The Joe Rogan Experience - September 08, 2026


Joe Rogan Experience #2550 - Rick Springfield


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2 hours and 19 minutes

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24,118

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00:00:02.000 Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
00:00:04.000 The Joe Rogan Experience.
00:00:06.000 Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
00:00:08.000 You believe?
00:00:09.000 I think something's going on.
00:00:09.000 Mm-hmm.
00:00:17.000 I don't know what that something is.
00:00:18.000 Yeah, I know.
00:00:20.000 The whole argument of, you know, a species living long enough to survive long enough to actually have faster than light or faster light travel is.
00:00:33.000 It's a tough one.
00:00:35.000 It is a tough one.
00:00:36.000 Are we rolling?
00:00:37.000 I think they probably have some unique propulsion system that has nothing to do with moving in one direction to another.
00:00:45.000 I think they fold space and time.
00:00:47.000 Yeah.
00:00:47.000 This is what, yeah.
00:00:49.000 What is it?
00:00:52.000 The wormhole that brings the two things together so you skip all this.
00:00:56.000 Yeah.
00:00:57.000 I think that's the theory.
00:00:59.000 But I mean, obviously, it's the practice.
00:01:00.000 But then that's them living.
00:01:02.000 That's that species existing long enough because we're like, we're getting close to.
00:01:07.000 Yeah.
00:01:08.000 You know, and we're nowhere near that.
00:01:10.000 So the species living long enough to achieve that and then come here is, you know, that's the stumbling block I have.
00:01:19.000 Yeah.
00:01:20.000 Well, a lot of people have that stumbling block.
00:01:23.000 I think it's also the possibility that they didn't evolve in the same violent world that we did.
00:01:28.000 But then there's the question well, then what gave them the motivation to innovate and move forward?
00:01:34.000 Because for us, a lot of it is survival and competition.
00:01:38.000 And that's the reason why people innovate in the first place.
00:01:42.000 Wars create great innovation.
00:01:44.000 I mean, the more interesting theory is that they're monitoring us to make sure that we can successfully pass this sort of adolescent phase of evolution that we're currently in.
00:01:56.000 Yeah.
00:01:57.000 That's why they hover over nuclear bases and shit.
00:02:01.000 We hope we get there.
00:02:01.000 Yeah.
00:02:02.000 It's very debatable.
00:02:05.000 Yeah.
00:02:06.000 Well, listen, man, thank you for being here.
00:02:08.000 It's kind of cool to meet you.
00:02:08.000 Yeah.
00:02:10.000 It's fascinating.
00:02:11.000 I mean, I. Listened to your music when I was in high school, which is crazy.
00:02:15.000 And to see you look as good as you look now, I mean, we played a video.
00:02:20.000 I don't know if you ever saw it.
00:02:21.000 We played a video.
00:02:22.000 We were freaking out.
00:02:23.000 We're like, this guy's like, how old are you?
00:02:25.000 77.
00:02:26.000 77.
00:02:27.000 That's fucking incredible, dude.
00:02:29.000 Because a lot of your contemporaries, when they've, you know, even guys younger than you, they're falling apart.
00:02:35.000 And you were out there singing Jesse's Girl like you wrote it a week ago.
00:02:40.000 It was crazy.
00:02:41.000 That was actually a great comment.
00:02:42.000 I really appreciate that because it's.
00:02:47.000 I'm still very passionate about playing music.
00:02:49.000 And, you know, and they say, how can you deliver a song that you've played a million times?
00:02:56.000 It's because it's the energy of the audience, you know?
00:02:59.000 I mean, I wrote the song, and to see an audience react like that to it, it's pretty difficult to just sit back and go, you know.
00:03:07.000 So it charges me up, too.
00:03:10.000 Well, it's nice that you still enjoy it and appreciate it because I think, even though it's the dream for everyone to become a rock star, for some.
00:03:19.000 I mean, for some people, something happens along the way and they just get so accustomed to it and they get, you know, worn out by it.
00:03:30.000 And then they don't love it anymore, which is crazy.
00:03:33.000 I know.
00:03:34.000 Well, I. Obviously, it depends on the person, you know.
00:03:41.000 Yeah.
00:03:42.000 And it depends on whatever experiences they have.
00:03:46.000 I've had pretty good experiences.
00:03:49.000 Yeah.
00:03:50.000 And I just, I've always wanted to do it.
00:03:52.000 You know, I mean, since I was 11 years old when I first saw and held my first guitar, that was what I wanted to do.
00:04:01.000 And really, it's kind of centered around playing guitar, although that's not what I'm necessarily known for, but that's what I enjoy the most, you know.
00:04:12.000 And when I started to write, that kind of changed everything for me, too.
00:04:18.000 You know, it gave me a great forward focus rather than just playing, but going somewhere with the writing.
00:04:25.000 How old were you when you first started performing in front of people?
00:04:28.000 About 15, 15.
00:04:31.000 I started playing.
00:04:32.000 I had a school band together.
00:04:35.000 And then I got kicked out of school.
00:04:37.000 Actually, I got kicked out of 11th grade.
00:04:39.000 For what?
00:04:40.000 What happened?
00:04:41.000 I didn't show up anymore.
00:04:45.000 I discovered the guitar.
00:04:49.000 And I had a serious depression when I was a kid.
00:04:52.000 I still deal with it.
00:04:53.000 But I was failing in the only arena that.
00:05:00.000 Was available to me at the time, which was school, you know, with friends and school and work and all that, school work.
00:05:07.000 And I just wasn't doing well and it was really dragging me down.
00:05:09.000 And I started, I discovered the guitar, started staying away from school because I couldn't face going to school.
00:05:17.000 But, you know, instead of playing video games and getting stoned, which wasn't available to me at that point, I was reading Robert Bloch and August Derleth and great writers because I loved horror.
00:05:34.000 And playing the guitar, and that was my education, really.
00:05:38.000 After once I learned to read and write, you know, that was what I took out of school.
00:05:43.000 Where were you living?
00:05:44.000 I lived in Australia till I was 10.
00:05:47.000 Then we moved to England till I was about 13.
00:05:50.000 And that was a big game changer for me.
00:05:53.000 Because your accent is weird.
00:05:54.000 Yeah.
00:05:54.000 It's like it's all over the place.
00:05:56.000 It is.
00:05:58.000 I'm trying to lock it in and figure out what the hell's going on.
00:06:00.000 There's some words I can't say with an American accent.
00:06:00.000 I know.
00:06:03.000 I can't say Australia with an American accent.
00:06:06.000 It's just not possible.
00:06:08.000 Yeah, we moved to England.
00:06:09.000 That's when I discovered Girls and Guitars.
00:06:11.000 And that was like the beginning for me.
00:06:16.000 It was a band called Clifford in the Shadows, Cliff Richard in the Shadows.
00:06:19.000 They were before the Beatles.
00:06:24.000 And then I moved back to Australia.
00:06:26.000 And then I went to Vietnam for a couple of months.
00:06:28.000 And then I was what were you doing in Vietnam?
00:06:31.000 68, 69.
00:06:35.000 There were promoters in Saigon and Da Nang, and they were looking for the closest Occidental country was Australia.
00:06:42.000 So, the GIs wanted to see, you know, girls that reminded them of home.
00:06:47.000 So, as long as we had a couple of girls in the band, they would hire you and you could tour Vietnam during the war zone.
00:06:54.000 It was pretty insane.
00:06:56.000 We were there for about four months.
00:06:58.000 What was that like?
00:07:00.000 It was insane.
00:07:02.000 I thought, oh, great, we'll make money, you know.
00:07:04.000 And of course, we didn't make any money.
00:07:05.000 We spent it all at the PX and we weren't making much money anyway.
00:07:11.000 But we, based out of Saigon and Da Nang, and we toured from Cameron Bay up to The DMZ.
00:07:17.000 We were at the DMZ, the Tet after the Tet where they'd crossed over the Viet Cong and crossed into the cities and everything and like done the big assault, you know, the Tet assault.
00:07:29.000 We were there, we're two miles from the DMZ on that next Tet.
00:07:34.000 And I remember New Year's Eve and the flare, you know, the parachute flare started going off like this.
00:07:40.000 And there's like a line of guys heading towards us.
00:07:44.000 And it was freaking freaky.
00:07:46.000 They.
00:07:47.000 You know, they kept them at bay, but we got shot at and rocketed, and we'd be playing, and there'd be mortars landing.
00:07:53.000 Yes.
00:07:54.000 Stayed over, and we befriended some Navy guys at Marble Mountain, which is outside Da Nang.
00:08:01.000 And we went back there to give them a free show, you know, because they were so appreciative, you know.
00:08:08.000 I mean, they loved seeing the girls, but they wanted connection with home, you know, so they'd take you into the tents, and we'd play Hendrix.
00:08:17.000 And get stoned, and you know, I mean, even though we're Australian, there still was a connection there.
00:08:24.000 And so we met these guys, maybe we really got along well, and we stayed overnight with them.
00:08:29.000 And we went out, all got in the bunkers, in the perimeter bunkers, and I stayed in the radio shack.
00:08:35.000 And we got attacked, and I'm throwing mortars down the friggin' tube of the radio shack.
00:08:41.000 You were throwing mortars?
00:08:42.000 It was freaky.
00:08:43.000 Yeah, this is before you couldn't do any of this now.
00:08:45.000 This is 1968, 69.
00:08:48.000 And it was, you know, you see traces going off the guys, the rest of the Bamber and perimeter bunkers.
00:08:55.000 And it was pretty insane.
00:08:58.000 Holy shit.
00:08:59.000 We actually went up on a mission in an Apache helicopter, too.
00:09:03.000 Because they said, you guys want to come?
00:09:05.000 And we're all like, yeah.
00:09:08.000 But it was, you know, it was pretty hairy.
00:09:12.000 Holy shit, man.
00:09:15.000 That's got to be insane.
00:09:17.000 When you were over there, were you like, what the fuck have I done?
00:09:20.000 It was.
00:09:22.000 With fear.
00:09:25.000 Sorry, I went down the wrong way.
00:09:30.000 It was pretty much a fear factor the whole time.
00:09:33.000 Holy fuck, man.
00:09:34.000 You know, we slept with.
00:09:38.000 Hang on.
00:09:43.000 As you get older, you get a dry throat.
00:09:46.000 We slept with.
00:09:47.000 A lot of the times, where the GIs slept in their hooches and wake up with dust.
00:09:53.000 Is that you over there?
00:09:54.000 Oh, yeah, there we are.
00:09:55.000 Holy shit, man.
00:09:57.000 That's what we slept in, the hooches, a lot of the time.
00:10:00.000 How old were you then?
00:10:04.000 Was I 67, 68, 69?
00:10:08.000 I was 18.
00:10:09.000 Wow.
00:10:11.000 Wow.
00:10:13.000 Yeah, and those jeans hadn't been washed in about three months.
00:10:19.000 You had to be like rethinking that decision to go over there.
00:10:24.000 I was there, and it was okay, we make the best of it.
00:10:27.000 I mean, there was.
00:10:29.000 You kind of fall into a mindset, although I wasn't going out shooting with the GIs.
00:10:36.000 You fall into a mindset there that everything's legal.
00:10:41.000 Anything goes.
00:10:43.000 We did some pretty nutty things.
00:10:46.000 At one point, we were standing in line with 40 other guys in a hut and being serviced by this one Vietnamese hooker.
00:10:59.000 Just 40 guys waiting for one hooker?
00:11:02.000 Yeah.
00:11:02.000 Holy shit.
00:11:05.000 And there was nothing much to do but smoke, you know.
00:11:08.000 I smoked dope, started smoking dope there.
00:11:11.000 That was the first time?
00:11:12.000 Yeah.
00:11:13.000 But I haven't, I didn't, I haven't really been a doper, you know, but I did there and it was kind of considered just a thing to do.
00:11:21.000 Everybody was stoned.
00:11:22.000 All the soldiers were stoned.
00:11:23.000 All the time.
00:11:24.000 Yeah.
00:11:25.000 Yeah.
00:11:26.000 Wow.
00:11:27.000 You know, the last thing I would want to do is be high in a war zone.
00:11:32.000 Dude, we were in the train, right?
00:11:35.000 Which is this beautiful.
00:11:38.000 Beach town, and they go there for RR because they could surf, right?
00:11:41.000 But it was still dangerous.
00:11:43.000 And we were in a, we stay in these, sometimes if we weren't with the staying on an army base, we'd stay in these old villas that were old French villas that were once beautiful and now were rat infested.
00:11:55.000 You know, I mean, we'd be sleeping on cots and rats would be gone underneath.
00:11:59.000 We got stoned.
00:12:00.000 I remember one night we got stoned.
00:12:02.000 And the next thing you hear, machine gun right outside the house.
00:12:06.000 And you hear the guy goes, hit the lights, hit the floor.
00:12:09.000 So the lights go out and we all hit the floor.
00:12:11.000 And you didn't know what was going on, but when you're stoned, it's like, oh my God, it could have been anything.
00:12:17.000 Holy shit, man.
00:12:19.000 But it was freaky, but being stoned helped you deal with it, you know, not have the constant fear.
00:12:28.000 Although, when the fear hit, if you're stoned, it's like you go over the top, you know.
00:12:33.000 But it was just the way we deal with it.
00:12:36.000 I remember we'd be playing for the troops, you know, we'd be playing on the back of a truck, and we played in.
00:12:45.000 Fire bases.
00:12:46.000 We all thought it was going to be like a Bob Hope tour.
00:12:49.000 You come in a fleet of helicopters, you play, they were sitting in bleachers, they applaud, you get in a helicopter, fly away.
00:12:55.000 It was nothing like that.
00:12:56.000 It was just a guy out of Saigon that hired us.
00:13:03.000 What was I talking about?
00:13:05.000 I get lost very easily.
00:13:06.000 I have ADHD, and there's so much awesome shit around here to look at that I'm kind of.
00:13:12.000 We were talking about getting stoned.
00:13:15.000 Oh, yeah.
00:13:16.000 And we were playing on the back of a truck, and there's the guys sitting there on their helmets with their M16s, right?
00:13:23.000 Just watching the show.
00:13:25.000 And we finish, and this guy comes up to me and he's stoned out of his head.
00:13:29.000 He's going, I'm going to go out and see what I can kill now, man.
00:13:33.000 And he puts his helmet on and walks out into the jungle with a company.
00:13:37.000 But it was just bizarre experiences like that that now I look back and go, what the fuck was I thinking?
00:13:44.000 You know, it was.
00:13:47.000 Unreal.
00:13:49.000 And it's so weird because I remember Arthur C. Clarke telling the story about how he's sitting with a guy on a plane.
00:13:55.000 He said, What do you do?
00:13:55.000 He said, Oh, during the war.
00:13:57.000 And he went on for two hours about what happened during the war.
00:14:00.000 He says, What do you do now?
00:14:01.000 He says, I'm an insurance salesman.
00:14:03.000 And that was it.
00:14:05.000 What he does now was a.
00:14:07.000 But the whole.
00:14:07.000 Yeah.
00:14:08.000 The war experience, you know, it's.
00:14:13.000 You could go on forever because so much happens and it's such a.
00:14:18.000 In a space, so much is lived, you know.
00:14:20.000 And it.
00:14:21.000 The fear is kind of one of the things.
00:14:25.000 Having that much fear constantly is pretty taxing.
00:14:31.000 And we weren't even going out and shooting, although we did shoot everything from.45s to tanks.
00:14:39.000 And we'd be driving along and get shot at.
00:14:43.000 And like I said, we'd be playing, and the rockets or the mortars would start landing, and they'd hustle us into a bunker.
00:14:50.000 But we weren't actually going out like those guys were.
00:14:56.000 Walking point, you know.
00:14:57.000 Well, that was also one of the strangest wars ever because it didn't make any sense that why we were over there.
00:15:03.000 And then when the soldiers came home, instead of being greeted like heroes like they were in World War II, spat on, yeah.
00:15:10.000 Yeah, I mean, it was really terrible for them because I know I meeting them over there.
00:15:17.000 They go, you know, that you think, oh, when they get over there, probably, yeah, we're here, we'll do a job.
00:15:22.000 You know, all the ones I met were, dude, I don't know why we're here, I don't know what I'm doing here.
00:15:28.000 All of them while they were fighting.
00:15:30.000 So it was a bad war for sure.
00:15:35.000 No, one of the worst wars ever.
00:15:36.000 And these guys coming back from that, it just, that experience must have been so different because you're over there, you're killing people, you don't know why you killed people.
00:15:47.000 And then you're in the grocery store, like that scene from, what's that movie?
00:15:53.000 You know the movie I'm talking about?
00:15:56.000 No.
00:15:56.000 Apocalypse?
00:15:57.000 No, no, no, no.
00:15:58.000 No, no, no.
00:15:58.000 Rainbow Ray?
00:16:00.000 Hurt Locker.
00:16:02.000 Remember when a guy comes back, he was, you know, diffusing IEDs.
00:16:08.000 He comes back and he's walking to the grocery store and he's just like, What the fuck am I doing?
00:16:12.000 Like, the contrast between the two places is just too much.
00:16:15.000 It's too crazy.
00:16:16.000 Yeah.
00:16:18.000 My mom said when I came back and they picked me up at the airport, she said a car backfired and I, like, jumped.
00:16:24.000 And I don't remember it, but she said, You know, my eyes look kind of haunted.
00:16:29.000 I could only imagine.
00:16:30.000 It took me a while to kind of get through it.
00:16:32.000 Did you see people die over there?
00:16:34.000 What's that?
00:16:34.000 Did you see people die over there?
00:16:36.000 We saw trophy albums, which were kind of scary.
00:16:40.000 They said a lot of the GIs kept trophy albums where.
00:16:44.000 They'd photograph like body parts or a guy that had a 50 millimeter shell go through his head, you know, and it was pretty freaky.
00:16:55.000 The leader of the band actually died when we got home from a disease he picked up over there, a lung disease.
00:17:01.000 Died at 25.
00:17:03.000 What was it?
00:17:04.000 His name is Pete Watson.
00:17:05.000 He was the leader of the band.
00:17:07.000 I was a guitar player in the band, I wasn't the lead singer or anything.
00:17:10.000 And he must have gone somewhere where we didn't go on the days off and, you know, picked up something.
00:17:18.000 Just some jungle disease?
00:17:19.000 Yeah, the doctor said, You've been anywhere exotic lately?
00:17:22.000 He said, I just got back from Vietnam.
00:17:24.000 Why?
00:17:25.000 He said, Well, you got this thing in your lungs that is pretty rare.
00:17:29.000 So, you know, I don't know if it was Agent Orange or if it was something you picked up from, you know, whatever was in Vietnam.
00:17:38.000 But, yeah, he lasted about a year.
00:17:41.000 Oh, wow.
00:17:43.000 Unfortunately, none of you guys got it.
00:17:46.000 Yeah, we all raced to the doctors and got, you know, chest x rays, but it was okay.
00:17:51.000 But, yeah, he.
00:17:52.000 It's weird.
00:17:54.000 I was looking him up the other day and didn't realize he was so young when he died.
00:18:00.000 He was older than me then, so he seemed like an older guy, but he was only 25.
00:18:05.000 Wow.
00:18:07.000 How much time in total were you over there for?
00:18:10.000 About four months.
00:18:12.000 Holy shit, man.
00:18:13.000 And there was a point where they wanted us to go play in North Vietnam.
00:18:15.000 They said, We'll keep the choppers going.
00:18:18.000 There's a troop over there that wants you to come and play, and we'll keep the choppers going.
00:18:22.000 So if we get into trouble, you can get.
00:18:24.000 You know, and luckily he said, No, we're not doing that.
