#134 - The Inspiration Behind Famous Band Names (Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pearl Jam + More)

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode one four of the Bobby Cast. And since it is a music based Bobby Cast, I brought in somebody who also loves music, producer Eddie Yeah, the second time being on the Bobby Cast. Yeah, this is not about you, though, I do have one dedicated just to me. Yeah you do. Yeah, search that. That's really fascinating. Rude, not plan what we're talking about. Here are the inspirations behind the names of bands. Oh, that's cool. I don't know if I know a lot of these. Well, okay, so your favorite band of all time? Do you know why they are named Pearl Jam? Yes, go ahead, I do, go ahead. Eddie Vetter claimed that his grandma Pearl made a homemade jam, and so they decided to name the band Pearl Jam because of that. Okay, that is one of the theories. Now here's the official. The band has never given a defensive answer on a band name. They have floated a couple of suggestions. It was either based on the famous Payot jam made by Eddie Vetter's great grandmother Pearl, that's right, or what I've heard that it comes from the nickname of NBA star Mookie Blaylock. Well, that's ten because his number was ten and their first album was ten, and so they for sure named their first album ten after Mookie Blaylock. He played for the SuperSonics. So that's pearl jam. Yeah, dude, trivia, I know. Okay, what about the Beatles? Now think about that one for a second. The Beatles, You know, the Beatles are spelled B a T, not like a bug beatle, but like the beat, like keeping it on beat. Do you know why that is? I don't. I don't know this story. So Buddy Holly had a band in their name of the Crickets. So Buddy Holly had Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and so they were inspired by that. All four of the Beatles are big fans. Their earliest shows often feature his music. Later on to Paul McCartney later bought the rights to Buddy Holly songs when he was rich and he could. But the Beatles the bug the beetle is because of the Crickets. They just changed the beat to the the beat. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah, I met that. I get a whole bunch of them here is interesting. I love it, I love it. Yes, what do you know about lady Annabellum as a group. Um, just that there's three of them, you know how they got together? So they got on their MySpace page and they kind of met on my Space. Think two of them were well not last year my Space and it hadn't been more than ten years ago. Yeah, okay, they met on my Space. So I think Charles and Dave were friends already, and apparently Hillary was like, hey, now you from my Space and so they started their own MySpace page and they needed to take a band picture, so they used a Civil War southern mansion for a scenic backdrop, and there were tons of those Annabellum homes. You know, I don't know Annabelle home. It's a style yeah, like you know that there's like a Nissan style home. Um, uh Southern. Yeah, it's like that exactly. They thought it was a cool word and then they just put lady in front of it because Hillary was kind of the lead singer. That's so like just generic, that's kind of like, yeah, it's just to happen to be our name. I'm looking at Annabellum house a lot of pillars, so like gone with the wind, I'll give you one. You're for sure get this one. How about the group Alabama? Oh, I got it because they're all from Alabama. Yeah. They were originally formed under the name Wild Country. Did you know that fall they towards the Southeast bar circuit in the nineties seventies, and so they were all from near Fort Paine, Alabama. They were the house band at a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina hockey talk called the Bowery, so that I mean it. Really they were informally known as the Alabama Band, like that Alabama band because they're of from Alabama and turned into Alabama. See, I'm such a nerd. I love hearing these stories. Like I like thinking about, you know, all the names that they had because in a band, when you're in a band, you think that it's so important. We've got to have a good name. And and like, look, they went through all these names when they were planning clubs, and they ended up with just Hey, we're from Alabama, that Albamama. Just call us Alabama. So mama, let me talk about Dollar Shave Club for a second. If you ever shower or brush your teeth, are trying to make your hair look presentable, you know the normal things. I've got good news for you. Dollar Shave Club has a lot of stuff to help you out. Dollars Shave Club delivers everything you need to look, feel, and smell your best. Dollar Shape Club has everything you need to get ready in the bathroom. If you go into my bathroom, it's pretty much like a Dollar Shave Club museum. Dollar Shave Club delivers everything that you need to look, feel, smell your best. I love the shampoo. I'm a big fan of their calming body cleanser. 