Jan. 11, 2025

Let's Rock with Eric Martin of Mr. Big

Let's Rock with Eric Martin of Mr. Big
Let's Rock with Eric Martin of Mr. Big
Back to the 80s Radio
Let's Rock with Eric Martin of Mr. Big

Back to the 80s Radio - Special Guest: Eric Martin from Mr. Big!

Get ready for an unforgettable episode of Back to the 80s Radio! Today, we’re turning the dial up to 11 as we welcome a true icon of 80s rock: Eric Martin, lead singer of the legendary...

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Back to the 80s Radio - Special Guest: Eric Martin from Mr. Big!

Get ready for an unforgettable episode of Back to the 80s Radio! Today, we’re turning the dial up to 11 as we welcome a true icon of 80s rock: Eric Martin, lead singer of the legendary band Mr. Big! From their chart-topping anthem "To Be With You" to electrifying rock ballads that still resonate today, Eric takes us on a journey through the golden era of glam, hard rock, and soaring harmonies.

Join Toscano and The Chang as they dive into Eric's memories of the 80s, his rise to fame, backstage stories, and how Mr. Big’s music continues to inspire generations. It’s a backstage pass to the decade that rocked the world.Tune in, crank up the volume, and let’s go Back to the 80s!

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spot for glam rock love songs. The Chang. How do

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of hate that you threw at me, I have to say, sir,

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I am both applauding you and discrediting you.

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this is the one and the lead back to the

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Only Billy Joel with we Didn't Start the Fire. Before that,

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we heard Beds Are Burning from Midnight Oil nineteen eighty

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seven album with these fiery themes in chang As. You know,

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people join us today. We've got a sad state of

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affair going on in the state of California where we reside,

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and people all over the world know what's going on here.

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We're basically losing Los Angeles to fire.

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So my heart goes out to everybody in my hometown

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of Los Angeles, California. Stand tight, stand together, be there

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for each other, and remember, we will get through this,

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because if we don't, then if we have no one

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else to blame but ourselves and the people we put

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in charge of us.

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Yeah, don't forget. If you do find yourself in a

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situation where you can do your best to help out,

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do that and don't crust anything that you know is

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in koher. Always go to the trusted sources like American

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Red Cross. We know the hardships that everybody's going through,

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and our hearts and souls go with you, even though

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there are no correct words to say when you lose

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people that you love and all your possessions.

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You know what, Let's give a special shout out to

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everybody out there fighting the fires, whatever form it is.

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If you're working at the campsites where people are having

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to come and stay, if you're working with the Red Cross,

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or you firefighters balls out right now in front of it,

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your families, shout out to you.

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You are the heroes.

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No one talks about anybody that has been devastated or

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on the worry of devastation. Hey, shout out to you.

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You can get through this. And remember Tuskana. One thing

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before we end this topic. Anybody out there who is

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doing okay and have things that they can do. You know,

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it would mean a lot more than going on social

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media and giving some prayer hands and some care hands

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or a heart or a gift of sadness. You know,

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if you folks out there have stuff in your garage

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and your closets that you don't need. Families are going

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to need kids clothing, Families are going to need kitchen housewares.

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Families are going to need blanket sheets, possibly old beds.

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Families are going to need shoes. You know, families are

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going to need everything. It takes that you look around

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in your house that you have the double of the amount,

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so you know what, give a care out there, because

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it's going to go a long way. That's all I

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got to say, Tuscano.

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Well, on that note, ladies and gentlemen, the show continues

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a great show tonight, because tonight we're going to be

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interviewing a very very amazing front man from a band.

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It's a big show.

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It's a big show, big music. We're going to be

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interviewing Eric Martin from the the Los Angeles eighties band

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Mister Big. That's right. If you want to hear Eric

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Martin from the band Mister Big, don't go away.

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pity till my class on the town. Then I just died.

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I'm walking back.

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Last she took the sheep inside it.

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Stop gonde t buy my when I'm free to cut

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up and.

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Don't said I you shoes rush every time with rush,

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it was kidding enough warm.

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I didn't do that right, And we tell the.

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Church they wore and as.

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About didn't do that.

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Why she's such a demon?

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Say I thought of love.

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Perhaps I could ride.

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Willn't go with that.

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A body starts way.

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Can do them rast.

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Until it can't.

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Do them.

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Now, I never getting.

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What the human fast.

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They can do that fast, but.

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They can do that.

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They can do the worst, but they can do the best.

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They can do them rast. They can do it rast,

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they can't do it fast.

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Welcome back to back to the eighties radio with Tuscano

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and Chang. That was Tesla with Modern Day Cowboy off

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the LP Mechanical Residence, followed up by Oh No other

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than It's.

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A big, big, big big show, Mister Big.

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Addicted to that Rush also nineteen eighty nine with their

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debut self titled album Mister Big.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we've got a special treat

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for you before our special guest comes on board, and

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that is we've got that trivial question all the day,

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if you guess the trivia question of the day. Correctly,

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you're going to win yourself a back to the Eighties

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Radio T shirt. You need to listen to the entire

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interview that we're gonna have right now with Eric Martin

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from Mister Big, and you might hear the answer to

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the following trivia question. Now, are you guys ready?

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All right?

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Here we go.

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This is the trivia question and it's up to you

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to let us know via our email and you're going

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to write in at back the number two the Eighties

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Radio at gmail dot com. And the question is what

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year was their hit song to be with You written?

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First person who writes in and lets us know will

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go ahead and win that prize. So that's our trivia

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question for the day. And now the moment you've all

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been waiting for, we have the man, the myth and

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the legend, And unlike chang In myself, it's not in

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his own mind. This is the one and only Eric

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Martin from Mister Big, joining us from a beautiful city

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of what Eric, Where are you? Where are you at?

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I live in.

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Marin County, about twenty five miles from San Francisco the

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Goldigate Bridge. I live up in the mountains, a lot

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of trees. The ocean is maybe that way, and it's

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really beautiful here. But I don't spend a lot of

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time here because I traveled a lot. I've been around

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the world and a Yai yai maybe two or three

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times this year with my band.

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Mister Big and a little band named mister Big.

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That mister Big. Yeah, actually we're on our our big

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finish tour. It's a it's it's almost gone for two

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years now, and when it's over, it's over. It's not

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we're not going to hang on and more power to

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him to it don't matter what they call it, and

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you can snicker and go farewell to you. I've been

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to the tenth farewell to it doesn't matter. It's you know,

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they keep coming back. Every time they want to quit,

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they keep coming back. Right, well, mister Big, it'll be over.

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We don't want to cops all sound. I had a lawyer,

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Arthur around the table say, you know, we should audit

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all the record. We're not going to tour more. That's

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just the way too. And short. I didn't almost hate

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to be with you till four years and hopefully that

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play one or two show and I didn't leave your couch.

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Any something happens, but it's normans royalties and performance. It

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will just be chaoffs and all that, you know, small

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or something. You know, I got another apartment something like that.

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Probably the same as you. Again, they probably it always

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you have to struggle right up with it for a

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really long time because well, I mean, I'm mainly here

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to be with you. You know, it becomes kind of

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embarrassing sometimes. You know, you go into a bar to

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have a beer and you're sitting there and it's like

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and if somebody recognized you, mainly you know, the manager

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of the club or something, and you're like, oh my god, right,

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it just feels a little gatchy. But I a couple

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times everybody says they hear it, and I never hear it.

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But a couple of times I've heard addict to that

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rush on the radio in the car. And when I

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say a couple of times, like ten years, twenty years,

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I mean I've only heard it a few times. When

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it came out in nineteen eighty nine, I heard of

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it a lot, and I was so proud of myself

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and proud of the band, and I this sounds like

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a movie, but the first time I heard it, I

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was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge and it was just,

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you know, Alcatraz to my right, the fairlongs to the left,

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and here I am listening to Dick that rush.

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It was.

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It was a pretty amazing moment. I still remember those days.

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I mean, if you're you know, my memory hasn't done

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that bad, but I remember nineteen eighty nine.

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So Eric, every time you hear to be with you,

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whether it's outside, it's at a restaurant or a bar

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or whatever, it's got to be like when you go

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to a guitar center and you hear Stairway to Heaven

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being played.

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Right, people play it. I'm asked to play it all

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the time, like I'm going to do something. In twenty

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twenty five, I got back to back tours again, but

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not mister big. It's solo stuff and I'm part of

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a rock opera in Europe. But I'm going to do

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something called Rock Legends. Clever Name Now Joe Lenn Turner,

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Paul Shartino from Quiet Rightight Now, and Mark Starachi lead

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singer from a band called Crocus. Very you know metal

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but mainly European stars on it. But it's rock. You

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know you're talking quiet right. Joe was in Rainbow and

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Deep Purple, and they go, we would like you to

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play to be with you. I'm like, come what what?

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And I love singing to be with you? Don't even

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go there when people go, oh, do you still like

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to play more than words? Nuno and Gary? Do you

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still like playing love song? Jeff Keith from Jessla Eric

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Martin and I feel like I'm chang right now talking

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to the third person. But Eric Martin loves singing to

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be with you no matter what, hanging out with all

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these rock dudes singing, you know, oh baby baby, it's

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a what I'm the one? Who what's Jesus?

