January 17, 2025 • 19 mins
What are you slightly obsessed with? Martha Quinn talks about her missed opportunity with Paul McCartney, Christie goes above the Paisley Park walls, and Karena has mixed emotions about Linkin Park!
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Everybody, throw your hands in the air. That's all.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is all you got, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's like an interpretive dance. So I was going for
an interpretive sound versus a song. You know, it has
more feeling.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Get into it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I honestly felt like we were glimpsing into your soul
just now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, I'm just I'm just trying.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I felt it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Does I always have to be punchy and poppy sometimes
it can be just you know, the wind of your
inner being communicating to the world.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's called art. That's what we just heard.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's called art, and I appreciate that. That's how you
started Talk Talk with Martha Quinn, the podcast that unites
the Morning Drive with Christy Live crew, which is Christy
whose soul we just heard Thank you, with producer Karina Velasquez,
who was pumping up the jam.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I will admit was just trying to crush my soul.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
These two are together in what I call the best
morning show not just on the planet, I mean not
just not just on the planet, but in the universe.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, solar system, the galaxy, all of it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Okay, so you could find it here on the iHeartRadio
app also at Classic Hits one three point seven. So
uh yeah, ladies loving the new feature Karina's family drama.
There's always something going on with Morning Drive with Christie
Live that you can see on our website, which is
Koreina Alaskaz. I know you always love to shout it out.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Classic Hits one three seven dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Good okay, that was Christie.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Thank you. You know I was paying attention.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I know, I know. I looked for a Karina and
she's like, boo boo, offline, offline, offline. I'm like, quick, Karina,
No Karina, But for real, what episode of Talk Talk
with Mark Quinn.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Is this two and thirty?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And look, Joe Rogan is only something like two thousand
ahead of us, No worries.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
We're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There to get in there big.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So ladies, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We are talking about obsession, not an obsession.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yes, you're my obsession. Who would you like me to
be to make you sleep with me? Funny funny lyric? Yes,
but okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Throughout our lives we've all been slightly obsessed with something
or someone. What has it been for you in your lifetime,
and you can pick out of your whole life. Maybe
it's been one or two things. Maybe it was when
you were a teenager, maybe as an adult. But we've
all been slightly obsessed with something, and tell a little
(02:52):
story that shows just how obsessed you really were or
are still continuing to be with this thing.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, well, I can't wait to hear from you. Corina Velaskaz.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
All Right, I've been obsessed and now it's changing, and
I feel bad about it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I've always been obsessed with two things music. One is
Gwen Stefani, that's a whole story. And Lincoln Park, the band.
Lincoln Park has always been one of my obsessions since
when they first started their music.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I believe Christy and Martha gave Karina a Lincoln Park hoodie.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
A Lincoln Park's yeah, oh yeah, that's right. I don't
know why I got hoodie mixed with beanie right now,
I don't know. So on one of my bucket lists
was always to be right up front and center when
Lincoln Park played. However, being up front and center costs
money and those tickets always go pretty fast. So one
time me and my cousin Andy, we went to the
shoreline and I said, we are gonna make it somehow
(03:50):
to the front of the concert to see Lincoln Park.
And this is when chester Chester Bennington was still alive,
so may he rest in peace. So we moved. I
kept telling Andy, okay. We were in the two hundred
section at mountain View and Shoreline, and I told her
just follow my lead. I'm gonna pull it, Christy, and
follow my lead, and we're gonna keep moving our way
(04:12):
up to the front. So we kept doing that, kept
doing that, kept doing that. Then I saw two rows
that were kind of empty all the way in the front,
and I said, just come with me, Andy, we're gonna
make it there. Sure enough, I walked to the second
row and this girl next to me was like, my
boyfriend's coming back. I don't know what you're doing here,
and I'm like, well, there's like four empty seats here
and no one's been sitting here for quite some time,
(04:34):
and this is about two or three songs into Lincoln
Park already. But she was angry that we were there, obviously,
because she was probably just being a hater. So then
the girl in front of her front row was like, oh,
I actually have room over here. You can come stand
by me there, and I said, oh mg, and that
was like one of the best feelings ever. I went
(04:55):
to the front row and I got a guitar pick
from Mike Shanoda. Yeah, and I still have it. I'm
still trying to convince my cousin Andy after all these years,
to give me her guitar pick too, because we got
the same guitar picks for Mike Shanoda.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So I can make ear rings out of it. Whoah,
that would be so cool. Yeah, but you could just
make one earring. You don't have to have two earrings.
