November 27, 2024 • 42 mins
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We’ve all experienced it…those live concerts where the energy is high, and the music is loud! Music influences our lives in so many ways…from our mood to our physical being. Morgan asked what your most memorable concert experience was and what made it so special?
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We’ve all experienced it…those live concerts where the energy is high, and the music is loud! Music influences our lives in so many ways…from our mood to our physical being. Morgan asked what your most memorable concert experience was and what made it so special?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm going Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, thank you, Dan Watkins. Final hour of night Side
with me here tonight, Thanksgiving Eve. I will be here tomorrow,
and I don't think I've given you the lineup for tomorrow.
I've got teacher Terry. I've had her on many a
time and she teaches second or third grade, I forget which.
(00:27):
But for those of you who need to know what
the hotter toys are that that age happened to be
looking on the Christmas lists for sorry for ending a
sentence in a preposition, bad walking, She'll come on and
tell you what the hot toys are on the wish lists.
(00:50):
That's from eight to nine. Doctor Ronda Gooddale will be
on from nine to ten. How to Spot Depression. A
lot of people we'll get depressed during the holiday times,
you know it, and doctor Goodial will be here to
help you spot it and maybe just maybe correct it.
(01:11):
And Ed Robertson, gentlemen, I've had on many a time.
He does radio in California, and in the meantime and
in between times, he writes books. He's written a couple
of books on James Garner, one based on Maverick, The
Legend of the West and The Rockford Files. He wrote
(01:33):
a book about Perry Mason. He wrote a book about
the FBI, the f Zymbalist series, and most recently he's
come up with a book called Men of Honor, looking
at four different series. The TV show The Magician will
(01:53):
Be with Bill Bixby, The Untouchables with Robert Stack, Run
for Your Life with Ben Gazara, and the fourth one
will come to me Harry O with David Janssen. I
hope to finish the book tomorrow, but it's a great book,
(02:17):
tells you about the inside world of well. A series
has to go through a to get on the air
and b stay on the air. So that'll be tomorrow tonight.
What was the last great concert you attended? It could
be uh, I almost sad village people meaning to say
(02:41):
grateful dead, So there, I did say it that way.
Or you went to Branson, you went to Vegas and
you saw a great concert. This gentleman I've had all
before talking about wrestling, But he called me three or
four weeks ago and said, talk one day about your
(03:02):
favorite concert that you attended, And I said, fine, we'll
do it. So Vinnie, Carolyn, what was your favorite concert?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Hello, sir, Happy holidays. How are you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm fine, Happy holidays, doing yours, but.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, I'm still trying to process that Bam Bam
from the Flintstones was adopted three hours ago, so you've
had quite the show tonight following up with this.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So that woman thought Betty and woman were pregnant at
the same time Betty could Betty could not get pregnant.
I don't know the reasons why it was in the
Stone Age, but yeah, she and Barney adopted. Bam Bam
(03:49):
is adopted. So for those who didn't know that, I
hope I'm not bursting your bubble right all right?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So I'm going to give you my mount Rushmore of
concerts I've attended, but I'm going to do that later
in this segment. What I'm going to do right now
is give you a mount Rushmore of most famous concert events.
A lot of folks may not have gone to these,
and you could give me yours, and then later on
we can exchange what our personal you know, concerts we attended,
what our Mount rushmorees are.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So on my list, I've got the Beatles being on
the mount Rushmore, whether it be the rooftops concert in
London in nineteen sixty nine or shave Stadium, either one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I would throw that you're too young to of a.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, no, this will just be famous concert events. But
we'll do my personal list that I attended later on.
So you got the Beatles Rooftop concert or Shavee Stadium,
it's got to be on that. You got to think
about Woodstock from nineteen sixty nine. That's got to be
on a mount Rushmore list of famous concert events. Anything
for Michael Jackson. He was, you know, so influential with
(04:56):
the advent of MTV and the Thriller video. Most people
would talk about the nineteen ninety two concert in Romania
that was on HBO because it was the biggest ratings
drop for HBO in its history. But he's had so
many tours between the Victory Tour with his brothers in
nineteen eighty four or the Dangerous tour of that tour.
I would put him on there and probably number four.
(05:17):
I know a lot of folks would either go with
Live Aid or led Zeppelin Reunion or something along those mines.
I would go because of how successful the movie is
and how successful this concert tour is. The errors tour
with your favorite performer, Taylor Swift. That would be on
my ruckmore.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
My walls in the house are covered with Taylor Swift posters.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
How you're a Swift anymore? Agan, Nancy, you're a swiftly?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay? Indeed, and then and.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Then and then I woke up.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, so what you know better than me? You're you're
a little bit older than me. Forget about we'll talk
about events that you've gone to. What is your mount
run more in terms of famous concert events that you
can think of?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, not out of my own personal experience, just
across the board, appreciation for the skills that we saw
demonstrated on stage. Okay, well, I would have to say
number one through four should include I have to say it,
(06:29):
Diana Ross. She had the longevity to go sixties, seventies, eighties,
and nineties, and she's gotta be up there. I will
agree with you. With the Beatles, I will also say,
oh my goodness, I'm going to go off the charts
(06:56):
and go with someone who had a strong career, necessarily
not mainstream. Bette Midler.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Really I think she did.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
She did. The key is to be interesting with a
span of decades. He gotta have decades in your back pocket,
and I hate to do it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Frank Sinatra, did you ever see Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes? I saw Sinatra at the Desert End in Las Vegas.
He died within that year, and he put on a
heck of his show. Excuse me. I saw all of
the rap pack. I saw Sammy Davis Junior coupled with
(07:53):
Jerry Lewis. I saw Dean Martin on his own and
again I saw Frank Sinatra on his own right. So
you couldn't go wrong seeing them in the seventies or eighties.
By the nineties the shine had worn off of the chrome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, that's quite the murderer's row there. I'll tell you
the Beatles, Ben Midler, Sinatra and Diana Russ. Okay, yeah,
that's pretty good. And of course we can't forget the time,
speaking of Vegas, when the Jackson Vibe pulled you up
on stage and danced the night away.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Morgan, right, that is a true story. There are people
who may doubt it, but tell you what, I'm at
the point of the hour where I take a break
at a quarter past the hour. I'll tell that story
when I come back, and we will take your calls
as well. Florence is already on hold, so if you
want to call in six one, seven, two, five, four
(08:54):
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine ten thirty,
please do. Time and temperature eleven point fifteen forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Last hour of night Side this edition. I'm Morgan filling
in for Dan, who should be back on Monday, but
I'll be here Tomorrow night, Thanksgiving, Friday night, the day
after Thanksgiving, and my regular show on Saturday night, The
Morgan Show. So I get four days in a row.
