Back to the '80s Radio and Special Guest, Steve Augeri

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Maybe welcome to the Back to the
Eighties radio show. Thank you for joining

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us from wherever you are, whoever
you are. A big shout out to

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everybody listening from every corner of this
globe. Thank you for taking your time

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with you. First of all,
we're gonna be talking about bands from the

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nineteen eighties, of course, as
we always do, but bands that were

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born in the city of New York. We have an amazing guest. Do

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not miss the show because with us
is former member of Journey from ninety eight

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to two thousand and six, Steve
Oh Jerry. Now, before we get

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started, I want to make some
announcements, one of them being that we

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have been hacked, and I'll talk
to you guys more about that in just

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a second. But we can't choose. Yeah, we cannot do the show

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alone. We must introduce a man
who has done more mischief in the eighties

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than Dennis the Menace. We call
him the Chang. I am the Chang,

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the wild Thing, and I am
always riding alongside my most favorite Italian

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beside Chef Boyard. I also want
to thank you guys, because you guys

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listening to us wherever you are,
whether it be in the car, in

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the gym, at home, or
at the airport. It doesn't matter.

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You guys are our most valued guests, So thank you for joining us here

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on Back to the eighties to radio
you're listening to Back to the Eighties Tusconna.

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Wouldn't you say it's always nice to
be heard on your device? Oh?

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It's always nice one time? You
know that, right? Did you

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really? Yes? I used to
gift rap at Mervin's during Christmas. I

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thought you worked for the Salvation Army. I was a corporal in the Kiss

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Army. Yes, the Kiss Army. Even after they took their makeup off.

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Huh No, once Kiss took their
makeup off. Now here's here's the

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funny scenario about Kiss taking their makeup
off, which is funny and ironic that

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they are also a New York band, such like The New York Dolls with

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David Johansson. Anyway, when Kiss
took their makeup off, I found myself

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bewildered, not only from the fear
of their hideous faces, but yet their

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beautiful hair. I'd say maybe the
second album, after they revealed themselves to

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be more than just a cartoon picture, there was a change in the band

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different drummer, different guitar player.
They kind of stepped it up musician wise,

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and some of the songs off I'd
say their second album were pretty good,

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and if you put them in a
comparison to all their own away from

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what Kiss had done with the makeup
and their first pretty album, Lick it

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Up. So you didn't like that
album. I was not a fan of

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Lick it Up because Lick It Up
the way that the guys from Kiss dressed,

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especially Paul Stanley. Paul Stanley,
once he took his makeup off and

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he started dressing, he looked a
lot like my ex y, my daughter's

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mother, and I found it really
scary. I remember you hating on Kiss

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for a long time, you because
I am in agreement with you for the

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first time, probably ever. About
a week ago, I started listening to

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some well, I started watching some
of Kiss videos from the eighties without their

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makeup, and I ran across a
song called Reason to Live. I'm gonna

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tell you It sounded like a song
that would be sung by Bon Jovi or

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Poison. It was so glam metal
that I literally only watched a quarter of

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the video. I couldn't watch it
all, not once again. The song

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was good, the melody is good. It was a catchy tune. But

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I couldn't stand watching Kiss in that
way. The funny thing is that in

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the video Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons
were acting just the way they did when

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they had their makeup on. So
they're acting really hardcore rocker both without their

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makeup and singing this particular song.
It was a recipe that I just couldn't

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make at home. If if you
know what I mean, I know what

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you mean. Now let me ask
you this while we're talking about Kiss,

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like I did, like I didn't
mention I did like their second album.

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I liked when Jean Simmons grew his
beard out and he started wearing like a

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denim cut off jacket. He started
looking like, Okay, you know,

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you might be a tough guy,
you know what I mean. Of course,

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that's when he started going out with
Shannon Tweed. Oh my god,

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did I have a crush on her
in the eighties. But that's another show.

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I had more respect for Kiss after
Lick it Up, prior to coming

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back in Makeup, after you fire
two of your original bandmates, who were

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those characters in Makeup and then you
come up with this gimmick to bypass who

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the original members were and their musicianship
that they added in the collaboration to create

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kiss as we can get two other
guys in here to fill you in and

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just put makeup on and pretend you
were never here. Oh my god,

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did I just explain in what two
minutes my hate of jeans in that band?

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Really quick? I enjoyed their music
after Lick It Up. It Lick

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It Up was too much glam metal, And we've gone back and forth what

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I think about glam metal once again, Lick It Up I believe is a

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great album. But I can but
I can tell you, of course you

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don't. I don't think it made
too much sense for me. And I

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am one who loves glam bands and
I like hair metal, and I also

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like metal, you know. But
it's a sign of the times. Everybody

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during the eighties that was a metal
sellout at one time. And I'm even

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going to go on a limb and
say not only but it is the truth

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anybody that is a Judas Priests fan
such as me, but I will say

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this, everybody was touched in the
eighties by the glamour by pop notoriety everybody.

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Yeah, by the change, by
the change that metal and rock the

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way that they morphed into something else
because they wanted to. And I'm talking

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about the big wigs behind the bands
and the ones that are paying the bills

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because they want to be the criteria
friend. So they wanted to attract a

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different market. We've talked about this
before. They attracted a different market by

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doing so what happens You destroy a
whole genre and outcomes just a bunch of

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stuff that was never there, and
then that stuff will morph. It's you

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know what, It's kind of like
COVID. COVID comes out, screws everything

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up, and then what happens It
morphson did something else. Don't go away

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because when we come back here,
I'm back to the eighties radio. We're

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going to be talking to Steve AGERI
the former member of Journey. You are

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listening right now to something from Kiss
Off. I'll lick it up and here

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is something from Oh God, the
first Rapper possibly or was she a goddess?

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Something from Blondie on the Way until
you know that we got all the

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time to not do the breed.
Time you turning time the way on the

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way time by get it out,
I down, get out it all?

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Well yeah, get out I all. I I don't make go bay Moman

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with my same shot, you gonnat
feel like a robaton shot and the Queen

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came by with boat gonna believe me. It ain't a wine to make it

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a get out I no style the
out call me, you call coll call

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someone, come over. You're coming
coming at a time you can't come and

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send on my coming. Cover me
with kisses, baby, roll me,

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design the sheets, emotions come come
time, hum one showing some what anytime

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play play take it's not a two
five where we keep the eighty vibe alive.

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You are with tuskanawin Chen and that
was call me, Oh, I

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Call you a thousand times over Blondie
and oh yes something from kiss and we

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went with the title track from Lick
It Up. With Lick it Up before

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the break, we promised you that
we would have a special guest that's right

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with us on the show right now. Is former Journey lead vocalist giving the

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world a reason to rock since the
seventies. Now. He was with Journey

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from ninety eight two o six,
and before that he was even founding member

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of epic recording artists, Tall Stories, the one and only Steve Jerry.

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I'm back to the eighties radio.
Thank you, Steve. Ho these smokes.

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What a beautiful build up. Hey
everybody, how you doing, gentlemen?

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How you feeling? How are you
doing today? Steve? We are

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Tickle Pink for two reasons. Because
we get to bring our beautiful listeners another

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show, but because we have greatness
on the other side of the microphone,

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which we get to enter view you. I know our listeners are going to

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dig your vibe and everything you have
to say, and we want to let

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our address our listeners. It is
this gentleman's birthday, so please hit us

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on our social media and wish Steve
a happy birthday and thank you for his

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music. And if you don't,
I will find you and I will beat

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you all with your own hands.
No cake for you, no cake,

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hey, no ice cream cake.
Let's kick this all off by having you

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talk to us about the boy Steve
as Jerry. First of all, all

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right, you know what I'm just
gonna I'm gonna throw a wrench in your

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works and I'm gonna tell you why
I'm doing this little press junket and it's

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because I've just released a brand new
record by the name of Seven Ways Till

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Sunday, and hence that's why we're
talking to each other. And I think

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you could find some actually anywhere from
seventies and eighties to nineties influences on the

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record. But I think you'll find
some really nice little sounds and some flavors

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from the eighties that carry over,
like let's say, the best of the

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eighties that carryers over into the record
and I and so that's why we're here.

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So you want to go back into
my childhood. Well, I was

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born in Brooklyn, New York,
in Bensonhurst, which is known for its

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greatest pizza, it's greatest canolis,
Hey, and unfortunately one too many gangsters

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and mobsters. So I kind of
I escaped a possible fate and thank God

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for music because it truly did pluck
me from the grasp of a possible a

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life of crime and a life of
well, let's just say, I'm still

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living in breathing where I've known way
too many folks that I my peers that

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I grew up with that are not
with us today. So music truly did

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save my life. Who was the
first individual that opened your mind and opened

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your soul to music. Would that
be a teacher, a parent, somebody

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heard on the radio. I have
to say. My uncle grabbed my cousin

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and I by the scruff of the
neck. We were watching The Headless Horsemen

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on Disney on one Sunday evening.
It was the Headless Horseman. It was

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fantastic. We were watching Ikabob Crane
run through the forest with a you know,

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holding a head and with a pumpkin
on his you know where his head

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used to be. And we were
enjoying ourselves and he picked us scruff of

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the neck and he brought us into
another room where he was watching Ed Sullivan

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and the Beatles were on. That
had a huge impact on my life,

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as it did thousands of thousands of
Americans. These Brits come over and it

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sparked something in me as it did, like I said to so many Americans

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that I absolutely wanted to make music. That sparked it, that inspired me.

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And he went out and brought us
fifteen dollars guitars out of the Sea's

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Roebuck catalog, all of fifteen dollars. You know. We started writing and

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singing songs and being silly and playing
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were you know, John Lennon,
John and Paul and Ringo and George of

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course and very much and that started
very good. So that started the ball

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rolling for sure. Now during that
time, what type of bands were you

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in once you started getting that influence
and developing the skills and the talent,

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what type of bands did you did
you first have your experiences in music.

