4-23-25 - Paul Rappaport, music promoter talks about his new book.

4-23-25 - Paul Rappaport, music promoter talks about his new book.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome good Morning News Radio eight forty whas the Tony
and Dwight Hill brought you by the Kentucky Office of
Highway Safety. Our producer today is Rick Gus. Can only
do one day at a time, he set out, Yeah,
he is just one day.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I think he used your cheesecake analogy if you could
give that real quid.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, cheesecake is basically we have another friend that is
a little too much and he even calls himself cheesecake
because you take one bite and you're like, this is amazing,
Oh my god, it's so amazing. It's grad second bite
you're like, well it's a lot, it's a lot. Huh,
that's a lot. And then the third bike at cheese Skate,
You're like, Okay, you gotta go, you gotta go. I

(00:40):
will start the show with this. Dwight and I have
two friends that we have lost children in the last week.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I am fifty six years old. My kids are old
enough that you know, they get into situations and all that.
But I can't losing a parent is and Dwight and
I both have done that. Uh, and that's hard enough.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Actually, I found my mom. She was in the couch cushions.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh cool, But I can't imagine uh, losing the child,
especially an adult child. It's just I don't care what age.
I'm sorry, I'm not gonna I just wanted to say, Man,
call your kids and just I don't know what that's like.
But our thoughts and prayers go to Tammy and Mike

(01:29):
and Uh, it's just I don't know what to say
these situations. There is nothing and they don't expect it
either in those situations, right, Like what do you know,
anytime you go to a visitation or whatever, you're not
sure what to say.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But if it's somebody's child, it's it's a void that
never gets no. No, I think it's worse. It never
gets filled. Yeah, I mean, you're It's just it's not
natural and it's it's from what I understand, that's the
most painful death to the door.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
So our thought some prayers to Michael, Jammy and uh
in Uh in their situations, and I just wanted to
say that before you move on with the show. All right, So, uh,
we're gonna have Father Shane, my parish priest in today
to tell us what's gonna go on now with the
conclave in the Vatican.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's a beautiful day for next system.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
They do not talk about the exorcism when Shane is here,
Father Shane, are you gonna ask you? Are you gonna
ask him if if he would throw himself out of
a window, if a demon jumped into him?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
From Shane, would you ever take it in? A demon?
In three years?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Creeping me out right now?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Dude, what do they get? Like an old lady that mad,
bad smoking habit to do the voice? Right?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know. I don't know why that movie scares
me so much?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Like are you just.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Doing that voice? I'm like sitting in a bright studio.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And I'm like, no, stop doing that for because it's real.
It can happen, Like anytime you see like a robot monsters,
I just blow the thing up, right.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
But if it's a demon, yeah, if Jason is chasing
you just chopped off, right. But the demon, there's nothing
you can do. Then his mother starts to taking.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
How you doing, damn it? What you're doing? Damn it?
She's in there with this demon topic.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Please all right? So Father Shane's gonna come in at
ten o'clock to explain what's going to happen. The next
in which direction was you know?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
At at nine o'clock we have Paul Rappaport. He was
a Columbia Records promotion exhibit. This is nine and the
stories that this guy has got on, the things that
he has done. We've had him on before, No, we
haven't had him on.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, he's somebody similar.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
We've had somebody similar on, But this guy, I gotta
tell you, you could go days listen to his stories.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I guarantee, I'll give you.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
One real quick.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Behind the scene guys with multiple bands, you see it all.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
And he's doing promotions for him, so he's trying to
do anything. For example, Blue Oyster Call released in one
of their singles, he had all these bright lasers from
UH in Los Angeles, California as a big promotion for
the new Bloyster Call. Right, Well, people will further out
in California could see the lasers and wind up thinking

