Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Brian Master Kicks Out the Jams: Toronto Mike'd #547

Episode Date: November 26, 2019

Mike catches up with Brian Master before they play and discuss his 10 favourite songs of all-time.

Welcome to episode 547 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, StickerU.com, Brian Master from KW Realty, Capadia LLP CPAs and Ridley Funeral Home. Hapodilla, LLP, CPAs, and Ridley Funeral Home. I'm Mike from torontomike.com, and joining me this week to kick out the jams is a name and voice Toronto Mike listeners know very well, Brian Master. Welcome back. Welcome back, my friend.

It's good to be here. Free beer, lasagna. Why not? But especially seeing you. I know you're busy. I see your picture posts on Facebook. And, you know, people love you. They clamor to get on your show. Everybody?

Because I was hanging out with John Shannon last night. You know John Shannon? John Shannon. Don't tell me. He used to produce Hockey Night in Canada. Correct. Correct. I think we did the music for his wedding back in the day.

We're going to get to the small world. That's mind-blowing to me. So I was with him because, you know, maybe I'll just jump right into this. But we were at Dave Hodge's event at the Paradise on Bloor, I think they call it. They refurbished an old theater. It looks gorgeous. Oh, yeah. On the north side. Yeah. It's like. Oh, yeah. On the north side.

Yeah, it's like, yes, it's on the north side. And it's like, I would say Dovercourt, but maybe just a little bit east of Dufferin. I know where you mean, yeah. Beautiful. It's been closed for years. Yes. And they refurbished it nicely.

Very nice. It's not even done yet. Like, there's a whole bar and restaurant thing not even done yet. But the first ever event was this Reporters Live. Quiz question for you. Brian, can you name the reporters um clark kent what that's actually that is correct i realized well dave hodge is one are these sports reporters yeah okay dave hodge bob mckenzie no oh um rick? No, that would be great though, the Hodge. Well, I'm sidestepped.

I don't know. Okay, it is. Give me a clue. I'm going to tell you the answer. That's even better than a clue. So Dave Hodge, Steve Simmons. Oh, he's a good writer. Michael Farber, came from Montreal.

He writes, you know what? He's a Montreal guy, so you're forgiven. Farber is a Montreal guy, so we don't know him in Toronto, unless you watch the reporters. And Bruce Arthur, who writes for the Toronto Star. Oh, okay. They had an event.

They had a big event, and Brendan Shanahan was the special guest. And like yourself, Brendan's a Mimico guy. I didn't know that. I always see him as a Detroit guy. That's right. Well, before Detroit, what was it, Hartford? Who drafted him?

St. Louis? I'm getting my brains on a fight. Anyway, all this is to say I found myself with John Shannon, and I said to John, because I had asked John Shannon to come on Toronto Mike, and he said no. And I asked him again in person, and he said no, he's not doing any podcasts, he tells me, even though he was

surrounded by people uh like he was surrounded by scott morrison dave perkins uh shirali najak uh people who had wonderful experiences on this program and were raving about it so uh he's still he's still stuck with his nose so but okay so here's the brian i'll give you everyone a little update first of all the event was fantastic like the the reporters were great and brenda shanahan was great and it was really a wonderful night like it was a great event the audio people at the paradise theater were recording this audio so they had their own not as nice as mine but they had a setup okay i. I now, you know,

hindsight being 2020, I wish I had just like taken over, but I let the radio guy do it and I won't name names. And I'm not here to shame anybody and accidents happen. It could happen to the best of us. But at 6 PM, I was talking to this individual about, did you do tests? How did it go?

And he was telling me about, he did tests, recording everything and everything was great. So I trusted it. And I knew I was in good hands because he was telling me about, he did tests, recording everything and everything was great. So I trusted it and I knew I was in good hands because he had, you know what, miners wear that thing

around their head with the light on the front. He had one of those on and I was joking with Tyler, Tyler Campbell was there. Hello, Tyler. I was joking that when your audio guy's wearing that,

you just trust them, right? They know what they're doing because they got a light on their head. Does the board not light up or what? I go back, so nine o'clock it ends or so, and I go to see this gentleman, and I'm like, how did it go?

Because I want to bike home with the audio file because my plan was last night, I had an intro with Dave, and I had stuff I was going to piece it together, and I was going to release this event as an episode of Toronto Mike. It was going to be episode 547. And he looks at me, and he goes, not good.

At first, I thought he was kind of doing a joke with me. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like that would be a joke you might do. And I said, oh, what do you mean? And he said, I don't have it. It's gone. It's gone. And I said, what's gone? But I know it's coming. He's gone. It's gone. And I said, what? What's gone?

But I know it's coming. He's like, it was all working. He said, he's been doing it for 10 years. He knows what he's doing, but this file, this file's gone.

Long story short, I left the Paradise Theater having a great experience, but having no audio file with me. So now I'm, I heard a guy video, there was a videographer and I'm hoping that maybe I can definitely pull the audio from that

if I can get my hands on that and then see if that's good enough. So I'm still working on plan B, but this was a long-winded way to say that the pristine quality audio that was planned to be released last night is lost in the... Lost in the ether. Has that ever happened to you where you lost a piece of audio i'm thinking um no but i know people it has happened to and a quick anecdote yes chuck mangione did a show at massey hall and the land of make-believe esther satterfield singer uh joe la barbara was a drummer great

drummer esther satterfield don don potter and they were recording it for an album and the tapes went a wall i don't know what happened nobody knew what it was recorded and then the physical tapes disappeared yes okay yeah there's no record of it at all but eventually it surfaced oh it did surface okay uh so okay but so why anyway I felt bad for this guy because you know

I kept first of all you can't cry over spilled milk unless I could build a time machine you know this happened

like there isn't it doesn't nothing was gonna I wasn't gonna yell at this he wasn't that I guess he was about 30 years old

but I wasn't gonna yell at him and beat him up like I actually said to him I looked him in the eyes and I felt bad for him I said you know that's what I said pardon my French everybody but I wasn't going to yell at him and beat him up. I actually said to him, I looked him in the eyes and I felt bad for him. I said, you know, that's what I said. Pardon my French, everybody. But I said,

shit happens. That's what I said to the guy. That's a good line. Did anybody else want the recording of it? Everybody. I think the whole idea was it would be shared with the masses. I think there were, I would say there's literally dozens of people who are hankering.

I'm just joking. There's probably a lot of people who would love to hear this. And I'm still going to try to do this. I have a plan B I'm working on. But worst thing is, so after this happens and I'm talking to Dave and I'm giving Dave the bad news. And I'm worried, now I'm worried in my mind that somehow because I was responsible for this, that Dave's going to think, oh, Toronto Mike screwed this up or something. I'm thinking there was nothing I could humanly do to, you know, I left it in good hands.

Yeah, you don't need to think like that. It was out of your hands. Right. Somewhere along the way, something got lost. Something got forgotten or lost. Or even an equipment malfunction, which is what I think is the go-to excuse here. Like I said, not as nice a board as mine.

So I go outside because I have my bike locked up outside. We're in the Bloor and Dufferin area. And my bike is still there. That's good news. But guess what? Somebody stole the lights. I have a bike. And normally,

I actually normally take the light because it's just you press the thing down and you pull it out. I normally take the lights with me because somebody might steal them. But this time I was like, I don't know, I was in a rush or whatever.

I forgot. I left them in, I'm like, who's going to steal my lights? So they're like 18 bucks. But this time I was like, I don't know, I was in a rush or whatever, I forgot, I left them in, I'm like, who's going to steal my lights? So they're like 18 bucks. But the thing is, I had to bike home with no lights.

And it was, you know, so I'm happy to be here with you, Brian. I'm glad you made it back. Are they still reporting at that theater? Man,

Can we do a take two? I was going to say, Brendan, reporters, do that again. It was perfect. Just do it again. I need to record it. I will say that I'm glad to have you back because you were here for episode 489.

Wow. Is that right? Yeah, it was an hour and 36 minutes. And man, it was fantastic. Is it true you've been a radio for 50 years is that even popular i never count but i guess really january 69 do the math yeah so again i uh there's a guy um there is one guy working in the market because he's at element fm uh-huh where doug thompson works because i want to get to him in a minute oh i didn't know he was working there yep he's

helping with imaging at element fm which records in the chorus key building and dog who i'm about to get to but uh this gentleman bob mcgee yeah might be the last guy on the radio maybe the maybe you need him to retire and then you get the throne i don't think anyone's been on not that matters doesn't matter bob mcgee's been, I've known him for years. In fact, I got a story about him when we were both at Chum. He was at 1050 Chum and I was at Chum FM. When we're in anecdote mode. Yeah, no, now.