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So then the very first real band, and I think it was around fifteen

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years old, is when I really
made a commitment and I knew that I

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wanted to do this for the rest
of my life. And I had a

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wonderful band, and we were doing
aside from playing Rush and led Zeppelin and

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Kiss and Queen covers and Black Sabbath
covers and it was a three piece band,

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we were writing. We started writing
our own music because we knew even

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then, you just we wanted it
to make a future of this and a

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possible profession. So we started writing
back then and with those great influences of

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those great classic rock bands from the
lates, you know, from the seventies,

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well even from the late sixties to
the seventies, and so Frankly,

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that was really you know, that
sparked yet another spark and catapulted us,

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you know, to the next the
next level during the eighties. What type

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of bands were of the popular sound
where you were first starting to make music

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right there in New York. Well, to be very honest with you,

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so I had I had my education
or I had not my fill but I

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had a great the late seventies or
the seventies, I had all the great

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hard rock experience, and I really
when when music changes as it did and

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it started going into a more progressive, modern new wave punk thing. Living

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in New York City, we were, you know, we were in the

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middle of it. We were at
ground zero, just like la or London.

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So I had great influences anywhere from
Peter Gabriel's great records that he did,

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then Police You Too, Simple Minds, just to name a couple,

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I mean the Arrhythmics. I absolutely
fell in love with the quality the stuff

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that talked to me out of that
genre, and so that had a big

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those that style music had a big
influence on me as well. Can you

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elaborate a little bit on the first
time that you got to actually play on

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a big stage. First of all, who that was, where it was,

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and some of the feelings that you
experienced during that time. Yeah.

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We Actually this is very interesting and
kind of important in my timeline, was

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that in nineteen eighty four, speaking
of the eighties, I was contacted to

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not even audition, just to work
with the Michael Schenka group and sing background

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vocals. They were looking for somebody
to sing background vocals as well as play

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guitar. So they flew me out
from New York. I think it was

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the first time I went out to
the West coast to La and I met

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Bob Tench, the famous Bob Tench
of the Jeff Beck group, and and

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he was doing he was doing that
part with Michael, and he taught me

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the ropes. I want to say
that the name of the venue was the

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Palladium in La So I was backstage
and I was with Bob and he was

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teaching me all the little ins and
outs of the job. So I went

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out on the road for about I
think a month and a half to two

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months with Michael, and we were
opening a month with just Michael in some

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small clubs and small theaters, and
then we got picked up by Ted Nugent

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as an opening act. I'd go
out and I would sing behind stacks of

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Marshall amplifiers, and I would sing
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I was just a background vocalist.
It's you know, rock and roll had

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an image. You don't have a
guy out, They're shaking us, took

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us, you know, just singing
background vocals and shanky and tambourine. You

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know. That was where I got
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big stages. And we did do
a lot of arenas with Ted, and

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Ted used to sneak up behind me. Now imagine I'm behind a row of

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martial amplification and I felt this huge
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in between lines of the song.
And I turned around. It was big

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Ted and he was just looking down
a hand and he tapped me on the

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back and he said, son,
someday you're going to be don't worry,

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of the stage and send a stage
doing that. Wow. And you know,

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regardless of what anybody thinks of Ted's
politics or this and that, we

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don't want to mix politics with entertainment
of music. That stuck with me and

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that will always be a catalyst and
an inspiration to me because he was kind

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enough to say that to me,
and I held true. You know,

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when I'm wake up and I'm having
a bad day, I'll think back of,

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you know, somebody patting on the
back and giving you a little encouragement.

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How was Michael? Was Michael an
okay guy? Was he a bit

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of tight? Was at the time? Michael was? He was well?

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First of all, he was just
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this day I took away you know, I always think of his beautiful tone

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and which is such a signature tone. And if you hear my new record

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Seven Ways to Sunday, I copped
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a couple of songs because that stayed
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He's a master. That was a
great part of my life and experience.

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That was the first time I was
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hotel to hotel and bus ride to
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Michael was great. Since this is
a show where we usually just focus on

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the eighties, let me let me
ask you about the whole decade of the

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eighties, what it meant to you
as a professional as a musician, what

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it all encompassed as a feeling to
you now that you look back at it.

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Well, well, let me say
that because I can only tell you

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what was going on in New York
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We were still going out to nightclubs, and there were still nightclubs to

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go out to, wonderful nightclubs,
rock and roll clubs. I think back

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then the Palladium, which was actually
the Academy of Music, that was a

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wonderful venue. Now the only venue
in New York City like that is uptown

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called the Beacon Theater. But I
saw some really, really great music in

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the eighties in New York City.
Yeah, I missed that a great deal.

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You know, when your age and
you put a few years on you,

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yeah, you know, you see
your life go by in stages and

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by far, the eighties were a
great era of me. But again not

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exactly what you might expect from a
hard rock or somebody that may have sang

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the journey. I had a great
many influences coming in or at least I

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opened my mind to a lot of
different musics. For example, one of

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my I think one of the greatest
records that came out of that period,

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and I hope it wasn't in the
late seventies, but I'm thinking about bands

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like the Sex Pistols, you know, the first Pistols record, or we

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would still listening, we were listening
to the Clash in the eighties, you

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know, the best of the best. And I'm trying to think of I

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mean, and even so think of
hard rock bands. They're evolving and they're

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adapting to newer sounds. So even
the who would come out and pee towns

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it would write, you know,
records. He put out a solo record

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that was phenomenal. Oh Rocks and
music, I have a long list,

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amazing a great band well, and
that particular record during that era was incredible.

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What really sticks with me and I
can't remember, of course the Police

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in you two because they were huge
influences on me and music in general.

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They were so huge. But Peter
Gabriel, there's two records that one was

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I think it was Security and the
other one was So that was so tremendous

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and I absolutely loved them so that
I took those kind of influences and I

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brought it forward with me into the
nineties and then then, you know,

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to current day. Seems that you
ventured into the music business, you know,

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pretty much majority of your life,
and you were in New York and

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LA and New York. They're two
different monsters, correct, music wise?

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Did you guys notice the difference between
music business even in New York or the

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sound and the style when grunge came
in? Are you one of these rockers

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like my partner Mari who says grunge
killed everything and gruns sucks. Steve,

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He's absolutely right. I did say
that. Okay, here's what I know

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as just as an observer, and
of course I was. We were dead

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smack in the middle of it because
we worked hard all our lives. We

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got signed to Epic Records, we
were supposed to release the record, and

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they shelved it for a year,
and then when they decided to release the

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record, they released it the same
exact release day as Pearl Jam. So

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we were Wow, we were things
were looking bleak for us. Great job,

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Epic. Yeah, So had they
released it a year earlier, we

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would have been just fine because it
was a fine band and was a really

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good record. It was critic by
the critics. I think it was really

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well received. However, music changed, and I'll tell you another thing,

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I understand. I wish they hadn't
changed so drastically, but that's what they

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did. And we were in the
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it, and we felt the brunt
of it because that was the beginning of

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the end of bands, our style. Now, I wanted to defend the

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band told stories. We were not
a hair band per se. We were

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just a band. We were just
musicians, and we really didn't take well,

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yeah, I mean everybody, you
have to be a little fashionable and

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that keeps you competitive, but we
didn't emphasize that the hairspray, if you

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know what I mean, in the
spandings. So we were. We were

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and living in New York. You
I can only just because I do.

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I was born and raised too things. You know. We evolved with the

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times and we were just producing music
that we thought was timely, and we

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got we got caught up in the
whole see the toiler bowls strolling around.

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We went down with all the troops, and that's just the way it was.

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Now getting to grunge. So at
first, of course human nature would

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pooh pooh it because it just stuck
a dagger in you and twisted the blade.

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But bands like Sound Garden, I
mean they were they were one of

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the finest bands. I mean that
I adored them. You know, Chris

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Cornella daughter's voice, and that Van
talked to me. So I could never

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say say a bad thing about music
changing. As we talk about challenges throughout

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the music industry, what is the
greatest challenge that you experienced while you were

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on tour? It was sustaining and
singing five shows a week. Going from

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oh, let me put it do
this way. So I went from singing

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a show a week once a week
like a weekend warrior, and going out

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there and going full till two and
by the end of the show, you

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know, your voice would be in
tatters because you didn't have to wake up

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the next day or the next day
and do it over and over and over

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again. So when when I got
thrown into the deep end of the pool

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and into the as a real true
professional, I had to step up my

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game and I had to go see
you know, great music vocal teachers and

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great vocal therapists to put me on
the right path and to strengthen my instrument.

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And you know, that holds up
for a while until it doesn't.

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And so the challenge was doing it
night after night after night after night.

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So you can only do what you
can control just so much. And so

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you can control what yourself and where
you put yourself in certain predicaments and situations.

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You have to eat properly, exercise, stay it out of the bars,

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stay away from cigarettes and alcohol,
stay away from parties and very boring

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life. In fact, it's almost
the life of a monk. But that's

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what it takes. And but however, sometimes it catches up to you.

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And that's exactly what happened to me
after eight years, or caught up to

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me to the point where I needed
to step out of the batter's box and

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get healthy again. And it took
about it a year to get the voice

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back into shape. And I'm one
of the four it few. You know,

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some people step out and they're damaged
for you know, the rest of

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their life. I had a great
doctor that says you need to zip it,

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and so I zipped it and took
care of myself. I was able

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to come out and live another day. You know. You know, it's

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interesting that you mentioned this because I
was reading a lot of the comments that

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people have been leaving. There's a
lot of people who who love you a

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lot out there, and there's particularly
one one person who said it's ashamed that

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the band wouldn't let him rest his
voice. Now that you mentioned that,

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he is an incredible singer, and
I wish we had more of him today,

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and I just think that is a
testament to the footprint that you have

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left in your career in people's hearts. And that is so important because of

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so much as missing today with music
an artists, no matter how good artists

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may be today and the music that
they are putting forth, there was just

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something there about artists such as yourself
that have produced and left a mark in

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the hearts and souls of people,
because you know, we all know that

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music. Music is powerful and it
changes people. And when you have an

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artist that has that same power,
you know, I remember Survivor used to

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have this song. I know,
I know he's the hater of Survivor.

