September 6, 2024 • 18 mins
What concert gave you chills? Martha Quinn, Christie, & Karena talk about concerts that stand out to them and the one band that helped Martha land her job at MTV! #podcast
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn, A we.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Wanna Party hot talk, a a we Wanna party talk
every time.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I defy you. I defy you.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
To search our entire iHeartRadio app listen to every single podcast.
You will not find another podcast where you get a
custom theme song every time.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am sorry, but that.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Is the magic of working with Karina Velaskaz and Christy
James the Wedding Drive with Christy Live crew, and that
happens every week in this podcast called Talk Talk with
marth Quinn. So a little thing before we get into
today's topic, which is concerts, I wanted to mention to
you that Allison Eastwood, the director of the Go Gos
(00:53):
documentary that I was in, she has a new project.
She's the executive producer of the one Land Massacre and
the Secret History of Hollywood. So her team reaches out
to me and asks me if I would be interested
in covering this, and I said, full disclosure, massacres aren't
(01:15):
really my thing, but you know, send me a copy
of let me take a look. So it's super grizzly from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
The get go. It's like dead bodies.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Ooh, okay, like for real, Okay, your reaction is exactly
why I'm bringing this up right now. I wrote back
to them and I said, this just isn't really island
of awesome material. Thank you so much for thinking of me.
But then, Karina of Alaska, is I thought about you
because you love true crime? This is so up your alley.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I love a good true crime podcast, documentary movie.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
They are talking to the detectives on the case. This
was some murder that took place in Hollywood in nineteen
eighty one. There's all kinds of people involved, like Liberaci's boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
So this is a true story.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, the title in itself sounds like it's not a
real story.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, it's real.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It took place on Wonderland Avenue, right around the corner
from where a friend of mine lived. It's called the
Wonderland Massacre and the Secret History of Hollywood and a
premiere September eighth on MGM Plus. So, Alison Eastwood, my girl,
I got you covered right there.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Thank you. I'm gonna check that out.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No, you need to. You will love it. Mission.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're on episode two hundred and twelve already, and we
have to talk about. Christy recently went to the Jeth
Leopard Journey and Steve Miller Steve Millervan concert.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We want to know all about it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, I will definitely get to all of that, but first,
if you're new here, welcome to the Talk Talk with
Martha Quinn podcast, which brings all three of us together.
My name is Christy James. That's producer the Murdered Death
Kill Maimon and the Queen of the Island of Awesome,
Miss Martha Quinn.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm going to get myself a little crown that says
Island of Awesome right on there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, And usually you can hear us hanging out in
the morning on Morning Drive with Christy Live, myself and Karina.
And then Karina is also the producer for the Martha
Quinn Show and you can hear her all of the
time on our free iHeartRadio app in the afternoon. She
will get you through your workday no matter where you
are in the country because you can listen anywhere on
our app.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Basically here in the Bay Area. Between six and three,
we just take over. Yes, we live here, we live here.
Pretty much this comes in and kicks us out. So yes,
oh Christy, I want to hear all about this. So
start from the beginning. How did you get tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So I actually bought tickets for the Journey concert Steve
Miller band def Leppard. I've seen Journey and deaf Leppard before,
never seen Steve Miller, so I was super excited to
see him. There, Yes, there is, and I didn't know
that until that morning when I was on his Wikipedia
that the Steve Miller ban was founded in the city.
So there is an organization called vettics dot org bookmarket,
(04:14):
especially if you have a veteran in your life. You
can log onto this website and they have concerts, they
have movie premieres, they have different events, and you log
on and get free tickets.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's vet ti x Yes, got.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It, vettics dot org. And so I went on. They
had free tickets for Journey. I just paid a little
bit of sales tax and got some tickets. And then
long story short, our boss here at the station, the
radio station, he had a pair of tickets and I
traded up and turns out his tickets were four row seats.
