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The Noon Hour Of Madness & Mayhem can be heard live on KBEAR 101 weekdays at 12pm MST. Viktor and Peaches talk about a wide variety of topics depending on the day and you never know what to expect!
[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast
It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. What's happening, Peaches?
If all of a sudden I start acting even crankier than usual, please let me know.
Okay.
'Cause I'm, uh, I'm, uh, going on a massive diet change, and you know how when people don't get enough, like, carbs like they used to, they get cranky-
Mm-hmm
... and lethargic and-
Yeah
... I'm already that way now, so I'm hoping it doesn't get worse.
Okay, I'll let you know. Be like, "Stop your crankiness, Peaches."
Yeah.
Stop being so cranky.
Peaches' positivity party.
There you go. [laughs] Well, you brought to my attention something earlier that I figured I'd just save for this program, another Rolling Stone list, and you know how good those are.
They always put Aretha Franklin somewhere in the top five.
Well, did she play guitar?
If she didn't, uh, she'd still be on the list.
[laughs] The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time. Okay.
You gotta put Metallica one up there. You gotta put-
Oh
... Van Halen, obviously, with Eruption, one of the best-
They probably got Eruption. Stairway to Heaven, maybe. What-
Are we talking about, like-
Free Bird
... technicality, or are we talking about, like, legacy-
Hmm
... popularity, how g- like, how great it is to the, to the normal mind and not an intellect, not intellects like us, Victor-
Let's see
... analyzing how ... I, I, I don't know where I'm going.
How did they go about ... Um,
let's see. They took into account the solo makes the song, and it doesn't just repeat the melody line. Uh, bonus if you can sing it note for note, and, uh, it also includes, uh,
just the six-string brilliance on display. So
I don't know what they say. Some are influential cult classics. Other are so universally beloved they're banned at your local guitar shop. Every fan would compile a different list, and that's the point. But it's a salute to the guitar solo tradition and all the rituals that go with it. So,
uh, for example, at number 100, they've got AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long. Um, I wonder if it ... Does it play the, uh,
the solos if you
... Oh, it's just the actual video. All right. We're not gonna go track down
100 different guitar solos.
Uh, they have Megadeth Hangar 18 at number 97.
97, huh? Hangar 18.
But then they have Red Hot Chili Peppers Scar Tissue above that.
And I'm trying to think what is the solo in Scar Tissue.
Doesn't ... That one would not stick out to me as being very, very memorable.
No, because if you were to try to compare the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dave Mustaine-
Yeah, but-
Dave Mustaine's gonna outwork that dude every single time, I feel like, right?
Yeah. I mean, Chili Peppers are definitely a more popular band than Megadeth, but
let's see here.
They have Jeff- [laughs] Jerry Rafferty Baker Street at 89.
Cemetery Gates, 86. That's a pretty epic solo. Pretty epic solo, I mean.
That's also one of the hardest, uh, screams to do.
That's true. Phil-
That high-pitched-
Mm-hmm.
How does Phil do that?
He doesn't anymore. [laughs] He, he can-
'Cause he sounds like this.
Yeah, he can't do it anymore, no. I ... He probably just, you know, just yells, "Pearl Jam Alive."
Oh. [laughs] Sorry.
Yeah, some of these I've never even heard of, like MJ Lenderman Knockin'. [laughs]
Yeah, who the heck are Richard and Linda Thompson, The Calvary Cross Live at the Oxford Polytechnic at 82?
[laughs] Got me. They got Steve Vai at 80.
Yeah, just saw that.
All right. What else do we got here?
Judas Priest Painkiller at 78.
Hmm. All right. I guess we're just gonna count down this list on this show today, huh? Let's get to 75-
I just-
... and then we'll take a break. [laughs]
I just skipped right towards the top 20 right at, right as you said that.
Oh, okay. Well, uh, Jimmy Eat World The Middle at 76 and The Cars-
What?
... Just What I Needed at 75.
Oh, you know what? I completely forgot about one that's in the top 20.
You forgot about one that's in the top 20?
Yeah.
Okay. Well, we'll, we'll get into it in a minute. [upbeat music] It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. We're talking Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time. Many of them so far, we've gone through the, the bottom set, uh, 25, 100 through 75. [laughs] Sorry, my brain ain't working. I'm dumb. And, uh, a lot of these I've never even heard of,
and others it's like, man, that seems kind of low on the list.