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Survivor had a song called the Singer
not the Song and Jimmy Jamison singing yes,

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Yes, he did, and because
I've seen I used to be dear

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friend with him, a friends of
him, or a very good acquaintances,

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and he sang the heck out of
it. Yeah, and and that just

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reminds me of what you're doing that
just as as well produced and as great

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as music is and is written,
the end of the day, people know

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the singer on behalf of the fans
that have been writing in. I just

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want to thank you for that legacy
that you are putting forth, and we'll

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leave for the other generations. That's
incredibly generous and complimentary. I appreciate that

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I do. I just want to
just say that, thank you very much.

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I have to say your question earlier
was what was the most you know,

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what was most challenging, and and
it was truly walking into a situation

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with one of the world's, if
not America's, certainly premier rock and roll

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bands, certainly top three bands,
and and they're around fifty years congratulations,

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gentlemen, fifty years this year,
and walking in and trying to replace somebody

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that's irreplaceable, and so that was
the biggest challenge and it was a doozy.

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So, however, I have the
fans and They started in a small

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group, you know, and just
you could probably count them on one hand.

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And with every show and every week
and month and year that went by,

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we gained or they gained a little
more confidence, confidence in me,

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and gave me a little bit more
leeway or a little open their minds and

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their hearts to something different. Changes. It is an incredible thing. It's

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not easy to change. However,
we must always if things must move forward.

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But I'll be the first one to
tell you I don't think I would

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have you know, I would.
I wouldn't have allowed anybody you know,

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into my world, my musical world, and accept it that quickly and that

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easily. So so it took eight
years. We went from fifteen hundred seat

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beautiful vaudeville theaters around the country to
fifteen thousand seat sheds amphitheaters and as as

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many as you know, seventy thousands
festival and so it was pretty wonderful experience.

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And it took time, and it
took a lot of work and a

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lot of determination. But I have
the fans to thank at least fifty percent.

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I mean, I had, I
put the work in, so I'm

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not going to take I have to
I don't want to sell myself short.

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But without the fans, you have
nothing. You know, you could sing

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in your shower, which I love
doing, but boy, it's nothing why

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to an audience, and there's nothing
like, you know, getting that love

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and that feedback. So thank thank
you, journey fans forever. Let's take

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a quick break. When we come
back, there's more of Steve Jerry,

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So don't go away. Radio is
so much different than it was in the

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eighties. We had it all the
music, the movies, the DJs and

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morning shows. Back to the Eighties
Radio is a show from the eighties in

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podcast form. We bring the memories
from that awesome decade back John Jaskato and

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Chang every Friday as they take you
on a right back in time, sharing

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their experiences and laughs. Stop on
buy and discover some of the wacky things

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this crazy duo comes up with.
They talk about it all the good,

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the bad, and the ugly of
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eighties podcast in the world, Back
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Back to the Eighties Radio, hosted
by Yours truly to Skato and Chang and

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are joined in studio by a legend, that's right, a legend. Now,

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mister Steve, please tell us about
the Party Grows and I know you've

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got a new sensational album. I
mean, this show could continue, I'd

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say for a couple of hours,
or maybe we could have some birthday cake,

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maybe we could have Mario jump out
of a cake for you. But

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ste please, can you tell us
a little bit about the Party Grows and

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your new album and if you could
let our lovely listeners know what nowadays keeps

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you motivated to keep doing you.
I'm so excited about this summer. I

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got a phone call a few weeks
back from Brett Bret Michaels, whom I've

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known over the last few years and
we've had I've had the pleasure of doing

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a show here and there with him, and we developed, you know,

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a respectful relationship, you know,
at a distance, but you know,

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I have great respect for him and
I think the same as with him,

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and he included me. He invited
me to join him on this wonderful party

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Graw twenty twenty three with him and
his sensational band, as well as Mark

408
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:19.440
McGrath, who is a hunting ting
boy. He's such a splendid human being.

409
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:23.880
I love him to death, Mark
and night Ranger and Jefferson Starship and

410
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:28.480
it's just going to be a blast. And right now it's mainly on the

411
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.920
East Coast, up and down the
East Coast, but there's always a chance

412
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:34.840
that it expands and maybe we could
get out west. I'd love to do

413
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.880
that with him because he's just a
blast and it's just going to be a

414
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.840
great time. So that's the party, Graw And if you guys are listening

415
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.840
anywhere on the East coast, look
for us. We're going to be doing

416
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:49.960
three shows a week for about a
month and it's going to be a blast.

417
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.239
Oh, they're definitely listening back east, especially for Brooklyn. We have

418
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.159
a huge fan base Forget About how
You doing? Huh? Okay? So

419
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:01.400
yes, So we're actually three days
in or so the record is out.

420
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.639
I released three singles, the first
one being if You Want, which is

421
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:14.280
a real eighties style song and it
has an absolutely eighties style saxophone in it,

422
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.320
which is kind of reminiscent of In
Excess Quarter Flash. In fact,

423
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.480
man, I was listening to in
Excess yesterday. How great was that band?

424
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:28.199
From Oh My Gosh? The first
the first leadoff song on the record,

425
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:30.880
it's It's what do they call it? The title the running The initial

426
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:37.039
title was spring Fighters, but the
point is it was it's a mashup between

427
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.599
a Bruce Springsteen song and a Foo
Fighters song. It's called Magic. It's

428
00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:45.679
got a real super duper eighties feel
to that. Those are at least two

429
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:50.000
songs that I think will if you
dig the eighties, if you dig that

430
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.800
sound, that vibe. There's a
couple of things on the record that you

431
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:57.599
I hope you like anyway, So
that was if you want. Then we

432
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.000
released a ballot called Dated Breath,
and then with the record release on the

433
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:06.079
twenty seventh, I released a new
song co written with none other than the

434
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:09.920
fabulous Jonathan Kane of Journey, and
it's old Never Far from Home. The

435
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.800
record is available at Steve Orgerry dot
com. It's four CDs. If you

436
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.840
guys like to hold the CD and
and look at the back, confront covers,

437
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:23.360
etc. Etc. The fold out, and then it's of course available

438
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:30.199
on all the platforms streaming platforms and
purchase it iTunes and amazons and all their

439
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.599
like. It's out there now and
if you're on a budget, you guys

440
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.519
go to YouTube and just listen to
it on YouTube, say hello, leave

441
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:43.079
a comment. I'll even take the
bad comments too, because I takes constructive

442
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:46.480
criticism. Is okay, I have
a thick skin, Steve. You have

443
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.960
a song there that I really liked. I was listening to your album.

444
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:53.599
There's a song called Unanswered Prayers that
really struck a chord with me. So

445
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.280
if you get a chance, everybody
that's listening, go out there right now

446
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:04.280
and buy the CDs seven Ways till
Sunday. And you got to visit him

447
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:08.599
on his website for all the dates
for his tour at Steve Agery dot com.

448
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.320
I mean, I really hope that
we get a chance to go check

449
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:15.960
out one of the shows, especially
here in southern California. If we can

450
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:17.960
go visit you in India, that'd
be great. And if you're interested in

451
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.400
knowing more about Steve Agery, the
career, the man, the myth,

452
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:25.639
the legend, check out Steve Agerry. I just want to say that song

453
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:30.800
that you mentioned, Unanswered Prayers,
there's a gal singing on it background vocals.

454
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.320
Yes, that is the beauty of
the amazing voice of ELO's evil woman.

455
00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.800
If you ever listened and analyze that
there's a gal. Her name is

456
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:44.440
Marge Raymond. She used to sing
with a band called The Flame. She

457
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:46.239
used to sing. She used to
be known as Little Margie back in the

458
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:51.280
day. She used to sing demos
in the Brill Building. If you have

459
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:54.599
known anything about musical history and New
York City, so anyway, this new

460
00:41:54.760 --> 00:42:01.519
album that you created, where did
you get a lot of these inspirations for

461
00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:07.559
the songs? I know, when
you'd write a song or a poem,

462
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.880
it's a testament of something that you're
going through or you've gone through your emotional

463
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:17.280
balance through it. What kind of
experiences led you to create some of the

464
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.480
music that you put on these tracks? And have you ever thought of maybe

465
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:29.320
doing a album of covers of legends
and classic music that you had heard with

466
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.519
your own rendition. I don't want
to be sound negative. I don't want

467
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:37.320
to even want to mention the word
pandemic or COVID. But three, you

468
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.079
know, when when we got shut
down and when the world came to a

469
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:45.880
screeching halt, Yeah, that inspired
me to just do the record in general,

470
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.880
to grab some songs from my past
history that never saw the light of

471
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:59.360
day as well as it can.
You imagine going from a performing mode immediately

472
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.400
like turn a button, switching on
a button or a target switch on your

473
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.719
less pole, and go straight into
writing. That's what happened. I was

474
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.519
so inspired by thinking, oh my
god, this might be the last song

475
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.559
I ever write in record. If
that doesn't get your creative juices flowing,

476
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.000
I don't know it will. At
least a third of the record was getting

477
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:21.480
shut down and thinking that this is
the end of the world, you know,

478
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:27.599
and then try to write without being
too negative in too you know,

479
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.920
pessimistic, you know, try to
give it a positive spin and try to

480
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:36.679
leave people with a little hope as
opposed to despair. Right. I think

481
00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:44.480
as writers we should convey our emotions
and our concepts be true to them.

482
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:49.239
But then again, we're very we
have a very powerful we have very powerful

483
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:55.159
tools in our hands to share certain
ideas, concepts, emotions, and I

484
00:43:55.280 --> 00:44:00.119
wanted to leave the world a little
better than I found it. So I

485
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:04.480
tried to put a little optimism in
some of the songs. But that can

486
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.440
only go so far because you have
to talk about real, true life.

487
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.920
Yeah, so that's another thing too. I'll tell you one thing about getting

488
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.760
finally getting a chance to do a
solo record is a you get to self

489
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:22.159
express, You get to express yourself, and that in itself is amazing.

490
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.519
Liberty. People want to talk about
freedom and liberty. That's to an artist,

491
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.480
there's no you know. That's it. That's the that's the pinnacle.

