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on Monday, and again, sorry I shouldn't say sorry. Great to have Rogan and Rodney back tomorrow from noon to three, and then we'll have more Dodger baseball on likely from about noon until three. Matt. The enemy out.
There, the enemy, Sadano. And it's simple to go after Rogan and Ronny. It's just a simple have a complex way of looking at things. Okay, that was not my intention.
My intention.
Sent me more Sodano clips and it was Sadano calling everybody simple again for blaming the Lakers problems on Genie Buss. He said, it's it's Mark Walters prop did this. He's the one that set the protocol. You guys are simple, for sure.
Well we all can't be as smartest Sadano. Who else Alaska Little League to shift the playoff schedule because he's got to cover the Lakers for eight year olds. Dude, just not that smart.
I'm very simple.
You're rack of something like that. You're right, that's why you're in the Midwest.
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CUI dot edu slash coaching. Not sure I'll be back anytime soon, John Savage UCL is coming here in a couple of weeks. But here we go, Columbus so high, and I'm sure you'll be back here anytime soon. I steel trust me. It feels like I've been going a year. Columbus is the birthplace of two things that I believe perhaps each of us. I don't know if the first of these two would apply to you, but I think you're a Wendy's fan. Dave Thomas founded the first Wendy's
restaurant downtown Columbus nineteen sixty nine. But we go way back. Pee nineteen twelve is where and I know what's coming. I already know it's coming to the Textoso, So I'm going to preempt all the text Oso's coming here. You can text us a fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers. We make it easy. I know that Hyde Rocks was technically first, I am well aware of that. But the first Oreo cookie was produced in the city of Columbus in nineteen twelve. So was Apple
the first computer. No, it was just a computer that seemed to take hold ahead of some other competitors that had predated it. Hyde Rocks was first. For whatever reason, people decided they liked Oreos better. Sorry him, your size squirt down.
That's where you're going. See you on the ice, Pompey.
See you on the ice, Hide Rocks.
It's time for quickets, funny bems quickets.
I'll make it quick, y'all.
Yeah. Dodger's another spring training game today, took on the Mariners at Camelback Ranch. The next game is here right on AM five. Seventy, not tomorrow. Rogan and Rodney are going to work, but then they're going to be on on Wednesday. Take on the Snakes. We keep telling you the Lakers are thirty four and twenty two. They got blown out by Peyton Pritchard and Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown took it to him a host of Orlandito Magic tomorrow night and they unveiled the pat Riley statue in front
of Crypto Arena. Matt talked about it with the Top Story of the Day at the Last Hour. Riley won six NBA titles with the Lakers that included one as a player, one as an assistant, and four as a head coach during the iconic Showtime era during the eighties. He is the eighth member of the Lakers to get a statue. Classy move by the Lakers.
Cannot tell the history of the Lakers without pat Riley, as great as he was with the Heat and the Knicks. Were you to go into the NBA Hall of Fame representing a team, there was no question it would be the Lakers that he would represent. So to do it while he is still the face of the Miami Heat as well and the most important figure in that franchise. Is history beautiful to see him get something.
And they were showing the statues that are out there at the Staples Center, that statue graveyard or whatever they call it out there, the Cemetery of forgotten Statues.
I think that's what it is.
Sure they you can't they had like a statue and you can't keep the zombie towers out of the shot.
It's very embarrassing. No, but again, if you just pasted a bunch of mirrors to them, you could see the camera guy. You would be able to see all of the camera people and the Walk of Champions, the walk and guys that they never played there and kareem Oscar underwear with Oscar. Yeah de la Joya and yeah, chick Hearn's sitting at the desk, going to give you the fist. You'll know when you're getting it.