(04:28):
we were being invaded by aliens. Yeah, but I mean
that's just a dull story. Some of the stories he
has with these bands is unreal.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Uh. So we'll have that and then we have a
good story about a trained museum that's in Louisville that
has a bunch.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Of Jaytown, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think? So we're gonna talk to them, you.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Know, just just for blanks and giggles. The other night
I got on Amazon, I looked up train sets.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Things are expensive, man, You mean new ones? Are the
ones that we used to have?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
When have the seventies eighties?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh? I guarantee it would have kept mine?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well I should have kept I do them all away?
But who swear to you?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
A couple of years ago I had a box of them.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Who's the kid that got all their Star Wars Action figures?
And went, I'm never taking us out of the.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Box, the smart rich one.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now, well no, but who if you give a kid
a toy, you got play with it. Yeah, you gotta
take it in the bath up with you and make
it scuba dozed.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, it's gonna come different in that cave, storm tripper,
what are you doing? See we had that cave. See
we didn't know it, but we were gender fluid back then.
Barie's now a boy. We've shaved his head. Yeah, don't
stay by Barbie's head.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hey, why is hes a Barbie built alike?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
That's not what I look like down there? All right?
So I need you to control yourself right now.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't know if I, oh, come on, don't do.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I just I have to mention it. It's the lead, okay,
so you have to control your is you denile emotions?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Two of the worst topics you could ever bring.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Leave the room and I'll tell you. I'll wave too
you and you come back in.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Do you want to say that T mobile is the
official self part of both of these entities?

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I love T mobile?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, all right, so.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Anytime. Then it takes a minute to describe what's going on,
and afterwards you still don't quite understand. It's probably a grift.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's by design.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Jeffy County Public Schools wasn't aware of a proposal. I'm
reading from Marcus Green at WDRB dot com. Marcus did
a pretty good job of trying to navigate how confusing
this entire thing is, because people are like, how does
Churchill downs get out of paying property tax? They out
of property tax, because that's everybody. It's heck, it's the
story of Yellowstone. And you can't get away. You can't

(06:51):
get around, they can't. They just say this real quick.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
They need that tax break because there's only so much
you can do when you have a monopoly on gambling
for an entire state. So, uh, there's only so far
that those trillions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Until this story came around. I kind of understand it
now because I was always like, how do you get
around public? Uh? What? So the city it's a pretend
relationship where the city owns the land and they and
they lease it to Churchill Downs and a fun, make
believe world where they don't have to pay and then
and in turn don't have to pay JCPS.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Hey, I've been hearing a PVA commercial on the radio station. Yeah,
I wonder if i'd call a PVA lady and go,
you know what, Yeah, on my property taxes? Pretend the
city owns it.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Metro Council's Budget Committee is on top of this, sponsored
by council members Kevin Kramer, Republican eleventh district and Marcus Winkler,
Democrat seventeenth district. What does that tell you when the
Dems and Republicans are in cahots together, Churchill's is paying
them all. I'm kidding. So Churchill Downs is doing a

(08:00):
billion dollars worth of upgrades. That is something to applaud.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
How on earth can they afford it.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
A billion dollars of upgrades. Look, any company comes in here,
we know Churchill nouns is the Golden Child, and they
get what they want. We get it. But the billion
dollar planned upgrades is significant. I mean it is making Look,
there's not a lot of I think Craig Greenberg's doing
a great job. Not a lot of positive stuff going
on in Louisville. You've got major corporations leaving. Do you not?

