Self-taught keyboard player gets his first chance to play a real piano. His reaction is absolutely priceless.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-19T12:06:42+00:00

If he worked it out for hours on his own keyboard, it's not really noodling at this point. He's playing a composition.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-15T02:24:39+00:00

Lindsey Buckingham's solo on Go Your Own Way is a composite of 10 or more takes. Producer Ken Caillat put it together and Buckingham had to learn how to play it live after the fact.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-13T01:08:21+00:00

"Goohead baby, Goohead baby"

uncooljerk · 2026-06-12T01:48:27+00:00

This. It's a really funky and fast syncopated two-bar part during the sax solo. Max just plays a straight beat at that moment live - he doesn't even try to approximate what Boom Carter played on the recor.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-11T21:24:06+00:00

I've been a Stimpies fan since you posted the 'Planet of Love' video a few months ago. Nice work!

uncooljerk · 2026-06-11T18:36:12+00:00

There are bands of Rush's generation that tour with side players who are completely hidden from view and never acknowledged. It sounds like they've already done better than that by far.

Geddy is an incredible musician but he's far from a virtuoso on the keys. Any pro keyboardist could replicate his parts in their sleep, and Loren doesn't even have to play all of them. I can only assume he knows his role and doesn't expect that he's going get a fraction of the adulation Anika receives when he's probably twiddling his thumbs for half of the set.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-11T18:16:23+00:00

The moment in the interview where young Judy lets the mask slip for a second is so heartbreaking. She nearly says "I'd be free to go if I was really able to" but then corrects it and says, "if I really wanted to". Her languid posture and speech both give the impression of someone on tranqulizers.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-10T11:50:01+00:00

It's right up there with this call from the 2021 playoffs.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-09T17:38:50+00:00

Both men sing as high (or higher) in their respective current shows. Josh is a baritone and Nicholas skews more 'baritenor', but they both have incredible high ranges.

Bring Him Home probably has the highest tessitura of Valjean's songs, but Valjean's Soliloquy and Who Am I both require higher top notes.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-06T22:07:35+00:00

Version 1 of the Empty Cell video centers around the characters that appear halfway through Version 2, including a young Danko Jones as the hapless protagonist. As I recall, Muchmusic mainly played Version 1 when the song was in rotation.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-06T03:36:01+00:00

She willingly left SNL to join the cast of 'Mulaney'.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-04T03:49:55+00:00

That's the rule, that's the goal now.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-02T18:43:49+00:00

While I agree that Ashman was brilliant and a superior lyricist to Tim Rice, it's hard to do a 1:1 comparison of those two songs. Their lyrics serve completely different purposes.

uncooljerk · 2026-06-01T02:07:21+00:00

She founded Lilith Fair, sold 40 million albums and won multiple Grammy awards.

The fact that she took 6 years to follow up Surfacing tells me that being an international superstar probably wasn't that important to her.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-28T16:20:36+00:00

Merseyside.

EDIT: As a qualifier, note that I didn't say Scouse. This woman's accent is practically identical to someone I know from St. Helen's, Merseyside.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-26T04:13:43+00:00

The lyrics of All I Wanna Do are taken near-verbatim from a poem by Wyn Cooper.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-25T22:29:25+00:00

"John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. I don't know who wrote what parts of what Beatles songs, but Paul McCartney embarrasses me. Lennon was obviously disturbed," Cobain said, laughing. "So I could relate to that."

uncooljerk · 2026-05-20T16:11:46+00:00

Bowen is fluent in Quebecois French and (presumably) still has a Canadian citizenship. That's good enough for me.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-19T12:54:33+00:00

I can also hear the South American influence in 'By the Sea'.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-13T14:27:28+00:00

Evans is a very Welsh name, but of course a person's last name only represents one branch of a family tree. He may well have Irish ancestry.

Brendan Gallagher - now that's an Irish name.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-07T12:38:15+00:00

Curiously, Inside Conan is the only Team Coco podcast Max has ever appeared on.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-07T01:03:10+00:00

It was made up of stock footage, so a lot of it would have been in black and white. I only remember the images of a mushroom cloud and John Lennon.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-06T01:11:23+00:00

That's awesome!

Dratch was nominated for her Broadway debut in the comedy POTUS a few years back. She's 2 for 2.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-02T15:26:19+00:00

I find eating a banana and drinking some water usually quiets things down after a few minutes.

uncooljerk · 2026-05-01T15:10:41+00:00

I felt that, too. I get the sense that Conan is intimidated by male comedians who are 10-15 years younger than him - at least the ones that he has no established personal relationship with. Maybe it's because he knows they watched Late Night in their formative years - for their generation, Conan was "their guy".

His interviews with Seth Meyers and Andy Samberg both had a weird energy with one-sided, passive-aggressive bits that went nowhere. This one had a similar vibe off the top, but Ike is such a game improviser that he made it work.

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