492
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.079
Yeah, that's it. That's the
deal. I've always been in great bands,

493
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.639
and I've always had managers and bandmates. They'd lead you around, especially

494
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.239
in journey'd lead you around like a
little robot and say, oh, Steve,

495
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.920
do this, and all right,
now go do this, and now

496
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.599
do that, and we're gonna do
this, and you're gonna come along and

497
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:51.599
you're gonna do what we tell you. And I can tell you, as

498
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:58.039
sad as it was to leave Journey, it opened up a whole new layer

499
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:04.119
and a new beginning where something ends, something begins. And I became my

500
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.559
own. I had to grow up
real fast and become my own manager,

501
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.440
and my own I had to think
for myself. You know, oh,

502
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:13.559
where do I go? Steve?
You have to learn where to go.

503
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.119
Now you'll have to learn how to
manage a ban and get a band from

504
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:22.119
point A to point B. And
so that was a beautiful learning curve that

505
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.360
I really appreciate learning the business end
of things because I you know, you

506
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:30.239
could if I was being ever taken
advantage of advantage of I would have never

507
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.800
known it because I never had my
eyes and my ears open. So that

508
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.159
was a beautiful learning lesson too.
And so now again I've released this record

509
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:44.119
seven Ways Till Sunday. If it
fails, you know, I'm responsible.

510
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:49.199
If it succeeds back to me,
it's because of me. And there's a

511
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:52.360
great power in just being your own
person. So that was a beautiful thing

512
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:59.880
that I've come to achieve so early
in my life of sixty four today.

513
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.400
And that's the story. That's how
I feel. That's the way it is.

514
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:06.880
You know, the way you put
that into words, it's beautiful.

515
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.519
And I'll tell you right now,
my friend, I relate to everything that

516
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:13.559
you just stated. When one thing
goes bad, it'll kick you into the

517
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.159
ground for a little while, but
you get back up and then you find

518
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.320
out, Okay, I'm going to
do what I'm my thing, but I'm

519
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.679
going to try it on a different
playing field. Oh so inspirational anybody listening,

520
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.239
great words of wisdom, and I
totally get where you're coming from without

521
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.599
my friend and you know, Steve, as far as the album, it's

522
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:30.840
an album that you know, we
all need real vocalists, we all need

523
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:36.679
real music today. And this is
a show dedicated to introducing the eighties and

524
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:40.000
anything related to that. And you're
a person who comes from even career before

525
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.719
the eighties but went through everything that
we talk about here on the show.

526
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.880
It's an honor and privilege to be
able to introduce your music to a newer

527
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.719
generation. So we you know,
our hats off to you, and we

528
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.159
just thank you for taking the time
to be on back to the eighties radio,

529
00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:01.880
which by the way, started during
lockdown. We started during Yeah,

530
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.920
we started during lockdown. About a
million listeners later. We're just very we're

531
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:12.480
grateful. Let me tell you something
real quick. You just dislodge something from

532
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:17.000
my memory bank. Is that as
terrible and as brutal, especially in the

533
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:22.239
ground zero New York as this whole
thing has been, and at times it

534
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.719
was I literally thought we're not going
to get out of this alive. Jim

535
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:32.400
quote Jim Morrison. As bad as
it was, when the smoke is clearing,

536
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:36.159
it's not even over. That's a
sad thing. But when it's all

537
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:42.559
said and done, there's something to
take away. You really need to reset,

538
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:47.400
hit the reset button and reassess your
life. And you really, if

539
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:52.159
you needed to find out what's important, share the things that not important,

540
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:57.559
and just really you have to turn. You know, it's like a silver

541
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.719
aligning situation. Find what you could
learn from this. And I don't know

542
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.920
if there was a bigger learning experience
in my lifetime than what just we just

543
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:13.079
transpired and we just experienced. So
hopefully everybody learns something and we can embrace

544
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.400
each other a little closer. We
could open our minds and be a little

545
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:20.800
more understanding, a little bit more
tolerant. We hope so, Steve,

546
00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.880
because we only have one life.
And you know, if something I've learned

547
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:28.800
throughout all my years of living,
at the end of the day, you

548
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:31.280
have to live, not one day
at a time, You got to live

549
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:37.400
one moment at a time. The
album is Seven Ways Till Sunday. The

550
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:44.400
website is Steveogery dot com. Come
say hello on all those social media sites,

551
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:49.320
and you know, visit us on
the YouTube channel, make a comment

552
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.159
or two, subscribe, all that
nonsense, But more than anything, enjoy

553
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.719
the music. I hope you get
a chance. I hope it gets from

554
00:48:55.119 --> 00:49:00.760
the CD or whatever the speakers to
your ears, and I hope you experience

555
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.519
is a positive one. Enjoy it
what we're talking about unanswered prayers, because

556
00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:09.760
you mentioned it. This is unanswered
prayers. And listen closely to the background

557
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:17.159
vocalists back there. It's Maude Raymond
from Yellows, famous evil Woman, singing

558
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:31.119
along with me. Unanswered prayers.
Enjoy sweet angel shoulder he answer before it

559
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:52.880
can'ts much colder, tell me heart
steal cats in my heart in my hair.

560
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:15.440
She chees a siding begging chased you
not a bo if you cussing souls

561
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:44.320
to save? My heart's in my
in my head, when dry will not

562
00:50:44.719 --> 00:51:15.199
keeping me from my mother saw the
weather side I want my church is fueled

563
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:25.000
with Drea searching for the tree.
See the face is so wonder how much

564
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:42.920
breadstream But I han't got those streams
in one my go my heart in my

565
00:51:43.159 --> 00:52:10.239
head when driving, do not you
from outside the weather side? Chet below

566
00:52:12.639 --> 00:54:31.119
side day work chop will not cheat
be don't SIGNSIDEI sime time to time from

567
00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:37.280
the album Seven Ways of Sunday.
This was Unanswered Prayers by Steve vulgarry.

568
00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:44.440
This was a cat that I remember
seeing do a lot of Journey songs that

569
00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:52.239
Steve Perry had done, and I
thought he nailed them in not only replicating

570
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:59.360
but adding of his own great style
and range of vocals to the band,

571
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:04.760
but made it it sound very reminiscent
of what made them famous. I was

572
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:07.239
very let down when, you know, when they went and they got the

573
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:13.639
news singer Arnel Pineda is fantastic with
a band he is. Arnel to me

574
00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:20.599
is a step in front of do
you want to be a musical talent TV

575
00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:24.159
type star? Like I'm not gonna
say as cheap as a mask, because

576
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:29.000
that show is just shit. Anybody
that like, oh, I don't want

577
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:31.760
to offend anybody, but come on, that chose a lot of molarchy to

578
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:37.239
me music. When they started filling
in for older singers that were no longer

579
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:43.480
in the band due to passing away
or going somewhere else and not being who

580
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:49.800
they were, you cheapen the band's
legitimacy. But when you get a guy

581
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:55.039
that can carry the band with different
songs and a different album by but yet

582
00:55:55.159 --> 00:56:00.039
still sound reminiscent to the guy that
just left and give the ladies, the

583
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:06.199
kind of wind in the skirt,
if you know what I mean. So,

584
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.079
if I'm not mistaken, you're trying
to say that Arnell's presence is what

585
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:15.440
is lacking, I would probably probably
agree with you. Now, this doesn't

586
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.320
take away anything that Journey is a
great band. It doesn't take away anything

587
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:25.079
that Arnel Pinada is a phenomenal singer
and performer. He's got that, not

588
00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:30.199
a you know, nobody's arguing that
from Steve to Steve's Journey is like replacing

589
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:34.960
Ozzie with Sabbath with Deal, both
in their own right, great talents,

590
00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:39.559
both in their own right, personalities
of magnitude, both in their own right,

591
00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:45.400
great vocalists that merge with the band
and brought the band. It's similar

592
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.079
sound, but yet it's own sound. If you can follow me to me,

593
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:53.880
it's kind of like a CDC.
Okay, exactly a CDC. The

594
00:56:54.039 --> 00:57:00.199
first and second singer phenomenal, but
then you bring the bond Scottscott john and

595
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:07.079
then Brian Johnson. The replacement was
perfect, but then perfect, perfect,

596
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:13.679
absolutely perfect, and then and then
no perfect, and then Brian Johnson can

597
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:19.280
sing. And who did they bring
along? They bring along a character from

598
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:24.719
another band just doesn't Johnson couldn't hear
we bring it in asshole ros He just

599
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:30.480
doesn't command the same presence as a
front man that he did with guns,

600
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:35.639
that he did in Guns and Roses, or the Bonscott and Brian Johnson did

601
00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:47.519
with a CDC. You're listening to
beck as you're ready. I'm ready to

602
00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:51.719
go. I was bore ready.
I'm on top of your sister right now,

603
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:57.960
like I would you quit talking about
my sister. Rusty. All right,

604
00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:01.000
hey, hey, Rusty, I
tell you what. I was listening

605
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:06.800
to this radio station from the city. Boy. I'll tell you they're having

606
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.320
some kind of a sweep steak giveaway
promotional or something. And I want us

607
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.519
to call in because who the hell
are you listening to in the big city?

608
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:19.840
Zeke, I don't know. I
was just listening to some kind of

609
00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:22.000
radio station. They're giving away prices, and I said, you know,

610
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:27.760
this is a prize both Rusty me
can enjoy. And I'll tell you what.

611
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:30.679
They're giving away, A package for
two to go to the Spa.

612
00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:35.960
I've never been to no spats.
You know. Why don't you put us

613
00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:39.559
on one of them party lines and
we'll call this so called radio city to

614
00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:43.840
see what kind of give it.
It's gonna take frisky, all right,

615
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:46.039
I tell you what. Let me
check here under my phone. I think,

616
00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:52.559
all right, I think? Does
I want you to sit on my

617
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:55.079
lapses me and your brothers. You
don't want a party lining and call the

618
00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:59.199
city? All right? You gotta
keep quite rusty, you guys, keep

619
00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:02.320
quiet in the back all right here
hard Your sister ain't got a shirt.

620
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:07.159
N't you quit talking about my sisters
like that? Rusty? Oh, come

621
00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:10.960
on, pick up the thing phone. Are you doing? This is the

622
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.119
Washston monsters? Are you doing?
Welcome to the show. Today is a

623
00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:20.719
very special day because we're gonna be
giving away two tickets to wherever you want,

624
00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:22.559
all right, as long as we
can afford it. If we believe

625
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.280
me, we can afford anything we
want, We're gonna send you there.