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Come on, man, They've got others, ladies and gentlemen. They've

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got others. You know you mentioned. And now I'm going

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to go back to this because it has something to

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do with to be with You. Now, this is of

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course back to the eighties, so mainly we want to

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talk about stuff in the eighties.

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To Be with You was actually written at sixteen years old.

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I had help writing part of it in nineteen eighty eight,

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like around that time, maybe even a little earlier. And

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so it's still in the eighties. So when I wrote

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to Be with You, I was just trying to impress

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my sister's girlfriends. I didn't even think of anything about,

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you know, getting a record deal. But yeah, I rewrote

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it nineteen eighty eight, I think eighty seven eighty eight,

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with a guy named David Graham, who really helped out

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a lot. I mean, my version was still the same melodies,

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same lyrics, but he came with a couple cool Beatle

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esque moments to it. When it goes after the solo

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dah da dah dad and all that stuff, it modulates

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like the Beatles used to do and added a few

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words and it just made it, you know, a lot better.

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So and anyway, first time I said that, by the way, yeah,

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he actually helped out quite a bit. Well, you'd never

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know when somebody's going to come over, hey, could you?

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Hey?

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Aren't you that guy?

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You know?

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It used to be where I got it. I got

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to tell you this really quick story when when I

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joined me and me and Billy she and started Mister Big,

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and then Paul Gilbert came and then Pat Torpy and

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our first tour in nineteen eighty nine were travel around

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the United States and nobody knew who me and Pat were,

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or kind of Paul maybe you know a few people

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that might have seen racer Rex in La, you know,

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but everybody knew who Billy Shean was. So so, you know,

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there's a loading dock at the you know, in the

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back of the club usually in the and the crews

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loading the gear out, and I'm back there just kind

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of looking at the fans and they're going, hey, hey,

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you're the singer. Dude, you're you're the singer. I'm like

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Eric Martin. I'm like, we don't care. Hey, where's Billy

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she And where's Paul Gilbert and uh? And then you know,

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to be with you comes out and this happened once,

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and I embellish and I tell the story. It happens

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all the time, but it happened once where this guy

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comes up to me and he goes, hey, you're and

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I'm like, Eric Martin, he goes to be with you guy.

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So you know, it's a curse and a and a

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and a and a beautiful thing.

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You know, we know that a good friend of the band,

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mister Herbie Herbert, your manager, what did he mean when

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he told you, kats say, good body, your families.

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The Herbie Herbert story. So Herbie Herbert managed Journey and

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I and Herbie managed me and as a solo artist

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back in nineteen eighty three, I was on Elektra Records

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and it was the Eric Martin Band, and he got

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me a deal on Capitol Records as a solo artist

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in eighty five to about eighty seven, and then managed

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mister Big and he I played him to Be with

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You over the years, and he always felt like it

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was a hit. And when we had, you know, we

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did our first album, and I'm glad we didn't do

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To Be with You on the first album. It just

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wouldn't have you know, it just I don't think it

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would have blown, you know. And we caught the public

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on a good day putting that ballot out. But Herbie

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pushed the hell out of it to Atlantic Records. They

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were gonna they wanted to say it's over, you know,

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lean into an album. I mean, after all those songs,

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I mean, there were some great songs on it, Green

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cint At Sixties, Mine, Daddy Brother Alive and kick In.

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There was some really good songs that you build a

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career on a band like this, you know, you have

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a vision. If you're anybody worth your assault in a

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record company going, you know, these guys can write songs.

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They're virtuosos. Look at the dynamic duo of Billy Shanna,

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Paul Gilbert, Pat Torpy, amazing drummer Eric Martin. He's no slouch,

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you know. You know, you'd think you'd build a career

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on it. But they didn't. Hear to be with you.

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And Herbie Herbert heard it, and he pushed for it

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until it was number one. He made that happen. Just

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Take My Heart was was a single that came out

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after that, and it didn't go number one, but it

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was like in I think in America, but in the

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rest of the world. And then a long career. He said,

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a place because you're going to be gone after you

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know cliche. It is the gift that song and finally

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put me on the map. Oh God, him quoting the

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Billy Shean thing. He used to say stuff like, uh,

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it puts stamps in our passport and you know all that.

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Herbie Herbert, who passed away a couple of years ago,

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was my mentor, almost like a father figure to me.

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He wasn't just a manager. I mean like he would.

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He was a musician too, as a song guy, and

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he could like he booked the tours for Journey, He

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booked the tours for mister Big, and he went on

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to manage like hugely popular other you know bands, Steve Miller,

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Rock Set Europe, even Enough's enough. He was my champion.

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We're going to take a break right here with Toscano

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and change back to the eighties radio missed and we

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were talking about to be with you, And here it

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is for your ears.

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And your listening pleasure.

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Don't you go in hold on, little girl, show me work.

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He's turnting you.

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Stand up, little girl, broken.

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Hot, can't feed that back when and through heads through

475
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fait betwist of.

476
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:20.440
Both of you.

477
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:25.000
So come on, David, come on over. Let the thing

478
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:29.320
you don't want to show you who's.

479
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:40.760
Deep inside? Up your fee to two on the line.

480
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:50.639
Line just to be the day to be with you, Bill,

481
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.519
you come be that so you can be on time

482
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.199
for once.

483
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.480
Wait up, who cares about little boy?

484
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:03.280
That not too much hass in it all go down?

485
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:09.639
Came over psoffering down to come on, baby, come on over.

486
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:15.920
Let me be the one to her over lost world.

487
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.239
Yeah, keep inside out.

488
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:30.239
Your fee too too on the line when list cats

489
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.320
as STUPI the nest to be with you.

490
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:42.239
Whippy below we can be together the baby you can

491
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:45.679
make my luck with wile I can make.

492
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.400
You stop to smile.

493
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:13.840
When it's true, it's true, thad be.

494
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:18.480
Twist no, both of you come on there, come on out,

495
00:40:18.679 --> 00:40:23.840
but letting me be the one to show you the

496
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.079
one who wants to be with.

497
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:33.360
You the world inside out. You don't feel it too

498
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:42.840
on the line that just still be the nest to

499
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:55.079
be with you the woman, and shut up with your side.

500
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:57.239
Feel it's.

501
00:40:59.039 --> 00:40:59.639
A line.

502
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.440
Wear it on my last cat Stull, be the nest

503
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:09.880
to be with you, Just to.

504
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:23.840
Be the last to over ride.

505
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:37.440
She can't go fa choking back way left.

506
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:45.280
A dark boone, sound the toss bone, give me out.

507
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:52.880
He gets a weak and.

508
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.079
Says, jake out fast.

509
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:10.719
You know it's off to the bay. Died day by

510
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:22.800
day than for him by day. Now got und until

511
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:29.360
you can jot snacking can take a brazy in the.

512
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.119
Gop to had been drowned in their.

513
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:45.559
Little half away can take the bird noise and dead

514
00:42:46.039 --> 00:43:12.599
boys go out day what you got about it?

515
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.000
By day.

516
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:49.920
It comes.

517
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:38.840
And that's a way.

518
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:46.000
They don't say that the two Guns, though.

519
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.760
Its time of new cat.

520
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:59.480
To the mute, sell back and then take a breazy.

521
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:54.280
Reality back in the indies radio you heard to Be

522
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.719
with You by Mister Big and after that thirty Days

523
00:44:57.880 --> 00:44:58.559
in the Hole.

524
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.920
If you're just joining, we've got Eric Martin from mister Big. Eric,

525
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:06.440
at what point did it really hit you that you'd

526
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:07.440
finally made it?

527
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:13.760
I thought I made it ten times when I was

528
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:21.760
you know, about twenty three, maybe twenty four. Eric Martin band,

529
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:24.320
Sucker for a Pretty Face. I got a record deal

530
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.920
on Elektra, and I thought I had made it, and

531
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:32.199
we toured around the United States with it. It was

532
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:35.000
called Sucker for a Pretty Face. We were kind of

533
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.079
I'm not gonna We were a great rock and roll band.

534
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:42.039
We had two guitar players. I played keyboards and sang,

535
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.760
and we had another keyboard player and I was upfront

536
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.760
singer as well, bass player and drummer. We were really

537
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:51.760
good rock and roll band, but we were also kind

538
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.360
of like the poor Man's Night Ranger. They had already

539
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.119
they came out before us, and they had the same

540
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:02.599
kind of vibe. Anyway, we did great, and then the

541
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.239
record company fired five hundred people in their company. So

542
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.400
you know, I felt like I made it. A bunch

543
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:14.159
of tab Capitol records the same thing. And after that,

544
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:18.800
you know, it was only about a year maybe when

545
00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:23.199
Billishian came calling me. But like at that time I

546
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:26.920
had some irons in the fire and I felt like

547
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.719
I was gonna make it, like so many times, and

548
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:33.239
then even mister Big, I mean, our first album didn't

549
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:37.920
go I mean it went gold after the record was

550
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.840
out and we were moving on to lean into it.

