Professor of Rock

Well, we took a couple of months off from this show, but due to overwhelming feedback, we did another episode… We brought it back at least one more time… It’s outdated… Time in a Bottle show… the songs that take you right back to the moment you first heard them. They sound exactly like the moment they were released, and these songs have compelling stories too… including how one of rock’s most dangerous frontmen, Axl Rose, sat down on a curb outside a Hollywood club, crying over a girl he couldn’t have. Afterwards, he went and threw rocks at his bandmate’s window that same night, and the two sat down and wrote the most emotional ballads in hard rock history. There’s also the story of Boyz II Men who snuck backstage at their idol’s concert, cornered him in his dressing room, and started singing. After hearing them, this popular musician signed them on the spot, and they would go on to break records set by the Beatles and Elvis. And finally… The KLF, a duo spent two years building one of the most bizarre and brilliant careers in music and, at the height of their popularity, crashed one of the UK’s biggest award shows by firing blanks from an automatic weapon over the crowd before disappearing from the music industry forever and deleting their entire catalog of songs. Plus why the Metallica controversy is ridiculous... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Jaimee Hammack, Dan Tierney, Sarge, Byrdman, Duff Gordon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #rockmusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey Music Junkies, this is my first show back after getting out of the hospital, so bear with me; I have to take 5 mins in between, counting down to take in oxygen on the road back to health…I got down to 40% oxygen on my oximeter, and so I was rushed to the ER and spent 3 days in the hospital, and now i’mgetting back into the swing of things, but I may only be able to record here and there as I get back to 100%, so if you would watch the old vids you have seen and these new ones as they come out, it will help me and the channel until I get back. I truly appreciate all the support. So today we are jumping into a show we haven’t done for a while… Time in a bottle. A tip of the hat to beloved singer songwriter jim croce. Where we go back to a specific year in music and count down 10 songs that are of their time… They sound exactly like the moment they were released on radio. Today we go back to 1991. Just before grunge took over. Music was having an identity crisis. It was stuck in the bad 80s and didn’t have its personality and context. Some of these songs are great, some are bad, but they all take us back to a simpler time. When we bought CDs and still watched MTV. Let’s get into 1991. At #10, I have one of the cheeseball moments of the 90s, but it was for a good cause. It’s Voices That Care singing Voices That Care. Do you all remember this one? From 1990 to 1991, Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm was on the news every night… and a pile of the biggest stars in America decided it was about time to sing about it. It was early 1991. Tensions were high over the Persian Gulf War, and producer David Foster, lyricist Linda Thompson, and singer Peter Cetera had an idea… a charity single to support the US troops overseas. They called the project Voices That Care. Proceeds would go to the American Red Cross, and the goal was to boost troop morale. Within 72 hours, they had dozens of actors, athletes, and musicians in the studio. Lead vocalists included Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, Amy Grant, and Will Smith. if that doesn’t scream early 90s i don’t want does…The choir was a who’s who of celebrities: Michael Jordan, Kevin Costner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Muhammad Ali. Mark Knopfler added a guitar solo, which was the best part, and Kenny G brought the sax, which was the worst part. Behind the scenes, things were more complicated. Several prominent Hollywood figures declined to take part. They worried that the song would come across as a pro-war political statement… rather than a humanitarian effort to support service members. It was a sign of how deeply anxious the country was about the conflict. Still, the project went forward. The single was released alongside a behind-the-scenes