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The Food Fighters, which by the way, started as just Dave Girl, is a project he did all by himself. It's first recorded all by himself, all instruments, all vocals, all everything. Did this start after Nirvana ended? Sort of? No, he started doing it while Nirvana it was together, but then fully embraced it. From what I know, after Kurt Cobain died, it was a thing. More so, And think about that, You're the drummer of a band and all of a sudden you make it. He's I'm gonna say, I don't know, Maybe you can talk me out of this. The biggest current American rock star Dave Girl right now? Yes for rock and roll, Yes, the rock genre, Like what is the rock genre? Imagine Dragons the Killers and then they're not the biggest Dave Girls. But I couldn't even tell you the lead singer's name Madden Dragons, Dave Girl is the biggest rock star right now. So the group the Food Fighters got its name from UFOs and aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War Two, known as food fighters. They were out fighting food. Literally. Yeah, Dave Girl says he regrets name of that band now. He said, had I actually consider this to be a career, I would have called it something else because the stupidest band name in the world. I love it. It's interesting. I remember watching a clip with David. They were on David Letterman, and the way he introduced him was like, now this band is really good at fighting food. They are here, they are the Food Fighters. I do believe that the Food Fight just going from memory here. I believe the Food Fighters played the last Letterman show, and I think they might have played Hero ever long, don't Maybe they played a couple of nights in a row, like the Last couple of Nights and letters. That last month of Letterman was amazing because it was a lot to Pearl Jam even came out, and yeah, Pearl Jam did too. I think Norm McDonald was on one of the final ones, and Jerry Seinfeld and I think Bill Murray was the final guest, right, because I think it was David Lemon's first ever guest and maybe the final guest. He went out with a bang. I'm just going. But he's back. He's on Netflix. Yeah, and I haven't. I've watched that. They're good, good, They're not that funny. They're interviews, the interview show, so he's not trying to be funny. Yeah, he just Dave Letter and they shoot for like three hours, and they put about a hour of the interview up. I enjoyed the ones of the people I already liked, you know, Like I thought George Clinion was pretty good because it showed him to be more than just a good looking movie star, but just some editing. I thought the he does him live like on a in a theater. In the theater, he he sits with him. Is it full beard? Yeah, like he did with Howard Starting. I thought was good. But I'm a Howard Stern fan. I'll check that out. One more question about Food Fighters that if you know, um Taylor Taylor Hawkins, so what how did he was? He kind of like because he's the other member of the band that everyone kind of knows, the blonde drummer. So like I feel like he's kind of a partner in the band, is he or is he just another member? He is a partner, very much a partner in the band, but not the leader of the band. That would be Dave, meaning I would compare the Food Fighters and Dave girl to me and this show now, and Amy would be Taylor Hawk. Okay, I got you, I got you. Like Amy's right there with me and all the decisions and sometimes I have to go and make decisions without her, and I'm just but I would compare that would be Pat Smears. And then Pat Smear was also in Nirvana. Patma was the fourth member of Nirvana, hidden member because he was never showcased, not till the end a bit at the end. He played with them, and he I think he played on Nirvanna Unplugged. But and he was in some of the promo stuff. But did you know Nirvana with not think six drummers before Dave, and maybe he was the sixth. But now you're talking, see that's then then Pearl Jim too. They've had like ten drummers their whole career. You know, I think that drummers are the most disposable. You're in the back and again when we play music, you a bit more so than me, but we both play music. We can't even really tell the difference in drummers if you're watching a live show. No, no, you're right, it's hard. I mean they keep a beat and you're right there in the background, and they're really important. Absolutely, there's something special about it. But if you just that's why people like Billy Corgan. He's back with the I think the guitar player now smashing pumpkins. But he just wanted himself. No one really cared. Really, we'll see when that happens. I always feel like, Okay, he's hard to work with because obviously I think, but you know my theory, Yes, all artists are crazy. All artists are crazy, but if you're creating great art, that you've gotta be nutty to be able to think of something different. So you're not you're not just nutting in one capacity of your life. You're nutting in a lot of places. So the crazier the artist, the crazier the human. It's rare you're gonna find somebody that's creating something so different, and then they're so the same in the normal world. And I always feel like bands break up because artists and band members, like musicians are so chill and like just laid back. I just feel like that's just most of their personalities don't really care too much monnything. But the front man is always such a like you say, headcase and always wants it their way. Well, it's the type a personality and someone has to lead. Look at the show. Who's the biggest head case on this show? It's me by far. But I'm a head case in all the ways. Like I'm extremely driven, but I'm also nutty. I'm hard to work with sometimes, so it's just nobody comes in and goes I'm wildly creative, but when I go home at night, I'm just I'm just gonna chill with the kids and be cool and totally normal. Like you're you live in that world, wherever world you're in. Just feel for the band members, you know, like