551
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:42.719
It went gold because it was just sat there, you know,

552
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.639
like somewhere and it probably went gold. But like, I

553
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:48.719
don't even think I have a gold album from the

554
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.760
first album. I was skeptical too, you know, because I

555
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.199
kind of went, oh, man, I've had so many chances

556
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:56.599
and somebody goes, you're gonna make it. I just have

557
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.719
a feeling. I was like, don't chase it.

558
00:46:59.800 --> 00:46:59.960
You know.

559
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:07.239
We were at a funky little club called Finkies at

560
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:11.400
Daytona Beach in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was one of

561
00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:13.039
those bars. It was kind of like a wet bar

562
00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:16.079
where it's kind of the back of it's open to

563
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.199
the ocean, sand and sort's like a lot of wet

564
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:21.920
feet and then on the front, you know, it's like

565
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.400
peanut shells on the ground. You know, it's like funky.

566
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:27.639
And we get there to the club. You know, it's

567
00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:31.039
just like a routine every you know, we're we're on

568
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.679
this lean into a tour and we're doing good, right,

569
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:37.199
and we had to be with you was on the

570
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.719
the on MTV, but not heavy rotation at all. They

571
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:43.719
play it like, you know, a couple of times three

572
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.760
o'clock in the morning or something. But we walked into

573
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:50.480
the place. All the gear a you know, funky gear

574
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:55.159
is on the stage and there's no manager or there's

575
00:47:55.239 --> 00:48:00.039
no sound man there. Excuse me, we're there that we

576
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:03.119
there that early. We get in, we're helping the crew

577
00:48:03.159 --> 00:48:05.920
and taking stuff off. Well, I didn't do shit, you know,

578
00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:08.639
I'm a singer. I don't do I don't lift. I'm like,

579
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:12.079
d D, what am I gonna do? Like how many

580
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:15.639
times have I heard this? We got it just could

581
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:17.920
sit down. I went in the back and I was

582
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:20.559
playing this pinball machine and had this big screen and

583
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.119
it was MTV and I'm like, they go, okay now

584
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.000
from mister big and I'm like, oh, cool. You know,

585
00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.360
I don't think I've ever seen it on MTV. I

586
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.360
mean I've been on the road, you know. And then

587
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.960
they go, yeah, the number one video on MTV, and

588
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.000
I'm like, I couldn't wait to finish this game and

589
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:41.079
go tell the guys he and then the guy says,

590
00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:44.159
and the number one song in the country, because I mean, like,

591
00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:47.719
does mister Big, does any band from that eighties and

592
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:52.599
nineties or whatever even read Billboard Magazine? Please, We're like

593
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:56.519
looking at Cream and Circus and well that's the seventies,

594
00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:58.519
but like you know what I mean, Hip Parader and

595
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.960
whatever came out in the eighties. But and then I

596
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:05.960
was like, doing one of these we're number what, number

597
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:07.639
one in the country. And I told the guys of

598
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.880
the band and it came up to him. I go, guys,

599
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:12.360
can I talk to you? And they're like, what, you know,

600
00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:16.440
the same guess who I met? Oh yeah, And this

601
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.239
is how I said it too, because I'm trying to

602
00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:21.159
make get a momentum. And I go, guys, we're number

603
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.639
one on MTV. And Pat Torpy's there, you know, putting

604
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:28.440
on his drum shoes or whatever, and he goes, woh,

605
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:32.639
that's cool. And I go and we're number one in

606
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:36.039
the country and everybody's like Billy and Paul was like,

607
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.840
holy kidding, you're kidding me. Pat's like, I did you

608
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:44.679
just say? We were beaming because we've been on the

609
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.079
road back to back since eighty nine. Now it's not

610
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:55.000
that long, but still back to back. Harley anytime coming

611
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.599
home and we're looking around and we're at Finky's and we're,

612
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:03.920
oh my god, we're gonna probably you know this. We

613
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.639
we I don't know. We had like big dreams. Everybody

614
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:09.400
was like, going, I'm gonna buy a car, I'm going

615
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:11.360
to do that. I was like, I'm gonna buy one

616
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:14.880
of those cell phones. That came out to me. Was

617
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:19.400
a really exciting moment. And then that night at Finkey's

618
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.920
line around the block. A couple of days later or

619
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.480
a couple of weeks later, we're playing these big theaters

620
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:32.039
and we're not We're not opening anybody. We're not. It

621
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:35.039
was just evening with mister Big and then we got

622
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.039
picked up for the Rush tour.

623
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:39.320
But ye chang here I got to ask you a

624
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.440
question upon this journey. You guys in Barton, what was

625
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:47.239
the biggest part of the journey and the hardest part

626
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:47.559
for you.

627
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:52.760
Way before mister Big started coming together, I was I

628
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.719
either I had an apartment and then I lost it,

629
00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:58.920
and then I had to go live with my dad twice.

630
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:04.239
So I was on the couch, you know. You know, hey, Eric,

631
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.679
you got to make your couch in the morning, you know,

632
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.360
pillow and the blanket in the whole bed.

633
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:08.599
It was.

634
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:08.920
It was.

635
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:14.239
It was rough. And even in mister Big, the making

636
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:18.079
the record, you know, no, not making the record, got

637
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:22.000
making the demos and getting record companies to come and

638
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:26.000
see us doing showcases and they all passed. They go,

639
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:29.519
we don't get it, you know, I don't. Atlantic Records

640
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:34.119
finally showed up and they you know, and they signed us. Yeah.

641
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:38.679
Everything was a struggle. I mean I didn't make Harley

642
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.079
any Doe. Oh dude, this this, this is a classic.

643
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:47.119
I had a publishing deal for like thirty five thousand

644
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:50.199
bucks and it's like, wow, No, I had to live

645
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:53.880
on that thing for about a year. When to when

646
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:55.960
even like lean into it and to be with you

647
00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:59.280
came out and all that kind of stuff. I had

648
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:02.119
a lawyer at the time say, you know, we should

649
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:05.519
audit the record company. I'm like, don't do that, don't

650
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:09.119
do that, and blah blah blah. Long story short. I

651
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:12.599
didn't get paid to be with you till four years

652
00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:16.199
after the record came out. How about that? Yeah, And

653
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:18.840
I lived, I didn't live on the couch anymore, and

654
00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:24.400
I performance royalties and I not performance payoffs and all that,

655
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.440
and I you know, I think I got another apartment

656
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:30.679
or something like that, probably the same apartment. You know,

657
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.119
they probably staved it for me. It always has been

658
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:37.880
a struggle for for a really long time. I mean, look,

659
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:40.480
when I finally did get paid and then the careers

660
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:42.920
started taking off, there was great. But I've had a

661
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:46.599
lot of ups and downs moments, even when you're you're

662
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:50.679
on MTV and and oh yeah, everybody thinks you're rich.

663
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.039
I got better food when I was on the road,

664
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:57.000
you know, like I come home and I'm refrigerators empty.

665
00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:58.239
You know, it was.

666
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.039
I wasn't homeless, but was it was. It was a struggle.

667
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:05.159
And I'm getting older and I'm like going, oh man,

668
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:09.239
what's going on here? Before Billy Sheon called me and

669
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:14.000
this was like in eighty eight, I had Electra jumped

670
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.639
the Eric Martin ben That was a long time ago.

671
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:19.480
Capitol records drop me, and I was like, now what

672
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:21.480
do I do? Do I go back to the bars

673
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:24.800
and whatever? And I remember, and this might sound funny

674
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:28.000
to people, but I'm actually a good friend with this

675
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.800
gentleman that I'm gonna mention. But I had some agents

676
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:33.679
that said, Okay, we're going to turn you into the

677
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:35.679
next Michael Bolton, and you're going to be a solo

678
00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:37.920
guy and you're going to be playing this ballads and

679
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:38.760
smartiest steps.

680
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:39.119
You know.

681
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:42.840
I was thinking smarmy at the time, but not really.

682
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:47.199
Michael Bolton had a great career, you know, doing was

683
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:49.639
he was a rock and roll guy back in the

684
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.119
early eighties, and then you know, he went on to

685
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:55.079
be like people say, Michael Boublelet, but there was a

686
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:58.199
Michael Bolton first, you know. But anyway, and he's great,

687
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:01.119
He's a super cool guy. I didn't want to be

688
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:03.440
the next Michael. I didn't want to be the next anybody.

689
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:04.039
You know.

690
00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:06.280
It's either I'm gonna be Eric Martin or I'm going

691
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:08.480
to go back to the bars and play in the

692
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:12.519
own hometown and try to get that big following in

693
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.400
a small pond thing. Again. You know, I didn't want

694
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:19.639
to quit. I was thinking, man, I got to keep

695
00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:24.840
doing this. Yeah, that's the sad part, just trying to

696
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:28.039
keep going. That's actually not the sad part. Every little

697
00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:32.440
obstacle was an experience for me, you know, and gave

698
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:37.320
me a you know, a hard rock coating, you know, basically,

699
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:42.480
and made me stronger and able to leave tall buildings

700
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:43.599
in a single bount.