Oh. I'm ready. I was like. Okay, there was a show, there was a Beatle tribute show going on in the north building of St. Lawrence Hall down on King Street. Was it King? Front Street. building of st lawrence hall down on uh king street is it king front street and he had just gotten off the air and i was hanging around the station and he said let's go to this and i said i don't have tickets he said we don't need tickets we work for chum and i'd never done that kind of thing before i don't like doing that kind of thing i did it last night but continue

and it's like when people say do you know who I am yes but now I've forgotten anyway so we went to this thing and he introduced himself he was using a different name at that time

and he said this is Brian Master from Gem FM oh come on in come on in it was like I felt I didn't feel right

they want you to talk about it on the air right is that the deal no there was none of that there was no tit for tat kind of thing but you do get those things where they you'll get invited and you'll be given a car and can you talk on the air about it right not a car but sure but the uh speaking of talking about things on the

air yes last week i went to the canadian songwriters hall of fame induction and it was fantastic i see you got a picture of maestro Fresh West. Yes. He did Let Your Backbone Slide live. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The 30th anniversary of that song. Fantastic. And the groups that got inducted for the songwriting, Dominic Troiano got inducted posthumously for Opportunity for Mandela.

George Oliver was there to do it with a great backup band and singers including Kathy Young just tore the roof off the place amazing and then uh foot in cold water three of the four members uh the fourth unfortunately paul noman is no longer on the planet but uh danny taylor huey leggett and alex munchin were all there and they did they didn't make me do anything you want and i was at that session back in the 70s at manta sound it was a long session wow yeah it was great to see that and then who was next um oh clatu terry i can't remember his last name they they they accept award for calling occupants of interplanetary craft wow and. And Lorraine Segata was there. I got to have her on my show at 2088.5 because it's the 25th anniversary of Rise Up.

And she did it live with a couple, with some surviving members of Parachute Club plus Mika Barnes. She's related to, maybe through marriage, to Jean Valaitis. Am I right? From Jesse and Jean? Oh, I don't know about that.

I think there's some connection. Anyway, I can't remember now. Maybe because Jean was there too. Yeah, her sister maybe? Something like that. I don't know about that. I think there's some connection. I can't remember now. Maybe because Gene was there too. Yeah, her sister maybe? I don't know the connection. So to see all that talent, I hope I got them right. Let's see. Mandela,

Finicola Water, Klaatu, Parachute Club, and The Maestro. Awesome. Yeah, all doing it live. And the second half, I didn't stick around it live. And later, in the second half, I didn't stick around, but Tom Cochran.

Oh, yeah. He's wonderful. He's great. He should be doing the halftime show at the Great Cup. Tom Cochran. Oh, what a great idea. Thank you.

They can steal that from me. That is a great idea. You said something to me before I pressed record that kind of blew my mind, in that you never liked your voice. What do you think of your voice now when you listen back to yourself on jewel i didn't say i didn't like it i said i never thought i had a good voice okay do you think you have a good voice now i think i do sometimes yeah people seem to think i do so i'll just run with that

you're gonna take their word for it i mean excuse me you gotta remember back in the day when i started the voices were all from the ankles. And it was, pardon the term, it was a ballsy voice. I never had a ballsy voice. Okay, so is it in the 70s with Chum FM and sort of, I want to say the Marsden stuff, the voice kind of changed maybe? It kind of like the radio moved to a place where you could find a home there at chum fm it was basically be yourself on the radio that's it there was no

over the top kind of kind of stuff and each announcer had their own different style the daytime guys uh the morning show pete and geeks they were you know great rapid patter when it needed to be david marston bless his heart um still he's still going strong he's got a he's got a an internet show he does once a week and he would work the mic only this close and and why the spirit.com by the way i uh all right give a shout out to marston's uh jim bauer uh listening to jim was like sitting in a room talking to him he's so natural and And David Pritchard was a real performer. I mean, he was just, he was just, what's the word I'm looking for?

A little eccentric, but so lovable. It was, it was a great time. I'm just going to put on a little Frank Zappa because I got to let you know that I want to give credit to Lucas. Lucas, yes. Lucas Iannetta, I believe. I got to make sure I'm pronouncing that right. But Lucas had a book about Chum FM. And in this book, there's this great photo of Brian Master and Frank Zappa. And he took a picture and tweeted. I mean, I've been sharing

it all over the place. I think it's the coolest picture you've got. You know, you just, just, I made, i made a comment that uh this gentleman is coming to kick out the jams and of course i got the obvious joke back which is uh no because frank's frank's dead you can't anyway so what but wiki met zappa is he i mean i always thought he'd be a real smart interesting guy you hit the nail on the head he we and i he and i had a bit of a rapport. Every time he'd come to the station, we'd hang out and he loved Rick Moranis as well. Rick had interviewed him. And I met Frank and his bodyguard, Mr. Smothers, this giant of a man who's gentle as a lamb.

And we would go to a bar called the 22 to the Windsor Arms Hotel and drink Chablis and talk the night away. He was such a warm, endearing person, musical genius. I think at the time, the best sound system touring was with Zappa. And he always had this kind of

screw you attitude to the world. I'm doing it my way. And he did it my way. He was somebody you would learn from and we would always joke around and and that picture it's in a book called the history of chum right and um i don't know i can't remember who took it might have been john rollins and um he said come on let's pose for this so we you know we struck a pose as you see in the picture one of the most memorable people i've ever met. Would you consider growing back the beard?

Because you have a beard in that picture, right? No, I was starting the hipster movement at that time in the 70s. And as you can see, it caught on. Yes, no, it's everywhere now. I'm jealous of all these bearded guys. Yeah, great photo. Thank you. Speaking of the history of Chum, since you were last on the program,

Doug Thompson, we already mentioned him, but he's going to get another mention here because he came on and presented the history of 1050 Chum. Did you ever listen? You've got to listen to this because he brought in 21 clips. I loaded them up. And he kind of did it. He was like a tour guide.

He would set it up and explain. And even if you are too young to remember, 1050 Chum is a top 40 station, right? So we run the gamut. We went from the 50s to the early 80s when Jungle... Is it Jungle J. Nelson who was the morning show? Tom Rivers. When Tom Rivers quits, I think that's when...

It was the early 80s when he leaves for CFTR. That's when we kind of stopped our retrospective. But I encourage everybody. And now, Doug, I actually did get a tour. I got a tour of the chorus key building where I mentioned Element FM is because Doug gave me a tour. He got me in with his pass card. I think I had to hop some turnstiles or whatever, which was pretty cool. I got to see Q107 and CFNY and 640.

They were all Kelly Couture was on and other FOTMs, Joanne Wilder. Anyway, because I was delivering, I needed to deliver to him his Palma Pasta lasagna. So at this event yesterday,

Scott Morrison was there, longtime Sportsnet guy and he's fantastic and he came up to me to say, Mike, that lasagna you gave me when i was on your show he said is the best lasagna i've ever had so i'm just here to report

that scott morrison says the lasagna is the best lasagna uh he's ever had uh brian i have a lasagna for you oh yeah in the freezer upstairs and an invitation to you if you're available on saturday december 7th between noon and 3 p.m i'm recording live at palmas kitchen oh cool near mavis and burnham thorpe i'll get you the exact address i should memorize it but if you dropped by you could come on the microphone and uh talk i think people would really get a kick out of meeting Brian Master. You think so? I'm certain. That's Pearl Harbor Day. That's why I chose that day.

I was going to Hawaii that day, but I'll detour and come to Palma Pasta. Come to Palma's Kitchen. It's, yeah, Seminac Court is the name of the street, but it's near Mavis and Bernthorpe. Okay. And everyone listening should come as well because there will be free pasta, courtesy of Palma Pasta. And I had a great meeting at Great Lakes Beer yesterday, Great Lakes Brewery, and they're going to send over a bunch of beer for listeners.

Yahoo. Cold, frosty beer. You told me you were at Great Lakes. When were you there? Yesterday. Yeah. And what's your favorite? Do you have a current favorite Great Lakes beer?

Canuck has been my favorite. But there's a lager. You don't have it here. They just started this. I wish I could remember the name of it. I got four of them. No, it's not here. But I mentioned to them that I like the one you gave me back in the summer called Humber.

And they don't make that. I guess they rotate. There are some beers. This is what I've learned like the connect pale ale is there 12 months a year so blonde lager too blonde lager for sure and even now octopus wants to fight which is my current favorite there and there's several there are beers that are there all year round but there are other beers that are like seasonal like for example they just reintroduced uh where is it shinny pants and for example the session Session Stout. And that guy gets a winter beer.