The Clippers are twenty seven and thirties. You wouldn't even have to look over here and you'll know you're getting the fifth. They've lost two in a row. Oh no, and they're sitting as the ten seed in the West. They're off until Thursday when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Looking forward to that matchup Tyrese Haliburton, and let this be a warning. He could have been misdiagnosed like me. You never know to all of you out there, especially because Haliburton is so damn young. You're not supposed to worry about things like shingles until you're in your fifties. Oh, it is a debilitating, absolutely bone crushing, debilitating ailment. Well, I just want to say I didn't really have it, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody that will knock
you on your ass. He's got shingles. He's going to be away from the team for a few weeks. He has not played this season because they have torn achilles that he suffered in Game seven of the NBA Finals. He has still been on the team's bench, but because shingles really not your ass around, he will not be around for a little while. And because it is so incredibly contagious, you don't want a case at a shingles getting to zobs and guys like that.
I had some form of it form UCLA's coming off there win over Illinois on Sunday.
Donovan Dent Forever.
The Bruins get USC tomorrow at Polly and we're all looking forward to that. We're all behind Mick Cronin and always have been. Charles Badaiko, the guy that wants to play that's like a hundred year sold filed an appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court, where Boss Hogg sits as the major judge. Drives in that catalog the Big Horns. He's seeking interim injunctive relief allowing him to play Wow, he's got conjunctive itis. No interim injunctive relief allowing him
to play Wall. The appeal is pending. If he had conjunctive itis, you call Costas and ask him how to deal with it exactly this time of hear wintering Olympics and pops up. The school says they support but Daiko in his quest to get the eligibility.
Yeah, can we put this to bed? Please? Can we not have bed? I go back? Noamari Bailey know the kids that was in the freaking class of James Weissman trying to I have decided to open up my recruitment. Really, you're thirty. I want to come back. Yeah, you can't. I want to clip back in the womb. You left Kentucky when you averaged two and a half points per game.
The combine starts tomorrow and Indianapolis Matt will be there, and the Rams today announced the rest of their coaching staff for twenty twenty six. Cliff Kingsbury, Cliff's Crimson Corner coming to LA is listed as an assistant head coach. Bobby Trees also known as Robert Woods at a Sarah High, our old friend USC Trojan in La. Ram retired just the other day as a RAM with a one day contract type of deal. Is an assistant wide receivers coach. So good luck and congratulations to Bobby Trees.
Cliff likely not getting the OC title. Sean mcvayh of course calls the plays, but Nate Schielhouse, that a lot of people thought might get a head coaching job in this cycle, instead gets the OC gig, likely helping him in this next round of interviews next season.
I know about Seelhouse. Yeah, I knew he was up and coming back when I saw him, and Ames, that's right. I say, there's a young guy that's up and coming. That's what I said.
And next year you're going to say, look, Shehouse has arrived and I knew when he was up and coming.
That's right, because Matt Campbell pointed at him and he said, that guy that there's an up and coming coach, And I said, is it head gass or House? From twenty twenty six, the NCAA now considering removing the automatic one game suspension for a first time targeting fouls, focusing instead on in game penalties, which is kind of cool because it sucks to have a guy pulled out of the game.
Other potential twenty twenty six changes including the stricter regulations on short short pants because it just it got to be ridiculous last year, and uniform violations other equipment related in fractions, maybe like having eight mouthpieces should be one.
I like that.
Look, why you had eight mouthpieces? Why not?
It looks like it looks like a jellyfish is dangling from your face mask. Their point, why not they flip up into your face. They're trying to cratch the ball. But other than that, you could be punished with warnings or penalties, including jersey length and the wearing of multiple mouthguards.
I do like the Daisy Duke's look. I think that is something that that should really permeate college football.
It's just I mean, you know, if you feel like your knees don't need to be protected. You want to give somebody the flying knee with just your cap and fine, do whatever you want.
Like I like the potential of a Charlie horse. I'm into that. You best be ready for the flying knee boxing. Oh, come on, let's go. It's ready. Let's go, Yo, come on, let's go. Let's ros money.
Uh live.
