Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jams for Marty: Toronto Mike'd #504

Episode Date: September 2, 2019

Mike is joined by Pete Fowler and DJ Craig G as they kick out the jams for Martin Streek.

This is Martin Streets Cold War 2, Saturday Night Lockdown. Welcome to episode 504 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Propertyinthe6.com, Palma Pasta, StickerU.com, Pasta, StickerU.com, Capadia, LLP, CPAs, and our newest sponsor, Pumpkins After Dark. You guys are going to love this. I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com, and my guests this week are Pete Fowler

and DJ Craig G as we kick out the jams for Martin Streak. Welcome, guys. Thanks for having us, Mike. I so appreciate being here with Craig G and yourself. I was looking forward to this ever since we set this up. And I'm glad you're back safely. Me too.

Me too. Me three, as they say. But Craig, we've had Pete on the show before, so I'm looking into my archives here. He was here for episode 152, and I'm going to read the description I wrote at the time. Mike chats with former 102.1 The Edge announcer Pete Fowler about his years at the station, his relationship with Martin Streak,

why he left radio to become a cop, and his new show, The Lost Indie City. And I'm wearing a t-shirt from The Lost Indie. I think you, you, I mean, there's a new one here. I don't want no spoiler here, but prior to this morning, I had three different Lost Indie City shirts and I wear them all the time. I consider it flying the flag. Like I wear them all the time. Yeah, no, we, I really appreciate you flying the flag. And that's why we, every time we have a new shirt, we just, we just give it to Toronto Mike. For maximum exposure.

I've got mine. Well, you appreciate it too, right? And you're always giving your guests gifts, whether it's from one of your lovely sponsors. Like I see everything from beer to lasagna here, as well as Toronto Mike stickers. So I, when I come over to a place that's, you know, I bring, you know, a gift, just like I did last time.

Okay, so for Periscope anyways, this is their reward. They get to see, I'm going to open up this gift. Well wrapped, I see, it's perfect. Let me see here. And okay. Teal. Nice. Teal on black.

Nice, nice. And it's, I don't even need to check. This is going to be medium, which means it's going to, oh, it fits perfectly. Dude, I'm going to wear the hell out of this and continue to fly the flag because you're still independent, right? This is so key to me. You're not. Yeah, we're, it's community radio. It's, we do it because we love it.

We're not getting paid. We just love doing the show. We've been doing it for like four years, myself and Greg Secord. And it's just a lot of fun. And it's one of the best things, and I'm sure you agree with doing Toronto Mike, is a connection that you make with people. And that's the same with radio. You're passionate about radio or you're passionate about sports or you're passionate about music. But then reaching out and connecting with other people that dig

the same things you do, whether it's the Toronto Jays or whether it's Nine Inch Nails or whether it's The Clash or whether, whatever it is. Or Mark Daly. Yeah, or Mark Daly. And, you know, it's just making that connection with people and that, you know, building a community around that.

And I think that's fantastic. And where can people hear the Lost Indy City if they want to hear it right now? Well, they can hear it, um, CKWR, which is an alternative station in Kitchen Warrelu. And they can also hear it on CJIM.ca, which is out of Montreal. And we're working on a couple other stations.

Uh, hopefully, hopefully I would like to get it on Max FM, which is a new alternative station out of Orillia that covers Barry. So working on that, hopefully soon, there'll be news to them once I bring it up. And fans, I mean, a lot of people tuning in. Yeah. Well, maybe they're watching right now

and listening right now. Now, okay, so Pete, the Lost Indy City plays great music. Would it be something for, for example, fans of the old Edge 102 CFNY? Like, what kind of tunes are we, just let the people know. We call it the Lost Indie City because we cover over 40 years of alternative. And we call it lost. Well, indie because it's a new word for alternative. And it just sounded easier to say. But lost because it's

lost either to time or lost due to no exposure. So we're playing new stuff. Like, for example, let's say Stephen Stanley comes out with a new record. And then we're playing stuff that you might not have heard on the radio in 20, 30 years. And that could be any, you know,

just name any host of bands. So 99% of our music, like we don't, we play all genres. Industrial, right? Electronic, ska, punk, hardcore, you know, alt rock, reggae. So it's a really great place to go to hear music that you just don't get to hear anymore. Like what stations really play, you know, English beat or Popolita itself or the Charlton's or Massive Attack.

None that I can think of. There's not a lot of stations out there, you know, or GBH or, you know, Clash songs that aren't London Call. Right. Or Rock the Casbah. So it's, and it's all suggested by our listeners. Like 99% of it is listener suggestions.

So that's what I like about the community and the building the sets, depending on what the listeners want to listen to that week. So the Lost Indy City, if people see my t-shirt, they've been looking at it for five, I don't know how many years it's been, many years now, and they want one. Like how does a regular Joe, who's not the world famous Toronto Mike, how does he get a, or she get a Lost Indy City?

Oh, just reach out to me. Like I'll just mail one out. Like I have like a whole hockey bag. So they can reach out to me through Twitter, you know, at the Lost Indy City. they can reach out to me through twitter you know at the lost indec they can reach out to me through facebook at the lost indec through instagram and we don't make profit on them we just you know for cost and we just ship them out we're just glad that you want one amazing now craig we're about to get to you but uh i'm just looking at your t-shirt right now uh keep it locked and cranked yes fabulous so Fabulous. So we're here, this episode is a Martin Streak.

So MCS, now I was, Bob Willett, who spent some time in the studio with Martin Streak, tells me it wasn't keep it locked and cranked. He's certain it was

keep it tuned, locked and cranked. No, he did also say tuned. Okay. But he did both, right? You're not wrong. I only, I'm very interested

in the specifics here. I don't want to start a battle between the fronts here. No, there's not like, Martin has said tuned, but he has said locked and cranked a lot. Like, you know, I knew Martin throughout the nineties.

Right. So I specifically remember, you know, keep it locked and cranked here, you know, club 102, 410 Sherbourne street. Like I remember that. And I know he said you know, keep it locked and cranked here, you know, Club 102, 410 Sherbourne Street. Like, I remember that. And I know he said tuned as well, but I just, you know, I put that on the shirt. And, you know, that's less characters,

so it's better on the shirt. Because tuned, that's more characters. I'm with you. You got to, these shirts. I don't pay per letter, Mike. I have so much to learn about the t-shirt industry. You need to get some. I wear it proudly.

Pete, we're going to get back to you because we want to be reminded of your relationship with Martin Streak, and then we're going to go into more detail of what we're doing here today, which I'm super, super jazzed about. But I got new, fresh meat in front of me, a gentleman I met for the very first time.

By the way, Pete, last time I saw you, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, was the Acid Test Show. Was that the, if I'm wrong, was the Acid Test show. Was that the, right? Yeah, it was the Acid Test show. You were DJing Acid Test show. What venue was that again? Oh, geez, I don't remember.

It was in West Toronto. It'll come to me later. But yeah, it was good to see you there. And I think you said this before we press recorded, but there's somebody in Buffalo, Siobhan, who I met at that same show, who's a big fan of yours. And is it possible we got her to become a fan of Toronto Mike as well? Oh, yeah.

She's a huge fan of Toronto Mike. She loves podcasts. And then I introduced her to your podcast, and she's listening right now. Hello, Siobhan, if you're on Periscope. There you go. Craig, DJ Craig G. Yes.

Nice to meet you, man. Nice to meet you, too. Tell us, I'm going to say, the short bio. If I went to your Wikipedia page right now, why isn't there one? Should we create one on the show? There isn't one because it would be really short. No.

I started DJing in nightclubs being a fan of cfny and of course of martin streak and dj paul dingo back in the day uh got into the shows probably in the early early 90s early to mid 90s i would say the latest i started djing at whiskey saigon on sunday nights Sunday nights on the second floor in 1998 and just became friends with the guys. And then that's how I ended up sort of, you know, just through time and, you know, changes and things becoming Martin's DJ for four years. Does anyone here know the sequence of DJs? Like, for example, I want to say before you was DJ Dwight do I have that right correct yeah so do you do you remember it was so when Chris Shepard left um there was a transition where Chris Shepard was still playing house music and when Martin came in to do the shows they kind

of had to keep that sort of same tone so it was actually one of my Toronto heroes, DJ Matt C was actually the first guy to take over the turntables. Then Paul Dhingra, then DJ Dwight, then myself. And then I think he went by Matt Barnes. His name is Nolan. And he went by Matt Barnes, but it was also him and Tara.

So they kind of switched off. And then at that point in time, they were they were finished. You remember the specific years you were the DJ when Martin was like hosting these live to airs? Yeah, absolutely. I started just before Halloween in 2004. And I finished up because I started doing an overnight show called Insomniac Theater. I had finished up in the clubs. I'd had enough at that point in time. And I wanted to do an overnight show. So at the time, the program director was Alan Cross. The music director was Don Mitchell. And the two of them said, we're going to give you an overnight slot from 12 until

six. And I started doing that. And that was in mid 2008. Gotcha. Gotcha. And okay, so I'm just to get our timelines right. I'm trying to make sure I get this right, but it was some, I want to say spring of 2009. I want to say when Martin Streak was let go by the station. Correct. Yeah.

With Barry Taylor. Yeah. At the same time. Yeah. Barry Taylor, who I think famously wrote a piece where the man you mentioned, Don Mitchell said he wanted, what is he wanted?

Top 40 for grunge. Is that the piece I'm trying to remember? Something like that. I don't know that it was... Not that there's anything wrong with that, by the way. I don't think it was Don Mitchell either. I think it was the new program director. Ross Winters, maybe? I don't want to...

My lawyer says I need to be careful. Okay, so we have sadly on July 6th, 2009, Martin Streak took his own life. And that's over 10 years ago now. So I'll just read the final Facebook posting from Marty, which was, okay, I'll read it.

It said, so I guess that's it. Thanks, everyone. I'm sorry to those I should be sorry to. I love you to those that I love, and I will see you all again soon. But in parentheses, he says, not too soon, though. Let the stories begin. And that ended the life of Martin Streak.

And 10 years on, I can tell you people like myself look back at his, remember his passion for music and the live airs. And, you know, I'm looking at the T-shirt now, keep it locked and cranked. And, you know, we can hear it. And I opened the show with a little bit of Martin Streak. We'll hear a little bit more later. But it's safe to say he's very much missed in this market.

Definitely, definitely. Oh, yeah. He created, you know, the whole thing with Shepard when he first got the idea of Club 102 going, created a real niche, and there wasn't any sort of a thing as live to airs in that capacity back in the day, and then Martin really,

you know, took the ball, ran with it and, and created a, it just created a culture. And that's a credit to our program director at the time, Stu Myers. Stu Myers had all these great ideas with regards to going,

you know, club one or two live to air history of ongoing, you know, the ongoing history of music. There was a lot of things, input one or two, all those things that other stations weren't doing in Canada.

You can stem it right down and saw something in Martin. You know, you know, Martin had all this experience with the video roadshows. He was the perfect person for it. But gave him the, you know, it was just the perfect person.