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00:19:44.000 We'd had enough of that experience.
00:19:47.000 What was the decompression like when you got back home?
00:19:51.000 I don't really remember because it's just one of those.
00:19:55.000 I mean, the hardest thing for me was that I. Throwing a mortar down and it had hit somebody.
00:20:08.000 And they came in the next day and said, Hey, you got one, you got one.
00:20:12.000 And that still has a place, hard place to land in me, you know?
00:20:18.000 Yeah.
00:20:20.000 That's really kind of the one thing I brought back with me that I couldn't really find a place for that to land.
00:20:30.000 And still, it still seems like, you know, years ago, another guy, another place.
00:20:37.000 So explain to me how this is happening.
00:20:40.000 Like, where are you?
00:20:41.000 Where you're throwing these mortars down?
00:20:42.000 There's a place called Marble Mountain.
00:20:45.000 It's outside Da Nang.
00:20:47.000 And it was a Navy encampment on the beach.
00:20:51.000 And I was in the radio shack.
00:20:56.000 And the band members were in the perimeter boxes, you know.
00:21:02.000 And they said radio, you know, it was like the movies.
00:21:04.000 Radio came in, seeing movement over here, check for friendlies.
00:21:11.000 And they said, no, no friendlies there.
00:21:13.000 So they said, hey, you want to throw some mortars down the tube?
00:21:17.000 And it was John Wayne time.
00:21:19.000 You know, I mean, as a young kid, I didn't really understand what I was doing.
00:21:24.000 I said, oh, yeah, let's fire a gun, you know.
00:21:27.000 So I threw the mortars down, about five or six mortars, which I could have easily lost a hand, you know.
00:21:33.000 I mean, that kind of thing.
00:21:38.000 And they came in the next morning and said one of them had hit a VC.
00:21:42.000 Wow.
00:21:45.000 How long did that sit with you for?
00:21:48.000 How long did that sit with you for?
00:21:48.000 What's that?
00:21:51.000 I think it's still there.
00:21:54.000 It's hard for me to kind of face that I was responsible for the end of a life, even though it's distant and it's war and I didn't really have anything to do with it and didn't really know what I was doing.
00:22:14.000 But as a kid, Like I said, John Wayne, but it was, it's pretty heavy when I think about the reality of it.
00:22:25.000 Did you write any songs about that experience?
00:22:30.000 No, I wrote about it in my autobiography, but it's not really, not yet, hasn't been sung material.
00:22:41.000 Yeah, because it seems like there's probably something there.
00:22:46.000 Oh, yeah, there's definitely something there for sure.
00:22:51.000 I have, I mean, not to commercialize it, but I have a new record coming out that deals with, which probably could be elements from that.
00:23:03.000 It deals with getting older, and, you know, like my first album, Working Class Dog, was when I was 29, 30.
00:23:10.000 It was all about getting laid, you know, because that's all a guy thinks of, and that's what you're right about.
00:23:16.000 But as you get older, there's other things to think about.
00:23:22.000 So there's, you know, getting older, you know, the thinking of death isn't somewhere out there.
00:23:32.000 And so I write about stuff that I think about, and that's what I've been thinking about.
00:23:38.000 You know, sex is still in there, but not as much as it was when I was 29 or 30.
00:23:44.000 Of course not.
00:23:45.000 Yeah.
00:23:46.000 Well, it's kind of amazing because when you were young and when you first started on this musical journey, there were no.
00:23:54.000 76 year old rock stars.
00:23:56.000 It didn't exist.
00:23:57.000 No.
00:23:58.000 And it was thought to be a young man's game, period.
00:24:02.000 And when people got to be a certain age, they just stopped playing.
00:24:06.000 And, you know, the Rolling Stones were like sort of the first to defy that.
00:24:10.000 Yeah.
00:24:11.000 I remember in 88, they put out an album and it was a big deal.
00:24:17.000 That God, the Rolling Stones put out a new album?
00:24:20.000 This is crazy.
00:24:22.000 These guys are going to go on tour?
00:24:24.000 This is crazy.
00:24:26.000 I know, and they just recently said, Said, well, I don't know if I can do it anymore.
00:24:29.000 Keith did right.
00:24:30.000 I know.
00:24:31.000 Recently, now, I saw them at Circuit of the Americas, the racetrack out here.
00:24:37.000 It was like 100,000 people four years ago, three years ago, whatever it was, when they played in Austin.
00:24:43.000 It was fucking incredible, man.
00:24:46.000 Mick has two trailers that are just gym equipment.
00:24:51.000 He has two huge tractor trailers, and the inside of it is just a gym.
00:24:55.000 That's awesome.
00:24:56.000 And that guy works out.
00:24:58.000 Every day, just so he can keep doing it.
00:25:01.000 Yeah, I mean, he's the inspiration as far as how far you can push it.
00:25:06.000 He's the canary in the coal mine.
00:25:07.000 The last, I mean, their last album, he sounds incredible.
00:25:10.000 Incredible.
00:25:11.000 Like he's 18, you know?
00:25:13.000 I mean, Paulie is now starting to, you know, I love Paul McCartney.
00:25:17.000 He's been, he was a guy I looked up to as a kid, you know, and he's starting to get a little, you know, a little weaker, but he's still amazing.
00:25:28.000 I mean, to me, he's one of the great rock voices.
00:25:30.000 Oh, for sure.
00:25:31.000 Um, but Jagger is it's crazy.
00:25:34.000 I mean, still sounds the same, not just sounds the same, but when he's on stage, he's moving non stop, non stop, and dancing and moving and singing with emotion.
00:25:46.000 And it seems just like I when I saw you perform Jesse's Girl, like he's singing it like he still loves it, like he still appreciates the experience, yeah, and never got jaded by it all.
00:26:01.000 Yeah, I think, um.
00:26:04.000 I mean, I saw an interview recently with him, and the guy said, You know, do you feel different?
00:26:09.000 Because, you know, you've been this all your life.
00:26:12.000 He goes, Yeah, I feel different than other people because of it.
00:26:15.000 You know, I feel separate from them.
00:26:17.000 And I understand that there is a degree of that that just happens.
00:26:22.000 Because it's not normal to get up in front of, you know, a couple of thousand people and have them want to be there and to be with you and to sing.
00:26:34.000 You know, it's.
00:26:36.000 I guess that's kind of the element of everyone wanting to be a rock star is because an actor, you're not an actor's done on film or whatever and then played, you know, but the rock star has it on record plus he's got it live.
00:26:50.000 That live connection is, I think, what everybody kind of looks at in the end as far as that's what I'd love to do.
00:26:57.000 Yeah.
00:26:58.000 Have all those people go, yeah.
00:27:01.000 Well, it's also that experience is such a positive experience for everyone.
00:27:06.000 Totally.
00:27:06.000 For you, for them.
00:27:08.000 When I go to a live concert, I'm always amazed at how good it feels.
00:27:14.000 It's like you're on a drug, you're feeling it.
00:27:17.000 It's like everyone is loving the music, the sound, the performers there, and the fact that they're actually right there.
00:27:24.000 There's so much going on that it's like you walk out of there, like, that was fucking awesome.
00:27:30.000 I know.
00:27:30.000 I feel like it's kind of taken the place of church, you know, where we go to commune with our fellow humans.
00:27:40.000 And we're all, it's different than a sports event because sports event is generally two sides.
00:27:45.000 But when you're at a concert, everyone's pointing the same way.
00:27:49.000 Also, it's all positive.
00:27:50.000 Like, if your team loses, you don't leave there dejected.
00:27:53.000 If you're there to see, you know, fill in the blank, whatever band, and you leave there, you're like, fuck, that was awesome.
00:27:59.000 Yeah.
00:28:00.000 Yeah.
00:28:01.000 I say actually that our job is to give the audience 90 minutes, two hours of freedom from the crap that bothers them during the day.
00:28:10.000 Yes.
00:28:10.000 And it frees us too.
00:28:12.000 You know, it frees me when I'm, I don't think of all the shit that, you know, that the monkeys talk in my head.
00:28:18.000 So it's mutual.
00:28:21.000 You know, a mutual good feeling.
00:28:23.000 Yeah, 100%.
00:28:24.000 And it's also, it's like such a uniquely positive thing that you can give to people.
00:28:31.000 And if you can perform to your fans every night, the amount of positivity you're spreading and the amount they're receiving and you're receiving is just what a unique life.
00:28:45.000 Because the average person will never experience what you experience on a normal night.
00:28:50.000 Yeah, that's probably true.
00:28:54.000 I think there are different versions of that.
00:28:57.000 I mean, like you're, you understand that.
00:29:00.000 You get a lot of attention for what you do.
00:29:04.000 It's basically somewhere inside you going, someone's noticing me, what I do.
00:29:14.000 I'm not just, it's not just, you know, because we create art.
00:29:21.000 We create art because we just have to.
00:29:26.000 And art doesn't exist to be liked.
00:29:30.000 Our ego wants it to be liked.
00:29:33.000 And it's our ego, I think, that that whole thing charges, you know, the whole audiencing charges.
00:29:41.000 But I think if you don't have any ego, you're not going to get into the business anyway.
00:29:46.000 Right.
00:29:47.000 And I think it feeds that.
00:29:48.000 And I think it's the smart person who can try and put it into perspective and not.
00:29:58.000 You know, like certainly Mick Jagger has put it into perspective.
00:30:00.000 He certainly had time to put it into perspective, and his is, you know, a huge experience.
00:30:05.000 But I think Paul McCartney, the same way, is very, seems, you know, considering what he's done, he's amazingly grounded, I think.
00:30:17.000 Yeah, for sure.
00:30:19.000 I mean, just to be not completely insane when you're that famous for that many years.
00:30:25.000 The most famous.
00:30:26.000 I think everyone has to have an ego, and the ego kind of gets you to the dance.
00:30:33.000 I think if you're objective about it and if you're smart about it, you realize that serving the ego is a fruitless effort.
00:30:44.000 That's not the way to do it.
00:30:45.000 No, I agree.
00:30:47.000 I think the way to do it is to eventually transfer from, I want all these people to like me, to I want to put all my energy into whatever it is, the craft, whatever it is, and making it amazing.
00:31:00.000 And don't think about anything else like, oh, they're going to love me for this.
00:31:04.000 I think that poisons the well.
00:31:06.000 I think so.
00:31:07.000 I agree.
00:31:08.000 And I think that's what I meant by, you know, art just is.
00:31:12.000 You just create art out of, you know, because you have to, because you need to, but it's the ego that makes it want to be liked, you know, which is not, I don't mean that's a good thing.
00:31:22.000 I just mean that's.
00:31:24.000 It gets you to the dance.
00:31:25.000 There's no, without ego, without wanting that, and most people who start out in it, they start out from a place of being an outcast and feeling like they don't get enough attention.
00:31:25.000 Yeah.
00:31:37.000 So, well, me too.
00:31:38.000 And then you decide, oh, this will get me way more attention than I've ever had in my life in a Fill that hole.
00:31:45.000 Fill that hole, but it never does.
00:31:47.000 But I think once you become centered or grounded in this experience, then your focus should not be on you and attention.
00:31:47.000 Never does.
00:32:00.000 All of your energy should be into what you're doing, whether it's making songs or writing jokes and performing them, whatever it is.
00:32:06.000 It's like, then it becomes okay, now the new task with all this energy is just let me do the best I can with whatever this thing is that I'm doing.
00:32:16.000 Yeah.
00:32:17.000 I think like the first, I always say the first couple of years when it first hit for me, I thought it was all about me.
00:32:17.000 I agree.
00:32:28.000 And then I realized it was all about the audience, all about the fans.
00:32:33.000 Was Jesse's Girl your first big hit?
00:32:36.000 I had one when I first came over here in 72 from Australia.
00:32:40.000 I had a song called Speak to the Sky that was, it got me the deal over here.
00:32:45.000 It was the first hit solo hit I'd had in Australia.
00:32:48.000 And it was like, Number 10 got to number 10 over here and was a hit in Canada, but it was kind of a weird country, you know, holy roller kind of song.
00:32:59.000 I wrote it for my mom.
00:33:01.000 Oh, that's cool.
00:33:02.000 Very different than, you know, what I became known for, but it was, that was kind of the first hit.
00:33:07.000 And then they kind of, they managed, I started getting picked up by teen magazines, which I'd never seen before.
00:33:14.000 In Australia, they didn't have them, they had one music paper and that was it.
00:33:18.000 And they're asking me, you know, I'm doing all these interviews.
00:33:22.000 music interviews and I look at the finished article and it's like, you know, cuddle up with Rick.
00:33:29.000 You know, is Rick too tall to love?
00:33:32.000 I'm like, what the fuck is this?
00:33:36.000 This is not what we talked about.
00:33:37.000 I talked about, you know, yeah, I come over here, I'm a songwriter and I went up, you know, all this kind of stuff.
00:33:43.000 And I'm going, what is this?
00:33:45.000 So I started, you know, my ego got the better of me and I started going, well, I'm, You know, I'm getting noticed in America.
00:33:54.000 It's a big apple, you know.
00:33:57.000 So, should I kind of lean into this, I guess, you know, because I'm getting a lot of press?
00:34:02.000 So, I did for a little while and it was going nowhere.
00:34:05.000 I wasn't writing the music that, you know, I was writing songs about a guy that committed suicide, writing songs about a woman that was trying to decide if she should leave her husband because he's cheating on her.
00:34:16.000 And they're going, where's Cherish?
00:34:19.000 Where doesn't somebody want to be wanted?
00:34:21.000 We're giving him all this press, you know, and there's no.
00:34:24.000 There's no hits here after speaking to this guy.
00:34:27.000 So I eventually left my managers who were kind of pushing me in that direction, which was a drag because I loved one of the guys, Steve Binder, who actually I still talk to, who was the director of the Elvis special, you know, the comeback special.
00:34:43.000 Oh.
00:34:43.000 And I met Elvis on a plane once, and I said, you know, my manager, Steve Binder.
00:34:50.000 And he goes, I love Steve.
00:34:52.000 You met Elvis on a plane?
00:34:54.000 Yeah, yeah, going back to Australia because I was having.
00:34:57.000 Trouble with getting a visa here.
00:35:01.000 I had to prove I wasn't putting an American out of work, right?
00:35:07.000 That was their phrase.
00:35:08.000 Who was president back then in America?
00:35:10.000 What year was this?
00:35:11.000 It was 71, 72, 73.
00:35:13.000 So that was post Nixon?
00:35:15.000 Was that Lyndon Johnson?
00:35:16.000 Or was that Nixon?
00:35:17.000 When did Nixon get kicked out?
00:35:18.000 I think.
00:35:19.000 Is it still Nixon?
00:35:23.000 When was Watergate?
00:35:25.000 Watergate was when I was over here.
00:35:27.000 So it was Nixon.
00:35:27.000 74?
00:35:28.000 70s, yeah.
00:35:29.000 Yeah, so I had the proof, you know.
00:35:31.000 And we're taking all these, like, it was really weird.
00:35:34.000 We're taking these scrapbooks full of these crappy stories from the teen magazines and cuddle up with Rick.
00:35:41.000 Yeah, look.
00:35:42.000 Mr. President.
00:35:43.000 Look how much press I'm getting.
00:35:45.000 An American, this is not going to put an American out of work.
00:35:48.000 Anyway, so the plane stopped at Hawaii to refuel because it couldn't go all the way to Australia back then.
00:35:56.000 And they get on the plane, and I walk in, and there's Elva sitting right there.
00:36:00.000 I was in the back of the bus back then.
00:36:02.000 Elva sitting in the first class.
00:36:04.000 He looked great.
00:36:05.000 He was skinny, jet black hair.
00:36:07.000 His skin looked great, powder blue suit on.
00:36:13.000 I wasn't a fan really back then because I was more into the British invasion and everything.
00:36:17.000 They said, Oh, that's Elvis.
00:36:18.000 That's cool.
00:36:19.000 So I go back there, and I had a girlfriend in Australia at the time who was a giant Elvis fan.
00:36:25.000 So he did a thing I've never seen anybody do.
00:36:28.000 Now, when you get in a plane and you see a celeb, they've got like a hood on and the glasses, and they're like they're looking down.
00:36:34.000 He got up before the plane landed in Hawaii and walked back signing autographs and taking photos with all the people in the plane.
00:36:42.000 And he got to me, and I went, Hey, Steve Binder, my manager, because I know.
00:36:42.000 Wow.
00:36:50.000 Him and Steve got along really well on the Elvis special because the Colonel wanted it to be Elvis in a Christmas sweater singing Christmas songs.
00:36:59.000 And Steve walked into the dressing room one time and there's Elvis playing with his buddies, you know, and he goes, I want to put that on film, which became him jamming in the boxing ring.
00:37:12.000 And the Colonel's going, Absolutely not, absolutely not.
00:37:14.000 We're keeping it, you know, a family thing.
00:37:17.000 And so they butted heads like crazy, but Elvis, Was on Steve's side, and for once Elvis took, Yeah, I want to do this.
00:37:26.000 You know, he didn't go with what the colonel said.
00:37:29.000 So I know he got along really well with Steve.
00:37:31.000 So anyway, I'd heard that before I met him and said, Yeah, I love Steve, he's a great guy.
00:37:37.000 And I said, Would you sign this to Allison, who was my girlfriend at the time?
00:37:42.000 And he signed it, and I had my little tape recorder that recorded all my songs in, and I put the autograph in there.
00:37:48.000 And we went through Australian Customs, and they saw my tape recorder and said, Oh, we're going to see what's in this, mate.
00:37:53.000 Might be porn in here.
00:37:54.000 Who knows?
00:37:55.000 So they took it and came back, and the Elvis autograph was gone.
00:37:59.000 They stole your Elvis autograph?
00:38:01.000 These motherfuckers.
00:38:03.000 I know.
00:38:03.000 Don't trust them.
00:38:04.000 They're bastards.
00:38:06.000 Oh, back in the day, too.
00:38:07.000 They didn't have any cameras on them either.
00:38:09.000 No, exactly right.
00:38:11.000 I know.
00:38:11.000 Dirty people.
00:38:13.000 That must have been so wild.
00:38:15.000 His relationship with the Colonel was so creepy.
00:38:17.000 That movie was fantastic.
00:38:20.000 But did Tom Hanks kill it as the Colonel?
00:38:22.000 It was just like, what a creepy relationship.
00:38:25.000 And.
00:38:26.000 It's so common for whatever reason for these really talented people to have some person managing them, this like fucking creepy character.
00:38:35.000 Clueless.
00:38:36.000 Yeah.
00:38:36.000 And weird.
00:38:37.000 I think enabling them.
00:38:38.000 The Beatles were rare in the respect that they had Epstein, Epstein, how are you pronouncing his name?
00:38:46.000 Brian Epstein, that was a smart guy and on the cusp of like pop really happening and did good things with them, you know, cleaned them up, told them, you know, bow and.
00:39:01.000 The music was the music, but he was one of the really few that really, I don't think he knew what he was doing, but he had a good intent, and so he found ways to make, you know, do the right thing.
00:39:14.000 But I've never met anyone or read anything that the Colonel wasn't a friggin' jerk, you know.
00:39:20.000 Yeah, I just don't understand how Elvis had no one who was capable of separating him from the Colonel.
00:39:25.000 Yeah.
00:39:26.000 Well, if anyone could have, Steve Binder could have, but he, I think, you know, he felt secure around the Colonel, I guess.
00:39:35.000 Well, there's certain people that, especially because Elvis had a pill problem, right?
00:39:35.000 Yeah.
00:39:40.000 So it was probably he was his enabler.