And there's different beers that kind of come and go. But, oh, yeah, the Red Leaf is always there as well. That term, Shinny, always reminds me of Rick Hodge. Tell me why. He used that word a lot when he was doing his sportscasts. You've given me this idea to get Rick Hodge and Dave Hodge on the show together. Because I, and this is, okay, speaking of great things, I've got to tell this real quick anecdote. And then it's all about you brian i promise so no take your time i'm gonna

say frank's uh talking in my ear i'll bring him down but uh oh i think he was i always wondered he had his biggest hits were like you know like a valley girl or something like he was just that wasn't his hit oh that was his daughter, right. And you remember his son's name? Dweezil. That a boy. That's a great name. Okay. Excuse me. The first Frank Zappa album I heard was in 1968, and it was called Freak Out, The Mothers of Invention.

And one of the main songs was Suzy Cream Cheese. Too avant-garde, right? When you listen to that, it's like, whoa, what is this? Right. It's pretty neat. When Mark Hebbshire was the first ever person to kick out the jams, which we're going to do shortly, he put a Zappa song on his, and I was thinking, that's kind of cool, because a lot of people love Zappa,

but he doesn't usually make top 10 lists, you know what I mean? He's not that kind of artist. I think the music jives with what's happening in your life at the time you know there's that it's a huge it's a huge nostalgia barometer that's for sure but right and some songs you know some songs are just the tip of the iceberg for the artist like i had to chose one by the beatles and as it happens i was going through the beatles live at the bbc albums right And that one popped up and so.

Well, I can't wait to get to your jams here. Okay. The anecdote I was going to drop real quick was Dave Perkins was at this event last night. So I was chatting with him because he was on pretty recently. And he told me, I gave him a six pack of Great Lakes beer.

And this is Dave talking. He's going to come on with Bob Elliott in a few weeks actually. Dave Perkins and Bob Elliott to come on with Bob Elliott in a few weeks, actually. Dave Perkins and Bob Elliott to mumble baseball stories at me for 90 minutes, which I can't wait. So he can tell the story himself,

but I'll tell it ahead of time that Dave said, I gave him a six-pack of Great Lakes brewery. He says, now that's the only beer he'll drink. He only drinks now Great Lakes.

That's how much he enjoyed the six-pack I gave him of Great Lakes. So he'll tell the story again, but that's Dave Perkins. He came up to tell me. it's interesting when i go to these events and people come up and they don't want to talk about what a great what a great conversation we had they were talking about the lasagna and the beer you know the stickers this is what they want to do so uh wow okay so thank you for that uh dave perkins doug so you recorded a message for doug thompson who you

worked with and that was cool. But then Gord Stelic came on and Gord, we're talking about Brian Master, right? And he says, you know, he was the DJ at my wedding. Can you, do you have any memories of the Gord Stelic wedding? I sure do. What can you share with us? We need to know. Nothing.

What happens in the wedding stays in the wedding. Yeah, Lisa, his lovely wife, right? Yes. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. I think it was at a golf course. I can't remember which one. Yeah, it was a while ago now.

And there were some hockey types there. I can't remember who. To be honest with you, I don't follow hockey much it's baseball football but um when i was a kid i mean hockey was hockey was really it for chic then the chicago blackhawks was my favorite team right and uh the how i wonder who would be at that wedding from those early leaf he's kind of a early 80s. There was a guy who managed the leaves, either before or after him. Okay.

I can't remember the name though. I don't know, but that's cool that you, I think it's Small World when I hear, oh yeah, he did my wedding. Also Small World stories is Gary Top came on. And Gary, how do you know Gary? We, I guess it was through Q107. I was there for two years,

and we did a lot of work with the Garys, you know, the Gary Top, and I can't remember, unfortunately. Gary Cormier. Gary Cormier. And they were booking a lot of things into the Edge and doing that kind of, for lack of a better term,

new wave kind of acts that were coming in. So there was that kind of relationship there with them the uh yeah the the edge and we should just if you're confused by that because they call a radio station i know that's the on the ryerson oh yeah it was a coffee it was called edgerton's and then the folk king folk thing kind of uh took a detour right um not that it's gone completely, but then Punk or New Wave, whatever you want to call it, kind of came in.

And the most memorable show, I think there was, the police did a show for the Garys because they'd promoted them when they first came. Yeah, at the horseshoe. No. I mean, that's the first time the police ever played Canada. I think there was a Gary show. I was there. I think there was police ever played Canada. That was a Gary show.

I was there. I think there was about 15 of us. That's what I heard. I always found that amazing. And a friend of mine said she knows 200 people who said they were there. I bet it's more than that now. It's like how many people were at the first Blue Jays game? Well, I think 300,000 people said they were there.

I have to ask you about this. This is the one where Sting is in his underwear for the encore. Do you remember any of this? I don't look at guys' underwear, so I don't't know no red hot chili pepper shows for you though uh but it was good was it do you remember like i mean when you're there you don't realize because roxanne hasn't broke yet so you don't realize the police are the police but was it a great show at the horseshoe yes oh yeah the musicianship was like, who are these guys? But fast forward to the Edge show. And at that time, they'd been established.

And there's 200 people packed in there. And it was as exciting and heart-racing as when the Rolling Stones were the El Macombo. It was that kind of craziness. That El Macombo, they could come back. I think it's right. Is it open yet? I don't know. It's been refurbished. I don't know what's going could come back. I think it's right. Is it open yet? I don't know.

It's been refurbished. I don't know what's going on with it. They put the sign up, so I don't know. For a while, all summer, my son worked at the Burger King across the street from that El Macombo. So I would bike over to just hang out or whatever, and then I saw it many times.

But okay. That's fantastic. The small world, the guests and how they kind of intertwine with you. And it's been great having your voice in the show. So I want to talk about the other side of your life because you're a radio guy, but you're more than that. I want to give you stickers from stickeru.com. Thanks.

I put them on one of my equipment cases, actually. Well, that's cool. You've got to send me a picture. You're not on Twitter, right? I was going to say you've got to tweet me a picture, but you're not on gotta, you gotta send me a picture. You're not on Twitter, right? I was gonna say you gotta tweet me a picture, but you're, uh, you're not on Twitter.

I'll email you a picture. Email, email me a picture, right? Okay. I'm collecting them. That's, that's very,

very cool. The, there's a song, I did not play this last time you were on. We talked about a million great things, but I'm going to play it now and I'm going to ask you about it because I didn't realize, I think I didn't realize at the time you were involved in this

and this is a song I loved as a young man. Let me play it and then we'll chat about it. Whose voice is that? Do you remember? Paul? Who's Sileak? Oh, Paul Husiak.

Right. Yeah, he was an engineer at CHFI. Is it true that Brian Master, you, the Brian Master, is playing drums on this track? No, not me. Okay, this is bad intelligence I got. I was told that you were on drums. No. So you didn't bad intelligence I got. I was told that you were on drums. No.

So you didn't... But I know that song. When I had a band in high school, we used to do that song. Well, yeah, Hang On Sloopy, but the Hang On Blue Jays, you were at CHFI at the time, right? Yeah.

Okay, so I think Paul is my source for this. So he... I was told that you were... Oh, there's some Howard Cosell. He assured me that you were the drummer for this track. Oh, I'll take were from toronto there's some howard cosell he assured me that you were the drummer for this track and now i see i know but you don't have any memories of this no and you wouldn't forget that no i wouldn't i would remember that now speaking of drums when

hal blaine bless his heart passed away uh i put something on i think dougie doug thompson had put something up and i made a comment on it and he sent me a track of a commercial that he had produced that i played drums on it was actually a snare drum okay maybe that's where the confusion comes from because if you had played drums on something else maybe that's where the lines get crossed and they've given you credit on the hang on blue jays wow and paul plays once a week at a pub on Lakeshore or Royal Windsor out that way. Okay, cool. Yeah.

So I remember it from the 80s, that song, because I loved all the Blue Jays songs, and I loved that one, and I didn't have a copy of it, and I think I was tweeting, oh, does anyone have a copy of Hang On Blue Jays? Like, just a shot in the dark. It was sent to me by Ian Grant. Do you know Ian Grant?

Yeah, he was my editor i i used to write some articles for a magazine he was an editor for see it all comes together brian i can't remember boys so much stuff so much stuff so i have a copy now and i played it there and i'm disappointed now to learn that brian master is not playing drums on that track so uh i was because i did this clever i think clever tweet that it was it was keith hampshire's birthday you know uh keifer keith yeah and great golfer by the way if you're listening yeah oh yeah he's a terrific golfer that's what he tells everybody anyway so i tweeted happy birthday to fotm that means friend of toronto mike uh happy birthday to fotm keith

hampshire and i said keith was, the vocals on OK Blue Jays. And I said, my next guest played drums on Hang On Blue Jays. False advertising. What did Keith say? No, he's not a Twitter guy. I didn't get a reply from him. His daughter, actually. Laura.

