 This is the SF Productions podcast network Welcome to another episode of Fast Wasteland. I'm W.D. Neil. I'm Marty Willow. I'm Mark Noisaki. And we're gonna talk about concerts today man, but like first let me tell you when when we're here We're here like on Wednesdays at 10 and then Thursdays at 3 and might be here Saturday might not man I had a report of a Saturday morning spotting that we were on a Saturday morning. Okay, we've been spotted on Saturday Saturday morning spotting Saturday morning spotting every morning spotting we were spotting on a Saturday and if you want to like write us or something You would like to write to an address To a post office box Fast Wasteland post office box 1514 11 Columbus, Ohio 4 through 2 and 5 And then if you want to do any of that other stuff well, good luck Because they go back amongst your tape library and and you know because you've taped every show so far I'd have to get the website and all that because Mark's not here And we know that you've taped them because we can see you We saw you do it. He's See there you go. You're doing it now. So anyway concerts man Gosh, I remember back when I was a kid we had some friends that would like always take us to see The temptations every time they were in town. It was like every year We'd go to see the temptations. It was cool And it would be like it go to the concert and we'd get out and it would go to like Don't replace and have pie I feel like whoa It's like tomorrow already, but it would only be like probably just 10 10 30 Maybe close to 11. They'd probably be like 10 or 10 30, you know, but it was Like they had Columbus used to like clothes and stuff. I mean not that it doesn't now So you were like like eight nine years old or something on the street anymore. It was like up to maybe 12 or so But gosh, it was it was just the coolest thing we'd go to go to Concerts and then we like you could go to the fair and see concerts. Well, that's true The fair used to have free concerts and you could go free concert and every year we would go and Well, well mom really we'd end up probably going to see Bob Hope or Because she'd like to see Bob Hope it was it was always there every year. He was always at the fair You could you could depend on Bob Hope being at the fair Of course, I was before he got to be real big and I'll get out Ain't very far. We thought he was really something like he does now. He's really something really wild of course Bubs like almost on the last leg now, but hey, that's okay back then it was something tabloids But I saw some great concerts at the fair. I saw gosh, the OJ's earth-winning fire Man That was like the first one I took my kids to because they were little and they thought the Jets were really cool and so It was like an easy way to take little kids to big music. Yeah, which is big music for them. He thought it was the Jets, okay? And where are the Jets today? Oh, no But it is the Joan Jets the fair too. Yes all Joan Jets Joan Jets get to what because you could go in and watch the sound checks And like you want to stake out like a really good seat in the middle somewhere So you go in it like you go to the fair and then you go in it like What the concert was at three so you go to 12, so you get a good seat And that's pretty much where we spent some days at the fair It's like, you know, it was pretty much a thing You would have two shows the the afternoon show and then the evening show and I know a friend of mine And I we would like go around and we'd get to the fair early and you know Do the rides and games and stuff and then we'd head over toward the The concerts in you Maybe an hour or two beforehand go get a pizza and just sit in there eat pizza and wait, you know Then it would fill up everybody'd see the concert. They'd be cool then everybody would leave we'd go out yet another pizza And sit there to watch the evening was that was just the thing to do. I mean it was nice and fun and free Basically, you had to pay for your food and stuff, but the other concerts were free. It was cool There's a bad free concert Well, you know You just don't remember a bad free concert because a free concert is Cool enough and then when it's good. It's really good and even if it's bad It's still good because you didn't have to pay for it. So there were no bad free concerts Of course now you got to pay It's a lot smaller and it's like dark and stuff and Berkeley you'd get to see David Lee Roth there again. Yeah, it was like sad Well that part was like sad that he cut his hair. It was still a good show Yeah, but it's like so but it's like the cut but but like as far as concerts goes like probably first Introduction is like fairs and carnival, you know carnival, you know Festival and stuff like that, you know Because I believe it's all Randy Newman downtown. Yeah when one free music in the air. Where else would it be concert? It's all Leon Redbone. Leon Redbone. That was a good show Leon Redbone like the fairs where like a lot of people probably see their first concert quite often Well, at least people that are like our age probably saw their first show at the fair You're lucky at your high school, but we never had that we had a band come to my high school That was probably like my first concert We had a real rock band. It was like from from like someplace like Cleveland No, it was blade Somehow it was like they were supposed to play the senior prom the band didn't make it to the prom like you'd expect a band to make it to a prom and