of you. And
it's kind of a rant as well,

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and it's something that's been on my
mind for a long time. I know

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it's been on the mind of Chang
and everybody who's from the era of the

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eighties. And that's to talk about
a little bit about the music industry.

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We all know what streaming services are. They originally started as radio stations online

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where you can listen to, you
know, basically any radio station that you

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wanted to. And Pandora was one
of the big ones out there that started

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as a radio station streaming service then
came Apple iTunes. They introduced music,

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but they used to sell songs for
ninety nine cents, you'll recall. But

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then they went ahead and started streaming, and you do pay a service for

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that stream so they did change.
So I'm going to leave them out just

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for a bit because today's rent is
specifically for the big boy that is Spotify.

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For those of you who are not
aware, Spotify was launching two thousand

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and eight. Music streaming. As
I mentioned, it already existed and unlike

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the other streaming platforms, now here's
how they differ between all the other platforms.

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When it first started, Spotify encourage
users to create multiple playlists. What

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that did is that allowed the company
to understand you and my choices. So

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what they would do is they would
hit you with those choices day after day

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after day that every time you listen
to and subliminal the ride, right,

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it was all part of a curated
algorithm. I'm seriously, seriously on the

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verge of never listening to streaming music
again after you hear this. We would

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think that Spotify treats all the bands
and all the artists like it treats the

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big ones, right, And what
I mean the big ones is you know,

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everybody who's extremely famous right now,
Drake and Rake and Chicken bake,

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right, but they don't. Let
me tell you why. Spotify has over

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one hundred million subscribers. They have, they have over two hundred and seventeen

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million listeners, with one hundred million
of those pain like ten bucks, and

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then after that, if you want
the premium or family, it's fifteen ninety

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nine. So it's five dollars for
students, ten bucks if you want the

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service for yourself, and it's sixteen
dollars if you want it for the entire

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family. Okay, it's a couple. But yeah, so that's a lot

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of cash. Now wait till i've
read you this, and you can find

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this, by the way, on
the McGill International review. All right,

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just looked at up the McGill mc
gill International Review and that was on September

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first, twenty twenty, so this
is a pretty recent review. Spotify pays

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the bands. How about if we
hear somebody who's famous talk about what he

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thinks is the problem. By the
way, this is Jean Simmons from Kiss.

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It's a disaster. It's a disaster
because the fans have decided and they've

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been trained to not pay for music. And that means the next big I

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was, it's free. Imagine a
supermarket. Farmers have worked all their lives

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to grow the fruit and the stuff, and the trucks and the unions that

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bring it to the stores, and
the beautiful stores and the people that work

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there. Imagine walking in there and
being able to walk out with anything you

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want without paying for it. How
long is the farmer going to stay in

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business? How long is retail going
to stay in business? So everything is

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dying because fans have trained themselves not
to pay for the music. Look,

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you're not affecting me. I'm doing
okay, my rents paid. But you're

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killing the new band. You're killing
the next beatles. Look, my daughter

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had a ten million Sophie Simmons had
a ten million viewed single last year,

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two years ago, ten millions.
She made two hundred and fourteen bucks.

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Spotify has taken all the money.
The acts are taking a small percentage of

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one penny per download, which is
a crime. You would think that Jean

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Simmons is just making something up,
but no, look it up. Let

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me tell you how much Spotify pays
bands. And this is I can't even

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begin to explain, brother, how
pissed off. This makes me Spotify currently

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pays an average of zero point zero
zero four three seven, So that's less

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than half a penny per stream,
meaning that it would take three hundred and

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sixty thousand streams per month for an
artist to earn minimum wage. Wow.

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So it's a modern day napster scenario
correct, with music being handed out free.

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And you know what, brother,
with this topic that we are discussing

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right now, you have to hold
fall to the radio corporations because the death

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of radio has enabled the freedom the
piracy, that's a better word. You

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not agree the pira piracy of the
musical industry to obtain this music and distribute

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it freely, and it cheapens the
music business, and it really does rip

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off and cut short the artists of
today who are never going to get that

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real big break for notification and to
make that money they deserve for their creativity.

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So I would blame the radio stations
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probably would blame the record labels after
that. And another group that I would

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definitely blame television shows such as American
Idol, Britain's Got Talent, The X

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Factor and all of those shows.
Okay, because what they are selling to

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society today and everybody who watches this, for some reason, is ignorant of

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this fact that they are selling to
these want to be new bands. They

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are selling them fame over a paycheck. We're going to sell you all the

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fame, but they're not telling them
what they're missing out on. Let me

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give you a clear example. There's
a case of a UK based classical violinist.

