#626 Songs of Thanks, the Bass VI & Rise Against's Tim McIlrath
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🗓️ 24 November 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Thanksgiving is a time to gather around the dinner table with family and friends to reflect on the past year and give thanks. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite songs that say "thank you." Plus, the story of the twangy guitar-bass hybrid instrument known as the Bass VI, and Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath shares the song that got him Hooked on Sonics.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow babbling my baw baw baw baw bum From W.B. E.Z. Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Greg Kott. |
| 0:24.2 | And I'm Jim Deregadas. |
| 0:25.6 | It's the time of the year when we reflect on things |
| 0:27.8 | we're thankful for. |
| 0:28.9 | And in that spirit, we've got a list of songs of thanks, |
| 0:31.6 | from Led Zeppelin to Sly in the Family Stone to the |
| 0:34.8 | descendants. Plus the story of a bass masquerading as a guitar. The twangy sound |
| 0:43.0 | sound me. |
| 0:44.0 | That's all make. |
| 0:45.0 | The song. |
| 0:46.0 | The song me. |
| 0:48.0 | The song it. |
| 0:50.0 | The twangy sound of the bass six that's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and Greg later in the show we've got our occasional feature |
| 1:05.5 | Instrumental where we're gonna look at the bass six a fascinating instrument a lot of people don't know about |
| 1:11.6 | But it's been on recordings from |
| 1:13.1 | Roy Orbison to new order. That's later in the show but first Jim we want to |
| 1:17.4 | honor the fact that Thanksgiving has just been completed we have got full |
| 1:21.7 | stomachs full hearts I ate too much we want to play some |
| 1:25.3 | songs a soundtrack for this occasion of thankfulness many songs throughout the |
| 1:30.5 | history of rock and pop and R&B and soul and hip-hop have been written giving |
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