Apologies to those who missed the beginning of today’s show; we decided to go early by 15 minutes.
Thank you for joining this fun Friday hangout! Jex and I both had stacks of CDs to show off, as well an an 8-track tape, a “gas station cassette”, and some vinyl. Recent arrivals, gifts and thrift finds were on hand today.
Additionally, we offered our opinions of the current goings-on with P. Diddy aka Puff Daddy. This discussion came by request of my mother. Jex and I avoid details but have some thoughts on a couple Diddy-related movies we enjoyed.
If you watch from the beginning of the show, you will see me land my drone live on the LakeCam. Yes that’s right – LakeCam was back on Grab A Stack of Rock with more wildlife sightings than ever before!
Thanks for watching! See you next week at 7:00 PM for Spinal Tap with Marco D’Auria and the Meat Man.
GRAB A STACK OF ROCK With Mike and the Mad Metal Man Episode 71: The Last Hurrah – One More Cottage Afternoon Show of 2024 with Jex Russell
UPDATED – WE ARE GOING LIVE EARLY – 3:45 est / 4:45 atlantic
It is fall! The summer 2024 season of Grab A Stack of Rock rolls to a conclusion.
If all goes well, Jex and I will ring out cottage season just as we rang it in: With an afternoon episode of Grab A Stack of Rock! There has been a lot (a lot!) going on with both of us lately, so this will not be a big list show or a gigantic show-and-tell. This is just your chance to come and chill with Jex and I on a Friday afternoon at the cottage. We do have CDs, and I have some vinyl to show off. An unboxing, some new music, and some conversation starters!
As always, the comments will be on, and we will be chatting with you, live. The plan is for a relaxing atmosphere to end the week, and plenty of musical talk. Maybe even some current events…
Join us live to take part; if not you can check it out on YouTube or Facebook after the fact!
Here’s to an awesome 2024 cottage season, as short as it felt. Thanks Jex for making this happen two years in a row. Fear not; we have lots of fall rock action in store, and a winter season to come!
Friday September 20 at 4:00 P.M. E.S.T. / 5:00 P.M. Atlantic. Enjoy onYouTube or on Facebook!
And the award for most embarrassing goes to…Puff Daddy!
The year: 1998
The place: My store
The guilty party: Me
Remember that shitty 1998 movie, Godzilla? It’s OK if you didn’t. There are movie executives and Matthew Brodericks worldwide that want to forget it, too.
The soundtrack was OK though. “A320” is a non-album Foo Fighters track, and one of the first to feature Taylor Hawkins on drums. “No Shelter” is a rare Rage Against The Machine track. Ben Folds Five and Green Day contributed. I’m sure most of these bands would rather forget the movie itself.
The lead single, though, was a song called “Come With Me”, by Puff Daddy. You may remember this one, a remake of “Kashmir” but with ol’ Puffy himself providing new, enlightened lyrics.
You said to trust you, you’d never hurt me Now, I’m disgusted, since then adjusted Certainly, you fooled me, ridiculed me Left me hangin’, now shit’s boomerangin’
Anyway. The song features Jimmy Page and Tom Morello too, which is really too bad, because that put it in my obsessive-compulsive collector’s sights.
Then I saw the CD single come in
Track list:
Album version
Morello Mix (cool, right? basically, more guitar squonk)
Radio album version (?)
Live version (???)
Live version? Yeah. Although I’m sad to say that Jimmy Page performed live with Puffy more than once, this one is from Saturday Night Live. I don’t know who the drummer was, but he ain’t no Bonham (John or Jason), that much is clear. Jimmy Page does play on it, but I really hate when mid-song, Puffy proclaims, “I think I wanna dance!”
I don’t remember what I paid for this single, probably $3 with my discount. Forgivable? I hope you think so. But I have a lot of ‘splaining to do any time somebody sees it in my collection.
Then another different single showed up! It has two more tracks:
Extended radio edit
Radio versi0n II
Don’t ask me the difference except the swear words are replaced by Godzilla roaring on the radio versions. I ended up getting this one for free. I turned down the guy who was selling it, because it did look like a cheap promo (no booklet, for example, and the crappy track list), but he left it behind. And that’s how I ended up with two copies of a Puff Daddy single.
I like my CD collection to be displayed for all to see. I’m (mostly) proud of it. I ain’t so proud of this, even with the presence of Page and Morello. It’s always hard to explain and justify to guests, who never fail to notice it.
Therefore, the award for most embarrassing CD of all time goes to ME, for “Come With Me”, by Puff Daddy, not one version but two!
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