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The artist's name is Tasmin Little.
This person has over six hundred thousand

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monthly listeners. She was paid twelve
pounds thirty four cents equal to about maybe

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ten dollars for six months of streaming
on Spotify, a period in which she

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would have had almost four million total
streams. Listen to what Corey Taylor from

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slipknot. Listen to what he says
about Tool. There's a reason that Tool

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waited as long as they did to
put this stuff up on streaming services because

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they knew they weren't going to be
compensated for something that they work their asses

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off. Or The difference between streaming
and radio is you make money off radio

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because of the publishing that's involved with
streaming. There really is no publishing that

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has promised that money goes directly to
and technically it's mechanicals goes directly to the

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label. Yeah, so the label
is making huge amounts of money and they

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are not contractually bound to pay us
for that because of what they call new

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technology. We don't have a problem
with people listening to our music. What

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we have a problem with is these
streaming services basically treating it like like we

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owe them, which is not the
way it should be. And at the

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end of the day, what he's
saying, basically, the one who's making

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all the bills is the record label
because what they do is they go to

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the artist and they say, oh, you know, you're you're great,

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but you know you're only going to
get a certain amount of songs that you're

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actually going to do. We're going
to tell you what fits, we're going

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to tell you what sounds good,
and then you're going to get a percentage

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of that. Do they don't tell
the artist that they're going to be charging

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the artist and they're also going to
be charging the streaming services. Isn't it

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very crafty? How Still the record
company makes the money and pushes what they

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want, and it's just killed the
industry as a hold you not agree.

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My brother radio is dead because of
the industry. That is correct. It

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started during the eighties and it got
killed in the nineties. They take larger

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shares in a music industry which topped
forty three billion dollars in twenty seventeen,

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and only twelve percent of the money
was paid to artists. What is the

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smaller band getting nothing? Yes,
that's the equivalent to your us every day

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going out to our job and working
our eight hour shift and making whatever you

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know, pay weight you're making,
and then getting three quarters of it taken

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away and some fat cats making it
off of your hard ass, busted day.

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It's ridiculous. The music industry has
catered so much to its own pocket

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and what they feel is presentable to
the mass population only shows that they have

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fully believed the hamster effect of the
listener. If you only put so many

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tunnels up, the hamster will soon
learn those tunnels. But if you put

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the hamster in another surrounding, they
will be lost back and forth till they

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figure out there's another tunnel. I
want you to listen to another clip here.

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Look no further than the deals that
the record labels cut with the streaming

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services they got into ownership equity deals
with the streaming surfaces in an arrangement for

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them to have an equity position.
They agreed to very low rates for the

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artists music. But does Spotify in
the other streaming surfaces raise up in their

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equity position, the labels benefit,
So the labels pimped out their own artists

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to take a greater equity position in
a rising business. That was Billy Corgan

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from Smashing Pumpkins and very intelligent India
Yea currently from the National Wrestling Alliance.

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I'm gonna let you here in a
little while Frank Zappa so you can hear

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what he says about the people who
are behind the scenes and all of this.

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Who killed the music industry is the
corporation. I will say, I'm

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not going to go in and say
any big name of any corporations, but

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we all are familiar with the monopoly
of freeform radio at them and AM terrestrial

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radial and all other aspects of radio. First started with control from the FCC,

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who could regulate the type of programming
that they were going to allow on

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their airwaves. Now remember in the
eighties, like you did point out,

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this started, but this started out
pretty much with a Tipper Gore. Yes,

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we should have listened to her husband, Al Gore, because we are

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all dying from global warming. But
yet when she decided to start having music

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rated, that was a bit of
a control conservativism, I think in that

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with the rebellion that outburst after such
ludicrous statements and a position on her part

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made it even worse and more graphic
and raw in your face, and pretty

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much anarchy style entertainment blasted off after
that. My other point is this is

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familiar to me what we're seeing with
the so called radio business of big business

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absorbing real musical talent and watering it
down, giving the listeners pretty much a

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bubblegum pop crap that all sounds the
same. I went through this ordeal when

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I was doing stand up comedy,
and I could see that to make it

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in comedy you have to make it
in the clubs, and you make it

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in the clubs by giving your time
for free. When you have recognition.

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The club addresses that, but it's
all about how much money can you make

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my club? And we will give
you a couple of crumbs. But yet

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you come every four nights at this
late hour and give, give, give,

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and maybe in a couple of years
you'll get to the next stage.

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I know that you wanted to not
mention some of these big mega companies,

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but I'm gonna tell only if we're
going to have to use them. But

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I'm gonna tell you there's one of
these mega corporations that is in two hundred

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and eighty seven markets in the United
States and owns a bunch of mini companies

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that own radio stations themselves with the
number one giant is as Clear Channel Communications,

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Cox Communications, Cumulus, Disney and
so on. Let's take a let's

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take a quick break. When we
come back, the rant continues on Back

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to the eighties radio. Ladies and
gentlemen, I'm Shadow Stevens, and you

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must listen to Back to the eighties
radio. It's the law. You remember

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the first time you tried these games
space buck with practice cop y'all like see,

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And when you first tried and coke
and you said, no, thank

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you, But let's try and coke
again, because once you got that new

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wave of dast do you want to
try again again and again? No practice

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something catch the way you're number one
for classic where you're listening, you're listening

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back to the eighties. One thing
that did happen during the sixties was some

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music of an unusual or experimental nature
did get recorded and did get released.