(09:36):
That's gonna be a nice paycheck, hippie. I'm here with
Vinny Carolyn who wanted to find out the audience, the
night Side audience, what was your favorite concert that you ever,
ever ever attended? And let's take Florence because she's been
holding for like eight and a half minutes, and I'll
(09:57):
tell my Jackson five story. Good evening, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Happy Thanksgiving, Good evening, Lorgan, good evening, Finny and I
have seen a number of concerts, but my number one,
uh just fabulous The Righteous Brothers.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yes, un.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I knew feel Medley about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, so sad when Bobby Hatfield, yes, you know, yeah,
because they were fabulous.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well together, that's for gosh darn sure.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect, and a couple of others.
I mean, Sunita's back. I've seen Wayne Newton the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Boss and on three occasions.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, joining cash in brangda Lee.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, those are the things to drop.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, very very strong. And I also would
see the Oakwards boys. I liked them, would want to
you know, yeah, all very popular, popular, you know, yeah performance.
(11:38):
Yeah so, but the Righteous Brothers you had been waiting
to see them. I seen them at the Club Casino
at Hampton Beach, yes, yep, and just fabulous.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I saw him two years ago. Well I saw
him about literally thirty to forty years ago, and I
saw him two years ago and it was just as
powerful each time.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, he holds his audience well all his ears,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, so my Newton, mister Donkushin is that him?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's it?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, yes, and many many other songs hits that he.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Read, Red Roses for a Blue.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Lady, Yeah, and his yeah special song Daddy that he
sang beautiful, beautiful, right. Yeah. He was quite the performer
still is. I imagine it still is.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And the fact that he's eighty something years old and
is able to perform at that level is good, gosh captivating.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah. And two performances that I loved that I didn't
get to see. I wish I did Number one Neil
Diamond and the other one was Sammy Davis.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh, I saw Sammy. I think I mentioned before the break.
I saw Sammy Davis on the same bill with Jerry Lewis,
if you can believe it, and he captivated the room.
It was silent, you could drop a pen and hear
it hit when he did Miss Jangles.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, I got an album of his, Morgan, I got
a mention to you. A few years back, they did
a special on TV. It was a I believe a
birthday celebration for him of Sammy. Okay, this you know,
(14:11):
and back then I videotaped it. It's on a VHS.
Okay video taped the whole show, Okay, and it was wonderful.
And that was the last time that I actually had
seen him perform. But it was a live show on TV.
(14:36):
I was wondering if you had seen it. Do you
recall it?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yes, I do it. And he did a movie I
think his last movie was with Gregory Hines called Tap Tap.
He was an aging tap dancer and he again he
(15:01):
did all of his own quote unquote stunts done at
whatever age he was, and I'm guessing it was by
then mid eighties. He could still captivate an audience.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Do you have a tape of
that show that celebration?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I do not, You don't, can you do you have
a DVD and a VHS player that you could play
it and watch it?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well? I have a DVD player. But you want to
know what. I appreciate the off for Florence, but you
keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Oh, Katy, Well, I'm giving up a lot of albums
and cassettes and special sets that I have. I've got
a set of old TV shows, three hundred episodes of
old TV shows.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I've got a lot of that stuff, Lawrence, And yeah,
I appreciate the offer, but I've got too.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Much of it already. If you'd like to Sanny one,
you know, I would send it to the stud and
they would get it to you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, they would, But that's okay. You hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
All right, Okay, I got to let you go.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Thank you, bye back and good night, Happy Thanksgiving. You
want to talk about your favorite concert performance performance, we
can do my Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Speaking of Johnny Cash, by the way, I would be
remiss if I didn't mention the Falshom Prison Blue concert
he did back in nineteen sixty eight. That should. You
can find it on YouTube, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Six seven thirty eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty and
I have just enough time to tell this story. And
I'm sorry if you've heard it before. Let me just
tell it and get it out the way. Nineteen seventy five,
I go to Vegas with my best friend Warren, and
(17:19):
he heard me tell this story on the air within
the past year. I don't know if he's listening now.
But we go to Vegas, arrive on a Thursday Thursday night.
We were staying at the Holiday Inn, and we go
down the road a piece to the m Jim Grand
where the Jackson five were performing. Pay Our Money, Get in,
(17:43):
get seated, you know, towards the back. By then all
the ringside seats have been taken and the other seats
as well. We're watching it's a two hour plus show.
Had a great time. Yeah, they did all the old songs,
and there was a bit with Janet and Randy, who
(18:08):
was still preteen at that time. They did a sunny
and chair routine that was on the mark. So now
it comes down to the finale, which was Dancing Machine,
the song they had currently at that time on the radio.
(18:28):
I noticed immediately that a certain part of the song
towards the end, they were pulling people up that was
sitting ringside. And I turned my friend more and I said,
we're coming back on Sunday and we're going to get
ringside so we can get up on stage. I made
(18:51):
it happen. If you tip the Matred's obviously that goes
a long way. I forget what I tipped a twenty
fifty bucks, what have you. They set us ringside, and
when it came time for the finale, Marlin Marlon Jackson
(19:13):
pulled us up. So we're on the stage along with
about another twenty people dancing on stage two Dancing Machine
with the Jackson Five. As the curtain is coming down,
everybody now is looking for Michael. Michael did a Lance
(19:35):
Burton disappear act like you've never seen. He was nowhere,
nowhere to be found, and the other brothers shook hands
and maybe signed a few autographs and apologize that Michael
is just people shy and that's how he always handles
(19:57):
their finales, which was great. I interviewed the Jacksons about
four or five years ago. Marlin remembered the show, remembered
the bit about bringing people up, remembered that Michael always
just disappeared. He knew behind stage, he knew how to
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get to wherever they needed to get to get back
up to their rooms. So we laughed about that, and
I went to go see the show. It was at
north Shore Music Theater, and the remaining members of the
Jackson five put a hell of a show on. No Michael,
(20:42):
no Dremaine, but the other four were there. They had
a great band. It was a great show. So if
you want to call in you sitting at home, half
hour of time left, Vinny and I can kip it
about our favorite shows beyond where we have gone, or
(21:05):
take your calls, which I much rather do. So give
a call six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine ten thirty. This
is night Side. Dan Ray is off for the rest
of the week. I'm doing the best I can to
keep the microphone warm for him. And on this note,
(21:30):
I think I'm gonna throw it to Rob and Dan
producing Nightside time and temperature eleven twenty nine forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Vinnie, Carolyn and I are taking this to midnight the
subject of your favorite concert you've ever witnessed. We've done
all styles of music. We've had names like Johnny Cash,
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior, the Beatles. Trust me, no
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matter what era, your memory trails back to that memory.
