EP#773: Bryan and Krissy want to bring back Skedaddling...which is really scatting. Anyway, no one cares! On this episode, the two friends discuss the crypto-bro kidnapping in NY that is very dramatic and quite entertaining. We review the plot lines, so far. Then, Bryan digs deep into his Googlebox to pull out the music industry's most interesting true stories. From Brittney and her snake to the Sweedish band that fakes its own funerals for promotion, it's a wild look at the whacky world of sound recording (some it may not be considered music. We're looking at you Lou Reed & Metallica!) TCB Clip: Light Language Back Again, to wreck it, fake it, let's begin! Watch EP #773 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits / TCBits Music: Written, Voiced and Produced by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Skedaddling and why should we bring it back?
Light language is a higher frequency language. We can just go into this state that we do and then it channels through. Let me switch. There.
On this episode of The Commercial Break.
But you go to, like, the super jazz heads. Like the, you know, hey, man. Hey, dude. You know, that crazy, yeah, like, what do they call that? Skedaddling. Skedaddling. Skat. Skat, that's right. Yeah. Yes. Skedaddling.
Skedaddling.
I think that's skedaddle.
Skedaddle out of here. Skedaddle out of here. Why don't we bring that word back? What happened to skedaddle? What a great word.
It is a great word.
Skedaddle. Next time I'm in a road rage incident, I'm going to be like, you skedaddle out of here.
It's all blue.
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Chapter 2: What happened with the crypto-bro kidnapping in New York?
Penis appearance. There's a pee-pee appearance. Pop its little head out of the hole. There you go. Turtle in its shell popped right out. So I want to talk about music because I we had a very interesting conversation with a guest that you'll hear next week, Ricky Lindholm. who is married to Fred Armisen, but a creator, an artist, a comedian, and a musician in her own right.
And she said something very interesting during that interview that led me down a big rabbit hole last night. And I'll preview the conversation. We were talking about Hall & Oates and that she had a relationship with Oates, like a friendly relationship with Oates. And she mentioned a story about how they got together, how Hall & Oates got together. I don't want to give it away yet.
That's right. I remember this.
Okay. So she said, but I don't know that this story is true. And the story sounded so outrageous that I was like, I've never heard that story about Hall & Oates. Is it or isn't it true? And I went and did some homework and I found out that it is in fact true. And I'll share the story with you just a little bit.
Okay.
But then I just started going down a rabbit hole on the internet of weird, wild musical stories. Like how people met or got together? How people met, crazy stories, people getting banned from countries for doing this or throwing things out hotel rooms. I went from the really popular stories we all know to the super niche stories that maybe some of us don't know.
Oh, I love it.
So let's talk about a bunch of them. Yeah. But first, I wanted to update you on a story that we talked about last week, which was the Italian Bitcoin investor who was supposedly kidnapped for three weeks.
In New York, right?
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Chapter 3: What are the wildest stories from the music industry?
And she, as I think she opened for Taylor Swift once or twice, if I'm not mistaken. She's young. Her voice is haunting. I want to play this song for you and I want you to tell me what you think. And I'm going to show you the video too. All right, here we go.
The dull people are not men. They are made of ice and glass. Our skin is clay and painted blue. Our head can detach. We are statues with a pulse. We are art you can forget. The doll people are quiet What is there to say? Art does not interpret itself There are men with a day to save We are paintings with legs We are art you can find
okay it goes on from there i don't want to play too much of it it's her copyrighted music holy shit first of all whatever that is i'm into it whatever that is i'm into it second of all i hope my daughters hear this song i mean honestly i hope my daughters hear this song That is a crazy interpretation of the world around her, and I love it. I think it's great.
I'm not going to try to be the guy who, you know, but I just think it's an intensely emotional and thrashing song. I love it.
I love everything about it. The video that goes with it, you know, she's got the green and her hair is in her face, and yeah.
It's haunting. Reminds me a lot of Tori Amos.
I was going to say the same thing.
Reminds me a lot of Tori Amos, who I went and saw live one time.
Maybe a little Lord mixed in, too.
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Chapter 4: How did Britney Spears perform with a live snake?
David Bowie's team had to negotiate with NASA to even allow the song's use. And for months afterwards, the clip vanished from YouTube until rights were cleared. I did not know that, but I know the clip. Let's see here. Wu-Tang once sold a copy of an album for $2 million to one person. His name was Idiot Pharma Bro. Remember that guy?
He's in jail now.
He's not in jail anymore.
Oh, he got out.
Yeah, he got out. Limp Bizkit played Woodstock 99 for $3. Oh. I did not know that.
I didn't either.
Woodstock 99 was already a powder keg. There was no water, the heat, angry crowds, topless women. Then Limp Bizkit played Break Stuff and encouraged the crowd to break stuff.
Yeah.