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Now, look at who the executives
were in those companies at those times.

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Not hip young guys. These are
cigar chomping old guys who looked at the

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product that came and said, I
don't know who knows what it is recorded,

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stick it out of it's a all
right. We were better off with

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those guys than we are now with
the supposedly hip young executives. And he's

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saying, Wow, we can't take
a chance on this because it's just simply

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that's not what the kids really want. And I'm and I know, you

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know, they got that attitude.
And the day you get rid of their

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attitude and get back to who knows
a chance? You know that that entrepreneurial

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spirit where even if you don't like
or understand what the record is, it's

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coming in the door. The person
who was in the executive chair may not

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be the final arbiter of taste of
the entire population. You know what,

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man, he nailed it right on
the head. Radio. To me,

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is that number one, number one
circuit of freedom. It is the first

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form of entertainment in our culture.
TV came after that great theater of the

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mind was created on the radio.
It was more polished back then to the

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pretty much conservative, average everyday lifestyle
of entertainment, and it transcended into the

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movement the way society moved quickly a
little bit more freer. It's sad because

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now days we have a lot of
these how can I say this nicely?

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No, I won't. These cats
that used to be hippies or used to

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be free spirited have turned into these
yuppy, guppy, sappy ass kissing,

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money grinding, greedy jerk off wads
who have forgotten what free formed talent and

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expression and freedom really are and what
they should be in every asset in America,

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especially when it comes to creativity.
And it just sickens me because we've

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come to the point to where we
are at now. Artists are having to

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work regular day jobs because they are
not allowed to make any type of a

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living with their beautiful spirit and their
creativeness. It's a shame that a lot

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of these beautiful specimens of artists are
getting cut up and sold off to the

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ownerships of these what we call pet
jobs in the music industry, to where

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their beautiful colors and looks are being
bottled getting sold for their own inner beauty,

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and the only one making the cash
is a pet store owner. We

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have formed a generation of people who
are now so entrenched in this way of

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this is how it is that they
now feel that this is the correct way.

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Case in point is a young artist
from a band called the Bad Flower.

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It's a new band, yet they
have the audacity to speak out on

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what is correct and what is incorrect. And I want you to listen to

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this fine young specimen of a millennial. I actually I'm one of the few

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people who's in the music industry that
really likes how things are going, Like

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I like streaming. I don't mind
that people don't buy records anymore. Maybe

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it's just because I've been like I
was born into that sort of and I

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was starting into it once. I
once this became my career, and so

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that makes perfect sense to me how
everything works, and I don't mind it.

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I also feel like the way that
everything is set up now with the

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Internet, anybody who has any bit
of talent has a shot to make it.

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I think that's really cool. So
This is Josh Katz from the band

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called Bad Flower. What I want
to do right now is I want to

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let you hear a little bit of
bad Flower. And this is this is

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rock today. Oh my god,
this guy looks like Justin Bieber with bad

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emotion. See it sounds like Justin
Bieber trying to be sexty as Prince was

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drunk cold Listen home this whole.
Kobe Bryant would call this soft a sit

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in my dreams, but few everyone
still likes me, so it's a It's

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a deeply sad song about his family. I would like to slug my headphones

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see me for allowing the electrical charge
to go through my ears. I also

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feel like the way that everything is
set up now with the Internet, anybody

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who has any bit of talent has
a shot to make it. I think

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that's really cool to make, to
make twelve dollars and thirty five sets.

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Yes, that's exactly I've always wanted
to make. That's the mentality of why

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it's scary that some of the youth
in today's world have no clue, no

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drive, no work ethic, no
no scale of failure or six says his

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mindset is a typical mindset of the
youth that we have allowed to where every

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kid gets a trophy and a sporting
of it. Every kid gets a certificate,

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which is you can never knock a
child down forever failing or achieving over

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others. You teach them the equality, fairness and to dig deep to do

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better. That's how you do it. Giving everybody a trophy and a certificate

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has created the mindset of this little
Justin Bieber looking very He's an emotional type

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kid, you know what I mean, He's got issues to make such a

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song. But not only that,
his mindset it's clouded. The guy takes

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Nirvana lyrics on a whole different level. Let's continue talking about streaming and what

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do you think our listeners, do
you think that streaming killed the music industry?

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One of the biggest contributors to society
being this way are X Factor.

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America's got talent, Britain's got talent, and all the world's got talent.

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What would they do if they had
singers like Dave Grohl? Who's to say

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what they're who's good or not?
Imagine Bob Dylan standing there and singing,

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blowing in the wind in front of
those judges. Sorry, it's a little

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nasally and a little flat. Next, how would you do an American idol?

