Podcast Episode: 0258 |
| Can the melodies woven into our lives really steer the course of our personal and automotive journeys? Embark on an evocative exploration of music's role in our experiences, especially when intertwined with the roar of an engine. We delve into the emotional resonance of Ozzy Osbourne's retirement and Black |
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Now, if you're one of those people that could just go for a drive in your car or even work all day without any music in the background, I don't know. That's kind of crazy to me. In the back of my mind, I always think those people are a little bit nuts because, seriously, how do you not listen to anything in the background? I get it if you're working in the middle of a shop. It's loud, it's crazy. But even still, in all the jobs I've ever had, music has played a vital role Working in a warehouse, working in a shop, being a driver to now working in an office. Music has always been there. And even in my own house I put the radio on, even when I'm not here all day. I used to do that for my dog. Well, unfortunately my dog has left, but it's something there. When I come home and there's no music in my house, I think it's weird. It's like what? This isn't home. It's a silent building. It feels like it's an abandoned. And that's what music does to us it brings us together. And if you sat there watching the Back to the Beginning concert, you saw tons and tons of different people out in that audience. You know, from true metalheads fully done up, to the next person wearing a polo shirt and khaki shorts, to somebody with pink hair, to somebody just dressed in a Miss Piggy costume. Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny. But everyone came together for one sole purpose Music brought us together. And music is also part of the automotive industry. It brings all of us together. Kind of think about it.
We've had music in automobiles nearly since the beginning. Ever since we found a way to get radios into the automobile, we have had music and we've tried to play music. And from the radio we actually at one point in time made a portable record player. You can plug into your car. Unfortunately, too many potholes in that throw your record player off and you can damage so many needles. It would get too expensive and it was big and it's bulky. But then comes the 8-track tape giving us the ability to listen to songs. Sure, it was only eight songs, but the 8-track had an amazing feature with it allowed us to choose what song we wanted to play at each time. There are only eight specific tracks there, but we can listen to each one whenever we wanted. Now the cassette eventually caused the demise of the 8-track in an automobile, and it really wasn't until the cassette came out into the automotive industry that music started playing more of a vital role.
So, you have to remember, with that we can have the radio, we can have news. So, during the days of like Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone, you know they put out warrants for people within that area. Watch out for this. You know, special announcement you could put it on the radio. Hell, you can create shows on the radio. How about the War of the Worlds? Yeah, the War of the Worlds scared tons of people, even though it was just all made up. But it was on the radio and it sounded super realistic. But it brought us together. It caused chaos and confusion but with some people it created a great story and a great thing about music back in those days is those were the early days of car chases. And you know, going back to my favorite show and this comes up a lot is the Simpson’s is when grandpa and homer are out selling the special tonic I love tonic. I see you're a man that looks like he needs to please his wife. You know that one and they leave the small little hick town. He's like, oh, they didn't start chasing us until you put on that music. Oh right, he turns it off and it's like the banjo, it's chase music from back in the early days of the automobile.
We had chase music, music that made us feel like we needed to go fast, and that's what music does to us. There are specific types of music. The louder it gets, it might make us more aggressive, it might make us want to drive faster. You know, mellow music just makes us want to chill and cruise. You know I have CDs for all of this. I have cruising CDs, I have racing CDs, I have driving CDs and I have chill CDs. Trust me, putting one of my trance CDs on while I'm driving is the worst thing, because that could put me to sleep. That's not something you need and that's one of those things you need to learn. You can't have specific types of music in vehicles, but everybody has their own select taste. But in the 1950s, rock and roll became more prevalent in automobiles. So, we're moving away from the classical music and country music of the past.
The music that brought all the people together as people put their windows down and start cranking the tunes. Got to remembers this is the 50s. We can't choose what music we're listening to, but we can still cruise to a radio station with music that we all love and when our specific song comes on, cruise to a radio station with music that we all love. And when our specific song comes on, we crank it and roll down the window so everybody can hear it. And as we roll up next to somebody maybe they didn't know that that song's on the radio and they're like, hey, that's a great song. And you start talking and then they say, hey, you want to go get a burger or something. Chit chat brings people together. They have a car full of girls and a car full of guys and this one song could just bring them together. You just jump out of your friend's car and jump into the girl's car because they love that specific type of music and you made a connection. At that short window, at that red light music did that. It brought us together. We were able to cruise up and down the streets.