Well, like you said with Cemetery Gates at, what, 80-something?
86.
Yeah, see, Cemetery Gates is a fantastic song. Dimebag Darrell, one of the greatest guitarists, I feel like, out, you know-
Yeah, that's a ripping solo
... was taken too soon.
Yeah.
Um, speaking of guitarists that got taken too soon, what would you think is in the top 20-
Okay
... when it comes to classics, with a guitarist who died very, very, very early on?
I mean, Hen- Hendrix, right?
Well, besides him.
Besides Hendrix. Died very young.
He was younger than me when he passed away.
Younger than you when he passed away. Guitar player.
Hmm.
Should I give you an even bigger hint?
Yeah.
The singer of this band just, or the singer of this group just died, uh, not that long ago.
Hmm.
Who died recently? What, w- well, who-
You know. Look at your wrist.
Y- yeah, but ... Oh. Uh, Randy Rhoads.
Randy Rhoads.
Randy Rhoads-
Crazy Train
... Crazy Train. Yeah. I, I, I don't know why I didn't think of that one. 'Cause when you said somebody who just died, I'm like, "Tony Iommi didn't die."
[laughs]
Didn't occur, occur to me. Oh, yeah, Ozzy had a solo band with many other guitarists.
And Randy Rhoads was taken at, like, 25 years old.
Yeah, he was really young.
And Crazy Train is one of the best solos ever.
I, I'd hope that one's top five.
It is number 17.
17?Okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna scroll a little bit more through some of these lower ranked ones. Nothing, uh, like Heart Shaped Box, does that have a... Again, I, I don't remember that guitar solo. You know, Iron Maiden, The Trooper, sure. You know, it's got a standout solo. But-
Where's Through the Fire and Flames? That's what I wanna know about.
Oh, that's gotta be on here, right?
Yeah.
It's gotta be on here. Boston, More Than a Feeling. You know, Boris with Naki Kyoku.
[laughs]
You ever heard of that? I've never heard of that.
Sounds like you just casted a spell or something. [laughs]
[laughs] I probably did. Oh, no, I'm cursed.
Uh, so, like, they have-
Highway Star's got a good solo, yeah. It's coming in at number 58.
They have Ozzy's Crazy Train at 17, right?
Uh-huh.
They have Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody at 14.
I mean, it's got, it, it's got a pretty famous solo.
I would, I would say even, like, when it comes to-
But it's not as good as Crazy Train
... to Randy Rhoads, Quiet Riot, Come On Feel the Noize.
Yeah.
Like, that also has the same level as Crazy Train of a solo, I feel like.
Yeah, I'm trying to see if there's any-
Where's any, where's, like, Stevie Ray Vaughan at? Is he on here? Um-
I haven't seen him yet. So, let's see. Let's scroll down through to number 50.
Where's, uh, BB King, or... [laughs]
They got Freddie King.
They got some guy named Madhu Mokhtar.
What'd you call me?
[laughs] That's about right.
D- okay.
Fleetwood Mac.
Are there any Beatles songs out there where you're like, "Wow, that's a ripping guitar solo."
Maybe in the track The End.
Number 10, The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Okay. I mean, it's a pretty legendary solo. I'll, I'll give 'em that. I, I coulda probably thought about that one. Um, what do we got here? I'm, I'm down into the 40s. You got Phish. Oh, and the stupid computer's freezing up on me.
I just saw the top five in this.
Okay.
Like, like what Rolling Stone will always do. Aretha Franklin. No, I'm kidding. But like, the top five is pretty much a letdown.
Okay.
I mean, you gotta have Van Halen, Eruption up there, obviously.
Sabbath, War Pigs at 31, and you got The Beatles, Something at 32. Um-
I'll just let you c- handle the rest of the list.
Yeah. Let, let's, let's get into the top 20 in the next, next break. [upbeat music] It's the noon hour of madness and mayhem, talking Rolling Stone's top 100 guitar solos of all, all time.
I-
It's been a weird list
... I just thought of another one. November Rain.
Oh, that's gotta be in the top 20. It's gotta be. All right, um, Metallica, One came in at number 27. Cream, Crossroads at 26.