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Oh? I would never make it
ever in a heartbeat. People need

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to appreciate their voice. I don't
want to sing like someone else would say

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like me. Think about it for
a second as you listen to our next

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guest. I don't agree with the
premise of that show, you know,

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I don't knock the kids who go
on and try it. And I understand

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you want to be stars as kid
rock, by the way, and I

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don't believe. You gotta get some
scars, and you gotta get some feeling.

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And there's a certain path you gotta
take in life with anything you do.

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You know, before you own the
garage, you gotta learn how to

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sweep the floor. I believe that
I was taught that. And I think

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the worst thing in life is the
biggest curse would be to be famous without

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any money. And I think that's
what that show does to a lot of

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people. And I don't think he
needs to be down there. You know,

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I'm telling kids if they can sing
or not, you know, in

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teeny bopper land. You know it's
been said to me too, And I've

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said this many times, and I'll
tell you because it's kind of funny and

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true that a buddy of mine gave
me some crap about things like, who

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do you think you are? Thirty
million people a week to watch that show

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and you're on your high horse saying
they can't use your songs and you say

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it's no good. I go,
well, I go. I'm not a

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mathematician, but the last time I
checked, there's three hundred million people in

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America, and I'd like to talk
to the two hundred and seventy million that

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don't watch that bud ha ha.
Yeah, And he's got a point,

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you know what? They Yeah,
that was he made a great point.

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They all made a great point.
How would it look if the song Hurricane

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by Bob Dylan just came out?
Now, it's a song that was written

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about an individual that was sentenced to
prison, who is innocent of a crime,

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but put in prison and pronounced guilty
due to his skin color. I

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think nowadays, if somebody were to
sing that song of that lyrical content and

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that truth, it would not be
played on a television show, it would

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not be played on the radio,
and it certainly would not be streamed freely

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as everything else. As Dave Grohl
said, they wouldn't make them pass to

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the next level on America's Got Talent
or the X Factor. They just wouldn't

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even give him a chance. Why
because they want every single performer, artist,

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band, whoever it is, to
sound exactly the same. They're creating

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a generation of same sounding suckers and
creating in the youth the mentality that that's

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the way it should be. And
this is the fault of two entities,

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two groups. Number one, I'm
going to tell you who's number one at

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fault at this the listener of streaming
music, because we and I'm going to

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add myself into this, right,
we have been brainwashed as a generation to

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think that the way of the future
is the correct one. We've been brainwashed

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to believe that streaming is the way
to go. Because we've been brainwashed to

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believe that streaming that we should exchange
the experience of going to a record store,

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of visiting a radio station, of
going to a concert, of dreaming

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to be able to meet our favorite
artist or band, and we should exchange

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that for the convenience of downloading a
song. And I've said this many times

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on our program how many people do
you know on their phone that has a

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thousand songs or whatever amount of songs
that have the complete albums. Not many

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people. If you go to young
people's phones, the percentage of them that

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have complete albums, I can probably
tell you is less than one percent.

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Why because they only have playlists with
just they pick and choose what song they

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want. And guess what the irony
of all this. They all sound the

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same, all the artists sound the
same. And number two at fault is

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the actual record label. We've said
this during this show so much. They've

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created this society. They have destroyed
the record labels, have destroyed the radio

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business itself. Now granted, yes, thank god that radio is still there.

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And think ether they're still playing some
radio stations are still playing old stuff

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and they're allowing those bands that they
play to receive their money. But these

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new bands that are streaming, where
is the creativity? Jean Simmons said this,

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where's the new Beatles? You know
he said this in the past.

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Where's the new U two's or the
next Rolling Stones? They're nowhere to be

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found. Why because these record labels
and these big CEOs and corporations have created

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a generation brainwashed to believe that convenience
is better than the experience and a memory.

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This is back to the eighties.
We're gonna be right back. Do

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you love nineteen eighties pop culture and
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discuss current news related to nineteen eighties
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a spandex jumpsuit, what can you do

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on this Back back to the eighties? Welcome back to back to eighty.

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With Scaven and Chain, we are
laned deep on what we feel the problem

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with streaming in the music industry as
a whole is. I want you to

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listen to this. It's the sign
of the times, and everybody knows it's

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crap, and there are certain there
are certain crap things that people seem to

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enjoy and they there they are,
and there they stay, and there's nothing

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we can do about it. But
I mean, the very last thing these

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people are are idols, and it's
ludicrous. I mean, it's just it's

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just a game. It's just like
a modern talent show. And I feel

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sympathy for the paper, for the
contestants, and the whole action of ridiculing

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contestants and bringing them down and kicking
them out and watching them cry and kill

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themselves seems to be a part of
modern entertainment. But I don't know anybody

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on the planet who enjoys it.
I think it's just one of those little

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conspiracies. Again, you want to
see something humiliated, Well I don't that,

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Ladies and Gentlemen. Is Morrissey,
and he definitely made a valid point.

