[SPEAKER_04]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Ed, good to see you again.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now he'll be here quietly with us, we will start the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: T-M-O-S, classic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Friday, flashback.

[SPEAKER_04]: We were talking earlier this week on the show, we were talking about nostalgia.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I know you have been chomping to get to the bonus show because you wanted to talk about your Ringo experience where you, uh,

[SPEAKER_04]: I've sought Ringo star perform and you were telling me also that it was not just a the Ringo show.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not the Beatles guy.

[SPEAKER_03]: You are in my top four of all the Beatles.

[SPEAKER_04]: The you you like Ringo star and you know, it's it's the staff.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will say this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I saw Ringo on TV recently and he looks remarkably well preserved.

[SPEAKER_04]: 78.

[SPEAKER_04]: He said he's a V8.

[SPEAKER_04]: 80 years already still has that kind of unringer.

[SPEAKER_04]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did he look good at the concert?

[SPEAKER_03]: He looked fantastic.

[SPEAKER_03]: We went to a place here in DC called Wolftrap and every every city has a place like this where it's an open pavilion on a hill so you can buy lawn seats or pavilion seats, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of people do like a picnic type deal.

[SPEAKER_03]: We lucked out.

[SPEAKER_03]: We got two tickets last row of the pavilion which doesn't sound great except it was because they weren't the built in seats.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were folding chairs so we had miles of

[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'll see.

[SPEAKER_03]: So the seats were perfect.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ringo comes out.

[SPEAKER_03]: He looks fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's energetic.

[SPEAKER_04]: I give a man who has died his hair for that long.

[SPEAKER_04]: And amazing amount of credit is he still have the jet black.

[SPEAKER_04]: He does.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, even Paul has even begged off on that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Paul went from red to light gray.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, Paul is sort of sort of gray-ish.

[SPEAKER_03]: But Ringo still looks like Harry Blackstone.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's funny, but I mean, he looked, I looked at him.

[SPEAKER_03]: I told him to do it's almost 80 years old.

[SPEAKER_03]: He looked fantastic and energetic and fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you talked about the way he puts his show together, which is brilliant.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's a really cool thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: So tell us what you're doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I went into it not knowing what to expect.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's been doing it for 30 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he's that sound right.

[SPEAKER_03]: The All-Star Band.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I've just never got a chance where it worked out that I went.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I've seen Paul a lot of times.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the first thing I noticed when I get to the place,

[SPEAKER_03]: is there's a different atmosphere, it's more relaxed.

[SPEAKER_03]: When you go to a Paul McCartney show, there's almost attention in the air because, you know, oh my god, this is people say, this is our Mozart, this is Paul McCartney.

[SPEAKER_03]: He can do no wrong, he's money, it's Paul McCartney.

[SPEAKER_03]: But everyone at Ringo is just like, hey, you know what, we're going to have a show tonight and it's cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's very relaxed, he comes out and he surrounds himself, everyone on stage with him.

[SPEAKER_03]: has had hit records and it's a tight band.

[SPEAKER_03]: Of course there's Ringo.

[SPEAKER_03]: He drums.

[SPEAKER_03]: He sings also on stage with him is we talked about it on the regular show today.

[SPEAKER_03]: His name is Greg Raleigh.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was one of the founding members of Santana and we hear the early Santana music.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's the keyboardist and the singer.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he's on stage.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is a guy that was on stage at Woodstock and now he's playing with Ringo's star today.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you hear, you know, Santana, it's a credential.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, of course.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he also

[SPEAKER_03]: So he's had an amazing career.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then on stage with him, one of the most amazing guitars of our time, Steve Lucasher from Toto.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I would never go see Toto in concert.

[SPEAKER_04]: But they sell the the all-star bit going into the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: You just discovered.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, so he goes, because remember when we saw down in New Orleans, the Northwest,

[SPEAKER_04]: Airlines all star band and they had a bunch of different people that were I love the concept the concept is incredible because these are Virtuastic all of these people could carry a show on their own Mike, I thought of you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know we both love the average white band and we have one of the horn players Freddy V who calls the show sometime

[SPEAKER_03]: But the first lead guitarist of the average white band is named Hammish Stewart.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's up there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so he sings in plays lead guitar.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was cool for me, because I love them when I was in sixth grade, men at work, Colin Hay, the lead singer of men at work, is there play that B, exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then the other thing that was so cool is that they've got a drum rub there and named Greg Bisonette.

