{"id":12890,"date":"2013-03-22T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-12-29T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:40:55","slug":"the_father_of_chop_and_screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/22\/the_father_of_chop_and_screw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father of “Chop and Screw”"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now in the midst of all of this, we came across a new… it\u2019s actually an old way of mixing music for clubbers and occasionally for radio mixes called “chop and screw.” We talked about it all day yesterday<\/a>. We had some callers tell us what it was. And, come to find out, folks — because I am on the cutting edge of societal evolution — I was doing chop and screw mixes on this program before I even knew what it was.<\/p>\n

Now, the first thing we\u2019re going to do — and we\u2019ve got sound bites on all this stuff. Just sit tight. But I want to do the chop and screw business because we talked about it all day yesterday and I\u2019m sure people were asking, “What the hell is chop and screw music mix?” For those of you who weren\u2019t here, we had a bunch of experts call and say it got started during the Robo-tripping days in clubs and elsewhere. Robo-trip?<\/p>\n

Yeah. People would get high on Robitussin.<\/p>\n

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Young people would start guzzling Robitussin and go to the clubs, so they started mixing music to fit the mood these people were in as they were OD\u2019ing on Robitussin. It\u2019s called Robo-tripping. Now, one thing that happens to you when you OD on Robitussin is that your heart slows down. You sort of zone out. So they mixed the music to match that, and what we have is something to illustrate this for you, so that you know what chop and screw is in terms of mixing music.<\/p>\n

We went out and we got a Sinatra song. What Sinatra song, Mike? (interruption) That\u2019s right, Love and Marriage. You\u2019ve all heard the song. (singing) “Love and marriage. Love and marriage.” We have the chop and screw mix of Frank Sinatra. Here it is. We\u2019ll start out with this. It\u2019s slower, it\u2019s slowed down, and you\u2019ll hear the chop and screw. You\u2019ll not miss it, as the song unfolds here before your very eyes and ears.<\/p>\n

(playing Love and Marriage)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, if you\u2019re zoned out on Robitussin, it sounds perfectly fine to you.<\/p>\n

(song continues)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That\u2019s enough. That gives you an idea of what chopped and screwed is. (interruption) It\u2019s got a what? You\u2019re liking it even with that? Well, it is unique. I mean, it depends on your taste. But you don\u2019t need to be on Robitussin to like it. I\u2019m just telling you that if you\u2019re Robo-tripping, the way they mixed the music for you is so that it all made sense to you. Now Love and Marriage, just so you know, the Sinatra song is actually the theme song of Married With Children, which is becoming a phenomenon that\u2019s not going to be possible for very much longer.<\/p>\n

But back in the days where marriage equaled children, that inspired songs like this. Now, little did I know… I was reminded yesterday by our crack broadcast engineer Mike… (I snuck that one in there, didn\u2019t I, Snerdley?) I was reminded yesterday by the broadcast engineer that, as always, I was before my time. We were doing chop and screw long before we even knew what it was. Let\u2019s take you back. I forget the exact year, but you football fans will recall this.<\/p>\n

In the early nineties the Houston Oilers — not the Tennessee Titans, the old Houston Oilers — were in a playoff game in Buffalo. The Oilers were up 35-3 at halftime and ended up losing the game. Now, at the time I was a big Houston Oilers fan. I loved the old Steelers and Oilers rivalries. I had a good friend that was working for the Oilers. Lewis Mangum was his name. He was a traveling secretary. He was a great guy, did a number of things, and I had a chance to take a couple of road trips with the Oilers.<\/p>\n

I just loved it, but that was before this program started. This was back in \u201979 through \u201983 in that era, during the big rivalry days with the Steelers. Anyway, we were playing the Oilers\u2019 fight song which was popular back then, and we have the regular version of that, right, Maimone? But after this game, after they blew the 35-3 halftime lead, we came back and we made a mockery of their defeat by altering the song. We\u2019ll play it — Houston Oilers Number One — as it normally sounds. It\u2019s a little hokey, but it\u2019s nostalgic.<\/p>\n