Okay, but you're telling me s- a Cream song has a better solo than Metallica's One?
Uh, according to Rolling Stone. I mean, that is a pretty famous song.
I feel like we cater to the older bands way, with way too much, like, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, we look up to them way too much.
Yeah, the Rol- The Rolling Stone lists always have a bunch of really old stuff.
Like, The Beatles should not be known for musicianship. They should be known for basic i- easygoing [laughs] hits that, it's almost basically children's music, I feel like.
Eh, I mean, th- they, they-
[laughs] We all live in a yellow submarine.
Okay, now that's a bad example.
[laughs]
That's a bad example.
Here comes the sun. Doo, doo, doo, doo.
[laughs] They've got some pretty complex songs. Uh-
What about, like, uh, uh, Come Together? That's an easy one, too.
Dun, dun, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Yeah, that intro, the intro sucks. I hate the intro to that song. [laughs]
[laughs]
What, what, what else? Yeah.
Sweet Child O' Mine's at 25.
Yeah, see, like that's even
q- it's, it's still not better than Metallica's One when it comes to a solo.
And there's Stevie Ray Vaughan at number 21 with Texas Flood.
Not even Pride and Joy? Wow.
Nope. Counting down the top 20. Jeff Beck, Freeway Jam at 20. Oh, there's Free Bird. I, I threw Free Bird out as a, uh, as a guess. Number 19.
Hendrix, Little Wing at 18.
Crazy Train, you mentioned, at 17. You got Grateful Dead with Morning Dew Live at Cornell University, May 8th, 1977.
[laughs] I love how th- that one in particular.
That one night.
Not the recording, but that one night when whoever the guitar player is for Grateful Dead, I'm forgetting the name of right now, uh, just ripped a 20-minute long solo-
[laughs] Yep
... 'cause everybody was on mushrooms.
Yep. [laughs]
[laughs]
That was amazing.
Uh, Prince covering While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2004 at number 15.
There's Bohemian Rhapsody at 14. I'm getting kind of curious what we're gonna get down to here. Allman Brothers Band, Statesboro Blues at 13.
Yeah, 'cause when it comes to ripping guitar solos, I, I, I automatically think of the Allman Brothers Band.
That's right. How about, uh, Beat It by Michael Jackson at number 12?
That one, uh, has a pretty cool guitar solo, 'cause it's Eddie Van Halen, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah. Then you got Hendrix again with All Along the Watchtower at 11.
Not a b- not the biggest Hendrix fan myself, but you gotta respect he's one of the guitar masters.
Oh, yeah.
One of the best ones ever.
Yeah, he, he changed how people play, you know? Uh-
That's a rough 27. [laughs]
Yeah.
Besides the death, I mean, but, like, if you look at pictures of him, he still looks way older than me.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Uh, kids, you know, don't do drugs. Drugs are bad, mm-kay?
Mm-kay.
The, The Beatles at number 10 with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Funkadelic, Maggot Brain.
Oh, that's the one that I saw. I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna put this list down."
I, I'm gonna have to check that one out. I, I don't know if I've heard that. Steely Dan at number eight with Kid Charlemagne.
Okay, Stairway to Heaven at number seven.
Which is one of the best songs of all time, even though I'm not the biggest Led Zeppelin fan.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's legendary. Okay, Johnny B. Goode at number six.
Is that really legendary, or is that just, uh, considered to be a classic that's untouched because it's so old?
Eh, yeah. I mean, it, he was one of those game changer guys, you know?
We got someone who wants in.
I don't know. I just looked at the outside.
Eruption at number five.Oh, Comfortably Numb at number four. Pretty legendary solo, Pink Floyd. Hotel California at number three. Um-
Which I, I, I should have thought of that one.
Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix at number two.
I, I swear I thought you were gonna say Machine Gun Kelly.
No.
Oh, number one,
it ... I don't think it's the greatest guitar solo of all time. Purple Rain.
I don't even like that song. [laughs]
I mean, I like the song. I like it more than
Comfortably Numb from Pink Floyd.
[laughs]
But I also think, like, I, I ... The solo's not really ... Like, I, I haven't listened to the song in quite a long time.
I think they should have put Crazy Train. I don't know. Looking at the whole list-
I was looking-
Or Free Bird.