701
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:47.840
We all have a favorite thing from the nineteen eighties?

702
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:49.159
What was yours?

703
00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:51.920
What's your favorite part of all of the eighties. It

704
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.440
could be anything. It could be your music, it could

705
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:56.320
be others music. It could be movies, it could be

706
00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:59.199
I think it could be anything. What was your favorite

707
00:54:59.239 --> 00:54:59.920
part of the eighties.

708
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:05.199
Well, I was younger, and I had like really cool

709
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:09.960
long hair, and I had and I loved I've been

710
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:13.159
married twice, I was courting those girls, you know, back

711
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.960
in the eighties, you know, So I loved every minute

712
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:19.800
of it. I could do without all the drama that

713
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:24.440
with some of it. But oh, I love the clothes.

714
00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:28.159
Oh my god. I So I'm packing to go to

715
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:31.599
Japan in about three days, right and I'm searching the

716
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:34.119
closet for all the stuff that I haven't worn yet,

717
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:36.960
and I found this sort of you know, one of

718
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.920
those kind of suction zip block bags that you put

719
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.119
old clothes in and I'm like, she gotta pull it out.

720
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:47.719
And I In nineteen eighty three, I was in I

721
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:54.559
had the Eric Martin band on Elektra, and I saved

722
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:58.440
the clothes that I did like an MTV. They only man,

723
00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:02.159
they only played it, you know, twenty times. Maybe I

724
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:04.840
was so that was my big luck right there. But

725
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:07.920
I found the clothes that I wore, and like, first

726
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:11.719
of all, so skinny, I mean size twenty two maybe,

727
00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:18.519
And now I'm not anymore anyway. But I love the clothes.

728
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:21.719
I love the hairstyles. I mean, yeah, I had a mullet.

729
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.599
I had a mullet once, although I didn't call it

730
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:26.760
a mullet. I call it a bono. It was like

731
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:28.559
in the name of love things. It was like, it's

732
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:33.079
not a mullet, it's a bono or whatever. Stripes pants.

733
00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:36.920
You don't see those anymore. Striped pants back in the day.

734
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:40.480
I remember that and big huge metal belts, and we

735
00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:42.880
weren't playing metal. It was like pop, well I was.

736
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:45.719
Most of the bands I was in were more like

737
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:50.679
ude heavy, but like power pop kind of bands. Parachute pants, oh,

738
00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:55.679
my god, I rocked my parachute pants capezios and we're

739
00:56:55.719 --> 00:56:58.599
so poor too. Coupezios were like these. It looked like

740
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.280
a ballet shoe that a lot of rock and roll

741
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:04.159
guys wore. I think I saw Rick Springfield wearing them,

742
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:05.800
and I'm like, oh, I got to have it. So

743
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.760
I wore it to every gig, but I couldn't afford

744
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.559
another pair, so I just like when it got scuffed up,

745
00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:15.239
I just took white out and just whited out. So

746
00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:18.800
I have this awesome eighty story. It's my first gig,

747
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:24.760
first big gig. It's nineteen eighty three, and it's before

748
00:57:25.159 --> 00:57:28.719
Eric Martin band in nineteen eighty three. It was nineteen

749
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:32.519
eighty Actually this is when this happened. A band called

750
00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:35.519
four one five from La the area go to San Francisco.

751
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:38.960
It was pretty much the same band, different drummer. So

752
00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:44.199
we're playing at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and it's man,

753
00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:48.320
I think my my family took me to see the

754
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:51.480
Harlem Globetrotters there. I mean, I was like, it was

755
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:57.480
so long ago, but it was. It was heritage type place,

756
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.880
a legendary place. And we're opening to Rick Springfield, which

757
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:03.840
was kind of a hero of mine back in the eighties.

758
00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:09.480
And we play the gig screaming girls never heard that before,

759
00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:12.960
very beatlesque, very shay stadiums outing.

760
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:12.920
You know.

761
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:15.920
And so after the show, Oh, let me tell you

762
00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:20.400
what I was wearing. So I'm wearing kpezios again, white out,

763
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:25.039
you know on the shoe, and then purple pants I

764
00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:27.360
don't know where that came from. And a pac Man

765
00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:29.880
shirt and it could have been a misspac Man shirt.

766
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.320
I thought it was hip and had a kind of shaggy,

767
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:35.079
kind of chopped up hair, maybe a little bit of

768
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:38.760
a rat tail. And I go outside and there's like

769
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:42.199
one hundred girls and they're still screaming, and they want

770
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.679
my autograph. And I hadn't signed my autograph for anyone

771
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:49.719
ever except you know, like on my school book at

772
00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:53.559
school and over everything. My mom goes, Eric, are you here.

773
00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:59.920
I'm like, you know, anyway, I'm signing all these autographs

774
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.280
and they're going, oh God, you're great, I love you you.

775
00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.159
And I hear this horn hawk it's like popp and

776
00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:09.880
it's my mother and she goes, Eric, let's go, we're

777
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.079
going home. Let's go. It is the funniest thing ever.

778
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:18.880
I'm like, well, look at this, I'm a star. You know.

779
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:21.320
That was one of the million times I thought I

780
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:23.920
made it too, you know, looking back on it, it

781
00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:27.079
was I felt like it did. Who cares if I

782
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:28.079
didn't make it?

783
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:28.360
Then?

784
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:30.000
Man, I felt like I made it.

785
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:33.480
Brother man, Which out of all the albums you guys

786
00:59:33.559 --> 00:59:37.000
created in mister Big, is your most favorite and you

787
00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:38.400
hold closest to your heart.

788
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:44.000
Yeah, my first album in nineteen eighty three, Sucker for

789
00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:49.280
a Pretty Face. I'm really proud of that record. It

790
00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:53.920
sounds amazing. Kevin Elson produced it. He produced all those

791
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:57.000
great Journey records, all the ones with all the you know,

792
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:01.840
huge shits on him. I did it in Doraville, Georgia

793
01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.920
with Oh God. It was Kevin Elson and Rodney Mills

794
01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:11.079
who had done the Atlanta Rhythms section, and he worked

795
01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:14.599
with Leonard Skinner guys for years. He's he's worked on

796
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:18.679
so many records. But it's really good songs from the

797
01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:21.920
for the Day and it sounds amazing. And I we

798
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:27.119
did a cover of Stopping the Name of Love but

799
01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.679
like heavier, you know, and those guys that were in

800
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:34.000
that band. It was I mean, it was Dave Jacobson,

801
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.760
the keyboard player, Mark Ross guitar player, and Tom Duke

802
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:42.159
bass player, but the lead guitar player, john Nyman, he

803
01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:46.960
for the last I think it's sixteen years, maybe longer.

804
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.159
He's been in the band yan T and then the

805
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:55.719
drummer Troylketta was in Tesla. You know Pete Well and

806
01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:59.719
then Eric Martin. He's no slouch. He got in that

807
01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:03.639
band mister Big, and so we did do something eventually,

808
01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:07.199
but I'm really proud of that Sucker record. And then

809
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:09.960
later on in life, and I loved all the records

810
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:13.440
that I was part of, but later on in life,

811
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:17.880
even after all the records we've ever done, Lean into

812
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:22.320
It by mister Big was was my favorite. Not just

813
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:23.920
because they had the hits on it. It was just

814
01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:29.480
another Kevin Elson again, you know he was he had

815
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:30.280
the Midas touch.

816
01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:33.599
So Eric, now we're going to take it down a

817
01:01:33.639 --> 01:01:37.119
few notches, maybe go a little bit on the sad note.

818
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:43.039
But we all know the unfortunate passing of Pat and

819
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:47.400
obviously that affected the entire band. It affected you personally,

820
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:51.480
but did it affect you on a professional level as

821
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:55.079
far as your participation with mister Big and you're either

822
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:57.519
your singing at some point or your songwriting.

823
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.039
I don't think so. I think I've done the same

824
01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:07.360
ever since. I know, I felt, you know, life is short,

825
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:11.360
and I did you know when Pat Torpi passed away,

826
01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:17.519
it was we were in a weird headspace as a

827
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:21.119
band because he was we felt so bad for him.

828
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.239
He was sick for a really long time. He had

829
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:29.519
Parkinson's and it just other things, complications and everything. And

830
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.559
we had taken him on the road with us, you know,

831
01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.400
we had we had to get a sub drummer, this

832
01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:39.679
gentleman named Matt Starr, great drummer. He played with us,

833
01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:42.679
and Pat played like a cocktailed kid on the side.

834
01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:44.800
He had to come with us. We were going to quit,

835
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.000
We're going to not ever play again. If Pat said,

836
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:52.599
I just don't want to and even thanked us for

837
01:02:53.519 --> 01:02:56.679
you could you could feel it every night, going, man,

838
01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.320
I'm so glad I'm out here and that you know,

839
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:04.960
willowing Way at home just you know, dealing with my illness.

840
01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:09.960
But I don't know about songwriting, but I but my

841
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:17.000
whole vibe changed. Yeah, Like I said, we were in

842
01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.199
a weird band headspace for a long time. And then

843
01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:25.039
when he when he came out on the road with us,

844
01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:32.960
it changed us. We became really we were tighter as friends.