whenever they know what they're getting into. And also you've got to think about bands that start early. They are it's like your friends in high school. Okay, so you're eighteen nine, you're not friends with your friends from college or high school. Now you've grown into dinner places. Imagine you're doing that in life. Did I get that you probably start to feel invincible a bit because you're famous, Like I could probably do this without them. I wonder how like YouTube does that, because I mean they've known each other since high school. They've stayed together. But there are some people like Lunchbox who stayed with their high school friends the whole time. So YouTube comparison the Rolling Stones and even they broke off into stuff and they just weren't as successful. You know, Mick Jagger had a solo career and we did fine, but gets Stones back together as all the guys. Interesting. I love this stuff. What stuff? Just the stuff we're talking about. Rascal Flats. Um, are they from like someplace called flats? Well, they're from Ohio, Ohio, the Rascally Flats, Ohio. I did a Bobby cast with Kimberly Schlapman. No, it was Karen Fairchild. Yeah, because Karen Fairchild was talking about Oh, joe Don was almost a little bit and joe Don's and Rascal Flats and joe Don was also was almost in a little big town because they all played together all the time, and so a little big town hadn't quite decided what they were yet, and Garreta Vox and Jay and Joe Don who was in Rascal Flats. I do finger quotes there. It's like, you gotta go do this, It's awesome. So Joe Don they and they went off and and did Rascal Flats. Yeah, and that was Philip's spot, right, it was going to play Philip spot sort of there. I think there were the two girls in him Joe Don. I don't think that Philip or Jimmy was in now again revisionist history. I don't know. I wasn't around playing the bars back then, and just think you go back if any of that stuff would have changed, like we wouldn't have the bands that we had today, or we'd have way better bands, or who knows, just different. Yeah, maybe bands don't get inspired. I mean, there's so many sorts of stuff. So what hurts the most that's a friend of their of their name. Jelly Roll talked to them after a show and said that he had played in a garage band in the sixties called Rascal Flats and he thought the name would fit for them. Their buddies name was jell He wrote it down a bar napkin and then gave them permission to use it. They told the story during our flashback inter of you here on the show. Hey, so, so if if your buddy named your band and he gives you, like, you know, on a restaurant napkin permission, like that's it right, you can't go back, and it's basically a contract, like jelly Roll can't be like, hey, comem and pay me like I named your band. You're making millions. You can. It's gonna be hard to win that, but you can if you prove that you were the creator of something. I'll give our band as an example, like I have things from when I was fourteen being the raging idiots like school prove it. But I have like videos of whatever generation of that band that was. And then you know, I got into college. And then if you can kind of prove that it was a thing in any capacity, or if you can he signed it over to you, even a napkin, but then I'd be like, that's not my handwriting exactly by oh Roll. Leonard skinnerd back when they were attending Robert Lee High School, Vocalist Ronnie van Zan and the guitarist that a gym teacher named Leonard Skinner who was really against boys having long hair. So van Zan decided poke fun at skinners uptight attitude by naming his band Leonard SKINNERD and then dropping out of school because he kept being told van stand was just all about throwing people under the bus. We're gonna get Leonard on this one. Leonard Skinner was the teacher's name. Leonard Skinner's Leonard Skinner. That's a good Uh, it's a good way to get someone back. You don't like gut some long here. Well, here we go, name band after your mother. Take that Leonard. A couple more here. How about the Dixie Chicks. M I knew this one. That just sounds like they sat around and they said like, all right, we're chicks from Dixie. Where the Dixie Chicks? I think it's that easy. So they're all Texans, yes, And so they got their name from the song Dixie Chicken. Oh yeah, that's a I can be your Dixie Chicken. You can beat my Dixie land little fete is that little? I guess I know it from Garth Brooks. Uh. Dixie refers to the eleven states, including Texas, which is seated the Union during the Civil War. And yeah, so there you go. And by the way. Uh, Natalie wasn't the lead singer at first. I don't think right really, she came in later. I believe that's the thing. And so, yeah, Natalie took over the lead vocals. And then somebody was talking on a Bobby cast about how Dixie Chicks came to town. It was like new ballgame. Who wasn't Mike because they weren't recently. They were like, yeah, Dick's Chicks came in like just dominated, but it was like a whole new sound of the people hated it because they were so new and different. I remember when we lived in Texas. I'd go see her. Her dad, Lloyd Mains. He's it's like a bluegrass kind of folksy musician that lives down San Marcus, Texas. Dude, I would just geek out because I'd always be like, Natalie's dad's now that, and he's just so talented. I would see there's Natalie, Emily, Emily Robson and the other one. What's let's look it up. We got computers. Marty, Marty, she's the She's she's