Like talk about perfect staffing. Like that was, that was the person you wanted doing that job and he was he was the best at it now we talked about the djs for marty but i'm trying to think of the uh on the on-air hosts is it tell me if i'm wrong but here's how i kind of remember and i think it was uh i want to say david marsden gives way to chris shepherd who gives way to Chris Shepard who gives way to Martin Streak and then I believe after Martin Streak's let go there's a very, I believe Laurie

Anne, I don't even... Laurie Anne, the punk rock cupcake, yes. By the way, who's at The Rock in Oshawa on the air now and I believe it kind of all comes full circle because Bob Ouellette, I believe it's Bob Ouellette's old spot because he left The Rock and now he's at Hits,

I think. 97.7. 97.7. So they're all around if you look for them. There's all these parts and pieces. Now remind us, Pete, about when and how you worked with Martin Streak. And then if you don't mind, could you introduce,

tell briefly again the story of Martin swearing on the air? Because I have the clip here I want to play. Oh, okay. Well, I worked with Martin from 92 and then until late 97 when I left to change careers. So the first time I met Martin was in the station at Brampton, A3 Kennedy Road at CFNY when we were in Brampton and Martin came up to me and said, Hey, Martin Streak, like full of energy. Nice to meet you. And name 10 bands that you like, like right

off the, just name 10 bands that you like. Right. And I know why he was doing that. I think he was doing that one to see if we had anything in common that we enjoyed together that we shared a passion for. And two, see whether or not I deserve to even be there. Seriously.

Because he's that passionate about radio and music that, you know, he wants people there that are like him. And I agree. So I remember saying, oh, Ramones, R.E.M. The Clash, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Charlton's, I'm naming all this stuff. And he's not as had an approval. He goes, cool, and then he walks away. You passed the test.

And it was just, it was high pressure because he looked so cool too, you know, because we all had long hair back then, eh? Brother Bill, myself, and Martin, and it was just, we're all in our 20s, we're all around the same age, it was just such a wonderful time. So when you're talking about the swearing. It was just such a wonderful time. So when you're talking about the swearing episode,

which you, you seem to enjoy quite a bit. I think it's a rare piece of little, especially if you're a fan of the station, I think it's a fun little memento. So we used to broadcast at the edge of Bloor and Bathurst. This is before we moved to Yonge Street. Bloor and Bathurst was great because in between Bloor and Bathurst station was, was, well, the Ida's Falafel and Taco Bell.

Like it was just a, it was a, I love that part of, you know, Onstead's is right around the corner. So we were broadcasting Thursday 30 there and Live in Toronto had just ended and I think they had like Henry Rollins in and somebody else and, and, uh, Martin was, was kind of upset because he was trying to, um, set up something or he thought it was actually set up. And I believe it was set up for the Nine Inch Nails show where he would actually broadcast live and be there with

Trent Reznor and it'd be a whole thing and it would be amazing. And that's, you know, that's one of his favorite bands. And I know that he looked forward to it. Regardless, I'm on the other side of the mic. There's a board, like an old McCurdy board, you know, and I'm sitting on the other side and he goes, yeah, I'm going to do something, you know, and he said something like, you know, just run with it. Or something like that.

And I'm thinking, what the hell? it or something like that. And I'm thinking, what the hell? So, um, he, he literally, we back sell, I think a bunch of songs, a radio term, meaning we just say that was this, and this is that on the Thursday 30 and then he slides out of his, out of this, uh, he does this. Here we go. I'm on video. So it goes like this.

Fuck. video so it goes like this and then i i'm on the other side and it's like what do you want me to what do you want me to do with that i and i'm laughing i'm going you say run with that and i'm thinking we're getting fired right yeah like i'm seriously like i'm worried that Stu Myers is going to come down there and beat us up because he could and he's a tough guy and I'm going oh we just lost our jobs or at least Martin did and he goes and I said do you want to run with this

what do you want me to do with this so he hit the end of the commercials nothing happened that night I know the producers, Rob Johnson and Jason Barr were listening up at the Toronto main studios and they're going, holy shit. And it was just, the memo started coming out the following day, right? The all

staff memo, which I sent to you. Did you, did he, sorry, did Martin receive any kind of a punishment or just a warning not to do it again? Well, I don't know. I know he was spoken to and I know that we received a memo that, you know, it's not a right to be on CFNY.

You know, it's, it's, it's an honor and, and it's, but it's not a right. So when you do something like that, no matter how punk rock that looks, and I'm glad I was there for it because it's not a right. So when you do something like that, no matter how punk rock that looks, and I'm just glad I was there for it because it's part of history and it's more interesting than just... And that's why I like playing it.

It's part of history. But could we have lost possibly our license? Could we have been fined a lot for purposely... We could have done that. We didn't. And it's still an awesome memory. Okay, so I'm about to play it. Who do we credit for the fact that this MP3 survived to this very day? We didn't, and it's still an awesome memory. Okay, so I'm about to play it.

Who do we credit for the fact that this MP3 survived to this very day? Is it Brother Bill? Brother Bill. And Brother Bill decided when he left this market to become Neil Morrison again, which is his birth name. And quick, since we're mentioning him, although he's going to come up again later because I want to talk about the party for Marty very, very soon here but uh i was in literally last week last

weekend i was in white rock british columbia yeah and i was right and i knew that he lived in white rock and i facebook messaged him like are you around but i i guess he didn't get it it was very late at night when he finally told me yeah but i was already like i have you know kids are in bed and stuff like it's like it was too late So I never actually got to hook up with a brother, brother Bill, but I do appreciate that he held onto this audio and that it found its way to me. And I think I owe you a great thanks Pete for making sure that Neil sent this my way. So without further ado, here is that clip of Pete Fowler in Martin Street on, come on.

That's a, that's a clue. Now that's a fact. Where is it, it's higher. My work just aren't real good right now. And I don't know every time I go into work whether it's going to be my last week there or not. Frankly, I'm getting a little ticked off. Go to hell. Leading edge.

CFNY 102.1, the band is called Dink. They are from Kent, Ohio. What the hell? And from their self-titled debut album. What the hell.1, the band is called Dink. They are from Kent, Ohio. And from their self-titled debut album. That's the track, Green Mind. And that's steady at number 29. Thank you. Debut with

song number 30 from the album Day for Night, the tragically hit with Greasy Jungle on the Thursday 30. Thursday 30 from the edge of Blur and Bathurst, Martin Street Cure, Pete Fowler as well, and what? If you tuned in last week, you know that, uh... What? There isn't something quite happening the way that we said it was going to happen.

Spit it out. Okay. What was originally supposed to happen was, I was supposed to be at Nine Inch Nails and Mario was supposed to be here in a little room by himself. Or something along that line. We'll lay it out for you straight. Pete was going to broadcast from here, we were going to set up some broadcast equipment up in the press booth above

the stage from Nine Inch Nails for the big gig tonight. Me being a big fan since day one and well, last minute, or very close to last minute, management from the band and record label decided that they didn't really like

the idea too much. Okay, how close were you going to be? Were you going to be... Fuck! Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, it's just... Sorry.

You want me to run with this. Yeah. Sorry. For those of you who may be offended by that, I'm sorry, but as you can possibly imagine, Pete, just run with it. I'm just a little... fucking pissed off right now.

No, really? Because you look really happy and you're dapper. No, I'm just glad that the band's going to go on at 10, which means that if we really race through this show right through, I might have a chance to see the smiles on the faces of the people as they leave Maple Leaf Gardens tonight. Let's get on with the Thursday 30 then. Exactly.

We're going to take a short break while I, I don't know, do something. Splash some cold water on my face. We're going to take a short break. In a moment, we're going to get to a debut from Green Day. It comes from the Woodstock 94 disc, and it's When I Come Around. It's sitting at number 28. We get to it right after this. Hollywood, 1950.

So you can tell that we're at song 28. So that was the first break. The first chance he got on the air was two songs, and it starts dropping F-bombs. Wow. But it was a memory. Like, I still have the memo. I took it from the Bolton of the station I took it home.

Good for you. It's highlighted, all staff and Martin Streak. Good for you. So it is a very memorable occasion because that doesn't happen. What's it like for you to, so I'm a fan. I just listened on the radio. You know,

I saw him. I never had a conversation with Martin Streak in my life. I do not believe, but what is it like for you to, when you, you hear him like, like just share with me, if you don't mind any memories or just thoughts that come back to you when you hear his voice.

A ton of memories. I mean, I think probably the, the big thing for me is just watching him do what he did. He had a gift. Guys like the Pete Fowlers of the world and the Martin Streaks and the Alan Crosses and, of course, unfortunately, with Dave Bookman as well.

These are guys that just have the ability of sounding like they're talking directly to you. So when you're sitting at home or in your car or something like that, it feels like they're in your car with you and they're talking directly to you as opposed to just kind of being on the radio and talking at everyone. You know, these guys had that ability to do that. And I think that's why the classic CFNY days are so special for those reasons.

Yeah. When I grew up listening to CFNY, and it's just a couple of years before I started working there, you know, I looked at people like Scott Turner, Danny Elwell. Those people, to me, spoke to me in the way that Martin or Brother Bill or May Potts speak to other people. And when I hear Martin's voice, like I just heard there, I feel happy, I feel melancholy and I feel sad.

Yeah. I'm listening to someone that had such an impact on me from coast to go show with him for a half a dozen years and me being, you know, someone from Kitchener, right? I'm not from Toronto. Yeah. So he kind of, he took me under his wing.

He was a mentor in every, and so was my program director, of course, but you know, he's me under his wing. He was a mentor in every, and so was my program director, of course. But, you know, he's the one that's taking me around to clubs and meeting people and rollerblading. And he was always, he was there before I was. So he's a lot more experienced with regards to the Toronto market. So he was very, you know, he was very hands-on. When you went down to 204 Younger, Edge of Blue and Bathurst, and I'm sure a lot of people are listening,

have done that, gone to the live studio, seen Martin do the Thursday 30, or seen Brother do the afternoon show, or May Potts do whatever, during the years that we had storefront studios where people could visit, Martin always got out of his chair,

went right to you. You walk in the door, Mike, he's out of his chair. The song could be ending, but he's getting out of his chair saying, hey, how you doing? Martin Streak. What's your name?

Oh, what do you like? Like that is the fact that he wants to connect. And he honestly wants to connect. You know, he appreciates that you got off your ass and came down to the station enough to visit when he's broadcasting a show. And that meant something to him. And the DJ booth at all the clubs was an open air,

like an open door policy as well. Yeah. So you could always go up and say hi to him. Like that's, you know, he was making so many connections and it was just amazing to watch. And it taught me to try and do the same. And it's, there's only one Martin. All right.

I want to talk about this event. September 6th party for Marty, remembering Martin streak. Uh, well here, let me introduce this topic by playing a nice little promo for the event. And then we'll talk about the details. Yeah.