845
01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:36.000
We talked a lot more.

846
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:36.239
You know.

847
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:40.920
It's almost like Pat was like, remember, you know, I

848
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.320
don't know how you aren't, but you know, like my mom, Well,

849
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.000
my mother passed away right in two thousand and nine

850
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:53.320
when actually mister Big we were on one of our

851
01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:57.679
many hiatuses and mister Big got back together in that

852
01:03:58.199 --> 01:04:01.119
in January of two thousand and nine. But my mother

853
01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.159
passed away the next day. I told my mother. She

854
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.760
was in hospice, and I told my mother about mister

855
01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:09.800
Beg and the next day she passed away. And anyway,

856
01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:14.280
your mother is like the hub of the family, you know.

857
01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:18.519
Everybody comes to the mother's house for Thanksgiving and Christmas

858
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:21.119
and all that. And Pat Torpy was like that. He

859
01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:27.039
was our anchor and he brought us together. And when

860
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:30.679
he passed away, we all didn't know what to do.

861
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:35.079
It was really difficult. When he passed away, we just

862
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:43.280
stopped everything for about a year or two. I don't yeah,

863
01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:45.480
I don't know about the songwriting. I don't know if

864
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.480
it changed back. I couldn't tell he or not, but

865
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:52.000
it definitely changed my psyche. Oh man, I cried so

866
01:04:52.199 --> 01:04:56.519
much even when he was on the road with us too,

867
01:04:56.559 --> 01:05:01.920
because he could sing amazing. He was my you know,

868
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.079
don't take that the wrong way at home. I'm not

869
01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:06.719
saying we were the Beatles, but like he was my

870
01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:10.840
like if I was John Lennon, he was my Paul McCartney.

871
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:11.119
We were.

872
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:14.480
We were so tight when we sang together, more than

873
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.599
anybody in the bandy. Everybody sang great, but not like

874
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:21.320
me and Pat. And he could still really do it.

875
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:24.480
But like his drumming what she was his passion, you know,

876
01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:27.599
he couldn't do anymore. And I could see the frustration.

877
01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:29.199
In him.

878
01:05:29.320 --> 01:05:31.000
And then he got used to it and he was like, oh,

879
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:32.880
well this is the way it is now, playing like

880
01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:37.239
a little conga drummer a little sometimes you play. I don't.

881
01:05:37.679 --> 01:05:40.719
I'm not down playing it, saying playing a little, but

882
01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:43.599
it was playing this cocktail kid made him feel comfortable.

883
01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:47.960
But did it, you know, I don't know, but uh.

884
01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:51.599
And like I was so sad all the time, you know,

885
01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:54.880
with him there, But I also in a way, I

886
01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:57.880
was just so happy that he was there because when

887
01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:02.519
he was gone, we he did play a series of

888
01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:06.880
shows we opened to No we did a double bill,

889
01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:11.559
I think, or we opened to Extreme in Australia, and

890
01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:19.159
we had we were contractual, contractually obligated to play these gigs.

891
01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:22.079
And when Pat passed away, it was like, God, are

892
01:06:22.119 --> 01:06:24.079
we going to do these gigs? I mean, I guess

893
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:26.840
we could, you know, so we did it with Matt

894
01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:29.119
alone and no offense to Matt. But like you know,

895
01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:31.760
I'm up on stage singing and I'm so used to

896
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:36.599
going like this, you know, to the drummer, like usually

897
01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:37.599
it's like speed it up.

898
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:38.440
But like.

899
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:42.960
I always look back to Pat, or I used to

900
01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:46.880
grab his cymbals. You always go no, no, no, no, no,

901
01:06:47.079 --> 01:06:50.400
I go, you know, like right when it's like and

902
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:53.199
you hit the symbol and it's like, you know, right

903
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:55.400
when it supposed to happen, and he would do it,

904
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:58.280
but I do it. I go and he goes, don't

905
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:02.079
don't and I I I love that moment. I love

906
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:06.440
that we shared that, you know, And God, I'm going

907
01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:09.599
to start doing my oprahy Oprah Winfrey moment right now

908
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:12.960
started on here. No No I can't, I can't. I

909
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:17.000
can't now up those tears and bottle up. But I

910
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:21.960
look back and he wasn't there in Australia and really

911
01:07:22.079 --> 01:07:23.800
messed me up. And I think it messed Billy and

912
01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.719
Paul up too, because we played Australia and we played

913
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:30.320
some Southeast Asia shows and then we just called it.

914
01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:33.239
We didn't break up, but we didn't know what to

915
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:37.880
do for about a year or two and then then

916
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:41.639
we we we started playing again. But yeah, it was

917
01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:46.000
never it didn't It was never the same until it

918
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:50.360
was didn't until it was okay to put put our

919
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:53.960
toes in the water, again, you know. And I think

920
01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:56.239
about I think about Pat all the time that I

921
01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:59.599
mean it that just never goes away. And I'm sure

922
01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:02.519
I'm Billy. She and and Pat Torpy were like the

923
01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:06.280
best of friends. And I loved Pat. I what I

924
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:11.039
shared with Pat was just from a musician point, Oh

925
01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:14.000
he was so much. He was awesome to sing with.

926
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:17.159
I missed that, you know. I had that back in

927
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:20.439
the day with this guy john nyman Uh from New

928
01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:23.680
York Martin Band in the early eighties, and then when

929
01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:25.880
I met Pat, and then over the years, you know,

930
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:29.760
singing with I had, I had girls singers, singing background

931
01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:31.640
vocals with me and everything, and they were amazing. But

932
01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:35.119
I I didn't have my my singing partner, and he

933
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:39.199
he was my singing partner. And that's that hurt, that

934
01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:43.520
that bums me out. And even to this day, our drummer, now,

935
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:47.640
Nick did I'll try to say this, Nick, Nick di

936
01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:52.439
Virgilio is our drummer now, and uh, he sings great,

937
01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:55.840
and he does remind me a lot about of Pat,

938
01:08:56.159 --> 01:08:59.720
his drumming styles and his vocal but you know, still

939
01:08:59.760 --> 01:09:03.399
not the same thing. But I missed Pat Torpie as

940
01:09:03.439 --> 01:09:08.279
a It's just a civilian, you know. He'd always cooked.

941
01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:11.119
He'd always say this to me all the time. I'm

942
01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:14.159
a singer, So you know, we complained. We whine about shit,

943
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:16.039
you know. So I go, oh, no, I don't like

944
01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:18.439
that song. We should be doing this, or you know,

945
01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:21.520
why don't we play this, or you know, just something.

946
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:23.920
You know, I've always come up. I had a lot

947
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.119
of ideas and I got to say it, you know.

948
01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:31.439
So Pat would go, Eric, don't rock the boat. We're

949
01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:34.760
almost home. I haven't seen my wife in three months, Chip,

950
01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:36.039
But shit.

951
01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:41.520
I missed that, all right, So onto a lighter side, Eric,

952
01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:45.439
do you still keep in touch with fellow eighties musicians,

953
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.600
whether it be friends from the eighties, what have you.

954
01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:53.439
Till this day, I'm friends with I like that. I'm

955
01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:56.520
friends with everybody that I've ever played with in the eighties.

956
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:01.720
I wouldn't say that in the nineties, I swear to God.

957
01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:07.199
Just the other day I went this friend of mine,

958
01:10:07.399 --> 01:10:09.920
Mike Whittington. He's a bass player for a band called

959
01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:15.199
the Pulsators. They've been around for decades, kind of reggae

960
01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:20.319
and rock. But anyway, we've gotten together, me and him

961
01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:22.159
and a couple of friends from the eighties.

962
01:10:22.279 --> 01:10:22.399
Right.

963
01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:25.119
And but the other day, just the other day, like

964
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:29.840
five days ago, fifteen guys from the eighties that we

965
01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:33.760
all played together in bands. Some made it, some didn't,

966
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:37.600
but we all had fun. We went to a little

967
01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:43.079
restaurant called the Washoe House in Petaluma, California, and it

968
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:47.279
was all the guys. It was even a recording guy

969
01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:49.880
who did our demos back in the day. But the

970
01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:53.359
guys who made it was like we were kids and

971
01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:58.359
we did some great things. But me, a guy named

972
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:01.960
Davy Vaine, he played in a still plays Vane v

973
01:11:02.119 --> 01:11:05.039
a I n you know, still plays out there all

974
01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:09.760
over the mainly in Europe. Paul Taylor, who is in

975
01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.359
the band winger as a keyboard player, and he played

976
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:16.680
with Cinderella and Tom Keefer and everything, the Mayhew brothers,

977
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:19.520
Tom and Mike. They worked for Guns n' Roses and

978
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:23.079
have been for decades. But we were all kids in

979
01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.600
the eighties and there's like, you know, thirteen more guys

980
01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:30.359
every drummer, singer, guitar player. There was a lot way.

981
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:32.560
I was looking over my shoulder there a little bit.