Why did you make a necklace?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I know that's true. I could. I guess I could
do that. I could do that, So I will do that.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Make a necklace.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Stop telling her what to do. I kidding it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Make a necklace.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Get a nose ring.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Imagine if I've made a nose ring.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, but Martha Quinn is actually right. I think one
earring is cute. Like buy a little guitar on one
side or a little microphone on one side, and then
have the guitar pick or make a little LP on
one side and then have the guitar pick on the
other side. So like, the earrings still have to match.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There's a lot of earrings that they sell now that
are just kind of viby and they don't match.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
One day, you actually gave me friends a long time ago.
I don't know if you remember that, and then I lost them. Well, yeah,
I was so bummed about it too. It was like, ah, man,
I love these earrings. Anyways. So I've always been a
super fan of Lincoln Park, however, and I feel bad
because nowadays I am not feeling the new girl that
they added to the band.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I was gonna ask you what you thought about that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, I'm still I just cannot. I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's not the same, that's what it is. Not the same.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But I also know that there's bands, like I think
it's Nirvana. Dave Grohl was in Nirvana, right mm hmm,
and so I think, like, Okay, he did his own
band and people still love it. I just I don't know.
I just can't get into the girl replacing Chester and
Lincoln Park and they're going on tour, they have new music,
(06:51):
but I'm just just I'm not into it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Dave Grohl didn't do another Nirvana.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
No, he did Food Fighters. That's a totally different band.
That's different. There trying to do Lincoln Park with a
cookie cutter singer and it doesn't quite work. It's kind
of like the Black Eyed Peas after Fergie left. Yeah,
it was just not quite the same. So, I mean,
I understand that you hate their band, but.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I still listen to like all of the old Lincoln
Park music.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I still love that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm just I don't know something about I just feel
like they replaced Chester and I'm not ready. That's how
I feel on the new Lincoln Park.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
See, I'm gonna feel bad if, like they do a
tour and the tickets don't sell.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'll feel so bad for.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Her, Like I'm like, oh no, oh no, seems.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
To really like really like her.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Just for me.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm just I don't know. Maybe maybe I just need
a little bit more time to feel it out.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It worked with Journey. You never know, so we'll see
how it goes.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, but they didn't replace Steve with a girl that
is a different vibe. I will say that when David
Lee Ross left van Halen. Eddie van Halen's first instinct
was to ask what famous eighties singer a female Nicks?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, Oh, don't Jay, No Benatar, no Mary No was
another clue.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Because I want to get well, I'll tell you what
she she is.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
She's a real warrior. Oh, Patti Smyth, Yes, Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Eddie van Halen literally asked Patty Smythe. But she didn't
do it because she was pregnant at the time. If
she hadn't been pregnant, then Van Halen might have done
exactly what Lincoln Park had done. So that would have
been very interesting. But you know, but even when Sammy
Hagar wound up being Dave's replacement, I think a lot
(08:45):
of people felt the same way that you feel. I
gotta say I love Sammy Hagar. I have nothing bad
to say about him. I think he's a really upbeat guy.
I think he's really positive. I think I Can't Drive
fifty five is one of the most killer rock songs.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But he's got that a soft spot in.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
My heart for the Dave era van Halen. So that's
kind of where I live in terms of Van Halen's career.
Shout out to Alex van Halen's book. I'm reading it
right now. It is so good. Twitter has ruined my
reading attention span, but Alex van Halen is bringing it
(09:24):
back and I'm actually reading it. Get ready wait for
it as a book. I'm actually turning pages.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I know, so wow.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I feel like I'm a genius when I'm sitting reading
that book because I'm reading a book.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
There was cool bit of controversy surrounding that book because
in that book, do you want to spoiler alert or no?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I probably know it already because I read a lot
of press about.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. He didn't really mention that Sammy Hagar era of
Van Halen, and he didn't really shout him out at all.