That's good. This year marks the 10th anniversary of losing legendary broadcaster Martin Streak. Join Martin's friends and fans for our Party for Marty on Friday, September 6th at Toronto's Opera House. Featuring DJs

Paul Dhingra, Craig G, and Shwarma spinning the music that electrified the alternative club scene. Hosted by Pete Fowler and featuring special guests from Martin's radio family,

we'll keep it locked and cramped. Get Party for Marty tickets online at Eventbrite or at the door. Proceeds support How did this come to be? Tell me everything. Pina Crispo, one of our CFNY alumni. She was in promotions for a good number of years. And DJ Shawarma, who's also known as jeff demette that's his real name the two of them contacted me um and said we want to put a show together for martin uh at that point in time i had already spoken with pete uh on a number of

occasions about doing something and it's just it's one of those things that life is busy for everyone you know so you you try to do the best that you possibly can but i think finally jeff and pina sort of put their feet down and said okay we're doing this and craig will you spin and i said absolutely i will play only if paul dinger will play with me because he was the first guy that really he was he was the the yardstick as far as what we did as djs so paul paul dingra was the guy that you know everybody learned from as as far as the craft tell this guy to get in here so dingra i'd love to have in here yeah absolutely he just he just actually got back from florida two days ago so i think he's still and he had a gig last night too so so he's probably i'm not

sure if he's still sleeping or not at this point but uh yeah definitely he um was the yardstick and we all just learned from him so i said to pina and jeff if paul will do it i'll i'll do it and then i think uh you and jeff reached out to dingra and said will you do this for us he said yeah absolutely i'd love to and that was it and it started to take shape. And I found the opera house. The opera house was willing to do it for us, which is, you know, the beautiful venue on Queen Street, Queen Street East.

So that's how it started. I'm just so happy that something is happening because, you know, last year, myself and Neil Mann tried to get something organized at the Phoenix. Didn't fall through. Sorry, it fell through. No fault to the Phoenix or us or whatever.

It just, it just didn't work. Too many things were booked. So when Craig and Jeff and, you know, mentioned this opportunity, it's like, Oh yeah.

Like just whatever you need. Like I will do whatever you want me to get posters. I'll lift stuff. Like, you know what I mean? So, and then in turn, people such as May Potts and Alan Cross and Ivor Hamilton, Scott Turner, Neil Morrison, Brother Bill,

Chris Pack, Craig Venn, Danielle. And there's even more people coming out of the woodwork that are going to be here this Friday night on the 6th at the Opera House. And the money goes to a great cause. Martin always supported CIBC Run for the Cure, just like you do with the Terry Fox Run. So proceeds go to help great cause. Martin always supported CIBC Run for the Cure, just like you do with the Terry Fox Run. So proceeds go to help that charity

that Martin supported and loved. And it's great tunes and a lot of great special guests telling a bunch of great stories. No, it sounds amazing. If people want tickets, where do you want them to go to pick up a ticket? First of all, how much are tickets?

So tickets are, we've actually changed the price. Seven bucks in advance, and they're $10 at the door, okay? So it's gone from 12 to 10. We're just trying to make it easier on our cashier. Right. The night of. Yeah, so seven bucks in advance at eventbrite.ca.

And the first 300 through the door get to, you remember when you used to go to Phoenix or Kingdom or Energy, you get like a Club 102 pin. Yeah. Yeah. So we got pins made up for the first 300 people through the door, you know, keep it locked and cranked, Martin Streak, you know, and just

something to take away. It's free. Now, all those names you mentioned, other than Brother Bill are going to be physically at the. Billy will be there by video since he's in BC. And, and the others are going to be physically at the billy will be there by video since he's in bc and um and the others are going to be there in person yeah and even more that i we haven't even announced yet just because we're just not confirmed it's not confirmed until something's confirmed i know and there's bands too right you got and i don't i can't say what the bands are

because i never know if they don't show up but there are a lot of musicians that are going to be in the crowd. There should be a lot of famous ones. I'm seeing this name, like a lot of, oh, sorry, I spoke all over you there. You said there's going to be some musicians there as well. Oh yeah.

Yeah. There was a lot of musicians that people like Dave Bookman and Martin Streak and Brother Bill championed. Like a lot of, like for example. And you. Lois, yeah. And me.

Okay, wait, so which way? Lois Lowe you said? No, I said Lois Lowe. Like what I was saying as an example. Yeah. Brother Bill was one of the first persons I think and Bookie to champion Lois Lowe before anybody has heard of them.

Martin was all over bands like Tool, a con line crush, USS, Conduit, like, you know what I mean? So there's a lot of bands that really do owe the, owe a lot to someone like Martin that pushed and saying,

no, we're going to play this on the air. I know it's not in regular rotation, but this is such a great song by Raggedeth. And, and that's that, that he would find the quality of the music.

He didn't care what label it was on. He didn't care if another station was playing it or not. He liked it. He recognized that it was good. He had great taste and he got it on the air and he would take suggestions from his club DJs. Hey, you know, have you, have you heard, you

know, have you heard of this Martin? And you know what I mean? You guys could turn him onto music because he's open. We did all the time, yeah. Because we were in the street, we were in the clubs and people would come up to us and say, hey, have you heard this? And then we would be able to say

well, yeah or no sometimes and then we'd be able to grab a copy of it and start playing it when no one else would. Nobody would touch it. And good clubs dictate sometimes before radio stations on what's cutting edge. That's usually always been the case with alternative music. You would hear it in the club sometimes

before you hear it on the radio. I'm glad we could do this because we should let people know. I'm going to give you guys some gifts and we're going to kick out jams for Martin Streak. You guys have picked 11 songs. Yes. And I've got them loaded up

and we're going to run through them and hopefully that'll spark more stories about Streak and what he thought of that music and those bands. I mentioned I was in White Rock last week, which is where Brother Bill lives now, but coincidentally, on that BC vacation, I had visited Shannon Falls. So Shannon Falls, I learned how beautiful it was.

I had to see it for myself, and it's a gorgeous waterfall, and it for myself. And it's a gorgeous waterfall. And it was amazing. And I took a bunch of photos. My whole family was there. It was gorgeous. And then I posted the picture on Facebook or something. And Neil Morrison, who's Brother Bill, he saw it.

And he said, you know, that's where Martin's ashes. And I had no idea. Like coincidentally, I had been there. Every year, Brother Bill and Neil Morrison goes there and brings up, most people know that one of Martin's favorite drinks was the Jägermeister and sometimes Golden Schlager. You know about the Jägermeister, right?

Yeah, absolutely. So it's my understanding that Billy goes there every year and has a toast, you know, has a drink with his friend. And I just think that's brilliant. And I just can't believe that. So you have this event on Friday. You guys are here now on the Monday to kind of talk about that and about Martin. And just last week I was at Shannon Falls, coincidentally.

Like to me, it's just crazy. I just happened to visit it anyway. Falls, coincidentally. To me, it's just crazy. I just happened to visit it anyway. Now, as you mentioned, sadly, Dave Bookman won't be at this event on Friday. We lost him as well far too soon, but I do have a little clip.

This is from shortly after the passing of Martin Streak. They did air a three hours, I think, tribute to Martin Streak. It opened with Bookie, I believe. Now, I'm going to just play a quick bit about Bookie talking about Martin

Streak. Hey, it's Bookie, and welcome to something we hope our friend Martin Streak would like. A show that is about the music he loved and the people that mattered. Over the next three hours, not only will we listen to some incredible music, but we'll also hear from you, the Edge listener, as well as some of Martin's friends and colleagues.

It's been almost two weeks since we learned of Martin's passing, and while there's been a lot of questions and emotions since then, tonight is about the music and what Martin brought to the EDGE listener through the video roadshows back in the 80s and the nightclubs in Thursday 30s and the 90s and into the new millennium. Now, it would be impossible to cover everyone's thoughts and memories in the three hours we have, not to mention all the music he loved. But we'll do our best to pay tribute to our friend Martin.

And as Marty would say, we're going to go nonstop, full tilt for 180 minutes. And along the way, here's some Nirvanski musical perfection from Nine Inch Nails and more. Let's get it started. A track that Martin would start each and every roadshow with back in the day the cult and she sells sanctuary it's a tribute to our beloved martin streak wow oh that stirs up emotion so while we uh compose ourselves let me just play something i found quick accidentally i was doing some uh research for this episode and i was on youtube and i searched for something like

martin street tribute or something and i found this video and i played it of course i want to hear what it is and it's it's all clipped from my podcast but i had nothing to do with this montage like this i have no i don't know who created it. I saw it had like three or four views, so this didn't exactly go viral or anything. But I'm going to play it. So I ripped it to MP3, and I'm just going to play this. But I think on YouTube it's called Keep It Locked and Cranked, appropriately enough. Martin cared more about music than probably anyone I knew.

Martin was the last, I guess, link. He was the link to that spirit of radio. Sitting in a room by yourself, talking to a piece of metal that's hanging in front of your face. If this were any other situation, they would institutionalize you. He met, he must have met hundreds of thousands of people a year. He was everybody's connection to the past, and he seemed to be a good visionary for the future with music. He was just really cool. His passion for music.

The de facto club guy. Just so willing. Never be another one like him. So welcoming. Amazing sense of humor that. He was an alpha male. He was beloved. Full of life.

Larger than life guy. Willing to do anything. He was the face of the station. Built his real bond. A friend. He was just the life of the party. Martin was in his element. He was just the coolest dude.

Martin. Martin. Martin. Martin. Martin Streak. Yeah. Martin Streak. Oh, Martin Streak.

Martin Streak, that's right. Martin Streak. Gotta make tonight on Martin Streak. Hey, it's Martin Streak. Yeah, it's Martin Streak. Yeah, Martin Streak. My name's Martin Streak. Hey, it's Martin Streak. We're backstage. Hey, it's Martin Streak. We're's Martin Street. Yeah, Martin Street. My name's Martin Street. Hey, it's Martin Street.

We're backstage. Hey, it's Martin Street. We're backstage. Keep it locked. Keep it cranked.

Keep it cranked, man. Yeah. That closes a strombo when I'm talking about Martin. But the

voices I heard there from my show, so I know, I mean, I heard Craig Venn, for example. Todd Shapiro

was on there. I heard Bob Ouellette. Alan Cross was on there. We mentioned strombo. Laurie Ann was on there. Brother Bill calling Ouellette. Alan Cross was on there. We mentioned Strouble. Laurie Ann was on there.

Brother Bill calling in from the West Coast. Andrew Stokely was on there. So just found that, like stumbled upon that. And I'm like, oh, I recognize the source for all these clips. That's great. So we've been talking about Marty for, I guess, forever on Toronto Mike. So I'm so glad we could kick out these jams for Marty. Now here's a jam that's not on your list,

but I'm going to play it because... Could have been on your list, right? He would have dug something like this. Yeah, for sure. Oh yeah, Ministry's on the list. This was a huge, this was a big, big song at both Whiskey Saigon and the road shows back in the day.

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so use PUMPKINMIKE. I came up with that promo code. They wanted something else, and I said, oh, I want PUMPKINMIKE. Of course you did. Jesus. Pumpkin Mike. I came up with that promo code. They wanted something else and I said, oh, I want Pumpkin Mike. Of course you did. 10% off. But you gentlemen here, this is cool. I got two tickets for each of you. Seriously, go to Milton. You book

one night. You need at least an hour to kind of do it justice. But after dark, you go to Milton. 5,000 of these hand-carved pumpkins illuminating the skies with the music and everything. It's going to kick ass. I can't wait. I'm bringing the family.

One of my favorite holidays is Halloween. And that actually is also Martin's. Martin will always have these elaborate, elaborate costumes that were amazing. That's because every day is Halloween. That's why. It's a good song for the voice. The live ad right in the middle of the show. Oh, more than that.