00:39:43.000 He was, you know, shielded everybody from him, kept him safe, and kept him isolated.
00:39:43.000 Yeah.
00:39:49.000 And kept him isolated, you know?
00:39:50.000 Yeah.
00:39:51.000 Oh, it was great, Elvis.
00:39:52.000 How was the performance?
00:39:53.000 You know, when he was overweight.
00:39:54.000 Yeah.
00:39:55.000 Oh, it was great, man.
00:39:56.000 You were great.
00:39:57.000 One of my favorite performances of his was when he was really fat, when he was singing in Vegas.
00:40:03.000 And he sounds like he's mumbling.
00:40:06.000 And then, what is the song that, do you remember the song, Jamie?
00:40:09.000 We've played it before.
00:40:13.000 But once he starts belting out the song, you're like, my God, he's good.
00:40:18.000 Oh, on the piano.
00:40:21.000 What is it?
00:40:21.000 He's on the piano.
00:40:22.000 Unchained Melody?
00:40:23.000 Yes.
00:40:23.000 Yeah, Unchained Melody.
00:40:25.000 My God, it's good.
00:40:26.000 Yeah.
00:40:27.000 And you just realize, like, you see him and the way he's talking, he's clearly high as a kite.
00:40:33.000 He's so fat.
00:40:33.000 There's something wrong.
00:40:34.000 It's, like, so sweaty and he looks terrible.
00:40:37.000 You're like, oh my God, poor Elvis.
00:40:39.000 What's wrong with him?
00:40:40.000 And then you hear him sing.
00:40:42.000 You see him sing, and it all goes away.
00:40:45.000 You're like, who fucking cares?
00:40:47.000 My God, that's magic.
00:40:47.000 Who cares?
00:40:49.000 That's magic.
00:40:50.000 That is live performance, like personified.
00:40:55.000 There's something about the magic of an insanely talented person performing live, and that one Elvis song was that.
00:41:02.000 And it came through all the drug use and everything, and all the.
00:41:06.000 Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
00:41:07.000 I mean, I know exactly the thing you're talking about.
00:41:10.000 Yeah, here it is.
00:41:12.000 Can't play it?
00:41:13.000 It's getting harder and harder and harder.
00:41:15.000 Yeah, we could get him kicked off YouTube.
00:41:17.000 Yeah, you could play the music.
00:41:18.000 We could copyright strikes and shit, you know, which is unfortunate because, like, look how fat he is.
00:41:26.000 Poor guy.
00:41:27.000 And that's when he was performing.
00:41:29.000 He was living in Vegas?
00:41:29.000 Was that.
00:41:31.000 Oh, uh.
00:41:33.000 I think it was probably.
00:41:34.000 I think it might have been after that, but he was doing the Vegas things, right, to pay for the Colonel's gambling disc.
00:41:40.000 Yeah, isn't that nuts?
00:41:41.000 Wow.
00:41:42.000 Well, I bet it also was probably easier for him, too, to not have to go anywhere.
00:41:46.000 Yeah, he didn't like planes.
00:41:48.000 I heard that.
00:41:49.000 1977.
00:41:51.000 So that's right before he died, right?
00:41:51.000 Wow.
00:41:54.000 Didn't he die in like 78?
00:41:57.000 When did he die?
00:41:57.000 Yeah, I think that's.
00:41:59.000 Yeah, I know where I was when he died.
00:42:03.000 Wait, what day did I say that was?
00:42:05.000 That was two months before he died.
00:42:06.000 Wow.
00:42:07.000 Two months before he died.
00:42:09.000 He died on August 16th, 1977.
00:42:12.000 Wow.
00:42:13.000 And how old was he?
00:42:13.000 Like 40?
00:42:15.000 42.
00:42:16.000 Isn't that insane?
00:42:18.000 That's crazy.
00:42:20.000 And look at you.
00:42:23.000 Keep on trucking, dog.
00:42:27.000 What do you do to stay healthy?
00:42:32.000 I work out every day, or six days a week.
00:42:35.000 I eat well.
00:42:36.000 My dad died early.
00:42:38.000 My dad died when he was, well, he died twice, actually.
00:42:41.000 He died when he was 51, and they brought him back.
00:42:46.000 and he had an ulcer on his major artery in his stomach and he was worried about it and he didn't he thought it was cancer and so he wouldn't didn't want to go to the doctor he didn't want to hear the bad news you know he thought
00:43:07.000 what you don't know you know right so and and he eventually pal I was at home actually when he passed out and they took him into the hospital and he's in bed and he's but the ulcer burst and he started Bleeding, blood coming out everywhere.
00:43:23.000 Luckily, there was a doctor just down a couple of beds down, but they rushed him into emergency.
00:43:28.000 But he did die, and his heart stopped, and they took 15 minutes to get it going again.
00:43:34.000 Oh, my God.
00:43:35.000 And he came back, you know, he's a real in charge guy, just really loving, really amazing person.
00:43:43.000 He came back as basically a five year old.
00:43:46.000 Oh, wow.
00:43:47.000 And I remember sitting in the backyard trying to help him remember who was who in his life.
00:43:54.000 And he'd go, so Michelle is married to George.
00:44:00.000 No, no, George.
00:44:01.000 Michelle is George's daughter.
00:44:04.000 He's married to Nan.
00:44:05.000 He'd go, okay, so Nan is the daughter.
00:44:08.000 No, and it was just, it was heartbreaking trying to get him to remember his old friends.
00:44:15.000 And so that stuck with me because he hadn't paid attention to it.
00:44:22.000 And so I'm kind of the opposite now.
00:44:25.000 Do pre nuvo, I do blood draws.
00:44:27.000 What's pre nuvo?
00:44:28.000 Pre nuvo is a body scan, MRI body scan.
00:44:33.000 I mean, you were asking about, you know, just how I stay in shape, but this is all part of it is knowing what is going on inside you, you know, and not ignoring anything.
00:44:43.000 Which is not to say, you know, I won't sip off a curb and get hit by a bus one night.
00:44:50.000 But you, you know, you do what you can, as you know.
00:44:52.000 Yeah.
00:44:52.000 Yes.
00:44:52.000 You know?
00:44:54.000 I have a blood draw as soon as I get home, actually, just to.
00:44:57.000 Keep an eye on things.
00:44:58.000 Anyway, so he didn't pay attention, and that kind of stayed with me.
00:45:03.000 I started focusing on what I ate.
00:45:07.000 I started being aware that earlier, maybe than normal, that there is a use by a date.
00:45:17.000 Yeah.
00:45:20.000 So I guess I started running.
00:45:24.000 Running just happened to be a new thing in the early 70s, so I started that.
00:45:28.000 And I'd always loved running.
00:45:31.000 The only thing I was good at at school was actually running in English.
00:45:35.000 And so I started running, and that kind of got me into the whole well, if you're running, then maybe you may as well eat well and you want to get some upper body strength and work out.
00:45:50.000 So I just started doing, and I've run all my life until about 15 years ago when my knees suddenly said, nah, we're not going to do that anymore.
00:46:00.000 That's pretty good.
00:46:01.000 Find something else.
00:46:03.000 To get that long running is pretty incredible.
00:46:05.000 Yeah, it was great.
00:46:07.000 I did love running.
00:46:07.000 I'd get up on the tour bus, I'd get up in the tour bus, and wherever we were, I'd just put on running clothes and start running.
00:46:15.000 I'd run 20 minutes one way, 20 minutes back.
00:46:18.000 Sometimes I'd go into some pretty weird areas of a city, and you'd start worrying about who was around.
00:46:26.000 But it was a great way to stay in shape.
00:46:31.000 We actually came off the road in better shape than we went on.
00:46:35.000 We'd go to gyms and work out.
00:46:38.000 I wasn't a big druggie or alcohol guy back then.
00:46:42.000 So that was what I did with my time off stay in shape and watch what I eat.
00:46:49.000 My wife's an amazing chef, and we always eat real clean, organic.
00:46:55.000 She turned me on to skin routine back when I was kind of too embarrassed to tell my band members that I took care of my skin because they'd call me a freak.
00:47:09.000 Thought skin was, you know, I thought, well, guys' skin is different from women's skin.
00:47:13.000 You know, we've got whiskers, you don't need all that stuff.
00:47:16.000 But skin is skin.
00:47:17.000 And she got me, my girlfriend then, she got me into, you know, taking care of my skin.
00:47:23.000 And I still do that.
00:47:24.000 I still take care of my skin.
00:47:26.000 And I'm actually in a trial with a company called BEMI that is really unique.
00:47:34.000 And I've been in the trial for four years with this stuff where they take a.
00:47:40.000 A sample of your cells from behind your ear, and they grow your cells.
00:47:46.000 The growth serum they pull the growth serum from that and put it into something that you put back on your face.
00:47:52.000 Have you heard of Skin Medica?
00:47:54.000 Has one only they use baby foreskins, baby foreskins for real?
00:48:00.000 Yeah, newborn foreskins.
00:48:02.000 Really?
00:48:02.000 Yeah, that's what they get the growth factors from.
00:48:05.000 But this is your own growth factor, so you're putting that back on your own body, back in your face.
00:48:12.000 It's been pretty amazing.
00:48:13.000 I would prefer your method.
00:48:15.000 Yeah.
00:48:15.000 Yeah.
00:48:16.000 I'm not into baby foreskins on my face.
00:48:18.000 I know they're doing it with different stem cells.
00:48:20.000 They're doing it with what they do is they do micro needling.
00:48:24.000 And so they kind of like micro needle your whole face and then they use exosomes and they also use something called muse cells, which is the latest and greatest version of it.
00:48:24.000 Yeah.
00:48:35.000 But that's outside stuff.
00:48:35.000 Right.
00:48:37.000 The Vemi stuff is your own cells, which is pretty great.
00:48:41.000 I think that's a difference.
00:48:41.000 Mm hmm.
00:48:43.000 I think the thing that's different is that with your own cells as you get older, they're just not as good.
00:48:49.000 Oh, you think the younger ones work?
00:48:52.000 Well, they certainly seem to, like mu cells in particular, which is the newest iteration of stem cell technology, seem to work much better than cells that they used to get from either fat, they used to get it from your fat, or they used to get it from bone marrow.
00:49:10.000 Yeah, I've had the bone marrow stem cell done.
00:49:12.000 I had that injected into my hips.
00:49:16.000 It works.
00:49:17.000 Yeah, well, it definitely works.
00:49:18.000 It just doesn't work as well, these mu cells.
00:49:21.000 I mean, there's people that are going over to Saudi Arabia and doing it and doing it.
00:49:24.000 That's right, it's always, it's never here, man.
00:49:27.000 I got into Regenikine, Orthokine.
00:49:30.000 I've done Regenikine.
00:49:31.000 Yeah, and because Kobe used to have to go to Germany for it, right?
00:49:36.000 And now they've got bypassed the law somehow, and so I get that pretty regular, not regularly because it lasts a couple of years, but I'm due for it now in my shoulders because, you know, that's lifting weights, you know, no matter what, how heavy you go, you still, you know, as you get older, you're aware it just happens.
00:49:58.000 How long are you in town for?
00:49:59.000 I'm leaving after this.
00:50:02.000 Oh, okay.
00:50:02.000 I was going to send you down.
00:50:03.000 This is a great clinic that my friend owns in Austin called Ways to Well.
00:50:09.000 And they do all the latest and greatest.
00:50:11.000 It's like state of the art.
00:50:13.000 All the latest and greatest stem cell technology.
00:50:16.000 They have hyperbaric chambers, red light therapy, all this.
00:50:19.000 I mean, everything that's state of the art they have.
00:50:22.000 Yeah.
00:50:22.000 Wow.
00:50:23.000 I wish I had known that you had a bunch of injuries.
00:50:25.000 I would have had you come in there.
00:50:26.000 I'd make a trip back to check that out.
00:50:30.000 Russell Crowe comes down all the time.
00:50:31.000 He comes down specifically just for that.
00:50:33.000 So they do red light?
00:50:37.000 Oh, everything.
00:50:38.000 Yeah, I've done hyperbaric.
00:50:38.000 Hyperbaric.
00:50:40.000 You should have one in your house.
00:50:40.000 You should get one.
00:50:42.000 It's a fucking game changer.
00:50:43.000 Yes.
00:50:43.000 Really?
00:50:44.000 There was a study out of a university in Israel.
00:50:47.000 They did these.
00:50:49.000 Right.
00:50:49.000 They did.
00:50:51.000 The protocol is 60 sessions of 90 minutes over 90 days.
00:50:56.000 And they show that it lengthens your telomeres.
00:50:57.000 It's equivalent to a 20 year difference in biological age.
00:51:01.000 I read that to them.
00:51:02.000 It feels different.
00:51:03.000 Like when you do it, you feel better.
00:51:05.000 Yes, I do.
00:51:05.000 You have one at home?
00:51:06.000 And if you have like a whoop strap or an aura ring or anything like that, it'll show.
00:51:11.000 That you've had an incredible recovery.
00:51:14.000 It'll specifically show from one session you have an amazing recovery today, and it's specifically because of this hyper oxygen saturated environment of the hyperbaric chamber.
00:51:25.000 I wonder if that'll help me sleep.
00:51:26.000 I have trouble sleeping.
00:51:28.000 Do you?
00:51:29.000 I have trouble sleeping, yeah.
00:51:30.000 Why do you have trouble sleeping?
00:51:31.000 I don't know.
00:51:31.000 I wake up every couple of hours and haven't been able to sleep all the way through for quite a while, actually.
00:51:39.000 Huh.
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00:52:40.000 Do you ever do sauna before you go to bed?
00:52:43.000 Do you do a sauna at all?
00:52:45.000 Do you do that?
00:52:46.000 Okay, that's another one.
00:52:46.000 Not a lot, no.
00:52:48.000 There was a study out of Finland that followed.
00:52:50.000 No, no, no.
00:52:51.000 Red light, eh.
00:52:52.000 The thing about red light is like infrared, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
00:52:56.000 I think it's good for you, for sure.
00:52:58.000 But there's not robust studies on it like there is with a dry sauna.
00:53:02.000 So the Finnish have been using dry saunas forever.
00:53:06.000 And they did a study over 20 years with quite a large sample group.
00:53:11.000 And they found that the people that use the sauna four times per week for 20 minutes had a 40% decrease in all cause mortality 40% less strokes, cancer, heart attacks, everything.
00:53:25.000 And it's because of.
00:53:26.000 Heat shock proteins that your body develops when you're exposed to that.
00:53:30.000 It also has an effect of increasing your endurance because it's essentially like static cardio.
00:53:36.000 Because as you're sitting there in that heat, your heart beats faster.
00:53:40.000 And it actually literally increases your cardiovascular output.
00:53:44.000 Wow.
00:53:44.000 It's incredible.
00:53:46.000 I'll check into that for sure.
00:53:48.000 And one of the ways that they use it is contrast therapy.
00:53:53.000 So what they do is they'll go in the sauna for 20 minutes and then they usually have their saunas by a lake.
00:53:59.000 And they'll like go in the cold water of the lake and then back into the sauna.
00:54:04.000 And so, what I do is I have a cold plunge.
00:54:06.000 So, I have a cold plunge just right next to my sauna and I go back 34 degrees.
00:54:10.000 And so, I go back and forth.
00:54:10.000 Wow.
00:54:12.000 It seems cold, but I'm so used to it.
00:54:14.000 It's not cold anymore.
00:54:15.000 I mean, it is cold.
00:54:16.000 No doubt about it.
00:54:17.000 But I'm so used to it.
00:54:19.000 I just climb right in and it's nothing.
00:54:22.000 In the beginning, I was like, I can't do this.
00:54:23.000 This is crazy.
00:54:25.000 I think the first time I did it, I did it for like a minute.
00:54:27.000 I was like, this sucks so hard.
00:54:29.000 I got to get out of this thing.
00:54:30.000 And then eventually.
00:54:32.000 I got to the point where I do three minutes like it's nothing.
00:54:35.000 It's easy.
00:54:36.000 Yeah.
00:54:37.000 Wow.
00:54:38.000 But that's also incredible, not just for your body.
00:54:42.000 You don't want to do it after workout.
00:54:44.000 So, one of the things about after workout is it's not good.
00:54:48.000 It's not terrible for you, but it's not good in that it decreases hypertrophy, which is like increasing muscle size, because a lot of that is dependent upon the inflammation that happens during exercise.
00:54:59.000 So, when you exercise and you break down your tissue, the strength comes because your body heals after the exercise.
00:55:06.000 So, you blunt a little of that recovery by getting in the cold right after exercise.
00:55:11.000 So, the way I do it is I get in the cold before I exercise.
00:55:15.000 So, the first thing in the morning, I hop in that thing.
00:55:19.000 Every day.
00:55:19.000 Yeah.
00:55:20.000 I do three minutes.
00:55:21.000 And then, after I do three minutes, then I start my workout.
00:55:24.000 And the first thing I do is a series of mobility exercises.
00:55:27.000 I usually do those right after I get out, right outside, right after I get out.
00:55:31.000 I do these swings and twists and all these different things, these golf swings.
00:55:36.000 And it's all just loosening the body up and getting my heart rate up.
00:55:41.000 Warming my body up since it's been cooled down.
00:55:43.000 And then I start my strength workout.
00:55:45.000 So I do my workout after that.
00:55:47.000 And then after I'm done with my workout, then I get in the sauna.
00:55:51.000 Wow.
00:55:51.000 Yeah.
00:55:53.000 It's awesome.
00:55:54.000 You feel so much better.
00:55:54.000 First of all, just the cold, when you get out of that cold, your endorphins are flying.
00:56:01.000 Your norepinephrine spikes, your dopamine spikes.
00:56:03.000 You feel fucking amazing.
00:56:05.000 Yeah.
00:56:06.000 It's worth it just for that.
00:56:07.000 It's worth it just for that.
00:56:08.000 If you could sell a pill that makes you feel as good as I feel when I get out of that cold punch, that shit would be on every shelf.
00:56:15.000 Yeah, without the cold plunge.
00:56:17.000 But it's available.
00:56:18.000 You just do it.
00:56:19.000 And also, it gives you a certain amount of mental toughness.
00:56:25.000 That's a bad thing.
00:56:26.000 I get that.
00:56:26.000 Yeah, I know.
00:56:27.000 Yeah.
00:56:27.000 The discipline of it.
00:56:29.000 Perseverance.
00:56:31.000 There's a thing where you don't want to do it, but you do it.
00:56:34.000 And when you can just train your mind to just do things you don't want to do routinely, all the time.
00:56:40.000 That's what I do with working out.
00:56:43.000 I hate walking into a gym, and I love walking out.
00:56:45.000 Yes, exactly.
00:56:47.000 Everybody feels the same way.
00:56:48.000 And that's.
00:56:49.000 So many people, it's the daunting task is the first few steps.
00:56:53.000 It's just so hard to get going.
00:56:54.000 But once you get going, then it's not hard at all.
00:56:57.000 Yeah, I agree.
00:56:58.000 I agree.
00:56:58.000 It becomes the good habit, you know, rather than the.
00:57:01.000 Yes.
00:57:02.000 And you make it, you know, I have a gym.
00:57:05.000 I don't, I work, I've had a gym at home for a while, but I prefer going to a gym, so I work out, but I have it close by, so I don't have an excuse, you know, to, ah, it's late, you know.
00:57:15.000 Right, right, right.
00:57:16.000 So, yeah, I get all that.
00:57:19.000 And being on stage when you said the endorphin hit is kind of.
00:57:19.000 I do.
00:57:24.000 I get that on there too.
00:57:26.000 Oh, for sure.
00:57:26.000 For sure.
00:57:28.000 Like, wow.
00:57:29.000 Yeah.