It works for us here. I'm busy. Let's go to
Mansfield and speak to Steve in Mansfield. Good evening, Steve, Hi,
how are you doing about him? All right? Good? Out
(22:33):
here you go.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, you can hear me.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I can hear you. Love and clean now go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Very good. So but yes, my very first concept, by
the way, was the Jackson five back in like nineteen
sixty nine in the Boston Garden. But it was a
concert that never finished because people couldn't act right and
they kept on trying to jump on the stage.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, I remember that, and it carried over. They stayed
at the Copperley Plaza, and a lot of people because
you're not supposed to know where celebrities are staying. Boston
has about a dozen great hotels for celebrities, and you
weren't supposed to know. But somehow the word got out,
(23:20):
and somehow everyday Citizens Joe and Jane's Citizens went to
the Copley Plaza, went to the correct floor that they
were on and acted a fool best way to say it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay, But the show that I would really highlight, actually
I saw it in the past year. I saw it
in January this year, and that was out in Las Vegas,
where you go often. And I saw you two in
this yere.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh, that must have been great.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
How is the auditorium theer for concerts? I'm curious about
that place. It's fantastic. The sound is fantastic, and then
the visual aspect that you're going to get also. I mean,
obviously you've been to like the omni theater at the
Museum of Science or something like that. Yeah, Now this
is an omni theater for fifteen thousand people. Wow. And
(24:21):
and I was in the first row. I got a
seat in the first row and it was. It was
an amazing experience. You didn't know whether the focus on
the screen or focus on the band. But I was
great to finally see you two live. I've always wanted
to see them since college.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And yeah, did you shake's hand?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All right?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
You had your Michael or your Jackson five moment. I
almost had a Bono moment because Bono, the nut that
he is, actually walks out on the sidewalk in front
of the sphere and shakes people hands and tells people
that he's an impersonator.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I got.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
A picture. I am literally nine feet ten feet away
from Bono as he's taking a picture with another person.
But he said he was an impersonator, so I kept
on going. And then he came out on stage in
the exact same outfit.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You had your chance.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I had my chance, But yeah, he was that close.
But the show was spectacular, And yeah, I almost flew
back to Vegas to try and see another the show again,
but I couldn't quite swing it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But I say that my favorite room his room sixteen
blah blah blah. I'm not going to say it. I
don't want to let people know the room I am in,
and I stay in Vegas. It is a suite, and
I've stayed in that suite at least four times. I
(26:09):
used to get my room on the other side facing
the bellagio and the fountains. They put me. They put
me there once, just as a suite that was available.
The light from the sphere is so bright. Literally, I
have to close the curtains because you come two, three,
(26:31):
four o'clock in the morning. I can't go to sleep
because the light is.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So captive Vegas.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Yeah, if you were that close and it was that bright,
well then I know one of two potential.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Hotels that it was. But I won't say that.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'll say I'll say the hotel was a Flamingo. But
the filmco has five styles. I was in room, so
good luck on narrowing down which one I was in. Okay,
I'll just tell you it was on the sixteenth floor.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay. Well, I stayed across the street, I at the Venetians. Okay,
but yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Nancy is sitting next to me. Nancy, I'm going to
tell that story. I'm going to tell that story. I
every time I go to Vegas, I speak to Nancy
at least two or three times a day for whatever reason,
her phone wasn't receiving my calls, so she couldn't hear
(27:48):
from me, and she called the front desk saying, I
think there's a problem. The person his name is Morgan
White Jr. He's in room bloody, bloody blah, and could
you just check to make sure everything's okay. Now. I
(28:11):
am a very sound sleeper. It's roughly about two or
three in the morning. I am sound asleep. I hear
people in my room, three of I'm guessing former NFL linebackers,
(28:33):
three of the biggest security people I've ever seen. They're
in my room, and I say, can I help you? Well,
we're just checking on your welfare, mister White. Your girlfriend
in Boston hasn't heard from you all day and she's
(28:54):
just concerned. I said, okay, I'll call her right now.
I call now again. I said two or three in
the morning, it's not between five and six. Here. Nancy
answers the phone and says, Morgan, I'm sorry. I now
(29:15):
heard the messages that you have left for me. I
hadn't heard them before I called to say there was
a problem. I hope I didn't make an issue for you.
And of course I'm not Madcauchs worried about me, but
three of the biggest earliest security people you can imagine.
(29:38):
Mm hm, we're in in my room and I was
a little concerned at first, but I quickly was able
to grasp the situation. Oh, so, what did you learn
from this story? Don't fool with Nancy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, well, when you get out there, you know, I'm
not sure who the group will be. I know the
Eagles are doing a stint. Stateful Dead is doing a
stint out there, right. But YouTube broke the place in,
and they broke the place in. It was an unbelievable show.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
YouTube is pretty much YouTube is pretty much the same
band since the eighties, but the Grateful Dead and they've
had some personnel changes, and the Eagles have had some
personnel changes. People die, people age out of the limelight.
(30:45):
So if you're a huge fan of any group, you
better hurry up and see them before they too. Wave goodbye.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Absolutely absolutely, we're losing too many.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Now it's Steve, thank you for your call. Thanks able,
take good care your thanksgiving bye bye. All right, I'm
gonna take my last break of the hour. Vinnie and
I will finish up the last roughly twelve minutes of
the show. You're welcome to participate. You can dial in
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six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or eight eight, eight,
nine to nine, ten thirty. This is night Side. I
am Morgan. He's Vinnie. Time and temperature eleven forty three
forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So, Vinnie, I have a question for you. Yes, sir,
your wife Tracy. Do you two share the same taste
and music?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yes? And no. We both like Taylor of course. In fact,
when I do my personal amount Rushmore, I'll talk about
one of her shows. But she likes, you know, Sean
Paul Pittbull that type of thing. I like Pearl, Jim,
Dave Matthews, Ban Taylor an eclick taste. I guess for nineties.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Because Nancy and I have different tastes.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I am older than she, so my taste goes back
to the sixties. Obviously. I'm a Monkey's fan. I'm a
Jackson five fan, Temptations, Diary, Ross, who commodore Oh, definitely
the Commodorees. She's a brick. You gotta say that word
(32:51):
the right way. She's just at all hang out there
you go, and.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And as you mentioned that, I forget where I saw them,
but I did see the Comodos perform at the Music
Hall way back in the early seventies. So the music
she likes is not the music I like. But we
are comfortable with each other's tastes. For an example, I
(33:25):
go ahead, I was going to say about that.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
That's okay too. You know that you learn from each
other doing it that way.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yes, there's a series of channels called Music Choice, and
they play all styles. If you like opera, you can
go to a station and the Music Choice set up
and listen to opera. If you like country music, there's
a station two or three stations to listen to country music.
