maybe you can maybe you can tell uh watching at home I hope we have
that kind of relationship that you can tell that I'm excited you're looking at
a man for the first time in a long long long time Saturday night I have a date
make it to the Limit baby
I'm kind of nervous now I was hoping here's a little behind the scenes Showbiz data that
you may or may not be aware of I was hoping we'd get to hear Eagles music
yeah because I'm going to the concert with this guy's wife uh on Saturday night that's
great he's be back in New Jersey getting drunk with his buddies and so I thought maybe we would
hear a lot of eagles music but I'm told Now by Dan Federer that it's too expensive do you know
anything about that Paul yeah yeah how expensive is too expensive well like like how much what
are we talking about well I don't know it's like every time like we play one song one song one song
probably like a thousand dollars all right pick your favorite Eagles song and we'll we'll hear it
how much is it
I can't I can't hear a word you're saying
who said no
where are the licensing Paul I I I'd license the Eagles no I don't know I could somebody who
works for you I I guess who owns who owns the Eagles music then it's not the Eagles
I'd like to have one of those cars you ever driven a BMI beautiful ride I had
one in California cornered like a snake in a rat hole
so so if we play an Eagles song we'll get sued is that correct yeah
to Leslie from Minnesota
exceptions they have a flat no policy for television you still want to go Leslie
boy I'm just I'm just I'm just Paul aren't you now just really dying to
play an eagle I wish I could play it somebody goes strong
unfortunately
cost too much I think it costs is there a minimum
can we play like three bars of a song can't even do that
no I know this what were you going to say Bill Bill well when I well when I was trying a license
it's under four lines you three lines of a song three lines of a song no you can do three lines
is there is there anyone awake in the control room
could I speak could I speak to someone in the control room hello hello it's Dave
oh hi Jerry how are you doing very well I thought you went home early on Thursdays
all right uh Jerry help us out here we're having a little uh argument about eagles licensing rights
and such what do you say you're the director you're the captain of the ship what do you think
stop
that's the best thing I've heard all summer now okay Paul let's talk it over what would
you play we got one shot here we're gonna do one one yeah and see what happens so so what will it
be from the Eagles song book and and recognize that we're on the precipice of legal action
well I yeah I mean I I love Life in the Fast Lane but you're the one who's going
to be paying so I you should really pick Life in the Fast Lane would probably not be the one
I would pick okay uh Hotel California probably not be the one I would pick
uh what would will Lee sing and take it to the Limit that's a good one
I don't know I don't I I'm gonna have to excuse myself for somebody we can do a
certain amount of Life in the Fast Lane without without having to pay do you want to hear just
a little no I don't I don't want to hear like you won't have to pay no no I I don't care no I
I have a feeling if we start paying it they'll shut down the show right now
okay so let's pick something else all right take anything to the Limit take it easy we've all heard
a billion times too many times yeah too many times you know what I'm not that interested anymore
this is great this is this is I have here the drop dead list of music we're not allowed to play
or we'll get sued now interestingly enough at the top of the list Jimi Hendrix yeah
but but I've heard you play All Along the Watchtower but that's a Bob Dylan song is
that how that works well we play Summer hits too you know we do yeah you know this
has absolutely no Jimi Hendrix they're playing all the time I mean is life worth living yeah
if you can't have Jimi Hendrix for the love of God it's a good thing we play it all the time
nobody's ever said don't play Bruce Springsteen can't play Born to Run can't play Born to Run
can't play Born to Run then he'll let us play yeah that's right there's a few you can play 10
000 Avenue freeze out yeah you can play uh Glory Days Thunder Road and dancing in the dark well
yeah at least we could play those yeah so we can must be we could play a few Hendricks I guess yeah
well no it says no hand no no play it says no play Bruce Springsteen and Jimi Hendrix now what we've
come up with is I think is a reasonable compromise and uh we're trying to work this through okay you
know the song I Can't Tell You Why Oh that's great yeah yeah now not an eagle song strictly speaking
I'm asking why not I think it is you think it is do you think it is no you don't think I
understand they wrote it no they wrote it yeah I think they they wrote I Can't Tell You Why
did you say Bill I thought he released it as a single
Museum Timothy n Schmidt they're baseball they're bass player okay
we were so close
can we blame Irving Azo for this one I think you could pretty much blame anything on on Irving
age okay all right yeah the important thing is we found someone to take the block yeah okay
also Billy Joel you got to be careful with Billy Joel can't
play any Billy Joel Sam Cooke why are you kidding we can't play can't play
Sam Cooke uh Disney uh Pirates of the Caribbean uh you can't play any of that
uh Jerry or or by or anything by Jerry Bruckheimer or Pixar unless someone is on
promoting a film I see about Captain and Tennille Captain and Tennille let's see
can we
but I'll tell you something and I don't know if I'm supposed to say this or not
but for the Eagles music you know what they want if we we can play it but you know what
it'll cost us for taking one song one song take a guess it must got to be more than
a thousand then oh yeah is it five thousand dollars more than five thousand really just
for like I can't I can't that was like 100 but be careful there's a hundred bucks right there
because I I don't I don't have that kind of I don't have I don't have it on me no
well back at the sweet you got it I got it back in the city I don't ten thousand
dollars for I can't tell you what more than a hundred thousand up up up this Irving Asa
this guy is in trouble yeah yeah now now if if everybody here wants to kick in some money
so you mean half a million half a million dollars half of half
a million really a quarter of a million dollars to play I Can't Tell You Why all
right show right now if you people want to elect an audience captain
and during the rest of the show contribute whatever you can that gets Us close to a
quarter of a million wow then then we take off the reserve we're going to lift the reserve
huh yeah it's it's only 500 a piece I really want to talk about I really want to get to
the bottom of this Eagles thing I'm I'm how do where are do we stand now well we can't
uh we can't afford it I mean a big big a show like yours yeah you could afford it
could we afford it I don't know I think the Eagles are tough I think well at that price I think Hotel
California we wanted to play yeah and then who could get away with it you'd probably have to
take a pay cut that week but you could get away with it no personally I'm extraordinarily Rich
so I could take care of it but this is why CBS is the the most watched television network in
the world they got tired of the Eagles saying no no it's going to cost you a million no no no so
what they did was they commissioned a song called uh supercharger supercharger yes an instrumental
it's called supercharged yeah supercharger which is a knockoff of Life in the Fast Lane oh okay
so so we're now going to listen oh okay to the CBS commissioned uh supercharger this weekend yeah and
we'll we'll see if it comes close okay and this will be exactly the same this won't cost us a
penny am I right about this absolutely absolutely okay let's take it away here we go supercharger
foreign
supercharger
well I wonder if they'll be playing supercharger at the Garden Saturday night