204 - Sid Needed Floppy Shoes: The Road to Almost w/ Darryl Rhoades

Hooks & Runs

Darryl Rhoades has been entertaining audiences with his music and comedy for over half-a-century. As founder and leader of Hahavishnu Orchestra and later as a solo artist, Rhoades recorded several albums and toured across the United States. Rhoades once even opened for The Sex Pistols! He has been featured in Rolling Stone, Village Voice and High Times. Kurt Loder (Rolling Stone, MTV) described Rhoades as, ”one of the most savagely gifted writer/performers in the country today.”
Rhoades' new biography, "The Road to Almost: The Lean Years, 1950-2024," is a funny and fascinating read - a witty tour de force recounting Rhoades' time with characters like Frank Zappa, Leon Redbone, the Sex Pistols, Jan Hooks and Negro League Hall of Famer Buck Leonard. If laughter is the best medicine, Rex and Craig were fit as fiddles after this interview.
Darryl Rhoades official site: https://music-comedy.com/
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Errata: Felix Mantilla reached on an error, Eddie Matthews sacrificed Mantilla to second, Henry Aaron drew an intentional walk and Joe Adcock his a three-run home run off Harvey Haddix in the bottom of the 13th, or so it seemed. Lew Burdette was the winning pitcher for Milwaukee - a 13-inning, 12-hit shutout. Enos Slaughter's score from first on a single (officially, and probably incorectly, a double) during the 1946 World Series was called the "Mad Dash."
Episodes Referenced:
198 - Johnny Mize: Born to Hit w/ Jerry Grillo

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Hoofdstukken

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. "They were all laughing and having a party..." (00:06:18)

3. "It was so easy to make fun of stuff" (00:09:15)

4. "Sid needed floppy shoes" (00:12:32)

5. "That's the place we had the guns drawn on us" (00:18:25)

6. "The witness protection program for musicians" (00:23:32)

7. Quiz time: "We kind of wing it" (00:25:36)

8. "Those guys should have gottten their due years ago." (00:31:10)

9. 400 thousand baseball cards (00:34:40)

10. "They're laughing at me!" (00:37:40)

11. "When [the songs] don't have melody it kind of loses me." (00:43:46)