(08:31):
Humana gone, Kentucky Fried Chicken? Yeah, gone that, Papa John's gone,
Kentucky Fried Chicken gone with Kentucky. Yes, when there's no
Kentucky in the Fried Chicken we lost.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Welcome to Louisville Pie Kitchen. Yeah, we're you located. We're
on a Tucson, Arizona.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
So at least we've got something that they're building and
it is it's the taiz mahall of.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, shouldn't you get one to the other. Shouldn't you
either get a tax break and not have a monopoly
on gaming for an entire state, or should you have
a monopoly on gaining for the entire state and pay
your fair share and tax?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I agree, I agree, But they but all major corporations.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I get taxing for those tax breaks, but I don't
get Okay, you know what, you're just free and clear.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'm not now so j CPS. They're like, hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, don't worry. Well JCP, don't worry. Just raise our
property taxes. You haven't done that in a week or two.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's not that much. It's it's not JCPS is only
received I'm sorry. Well, if jc nine point three million
since two thousand and five, they only got nine million
dollars since two thousand and five. Jcps's bus budget is
two billion dollars a year. This is like a lunch
for them.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well, I can tell you this if JCPS, if you're listening,
if you're worried about this, I can help you find
the missing money. And it cuts over at Van Hoos
because there's a lot of wide rear ends over there.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I think you're controlling your emotions pretty well.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sick here you have you know what I say, fat asses,
I said, That's why I asked why I'm pointing it out.
I'm growing you are the journalist.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, in the vein in the side of your neck.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's not that's there. I can feel it though.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, it's not as big all right. So yes, Church
UDN continues to do billion dollar improvements every single year.
But I think there's to Dwight's point, there is a
happy medium here to where we're like, Okay, you got
to start paying something.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Especially if you have a monopoly on gaming for an
entire state.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's true. Uh so we should probably talk to somebody
on Metro Council that wants to come on and explain.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well, as luck, what have it, join us Friday with
Countsman Anthony Pagentine.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Anthony's coming on. I love it, okay, Uh you know
you can bet on anything, yes, including who's going to
be the next Pope.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think I I released a rumor yesterday. Yeah, and
it's gaining momentum. Okay, this Pope Cindy thing, I think
it's gonna happen already. I'm just saying my sources tell
me that the next Pope is going to be Pope
Cindy already.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I do love the memes of jd Vance, the memes
of jd Vance rap because I'm not I'm just saying
jd Vance visited him two days before he died. I'm die.
You know, all you have to do is kiss his
wing with your ms Tuksin's will take forty eight rights.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Cia hit Hey, Pope, can I wear your funny hat
for a second.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Let's stop disrespectful.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
He is really going out of his way to do
the regular guy funeral. He is in Rome right now,
literally in a wooden box. They're not doing anything fancy.
He's in a wooden box and there are people waiting
twelve hours, fourteen hours just to walk by him for
a couple of seconds.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
And he again is going very simple with his headstone.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
He's heard that that's what he wanted.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
He didn't want to be any any fancy he is. Yeah,
he wants to be in he Jason Squirrel, Yeah, Carl
Casper's Custom Moto Show, I don't even know. Let's let's
talk about where this segue is going. You may be
the greatest radio personality of all time if you can
go from the popes.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay, well, here we go, here we go.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Carl Casper's Custom Modo Show is probably the biggest thing
between all of us three in the seventies and eighties.
Can we agree on that biggest yeah, it's a big deal. Man.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
It was a big war.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It was a big, big deal. So so riddle me this. Okay,
the great Carl Casper, who's still alive, and I get
it on this show he always had the batmobile. The
generally a team he has Star Wars characters. Why did
he ever have the Pope mobile? We had been something you.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Get your pulpomobile did not come around until the eighties.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
It was the eighties that was.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The height of the Callcaster Cus Tomato show.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, let me see when the Popo bill was made?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, remember it was a glass just a glass box
in the back of a truck. Remember that the first
popemobile was just a glass box in the back of
a truck.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Okay, when was the popemobile? And he was?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
It was after I can't remember which pope got shot.
It was one of the popes got shot at or
shot and they said, all right, we got to put
him in a glass box when he's in public. But
that in the nineties, no, because I remember I was
John Paul the second? Was it John Paul the second
that got shot and he had to put him in
a glass box?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
See, I was sick that day and I stayed home
from school, and I was all excited to watch Sanford
and Son and whatnot, and then it was nothing but
news coverage. That's how I remember I was.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I may or may not have been thrown out of
theology class for making a break glass in case of
oh my god, joke might.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Have The first popemobile was in nineteen thirty, provided by
Mercedes Benz.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
There's no way they called it the Pope Mobile.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's what it says. That's what it says. Jeez, hang on.
It was the first.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
We landed a new contract. Yes, what what building a
new car for who? For? Who? The Pope? What? What
are we gonna call it?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Popemobile? All right, Jim, I'll get more on this. If
it's a stupid idea, it's on you, Jim, all right,
I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I wonder they should have ran with it and said,
you know, the Maine is available for the public, right.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
The popemobile?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Have I have to look into that. Want to kind
of gas mileage of popmobile?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
It doesn't matter, save John says, powered by love. It
was by God's love.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Pope John Paul the second I was right, yeah, thank.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
You, And as we all know, I was paying attention.
Maybe one or two.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
D's not with John Paul Jones.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
No, very very different.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Different on one place for led Zeppelin. The old one
has a cool hat.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
He was he was probably one of the more popular
popes of all time. Well, we got to get a
pope that's under seventy.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
I think Pope Cindy's in her fifties.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Stop with the Pope Cindy. I don't even know what
you're talking about. Like, I don't even get the joke.
I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's that's the leading.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's not the one.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm looking at it right here from the Vatican website.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That's not true.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's in Latin. But I'm pretty sure that says Pope
Cindy is, aren't.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
They say we got to ask Father Shane because he's
been there the Vatican. Maybe they say the basement with
the archives. Yeah, he's got some crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
He's been there.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I don't know, man, I don't know even know who's
allowed to go in that place, but they got it all.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
If anybody could, Father Shane could pull it off. They're
allowing to have wear wolves and all kinds of stuff
down there in that Vatican basement, like.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Really valuable and historic? Where did I put that?