(04:50):
So I got to see the show and it was
absolutely amazing. I really wanted to see the Steve Miller
ban and after sitting through what was the world's worst
traffic in San Francisco to get to the Oracle Park,
he was well worth it. And I'm not kidding when
I say his music sounded exactly like his album Our
friend Little Ricky said this all the time. He sounds
(05:13):
just like his albums. He sounds so good. He's great live,
you won't be disappointed. And I mean he's been saying
this for years, and he nailed it. He was so good.
The whole band just looked cool. I wanted to, like
sneak backstage so I could go hang out and have
a drink with them.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And honestly, you forget how many songs Steve Miller haunts.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh so many, from The Joker and Shy Like an
Eagle Jet airliner. It just goes on and on, and
he sang them all and he sounded amazing, and he
just he's in his eighties. Hello, Really, he did not
look like he was an eighty.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I think he's eighty three. Google it, Kreta.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I think eighty three. Yeah, it was not eighty three.
I don't know what he's eating croutons and water chlorophylls supplements.
This man looked amazing. I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Then, yeah, Martha, he's eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He was.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm blown away because he did not look eighty, he
did not sound eighty, and it didn't look like he
had a ton of plastic surgery like another one of
our friends who performed later on that equa. I'm just saying, oh,
that was shape.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
That was shape.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm not saying that was almost true crime, right though.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That was just you know, there was somebody else who
performed who was front and center of one of these bands,
even though he wasn't the lead singer.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
As Bay Area legend, you doesn't matter what you look like.
When you can shred, you can shred.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He was playing and he was great. But let me
tell you, Journey, I've seen them before. Are noll Panda.
Let me just step back right to give him a
round of applause. He looked like he was a member
of a boy band, but he was singing, and I
kept turning my head and then turning my head back,
like is that voice coming out of that guy right there?
(07:01):
Because it's pictures to phill you know, trying to sing
Steve Perry's music. And the last time I saw a
Journey I think it was eng one twice before, I
was kind of underwhelmed. I was just like, uh, okay,
was this with Steve Perry or Arnell Arnell? And I
was just kind of like, Okay, yeah, this is this
is great. You know, I was more impressed by Steve
Smith at the time. Their drummer.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I remember, I remember you mentioning that best drummer Deen
Castronovo though he was good on the jumps though.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right, yes, But they just seemed like they have had
some tension. That is, that is not a secret that
Journey has been going through some personnel issues, right, And
it looked like that on the stage, they weren't connected,
Like if you watched the Steve Miller band. They were jamming,
they were having a good time. You could tell they
all liked each other or they were great actors and
(07:51):
it was a good time. Journey. It felt like they
were all there to kind of do their job excellently.
I don't know if that's the word. They were doing
an excellent job, but they were all doing their own.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Thing, keeping their distances from each other.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, I wasn't like a cohesive feeling, and you could
kind of feel that. Yeah, but Arnell, I've definitely got
to give him super duper props. And then I was
too tired to stay for Deaf Leopard. But I think
the majority of people who came went to see Deaf
Leopard because there were so many Deaf Leopard shirts. Yeah,
so many.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I almost warm on today.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Really, Christie, I am shocked, because you are not one
to be so tired to do anything, let alone sit
there for a few more minutes for Deaf Leopard.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I am shocked. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, it wasn't a few minutes, because the show started
at six and they weren't supposed to go on until
like ten o'clock at night. Yeah, that's yeah. And then
I had I had sat in traffic for literally like
an hour to just get there, and then I was
rushing and I was kind of frazzled because of that.
