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programs from now on. It's. An

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annual look back on the musicians we lost

0:47

in the previous years. Rockstar.

0:49

Deaths have really been on her mind

0:52

since late twenty fifteen when Scott Weiland,

0:54

the Stone Temple pilots died. Followed.

0:56

A few weeks later by Lemmy of Motorhead, Then.

0:59

The floodgates opened and twenty sixteen. Bowie.

1:02

Prince Leonard Cohen, Glenn Fry of

1:04

the Eagles. Both. Keith Emerson and

1:06

Greg Leg from Emerson Lake and Palmer. And.

1:09

George Michael. That's. Just to name a

1:11

few. Since then it seems

1:13

that we hear about a rock star death

1:15

every couple of weeks. Tom. Petty,

1:17

Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Gregg

1:19

Allman. Walter. Becker of Steely

1:21

Dan, Jack Mosley, A Faith No More,

1:23

and He of Depeche Mode, Marquee Smith

1:25

of The For, Charlie Watts of The

1:27

Rolling Stones, It.

1:29

Really has been a lot to take in. Some.

1:33

Of these deaths have been

1:35

of natural causes disease, old

1:37

age. Others have involve drugs,

1:39

alcohol, Years. Of hard

1:41

living, misadventure and suicide. Here.

1:44

Is the hard truth? Rock. Has

1:46

been around for about seventy years. Many.

1:49

Of the people who have provided us with our favorite

1:51

music and some of the greatest songs of all time.

1:55

Or sadly, reaching the end of their

1:57

lives. No. One's getting any younger.

1:59

And over the next decade we're gonna lose

2:02

some of the personalities. Who. Have

2:04

always been there for us over

2:06

the last thirty forty fifty. Or.

2:08

Even sixty plus years. With

2:12

that grim reality in mind, I think

2:14

we need to continue with an annual

2:16

retrospective. Featuring those who we

2:18

lost in the last twelve months. They.

2:20

May be gone. But. We need to

2:22

recognize and celebrate their contributions to the world

2:25

of music. This is that

2:27

He Twenty three. Immemorial.

2:30

This is the ongoing history. Hello

2:37

again, I'm only Cross and this is the

2:40

annual look back on the musicians we lost

2:42

over the last year. It's

2:44

not feeling when we hear that one of our

2:46

favorite musicians has died. It's

2:48

not like we knew them personally, but there's

2:50

still a personal connection. We

2:52

use music to help us get through life.

2:55

We. Used to motivate tourists up do

2:57

with sadness, express or love, get out

2:59

or aggression and so much more. We

3:02

use it to figure out who we are.

3:04

And. This is important. We. Also, use

3:07

music to demonstrate who we are to the rest

3:09

of the world. Music. Is

3:11

a big part of our identity. And.

3:14

When a person who provided those songs

3:16

songs that help shape as internally and

3:18

externally for a big chunk of our

3:20

lives. When. One of those people done me.

3:24

It feels like a little bit of us goes with them.

3:26

We. Never knew them personally.

3:29

But. They helped us know ourselves. Again,

3:32

that may seem a little dramatic to some

3:35

people, but if you found yourself unexpectedly affected

3:37

by the death of a musician, you know

3:39

exactly what I'm talking about. Twenty

3:42

twenty three was another rough year

3:44

as many left us. I. Can't

3:46

possibly get to all of them, so forgive me

3:48

if I don't mention one of your favorites, but

3:50

I do want to highlight the few notable departures.