And he talked about the band, he talked about the history,
he talked about all these things and was like, oh
yeah about the red rocker forget about it, and didn't
say anything about him, and so everyone's like to the end.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I haven't gotten to the end. It was interesting that
he said in the studio, I'm sorry we're going so
off track here, but one of my obsessions is van Halen.
Is that when Van Halen started recording their very first album,
the producer Ted Templeman had already worked with Sammy Hagar
and he wasn't so thrilled with Dave's vocals, and at
that time, way back, he was pushing to the band.
(10:30):
He put the idea on the table, what about this
other guy, Sammy Hagar. But they were like, no, wait,
we're not not using our guy that we've been with since,
you know, our high school days in Pasadena. But so
it's funny how Sammy's always kind of lurked around the
van Halen world. But at any rate, so, yeah, I
do know how you feel about that and Journey, you know,
(10:55):
I think a lot of people would say that. So
many people say, oh, well it's Journey unlessa Steve Perry,
which I disagree with because look, what is like Neil
Shawn and the band's supposed to do. Steve said he's
not going to do it, so they got to continue.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Christy, Well, Martha, you said you already shouted out that
you know you were obsessed with van Halen. So is
that your obsession that you want to highlight or is
there another one, something else that you've been obsessed with.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Well, I'll have to go earlier to my musical life,
and that is back to when Martha Quinn was probably
two feet tall. I have two older brothers. I just
came into musical consciousness always being a Beatle fan, loved
the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One time at MTV they tossed me at Paul McCartney interview.
Why couldn't I do it? Oh, because I was going
to mc a police show, and so then they gave
it to Mark Good Minute. I'll still like. But then
eventually in the nineties I did get to interview Paul
McCartney is like me and my husband Jordan went which
(11:58):
I brought my white album you know, from when I was,
you know, a teenager. Jordan brought his Hard Day's Night album.
We got them autographed by Paul McCartney. So I'm in
the Capitol Records studios with Paul talking, and Paul is
as a British person would. It was drinking tea, so
we're cheat chatting whatever, and then he got up and left.
You know, hey, great to meet you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Did I get a photo? No it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
There wasn't really an era we didn't have.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, it wasn't really And you know what I was
thinking in my head because I was young and stupid.
I'll have plenty of opportunities to get pictures of Paul mcartney.
This is just the first of many times Paul and
I will be hanging out. So Paul had been drinking
this tea and I was sitting there, and you know,
it's in the recording studio, and there's a big glass booth.
Everybody's looking at me, and I'm just sitting there and
(12:49):
I look down at this cup and I see that
there's still tea in there. So I just very matter
of factly. I always think, if you're going to commit
a crime, do it and play in sight like that's
my So I just picked it up and I slugged
it down. I thought, if I get a bacterial infection
and I get it from pal McCartney, I don't care,
I will take it. So I slugged it down. I
(13:10):
drank pal McCartney's actual tea, and then I was looking
around and nobody was particularly paying attention to me, and
so I picked up the cup and I put it
into my purse and I look around. Still nobody's paying
attention to me, and I pick up the saucer and
I put it on my purse. Still nobody's paying attention.
I reach over, I take this spoon. I put it
(13:32):
in my purse. I still have those three items and
they have never been washed. So if anybody needs to
clone pal McCartney, I have some of his DNA.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Do you have it in like a box like to
preserve it?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I just have it in a little box. It's not
some kind of special acid paper like you would put
some kind of precious document or anything. I probably should,
but it's kind of just on my shelf.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I know.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I have a mental picture about where it is. If
I was to ever leave during a fire, I better
remember to grab that cup.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And do you guys still have the signed albums by him?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That Weekndkay? Cool, that's cool, that's great. Yeah, that's a
super fan. You over here is stealing their stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. I had a feeling when we
were talking obsessions. I was like, Martha Quinn is going
to tell the Paul McCartney cup story because she is obsessed.