Yeah, she's on the air somewhere. Yeah, she's lovely. I think she's in Hamilton. Yeah, she's on the air somewhere. Yeah, she's lovely. I think she's in Hamilton. Yeah, she's a very talented woman. I'll get tweets from her but not from Keith, that's for sure. Alright, so by the way Sticker U has a bricks and mortar store on Queen Street

just I would say east of, maybe just near Bathurst and we're going to yeah, it just opened and it's fantastic and we're going to do a Toronto Mike listener experience there in 2020. So Stick's fantastic and we're gonna do a toronto mic listener experience there in 2020 so sticker you we're moving east a little further east we're coming for you that'll be fantastic you should play stuck on you by elvis or by limo richie i played a uh i did play when the owner the founder of sticker you came over to kick out the jams i definitely played stuck on you

for him absolutely and they do custom stuff obviously these are great yeah you upload any image like if you had a brian master monogram or something uh you would upload the image and you could what do you want you decide what you want what size how many you could get like one or you could get a thousand or you could get a suppose you can get a million if you want and uh it's been well priced and quality stuff and they do it in liberty village it's been well-priced and quality stuff. And they do it in Liberty Village. It's local. And not that you have to be in Toronto to order,

but they, yeah, they do it nearby. And excellent people. And they do good work. Great. And I've been mailing these stickers. So people, I have a listener. What is her last? I know her last name is Lisa Pearl, I want to say.

Her last name's Pearl. She's in Milwaukee. Wow. And she listens to the program. I don a listener. What is her last? I know her last name is Lisa Pearl, I want to say. Her last name's Pearl. She's in Milwaukee. Wow. And she listens to the program. I don't know. I got to find out her connection to Canada because I don't have a lot of like, you know, you got to have some kind of connection to Canada

to care about Dave Bedini because she was telling me how much she enjoyed the Dave Bedini episode. I don't think Bedini's big in Milwaukee. But I'm mailing her a sticker because she wants to put it on her car. There's a great song. What made Milwaukee famous has made a mess out of me or something like that. That's beer.

Now I'm thinking of Laverne and Shirley's opening there. Okay. So why don't you take a moment here to tell us a little bit. We've talked a lot about you as a radio star, like 50 years on a radio. Well, come on. I've been,

uh, I was looking for it behind me, but I have it upstairs. I've been drinking out of my jewel mug. Oh, good. Nice job. Yeah.

It's a great, great, it's a great mug. I love the jewel, jewel mug. Uh, and I have these sunglasses still. You do the jewel sunglasses,

limited edition. Oh, you got the black. Oh, those look really cool on you i'll be like uh well i don't know is it who would i be like bob mccowan maybe uh wearing shades inside or howard stern more like risky business look oh that's that's tom cruise yes it is i haven't been so flattered since colleen rush home told me i looked like ted danson but i like tom

cruise better oh you look way better than Ted Danson. That's impossible. Okay. Is there room to move our heads in here? Hi. I want you to keep going. Honestly, I need more of this. I lost my lights yesterday and the audio file. So, okay.

You're a salesperson with Keller Williams Realty Solutions Brokerage, and I've been telling people that they can get on your mailing list. I'm on your mailing list, but tell me about the mailing list. And again, just before you even begin, let's get you home at kw.com is the way to reach Brian. Yes, and I've had a few responses actually from the podcast. Thank you very much. Good.

We went a few more. So if anyone's listening. We do. And lots of room. It's called the Client Appreciation Program. Now, you don't have to be ready to buy or sell. It's to get you to get me referrals. I work by referral because, you know, you're a quality person and you obviously hang around with quality people.

And that's the kind of people I like to work with. So it's referral based. And every month I'd send out a mailing and I brought yours over today. And it's always about a different topic. It's not alwaysbased, and every month I'd send out a mailing, and I brought yours over today. And it's always about a different topic. It's not always about real estate. I mean, I can send you market stats and whatnot, but this is basically to keep in touch. So the one I'm going to be mailing out next week is for December,

and it's got some great stuff on here. Here, hold it up just for the periscopers there. But can I see this? Yeah, five tips to stress less this holiday season. And on the other side is how to liven up a holiday party. It's great stuff. The key is you're not sending a letter every month to say, buy and or sell with me now.

Like this is not that this is, it's here. I am. It's here. I am. And here is valuable information you can use. So thank you so much. And the,

the, the, the, my whole goal is, is service from a pre pre deal through the transaction. I my whole goal is service from pre-deal through the transaction. I'm going to hold your hand all the way through it. And then afterwards, it's, and I want to be like a trusted advisor to you. I've got some great references. And when you look for a reference, like say we do a deal and you want a house inspector, I will give you three names

and you contact them and see which one you feel most comfortable with. Each of those names are people that I've worked with and trust and know they'll do a good job. And same when it comes to like legal things and mortgage brokers, lenders, that kind of thing. So it's complete. And buying a house or selling one is not like having a garage sale or buying a toaster oven. It's a really big deal. And unfortunately, I think there's some things in the market that treat it like buy one, get one free. I see some of those signs that say, if I can't sell your home, I'll buy it. And then you read the fine print and, oh, well, maybe not.

So the thing is, you want to work with somebody hand in hand, totally keep in touch with them all the time through the entire process. And to me, it's not about the money. The money comes. You do a job and the money comes. The most important thing and my favorite part of it is on the agreement of purchase and sale, there's an acknowledgement. And when that acknowledgement is, all the signatures are on and that acknowledgement is signed by the last person accepting the deal, it's a done deal.

And that's what makes me feel elated because somebody got a home they wanted or they sold the house they wanted so they can move into something else. So to me, it's all about service. And well, you know that in being in this kind of business that, uh, service is what sells and service is what people like. They, they like,

they like to be, what's the word? Uh, Brian Buffini, who is my real estate mentor. He says, when people first meet you, they, they mentally ask two things. Uh, do you care about me? And can I trust you? And I like to fulfill that. Literally a trusted voice that we've been hearing for 50 years. So, you know, I was going to say... Except the end of the world episode, but that's a whole other thing.

That's a good story. So anyway, if I can just say, let's get you home at kw.com. Brian Master, sales representative for Keller Williams Realty Solutions Brokerage. Will you record a voicemail greeting for home at kw.com brian master sales representative for keller williams uh realty solutions brokerage will you record a voicemail greeting for uh clients that you service i would just think that the brian master voice on the voicemail that would be yeah i do that sure yeah thank god that'd be cool now you mentioned this hi uh mike's not home right now do you want to buy a condo no i

wouldn't do that right uh you know by far the biggest purchase i mean by far the biggest purchase i've ever made was a real estate a home and you don't go yeah don't fall for a gimmick with that like don't you know come on are you kidding me you need someone you can trust and can hold your hand through the process and yeah you're the man. Oh, thank you. I take great pride in it. And I've got some great, well, I overused that word. The testimonials I've got are very encouraging and heartfelt. And I still keep in touch with people that I've done deals with two, three, four years ago. It's important. So what we're asking for here is to get you on the mailing list with the valuable information.

I just got my December issue. I look forward to it. Also, it's also exciting to get snail on the mailing list with the valuable information i just got my december issue i look forward to also it's also exciting to get snail mail can i tell you it's easy you know it's it's kind of neat an envelope for me and it's not a it's not a bill i think it's really cool so this is again let's get you home at kw.com yeah for sure now you're i'm gonna ask about like like like you're not just, um, South West Toronto, right? Like, is there any geographic boundaries? Like, do you focus on, uh, cause I know you're a mimical guy.

Basically Southwest Toronto. No, I'd say all along the Lake shore, but that's basically where, but because, you know, we're licensed in Ontario, you can sell pretty well anywhere in the province, but you want to be familiar with the market. And if it's something like, say, for example, you wanted to move up to Bob Cajun from Mimico. Right. I don't know the area, but I have a referral that lives up there,

a KW agent, or I should say, not a lot of use of the word agent, really. It's a misnomer. A sales rep or a broker that i would refer you to up there and look after you awesome so again uh and excuse me that goes for the the kw the keller williams network is is worldwide it's astounding how many like you could buy something overseas america caribbean mediterranean well connected So again, you mentioned the Southwest. There is a gentleman I want to say hi to right now, Brad, at 14th and Lakeshore, not too far from here.

A little west of here. Yeah, so you got, yeah, like there's a Rabb is at 13th and then you go a little bit further. On the north side of Lakeshore is Ridley Funeral Home. So Ridley Funeral Home. So Ridley Funeral Home, and what we're promoting here is this event that they're hosting at the Assembly Hall on December 4th at 7 p.m. This is the Holidays and Hope Candlelight Service.

