The Langdon Auger Show

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Most definitely my favourite Prism song of all time. I met him a few years ago, and I had mentioned, you know, like, “Hey, you guys did a great show,” and they were looking for an encore and all that stuff. I was in the green room with them, and I said, “Well, how about ‘Open Soul Surgery’?” They went, “Well, we haven’t played that song in years. Do you think people would go for it? They’d like it?” And it’s like, “Give it a shot.” They went out and performed it. The dance floor just filled right up. So if you’re seeing Prism since then and they play that song, they added it to their repertoire.

How you doing? Langdon Auger Show, welcome to it. This is Hard Times Thursday. Normally we do a Monday to Wednesday show, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. But on Thursdays we like to do a little bit later of a show, and we like to do a little bit of a, how do you put it, a little theme to it. We’ve done country night. We’ve done hard metal night. We’ve done a couple of nights of progressive rock. Today we’re going to do Hard Times Thursday, and it’s all just picking it up a little bit from the normal show. We’ve got some great birthday boys coming up. This man would have been 78 today if we had not lost him not that long. [Unclear ending.]

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Of course, that’s from Made in Japan, the 1972 release. That’s Deep Purple and “Smoke on the Water.” Great tune there. Alice Cooper in there, Mr. 78 years old, with “Department of Youth,” and I got to see that concert, the Welcome to My Nightmare concert. We started it all off with Ozzy Osbourne doing a little “Crazy Train,” and those are the happy birthday boys. Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne would have been 78 today, and Alice is 78.

Welcome to the Langdon Auger Show here on Hard Times Thursday. I want to welcome you into it. We’re going to play some hard and heavy stuff, so if you want to hear anything, and if I’ve got it, I will most certainly play it. Just go on down to the live chat section there, enter your username, make sure you save it, and then just chit-chat like you normally would and say a song. If I’ve got it, I most certainly will play it. Now, I’m going to play some Sabbath. Even though it is Ozzy, I don’t think you can really have a hard and heavy night of music without a little bit of Black Sabbath. That’s true. They seem like two different entities to me. Ozzy is all by himself, but he used to play with a band called Black Sabbath, for those of you who are old enough to remember. Also, they had Ronnie James Dio playing for them at one time. But let’s get to this one right here, Black Sabbath.

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Bands of the grunge age. That’s from their Nevermind album, and of course that’s Nirvana with “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Of course, Kurt Cobain was part of that 27 Club. Before that, Metallica from their Black Album, or the one everybody said they sold out on, with “Enter Sandman.” Especially after albums like And Justice for All and Master of Puppets, they kind of went quite commercial, according to the experts anyway. And if you ever listen to any of their basement tapes, wow. Okay. And Black Sabbath, going all the way back to 1970, from their Paranoid album, and “Iron Man.” Welcome to the Langdon Auger Show. It’s about half an hour.

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Into the show, we’ve still got lots of time, so if you want a request, I know Oliver made a request. [The source segment is flagged for unusually fast text alignment.]

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We’re going to play some “Fairies Wear Boots” in a bit. We’ve just got a few other songs to get to before that.

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But if you do want to request a song, it’s quite easy. Just go to the live chat, put in your username, make sure you save it, and then come on down and chit-chat. So let’s get back to the music, a little G N’ R.

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We’ve got this song now for the first album out here. A little AC/DC to get you going there. That is, of course, “Problem Child.” That’s from Bonfire, Live at the Atlantic Studios. And before that, we had the White Stripes from their Elephant album of 2003. Guns N’ Roses started off that set with “Sweet Child o’ Mine.” How are you all doing?

Ten minutes now before the hour. I want to thank everybody for tuning in. We are going to play some music here, hard and heavy, on our Thursday, because it’s just one of those things that we can do. And because, well, we like to. We’re going to keep it going here with a band that’s coming to Edmonton pretty soon. Can you guess who it is?

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Tune from Audioslave. Of course, we were talking about drummers the other day, about some of the great drummers in rock and roll, because we had Ian Paice earlier with Deep Purple. We’ve got some Tool coming up, and of course Danny Carey. But this guy, Brad Wilk, he’s a thunderous, thunderous drummer. Absolutely amazing. And before that, of course, some “Fairies Wear Boots” by Black Sabbath, going out to Oliver. Hopefully Jamie stopped crying. And we had Megadeth, of course, coming to Edmonton pretty soon in the summertime with “Symphony of Destruction.”

So, just after five minutes after the hour, I want to thank everybody for tuning in. I know there are a few of you out there. I can see you on the server, so thanks.

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If you do want to come down and request a song, it’s pretty easy to do. [The source segment is flagged for unusually fast text alignment.]

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Just, you know, live chat, add your username, save, and start chatting. We’re going to get back to the music, of course. You can’t play Hard Times Thursday without this band.

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Represent. Of course, that is The Pursuit of Happiness and “I’m an Adult Now.” Mötley Crüe in before that with “Shout at the Devil.” We started off with The Who from their 1970 album, or 1978 album, “Who Are You?” And what a great tune that is. Of course, they just ruined my PG rating for the night. Thanks, Pete, appreciate that.

We’re at 20 minutes after, so we’ve got about 40 minutes left to play. We’ve got a lot of tunes, but we’re willing to switch them out. We do have some songs that are kind of hanging on by a thread, so let’s get to those and see what happens.

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That’s perfectly explained if you’ve ever had an addiction and are trying to quit. That song says it all. It’s an amazing song, and we were talking about drummers earlier. Danny Carey is the drummer of Tool, and of course that’s from their Undertow album, and it’s called “Sober.” Before that, Van Halen with “Jamie’s Crying,” and Skid Row started off that set with “Quicksand Jesus.”

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Less than half an hour left to go in the show. [The source segment is flagged for unusually fast text alignment.]

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And also thanks for all the requests. We’ve got our last request of the evening coming your way, unless there’s somebody who maybe has another idea, but we’re pretty packed right now with what we have. The request was originally a Grand Funk Railroad tune. What other band did it? Okay, I’m just kidding. It’s actually Grand Funk when they dropped the Railroad. So. Well.

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Great tune by Green Day, “When I Come Around.” In before that, Billy Squier and “In the Dark.” If you’ve never had the opportunity to see Billy Squier in concert, too bad, because he puts on a great show. I got to see him back in, I’m going to say, around 1980, somewhere in there. It was Billy Squier, Greg Kihn, and guess who the opening act was? Journey. Yes, it was. Great concert. And in before that, of course, we had Grand Funk Railroad and “We’re an American Band.”

Well, that’s it. We only have time for one more set of music, but I want to thank everybody for tuning in. Don’t forget, we do this Monday to Wednesday, where we kind of play from 5 to 7. We play all kinds of stuff. We play country. We play everything. And then we do a special show on Thursday nights, barring work and all that kind of stuff, usually a little bit later, so we can crank it up a few notches or two. But thanks for tuning in, everybody. Thanks for all the requests. You guys all, I’ll be back after this set.

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From their 2003 album Fallen, of course, that is Evanescence and “Bring Me to Life.” Aerosmith in before that with a little “Toys in the Attic,” and you just can’t trust the toys in the attic. And Queen started off that set with “I’m in Love with My Car.”

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And, of course, that was from the A Night at the Opera album. [The segment is flagged for unusually fast text alignment.]

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I know here they have it listed as a bonus track, but it wasn’t. It was a big monster hit. I loved that song from that album. That’s it for me, though. I’ve got enough time for one more tune. I want to thank everybody for tuning in. We’re going to end it all with some Foo Fighters and “Everlong.” But you have yourself a happy mental health day. See you on Monday.

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