It sounds like this is right up our alley. Where do we go? We've done it with De la Joya Mayweather, Let's do it for Pacquiao Mayweather. It is expected to take place in September at the sphere they fought back on May second, twenty fifteen, at the MBM Grand Garden Arena. Call Chef tal put us up at the strat. We're going to Mayweather. No no, no, no, no, naked a city forever. No no, no no. We're gonna fit asleep in the stand. You just took all the air out
of my balloon. We're gonna watch two chicks and cocktail dresses get into a fist fight. Ye're gonna leave early thirty. Because of racial tensions, I'm with the Filipinos against the blacks. Last time I was black I was with the Blacks against the Mexicans. You know you only go I only rolly. You know you could just blow with the wind out there. Man, listen, I don't give a damn who wins. You see that referee in there, that's my guy. That's who I'm rolling with.
A big thank you to David Vasse who joined us last hour. We'll have John Savage, u c L.
A head baseball coach next on the Petros and Money Show on AMPI seventy LA Sports. On an I'm a Horse Monday, Dodger Talk at seven. Petros Papadakis that money SPI.
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We'll send money on demand. Petro sand Money AM five seventy LA Sports. We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. No play by play tonight, and no Clippers for the foreseeable future. Immediate future. I should say they will play on Thursday, but we do have Dodger Baseball, home of the back to back two time World Series champion Dodgers. As they continue with their Cactus League schedule. You will hear most of those nooners here, including Wednesday. That'll be
the next spring training game. First pitch just afternoon between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. But this is baseball of the amateur variety.
Wow, up and running with real games that count and already impressing the nation is UCLA Baseball. For many years we have talked to our dear friend John Savage, a championship coach with a great attitude. His Bruins this year are off to a great start six and one, number one team in the country. They just finished off a three game sweep of number seven TCU. Take that, you, Frogs. We also know that a horn frog is a lizard
that was over at Jackie Robinson Stadium. They got San Diego State tomorrow night for one of those cool Tuesday night games, and then they head to Arlington for some SEC action against Tennessee A and M in Mississippi State. So it's gonna be a great year for Savage and we hope he takes it all the way and we will monitor it. Here on the Petterson Money Show on AMTI seventy LA Sports. Here is John Savage on your Southern California Toyota Dealer celebrity hotline. What's crack and coach,
how are you? We're fabulous and we know that you've been riding the waves of this sport for many years into these different eras of as Matt said, you know, the amateur variety. What is the cycle of this team and how has it all come to a head right now with this number one t good looking group.
Yeah, you know, I think the cycle is probably the right way of saying it. I mean, it's it's a team that's been built over the last three years, you know, the last year in the Pac twelve with twenty four and you know, having a very young team. As I spoke before about it's not a very good place to be in college athletics to be young anymore. And you know,
we found out the hard way. And then in twenty five we you know, went into the Big Ten and we won a Big Ten with coach Champs with Oregon and we ended up, you know, getting to Omaha with a with a sophomore based team, and all those guys are back and it's really been built over the last couple of years and we're a little unique in the
way that we have constructed the roster. I think it's in terms of loyalty and development and and you know, guys kind of plugging through their careers at one school which is very you know, different these days, and it's just a fun, fun team to coach.
You know them very well, they know you.
There's a lot of familiarity with with their with their abilities and and uh, you know, it's just a good cycle. I guess you would say that these guys, uh have have you know, held true to the U s l A And we've held true to them, and it's it's a good relationship and you know we're off and off and running.
You mentioned the trip to Omaha, coach, what does what does that do? Like, what what does even though it doesn't you know, end the way that you wanted to kind of what does what does that do for your team? Like you said, as you build toward this year, what was it that you kind of look back and say, Yeah, that's yeah.
It gives everybody a clear vision on where you want to go. You know, we are forcing the you know, the Big ten Tournament is there a week before, so I think I never been, you know, been to that, and that was different not being there and not in
the in the real tournament. And I just think it, you know, it just opens the eyes of of every player that you know, the mecha call baseball is Omaha, and you know, you want to get into that final eight circle and you know when you get a taste of it and you go you want to go back.
And so it was big.