They do it every year at the Assembly Hall, which is like Kipling and Lakeshore. Part of Humber? Humber College, I think so. I always get confused. What's Humber College? What's public? But it's definitely that cluster,

for sure, for sure, where they filmed the Police Academy. I always drop that anecdote on my kids and they're sick of it. But this is their annual free memorial service in honor of those loved ones who have passed away and cannot be with us this holiday season.

So if you'd like more information, again, this is Wednesday, December 4th at 7 p.m. at the Assembly Hall. And you can always go to RidleyFuneralHome.com or call 416-259-3705. Brian Master, are you ready to kick out the jams? Yeah, let's do it. everything that you do and I do hey hey hey and I do I never realized what a kiss could be this could only happen to me can't you see, can't you see That when I tell you that I love you You're gonna say you love me too

And when I ask you to be mine And when I ask you to be mine, you're going to say you love me too. The Beatles. All John. All John. Is John your favorite Beatle? No. Who's your favorite Beatle? I loved every one of them, but my favorite was George.

And that, if you were listening to that, you wonder why you can't get that sound live. They double-tracked their vocals. They're singing with each other. And when you listen to the live of the BBC albums, you hear them no no double tracking. They did a couple overdubs on a couple things, but this song was from Hard Day's Night,

and of course they wrote it, and in reading, finally reading the liner notes about the Beatles live at the BBC, they realized early in their career, when they were performing live a lot, that the opening acts would be doing the same American rock and roll songs that they were doing in their set. So we better write our own.

And that's how it all... Wow. Yeah, a wow is right. So this, like I said, this was the tip of the iceberg. Almost every Beatles song I hold so near and dear. It'll never happen again. And we're... I'm part of that generation that's so

grateful that we grew up with them and now people have this to as kind of a marker for for that for that era we talked about gary top but he shared a story about how uh chum 10 50 chum was only playing beatles but wasn't playing rolling stones. And he was a big Rolling Stones guy. And he wrote a letter to, uh, really? Yeah. Is it,

uh, waters? What was his first name? Who was running? Mr. Waters. Right. Alan Waters.

Alan Waters. Right. He wrote a letter. He got a response back, but he wrote a letter about why won't you play the Rolling Stones? And apparently the reply was something about how they're like the, the, the bad band,

the dirty band. I don't know. It was about how there was a perception. Yeah, back then there was a perception. The Beatles were like the good band. I think they were all pals. Sure. And I think they kind of propagated that between them.

Well, yeah, they all benefited, I suppose. I love that song. Dad, I was going to ask you how you pick a Beatles song if you're a Beatles fanatic like yourself. I literally closed my eyes and I did. I just, and plus the band I had in school, well, and after school too, we did a lot of Beatles stuff. And that was a pretty, what's the word?

It was a good song to play because it was one vocal. There was no harmonies in it. Sounded good, man. Yeah uh why some of this stuff just when you when you just pull an album out like one of the early ones like um oh um rubber soul now here's a story i got that album rubber soul for christmas when i was in a teenager and my parents had gone up to some friends for Christmas in Port Elgin. And I didn't go with them because my band had a gig in London at Winterland or Wonderland. I can't remember. And I got Rubber Soul, listened to it.

I opened it Christmas morning, called my mom and dad, and went over to our guitar player's house. And I said, look what I got. And they said, oh, let's choose a song. So we listened to In My Life. Wow. And practiced it on the way in the car, on the way up to the gig and did it that night. Wow.

One of my favorite Beatles songs. Yeah, it was at my wedding. That was that song. Wow. That and God Only Knows. And Since You Asked by Judy Collins. Anyway, we're off track here. No, that's the joy.

By the way, that is what I like about Kicking out the jams is the stories that it leads to so that's all part of the part of the beauty beautiful process here so let's kick out another brian master jam what size is that oh i hope i didn't screw up um george benson yeah we all remember west was the song i chose but this is fine what's this what's this song called i believe this song to be called i remember west oh i remember west, we all remember. Okay. Is it? Okay, I screwed up then. Do you want me to? Is it a different song?

Yeah, it is. Anyway. No, I'm not. It's just a marker, right? The first time I saw George Benson, this is what it goes back to. He's my all-time favorite solo musician. I was hanging out with a couple of drummers in Buffalo one summer. A guy

named Brad Gray, who played with a band called the Buffalo Beatles, and a friend of his, Gary Malabar, who played in a band called the Vibrados. I lost track of Brad, but Gary went on to play for, he was Steve Miller's drummer. He played on the Moondance album by Van Morrison.

When I got that album at the station one day, I was working in St. Catharines, looking on the back of the drums, Gary Malabar, wow. So he did really well. But anyway, we go to this place in Buffalo, a wonderful place called the Pine Grill. And this huge guy, he walked me to the door and said, gentlemen, we've got a great table for you.

We would go and see a fabulous organist named Brother Jack McDuff. But his drummer was a guy named Joe Dukes. And these guys, like Jack McDuff's organ, with Big Hammond, and he had played the bass pedals with his feet. And we go one week, and who was it?

Was Montgomery here? What is this? And everybody's saying, this kid's playing like Wes Montgomery. Who's he think he is? So Jack McDuff comes on to introduce this fine young man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who we feel is going to be a big star one day. Not only can he play a wonderful guitar, as you can hear,

he's also going to sing a tune for you. Please welcome George Benson. And that was 1966. And I wanted to play We All Remember Wes because Wes Montgomery was George Benson, and that was 1966. And I wanted to play We All Remember Wes because Wes Montgomery was George Benson's mentor. But is there, okay, again, I'm not as familiar with George Benson as you are, but this song, which is called I Remember Wes,

is a different song than We All Remember Wes? I don't know. Because they're just asking for confusion. Maybe I'm confused. I listened, I got it from the Live in L.A. album. Huh. But this is good. Okay, good, because...

But this is what Wes Montgomery sounded like. That's why when you first started, I thought it was Wes Montgomery. You see how you open things up? It's great. And I'm looking at your jam. You have a bonus jam, so we're actually kicking out 11 jams. I see here. You snuck one in there. I could have done 300, believe me.

And believe it or not, probably of all your jams, the one that would be most currently the most popular song of all your jams, I would argue, is the one I did not load up, so I'll be clicking over to YouTube when we get to that one, but that's not for a little bit. That's why there's an empty spot in my soundboard.

I guess I had a mental note to pick it up and I forgot. What was the reference you made earlier to the end of the world? There was going to be, there was big news that there was some cult. I can't remember if they were in Europe or California. And the end of the world was going to be three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. I was on the air at Chum FM. This was back in the 70s.

Right. And I can't remember the song I was playing. And the song ended, and I said, well, here it is. It's one minute to three, and I don't hear any rumbling or feeling anything. And I read a bit. I can't remember what it was about.

And I said, look, now it's one minute after three. Nothing's happened and everything. And I let dead air go for almost a minute. And then I played Pink Floyd, Time. Yes. Phone blows up. I said, hi, Chum FM. And this guy goes, hey, man, don't do that.

You know, I just saw a movie. Maybe you've seen it. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This is the latest. Oh, I love that movie. I absolutely adore it every minute of that damn thing. Beautiful. But I was thinking of,

I'm thinking of two things. One is, of course, you know, California cults. Like, I'm thinking of that. But also, the role of music, like, you know,

that car, which, by the way, I found out that car that Brad Pitt's character is driving throughout is owned by Michael Madsen. He's in that movie briefly, but he's also maybe better known as the guy in Reservoir Dog

who cuts off the cop's ear. Oh, really? But he's in a lot of... Any relation to Virginia? Madsen? No, I don't know if they're related, but that car... throughout the movie, he's driving the car,

you know. Was it a Cadillac? Yes. Yeah. And you hear radio, like he's got like a top 40 station on and you hear the songs, which, you know,

Tarantino movies are great for that, but you hear the DJ and there's this thread throughout the movie of like the DJ in the car radio and like, I mean. Was it KHJ? See, I don't know. I don't I mean, it was, was it KHJ? I see. I don't know.

I don't know. But it was, you know, it was, it was exactly how you'd think a, uh, you know, a late six, a 1969 top 40 DJ was on. Yeah. It was really cool. And I'm like, that's kind of, I mean, it's kind of gone that whole like, uh, top 40 DJ guide. And I don't know.