Yeah with the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
That's maybe one of my favorite things I've ever done
in my life. Christy, how about you? Okay, I would say,
off the top of my head, oh gosh, there's I
can think of two obsessions, Rihanna and Prince. Oh yeah,
but I can't think of anything crazy you did with
either one of those. Well, what is your obsession and
what have you done crazy? In regards to those?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I think for Prince, he is my obsession has been
ever since I was in high school. I have loved Prince.
Aside from the normal camping outside of a warehouse records
to get tickets to see Prince, were waiting hours and
hours on end at concerts for him to decide to
finally show up and play the concert, which is just
(15:11):
part for the course if you're a Prince fan.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think one.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Of the biggest things I did, unfortunately, was when Prince
passed away. Oh I remember I was sitting in my
house and at the time, we were kind of revamping
the radio station, so I was at home kind of waiting,
and I got a phone call and my phone started
blowing up because Prince had died and I didn't see it.
I just got a phone call from our friend Jerry Dove,
(15:37):
you know him, Karna, And then the phone call started
coming in after Jerry Prince died. Prince died and turning
on the television and I'm turning on the news and
I'm looking at phone alerts and I'm freaking out, and
I'm like and people were actually calling me like he
was my family member, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We heard about Prince Christy, are you okay.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I got on the computer as soon as I got
the news and and booked a ticket to Paisley Park
in Minneapolis. Chan Hassen, Minnesota is where Prince is from.
I like, literally within a couple of hours after I
got the news that he had died, I booked a
ticket to this place I'd never been before, knew where
(16:17):
he lived, and I was like, I don't care. I'm
just going to go to be in front of his
house and celebrate and mourn with people who are going
to feel the same way I'm feeling right now, and
hear the music that has made me fall in love
with Prince this whole entire time. And I got a ticket,
and the very next morning I was picking up my
(16:39):
rental car and driving to Paisley Park and chan Hassen, Minnesota,
and there was such a display of love for a
prince and his fans. It was kind of like when
Michael Jackson died and he saw all the pictures of
people mourning in Los Angeles and really all over the world.
But yeah, so that was it, and it was just
(17:00):
amazing to be there, to go to his childhood home
and just kind of take a tour and then meet
other fans and yeah, then I stuck into a party
that they did, and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Christy, you never thought about getting a Prince tattoo. I
think I've asked you this before or no, maybe it
was a Bob's Burger tattoo, but you didn't think about
getting the Prince symbol.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I did think about it, I did not do it.
I'm not a big tattoo person, so yeah, but I
do think I might get a Bob's Burger tattoo, because
that's coming in a close second for obsessions. But yeah,
I would favorite, and then that would probably trump the
Prince ticket because if it's on me permanently, that would.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Be a little obsessive.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But I do love Bob's Burgers and I do love prints,
and it was amazing, Christy.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
On the flight to Minneapolis, where there are other people
who were doing the same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I didn't notice, so I couldn't remember the flight, but
I just remember going there, getting my rental car and
driving and then just seeing all of the flowers and
posters and pictures and people and all sorts of you know,
just love for Prince and music, just tons and tons
and tons. Yeah, it was just a wonderful. Yeah, it
(18:07):
was just a wonderful memorial. Now for some reason, I
cannot think of it. Oh, First Avenue, the club in
Purple Rain. The nightclub were kind of prints and that
Minneapolis sound started. Went there and that's where they had
kind of this big celebration, and that's where I snuck in.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And who was performing was more Estay performing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Who was there?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was just a DJ. Yeah, it was a DJ.
Got up to the DJ booth all the things, and
yeah it was good to my god, Yeah, you know,
it was great.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're all a little obsessed with something, a little obsessed,
a lot of obsessed.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, So but that's okay. Whatever you're obsessed with.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's nice that you love something that much and you're
committed to it, and you know, sometimes you just gotta
do what you gotta do, still in a tea cup,
if it's flying across the country to pay respects, or
if it's hating on a new singer when they try
and take over your baby.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'm just kidding. It's all love.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Thank you so much, you guys for listening to our
obsession stories on this episode.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You're my obsession.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You're my obsession. Do you want me to be to
make you sleep with me?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
To make you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Okay? We're rewriting that animotion hit all right? Well, thank
you Kaarina of Alaskas too, and uh until next week.