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Here's hey, you want to see Christopher Columbus. What do
you mean? We've got Christopher Columbus. We got him down here.
You want to sellie with him? You want to sell
me with Christopher Columbus? Hey, move is a sculld mouth
and make him talk?

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Because they portrayed in the movies. At least the library
part of part of it as to be this sealed air,
sealed you know room that is controlled temperature and oxygen
and all that stuff. So but then there is all
these archives of just items throughout the last two thousand

(16:54):
years or seventeen hundred years, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
I gotta get a straight answer on the popemobile. I'll
do this. I'll have it for you your news tonight eleven.
Thank you the popemobile.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
All right, So let's get to the joke Djore.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
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(17:34):
looked up a pope joke just to kind of go
with it. But we'll go with it. We'll go with
a pirate instead. Okay, it starts with pay pirate joke
come in basically the same thing.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, Rick, you ready for this?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I'm ready all right, Hey fellas, where do pirates get
their hooks?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
I don't know what the pirates get their hooks?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Twy second hand stores, second hand stores.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, if i'd have gone, if I'd have gone to
vision first, out of seen how stupid that joke was
coming down there on that much. Vision First, I care
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(18:25):
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(18:48):
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Speaker 2 (18:54):
Hey, Tony, what's the riskiest part about having a conversation
with Greg? Get your I don't know, tripping over the
names he drops as you walk by. Well, you say
that he just sent me a picture. Here he is
guarding the Pope. That's Pope John Paul the second.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh my, now I'm jelly. But look closely, Look how
young get your looks? Look closely.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
His fly is undone. It is somebody get a hold
of that guy.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's a violation.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think the violation. He probably did it on purpose,
just to run.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
The picture back after this. News Radio eight forty w
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Speaker 2 (19:28):
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(20:52):
at the top of the hour we have Wednesday's Hero
and the straight into Father Shane to talk about the
new Pope. What can we expect? It's all on the way. Hey,
he's ready to wait forty whas.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Greg Getcher is like Forrest Gump. He's a sneaking deacon
that comes on our show all the time. He had
this last golf championship, PGA Championship. He was the head
of all security. He was a secret service for Ronald Reagan.
We talk about the pope and he sends us pictures

(21:22):
of maybe the most significant pope in my lifetime was
John Paul. The second he's standing with him, hanging out
with him, and.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Then he sends his pictures of him with the popemobile. Yeah.
And then he sends another picture of him doing a
sermon within the Vatican. I know, within the Vatican. It says, oh,
you guys should go sometime. It's really beautiful.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
So he's with the he's with one of the more
significant popes ever, and then he's actually at the altar
at Yeah, in the Vatican. I don't trust get your
I don't think he's this. He might be a time traveler.
I don't trust him at this point. How could you no?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
If he if you have your picture but with that
many people.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Because you look like it's like the movie you're watching,
whether it's starting to look at different time frames and
pictures of different times and they're like this one guy
in the background, and you're like.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
How is he right?