It's just, you know, some options now. Imagine this concept that a radio station hires people to be live on the air, not voice tracked, to be live on the air and you have a library of music. You stick to the Canadian content regulation and there's one song you have to play an hour to keep

a kind of thread going through it. But the personality of the announcer chooses the music. Right. And that's how Top 40 was born it was every guy had their favorite tunes they would play sometimes they would play unfortunately there was payola going on and sometimes they paid for it not here but prevalent in in the states and that's how that happened i mean i remember on the on Chum, you would hear the Rolling Stones,

then you hear Engelbert Humperdinck. That kind of thing? But that made its way into, I would say into the late 80s where I would hear, like you're saying there, I would hear a pop song by, I don't know, New Kids on the Block, and then right after that hear a song from Def Leppard's Hysteria, like Pour Some Sugar on Me.

And then maybe right after that, maybe there's a, I don't know, there's a i don't know there's a maestro fresh west let your backbone slide like those three would be back to back to back and that was tough because it was top 40 there was no genre and now it's so genre specific it's uh you don't get that's gone on uh on a visit to london uh to england to see my parents once i'd stop in london and uh capital radio had kind of just been born at that time was in the 80s and they played um jermaker by led zeppelin and then they played my way by sinatra and that kind of that's a great example yeah and we've got things got so polarized somewhere along

the way i was at a toastmasters event last week and somebody asked me, what's my favorite kind of music? And I intoned the late, great Louis Armstrong who said there's only two kinds of music, good and bad. It doesn't matter. I mean, I'm sure you have a broad musical taste of all different genres. And I kind of draw the line on opera,

but that's just me. That's like me and the Keith Urban. Did you watch The Great great cup by the way? I did not. So Keith Urban was a halftime show. And I do appreciate the fact that he, a very, very talented,

very talented, but in B very popular, uh, you know, he sells out all his concerts and, uh, I'm sure he drew, he drew in a lot of fans that probably that's the one genre.

Not that I hate, you know, I like a lot of cool country, like give me some Johnny Cash or some Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton or Waylon Jennings. You like the traditional stuff.

Yeah. It's the newer country stuff that doesn't hook me in and doesn't appeal to me. But I really am just as likely to throw on, I don't know, a Public Enemy hip hop track

as I am to throw on a song from The Watchmen or maybe an old classic rock song from The Beatles or a new new electronic dance thing or something that my teenagers have introduced me to. So, I mean, yeah.

Excuse me. You mentioned the country that's prevalent today. It's like rock and roll. If you want to get a real insight into country music... Maybe it's the last rock on the radio. Ken Burns has done a documentary.

I watched the whole thing. I've only seen the Hank Williams episode. I was beside myself. I mean, the Carter family, the whole thing. It's really well done. And speaking of Willie and Waylon and Johnny, they go really deep on all those. Yes.

But the Carter family stuff. So the whole thing I watched on PBS, and it was fantastic. I loved it. Except the very last episode is where you kind of go, I guess. Don't tell me. I won't you but we get to current close to current times i get he doesn't get to current times but 80s and 90s popular country is kind of there and i realized the reason i don't think i like country is because i grew up with that instead of the stuff that i was

hearing previously in the documentary that really appealed to me. It somehow lost some of its bluegrassy, kind of Americana folksy charm along the way. I still throw in an old Kenny Rogers song and feel nostalgic or whatever. But yeah, anyway, that's not my cup of tea. George Strait does a song about country music getting murdered and no more banjos and fiddles now it's electric guitars and drums right well anyway you can you can you can definitely find the kind of country music

you like you just have to just have to dig a little bit maybe there'll be a resurgence like in the early 80s there was a resurgence of for lack of a better term the uh the traditional country music that had a resurgence with artists like the of a better term, the traditional country music that had a resurgence with artists like the Judds, Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam. That's right. What's his name? Earl.

No. Copperhead Road. Oh, Steve Earl. Steve Earl, yeah. Love that guy. Yeah, Copperhead Road crossed over too because Q107 would play it on their top 10 at 10 and it's like, okay, this is...

You're a real radio hound. I like that. i did very much enjoy q107's top 10 at 10 at the time copper road was on the radio all right man we could do this well let's make it a four hour episode now let's kick out another jam There must be some kind of way out of here Said a joker to the thief There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Businessman there To drink my wine

Plowman dig my earth None will level on the mine Nobody up in this world None will level on the mind. Nobody of it is worth it. Hey! No reason to get excited Jimi Hendrix. Yeah. Yeah. It makes me think I'm watching a movie set in Vietnam.

That's always on the soundtrack. Somebody gave, a girl I was dating, somebody in the neighborhood got that album, the Are You Experienced album, and put it on and was like, oh my god, this is just the music. I mean, you know, there was all the surrounding stuff, the look, the clothing, the hair, but the music.

And I've heard from people who had known Jimi Hendrix back in the day, and if they were short a guitar player, no matter what the music was, he'd, well, I'll help you. I'll hop in.

It was a very generous, humble kind of man. And you can't, as the great Wynton Marsalis said of Louis Armstrong, you can't practice and play like that. Like Jimi Hendrix? Never, ever. So gifted, yeah. Oh, and all the effects and stuff It was the time

It was groundbreaking to be sure I love the production on this song It was that wah wah Oh leave it for a second there's a little break here All along the Wax Tower Yeah, that album is incredible. They got Hey Joe on that thing, right? Wow.

Bob Dylan never sounded so good. Right. It's a Bob Dylan song. Yes, yes. You're right. And it sounds fresh, doesn't it? It sounds... Maybe because I haven't listened to it in the headphones in a while,

but it sounds amazing because I haven't listened to it in the headphones in a while but it sounds amazing yeah everything it's trippy too you know you don't need to drop the acid to feel the effects

just listen to some are you experienced but amazing again imagine if he had continued you know

he died at 27. Just imagine what he could have done with music. He was so talented. I think that if somebody had the wherewithal, they could do a Broadway musical. It would be called 27. It would be about Jimmy, Janice. Who else?

Jim Morrison. Who else? Well, those were the three in a row. And then, of course, you could add people like... Mama Cass. Kurt Cobain died at 27, if you want to throw him in the mix. Oh, he was 27? Wow. And I believe Amy Winehouse, I want to sayain died at 27, if you want to throw him in the mix. Oh, he was 27? Wow.

And I believe Amy Winehouse, I want to say, died at 27. She was in her late 20s, yeah. But you're right, that 27 club, because that was all in the span of like 18 months or whatever with Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. What a bang bang, yeah. And who had that line in that song, Hope I Die Before I Get Old?

Oh, what is that? I'm going through my musical Rolodex while you corrupt the next. You do that and I'll kick out another Brian Master jam. Wow. Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don't know where it's flown I took a wrong turn and I just kept going

Everybody's got a hungry heart Everybody's got a hungry heart Lay down your money and you pray your heart Everybody's got a hungry heart The Boss. Oh. So many memories. I want to hear them all. Well, I met him a couple times.

Had the chance to talk to him for quite a while the second time. And we talked about music and cars and both huge Roy Orbison fans. And I told him I had interviewed Roy Orbison. And he, Bruce pointed me

and he said, with Roy Orbison no matter how far fetched those lyrics seem, you knew they could come true. but this song I mean every Springsteen track is so close to me because he epitomizes as

the guy who became his manager John Lando said I've seen the future of rock and roll and it's Bruce Springsteen and this is it I mean it's got everything this I was on the air uh when I went back to Chem FM doing mornings for a while and my producer Barry Stewart who I work with at the Jewel or he works at Evanoff he was my producer and Ross Davies the program director said I got the new Springsteen song just put it on see what you think like literally you know the term out of the

box yes put it on the turntable he queued it, you know the term out of the box? Yes. Put it on the turntable. He queued it up, started it, and I did this quick intro, and then he cranked the monitors, and we were in orbit. Wow. It was just, oh. It's everything.

There's the hope. There's the innocence. There's the fury. Not just in this song, in his music. A friend of mine, a wonderful keyboard player named Bill Evans, plays in a Springsteen tribute band and they travel everywhere. States, Europe,

covering this stuff. And I asked him, what's it like to play this music? He said, it's so euphoric. Especially when you start a song and the crowd starts to react. He's another one of a kind. Okay, so we talked about

the new Tarantino movie, but have you seen a movie called Blinded by the Light? It's on the list for this weekend, actually. Have you seen it? It's excellent. So, you know, there was the Beatles movie called Yesterday. Oh, great movie. Which was a great movie. It was a good movie.

Okay, you think it's great. I think it was good. I'm lowering it now to good. I'm from great. But I will say Blinded by the Light is a great movie. I found it far better than yesterday. Different generations though, right? Yeah, definitely. This is all taking place in like 87 or something like that. But you definitely, as a

Springsteen fan, you definitely need to watch Blinded by the Light. I'd love to see that. Man for Man did a great cover version of that song. Growing up, that's the only version I knew. I would say I was in my 20s, maybe my early 20s, when I learned that that was a Bruce Springsteen song. There's a few songs like that.