I'm Martha Quinn, I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Christy, I'm Karina Velaskas.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Miss You're ready,
When the on air Mike goes off, the Talk Talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Everybody, throw your hands in the air. That's all.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is all you got, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's like an interpretive dance. So I was going for
an interpretive sound versus a song. You know, it has
more feeling.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Get into it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I honestly felt like we were glimpsing into your soul
just now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, I'm just I'm just trying.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I felt it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Does I always have to be punchy and poppy sometimes
it can be just you know, the wind of your
inner being communicating to the world.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's called art. That's what we just heard.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's called art, and I appreciate that. That's how you
started Talk Talk with Martha Quinn, the podcast that unites
the Morning Drive with Christy Live crew, which is Christy
whose soul we just heard Thank you, with producer Karina Velasquez,
who was pumping up the jam.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I will admit was just trying to crush my soul.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
These two are together in what I call the best
morning show not just on the planet, I mean not
just not just on the planet, but in the universe.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, solar system, the galaxy, all of it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Okay, so you could find it here on the iHeartRadio
app also at Classic Hits one three point seven. So
uh yeah, ladies loving the new feature Karina's family drama.
There's always something going on with Morning Drive with Christie
Live that you can see on our website, which is
Koreina Alaskaz. I know you always love to shout it out.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Classic Hits one three seven dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Good okay, that was Christie.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Thank you. You know I was paying attention.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I know, I know. I looked for a Karina and
she's like, boo boo, offline, offline, offline. I'm like, quick, Karina,
No Karina, But for real, what episode of Talk Talk
with Mark Quinn.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Is this two and thirty?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And look, Joe Rogan is only something like two thousand
ahead of us, No worries.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
We're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There to get in there big.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So ladies, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We are talking about obsession, not an obsession.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yes, you're my obsession. Who would you like me to
be to make you sleep with me? Funny funny lyric? Yes,
but okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Throughout our lives we've all been slightly obsessed with something
or someone. What has it been for you in your lifetime,
and you can pick out of your whole life. Maybe
it's been one or two things. Maybe it was when
you were a teenager, maybe as an adult. But we've
all been slightly obsessed with something, and tell a little
(02:52):
story that shows just how obsessed you really were or
are still continuing to be with this thing.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, well, I can't wait to hear from you. Corina Velaskaz.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
All Right, I've been obsessed and now it's changing, and
I feel bad about it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I've always been obsessed with two things music. One is
Gwen Stefani, that's a whole story. And Lincoln Park, the band.
Lincoln Park has always been one of my obsessions since
when they first started their music.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I believe Christy and Martha gave Karina a Lincoln Park hoodie.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
A Lincoln Park's yeah, oh yeah, that's right. I don't
know why I got hoodie mixed with beanie right now,
I don't know. So on one of my bucket lists
was always to be right up front and center when
Lincoln Park played. However, being up front and center costs
money and those tickets always go pretty fast. So one
time me and my cousin Andy, we went to the
shoreline and I said, we are gonna make it somehow
(03:50):
to the front of the concert to see Lincoln Park.
And this is when chester Chester Bennington was still alive,
so may he rest in peace. So we moved. I
kept telling Andy, okay. We were in the two hundred
section at mountain View and Shoreline, and I told her
just follow my lead. I'm gonna pull it, Christy, and
follow my lead, and we're gonna keep moving our way
(04:12):
up to the front. So we kept doing that, kept
doing that, kept doing that. Then I saw two rows
that were kind of empty all the way in the front,
and I said, just come with me, Andy, we're gonna
make it there. Sure enough, I walked to the second
row and this girl next to me was like, my
boyfriend's coming back. I don't know what you're doing here,
and I'm like, well, there's like four empty seats here
and no one's been sitting here for quite some time,
(04:34):
and this is about two or three songs into Lincoln
Park already. But she was angry that we were there, obviously,
because she was probably just being a hater. So then
the girl in front of her front row was like, oh,
I actually have room over here. You can come stand
by me there, and I said, oh mg, and that
was like one of the best feelings ever. I went
(04:55):
to the front row and I got a guitar pick
from Mike Shanoda. Yeah, and I still have it. I'm
still trying to convince my cousin Andy after all these years,
to give me her guitar pick too, because we got
the same guitar picks for Mike Shanoda.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So I can make ear rings out of it. Whoah,
that would be so cool. Yeah, but you could just
make one earring. You don't have to have two earrings.