Now, to remember, these are the early days of the automobile industry, where street racing was still allowed and police were still out in full force trying to stop us from listening to our music as loud as we want, because you know that's a no-no and there's specific groups out there that didn't like our loud music. Rock and roll was the music of the devil, but we didn't care, we cranked it. And if you're beside somebody who's got the country cranked and you're listening to rock and roll, they crank theirs even higher. So, they don't even have to listen to your music. You crank yours higher and eventually somebody would either yell at the other person or just roll up their windows because it's like I don't want to listen to their crap; I want to listen to my music and that creates the disconnect between us. But maybe, just maybe, one of those people takes a listen for a split second and realizes the music in the other car is pretty good. I like that song. Who's that? What does Hank Williams? Wow, I never realized. I like country huh, and you can be introduced to new music.
Now again, if you're not making money for it, it's not a business. Well, Napster wasn't making a business out of it. He can make money off of advertising, which creates profit off of what was happening, and I kind of get both sides of that story. So, you know we're not going to really get into that. But as we move from the 50s into the 60s and 70s, by the 70s, like I said, we're getting into 8 tracks and right at the end we're starting into the early days of the cassette and mixtapes. And in the 80s we get our cassettes and with cassettes we can now record music at home and cruise around with a dedicated set list of all of our favorite songs as loud as we want.
If we want to go for a cruise, we don't have to rely on the radio playing the songs we want, because by that time maybe your favorite song wouldn't play on the radio. Maybe you were listening to music that never gets played. Maybe, because it's the 1980s, you were listening to Black Sabbath, to Metallica, to Judas Priest, to Megadeth, to AC/DC, or, unless it's late night, like serious late night, and you live in a big enough city that it has a dedicated heavy metal or hard rock station, you can't listen to that in my hometown. Unless I was listening to the radio our general rock station after 11 pm. I wouldn't even get stuff like that, like I'd hear, disturbed down with the sickness after 11 o'clock at night. It really sucks because I wanted to listen to it during the day, but it's not a daytime general song, so I can create a cassette with our favorite songs on it and cruise in the middle of the day.
You can bring your music down to the beach, you know, open up the back doors of your awesome customized van, this amazing stereo system, and blast your music at the beach. Sure, you're going to piss some people off, but you know what. It's your music. You made the choice and they make the choice to stay there. Remember, we're all people on this earth and we all make our own choices and we don't have to make everyone else around us have the same choices as us. And that's the problem. A lot with society today is because everybody thinks that everybody else has to think that way. No, there's things called independent thinking and, as humans, music is the stuff that gives us all of our independent identities. All of our independent identities.
I have a massive stack of custom CDs I made while I was in college, all full of music for all different things. You know, I got the pop ones. I got my end of the year greatest hits of all the new music. I got heavy metal CDs. I got rock CDs. I got classics from the fifties. I got music with songs about high school, songs about California, songs about heaven and hell. I got love songs, I got power songs, I got techno, I got trance, I got hip hop, I got cruising the streets and I got love songs. I got power songs, I got techno, I got trance, I got hip hop, I got cruising the streets and I got racing the streets All music that creates a specific ambiance. Now we got that ability to change our music in our vehicles as we cruise.
Cassettes were great because, you know, it allowed us to listen to all kinds of music and make our own music. And if you really want to think about the ambiance of music and how it affects us with driving, just go and watch the movie Baby Driver. The kid has to have specific songs for when he's in a chase, when he's being chased, when he's cruising around. That's a perfect example of what we're talking about in this podcast Baby Driver. He literally just wanted music and he needed to drown out the background noise. You know the hum of the drum. It just needs to drown it out, right? That's all it was. So, if you really want to see a part of this, just go and watch the movie Baby Driver.