00:57:29.000 The thing is, like, you can't live on that.
00:57:31.000 Like, you can't perform every day just to feel better.
00:57:34.000 You never could.
00:57:36.000 Well, you can, I guess, if you're on tour.
00:57:38.000 But it's nice to have that in your actual life as well as your performing life.
00:57:43.000 I get it.
00:57:44.000 I get it.
00:57:45.000 Are you a supplement guy?
00:57:46.000 Do you take supplements?
00:57:47.000 Yeah, I do, actually.
00:57:49.000 I've been through a lot of different ones, but right now I'm doing.
00:58:00.000 I am eight, is it?
00:58:01.000 I am eight?
00:58:02.000 That's the one and one, all in one.
00:58:06.000 Oh, okay.
00:58:07.000 And I do, you know, creatine before workout and the protein after.
00:58:12.000 Creatine is actually good just for mental benefits.
00:58:15.000 Creatine increases cognitive performance and it's really good if you're tired.
00:58:20.000 One of the studies they've shown is that people that have a sleep deficit, like if you're sleep deprived, one of the very best things for performance, mental performance, is creatine.
00:58:32.000 Oh.
00:58:32.000 Yeah.
00:58:33.000 So you take it before you work out.
00:58:35.000 Right, that's what I get.
00:58:36.000 It's good for just overall metabolic health, but taking it just as a regular part of your day, pre or post workout, doesn't matter.
00:58:44.000 Just taking it as a regular part of your day will increase your mental performance.
00:58:48.000 But, like, if I'm flying and if I have to go somewhere and I'm on the road and I might be tired, I take it every day anyway, but I bring it with me everywhere.
00:58:57.000 And, like, routinely, if I'm tired and I know I'm going to be tired, I take creatine.
00:59:02.000 I can soar through.
00:59:04.000 Really?
00:59:05.000 It has instant.
00:59:05.000 Yes.
00:59:06.000 You feel it right away?
00:59:08.000 It completely mitigates any of the sleep deficit brain fog.
00:59:12.000 How much do you take?
00:59:13.000 I take 10 milligrams twice a day, or 10 grams rather, twice a day.
00:59:16.000 So I take 10 grams in the morning and I take 10 grams at night.
00:59:19.000 That's how I usually do it.
00:59:21.000 Me?
00:59:22.000 I eat mostly protein.
00:59:23.000 My diet is like 90% meat.
00:59:27.000 That's mostly what I eat.
00:59:28.000 Wow.
00:59:29.000 Yeah, I eat meat and fermented vegetables.
00:59:32.000 I'll fuck around and have a sandwich or a slice of pizza or some pasta.
00:59:35.000 Like last night I had chicken parmesan.
00:59:37.000 It was great.
00:59:38.000 But most of my diet, like 80 to 90%, is meat.
00:59:42.000 Yeah.
00:59:43.000 I can't eat chicken.
00:59:44.000 That's off the menu for me.
00:59:46.000 Why?
00:59:48.000 I had chickens when I was a kid that I named.
00:59:51.000 And then we ate them.
00:59:54.000 I have chickens now, and I still eat them.
00:59:57.000 I don't eat my chickens.
00:59:59.000 My chickens are pets.
01:00:00.000 You know, they're wandering around the yard.
01:00:02.000 I talk to them like, hey, ladies.
01:00:03.000 That's what we used to do.
01:00:04.000 Only my dad, every Sunday, and I was like a kid, oh, why not chop its head up, Dad?
01:00:11.000 And he'd throw it, and it would like, Flap around and then he'd take them and he'd drop.
01:00:17.000 We had this laundry room and he'd throw it in the laundry room and like boil hot water in the laundry room to get the feathers would come out easier.
01:00:25.000 And that smell I walked into a group dinner somewhere and they were having chicken and that smell came back to me about when I was about 30 and I have not been able to touch chicken ever since.
01:00:36.000 Really?
01:00:37.000 Wow.
01:00:38.000 I have no problem eating chickens.
01:00:40.000 I know.
01:00:40.000 It'd be much easier for me.
01:00:41.000 I eat turkey, which is weird because it's not much different, right?
01:00:44.000 It's just a little stupider.
01:00:47.000 But I, Just the thought of chicken.
01:00:49.000 I just can't, man.
01:00:50.000 I just can't.
01:00:51.000 You think turkeys are stupider than chickens?
01:00:53.000 They're the ones that will drown if they look up at the rain and the rain will drown them.
01:01:00.000 Oh, they're stupid, man.
01:01:03.000 Well, they're very cautious.
01:01:05.000 They have very good eyesight.
01:01:06.000 I've turkey hunted before.
01:01:07.000 Oh, really?
01:01:08.000 Yeah.
01:01:09.000 Oh, wild turkeys may be different from, you know.
01:01:11.000 Aren't they?
01:01:11.000 I'm sure.
01:01:12.000 Yeah.
01:01:12.000 I mean, if they're wild, they're probably a lot smarter than that.
01:01:16.000 They're a lot smarter than that.
01:01:16.000 Yeah.
01:01:17.000 There's a lot of them in my neighborhood, actually.
01:01:19.000 But they see really well.
01:01:22.000 You can't move at all if you're turkey hunting.
01:01:25.000 You have to be very cautious.
01:01:27.000 Wow.
01:01:27.000 Yeah, they have some of the best eyesight of any wild animal.
01:01:31.000 Yeah.
01:01:31.000 Really?
01:01:33.000 Yeah, that's why you see guys and they turkey hunt.
01:01:35.000 They have these crazy ghillie suits where they're completely covered and they sit with their back to a tree where they're completely motionless.
01:01:42.000 And they usually have a fake turkey, like a turkey decoy sitting out there and they make noises like.
01:01:50.000 I'd probably rather not go turkey.
01:01:52.000 Turkey hunting, if that's what I got to do.
01:01:55.000 You'd probably like to go turkey hunting?
01:01:56.000 I'd probably not go turkey hunting.
01:01:57.000 If I had to sit there and go, yeah, you have like a little box, and I have this little box, and it has like, it's almost like a fiddle.
01:02:04.000 And it makes a turkey noise?
01:02:09.000 Yeah.
01:02:10.000 Yeah, I've only done it once.
01:02:10.000 And you've done that?
01:02:12.000 The thing about it is, my thought was we hunted for a few days for one meal.
01:02:17.000 And I'm like, I would rather go deer hunting or elk hunting.
01:02:21.000 You got a week's worth.
01:02:22.000 Months and months of food.
01:02:24.000 And, you know, and it's better food.
01:02:26.000 Like, I'd rather, way rather eat elk than I would turkey.
01:02:29.000 There's nothing wrong with wild turkey, and I certainly would do it again.
01:02:33.000 It's just not what I prefer.
01:02:35.000 I prefer mammals.
01:02:36.000 I eat mammals.
01:02:38.000 I think they're better for you.
01:02:39.000 They're more nutrient dense.
01:02:40.000 There's a lot more iron and a lot more amino acids and all the.
01:02:44.000 Have you had kangaroo?
01:02:46.000 I have had kangaroo, I think.
01:02:48.000 I think I had it when I was in Australia.
01:02:50.000 Let me make sure I did.
01:02:52.000 No.
01:02:53.000 I've had ostrich a bunch of times.
01:02:56.000 Emu.
01:02:57.000 I haven't had emu.
01:02:58.000 God, I don't know if I've had kangaroo.
01:02:58.000 I don't think they've.
01:03:01.000 It was so long ago, the last time I was in Australia.
01:03:04.000 It's gamey.
01:03:04.000 Maybe I did.
01:03:05.000 But I have some friends that live over there and they've had it a bunch of times.
01:03:10.000 Oh, yeah.
01:03:10.000 There's an infestation.
01:03:12.000 Australia is crazy how much it's going to be.
01:03:14.000 Camels.
01:03:15.000 It's got more camels in Australia now than there are in any of the Arab states.
01:03:20.000 But kangaroos for sure.
01:03:20.000 That's right.
01:03:22.000 And they had rabbit infestations.
01:03:24.000 Yeah.
01:03:25.000 Except for the kangaroos, everything's imported.
01:03:28.000 The kangaroos are like, you've seen the videos of them on the golf course.
01:03:33.000 Yeah.
01:03:33.000 They come up and stare at you while you're about to whack a ball.
01:03:37.000 It's freaking hilarious.
01:03:38.000 Well, I've seen these videos of these.
01:03:40.000 Fields where you have like thousands of kangaroos bouncing down these fields.
01:03:45.000 It's a wild look.
01:03:47.000 There's so many wild animals in Australia.
01:03:49.000 I didn't appreciate it when I lived there, but it's pretty freaky.
01:03:52.000 They brought, when Captain Cook, who, you know, supposedly discovered Australia, brought back a platypus to England, they thought it was, they saw they stitched it together from three different animals because it had a duck bill, a body like a beaver, no, a body like a, you know, yeah, I guess like a beaver.
01:04:11.000 Yes, like a beaver.
01:04:12.000 And webbed feet.
01:04:13.000 And it laid eggs.
01:04:13.000 Yeah.
01:04:15.000 And they thought, this is not a real animal.
01:04:18.000 Well, it doesn't seem like a real animal.
01:04:19.000 No.
01:04:20.000 It's such a strange animal.
01:04:21.000 Everything kills you in Australia.
01:04:23.000 Oh, yeah.
01:04:23.000 Yeah.
01:04:24.000 I have a good buddy, my friend Adam Greentree.
01:04:26.000 He lives there.
01:04:27.000 And it's, there's so many weird things they've done in Australia by bringing in invasive animals to deal with.
01:04:35.000 Cane toads?
01:04:35.000 Yeah.
01:04:36.000 They brought in a bunch of cats to deal with a bunch of different animals.
01:04:40.000 Then the cats wind up killing all the natives.
01:04:41.000 They'd be trying to bring something in for that.
01:04:43.000 Yeah.
01:04:44.000 It's crazy.
01:04:44.000 Yeah.
01:04:45.000 The cane toads were brought in to get rid of the rats in the cane fields.
01:04:49.000 And now they're the problem.
01:04:50.000 They're like everywhere.
01:04:53.000 They did that with rabbits.
01:04:55.000 The English brought the rabbits in because they wanted, you know, for food, and they're friggin' everywhere now.
01:05:01.000 Yeah, Australia is very strange in that a giant percentage of the animals that are there are completely invasive.
01:05:06.000 Yeah.
01:05:07.000 The Asian water buffaloes they have.
01:05:09.000 Yeah, the North Territory.
01:05:09.000 Do they?
01:05:11.000 Yeah.
01:05:11.000 Well, the ones that kill you are all the local ones.
01:05:14.000 Well, those water buffaloes would kill you too.
01:05:15.000 Yeah, huge.
01:05:17.000 But they're massive and they're everywhere.
01:05:20.000 And, you know, the only way they die is by people hunting them.
01:05:24.000 Yeah, these are just well, they've got a couple of kangaroos, too.
01:05:28.000 They're just, you know I mean, you'd often see kangaroos lying on the side of the road out in the bush because you get hit by a car.
01:05:38.000 It would demolish your car.
01:05:40.000 Some of them are huge.
01:05:40.000 Oh, yeah.
01:05:41.000 And you see the guy defending his dog with the kangaroo.
01:05:45.000 Yeah, we punch him in the kangaroo.
01:05:47.000 He's lucky that kangaroo didn't fuck him up.
01:05:49.000 I know.
01:05:50.000 If they get up, the red kangaroos can stand on their tails and with their back.
01:05:54.000 Legs they can disembowel a guy, those are the big ones, right?
01:05:57.000 Yeah, some of those get like six feet tall.
01:05:59.000 Yeah, what do they say?
01:06:00.000 They're like deer that went to prison.
01:06:05.000 That's a good way to describe it.
01:06:07.000 Do you live in America now?
01:06:08.000 What's that?
01:06:09.000 You live in America now, yeah.
01:06:10.000 I'm a citizen, I became a citizen a bunch of years ago because I love this country and because I wanted to be available for jury duty.
01:06:22.000 Have you done that yet?
01:06:24.000 Yeah, I have actually.
01:06:25.000 I was.
01:06:26.000 That must have been weird for people.
01:06:28.000 You know, you're getting trials.
01:06:29.000 Is that fucking Rick Springfield?
01:06:31.000 Holy shit, dude.
01:06:32.000 Dude, I'm a fan.
01:06:34.000 Please make me not guilty.
01:06:35.000 Yeah, don't convict me.
01:06:36.000 I'm a fan, man.
01:06:39.000 I didn't get selected because I was actually in a lawsuit at the time with this woman who claimed that I hit her with, we called it butt gate.
01:06:48.000 I'd hit her with my ass while I, because I go in the audience sometimes, and she said I'd hit her with my butt and she'd fallen and like hurt her brain or something.
01:06:57.000 So it was obviously bullshit.
01:06:59.000 But so they called me back twice to New Jersey to testify because I wasn't going to go down.
01:07:05.000 You know, pay this woman money to go away.
01:07:07.000 I was going to fight it.
01:07:09.000 And how much did she want?
01:07:12.000 She didn't have a figure because it didn't get that far.
01:07:14.000 It was still to find out who would win the case, first of all.
01:07:20.000 And so, yeah, it was like, what was I talking about?
01:07:24.000 No, I've totally lost.
01:07:26.000 See, it's all this spaceship.
01:07:28.000 Oh, butt gate.
01:07:31.000 This room is distracting.
01:07:33.000 It's very distracting.
01:07:34.000 It's the best thing for college.
01:07:35.000 I love the whole UFO thing, man.
01:07:36.000 Thank you.
01:07:38.000 Anyway, I forget what I was talking about.
01:07:39.000 Bloodgate.
01:07:40.000 What I was talking about.
01:07:42.000 You had to go back to.
01:07:43.000 Yeah, I had to go back, and it was.
01:07:44.000 So that's how you got out of jury duty.
01:07:49.000 What's that?
01:07:49.000 You were talking about jury duty.
01:07:50.000 Yeah, right.
01:07:52.000 Oh, that's right.
01:07:53.000 I was called up for jury duty.
01:07:54.000 See?
01:07:56.000 Called up for jury duty.
01:07:58.000 Well, you're used to this room.
01:07:59.000 I'm not.
01:08:00.000 I'm used to this room, too.
01:08:01.000 Yeah.
01:08:03.000 And I was called up for jury duty.
01:08:04.000 And they said, was there any reason you wouldn't be.
01:08:08.000 You know, not eligible for this.
01:08:10.000 And I said, Oh, I just got called up.
01:08:12.000 I mean, I just got in a lawsuit myself, and I think it's all bullshit.
01:08:16.000 And they said, You're out of here.
01:08:17.000 So it was great.
01:08:18.000 It was good timing.
01:08:19.000 Yeah.
01:08:21.000 But no, that's not the reason I became a citizen.
01:08:23.000 I make that a joke.
01:08:25.000 I just, I mean, it's actually because if I go first or if my wife goes first, I'd get screwed by taxes.
01:08:35.000 You mean die first?
01:08:36.000 Is that what you mean?
01:08:37.000 Oh, I can just say go.
01:08:37.000 Yeah.
01:08:37.000 Yeah.
01:08:38.000 We're always saying, you know, I'm going to go first.
01:08:41.000 I don't want to be the one left.
01:08:43.000 Oh, that's funny.
01:08:44.000 Well, the last thing I'm worried about, if she goes first or I go first, is taxes.
01:08:49.000 Yeah.
01:08:50.000 But I mean, no, that's not why we talk about it, but that's why I became a citizen, was for the tax thing.
01:08:50.000 No, I know.
01:08:56.000 But yeah, no, it's.
01:08:57.000 What year was that?
01:08:58.000 When did you become a citizen?
01:09:02.000 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
01:09:05.000 And were you living over here the entire time?
01:09:07.000 I've been here since 72.
01:09:07.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:09:08.000 I mean, except for the trips back.
01:09:10.000 You know, to meet Elvis on the plane.
01:09:13.000 It was, yeah, I've been here, you know, since '72, basically living here.
01:09:18.000 Just for your career.
01:09:19.000 Yeah.
01:09:20.000 Well, I mean, this is my life.
01:09:21.000 My family's here.
01:09:23.000 My friends are here.
01:09:24.000 My life is here.
01:09:25.000 Now.
01:09:26.000 Yeah.
01:09:27.000 I used to go back to Australia until my mom died.
01:09:30.000 My mom lived till she was '96, so I'm hoping some of those genetics are in there.
01:09:36.000 I am curious to see how long Mick can keep cracking.
01:09:40.000 Because how long is he now?
01:09:40.000 I'm curious to see how long Keith can keep cracking.
01:09:42.000 Right.
01:09:43.000 That's the funny one, right?
01:09:44.000 Because Keith is not doing any of the things that Mick is doing.
01:09:46.000 He's still shredding.
01:09:48.000 He was shredding.
01:09:51.000 Drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, doing acid.
01:09:54.000 I did a movie with, which we shall not name, but it was with his girlfriend, who was Patty Hansen at the time.
01:10:02.000 It was his girlfriend at the time.
01:10:03.000 It was his wife now.
01:10:05.000 And we got along really well, right?
01:10:07.000 And so Keith came down to the set to find out what was going on with this Springfield guy and his girlfriend.
01:10:13.000 And he was.
01:10:14.000 He looked like fucking Dracula, man.
01:10:17.000 It was like '83 or something.
01:10:20.000 And we took photos, and he looked so bizarre.
01:10:26.000 And yet here he is.
01:10:27.000 Yep, here he's still cooking.
01:10:28.000 Everyone's going, yeah, it's got to be this year, it'll be gone.
01:10:32.000 No.
01:10:32.000 And all these, you know, Bowie's gone.
01:10:34.000 My God, that one hurt.
01:10:36.000 Bowie gone.
01:10:36.000 Yeah.
01:10:37.000 That was tough for him.
01:10:38.000 But, you know, he was a lifelong smoker and was okay, you know?
01:10:43.000 It's amazing.
01:10:44.000 But, I mean, it's got to, something's got to be said for the love of what you do and that energy keeping you alive and the fact that there's still, like I said, the Circuit of the Americas show was over 100,000 people.
01:10:55.000 I mean, they're still drawing giant crowds.
01:10:59.000 Who is that now?
01:11:00.000 The Stones.
01:11:00.000 Stones, yeah.
01:11:01.000 The Circuit of the Americas is the local racetrack.
01:11:04.000 So, Circuit of the Americas is where they do Formula One, this huge racetrack, and they also have a giant theater out there, amphitheater, and then they do concerts out there where they have this massive concert venue.
01:11:15.000 Like, for huge acts, like Post Malone was there, it was like 100,000 people, Eminem was there.
01:11:19.000 It's just a giant performance theater.
01:11:21.000 But seeing the Stones there and seeing Keat there, if he gets to do that all the time, like, just the energy from that is probably what's sustaining that guy.
01:11:29.000 Yeah.
01:11:29.000 Absolutely.
01:11:30.000 I think it's really, really important for your longevity that you love what you do.
01:11:35.000 Yeah.
01:11:36.000 I think that.
01:11:37.000 Has been a big driver for me, and I've seen it in other people.
01:11:41.000 Certainly, someone like you know, Mick Jagger, he admits, you know, he still loves that the roar of the crowd.
01:11:48.000 Um, and it's and a lot of so many people do.
01:11:54.000 I like I have friends that who did a job because the retirement was good, and I get that, but I that they don't love the job, you know, it's just uh something that they do, yeah, you know.
01:12:11.000 We're fortunate, you know, that we do something that we love.
01:12:14.000 Insanely fortunate.
01:12:15.000 Yeah.