982
01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:36.000
There was about five singers at the table. Not good, Okay,

983
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:41.000
I don't like that, but but we we all kept

984
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.600
in touch over the years. We broke red and and

985
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:48.000
those guys had the wine. I don't drink anymore, but they, yeah,

986
01:11:48.039 --> 01:11:50.479
they all. I say that all the time, famous last words,

987
01:11:50.520 --> 01:11:52.279
but I haven't for a couple months now.

988
01:11:53.079 --> 01:11:55.279
Boys and girls worth take a pause in the big show.

989
01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:57.039
We have to take a big break. We're gonna give

990
01:11:57.079 --> 01:11:59.399
you a double big shot of mister Big.

991
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:00.199
You're listening to.

992
01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:03.680
Back to the eighties radio with Tuscanaw and Chang.

993
01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:05.000
Don't you go nowhere?

994
01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:46.199
Mh. He led the day.

995
01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:55.079
Legends to decide, I will spend the.

996
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:05.680
Nother day stop cuting the same by myself. Let's do

997
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:11.039
stop to let this I go I'm so.

998
01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:21.199
Okay, okay, oh no shat back up where.

999
01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:26.640
Change your shirt?

1000
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:53.920
Change to say okay, don't we'll get too easy, you know?

1001
01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:54.880
Told me?

1002
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:01.479
Now you know you're free to.

1003
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:11.359
The neighbors a up blood, see my say thesps too.

1004
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:19.199
It's not slack to stack to me, I'm saying, until

1005
01:14:19.239 --> 01:14:21.840
you get ride back to square.

1006
01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:32.119
So to call me happy? Can't you say?

1007
01:14:40.880 --> 01:15:18.359
Can't you say I can't testing what you do. Don't

1008
01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:25.279
tell me I'm not to tell them. You can't tell that?

1009
01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:36.479
And I know my kidding. I've got that time. Try

1010
01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:39.000
it to see bad.

1011
01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:57.880
Try trying to tell me sae.

1012
01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:30.640
Hey, if you listen to rock and roll radio in

1013
01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:34.920
the eighties, then listen to this tuscano and chang. They

1014
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:38.520
will transport you back in time, back to the eighties.

1015
01:17:08.439 --> 01:17:15.760
What I wanna be long jim.

1016
01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:19.960
To leave a man on that last.

1017
01:17:22.920 --> 01:17:27.640
I got to win the games I had the ball.

1018
01:17:28.479 --> 01:17:33.960
Tell me like, yes, Mama, tell me boy baby na

1019
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:36.079
let my mind wait.

1020
01:17:36.239 --> 01:17:40.079
Just don't away babo no like to.

1021
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:41.119
The way time.

1022
01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:49.119
Whoy because I didn't know to keep saying it's fine?

1023
01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:56.399
Why I mother want you to mind the time?

1024
01:17:57.199 --> 01:18:03.039
Why you kiss me be winking? A minute to turn

1025
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:03.640
me up?

1026
01:18:04.600 --> 01:18:11.760
Why be absolutely wish you would have to.

1027
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:16.319
Just when you get too much.

1028
01:18:19.119 --> 01:18:23.760
I don't know, Fama slaving chest for the first one game.

1029
01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.760
Per mother's gonna just caick in the.

1030
01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:34.640
Should I comes on the table.

1031
01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:43.359
There ain no mo day abe who Yeah, I didn't

1032
01:18:43.520 --> 01:18:50.640
have to keep the dead and fee.

1033
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:52.039
I'm a hound for my hand.

1034
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:55.359
Why ye.

1035
01:18:57.720 --> 01:18:59.600
Kiss me flicking then to turn me?

1036
01:19:04.079 --> 01:19:04.319
Wow?

1037
01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:47.760
Way yeah what yeah?

1038
01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:50.119
That's right to me?

1039
01:19:50.159 --> 01:19:51.960
Also me, all to me, all to me, all the

1040
01:19:57.880 --> 01:19:58.880
name f.

1041
01:20:20.439 --> 01:20:20.680
To me?

1042
01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:31.199
All right, the one and only back to the eighties

1043
01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:34.520
radio you are listening to mister Big would wind me

1044
01:20:34.760 --> 01:20:38.840
up from their self titled album nineteen eighty nine and

1045
01:20:39.479 --> 01:20:42.520
had enough. All right. I know you've been all over

1046
01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:46.239
the world. Where have you had your biggest show?

1047
01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:47.000
Yeah?

1048
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:50.359
I've done some great shows recently too, But the greatest

1049
01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:56.560
show ever was mister Big. It was from the cusp

1050
01:20:57.720 --> 01:21:01.000
of the eighties. But it was like little nineties, early

1051
01:21:01.119 --> 01:21:07.680
nineties Santo's Beach in Sal Paula, Brazil. One hundred thousand

1052
01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:10.319
people and we're the headliner. It was on a beach,

1053
01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:14.399
no lights, you know, lights and spart lights and stuff

1054
01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:17.159
like here, but had like a what do I call

1055
01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:18.000
it a catwalk?

1056
01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:18.399
Right?

1057
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:21.560
But it went all the way down the beach. It

1058
01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:25.079
was rolling stone style, and it was one hundred thousand

1059
01:21:25.119 --> 01:21:28.239
people in its super everything felt like one hundred and

1060
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:33.359
five degrees outside. And it's the sun's gone down, the

1061
01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:35.439
moon's coming up, so that lit up.

1062
01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:36.119
The beach.

1063
01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:41.840
And I'm walking down this catwalk and I'm looking back

1064
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:44.720
and I see the screen, these gigantic screens and it's

1065
01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:48.800
me and I've gone like this with my microphone. Whoa, right,

1066
01:21:48.920 --> 01:21:52.720
totally totally have my own moment, and it's all slow motion.

1067
01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:55.640
I go, wow, this is a trip. And I'm looking

1068
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:58.039
down at the audience and like they're taking their clothes off.

1069
01:21:58.399 --> 01:22:02.720
It's hot, right, so boobies and slow motion microphone and

1070
01:22:02.800 --> 01:22:05.239
they you know, it was like it was amazing. That

1071
01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:07.800
is the biggest show that I've ever done. And I

1072
01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:10.439
was blown away. I was like, holy shit, I go whoa.

1073
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:13.520
And I even like I'm looking back, do you see this?

1074
01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:16.840
You know, they probably didn't understand a word I'm saying,

1075
01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:19.279
but like, still, yeah, that was the biggest show that

1076
01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:24.479
I have ever done. But I've been pretty close. I've

1077
01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:29.720
played this heavy metal, the biggest heavy metal festival in

1078
01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:34.000
the world. It's it's in Vakan w A c K

1079
01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:36.520
E N. You got to look it up Vakan. All

1080
01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:40.279
heavy metalers know what this is. It's the mecca of

1081
01:22:40.399 --> 01:22:44.039
heavy metal. It's in Germany. I've done it five times.

1082
01:22:44.119 --> 01:22:47.119
I've done it twice with mister Big and three times

1083
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:50.279
with a rock opera that I'm a part of called Avantasia,

1084
01:22:51.239 --> 01:22:57.239
and that's like ninety thousand people. But five times. But yeah,

1085
01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:00.960
but then I've done these times. Little clubs. There was

1086
01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:05.479
a club in a Marin County called Uncle Charlie's And

1087
01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:10.399
for those you know who maybe I don't know, if

1088
01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:13.479
you're Huey Lewis and the News fans, that was the

1089
01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:17.359
Power of Love video. You know, the DeLorean pulls up

1090
01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:21.560
to the club and there's like dump doom doom doo

1091
01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:24.119
do do do you know they do it? Hue was

1092
01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:28.359
Huey's a friend and that band was huge and I

1093
01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:30.279
was such a fan. I used to go to all

1094
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:33.760
their shows back in the day. But anyway, Uncle Charlie's,

1095
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:38.760
I've done gigs there where it maybe I mean maybe

1096
01:23:38.840 --> 01:23:43.920
it holds two hundred people maybe and packed, you know,

1097
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:48.319
building a following and just sweating my ass off singing

1098
01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:54.079
these awesome songs from eighty three, eighty five, eighty seven.

1099
01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:58.159
It was it was amazing. I know, I know, I'm

1100
01:23:58.279 --> 01:24:00.880
mister big mouth. I'm like talking to a mile a minute.

1101
01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:06.000
But my last show at Uncle Charlie's, we're up on stage.