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I don't like his music, but
yes, the way he speaks up

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for the truth, and I mean
the sheer essence and his feeling of being

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a musician, he nailed it.
And it's a it's just a shame,

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you know what I mean, Bro, that we have sunk into this level

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in our likes of entertainment to where
we are supposed to be the free enterprise

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correct on every aspect, and we
are to be looked upon as the number

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one leader globally to follow in our
ways. That's why I supposedly we have

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gone to war to push or protect
this pride that we have that we are

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so much better and freer than every
one else. But yet we as a

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nation proclaimed this. But in every
other entity, especially in entertainment, we

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are silenced for one reason or another
to be free with our emotions, our

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creations, and the way that we
portray and lash out with our emotions because

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somebody wants to make that money or
is it to silence what they don't want

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others to hear? These TV shows, The Voice Factor, etc. Etc.

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Weakness They came to damage the fabric
of music. And Dave Grohl was

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on point the fact that unqualified individuals
could judge your singing, because come on,

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what does Howard Stern have to do
with knowing what a good singer is?

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What does Howie Mendel know about goods
singing? Countless others? Why?

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Because they are popular people, because
they bring in the audience, they bring

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in the numbers with what they say. And Simon Cowell himself, who has

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discovered countless of big name bands and
performers, are no longer around, by

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the way, a lot of them
that he has discovered are not even in

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the music industry anymore. If you
go behind the scenes of these programs,

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it's all a part of a show. It's reality TV at his best.

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We are a society of people who
are being brainwashed into accepting convenience over the

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experience. I want you to check
out. We've got just a few more

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before we end the show. If
you just joined us, we are talking

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about streaming services and asking the question
did they come to destroy and alter the

408
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fabric of music or the mindset of
the listener? Check this out. X

409
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:24.800
factors a well oiled industrial machine for
the pop industry that only serves the industry,

410
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:29.199
that certainly doesn't serve the public or
the arts. I don't think the

411
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:34.000
few that are lucky to get through
a kind of oh very much. You

412
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:39.079
know, like they've all been trained
or they've already been out doing something that

413
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:44.519
makes them sound very much the same
if you moved to it today. You

414
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:49.280
know, somebody like Robert Plant or
Jim Morrison would not get on X Factor.

415
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.119
They wouldn't pass through adition. And
he's right, and that was Rats

416
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:57.159
Gabies from the Damned by the Way, right, He's absolutely right, my

417
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:01.559
brother. I'm going to name a
few bands really quick that I think fall

418
00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:08.400
into play because I think they're brilliant
artists, brilliant groups, and I think

419
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:15.440
that they're very I think they're making
a very decent living. They are pretty

420
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:20.079
known in rock and roll, but
they could be bigger than what they really

421
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are. And these bands are who
I would would say are picked up something

422
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:30.360
from the past. They ran with
it. They brought that vibe and they

423
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have that vibe and that soul that
the ones that they portray their music after,

424
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:44.440
and that would be Vintage Trouble,
Dirty Honey, Rival Sons, the

425
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:50.400
Struts. These groups to me,
whether they're young, but yet they capture

426
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:55.199
the essence of what music and rock
and roll is. And yet they do

427
00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.559
have a very strong following and they
are starting they made away and they've made

428
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:07.639
money for themselves. My point is
they are very rarely played on terrestrial radio.

429
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They are very rarely played on networks
where you're going to get their stuff

430
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:20.199
for free. But they're great bands. And it's a shame that other bands

431
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:27.320
will get more hits on getting Free
as opposed to the talent that these other

432
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groups that I just mentioned getting well, and they're not going to get the

433
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:34.559
recognition. Yeah, and they're not
going to get the recognition because the youth

434
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:40.280
of today, the genres of fourteen
to eighteen year olds, they don't know

435
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:45.000
who they are. You know,
I was watching tonight special on a bunch

436
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:52.559
of kids nowadays and a little bit
older gen Z's and a little bit older

437
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.360
or I should say younger of the
millennials. They were wearing Metallica shirts and

438
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:01.280
Slayers coming back. These people that
are wearing these Metallica shirts. One girl

439
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:07.039
in particular, she's a famous YouTuber
from England. She collects these Metallica shirts

440
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:12.039
because she says on her blog on
her video log right, she says that

441
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:17.559
Metallica is a great brand of clothing. She's never heard of Metallica. Another

442
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.760
guy at a bar was wearing a
Slayer shirt was asked to name one Slayer

443
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:24.360
song. He says, I'm not
wearing the shirt. I didn't even know

444
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.800
they were a band. And you
ask the majority of the new kids that

445
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.440
they're wearing these. They're wearing it
because it's a fad, because some artist

446
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:38.159
or some TV person like Kim Kardashian
wearing a Metallica's going to say. You

447
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.880
don't just say, Kim, she's
gorgeous and she's got a brain. I

448
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:46.760
really dig her vibe, whatever,
whatever, she's a whatever. Wait a

449
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.480
minute before we knock her down.
No, I'm knocking her down. No,

450
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.519
she's doing something for the betterment of
mankind. Now, she's doing at

451
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:59.960
for the betterment of her and her
No, I'm not talking about her,

452
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.480
her look or her fashion, her
on a personal level. She's doing something

453
00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:07.239
away from the camera. But I
will say I wasn't going to name it.