Riots broke out, people tore plywood from the stage, fires and looting began to happen. Fred Durst later said, we didn't know what was happening. Promoters blamed the band, the band blamed the crowd, the crowd blamed the port-a-potties. And we all remember it because it happened live on MTV.
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Chapter 5: What bizarre things happened at Woodstock '99?
In 1967... That's one way to celebrate your birthday.
Hey, listen, if I... If you can afford to drive a Rolls Royce into a pool, drive a Rolls Royce into a pool. You know what I'm saying? I can afford to drive one of those Flintstones cars.
Your kids. Yeah, my kids' Flintstone cars.
I threw that in the pool once. It was just for fun. Then I had to go get it.
I'm Keith Boone. I'm Keith Boone, bitches!
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Chapter 6: What led to Billy Joe Armstrong's outburst at iHeartRadio?
I'm making that video. That's coming up over the summer. I'll probably drown. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, I lost my place. Brian lost his place in line. In 1967, the Who's drummer, Keith Moon, celebrates his 21st birthday by throwing a party in Flint, Michigan, at a Holiday Inn.
The night included naked cake fights, a TV thrown out a window, and Moon, allegedly driving a Lincoln Continental, not a Rolls Royce as the legend would have it, into the hotel pool. He lost a tooth and was arrested in his underwear. The hotel banned the Who for life, and the Holiday Inn chain used the story as a cautionary tale. They would put it in like in hotels.
They would put like little flyers that said, you know, be respectful or whatever.
I'm sure that helped Holiday Inn.
Yeah. Holiday Inn is also where I put 27 pixie sticks into an air conditioner and turned it up. One band signed their contract in literal blood. Yes. In 2006, the band The Used, turned out well for them, decided signing a contract with a pen was just too boring. So they decided to use their own blood. They pricked their fingers and signed their Warner Brothers contract with their own blood.
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Chapter 7: What crazy thing did Keith Moon do on his birthday?
I'm surprised more haven't done that.
Yeah, honestly. Alice Cooper didn't do that first? Ozzy Osbourne? Somebody? Yeah. Let's see. I don't care about Elvis Presley. Frank Zappa was once pushed off stage by a fan and broke so many bones, he spent a year in a wheelchair.
I think I remember hearing that in one of my autobiography books of rockers.
Yeah, I imagine you would do that. You know, I also was in a band once where there was a fall from stage. Only it was Jose Cuervo that pushed me off the stage. And I was too broke to be in a wheelchair for a year. In 1971, during a show at the London's Rainbow Theatre, a fan rushed the stage, shoved Zappa into the orchestra pit, claiming he was jealous of Zappa's relationship with his girlfriend.
Zappa broke his leg, crushed his larynx, and suffered permanent damage to his voice. He spent a year in the wheelchair and had to relearn how to perform. His next album, The Grand Wazoo, was written during... It's recovered. Angry, weirder, and more complex than anything before. Well, you could never, angrier, weirder, and more complex is like, it's a high bar for Frank Zappa.
Yeah, the highest.
Yeah, Frank was a very interesting musician.
Very.
I like a few of his things. It was never like my super flavor. What I like is when Frank got together with other musicians and created good music.
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Chapter 8: What happened when The Used signed a contract in blood?
I was never like a huge solo Frank Zappa. However, Dweezil Zappa. Now, Dweezil, you named your kid Dweezil. I mean, honestly, Frank, you could have gone for Bob Zappa instead of Dweezil Zappa. Poor fucking kid. When Metallica and Lou Reed made a collab album so bad, it broke up the friendship. I didn't even remember this.
Yeah, I was about to say, I had no idea they did an album together.
In 2001, Metallica and Lou Reed made an experimental album called Lulu, which no one asked for and almost everybody disliked. Reed said it was the best thing anyone's ever done, while critics called it unlistenable. Like being yelled at by your dad after he drank too much red wine, said one fan.
lars later said some metallica fans sent death threats reed laughed and said they just don't get it it's now a cult classic of music gone completely off the rails i had no idea until i read that that they had done an album called lulu let's see if um lulu that's not the name of the album i would expect from either one of them no okay here's just a taste Yep, that's about enough of that.
All right. I love everything Lou Reed, but that was not, as a guy who loves everything Lou Reed and Velvet Underground, that was not anything that I was even aware of until I read that. Probably for good reason. Right.
There's a reason you didn't hear about it.
Now, here's one I do remember, but many people may not. Creed once played to an empty arena and then got sued for sucking so bad. In December of 2002, a show in Chicago, Creed was so bad that four fans filed a lawsuit claiming that the band couldn't sing, play, or even perform and that they were wasted beyond comprehension.
Lead singer Scott Stapp reportedly laid on stage for long stretches and forgot most of the lyrics. Yeah. The band later blamed a bad reaction to prescription medication.
Oh, blame it. It's a reaction.
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