not know who eric clapton is?gle it. >> greg: timeout. the birds? no, he's not in the birds. yardbirds. >> i don't know them. >> greg: cream. >> are the songs? [laughter] >> greg: what is happening? what is happening question mike >> he is going to outlive us all. >> but i did google him and so i thought well, if you went to his concerts in the 70s and 80s, you probably don't need the covid vaccine. i think you can survive anything you want through. just kidding, he should get the vaccine. >> greg: it is a fair point that he can turn down these concerts because he is super wealthy. but so could green day. >> just right -- nobody breathe. let's get through this. i guess i struggle with this. the fact that this is even an issue and why we are talking about it. never i enrolled my kids in school i'd to show their vaccine stuff. it should not be that big of a deal. if you are having a concert and you were saying you can only go if you have a vaccine and you have a vaccine court or whatever, okay, cool. go to the conce

your preferred eye shot of eric clapton or maury? >> it has to be maury now. guitarist. it's nuts to do that kind of stuff. i got to go with bob marley any way. >> always safe to go with bob marley, as you say clapton have been a little bit out of his lane. thank you so much. >>> including the extremism of the texas gop. >>> later a top biden white house official here on the beat. we'll get on the big congressional fight and what they can do about mitch mcconnell to recruit a democrat to stop the safety plan. stay with us. p the safety plan. stay with us ver too late to start - or too early. ♪ ♪ wealth helps you retire. worth is knowing why. ♪ ♪ principal. for all it's worth. this is how you become the best! [music: “you're the best” by joe esposito] [music: “you're the best” by joe esposito] [triumphantly yells] [ding] don't get mad. get e*trade and take charge of your finances today. introducing aleve x. don't get mad. it's fast, powerful long-lasting relief with a revolutionary, rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve

with, this study is interesting how he lived his whole life and he was the greatest man i mean, eric clapton and all these guys cried at his funeral and mick jagger as he was such a force in the music industry. >> i don't know if you're aware of this but you seem to use a lot of quotations in your writing, is that purposeful ? >> a lot of what? >> a lot of quotations. >>. >> i've been writing all my life thanks to the great madison heights high school. ms. simmons and then university of chicago, i've been working on wall street where i had an english teacher as a senior analyst who taught me a lot about retailing or more. i think you just develop your own writing style and you know, i mean i think you get to a point where you feel comfortable with it and probably you tend to overuse certain techniqueshere and there . but yeah, when something," are usually when i use for market it isn't like a direct quotation summary saying something on san juan, i'm not sure this board means what theysay . like, it was a terrible event or something. i can't think of a good example other than that but maybe

not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it got dylan out of hiding.as unparalleled at the time and may still be unparalleled. ♪ >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s, finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> have you any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it had? >> because we stay together i suppose. >> for a few years, the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt he wasn't going to be around that long. not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france. and record this record, "exile on main street." in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy sounding studio. ♪ baby, i can't stay yu got to roll me ♪ ♪ and call me the tumbling dice ♪ >> that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. and i remember reading the review saying this is like a debauched album. i didn't know what debauched means but i got to get m

on the other hand, rock legend eric clapton reportedly said he would not play any venues that do mandate's a time of uncertainty. >> i don't even know if we're all going to feel comfortable going to dinner, much less putting ourselves in indoor rooms night after night. >> brown: ryan miller is lead singer and guitarist for guster, the alternative rock band that turns 30 this year, hanging on through the pandemic. >> there was also some kind of low lows, of just figuring out how this was going to play out, how we were going to stay connected internally, how are we going to stay connected to our fans, how we're going to keep some momentum up, if that even mattered anymore. >> brown: the band had weekly meetings to stay connected, and played a drive-in show last august in new hampshire. >> we're in the midst of this storm, but we felt like it was important to do, even though it was-- it was a lot of stress and, and not something that any of us were, like, super excited to do, other than just feeling like kind of had to. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brown: but july, guster emerged from what band members called