3:53

And were to start with Steve Harwell, the front

3:55

man of Smash Mouth. they became

3:57

something of a punch and were disparage

4:00

by some people in a Nickelback sort of way. But

4:03

the truth is that Smashmouth was a huge

4:05

cross-genre success in the early 2000s. Steve

4:09

struggled with alcoholism for most of his adult

4:11

life, something that got worse after his son

4:13

Presley died at the age of six months

4:15

from leukemia. He drank so much

4:17

that his liver began to fail. Things

4:20

began to go even more poorly for

4:22

Steve in 2013 when he received a

4:24

diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, a disease of the

4:26

heart muscle. He was often

4:28

out of breath, he was often dizzy, and

4:30

he had an irregular heartbeat. In

4:33

2015, he was found to

4:35

suffer from a condition known as acute

4:38

wernicke encephalopathy. Symptoms include

4:40

problems with balance and movement, with

4:42

confusion and damaged eyesight. In

4:45

2021, his health made it impossible to

4:47

continue with Smashmouth. The band

4:49

released this statement following a gig where

4:51

Steve behaved strangely. Steve

4:54

has been dealing with long-term medical issues over

4:56

the last eight years, and during his last

4:58

performance at the Big Sip Beer and Wine

5:00

Festival at Bethelwood Center for the Arts in

5:02

New York, he suffered

5:04

numerous symptoms directly linked with his

5:06

current medical situation. As

5:09

of today, Steve will be retiring from

5:11

Smashmouth to focus on his physical and

5:13

mental health. But

5:15

the truth was, nothing could be done for Steve. In

5:18

August, he started receiving hospice care at his

5:20

home in Boise, Idaho. Then

5:22

he passed away on September 4th at the age

5:24

of 56. Anyone

5:41

who has seen Pulp Fiction will remember the

5:43

scene when John Travolta goes back to Uma

5:45

Thurman's place after the dance contest. She

5:48

wants more music, so she flicks on a reel-to-reel

5:50

player and starts playing a cover of a 1967

5:53

Neil Diamond song called Girl You'll Be a

5:56

Woman Soon. The band

5:58

playing that cover was Urge Overkill. and

6:00

the drummer was a guy named John Rowan, who

6:02

went by the name Blocky Onassis. He

6:05

and the band were from Chicago, and became

6:07

a serious cult favorite among the alt-rock crowd

6:09

until they broke through with their contribution to

6:11

the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. He

6:13

was also with the group when they opened for

6:15

Nirvana on their Nevermind tour. During

6:17

this time, Urge Over Kill became friends with Kurt

6:19

and Chrissy Hine to the Pretenders and Liz Fair.

6:23

But when Blocky left the group in 1996,

6:25

the band lost track of them. They

6:27

reformed in the early 2000s, but they did it

6:30

without Blocky. We also know

6:32

that he had issues with heroin in the middle 1990s,

6:34

and was arrested at least once. He

6:37

was also rumored to be a smack connection for people

6:39

who needed a fix. But

6:41

as for the cause of his death on June 13, 2023, we have

6:43

no idea. He

6:46

was 57. Here's

7:03

a throwback to the techno clock of the 1980s. The

7:06

Associates were formed in Dundee, Scotland

7:09

in 1979, evolving out

7:11

of a couple of different post-punk bands and

7:13

determined to follow a Bowie-like direction. The

7:16

two principals in The Associates were Billy McKenzie

7:18

and Alan Rankin. Rankin initially

7:20

had his eyes set on being a professional

7:22

tennis player, and although he was very good

7:24

and competed at a high level, at

7:27

5'8", he was just too short to play

7:29

against bigger, stronger players. So music

7:31

it was. The Associates

7:33

released a series of Cynthia albums and singles.

7:36

Rankin also got into production, working with groups like

7:38

the Cocktoe Twins. When The

7:40

Associates broke up, he became a lecturer at

7:42

Stowe College in Glasgow, where he helped students learn

7:45

the finer points of music production. He

7:47

even helped him set up a record label

7:49

called Electric Honey, and that label launched the

7:51

careers of bands like Snow Patrol, Bell and

7:54

Sebastian, and Biffy Cliero. In

7:56

the 2020s, Rankin was diagnosed with heart

7:58

disease. died at his home with

8:00

his family on January 2nd, 2023. He was 64. Here's

8:06

a 12-inch from my vinyl collection featuring the associates.

8:08

This is from 1985. Let's

8:10

go. When

8:27

the world swiveled into alternative music in the

8:29

early 1990s, it seemed that each day brought

8:31

a new and interesting sound from a new

8:33

and interesting group. Washes Jackson was

8:35

one of those groups. Their

8:37

sound was a mix of alt-rock, rap, and pop. Vivian

8:41

Trimble was their keyboardist. And

8:43

because of another member's previous association with the

8:45

Beastie Boys, drummer Kate Schellenbach was actually a

8:47

member of the Beasties in the early days

8:50

before producer Rick Rubin eased her out. Washes

8:53

Jackson not only toured with the Beasties, but

8:55

also became the first signing to the Beasties'

8:57

grand Royal Record label. Vivian

8:59

left the group in 1998 because she was

9:01

tired of touring and wanted to settle down with the

9:04

family. She got married, had a couple of kids, moved

9:06

to New Hampshire, and worked as a booker for a music

9:08

venue. At some point, she

9:11

was diagnosed with cancer. She

9:13

managed for several years, but in early

9:15

2023, a complication developed, and

9:17

she soon died on April the 4th. She

9:19

was 59. The

9:21

most successful Washes Jackson album was a 1996 release

9:24

entitled Fever In, Fever Out, selling

9:26

somewhere beyond 500,000 copies.