(33:56):
And there are times I listened to the sixties and
all the different pop acts that were around in the sixties.
There's a soul set, so I'll plug that in and
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take a nap, and I'll go to sleep to the
Commodores or Diana Ross, or to Cameo or to the Jacksons,
And I'm quite happy with both of those stations playing
the order of music. That sets me up to remember
the seventies and eighties and nineties, and that's why music
(34:40):
should be find what makes your choice work? Is there
an act that you haven't yet been able to catch
but would love to? If I could say, here's a
pair of one hundred dollars tickets to go see blah,
who would blah be?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Absolutely? Tracy and I have always said if our em reunited,
we would definitely see our em because we both loved
them so much, and we did not see them before
they retired. Billy Joel I have yet to see. I
haven't seen Paul McCartney. Thank god. I saw Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers before he passed. Over the course of
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the past year, I was lucky enough to see Bruce Springsteen,
and I just saw the Rolling Stones, so and Madonna, Madonna,
Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones all within the past
year or so. And I got to see Jimmy Buffett
two years ago. So a lot of these bucket list acts,
thank goodness, I've been able to see, but probably are right.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
To have seen Jimmy Buffett. I have seen him. Yeah,
anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
No, that's why that caller, he made a great point
what he said, to see these acts now before you
know it's too late. Speaking of too late, we were
talking about Woodstock in nineteen sixty nine, Jennis Jopam played that,
and a year year later in August of nineteen seventy
at Harvard Stadium, was her last concert. To be the
believe that we're approaching years.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I know that was her last concert. And it's funny
when you think about Jennis Joplin. Another artist who was
offered to play Woodstock but felt that the security just
left too much to be desired and he was afraid
somebody's going to put a hit on him. Van Morrison.
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That Van Merrison, excuse me, excuse me, the lead singer
of the Doors, Jim Jim Morrison, thank you. He didn't
want to play there because he felt somebody would take
him out.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Wow. Well, I guess he would have needed your previous guest,
the Burner thing, to protect him apparently. But let me
give you my personal I'm out Rushmore and Morgan shows
that that I'd still remember to this day. So I
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was lucky enough to see the original Guns N' Roses
in nineteen ninety ninety one ninety two when they caught
fire with that the type of destruction they played. Schafer
Stadium before it was Gillette Stadium with Metallica and Faith
No More. And it was one of the craziest rock
and roll shows I've ever seen. People were throwing quarters around.
Actl of course had to melt down, so that's one
my lift. I was fortunate to see Pearl Jam in
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two thousand and three when they did something called the
Experiment where they played majority of their catalog. I saw
at nWay go ahead.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Of you remember their original name Pearl Jam.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Mookie Blaylock, very good, you can see program We'll kick
you up early Nay because they were fans of the
basketball player.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
The reason they couldn't keep that name is because the
NBA said no, no, no, no, no, you can't name
yourself after one of our players.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Right right. And I think Mookie was number ten, which
is the number the name of their first album, so
I gave it a correlation there. So Dave Matthew's van
and Willie Nelson played together at Fenway Park, so that's
probably on my list. And I have a tie. I
thankfully say Elton John before he retired the Yellow Brick
Road Tour, and that would get an asterisk, but I
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have to include the Taylor swift aristour because Tracy and
I sat in a monsoon. We were in the cheap
seat suite. Somehow got forty nine dollars feats when the
original tickets dropped. We sat in a monsoon for three
and a half hours, Morgan and my poncho ripped in half,
my clothes got stoked. The piano did not work the
next night, and this poor girl played for three and
a half hours in a monsoon. I will remember that
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concert for the rest of my life. What is your
mount Rushmoer? We know about the Jackson five thing and Vegas?
What else is Gunillas?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Let's see here. I've seen Stevie Wonder. He put on
a hell of show and I would love to see
him again. Stevie ray Vaughan. I just love his work
on the guitar.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Wow, you got to see it's okay?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
And who else? Let me think and you won't know
the name, Okay, Boots Randolph, who was a legend with
the saxophone. Okay, I would definitely pay any amount of
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money to go a million miles to see him perform.
I think he's passed on, but he was a great
player of the saxophone.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Where did you see him.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Paul sam All, Paul tom All on Borilston Street other
Jazz Workshop. Those two places venues were interchangeable, but that's
where it saw.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Okay, never heard of him, but see if I could
fill him on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, oh, I guarantee you to be able to find
him and Boots last name Randolph, like random Randolph for
the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And I would also like if I could to see
Gil Scott heron again. He had a big hit with
In the Bottle. I don't know if you have any
reference point to early seventies music.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Barry Manilow and Crystal Gale. I mean that's my range
for early seventies. Maybe a little Neil Diamond.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Okay, well, I mean Neil Diamond. How can you go
wrong with Neil Diamond.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Frankie Belly in the Four Seasons.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
No, I wish I had seen them for real, not
you know the Jersey Boys thing, but I wish i'd
seen them for real. Now'ing Tracy to enjoy your Thanksgiving tomorrow. Okay,
are you going to her family? Going to your family?
Staying home? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
So? I'm staying local. She's in Connecticut. She left tonight
because she does a little race called the Turkey Trot
with her nephews. So she's running with her nephews tomorrow morning,
and I will be at my brother's but she'll be
back over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Oh Tracy, Hello, I don't know if you're listening. Your
husband's on the radio in front of third eight States
in Canada. If I were you, i'd be listening. But
if you're not, Oh well, Benny, thank you for the idea.