Speaker 1 (22:15):
How is he looked the same, And he's in all
of these significant events?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
And have you noticed that in every one of these pictures? Greg,
get your's flies undone?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
So I don't know if that's like a signature, like
a calling car. Is that like a signature? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
No, no, no, no no, that is a signal that special
forces signal for is that area lockdown?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh? Secret service?

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, secret service area lockdown.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
So you gotta look for the main Secret Service guy.
If his flies down, it is locked down.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
You well, we.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Probably shouldn't have you should probably should have gave that secret.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Starting to think that that should be a signal. It
should be under distress, right if you're if you're if
your zippers down, Oh the.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Chicken's got a zipper down?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
What?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh my gosh, swarm, swarmp swarm Wait not.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Uh, I think the interesting thing and I don't know.
I guess get your can again. We love Greg. He's
a value to our communities. I think, I think, I
think might be, but I I liked it. They all
have nicknames for the presidents and the vice president for
whenever they're moving, So they go so and so's moving

(23:26):
like you're moving from one place to the next. And
some of them are not flattering.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well, I wonder if Reagan's was the jelly Bean, because
he I.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Don't know what the code name was for him, but
they all had code names from Secret Service. Was what
the kitcher doesn't get one gets one bucklehead?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, but secret Service. They probably have their call signs too,
probably like you know, you can't say here, this grig
gets you. You got to say this is fire Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well like my buddy, Like my buddy the other day,
Colonel Tremble his his he was Bluegrass six.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah I was Bluegrass seven, So I was I was
one better than your buddy. Just so you know.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh, we were waiting on some rock and rolls if
I can, okay, So if he's not on the phone,
we're gonna go on with Lori Daybell. Do you know
who that is?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
That's old Man Bell's daughter.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Probably not glassy Broad. No, she's not class, he's not.
She's called the Doomsday mom her.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Is she heavy?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
No?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Is she hot?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
No? Anytime these stories and it only has legs because
the lady's hot. But she's a psychopath. Like if you
think your wife is annoying, this one will kill you.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Well, how hot, because there's a risk reward there. If
she's hot enough, it might be worth it.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, I don't think so, Oh, here we go. We'll
do the story a little later about the Doomsday Mom.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Hey, Paul, how you doing to be on? I was
just listening to you guys.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I am definitely on morning radio.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
I wanted to bring in. I wanted to bring in
with the Rolling Stones under assistant West Coast Promotions man.
And here we are right here. But oh great, but
never mind on that one though. Let's get right to it, Paul.
This book of yours is absolutely incredible. Your life is incredible.
What we're talking about is gliders over Hollywood, airships, airplay
in the art of rock promotion. And I got to

(25:24):
tell you, Paul, one of my favorite Rolling Stones records
not my favorite, but one of my in the top
five is Rolling Stones Steel Wheels. Absolutely love that record.
But now I'm starting to question myself, do I really
love the record or did Paul Rappaport make me think
the record? You listen, man, you got some kind of

(25:45):
a formula. You're a genius. You make the Rolling Stones
Steel Wheels every single go to number one, and by
the way, you lock it down for like three months
or something, and the rest of the radio and records
community they try to get you fired. What's what's a
story behind that? Man?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah? I love the Rolling Stones. You know, this kind
of music has been inside me since I was a
kid seventeen years old, and I learned how to play guitar.
Listen into the first two Rolling Stones records listening to
Keith and so that band means a lot to me.
And so when Steel Wheels came along, I knew I
wanted to do something special for those guys because I just,

(26:23):
I just you know, I wanted to be in that
gang my whole life, and they invited me into, you know,
to be a part.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Of their whole thing. So I knew how to.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
You know, work the charts because It all has to
do with the amount of spins and airplay and I
and I like doing things that are historical that have
never been done before. And they were about to make
history with the Steel Wheels Tour, and so I wanted
to make history for them on rock radio. So I
knew that I could get every single to number one,