I went out and got all kinds of CDs to make this ultimate tape of cruising song, you know, like Radar, Love, Green Onions, hell, even the song And You by Edwin and Got the Life by Korn, like songs that make you want to go fast or cruise the streets, the best songs for driving to. But no, I don't have the actual best song, one of the best songs of all time that people say they love to sing and listen to in their car is by none other than a Canadian artist, Brian Adams, summer of 69. Oh yeah, they can get anybody singing and tons of people say that's a perfect song for a road trip. And it is. But you see, when I used to go out in my old days like everyone else you go cruise at nighttime, I wanted my music and if I'm just cruising downtown, nice and slow, I want to put my windows down and I want something with good bass. You know, back in those days, you know, put a little Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem and NWA, and rap and hip-hop was great music for cruising around the streets. Come on, still. Dre to this day is the ultimate cruising song.
For myself it gives me that feel of I just want to be in a 64-impala lowrider cruising around downtown with my friends, just have that song blaring for everybody to hear, because, man, it's just the ultimate song for cruising. And yeah, I got to give a shout out to Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg for that. You have to remember like I sat and watched the entire back to the beginning for Ozzy Osbourne, because he's a prince of darkness and heavy metal is such a big part of my life and yet I'm still listening to Dr Dre and Snoop when I'm cruising around. Come the summertime, when I have to put my windows down on my vehicle, I start getting into music like that, a lot more bass. So, I get into my techno phase. You know, listen to Daft Punk or Darude or you know even Eiffel 65 from back in the day, good bass, pumping music that can get people dancing, keep people moving. But then I also have my cruising songs and like one of my favorite songs on there is it's from the early days of Dre, from NWA, and you probably know what song it is. Yeah, we're going to say it.
Fuck the Police. Okay, my greatest story about cruising around with this once is I had that song blaring on my stereo as I'm sitting at a traffic light and a cop comes up next to me. Now most people thinking it's like oh shit, you know my windows are down. This thing's cranked to like 30 in my car so everyone around can hear me. My back window is bouncing around, my mirror on my front windshield is literally. I could see the whole thing shaking. Everybody can hear and feel my music and the cop just puts his window down, looks at me and goes excuse me the good nods, like you know, puts his window up, goes to the cop station. I'm like, okay, cool, he knows cool music, he likes it. Maybe he took down on my plate but I never got a ticket or anything. But maybe that officer liked that song, grew up loving that song, even though they became a cop. They understood what that song was about. It basically wasn't about trying to beat up the police or rising up against them. It was basically calling them out for their inactions against people, specific group of people at that point in time, but literally treating them like garbage when they didn't do anything. It was a statement and a lot of music does that Cruising around.
Slash is part of a techno song and is technically dance music, Mustang Nismo. That's Slash with the guitar, but it's still synthesized and created music on a computer in the background. And yet when you hear that, you could see that car and it just makes you want to see the light. Like there's this specific Slipknot song (Wait and Bleed) I used to keep. Um, I can't remember what the name of the album is off the top of my head right now, but the one with vermilion on it, uh, there's one of the songs on that cd I used to use as my ultimate street racing scene. I used to be able to put the song on and has such a long intro that the light would almost change at the perfect moment when I'm like go yeah, and you just hit it and take off.
I had powerful music like that. Hell, I even get my son pumped up when he goes go-kart racing with specific music like this. I'm like what music makes you feel powerful and want to get out there and race? What gives you that adrenaline and drive? For some people it might be pop music, for others it might be blues, for myself it's heavy metal. I don't know about you but like you know, being a metalhead, I can't get all riled up, pumped up for a good race by listening to like Backstreet Boys or Taylor Swift. Okay, no, no, that doesn't get me riled up, even though it's talking about some of these breakups and you know being pissed off at people. But no, I need powerful music, I need Slipknot, I need Judas Priest, I need Metallica's Master of Puppets. You want the ultimate racing CD, the ultimate workout CD, master of Puppets? Hell for myself. Back in the day when I used to go to the gym, my workout CD was Killadelphia by Lamb of God, their special live one from Philadelphia, the Killadelphia album. And I really wasn't into a lot of death metal, black metal back in those days, but Lamb of God I kind of got into and I saw them live in concert before they opened up for Pantera Well, not like the full Pantera, Zakk Wylde Pantera that exists now, but I learned that their music is just as powerful.