And next time we'll do something with which you're more
comfortable wrestling.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
We'll do Happy Thanksgiving to you, Nancy Gray, and everybody
listening tonight you enjoy your night more.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Thank you you too. And as a salutation, Dan and
Rob in the producers' control room, Nancy and Gray next
to me, all the listeners who, whether you called in
or just listened, thank you. It gets lonely with no
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phone calls. On that note, I'll be here tomorrow. Enjoy
your Thanksgiving, everybody, Bye, Boston,
I'm going Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, thank you, Dan Watkins. Final hour of night Side
with me here tonight, Thanksgiving Eve. I will be here tomorrow,
and I don't think I've given you the lineup for tomorrow.
I've got teacher Terry. I've had her on many a
time and she teaches second or third grade, I forget which.
(00:27):
But for those of you who need to know what
the hotter toys are that that age happened to be
looking on the Christmas lists for sorry for ending a
sentence in a preposition, bad walking, She'll come on and
tell you what the hot toys are on the wish lists.
(00:50):
That's from eight to nine. Doctor Ronda Gooddale will be
on from nine to ten. How to Spot Depression. A
lot of people we'll get depressed during the holiday times,
you know it, and doctor Goodial will be here to
help you spot it and maybe just maybe correct it.
(01:11):
And Ed Robertson, gentlemen, I've had on many a time.
He does radio in California, and in the meantime and
in between times, he writes books. He's written a couple
of books on James Garner, one based on Maverick, The
Legend of the West and The Rockford Files. He wrote
(01:33):
a book about Perry Mason. He wrote a book about
the FBI, the f Zymbalist series, and most recently he's
come up with a book called Men of Honor, looking
at four different series. The TV show The Magician will
(01:53):
Be with Bill Bixby, The Untouchables with Robert Stack, Run
for Your Life with Ben Gazara, and the fourth one
will come to me Harry O with David Janssen. I
hope to finish the book tomorrow, but it's a great book,
(02:17):
tells you about the inside world of well. A series
has to go through a to get on the air
and b stay on the air. So that'll be tomorrow tonight.
What was the last great concert you attended? It could
be uh, I almost sad village people meaning to say
(02:41):
grateful dead, So there, I did say it that way.
Or you went to Branson, you went to Vegas and
you saw a great concert. This gentleman I've had all
before talking about wrestling, But he called me three or
four weeks ago and said, talk one day about your
(03:02):
favorite concert that you attended, And I said, fine, we'll
do it. So Vinnie, Carolyn, what was your favorite concert?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Hello, sir, Happy holidays. How are you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm fine, Happy holidays, doing yours, but.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, I'm still trying to process that Bam Bam
from the Flintstones was adopted three hours ago, so you've
had quite the show tonight following up with this.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So that woman thought Betty and woman were pregnant at
the same time Betty could Betty could not get pregnant.
I don't know the reasons why it was in the
Stone Age, but yeah, she and Barney adopted. Bam Bam
(03:49):
is adopted. So for those who didn't know that, I
hope I'm not bursting your bubble right all right?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So I'm going to give you my mount Rushmore of
concerts I've attended, but I'm going to do that later
in this segment. What I'm going to do right now
is give you a mount Rushmore of most famous concert events.
A lot of folks may not have gone to these,
and you could give me yours, and then later on
we can exchange what our personal you know, concerts we attended,
what our Mount rushmorees are.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So on my list, I've got the Beatles being on
the mount Rushmore, whether it be the rooftops concert in
London in nineteen sixty nine or shave Stadium, either one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I would throw that you're too young to of a.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, no, this will just be famous concert events. But
we'll do my personal list that I attended later on.
So you got the Beatles Rooftop concert or Shavee Stadium,
it's got to be on that. You got to think
about Woodstock from nineteen sixty nine. That's got to be
on a mount Rushmore list of famous concert events. Anything
for Michael Jackson. He was, you know, so influential with
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the advent of MTV and the Thriller video. Most people
would talk about the nineteen ninety two concert in Romania
that was on HBO because it was the biggest ratings
drop for HBO in its history. But he's had so
many tours between the Victory Tour with his brothers in
nineteen eighty four or the Dangerous tour of that tour.
I would put him on there and probably number four.
(05:17):
I know a lot of folks would either go with
Live Aid or led Zeppelin Reunion or something along those mines.
I would go because of how successful the movie is
and how successful this concert tour is. The errors tour
with your favorite performer, Taylor Swift. That would be on
my ruckmore.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
My walls in the house are covered with Taylor Swift posters.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
How you're a Swift anymore? Agan, Nancy, you're a swiftly?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Okay? Indeed, and then and.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Then and then I woke up.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, so what you know better than me? You're you're
a little bit older than me. Forget about we'll talk
about events that you've gone to. What is your mount
run more in terms of famous concert events that you
can think of?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, not out of my own personal experience, just
across the board, appreciation for the skills that we saw
demonstrated on stage. Okay, well, I would have to say
number one through four should include I have to say it,
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Diana Ross. She had the longevity to go sixties, seventies, eighties,
and nineties, and she's gotta be up there. I will
agree with you. With the Beatles, I will also say,
oh my goodness, I'm going to go off the charts
(06:56):
and go with someone who had a strong career, necessarily
not mainstream. Bette Midler.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Really I think she did.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
She did. The key is to be interesting with a
span of decades. He gotta have decades in your back pocket,
and I hate to do it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Frank Sinatra, did you ever see Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yes? I saw Sinatra at the Desert End in Las Vegas.
He died within that year, and he put on a
heck of his show. Excuse me. I saw all of
the rap pack. I saw Sammy Davis Junior coupled with
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Jerry Lewis. I saw Dean Martin on his own and
again I saw Frank Sinatra on his own right. So
you couldn't go wrong seeing them in the seventies or eighties.
By the nineties the shine had worn off of the chrome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, that's quite the murderer's row there. I'll tell you
the Beatles, Ben Midler, Sinatra and Diana Russ. Okay, yeah,
that's pretty good. And of course we can't forget the time,
speaking of Vegas, when the Jackson Vibe pulled you up
on stage and danced the night away.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Morgan, right, that is a true story. There are people
who may doubt it, but tell you what, I'm at
the point of the hour where I take a break
at a quarter past the hour. I'll tell that story
when I come back, and we will take your calls
as well. Florence is already on hold, so if you
want to call in six one, seven, two, five, four
(08:54):
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine ten thirty,
please do. Time and temperature eleven point fifteen forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Last hour of night Side this edition. I'm Morgan filling
in for Dan, who should be back on Monday, but
I'll be here Tomorrow night, Thanksgiving, Friday night, the day
after Thanksgiving, and my regular show on Saturday night, The
Morgan Show. So I get four days in a row.