Okay, so Pumpkins After Dark, welcome aboard. They're doing a couple of months, so we're going to hear about them in September and October 2019 here. Great Lakes Brewery, who have been around for several years now, but weren't around when Pete was here last. They must have been very shortly thereafter your last visit. Yeah, it was literally the next day, maybe. Next day, and then the day before I was there after your last visit. Yeah, it was like literally the... The next day, maybe. Next day, and then the day before I was there.

And then the week before... So how did you get missed? I don't know. It was... Did you share a drinking problem with me? I'm trying to think why would I not give you any beer? No, I just don't think you had some. I'm just messing with you. Alright. So I have a six-pack for each of you this time. I've learned from my mistakes there. So, Great Lakes

Brewery, fantastic craft beer uh not too far from here so uh you can check them out while you're in the hood but it's great they're at lcbo's and some grocery stores but yeah take that home with you guys enjoy that and if you are around by the way pete i've been telling you this for the last three events but craig you too on uh september 19, I'm doing a live recording from the patio of Great Lakes Brewery and I'm urging all listeners to show up. Your first beer

is on the house and then I'm going to have mics set up. There'll be four mics. I'm going to take one if you don't mind. But you can come on the mic and we can have a quick chat

like, who the hell are you? How did you discover the show? Where are you from? That kind of fun stuff. Or you can just have a whole bunch of people come by and say the F word. Right.

And you can swear on the Toronto mic. I feel like you were on whole bunch of people come by and you say the F word. Right. And you can swear on Toronto Mike. I feel like you were on the edge of Boilin Bathurst in circa 1995. Right. It's funny that Stu Myers' daughter is at 102.1 today on the air, right? His daughter works there now on the air, Carly Miles. So, Myers. So, and also when Strombo was here, he credited, he said the biggest positive influence in his career was Stu Myers.

He gave a boatload of credit to Stu. All right, I digress. Lasagna. Now, this is not it because I have it in the freezer still, but you each get a large lasagna from Palma Pasta. Lasagna and beer. Kicks ass. This is authentic Italian. Dinner's taken care of tonight for me. So I'm happy.

I'm going to put it on my skateboard. Fabulous. No, I'm going to put it on your BMX bike. are on Skip the Dishes, but they're in Mississauga and Oakville. And that's not, you guys are West,

really West End people. Way out West. But Agitpop. Have you heard Agitpop? Yeah. I played one of the songs on the radio, the protest song. Well,

they're all protest songs. I know, but the one that's more acoustic. You're right. No, I'm actually like... The first single. Excellent. And that's the new

Lois DeLillo album. Oh, so they actually played at TMLX3, but it's TMLX4 that's coming up. But that's a sticker from stickeru.com. Sticker U.

Did Ron Hawkins give you this? No, the Sticker U people knew they were playing my event. Lois DeLillo were playing my event and made stickers for them. So there's also Toronto Mike stickers. Not as cool as the Agitpub stickers, but something for your, on your bicycle

maybe? You're a big biker still, right? Yeah, yeah. I still BMX, mountain bike and road bike. And I still skateboard. Well, stick it on your skateboard and send me a picture. I will. No pressure. It's not that much pressure. I've been under a lot more pressure. And Craig, you stick it wherever

you want. I'm actually going to put this on my laptop that I'm going to be spinning with on Friday night next week. Are you coming Friday night? I have to now. Now that I found out my sticker's on the laptop of the DJ, how can I miss it? Also, I was going to say it at the time we were talking about Party for Marty. Why don't you do a live feed from it?

I was about to say, you should give me, I just need to plug in and set up my mics and everybody who's at this event could drop by and share a Marty story and we could have

like the Party for Marty episode. Like, it would be amazing. I could bike my gear over I'm actually going to talk, I'm talking to the club today to figure out kind of like Wi-Fi and Ethernet

and all that sort of stuff. I don't even need Wi-Fi. All I need is I need to plug this board in and really I'd like to plug in my laptop to make sure the battery sucks, but that's it. So two things to plug into and I'll set up. Just give me a little circle. Hey, Chuck D did this for me, so you guys

should be able to do this. Can we just do this? You know what? Okay, so you're going to be there by I promise I will pack up the studio, bike it to the venue. I just need 10 minutes to set it up and I will record a Party for Marty episode. Here I am looking at Craig the same.

Craig, just say yes. Yeah, we'll make it work. Okay, yeah, I will. And you promise the sticker is going to be on the laptop. And you'll get a free hat. That's right. You had me at hello, as they say. All right.

Before we kick out these jams for Martin Streak, I want to thank propertyinthesix.com. That's Brian Gerstein, who's at the US Open right now. He is a tennis fanatic. Like he loves tennis the way, I was going to say the way regular people love real sports, but tennis is a real sport.

I was just joking, Brian, but he's at the US Open going nuts, watching the tennis there. But if you call him or text him at 4 1 6 8 7 3 0 2 9 2 and meet him for coffee or whatnot, to have a conversation with Brian, you can tell you like what's going on in your marketplace. He can tell you about the condos at PSR brokerage have on offer.

And he's just a cool guy to talk. You can even talk tennis with him if you like. So thank you, Brian. And thank you. Rupesh Kapadia, Kapadia LLP CPAs. He's the rock star accountant who sees beyond the numbers. He has a quick pro tip we're going to share here before we kick out the jams. He talks about RRSPs versus TFSAs. And I know you guys and you need to know where do you stick your money when. This is stuff that everybody should know and let's listen to Rupesh. Hey, hey, hey Toronto Mike listeners. This is Rupesh here from Kapiti LLP.

We at Kapiti LLP always look beyond numbers in servicing our clients. One of the ways we do this is by ensuring that they pay the least amount of tax in their lifetime. Today's topic, I get asked this question all the time. What is better? this is by ensuring that they pay the least amount of tax in their lifetime. Today's topic, I get asked this question all the time, what is better, RRSP or TFSA? As a general rule of thumb, I think of it this way, if you are in your prime and are earning the maximum taxable income now, then invest in RRSP. This will give you a tax deduction at your current tax rates and hence you will pay less taxes today. However, if you think you will be making the most taxable income in the future, then invest in a TFSA as your investment in TFSA will grow on a tax-free basis. Well, everyone will have a different

situation and hence it's always best to consult your tax advisors if you're not sure. Till next time, be calm and save your taxes. Bye for now. This is Martin Streak's Cold War II, Saturday night, lock on. You ready to kick out the jams for Marty? Absolutely. Hell yeah. There we go. Conduit. There we go. Conduit. Yep. So feel free to talk anytime. I'll bring it down so we can hear you. But anything you want to say about the song, the band, Marty?

This is by a dear friend of ours. His name is Brian Hogue. Conduit is from Burlington. I was actually the first guy on air to play this song. With Martin. With Martin. Wow. At the Kingdom in Burlington that he used to call Girlington.

Of course. And yet it was, I would have to ask Brian the exact year. I think it was around 2007. 2006. 2006, yeah. And I fell in love with the band instantly. You know, as soon as I heard this track, I was like, wow. And Brian Hogue and Martin became friends.

And then when Martin passed, Brian's band Conduit dedicated their second album to Martin Streep, as well as had Alan Cross vocals on one song. Like him talking. Him talking. He's not singing on that thing. No, he's not singing. I know he played the accordion as a young man.

He probably could sing, but he was talking on it. It sounds really, really cool. But Conduit, the way that Martin and, of course, yourself, Craig G, you recognize a good song. It's not on any label. There's no push from any label to play anything. You recognize that this is good stuff. I don't care where it's from. And then he liked this song he liked there's another conduit song called burning inside and

this song's called pill by conduit 666 666 oh yeah good memory forever in a day yeah that's why he's here he's got the memory yeah and you don't know well you do know how much that means to a band to hear your song on CFNY or 102.1 The Edge or Edge 102 whatever incarnation, your song's been played on the CN Tower and it's going out all over the place and it's massive because for that market you can now

have people at your shows awareness is everything if you don't have a big label behind you that's everything right? That's fantastic. And also to hear Martin Streak say, you know, and now here's Conduit on 102.1 The Edge. I mean, to hear him say that, there was nothing like it. Yeah. And this is just solid.

And I wouldn't have known about it if it wasn't for Martin and Craig G. Like, I wouldn't have known about this band. And now Brian Hogue's one of my best friends. That's what music does. It's just awesome. That's changed, right? This sounds like we're talking about 50 years ago, but we're only talking about 13 years ago.

But nowadays, no DJ or host even gets much say, especially now that we've lost Bookie. Like, who's got any input on what they play? Does anybody in the market have any input on what they play? No, certainly not on major market radio. I mean...

Well, I mean, yeah, in Toronto. In Toronto, yeah. Not really, but I can think of... You know, people do have... Just Trombo, maybe, on CBC Radio 2. Yeah, George definitely has a choice. Big time. But other stations...

I wonder about Raina at CBC as well, maybe. Well, yeah, CBC, basically, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. You know, you could play Anne Murray 42 times in a row, and you know what I mean, and still get a grant.

Yeah, yep. But other stations... Nothing is anything wrong with that, because Anne Murray is wonderful. Oh, not that there's anything wrong with that because Ann Marie is wonderful oh yeah she's wonderful but what I'm saying is that there's freedom right and in corporate radio over years come on like it's shrunk

the playlists have shrunk a lot of stations don't play more than 300 songs or what they do is they platoon 40 or 50 songs out every month put in another 40 or 50 but basically keep their library to about 300 songs or what they do is they platoon 40 or 50 songs out every month, put in another 40, 50, but basically keep their library to about 300 songs. Where what we're used to back in decades is like,

you know, the station would have 5,000 songs. You know what I mean? Or they'd have the no repeat workday, which the alternative station really does. If you hear the same song, you're going to get money. And I kind of miss that. And I miss free form radio. Yeah, like CFNY was like that, and they had that going for a long time with David Marsden.

Yeah, and David has continued that on with the spirit of Radio.ca. NY? Oh, it's called the Spirit NY. It's free-form radio. And that's what's fun, whether you're a DJ, whether you're a radio announcer,

and whether you're a listener that loves music and doesn't want to hear the same thing over and over again. Yeah. And the other thing, too, that I found with, especially with CFNY back in the day, was when I was DJing in the clubs, Alan Cross would always say, how many, Craig G., take a guess

at how many songs you have in your crate, in my CD crate, and I'd say, how many, Craig G, take a guess at how many songs you have in your crate, in my CD crate and I'd say, oh, I don't know, 3,000, 4,000?

He'd say, get more. You need more. You can't repeat yourself too many times, right? Because if you start doing that, if you start doing that,

then you fall into kind of that, I'm repeating myself trap, you know, you're, if you're playing this, there's always songs that you have to play. You always have to play Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

You always have to play Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. You know, for the retro shows. We won our Rage Against the Machine. Exactly, yeah. For the retro shows, you always have to play stuff like Spirit of the West, Home for a Rest and Erasure and A Little Respect and Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order.

Those songs always have to get played. They're like the pillars. Exactly. But in between that, Alan would always say to us, really stretch out and really try to bring back stuff that people haven't heard in a long time.