(09:02):
Then it was starting to get chilly because it's right
next to the water in the Bay Area. It was
just like all of the things, and then trying to
be there and then get out in the midst of
all that traffic that I have to sit through to
get in. I've seen def Leppard, I've seen Journey. I
had not seen the Steve Miller band, so that's really
who I was going to see in them anyways, So
it was a great show. I don't know how much
(09:23):
longer they're going to be on this tour, but it
was definitely a great show. Good.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm glad to hear that it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was deaf and ney.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And a journey to get to the concert.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yes, indeed.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, Abra cadabra, okay Cartier. My favorite line, my favorite,
my favorite rhyme n the Joker. My favorite rhyme I
think of all time is Steve Miller's Abra cadabra want
to reach out and grab you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I just love that. It makes me laugh every time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Martha, have you heard Eminem's rap version? But he sampled abracadabra.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's called Houdini's.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Of course, I've heard the new Why would you think
I wouldn't? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, I know, right?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But it's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's just cool to hear it because it's Eminem sampled him.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So I'm like, and Steve Miller shouts him out.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes I bet he did. He's a banned for a
new car at least, don't.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You sure, Martha Quinn? What would be the best show
that you've been to?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
The best concert I've ever been to?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Been to a lot, I'm sure, but or a you
that really stood out to you, like, wow, this is
okay show.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, in the eighties, JJ Jackson and I went and
saw Queen. I had seen Queen before at Madison Square Garden.
They were I think one of my second concert maybe
I've ever seen, but seeing it somehow that show, I
can remember being there with JJ, and I can picture
JJ to my right looking over at the stage, just
(10:57):
filled with this invigorated feeling like this is the greatest
show I've ever seen. I can remember that feeling. But
another time that I was at a show where I
saw something absolutely incredible and unexpected happen is I would
was at a Yes show, also at Madison Square Garden,
and all of a sudden, just in the middle of
(11:20):
one of the songs, this roar started to happen, almost
like the wave, but a roar of people took over
the audience. It just like I have chills thinking about it.
It just got louder and louder, and the band stopped
and they turned on the house lights and they just
(11:40):
stood there and watched and it was the most incredible
outpouring of love I have ever experienced in my entire life.
And the band just stood there. And later I was
talking to one of the guys. I forget who which
one of the guys in yes, And I mentioned that
show because it was a while later, and they said, yes,
(12:02):
I remember that. I remember that night. It was just
a spontaneous wildness, but all good, all positive vibes.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, that's what happens at concerts. Sometimes you get those
special chilling moments. Have you ever had one of those
Krina chilling moments? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. When I saw Latin singer got Alg Carol g
I was like in tears. She put on an incredible show.
She's like one of the biggest Latin artists right now.
And I flew over to the Rose Bowl to go
see her with my sister and man, she just completely
like is on a whole nother level. I was just
so amazed to see her career and just where she was.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
But yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Crying, I was laughing. I was like pouring my heart
out and singing. And she's one of those artists that
made me feel like really deep into my soul.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I was like, oh man, this is this is incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
How about you, Christy?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, well anytime I've seen Prince, but I will say, yeah,
one of the best, best, best concerts I've ever been
to was a di'angelo concert. It was like a Valentine's Day.
Di'angelo concert was at the Fillmore and it was such
a great show. It was such a great show, so good.
(13:14):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Going back to Queen Martha, Freddie Mercury is the one
artist I wish I could have seen live. I'll watch
YouTube videos just to see him perform with the band.
But that's like the one person that I wish I
would have been able to see live.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
And maybe Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh I would have loved to have seen Michael Jackson live.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Did you ever see Michael live, Martha? I did.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I saw the Victory tour at Giants Stadium in New
Jersey and.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Really, Yes, maybe I should have said that was the
best concert. Yeah, it was amazing, you know, because the
Thriller album had come out, but he was still touring
with the Brothers, So if I'm remembering this correctly, he
did songs from Thriller, but also they had their current
Jackson five stuff like can You Feel It? And oh
from the Victory album, and it was so good. It
(14:01):
was so fun. It was one of those things too
where I was like screaming my head off the whole time.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, those are the good shows.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, especially when you would see because I never understood
why people would faint at concerts. You know, we would
watch obviously Michael videos and him perform, and I never understood, like.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Why why do people faint?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But when you love an artist the way people love
their artists, I can see how that happens.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, did you ever feel like you were going to
faint it a Lincoln Park? Hey? Oh heck yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It was on my bucket list to see Lincoln Park
up front and close. And when I finally did, and
it was just because I kept moving down, I was like,
I'm gonna do a Christie because Christy's very good at
getting up front of concerts and she always says, Christy
always tells me, just act like you belong, nobody will
question it. So I did that and I kept moving.