(09:36):
That's gonna be a nice paycheck, hippie. I'm here with
Vinny Carolyn who wanted to find out the audience, the
night Side audience, what was your favorite concert that you ever,
ever ever attended? And let's take Florence because she's been
holding for like eight and a half minutes, and I'll
(09:57):
tell my Jackson five story. Good evening, Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Happy Thanksgiving, Good evening, Lorgan, good evening, Finny and I
have seen a number of concerts, but my number one,
uh just fabulous The Righteous Brothers.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yes, un.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I knew feel Medley about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yeah, so sad when Bobby Hatfield, yes, you know, yeah,
because they were fabulous.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well together, that's for gosh darn sure.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect, and a couple of others.
I mean, Sunita's back. I've seen Wayne Newton the.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Boss and on three occasions.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, joining cash in brangda Lee.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, those are the things to drop.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, very very strong. And I also would
see the Oakwards boys. I liked them, would want to
you know, yeah, all very popular, popular, you know, yeah performance.
(11:38):
Yeah so, but the Righteous Brothers you had been waiting
to see them. I seen them at the Club Casino
at Hampton Beach, yes, yep, and just fabulous.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I saw him two years ago. Well I saw
him about literally thirty to forty years ago, and I
saw him two years ago and it was just as
powerful each time.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, he holds his audience well all his ears,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, so my Newton, mister Donkushin is that him?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's it?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yes, yes, and many many other songs hits that he.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Read, Red Roses for a Blue.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Lady, Yeah, and his yeah special song Daddy that he
sang beautiful, beautiful, right. Yeah. He was quite the performer
still is. I imagine it still is.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And the fact that he's eighty something years old and
is able to perform at that level is good, gosh captivating.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah. And two performances that I loved that I didn't
get to see. I wish I did Number one Neil
Diamond and the other one was Sammy Davis.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh, I saw Sammy. I think I mentioned before the break.
I saw Sammy Davis on the same bill with Jerry Lewis,
if you can believe it, and he captivated the room.
It was silent, you could drop a pen and hear
it hit when he did Miss Jangles.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, I got an album of his, Morgan, I got
a mention to you. A few years back, they did
a special on TV. It was a I believe a
birthday celebration for him of Sammy. Okay, this you know,
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and back then I videotaped it. It's on a VHS.
Okay video taped the whole show, Okay, and it was wonderful.
And that was the last time that I actually had
seen him perform. But it was a live show on TV.
(14:36):
I was wondering if you had seen it. Do you
recall it?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yes, I do it. And he did a movie I
think his last movie was with Gregory Hines called Tap Tap.
He was an aging tap dancer and he again he
(15:01):
did all of his own quote unquote stunts done at
whatever age he was, and I'm guessing it was by
then mid eighties. He could still captivate an audience.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Do you have a tape of
that show that celebration?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I do not, You don't, can you do you have
a DVD and a VHS player that you could play
it and watch it?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well? I have a DVD player. But you want to
know what. I appreciate the off for Florence, but you
keep it.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Oh, Katy, Well, I'm giving up a lot of albums
and cassettes and special sets that I have. I've got
a set of old TV shows, three hundred episodes of
old TV shows.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I've got a lot of that stuff, Lawrence, And yeah,
I appreciate the offer, but I've got too.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Much of it already. If you'd like to Sanny one,
you know, I would send it to the stud and
they would get it to you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, they would, But that's okay. You hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
All right, Okay, I got to let you go.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Thank you, bye back and good night, Happy Thanksgiving. You
want to talk about your favorite concert performance performance, we
can do my Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Speaking of Johnny Cash, by the way, I would be
remiss if I didn't mention the Falshom Prison Blue concert
he did back in nineteen sixty eight. That should. You
can find it on YouTube, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Six seven thirty eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty and
I have just enough time to tell this story. And
I'm sorry if you've heard it before. Let me just
tell it and get it out the way. Nineteen seventy five,
I go to Vegas with my best friend Warren, and
(17:19):
he heard me tell this story on the air within
the past year. I don't know if he's listening now.
But we go to Vegas, arrive on a Thursday Thursday night.
We were staying at the Holiday Inn, and we go
down the road a piece to the m Jim Grand
where the Jackson five were performing. Pay Our Money, Get in,
(17:43):
get seated, you know, towards the back. By then all
the ringside seats have been taken and the other seats
as well. We're watching it's a two hour plus show.
Had a great time. Yeah, they did all the old songs,
and there was a bit with Janet and Randy, who
(18:08):
was still preteen at that time. They did a sunny
and chair routine that was on the mark. So now
it comes down to the finale, which was Dancing Machine,
the song they had currently at that time on the radio.
(18:28):
I noticed immediately that a certain part of the song
towards the end, they were pulling people up that was
sitting ringside. And I turned my friend more and I said,
we're coming back on Sunday and we're going to get
ringside so we can get up on stage. I made
(18:51):
it happen. If you tip the Matred's obviously that goes
a long way. I forget what I tipped a twenty
fifty bucks, what have you. They set us ringside, and
when it came time for the finale, Marlin Marlon Jackson
(19:13):
pulled us up. So we're on the stage along with
about another twenty people dancing on stage two Dancing Machine
with the Jackson Five. As the curtain is coming down,
everybody now is looking for Michael. Michael did a Lance
(19:35):
Burton disappear act like you've never seen. He was nowhere,
nowhere to be found, and the other brothers shook hands
and maybe signed a few autographs and apologize that Michael
is just people shy and that's how he always handles
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their finales, which was great. I interviewed the Jacksons about
four or five years ago. Marlin remembered the show, remembered
the bit about bringing people up, remembered that Michael always
just disappeared. He knew behind stage, he knew how to
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get to wherever they needed to get to get back
up to their rooms. So we laughed about that, and
I went to go see the show. It was at
north Shore Music Theater, and the remaining members of the
Jackson five put a hell of a show on. No Michael,
(20:42):
no Dremaine, but the other four were there. They had
a great band. It was a great show. So if
you want to call in you sitting at home, half
hour of time left, Vinny and I can kip it
about our favorite shows beyond where we have gone, or
(21:05):
take your calls, which I much rather do. So give
a call six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine ten thirty. This
is night Side. Dan Ray is off for the rest
of the week. I'm doing the best I can to
keep the microphone warm for him. And on this note,
(21:30):
I think I'm gonna throw it to Rob and Dan
producing Nightside time and temperature eleven twenty nine forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Vinnie, Carolyn and I are taking this to midnight the
subject of your favorite concert you've ever witnessed. We've done
all styles of music. We've had names like Johnny Cash,
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior, the Beatles. Trust me, no
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matter what era, your memory trails back to that memory.