626
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:29.760
Whether it being a plane, in
the train, in a cor or in

627
00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:31.559
a body bag, you're gonna get
there. So don't worry body who we

628
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:35.880
have on the other line. Hey, buddy, my name is My name's

629
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:42.079
Rusty. Rusty and Cooter called you
all away from over here tones Oklahoma.

630
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.599
Yeah, what we're giving away tonight, you know, two tickets whom I

631
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:51.159
speaking to Zeke free Cat. But
I can't tell you that my name is

632
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:55.079
Zeke my my soon to be brother
in law by force because I got a

633
00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:59.079
figure, not because I want him
to be. But oh my gosh,

634
00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:02.079
can't say I'm talking about her.
But that's rusty. And we're here.

635
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:06.519
We're two good old balls. From
what we're here. We're not gonna give

636
01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:09.440
you our location, but I can
tell you it's smack in the middle of

637
01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:15.400
all the good old balls. What
we're gonna do right now is ask you

638
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.440
this following question to both of you
guys. Today it's a special day.

639
01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:22.360
We're gonna be talking about rock and
roll bands from special it is today.

640
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.920
Tell them all special, Tell them
right special. It's so special that you're

641
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:30.800
gonna get a little bonus trip down
south and you're gonna probably end up with

642
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:34.400
a fish. Don't swim If you
don't do what we're saying, you gimp.

643
01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:37.840
Are you guys ready? Oh we're
ready, russy? Are you ready

644
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:42.760
to get easy? We're gonna give
you Italian style. He's a scoper.

645
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.159
Hey, don't get stupid. Okay, we haven't even asked the question.

646
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:52.679
O't taking easy pies. I'm ready
a pies Ao, they mean one band

647
01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:59.199
from the beautiful state of New York
from the eighties. That's all take it

648
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.920
away. I'm gonna tell you straight
up. Okay, you're gonna bring up

649
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:06.000
the good old boys with Leonard Skinners
and their boys had an actor. Not

650
01:01:06.199 --> 01:01:10.199
mess around with Leonard Skinners or Alabama. Do you understand me? You guys

651
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:15.239
are a couple of side orders on
a PASTRAMI gone wrong. Anyway, My

652
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:22.719
band and I'm on name is none
other than the Boss Bruce Springsteen and the

653
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:25.760
East Street Band. You can't get
any better than that, daddy. And

654
01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:31.199
when don't tell me that bonn yo
be boning voyages sisted like wearing, then

655
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:36.239
I'm like a girl. Guys,
Bam, he's gonna win us. You

656
01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:39.760
know what, Rusty, I was
gonna say talking heads, but I don't

657
01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:45.760
know. You know, you know
what you win? You win because you

658
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:49.039
gave a New York band. You
didn't really answer the question, but you

659
01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:52.679
kind of did. Hey, Tony, tell these lugnats what they're gonna roll

660
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:57.639
away with. I'm gonna go cut
us about a couple of cubans, uh

661
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.719
said, guys. Yeah, that's
right, said guy today. And you

662
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:02.840
want a little prize in which wherever
you want to go, but it's something

663
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:06.960
us. So it's basically wherever we
want you to go. But we're gonna

664
01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:10.559
give youse guys some tickets to downtown
Brooklyn, and then we're gonna send you

665
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:15.239
all over to Bleaker Street Pizza.
And then you're gonna do us a little

666
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.519
favor, because no trip, no
trip of ours, is gonna be without

667
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.639
doing us a favor. When you
get to the corner of the Chelsea Market,

668
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.119
you're gonna meet a guy. His
name is Jimmy, Jimmy the Snaz.

669
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.039
He's gonna pull up in a black
Cadillac. You're gonna give you a

670
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.920
package. You're gonna drive it down
about thirty seven blocks on the left.

671
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.559
Once you pass the Leach Precinct.
You're gonna drop it off in the corner

672
01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:43.880
inside of a purple bag that once
you leave that, you guys are set

673
01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:45.599
to go. You guys could go
have a night of your life there in

674
01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:51.559
New York. Do you believe that
we're gonna go down to Brooklyn, New

675
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:55.760
York and eat us some pizza with
some tale. You come down to where

676
01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:59.400
I told you, you do us
this favor and then we'll see where you

677
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:04.320
go from the the meantime, ladies
and gentleman, these two Hickory Dickory ducks

678
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:07.199
ran up the clock and you and
I could go back to the eighties.

679
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:14.199
Now back to good, wholesome,
politically correct entertainment. Oops, rock Station,

680
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:21.480
No, back to the eighties with
Tescano and Chay if you just joined

681
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:24.559
us here on back to the eighties. We are talking about bands that were

682
01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:30.119
born in New York City that passed
through and had their greatest moments in the

683
01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:34.800
nineteen eighties. After all, this
is an eighties show. Who out there?

684
01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:40.440
And do you remember a band called
a Living Color? Absolutely because I

685
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:49.280
thought Living Color kicked ass. Living
Color, to me, embarked the vibe

686
01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:57.400
that I got with Sly and the
Family Stone, Jimmy Hendrix and the godfather

687
01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:03.960
of soul himself, James Brown,
mister Glover and Company embarked upon rock and

688
01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:10.119
roll. Being African American brothers and
sisters is what I call them. And

689
01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:14.840
I'm not trying to be prejudicial.
I believe that me, being of brown

690
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:23.199
ethnicity, Native American and mexicanal that
they are brothers and sisters just like you,

691
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.760
My brother, half and half the
Living Color was a band that came

692
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:33.320
out in the eighties, and I
mean, I think they've lord the sound

693
01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:40.679
barrier music wise, and they were
incredibly energetic, colorful, and they gave

694
01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:44.400
you that vibe to not only bang
your head but dance a little bit on

695
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:48.320
their videos. Living Color is a
band to me that was not given the

696
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:54.360
credibility they deserved in the short time
that they were. But they were too

697
01:04:55.320 --> 01:05:00.599
quick lived as a band all that
they broke up in ninety five because in

698
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:04.639
the nineties, that is the so
called era. Correct my brother that grunge

699
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:10.679
came in and killed what rock and
roll was the eighties, never playing guys

700
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:15.280
looking like chicks and everybody sounding the
same, and videos were King oh No,

701
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:21.880
did not sound the same. Leaning
Color and Pearls Oh they did not

702
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:29.039
sound But that's another show. Now, grudge grunge came that ruined it,

703
01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:32.920
but everybody did not sound the same. Band consisder Vernon red as the guitarist,

704
01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:39.000
lead vocalist Corey Glover, drummer Will
Calhoun, and bassist Doug Wimbish.

705
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:43.199
And one of the most popular songs
that I remember from Living Color was Cult

706
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:46.320
of Personality. It wasn't a band
that I chose to listen to. I

707
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:49.440
mean, I never had any of
their music. It wasn't mild, it

708
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:54.800
was which just wasn't my flavor of
music. But it was a great band

709
01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:59.840
nonetheless, And you can always go
check them out because they're still performing today.

710
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:03.280
They still are selling their music,
They're still pumping out stuff. You

711
01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:08.239
know, they may have yellow hair
now, but that's fine. In the

712
01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:14.360
eighties we seem to be a little
bit more understanding, compassionate, caring and

713
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:18.440
accepting. And today now o days, we are missing that. We are

714
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:23.599
missing the boat from a time we
went from David Bowie, Boye, George

715
01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:30.000
glam Metal, living color tears to
figures of Bill Collins, an era where

716
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:34.519
everything was divers accepted and everybody understood
the emotion of the music, to what

717
01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:42.599
I would call the Titanic of society
and music. We are sinking, We

718
01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:45.880
are floating. Oh no, we
sink a long time ago. My friends

719
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.559
out trying to save ourselves. We
sunk a long time ago. Music went

720
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:54.880
down to hell, stay there and
isn't able to come back up. And

721
01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:59.320
I'm the hater. Yeah, I'm
Johnny Hayter. I'm just saying I'm just

722
01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:01.679
spitting out fat, My friend,
are you ready? I've got another band

723
01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:06.360
that I don't know if you are
aware of from New York City. My

724
01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:13.840
god, this band embarked metal hardcore
and I'm talking about none other than the

725
01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:20.480
Capitol A the top of the alphabet
and Trax. Anthrax is an ass kicking

726
01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:24.360
metal band out of New York that
they came upon the scene with a New

727
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:28.559
York rocker look and that kind of
New York we want to kick everybody's ass

728
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:34.800
sound. But yet Anthrax also dove
into row, creating great music with hip

729
01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:41.840
hop. They made the crossover really
just like Aerosmith did with run dmc whod

730
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.639
the crossover with you don't Remember?
I know because I don't listen to Antrax,

731
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:48.000
so I wouldn't know. Oh,
my god, brother, you gotta

732
01:07:48.039 --> 01:07:53.440
remember. Anthrax was a band out
of New York. Okay, rhythm guitarist

733
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:57.039
Scott Ian everybody knows who that cat
is. You know what I'm saying to

734
01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:01.800
the bassist, mister Dan Liker.
And these cats were known in the same

735
01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:05.480
breath as Metallic, a Megadeth slayer, one of the first bands, and

736
01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:12.559
they crossed with Public Enemy in their
number one single do You Not Remember?

737
01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:18.560
The hip hop that they did with
Public Enemy, How could you not crossed

738
01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:25.680
the bridge to me and made it
more street and more believable and more from

739
01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:30.479
your heart than Aerosmith and Run DMC. Run DMC and Aerosmith had a catchy

740
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:34.319
tune walk this Way, but it
was kind of poppy. But when you

741
01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:39.680
go down to Public Enemy, Public
Enemy was telling you a story about real

742
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:44.680
life, real book racism, getting
put in your place, not getting to

743
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:47.640
step ahead, what it's like to
be poor when there's no opportunity, where

744
01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:53.439
you make your own opportunity. And
when they cross over I'm talking with Public

745
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:58.359
Enemy, it blew music apart in
the eighties. Yeah, MTV sucked up

746
01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:01.119
and absorbed it as much as they
could and make it as glamorous as they

747
01:09:01.159 --> 01:09:05.880
could, which is good because at
that time, when you cross one race

748
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:11.640
or one way of life with another
and you collaborate to create something that you

749
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:15.119
both feel that you both can send
a message, hell yeah, put a

750
01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:20.600
camera on that. It's better to
put a face on change than talk about

751
01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:26.800
change. Top notch top ten in
both of My loves of metal and hip

752
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:30.359
hop. Public Enemy Baby, those
cats were badass, and so is Anthrax.