I moved all the way up front to see Lincoln Park.
And that was always on my bucket list to do.
(14:51):
And I got a guitar pick from Mike Shanoda that
I still keep in my room to this day. But
Lincoln Park, chester Chester, Yeah, yeah, that was a really
insane loud concert. But seeing Lincoln Park, but I got
I get that way too, with no doubt. Gwen seeing
(15:11):
Gwen Stefani, who was an artist for either one of
you guys that you've seen the most.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Branson, John Mayer really, oh yeah, what about you? Martha Quinn?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The artist that I've seen the most is going to
be drum roll please.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Earth Wind Fire. None way, I knew that.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, it was a period of time in the eighties
whenever they played Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I was there.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
In fact, I saw earth Wind and Fire just like
a week or two before I surprisingly life dropped in
my lap on my MTV audition and they said, you know,
talk about a concert you've seen, and I've just seen
earth Wind and Fire and I was talking about them,
and I was going on about Maurice White and uh,
somewhere I have digitized that audition. I actually brought the
(15:57):
tape to one of those transfer people to take stuff
off three quarter inch and put it onto you know,
a little zip driver or whatever. And they said, oh,
do you want to leave the tape here and come
back in an hour? And I said, no, no, I can't.
I'm going to stay right here. Well you do it,
because that's that tape is too precious. But of course
now I have no idea where it is. It's on
(16:17):
one of our drives somewhere, but one of these days
I want to find it so I can tweet out
and say her Earth When a Fire. I don't know
if you know, but you're very instrumental in me getting
my job at MTV.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think that's really awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Hopefully you will be able to share that when I
hear Earth win in Fire. Whenever I see them live,
I think about you because I knew that about you
that you know. Martha Quinn has seen them so many times.
They are so good live though, they are so good.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
So good.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How about Ukraina. The most times you've been to a concert.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Was to see No Doubt more than Santana.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, I've seen Santana only maybe once, I think okay
and then I've seen but I've seen No Doubt quite
a few times. Yeah, I would say no doubt and
or gwnd by herself it's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And then Gwen by herself, What do you think.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It is about somebody like cattle ge am I saying
that correctly? Ye, that is well shaying I give it,
you know, trying to work on my Spanish a little there.
What is it do you think it is about her
that is so dynamic? Like one person on stage that
can do that?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think that. I like her drive.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
She started out performing as a kid, and she even
auditioned for one of those American Idol shows and they
told her she was never gonna make it. You're not
good enough. Your voice is this? Your voice is that?
And her drive she just didn't care and did things
on her own. And now she's this major superstar that
where nobody really believed in her and her.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
The person that pushed her the most was her father.
Has an incredible relationship with her father.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, so in a good way, because a lot of
times that yeah, no, no, in a good way.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
You're her number one supporter in bags Jackson.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, in a good way.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
All about crediting her dad for never letting her give up,
because she says so many times she just wanted to
give up and then look at where she is now.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He was the wind beneath her wings exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
All right, Well, thank you for checking out episode number
two hundred and twelve of Talk Talk with Marth Quinn.
I want to shout out Ahmed Mohammad, who was our
guest last week and episode number two hundred and eleven.
He's got the Stemfare happening at Oakland Tech September fourteenth,
and it's for elementary school students all throughout the Bay Area.
You don't have to live in Oakland, so please support him.
(18:35):
Go to kitscubed dot com for that. Thank you again
Ahmed for joining us last week. And that's it until
next week, which will be episode number two hundred and thirteen.