I mean from where we were in twenty four, you know, and where we were in twenty five, it was just a you know, one of those deals where they just completely turned it around. And and but it wasn't a total shock to us. I mean, we have a lot of talent.
It was just young.
And when you have a bunch of eighteen year olds playing against twenty three twenty four year olds, it's usually not pretty regardless of the talent level. And our guys stepped up and now they know where they want to go.
Back to John Savage, our guest UCLA baseball coach twenty one seasons, my god, what a star at UCLA. You know you mentioned a big ten and granted, nobody said, oh god, what does this mean for UCLA baseball when they made the jump. You know, men's basketball and football have their problems, but you and the ladies on the hoops team, people don't seem to complain about that. But how do you navigate the trips in the big ten.
I mean, you're kicking ass. Of course I don't. I don't wish Purdue baseball you guys on places like that. But but that's what's happening. How do you approach it, Well, I.
Just think you have to you know, you have to play the schedule, and you have to go on these road trips and play well. I mean, you know, adversity and travel, you know, builds build teams, and it builds you know, you really find out a lot more about your team when you go on the road rather than you know, staying at home all the time and playing
and being comfortable and so forth. So you know, we went to Purdue, you mentioned Purdue, We went to Illinois, we went to Maryland, then we went to sc in Oregon. So it wasn't it wasn't like terribly you know, on the road consistently.
This year it's a little bit more.
We go to Michigan State, we go to Ohio State, we go to Rutgers, go to Iowa, we go to Washington. So the travels I gets a little bit more challenging this year, but you find out a lot about your team and you got to play anytime anywhere.
Coach Matt's and Columbus right now. You can scout you guys out of hotel if you don't have an OPS guy.
Yeah, we're there.
And two we go to Texas this weekend next week and we're in Columbus. So here we come, Here we go.
Look out for Brutus. He's got a roundhead. I'm I'm going to try to fend off skyline and stay off the chili for my next three hour drive from here. Coach, is there is there a power surge going on in Westwood? I saw both Gasparino and Schalowski tied for the lead and home runs. I know it's two of your players, but kind of give us an idea offensively, what you're looking at with this group.
Well, I mean Bryant Ward's done a terrific job of really, you know, navigating this offense. And it's really been a three year cycle of these players. I mean you look at them. I think there's eight players on the field that have been on our program for three years. So they just know each other, know how to play with one another, they know how to, you know, get to the next guy in the lineup, and it's a it's a longer lineup now with with you know, Gasprino is
hitting in the eighth hole right now. I don't know how long that will be. But and then we had a you know, we had a home run out of our ninth hole yesterday. So it's just it's very balanced. It's uh, you know, it's it's it's constructed in a way where you have right, right handed and left handed hitters throughout the lineup that are hard to get through. And you know, certainly these guys and Chilowski and Gasprino are showing real power. I mean they have six home
runs in seven games. I mean that's very very rare. So you know, they're just high end players and certainly guys that have gone stronger. You know, well, I mean, Gasprino's the first year in our program, but everybody else really has been with us for three years, three or four years. So we do like our offense and we certainly think that we have a chance to maintain that throughout the year.
It's hard for me to imagine Collin shortstop being better than Mark Maritzi coach. But this guy Chlas really he's the real deal.
It seems like he's no one knows that name pet other than you and I.
It seems like like.
He was creative out there in the field. Uh, it seems like this guy's pretty special. Can you give us some perspective on Rock Cholowski from Arizona.
Yeah, he's a special I mean, he's he's a guy that he was a Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, Big Ten Defensive Player of the.
Year, the you know, the gold Glove Award winner.
Up for the Golden Spikes Award, was a Baseball America Player of the Year. And he's a special player on both sides of the ball, tremendous power to all fields, high high baseball, i.
Q, really a leader in every way.
Winning is the most important thing on top of his list.
