Preserving retro pop culture from the 80s and 90s the best I can. Love indie left media, talk shows, classic rock, Young Jerry Springer & vintage Cincinnati and northern California. I'm a SocDem or maybe libertarian socialist
Miss you Tom! Your music is part of the soundtrack to my life. My son was rocked to sleep to Full Moon Fever countless times. I wonder if he gets sleepy when he hears it now! By the way, I found sharks teeth in the Devil's Millhopper in the 70's, and petted a huge alligator that Gator Man had up on the bank at Lake Alice. Coincidentally, I saw Gator Man again at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 1982. And I've been to Brooker (lived just down the road for a few years) and Micanopy, too!
Thought you said Bill and Ted for a second 😂 (Bogus Journey came out this year too). Seriously though I didn't realize Bill Price passed away, that's unfortunate. I assumed Todd was though since he was already older then
This version and the Sprite version are the most hilarious ones he did!! At 0:23, Ernest looks at the camera like how a child would to their mother when they get hurt!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I was also is DJ on KCPR while attending Cal Poly and had a midnight to 3AM Sunday mornings for two quarters. I had heard that Weird Al got fired from his shift because he would play records backwards. It was quite nostalgic seeing footage from the old studios which is where I too did my shows from. At the end of Spring quarter 1984, the station sold off promo copies of records they had. I bought a copy of Weird Al’s first LP for $5. Those were the days!
I don't get all of these people, including Eddie Trunk, talking about their memory of dropping the needle on 1984 and being horrified to hear the keyboards of Jump. Jump had been on the radio in heavy rotation for about two weeks prior to the album's release, so it shouldn't have been a shock by that point at all, particularly for diehard fans who'd undoubtedly should have been glued to their radios awaiting the new Van Halen. My memory of my first time listening to 1984 was hearing the instrumental, 1984, which leads off the album, and saying, "OK, that's kind interesting and cool". Then, Jump came on, and I'd already heard it over 100 times because I'd recorded it off the radio. Then Panama came on, and that was the first real new song that I heard. It didn't blow me away, to be honest, though I thought it was fine. Top Jimmy struck me as interesting, but very different. Then, Drop Dead Legs played, and I absolutely loved it. Then, on side B, Hot For Teacher was badass and funny. I'll Wait was OK. Girl Gone Bad didn't blow me away the way it did a lot of VH fans, but House of Pain was amazing. So, it was really the last songs on each side that were my favorites.
I talked to Walter Shenson when those movie reissues were coming out, and he told me that he was taking a lot of crap from people saying that he was capitalizing on John Lennon's death, but the truth was that he had originally made the choice between getting more money up front or having all rights for the films revert to him in 15 years. He chose the latter and at the time everyone laughed at him because no one else believed that the rights to a Beatles movie would be worth a nickel in 15 years!
Interesting, you mean 15 years from 1964? (so like 79), coincidentally right around the time John died. When they were new I bet a lot of people didn't think they would be a timeless band
@@xennial80sxberner Yep, '79 for AHDN and '80 for HELP! He immediately began work on restoration as soon as they reverted to him; he told me that when he found the master negative of AHDN he discovered that someone had physically cut out chunks here and there to make trailers for earlier foreign releases of the film and so it took forever to take those parts from inferior prints and try to make them look good enough to match!
My friends and I would make fun of this commercial by singing, "Do you hate it? I hate it! I got it at Ross! (no wonder!)" We were bratty tweens. Those were the days!
Someone should make a movie, 'tales of Gainsville', Don Felder's book is a great source and Tom's interviews and the other incid3entals like Lynyrd skynyrd and Stephen Stills. It would be great.