1102
01:24:07.520 --> 01:24:10.439
It's our last song. Good night everybody, okay, take care

1103
01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:13.720
and the crowd cheers, and we go back in the

1104
01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:18.279
dressing room and there are people are It's not last

1105
01:24:18.319 --> 01:24:20.560
call yet, so they're still drinking a little bit, but

1106
01:24:20.720 --> 01:24:24.039
people the management are putting the chairs on the tables

1107
01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:29.399
that are in the back, and I see Neil Sean

1108
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:32.960
come walking in. He used to come into my gigs

1109
01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:35.439
a million times. But he comes walking in, but he's

1110
01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:38.279
got a friend with him that looks very familiar, wearing

1111
01:24:38.319 --> 01:24:44.239
a transco. So Neil goes, hey, Neil and his buddy

1112
01:24:44.319 --> 01:24:47.159
want a jam. I'm like, they just got here like

1113
01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:49.880
my last two songs, and I'm like, God, the show's over, bro,

1114
01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:54.399
But I go, okay, let's do it. So we pretended

1115
01:24:54.479 --> 01:24:56.520
like it was an encore. There was no encore, but

1116
01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:59.399
we came back out. Chairs are still on the table

1117
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:03.439
there and half the crowd is in there, and half

1118
01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:07.159
the crowd is outside high five in each other, smoking,

1119
01:25:07.319 --> 01:25:10.800
you know, going oh hopefully, think saying god, Eric Martin

1120
01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:15.680
band was great. Anyway, it's Neil Sean comes up and

1121
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:17.960
he brings his friend Eddie van Halen.

1122
01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:19.359
Right on.

1123
01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:25.720
So so there I'm half the crowd. I'm being nice.

1124
01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:30.039
I'm saying, maybe fifty people are left and chairs are

1125
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:32.680
still up on the table. And we played You Really

1126
01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:38.479
Got Me. It was like twenty five minutes long. There's

1127
01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:40.720
only like two verses maybe right, but it like that,

1128
01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:46.640
it's two verses six times. And oh dude, it was

1129
01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:50.439
my solo days too, so it was Eric Martin. But

1130
01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:53.479
Eric Martin ban right eight and it was I think

1131
01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:57.079
it was eighty five, and I'm wearing a purple suit.

1132
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:01.079
Well I was doing with the purple thing, but I'm

1133
01:26:01.119 --> 01:26:06.159
wearing like a reddish purple shark skin suit. And I

1134
01:26:06.239 --> 01:26:10.279
got my Bono hair right, not wearing Kypezias at that time.

1135
01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:14.680
I went Converse All Star Chuck Taylor's and from eighty

1136
01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:18.720
five on, never wear anything else and going hair, you know,

1137
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:22.560
even girlfriends. I got you some boots. I'm likenx nay

1138
01:26:22.600 --> 01:26:26.840
on the boots. You know, and there's pictures of it

1139
01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:30.720
on the internet, no video, but it's my band, and

1140
01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:34.680
they're all it was me. Danny Medlin eighties guy that

1141
01:26:35.039 --> 01:26:41.119
plays around here, Paul Taylor from Winger, Mugs Kane Jonathan

1142
01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:47.479
Kane's brother on drums, and here we are singing girl,

1143
01:26:47.840 --> 01:26:53.119
you really got girl. You you know it was great.

1144
01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:55.880
I've been really thinking about it. And after you talk

1145
01:26:55.960 --> 01:26:58.720
to us about what your eighties' greatest show was, so

1146
01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:01.000
my son comes up to me, he says, Dad, isn't

1147
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:05.439
is there a reason why bands today can't replicate the

1148
01:27:05.640 --> 01:27:09.520
eighties sound? You know, mister Big does it. Other bands

1149
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:11.920
do it from the eighties, But what about the new bands,

1150
01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:15.680
the new rock bands, Why can't they replicate an eighty sound?

1151
01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:23.399
Yeah, you know, that's a good question. You know, our band,

1152
01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:26.760
like we did a lot of bands from that eighties

1153
01:27:27.399 --> 01:27:31.399
went into the nineties and we experimented with the like

1154
01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:34.119
the new you know, because you remember a grunge kind

1155
01:27:34.119 --> 01:27:37.880
of took over and it took and it completely wiped

1156
01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:43.119
us out. We're on stage and then we're paint and

1157
01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:47.119
houses the next right. I mean, I'm just equating that.

1158
01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:52.399
I'm just saying that maybe we wanted to follow what

1159
01:27:52.920 --> 01:27:55.720
people were doing, you know, like maybe they're a lot

1160
01:27:55.760 --> 01:27:59.520
of Look, we stay true to our roots, like you know,

1161
01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:02.399
Ozzy and all the heavy metal guys, you know, stand

1162
01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:06.520
true to it. And I a lot of the eighties

1163
01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:08.880
guys we got a little scared on it because they

1164
01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:11.479
started making fun of us with our clothes and our

1165
01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:19.880
hair and uh, you know, pirate blouses. Sure, you know, oh,

1166
01:28:20.039 --> 01:28:23.840
Eric Martin does wear his sheriff's badge on his vest

1167
01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:28.239
or cowboy boots and spurs. We got a little scared

1168
01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:32.279
on that. So we kind of changed our whole vibe.

1169
01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:35.800
Thank god. We did change a little on the clothes scene,

1170
01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:39.800
you know, but the music changed a little bit. And

1171
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:44.439
then we realized that are that you know, like we're

1172
01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:48.880
trying to appease these new fans that we kind of

1173
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:51.399
realized that our music's handed better when it was, you know,

1174
01:28:51.439 --> 01:28:54.159
because we were when we were in the eighties, we

1175
01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:58.399
were we derived is that the right word. We were.

1176
01:28:59.680 --> 01:29:05.840
We were inspired and influenced by the seventies, and so

1177
01:29:06.520 --> 01:29:08.560
a lot of eighties rock and roll bands were and

1178
01:29:08.680 --> 01:29:11.279
they just you know, altered it for the eighties and

1179
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:13.880
the nineties. They did the same thing. But yeah, we

1180
01:29:14.079 --> 01:29:17.760
realized we're a lot better doing the eighties and nineties stuff,

1181
01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:23.119
you know, our early stuff, I mean still to this day.

1182
01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:28.840
But also like we did this new album ten and

1183
01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:32.119
it me and Paul wrote it and we're and it's

1184
01:29:32.359 --> 01:29:37.760
very light compared to Addicted that rush and even like

1185
01:29:38.359 --> 01:29:41.680
Daddy Brother Lover Little Boy from nineteen the nineties and stuff.

1186
01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:48.279
But my theory was we'd already done that, and I wasn't.

1187
01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:52.000
I just it. You gotta have a little evolution. You

1188
01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:54.000
got to experiment a little bit, but you don't want

1189
01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:58.239
to experiment too far where you lost your place in line.

1190
01:29:59.399 --> 01:30:01.960
So I like your kids question.

1191
01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:03.119
Now.

1192
01:30:03.319 --> 01:30:06.479
I like where he's coming from because I feel the

1193
01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:09.680
same way. And I think our band we still when

1194
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:12.720
you see us live, it's like nineteen eighty nine. You know,

1195
01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:17.439
that ten album. It was just me and Paul. It

1196
01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:20.039
could have been a little heavier, but it wasn't. But

1197
01:30:20.159 --> 01:30:22.039
I still love it, and I love it more than

1198
01:30:22.079 --> 01:30:28.479
I the last record that we did, defind Gravity. But yeah,

1199
01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:30.680
I mean, even when I was writing with Paul, I

1200
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:33.000
go and I wrote some music, but Paul wrote the

1201
01:30:33.039 --> 01:30:35.840
majority of music, and I wrote melodies and lyrics and

1202
01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:38.760
I'm like, look and hey, have you got an addict

1203
01:30:38.800 --> 01:30:41.359
to that Russian there and that little tricks here and

1204
01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:44.560
goes nope, And like our thing was, we didn't want

1205
01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:48.840
a copycat the first album and the second album, Biggie

1206
01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:50.039
the Legendary Chang.

1207
01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:52.279
Of course, I got to ask you a personal question,

1208
01:30:52.439 --> 01:30:54.560
and not what your bell size is or how along

1209
01:30:54.600 --> 01:30:59.159
you're What is the great Eric Martin doing right now

1210
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:02.800
in twenty twenty five? Please enlighten us, my brother.

1211
01:31:03.399 --> 01:31:07.800
Okay, I'm going to I have an alter ego when

1212
01:31:07.800 --> 01:31:10.039
I play in Japan, not just mister big I have

1213
01:31:10.159 --> 01:31:12.920
this thing. It's called mister Vocalist and it's kind of

1214
01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:16.720
a jpop thing. It's very Michael Bolton, Michael Bloueblet vibe.

1215
01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:19.439
But you know I do. I haven't done it in

1216
01:31:19.520 --> 01:31:25.439
fifteen years. I did it on Sony Records. It's really

1217
01:31:25.800 --> 01:31:28.039
now and you hear is that the same guy that

1218
01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:28.640
sings that to.

1219
01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:29.039
Be with you?

1220
01:31:29.159 --> 01:31:34.640
Tune yup? But it's very smooth and very very jpop.

1221
01:31:35.239 --> 01:31:37.960
Is like a mixture of soul and R and B

1222
01:31:38.119 --> 01:31:41.199
with a little bit of rock in it, but very smooth. Anyway,

1223
01:31:41.239 --> 01:31:44.319
I'm doing that just for nine days and then and

1224
01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:49.199
I'm also and a record came out called Mister Vocalist

1225
01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:53.199
Complete Best Mister Vocalist. I know, very contrite. You know.

1226
01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:55.520
When I first heard it, I was like what And

1227
01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:58.000
the first album sold three hundred thousand records, and I'm like,

1228
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:02.760
I am mister Vocalist. One cool thing from the eighties.