Why did you make a necklace?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I know that's true. I could. I guess I could
do that. I could do that, So I will do that.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Make a necklace.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Stop telling her what to do. I kidding it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Make a necklace.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Get a nose ring.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Imagine if I've made a nose ring.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, but Martha Quinn is actually right. I think one
earring is cute. Like buy a little guitar on one
side or a little microphone on one side, and then
have the guitar pick or make a little LP on
one side and then have the guitar pick on the
other side. So like, the earrings still have to match.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
There's a lot of earrings that they sell now that
are just kind of viby and they don't match.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
One day, you actually gave me friends a long time ago.
I don't know if you remember that, and then I lost them. Well, yeah,
I was so bummed about it too. It was like, ah, man,
I love these earrings. Anyways. So I've always been a
super fan of Lincoln Park, however, and I feel bad
because nowadays I am not feeling the new girl that
they added to the band.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I was gonna ask you what you thought about that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, I'm still I just cannot. I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's not the same, that's what it is. Not the same.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But I also know that there's bands, like I think
it's Nirvana. Dave Grohl was in Nirvana, right mm hmm,
and so I think, like, Okay, he did his own
band and people still love it. I just I don't know.
I just can't get into the girl replacing Chester and
Lincoln Park and they're going on tour, they have new music,
(06:51):
but I'm just just I'm not into it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Dave Grohl didn't do another Nirvana.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
No, he did Food Fighters. That's a totally different band.
That's different. There trying to do Lincoln Park with a
cookie cutter singer and it doesn't quite work. It's kind
of like the Black Eyed Peas after Fergie left. Yeah,
it was just not quite the same. So, I mean,
I understand that you hate their band, but.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I still listen to like all of the old Lincoln
Park music.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I still love that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm just I don't know something about I just feel
like they replaced Chester and I'm not ready. That's how
I feel on the new Lincoln Park.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Wah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
See, I'm gonna feel bad if, like they do a
tour and the tickets don't sell.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'll feel so bad for.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Her, Like I'm like, oh no, oh no, seems.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
To really like really like her.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Just for me.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm just I don't know. Maybe maybe I just need
a little bit more time to feel it out.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It worked with Journey. You never know, so we'll see
how it goes.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, but they didn't replace Steve with a girl that
is a different vibe. I will say that when David
Lee Ross left van Halen. Eddie van Halen's first instinct
was to ask what famous eighties singer a female Nicks?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, Oh, don't Jay, No Benatar, no Mary No was
another clue.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Because I want to get well, I'll tell you what
she she is.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
She's a real warrior. Oh, Patti Smyth, Yes, Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Eddie van Halen literally asked Patty Smythe. But she didn't
do it because she was pregnant at the time. If
she hadn't been pregnant, then Van Halen might have done
exactly what Lincoln Park had done. So that would have
been very interesting. But you know, but even when Sammy
Hagar wound up being Dave's replacement, I think a lot
(08:45):
of people felt the same way that you feel. I
gotta say I love Sammy Hagar. I have nothing bad
to say about him. I think he's a really upbeat guy.
I think he's really positive. I think I Can't Drive
fifty five is one of the most killer rock songs.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But he's got that a soft spot in.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
My heart for the Dave era van Halen. So that's
kind of where I live in terms of Van Halen's career.
Shout out to Alex van Halen's book. I'm reading it
right now. It is so good. Twitter has ruined my
reading attention span, but Alex van Halen is bringing it
(09:24):
back and I'm actually reading it. Get ready wait for
it as a book. I'm actually turning pages.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I know, so wow.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I feel like I'm a genius when I'm sitting reading
that book because I'm reading a book.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
There was cool bit of controversy surrounding that book because
in that book, do you want to spoiler alert or no?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I probably know it already because I read a lot
of press about.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. He didn't really mention that Sammy Hagar era of
Van Halen, and he didn't really shout him out at all.