01:12:15.000 And it's very I mean, it's a lot of luck.
01:12:17.000 It really is a lot of luck.
01:12:18.000 And I don't deny that.
01:12:20.000 It's luck with everybody when they're lucky enough to did I just see a shooting star up there?
01:12:26.000 Oh, that's freaky.
01:12:26.000 Yes, you did.
01:12:27.000 Sorry.
01:12:28.000 I should have told you.
01:12:29.000 I should have told you that it does that.
01:12:31.000 I've had a lot of people just go, what's going on?
01:12:34.000 Yeah.
01:12:35.000 We have shooting stars on our ceiling.
01:12:37.000 Yeah.
01:12:38.000 That's freaky.
01:12:39.000 Yeah.
01:12:41.000 Yeah, I think it's a lot of luck, but it's also working really hard to make that luck so that when, if luck does happen, you're ready for it.
01:12:51.000 And being able to capitalize on that luck.
01:12:51.000 Exactly.
01:12:55.000 So many people get so terrified of the unknown and the possibility of success that the anxiety of whatever it is, they can't handle it.
01:13:05.000 And they'd rather just live a simple life and not have the pressure.
01:13:09.000 Fear of success is a real thing.
01:13:10.000 It's a real thing.
01:13:11.000 It's a real thing.
01:13:13.000 Fear of success and maybe even more.
01:13:15.000 More fear of failing to succeed when you're attempting to succeed.
01:13:20.000 You know, that cripples people.
01:13:20.000 Yeah.
01:13:22.000 Yeah.
01:13:22.000 No, I get that totally.
01:13:24.000 Yeah.
01:13:26.000 And it does hurt when things don't go your way, but it still drives me, you know.
01:13:34.000 It's still, I mean, there's still things I want to do.
01:13:37.000 And I think that's, you know, I mean, I love playing, but I do that.
01:13:41.000 That's kind of my day job, you know, but the outside extracurricular stuff is.
01:13:46.000 What do you do extracurricularly?
01:13:49.000 I write.
01:13:50.000 I've had a couple of novels out.
01:13:51.000 I wrote my own autobiography.
01:13:53.000 I'm writing a book on just, you know, what I've done with my life to, you know, be where I am, you know, health-wise and everything.
01:14:07.000 Yeah, I do.
01:14:07.000 And just, you know, there's all kinds of things on the side that you can do that, and I just love to write.
01:14:16.000 I mean, I consider myself a writer really before anything.
01:14:20.000 I only started performing because no one would do my songs.
01:14:24.000 For real?
01:14:24.000 I'll do them.
01:14:26.000 That's crazy.
01:14:27.000 I used to be in a band.
01:14:28.000 If you go on YouTube and you look up Zoot, Z O O T, and look up Ellen Rigby, I was a guitar player in this band.
01:14:36.000 It was like a four piece band.
01:14:38.000 And I arranged this version of Ellen Rigby that was, to me now it sounds like Black Sabbath, although I'd never heard Black Sabbath back then.
01:14:47.000 But it's a lot of, like I did Billy Corgan's thing, and he was focused on this band because we were kind of like psychedelic before.
01:14:59.000 As that was just starting, you know.
01:15:00.000 Oh, there it is.
01:15:01.000 Wow.
01:15:01.000 Yeah.
01:15:03.000 And that Beeb, he became part of Little River Band, actually, the bass player.
01:15:09.000 What year is this?
01:15:10.000 And that was our singer.
01:15:12.000 He passed away a few years ago.
01:15:15.000 But it was a great band.
01:15:16.000 It was, that's me.
01:15:19.000 Look at you, dude.
01:15:21.000 What year is this?
01:15:23.000 69, 70.
01:15:24.000 Wow.
01:15:26.000 Yeah, it was kind of a very heavy, it was a much heavier.
01:15:31.000 Stuff that I'm doing now.
01:15:32.000 Well, maybe not now, but it was for.
01:15:35.000 They'd been a pop band and they dressed in pink, and I'd been in a band, and my band split up because I got to sing the single, and the bass player was so pissed off they didn't pick him that he broke the band up.
01:15:48.000 So I was a free agent, and they said, You want to join us because our guitar player is leaving.
01:15:52.000 So I wore the pink thing for a while, and I said, This has got to go.
01:15:52.000 So I said, Okay.
01:15:56.000 You couldn't deal with pink?
01:15:57.000 Yeah.
01:15:58.000 There's photos, it's horrible.
01:15:59.000 But so I said, I've got this great idea.
01:16:03.000 We'll get rid of the pink and we'll do a photo.
01:16:06.000 Of us like looking over our shoulder totally naked, like in our original pink suits, and we dumped the pink thing.
01:16:12.000 So, but we'll have it high contrast so they won't really see anything.
01:16:17.000 But they printed the photo like full on.
01:16:19.000 Oh, there we are.
01:16:21.000 So, what was up with the pink thing?
01:16:23.000 Why?
01:16:23.000 They had a theme called Think Pink Think Zoot, and it was good for the little girls.
01:16:28.000 It was like, you know, yeah, oh, I'm so pissed at that album.
01:16:32.000 That was the first album, the only album we did, and they cut out our heads to stick them.
01:16:37.000 It was before Photoshop.
01:16:40.000 And they miscut my hair.
01:16:42.000 You got like a granny haircut.
01:16:44.000 It was horrible.
01:16:46.000 What a horrible album cover.
01:16:47.000 One of the worst ever made, I think.
01:16:49.000 Well, at least you weren't wearing pink.
01:16:52.000 But that was such a weird choice that that was a part of the theme?
01:16:55.000 It was, yeah.
01:16:57.000 It was this guy in Australia that thought it would be a great thing.
01:17:00.000 And it caught on for a while.
01:17:02.000 It lasted about six months.
01:17:05.000 It was about six months.
01:17:06.000 Life of six months.
01:17:07.000 And then everyone got sick of it.
01:17:09.000 So I said, we've got to lose that.
01:17:10.000 So we had this photo taken and they printed it in full color of our.
01:17:14.000 Bare asses, and my mom lost her shit when she saw it.
01:17:17.000 She goes, Oh, Richard, how could you do that?
01:17:20.000 I said, No, mom, it's supposed to be like high contrast.
01:17:23.000 You weren't supposed to see all the creases and stuff.
01:17:26.000 And you can still see it.
01:17:27.000 It's still online.
01:17:28.000 The photo's still online.
01:17:29.000 Oh, you got to sign it every now and then.
01:17:31.000 I get to sign one.
01:17:33.000 Oh, that's funny.
01:17:34.000 Hardcore fans bring you that.
01:17:36.000 That's funny.
01:17:37.000 It probably bugs you too.
01:17:37.000 They must know it.
01:17:38.000 They want you to sign it.
01:17:40.000 It's pretty bad.
01:17:41.000 And so I pushed them more because Led Zeppelin was on the horizon.
01:17:45.000 I pushed them.
01:17:46.000 More into the guitar, you know, I got to play guitar and I wanted the guitar to be the kind of the center of the thing.
01:17:51.000 So I pushed him into a much heavier thing.
01:17:53.000 And this Eleanor Rigby was our first really big hit that we had over there that I'd arranged.
01:18:00.000 You know, it was like, that kind of thing.
01:18:05.000 And we actually got a deal.
01:18:06.000 We had a, EMI was interested in this over here, but our manager kind of screwed us by saying, no, you're still under contract here, which we weren't in Australia.
01:18:16.000 Anyway, so we split up and I came over here and Bieb went on to form Little River Band and the singer became a TV star in Australia.
01:18:25.000 Oh, wow.
01:18:27.000 We all went on to other things, you know, but it was.
01:18:31.000 Guy, you've had such a great run, man.
01:18:33.000 You've done so many different things.
01:18:35.000 Yeah, I look back and I guess I have.
01:18:39.000 I always thought I'd be a band guy, you know, and I had this, when they split up, I said, I'll just join another band.
01:18:48.000 But I had this writer, woman writer, who was a big fan, and she said, no, you've got to go solo.
01:18:54.000 I said, I don't want to go solo.
01:18:56.000 And she said, no, you've got to.
01:18:57.000 You've got to go solo.
01:18:58.000 Why did she say that?
01:18:59.000 I don't know.
01:18:59.000 She just thought it was the next step for me.
01:19:02.000 She thought getting back in another band and being the guitar player was, she said, she thought I had more to offer, more going for me and a better career if I went solo.
01:19:12.000 So I released this Speak to the Sky song that I wrote for my mommy.
01:19:18.000 It became a hit.
01:19:19.000 That got me the deal over here when they were signing everybody in the 70s.
01:19:26.000 It was the weird time when you were the Zoot time.
01:19:30.000 1969, such a strange time musically.
01:19:34.000 It was changing pretty drastically.
01:19:36.000 Well, I mean, I always point to the difference between 59 and 69 as being like one of the most radical changes in culture and music in all of human history.
01:19:46.000 It's such a strange time.
01:19:48.000 If you go like from Buddy Holly to Jimi Hendrix, I mean, is there a more radical transformation of rock and roll music than that time?
01:19:57.000 Like, there was something amazing.
01:19:59.000 A lot of it was the drugs.
01:20:00.000 For sure.
01:20:01.000 It was the whole psychedelic movement.
01:20:03.000 It was the anti war movement.
01:20:06.000 It was, yeah, it was definitely sociological.
01:20:09.000 And I think music is always driven by what happens.
01:20:12.000 And it drives what happens, too.
01:20:14.000 I mean, a lot of it.
01:20:16.000 Yeah, I think, I know people think that it, I think it becomes a soundtrack of what's happening.
01:20:21.000 I think more that society drives what's happening in music.
01:20:26.000 And then they adopt what the music is, you know, we got a tune, you know, and it says what we're.
01:20:36.000 You're talking about 59 and you're talking about 69 where the changes happen, right?
01:20:40.000 Yeah.
01:20:41.000 Well, that 10 year period is just massive.
01:20:44.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:20:45.000 It is just an incredible transformation between the 50s and the 60s.
01:20:48.000 Yeah, and it was considered kind of disposable, you know, oh, that's the kids do that.
01:20:53.000 And by 69, 70, it was suddenly it had this more weight.
01:20:58.000 You know, and people got older and they were now almost adults and they still liked it.
01:20:58.000 Yeah.
01:21:03.000 Yes.
01:21:04.000 Well, it's also that music has had a shelf life.
01:21:08.000 That is above and beyond anything that came after it.
01:21:11.000 Like stuff from, like there's a lot of rock and roll music from the 80s that just, you know, doesn't have the same feeling as like Kashmir.
01:21:20.000 You know what I mean?
01:21:21.000 Like if you go and listen to Whole Lot of Love, like to this day, when Whole Lot of Love comes on, I'm like, oh, turn that up.
01:21:29.000 They were the originators of that.
01:21:32.000 I mean, they would really push that whole.
01:21:35.000 His idea to get the kind of the bluesy singer and use the blues riffs and that.
01:21:41.000 Was.
01:21:42.000 It was all his idea and and it was so friggin' unique and and uh, like he wanted Terry Reed.
01:21:49.000 You know Terry, familiar with Terry Reed?
01:21:51.000 No, he's a great English singer.
01:21:53.000 I think he's passed now.
01:21:55.000 Um, I hope i'm not wrong in saying that, because I hate it when they say oh, Rick Springfield's dead.
01:22:00.000 Um, you know, you look up someone.
01:22:03.000 The first thing line that comes up on google is, is so-and-so dead right right anybody, especially when you get older.
01:22:09.000 Yep yep, yep and um, Yeah, so it was amazing.
01:22:14.000 Terry Reid had this great voice, but he was going to actually tour with the Stones.
01:22:18.000 And Jimmy Page asked him if he'd be the singer in Led Zeppelin.
01:22:21.000 I got this gig coming up with the Stones, but I know this guy.
01:22:21.000 And he said, I can't.
01:22:25.000 There's this guy down in this club, and it was friggin' Robert Plant and John Bonham in the same band.
01:22:31.000 In a pub band.
01:22:31.000 Wow.
01:22:32.000 Wow.
01:22:33.000 And Jimmy Page walks in and he goes, They might be the right ones.
01:22:40.000 How amazing.
01:22:41.000 I mean, Bonham, one of the, you know, just a unique feel.
01:22:44.000 He wasn't just a drummer, he was just an incredible.
01:22:49.000 Sonically, he was different.
01:22:51.000 And the sound of his drums, what he did with them was unique.
01:22:54.000 His feel was just so laid back, but so right on.
01:22:58.000 And it was just.
01:22:59.000 In the same band as Plant, and it was like that's crazy.
01:23:03.000 It is crazy, like a little club band.
01:23:05.000 And and I, um, and you were saying, you know, music has more weight, had more certain music has more weight.
01:23:12.000 And I think England has always amazed me because this little tiny friggin' island, the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Clapton, Kinks.
01:23:24.000 Yeah, I mean, well, Clapton actually was Canadian, was he really?
01:23:29.000 He's born in Canada.
01:23:29.000 Oh, I thought he was from England, or he had Canadian parents or something.
01:23:33.000 But he can you listen to England?
01:23:35.000 I bet he is, right?
01:23:36.000 I like it when he's born there, yes.
01:23:38.000 Where he's born in the UK, he was born in the UK in uh, Canadian parents, right?
01:23:43.000 Let's see, am I right on that?
01:23:47.000 I'm right on that, aren't I?
01:23:49.000 A, uh, born to Canadian soldier from Quebec.
01:23:57.000 There you go, anyway.
01:23:58.000 But the little island that had all these amazing bands, incredible, and I think.
01:24:03.000 It's because everyone wanted to conquer Britain.
01:24:06.000 The Romans, the Vikings, they all came in, the Germans, they all came in and spread their seed.
01:24:16.000 First thing they did was have sex.
01:24:19.000 And I think all that came together, and I think that's a lot of the reason there are so many great bands, it's a collection of all this genetic material from Europe and all around.
01:24:33.000 And the Romans, I mean, Fuck, look what they did.
01:24:38.000 Yeah.
01:24:39.000 But it is interesting how Europe, if you look at it, the UK uniquely contributed to music as opposed to all those other countries.
01:24:49.000 Obviously, they're English speaking, which helps how it spreads the word.
01:24:52.000 But it's kind of amazing how much of an impact they had on America.
01:24:57.000 I mean, And how long it didn't have an impact.
01:24:59.000 I mean, it was because it was bottled up for so long, I think, that it exploded so much with the Beatles.
01:25:05.000 It was never.
01:25:06.000 It never crossed the Atlantic.
01:25:08.000 It was always America.
01:25:10.000 Same with Australia.
01:25:10.000 It was always America to England.
01:25:12.000 It was America to Australia.
01:25:15.000 There was one Australian guy that had a hit when I was a kid in England in school named Rolf Harris called Timey Kangaroo Down Sport.
01:25:24.000 Timey Kangaroo Down Sport.
01:25:28.000 Timey Kangaroo Down.
01:25:30.000 It was a horrible song, but it was a huge hit in England.
01:25:32.000 And it was the only one that ever came over from Australia.
01:25:35.000 And the same with England.
01:25:36.000 There was really nothing that crossed over.
01:25:39.000 And then suddenly Kennedy was killed.
01:25:41.000 And America was looking away from America.
01:25:45.000 They didn't want to look, I think, was a big part of the Beatles.
01:25:49.000 They didn't want to look at America right then, at that point.
01:25:53.000 Suddenly, here were these four mop tops, and they came and smiled and sang great music and took our attention away from, you know, darkness.
01:26:02.000 Well, they were probably the first real super band, right?
01:26:07.000 The Beatles?
01:26:07.000 Yeah.
01:26:08.000 That was just so huge that people would faint when they saw them.
01:26:13.000 and just scream when they saw them.
01:26:15.000 They used to faint for Frank Sinatra.
01:26:16.000 That's true.
01:26:18.000 They used to faint for Mozart.
01:26:20.000 Mozart.
01:26:21.000 I mean, they had groupies that would pass out.
01:26:25.000 They thought they were so hot.
01:26:27.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:26:27.000 Really?
01:26:29.000 And they were pop stars.
01:26:31.000 They were pop stars back then.
01:26:33.000 But it wasn't on television.
01:26:35.000 It wasn't all over the place.
01:26:37.000 I mean, the internet's done now.
01:26:38.000 You have a freaking opinion, and now you can put it out there.
01:26:41.000 Welcome to this show.
01:26:42.000 That's what it is.
01:26:47.000 It's just, it must have been very strange to be the first.
01:26:47.000 Yeah.
01:26:47.000 Exactly.
01:26:52.000 Global super group like that.
01:26:54.000 I think, yeah.
01:26:55.000 I don't think there's that.
01:26:57.000 I think Elvis was probably the first super famous individual where, I mean, he got to a point.
01:27:05.000 First of all, I think that level of fame is almost unsustainable for a human being.
01:27:10.000 I think it's just too crazy.
01:27:12.000 I don't think it's manageable.
01:27:12.000 And especially when there was no roadmap.
01:27:16.000 And he was the first, yeah.
01:27:17.000 Yeah, he was the first.
01:27:18.000 And then Michael Jackson was like, hold my beer.
01:27:20.000 I'll show you the next level of this shit.
01:27:23.000 And Michael Jackson took it to a place that was just too crazy.
01:27:26.000 Totally, totally agree.
01:27:26.000 Yeah.
01:27:27.000 I mean, I'm just young, but the Jackson 5 and Beatles both starting off in 64 is crazy.
01:27:27.000 Totally agree.
01:27:32.000 Wow.
01:27:33.000 McCartney was 22 and Harrison was 21.
01:27:33.000 Wow.
01:27:38.000 That's crazy.
01:27:38.000 Wow.
01:27:38.000 Yeah.
01:27:39.000 You think about what you were doing at 21.
01:27:43.000 Wow.
01:27:43.000 And Jackson 5 is the same time.
01:27:46.000 Wow.
01:27:46.000 64, the Jackson 5.
01:27:48.000 Wow.
01:27:49.000 I guess they were, I mean, it took a year or two, I guess, before they got famous, but still.
01:27:56.000 Yeah, I just saw.
01:27:56.000 Same time.
01:27:58.000 This is it, is it?
01:28:01.000 This is it?
01:28:03.000 Oh, the Michael Jackson documentary.
01:28:04.000 Yeah, where he's preparing for the show.
01:28:07.000 Yeah.
01:28:07.000 It's pretty wild.
01:28:08.000 It's just amazing.
01:28:09.000 I mean, you see him just kind of going through it like, you know, like it's nothing.
01:28:13.000 I mean, he's cutting back, but he's still doing, you know, he knows what he's doing.
01:28:19.000 And just, he did seem kind of weak to me.
01:28:22.000 I didn't know if he could sustain all of that by that point, but God, he was amazing.
01:28:27.000 Well, I think the pressure and the stress was probably just so overwhelming for him.
01:28:31.000 Unbelievable.
01:28:32.000 That guy couldn't go anywhere.
01:28:34.000 He would get swarmed.
01:28:35.000 Like no one ever.
01:28:37.000 People loved him in a way.
01:28:41.000 He was so big that I don't know if you're familiar with Boston Radio, but they had WCOZ, Rock of Boston.
01:28:50.000 It was like the big Boston rock and roll station.
01:28:55.000 And when Thriller came out, It was such a big album.
01:29:01.000 They go, Look, I know.
01:29:02.000 The DJ goes, I know this isn't rock and roll, but this is so awesome.
01:29:05.000 I'm going to play it anyway.
01:29:07.000 And I think it was Billie Jean they played.
01:29:11.000 And I remember thinking, This is crazy.
01:29:15.000 They're playing this on The Rock of Boston?
