#486 Jac Holzman on Elektra Records and Opinions on Cannibal Ox
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Sound Opinions
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🗓️ 20 March 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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As Elektra records prepares to celebrate its 65th anniversary, Jim and Greg speak with label founder Jac Holzman about the birth of the modern label system and its diverse roster of artists including Queen, Love and The Doors. Later they review the long-awaited new album from hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox.
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| 0:00.0 | There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy something happy something up-tem. I want something peppy, something up temple, I want something snappy. Throughout its long and storied history, Electro Records has been one of the most adventurous |
| 0:39.6 | and diverse labels in the music business. |
| 0:42.3 | Now it's turning 65. I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:45.4 | And I'm Greg Kot. We talked to Electra Records founder Jack Holzman and reviewed the long |
| 0:50.0 | awaited new album from hip-hopto-doo Cannibal Ox. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:59.7 | This is sound opinions Jim and later on you and I are going to talk about this new |
| 1:03.4 | Cannibal Ox record and I got to say I'm pretty excited that we have a |
| 1:06.3 | Cannibal Ox record we had a Bermuda Triangle episode a while back in which we |
| 1:11.6 | discussed artists who have sort of dropped off the map after making a great album and |
| 1:15.6 | Canniblox is one of those groups. I mean this duo made one of the greatest hip-hop albums of the last 15 years |
| 1:22.0 | with the Coldvane and then basically nothing |
| 1:24.3 | until now so we're gonna review that new record later in the show but first we have |
| 1:28.6 | some music news You said all that when you read my movie to me is the right will you take a look |
| 1:35.7 | based on enough my man being near and I need a job so I want to be a |
| 1:41.8 | back writer. That's a writer. That's a little bit of the Beatles' 1966 |
| 1:48.8 | That's a little bit of the Beatles' 1966 Classic Paperback writer written by John Lennon, Greg, on a Gretsch 6120 hollow body electric guitar. |
| 1:59.4 | We have a couple stories from the People will buy anything desk. |
| 2:04.0 | That guitar has recently been sold to the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, I think that's a football team, |
| 2:10.6 | sports team. |
| 2:11.6 | Jim Ursay paid $530,000 to a cousin of John Lennon who went over to John's house one day |
| 2:18.6 | said, hey, I really want to learn how to play guitar. |
| 2:20.8 | Lenin gave him this guitar. Never thinking that eventually it would be worth |
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