454
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:08.800
She's doing stuff on the camera too, believe me. Oh yeah,

455
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:14.119
I believe me, and I love
it. Ha ha. Anyway, the

456
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:20.719
mark of every celebrity wearing a rock
shirt of the past is trendy Rihanna,

457
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:27.079
every Kardashian. You go into a
Fergie, you can go into back into

458
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:35.599
Shakira. It's always been a sexy
trend to be full throttled rock and roll.

459
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.639
Well yeah, but they don't even
know that it's rock and roll exactly

460
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:44.199
exactly. But that's shful. My
point is leading into your point. A

461
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.960
lot of the things that you see
nowadays, every trend is used for a

462
00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:55.239
sexism rather than a statement coming from
the eighties or before that, depending on

463
00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:00.679
how you looked or the music you
enjoyed and how that brought your spirit out

464
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:07.519
or hobably they incorporated with others just
like you. The magnitude of that was

465
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:14.239
heavier than what you look like or
how cool or badass you looked, as

466
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:19.719
opposed just because the music that you
listen to, but it makes you look

467
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.920
cool. That is the difference.
Wait, listen to listen to me.

468
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:30.599
That's the difference between the millennial who
grab the look to look good. They

469
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.960
don't have the substance. They have
the look as opposed to in the days

470
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:40.400
when you had the look and you
wore that because of the substance that He

471
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:46.440
created you to be the spirit that
you were. Nowadays, they just use

472
00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:52.159
it to look good, salve shit, make money, and look the look

473
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:59.320
that's going to bring in the money. The false fanmanship of real music.

474
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.360
If if Rihanna were to go out
in a Judas Priests shirt, cut all

475
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:12.239
slinky down and sing a badass song, you'll see thousands of cats that don't

476
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:16.840
have any idea of Judas Priests or
that tour wearing it. Why because they

477
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:22.360
want to look hot or badass like
Rihanna. The music industry has pumped that

478
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:31.199
into us visit with visually and with
our ears. They pump out only certain

479
00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:36.880
stuff they know is going to grab
people. That's trendy. Because people are

480
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:42.920
lazy and easy to conform to what's
cool. It doesn't matter. They'll do

481
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:50.079
it visually, they'll do it subconsciously. Is the whole thing? Subliminal ways

482
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:55.239
to change the things to make them
more money? Well that's what I think.

483
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.519
Well yeah, but still it doesn't
make it right, you know.

484
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:06.679
And so here's the thing, bro, I I have something totally against the

485
00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:10.320
people wearing shirts like that. You
wouldn't be Back in the eighties, when

486
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:17.119
did you see a Duran Duran lover
or the Cured lover wearing a shirt that

487
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:22.039
said Judas Priest because it was cool. Never? When did you see a

488
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:27.800
cholo wear a shirt that said sex
Pistols. Never? Because they knew what

489
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.280
it represented. They knew the groups, whether they liked it or not,

490
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.519
whether they liked it or not,
they knew who they were and they knew

491
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.079
some of their songs even though they
didn't like them, but they wouldn't wear

492
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:43.039
it just to make a statement.
Today, they don't give a flying hoot

493
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.000
for all this. They just look
at it. Yeah, yeah, so

494
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:52.159
they're just looking at it as as
a fashion statement, a fad and you

495
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.920
know what, fine, but that's
not bringing with me. Well, yes

496
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.679
and no, But I disagree in
the sense that Kim Cardad. I know

497
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:02.079
who she is. Of course,
I know the family, I know the

498
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:08.159
backstories, I know certain things about
videos and okay, but to me,

499
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:17.119
it's a person who brings nothing positive
to society nowadays. Now regardless whether whether

500
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:21.719
she does or doesn't, I don't
even care. Okay, I don't even

501
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:28.159
care, because the point today is
we're trying to discuss that streaming music has

502
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:36.599
destroyed something and that's the way we
had we had experienced music and therefore not

503
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:40.159
allowing the newer generation to experience music. And you know what, here's the

504
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.480
sad part about all of this music
industry as we once knew it will never

505
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:52.039
come back. It's dead, it's
gone, It's never coming back that way.

506
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:57.480
Never. There will never be anymore
life altering changing music that will live

507
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:01.920
on for generations. Once I I
gave any kind of a praise to Kim

508
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:07.400
Kardashian, you you didn't listen to
anything I said. No I did.

509
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:12.000
But wait now, wait, let
me let me reiterate all the way back.

510
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.159
No, don't go on with it. No. No. The topic

511
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:20.159
we got on is great bands are
worn nowadays for a trend. Nobody knows

512
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.079
the real music it's used for a
trend. Well, yeah, it falls

513
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:29.119
on the use of nowadays, but
I also blame that on the lack of

514
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:37.719
knowledge and the lack of being able
to get that music as a daily dose.