01:29:18.000 Like, this is nuts.
01:29:19.000 But it was that big.
01:29:21.000 It was that big, it transcended everything.
01:29:23.000 Well, they wouldn't let him on MTV, right?
01:29:26.000 They wouldn't play it.
01:29:27.000 They said, We don't play.
01:29:31.000 We can't, you know, they were saying, Come on, this is huge.
01:29:33.000 You got to play it.
01:29:34.000 Why weren't they playing?
01:29:35.000 We don't play black artists.
01:29:36.000 Yeah, initially.
01:29:36.000 Really?
01:29:37.000 And I forget who it was.
01:29:40.000 One of the Atlantic, someone, Atlantic, Ahmed Erdogan, or somebody called up and said, If you don't play this song in Billie Jean in the next 10 minutes, we're pulling all our artists.
01:29:52.000 And they played it, and that was it.
01:29:55.000 That's crazy.
01:29:56.000 Yeah.
01:29:56.000 Because Thriller was obviously the biggest music video of all time.
01:30:01.000 Yeah.
01:30:02.000 It was a film.
01:30:03.000 I mean, he got Rick Baker, the guy who did The American Werewolf in London.
01:30:07.000 I know you're a horror fan.
01:30:10.000 That wolf outside, by the way, we have two of those.
01:30:13.000 Yes, and he posted a photo of me with my arm in that guy.
01:30:16.000 With my arm in that guy.
01:30:19.000 The reason why we have two of those is because Rick Baker saw the original one that Pat McGee did that we had back here, and he said the proportions were wrong.
01:30:29.000 So, Pat McGee, the guy who made that for me, said, I'm going to make another one that has the right proportions.
01:30:34.000 So, Rick Baker saw that one?
01:30:36.000 Yes.
01:30:36.000 So, Rick Baker came to my studio, did my podcast, and said, That's great, but the legs are too long, the body's too long, this is the wrong proportions.
01:30:44.000 And Pat McGee went crazy.
01:30:45.000 He's like, Fuck!
01:30:47.000 And so, he made another one.
01:30:49.000 And then the new one that he made, though, is even better because it's all animal hair.
01:30:53.000 Yeah, it's incredible.
01:30:54.000 I'll show you the other one.
01:30:54.000 The other one's in the other room.
01:30:56.000 The one, the not so good one.
01:30:57.000 Right.
01:30:58.000 It's in the other room.
01:30:59.000 I still have both of them.
01:31:01.000 But he saw.
01:31:02.000 You sure don't get rid of werewolves?
01:31:03.000 No.
01:31:04.000 I mean, I would give it to someone cool.
01:31:05.000 But he did the special effects for Thriller when he turns into that cat monster thing.
01:31:11.000 Like, ah, he turns and the girl screams.
01:31:14.000 Ah, I mean, then he's a zombie.
01:31:15.000 Like, that fucking video was crazy.
01:31:19.000 I remember everybody waiting for the premiere.
01:31:21.000 All my friends in high school, like, Waiting around the TV for the premiere.
01:31:25.000 It was incredible.
01:31:26.000 There was like nothing like it.
01:31:28.000 And, you know, I mean, he was a superstar in a way that, like, I don't think anybody's ever even come close.
01:31:34.000 Maybe Taylor Swift.
01:31:35.000 Like, maybe she's in that sort of realm now.
01:31:38.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it's Elvis, the Beatles, and Michael Jackson were the three that absolutely transcend.
01:31:47.000 Yeah.
01:31:47.000 I mean, you know, there's been people as famous, but the.
01:31:53.000 They did something so different.
01:31:55.000 You know, first of all, Elvis was Elvis.
01:31:57.000 Yeah.
01:31:57.000 And the Beatles, they wrote the best songs.
01:32:00.000 You know, there's not many songs left to write now because the Beatles wrote them all.
01:32:03.000 Right.
01:32:04.000 And nothing else.
01:32:05.000 But they also had such a different range of music.
01:32:08.000 You know, you go from love, love, me, do to the more savvy.
01:32:12.000 How fast they grew?
01:32:13.000 Oh, yeah.
01:32:15.000 That's just, I mean, I don't even know if that's possible anymore because the audience is so fragmented now.
01:32:22.000 Back then, it was, you know, your parents or you and your friends.
01:32:25.000 There was nothing.
01:32:26.000 You know, in between, there was no, now it's like, well, if you're 13 years old, you like, you know, K pop.
01:32:36.000 If you're, you know, 15, 16, you like this.
01:32:38.000 If you like heavy stuff, then there's this.
01:32:41.000 And everyone's, it's so fragmented, there's not like us against them anymore.
01:32:46.000 Right.
01:32:47.000 And so I don't know if it allows for, I think Taylor Swift is actually the first one to really get that amount of gigantic following.
01:32:59.000 And I, I, It seems to be a lot of young girls still.
01:33:03.000 Yes.
01:33:05.000 But I mean, I like a lot of the songs.
01:33:08.000 I think she's a great writer lyrically.
01:33:11.000 I think the girls are killing it in pop right now.
01:33:14.000 I miss rock and roll on the radio for sure.
01:33:16.000 It's weird that rock and roll has kind of faded.
01:33:19.000 What's that?
01:33:20.000 It's weird that rock and roll has kind of faded.
01:33:22.000 I never thought the guitar would kind of become uncool.
01:33:25.000 I thought once we got through disco, where it was just in the background, and suddenly there was ACDC, and you're going, oh, thank God, the guitar is back.
01:33:34.000 You know, now it'll never leave.
01:33:36.000 It's left again, unfortunately.
01:33:38.000 But hopefully it'll, you know, I don't know if it'll come back.
01:33:40.000 I think.
01:33:40.000 The window's open.
01:33:41.000 What's that?
01:33:42.000 The window is open.
01:33:43.000 Because people still love the old music.
01:33:45.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:33:45.000 But there's, I mean, I hear great stuff from rock bands still, you know, but you don't hear it unless someone sends it to you, really.
01:33:53.000 Yeah.
01:33:54.000 Or there's a specific rock, you know, like I don't know where you hear, you know, new Foo Fighters other than you certainly don't hear it on, you know, any of the AM stations anymore, do you?
01:34:06.000 Are there even AM stations?
01:34:08.000 Yeah, I know.
01:34:08.000 I mean, I don't know what even plays.
01:34:11.000 FM is what played big music in this country, but there's no real radio presence anymore.
01:34:18.000 I don't know of any.
01:34:19.000 My mechanic still listens to FM music.
01:34:22.000 I know that because when he fixes my car, when I get it back, the radio's on the local FM rock station.
01:34:29.000 But it's all like there's no DJs anymore, and if there is a DJ, they don't have control of the music anymore.
01:34:34.000 Exactly right.
01:34:35.000 And Jesse's Girl was a product of the DJs.
01:34:39.000 It wasn't released as a single.
01:34:41.000 Really?
01:34:41.000 Yeah, it was.
01:34:43.000 Back when the DJs, if they liked a song, they'd play it.
01:34:46.000 They said, Oh, I like this song.
01:34:47.000 Let's put this on.
01:34:48.000 And they started doing that with Jesse's Girl, and they started getting a lot of phones.
01:34:52.000 And they called up the record company and said, You probably should put this out as a single.
01:34:58.000 It's getting a lot of phones.
01:34:59.000 And the record company goes, Okay.
01:35:01.000 So they put it out.
01:35:02.000 But it wasn't their choice.
01:35:04.000 I mean, it was actually back then RCA was me and Elvis.
01:35:09.000 So it was pretty much it.
01:35:10.000 Wow.
01:35:11.000 It was old Elvis, and, you know.
01:35:14.000 What year was Jesse's Girl?
01:35:16.000 81, 80.
01:35:18.000 80?
01:35:18.000 81.
01:35:18.000 81?
01:35:20.000 I throw it over to our maestro at the controls over there.
01:35:26.000 Yeah, I was a freshman in high school.
01:35:29.000 Yeah.
01:35:30.000 I was 14 years old when that song came out.
01:35:30.000 Wow.
01:35:32.000 Oh, my God, really?
01:35:33.000 Yeah.
01:35:33.000 That's wild.
01:35:34.000 What was that like for you?
01:35:36.000 That had to be insane.
01:35:37.000 That song was so giant.
01:35:39.000 Every girl in my high school was in love with you.
01:35:41.000 It must have been nuts.
01:35:43.000 Yeah, it was.
01:35:46.000 I mean, I was 29, 30 by the time that happened.
01:35:51.000 And I was, I'd imagined it for so long because I'm very, one of the things I really believe in is, you know, as I'm sure you do, to manifestation, believing, you know, visualization, seeing what you want and committing to it.
01:36:07.000 And I'd seen it so much, so many times in my head that when it happened, I went, yeah, that's how it is.
01:36:13.000 Really?
01:36:15.000 So you expected it.
01:36:16.000 Yeah.
01:36:17.000 I always expected something.
01:36:18.000 I knew something would happen and I had faith.
01:36:21.000 You know, there were times when I was, because of the teen magazines, I get letters sometimes.
01:36:27.000 I can't wait to come over and meet you and visit you in your mansion.
01:36:32.000 And at the time, I was living in a $180 a month apartment in a seedy area of Hollywood, eating TV man dinners and fishing quarters out of my goofy piggy bank so I could go down and buy milk.
01:36:49.000 So, yeah, it was.
01:36:52.000 Quite a dichotomy, you might say.
01:36:55.000 So, when it first started happening, it started happening because of DJs.
01:37:00.000 And how long was that before it became a massive hit?
01:37:03.000 It was quite a haul.
01:37:05.000 It was actually a long time on the charts, crawling up.
01:37:09.000 And I thought, I should never get to make it.
01:37:11.000 It's going so slow.
01:37:12.000 Usually they go boom, boom, boom.
01:37:14.000 And it crawled and crawled and crawled and crawled.
01:37:18.000 And I remember Joe Gottfried, who owns Sound City, which is one of the reasons I happened to be in the.
01:37:26.000 And the Dave Grohl Sound City documentary was because I used to hang out there all the time.
01:37:33.000 And he came in with this cheap bottle of champagne and said, We just made number one.
01:37:38.000 And it was, yeah, it was a long time that it climbed.
01:37:38.000 Wow.
01:37:43.000 And they weren't going to release it.
01:37:45.000 I actually took General Hospital because I didn't think they were going to release the album.
01:37:52.000 That's right.
01:37:53.000 I forgot you were on General Hospital.
01:37:55.000 You were on a fucking soap opera.
01:37:56.000 Fucking soap opera.
01:37:57.000 And it was.
01:37:58.000 By the way.
01:37:59.000 The biggest soap opera.
01:38:01.000 Well, it happened to be.
01:38:02.000 The whole Luke and Laura thing was crazy.
01:38:04.000 Yeah, it was the biggest soap operas ever got, and I just happened to be on it that summer.
01:38:09.000 And it was, but I got, this guy called me up.
01:38:13.000 I hadn't worked as an actor in like nine months.
01:38:16.000 And this guy called me up and he'd seen me for a, they were trying to do a male Charlie's Angels.
01:38:23.000 Thankfully, I didn't get that and that didn't work out.
01:38:26.000 But I'd gone up and auditioned for it, right?
01:38:28.000 And it didn't work out.
01:38:29.000 But this guy obviously remembered me and he called up my agent who hadn't done a fucking thing for me in 12 months and said, I remember this guy, Springfield.
01:38:39.000 We'd like to see him for this part on.
01:38:41.000 General Hospital, and I said, General, fucking soap opera.
01:38:44.000 I don't want to do that.
01:38:46.000 And he said, Go on, just go in.
01:38:48.000 And I'm thinking, Well, it's mostly old ladies ironing in the afternoon.
01:38:53.000 That's still going to have any effect on my music career, I guess, because they totally, you know, it's apples and oranges.
01:38:59.000 So I went up, and I wasn't that interested in it.
01:39:01.000 And I did the reading, and then he calls up and says, You got the part.
01:39:05.000 And Keith Olson, who was a big producer at the time and who'd produced Jesse's Girl, he'd done me a favor because he was, because the Sound City connection.
01:39:14.000 He'd done Fleaband Mac and Pat Benatar and Foreigner and a lot of big hits.
01:39:21.000 And so I said, I'll do a favor for Joe, and he'd actually cut together my very first album.
01:39:27.000 He'd been a guy that cut all the clicks out of my first album where they punched me in, the vocals in.
01:39:34.000 And so he did that, and he said, You don't need to do this.
01:39:36.000 This is a great record.
01:39:37.000 You don't need to do this soap opera.
01:39:39.000 I said, I don't know, man.
01:39:40.000 I've had four albums and they've done nothing.
01:39:42.000 So I don't know what this one's going to do.
01:39:45.000 So I'm going to.
01:39:46.000 I had no money.
01:39:46.000 I said, I'm going to take it for the money because it was $500 an episode, which was like mind blowing money to me back then.
01:39:54.000 Wow.
01:39:55.000 I'd never seen regular money and I'd never seen that much regular.
01:39:58.000 That was a hell of a lot of money to me back in 1980.
01:40:02.000 So I said, I'm going to take the show.
01:40:04.000 So I took it, and the record company was not releasing the album.
01:40:08.000 I'm going, oh, God, it's going to happen again.
01:40:11.000 You know, it's going to hit 100 in the top 100 and go away.
01:40:16.000 Because there was disco and there were ballads on the radio.
01:40:19.000 They didn't know what to do with a guitar based pop record.
01:40:22.000 So they finally released it.
01:40:24.000 And that, the whole DJ thing happened.
01:40:28.000 What was the single that they released?
01:40:30.000 What's that?
01:40:30.000 What were the singles that they released from that album?
01:40:33.000 They released I've Done Everything For You, actually.
01:40:36.000 Because Sammy was a known quantity and I wasn't, you know.
01:40:41.000 And it didn't do.
01:40:45.000 Is that Sammy Hagar?
01:40:47.000 Yeah, Sammy, yeah.
01:40:48.000 That's right.
01:40:49.000 Yeah, he wrote it.
01:40:50.000 And Keith had worked with Sammy on a bunch of his solo albums.
01:40:56.000 And he really liked this song.
01:40:57.000 And he said, I'll do two songs with Springfield.
01:40:59.000 So he picked one of mine, Jesse's Girl album.
01:41:01.000 I had my demos that I'd done on my little four track, you know.
01:41:05.000 And I was pissed that he didn't pick a second one.
01:41:07.000 He said, I want to bring an outside song in.
01:41:09.000 I went, oh, fuck.
01:41:10.000 Because, you know, I'm a writer.
01:41:11.000 I wanted to do my songs.
01:41:13.000 And he brought this song in.
01:41:14.000 I went, okay.
01:41:15.000 You know, he must know what he's talking about.
01:41:18.000 He's got a lot of hits and everything.
01:41:19.000 So I did it, and it happened to be the right second song.
01:41:23.000 It was absolutely the right second song.
01:41:25.000 But that was the first one.
01:41:27.000 And then I thought, oh, and then they picked Jesse's Girl.
01:41:30.000 So fortunately, it was a DJ's call.
01:41:34.000 And I'm forever thankful for that.
01:41:38.000 And I don't know what would have happened if they hadn't picked it or if they were still like now.
01:41:46.000 You play these 10 songs, and that's when you don't deviate.
01:41:49.000 Well, it seems like now it's all sort of pre programmed by executives.
01:41:53.000 They just decide what is going to be pushed and what's going to be famous.
01:41:57.000 Yeah.
01:41:58.000 I mean, I don't really understand it.
01:41:59.000 And I don't know if anybody does why some are pushed and others aren't.
01:42:04.000 But, well, there's no tastemakers anymore.
01:42:07.000 That's the thing.
01:42:08.000 Without DJs, without Wolfman Jack and these big DJ guys, he was awesome.
01:42:12.000 He was so good.
01:42:13.000 I did an interview with him with my first album.
01:42:16.000 I don't know, Rick.
01:42:19.000 I said, This is a song about a woman, the guy that commits suicide.
01:42:24.000 Oh, I don't think so.
01:42:25.000 Not in my radio station.
01:42:26.000 He puts it on and he listens to it and he ended up playing it.
01:42:31.000 We actually got along really well and he would introduce me occasionally at shows and things.
01:42:31.000 It was really great.
01:42:36.000 He was a lovely guy.
01:42:38.000 Funny as hell, man.
01:42:39.000 Well, there were tastemakers back then.
01:42:42.000 There were people that you believed in that were DJs that were cool.
01:42:46.000 Yeah, and they were kind of cool guys who liked cool things.
01:42:46.000 And could call it.
01:42:51.000 And they had personalities and people, you know, yeah.
01:42:54.000 They had personalities and they were interesting to listen to and they would tell you why, like, you're going to dig this and they would play it and you're like, ooh, what is this?
01:43:02.000 And they'd know shit about the songs.
01:43:03.000 Yeah.
01:43:04.000 They were real music aficionados and they were.
01:43:08.000 You know, sort of like the Siskel and Ebert of music.
01:43:12.000 Like they would tell you what was cool.
01:43:13.000 It was cool, yeah.
01:43:14.000 And slowly but surely, that all just completely went away.
01:43:18.000 I can't name a DJ currently.
01:43:20.000 And I think that's nuts.
01:43:21.000 When I was a kid, you knew everyone Mark Parento and all these different people and Charles Laquadera.
01:43:26.000 Those are the guys in Boston.
01:43:28.000 Yeah.
01:43:28.000 Everybody knew who they were.
01:43:30.000 And it was a national thing in every city.
01:43:33.000 They had your morning DJ guy.
01:43:35.000 Yeah.
01:43:35.000 You know, and these morning.
01:43:36.000 John Shannon.
01:43:37.000 Yes.
01:43:38.000 And all these guys would play Kevin and Bean in LA.
01:43:41.000 And all these guys would play cool music and they knew cool stuff.
01:43:45.000 And it was like, you know, you learned about culture from these people pre internet.
01:43:49.000 They were the tastemakers.
01:43:51.000 Yeah, it's trippy.
01:43:52.000 I mean, I don't know how you fall in love with an artist anymore, you know, because, you know, it's the old story.
01:43:59.000 You get the record, you open it up, and as it's playing, you read who's playing what, who wrote what, and you read about them.
01:44:07.000 And I remember years ago, I had a copy of a record.
01:44:11.000 Like a No Doubt CD or something, anyway.
01:44:14.000 And this young girl, daughter, friend of mine, I said, Oh, I got the No Doubt CD, the new CD, if you want to.
01:44:20.000 He said, Oh, no, it's okay.
01:44:22.000 I download it.
01:44:23.000 Well, he's got the album cover and everything.
01:44:25.000 He said, No, it's okay.
01:44:26.000 I just download it.
01:44:28.000 And no, it's weird.
01:44:29.000 It's weird.
01:44:30.000 Yeah.
01:44:31.000 Yeah.
01:44:31.000 I used to buy albums based on the cover.
01:44:34.000 Yeah.
01:44:35.000 I'd go to the record store and I'm like, Wow, this is fucking big.
01:44:37.000 I know.
01:44:38.000 It's impossible.
01:44:39.000 But you would go and see an album.
01:44:41.000 You're like, Wow, this looks cool.
01:44:42.000 You have cool artwork.
01:44:43.000 You open it up.
01:44:45.000 Hypnosis, hypnosis, whatever they spelled it.
01:44:49.000 Oh, they were brilliant.
01:44:50.000 And look at the, you know, I mean, the Pink Floyd one is still an epic image.
01:44:56.000 Yeah.
01:44:57.000 You see it everywhere, you know.
01:44:58.000 Well, when I was a kid, my uncle Vinny was an artist and he worked for Howard Marks Advertising, which was a company that did all of the album covers for Kiss.
