Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (..... with all this jazz flute?) THE BEST OF BECK DID IT BETTER-

[00:00]Hey everybody, welcome to the best of Beck did it better. Beck did it better is a podcast where we look at each of the top 500 albums as listed by Rolling Stone magazine. We want you to listen to our podcast. In fact, we spend every night trying to figure out how to get more and more listeners. Then it hit us the key to getting more people to like us is to give less of us. So we're putting little clips into these shows and calling it the best of Beck did it better. In this short clip, we talk about Marvin Gaye's hit album, what's going on, except we barely talk about the album. In this clip, and instead we find a song that has the jazz fluent on it. And then Matt found an absolutely fantastic album cover of Herbie Mann's push push. And then Russ tells us a dark secret that I promised him I would cut out of the episode, but I can't figure out how this program to edit it is so darn complicated. To be honest, the clip is mostly us laughing, but it's a great look at our show Beck did it better. If you don't want to be left out when everyone on Twitter is posting about that Herbie Mann album cover, hit that subscribe button wherever you get podcasts. I know you subscribe to too many podcasts.

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[02:00]I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck did it better. All right, right on. I mean, listen to this. Here we have that. This is just a solo. Russell, let's see that we're all action. Oh, he's taking his pants off. Why is he doing that? I was trying to find a sand. This sounds like the band war to me. That's where I'm feeling the West Coast influence. Yes, Santana West Coast. There's what I'm saying. This is the West Coast song. God, those drums. It's just crazy. It turns out I love jazz flute. I just love jazz flute. I love Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Get it ready, Rob. I love the Eric Dolphy jazz stuff from his Live in New York album, and I love it. You like Rahsaan Roland Kirk? You fucking noob. Yes, I love Rahsaan Roland Kirk. You're a jazz flute noob. You idiot. Has jazz flute ever been referred to in media before? Other than, was it like it referred to an anchorman? This has to be the first time it's ever been referred to. Yeah. Yeah.

[03:00]Anchorman, yeah. Rosie thought he was serious. He's like, oh, yeah, Aqualung. It's not even jazz. Rosie's like, Aqualung's not even jazz flute. That's what I'm saying. Eric Dolphy has a fucking rad jazz flute recording off of his Live in Europe album. You guys should check it out. Russ bought it at Target. Yeah, I think I did. They didn't. I went through the jazz flute section in Target. They didn't have anything there. It was kind of disappointing, but they had record players. It was picked over. It was happening. It was in the store, the jazz flute section. Yeah, Target really ought to change their focus. No wonder they've been struggling through this global pandemic. It's Karl Malone holding a flute. Oh, God, I just. Aaron, can you, I have a serious question, though. Do you listen to a song and you say, oh, I can hear the jazz flute? What? No, I just, I mean, yeah, I can hear the flute in this song. And what I'm saying is there are other songs I really enjoy. His wife rolls up that limo driver window. Okay, honey, great. I'm glad you can hear the jazz flute.

[04:01]You have to say that I enjoy the flute in the. I think, I think Rosie's going to have to come up with the top four jazz flute songs of all time for the next album. Oh, how can he only pick four? Go to the country, baby, I want to go. Go to the country, baby, I want to go. Canned heat, right? Can we just restart this? I would love to just do the whole, the whole podcast about that song instead. Is this a country Joe podcast now? That is right. Country Joe and the fish bones. Rosie, who is that? I was thinking it was canned heat, but I think you're right. No, no, I think you're right. It is country Joe. It's canned heat. Okay. I thought maybe they're too mainstream. Aaron wouldn't know. Yeah, no, I'm saying it turns out I, so I ended up, you guys know, I listened to the radio. What? There's a station that plays a lot of that plays. K-102 jazz flute featured all the time from nine to five. The jazz flute. They play a lot of jazz flute in the mornings. I don't know why.

[05:02]Crank that radio and listen to your jazz flute. I listen to AM radio because they have the Wiro station. Also, I just heard a thumping noise on the deck out here. It may or may not be a bear. So if you guys never hear from me again, that's what's up. That's what's going on. Can you imagine if you get eaten by a bear and the last thing you said was something about a jazz flute? I'd probably rather get eaten by the bear listening to jazz flute than listening to Radiohead. And then at your funeral, we're playing, um, sexual healing on a brass band. You guys get it. You guys, you guys get me. That's why I'm on this podcast. And we're, we're talking to your wife and we're like, listen, whatever your name is, we're so sorry that this happened. Are we talking to the Des Moines wife or the Oakland one? What nights would you be willing to be on our podcast? Would you be able to be on our podcast now that Aaron has passed away? I'm uncomfortable. Would that be, if you had multiple lives and when you died, they all had to come together and figure out like, Hey, who's paying for this?

[06:04]Who's paying for this expense? And that's the most baller move. That's having multiple families. That's a huge, and then they don't find out until the funeral straight up baller. Totally. I could never do it. I've always been a big fan of polygamy. I think polygamy should be legal, but not me. Like my wife should have another husband. That's what I want. I mean, she'd be like, Oh, why didn't you wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher? Be like, well, that was fucking Roy. Roy thinks that the dishwasher washes dishes. It's the goddamn name of the appliance. It's what it does. We shouldn't have to wash the dishes before we put them. Roy, you fucking idiot. And then I just give Roy the fucking business. And meanwhile, five minutes before Roy and I have been playing, you know, Mario card together or whatever. Like it'd be awesome. If my wife had another husband, that'd be great. I would love it. I also like that. It's just your name with one letter change. For all of our listeners out there. If you want to see some good jazz flute players, Google a Herbie man and look at the Herbie man push album.