So it's it's great to have a player like that with that sort of ability and that sort of makeup that you can really know that can drive the bus and that can really drive the temperature of the team and and you know how they're thinking, and you know how how how they react to things, and you know their their attitudes, and he just is such a winning player that you know, I think he's going to be a great, great pro I think he's going to really,
you know, have impact on any organization that he joins, and you know, he's been very, very highly scouted today and and and all season, and most of our guys are so they're used to that, and they're under the spotlight a lot, and you know, they're they're embracing that. And Rock has been a tremendous Bruin and you know, we're looking forward to finish out his career this season as a Bruin and he just, you know, wonderful shortstop.
We've had great short stops at UCLA, Brandon Crawford, Nico Gego, Matt McClain, Ryan Kridler, Pat Malaka. You know, we've had a you know, Cody Schreyer. We've had some really good shortstops in our time here, and and he's one of those guys.
The great John Savage with us coming off a big weekend series against TCU, a sweep as they get ready to head out to Globe Life. Pretty cool sort of deal. You mentioned you're going to be here in Columbus where I currently sit doing this radio show. It is twenty seven degrees and a blizzard. So hopefully by the time March sixth, that's clear right out of there. Matt, don't worry about that now that is going to be out of the way, but kind of give us an idea.
This is pretty cool. I think it's pronounced what Amagy Bank College Baseball Series. You get Tennessee, A and M, Mississippi State, you guys out there, kind of neat to have it all in one spot and playing you know, three very good teams.
Yeah, it's going to be a huge tournament. It's the biggest tournament probably of the season at four college baseball. I mean, the Globe does the Rangers do a terrific job of really almost every weekend they put on some sort of tournament, and so this is the third weekend they put it on, and there's a lot of mar
quee names each weekend. But I think this one is kind of the highlighter, just because of you know, the Tennessee impact, Mississippi State of course at A and M and where we're ranked, and Arizona State's all that also there. I believe Virginia Tech's there. We don't play those two, but it's gonna be a lot of excitement, a lot of eyes on our guys. Really good opportunity for us
to see again where we're at. It's a good road test, you know, not at a particularly one home, but it's a neutral site and they're expecting I think twenty five thirty thousand on Saturday's game with textant A and M and so the environment's gonna be great.
The eyes of Major League Baseball.
Are going to be clearly on this weekend, and it's gonna be a great opportunity for our program and our team.
How big of a part of your identity year in and year out while you've been there is the Tuesday games against the local teams to sharpen your pens, because I would imagine that other teams around the country they don't have the level of competition coming in on Tuesdays like Irvine nor Three. You know, anybody in San Diego State, Riverside, they all play good baseball.
Yeah they do.
I love it.
I mean, you know, we loved, we love our Tuesday challenges. We played Tulane last weekend there in town. We have Sanuel State tomorrow. Of course, like you said, Irvine is a top twenty program. You know, they're very very good. Fullerton, you know, Santa Barbara is very good again this year. So it's one of those deals where I think you know, Tuesday has been a tremendous challenge for us, and we just look forward to continuing that.
They'll do it against San Diego State this Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium. That'll be tomorrow before heading out the globe life for the weekend. Very much, looking forward to it. A heck of a start for Coach Savage. Coach, we always appreciate you coming on. Thanks so much, Thanks my.
Figure, Thank you, Thanks, thanks guys, pick.
Up that phone, get it recruit. Twu lane Is was only in town to get the guys out of town for Fat Tuesday. Last half the team that arrested. They could barely feel the team against Mississippi State game.
Yeah.
Fighting fighting at a bar, you get, you get bail, You go to jail, bail yourself, Olco right back in the same.
Bar, eat cheeseburger across the street. Hold up your middle fingers.
Yeah, poof in the row. Uh, the great John Savage. Everybody, what a stud And we'll be back with your dead and a live guy. Birthday of the Day. Don't forget. Dave's got Miggie and Freddy Tonight on Dodger Talk, this is Petros Money on Demand. Mercifully coming to an end on this. I'm a horse Monday man in Ohio, us in Burbank. Matt'll be in Indiana tomorrow and we'll have a full three to seven show. David Massey has got
Miggi Rojas and Freddie Freeman on for Dodger Talk. We had Meggie in studio with us the other day and all those Vesties sandwiches.
