#694 The Best of Sound Opinions Live & Hal Blaine
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Over the years, Sound Opinions has seen many great performances from the talented artists and bands that appeared. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of the biggest performances ever on the show, including artists like Wilco, Common and Cheap Trick. They'll also bid farewell to legendary session drummer Hal Blaine, who died at age 90.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Shh, sho-sho-sho-tok. |
| 0:15.0 | Shh, Shhk-hoo. From W.BeeZ Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Orgatus. |
| 0:32.8 | And I'm Greg Kott. Over the years we've had so many talented musicians on our show performing. |
| 0:37.6 | Today we'll go to the archives to play some of our favorite live performances that we've ever hosted on the show. |
| 0:43.4 | Artists like Wilco, Common and Cheap Trip. |
| 0:46.2 | I was all right. |
| 0:48.2 | That is all right. |
| 0:49.6 | They just seem a little weird. Surrender and surrender. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:55.0 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:58.0 | This is sound opinions and this week we're sharing some of our favorite live performances from artists that have come to our studios. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, you know, what do we qualify as best? I think, you know, there are many criterion here, but to me, when somebody says a name to you and immediately |
| 1:16.8 | produces a memory of where you were, what song they played, how you felt when they played that song. |
| 1:23.2 | That's a pretty good indication that, yeah, that was a real keeper and |
| 1:26.6 | maybe it's worth hearing again. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm never gonna forget, Greg, walking in here in 2013. |
| 1:31.6 | Cheap trick. The Consimatemate pros from Rockford, Illinois are here early. |
| 1:36.8 | They're all set up. Robin Zanders in the community room at W.B.E.Z. Public Radio, doing |
| 1:41.9 | vocal exercises. I know exercises I'll never forget that |
| 1:43.8 | to sing for us amazing right yeah bagels out oh no no no he's serious about his |
| 1:48.0 | voice it was amazing to have cheap trick here was the 35th anniversary of the famous live album at |
| 1:54.4 | Buda Khan, Robin Zander on vocals, Rick Nielsen on guitar, Tom Peterson on bass, |
| 2:00.4 | we got to talk to them, we got to joke with them, because there's no not joking when |
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