I'm Martha Quinn, I'm Christy, I'm Karena Velaskiv.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Miss You're ready,
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn, A we.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Wanna Party hot talk, a a we Wanna party talk
every time.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I defy you. I defy you.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
To search our entire iHeartRadio app listen to every single podcast.
You will not find another podcast where you get a
custom theme song every time.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am sorry, but that.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Is the magic of working with Karina Velaskaz and Christy
James the Wedding Drive with Christy Live crew, and that
happens every week in this podcast called Talk Talk with
marth Quinn. So a little thing before we get into
today's topic, which is concerts, I wanted to mention to
you that Allison Eastwood, the director of the Go Gos
(00:53):
documentary that I was in, she has a new project.
She's the executive producer of the one Land Massacre and
the Secret History of Hollywood. So her team reaches out
to me and asks me if I would be interested
in covering this, and I said, full disclosure, massacres aren't
(01:15):
really my thing, but you know, send me a copy
of let me take a look. So it's super grizzly from.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
The get go. It's like dead bodies.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Ooh, okay, like for real, Okay, your reaction is exactly
why I'm bringing this up right now. I wrote back
to them and I said, this just isn't really island
of awesome material. Thank you so much for thinking of me.
But then, Karina of Alaska, is I thought about you
because you love true crime? This is so up your alley.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I do.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I love a good true crime podcast, documentary movie.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
They are talking to the detectives on the case. This
was some murder that took place in Hollywood in nineteen
eighty one. There's all kinds of people involved, like Liberaci's boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
So this is a true story.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, the title in itself sounds like it's not a
real story.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, it's real.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It took place on Wonderland Avenue, right around the corner
from where a friend of mine lived. It's called the
Wonderland Massacre and the Secret History of Hollywood and a
premiere September eighth on MGM Plus. So, Alison Eastwood, my girl,
I got you covered right there.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Thank you. I'm gonna check that out.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No, you need to. You will love it. Mission.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're on episode two hundred and twelve already, and we
have to talk about. Christy recently went to the Jeth
Leopard Journey and Steve Miller Steve Millervan concert.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We want to know all about it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, I will definitely get to all of that, but first,
if you're new here, welcome to the Talk Talk with
Martha Quinn podcast, which brings all three of us together.
My name is Christy James. That's producer the Murdered Death
Kill Maimon and the Queen of the Island of Awesome,
Miss Martha Quinn.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm going to get myself a little crown that says
Island of Awesome right on there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, And usually you can hear us hanging out in
the morning on Morning Drive with Christy Live, myself and Karina.
And then Karina is also the producer for the Martha
Quinn Show and you can hear her all of the
time on our free iHeartRadio app in the afternoon. She
will get you through your workday no matter where you
are in the country because you can listen anywhere on
our app.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Basically here in the Bay Area. Between six and three,
we just take over. Yes, we live here, we live here.
Pretty much this comes in and kicks us out. So yes,
oh Christy, I want to hear all about this. So
start from the beginning. How did you get tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So I actually bought tickets for the Journey concert Steve
Miller band def Leppard. I've seen Journey and deaf Leppard before,
never seen Steve Miller, so I was super excited to
see him. There, Yes, there is, and I didn't know
that until that morning when I was on his Wikipedia
that the Steve Miller ban was founded in the city.
So there is an organization called vettics dot org bookmarket,
(04:14):
especially if you have a veteran in your life. You
can log onto this website and they have concerts, they
have movie premieres, they have different events, and you log
on and get free tickets.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's vet ti x Yes, got.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It, vettics dot org. And so I went on. They
had free tickets for Journey. I just paid a little
bit of sales tax and got some tickets. And then
long story short, our boss here at the station, the
radio station, he had a pair of tickets and I
traded up and turns out his tickets were four row seats.