So since they've been paid they had to play and so they just did like to open assembly And they set up in the auditorium And it was like for a lot of it because I'm from like a small place where we don't have a big fair or anything So it's like a lot of us that was the first First kind of concert thing because they had the big speakers and you know as far as we knew they were a real rock They had the long hair the leather the guitars And Like big one like Like I would Cincinnati to see Those were like where my first big shows Was it was going to Cincinnati because I live near Cincinnati, so Cincinnati was the place to go And it's like you get into this whole you can always do a whole like like back then you would go to the concert and There was like this Anything went you went into Riverfront Coliseum and it was like if anything goes kind of thing They like shut the doors and that was it. You just Party and now it's like when you go to concerts Well, I noticed when I moved up here and you started taking me to shows up here It's like it's Columbus. You can't dance in the in the what was that place? It looks like Disneyland on acid now. Well, it used to be the What did they used to call it the Ohio Center the Ohio Center They used to call it the Ohio Center now It's the convention Columbus Convention Center but I was very used to being able to go to a big show and you didn't have to stay in your seat and you Could dance on the steps or on the floor wherever you were dancing that was the Cincinnati etiquette I guess that's her etiquette, and I moved up here. It's like stay in your seat. Where's your ticket? Well, I think it was very fun. Oh back back when you know, they just it used to be fun here, too You could get up. You could dance. It was cool. And it does everything. I'm just kind of got strict after the whole The trampling the whole thing in Cincinnati that was Then Columbus just said oh, well, we can't have that here We'll have to get rid of that festival seating and stuff like that Everybody must have a ticket every seat must have a ticket. You must sit in your seat You must stay in your place. You will not get up. You can only clap but you know it was like I went to concerts after the who thing down in Cincinnati and Yeah, you had to have a ticket. Yeah, you got in but once the lights went out The only thing that got real heavy about was when there was a place down there called the Beverly Hills place and it burned down Then they got really strict on smoking And you'd be sitting watching the show and somebody behind you would light up a cigarette and you'd have flashlight in your face And that was they got really strict about that, but there you didn't really have to stay in your seat. So That's all I Polaris because you go out and it's out in the grass in the meadow, but they've got this real weird policy. We're like Okay, it's like normal concert behavior guys are supposed to pick up their girlfriends and put them on their shoulders if they can And then you do that at Polaris and they're like no no get down get down You have these big security guards pulling these little twiglets off these big guys who could hold them up. Anyway twiglets are It's like this whole I Don't know twiglets. It's like you want to take the security people side. Yeah, excuse me. We're at a rock and roll concert And those people holding their girlfriends or boyfriends or whoever on their shoulders, they're enjoying We don't give it, you know, and so it's just like they've got this real strict kind of Nazi attitude Behavior behave yourself with those shows so well, that's my take behavior behave yourself Concert behavior behave yourself Okay, see vets memorial used to be the big place to see concerts here and gosh, I've seen so many concerts and vets That's ridiculous. I saw let's see go way back In fact, that's where the temptations always Graham Central Station Let's see. It was Parliament. It wasn't funcadelic, but it was Parliament And that's when you realize that Parliament and Funkadelic are pretty much same group the same people are involved but anyway, it was Parliament and Graham Central Station and so Todd Runger in there saw Runger in there a few times. Did you see kiss there? Yes, I'll kiss there. That's the first time I saw kiss was that vets were I was great Then I've seen little days like starcastle and folks. You'd nobody even remembers anymore Starcastle, let's see Who knows Probably just fell off the face of the earth But I would I would like Certain groups and I would go see him every time they appeared like when Runger was here I would go see Runger and every time when kiss was here. I'd go see kiss every time You know, it was great and so then I just pretty much got into the thing of um He did just the concert thingy you go you see the show you go you buy the concert book You get the t-shirt, you know, and you go back in and it's like I used to not be a strict Recording policy either so people would bring in like, you know little recorders and they'd record the concert It'd be awful sound because you know, you couldn't get all that in but still it was like hey, it's the concert Whoa, let's do that. Listen to that big blooming bass echoing Okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna share something like okay when I first met you Okay, when I first met him like I thought he was like some kind of coke dealer or something because I would go into the place Where he worked and he'd always have on a t-shirt from