The Inkular Experience
The Inkular Experience
The Inkular Experience: True Stories About Music & Mischief - Episode One
The Inkular Experience: True Stories About Music & Mischief Podcast # 1 is an introduction to my world and the early musical influences that turned me on the power of music. Listen for "The Word of the Day" for a chance to win a special prize and I discuss the "Record of the Day", Led Zeppelin's self titled debut, "Led Zeppelin".
Hey now, Hey now and welcome to the painkiller experience. True stories of music mischief and much more. Well, it's episode one. It's 1111 it's better than stay and it's Monday for Christ's sake. So there's all sorts of stuff going on. So Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a fun ride. We'll be right back. Once again, welcome to the incubator experience podcast. On today's episode, we're going to have, what's that word, the big story and the record of the day. Now get ready for the big story.
Speaker 2:Before we jump into the big story, I believe I need to give a little bit of a formal introduction about who I am and why I'm doing this podcast. My name's David and I'm a big music fan and I've been a big music head since I was a young kid, so I thought I'd do a podcast about music and some of the other things that go along with my life, such as mischief and poor judgment and all the other things that create fun stories. My real introduction to music was my grandparents' house because my pap Paul played the banjo and it was fascinating to sit on the porch kind of in front of his rocking chair as he played and watch him, you know, use his fingers on the fret board and using the finger picks and everything. And it was just really fascinating to watch him. And then of course, growing up in the South, everybody that I knew watched T hall on Saturday nights where you could catch Roy Clark and buck Owens, you know, and they had a bunch of really amazing guests. So know he's really musically proficient. People would come on every Saturday night and then yet the other variety shows such as the Glen Campbell show and Johnny Cash and Sony and share. So there's a lot of music in the early seventies that really turned me on to music and the entertainment value in the entertainment and the smiles that people get. You know, it's just an amazing thing. You know, music is such a common language that people can talk about and people don't have to understand each other as far as actual language. You know, you can get people from all over the world and you put on music and you see people tap their feet and you see people smile and you see people in our act in some form or fashion through dance or other interpretive type stuff. So for me, music is so ingrained in my system. It's so in my heart and so in my soul that I can't imagine the, you know, the world without music would be a very boring place and I can't imagine that it would ever come to that because really almost anything can produce music. And from there it's just endless. So I'm a huge music fan. Like I said, I've been going to concerts 1977 when I was six years old and I really recommend people going out and catching live music and supporting local bands and local artists because they're the guys that are struggling every single night of the week. So I really want to put it out there, support your local artists, support your national artists, but go out and catch some music. It will make you feel better and it helps, you know, cover the bills for some guys that are on the road, sweating it out every night. You know, another reason I wanted to do a podcast is because there seems to be a lot of pain in this world. And if I can bring a little bit of humor to someone just for a little while during the day, then that sounds good to me. And I've served my purpose because this is equally a music site as well as, um, some funny stories and some entertaining, you know, topics and so forth. So I really hope you'll enjoy listening to my podcast and come back each time and I hope you can share it with some of your friends. I'm on Facebook at the[inaudible] experience and that'll kind of lead you to the rest of the social media platforms if you care to share it with others. I'm also, I'll be on all the major hosting for podcast shortly, so I hope you can plug into your iTunes or whatever the case and listen there. Thank you for coming today. And here is the big story.