753
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:32.840
Okay, and on that note,
let's take a quick break. When

754
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:40.359
we come back, we have more
of back to the eighties radio. You

755
01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:45.000
want to talk right down to earth
in a language that everybody here can easily

756
01:09:45.119 --> 01:10:14.199
understand. Looking minds, what do
you see the cultural person age? I

757
01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:21.960
know your right, I know your
dreams. I've been in a bad bad

758
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:35.399
I'm a cultural person and I like
Selena, I'm Canade. I'm the cultural

759
01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:58.039
personality, the cultural personnality, the
cultural personality me on mine normal mind meets

760
01:10:58.720 --> 01:11:28.960
the reflection. Only I thing you
need to be. I'm a smile place

761
01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:40.800
for wall. I'm a cultural person
Now it's one year. Still do the

762
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:53.520
me. I tell you what extreme
call. I'm the person down I just

763
01:11:53.760 --> 01:12:03.840
to start. I'm finding I'm the
culture personality, act the person Valty got

764
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:21.159
the person Valty be your lines,
nobout mind, will leader speech? That

765
01:12:21.840 --> 01:13:30.920
leader dies, we are to follow. Only you can save you b to

766
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:44.960
gave a post, to gave the
game and the person you need to bring

767
01:13:49.800 --> 01:14:26.680
out, not what your can't do
for you. He's not stuff fund on

768
01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:32.680
us don't know we can do this? Could me always do this? Hollow?

769
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:36.520
Can you go? They're thrown?
What a bubber? No once again,

770
01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:42.800
bangast the incredible Rome animal be incredible
publican, I mean number one,

771
01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:45.880
fine, both say seams and I
got number Can I tell them never really

772
01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:49.159
never had a gun. But it's
the way that determined they ex funds.

773
01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:53.079
Now they got me in the cell
some myricas they self cause the puba like

774
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:55.960
me said, well, Sara color
Popper, Then I think you want to

775
01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:59.000
listen to what didn't conside to you. What you want to do is follow

776
01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:02.359
for now. All the people say, make the miracles from the lyrical blackest

777
01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:06.079
back all in, We're gonna wait, check it out here, We're going

778
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:20.399
in. Bring the noise. This
we do black man bring. Then they

779
01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:25.279
said, little they know they can't
get us master. That never matter than

780
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:28.279
backles, the brother is man than
man, that the factors can rope.

781
01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:30.039
Like I'm said of the toll,
the role that you're treated like soap on

782
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:33.600
the role coup beats and the life
of so gope listen for listens, I'm

783
01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:39.239
saying inside you stand the critics are
blasting before building my care for the brothers

784
01:15:39.279 --> 01:15:42.560
and sisters. Wick hood of the
country has soap for the more we got

785
01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:45.520
to get the straight. Come on
out, they're going to have to wait

786
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:47.680
until we get it right. Radio
stations like Quest the Man Blackers, they

787
01:15:47.720 --> 01:16:00.479
call us the blackb We'll see you
come play this, bring the noise and

788
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:05.119
jumping, be jellings, the meat
in the hell down, the stealing,

789
01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:10.199
what you can do? Run good
from in front of me the cloud watch

790
01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:12.399
for me. My two dads wore
me saying I call him normal. You

791
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:15.199
know you can come a rick it
from side to side of what the rids

792
01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.520
the cloud watching me saked by the
suicide, so controphy does the fall home?

793
01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:20.319
You're rocking home music for watching for
winting. You call a band man

794
01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:24.039
making the music of music. But
you can't do what you know you call

795
01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:27.760
them. We move to what you're
gonna do. Rapper's not afraid of you.

796
01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:30.239
Fetus for Sunday on Fetus for you're
the owner on the MC for Siders

797
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:33.880
he couldn't be a band stander Its
old? Did you a Jersey Fetus for

798
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:39.439
Eric being allow as well, health
plexic and feeling a rock feller never forever

799
01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:45.960
universe or will sell you tell for
me the exit and Germany Exit ring the

800
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:56.760
noise, y'all listen, no one
out of can't stop from running the donna

801
01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:05.640
keep telling me telling down for you
going out, Come on, come on,

802
01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:18.199
come on down, come on foot
coast to coast, and you start

803
01:17:18.199 --> 01:17:20.960
feel like a coma to STANMD my
man that feeds the scene with a whole

804
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:25.479
stuck with some bosans and we'll last
while you ask room with the rock dogs.

805
01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:28.039
You'll never get accepted that. We
got to plead them this. You

806
01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:30.439
can't investigate, don't need to wait. Get the director straight head huffy,

807
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:34.720
enough back play, but terminator exercise
techs play to get paid. You got

808
01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:39.000
to check it out down on the
avenue. I might send that to assisting

809
01:17:39.079 --> 01:17:42.479
me and this and you, yeah, I'm telling you, he'll get the

810
01:17:42.720 --> 01:17:45.199
yes. What w We got to
handle this. We ain't going out like

811
01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:51.560
man stake. We can do this. Let's do it because we gotta know

812
01:17:51.640 --> 01:18:00.399
what I'm saying. This is my
brother captain logging sing you you're a cruise.

813
01:18:03.279 --> 01:18:11.520
You're listening to Back to the eighties, Back to the eighties radio.

814
01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:15.640
We are here talking about the bands
that travel through the nineteen eighties. But

815
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:18.800
that started off in New York.
And if he just joined us, welcome

816
01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:26.479
aboard this train ride on its way
to lunacy. Now I have a group

817
01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:31.399
here, a threesome to be more
exact, Yes, that was born in

818
01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:34.720
New York City. Sorry, missus
Chang. The only threesome I've ever had

819
01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:41.920
was you in the Dishes. Now
this following group. They were actually born

820
01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:47.159
as a group officially July nineteen eighty
one, known as the Young Aborigines or

821
01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:55.279
that word yeah, but to us
it was a band formed by Ad Rock,

822
01:18:55.960 --> 01:19:03.119
MCA and Mike d And this is
none other the Beastie Boys. They

823
01:19:03.439 --> 01:19:08.640
achieved the local success in eighty three
with comedy hip hop. They had a

824
01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:13.680
single, a single called Cookie Puss, Yeah, Cookie Puss. But then

825
01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:17.640
their most popular album of all time, Licensed to Ill. That album was

826
01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:23.319
the album that launched them to stardom
and to fame, and they have become

827
01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:29.279
one of the greatest rap groups of
all time. And they are known as

828
01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:34.680
hip hop rap rock, alternative hip
hop punk, a hardcore hardcore punk.

829
01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:40.840
Yeah, hardcore punk alternative rock as
well. So go out and watch their

830
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:44.800
videos from back in the day.
You're going to be floored because they did

831
01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:48.760
everything. They wrote the music,
they played the instruments, they and they

832
01:19:48.920 --> 01:19:53.159
did the filming, I mean everything. It was just it was just their

833
01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:57.760
time, and they found mainstream success
as well by way of MTV when they

834
01:19:58.079 --> 01:20:01.119
caught wind of them and they never
let them go. They were a big

835
01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:06.640
part in the formation of the way
rapping hip hop was to become in the

836
01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:11.000
near future. When you first listen
on you know, people were like,

837
01:20:11.159 --> 01:20:15.039
Wow, these are some badass white
boys rapping. Do you want these guys

838
01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:18.880
play those intiments? Yeah? Bro, they're musicians. Another band that comes

839
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:23.800
to mind that I know is one
of your favorites. I know it is,

840
01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:27.800
and it is a band that I
do like, but a band that

841
01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:30.680
I think when a bit soft,
and I'm talking about, of course,

842
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:35.600
a band that starts with the f
tascono. Don't get all giddy on me,

843
01:20:35.760 --> 01:20:39.720
yeah, you know, because I
know you want to know what love

844
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:45.119
is absolutely and I sure as how
don't I know what love is absolutely thing

845
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:49.359
about? And tell me what love
is now. This is a band formed

846
01:20:49.359 --> 01:20:58.439
in nineteen seventy six by a veteran
British guitar and songwriter guy named mister Mick

847
01:20:58.720 --> 01:21:04.119
Jones. Oh yes, with a
fellow British chop that any from a bondcole

848
01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:10.399
King Crimson, which is about I'm
familiar with his name was Ian McDonald's.

849
01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:15.800
They found a gentleman name who is
your favorite and also more favorite vocalists of

850
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:21.680
this band, mister Lew Graham.
I am talking about the legitimate rock band

851
01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:28.279
from the seventies into the eighties and
abroad now with a new singer who sounds

852
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:35.239
exactly like mister Lou Graham. Foreigner. I dig Foreigner all through nineteen seventy

853
01:21:35.359 --> 01:21:40.600
nine, but in the eighties,
I have to tell you I was shaken

854
01:21:41.199 --> 01:21:45.479
because I didn't want to know what
love was, because I knew and my

855
01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:50.960
heart was brit Do you not realize
my good friends Jim Beam and Jack Daniels

856
01:21:51.439 --> 01:21:56.880
ease my mind from knowing what love
was? Too much and I know you

857
01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:00.640
loved you Box Hero, great song, Yeah yeah, hot Blooded. I

858
01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:05.720
cannot stand by. I want to
know what love is now. Wait wait,

859
01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:09.640
wait, wait wait wait. Let
me ask you a question, why

860
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:13.800
do you have so much hate for
the power ballads? You see? Do

861
01:22:13.920 --> 01:22:20.680
you see? From their album Agent
Provocateur. The album This album from December

862
01:22:20.720 --> 01:22:25.359
seven, nineteen eighty four, was
the band's first and only number one album

863
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:30.399
in the UK. It reached number
five in the US and their biggest hit

864
01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:35.920
of the album was the single I
Want to Know What Love Is, which

865
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:42.119
actually turned number one in the UK
and in the US, staying on top

866
01:22:42.279 --> 01:22:45.439
of the charts for three weeks,
and that my friend you can Take to

867
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:49.000
the Bank. Now here's my reasoning
for that song on why I grew the

868
01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:54.319
way it did. It's because remember
in the eighties, divorce was a normal.