9:29

This song, which is called Naked Eye, was

9:32

a significant alt-rock radio hit.

9:50

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you get your podcasts. This

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is the annual in memoriam episode where we look

10:57

back on the musicians we lost in the past

10:59

12 months. Here are a few more. Jeff

11:02

Beck believed by some to be the

11:04

greatest electric guitarist of all time, died

11:07

suddenly of bacterial meningitis on January

11:09

10th. He was 78. On

11:12

March 13th the tragic story of Jim Gordon

11:15

came to an end. Back

11:17

in the 1960s he was an in-demand

11:19

session musician playing on dozens of records.

11:22

Then he joined Eric Clapton in Derek and

11:24

the Dominos. That's Jim playing on the classic

11:26

Layla. But then Jim

11:28

developed a severe case of schizophrenia. Voices

11:31

told him that he needed to starve

11:33

himself, forget playing drums. He

11:36

couldn't sleep. He was diagnosed

11:38

as an alcoholic and given the wrong treatment.

11:41

Things got worse and worse and worse

11:44

until on June 3rd 1983 a voice

11:47

told him to attack his mother with a hammer

11:50

and stab her to death with a butcher knife. So

11:52

he did. He was

11:54

sentenced to jail and denied parole at least

11:57

10 times but his mental illness

11:59

was so severe severe, that he

12:01

remained incarcerated at a psychiatric prison until he

12:03

died of natural causes at age 77 on

12:05

March 13. Tina

12:09

Turner, one of the greatest female singers of all time,

12:11

died on May 24 at her home in Switzerland.

12:14

She had been ill for years with

12:16

kidney issues, cardiovascular problems, and intestinal cancer.

12:20

She was 83 when she died on May 24. Randy

12:23

Meisner, a member of the Eagles in the early

12:25

and mid-70s, suffered heart issues,

12:27

alcoholism, and mental health problems. Things

12:30

got worse when his wife accidentally shot herself

12:33

in 2016. Meisner

12:35

needed psychiatric care after that. He

12:38

died of COPD on July 25 at the age

12:40

of 77. Gary

12:42

Wright, famous for the 1976 hit Dreamweaver

12:45

and a synth pioneer admired by George

12:47

Harrison and Ringo Starr, suffered

12:49

from Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia. He

12:52

died at age 80 on August 30. Let's

12:55

back up to January 28 when we

12:58

lost Tom Verlaine. Tom was

13:00

a member of Television, an artsy pre-punk group

13:02

from New York who was

13:04

nearly very good but are responsible for

13:07

establishing the entire punk rock scene

13:09

at CBGB. In

13:11

1973, he helped Hilly Crystal, the owner

13:13

of that scuzzy bar in Bleecker Street

13:16

in a then-horrible part of New York, to

13:18

let television play on a Sunday night as

13:20

part of a residency. That was

13:22

the catalyst for making CBGB Ground Zero for

13:24

the world of New York punk. And

13:27

we all know how that turned out. Television

13:29

started with two critically acclaimed albums, with Verlaine playing

13:32

guitar before they broke up in 1978. Verlaine

13:36

then worked solo, collaborated with contemporaries like Patti

13:38

Smith, did some work with James E. Hodd,

13:40

The Smashing Pumpkins, had a song

13:42

covered by David Bowie, toured occasionally with a reformed

13:44

television, and was part of a reunion album in

13:47

1992. He was

13:49

also scheduled to produce Jeff Buckley's second album, but

13:51

then Jeff Drowd at the Mississippi River in 1997.