(26:55):
but I wanted to do something that no one had
ever done. I wanted to debut each one of their
singles at number one.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
And so you read about in the book.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know, I won't go into it how I did it,
but you know it was a timing issue. So I
would wait for the proper time, and then they would
take whatever, you know, mixed emotions out and then you know,
the next single rock in a hard place, they'd replace
it in that spot, and that debut at number one,
and then the ball that almost hear you saw I
did the same thing, and you read about it, and

(27:28):
and so it debuted number one. So in my mind
it was, you know, these guys are pirates, and now
I'm a pirate with them. And you know, our our
flag isn't the skull and crossbones. Our flag is the
tongue and lips, a log of yes, and in my
mind it was all Rolling Stones all the time.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
That's what that was. That was my plan.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
So yeah, so they were at number one for three months.
The only problem is if if that happens and you
are anybody else in the business, and of course we're
talking rock, so you're talking Fourigner Fleetwood Mac you know,
by jove, he's easy talk. Nobody could become number one,
and everybody wants to get to Mecca. Everybody wants to
have a number one album. But I had locked that

(28:08):
out for three months, and I was getting caught. It
was blistering. There were record company presidents calling my president, going,
look enough enough, this is a.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Stunt you got.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
We can't you can't.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
You can't hog number one for three months. Nobody can
be number one except the Rolling Stones.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
So you know, the Stones loved it. I loved it.
I mean, Keith loved it.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean you know, but but uh, you know what
it was them they honestly guys, you know, I didn't
want to hurt anybody else, but but they deserved it.
They are the Rolling Stones and they deserved it. So
I did it.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, you certainly the best at what you're doing, by
the way we're talking with Paul Rappaport. You gotta get
this new book, Glider's Over Hollywood, Airship's Airplay in the
Art of Rock Promotion. And I mean, I'm not just
saying this, truly, you were and are the best of
the best when it comes down to this. But I
want to talk about the beginning because in the beginning,
you're a u CoA, you get a job in a

(29:00):
record company. But then you say, you know what, this
is so fake the entire industry, these scenes, it's just bogus.
I went out, but then Tony Bennett talks you into staying.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
I think that's wild.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
It was.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
It was, you know, it was one of those magic
moments in your life that's sort of meant to happen.
I had come from the sixties generation, which is pretty authentic.
You know of a lot of us who are trying
to make the world different and trying to be more authentic.
And the business does have a side to it that

(29:34):
is duplicitous. At that time, you know, we're getting out
of the you know, you're in the sixties. But a
lot of these people were from the nineteen fifties, from
the sort of the Hey Babe Era and I had
gone to a party and I, you know, a lot
of people were there partying around, and I went, Jesus,
is like a big Hollywood party. And I don't even
know it was for Tony, it was for a new album.

(29:55):
And I said, I don't even know if these people
have heard the record. They just seem to be here
for the party. And I was just very disenchanted with
this part of the business. And uh, and I so
I stayed and I'm very young man, and and and
I you know, I don't have much of a filter
when I'm talking. And I said, look, mister Ben, I like,
I got to talk to you. I guess you know,

(30:18):
I'm just new to the business. I love music, but
it's so much of it just seems just just blowny,
Like these people are here, that they're eating your food,
that you know, they're drinking your booze. I don't even
know if half of them heard your new album, which
is fantastic. It just seems like they were here for
the party, you know. And I was flustered. He could
see it, and he looked down, and uh, you know,

(30:39):
I thought he was gonna talk to me. And like
Tony Bennett sort of you know, you know, parable you know,
sort of whatever to speak and he goes, you know, Paul,
he goes, sometimes it can be pretty eft up uh
And I went, oh uh, and you know, and he was.
She turned out to be the one of the coolest
guys I've ever met in my life, right, Tony Bennett.