the concert from the night before And I thought the only people I knew that were like rich enough To go to concerts like every time like every time there was a concert you'd walk in where and he'd have this shirt I was like you were there. Yeah, I was there I've just been to like several concerts and I found out he just didn't have a life And to see like George Carlin Carlin George Carlin, he's cool. Let's see George Carlin several times. Look, it's George Carlin But he's gotten bitter He's bittered up over the years Arrowsmith I've been to see arrow picture several times Different time for a real Smith We saw a real Smith that Cooper Arena one time. That was a cool concert. What was Cooper Arena? Baseball stadium open for that one. Yeah, don't get up. See it was another time we saw a Joan Jett Adam and Back in the ant music days Michael do you know this song it goes All the Beastie boys, there's nothing really to see there. They saw them in Cincinnati. They opened up for a run DMC That was really a bad show It just teaches you something about Some people belong on tape Yeah, who's like the real performer a real act and then who's just like sampling other people's music Who's just a real act and who's just a real app? Pat Benatar she was use cool How come that picture looks like Stevie Nicks? Oh, she's trying to catch it on Stevie Nicks. Yeah. Yeah Pat Benatar Pat had this overbite thing. I wasn't an underbite. She has more of an underbite actually That was an overbite over by an underbite. Who cares what she doing now? Nothing. Well, she's probably still out there somewhere She's out there on those r.io Speedwagon tour Which I'm sorry. This is something I've had people go to the the quote Let's just say the quote oldie shows Yeah, out at the out of the big place out of the big meadow Okay, and they complain it's like well, I went to see this band and when I saw him back in the 70s They were really loud and rockin and they go out here to see them and you can't hear them because They've got the volume turned way down. So it's like Don't play the place if you can't pay the fine. Okay. Keep the oldie bands at home You can't pay the fine. Don't play the arena Alice Cooper saw Alice Cooper in festival Alice puts on a good show because Alice is a showman Okay, he um Ah He's there to put on a show I mean it's it's the singing it out too, but I I go to see a show. Alice puts on a show Well, you know, we're really gonna have to there were some comments made on the local radio About uh, there's a band called maryland manson And no, I know we haven't seen maryland manson My son's a big maryland manson head But some comment was made on the radio that maryland manson's just doing Alice Cooper Badly So it's almost like makes me want to go see this show just to see but then I've never really seen alice live No, alice live is wild because he's uh, he does a lot of theatrical stuff. He does magic pretty much And alice just no he does illusion. Okay. He alice does illusions stage illusions that um, but he's perfected them So, I mean it's just great. Alice puts on an excellent show. Oh, I remember to see harry I mean, it's not really a concert, but it's a concert when you go see somebody who doesn't sing but they talk harry anderson harry anderson still has enough fear to how they run the big thing through the arm, but When you see something like that on tv, it's like uh, it's on tv, but when you really see it Like at the place and he's like and the blood is it's just big thing It's like a long a real long needle everybody knows to get and he puts it through his arm and he runs it through there And I mean there's others doing it now. Yeah, but Pin and teller. I'd like to see pin and teller. That would be a good, but anyway Devo Devo they were they put on a show Well, they were supposed to Are we going to get through this whole bucket here? Well deo Now hold it. Do we see deo when he played for somebody else? Maybe maybe Maybe not ronnie james deo The lead singer for iron butter, not iron butter, but black Sabbath after Ozzie's fun Farner saw farner and uh, well, see they're doing those old the old folks tours now Well, I mean It's kind of weird when it's like stuck you listen to and they're saying it's oldie now and you're like, uh, uh I remember that I'm about that old Billy idle Billy idle it now has a bike shop. I've heard Oh, he had a good guitarist his guitarist went on to pay for michael jackson. Yeah, he did He has the lots of hit the the black hair guitarist. Yeah Hell, I don't know his name. I didn't meet the guy Howard jones put on an odd and interesting Concert because he had a lot of uh mimes and stuff helping him Mimes at a concert sheets over their hands and stuff kiss Yeah, this was the 76 kiss tour boy. What a what a tour and since then they've just done Several things. Hey, look here. Yes, army. Whoa What what what is the price? um Kiss yeah kiss always has an interesting tour book Sometimes I just get big Have you ever seen kiss Well, you took me so Hey, I saw him at that the uh the convention center. What did you get at that one? I don't remember going to that You slept through that one That was a weird show. Okay weird shows. It's like when they have somebody opened that you said they had eddie money Opening for cindy lapper and this was like at the height of the goonies craze And and so all these little girls with one pink pigtail were there And eddie money comes out and does this real FU rock and roll show Which he