1229
01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:06.359
There's a record company called Metallic Blue. How about that

1230
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:12.800
very eighties sounding record? And they put out three unreleased

1231
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:19.039
coincide with another company called Avalon Records in Japan put

1232
01:32:19.079 --> 01:32:24.159
out three unreleased records from the eighties, uh four, one,

1233
01:32:24.359 --> 01:32:27.720
five that you band I was in, and then Eric

1234
01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.760
Martin band and that album that I was talking about,

1235
01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:36.319
Soccer for a Pretty Face. This CD right here, it's

1236
01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:40.479
me Troy La Kenna from Tesla Whyante like a lot

1237
01:32:40.560 --> 01:32:43.239
of great players on this, but Eric martinma, these are

1238
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:46.920
the original sessions. I don't know if it's the cell

1239
01:32:46.960 --> 01:32:50.119
of fans on it. So it's kind of thing weird

1240
01:32:50.479 --> 01:32:56.319
focus here, but succer for Pretty Face Original Sessions twenty

1241
01:32:56.439 --> 01:32:59.000
six songs the record. The first record only had like

1242
01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:02.199
ten songs on it, but this is the original sessions.

1243
01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:06.279
This is the song that should have, could have, would

1244
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:08.520
have made it on the record and didn't but still

1245
01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:11.920
had legs, you know. But I'm really proud of that.

1246
01:33:12.119 --> 01:33:14.279
That's only that one record, and then the other two

1247
01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:17.600
four to one five records four one five, Area Could

1248
01:33:17.640 --> 01:33:20.239
four one five and four to one five Boys' Night

1249
01:33:20.319 --> 01:33:23.600
Out and Very power pop rock records.

1250
01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:23.880
You know.

1251
01:33:24.279 --> 01:33:27.039
I'm really proud of that because it came out yesterday

1252
01:33:27.079 --> 01:33:30.840
in Japan, and I'm telling you, those things have been

1253
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:36.760
collecting dust forever. They were, like I had, I just

1254
01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:39.960
had the cassette. Somebody dug up the old masters and

1255
01:33:40.399 --> 01:33:43.520
turn them into like state of the art sounds surround sound.

1256
01:33:43.560 --> 01:33:47.600
I'm like, I played it the other day and I'm like, well,

1257
01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:49.960
I was like what some of the you know, it's

1258
01:33:50.399 --> 01:33:55.680
old pop rock, like very songs are like three minute tunes.

1259
01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:59.600
I'm like, wow, that doesn't sound like mister Big. There's

1260
01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:02.439
no other Well, there's some great guitar playing on it.

1261
01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:05.640
But I'm really proud of that. I don't know about salivating,

1262
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:09.000
but get out check it out online. It's pretty damn.

1263
01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:11.960
Good boys and girls, lady and gentlemen, big and little.

1264
01:34:12.159 --> 01:34:14.960
You are listening to Back to the Eighties radio with

1265
01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:19.640
Tuscano and Chang and mister Eric Martin, We're gonna take

1266
01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:23.079
you right now on a little bit of a tinted

1267
01:34:23.159 --> 01:34:29.720
trip Green Tinted Sixties Mind from the Lean into It album.

1268
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:07.920
Put You Be Looking Around in the sixties, May Tell

1269
01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:42.399
the Brassic Times to child very basis, Magna.

1270
01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:46.560
Pay check till.

1271
01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:56.319
Do tell me about Guy Basic, Tell.

1272
01:35:56.239 --> 01:36:01.600
Me that its Timbo, I can Sidney By.

1273
01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:08.119
And went Dreams. But all that you can see to buy,

1274
01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:47.680
I went Joins Small to Wetlands a time, watch the

1275
01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:48.720
fun all.

1276
01:36:49.319 --> 01:36:55.840
It's easy as a host to dress.

1277
01:36:59.079 --> 01:37:34.279
Sixteen back to the eighties Radio. You just heard, mister

1278
01:37:34.479 --> 01:37:36.640
Big Green Tinted Sixties Mind.

1279
01:37:36.800 --> 01:37:36.960
Eric.

1280
01:37:37.439 --> 01:37:40.239
It has been an incredible pleasure having you on the

1281
01:37:40.279 --> 01:37:43.039
show here, and we hope it is not the last

1282
01:37:43.079 --> 01:37:43.840
time I loved it.

1283
01:37:44.520 --> 01:37:45.520
I was excited.

1284
01:37:46.159 --> 01:37:48.319
I was so excited to meet you, but I'm a

1285
01:37:48.760 --> 01:37:50.720
very excited when I was back to the eighties, I

1286
01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:52.119
were like, Oh, this is gonna be fun.

1287
01:37:52.399 --> 01:37:55.680
Finally, Eric, you have given us and our listeners a

1288
01:37:55.720 --> 01:37:58.199
big oh. Thank you for joining the program. Miss the

1289
01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:00.760
Big Everybody give him a rout of a plus or

1290
01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:03.279
I'll give you a big ass who Mister Eric Martin,

1291
01:38:03.399 --> 01:38:07.319
thank you for being with Tuscano and Changang.

1292
01:38:07.560 --> 01:38:10.479
Yeah, we'll do this again and it'll be just as

1293
01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:15.079
screwed up perfect Chang and Tuscano.

1294
01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:17.800
It's almost that time that we have to say good

1295
01:38:17.880 --> 01:38:19.960
night in a big, big way, my good friend.

1296
01:38:20.119 --> 01:38:22.439
It is Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a pleasure.

1297
01:38:22.479 --> 01:38:24.239
Thank you for joining us this week. Don't forget. We

1298
01:38:24.359 --> 01:38:27.359
are going to be back next week, bigger, better and

1299
01:38:27.560 --> 01:38:31.560
better on. Behalf of mister big On, behalf of the

1300
01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:34.600
Di's Kano and Chang Hour of desire.

1301
01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:40.000
Good night before we release you to a big, fantastic

1302
01:38:40.359 --> 01:38:43.880
we can remember, live a smile. Tomorrow is a better day.

1303
01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:47.760
Whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. Don't let

1304
01:38:47.880 --> 01:38:50.640
these fires or what have you keep you down. Keep

1305
01:38:50.760 --> 01:38:52.840
us locked and loaded and on your mind, and we

1306
01:38:53.000 --> 01:38:57.520
guarantee we will take your mind away from life. Boys

1307
01:38:57.560 --> 01:39:00.520
and girls, remember it is a wild world rolled out

1308
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:02.439
there from mister big in a big way.

1309
01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:03.640
See you next week.

1310
01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:20.159
Line no wave lost everything to you.

1311
01:39:21.319 --> 01:39:23.680
So you want to stop something.

1312
01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:29.680
It's freaking my heart. Don't leave, baby on't breathe.

1313
01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:33.560
In if you want to leave, take good care.

1314
01:39:34.159 --> 01:39:36.680
If you have a lot of nice things to wear,

1315
01:39:37.920 --> 01:39:41.399
do a lot of nice things turn bad out there.

1316
01:39:47.239 --> 01:39:48.960
Baby, it's a wild.

1317
01:39:52.199 --> 01:39:55.560
It's hard to get bad. Mister bos bad.

1318
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:02.640
A baby, it's a wild world.

1319
01:40:05.439 --> 01:40:08.560
I always remember you like a track.

1320
01:40:12.159 --> 01:40:13.560
You know, I've seen a lot.

1321
01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:14.880
Of what the world can do.

1322
01:40:16.279 --> 01:40:20.920
It's breaking my heart too because I never WoT see

1323
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:21.880
and sad.

1324
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:24.560
Don't be a bad girl.

1325
01:40:25.479 --> 01:40:29.079
What if you want, I mean, take good care. I

1326
01:40:29.279 --> 01:40:31.600
can make a lot of nice breads outda.

1327
01:40:32.880 --> 01:40:34.399
Just remember there's a lot.

1328
01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:35.000
Of bed.

1329
01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:44.439
Oh the baby, it's a wild world.

1330
01:40:47.239 --> 01:40:48.359
It's hard to get back.

1331
01:40:49.199 --> 01:40:50.680
Just a mom s five.

1332
01:40:54.319 --> 01:40:57.359
O baby, Baby, it's a wild.

1333
01:40:59.560 --> 01:41:21.079
And always remember you like child, baby, love you if

1334
01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:23.680
you wanna leave, take a care.

1335
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:26.920
You make a lot of nice brows out there.

1336
01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:30.399
Remember there the love a better.

1337
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:39.600
Oh bab baby, it's a wild world.

1338
01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:45.439
Talk to good bye bo stile.

1339
01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:53.239
Yeah yeah, yes, babymbers while world.

1340
01:41:54.960 --> 01:42:00.720
That always RELI you like child, my.

1341
01:42:03.479 --> 01:42:05.960
Baby, it's a wived.

1342
01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:10.359
T to get back.

1343
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:18.479
Just ps my, Yeah, it's.

1344
01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:19.600
A live world.

1345
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:27.079
Okay, she's gotta look at you in this way.

1346
01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:43.000
Damn you, Jane, take me back.