13:55

Sometime in the 2000s, Verlaine was

13:57

diagnosed with prostate cancer. towards

14:00

the end, he was supposed to tour with Billy

14:02

Idol, but he was just too sick. The

14:04

cancer metastasized and he died on

14:07

January 28th at the age of 73. Here's

14:10

a sample of Verlaine's playing from Marquee Moon, the

14:12

first television album from 1977. Some

14:17

really legendary

14:21

names disappeared from

14:23

the earth in

14:25

2023. Burt Bacharach,

14:27

widely considered

14:39

one of the greatest American songwriters and admired

14:41

by people like Noel Gallagher, made

14:44

it to 94 before dying on

14:46

February 8th. Gordon Lightfoot, the most

14:48

successful singer-songwriter Canada ever produced, died

14:51

on May 1st. He'd had health

14:53

problems for years, almost dying of an

14:55

aortic aneurysm in 2002, and then

14:58

he had a minor stroke in 2006. But each time he

15:01

fought back and continued to tour, his body

15:03

finally gave out on May 1st. He was 84. And

15:08

we have to mention Tony Bennett, a guy whose career

15:10

began in 1936 and continued until 2021.

15:15

He died on July 21st at the age of 96. Meanwhile,

15:19

Britpop fans were shocked to learn of

15:21

the death of Pulp bass player Steve

15:23

Mackey. He joined the band in 1989 and was with him through

15:27

the glory years of the 1990s before

15:29

leaving in about 2002. That's when

15:31

he started working as a producer and remix artist. His

15:35

resume featured Corner Shop, The Kills, The And

15:38

he was a co-producer of Long's, the debut album

15:40

of Florence and the Machine. There

15:42

were other jobs too. He worked as a music

15:44

director and sound designer for things like museums and

15:47

films. Those were jobs that took

15:49

him to the Louvre in Paris, the Museum of

15:51

Modern Art in New York, and the Minh Ching

15:53

Art Museum in Shanghai. And

15:55

if you're a Harry Potter fan, you might know that

15:57

Steve appeared as one of the weird sisters in Harry

16:00

Potter in the Goblet of Fire. That

16:02

group also featured Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, plus

16:04

Johnny Greenwood and Phil Selway of Radiohead.

16:07

Steve did a lot of other music-related things too,

16:10

but one project he didn't want to take

16:12

part in was a pulp reunion in early

16:15

2023. In retrospect,

16:17

that's probably because he was ill.

16:19

When his death was announced on March 2nd at the

16:21

age of 56, he'd been

16:23

in the hospital since the previous Christmas with

16:25

an undisclosed illness. Here's Steve

16:27

with Pulp from 1990. Here

16:49

are a few more notable passings from

16:51

2023. Randy Bachman, he of

16:53

the Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive is

16:55

just fine, but he lost two

16:57

brothers. His youngest brother, Robbie, the original

17:00

drummer for BTO, who died on January

17:02

12th. And then Tim, a

17:04

founding member of BTO, passed

17:06

away of cancer on April 28th.

17:09

David Lindley was a well-respected guitarist who

17:11

was hired by everyone from Jackson Brown

17:13

and Warren Zivon to Curtis

17:15

Mayfield and Dolly Parton. He may

17:17

have been a victim of COVID. He

17:19

got it in 2020, which developed into

17:22

long COVID, and that resulted in chronic

17:24

kidney damage. He died on

17:26

March 3rd at the age of 78.

17:28

Gary Rossington was one of the guys who

17:30

put together Leonard Skinner, whose history goes back

17:33

to 1964. He was also one of

17:35

the survivors of the 1977 plane crash

17:37

that nearly wiped out the band. Rossington

17:40

had heart issues, and he died on March 5th

17:42

at the age of 71. And then

17:44

there's Van Connor. Van was the

17:47

bassist with Screaming Trees, a very good but

17:49

criminally overlooked part of the Seattle scene in

17:51

the early 90s. He was

17:53

with them for seven albums before they broke up, and

17:56

then Van went on to work as a session

17:58

musician. But then in December... In

18:00

2021, he underwent stomach surgery. There were

18:03

complications, and he became comatose. While

18:06

in the hospital, he caught COVID, which made things

18:08

much worse. And for the rest of

18:10

his life, he had respiratory issues and a hard

18:12

time getting around. The final

18:14

battle came with the case of pneumonia. He

18:16

died on January 17. Here

18:19

are the Screaming Trees from their 1992 album

18:21

Sweet Oblivion. This song was an awful lot

18:23

of it. I

18:26

nearly loved you there.

