Mar 20, 2023
This episode starts with the flow-through between Queen's "Death On Two Legs" and Manic Bloom's "Push Off The Ground", a bit of a recap of the prior Manic Bloom songs we spoke about and the reveal of the connection to Wilder Woods from the last episode.
We talk about the upcoming interview and Jeff had a great line "and it's not their fault they make great music".
The jump to the next artist leads into alien territory and conspiracy theories and we venture into the world of Japanese metal. I also have a couple of fun stories connected to the band.
The origin of the band connects to my favorite album of the '90s. Somehow references to Coldplay and Rod Stewart show up along with Kelly Clarkson (a second time in the episode) and Anthrax. Now that would be a concert experience. The direct connection between the artists ends up being a prolific music producer over the last 50 plus years.
We get to the final Manic Bloom song which brings up a piece that I hadn't thought I would bring up but it was meant to be. And another crazy synchronicity in post-production involves Mary J. Blige showing up twice.
Towards the end of the episode my oft used Nickelback joke comes up and we talk about the lead singer of Alice In Chains, an obscure Psychobilly band and another American Idol alumus.