All right, all right, all right. Here we are. Welcome to another episode of Let the

Be Talk. Dale Razer's in the house. It is February 17th. It is a Monday and that

means it's a new episode. And this is episode number 517. Yes. 517. And I can't

even believe who I'm about to introduce to you guys here on the show today. He is a rock

and roll hall of famer. He is a damn legend. I call him the glue. The glue that keeps

Errol Smith together. Mr. Brad Whitford is here today. And man was this in honor to talk

to this guy. The first time I remember getting into Errol Smith was late 70s. There was a

a record store in my town called Backdoor Records in this this whole hippie name Rick owned it.

Out hang out down there. Non-stop. You know, it's one of those places. It's sold bongs.

The prototype. Remember the prototype? The brass one. It had that little flap. You just slide over

put the weed in there. Smoke up. Now you can stash weed in the little tube. And it had a poker

all in one. Whoever invented that give him the Nobel Peace Prize. The prototype. Anyway.

So I used to hang out at this record store and they had what I would call the original iTunes.

They were the first iTunes. Meaning they had this system where you'd give them like $10

for the year. And you could check out a record a week like a library, a rock and roll library.

And it was it was crazy. I don't even know if that was legal. Back then just check out a record,

go home, play it for a week and then come back. And the first record I checked out was a masterpiece

called Toys in the attic. I was in love with the song, walked this way and sweet emotion.

And so of course I grabbed the record, got home and just played those songs over and over and over

until I got burnt on them. And then dug into the deep tracks. Including Toys in the attic. That

fucking song. No more, no more. And right away I was like, this is this is a band for me.

I don't even think any of my friends were listening to him. I was just kind of like,

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