All along the Watchtower, I was probably a teenager when I learned that was a Dylan song. But you grow up thinking that belongs to the artist who made it famous. Like Respect by Aretha Franklin. You're like, oh, that's an Otis Redding song. You just think it's an Aretha song. Yeah, you do.

Isn't that funny how that happens? And Blinded by the Light, that Manfred Manfred, that was everywhere on radio when I was growing up. And if I think of a version in my head, I still think of that version. There's a Springsteen song called Sandy. Sandy something, 4th ofuly is a subtitle and the hollies did it and it's amazing spring scene does it it's really good but it's

somebody once said if you're gonna do a cover song of of somebody's you better make it your own right and when you think of people who like name a name a cover well jimmy hendrix yeah all along the watchtower. Blinded by the Light. Yes, those are two good ones, yeah. Something, the way Tony Bennett does it. Like, it's his song. Absolutely.

Fantastic. Now, I was going to tell you an answer to an earlier question you were wondering, but I hope I die before I get old, of course, is The Who. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Is it My Generation? My Generation. Yeah, right generation right so there you go now from the boss oh you you actually mentioned this song already in this episode and i like

yourself madly adore this song so i can't wait to kick it out here we go I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it God only knows what I'd be without you If you should ever leave me Life would still go on, believe me. The world could show nothing to me,

so what good would living do me? God only knows what I'd be without you. The Beach Boys. Carl Wilson on lead vocal. And the Wrecking Crew. Hal Blaine. Carol Kay, probably. A myriad of players that Brian Wilson assembled and produced in that song.

Did you see Brian Wilson live at all when he was through? No. If he comes through again, do yourself a favor. I mean, he's a bit he's a bit, what's the word? How can I put it nicely? It's not original. But he's out there with an 11-piece band.

Every one of them sings. We've seen him twice live every time he introduces he'd say this is the best song I've ever written and then they go into it I get choked up

it was our first dance at our wedding a few years ago and never gets old beautiful beautiful those harmonies oh and never gets old. Beautiful, beautiful.

And those harmonies? You know, there's a whole slew of material available online on YouTube. In an interview, Brian Wilson talked about getting those harmonies. He wanted the sound of the harmony. One of his favorite harmony groups was the Four Freshmen. And if you listen to the Four Freshmen material, you can see how they influenced him and how he would just want to get that sound. And he would do it through the harmonies. When you see him live with all those people singing, they start doing a big acapella piece, and then they go into Heroes and Villains, and people are just like off the wall. Wow.

But to get back to him, he influenced the Beatles. The Beatles, Paul McCartney in an interview said that he and John wanted to write a song that starts with a verse, like in those old songs from the bygone eras, where they would start with a verse and then go into the heft, the main part of the song. And God Only Knows was the impetus for that, for Here, There, and Everywhere. Because I'm stuck in late 60s California

with the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I do remember reading about a connection, not Brian Wilson, but maybe Carl or maybe his other. Dennis? Yeah, Dennis and Charles Manson. Like there was some kind of camaraderie there at the time. Their producer, co-writer sometimes, Terry Melcher. Yes, right.

Was in the mix there. co-writer sometimes terry melcher yes that right was in the mix there yeah terry melcher lived at the home before roman polanski and sharon tate moved in is that the connection i think so i think so you remember in the movie in in the movie okay but you're not doing a spoiler right because okay don't okay only because i some i will say this to anyone listening who hasn't seen once upon hollywood i made it i'm a Tarantino freak. It took me, you know, this movie's been out for months now. I finally saw it on the weekend. I got to see it spoiler free

and I'm so grateful. Like I had no spoilers going in and I refuse to participate in spoiling this for anybody because you gotta go in knowing nothing. There's so much meat in that movie and I will just say, the scene with Leo

barbecuing in the swimming pool. That's all we'll say. No more, no more. And don't be afraid of the time because some people see, oh, it's two hours and 40-something minutes. Like, I can't do that. Trust me, I actually felt like,

can this be a little longer like i just thoroughly and so rich i was so pleased i want to say tarentino's eight for eight and there's some scenes anyway i don't want to yeah it's only leave it yeah we'll leave it we'll leave it we'll talk when i finish recording we'll chat more about this but here's another brian master jam Sugar Pie Honey Bunch I love myself, I love you and nobody else Even if I'm alive, come and go Leaving just your picture behind And I've kissed it a thousand times When you snap your finger or wink your eye

I come right into you I turn to your apron screen And there's nothing that I can do The Four Tops. Yeah, Motown. The first station I worked at in Chatham, I had been on the air a couple times filling in for somebody, and I finally got my own show.

It was the Top 40 show on Saturday nights from 6 till 8, and the deal was you would play a song and mention, I can't remember the name of the burger joint, mention them on the air, and they were listening every Saturday. They'd send over a burger, fries, and a shake. And the very first song I played on what was my radio show was this. That was the very first one. And that kind of got the ball rolling.

I mean, the first song, I played a bit of Petula Clark on the first time I was ever on the radio. And we had three turntables set up in front of us and the board was elevated. And it had rotary pots, rotary faders. And you'd have, you would, as you turned the fader clockwise, you would flip a switch to start the turntable. So it was Sunday afternoon, I'm on

the radio, I sat down and I was going to, I introduced myself and I started, I can't remember the Petula Clark song. Might have been I Couldn't Live Without Your Love. And I was smoking at the time. I reached for my cigarettes, and the pack was between two turntables, and I hit the tone arm.

So I played a bit of it. But this song, I remember sitting in that control room thinking, wow, here we are. Listening, and I had a crank. And one night, a bunch of us from the station went to Detroit to a club called the 20 Grand and saw The Temptations and Mary Wells backed up by the Funk Brothers live. What a scene, right? What a time. I want to go to Randy,

our music director at the station, went to, this summer, I think he went to Hitsville in Detroit and said, you got to go. It's history. And Barry Gordy, to his credit, has given four million bucks to the museum to bring it up to speed.

And they own some other buildings in the area for accounting and charm school and stuff like that. Cool. Now here's the jam. Here's the jam, again, maybe your most recent jam actually on your list and you'd think I would have it.

I didn't have it and I totally forgot to get it but I'm now on YouTube and I apologize if any ads play. It's not my fault. I'm going to blame the guy from the Paradise Theater for messing it up. So here we go. Let's see how this goes.

Okay. Live. So good. This shit, that ice cold Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold This one for them hood girls Them good girls, straight masterpieces Stylin', wildin' Livin' it up in the city

Got chucks on with Saint Laurent Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty I'm too hot Call the police and the firemen I'm so pretty. Uptown Funk It reminds me of Morris Day and the Time a bit Yes That Prince kind of But that, did you hear It reminds me more of Day in the Time a bit. Yes. That tune. That Prince kind of.

Prince, yeah. Yeah. But that, did you hear, not a lot of instrumentation in that. The meat is in the vocal and the funk in it. It's just, always been a fan of that genre. A little James Brown in there too. James Brown, Jackie Wilson. Yeah.

There was a great event last Friday night at the Oasis Banquet Hall on Lakeshore. It was called Hornapalooza, a fundraiser for Gilda's House. And two bands, Brass Transit. I saw them. Is it Chicago or is it Healy Dan? They do Chicago and they also do a little bit of Earth, Wind & Fire. And the second act was Oakland Stroke, a Tower Power Trivia Band.

They'll blow your brains. Both of them. Unbelievable. And the lead singer for Chicago, the Chicago, for Brass Transit, I swear he's from Chicago.

They're so tight. Everything's amazing. George St. Kitt's the lead singer for Oakland Stroke.'re so tight. Everything's amazing. George St. Kitt's the lead singer for Oakland Stroke. Just so terrific. And put together by Lou Pomanti,

a wonderful musician, keyboard player. And guess who showed up for a few tunes? I need, can I guess? A complete random guess. I don't know why

I'm saying his name except that when he was on my show, I mentioned your name. Andy Kim showed up. Oh! I had why I'm saying his name except that when he was on my show I mentioned your name. Andy Kim showed up. Oh! I had to just randomly pick a name. David Clayton Thomas.