It's funny, when you mentioned David Marsden's NY The Spirit, I was thinking, yeah, Ivor Hamilton, I think, has a show on there too, and I know he's at your event. And then I was thinking of

when CFNY got rid of all their vinyl. They went to CDs, I guess, and they were getting rid of the vinyl library and I believe, I believe, Alan Cross and Ivor Hamilton

split them and rented a truck and got them out of there. So they're all connected and it'll be neat to see them all on Friday. I'm getting jazzed about this so I hope the listeners come out.

This is going to be cool. Oh, even, you know what? I'll make sure, Mike, remember to do this. Future Mike, put a bunch of Toronto Mike stickers in your bag when you bike over to the Opera House on Friday because maybe some people will want one. Who knows?

Oh, yeah, definitely. Way to start this off. You ready to kick out another Marty jam? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Nice. I am the god of luck I am the god of luck I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck

Go and smile you fuck Virgin sold in quantity Perted by heredity Redneck burnout midwest mind Who said gay rape is a kind? I almost don't want to bring it down. It fucking sounds great. Doesn't it? Yeah.

You're touching the headphones, eh? Marilyn Manson, you know, most people heard from Marilyn Manson because he opened for Nine Inch Nails, right? And they were closely associated. So we found out about it very, very quickly. And Marty, I can't speak to later Marilyn Manson stuff, but when this stuff came out along with Tool and other bands like that, we were all over it, especially Martin.

And he actually befriended Marilyn Manson. Enough that Marilyn Manson came down and co-hosted Thursday 30 with myself and Martin for three and a half hours. He sat down beside us and did the Thursday 30 for three and a half hours, and then those guys went out clubbing afterwards. Amazing. And Manson was, you know,

it was something that I didn't expect. Not that I thought he would not be intelligent, but he just blew me away with, oh, wow, he's just like one of us. You know what I mean? Like he just, he loves music. He's very passionate about music. He knows his music history.

He's very smart. He's exceptionally funny. And he's very laid back and very approachable. Being able to sit beside him with Martin and we took turns asking questions and stuff like that. And Marilyn Manson's joking around and rubbing my leg and trying to throw me off.

Well, he's rubbing more than my leg. But I just thought it was an exciting moment in music to have that happen, and I knew that Martin and Marilyn, at one time, were pretty close. Yeah, it's almost like when you find out

Marilyn's a regular guy, it's sort of like when you find out the kids from the 70s realize Alice Cooper just likes to play golf, and he's a really good golfer. It's like, oh, yeah. And Ozzy Osbourne cooks eggs. Right. You know, and Gene Simmons

never had a drink in his life. Right. Right. And slept with lots of women. Apparently. Then actually, it's interesting talking about Marilyn Manson. That reminds me of a really cool

story. When we were at the Phoenix one day, we used to do Club 102 on the Saturdays, and the Phoenix from time to time would have matinee shows. So they would have a matinee show start at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be done around the time we started. We never really bothered people to say, oh, you know, we're CFNY, we're Club 102,

you know, you're a band and you have to stop playing now. We would never impose ourselves that way. And a lot of times, actually, it did happen where they would still be playing and Martin would be in the back of the booth screaming into the microphone because, you know, the band was still on stage from the matinee. Anyway, this one night,

Chris Cornell was playing a solo show. you know the band was still on stage from the matinee anyway this one night um chris cornell was playing a solo a solo show so martin runs and finds his um manager who i believe at the time might have been his ex-wife if i'm not mistaken and it goes and says you know listen martin from cfny the radio station's here we play the crap out of chris cornell's music over the years not only his solo stuff but of course Soundgarden as well and Temple of the Dog and everything would he be able to just jump on air with me for two minutes we would

just love to have a chat with him she says I'm really sorry I don't think it's going to work out unfortunately because Chris Cornell has to run to the airport because he's got to be in Montreal first thing tomorrow morning so we've got to run to Pearson International so Martin's bummed out because he's got to be in Montreal first thing tomorrow morning. So we've got to run to Pearson International. So Martin's bummed out and he's like, oh, that sucks, Craig.

It would have been really, really nice. And anyway, so the way the DJ booth was made, I faced, Martin and I faced out into the crowd. So our backs were always to the door where you could come into the DJ booth to come and say hi to us. And so I'm standing, you know, prepping another song on my CD players, and then I get a tap on my left shoulder, and I turn around,

and Chris Cornell is standing in the booth. Wow. And honestly, the hairs on my arm are standing up right now. Just turning around to see him, he was so charismatic and good-looking and just like a real presence you know we saw martin streak was the coolest guy on the planet well chris cornell's right up there too honestly and he was so wonderful and really giving of his time he was great martin chatted with him

for like five minutes and i'm literally looking at him going we have to go to commercial like now he's like i don't care i don't care so would just, and he kept going. So it's, yes, moments like that, that happened a lot over the years. And that, that's just one example. Keep the stories coming. That's amazing.

Here's another jam for Marty. Nice. A little bit of ring finger. Musical perfection. That's right. Also great in the headphones. You can easily talk over to right to the post. You want to try to hit the post?

No, that's Martin's thing. I could never do it as good as him. I actually learned how to hit a post from Martin. Oh, yeah. It's just magic. Magic. Just doesn't sound right when I try. Keep it locked. keep it cranked.

Well, you've got me working so hard lately. Working my hands until they bleed. If I was twice the man I could be, I'd still be half of what you need. You can see Martin dancing right now. Yep. You lead me and I follow. Anything you ask, you know I'll do. This one act of consecration is what I ask of you.

I love that part. This record is 30 years old. And it sounds new. Like it doesn't date itself. 30-year-old record. Maybe we should just play this whole record. This would be a kick out the jams for Martin. Just play Pretty Hate Machine.

Yeah. So for Martin and Nine Inch Nails, is it fair to say it was love at first listen? Yes, definitely. Musical perfection. I think anybody that really got into this type of music, industrial music especially, a lot of industrial bands didn't look at this as being industrial music.

They thought it was really poppy because that was one thing Trent Reznor was absolutely brilliant at, was creating a pop hook inside this heavy, heavy, heavy, dirty song. He was a master at it. So a lot of the industrial bands didn't get it. But if you heard this record from start to finish,

then even like the Al Jorgensenons from Ministry of the World would say, look, looking back on it, it was a brilliant record. And they should look back at it because if you think of Jorgensen, if you think of every day is like Halloween and then into Over the Shoulder and then you're starting to get into Thieves and Stigmata. Oh, yeah. Ministry changed itself a lot. Big time.

Yeah. From kind of an industrial electronic new wave to industrial hard rock metal. That's a good point. Yeah, for sure. This is brilliant.

Quite frankly, I didn't know what song I should pick from this album that Martin's favorite would be. It could have been down in it. It could have been heads like a hole. It could be something I could never have. There's so much great songs on this. Well, I was going to ask for a little bit of detail as to how these 11 jams were chosen for Martin's streak.

And Craig, are you learning what the list is right now as we play them? Kind of. I mean, some of them are mine. And so I basically said, Pete got in touch with me and said, could you do us a favor and put your tunes together, what you think?

Yeah, yes, for sure. I mean, all of these bands. Spoiler alert. Sorry. Oh, geez. Let's go. All right. I know I got to edit this program. So we, yeah, I'm just hearing it for the. Spoiler alert. Sorry. Oh, geez. Let's go. I know I've got to edit this program.

So, yeah, I'm just hearing it for the first time, which is great. But absolutely, all of these songs would definitely be his picks. Like Pete was saying about Pretty Hate Machine, I think that was one of the things I put on my list that was like Pretty Hate Machine entire album. Right. Yep. So how did you choose one cut from this?

You just played darts? With some things, I knew exactly what song. And then some, I knew that Martin loved the album so much, I just tried to pick a good one that I know that he loved.

And then some of the stuff is just memories from Craig working with him. And Martin going, Craig, you working with him and Martin going, Craig, I, you know, I love this song.

Oh, can you play this song? This is one of my favorite songs or me for working with him for a half a dozen years, realize and going to all those club games. Like I went to max and I went to Phoenix. Like I would still have to do the hour request breakfast in the morning. I didn't care.

Didn't need sleep. I'm in my twenties. Right. You know, and Martin was always great saying, ah, Pete Fowler's here, brother Bill's here.

And we'd all just hang out because we're in our twenties and we're in Toronto and we're not married. Yeah. So just fun. Let me say a quick hello to friend of the show. Who's we mentioned him earlier, but Rob Johnston, Robbie J good friend of the show.

Yeah. I'm sure, uh, he's he's banging his head right now and thinking of his buddy Martin Streak. Rob was there all along with it, right? Producer extraordinaire. Him and Jason Bartlett, they're all in the mix. Craig Venn, you know, those guys were there with it. It was just such a great scene. It was amazing.

Guys were there with it. It was just such a great scene, eh? Yeah, it was amazing. It was a real tight-knit family, tight-knit community, and that's one of the things that I think I love the most about what Martin did was he really created a community. He did. Now, Pete, when he asked you what your 10 favorite bands are, if you had said, oh, you know, ABBA, Bread,

and you went down this list, would it... Bread? I know. Like if it was a completely like off-brand list, would you have been, would he still have been so nice and kind to you? I don't know. I think so. I think you'd always be kind.

I, you know, I'm not saying that, that he would have been disappointed because he's trying to make a connection, right? And he's also trying to see, did we just hire somebody that... That loves bread that much. That only likes, you know, a certain type of music that we don't even play.

Yeah. So trying to make that connection. And, you know, it's funny, you said the Chris Cornell story, and I have a Martin Chris Cornell story that's not as nice as that one. I've been thinking a lot about Cornell. First of all, I absolutely love Chris Cornell music.

So I've been listening to a lot of stuff, even Audioslave. I just love, I always said, I was in the car because I had to drive to Hamilton Airport yesterday, so I'm actually listening to Terrestrial Radio, and I was listening to Pearl Jam, and I was like, somebody put some bubble wrap around Eddie Vedder. Just protect that man, because I'm thinking about all his contemporaries that are no longer with us.

Chris Cornell is gone. It's kind of like you've got to digest that. But tell me the Cornell streak story. Well, Chris Cornell was in our kitchen at 83 Kennedy Road and this is around this is before Super Unknown.

So this is, I guess, Bad Mortar Finger. And Martin was talking to him in the kitchen and they were talking about music and they were talking about influences. And Chris Cornell said that he's heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin, yeah. And Martin said something to the lines of,

Led Zeppelin? I grew up with a clash. Led Zeppelin. Or said something negative about Led Zeppelin, which grew up with a clash, Led Zeppelin, you know, or said something negative about Led Zeppelin, which caused Chris Cornell to say, if you were in my hometown, you'd get your head kicked in for that. And he said, I'm not in your hometown.

You know, like it was just, it was funny. Very, very funny. But, you know, so when you mentioned that story about Chris Cornell, it's like, I wonder if he remembered Martin when he said Led Zeppelin sucked. Yeah, definitely. Just a quick aside, because that's what I do on this show,

but Johnny Cash, right? At the end of his career, he was doing all the Rick Rubin stuff and he was covering these. I'm thinking like, so he did Nine Inch Nails, he does Hurt, right? And then I think Trent Reznor said something like, the song belongs to Johnny now. Yeah, absolutely.

But then I was thinking also, he does a fantastic Rusty Cage, speaking of bad motor fingers. And Personal Jesus. And Personal Jesus, right. And a Sting song. He does a great Sting cover. Yeah.