(04:50):
So I got to see the show and it was
absolutely amazing. I really wanted to see the Steve Miller
ban and after sitting through what was the world's worst
traffic in San Francisco to get to the Oracle Park,
he was well worth it. And I'm not kidding when
I say his music sounded exactly like his album Our
friend Little Ricky said this all the time. He sounds
(05:13):
just like his albums. He sounds so good. He's great live,
you won't be disappointed. And I mean he's been saying
this for years, and he nailed it. He was so good.
The whole band just looked cool. I wanted to, like
sneak backstage so I could go hang out and have
a drink with them.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And honestly, you forget how many songs Steve Miller haunts.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh so many, from The Joker and Shy Like an
Eagle Jet airliner. It just goes on and on, and
he sang them all and he sounded amazing, and he
just he's in his eighties. Hello, Really, he did not
look like he was an eighty.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I think he's eighty three. Google it, Kreta.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I think eighty three. Yeah, it was not eighty three.
I don't know what he's eating croutons and water chlorophylls supplements.
This man looked amazing. I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Then, yeah, Martha, he's eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He was.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm blown away because he did not look eighty, he
did not sound eighty, and it didn't look like he
had a ton of plastic surgery like another one of
our friends who performed later on that equa. I'm just saying, oh,
that was shape.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
That was shape.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm not saying that was almost true crime, right though.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That was just you know, there was somebody else who
performed who was front and center of one of these bands,
even though he wasn't the lead singer.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
As Bay Area legend, you doesn't matter what you look like.
When you can shred, you can shred.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He was playing and he was great. But let me
tell you, Journey, I've seen them before. Are noll Panda.
Let me just step back right to give him a
round of applause. He looked like he was a member
of a boy band, but he was singing, and I
kept turning my head and then turning my head back,
like is that voice coming out of that guy right there?
(07:01):
Because it's pictures to phill you know, trying to sing
Steve Perry's music. And the last time I saw a
Journey I think it was eng one twice before, I
was kind of underwhelmed. I was just like, uh, okay,
was this with Steve Perry or Arnell Arnell? And I
was just kind of like, Okay, yeah, this is this
is great. You know, I was more impressed by Steve
Smith at the time. Their drummer.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I remember, I remember you mentioning that best drummer Deen
Castronovo though he was good on the jumps though.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right, yes, But they just seemed like they have had
some tension. That is, that is not a secret that
Journey has been going through some personnel issues, right, And
it looked like that on the stage, they weren't connected,
Like if you watched the Steve Miller band. They were jamming,
they were having a good time. You could tell they
all liked each other or they were great actors and
(07:51):
it was a good time. Journey. It felt like they
were all there to kind of do their job excellently.
I don't know if that's the word. They were doing
an excellent job, but they were all doing their own.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Thing, keeping their distances from each other.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, I wasn't like a cohesive feeling, and you could
kind of feel that. Yeah, but Arnell, I've definitely got
to give him super duper props. And then I was
too tired to stay for Deaf Leopard. But I think
the majority of people who came went to see Deaf
Leopard because there were so many Deaf Leopard shirts. Yeah,
so many.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I almost warm on today.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Really, Christie, I am shocked, because you are not one
to be so tired to do anything, let alone sit
there for a few more minutes for Deaf Leopard.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I am shocked. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, it wasn't a few minutes, because the show started
at six and they weren't supposed to go on until
like ten o'clock at night. Yeah, that's yeah. And then
I had I had sat in traffic for literally like
an hour to just get there, and then I was
rushing and I was kind of frazzled because of that.