(31:02):
And he said, listen, Yes, the business you know has
that part of it, he says, And you read about
it in the book. You know, he tells a story
about talking to Duke Ellington and Duke giving him advice,
and then he gives me the He gives me the
same advice that Duke gave him. Wow, right, Paul, don't
try to be different. You know, you can be you.
He said that you seem like you're a really good guy.

(31:24):
I can tell you love music. That's the most important
thing in this business. You can do it your way.
You can be you. You don't have to be duplicitous,
you don't have to buy slippery or any of this
kind of stuff. And as you read, you know it's
something that Duke Ellington had told Tony because Tony was
having some troubles and trying to reimagine how he would
be in this era of new kinds of music and

(31:45):
this advice you're talking about Tony Bennet mean, this guy's
you know, been around the block three times and back.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
And it was just a very heavy, beautiful moment for
me because when I left that night, you know, around
one am from that whole tell my whole life changed.
I was like, Wow, this guy's so cool. He's saying no, no, no,
I can do this. And then from then on it
was just like, Okay, I'm just going to do it

(32:11):
my way. And I did, you know, and as you read,
you know.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
You did a damn good job. Listen, I know you
got to go. But two things. First. Number one, I
just want to say thank you. I got I got
one of this book, started digging into it. It was terrific.
I reached out. You were gracious enough to come on
the show. Thank you. Listen. If you like rock, every
single rock act you can imagine is in this book.
But I want to end up with a quote you

(32:38):
were talking about behind the scenes with Bob Dylan. You
quoted him we would take people back to meet him
or whatnot, and he said, the problem is Bob Dylan
says The problem is when people meet me, they think
they're meeting the lyrics. I know the songs are heavy
that I wrote, but those are the songs and I'm
Me and if you want the rest of the story,

(32:59):
grab book, but listen. Paul Rappaport truly the best of
the best when it comes to promotions, with rock and roll,
with radio, anything you can imagine. The new book is uh,
Gliders Over Hollywood, Airships, Airplay, and the Art of Rock Promotion. Hey, Paul,
thank you so much for the time. Man. I can't
thank you enough for coming on. I really appreciate you
guys for having me. Thanks. Thanks, Paul, I have a

(33:20):
great day of me go there you go.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
What jumps out of me is most of the time,
when you meet just celebrities that you like, they turn
out to be the ones you don't like, the ones
that you don't like, that's exactly the ones you end
up loving.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's exactly like.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't know why, because that's that's how the world
treats people as in their image and everything else. The
ones you think are the sweethearts and the awesome and
inspiring are the usually the jerks. And the ones that
you think are jerks or you're like, that's actually was
the most normal person in the room.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
And sometimes okay, sometimes the smaller the band, the more attitude. Yeah,
but I gotta tell you the story in this books, right,
it's absolutely incredible.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
A little band called Magnificent Bastards were they were they
thought they were the best.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well they were the best. And by the way, it
was Dwight Witten and the Magnificent and Bastards.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
I'm not sure that ever made it on a T shirt.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
You see the Magnificent Bastards are on a T shirt?
Are they from a big concert we played on May
twenty seventh whatever year?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
So sad?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Is it sad?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
It really is?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Well, maybe I should go to bargain Supply and get
a new kitchen.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yes, that's what I did. Bargain Supply. We met with
remodelers yesterday and we just give the model numbers to
all of this stuff that bargain Supply because they handled
it all over forests and send it to the carpenter
and the carpenter will build out these stuff around our
new our new appliances. But we just we we went
all out. Man, I'm getting the stove and I want
that was the only thing I really wanted in this

(34:53):
whole remodel, and I got and she got the other one.
So here's the deal. Barget Supply. Every apply in my
house anyway was Bargains Supply, like both Washington dryers one
time over and then the refrigerators. Everything was all Bargain Supply.
We've been going there for fifteen years. So check about.
They are located down in the New lou area on

(35:14):
parking Lot. They're the best. When you walk in, say
hi to the ladies at the front desk. They're the
same ones. Then when they walk in they always go, ah,
have fun, ask if you got any questions. That's exactly
how they sound. So go to Bargain Supply right now.
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