Hello, Johnny. I'm Johnny Cash. Let's kick out another jam for Martin Streak. The Magnificent Seven Ring, ring, it's 7am Move yourself to go again Cold water in the face Brings you back to this awful place Knock on mergers and your bankers too Thank you. And I guess you out, but how long can you keep it up? Give me a Honda, give me a Sony So cheap and real foley

Hong Kong dollar, Indian cents English pounds and Eskimo tanks Give it up, walk Don't stop, keep it on the go Give it up, walk Don't stop, keep it on the go Give it up, walk Don't stop, keep it on the go

Give it up, walk Don't stop, keep it on the go There they are, The Clash. The only band that mattered. With the Ramones. Yes. The Clash was a very, very, very important band to not only CFNY. It was a core band. Like, it's... It led to hundreds of other

bands. But you think about The Clash, and I can never do The Clash that much justice of how much music genres they've mixed together with regard... Like, Strummer is just... And Mick Jones too, you know, and stuff. But Joe Strummer, I know, meant a lot to Martin Streak.

And Joe Strummer means a lot to a lot of musicians. Yep. Especially a lot of punk musicians, even though some punkers don't consider The Clash punk. They are. You know, you don't have to wear

a safety pin in your nose to be punk rock, right? Punk's an attitude, right? Punk's an attitude. Punk's also a community. Where you're supposed to help each other that you're supposed to be a good person

Joe Strummer highly believed in supporting one another he was anti-racist he was anti-homophobic and he was pro-community and helping your fellow person and I can see Martin

in that shadow as well and I can totally understand why, A, you like The Clash musically, but also love what Joe Strummer stood about. Yeah. You know, and it's unfortunate we've lost Joe Strummer as well. DJ Craig G,

what year did you leave Edge 102? 2009. Just, actually, I left a month before Martin and Barry Taylor. You might recall that the online bio at whatever it was, edge102.ca or whatever the website was. Edge.ca, yeah. Yeah, edge.ca, right.

The online bio for Martin Streak was actually Joe Strummer's bio. Do you remember this at all? Really? Really. Copy and paste Joe Strummer's bio. That's brilliant. When Streak passed away, a lot of mainstream media,

and I was closely monitoring and documenting this at the time, and I reminded myself by diving into the archives, but a lot of mainstream media at the time, oh my goodness, popular DJs dead.

How old was he and stuff? And they were getting their data about him from his bio, which was cached, I guess. And it was Joe Strummer's bio. So Joe Strummer was older than Martin. So, for example, I think I saw reports of 54-year-old Martin Streak passing away because that was the data that he had in his bio

because he just copied and pasted Strummer's bio. I remember this very well. Wow. But on that note, if I may, at the time they let Martin Street go, I was very disappointed. I didn't want that. I was very disappointed. It's all there on TorontoMic.com

if you want to dive in. I remember hearing that some people were suggesting he was too old to play to the kids in clubs and stuff. And, I mean, he passes away two months, he kills himself two months later. Ready for this? He, at the time he died, when we were all talking about how he was too old

to be on a radio station like Edge, he was the exact same age I am today. So Streak's age at the time of his death is my age right now, and that's 45. But it's just interesting how 45 I don't think you, I never thought you can you can't put a number on, it's not age again it's like attitude, it's got nothing to do with age

it's nothing but a number. I'll be perfectly honest with you, the last few years that I was I guess basically I was the last full time guy that was his DJ in the clubs. Girls loved him. Look, 19-year-old girls would show up to the club and absolutely adored him. He was good-looking.

He was charismatic. He was funny. He was fit. He was sharp. He was very quick-witted. funny he was fit he was sharp he was very quick-witted yeah and you just you it was easy to really fall for him because he was he was all of those things and more and yeah and he never looked like he was in his mid-40s when he was in the clubs and girls would ask him you know eventually like on like just just be honest with you with me and i remember a girl saying to him in the in the

dj booth one night, she was like, wow, you're in your 40s? And he's like, yeah. She said, I hope I look as good as you do right now when I'm in my 40s. And that is really the thing with him is he never seemed to really age. I don't know. He ended up getting gray in his

beard a little bit of gray on the side in the back of his hair but other than that he just never seemed to age and i hated him for it let's kick out another jam sorry the one I gave away. The one you spoiled. Caius. Early Josh Homme. We'll see you next time. I've got the demons within me I've got to rush them all away. I feel the demons ring.

I must clean them all away. Yn ystod y tynion, mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Mae'r cyfnod wedi'i ddysgu. Love works in the morning Cause I bet you'll see her Shine a smile on the way Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I call the K bands, like Korn and Kais. It came out around the same time, the first Korn record, which was different than the other Korn records. It was more kind of medley. And then this acid rock type of Kaya stuff, you know, Sky Valley. And it was like, oh, this is different. This is like, oh, yeah, somebody has some Black Sabbath influences.

Like, it's just that bluesy sort of heavy. Definitely. You know, it's just frickin' good driving tunes. It's a good marching song, too, right? Did you play in the clubs? Did you and Marty play it in the clubs? Big time. Definitely, yeah. Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley

like you say. Definitely. Oh yeah, these guys were I mean, the big thing with this, with Caius being that tag of stoner rock, which I think most of the bands hate that tag, but that's essentially what it's called because everything has to be sort of labeled

as far as music goes. Yeah, these guys are really at the forefront of that, and this is Josh Homme, who's from Queens of the Stone Age, of course, now, and Nick Oliveri was in Caius for a little bit as well, bassist for these guys. Brant Bjork is still out, the drummer on from Caius. He's actually, I think he's coming to Toronto soon, actually.

If I'm not mistaken. I think he is. I think he's doing a show in Toronto. Great, great drummer, great groove. Yeah, you can definitely hear Black Sabbath influence in this stuff. Makes me want to get a jean jacket. Oh, and this jam's called

The Demon Cleaner. If I may take a moment. So earlier I talked about the three-hour tribute put together by Robbie J and the gang at Edge 102. So I've got MP3s of that entire show hosted right now at martinstreak.com so there's a whole story here but martinstreak.com was owned by Martin

I gotta remember to say the T in Martin or I'm gonna hear about it I say Martin with a D right yes you're the only person to do that I've got other issues too but that's a long list too but okay we won't go through those here, yeah. I'm going to call you Toronto Mick. I'll take that.

So, Marty, Martin, I've got to work on that one, Martin Streak owned martinstreak.com but of course when he passed, I suppose it lapsed somehow because maybe the emails were going to account that only the person who had access was no longer with us, so it got in the hands of like a

a spam site basically some some someone picked it up and just had ads running on there for the longest time and i was you know trying really hard with like uss's lawyers were helping me we were really trying to get it back into like the good side here you you know, for a long time. And then there was this years later, it came up like I had an alert that it was now available. And I pounced on it because I figured, you know, let's get it on the good side. And then I don't know if somebody closer to Martin asked for it, I can hand it over because the good guys have it now, if you will.

So in the meantime, I built like a little a little page uh for martin but mainly i was sharing the three hours of tribute audio aired on edge 102 but also and this is what i really wanted to make sure i got out here is that there's a tremendous five hour tribute uh by david marsden that aired on the rock that i'm also hosting those files. So that's eight hours of, I believe it's all ad-free and it's eight hours of stuff. Great tunes. martinstreak.com

You can go there now and click through and grab it. That's great that you did that. Yeah, good for you. Oh, yeah. I feel like turning out the lights for this one. I'll maybe light a candle or something. Keep them on.

I want to see where Craig's hands are. Oh, yeah. They were right where Marilyn Manson's were. This song makes you talk low. Like, how you doing? Hello. I'm so tired of playing Playing with this bow and arrow Gonna give my heart away

Leave it to the other girls to play For I've been a temptress too long Yes Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be a woman I just so wanna be a woman

tell me why Martin would have chosen Portishead's belt glory box. He actually did pick it. So in 1995, we were allowed on the Thursday 30 to, instead of playing a groundbreaker,

like a new song, that at the end of the year, myself and Martin got to pick a song off a record that we thought was the best record of the year. So I picked Casting Wheel, and Martin picked Portishead. And it was kind of funny, because afterwards, our program director said, wow, you guys couldn't pick anything big? You each picked a band that only could sell

2,000 records in Toronto. Because Portishead is a big record, and people know who Portishead is and Catherine Wheel. But it wasn't huge compared to all the stuff that was coming out. It wasn't Britpop. It wasn't U2. Yeah, it wasn't U2.

It wasn't grunge. It wasn't Blur. But it was the Bristol sound. And you had these great bands coming out, like Massive Attack and just tons of others. Tricky. Tricky, yeah. They call this trip-hop, right?

This is the genre. So good. So good, right? Tricky had that great Public Enemy cover, Black Steel. Yep, Black Steel. Tremendous. Beautiful. Yeah.

You can't go wrong with Portis. Oh, it's so awesome. Like, it's so sensual. It's a sensual song. Beth Gibbons. Sounds real. Fabulous. Just the music.

I totally get why Martin picked this as his favorite record of that year. It's atmospheric, like, just hearing it puts you in a certain, yeah, chilled-out mood. Everything slows down. And it's different than other artists. It's just, it's original. Which Catherine Wheel song did you pick? Wheel.

And I know you guys at that station, 102, played the mess out of their cover. They had a cover of Spirit of Radio, if I remember correctly, Catherine Wheel. That's right. And of course, 102.1 was the spirit of radio. They had to play that all the time. Now, I think, I'm not 100% sure,

but I think Ivor Hamilton had something to do with that, getting Catherine Wheel to record that Rush cover for that record as a B-side or a hidden track. That's a fun fact. I think that's what happened. On Friday, when I'm set up at your venue, the Opera House, and I get Ivor on the mic, I will ask him.

Talk to Ivor. Talk to Alan. That's what I want to do. I want to send him over. Yes. I'm all in, man. We'll do that. Good. That's fantastic, A. Craig. Yeah, it's great.

It's wonderful. That's a win-win-win right there. I'm all in. So stay tuned, Toronto Mike Faithful. Yeah, if he brings GLB. Oh, but one thing, though. I'm looking at the time of your event on Friday. So you've got 9.30 to 2.30.

I don't know if I can remain conscious until 2.30. That's late. It's all good. Whatever you can manage. Whatever you can manage. You know what, my friend? You'll be surprised. When you start hearing those tunes,

I think you'll be there till the end. Okay, so I mentioned I'm 45 years old, but I went to a Rusty show recently, and I remember they were still, it was like 1.30 in the morning, they were still going, and I was thinking, I can't do this anymore.

My kids are going to have me up at like 7 o'clock in the morning. There's no sleeping in anymore. Try being the DJ who's o'clock in the morning there's no sleeping in anymore but try being the dj who's the last guy in the club hey you are the last you are the last one along with security mike you're you're you're a healthy fit 45 year old male i thank you i don't want to hear any of your complaints you're right i'll be there till 2 30 all right oh here we are here's here's a jam for you

yeah Here's a jam for you. Yeah. Oh, man. Dumb and born to follow What you need is someone strong to guide you Like me, like me, like me, like me If you want to get your soul to heaven Trust in me now, don't you judge or question You are broken now, but faith can heal you Just do everything I tell you to do Dumb and blind and dumb and born to follow

What you need is someone strong to guide you Dumb and blind and dumb and born to follow Left and laid my whole life Hand up, hand up on you Thank you. He has needs like I do We both want to rape you Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now? Open my eyes, light me with your light now. Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now?