When that song came on the radio, when people were cruising around downtown Sudbury, anybody who liked rock and roll, that song was cranked and that's all you can hear downtown. For the entire duration of that song was hotel California blaring from everyone's radio. When it was done, some people would go and park and Just chit-chat. Oh, I never knew you loved that song. You know, brought these people together. Music does that and, like this past weekend in my home city, it was one of our biggest music festivals as well and it's not like all the music that I love, but it still brings all kinds of people together and when we put that music into our automobiles it could bring people together. You could pick up friends, drive them around and they can learn about new music they never heard about.
It can bring back old memories. For me, if I had a million dollars, it brings back the memory of the year my mom literally walked out on us. I can go back and see myself just hanging out with my uncle and my cousin because my uncle wanted to take care of my dad and make sure he was all good, with somebody literally just walking out on us. That song does that to me and that song comes on the radio. I can feel it. I can feel it. It creates emotion and a memory. That's what music does. That's what Black Sabbath and Ozzy did for me. I cried at Mama. I'm Coming Home. Even though I don't sing that song anymore because I don't talk to my mom, I still tear up because that song played a big memory of my life. My best friend who moved out to Calgary years and years ago. We were big fans of Ozzy and Black Sabbath together and it brought us together. It brought back old memories.
One of those songs comes on the radio when I'm cruising around in town and I might just crank it and sing along to it, and that's the other thing that music brings. You can be sitting in your car, not realizing that your windows are down, and you could be singing in the top of your lungs to your favorite song. People might give you a stare, some people might clap, some people might put up their windows because they want to hear you sing and other people might just say, hey, that was great. Or maybe they look over and go you've got an amazing voice. The automobile and music go together.
Music isn't just made for listening to in a vehicle, it's not made for promoting vehicles. Music is made for specific purposes of vehicles. There are some songs out there that give us that feeling. Songs about specific cars, songs about specific roads. Hell, summer of 69 is about a guy reliving his past. His greatest summer Now, funny thing for myself is my greatest summer of my life was the summer of 1999. So, when I sing that song, I sing the summer of 99. You know, the last great summer of my life, with all of my childhood friends. Some of them I never saw again since then, some of them we lost touch with, but that summer was the last great summer. It's not a song about driving, it's not a song about racing, but when it's in the car, everybody sings along to it and everybody has their own emotion that goes with it.
But like cruising around. What's it like when you get an NWA song and you're cruising around? Even on Grand Theft Auto, you're playing a video game, driving a song, and it gives you a completely different perspective of driving. It's standard, just background music, but a specific song comes on. You go a little bit faster. You'd be crazy, do donuts, hell. You might want to just get out on the highway and go as fast as possible, and songs do that for you.
The embodiment of our soul. They bring something out in us. Music is just a part of the automobile. Now I get it like professional racers and all that out there. We really don't get to listen to music as we race, but some of us, if you really want to get us into the zone, we'll listen to music before we go out to the track to have that song playing in our memory bank as we're racing. When our greatest foe passes us, we put that song on to get back into the zone to catch up and win.
Music does that, and with so many different genres of music, whatever music you love is the right music for you. You could tell me that someone like Taylor Swift is the biggest thing in the world. They sell out like crazy. But when Black Sabbath stated that they wanted to do their final concert, 16 minutes is all it took to sell out 40,000 seats. That tells me one thing there's a lot of metalheads out there still. Every musical genre can sell out. Steve Aoki can sell out for techno stadiums, Metallica could sell out for heavy metal, Taylor Swift can sell out for pop and pop country.
They all give us this feeling. They're all the different embodiment of different parts of us, and when we listen to them in our car, it gives us a relaxed state, it makes us happy, it makes us forget about everything else and we can just focus on driving. Because that's why we need the background music and the right background music for the specific time when your favorite song comes on the radio when you're driving, you can get lost in it. It puts you in a relaxed state and you can drive properly. Things don't bother you as much because that's the music you love, and all kinds of different types of music do that for everyone else.
Myself, like I said, went back to the beginning and watched Ozzy's last show. I teared up, I cried, I laughed, I got annoyed and I loved it. 10 hours on the couch watching the whole thing, but it was well worth it. It's not for everybody, but to see it. How many people out there watch the Taylor Swift show online because they couldn't make it to the show? How many of them will sing and belt it out in their car?
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