18:29

That's broken all so well.

18:34

I nearly loved you

18:37

there. They'll

18:39

try to speak

18:42

up. Back

18:45

with more on our list of musicians who passed away in 2023 in just a

18:47

sec. Here

18:50

are more names from the 2023 in memoriam file. Barrett

18:53

Strong, the songwriter responsible for songs like Money, That's

18:56

What I Want, I Heard It Through the Great

18:58

Vine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, and so many

19:00

others, died on January 28 at 81. He

19:04

was one of Motown's best writers. Wayne

19:06

Swinney was the guitarist for Saliva, a

19:09

solid post-grunge band out of Memphis, who

19:11

had carved out a nice niche for themselves, despite

19:13

all kinds of lineup changes. When

19:16

he died of a brain hemorrhage on March 22,

19:19

he was somewhere in Pennsylvania while the band was

19:21

on tour. He was the only

19:23

original member left. He was 59. Teresa

19:27

Taylor, the real name of Teresa Nervosa,

19:29

a one-time drummer with the Butthole Surfers,

19:32

had a number of struggles. There was a

19:35

brain aneurysm in 1989 that required surgery,

19:37

and after that she suffered seizures whenever

19:40

she was exposed to strobe-line effects. Still,

19:43

she got into acting and writing and working at

19:45

the Texas School for the Blind and visually impaired.

19:48

When the Butthole Surfers got back together in 2007, she was part

19:50

of the reunion. But

19:52

then in 2021, she was diagnosed with

19:54

lung cancer. She hung on until June

19:57

18 when she died at the age of 60. Speaking

20:00

of drummers, Gary Young was with Pavement

20:02

at the very beginning. He joined up

20:04

in 1989. If you

20:06

went to a Pavement show back in the 90s,

20:08

you might have encountered Gary at the door greeting

20:10

people and handing out heads of cabbage, which was

20:12

his thing. Gary was fired

20:15

from the band in 1993. Alcohol

20:17

was a problem, but he rejoined the band in 2010. Gary

20:21

died on August 17 at the age of 70. And

20:25

then there's bass player Andy Rourke, one of the

20:27

founding members of the Smiths, with Morrissey, Johnny Marr,

20:29

and Mike Joyce. Ask any

20:31

Smiths fan, and they'll tell you that

20:33

he was one of the greatest bassists in the history of

20:35

British indie rock. His time

20:38

with the Smiths did not end well. He

20:40

had a heroin addiction, had to sue Morrissey and

20:42

Marr for back royalties because he was broke, and

20:45

about a decade later had to declare bankruptcy

20:47

over tax issues. He

20:49

did, however, continue to work. He

20:51

got jobs with the Pretenders, Killing Joke, and

20:53

Stone Roses singer Ian Brown. He

20:55

worked with Dolores Arreardan of the Cranberries, Peter Hook

20:58

of New Order. And weirdly, he

21:00

also played on two Morrissey singles, despite all

21:02

the hard feelings over money.

21:04

Plus, there was at least one gig involving Johnny

21:06

Marr. Cancer

21:08

ran in his family. Both

21:10

his father and his sister were diagnosed, which

21:13

prompted Rourke to start up a cancer charity. But

21:16

then, sometime in the early 2020s, he

21:18

himself was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He

21:21

died in a New York hospital on May 18 at the age of 59. Here's

21:26

Rourke showing his melodic bass playing style on

21:28

the Smiths' This Charming Man. So

21:48

many famous musicians passed in 2023. We're

21:50

running out of time, so here's a list.

21:53

David Crosby, he'd battled so many

21:55

health issues that it became tough to

21:57

keep count. hepatitis

22:00

C, other liver disease, a

22:03

liver transplant, heart issues. And

22:05

then on January the 2030 died of complications relating

22:07

to COVID. He was 81. Sisto

22:10

Rodriguez, the Detroit musician who was the subject

22:12

of the film Searching for Sugar Man, a

22:15

documentary that won an Academy Award in

22:17

2012, died. No one knew

22:19

who he was in North America, or at least not

22:21

very many people. But in parts of Africa, his records

22:23

were like gold. He died on August 8 at

22:25

the age of 81. Jimmy

22:28

Robertson, a founding member of the legendary The

22:30

Band. He was the guitarist

22:32

and musical director and chief songwriter. It's

22:35

interesting how a Canadian band helped create

22:37

a whole new genre of music called

22:39

Americana. He was also a frequent musical collaborator

22:41

with Martin Scorsese in some of his best known

22:44

films. He suffered from prostate cancer

22:46

and he died at the age of 80 on

22:48

August 9. Jimmy

22:50

Buffett, he died of a rare

22:52

and aggressive form of skin cancer on September 1. He

22:55

was 76. Steve

22:57

Riley, who played in bands like Wasp,

22:59

LA Guns, and Steffenwolf, pneumonia.