Speaker 3:Today's big story is about really three of my musical influences from the very beginning. Now whether you guys know it or not, if you are a child of the 70s you remember the Sesame street pinball machine, you know the one, the kind of psychedelic one that said one, two, three, four, five,(678) 910-1112 well, what you might not know is that's the point are sisters and you know, not only the imagery of all the stuff going on with the pinball machine, but it is a funky song. A highly recommend checking it out. I'm sure you can find it on YouTube and any number of places, but checkout the Sesame street pinball song. To me that was like one of those things that really kind of put a rocket launcher in my fascination for different types of music. But you know, Sesame street was very innovative. It was innovative on so many levels, but it had some really cool music. So you know, one of my musical influences, believe it or not, with Sesame street electric company and you know those types of TV shows mostly on public television. And it was the music and I loved it. I loved all the different music, whether it was that or whatever. That was a huge influence. So that's chalk up Sesame street and specifically the pinball machines song as one of the influences. My second two big music influences from when I was young, actually it came in at a tie between the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Now my fountain, my fascination with Elvis started when I was really little and I remember watching Elvis movies because they came on TV. And I guess my first impression with Elvis was he's like a good looking guy. He could sing, he could talk to all the pretty ladies and he could fight, you know, and he had a cool factor that was like an 11 out of 10 so Elvis did it for me right away. And you know, he came out with that special before anybody. He was kind of like larger and older and he had the rhinestone suit. And all that kind of stuff. But you know, I used to get like Vaseline and get like a little glob of it and put it in my hair and slick it back to where it was altered greasy, put like a beach towel with a safety pin around my neck and run around the house singing hound dog like over and over until my parents are like going completely fucking crazy. So like Elvis really did it. I was like, Elvis is the man. Um, I want to be like, Oh Elvis. So that would be my second biggest influence. Now tied and equally important would be the Beatles. Now, I didn't know much about the Beatles, but I went over to a friend's house for a sleep over when I was about, you know, six, seven years old. And I remember his dad had the album meet the Beatles with, I want to hold your hand. And I saw her standing there and all those songs. And so next thing I know, I mean I'm all about the Beatles and I really, really just had my mind blown by that record. I'll love their sound. I love everything about them. I liked the way they were dressed. I like their hairdos, the Beatles, like everyone else, you know, just had their mind blown. I mean really, I mean, so yeah, Elvis and the Beatles and those would be a tie for number two as far as my early musical influences. Last but not least, if I was to cite my third biggest musical influence, it's really my first biggest musical influence. And that was my general electric clock radio that was next to my bed when I was really little. Um, I moved out of a crib into twin beds with rails and then when I got a little older or they took the rails off, so I had the big boy bed next to my bed was this G clock radio about the size of a shoe box. And it was like, you know, if you wanted the alarm to wake you up, it was either a buzzer or the radio. And the buzzer was really scary. I mean, it was really damn loud. So like I always wanted the radio and I had it on the rock radio station and one morning, I don't know, it was like the second the alarm went off, which was the radio, the song light, my fire came on. And I'm not talking about the radio edit, like the little short version. I'm talking about the long version and I'm sitting there in bed, you know, and my mom's trying to get me to come down for breakfast and I'm listening to the song and I'm just mesmerized and I don't know really how to handle it cause I'd never quite heard anything quite like that. I mean, my record collection consists of like Peter and the Wolf Dumbo, the elephant and all these other Disney classic records that everybody had in the 70s so the doors really weren't on my, you know, on my mind at that point. But here it is, I'm listening to it like you have Jim Morrison's, you know, deep voice, Raymond Zurich's keyboards, which are impeccable and perfect and just killer, you know, and that guitar, that sounds just interweaving kind of stuff, you know? And just great sound. So I don't know anything about it. I just know I love it. Well, my step grandmother came to town about a week or so later and she wanted to take me to Woolworth's to the lunch counter to have lunch and all that and to get a toy because they had this upstairs with a lot of stuff. But then you went down the escalator and or the toys and whatnot and other items. So after lunch we went down to look at toys, but I looked across the room and I noticed there was a big record section and I was like, eh, so you know, I went over to this guy and I was like, excuse me, I'm looking for, come on baby light my fire. And he was like, well, what's that? And I was like, yeah, I'm looking for, come