And he talked about the band, he talked about the history,
he talked about all these things and was like, oh
yeah about the red rocker forget about it, and didn't
say anything about him, and so everyone's like to the end.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I haven't gotten to the end. It was interesting that
he said in the studio, I'm sorry we're going so
off track here, but one of my obsessions is van Halen.
Is that when Van Halen started recording their very first album,
the producer Ted Templeman had already worked with Sammy Hagar
and he wasn't so thrilled with Dave's vocals, and at
that time, way back, he was pushing to the band.
(10:30):
He put the idea on the table, what about this
other guy, Sammy Hagar. But they were like, no, wait,
we're not not using our guy that we've been with since,
you know, our high school days in Pasadena. But so
it's funny how Sammy's always kind of lurked around the
van Halen world. But at any rate, so, yeah, I
do know how you feel about that and Journey, you know,
(10:55):
I think a lot of people would say that. So
many people say, oh, well it's Journey unlessa Steve Perry,
which I disagree with because look, what is like Neil
Shawn and the band's supposed to do. Steve said he's
not going to do it, so they got to continue.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Christy, Well, Martha, you said you already shouted out that
you know you were obsessed with van Halen. So is
that your obsession that you want to highlight or is
there another one, something else that you've been obsessed with.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Well, I'll have to go earlier to my musical life,
and that is back to when Martha Quinn was probably
two feet tall. I have two older brothers. I just
came into musical consciousness always being a Beatle fan, loved
the Beatles.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One time at MTV they tossed me at Paul McCartney interview.
Why couldn't I do it? Oh, because I was going
to mc a police show, and so then they gave
it to Mark Good Minute. I'll still like. But then
eventually in the nineties I did get to interview Paul
McCartney is like me and my husband Jordan went which
(11:58):
I brought my white album you know, from when I was,
you know, a teenager. Jordan brought his Hard Day's Night album.
We got them autographed by Paul McCartney. So I'm in
the Capitol Records studios with Paul talking, and Paul is
as a British person would. It was drinking tea, so
we're cheat chatting whatever, and then he got up and left.
You know, hey, great to meet you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Did I get a photo? No it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
There wasn't really an era we didn't have.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, it wasn't really And you know what I was
thinking in my head because I was young and stupid.
I'll have plenty of opportunities to get pictures of Paul mcartney.
This is just the first of many times Paul and
I will be hanging out. So Paul had been drinking
this tea and I was sitting there, and you know,
it's in the recording studio, and there's a big glass booth.
Everybody's looking at me, and I'm just sitting there and
(12:49):
I look down at this cup and I see that
there's still tea in there. So I just very matter
of factly. I always think, if you're going to commit
a crime, do it and play in sight like that's
my So I just picked it up and I slugged
it down. I thought, if I get a bacterial infection
and I get it from pal McCartney, I don't care,
I will take it. So I slugged it down. I
(13:10):
drank pal McCartney's actual tea, and then I was looking
around and nobody was particularly paying attention to me, and
so I picked up the cup and I put it
into my purse and I look around. Still nobody's paying
attention to me, and I pick up the saucer and
I put it on my purse. Still nobody's paying attention.
I reach over, I take this spoon. I put it
(13:32):
in my purse. I still have those three items and
they have never been washed. So if anybody needs to
clone pal McCartney, I have some of his DNA.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Do you have it in like a box like to
preserve it?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I just have it in a little box. It's not
some kind of special acid paper like you would put
some kind of precious document or anything. I probably should,
but it's kind of just on my shelf.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I know.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I have a mental picture about where it is. If
I was to ever leave during a fire, I better
remember to grab that cup.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And do you guys still have the signed albums by him?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That Weekndkay? Cool, that's cool, that's great. Yeah, that's a
super fan. You over here is stealing their stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. I had a feeling when we
were talking obsessions. I was like, Martha Quinn is going
to tell the Paul McCartney cup story because she is obsessed.
Yeah with the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
That's maybe one of my favorite things I've ever done
in my life. Christy, how about you? Okay, I would say,
off the top of my head, oh gosh, there's I
can think of two obsessions, Rihanna and Prince. Oh yeah,
but I can't think of anything crazy you did with
either one of those. Well, what is your obsession and
what have you done crazy? In regards to those?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I think for Prince, he is my obsession has been
ever since I was in high school. I have loved Prince.