Open my eyes, light me with your light now. Open my eyes like me with your light light. If you don't mind, I have a great Martin and Tool story. If I don't mind, I want it all. So, are your kids upstairs? Don't worry about the kids. Okay, so I can

say an F-bomb? Say anything you want. Perfect. I think it was Edgefest was one of the first times that Tool played in... It did. Side stage. Yeah, side stage. That's right. So the band is waiting to go on.

Martin is standing at the side of the stage, and he goes up to Maynard Keenan and says, could you do me a favor? Do you mind if, like, I'm from this radio station, I'm one of their announcers. Do you mind if I come on and just quickly, you know, announce you guys onto the stage? He looks at him, he goes, you want to introduce us you do you yeah you want to introduce us you know what fuck off so martin's like okay the lead singer of tool just told me to f off i'm gonna go introduce them so he So he runs on stage, introduces them. Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Streak from 102.1 The Edge. And here's Tool.

And apparently the look that Maynard Keenan gave Martin was the look of death. That is awesome. Yeah. I've never heard that story before. And I was there. And I didn't even know that happened in the background. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness. Whenever I hear Tool, all I think about is Martin. And whenever I hear any sort of Tool song, you know, even though the first thing that CFNY played was Sober and Prison Sex, Prison Sex being the first single, and then Sober being the second. But this Opiate EP, which came out kind of like after Undertow,

like this was a club song. Like this is an amazing song to dance. So is Sober. Sober was big. I heard it often. But this EP, this Opiate, which is a great tune, is I think one of their best, and I knew Martin loved this song. It was like the comparison too with Nine Inch Nails

when they put out the Wish EP. Yes. The broken EP and then the fixed EP after Pretty Hate Machine. Fist bump for that. Nice. So I think it was this week we got a new Tool album. I've seen on Twitter, for example, all over the place, people are like spinning Tool.

And the people, I'm thinking of my buddy Andrew Stokely and Rob Johnston and people like that, are dedicating their listens to Streak, who is just famous for his absolute adoration of this band. Oh yeah, that's why we can't think about Martin without

when we hear Tool. It's just hand in hand. Tool versus Nine Inch Nails. Which one would be number one on his... Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails, for sure. Because Pretty Hate Machine was such... I think, and also also too at the time when that came out it was also a big influence on him because he was starting to really get involved with cfny at that point in time and it was a big record on the radio station so that i think for him is uh was a very nostalgic piece um because that was the beginning of him really doing the road shows and then

starting to, you know, Marsden saying, okay, listen, you know what? You sound great. Let's,

let's get you on air and see what you can do. I always wanted to ask this question. You sound like you might know, uh, either of you might know with regards to playing closer, like, uh, and censoring the F bombs and stuff like,

like how strict was the rule? I, my memory, I, I remember hearing the F bombs dropping during the day stuff. Like, how strict was the rule? My memory, I remember hearing the F-bombs dropping during the day. Okay, so there was... What was the rule there?

There was two versions. Radio edit? Radio edit and then the standard one. Right. And radio edit would be in brackets. I want to... Yeah, there was no F-bomb. There would be the odd time

where if it was early in the morning, I remember Adam Ricard used to do mornings, Saturday and Sunday mornings, I think from like 6 a.m. until noon or something like that. And he would accidentally. He's at hits right now too. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he's great.

He's great. Yeah, for sure. He would accidentally play the uncensored version around maybe. Quote unquote accidentally. 8.30 in the morning or something like that. It was always allowed at the clubs because they didn't want the censored version. No, you've got to play at the clubs. But I'm thinking of like,

I'm thinking 7 p.m. and stuff. I remember, and again, memory's a funny thing. There were songs in radio edits that are what they call day parted, right? That they're allowed to play after nine o'clock at night. Think about Radiohead Creek. That's a great example. Yeah, but also think of, like when we used to play after nine o'clock at night. Think about Radiohead. That's a great example. Yeah. But also think of, like when we used to play

closer, the radio edit, even if it was at nine or 10 o'clock on Brother Bill's evening show, what he would do is he would turn up the mic pot. And so when you hear, I want to, you know, because there's nothing there. It just goes, I want to, like an animal, right? That's the edit.

Right. Billy would turn up the mic and go, and when you hear, I want to, Billy would say, fornicate. You'd hear fornicate in the middle of the song, and it was Billy yelling fornicate. I want to fornicate. That's great.

That's great. That was in Brother Bill? Yeah, that was Brother Bill. Brother Bill did it like all the time. It made me laugh. That is hilarious. I think of this stuff because on the radio yesterday

during the drive to Hamilton Airport there, I heard Cubically Contained by the Headstones. And it was a radio edit. But I have a very specific, I remember it was like the middle of the day, something like 1 p.m. And I heard the, it was Paranormal Little Fuckers.

Paranormal Little Effers. And it was definitely the album cut, like the uncensored version. Like I definitely heard it on 102.1 during the middle of the day. Were you offended? No, I fucking loved it. I hate radio edits.

Yeah, and you know, there's the censored version of Green Day, what is that, Holiday? They took the F-A-G word out, right? Oh, really? Because they haven't taken it out of the New York, the Pogues Christmas Fairy Tale of New York still has the other F, yeah.

I think Dire Straits still has it. In some stations it does, some it doesn't. It's all so problematic now, but let's kick out another jam for Martin Streak. She said the T this time. I'm working on it, Falmer.

Martin. I'm not a pro like you guys. Martin. At least you didn't call me Flower. Flower. Feet powder. Feet powder. Nice.

Speaking of the Bristol sound, massive attack. Nice. Speaking of the Bristol sound, Massive Attack. Live and learn I've been thinking about you, baby By the light of dawn And midnight blue Day and night I've been missing you I've been thinking about you, baby. Almost makes me crazy. Come and live with me.

Either way. Win or lose When you're born into trouble You live the blues I've been thinking about you baby Said it almost makes me crazy Child, nothing's right If you ain't here I'd give all that I have

Just to keep you near I wrote you a letter And tried to make it clear but you just don't believe that I'm sincere I've been thinking about you baby

Beautiful. You know what's interesting about Martin, too, he loved all different styles of music. And a lot of people don't know that actually one of his favorite genres was disco. Most people didn't know that. Wait, are you doing a bit right now, or is this real? Nope, this is actually real.

And he loved disco based on the fact that he used to go to um around right i think he told me because he grew up in arendale in mississauga and um apparently there was a roller rink that was just south of the uh roller skating rink that was just south of the 40 yeah of the qaw and he used to go there all the time and from time to time he would put on records and all of the records that they had at this roller rink were disco records. Not necessarily village people.

It wasn't like village people in Abbott. But it would have been during that era. He would have been 13, 14 years old. Like Earth, Wind & Fire? Yeah.

DGs? Blondie, Rapture. Yeah, okay. Stuff like that. He also, I know he really dug KC and the Sunshine Band. He thought they were great. Cool.

But then there was more underground stuff like, you know, Loose Joints, It's All Over My Face, and all of these records that you would never hear anywhere other than like in a club or in a roller rink or something like that. And he was into all that stuff, which is also why he loved all this type of, like he loved Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai, Jamiroquai.

Virtual Insanity. He loved Jamiroquai. Although that's the only song I can name. You said he loved Stevie Wonder too, right? He loved Stevie Wonder. He loved all the old

Motown sounds. He was just, he did have a broad range of music that he enjoyed. He always used to make fun of the Beatles. He hated the Beatles and he hated Led Zeppelin.

Right. So, which is fine. I mean, he just wasn't into it and I used to fight with Martin of the Beatles. He hated the Beatles, and he hated Led Zeppelin. Right. So, which is fine. I mean, he just wasn't into it, and I used to fight with Martin all the time because I'm a Beatles fanatic. Not many hate the Beatles, though. Yeah, not too many. No, not too many.

I think that's why he was a little weird. But anyway, he, yeah, he was just, his musical taste was really all over the place, and I remember one night, we were just about to go on the air and I started playing KC and the Sunshine Band's Get Down Tonight.

And he comes into the club because he was in the office talking to the club owner, Tony. He comes running into the club and he starts dancing in the middle of the floor. There's nobody in the club at this point.

So not even the bartenders were there. He starts freaking out and just losing his mind. He just loved this song. He gets up into the DJ booth. He's like craig g thanks a lot man i absolutely love that song i was like you know that's a disco record right he's like oh and then he told me the story of being right of going to roller rinks and that's when what started to get him his love for wanting to spin the cfmy video road show i totally get it. Was watching DJs playing at Roller Rinks. Wow.

He loved that. I totally get it. No, that's a great story. That's just happy music. Very happy music. Before I play song number nine, I guess, how come we're doing 11 instead of 10? Is it any particular reason?

Because I couldn't pare it down to like 500 because there's so much music that Martin loved. I thought maybe Martin didn't like round numbers or something. No, I'm just a pain. Fowler doesn't like

round numbers. Fowler doesn't like round numbers. Okay, let's pick out another one. Nice. This has a disco tinge to it. Disco New Wave.

For sure. It's got a saxophone. Come on. I just got your message, baby. It's a sight to see you fade away. The world is a-speeding.'t you let the people read that? It'll get you in the end It's God's revenge

Oh, I know I should come clean But I prefer to deceive Every day I walk alone. And I pray that God won't see me. I know it's wrong. I know it's wrong. Tell me why. Is it I'm taking your scene?

I know I'm dying. Baby. I know I'll die Baby Martin loved this song. Yeah. He's got a great story. Craig's got a great story. That was actually Jeff DeMette. I remember that was Schwarma when we had our conversation. It was Schwarma. Yeah. DJ Schwarma had a great story. That was actually Jeff DeMette. I remember that was Schwarma when we had our conversation.

It was Schwarma. DJ Schwarma had a great story about he was filling in one night for Dwight, I believe. And he came up to Schwarma in the DJ booth and was like, do you by any chance have the Blowmonkeys digging your scene? And Jeff's like, yeah, I love that song. Can I play it? And Martin's like, absolutely, I love that song. Can I play it? And Martin's like, absolutely. So he threw it down, and Shormer was saying, yeah,

he ended up on the dance floor. He just kind of standing in the very back of the club, just under this very pale kind of light, danced to the whole tune. Because this jam is different than the rest. Like on Sesame Street, one of these things is not like the other. That's correct.

It's different than the other one. And that goes to show you his musical diversity, his musical taste. And with that reference that Craig G mentioned with regards to him loving disco, like a lot of people didn't know, when you think about the transition from disco to New Wave, and think about this song, you can see how Martin and anybody else that loves the Blowmonkeys, this brings joy.

You know, like this has a groove to it. You know, you can put your hands up and feel good about it. There's a lot of that stuff at that time, like Steve and Tin Tin Duffy and a lot of those kind of early, early new wave kind of crossover soul, like almost blue-eyed soul bands were definitely disco influenced. I totally get it.

I could just picture him dancing at the back of the club just like what you just said. It's like, oh yeah, totally get it. I could just picture him dancing at the back of the club just like what you just said. It's like, oh yeah, I get it. I get it. He just ate, lived and breathed music. It was what he lived for.