What a moment for all of us.
Matt is in Ohio, headed towards Indiana for the Combine, his annual sojourn for varying reasons, to the Indianapolis Combine. And we have another show tomorrow from Indy and of course Burdbank here that starts at three o'clock.
Yeah, full four hours. It is the post all Star. We're still going to let you guys get your rest load management styles scheduling for NBA teams. So no Clippers games until Thursday. But the good news spring training rolls on. And even though shohe has headed out for the WBC, plenty of Dodger players to be excited about in our new ers. And as you said, Pee, that does not mean there is no Dodger talk. Dodgers Baseball is back. You heard it all weekend, you heard it today, you
will continue to hear it moving forward. Feels like they just won the World Series yesterday. Gee darn it. And here we are.
They're back, and it feels like they won the World Series yesterday because the season is so damn long and the playoffs are even longer. And now spring training jumps on you like a jungle cat when you're walking in the jungle. This man would have been eighty eight years old today. He just died two years ago. Paul Morrissey of the Big Town Matt, as you like to call it, Okay. Born in Manhattan, Irish Catholic, stayed Irish and Catholic. Grew up in Yonkers, went to Fordham. Like Vince Kelly, served
in the Army. In nineteen sixty he moved to the East Village and opened a small cinematique where he programmed a mix of underground films and documentaries, including Brian de Palma's first film, which I'm assuming it's not worth watching, Oh.
It's like a Shortly.
He then started making his own movies, Matt, and this is how he became a key figure in the development
of underground and avant Garde's Cinema. In nineteen sixty five he met Andy Warhol, and Andy Warhol, the very famous artist and producer, invited him to work at the factory where he was doing art and production, and with him they made their definitive weirdo movies for weirdos in the weirdo time, many odd films like nineteen sixty eight's Flesh, an international hit that Andy Warhol asked him to make in response to Midnight Cowboy.
Oh it was.
Almost as big of a hit globally, believe it or not, and made with one fifth of the budget. They followed that up in nineteen seventy with Trash, A Day in the Life of a heroin Addict. He followed that up in nineteen seventy two with Heat, which is not the Val Kilmer, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro vehicle of art youth hell of a film. Wow, come on, Free country brother, It's a parody of Sunset Boulevard. He did all the
velvet underground and the velvet underground and Nicos stuff. You you know, the style matt wrap around sunglasses before our nets were even invented. In nineteen seventy three, he will the trend coming. He went to Rome and he did Flesh for Frankenstein, and in nineteen seventy four he followed that up out in Italy with Blood for Dracula. Seems like it would be saying water for human.
They did well.
His first and only at ten at his studio film was The Hound of the Baskervilles, which with Dudley Moore, which was a commercial and critical flop. So he came to Los Angeles in the late seventies and made more weirdo films that are revered to this day, like Madame Wang's Forty Deuce, the Spike of benson Hurst. Those were in New York with a young Kevin Bacon was forty Deuce and other New York movies. He was a straight right wing Catholic who did enjoy telling stories of big weirdos,
underground movies. He said, in the movies I've made, there is no connection to my personal beliefs. But he did show people of all colors, creeds and societal placement in a sympathetic light. Paul Morrissey, I would love to uh.
Sound super cool and say, oh familiar with Paul morris See come on, yeah, not a one.
Well, you know, somebody had to I've heard of Flash, but somebody had to do uh all that movie stuff for Warhol, you know, right, somebody was just Warhols dude. No, I mean you know, I mean he was his own dude. He only did the Warhol stuff in the sixties. Flash for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, nothing to do with war What that kidding me, Spike of benson Hurst. No Warhol Now Flash and Trash and the Velvet Underground stuff. Yet all right, Matt, you're a live guy.
Yeah, You're You're a live guy.
Is what we do.