[07:07]That's when you're looking at a pull them up, Rob. So you can see what it looks like. I don't know that one. I mean, many jazz flutists are multi-instrumentalists. Like Rossano Herb is multi-instrumental. Eric Dolphy, multi-instrumentalist. Go to images. Go to images. Look at this guy. Oh, wow. Russell, Herbie man push. Just give everybody an idea. There's a guy who kind of looks like one of my friend's dads from middle school who is holding a flute over his naked torso. That is your new Bumble profile now, Russell. Put your head on that picture and let's go. I have something to say here, but I realize if I say it, I can. I will never take it back because I know Rob will never delete it out of the podcast, so I can't decide if I should say it or not.

[08:04]Russell, I promise I'll delete it. You can trust me. When I raided my mom's record collection, the record. This was under her mattress? The artist that she had the most of, I think, was Jim Croce. Number two was Herbie man, the flute player. 100%. There was at least five to six Herbie man albums. This is the greatest moment on this podcast. I would be happy to go back and sneak into the back door, make sure the motion detector doesn't go off, sneak back into my mom's house, and see legit six to seven Herbie man albums. That's with two N's, M-A-N-N, for all of our listeners. I didn't even ask her about most of the albums, but I did when I went up. Before I stole them all, I asked her, I said, hey, who's Herbie man?

[09:03]And she was like, oh, he was some flute player who was really popular back in the 70s or whatever. That's Mr. Man to you, Russell. Yeah, he feels like pretty intimidating. For a flute player. Yeah, I wouldn't mess with that guy. I just got done playing the flute, now I'm going to kick your ass. Maybe we could get my mom to do a little cameo. We could talk about the Herbie man era back in the 70s. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's time for one-on-one. Herbie man and Russell's mom. Oh, yeah. All right. Good one. I legit had to sit there and stew over whether I would say anything for about 45 seconds to a minute. No, I'm definitely going to cut it. Don't worry about that. Very happy that you said something. It's so good. My God. I like that Matt is taking the time to just, what did you Google? I was trying to see if there's any other songs. Other than canned heat.

[10:00]And then, uh, you know, this song, they had the jazz flute and Rosie actually knew what he was talking about. And, uh, I have to ask a really, really stupid question right now. Is, is the jazz flute an instrument or is it just the flute playing jazz music? It is. No, it's not a stupid question. As far as I know, it's the flute playing jazz music, but I could a hundred percent be wrong. So I don't know. Maybe somebody has another thought. But yeah, my thought is it's the flute playing jazz music, but it's typically like multi-instrumentalists. Like they'll play. Herbie Mann shows up with a regular flute and he's like, he's playing with the jazz band and he starts playing flight of the bumblebee. He's like, oh shit, this isn't my jazz flute. It's my regular flute. Wouldn't it be awesome if it was like some tuba looking instrument, like some, some instrument, like the big fat guys had to, had to play in high school, but it didn't sound like, like the flute, like that would have been Rob's number one commandment. Don't show up with the tuba. That sounds like a big fat guy. That sounds like a big fat guy. That sounds like a big fat guy. That sounds like a big fat guy. That sounds like a flute on the first date.

[11:00]Oh my God. Put that in your bumble profile, Russ. Big fat instrument, but it's a flute. Oh God. Do you think Herbie Mann's got a Twitter account? We got to follow him now? Yeah, we got to follow Herbie Mann. This is officially a Herbie Mann podcast. And that's not even something that Rosie brought up. I can't even believe it. That's not even something that, that's something that Matt and Russ had to talk about. I don't know Herbie Mann. Am I the coolest guy on this podcast? Am I the normal guy on this podcast? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my. You don't know Herbie Mann, you fucking idiot. God. Russell's mom and I were listening to all these Herbie Mann records. Rob, I'm going to go home and steal her. Let's pause this podcast for a minute. I'm going to go home, get a Herbie Mann album, and you're going to play it for our listeners right now. Let's just give them a little bit of listen. Wow, that was an amazing song.

[12:05]That was well, well worth me driving home, sneaking into my mom's house, stealing the eight Herbie Mann albums and playing that song. That was fantastic. Is it true, Russell, that your mom caught you stealing the Herbie Mann albums and cried for five straight minutes while you loaded it up in the car and you didn't even care? No wonder my son's still single. Can you imagine getting into some guy's car and you look in the backseat and there's like 30 Herbie Mann albums in the backseat with that one? Oh, man. Somebody was dating my daughter and they pulled up with a Herbie Mann shirt on. I'd be like, uh-uh. Out. Guys, we got to get Herbie Mann shirts. We should call Spencer Gifts and see if they've got them in stock. Herbie Mann skin flute. Spencer. Gifts. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time, but you're just too lazy to look it up online.

[13:11]If you want to hear from guys who chat and then they get off track, I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack. Beck did it better.