was really good And there's all these prayers. Oh, I didn't know so Oh, we shouldn't have brought little patty soon And then cindy lapper comes out and she does a very sweet show She she does something for you know, she's pg kind of rated girl But she does this very nice show. It's very enjoyable. So it was just like I think the other weird strange one was icky pop opening for the pretenders Which was kind of weird because But it worked but it was kind of weird because icky's like mr. Mr. Punk and he's and he's still like that Well, icky can't help it. Look at him now meatloaf Our camera is exploding meatloaf always puts on a cool concert Yeah, I wish I had the this recent tour book when we went to saw it went to saw him Went to see him the last time at um at polaris because he uh had great big inflatable things that That blew up and they were like meat And the bat was really cool the bat out of hell Stage props are really important. I think well state. I see I I enjoy seeing a show. That's a true show and not just Seeing um, I enjoy seeing the performers, but if they're putting on a great show, that's that just makes it really really great Uh, here's Eddie Eddie Murphy saw him back in his comedy days. That was that was fun Was it fun? It was fun. Now, how many Aussies do you have? No, I didn't go to that one because I didn't know you then It's so Aussie twice basically, but sometimes if you go to a concert, they'll have the previous tour books there So that's what I did. I bought the changing of the garden. I bought their previous tour book Pre-chenders Now what we've seen them three times At least twice if not three But you know, I like them best at the newport. Okay. Yeah I like them bet. Oh, we're running down of time. We're running down of time This has been english for second languages Newport's a that's a good place to see concerts because it's like a really cool place Well, if an intimate Kind of a setting and getting right a fun crowd and everybody knows they're there to see a concert We'll see diamond dave there someday david lee boy. He's he's just had To see him at the fair was really weird. Hard luck after hard luck there, but they just still put us on a great show Run DMC It was fun Simple minds. I saw simple minds at a concert Sting I went to Miami U to see sting. This was a cool show Sting put on a great show Tina Turner, I stood in line all night to get Tina Turner tickets Book collection show and this was a great show Tina put on a great show Now this was a free show that bordered on being a bad free show It was fun turtles coming out of their cell Featuring shredder with the really bad microphone. Let's do the shredder boy. Shredders might keep going out So we'd be talking I don't know for me the turtles needed their shells They wanted their cell. They needed to hide in those cells Triumph That's all triumph I don't think you saw these bands. I did too You didn't take me Steve windwood, oh, this is a side one saw Steve windwood at that that's memorial Yes Oh, yes a couple times Yes puts on a great show And there's they could be considered an oldie fan, of course. Well, wait a minute though Anybody puts on a good show a great show if that's what you want to see Because people get it by into a lot of what the critics say the next day They say the critics will say all you know, the band was won't be the band side to me But it doesn't matter what the critics say because it's you who wanted to go see it because you love it anyway Well, sometimes though, you'll go to see a show and I guess I've been to a couple of concerts that just didn't really They weren't it's usually if the sound quality is bad or something then It's like the show might not be as good or if you're In there's certain some kind certain aspects will bring a show down If you go to see them one year and it's really great Then the next year they don't Well for me if they don't you know do as many things as they did the previous time It might not be as good it'll be different But it might not be as good just because they didn't do as many things or if they don't get to set up their full stage whatever Then that might not be as good of a show either. Yeah, I mean there are things that can happen Now this one I was at this one with you, wasn't I? Oh, he wins all right That one's like sad because now we found out when we went to see him when you and I saw him together That was his last tour. That was basically his last tour He's really cool stuff then because he was like registering people who voted they came in the door Yeah Which I think is really cool idea when the bands get together like Van Halen when they had their show Everybody bring a can of food and we'll fill up the food bank that kind of stuff is neat. That's neat. Okay It's neat Frank was always uh, he was always an innovative guy anyway, and he would just uh He would do basically what he wanted to I mean a lot of concert performers will do what they wanted to Frank always did what he wanted to and he just basically didn't care And our frank did what he wanted to do because he walked out on a snipe Frank had something to do, but um I mean concerts. I'm always the one always enjoyed concerts And I'll still go to concerts as long as the ticket prices don't get to be too ridiculous More than I can afford but well for next time I've asked Lace land Who knows what we'll be talking about, but we'll see you then look for mark look for mark as mark should be here that time Good night everybody