869
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:59.439
Leading your spouse with a kid was
a normal. So of course when

870
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:03.359
the song debuted I Want to Know
What Love Is, all these people that

871
01:23:03.479 --> 01:23:09.319
were succumbing to divorce or having children
out of wedlock wanted to know the answer

872
01:23:09.720 --> 01:23:15.479
of what love? Second, are
you trying to blame? And all New

873
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:18.880
Graham Cables was a head full of
pretty hair and a sissy ass song.

874
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:24.479
Are you trying to blame foreigner for
divorce in the eighties? No, the

875
01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:29.199
thing is that you may that's another
show. You know you hate anything that

876
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:34.319
you hate, anything that poppy and
anything that's really really good as a as

877
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:39.119
a ballot. You hate you hate
popular music. So it's one of the

878
01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:42.800
great the wait you see, wait
a minute, wait, can I call

879
01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:48.079
you Anna? You sound like my
life cutting me off because the two words

880
01:23:48.159 --> 01:23:54.840
don't go together. No power and
ballad. Power is something lead to the

881
01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:59.359
fight uplifting. So you're trying to
say that ballots cannot be strong ballad.

882
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:02.359
When I talk about a ballad,
A ballad does not make me want to

883
01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:06.359
go out and drive sixty five.
A ballot does not make me want to

884
01:24:06.439 --> 01:24:11.920
go out and jump out of a
plane, go play a sport. Power

885
01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:15.560
does I want to hear some powerful
metal. When I listen to a love

886
01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:19.039
ballad, I think of every girl
that broke my heart and cry. Therefore,

887
01:24:19.199 --> 01:24:24.600
see in ballad do not go together
in the same sentence. That's different

888
01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:30.079
when you bring a great band like
Foreigner, who was classic power rock of

889
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:32.880
the seventies, and you say,
oh, they're a great power ballot band,

890
01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:40.239
Well guess what so was my so
called shampoo? You know what?

891
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:44.760
You can find out what love is
right after you listen to this set of

892
01:24:44.920 --> 01:24:48.239
songs right here at Back to the
Eighties Radio hosted by yours truly Tuscano and

893
01:24:48.319 --> 01:24:54.880
Chang on the one and only all
worldwide radio network k HiT's not a two

894
01:24:54.960 --> 01:25:00.039
five where you get the eighties live
and you keep it alive. Here's a

895
01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:03.960
little story I got to tell about
three bad brothers. You know, so

896
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:11.399
well, it's sounded way back in
history with that rare ding. Me had

897
01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:15.560
a little horseye name Paul Revere.
Just seeing my horsey in a court of

898
01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:18.920
deer. Run across the land,
kicking up stairshirts, budges on my clf.

899
01:25:19.239 --> 01:25:26.359
I'm in demand, one lonely pc
ip wolf by myself without no botskey.

900
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:31.359
The sun is beaten down on my
baseball. Hi the hart looking for

901
01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:34.560
a girl. I ran into a
guy. His name is MCA. I

902
01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:54.560
said how, he said Hi?
He told a little story that sounded will

903
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:58.520
rehearsed forts on the running that he's
signing a thirst. The bruis in my

904
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:02.800
hand and he was on my his
voice. He's sick, and I guess

905
01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:05.640
some. I said, you can't
get money, that it's just the run

906
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:10.560
and pull it a shotgun quick on
the draw. I thought I'd beat dead.

907
01:26:10.760 --> 01:26:14.880
He shut the gun to my head
and did, yeah, I gotta

908
01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:16.840
license to kill. I'm thinking,
you know what, this is time to

909
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:20.079
get ill, don't what do we
have here? And I in his bill,

910
01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:25.520
I want myself. He stepped into
the wind. He had a gun

911
01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:28.359
and had a grand get sick.
The story's over, but it's ready to

912
01:26:28.520 --> 01:26:47.079
begin. I got the gun,
You've got the pool, you got two

913
01:26:47.199 --> 01:26:50.600
trusses of war. Choof can do. It's thought of the decision that you

914
01:26:50.720 --> 01:26:56.479
can't see how comploy you away.
I shot a ride with you if you

915
01:26:56.560 --> 01:26:59.760
can get me to the bad The
sheriffs after me for what I did through

916
01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:02.119
his good I said it like this. I did it like that. I

917
01:27:02.199 --> 01:27:06.279
did it with the whippleball bat.
So I'm off the runs, the cup,

918
01:27:06.359 --> 01:27:10.520
cup my guns and right about an
hour's I'm gonna have some fun.

919
01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:14.520
The king had rock that is my
name, and I know the fly spot

920
01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:16.520
when they got to the champ.
He wrote for six hours. Then we

921
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:20.119
hit the spot. The fat who
was a bumping and the girlies was hot.

922
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:24.399
The shudo was staring like he knows
who we are. We should the

923
01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:28.159
empty spot next to him at the
bar, and aage't, oh you know

924
01:27:28.319 --> 01:27:30.359
this kid? I said, I
did it, but I know he did.

925
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:34.800
Kids get ready because this ain't funny. Money us mikey, and I'm

926
01:27:34.840 --> 01:27:39.439
about to get money fulls off.
The jammie hadn't knit up the sky.

927
01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:43.439
He yelled, do your ball and
let's do fly. That's when up and

928
01:27:43.520 --> 01:27:46.319
people hits the floor. He wants
to do kiss the rint for the door.

929
01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:50.960
I'm mighty and I can't respect your
passion. And jewelry is what I

930
01:27:51.159 --> 01:27:56.159
Scamca was with it, and he's
my age. So I tried the piano

931
01:27:56.239 --> 01:27:59.760
player and I punched him in the
face. Piena players out the music.

932
01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:05.239
Stop the boy had and he got
dry. I grab the one the draft.

933
01:28:05.279 --> 01:28:56.680
You girls gonna bear that first.
Gotta take a little time, a

934
01:28:56.880 --> 01:29:10.439
little time to th things over,
better, read between the lines in case

935
01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:31.680
I needed. When I'm molder,
this mountain I must climb. It feels

936
01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:40.840
like a whirl upon the shoulder.
Through the clouds, I see love shine.

937
01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:50.800
It keeps me, warms life,
CRUs cooler in mind. There's been

938
01:29:51.000 --> 01:30:00.560
heartaching pain. I don't know if
I can fast it again. I can't

939
01:30:01.319 --> 01:30:14.199
now, have traveled so far,
change that love. I want to know

940
01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:26.479
what I've me. I want you
to show me I want to do with

941
01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:47.359
love, and you can't show.
I want to take a little time,

942
01:30:50.039 --> 01:31:03.439
a little time. Look around I've
got now it looks like love's fiphone me.

943
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:17.319
There's been hota campaign. I don't
know if I can be it again.

944
01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:31.760
I can't stop now, I've traveled
so far, love I want to

945
01:31:31.880 --> 01:31:49.399
know what love I want to show
me I want to be with lovely I

946
01:31:49.680 --> 01:32:08.600
do, you'll get shot. I
don't know where I wander show how they

947
01:32:08.760 --> 01:32:57.239
were? I can't shows stop here
is so much just cant hide showing.

948
01:33:26.239 --> 01:33:29.000
Oh that's right, ladies and gentlemen, this is back to the eighties radio.

949
01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:34.720
We are back. Oh we heard
the Beastie Boys and now an awesome

950
01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:40.920
one by foreigner in the name of
Chang. Of course, we just heard

951
01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:45.000
I want to know what love is. Chang had his lighter that he was

952
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:49.840
lighting up as he was swaying back
and forth like he was in the middle

953
01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:54.840
of church. We are back once
again. Thank you for joining us on

954
01:33:55.000 --> 01:34:01.359
a beautiful, beautiful February week.
It's a great week to be celebrating birthdays

955
01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:06.239
Chang as we all know, Chang
and my birthdays this month, so keep

956
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:11.720
it out for celebrations that are going
to be loud and proud. However,

957
01:34:11.840 --> 01:34:14.560
I want to give you guys a
little something that if you've been trying to

958
01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:19.920
reach us on our Facebook page,
the account has been hacked. Facebook has

959
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:25.800
decided to lock me out of the
account. And no matter what I try,

960
01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:29.239
no matter what I do, they
will not let me back in.

961
01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:32.399
According to them, I just need
to give them a picture of my ID.

962
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:35.199
Now why trust me. I was
reluctant. I didn't want to do

963
01:34:35.319 --> 01:34:41.039
this. I denied giving them my
ID for days. I finally gave in

964
01:34:41.159 --> 01:34:45.279
today and they won't accept the ID
because the camera on Facebook side that takes

965
01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:49.840
the picture says that there's low lighting. I shot the picture outside and it

966
01:34:49.920 --> 01:34:54.119
doesn't work. Okay, So the
point is, I don't know what we're

967
01:34:54.159 --> 01:34:56.439
going to do. We're going to
try to figure out a way to solve

968
01:34:56.520 --> 01:34:59.880
this problem with Facebook. But we
have a lot of our fans that are

969
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:05.439
on Facebook. We have literally literally
between our page and our group, we

970
01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:14.039
have almost about fifteen thousand people on
our back to the eighties pages. So,

971
01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:18.119
you know, we apologize, but
we're trying to get Facebook to let

972
01:35:18.239 --> 01:35:25.319
me back in. Turns out chain
one evening last week, my phone,

973
01:35:25.439 --> 01:35:28.720
around two or three in the morning, kept buzzing and buzzing and buzzing and

974
01:35:28.800 --> 01:35:31.399
buzzing, and I look at my
phone and there were just notifications from Facebook

975
01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:36.000
saying that people have been trying to
sign onto my account from Indonesia, from

976
01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:43.079
Thailand, from England, from Australia, from San Francisco and so forth all

977
01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:46.479
over the world. And when I
tried changing my password, it locked me

978
01:35:46.600 --> 01:35:51.279
out and just hasn't let me back
in sense. So if you're wondering what's

979
01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:55.399
going on with a Facebook, there
haven't been any posts. It's because of

980
01:35:55.479 --> 01:35:58.520
that. We can also talk by
Twitter, so look for back to the

981
01:35:58.640 --> 01:36:03.199
eighties radio on Twitter. Were there
as well, Chang before we go.