on baby light my fire, I don't know that song. And he was like, ah, I light my fire the doors. And I was like, eh, I don't know. So we go over to the D section and the records and he's like a little, a little, you know, he starts flipping through everything. And pulls out the doors first album. And you know, I didn't really know what to think about it other than say yes cause I had to kind of assume he knew what he talking about and my grandmothers were whatever. Step grandmother kind of looked at me with this kind of, you know, what the hell are you doing? Look. And it was kind of on the objection right at the beginning, but I kind of talked her into it and you know, said I'd taken home and listened to it and I was really excited. So she agreed. And you know, here I am six years old and buying the doors first album. Well I took it home and quickly, you know, put a slit in the cellophane and pulled it out and stuck it on my Mickey mouse record player, which albeit is a piece of crap, but I didn't care man. I got that glove tan and put it over and dropped it down on the first song. Break on through. Mind you and I listen to all of it now. Uh, I'll have to say at six years old when the song, the end came on, I was rather frightened. I mean to say the least. I thought that was a creepy song. It was linked the, and for whatever reason, I would not listen to that song. However, when I had a play date or a friend over whatever and things were getting stale or something, you know, we weren't getting along. I would go and put on the end, not just because I wanted it to end, but usually that would prompt a phone call to their parents to come pick them up anyway cause they were creeped out by it too. So no, the GE amazing clock radio turned me on to led Zepplin the doors. I remember hearing the grateful dead and all these other bands that I would never hear otherwise. You know, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Oh, the 60s and early seventies bands that just kicked ass, you know, heard black Sabbath. And I was like, you know, that's pretty muddy. You know, it's heavy, murky, crazy, you know, stuff. Um, but as a kid it really fascinated me because really, like I said, I had limited opportunities at my house. I heard Frank Sinatra, which I thought was boring, John Denver, however I like, um, and also heard Neil diamond and I like some of his songs too, but it wasn't like rock radio where you heard a lot of stuff from all over the place. So that was a big deal to me. And I'm really happy that I grew up in the 70s and experienced some of the best music ever from the sixties and seventies and a lot from the 50s as well. So yeah, those are my three big influences. I mean the GE radio expanded everything and I look forward to experiencing more as the time goes on. And now it's time for the word
Speaker 4:well, the day of the day of the day, the day,
Speaker 3:right? Everybody, it's time for the angular experience. Word of the day. Now how this works is we start alphabetically of course, with a letter a. And what I do is I'll give you a definition, a word, and the first three people that hear this and know the answer, they can go on the Facebook site at the incubator experience like my page. And then direct message me the answer in the first three people that get it right will be shipped. A special incubator experience prize, which will consist of this week is an ink EULAR patch. So it's something that could go on a, um, piece of clothing or a tote bag. But it's this really cool. So on iron on patch. Um, so what we're going to do is I'm going to give the definition of the first amazing word of the day and that's, see if you can figure it out. And again, this begins with the letter a. The definition is a heavy, usually steel faced iron block on which metal is shaped as by hand hammering. Um, this is something that wile E coyote would like to drop on the Roadrunners head if you're old enough to remember that. So don't forget if you know the answer, get on the incubator experience on Facebook and give me the answer via direct message. And if you're in the top three it'd be a prize winner of the day. And now we're going to talk about the record of the day. Today's record of the day is the self titled album by led Zepplin. This album was recorded in September and October of 1968 at Olympic studios in London. Jimmy page was a key player in the Yardbirds and as that band dissolved and he decided to do something a little different, he took on John Paul Jones, who plays bass John Bonham on drums and a new singer on the scene. Robert plant on vocals. The sessions took place before the group had secured a recording contract and were paid for directly and took 36 hours in less than 2000 pounds to complete. It was self produced by Jimmy page, the groups, founder, leader and guitarists. Some of the standout songs on the album, it would be days and confused. Babe, I'm gonna leave you. Good times, bad times. Communication breakdown and my personal favorite. How many more times. That's a powerful album, guys. I really enjoy it a lot. I highly recommend, if you haven't put on led Zepplin one the first album recently or ever, go ahead and get it, put it on. You're going to love it. So tune in next time to the record of the day,
Speaker 5:we're going to always have something new and fresh for you to explore and hopefully enjoy. Thank you.
Speaker 3:That will conclude today's incubator experience podcast. Stay grateful and help someone smile if you can.