Fantastic. I've been trying to get him on the show, but he's only doing phoners right now, and I haven't decided I want to do a phoner yet. He was terrific. He did a few BS&T songs. That's great. He was pretty cool. He was at Woodstock, you know. He was? Was he the one who was supposed to be at Woodstock and didn't go? I might... Okay. He was... Okay. They were invited

to... I'm trying to remember. Was he at Woodstock? Okay. I believe the story is... I'm going back to university now. Either the story is they were booked for Woodstock and their manager didn't think it was a good idea and cancelled at the last second and they're still pissed about it. Or... Huh. Yeah. I think that's right

because I'm who's this what band sings Spinning Wheel right okay yeah they write Woodstock yeah

they write Woodstock I'm changing my answer here okay by the way how many people sorry you go ahead I was gonna this song Uptown Funk

it's just it's fun it's good easy to dance to I gave it a four out of five. Dick Clark. I like it. By the way, because I'm watching it on YouTube right now,

and I can tell you how many views this video has had. And I didn't even, I guess I haven't looked at these numbers in a while because at first I read this number as 3.7 million, and then I realized there's actually another three numbers at the end, and that's actually 3.7 million and then i realized there's actually another three numbers at the end and that's actually 3.7 billion wow that's that's crazy but this song appeals across genres it's a genre bender and you're right i definitely hear uh that print sound uh morris day and the time i hear it. It's fun. Woo.

So tight. Uptown funk. And that was by Mark Ronson. Mark Ronson. Featuring? Bruno Mars. Good. If I don't know that, put a bullet in me. Mark Ronson. Featuring Bruno Mars. Good.

If I don't know that, put a bullet in me. I'm done there. Come on. Even if that's not your genre, you know that's Bruno Mars. All right. Let's kick out here something a little different here. But maybe not. Let's kick it out. Thank you. Dave Brubeck.

Wait, it breaks here. Thank you. How about that? Wow. And this song is called Blue Rondo a la Turk. Yes. This comes from an album called Time Out. And it was Dave Brubeck discovering different time signatures. Most of the music we listen to today is what's called 4-4, four beats to the bar,

but he was exploring things like 12-8, 7-8, 5-4, which 5-4 was the time signature for his big hit Take Five that was on this album. And the way I learned about this album, we had a fabulous library in St. Catharines when I was a kid, and there was a kid. And there was a children's section and then when you got

to a certain age, you could go to the adult section. Not the adult section, like the naughty bits. And you could also borrow records. And I'd gone through,

I was just looking at books and I found a great book on Picasso and I was just taken with all that painting and the color and the different looks of things. It became a favorite of mine. And then

one time I was in looking through records and oh, this looks like a Picasso painting on the cover. And it was time out. But it wasn't a Picasso painting. It was similar, Cuba style. I took it home and I was just wowed with this. So, of and I was just wowed with this. Of course, I was just learning to play drums.

I think I was about 13 and I tried to play along with this stuff and always loved the album. This is, again, one of those tip of the iceberg things. Now I'm thinking of that movie Whiplash. You remember this movie Whiplash? Yes. JK Simmons.

Brutal. But big sound for a quartet, huh? You know, admittedly, I'm not too familiar with this, but every time I hear it, I think it's great, but I've never found myself seeking it out. But yeah, I mean, Take Five, you mentioned it. That was like a top 40 hit, right? Yeah, it was.

You may want to, if you have a moment, download the album and listen to all the different genres. And it's fun. Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond, the great sax player, Joe Morello, one of my major influences, the drummer, and Eugene Wright, the bass player. And just a force to be reckoned with.

And stretching things out, looking at all those different time things and making the music of it was uh pretty inspirational all this great drumming and yet you're sure you didn't play on hang on blue jays i didn't well i gotta confirm that with someone else there yeah maybe i did i don't know i had my kid i had my kid at the station for a while see at the time of this recording you're at the station for a while. See, at the time of this recording, you're at the station with your kid. You might have played drums on that.

You're starting to think maybe you played drums on that. I don't think I did, but Paul would know. Paul Uzziak would know. He's my source for you playing drums on that. I got the song from Ian Grant, but Paul, yeah, he wrote me a note to tell me. This is before I'd ever met you. And I stumbled upon it by searching.

I searched my personal library of songs for the name Brian Master. And this song, the song came up and I dug into the metadata and I saw you got credit on it. So anyway. By the way, I saw an amazing drummer the other night playing for Brass Transit. Paul, Paul DeYoung. Just fantastic. Plus, he plays Gretsch drums, my favorite. Do you still play drums?

Yeah, I've got a gig next week. So when you gig, what's the name of your... Playing a trio that Howard Lopez puts together. Howard's a wonderful keyboard player. We do a corporate gig every Christmas. Nice. You guys should play next summer. You guys should play the Great Lakes Brewery

patio there. I love GLB. That place, apparently the food truck's there to stay, right? They own it. Yeah, they bought it. It's called the Wavy Wall. I believe it's called the Wavy Wall. The emcee at Woodstock was Wavy Gravy.

Yes, I do know that. No, not the emcee. Wasn't the security team Wavy Gravy, wasn't he part of that security team they hired? I don't know. I wasn't there. I just... Man, if you remember Woodstock, you weren't there, man.

Okay, let me tell you about Woodstock. I believe Wavy Gravy was the head of that far-out security team that they hired, man. Only because this last summer was the 50th anniversary, and I went into a rabbit hole of Woodstock documentaries. But Wavy Gravy, great handle. Great handle. But those announcements are legendary

like there's some bad brown acid going around yeah the first time first time I heard that word

mmm bummer bummer and then there was the announcement somebody had a baby or something and they were like

congrats man or something or I can't remember farm out alright there's a phone call for bessie smith your your mom's worried about you i can't remember all right that was fantastic but oh here we go let's go back with this one here and i'm gonna hope i got the right version because i saw a note from you that

i had to be i want to you me. I hope I got the right one. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, this is it. Thank you. I've got you under my skin. I have got you deep in the heart of me So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me skin I have tried so not to give in and I said to myself this affair it never will go so well but why should I try to resist when baby I know so well That I've got you under my skin Now we've had the boss on your list,

so it's only appropriate we bring in the chairman of the board here. This album, Sinatra Live at the Sands, with the Count Basie band, again, it's the Count Basie band. Again, it's the tip of the iceberg. I had to choose one song, and this epitomizes Frank Sinatra to me. No matter what you thought of him, he was irreplaceable, and he set the bar for a lot of people who would follow.

The Count Basie element in this, conducted by Quincy Jones, I mean the dynamics of this band. If you can just bring it up a little bit so we can hear them go into the riff. The trombone player goes nuts. The dynamics. This is going to explode any minute. Run for cover. Run and hide. Run for cover Running high Hey! I would sacrifice anything

Come what might For the sake of having you near In spite of a warping voice Comes in the night It repeats how it yells in my ear Don't you know, you fool There ain't no chance to win Why not choose your mentality?

Wake up, step up to reality. And each time I do, just the thought of you makes me stop just before I begin. Because I've got you. It's just cool, man. It's so hot. Just so hot. Yeah, you're grabbing me under my skin.

Oh, man. Thank you for playing that. Oh, I just love that song. The dynamics, the whole everything. It's just everything. Well, thank you for picking it. And here's what I'm going to do. This is interesting.

I'm going to mute us so I can ask you which of these last two songs should go last. Okay. So... And we're back. One more jam we've decided. And here it is. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by a choir

and folks dressed up like Eskimos Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will find it hard to sleep tonight

Nat King Cole. They know that's the Christmas song, and it's the right time of year for this. Yeah. We'd been in Canada a few years from England. I was a little boy, and my dad would give a present to the house, and one year we got a record player.

Nice. And Mom and Dad gave each other records, and they gave me one, Rusty and Orchestraville. But one of the records was this Nat King Cole Christmas album. And I was just smitten with the sound of it. Apparently it was the first pop song to use string arrangement. I don't know what the history is like on that, but I have read that, but there's so many variations of things.

But this epitomizes Christmas to me and great memories of my mom and dad. Oh, that's nice. I'll tell you, I had it on the air the other day, and I just took a moment to listen. And I kind of had to gather myself because it's... That's what music does, right? It brings you back into a place in time. Yeah, yeah.

Andy Kim and I have those chats about the nostalgia value of music and how it really, for lack of a better term, it's a soundtrack to everything you've been through. I don't know of another way to go back, you know, 40, 50, 60 years. There's no other way. No. And we're fortunate that there's been technology, that we still have all this music from then and going forward, too.

It's the whole Magilla. Anyway, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Brian, thank you for kicking out the jams with us. Oh, I hope we do it again. I can come up with another tan. Honestly, we will do it again because that was way too much fun. I do have another gift for you I'll grab just before you leave.

This is courtesy of the Electric City Candle Company. Special needs adults make candles. They're great candles, too. Great scents. And they sell the candles. They sell them at electriccitycandles.com. And all the proceeds goes towards their, it all goes towards their special needs hockey league.

And they're trying to raise funds right now to buy a used van so they can travel. So any help I can give them by mentioning them on this show so again i have a gift for you from them and if people want to learn more about the hockey league special needs adults hockey league electric city special needs hockey dot com and that brings us to the end of our 547th show. Wow. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Brian's not on Twitter,

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