This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
I turned off news altogether. I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything. It's the rage bait. It feels like it's trying to divide people. If we got clear facts, maybe we could calm down a little.
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while Pat is known mostly for his ballads and classic pop music hits. He's here today to talk about a musical 180 he took. late in his life. Take it away, Pat. Listen, I'm so glad you brought that up because it's a great example.
of how I've made my way through this this entertainment morass. But uh I did an album of heavy metal classics. It came about because while I was in England with my musicians, you know, doing all my hit records and the tour going very well, but we're in an airport. between airplanes and uh And one of my musicians said, You know, we like doing your hit records, you know, people, but why don't we go in the studio and do something different now, new? together and I said, look, I thought of it.
but I can't think of anything I haven't done ten times already. I've already done Gospel and pop and rock and roll and big band swing. They say, Well, you never did any heavy metal. And we laughed about it. No, I never did any heavy metal.
Well, I didn't have any use for heavy metal either, or the performers who were doing it. But My conductor, Dave Siebels, who's still my musical conductor pianist. Said, you know, There are a lot of good songs underneath all that noise. That we could do a different way. And I said, like what?
He said, well, big band swing. And I said, Oh, well now you're talking Let me, what kind of songs do you mean? And that's when I was introduced by them to the songs we wound up recording, like Smoke on the Water. Long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, and then, of course, crazy trains. Which as I listen to that lyric.
and him singing it. I realized was really good social commentary. about how hard it was for young people coming up. to uh cope with all the hip hypocrisy and double standards. It was his take.
on how hard it is. for kids to grow up and growing up on a crazy trailer. Crazy But that's how it goes Millions of people living as foes And so We decided we got the big band. Best Arrangers in big band swing, each to take one song. including Crazy Train, and do big band swing versions.
Mental wounds. Not healing life's a bit. Bitter shame. I'm going on Off the rails on a crazy train. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
And we put out the album and the night before the album was coming out, Dick Clark, who produced the American Music Awards, Had heard it and felt like it was going to be a hit because it was all those big, big songs, but done a totally different way. No more Mr. Nice guy, Alice Cooper, was one of them. And that was a subtitle. It was Pat Boone in a metal mood.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. And and Dick Clark had me and Alice Cooper present the award for hard rock heavy metal, which happened to be for Metallica. And I was doing their song in the album, Enter Sandman. And to do that, Dick Clark had the idea.
Then I would come on. Dressed like a heavy metal guy, and Alice Goopel would come on like Pat Boone in a v-neck sweater, carrying a glass of milk, wearing white buck shoes, his long hair pulled back under a golf cap. And I would come out in leather vests made by design by Bill Ballou, who did all of us's costumes, just opened. all the way down to my navel. bare chest.
No sleeves, tattoos on my arms. biceps and uh and pectoral muscles and you know choker and earrings and And boots and leather, and so. Alice Cooper, introduce me. He's the master of shot rub, ladies and gentlemen. Alice Cooper.
I know the history of heavy metal. But now I'd like to introduce you to the future of heavy metal. Pat Boone as the future of heavy metal. And Dick Clark had smoke on the stage and had me stomp out through the fog. to confront Alice Cooper who was looking unlike Alice Cooper at that point.
And he was stunned because he hadn't seen me in the outfit I was wearing. And the crowd went crazy in the audience. Then it was so noisy I couldn't eat we couldn't talk yet. And I realized what was happening is the young people are saying, who is that? And the older ones said, well, they said it's Pat Boone, but it can't be.
Well, who's Pat Boone? Alice. They're laughing at you. You're looking good. Does this signify the death of heavy metal?
No, it's a whole new rebirth. Yo, Alice. You are my role model. You know that. I mean, all this was a cacophony in the audience, so I just walked to the front of the stage and stood there flexing my pecs.
and looking like the De Niro and taxi driver. Hey. You got a problem with me? You want a piece of me? Hey.
But I had no mic. I was able to do it with attitude.
So I walk back to Alice Cooper and he's standing there with his jaw hanging open. And he had to say, does this mean I have to sing love letters in the sand? And I had the sound man ready and I said, That would be nice. And we just made the most of this. humorous take on the songs that I'd done very seriously.
Well I was kicked off Christian TV that night. I mean, uh it looked like I'd gone off to the dark side. and it was raising a furor. I had a regular show on Christian television, but it was canceled. And it was that was in the news.
and then Ozzie moved in next door to me. and took up residence and we hadn't even met yet. But when uh He had moved in and I'd already done his song and He was walking out. I went out to get the mail, and here comes Ozzy shuffling along the sidewalk. To get into an escalade, and he said, Hello, Pat, nice to meet you.
He said, Uh I gotta go to an AA meeting right now, but when I get back, we'll get together and have tea, okay? And I said, well, sure.
So we did. We got to be friends and neighbors for three years. Two years. And then he began The Osbourne Television Show. And lo and behold, I tuned in to see the show.
And the first thing I hear is hit my version of Crazy Train as his theme song, not his version. He used my version. Oh, Crazy Train, Crazy, Hey, That's How It Goes, Big Band Swing, as his theme song. And so we, as I say, we were friends and neighbors, he and Sharon and the kids.
So You know, I was able to be friends with and have the respect of, and actually, the friendship. with a guy with whom I had very little in common. But but we were good neighbors. And that was when Cheryl said on the show, Don't you miss Pat Boone? He was the best blankety blank neighbor we ever had.
I mean, I won't fill in the blankety blank, but that was just the way he talked. And I took, I didn't mind it, I'm gonna say, that's the way he talked. I knew you grew up You know, as a hard-luck kid in England, and he had said it was either crime or music for him, and he chose music.
Well, I'm glad he didn't choose crying. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery, and a special thanks. to Pat Boone and we've talked Told several stories with him about his life, one just a broad Soup and nuts beginning to end. One just about the two loves of his life, and that would be his music and his bride. And my goodness, it'll bring you to tears.
It is absolutely beautiful. And last but not least, Pat Boone of Metal Fame. In a Metal Mood, was the record. The subtitle, No More Mr. Nice Guy.
Of course that with he and Alice Cooper, friends, by the way, golfing buddies. And two Christian guys, Pat Boone, a Christian, and Alice Cooper, a born-again Christian, later in his life. And imagine the scene when Ozzy Osborne moves in next to Pat Boone. Everybody would have thought, wow, these guys would have nothing in common. And they didn't.
But they did. Because they had music and they were neighbors. We need more of that in this country. We don't have to agree on everything or live the same lives to love one another and be good neighbors. Pat Boone, in a metal mood.
His story His brief dalliance with metal. Here on Our American Story. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo?
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house.
I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible.
At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid. Hey, what's up? It's Mario Lopez. Back to schools, an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming, and kids may feel isolated, a vulnerability that human traffickers can exploit. Human trafficking doesn't always look like what you expect.
Everyday moments can become opportunities for someone with bad intentions, whether you're a parent, teacher, coach, or neighbor. Check in. Ask questions. Stay connected. Blue Campaign is a national awareness initiative that provides resources to help recognize suspected instances of human trafficking.
Learn the signs and how to report at dhs.gov/slash blue campaign. The NFL International Games continue on NFL Network and here our stars come out in the morning. Week 10, Bajaun Robinson and the Fountains. Take on Daniel Jones and the Colts in Berlin. to the fourth quarter.
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