(09:02):
Then it was starting to get chilly because it's right
next to the water in the Bay Area. It was
just like all of the things, and then trying to
be there and then get out in the midst of
all that traffic that I have to sit through to
get in. I've seen def Leppard, I've seen Journey. I
had not seen the Steve Miller band, so that's really
who I was going to see in them anyways, So
it was a great show. I don't know how much
(09:23):
longer they're going to be on this tour, but it
was definitely a great show. Good.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm glad to hear that it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was deaf and ney.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And a journey to get to the concert.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yes, indeed.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, Abra cadabra, okay Cartier. My favorite line, my favorite,
my favorite rhyme n the Joker. My favorite rhyme I
think of all time is Steve Miller's Abra cadabra want
to reach out and grab you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I just love that. It makes me laugh every time.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Martha, have you heard Eminem's rap version? But he sampled abracadabra.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's called Houdini's.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Of course, I've heard the new Why would you think
I wouldn't? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, I know, right?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But it's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's just cool to hear it because it's Eminem sampled him.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So I'm like, and Steve Miller shouts him out.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes I bet he did. He's a banned for a
new car at least, don't.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You sure, Martha Quinn? What would be the best show
that you've been to?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
The best concert I've ever been to?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Been to a lot, I'm sure, but or a you
that really stood out to you, like, wow, this is
okay show.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, in the eighties, JJ Jackson and I went and
saw Queen. I had seen Queen before at Madison Square Garden.
They were I think one of my second concert maybe
I've ever seen, but seeing it somehow that show, I
can remember being there with JJ, and I can picture
JJ to my right looking over at the stage, just
(10:57):
filled with this invigorated feeling like this is the greatest
show I've ever seen. I can remember that feeling. But
another time that I was at a show where I
saw something absolutely incredible and unexpected happen is I would
was at a Yes show, also at Madison Square Garden,
and all of a sudden, just in the middle of
(11:20):
one of the songs, this roar started to happen, almost
like the wave, but a roar of people took over
the audience. It just like I have chills thinking about it.
It just got louder and louder, and the band stopped
and they turned on the house lights and they just
(11:40):
stood there and watched and it was the most incredible
outpouring of love I have ever experienced in my entire life.
And the band just stood there. And later I was
talking to one of the guys. I forget who which
one of the guys in yes, And I mentioned that
show because it was a while later, and they said, yes,
(12:02):
I remember that. I remember that night. It was just
a spontaneous wildness, but all good, all positive vibes.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, that's what happens at concerts. Sometimes you get those
special chilling moments. Have you ever had one of those
Krina chilling moments? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah. When I saw Latin singer got Alg Carol g
I was like in tears. She put on an incredible show.
She's like one of the biggest Latin artists right now.
And I flew over to the Rose Bowl to go
see her with my sister and man, she just completely
like is on a whole nother level. I was just
so amazed to see her career and just where she was.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
But yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Crying, I was laughing. I was like pouring my heart
out and singing. And she's one of those artists that
made me feel like really deep into my soul.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I was like, oh man, this is this is incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
How about you, Christy?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, well anytime I've seen Prince, but I will say, yeah,
one of the best, best, best concerts I've ever been
to was a di'angelo concert. It was like a Valentine's Day.
Di'angelo concert was at the Fillmore and it was such
a great show. It was such a great show, so good.
(13:14):
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Going back to Queen Martha, Freddie Mercury is the one
artist I wish I could have seen live. I'll watch
YouTube videos just to see him perform with the band.
But that's like the one person that I wish I
would have been able to see live.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
And maybe Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh I would have loved to have seen Michael Jackson live.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Did you ever see Michael live, Martha? I did.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I saw the Victory tour at Giants Stadium in New
Jersey and.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Really, Yes, maybe I should have said that was the
best concert. Yeah, it was amazing, you know, because the
Thriller album had come out, but he was still touring
with the Brothers, So if I'm remembering this correctly, he
did songs from Thriller, but also they had their current
Jackson five stuff like can You Feel It? And oh
from the Victory album, and it was so good. It
(14:01):
was so fun. It was one of those things too
where I was like screaming my head off the whole time.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, those are the good shows.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, especially when you would see because I never understood
why people would faint at concerts. You know, we would
watch obviously Michael videos and him perform, and I never understood, like.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Why why do people faint?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But when you love an artist the way people love
their artists, I can see how that happens.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, did you ever feel like you were going to
faint it a Lincoln Park? Hey? Oh heck yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It was on my bucket list to see Lincoln Park
up front and close. And when I finally did, and
it was just because I kept moving down, I was like,
I'm gonna do a Christie because Christy's very good at
getting up front of concerts and she always says, Christy
always tells me, just act like you belong, nobody will
question it. So I did that and I kept moving.