Shredders sixty four today, tasty licks, colorful chords. You want prog metal? I mean, look, prog rock is one thing, aggressive metal, this is this is what I do. Tell him, Matt, Michael Wilton. I am a prog rock guy. And when it gets into this, the further subgenre of progressive metal, I mean, look at this. I'm the first name that
comes to mind. Coast to Coast, founding member of Queen's Reick, four decades, crushing it on a fret board, still active in Queen's Reick, by the way, shaping as unique a sound.
How do you leave that band? You know, Matt right, you know you got royal blood. You know it's not like you know, you can't be like Prince Harry and be a trader.
La grass is not greener anywhere, or Prince Andrew and be a pederad. Well, that's right. They'd have to drag him away like they did Prince Andrew. H Not just a guy that shreds, but a man, they say, who blazed the trail for so many others. So we pay respects. Tem Michael Wilton on his birthday, Born in San Francisco, moved. The father was really into music, and when he was as young as six was taken him to a bunch of shows, mostly jazz. John McLaughlin al Demiola that he
found the rock and roll Zeppelin Alman Brothers. When he was eight, he picked up his father's guitar and would play by ear to the Beatles, the Stones to Bob Dylan. When he was thirteen, his uncle passed away left him his Fender, an electric and a speaker cabinet an amplifier.
He was a really good athlete though, and remember this is like the early seventies before kids were doing the travel team thing, and he was such a good baseball player that he was on a national All Star squad that toured the nation.
There's only a few of those young boys around, not like now they're flaming bat leagues.
He was one of them, Pete. But there was one problem on those trips. He was listening to Priest. Well he started listening to Priest. He was listening to Maiden. Priest is the Beast mad that we knew how they awakened the bea. So he's like, yeah, this baseball thing's cool, man, but it ain't Priest. So he would just log hours and hours a day on the electric guitar. By sixteen, his guitar teacher nicknamed him the Whip because he said, you whip on that guitar. Man. He joined some garage bands,
one called Joker. He went to music school instead of college, the Cornish College of the Arts. Oh yeah, they just played for audiences of Cornish heads. Was incredible.
Well that's all they served, lush dinner and breakfast, Cornish game man all day.
And while there he studied music theory, jazz improvisation, classical music on the piano and guitar.
You know, you eat Cornish game head day in and day out. You start to think that you're a royal.
Right, that's what you know. I might be Okay, a dude, who is my queen?
A duke?
A baron? You Eddie Jackson, you, Scott Rockenfield, you are the Queens. They started a band called Crossfire. Chris DeGarmo on the other guitar, changed their name to the Mob, and then an eighty four Jef Tait joins as a vocalist. They record a four song demo and decide to rename their band Quinn's Rek. So that weird nosed guy was the last guy to join. Last guy, Yes, just we didn't know what AI was back then. But if you watch that Silent Lucidity video, it looks like an AI dude.
He is weird. He really is in your face. You're like, oh, it's that guy again.
You know, I remember that, and I don't remember any other Queen's Right videos, but I remember him being right in your face for Silent Lucidity.
Oh yeah. In fact, I don't really remember any other Queen's Right songs. Well it's probably because there's no reason too. However, did they get out of Silent Lucidity A ton? They were a big local band in Seattle and Portland prior to the grunge explosion. They were bigger in Europe than they were here. Their concept album Operation Mind Crime, that's a big one up for in the UK.
Was it really? Yes?
That's sad.
Can you imagine like being a young person in Portland or whatever that used to go to shows and be like, yeah, you know, I was a little early for that grunge stuff.
I was more like, you know, when Queen's Reich was playing a lot, you know, in the Operation Mind Crime, I had long, long hair and a trench coat.
Yeah.
They had their huge hit in nineteen ninety with Empire that had this song Silent Lucidity on it, and they have had ten more releases since. Wilton has been there for all of them. Gosh. Yes, he has some side projects as well, Soul Bender with Nick from Alice in Chains, another one called ratchet Head. Oh but she said, is a thinking man's Queen's Reich. He just put out a solo record called Michael Wilton's The Whip Volume One. Well, I mean, if he's that good at guitar, that's what
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