And this story was shared by someone else who confirmed it to be true, but Martin Streep had a Spirit of Radio tattoo on his body, right? Yes, he did. He showed me. On his butt? On his buttocks.

Yeah. His buttocks? You can see it in a couple of pictures online. He just pulled down his pants and showed it to me. He showed it to Alan Cross and I at the same time at the back of Edge Fest when it was, I think it was Our Lady Peace was headlining. And yeah, he takes Alan Cross and I into the sort of the back common area

where all the bands kind of hang out and get dinner and stuff. And he says, guys, check this out. And he undoes his belt. He pulls his pants down and Alan already started to go, okay, all right, just slow it down. We'll look. You're really going for it there. So he showed us the tattoo.

And Alan and I kind of stared at it. And we looked at each other. And we stared at it again. I was like, it's actually really, really well done. And it looks good there. So good for you. But that story is a testament to how closely he identified it's actually really, really well done and it looks good there, so good for you. But that story is a testament to how closely he identified with the station,

like the music and the station and the brand. I mean, that's a very permanent move right there. He believed in it. He was passionate about it and it was his life. Yeah. Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.

All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world. So there was only one thing that I could do. It was ding-a-ding-dang, my dang-a-long-a-ling-long. We'll be right back. I hope you're seeing things I don't know You don't hear me when I go Every time you tell me, baby All that I say, well, man Got to give me a treat for you Well, man Why, why, why, why Ding, ding, dong, dong, dong, ding, dong

Digging on the gun Half my time I tell you, baby I'm having a hard time Why, why, why, why, why, baby I think it's just a fool, yeah You can tell me, ding, ding, dong, ding, dong Outro Music I wanna love you I still fucking love this song. Yep.

Oh yeah. First time I was telling Pete this actually on his show. First time I heard Ministry was Martin coming through with the CFNY Video Roadshow when he played Burning Inside. Burning Inside. Burning Inside. From The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, and I just fell in love.

I remember running into the DJ booth and saying, who the fuck is this? This is so hard and so heavy. I just love it. I literally, the next day, went out and bought the record. It's funny. When we were talking about this before, myself and Craig G were trying to

come up with only 10 bands and then I kept on thinking well geez you know Martin of course loved industrial and Bristol and disco and alt rock and this and that but he loved Skinny Puppy too and he loved Butthole Surfers and when they went sort of semi-industrial heavy. And, you know, and of course, ministry and conduit. Like, it's just, it's tough picking just 10 with someone that is that passionate about music. You know, like, you ask another 10 people that knew Marty, they might come up with 10 different bands. Right. Absolutely. They could for sure.

Yeah, definitely. There's always going to be two or nine inch nails in the clash but other than that they could name like i just told you you know like jamiroquai and you know and all these other bands yeah any consideration to stick a a cult song on the cult was actually that was my yeah that was one of my suggestions but you know to be honest i think um he was a cult fan for sure i know he loved um the love record he loved that album um had rain and revolution yeah she sells sanctuary uh sister moon oh so many great songs as bookie told us earlier uh he opened with uh she sells sanctuary right i just wondered it was on the list, but we pared it down. Well, sorry.

I pared it down to 11. Half of them are Craig G's suggestions from his experience, and the other half are mine, or we both agree on them. Amazing. Only one song to go. I might actually throw a 12 song in as we wind things down and talk about the party from our debate. Sounds great. a 12 song and as we wind things down and talk about the party from it sounds great Jesus built my car.

It's a love affair. Mainly Jesus and my hot rod. Yeah, fuck it. Yeah. Thank you, by the way, for not playing like Glory Box or not putting Glory Box next to that jam because Glory Box, my heart rate goes real slow. Like I can feel my heart rate slowing down.

And with that jam, it does the exact opposite. I feel it would be a health hazard if you put them back that's a good call for sure shifting here uh quick story uh before we run out of time that uh we've been talking about jeff demette uh dj shawarma uh a lot of people listening remember humble and fred warnings on 102.1 that's right so just to the, but not everybody will know is that the name Schwarma, that was, Humble Howard called him, something to do with him loving chicken Schwarma

or something and there's a story there. I think so, yeah. I think that's where it came from. I'm pretty sure it was Humble and Fred that gave him that nickname and it just stuck.

And DJ Schwarma will actually be on Humble and Fred's show this Wednesday, I believe. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, which is great. I know he was long time doing Hockey Night in Canada radio for Sirius XM, I think until like very recently, like maybe till July 2019. So yeah, so shawarma is the same shawarma you might know from the old Humble and Fred show in the 90s. And here, okay, final jam from your list. Let's kick it. Listen to the victim abused by a system

The basis is racist, you know that we must face this It can't happen here Take a look around the basis is racist, you know that we must face this It can't happen here Take a look around at the cities and the towns See them hunting, creeping, sneaking, breeding Fear and longing with the lies they're speaking The knife, the gun, broken bottle, pencil, bomb There is no future when the passion comes And when they come to ethnically cleanse me, will you speak out?

Will you defend me or I'll laugh through a glass I guess they rape our lives Trampled in the foot By the rise on the rise You are a Ich bin ein Ausländer Ich bin ein Ausländer Ich bin ein Ausländer now

you know if i may what's interesting about this song um this song i think came out would you say it was early 90s late 80s early 90s i would say that this song came out, would you say it was early 90s? Late 80s, early 90s? I would say that this song came out in 94? Somewhere around. Or 93. Yeah. This actually was a huge hit at the Kingdom in Burlington, in Burlington. And the song, when this song came out,

the kids that were dancing to this song, when this song came out, they were four. So literally, I mean, it crossed over all this band in particular, Pop Elite itself. I don't know why, but there was just something about them that was dark and poppy, a lot like Nine Inch Nails. But yeah, we

could play this song at the Kingdom for 19-year-old kids, and then we could turn around and spin it to our generation. Look at all the songs they had that you could dance to, right? You had XYZ, Wise Up Sucker, Bulletproof. There's just so many great songs that probably said,

but this, Craig G's right, this is when they got into a little darker period. I always associated with Martin because A, it was a huge hit that him and his fellow DJs that worked with him made into a big song before it actually even

came on to the radio and just the song itself, Iqbi and Inauslander, I am an outsider or I am a foreigner. It's something to me just, it just fits. It just, it just reminds me of Martin so much. Yep. What about you, Craig? Absolutely. I totally agree. Like I say, every time I hear this band, there's just so many bands, especially because he was such a massive figure. Martin was such a massive figure in this

kind of culture, this, you know, the alternative world. There's a lot of music that I hear that makes me think about him. But this band especially. Every time I hear this band, I always think of Martin.

Yeah. A lot of bands. This. There's another band that was called the Future Sound of London. And he was really big into a lot of darker, alternative-sounding dance music. Yeah.

And he loved all the Chemical Brothers and the... Prodigy. Prodigy and all that great stuff. He really dug all of that. Daft Punk, yeah. There we go. Bonus time. Yep.

I can hear Martin talking over this all the way to the post. Yep. Especially if this was the extended version, which had the extra bit to the beginning. We'll be right back. Take my back, take my back, my heart Pete Fowler, DJ Craig G. Any final thoughts before we say farewell and snap that picture? We never got a picture last time, Mr. Fowler. Yeah, we'll take care of that tonight.

I hope we see you Friday night, September 6th Well, it's a done deal, right? I'm taking this as a binding contract here. Done. Excellent. Well, we also hope to see your listeners, right?

As we celebrate the life and career of Martin Street. Three DJs, incredible music covering a couple of decades of alternative music, and all these great special guests

that meant a lot to Martin and vice versa. You know, you have your May Potts, Alan Cross, Ivor Hamilton, Scott Turner, Brother Bill, you know, Danielle Waltz. There's a whole bunch coming that I can't even tell her.

I can't even tell you that they're coming. I think for a fan of the station, especially in this era, especially like I always talk about myself, that was my station in the 90s. I think that's a square on Al's bingo card. I listened to this station throughout the 90s. But just the chance to kind of listen to these jams

and remember Martin Streak and then meet Mae Potts, for example. I mean, I'm one of the lucky ones. I've met Mae Potts. She's been down here. But meeting Mae Potts or Ivor Hamilton, Scott Turner, like Alan Cross, who probably a lot of people listening to us are still listening to

Ongoing History of New Music. We both are. CIBC, Run for the Cure. Okay, so you're not profiting. You're not going to be buying a new house with all this money you're making. This is all going to a good cause. This is his favorite charity.

This is his favorite charity. So the money is going to CIBC, Run for the Cure. They're going to be there. So you can donate there on top of what your ticket's going to be going to. And that's all part of the Canadian Cancer Society, right? And we have free buttons for the first 300. It's just going to be going to, and that's all part of the Canadian Cancer Society, right? So, and we have free buttons for the first 300. It's just going to be a great time. It's been 10 years.

10 years, Mike, since he's passed. Hard to believe. It's about time we do something. Yep. And Craig, Pina, DJ Dhingra, you know, and DJ Schwarma, Jeff, you know, they had it in them to get this done,

and I'm just so happy and proud to be with them on this. Like, I'm just thrilled. I'm looking forward to this Friday. I can't wait because we're going to rock the shit out of the place. Yeah, we are. And I can't wait to be there. And by the way, thank you very much, Pete, for being the first person to pledge my Terry Fox run.

So I kind of launched that last week. You were number one, So that's amazing. Thanks so much. Speaking of lowest of the low, you know, we close every episode of Some Low here, but pleasure to meet you, Craig. You as well, Mike. And I'll see you again Friday night.

You bet. Pete, about time you came back, but you know, you do have to come back again to kick out your jams. I will. I will. I really enjoyed with Craig G

being able to find some stuff to play with regards to Martin. And that brings us to the end of our 504th show. The 504th Streetcar. That's a great Toronto episode here. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at TorontoMike.

Pete is at LostIndyCity. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Pete is at Lost Indie City. Craig, are you on Twitter? No, I'm not actually. I don't get Twitter. That's the only one I get. I don't get Facebook or Instagram. I don't see the allure. I can't stay on Snapchat. But I love Twitter.

Isn't that funny? Do you want to send them somewhere? Do you have a website or something? Well, actually, my band, I have my band, which is called Advance to Guru. So you can check that out. It's my wife and I. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah.

Is your wife's name Maggie? It's my daughter's name. Oh, because I get an email from Craig and it says from Maggie and I get confused. Yeah, there's my daughter there. Oh, nice. Yeah, my wife, Jen, my daughter, Maggie. Gotcha, gotcha.

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See you all in a couple of days when my guest is Ann Romer, and we call up David Onley, and we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Breakfast Television. Now that's... Wow, that's classic. Ann Romer's going to show up? Ann's going to show up, yeah. She'll be here.

We're going to call on the phone. We're going to call David Onley. You've been trying to get her ever since you started the show. No, she's been on. So you got to give... I totally missed it. Yeah, this is Anne's second appearance. That's great.

Come on, Pete. I got to link you to the archives. See you all then. Well, I've been told that there's a sucker born every day. But I wonder who. Yeah, I wonder who. Maybe the one who doesn't realize there's a thousand shades of gray. Because I know that's true. Yes, I do.

I know it's true. Yeah. I know it's true.