515
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.119
So yeah, radio is not listened
to like it used to be.

516
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:45.880
Right, people will pop in their
phone or the bluetooth in your vehicle right

517
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:50.440
back to get the good music,
you had to get in your car,

518
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.880
and if you were in your car, sometimes you didn't even get early cell

519
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.320
phone range, so you had to
rely on the music coming out of your

520
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:00.760
speaker in your car. That has
been right. So a lot of the

521
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:06.800
youth nowadays doesn't get that music right. So without that music being played into

522
00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:13.000
their minds every day, it's not
getting into their crawl space to create that

523
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:17.119
music, to appreciate that music.
So they're going to go and stream to

524
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:23.400
get what they like for free,
which stands out better for them than them

525
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:29.639
grabbing that for free. And then
maybe hey, I like that kind of

526
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:34.079
style. What else do they have? And the thing is, then the

527
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.519
individual want to pay a little bit
more money to get bands that sound like

528
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:45.320
what they heard on the radio for
free. That will create a economy for

529
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:51.960
the artist, the network, and
the listener goes back to old school and

530
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:55.199
pays a dividend to get that music. Yeah, well that's wishful thinking.

531
00:46:55.239 --> 00:47:00.679
That'll never happen. It's dead.
It It hurts me to my soul because

532
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.320
we grew up in a very different
age. Check this out. They give

533
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.920
you a platform to go and to
be an artist. By the way,

534
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:16.159
this gentleman is a winner of X
Factor in the UK Steve Brookstein, I

535
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:21.920
believe his name is. They give
you a platform to go and to be

536
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:25.079
an artist, but only if you're
the artists they want you to be.

537
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:30.039
And if you don't be that artist
they want you to be, then that

538
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.079
opportunity that's telling you've got isn't really
there. And listen to the last one,

539
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.559
and a lot of you will not
know who this is. Even if

540
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:44.000
I said his name is al Jourgensen. Now I know you do chang.

541
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:50.360
He is from a band called Ministry. Listen to him. The music industry,

542
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.360
it is a joke. Every band
that they signed, they tried to

543
00:47:53.360 --> 00:48:00.079
make sound like the last band to
perpetuate this myth of that's what music should

544
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:06.159
be. That bit them in the
ass because now we're down to watching literally

545
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:15.440
America's besting singer or dancing with singers
or whatever. The reality they got going

546
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:21.880
as our source of popular music,
but we still don't get paid for anything

547
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.400
we do, and we travel around
town to town hoping for scraps of food

548
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.960
and taking it back. I totally
agree with him. He was fan right

549
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.320
all the way. Ministry of a
great baton man. Dude, I dug

550
00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:38.719
their music. I checked him out
at a gig before. Anyway, you

551
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:45.920
can go back and blame acts such
as Madonna, Drew Duran, Duran.

552
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:50.519
I'll even go out and say the
Stones, why are you Why are you

553
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:52.760
gonna blame them? Why are you
gonna wait a minute, now, wait

554
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.639
a minute, listen to me,
Okay, take it easy. Now they

555
00:48:55.639 --> 00:49:00.800
attacking the music you love? What
mean? Why are you gonna blame the

556
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:06.519
bands. No, I'm saying that
was the that was the founder, that

557
00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:13.880
was the model that everybody after the
pretense of those certain artists came to emulate.

558
00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:16.960
And those are the artists that kind
of took music to a trendy,

559
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:25.119
poppy kind of context. But it
created the leadership for generations after After that,

560
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:30.079
it's kind of become the same.
A lot of pop music artists will

561
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:37.039
only dance with choreography moves and then
sing with headpieces. Look, all sexy

562
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.239
boy bands evolved. What happened to
Motown? It died, but did it

563
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:46.199
really? It came back in a
poppy form. Hard rock went like bon

564
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:52.440
Jovi, Motley Crewe opened the door
for other type of weaker bands. So

565
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:59.480
in essence, would you not say
our generation of pop music, how we

566
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:07.559
allow music and haul the music business
and corporations kind of watered down music to

567
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:14.639
fit those certain forms is why music
sucks more or less nowadays. No,

568
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.519
can you? No, I do
not agree. I don't agree with that.

569
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:22.360
I don't agree because those were band
listeners. Those were bands, well

570
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:28.000
listeners. They don't agree trust me. Back then, when they came out

571
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:34.000
Rolling Stones and any other band,
Duran, Duran, Madonna they were the

572
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:38.000
first of their kind. Okay,
there weren't. They weren't copying anyone else.

