The Dollar Bin: Mike Squires (Duff McKagan's Loaded, Alien Crab Syndicate, Ugly Kid Joe)

And, uh, w- if I could ask you, is there one record right out of the gate that when you were younger you found or were given, or was there a record that you first heard that went, "Holy shit, I have to collect records.

I have to buy albums," or, "I lo- I just, I love this"?

Well, there was always music around in my house.

Um, and my mom had all the giant hits of the '70s, you know.

Uh, Stevie Nicks, uh, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller.

Um, trying to think.

Boz Scaggs and Bob Seger, those were big ones that were playing in the house.

And I would always, you know, listen and l- look at the things.

But then I would listen to...

I have an uncle that's just 10 years older than me, so it was more like an older brother.

And, um, he was into the '70s rock.

And so he was into Foghat-

Hell, yeah

...

Ted Nugent, all the stuff that, all the rock music.

Bad Company, Rush.

And but of course, like everyone of an age, the first thing that was a lightning bolt moment, and I had heard a lot of mu- I'd been, you know, music was always playing.

It was Kiss Alive.

And I spun that record so much.

And then the first record that I ever bought with my own money, 'cause I'd been working since I was seven, the first record I bought with my own money was Kiss Destroyer.

Hell, yeah.

And I still love that record, and I stand by the fact that, uh, Great Expectations is the greatest Kiss song ever committed.

I will not argue with you on that.

But it, it is crazy how many of our guests on this show are like, "Kiss, Kiss were, was the band." But Alive was such a fucking meteor of an album.

It just showed up and just destroyed everything for people.