01:45:14.000 Oh.
01:45:15.000 Really done.
01:45:15.000 I was like seven or something like that.
01:45:17.000 I got to see, I got to go to his office with him and he would take me around and, you know, I would see them before anybody did.
01:45:25.000 I met Ace freely with no makeup on.
01:45:28.000 Back when, it was the craziest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
01:45:30.000 He has no makeup on.
01:45:31.000 This is nuts.
01:45:32.000 This is back before Kiss had taken me to the office.
01:45:34.000 It's like seeing him naked.
01:45:35.000 It was so insane.
01:45:36.000 Like he came into the office and everyone was like, What's up, Ace?
01:45:38.000 I was like, What?
01:45:40.000 That's him?
01:45:41.000 Because I was, God, I don't remember how old I was.
01:45:43.000 I couldn't have been more than 10.
01:45:44.000 Oh, that's funny.
01:45:45.000 It was so strange to me.
01:45:47.000 I was like, this is crazy.
01:45:49.000 I can't believe he's right there.
01:45:50.000 This is nuts.
01:45:51.000 Isn't that wild, yeah?
01:45:52.000 Actually, I might have been a little older.
01:45:53.000 I might have been 11 or 12.
01:45:55.000 But either way, I was like blown away by it.
01:45:57.000 I couldn't believe I was actually meeting Ace Freely with no makeup on.
01:46:00.000 But their advertisement company would do all the album covers.
01:46:05.000 And the album covers were a work of art.
01:46:07.000 There was so much going on inside of them.
01:46:09.000 You would open up the album, there was artwork inside.
01:46:12.000 It was like, even when they had their solo albums, the albums themselves had an image of each individual band member printed on the album.
01:46:22.000 Yes, like the album itself.
01:46:22.000 Oh, really?
01:46:25.000 Like when you look at the record, you saw the image of their faces on the record.
01:46:29.000 It was crazy.
01:46:30.000 I remember when they came out, I think this has got to be huge.
01:46:33.000 I got the photo.
01:46:35.000 Ace Freely actually came back to see us at a gig we were doing, and I had a photo taken with him.
01:46:39.000 My drummer was a stone, you know, the Kiss were his Beatles.
01:46:44.000 So I was selling guitars at the time, like these, just these red Fernandes that we had a bunch of.
01:46:49.000 So he had Ace sign it, and he did, you know, the Ace card and everything to Roger, Rock On, whatever, Ace Freely.
01:46:58.000 I copied it exactly onto another one, exactly like the guitar.
01:47:03.000 And in the middle of the show, A guitar tech brought it out to me and I smashed the shit out of it like this.
01:47:10.000 And Roger lost his shit.
01:47:10.000 Oh, wow.
01:47:13.000 He thought it was a real one.
01:47:16.000 Ah!
01:47:18.000 He played so many terrible pranks on us that it was fucking worth it.
01:47:23.000 That's hilarious.
01:47:24.000 That's hilarious.
01:47:26.000 So you kind of knew that eventually it was going to hit.
01:47:31.000 But when it did hit, what was the feeling like to go from being someone, you know, you'd been in pop magazines, but then all of a sudden.
01:47:39.000 You are the guy.
01:47:41.000 Like for a year or two, whatever it was, in the early 80s, you were so huge, man.
01:47:48.000 I mean, it was crazy.
01:47:50.000 What was that feeling like?
01:47:54.000 It was exciting.
01:47:56.000 It drove me to write more and more.
01:47:58.000 You know, I mean, I directed it into performing and writing.
01:48:01.000 I really don't know what else.
01:48:04.000 You know, I didn't party a lot, you know.
01:48:08.000 I mean, we did a little bit on the road, but it wasn't.
01:48:11.000 I directed it into what I was doing.
01:48:13.000 And it was exciting.
01:48:15.000 You know, I remember getting on the phone with DJs and saying, oh, yeah, the record's going to be, it's going up and up.
01:48:21.000 And, you know, it was all real exciting stuff.
01:48:24.000 But it was kind of, like I said, I expected it, you know, and was like, oh my God, this is so weird.
01:48:33.000 I was like, yeah, about fucking time.
01:48:35.000 You know, I've been here for 10 years.
01:48:38.000 That's crazy that you, like, totally were comfortable with it and expected it.
01:48:42.000 Yeah, it was, you know, there were, You know, like 4,000 fans around a police car trying to tip it over.
01:48:49.000 And I was like, okay, this is what it feels like.
01:48:56.000 God, it's so wild.
01:48:58.000 It's so wild that you were like, okay, this is what's happening.
01:49:01.000 It was exciting.
01:49:02.000 You know, I mean, I didn't lessen the excitement, but it was, I prepared myself for it, you know.
01:49:09.000 Do you remember what it was like the first time you started playing the first few chords of Jesse's Girl and the whole crowd knew what it was?
01:49:17.000 Yeah, I do, actually, because I'd.
01:49:19.000 I'd seen, we saw all these English bands in Australia because they all came to Australia.
01:49:25.000 I saw the Stones twice in 65 and 66.
01:49:29.000 I saw the Beatles in 64.
01:49:32.000 And I saw the Kinks in like 65.
01:49:35.000 I saw The Who in 65.
01:49:37.000 And they started out with You Really Got Kinks started out.
01:49:41.000 And the audience went, Oh, shit.
01:49:45.000 I said, Oh, man, that is so fucking cool.
01:49:48.000 I want to feel what that's like.
01:49:51.000 Do you remember the first time you felt it?
01:49:53.000 What's that?
01:49:54.000 Do you remember the first time you felt that?
01:49:56.000 We did the Beach Boys Fourth of July show for the Queen Mary.
01:50:05.000 And I was like the new artist.
01:50:07.000 On the bill, yeah, on Long Beach.
01:50:07.000 In Long Beach?
01:50:09.000 It was the Beach Boys, Three Dog Night, and had Brian Wilson was still with the Beach, come back with the Beach Boys, right?
01:50:19.000 And we started, we were on there, I started playing, and the audience went nuts.
01:50:24.000 I went, that's it!
01:50:25.000 That's the feeling!
01:50:28.000 And it was so weird because we came on after the show.
01:50:32.000 After the Beatles finished, we walked on stage, right?
01:50:35.000 And Brian Wilson's like a god, right?
01:50:37.000 And I'm walking on stage, he's at the piano, and he goes, He follows me like this.
01:50:45.000 I'm going, Zipper open, what's he following me for?
01:50:49.000 He was a giant soap opera fan.
01:50:53.000 Him and his wife used to sit all and watch fucking General Hospital.
01:50:56.000 That's crazy.
01:50:58.000 Brian Wilson with his mouth open, following me across the stage.
01:51:03.000 That's crazy.
01:51:03.000 When I'm doing the same thing, going, That's Brian Wilson.
01:51:07.000 Holy fuck.
01:51:08.000 Wow.
01:51:09.000 It's pretty.
01:51:11.000 And same thing with Sammy Davis Jr. where we did, I was on the first night of 100 stars and we're walking along the red carpet and I feel someone tugging on my jacket.
01:51:22.000 I look around at Sammy Davis Jr.
01:51:22.000 I go, what the fuck?
01:51:24.000 Hey man, love you on this show.
01:51:26.000 And I'm going, what the fuck?
01:51:29.000 That was the stuff that was weird for me, was that kind of thing.
01:51:34.000 And like I met Paul McCartney later, like Arden or maybe.
01:51:38.000 20 15 years ago at a thing, and I went to see him because I'm as a giant fan.
01:51:44.000 He said, Oh, what are you here for?
01:51:46.000 Meaning, you know, he obviously knew who I was and what was I coming to the event for because everyone was announcing new projects.
01:51:53.000 I just said, I'm here to see you.
01:51:55.000 He goes, Oh, and I know no one was taking photos, and I didn't realize at the time.
01:51:59.000 He said, I want to get a photo, so I said, That'll be 10 quid.
01:52:04.000 So I go, Like, they said, No, I'm only joking, I'm only joking.
01:52:06.000 So we had a photo, it's one of my I keep that photo.
01:52:10.000 That's a pretty cool photo.
01:52:11.000 Wow, that's awesome.
01:52:12.000 And speaking of album covers, the Sgt. Pepper's cover was.
01:52:18.000 Oh, yeah.
01:52:19.000 I have the.
01:52:20.000 Because War of the Worlds, Time Machine.
01:52:26.000 H.G. Wells, one of my favorite writers, right?
01:52:28.000 I love sci fi.
01:52:30.000 He's very political, too.
01:52:30.000 Always love H.G. Wells.
01:52:31.000 And he wrote some great, great, great novels and articles about the war and the possibility of.
01:52:40.000 Atomic War, and I mean, he was a really deep guy.
01:52:44.000 And he was one of the cutouts, right?
01:52:46.000 It was H.G. Wells on the Sgt. Pepper's figure thing, you know, all the cutouts, the heads on the front.
01:52:53.000 You know what I mean?
01:52:54.000 Sure.
01:52:55.000 Yeah.
01:52:56.000 And so I got that actual H.G. Wells.
01:52:59.000 I got that actual cutout, and Paul had signed it.
01:53:01.000 So I got one of my favorite writers and my favorite artists, and it's a really cool thing.
01:53:06.000 I have that in my studio.
01:53:08.000 Wow.
01:53:10.000 The people don't understand today.
01:53:13.000 The General Hospital thing.
01:53:15.000 General Hospital was a soap opera, but it was a soap opera that transcended regular television shows somehow.
01:53:24.000 Yeah, it was the most popular show in the summer.
01:53:26.000 Very strange.
01:53:28.000 It was very strange, and it was a completely organic viral moment for whatever reason.
01:53:36.000 No idea, still.
01:53:37.000 Never happened again.
01:53:38.000 No, never happened.
01:53:39.000 Only happened once.
01:53:39.000 The most popular soap now has about a third of the viewership that General Hospital had.
01:53:45.000 At the time.
01:53:45.000 And it was, you know, like I was on it.
01:53:48.000 I'm this one, you're talking about, you know, new fame and all that kind of stuff.
01:53:53.000 I had a little house that I bought on BMI Advances because I had a record deal, which they don't do anymore, but in Montrose, in La Crocetta.
01:54:05.000 And I'm walking down the street one day and nobody's looking at me.
01:54:08.000 I'm going, yeah, I'm just walking down.
01:54:10.000 And then two weeks later, after being on the show for two weeks, I'm walking down the same street.
01:54:14.000 People are going, isn't that?
01:54:17.000 And it was like so sudden that that was like, you know, it was before MTV, so you had to have at least three albums out before.
01:54:25.000 A musician was recognized.
01:54:27.000 So to get it that fast, that was kind of odd.
01:54:31.000 And I wasn't ready for that amount of recognition.
01:54:35.000 Well, it was just so strange.
01:54:37.000 My whole family was watching General Hospital.
01:54:39.000 I was watching it.
01:54:40.000 My sister was watching it.
01:54:41.000 It was like, it was a television show, but it was a soap opera.
01:54:48.000 And soap operas were like housewives would watch.
01:54:50.000 Yeah, it was, you know, your cousin invented the tooth.
01:54:56.000 It was like low production value, shitty writing, bad acting.
01:55:01.000 Horrible writing, terrible acting.
01:55:02.000 Something about that Luke and Laura storyline, for whatever reason, caught the nation and held it captive.
01:55:11.000 And I believe he raped her, and then they became boyfriend and girlfriend.
01:55:15.000 Is that really what the storyline was?
01:55:17.000 Yeah, that's true.
01:55:18.000 And Elizabeth Taylor was on the show, too, and I got to do a scene, a couple of scenes with her, and that was weird.
01:55:23.000 I'm walking down the stairs as she's walking up, and you go, oh.
01:55:28.000 Noah.
01:55:29.000 And I'm going, wait, stop, Elizabeth Taylor.
01:55:33.000 And we would do a scene and we're walking away together, you know, off to a blank alleyway until they say cut.
01:55:41.000 And she goes, isn't acting stupid?
01:55:43.000 And Tony Geary actually did the best thing.
01:55:47.000 He's doing a scene with her in rehearsal.
01:55:50.000 And he goes, oh my God, it's Elizabeth Taylor.
01:55:55.000 And they went, yeah, it's what we all wanted to say, right?
01:56:00.000 But it's amazing, the people who were fans of the show, it's, you know, crazy.
01:56:05.000 It was literally the biggest show in the country.
01:56:07.000 Yeah.
01:56:07.000 And it was a soap opera.
01:56:08.000 And it was on during the day.
01:56:10.000 And the ghosting sucked, and the writing sucked, and the writing sucked.
01:56:13.000 And it was, if you got through the scene, they printed it.
01:56:17.000 Yeah.
01:56:18.000 You know, I mean, I got really good because they handed us a three-page scene once, me and a character I was working with, said, we're shooting this in 20 minutes.
01:56:30.000 So I got really good.
01:56:31.000 They'd have the camera here, and they'd have the words.
01:56:34.000 Right, you know, coming down the teleprompter.
01:56:38.000 Yeah, the teleprompter down the screen and a red light.
01:56:41.000 And I got good at looking at them while I was talking.
01:56:46.000 As soon as I saw the light go off, I'd look at the screen and memorize the words for the next line and look back at them and go, yeah.
01:56:57.000 It wasn't about acting for me then, it was about line memorization.
01:57:01.000 But there were good people on it.
01:57:02.000 Like my best friend, actually, Doug Davidson, was on Young and the Restless.
01:57:08.000 Paul, God, what's his last name?
01:57:10.000 Sorry, Dougie.
01:57:12.000 But anyway, Paul Drake.
01:57:15.000 No, wait.
01:57:16.000 Oh, there's me and Liz.
01:57:18.000 Wow.
01:57:19.000 Yeah.
01:57:19.000 Yeah, babe.
01:57:20.000 Hey, let me invite you to.
01:57:22.000 You want to come?
01:57:22.000 Oh, that was it.
01:57:24.000 Isn't acting stupid?
01:57:25.000 That's the scene.
01:57:26.000 Wow.
01:57:28.000 That's nuts.
01:57:30.000 Isn't acting stupid?
01:57:32.000 That's so crazy.
01:57:33.000 How weird is it?
01:57:33.000 Yeah, so he was really good.
01:57:35.000 Doug Davidson played Paul Drake?
01:57:39.000 I think that was his name.
01:57:40.000 Sorry, I forgot it.
01:57:41.000 But he was great on it.
01:57:43.000 He would cry and get angry, and he was really very, very good.
01:57:47.000 And there are some great people that can do it.
01:57:50.000 Not everybody can.
01:57:51.000 And they pick young, pretty people who aren't necessarily the best actors, but they have a presence.
01:57:59.000 I remember walking by the phones when Demi Moore was on the show.
01:58:04.000 They would take calls from everybody and listen to everything.
01:58:06.000 And I walk by as a woman's going, Oh, doesn't like Demi Moore's voice.
01:58:14.000 They would take calls from the audience to find out what they thought about it?
01:58:16.000 Yeah, people would call in and say, Oh, we really like this guy, or we don't like this guy, or hate this storyline.
01:58:23.000 And Gloria Monti, she was the.
01:58:23.000 They'd listen to it.
01:58:26.000 Oh, Tristan just passed away.
01:58:27.000 Brian Cranston together.
01:58:29.000 That's Tristan.
01:58:31.000 He just passed away.
01:58:32.000 He's another Ozzy.
01:58:32.000 He's a cool guy.
01:58:33.000 Brian Cranston, that's crazy.
01:58:37.000 Wow.
01:58:39.000 Yeah.
01:58:39.000 Lovely guy.
01:58:40.000 Funny guy.
01:58:42.000 Is that the meme?
01:58:43.000 Strange.
01:58:45.000 Wow.
01:58:46.000 Yeah, it was a good one.
01:58:48.000 Wow.
01:58:48.000 1982.
01:58:49.000 Wow.
01:58:51.000 Trippy.
01:58:52.000 Trippy, yeah.
01:58:54.000 That's amazing.
01:58:55.000 I can't believe Elizabeth Taylor was doing a soap opera.
01:58:57.000 That's so strange.
01:58:59.000 Yeah, but there were fans.
01:59:00.000 And it was a big show.
01:59:01.000 And it was like, kind of like Baywatch, how Baywatch became this big cultural thing.
01:59:07.000 And I remember reading Paul McCartney saying, Yeah, my daughters love Baywatch.
01:59:11.000 And going, Fuck that, man.
01:59:15.000 It's just so strange that it never happened again.
01:59:18.000 That General Hospital moment is like a strange anomaly in culture.
01:59:22.000 It totally was, yeah.
01:59:24.000 And it was a combination, probably, of the characters, you know.
01:59:27.000 I mean,.
01:59:28.000 It was kind of the best of the worst storylines, you know.
01:59:35.000 And there was, you know, a lot of characters, good characters on it.
01:59:39.000 Plus, you know, they were aware at that point that I had a recording career, you know, and they wanted me to sing on the show.
01:59:47.000 There it is.
01:59:48.000 There it is.
01:59:49.000 Wow.
01:59:50.000 Tony took us around, and we were in Amsterdam.
01:59:53.000 30 million viewers.
01:59:55.000 That's insane.
01:59:55.000 For Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.
01:59:58.000 I mean, what is.
01:59:59.000 Even come close to that?
02:00:01.000 What has even come close to that in terms of soap operas?
02:00:05.000 Is there anything even close?
02:00:07.000 No, no.
02:00:08.000 That was a golden age.
02:00:09.000 Fucking bananas.
02:00:10.000 It's kind of insane.
02:00:12.000 Isn't it during the middle of the day, too?
02:00:14.000 Yeah.
02:00:15.000 Still have no real explanation.
02:00:17.000 I don't know what time it was on, but I remember it was like right after high school.
02:00:21.000 Yeah, they used to cancel, rearrange classes in universities because they knew people wouldn't show up.
02:00:30.000 That's nuts.
02:00:31.000 And I had no idea that these people, you know, they were the same people that would come into concerts.
02:00:36.000 Wow.
02:00:37.000 And I had no idea that there would be any kind of crossover, you know.
02:00:40.000 How crazy is it that the guy from General Hospital all of a sudden has the number one song in the country?
02:00:47.000 Yeah.
02:00:48.000 They had no idea.
02:00:49.000 I was on the show for like six weeks, and Gloria, the producer, who was really responsible for the success of it, she was so smart.
02:00:57.000 Her and Tony used to get together and go over the scripts at night, and, you know, that had something to do with it.
02:01:02.000 And she came up and said, I hear you're also a singer.
02:01:06.000 I went, Yeah, but it's not happening on this show.
02:01:09.000 I've already got enough shit that I'm on the show.
02:01:11.000 Oh, they wanted you to sing on the show?
02:01:14.000 Oh, God.
02:01:15.000 Which I did as kind of a callback way later on, after I'd left the show, and then I came back for the 50th anniversary or something.
02:01:25.000 But yeah, when it was, she wanted me to go up there and sing Jesse's Girl as a doctor.
02:01:33.000 We'll make it work, you know.
02:01:34.000 How weird must it have been for those Luke and Laura actors?
02:01:38.000 Because, like, no one had ever done that before.
02:01:41.000 No soap opera had ever gotten that huge before.
02:01:44.000 And then after it was over, nothing.
02:01:46.000 Yeah, the girl who played Laura was 21 and still lived at home.
02:01:49.000 Wow.
02:01:51.000 What's that?
02:01:52.000 She was 21 and still lived at home at the time.
02:01:55.000 Yeah.
02:01:55.000 That wasn't allowed to be.
02:01:56.000 Wasn't allowed to drink the bubbly because she was underage.
