Episode 245: Y&T Mean Streak year 1983 . English Version

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00:00:45 - Here come the world, looking at time.

00:00:51 - Future uncertain, but certainly slight.

00:00:57 - Look at the faces.

00:01:01 - Alright, let's start out with a little mean streak!

00:01:12 - Mean Streak is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band yesterday in today or yandamp,

00:01:19 - Tee, released in 1983 through ondamp, M Records.

00:01:25 - Band founder Dave Minichetti was born and raised in Oakland, California, where he has been an icon to guitarists around the world.

a San Francisco Bay Area guitar and singing legend for more than four years, decades.

00:01:43 - They were influenced by many artists such as Jimmy Hendrix, John Coltrane, Leslie West,

00:01:49 - James Brown and Led Zeppelin, which is responsible for their varied expressions both in singing and on guitar.

00:01:57 - He has ranked first in the polls for best guitarist in specialized magazines and television programs around the world.

00:02:06 - This guitarist was also a very good vocalist, something that is difficult to have in one person.

00:02:16 - This song Mean Streak or as translated in Argentina, Egoistic Tendency, was a successful song of the band in the 80s.

00:02:25 - In this album Mean Streak, the ideas flowed with agility through the mind of the American and guitarist and singer, since the new album improved the previous one, being more complete and worked in my opinion.

00:02:39 - It has musicality from the 70s, from European rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

00:02:47 - Experience producer Chris Tsunaritz, who had previously worked with Finn Lizzie, Anvil and many others, helped the band in the studio to create a proper production that was heavy and melodic at the same time.

00:03:00 - Mean streak in a fast, direct song and becomes unforgettable as soon as you feel the bite of the cobra, Minaketti's venom by a vein is lethal.

00:03:10 - Good rock, a simple, direct rock.

00:03:13 - And that after almost 40 years has an effect lethal.

00:03:21 - It had those wonderful Minaketti vocals layered on top of the fabulous rhythm section of Catamor and Hayes's and the great guitars of Alves and Miniketti himself.

00:03:35 - The song Mean Streak remains the star of this show, with its mercurial guitar riff, hard-hitting drum beats, and spit lyrics.

00:03:45 - The lyrics are about a woman who has a strong personality, a consumerist, who likes money and luxury, who squeezes you, who is with you for your money and your heritage,

00:03:55 - A situation so real and current, sincere that it occurs in this capitalist world.

00:04:01 - One part of the lyrics reads, big car, pool, big house, hard attack, you better fold or you're going to break.

00:04:11 - The gang leader remembers.

00:04:12 - I was born and raised in Oakland, California, very urban, obviously.

00:04:17 - We were in what we would consider to be a pretty bad neighborhood, you know?

00:04:22 - I mean, it got worse as I got older,

00:04:25 - But it was urban, it kept you on your feet.

00:04:29 - Let's put it that way.

00:04:30 - So I had a lot of energy.

00:04:31 - I needed to have a lot of energy to know how to walk the streets right, so I didn't get beat up every day.

00:04:36 - It was just every other day.

00:04:38 - But I was always into music though, ever since I was a kid.

00:04:43 - My dad was into music and he had tons of records.

00:04:48 - And so when he'd go to work,

00:04:50 - I'd be like five years old playing with my army men on the floor, but I'd have his records on in the background and I'd cue him up and I'd be listening to music, listening to music all day.

00:04:58 - It was always on, always listening to something in the background, always thinking about, you know, things in my head, you know, when I'd hear certain songs,

00:05:07 - I mean, I'd come up with scenarios and stuff.

00:05:11 - I was like, it meant a lot to me.

00:05:14 - My parents were very strict, so I couldn't go to Winterland, I couldn't go to the Fillmore, like some of my other friends were doing when I was like 15 or 16, it took me a while.

00:05:26 - I got there eventually at 16, they said, okay, well you can go to the Oakland Coliseum, but you can only go with your friends and somebody's gotta be at least 18 or whatever.

00:05:35 - And the first show I ever saw live was at the Oakland Coliseum and it was Credence Clearwater and Canned Heat at the Oakland Coliseum.

00:05:46 - And not long after that, maybe within six months of that show. I saw Jimi Hendrix and the opening act was the Chicago Transit Authority. They were on their very first tour. It was the original Chicago, the original Chicago band and they had Terry Kath on guitar just burning it up and it was absolutely awesome. I finally got to see the guy that I idolized, Jimi Hendrix. And then a year later I saw him at the Berkeley Community Theater which he played two shows and they made a movie out of it called Jimmy and Berkeley. And those were like some of the main things that I saw when I first started going to concerts. Obviously, you know, people are still freaking out when

00:06:32 - I talk about that. You saw Jimi Hendrix, man? Yeah, I saw him twice. First record I ever bought, that would have been really young. Because like I said, I was always into music ever since I

00:06:46 - I could learn how to take the needle and stick it on top of a record, you know, I was doing it.

00:06:54 - And so I remember I bought this album because I loved this single on the radio and it was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

00:07:06 - And it was called The Lonely Bowl, was the name of the single.

00:07:11 - So it was this instrumental with him playing, you know, the horn, and just by some weird coincidence, we ended up getting signed with A&M Records, which was his record company, along with Albert Moss. It's kind of a strange thing.

00:07:26 - And it was a cool cover. It was kind of a risqué cover at the time. It had this woman in a bathtub naked with bubbles covering all of the parts that nobody wanted to see at that time. It was probably the 50s or early 60s or something like that. But

00:07:44 - That was my very first record.