It works for us here. I'm busy. Let's go to
Mansfield and speak to Steve in Mansfield. Good evening, Steve, Hi,
how are you doing about him? All right? Good? Out
(22:33):
here you go.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, you can hear me.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I can hear you. Love and clean now go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Very good. So but yes, my very first concept, by
the way, was the Jackson five back in like nineteen
sixty nine in the Boston Garden. But it was a
concert that never finished because people couldn't act right and
they kept on trying to jump on the stage.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, I remember that, and it carried over. They stayed
at the Copperley Plaza, and a lot of people because
you're not supposed to know where celebrities are staying. Boston
has about a dozen great hotels for celebrities, and you
weren't supposed to know. But somehow the word got out,
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and somehow everyday Citizens Joe and Jane's Citizens went to
the Copley Plaza, went to the correct floor that they
were on and acted a fool best way to say it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay, But the show that I would really highlight, actually
I saw it in the past year. I saw it
in January this year, and that was out in Las Vegas,
where you go often. And I saw you two in
this yere.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh, that must have been great.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
How is the auditorium theer for concerts? I'm curious about
that place. It's fantastic. The sound is fantastic, and then
the visual aspect that you're going to get also. I mean,
obviously you've been to like the omni theater at the
Museum of Science or something like that. Yeah, Now this
is an omni theater for fifteen thousand people. Wow. And
(24:21):
and I was in the first row. I got a
seat in the first row and it was. It was
an amazing experience. You didn't know whether the focus on
the screen or focus on the band. But I was
great to finally see you two live. I've always wanted
to see them since college.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And yeah, did you shake's hand?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All right?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
You had your Michael or your Jackson five moment. I
almost had a Bono moment because Bono, the nut that
he is, actually walks out on the sidewalk in front
of the sphere and shakes people hands and tells people
that he's an impersonator.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I got.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
A picture. I am literally nine feet ten feet away
from Bono as he's taking a picture with another person.
But he said he was an impersonator, so I kept
on going. And then he came out on stage in
the exact same outfit.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You had your chance.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I had my chance, But yeah, he was that close.
But the show was spectacular, And yeah, I almost flew
back to Vegas to try and see another the show again,
but I couldn't quite swing it.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But I say that my favorite room his room sixteen
blah blah blah. I'm not going to say it. I
don't want to let people know the room I am in,
and I stay in Vegas. It is a suite, and
I've stayed in that suite at least four times. I
(26:09):
used to get my room on the other side facing
the bellagio and the fountains. They put me. They put
me there once, just as a suite that was available.
The light from the sphere is so bright. Literally, I
have to close the curtains because you come two, three,
(26:31):
four o'clock in the morning. I can't go to sleep
because the light is.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So captive Vegas.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Yeah, if you were that close and it was that bright,
well then I know one of two potential.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Hotels that it was. But I won't say that.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'll say I'll say the hotel was a Flamingo. But
the filmco has five styles. I was in room, so
good luck on narrowing down which one I was in. Okay,
I'll just tell you it was on the sixteenth floor.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay. Well, I stayed across the street, I at the Venetians. Okay,
but yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Nancy is sitting next to me. Nancy, I'm going to
tell that story. I'm going to tell that story. I
every time I go to Vegas, I speak to Nancy
at least two or three times a day for whatever reason,
her phone wasn't receiving my calls, so she couldn't hear
(27:48):
from me, and she called the front desk saying, I
think there's a problem. The person his name is Morgan
White Jr. He's in room bloody, bloody blah, and could
you just check to make sure everything's okay. Now. I
(28:11):
am a very sound sleeper. It's roughly about two or
three in the morning. I am sound asleep. I hear
people in my room, three of I'm guessing former NFL linebackers,
(28:33):
three of the biggest security people I've ever seen. They're
in my room, and I say, can I help you? Well,
we're just checking on your welfare, mister White. Your girlfriend
in Boston hasn't heard from you all day and she's
(28:54):
just concerned. I said, okay, I'll call her right now.
I call now again. I said two or three in
the morning, it's not between five and six. Here. Nancy
answers the phone and says, Morgan, I'm sorry. I now
(29:15):
heard the messages that you have left for me. I
hadn't heard them before I called to say there was
a problem. I hope I didn't make an issue for you.
And of course I'm not Madcauchs worried about me, but
three of the biggest earliest security people you can imagine.
(29:38):
Mm hm, we're in in my room and I was
a little concerned at first, but I quickly was able
to grasp the situation. Oh, so, what did you learn
from this story? Don't fool with Nancy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, well, when you get out there, you know, I'm
not sure who the group will be. I know the
Eagles are doing a stint. Stateful Dead is doing a
stint out there, right. But YouTube broke the place in,
and they broke the place in. It was an unbelievable show.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
YouTube is pretty much YouTube is pretty much the same
band since the eighties, but the Grateful Dead and they've
had some personnel changes, and the Eagles have had some
personnel changes. People die, people age out of the limelight.
(30:45):
So if you're a huge fan of any group, you
better hurry up and see them before they too. Wave goodbye.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Absolutely absolutely, we're losing too many.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Now it's Steve, thank you for your call. Thanks able,
take good care your thanksgiving bye bye. All right, I'm
gonna take my last break of the hour. Vinnie and
I will finish up the last roughly twelve minutes of
the show. You're welcome to participate. You can dial in
(31:20):
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or eight eight, eight,
nine to nine, ten thirty. This is night Side. I
am Morgan. He's Vinnie. Time and temperature eleven forty three
forty one degrees.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So, Vinnie, I have a question for you. Yes, sir,
your wife Tracy. Do you two share the same taste
and music?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yes? And no. We both like Taylor of course. In fact,
when I do my personal amount Rushmore, I'll talk about
one of her shows. But she likes, you know, Sean
Paul Pittbull that type of thing. I like Pearl, Jim,
Dave Matthews, Ban Taylor an eclick taste. I guess for nineties.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Because Nancy and I have different tastes.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I am older than she, so my taste goes back
to the sixties. Obviously. I'm a Monkey's fan. I'm a
Jackson five fan, Temptations, Diary, Ross, who commodore Oh, definitely
the Commodorees. She's a brick. You gotta say that word
(32:51):
the right way. She's just at all hang out there
you go, and.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And as you mentioned that, I forget where I saw them,
but I did see the Comodos perform at the Music
Hall way back in the early seventies. So the music
she likes is not the music I like. But we
are comfortable with each other's tastes. For an example, I
(33:25):
go ahead, I was going to say about that.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
That's okay too. You know that you learn from each
other doing it that way.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yes, there's a series of channels called Music Choice, and
they play all styles. If you like opera, you can
go to a station and the Music Choice set up
and listen to opera. If you like country music, there's
a station two or three stations to listen to country music.