02:01:56.000 Wow.
02:01:59.000 How was she underage?
02:02:01.000 Oh, not even 21, it says.
02:02:02.000 Oh, not yet 21.
02:02:04.000 Wow.
02:02:06.000 Wow.
02:02:07.000 Yeah, that didn't stop him from getting drank.
02:02:10.000 We got so drunk on the set.
02:02:12.000 We had a party.
02:02:13.000 There was supposed to be this party.
02:02:15.000 And the professor from Gilligan's Island played my father.
02:02:18.000 I'm going, wow.
02:02:19.000 That's.
02:02:20.000 Fucking cool.
02:02:21.000 And we're sitting around this, and we're supposed to be drinking, and we all drank, and the gut was so bad they had to reshoot it the next day.
02:02:29.000 You're all drunk.
02:02:30.000 But you know, everyone kind of let's cut loose.
02:02:33.000 It's the end of the day, you know.
02:02:35.000 Wow.
02:02:37.000 Well, that's nuts, man.
02:02:38.000 Tell me about your writing, like the novels.
02:02:41.000 Like, what have you written novels about?
02:02:44.000 They're very bizarre.
02:02:48.000 They're both about a plague.
02:02:53.000 That comes to the world and takes out like two thirds of the people.
02:03:00.000 Both of them are about that?
02:03:01.000 Yeah, the other is a continuation of it.
02:03:04.000 One's called Magnificent Vibration, the other one's called World on Fire.
02:03:09.000 And it's dark humor, very dark humor.
02:03:17.000 Had you written before that?
02:03:19.000 I wrote my autobiography by myself.
02:03:21.000 But had you written any fiction?
02:03:24.000 Yeah, as a kid, that was the only thing I was any good at at school I got great marks in my essays.
02:03:30.000 Nothing else was any good, I was terrible at everything else math, geography, history, all that shit.
02:03:38.000 And so, you know, I was already doing what I was planning on doing anyway.
02:03:44.000 So, yeah, I started writing poems and, you know, songwriting to me, the lyrics are something I really.
02:03:55.000 Music just comes through.
02:03:56.000 It either is there or it isn't there.
02:03:58.000 But the lyrics, you have time to sit back and go, does that work or does that not work?
02:04:01.000 Whereas the music, it's kind of instantaneous or it doesn't happen.
02:04:08.000 So, yeah, I've always kind of written.
02:04:12.000 And when did you write these novels?
02:04:15.000 I don't know.
02:04:16.000 Can you tell me that, my friend?
02:04:20.000 You don't remember?
02:04:22.000 I don't know.
02:04:23.000 It could have been the 90s, could have been the 2000s.
02:04:25.000 It was.
02:04:26.000 Probably 2000.
02:04:27.000 2014 and 2021.
02:04:29.000 2014 was the first one, follow up 2021.
02:04:29.000 What is it?
02:04:32.000 Oh, so 2021 is recent.
02:04:34.000 Yeah.
02:04:35.000 It was, yeah, fairly recent.
02:04:37.000 Yeah.
02:04:38.000 The first one was on the New York Times bestseller.
02:04:41.000 Wow.
02:04:43.000 I sign them all the time, you know, fans bring them and that.
02:04:45.000 But, yeah, I like writing.
02:04:50.000 I'm writing something now, but it's just something that I do when I'm not writing songs, you know, I kind of gravitate towards that.
02:04:58.000 I've got to be doing something.
02:04:59.000 And it was.
02:05:00.000 Like, I take a guitar to the beach.
02:05:02.000 We go to Bora Bora, and I take a little guitar when I sit on the beach because I can't just sit on the beach.
02:05:09.000 It feels like kind of wasted time.
02:05:14.000 That's wild.
02:05:15.000 I do relax, but I've got to have a guitar or I've got to be doing something, either writing or, you know, whatever.
02:05:21.000 And when you write, do you write longhand?
02:05:23.000 Do you write with a.
02:05:24.000 No, I write on a computer.
02:05:25.000 You write on a computer, yeah.
02:05:25.000 Yeah.
02:05:26.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:05:26.000 And that's the thing.
02:05:27.000 Like, I have a bunch of Beatle lyrics, handwritten Beatle lyrics, right?
02:05:33.000 And.
02:05:34.000 They don't exist anymore because everyone writes on the computer.
02:05:38.000 I have Jesse's Girl.
02:05:39.000 I have the original paper that I wrote Jesse's Girl on.
02:05:44.000 What are you doing with that?
02:05:45.000 Is it framed?
02:05:46.000 No, I've got it in a closet somewhere.
02:05:48.000 Really?
02:05:49.000 Oh, God, you should frame that.
02:05:49.000 Yeah.
02:05:51.000 Yeah, I probably should.
02:05:53.000 Yeah, I have all my songs, really.
02:05:56.000 The ones that made it and the ones that didn't, I have them all.
02:05:59.000 So I got interested in that and I started collecting Beatle lyrics because I love that moment of creation.
02:06:05.000 How did you get those?
02:06:08.000 I have a friend who trades, he's the guy that validates them all for Christie's and for Sotheby's and all the big auction houses.
02:06:23.000 And he knows where all the bodies are buried.
02:06:25.000 So I collect stuff like you obviously do.
02:06:28.000 I have the Titanic number two lifeboat plaque that says SS Titanic on it.
02:06:35.000 And it's in a show now in Branson or somewhere.
02:06:39.000 We rented it out.
02:06:42.000 Wow.
02:06:42.000 I loved collecting stuff.
02:06:43.000 I have robots and all 50s robots.
02:06:47.000 Well, there's something about collecting something like Beatles lyrics that you know were written by the Beatles.
02:06:53.000 Their hand touched that paper and wrote.
02:06:55.000 That down.
02:06:56.000 No, as a huge fan, it's very powerful stuff.
02:06:59.000 The coolest one I have is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
02:07:02.000 Wow.
02:07:03.000 Which they both have written on it, which it didn't happen much, you know, mostly they wrote their own songs, you know.
02:07:10.000 But they both got their hand in this, and there's even Wednesday Morning at 9 o'clock written at the bottom, too, for the first line from She's Leaving Home.
02:07:18.000 But Paul did a drawing of the Sgt. Pepper cover when he still pictured it as them in Victorian.
02:07:27.000 You know, with curtains.
02:07:29.000 That was his original idea.
02:07:30.000 And there's a drawing of that.
02:07:32.000 And there's a drawing of Rocking Horse People, which is really good.
02:07:35.000 Because they were really good artists, him and John.
02:07:39.000 And that's really cool.
02:07:41.000 It's got a lot of mojo, you know, that looks like there's time been spent on it.
02:07:46.000 What was the origin of Lucy and this guy with diamonds?
02:07:48.000 Wasn't that supposedly about LSD?
02:07:50.000 No, no.
02:07:51.000 It's not.
02:07:51.000 It was a room, but it was a painting that actually Dave Gilmore owns.
02:07:57.000 David Gilmore owns the painting that Julian Lennon.
02:08:02.000 Did of a painting that a girl, Lucy, his friend at school who recently passed away, but he brought it home and his dad said, What's that?
02:08:13.000 And Julian said, There's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
02:08:16.000 And John took that and it just happened to be almost, you know, an anagram for LSD, which is crazy.
02:08:22.000 But it's one of the millions of things that happened in the Beatles' lives that you went, That didn't really happen.
02:08:28.000 They had to manufacture that.
02:08:30.000 But no, it really friggin' happened and that's part of what made them.
02:08:34.000 You know, almost like angels that it was just so supposed to be.
02:08:38.000 And that was one of the things.
02:08:39.000 And it was, but everyone thought it was LSD because Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
02:08:43.000 Right, right, right.
02:08:44.000 But it was really about the painting that Julian did.
02:08:47.000 And John just took it and, you know, he was doing drugs at the time.
02:08:53.000 And, but he really loved Lewis Carroll.
02:08:55.000 And it's really what it is Lewis Carroll is the lyrics are Lewis Carroll.
02:09:01.000 Wow.
02:09:02.000 Wow, that's crazy.
02:09:03.000 But Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice in Wonderland.
02:09:06.000 And Alice in Wonderland was also about LSD.
02:09:11.000 I don't know.
02:09:11.000 I mean, I think there was a lot of influence.
02:09:13.000 Yeah, the caterpillar was probably high, you know, and I don't know how much, how aware that they all were then, but I know that the Beatle, John loved him and loved his writing.
02:09:24.000 And he would, I mean, I'm sure he had a wink in there somewhere about being dope, you know, but or.
02:09:30.000 Well, there was all these substances.
02:09:32.000 What's that?
02:09:33.000 There was all these substances.
02:09:34.000 Yeah, yeah, sure.
02:09:36.000 Oh, he was, yeah, there were definitely, you know, High at the time and high a lot of the time.
02:09:36.000 Yeah.
02:09:41.000 Yeah.
02:09:42.000 But they had that talent.
02:09:43.000 And, you know, a lot of people think that, yeah, all of the drugs, but it wasn't.
02:09:49.000 It was they had the talent, but the drugs just maybe took that talent somewhere that they maybe wouldn't have gone if they hadn't have done the drugs.
02:09:57.000 But it wasn't drugs that make people creative.
02:10:01.000 It's what they have inside them that the drug, you know, frees whatever resistance there is.
02:10:08.000 It was the talent, and it was also the volume.
02:10:11.000 Have you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers?
02:10:16.000 No.
02:10:16.000 Well, one of the things it talks about is it just talks about it's a great book.
02:10:20.000 And one of the things in the book, it talks about why something became extraordinary.
02:10:26.000 And he talks about the Beatles.
02:10:27.000 And what the Beatles did, they were in Hamburg and they got a gig.
02:10:33.000 I think it was at a strip club.
02:10:35.000 And so they were like playing every night, like five, six hours a night, six days a week.
02:10:41.000 And they were constantly playing.
02:10:43.000 And so they did this for a couple of years and then they went back to Liverpool.
02:10:46.000 And everyone was like, what the fuck happened to you guys?
02:10:49.000 They were just tight.
02:10:51.000 They were just so locked in and so good that that's when they really became the Beatles.
02:10:56.000 And it's just volume.
02:10:57.000 It's where he came up with the concept of 10,000 hours to achieve mastery and something.
02:11:02.000 Right.
02:11:03.000 I've heard that, yeah.
02:11:04.000 And I mean, they're a great example of that.
02:11:05.000 It's just an incredible amount of volume of work.
02:11:08.000 It's like Robert Johnson, too.
02:11:10.000 He was an okay guitar player and he went away like for a year or something and came back and suddenly he was just.
02:11:18.000 Amazing slide player, you know, Crossroads.
02:11:21.000 Yes, and that's why everybody thought he sold the soul to the devil.
02:11:24.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:11:25.000 And it just happened, you know, but they, I don't know if they realized they were wood shedding for the great moment, but that's absolutely what they were doing.
02:11:34.000 I think they were just doing it to stay alive.
02:11:37.000 It was just, it wasn't paying much.
02:11:37.000 Yeah.
02:11:39.000 It was just, I mean, they're working at a strip club.
02:11:41.000 Paul, yeah.
02:11:42.000 One of the greatest bass players of all time, he said, I got lumbered with the bass because he was a guitar player and Stuart Sutcliffe was the bass player, right?
02:11:51.000 And he fell in love with.
02:11:53.000 Astrid, what's her name, who gave them the haircuts.
02:11:55.000 And he said, I'm leaving the band.
02:11:57.000 And they said, and John said, I'm not playing bass.
02:12:01.000 And George said, I'm not playing bass.
02:12:02.000 And so Paul said, I guess I'll play it.
02:12:05.000 So he got the Beatle, found the Beatle bass in Germany.
02:12:08.000 And there's a photo where you can see it in the still on this case up against the wall where they're playing.
02:12:14.000 And he's playing the piano in the strip club.
02:12:17.000 And what he became, you know, with that is just freaking unbelievable.
02:12:22.000 Incredible.
02:12:23.000 Yeah.
02:12:23.000 It's just a, It's just so strange how, after the fact, you go back and look back on all the different events that had to take place in order for them to become the Beatles.
02:12:34.000 And many bands would become what they became.
02:12:38.000 It's just so fascinating to me to see that.
02:12:40.000 I think everyone's life has that.
02:12:43.000 You can look back.
02:12:44.000 Like I look at my marriage.
02:12:46.000 I've been married for 42 years now.
02:12:49.000 And I was in Australia, and my wife was over here in Beloit, Wisconsin.
02:12:54.000 And I went to England and she moved to California and I went back to Australia and she moved back to Beloit and I came over here and I happened to hook up with a manager at Sound City.
02:13:04.000 And at the same time, she happened to meet this woman who she liked her accent.
02:13:08.000 She was an English woman and she became friends and she worked at Sound City.
02:13:12.000 So Barbara came in to work at Sound City and I met her there.
02:13:15.000 And, you know, there's all these I mean, it happened in everybody's life and it's just amazing that we have successful lives.
02:13:25.000 It all seems like it's meant to be, but I always wonder if that's like.
02:13:29.000 Just you're looking back and you're looking for a pattern why it makes sense.
02:13:34.000 You're just tracing what happened by happenstance, you know.
02:13:38.000 Yeah.
02:13:39.000 But that it ended up in a good way, you know?
02:13:43.000 Well, it seems like whenever anyone has had an extraordinary life, there's always this fortuitous series of events that take place that enable this to just become what it became.
02:13:56.000 Yeah.
02:13:57.000 And I think, you know, you said a lot of it's luck, but the luck happens when you stay in the game.
02:14:04.000 And I think that is the core of it, staying in the game.
02:14:09.000 So that, you know, when the moments happen, that you are ready.
02:14:15.000 It's certainly not just luck.
02:14:17.000 No, no, it's certainly a lot of other aspects.
02:14:18.000 You've got to be ready.
02:14:19.000 I mean, you've got to woodshed.
02:14:20.000 You've got to have your craft down.
02:14:22.000 Yeah.
02:14:22.000 You've got to be competent.
02:14:25.000 Yeah.
02:14:25.000 You've got to have something to offer.
02:14:27.000 And you've got to be able to believe in yourself enough to perform when the moment is there.
02:14:31.000 And that's this daunting for a lot of people the anxiety of it all is very.
02:14:37.000 I played with my back to the audience for the first.
02:14:40.000 Three months of being in the first band I was ever in.
02:14:43.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:14:43.000 Really?
02:14:44.000 Why?
02:14:45.000 I was nervous.
02:14:46.000 You know, I was a blues band.
02:14:49.000 I mean, I kind of was raised, my guitar playing was based on, you know, because of Clapton and all those guys, was based on a lot of the blues players, B.B. King and, you know, all the early players.
02:15:02.000 And I was in a blues band.
02:15:03.000 And I was like 15, and they were like 25.
02:15:06.000 And one of them had been in prison.
02:15:08.000 It was a really rough group.
02:15:09.000 One of them had been in prison, and there was one guy that had been in prison a couple of times, and it all We're the kind of guys that would go to pubs in the weekend and go out and fight, which is an Australian tradition.
02:15:20.000 It's the only place I've ever been where you go into the men's restroom and there's a sign that says, This is what you do if your buddy gets into a fight.
02:15:29.000 Like in every bathroom.
02:15:31.000 So I'd play, and I was shy.
02:15:34.000 They were all like, seemed like adults to me.
02:15:37.000 And they went to my mom and they said, Why does Richard play with these backs to the audience?
02:15:42.000 My mom goes, Oh, he's probably shy.
02:15:47.000 And they accepted that.
02:15:48.000 Eventually, I turned around.
02:15:51.000 Do you remember the first day you turned around?
02:15:53.000 No, I wish I did, but it must have been a girl or something.
02:15:57.000 I'm sure it was.
02:15:59.000 Wow.
02:16:00.000 I was the last virgin in the band, too, being the youngest.
02:16:04.000 And believe me, did they give me shit because of that?
02:16:09.000 I'm sure.
02:16:11.000 Listen, man, you've had a hell of a life.
02:16:13.000 It's just awesome to see you out there kicking ass.
02:16:15.000 It really is.
02:16:16.000 Like that video of you that went viral with your shirt off singing Jesse's Girl, that pumped me up.
02:16:23.000 I watched it.
02:16:23.000 Great.
02:16:24.000 I was like, fuck yeah, good for him.
02:16:26.000 Look how good he looks.
02:16:27.000 Like, this is kind of crazy.
02:16:29.000 I just love, I love, first of all, that the passion that you had for singing that song was really like it was a new song.
02:16:37.000 And the fact that you've been, I mean, you've been singing that song for how many fucking years, man?
02:16:41.000 40, what?
02:16:44.000 46 years?
02:16:45.000 Yeah, that's closer to the end of World War II than it is now.
02:16:51.000 That's crazy.
02:16:52.000 That's crazy.
02:16:56.000 And she is probably in her early, late 60s now.
02:17:03.000 Wow.
02:17:04.000 The girl I wrote it about.
02:17:06.000 Who is the girl that you wrote it about?
02:17:07.000 Well, I never learned her name.
02:17:09.000 She was at a stained glass class.
02:17:11.000 It was one of those moments where I was between record deals.
02:17:14.000 And I always wanted to do things with my hand.
02:17:19.000 I would make things out of clay.
02:17:20.000 I was making mirrors out of clay, like sci fi things, and selling them at the local swap meet.
02:17:28.000 And I started thinking about stained glass, and I thought, I could support my family doing stained glass, which was bullshit.
02:17:37.000 I went to this class and there was this girl and she was hot.
02:17:42.000 It was just another girl that I found hot.
02:17:45.000 And she had a boyfriend there and I would try and chat with her.
02:17:48.000 I never really had chat with girls.
02:17:49.000 That's one of the reasons the guitar really helped there.
02:17:53.000 I never could go up and go, hey, babe.
02:17:58.000 I was never that guy.
02:18:01.000 And I tried to talk to her and she didn't want anything to do with me because she had a boyfriend.
02:18:05.000 So I went home and wrote about her in this song.
02:18:07.000 His name was Gary.
02:18:10.000 And I tried Gary and didn't sing.
02:18:13.000 So I tried Randy and that didn't sing right either.
02:18:17.000 So I ended up with Jesse and that seemed to work.
02:18:20.000 Wow.
02:18:22.000 But yeah, Oprah went looking for her actually.
02:18:27.000 She was looking for the women behind the songs and they found the stained glass guy and he died two years before and they'd thrown all the paperwork out a year after that.
02:18:37.000 Wow.
02:18:39.000 But they could have found her.
02:18:40.000 But I'd be wild to meet her.
02:18:40.000 They missed her.
02:18:42.000 I don't know if I'd recognize her now.
02:18:44.000 I remember.
02:18:45.000 Her, what she looked like, but I wonder if she loved that song.
02:18:50.000 No, yeah, I mean, she had no idea.
02:18:51.000 She has no idea it was about her.
02:18:53.000 No one's ever come up and said, That was me, right?
02:18:56.000 That's crazy.
02:18:58.000 Wow.
02:19:00.000 Well, listen, man, it's been awesome meeting you.
02:19:02.000 I really enjoyed this very much.
02:19:02.000 Yeah, it's been great.
02:19:04.000 Thank you very much.
02:19:05.000 And thanks for everything and congratulations.
02:19:07.000 Thank you.
02:19:08.000 And you're a bad motherfucker.
02:19:10.000 All right.
02:19:12.000 Go see Rick Springfield in concert, ladies and gentlemen.
02:19:15.000 He's still out there kicking ass.
02:19:16.000 I love it.
02:19:17.000 All right.
02:19:18.000 Thank you very much.
02:19:19.000 Bye, everybody.