[SPEAKER_03]: He was David Lee Roth's drummer, and he's played session work for everybody, because Ringo doesn't drum on every record.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he's up there and he's like a band leader.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hit after hit after hit I just want to run down the playlist of all the music we heard and you're your headlspin because you You never got a chance to get bored.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was so cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: They open up and they play the the Beatles song matchbox So you know the band comes out and there's a a small rhythm of applause and then ladies and gentlemen Ringo star and Ringo comes out and sings matchbox

[SPEAKER_03]: Now he's that a deep cut for the Beatles that is, but it's you see Ringo didn't sing a lot for the Beatles So there's not many things on this one on a Beatles.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is this is one of his signature Beatles if you get a boner when the Beatles is on screen You scream because this is this is the this is song, you know completely

[SPEAKER_03]: And what was so cool about it is that it is a little obscure.

[SPEAKER_03]: You wouldn't think about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the kind of song that when we were on the way to the show.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said to my mom, I'm sure he's going to sing matchbox and we laugh.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha no one knows matchbox and it's his opening song.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that was awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you got excited.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And right away I realize the band is on point.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and the sound is great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Man, it was fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then they go in and he does one of his solo records, which I'm sure you'll recognize.

[SPEAKER_03]: He had a really good post-beadles career, especially the amazing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like the five or six years after the Beatles broke, this big number one hit for him.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so, and now I'm realizing because this is not a three-quarter called Perkins record.

[SPEAKER_03]: This band has got to go in on because all these people, they're not only playing their instruments, they're singing back up.

[SPEAKER_03]: They've got the rhythm right.

[SPEAKER_04]: They've got a big bunch of backup singers too.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, that's the thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a league band.

[SPEAKER_03]: They all sing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's like seeing a really tight bar band, except they've sold 400 million records between them.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so neat.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to sing with those, then you know it don't come easy.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then he goes into another sort of a Beatles deep pet.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think this is from rubber sole, but it's a country flavor record.

[SPEAKER_04]: So at this point I wouldn't know this one.

[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't that this one I would not know but at this point I could I could say you know what I could go home now I saw be the S.R.A.

[SPEAKER_03]: Beetle sing three songs.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is great But little do I know what's about to happen because then he introduces this guy Greg Raleigh who was with San Tana and he's in front of an vintage keyboard and Just imagine why you know we're already thinking about woodstock and we're surrounded by all these people great crowd M&B three with a Leslie cabinet

[SPEAKER_03]: likely it I couldn't see because I was not but tell you when I hear it but no then this starts to fill the sound of the of the air of the night tell me this isn't great

[SPEAKER_04]: You got it, then, I bet.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then, the way, my band, the crap loose band, played this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Really?

[SPEAKER_04]: He played this, yep.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he's a... One of my, when I was absolutely in the middle of the band experience that I had and I was playing this, this was one of the most fun jam records that we'd played.

[SPEAKER_04]: And by the way, it is a great jam record.

[SPEAKER_04]: What makes a great jam record?

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey, did you just start going nuts?

[SPEAKER_03]: I love music, but I've never been in a band.

[SPEAKER_03]: What makes a great jam record is that the loose construction of it or loose construction and the fact that you get, when you get to the, hey, hey, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then everybody just goes off the aircraft carrier and you start having a great time, but that's cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm sure he knew what he was doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my God, and the thing is is that he, I would think after 50 years and probably a pretty rough 50 years, he still sounds the same.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, his voice is recognizable, which was what he looked.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like you are all these guys are probably north of 70 he would almost have to be because he played at woods with the Choto guide as necessarily have to be I would say he's probably close to 70 though close to 70 but I mean if you were on stage it would stock and that's 50 years ago You got to be over 70 so then he throws it over to yeah, so I mean

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a Hammond Beatrice.