(33:56):
And there are times I listened to the sixties and
all the different pop acts that were around in the sixties.
There's a soul set, so I'll plug that in and
(34:16):
take a nap, and I'll go to sleep to the
Commodores or Diana Ross, or to Cameo or to the Jacksons,
And I'm quite happy with both of those stations playing
the order of music. That sets me up to remember
the seventies and eighties and nineties, and that's why music
(34:40):
should be find what makes your choice work? Is there
an act that you haven't yet been able to catch
but would love to? If I could say, here's a
pair of one hundred dollars tickets to go see blah,
who would blah be?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Absolutely? Tracy and I have always said if our em reunited,
we would definitely see our em because we both loved
them so much, and we did not see them before
they retired. Billy Joel I have yet to see. I
haven't seen Paul McCartney. Thank god. I saw Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers before he passed. Over the course of
(35:22):
the past year, I was lucky enough to see Bruce Springsteen,
and I just saw the Rolling Stones, so and Madonna, Madonna,
Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones all within the past
year or so. And I got to see Jimmy Buffett
two years ago. So a lot of these bucket list acts,
thank goodness, I've been able to see, but probably are right.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
To have seen Jimmy Buffett. I have seen him. Yeah,
anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
No, that's why that caller, he made a great point
what he said, to see these acts now before you
know it's too late. Speaking of too late, we were
talking about Woodstock in nineteen sixty nine, Jennis Jopam played that,
and a year year later in August of nineteen seventy
at Harvard Stadium, was her last concert. To be the
believe that we're approaching years.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I know that was her last concert. And it's funny
when you think about Jennis Joplin. Another artist who was
offered to play Woodstock but felt that the security just
left too much to be desired and he was afraid
somebody's going to put a hit on him. Van Morrison.
(36:29):
That Van Merrison, excuse me, excuse me, the lead singer
of the Doors, Jim Jim Morrison, thank you. He didn't
want to play there because he felt somebody would take
him out.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Wow. Well, I guess he would have needed your previous guest,
the Burner thing, to protect him apparently. But let me
give you my personal I'm out Rushmore and Morgan shows
that that I'd still remember to this day. So I
(37:05):
was lucky enough to see the original Guns N' Roses
in nineteen ninety ninety one ninety two when they caught
fire with that the type of destruction they played. Schafer
Stadium before it was Gillette Stadium with Metallica and Faith
No More. And it was one of the craziest rock
and roll shows I've ever seen. People were throwing quarters around.
Actl of course had to melt down, so that's one
my lift. I was fortunate to see Pearl Jam in
(37:28):
two thousand and three when they did something called the
Experiment where they played majority of their catalog. I saw
at nWay go ahead.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Of you remember their original name Pearl Jam.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Mookie Blaylock, very good, you can see program We'll kick
you up early Nay because they were fans of the
basketball player.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
The reason they couldn't keep that name is because the
NBA said no, no, no, no, no, you can't name
yourself after one of our players.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Right right. And I think Mookie was number ten, which
is the number the name of their first album, so
I gave it a correlation there. So Dave Matthew's van
and Willie Nelson played together at Fenway Park, so that's
probably on my list. And I have a tie. I
thankfully say Elton John before he retired the Yellow Brick
Road Tour, and that would get an asterisk, but I
(38:23):
have to include the Taylor swift aristour because Tracy and
I sat in a monsoon. We were in the cheap
seat suite. Somehow got forty nine dollars feats when the
original tickets dropped. We sat in a monsoon for three
and a half hours, Morgan and my poncho ripped in half,
my clothes got stoked. The piano did not work the
next night, and this poor girl played for three and
a half hours in a monsoon. I will remember that
(38:46):
concert for the rest of my life. What is your
mount Rushmoer? We know about the Jackson five thing and Vegas?
What else is Gunillas?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Let's see here. I've seen Stevie Wonder. He put on
a hell of show and I would love to see
him again. Stevie ray Vaughan. I just love his work
on the guitar.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Wow, you got to see it's okay?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
And who else? Let me think and you won't know
the name, Okay, Boots Randolph, who was a legend with
the saxophone. Okay, I would definitely pay any amount of
(39:35):
money to go a million miles to see him perform.
I think he's passed on, but he was a great
player of the saxophone.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Where did you see him.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Paul sam All, Paul tom All on Borilston Street other
Jazz Workshop. Those two places venues were interchangeable, but that's
where it saw.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Okay, never heard of him, but see if I could
fill him on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, oh, I guarantee you to be able to find
him and Boots last name Randolph, like random Randolph for
the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And I would also like if I could to see
Gil Scott heron again. He had a big hit with
In the Bottle. I don't know if you have any
reference point to early seventies music.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Barry Manilow and Crystal Gale. I mean that's my range
for early seventies. Maybe a little Neil Diamond.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Okay, well, I mean Neil Diamond. How can you go
wrong with Neil Diamond.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Frankie Belly in the Four Seasons.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
No, I wish I had seen them for real, not
you know the Jersey Boys thing, but I wish i'd
seen them for real. Now'ing Tracy to enjoy your Thanksgiving tomorrow. Okay,
are you going to her family? Going to your family?
Staying home? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
So? I'm staying local. She's in Connecticut. She left tonight
because she does a little race called the Turkey Trot
with her nephews. So she's running with her nephews tomorrow morning,
and I will be at my brother's but she'll be
back over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Oh Tracy, Hello, I don't know if you're listening. Your
husband's on the radio in front of third eight States
in Canada. If I were you, i'd be listening. But
if you're not, Oh well, Benny, thank you for the idea.
And next time we'll do something with which you're more
comfortable wrestling.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
We'll do Happy Thanksgiving to you, Nancy Gray, and everybody
listening tonight you enjoy your night more.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Thank you you too. And as a salutation, Dan and
Rob in the producers' control room, Nancy and Gray next
to me, all the listeners who, whether you called in
or just listened, thank you. It gets lonely with no
(42:21):
phone calls. On that note, I'll be here tomorrow. Enjoy
your Thanksgiving, everybody, Bye, Boston,
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