00:07:46 - But my first rock record, I think, was Iron Butterfly in Agata De Vita.

00:07:53 - Wow, man.

00:07:55 - I remember being excited, going down to Kresge's, which was kind of like a Walmart, Kmart kind of thing.

00:08:03 - And they had, you know, all the records out there, man, like, and I would look through the bins, man.

00:08:08 - Oh, cool.

00:08:09 - In Agata De Vita.

00:08:10 - I've got to get that one, man.

00:08:11 - So I was just like a happy boy, you know, riding back on my 10 speed home, you know, couldn't wait to put it on my record player.

00:08:19 - So at some point I told my dad, wow, I want to play, I want to play music and I want to play an instrument.

00:08:28 - And the only instrument that I'd seen when I was in like third or fourth grade was my dad's brother was playing accordion.

00:08:36 - And like all good Italian boys, you know, I thought, oh, this is cool, man, I'll play accordion.

00:08:40 - Yeah, that wasn't the instrument for me.

00:08:43 - It was total crap.

00:08:44 - I gave it up after about a year or so, and that was early on.

00:08:49 - But going to school, grade school, and early high school, it was all about the music of the 60s, which was pretty much kind of Motown stuff, and that's kind of what we were all born and raised with at that time.

00:09:09 - That was the music, and then as the pop stuff started becoming more rock as well, then that was really interesting to me.

00:09:17 - And before I started playing guitar in high school, all of a sudden all these other things started happening, what we call the British Invasion of Deep Purple and Zeppelin and the

00:09:28 - Who and all these different people were all over the airwaves, and I started listening to that.

00:09:36 - But before I got to that, it was all about Hendrix.

00:09:39 - I heard Hendrix for the first time, and that just stopped everything right there.

00:09:44 - I had to play guitar, and I was so into it.

00:09:48 - So I'd have a little reel-to-reel deck next to my bed, and I had it plugged into an AMFM portable radio.

00:09:54 - So anytime that the FM station would play anything cool that was like rockin' and had a good guitar solo, I'd hit record, and I'd listen back to it, you know, and I'd get the idea, who are these guys?

you know, and eventually I asked my dad, when I was just in between sophomore and junior or high school, I said, I want to get a guitar. Can I get a guitar? You know, a cheap one even. It doesn't matter. And he goes, no son, I paid for a hundred dollars for an accordion for you when you were in third grade, and you know, I'm going to waste my money.

00:10:28 - And I said, all right, that's why I hear you. I said, but it's going to be different.

00:10:32 - I feel it. I just feel something's going to happen. So I saved my paper-out money and

00:10:39 - I bought a Montgomery Ward's $27 Strat and Fender Strat copy and I never put the thing down. I'd come home from school every day, much to my parents' disappointment. I would do a little bit of my homework, but I would mostly have that thing in my hand from the time I got home from school until I went to bed. And I'd sit there and I'd watch

00:11:01 - TV, and I'd play along with anything that was on TV, a commercial or anything.

00:11:06 - You know, I was just teaching myself, basically, how to play guitar.

00:11:10 - And so, because I had such a passion for it, and I apparently had a knack for it, it all started to happen pretty quickly.

00:11:20 - Within about a, maybe a year and a half or so, after playing guitar, I was already in a band, and we were doing a few things locally.

00:11:29 - I got some other people that were interested in playing with me and eventually it turned out that I met Leonard Hayes in about 1972 and I graduated from high school in 1972.

00:11:43 - So it was literally right out of high school.

00:11:46 - We get in a band, we start yesterday and today, which eventually becomes the band that I've been in for 43 years, Y and T.

00:11:53 - Over time, every day of the week, still the house ain't big enough

00:12:22 - Spend your money so fast that you'll never see the green

00:12:28 - Big better best anyway, does it end?

00:12:31 - Keep it up when the Joseph is tough

00:12:34 - Better open your eyes, boy

00:12:37 - She just won on bye, bye, bye

00:12:40 - Better wait, I'm fine

00:12:42 - I'll tell you why

00:12:45 - She got a mainstream

00:12:47 - But you never saw much

00:12:49 - So much you don't want to see, a mainstreet

00:12:54 - And I've had it no sense that you wanna reach

00:12:57 - Mainstreet

00:12:59 - Was your neck over your face, but it's just another beat

00:13:02 - You're never good enough in the eyes of a woman with a mainstreet

00:13:08 - Every time that I look at your boy, I can see you're a nervous wreck

00:13:14 - You're too hard to give out every little thing

00:13:18 - Big coffee, poor big house, hot attack, she's gonna bend

00:13:23 - Oh, you're gonna break?

00:13:25 - How the fuck does she take you?

00:13:28 - She just wanna buy, buy, buy

00:13:31 - She's gonna break you

00:13:33 - I'll tell you why

00:13:35 - She got a main streak

00:13:38 - But you never know what you don't wanna see

00:13:41 - A main streak

00:13:44 - Everybody knows she's got to release

00:13:47 - Release, free streak

00:13:50 - Shouldn't have a good face but just chasing her feet

00:13:53 - You're never good enough in the eyes of a woman with a free streak

00:14:09 - It could be different now

00:14:12 - It's a thought to save in the eye

00:14:15 - But you're too weak to try

00:14:20 - Things won't change

00:14:23 - Do you open all your eyes?

00:14:26 - How could you be so blind?

00:15:15 - You've never done enough in the hands of a woman with a mainstream, mainstream, mainstream

00:15:45 - MAIN STREAM!