23:02

Mars Williams, a saxophonist who played

23:04

with the psychedelic furs, cancer. Jordy

23:07

Walker, of Killing Joke. He had

23:09

a stroke and died on November 26. The

23:12

great Shane McGowan of the pugs. He'd been

23:14

ill for a very long time and

23:17

finally succumbed to pneumonia and encephalitis on November

23:19

30. Miles

23:21

Goodwin, the leader of April Wine, suddenly left

23:23

us on December 3. He'd been

23:25

dealing with diabetes. Denny Lane,

23:28

an important part of Paul McCartney and

23:30

Wings, lung disease, December 5. And

23:33

finally, Sinead O'Connor. Sinead

23:35

led a troubled life from the beginning

23:38

with both physical and mental health struggles.

23:40

But during her career, she

23:42

became an icon as someone who refused

23:45

to bend and insisted on doing everything,

23:47

and I mean everything, her way. And

23:49

her first two albums are stone

23:52

cold classics. There

23:54

were several suicide attempts along the way. People

23:57

were concerned for her well-being and any

23:59

kind of self-doubt. harm she may engage in. In

24:02

the end, she was found unresponsive in her

24:04

London apartment on July the 26th and

24:06

was declared dead on the scene. In

24:09

early January 2024, the coroner's report

24:11

came down. Sinead died

24:13

of natural causes. Nothing

24:15

suspicious. Still

24:38

not done. Here are a few more we lost in

24:40

2023. Lisa Marie Presley,

24:42

daughter of Elvis. Nick Lloyd

24:45

Webber, son of Andrew. Spot, the producer

24:47

known for producing hardcore records for Black

24:49

Flag and The Descendants. Seymour

24:51

Stein, the founder of Sire Records and the guy

24:53

who not only brought tons of English bands to

24:55

North America like The Pretenders and The English Beat

24:57

and The Smiths and more, but also

24:59

the person who discovered and signed Madonna to her

25:02

first deal. Harry Belafonte, the

25:04

singer and activist. John Gosling, keyboardist

25:06

with the Kinks. There's

25:09

got to be more and I know I miss

25:11

people, but every year this list gets longer and

25:13

longer and longer. Rest

25:16

in power, everyone. 2024

25:18

will inevitably bring more sad news. I hate

25:21

to be that guy, but with so

25:23

many of our musical heroes in their 70s

25:25

and 80s, things are going to

25:28

accelerate. You know that when sites

25:30

like Wikipedia and Billboard keep running a list of these

25:32

things, you know that we're in for

25:34

a rough time. There are plenty

25:36

more shows like this available as podcasts or any

25:38

podcast platform. Most of them deal with much happier

25:40

things in the show. I can

25:42

be done on Facebook, X threads, Instagram, all

25:44

the social media channels. Email should

25:46

go to Alan and Alan cross dot CA. And

25:49

don't forget to check out my website, a journal of

25:51

musical things dot com. It's updated with music news and

25:53

information every single day and you should get the free

25:56

newsletter. So don't miss a thing. Then one more thing.

25:58

There's my other podcast. called Uncharted, Crime

26:00

and Mayhem in the Music Industry. It

26:02

is a true crime and music podcast

26:05

that I think you'll really, really like. Technical

26:08

Productions by Rob Johnston. We'll talk to you next

26:10

time. I'm Alan Gross. All

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units in shots fired. Blood Evidence

26:15

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26:18

who do this job, they

26:20

risk it all. February 18th on Global.

26:23

Come back the next day and do

26:25

it all over again.

26:28

Following the evidence. I found him.

26:30

I found the guy who killed my mother. We

26:33

know. The new season returns. Fellas

26:36

always leave a trail. DFI Vegas

26:38

new season on a new next.

26:41

Sunday February 18th on Global.