the fiddle player. I would see one of them at a bar in Austin all the time, and I thought it was super cool and it was kind of post the Dixie Chicks being in their heyday. But of the other two, I don't remember which one it was. Well two were sisters, right, Marty and Emily were they turned into a group, because then they got into the big they all broke up and now they kind of got they were in another group like called the Greyhound or something. I don't know. That's right, you're so yeah, is that the name of that grew up to I forgot about that. It was something like that. I think we're just going off memory here. They were an original bluegrass group and I think now he was in the blue grass group and they found Natalie Mains. Again, you could fact check me on this stuff and I don't care. Yeah, but dude, yeah, Dixie Chicks were. Man. I was young when they got big and their success happened, so I don't really remember. I wouldn't around like Austin or Texas when that was happening. But um, when when they would come back to Texas, it was a big deal. Like when they come back to Austin and play like, it was a huge, huge deal. They were so massive that I think it was a big deal listen for it's a home show. Absolutely, yeah, they were massively You're right, how I mean, dude, how do you how do you get that big? Like? They were huge and then and then nothing and then just then it was over. It was over. Yeah. Let me talk about Bombas for a second. How often do you think about your socks? Well, if you're like I used to be, not that much. But if you like me now when I put on Bombas, I love them. These socks have changed the way that I wear socks because they are so comfortable Bombas and you'll go, what's up a sock? 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Before they came together in V three, they did not have a name. They held a radio contest to come up with a real name, and then they somebody named him and then the results were terrible. They gave up before and then a roadie was like, just call yourself a journey. You're on a journey around and they were like, yeah, dude, just call yourself journey. Think about it, dude, in our life right now, how do we think about that. It's a journey. We're right in the middle of it and we're not even in Yeah. And now they had the other lead singer. But by the way, I was when I was taking American out of the finale, I think I told the story, Well, this old guy comes in the room. I know he was and he was like, hey, you that famous radio guy and no one ever calls me the famous radio guy. And I go, might do you're the right And I was like yeah, and he goes, oh, how about that? He shook my hand, walked out and it was Steve, Steve Perry, the late singer, oldly singer of Journey, that guy, but he thought I was Ryan Seacrest. Oh no, yeah, I do remember this story. That's crazy that he wants in your secrets. It's because he won't. I didn't even know who it was, though, I did until I was watching the playback on idle because I was about to go on and do my thing a Talkaley and I see one of the contestants I think Gabby was her name, singing to with Steve Perry, and I was like, that's the old guy who was just in the room. I didn't even put it all together, because you know, you don't see a pictures of the moldy even sing with Journey. I don't even know what he looks like, young, a lot of hair, does he still have long hair? Short? So if I wouldn't have known anymore, well there and there you have it. Why doesn't he with the band anymore? Who knows. But why don't not the same But why don't Jimmy Page playing play together anymore? Yeah, well because they don't like each other anymore. I don't think Robert Plant wants to play the led Zeppelin songs like I think he's like, we've already done that and John Bonham is dead, the drummer of led Zeppelin, So what are we gonna do? Only partially get together and then do things that we used to do. You know, he had a whole he did a whole record with He did the Raccoon, the American record Who Robert Plant? Huh oh? With his girlfriend with um Patti Griffin. Yeah, there were dating at the time. I don't know if they're still together. They're not, they're not. But people, you just see him all over Austin saw him. I saw him my Whole Foods one time. Man freaked out and he was just chilling by himself. Yeah, he's shopping. He's shopping a Whole Foods. Had his long hair still. I mean, he just looks like a lion. You know, his hair is really big still. And he's tall, He's really tall, And I'm like, dude, that's Robert freaking Plant. And I didn't talk to him or anything. I just looked at him for like ten seconds, and it was just amazing because I mean, and I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, like never, Like my cousins used to listen to that stuff and my brother did. But I'm more of a fan now than I was, you know, younger. I feel like, let there are a couple of artists that I look back at and go, oh, if they came out with the same kind of sound now, they would they would still be big. And it's tough because instruments changed the way we use instruments to uh, But the lads led Zeppelin, I think if they came out now, it would still work. Bands still try to sound like this, It would still work. Yeah, And so that like I would listen to us in the classic roxytation, and then what I would do is do that by eight c d s for a Nickel Columbia house, and I would get all those I get led Zeppelin too, I get all the and ah, this is that On this song here, John