I moved all the way up front to see Lincoln Park.
And that was always on my bucket list to do.
(14:51):
And I got a guitar pick from Mike Shanoda that
I still keep in my room to this day. But
Lincoln Park, chester Chester, Yeah, yeah, that was a really
insane loud concert. But seeing Lincoln Park, but I got
I get that way too, with no doubt. Gwen seeing
(15:11):
Gwen Stefani, who was an artist for either one of
you guys that you've seen the most.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Branson, John Mayer really, oh yeah, what about you? Martha Quinn?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The artist that I've seen the most is going to
be drum roll please.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Earth Wind Fire. None way, I knew that.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah, it was a period of time in the eighties
whenever they played Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I was there.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
In fact, I saw earth Wind and Fire just like
a week or two before I surprisingly life dropped in
my lap on my MTV audition and they said, you know,
talk about a concert you've seen, and I've just seen
earth Wind and Fire and I was talking about them,
and I was going on about Maurice White and uh,
somewhere I have digitized that audition. I actually brought the
(15:57):
tape to one of those transfer people to take stuff
off three quarter inch and put it onto you know,
a little zip driver or whatever. And they said, oh,
do you want to leave the tape here and come
back in an hour? And I said, no, no, I can't.
I'm going to stay right here. Well you do it,
because that's that tape is too precious. But of course
now I have no idea where it is. It's on
(16:17):
one of our drives somewhere, but one of these days
I want to find it so I can tweet out
and say her Earth When a Fire. I don't know
if you know, but you're very instrumental in me getting
my job at MTV.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think that's really awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Hopefully you will be able to share that when I
hear Earth win in Fire. Whenever I see them live,
I think about you because I knew that about you
that you know. Martha Quinn has seen them so many times.
They are so good live though, they are so good.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
So good.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How about Ukraina. The most times you've been to a concert.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Was to see No Doubt more than Santana.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, I've seen Santana only maybe once, I think okay
and then I've seen but I've seen No Doubt quite
a few times. Yeah, I would say no doubt and
or gwnd by herself it's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And then Gwen by herself, What do you think.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
It is about somebody like cattle ge am I saying
that correctly? Ye, that is well shaying I give it,
you know, trying to work on my Spanish a little there.
What is it do you think it is about her
that is so dynamic? Like one person on stage that
can do that?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I think that. I like her drive.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
She started out performing as a kid, and she even
auditioned for one of those American Idol shows and they
told her she was never gonna make it. You're not
good enough. Your voice is this? Your voice is that?
And her drive she just didn't care and did things
on her own. And now she's this major superstar that
where nobody really believed in her and her.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
The person that pushed her the most was her father.
Has an incredible relationship with her father.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, so in a good way, because a lot of
times that yeah, no, no, in a good way.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
You're her number one supporter in bags Jackson.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, in a good way.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
All about crediting her dad for never letting her give up,
because she says so many times she just wanted to
give up and then look at where she is now.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He was the wind beneath her wings exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
All right, Well, thank you for checking out episode number
two hundred and twelve of Talk Talk with Marth Quinn.
I want to shout out Ahmed Mohammad, who was our
guest last week and episode number two hundred and eleven.
He's got the Stemfare happening at Oakland Tech September fourteenth,
and it's for elementary school students all throughout the Bay Area.
You don't have to live in Oakland, so please support him.
(18:35):
Go to kitscubed dot com for that. Thank you again
Ahmed for joining us last week. And that's it until
next week, which will be episode number two hundred and thirteen.
I'm Martha Quinn, I'm Christy, I'm Karena Velaskiv.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Miss You're ready,
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