Chapter 1: What challenges does John Tesh face after a losing fantasy week?
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Chapter 2: How does John Tesh's new album 'Sports' differ from his previous work?
And then when all the excitement happened with Round Ball Rock, I just said, you know, that's what I love most to write is sports music. And so I got back in the studio, wrote a bunch of songs, worked with my friend Timothy Hines, who's another great composer. The Shredded version, all of that is really from Andrew Sinowik. He's this kid who is really Hendrix reborn. We just got in there.
None of this could be produced by AI. A lot of people talk about, oh, music, we can make music with AI. It's all live musicians. Just a great drummer, Tim Landers, the great bass player who's also played with Jethro Tull.
And so when you listen to the record, there's a lot of stuff that comes back to my, that quotes a lot of my favorites, which is, you know, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Rush, you know, all of that stuff. This is not an album that you can relax to. This is an album that you guys can pick up your guitars and play to.
We're going to get both versions, but the NBA returns to NBC after it's exactly 8,532 days. It's a doubleheader, Rockets at Thunder and Warriors at Lakers. Are you going to be playing Round Ball Rock live anywhere during this unleashing?
Oh, yeah. Yes, we are. We'll be on the Today Show on October 21st, the day that the theme comes back. I would love to play the game. We haven't worked that out yet, but that would be a lot of fun.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of 'Round Ball Rock' in sports culture?
Well, Billy will put in a call. We need to do that for John.
Awesome.
I got plugs at the NBA. As you can see, I'm wearing my Billy Eilish NBA collection here. Complex, they sent me this. So I'll make a call to Complex, the NBA, or Mickey Harrison across the street. We'll get you on that court, John.
Don't you worry. That's cool. I don't have the OG version loaded up here, but I have the shredded version, which I know you guys love.
All right, let's do that. We're going to do it.
Bye.
But I have to tell you, too, if you have a second, when I heard the theme was coming back, remember, we talked about this, and I said, hey, I want to freshen it up, right, do that thing? So we went to Nashville to where this great recording studio, Ocean Way, with a full orchestra, and we did the orchestral version of the song, mixed it all up, and then we put it on Instagram and everything.
And people were like, nope, no, we want the OG version. So the version you're gonna hear come back on October 21st is actually the demo that was done in 1989. I mean, you know the whole story where I did it on the answering machine. Not that, not . But the first version that we did. Basketball, that's what we were doing.
For those who don't remember the original story, you were in Europe, I think, right? And you called your own answering machine?
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Chapter 4: How does John Tesh create music that resonates with sports fans?
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John, do you miss organs at sporting events? I don't know what happened. They just kind of disappeared slowly. Are they not around anymore? I didn't even know that.
No, some of them, it's just like pre-recorded things. It got rid of the organist. Now we have races in between games.
Yankee Stadium doesn't have an organist anymore? They canceled all of that? I feel like they still do that there. Do you have a matchup that comes to mind when you hear round ball rock playing, John?
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Chapter 5: What insights does John Tesh share about his creative process?
But no, because, I mean, those guys, they were dressed exactly like me, had the same vest that I had at Avalon when it was recorded, and also same hairdo, you know, all of it. And even Sudeikis was doing my voice, you know. Here's a solo I wrote on my answering machine back then. So no, it was great.
I want to play... What the video just showed there, which is Tony and Lewis rocking out to the last time John Tesh was on with us. I don't know. Does this have an audio accompaniment or should we just play this while John Tesh? All right, let's just run that while John Tesh does his version. We're going to do the shredded version here that is on sports.
And I just wanted to get an answer to my question. Is there a second place song on this album that is your favorite next to the shredded round ball rock version?
Yeah, I would say the one that I was doing, you know, legendary, you know, legendary. That thing, you know, which when it's fully formed, it sounds like this, you know. Okay, get ready. Key change.
Right? So big. So wonderful.
Abrupt ending. Is that how it goes on the track? Sorry. No, no. Damn it, man.
I'm a producer.
You should fade that puppy down. I wasn't sure how much time you had.
We were... we were getting moved we were starting to physically move with you but now is the time let's let's break out uh what nbc is going to break out again uh this is the shredded version it is one of two versions i'm going to say it's the best version because it's our version the one that he shared with us so john tesh what an honor to have you do this for us oh thank you
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Chapter 6: How does John Tesh feel about being recognized for his music versus his TV career?
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Chapter 7: What are the highlights of Tony's Top 5 segment?
We were doing top five football observations. That's your OLI. Number five.
No, that's fine, but that's my OLI. Number five. Honestly, are there any good teams in the NFL?
No.
Just asking. Are there any good teams? I feel like there's no... I feel like everybody's back. Especially after the Bills' performance yesterday. Where have you been? We thought the Bills were good. What do you mean, where have I been?
Billy doesn't like your first one. He made a face of great disgust.
We did this with DeAndre Rossini half an hour ago. My bad. I've been here for two hours waiting, so maybe I didn't hear that part.
I told you he was pissed off. I told you. He pretended like he wasn't. I told you he was pissed off.
Two hours doing nothing. You could step into the studio and help out a little bit. Gerbert doesn't have to come in on his day off. You know what I mean? Hanging out in a hot tub all day. I got to stand on my mark. This is actually the first time I jump into the hot tub, by the way. I've been outside of it waiting. Number four. At this point, I just feel bad for Kyle Shanahan.
Yeah, I'm with him on this. Rossini did that one, too. What else can he do? Did Diana Rossini talk about that, too? Billy, did you feel bad about Kyle Shanahan earlier?
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Chapter 8: What memorable moments does John Tesh recount from his career?
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Okay. Get me out of this. Thank you, Tony. I appreciate it. We appreciate it. The two plays from last night's game I wanted to talk about because I don't know what to do with that Chicago-Washington game, although Washington would have won it if they could have just executed a handoff. Like that part.
The margins in these games are so absurd because Washington's an eh today on they're a good team, right? Washington, you're going to do the eh on they're a good team, and it's because they couldn't execute a handoff in that game and then allowed Chicago a field goal position at the end of the game when all Chicago could do in that game was score with field goals.
Scary Terry's a big part of their offense. Debo came into that game hurt, but Debo's also entered games hurt for five years.
You say came into games hurt. Man, we can't do the measurements on any of these people halfway through the season. You've seen the quality of football drop. Like, it's dropped because you're seeing a bunch of backups everywhere.
Now, maybe not in Tampa, where somehow they keep doing it, but San Francisco's a lesser team and available to be slaughtered like that by Tampa because that's not a recognizable 49ers team. That is not the 49ers team that got to a Super Bowl with Garoppolo. That is not the 49ers team that can do anything with any quarterback when you can't sustain that many injuries and be a
The backup quarterback's injured. Very injured. Visibly injured. The funny thing about this season, as Jennings gets hurt seemingly every play, as Kittle's out, as Bosa's out, as now Fred Warner is out, is Christian McCaffrey's going to get north of 400 touches on offense this year.
I cannot imagine how all of those 49ers feel physically or who feels worse when that game is running through them as if you're throwing them in the wood chipper in Fargo. Like, it's just running through their bodies. But the game I wanted to talk about because... Juju told us before anybody, hey, my bills are a fraud. They haven't beaten anybody.
The teams they've beaten at the 4-0 against are a combined 3-21. And they barely won that one against Baltimore.
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