Bom, the drummer, was playing a different song. He was just frustrated he was playing a different song. And they wrote this kind of on the spot. They just come up with the Lake of Her playing together jam. I went down the whole whole, the whole of like look and up all the stories and songs. There are a few artists if I go, okay, I think that sound would still work. Led Zeppelin's one. The biggest one is this one where I think if they existed today and they just if they started today and they were, you know, twenty one years old, nineteen years old, go ahead, Stones, No, I don't maybe, but I don't know because they were really good, but they weren't super different. Okay, okay, okay, give me a hint. And people were actually able to they were different. Let me say this, And again, I wasn't alive during the Stones, so I'm just going from reading history and watching I think people were able to mimic the Stones pretty easily too, and copy what the Stones kind of started. Um, I'm thinking like an oldies, like a like a sixties. Yeah boys, no, that's too. That's that's two timestamped. It's not Beatles. What is it, yea queen? If the new Freddie Market movies coming out to I can't wait to see that people have tried to emulate Queen. I can't even redo them. He was such a great singer, so great on the stage. When Steven Tyler came in, I was talking about touring with remember that, he was like, he was so messed up because he's better remembers it, but yeah, he used to. Because again, Aerosmith is in the late sixties and they started, yeah Queen, And then there's there's one other one who I think again, all things equal, and it's tough because sounds evolved. I think that if Victorious b I g more new now, I don't think Tupac would. I think Tupac was culturally a bigger but I don't think that. Again, here I am talking about rap. No no no, I like it, but I don't think tupacs sound would translate as well as when you say sound hip hop sound? Are you talking about sampling like the beats that they're using, or of a cadence val rap? Okay, that's what I would think. I think, yeah, what not towards BIS? You did? He d like anybody else? You're right? You play that right now and it sounds like something we can play on the top forty station. Anybody you think that would still? Um? I no, I thank you. I think you nail the ones that that I would even think about. Um, But I think what's amazing to me though, is like bands like Aerosmith that we're able to because you brought up an Aerosmith, but they were able to just change their style with the times from because you listen to slow Ride not slow right? What's long am I thinking of? Um? Uh? Is there one of their first songs, a dream On? You think about dream On and then you hear you know, living on the Edge. Come they sound like two different bands. Yeah, it does sound like a seventies awesome song, and then Janey's Got a Gun feels like an eighties afome and then you can go to nineties and Don't Miss a Thing. That's actually the first number one was don't miss It, dude. That is so impressive to it. Train does that now, but you can't compare it. I'm not comparing Train, but I'm saying bands that are able to do that. Rolling Stones were able to be Okay, I'm gonna go on the train. Because we talked about this. I think Golf Year maybe on there. They have been able to sound relevant through through many Yes, just it's hard to go train equals zero Smith late sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, even early two thousand's train maybe hasn't had the body of work. And they because I wasn't comparing them just then, they were able to to trans to transform their music to whatever was playing in the radio at that time, Like see what you're meeting Virginia came out. If I were guessing, I would say, nay, yeah, and that's what I was listening to, you know, in high school. But then you have my ten year old right now we're then you have my ten year old listen to you know, um hey soul sister and like the stuff that he's doing right now. But this is even old. This is ten years ago, I know, but listen to it. But I was going to go to even the we were newer stuff like play that song one for the last couple of years and I heard this on the radio and I was like, what who is this? It sounds kind of that song makes me go so you go crazy. And I don't know if a lot of artists are most artist just feel like, no, man, that's not me. I'm not going to change with the times or whatever. But these guys are just so good at that, I give you another one. It's even more that's newer. Is Maroon five another one? Yeah, they've been able to switch it up because you go from I remember when Harder to Breathe came out, because it's getting harder and hard it's just such a jam and this was Is there anyone else you're saying that, mommy straight ahead of rock band? Yes, I don't e think grew up a really really rich kid to you gever like, I don't know, just front your hands so you have that, and then to something like let's try maps that desert sweetish a little later. What's their song? Now? First of all, didn't they have like, oh yeah, like ten years in between them, but that's so different even sugar, you get some that. No, they're a pop band now, yeah, baby, their new song which I don't even know what it is. It's pretty dancing, is it? Girls like girls like you? What? Girls like you? Girls like you? Here the pop station some time? Let me see we get your big thing needing deep in four dance crazy man. I mean, there's something to say