![]() Q e e e e e q h s s s s s s Q q q q h s s s s s W s e e s e+h s e e s e+h s s s s+H q q q q e s s You think it’s so strange, when you just want to make a joke, and people want you to get permission and pay money.” (Jam! Showbiz, 1996)-Neil in Songfacts Tablature (Bass)īy Lionel Gibaudan and Sean Jones from Ultimate Guitar. That’s Igor going ‘Goo mash goo.’ We had to get special permission and pay money and everything. We got to listening to it, thinking about how funny it was and decided to put some samples of it in there. So I said, ‘Here’s your chance: go get these lyrics for me.’ Well, he went onto the Internet and found the lyrics, but they were wrong! In all the jokes of that, our co-producer, Peter Collins, went out and bought a CD that had a compilation of some funny songs like that. One of the guys on the production team is an Internet preacher. “I’d been stuck on ‘Monster Mash’ and we were trying to use the Internet to get the words because I couldn’t remember them. Neil was already working on his drum parts for all of the other songs when we dumped it in his lap and said, ‘Here’s another one for you to learn!'” (T4E Premiere)-Alex in Merely Players It was a last-minute thing, as most of our instrumentals are. We just thought it was fun, the play on words of ‘Rush Limbo.’ We had a lot of fun doing that as we always do with instrumentals. We wouldn’t write a song that had anything to do with him. “Absolutely nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh. “This song is not about a dance or a fat guy.” (T4e Tour intro)-Geddy in Merely Players And the resulting success spawned a host of imitators and a shift from local programming to nationally syndicated talk shows across radio at a time when the industry had been struggling.“This free-form instrumental was born from out-takes that were in ‘limbo.’ ‘Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?’ is sampled from Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett and the Crypt Keepers’ ‘Monster Mash.’ These references might have been inspired by the Frankenstein-like arrangement.”-Robert Telleria, Merely Players ![]() The show satiated the appetite for a predominantly white male audience that didn't care for being talked down to by intellectuals. That folksy approach opened up a much wider audience to his views. ![]() In many ways he was to the conservative movement what Jon Stewart would be to the liberal movement." ![]() As a matter of fact, when Limbaugh started, he was funny. Buckley or a number of the conservatives that had been notable media pundits, who were very dry and very serious and very wonky. "The magic formula that made Rush Limbaugh the sensation that he became, with the influence that he had on the broadcasting industry, is that he was a conservative coming on the dial in the late eighties who was entertaining," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, a trade publication.
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