982
01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:09.520
We are talking about the bands that
were born in New York that traveled through

983
01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:14.159
the eighties. And one of the
bands, or my last band that I

984
01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:15.199
wanted to bring up, or one
of the bands that I wanted to bring

985
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:21.439
up, was a band that had
the weirdest videos on MTV. The band

986
01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:27.960
was composed of Scottish born David Byrne, Chris France, Tina Weimouth and Jerry

987
01:36:28.039 --> 01:36:31.000
Harrison. The band, of course
i'm talking about, is Talking Heads.

988
01:36:31.039 --> 01:36:35.039
They were formed originally in nineteen seventy
five. Throughout the eighties, of course,

989
01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:42.840
they were extremely popular because of MTV
and it was a mix between fock

990
01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:51.159
Runk known Yeah pretty much and anytime
David Byrne came out with this human remember

991
01:36:51.199 --> 01:36:57.359
that humongous suit with an incredibly wide
shoulder pads and things like that. Was

992
01:36:57.560 --> 01:37:02.840
you, Yeah, it was same
as it angered me. Yeah, I

993
01:37:02.960 --> 01:37:10.000
didn't watching this video. And you
may ask yourself, my god, how

994
01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:14.079
did these guys get on TV?
Yeah? It was pretty crazy. But

995
01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:16.840
this this was a band that came
out and we've got very, very popular

996
01:37:16.960 --> 01:37:19.880
during the eighties. You know,
they're still doing stuff today. As a

997
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:24.960
matter of fact, David Byrne was
singing with Miley Cyrus. Believe it or

998
01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:27.840
not. Yes, now that is
something. Now, you know what.

999
01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:30.479
You could say what you want about
the modern day Miley Cyrus. But I

1000
01:37:30.520 --> 01:37:33.960
got a lot of mad respect for
her. I think she's grown up and

1001
01:37:34.079 --> 01:37:38.720
she found her style. I dig
everything Miley Cyrus does. When she does

1002
01:37:38.840 --> 01:37:43.479
kind of a revamp of something of
old rock or old music, I think

1003
01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:47.079
she's got the chops. But we're
not here to talk about Miley Cyrus or

1004
01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:53.640
anything of the now. We are
here to talk about eighties and eighties music.

1005
01:37:53.760 --> 01:37:58.760
Correct. Yes, Now, you
brought up a band of okay,

1006
01:37:59.159 --> 01:38:03.079
pretty significant talented talking heads, and
before we end tonight's show, we will

1007
01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:08.359
play a song of your choice from
the talking Heads. But I'm going to

1008
01:38:08.439 --> 01:38:11.800
bring up a band, right here
that a lot of people don't remember,

1009
01:38:12.399 --> 01:38:16.840
and a guy that forefront of his
band and went under the name of Buster

1010
01:38:17.079 --> 01:38:23.359
Pointdexter. I'm talking about David Johansson
and The New York Dolls. Now,

1011
01:38:23.600 --> 01:38:29.520
to me, the New York Dolls
is a significant band because it captures what

1012
01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:34.640
New York was, the toughness of
being glam metal, the non fear of

1013
01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:40.199
being glam metal in an area where
you grew up with getting your ass kicked,

1014
01:38:40.319 --> 01:38:45.119
doing dope, or being from a
neighborhood of the poorer ways of life.

1015
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:49.760
I think that guy catapulted way beyond
the band did. The guy became

1016
01:38:49.800 --> 01:38:54.119
a pretty good actor. He was
in a lot of things, collaborated with

1017
01:38:54.279 --> 01:38:58.199
a lot of great artists. So
my band before we end the night would

1018
01:38:58.239 --> 01:39:01.079
be the New York Dolls. This
band was formed in seventy one, but

1019
01:39:01.159 --> 01:39:04.920
we're not talking about them in seventy
one. We're talking about the move that

1020
01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:10.319
they made in the eighties, yes
to present themselves as hard rock, proto

1021
01:39:10.439 --> 01:39:15.039
rock, lamb rock, lamb punk, and they existed from seventy one through

1022
01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:19.800
seventy six strong. They came back
in two thousand and four and twenty eleven.

1023
01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:24.560
I bring this band up. They
had one album, But the reason

1024
01:39:24.640 --> 01:39:29.479
I bring them up is because of
David Joe Hanson and the solo work he

1025
01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:33.399
did in the eighties, not only
as a musical artist but in the acting

1026
01:39:33.800 --> 01:39:38.760
realm. All I can tell you
is that your list was pretty great,

1027
01:39:39.039 --> 01:39:43.720
and I really enjoyed listening to some
of the music here, as I know

1028
01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:47.880
that everybody listening to the show did. However, chang before we go,

1029
01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:54.800
this is the time of the show
that we talk about those things that made

1030
01:39:54.880 --> 01:39:58.840
us angry back in the nineteen eighties, and in honor of you chang we

1031
01:39:59.000 --> 01:40:03.840
now called them changers. So chang
what made you changry back in the nineteen

1032
01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:10.560
eighties? You know what made me
changry back in the nineteen eighties when we

1033
01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:19.079
discuss the East Coast bon Jovie.
You know what else gets me changry?

1034
01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:26.600
The band called Helmet. Why would
you name your band Helmet? You know

1035
01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:30.399
what else got me changry back in
the nineteen eighties. That reminded me of

1036
01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:38.199
the East Coast people wanting to talk
in southern California like they were from the

1037
01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:43.800
East Coast. You know what else
got me changry in the eighties? From

1038
01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:51.159
the East Coast, the movie The
Breakfast Club, and that Ladies and Gentlemen

1039
01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:57.800
has been this week's changers. If
you'd like to share one of your changry

1040
01:40:57.840 --> 01:41:00.399
moments, one of the things that
made you angry back in the ninth eighties,

1041
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:04.800
go ahead and send us a message
at back the Number two the Eighties

1042
01:41:04.920 --> 01:41:10.479
Radio at gmail dot com. That's
the word, Back the Number two the

1043
01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:15.720
Eighties Radio at gmail dot com.
Don't forget that we still have an issue

1044
01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:19.399
with Facebook that we haven't been able
to clear up and solve the hack that

1045
01:41:19.560 --> 01:41:26.159
we went under, and until we
do, we would ask that you would

1046
01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:30.399
leave your reviews of our show wherever
you listen to us on send us a

1047
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:36.399
little a little positivity through your positive
review. We love you all. This

1048
01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:41.840
is why we do the show because
we love the nineteen eighties and we know

1049
01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.760
that you do too. So until
next week, I just want to thank

1050
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:48.640
you for being with us, and
thank you in advance for coming back.

1051
01:41:49.279 --> 01:41:54.680
This is the change before we release
you to another changtastic week and a chang

1052
01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:59.800
arrific week. And remember, do
not ever let yourself all you count,

1053
01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:04.079
just like everybody else you matter,
stand up for something bigger than yourself or

1054
01:42:04.159 --> 01:42:09.640
just finally stand up for yourself.
Always keep a smile. Tomorrow is a

1055
01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:15.239
better day until we greet you and
meet you again. Next week. We

1056
01:42:15.359 --> 01:42:19.199
are going to take you out with
something from the Talking Heads. Now,

1057
01:42:19.279 --> 01:42:24.399
you may ask yourself, how can
I sit here and listen to toscanow and

1058
01:42:24.479 --> 01:42:28.920
Chang? And that's because you love
us, because we love you, and

1059
01:42:29.119 --> 01:42:31.439
we wouldn't be who we are if
it wasn't for you. I bid you

1060
01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:41.880
all an adios, asta visa stelaego, sayana to all my brozen house from

1061
01:42:41.960 --> 01:42:46.560
the beach to the oc later and
to all my homies across everybodio in the

1062
01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:57.079
States and beyond door. You may
find yourself shut and you may find yourself.

1063
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:04.439
You may find yourself behind the feel
of a large automobile. You may

1064
01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:11.399
find yourself in a beautiful house.
It was a beautiful wife. You may

1065
01:43:11.479 --> 01:43:31.720
ask yourself, well, how did
I get here? And you may ask

1066
01:43:31.800 --> 01:43:38.600
yourself how do I work this?
And you may ask yourself where is that

1067
01:43:38.840 --> 01:43:44.279
large automobile? And you may tell
yourself this is not my beautiful house.

1068
01:43:44.800 --> 01:44:04.600
And you may tell yourself this is
not my beautiful wife. Taste going same

1069
01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:10.640
as it ever was same as it
ever was, same as it ever was,

1070
01:44:11.640 --> 01:44:15.079
same as it ever was, same
as it ever won, same as

1071
01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:19.800
it ever was, same as it
ever was, same as it ever was.

1072
01:44:20.880 --> 01:44:27.000
Ware designing and water removie. There
is more at the bottom of the

1073
01:44:27.039 --> 01:45:00.800
ocean, under the water. Carry
the water, the silent water, the

1074
01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:15.079
body time. You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house? You

1075
01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:18.479
may ask yourself where does that how
I go too, And you may ask

1076
01:45:18.600 --> 01:45:23.640
yourself, am I right? Am
I wrong? And you may say to

1077
01:45:23.720 --> 01:45:38.600
yourself, oh my God, what
have I done? Water? The silent

1078
01:45:38.760 --> 01:46:01.720
water, the watering time going.
I'm same as it ever was, same

1079
01:46:01.720 --> 01:46:06.640
as it ever was, same as
it never was. The look of my

1080
01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:13.760
hand was Time isn't holding enough?
Time is an after us? Same as

1081
01:46:13.800 --> 01:46:17.279
it ever was, the same as
it ever was, same as it ever

1082
01:46:17.560 --> 01:46:23.359
was. Don't even that ab was
same as it ever was, same as

1083
01:46:23.399 --> 01:46:30.199
it ever was. Going to the
home of famous that ever was. Chrystal

1084
01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:33.239
comes here comes to chrysto is ever