for someone who can absolutely and even even in country like the fact, how I think about all the time with Darius Rucker like saying, oh my career is over. You know, I'm not you know, hooting and the blowfish blah blah whatever. Most people will be like whatever, start selling cars, no, you like, No, I'm gonna I'm gonna do my country thing now. And look at him, he's he's so successful, He's huge and he puts out great music. Still, Yeah, there's a lot to be set for someone who can fit all formats. Dude, I mean that that's just a musical person. Oh, I see what you say. Yeah, I got you, I got you. I know. Dude like that. Do you wears a dark rimmed glasses? He writes books? Joke? Um, yeah, it's been that's a fun lot music podcast here. Huh, we're done. It's been a half hour. You want talking about anything else? I don't think so. Oh I got one more thing real quick. I was thinking about earlier this week Paul McCartney. I finally sat down to watch his uh carpool Karaoke with Did you want to cry? Yes? Dude, I mean it was absolutely unbelievable. You don't think you will want to cry because you're like, I've seen all the crowd. No, And James Gordon is so good, just kind of roll with it and get stuff out of him. And uh, And I thought to myself, like, the Beatles were a thing for five years. They made music for five years, and I I don't think people realize that. And then they were done and then whatever each member wanted to do, that's what they did. But Paul McCartney can't walk on the streets without somebody wanted to take a picture with it, or people wanted to take a picture of the How does someone like that with just five years of music still that famous today. Well, like, I think a couple of things. One, they made some great music that was way different than everyone else. It was so different. It also started a complete sound you know that the British invasion role. I mean the Rolling Stones only got to come over really because the right and so they I think a lot of bands have been influenced by the Beatles, which kept the Beatles going. And people go, let me go check out the older music, like look at us. We never heard the Beatles. We just told how good they were. I think word of mouth has been a big uh just someone generations this is my favorite, should listen to it. And it's still good, you know. Um, I also think that it. But if John Lennon was alive, I think he'd have to say problem, Yeah, you want to be able to walk around also to go Paul McCarney, Wings was a big deal, but I mean not really not as big as Nothing is, as big as the Beatles, nothing is, but that things is just like a regular band that had about four or five hits. But you're talking about hits at a time where there just weren't many hits like Paul McCartney and Wings. I'm not comparing the two, but I'm saying it did keep him in the eyeballs. And then he he was the lead singer ish of the most famous group ever him and when television was really you have to look at that to the media, that television was just getting to be a thing where people went on to TV shows right time, right artist knew think it really could have been. I mean, I guess if Elvis was still alive, he'd probably be the same new Yeah, I mean, the beatlesn't really steal their sound from someone like Elvis did that. It was completely Elvis his fault. But yeah, I think I was just saying what he knew. Um. But yeah, but I think. I mean, listen, Paul McCartney is probably the most famous living rock star. Yes, well, and it's just to me, it's just like we'll never see that like that. That It blows my mind. That's someone that old. I mean, dude, he's what in his seventies. But look at the Beatles. Even their songs sound different from their different records, like they experimented an experimented, right, A lot of times they get worked. Yeah, all their albums sounded different like the I mean you go to the old stuff, which like I want to hold your hand, you know, just straight ahead, you know, four guys in their little suits, right, and then you know, then you get all the horns and yours to different sounds. They kind of lead music where to go? Could they still hang today? I mean people still do try to sound like the Beatles, I mean for sure musically, I think I think those two songwriters could what John Lennon and Paulcartney. Yeah, oh, I do, like Paul McCartney does stuff with like Rihanna and and like Kanye whatever. I don't hear this their sound and go, oh this played on the radio today would still sound relevant again, you're recording with older machines and older instruments. I don't hear that ago this would still fit in like I do some of the older like the Zeppelin and Queen. But I think those two wrote amazing songs, and so I think yes, because this they probably would be able to write all the hits They probably to Nashville just right, and Shane McNally's we got We're gonna do all the songs this year. Let this one written by Lennon McCartney. So there you go. Okay, all right, that's all. I had enough of that interesting, ridiculous opinions, and we're probably wrong on about eighteen percent of that stuff, maybe okay or more. So there's that. Thank you very much, Thank you Gaddy for being a guest. Thanks for having me on in that fun What episode this? Paul McCartney seventy six years old, seventy ex Episode one thirty. Thanks for listening to the Bobycast. Tell your friends subscribe if you don't mind. Rate us five stars. Thank you very much. We'll see the next time. Everybody. M h m m m m mmmm.