Aside from the normal camping outside of a warehouse records
to get tickets to see Prince, were waiting hours and
hours on end at concerts for him to decide to
finally show up and play the concert, which is just
(15:11):
part for the course if you're a Prince fan.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think one.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Of the biggest things I did, unfortunately, was when Prince
passed away. Oh I remember I was sitting in my
house and at the time, we were kind of revamping
the radio station, so I was at home kind of waiting,
and I got a phone call and my phone started
blowing up because Prince had died and I didn't see it.
I just got a phone call from our friend Jerry Dove,
(15:37):
you know him, Karna, And then the phone call started
coming in after Jerry Prince died. Prince died and turning
on the television and I'm turning on the news and
I'm looking at phone alerts and I'm freaking out, and
I'm like and people were actually calling me like he
was my family member, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We heard about Prince Christy, are you okay.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I got on the computer as soon as I got
the news and and booked a ticket to Paisley Park
in Minneapolis. Chan Hassen, Minnesota is where Prince is from.
I like, literally within a couple of hours after I
got the news that he had died, I booked a
ticket to this place I'd never been before, knew where
(16:17):
he lived, and I was like, I don't care. I'm
just going to go to be in front of his
house and celebrate and mourn with people who are going
to feel the same way I'm feeling right now, and
hear the music that has made me fall in love
with Prince this whole entire time. And I got a ticket,
and the very next morning I was picking up my
(16:39):
rental car and driving to Paisley Park and chan Hassen, Minnesota,
and there was such a display of love for a
prince and his fans. It was kind of like when
Michael Jackson died and he saw all the pictures of
people mourning in Los Angeles and really all over the world.
But yeah, so that was it, and it was just
(17:00):
amazing to be there, to go to his childhood home
and just kind of take a tour and then meet
other fans and yeah, then I stuck into a party
that they did, and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Christy, you never thought about getting a Prince tattoo. I
think I've asked you this before or no, maybe it
was a Bob's Burger tattoo, but you didn't think about
getting the Prince symbol.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I did think about it, I did not do it.
I'm not a big tattoo person, so yeah, but I
do think I might get a Bob's Burger tattoo, because
that's coming in a close second for obsessions. But yeah,
I would favorite, and then that would probably trump the
Prince ticket because if it's on me permanently, that would.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Be a little obsessive.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But I do love Bob's Burgers and I do love prints,
and it was amazing, Christy.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
On the flight to Minneapolis, where there are other people
who were doing the same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I didn't notice, so I couldn't remember the flight, but
I just remember going there, getting my rental car and
driving and then just seeing all of the flowers and
posters and pictures and people and all sorts of you know,
just love for Prince and music, just tons and tons
and tons. Yeah, it was just a wonderful. Yeah, it
(18:07):
was just a wonderful memorial. Now for some reason, I
cannot think of it. Oh, First Avenue, the club in
Purple Rain. The nightclub were kind of prints and that
Minneapolis sound started. Went there and that's where they had
kind of this big celebration, and that's where I snuck in.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
And who was performing was more Estay performing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Who was there?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was just a DJ. Yeah, it was a DJ.
Got up to the DJ booth all the things, and
yeah it was good to my god, Yeah, you know,
it was great.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're all a little obsessed with something, a little obsessed,
a lot of obsessed.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, So but that's okay. Whatever you're obsessed with.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's nice that you love something that much and you're
committed to it, and you know, sometimes you just gotta
do what you gotta do, still in a tea cup,
if it's flying across the country to pay respects, or
if it's hating on a new singer when they try
and take over your baby.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'm just kidding. It's all love.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Thank you so much, you guys for listening to our
obsession stories on this episode.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
You're my obsession.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
You're my obsession. Do you want me to be to
make you sleep with me?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
To make you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Okay? We're rewriting that animotion hit all right? Well, thank
you Kaarina of Alaskas too, and uh until next week.
I'm Martha Quinn, I'm.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Christy, I'm Karina Velaskas.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Miss You're ready,
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