573
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:42.599
No, No, I know,
I know I'm making a point,

574
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:46.719
but there there are trend setters.
Now. It's obvious every generation is going

575
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:52.480
to copy something of the generation that
just passed. It's obvious, and that's

576
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.840
fine. Just don't copy him so
much to where you go. Now,

577
00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:59.559
I'm gonna give you an example.
Two days ago, we were at Rubio's

578
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:01.800
with my own their son. I
go to my son, you know what,

579
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:05.199
I go to the bathroom to wash
my hands, wash my hands,

580
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.559
and I'm listening to the music that's
in the speaker, and guess what.

581
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.559
It was a Hall and Oates song. But guess what it wasn't Hall and

582
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.639
Oates. It was some crappy band
today singing a Hall and Oates song,

583
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:22.039
which I'm grateful for because they're entertaining
people with an eighties song. But the

584
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.079
new kids now, they're saying,
oh, that's a great song that this

585
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:30.480
band came out with, and they
don't recognize that it was Hall and Oates

586
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:34.760
who started it. And that gets
me ticked off. Bro, it wasn't

587
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:38.000
the bands from our generations. Now, I'm not saying that they were perfect,

588
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:43.880
because they weren't. All they were
after was fame and money. But

589
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.599
you know what, they reached it, but it cost them an arm and

590
00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:51.679
a leg, and in some cases
it cost them their life. This is

591
00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:54.000
back to the eighties. We're gonna
be right back. We're going to wrap

592
00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:59.719
things up. Greatest vocalists, indeed, the greatest Bosi religious figure of the

593
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:05.000
century, can only be done.
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594
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595
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600
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601
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604
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605
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No, back to good, wholesome, politically correct entertainment. Oops rog station.

606
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:58.880
No. Back to the eighties with
Tescato and Chay. Welcome back to

607
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.280
back to the eighties. Are discussing
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608
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:13.159
a heavy rock'em soock'em robot discussion on
streaming radio, and I will as Tascano

609
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brought up his magnificent points of course, my brother right, yeah, whatever

610
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of whatever bar you, But anyway, I was not disrespecting the artists of

611
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:31.639
Madonna or Duran Duran and the success
that they did have. My blame was

612
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:37.880
to the corporations that ran music,
that held them captive to look sexy,

613
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:44.880
which became the format in the forefront
of what music was to be to make

614
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:51.840
it in the industry and make money
and what everybody wanted because everybody looked really

615
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:58.199
freaking sexy. After that, it's
been trickled down and the talent is less

616
00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:04.920
as it was prior to them,
but everybody looks sexy. That's where radio

617
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.559
has gone wrong. Music has gone
wrong. We've lost the true essens and

618
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:17.760
the substance of true music and what
that vibe and that connection is to what

619
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people look like. That's all I
was saying, my brother. All right,

620
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:28.039
you heard it from the mouth of
the Wizard himself. This has been

621
00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.239
back to the eighties radio. I
want to thank you guys for joining us.

622
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:32.760
We'll be back next Friday with a
lot more. We may even go

623
00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:36.880
into a part two on this discussion. I don't know. It depends on

624
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:42.800
how hard I want to beat down
on metal music. Anyway, This is

625
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:45.280
to Scotto from Scotto and Chang.
We just want to thank you for joining

626
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us and giving us your time once
again. Have a great week, a

627
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.840
safe one, and wherever you are, think about the people that are fighting

628
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:58.599
in Ukraine and even the ones that
are fighting in Russia. There's a lot

629
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:01.400
of people that are losing their life
who have nothing to do with all of

630
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:06.440
this. So on behalf of myself. I just want to wish you a

631
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:12.679
great week. God bless all right
everybody. Before I release you to another

632
00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.679
fantastic week. It me and just
kind of had a knock down drag out.

633
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:20.719
Oh it was a great It was
a rock'em sock'em robot game.

634
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Remember that that game, brother,
when we were young. I do

635
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:27.920
the robots. That's what we're going
through tonight. Huh. It's great.

636
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:35.960
He's really strong and he's to night
and uh, for those of us that

637
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.360
can only see him through my eyes, he looks sexy. He looks like

638
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.800
he's trimmed. But I'm also wearing
my Kung Pu Sun suu and I'm also

639
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:47.079
wearing sunglasses at night, and he's
hard classes at night. Yes, he's

640
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:54.159
corey hard for some reason. So
I release you into the next week.

641
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.760
I bid you all to remember,
stay lifted and give it. Tomorrow is

642
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.960
not promised. No, it's not. Go out there and stand up for

643
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:07.000
something bigger than yourself. Stand up
with your brother or your sister next to

644
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:10.880
you, and always remember, do
not let anything get you down, for

645
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:16.679
negativity is not the way to prosperity. Only unity with a smile is that

646
00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:27.800
way. So I bid you all
in audios asta mananastalla vista astellawago, sayanaa

647
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:35.320
agato, and to all my surf
cats later bro and all my valley dolls,

648
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:38.320
lady dude, and to all my
home he said, are in the

649
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:44.679
vodio toscano that may think you're coconuts, said, I bid you an all,

650
00:56:45.360 --> 00:57:07.000
oh me back till night. My
get's already whoa he for my so