I even asked AI. I was like, "Hey, what are the top 10, like, guitar solos of all time?" And it put Stairway at number one-
Yeah
... Comfortably Numb at two, Eruption three, All Along the Watchtower four, Hotel California five, November Rain six, Free Bird seven, Bohemian Rhapsody eight, but then it gives me Sultans of Swing from Dire Straits at number nine, and Crazy Train at 10.
Huh. Well, I mean, it's a somewhat similar list, but-
What about Tornado of Souls from Megadeth? It put that in the honorable mentions.
Oh, did it?
Fade to Black from Metallica.
Uh, Cliffs of Dover from Eric Johnson.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's got a pretty-
And it g-
... pretty decent solo.
It also gave me Maggot Brain from Funkadelic.
We're gonna have to check that song out. We're gonna have to find it. It must be pretty good.
I guess Eric Clapton did the guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Did he?
The, the ... AI could be wrong, of course.
Yeah.
But it says The Beatles/Eric Clapton for that song.
Maybe he helped write it. I don't know. Have to look into that. Anyway, there's your list. We'll be back with something else in a minute.
I gotta take this hoodie off. I'm like
... I was feeling sick yesterday, like I was gonna puke.
Victor stripping.
Becca's been puking for, like, a day.
[whooping] Yeah, I know, I see her s- [coughs] her statuses. [upbeat music]
It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm Victor.
So we talked about guitar solos. I am Peaches, by the way. We talked about guitar solos, and now we should move on to the next best thing, poop.
Poop. We talked a lot about poop on the morning show. [laughs]
Yeah. Well, right as I got here, I started listening to your show through the site, kbur.fm, which listeners can do also, simply right there at their desk at work.
Mm-hmm.
Kbur.fm takes you right to the player. Listen live there. Um, yesterday I talked about this app that you can download called PoopCheck.
PoopCheck.
And I don't know i- if it's predominantly AI that checks your poop or if it's other people.
[laughs]
I think other people can look at your pictures and say, like, "Hey, this looks a little messed up here. You might wanna
worry about your fiber intake," or whatever it may be.
A- and I think there was something about public comments being made on your pictures. I'm like, how do you ... I'm sure there's gonna be people rage-baiting in the comments section-
Oh, yeah
... just about people's poop. And I can't believe we're
at, at a, at a, a time i- in modern day where it's like you can have an app that checks that for you.
Yeah.
So I think we, we should do things the old-fashioned way.
[laughs]
I think- [laughs]
Put it, put it in a box and ship it to a doctor?
No, besides that. I mean, take a picture of it after you're done here at the company toilet, and then print it out, and then put it on that tack board that-
[laughs]
... that, that [laughs] that cork board-
Oh, geez
... right there outside the bathroom.
[laughs]
And then people can leave little Post-It notes on the bottom. [laughs]
What they think?
[laughs]
[laughs]
Uh, well, if you're worried about your poo, uh-
[laughs]
... it looks like it's available in the, uh, the Apple Store and Google Play. [laughs] PoopCheck.
Imagine paying for a subscription for this app.
[laughs]
Pay eight bucks a month to get my poop checked by, uh, people online.
Yeah. It's, uh, it's got good reviews. It's the number one app for AI stool scanning. [laughs] So yes, it's AI-powered.
There's, there's competition for that, by the way.
[laughs]
Imagine being, imagine being number two. [laughs]
We need, we need to take over. We need to be number one, not ... I mean, you kinda wanna be number two.
That's the joke I was making.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[laughs]
But I was also thinking, like, oh, wait, I just lost my ... I lost my joke. Dang it. It was, it was really funny.
My bad. My bad, Peaches.
I mean, it was ... Like, imagine telling people that you're, uh, you're poop maxing. That's the joke-
Oh-
... I was looking for
... poop maxing
You know how they're doing something else with, uh-
Yeah
... the, the male anatomy?
Yeah.
I was thinking, like, what if they just did, like, poop maxing? Like, oh-
Oh
... here's a picture of my s- uh, like, cylindrical ... [laughs]
Okay. All right. W- we're, we're done.
Where's the subreddit on that?
[laughs] We're done.
Poop maxing.
[laughs]
I'm downvoting this guy. It's clearly AI-generated. It's not real poop. [laughs]
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