[SPEAKER_04]: So great with a Leslie Kim.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's the kind of, there were so many moments at this concert where you can feel the hair on your arm stand up because you're hearing something.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I would be right here on the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't expect it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That'd be awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'd be, uh, I get what you're saying.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm with you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm with you on this.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then there's another, the other, oh, and then he throws it over to Steve Lucifer.

[SPEAKER_03]: And, I mean, again,

[SPEAKER_03]: If I can go into this one, yes, if I could just have three total records, I'm good.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I need.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't need any filler.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just play the hits, man.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it sounded just like this.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that would be, so you're playing this because you have told me, this is like one of the best concerts you've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was probably the most fun I've ever had at a concert.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is going to make me seem like a weirdo, but

[SPEAKER_04]: When you go see Paul McCrudney, there's like pressure because it's such a big deal.

[SPEAKER_04]: You keep talking about that as far as the it's more fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you get the vibe when you go to a McCartney concert that everybody's there to kind of like see the I full-tower.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I do a little bit.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: They're doing it because it's a moment shh, all's playing or something like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: And veryably when you leave the Paul concert, you had a great time and it's a very special thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: But

[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell a story.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know my buddy, Pat House.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're good friends with him.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, House Pat doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's doing good.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's just recently married.

[SPEAKER_03]: Congratulations, Pat.

[SPEAKER_03]: But one time we were going to a Paul concert together and we were on the way and he got real quiet.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said, what's the matter?

[SPEAKER_03]: He says, I'm sad.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said, why?

[SPEAKER_03]: He said, in four hours it's going to be over.

[SPEAKER_04]: I said, it hasn't started yet.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's the kind of pressure that you know a mega fan you get the McCartney thing Yeah, you lose me with a little bit with that, but I get this when you're hearing songs that you wouldn't expect to have exactly and I didn't know I purposely didn't You know that it was gonna be the guy from Toto and the guy from San Francisco No, I knew that he's around you didn't know that until you walked into the class and I also didn't know that they were all gonna play their hits Right, I knew that he was surrounded by famous musicians, but I thought we're gonna you know go through a

[SPEAKER_03]: So how was the live version of Rosanna?

[SPEAKER_03]: It was sounded like Rosanna.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: And his guitar work is amazing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'm still not knowing who everyone is and they introduce epic.

[SPEAKER_03]: And my, this guitar riff is everybody's important as the sacks.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And when they go into this, your neck just, the hair and your neck stands up now because of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's just such tight.

[SPEAKER_04]: while with the records that they are doing on say, and did they have a horn player?

[SPEAKER_03]: They have a guy up there.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's played with Donna Summer, Olivia Newton, John.

[SPEAKER_03]: He actually was a founding member of Blood Rock back in the day.

[SPEAKER_03]: His name is Warren Ham, but they only had one sacks, but I think they doubled it.

[SPEAKER_03]: They have an electronic dubler on the processing.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it sounded just like the record.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is when the moment when I looked up and I said, this is almost surreal, because this is how long I've loved my entire life.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Ringo is drumming on it, which is weird, because it's not Ringo's band!

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so, so cool!

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I get it, I get it.

[SPEAKER_03]: They go to the next guy, and he's playing League of Tar over there, and one of my favorite songs.

[SPEAKER_03]: I remember when I bought the album in sixth grade, and this guy that was just a minute ago, playing saxophone, picks up a flute, plays the flute lead, and Paul and Hay sings this record.

[SPEAKER_04]: Senate like the record.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: His voice is exactly the same.

[SPEAKER_05]: TEMOS classic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Are you getting a vibe when you're at this concert that people are experiencing it like you are that they're saying?

[SPEAKER_04]: I do.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is really pretty spectacular stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting...

[SPEAKER_04]: He's getting money.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's worth, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I worth.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I believe me.

[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't pay McCartney prices.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Paul's expense.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it won't bore the hell out of me.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you know there's it's you're right Paul would bore you and that's why I think this is a concert better suited to you by the way What you or do here's why I'm letting you do this okay?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not letting you do whatever you want right, but the reason I'm into it too

[SPEAKER_04]: What you're doing here is describing a concert that more concerts ought to be.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're exactly right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because I'm not somebody who will sit there in an, and I know listen, I know I'm alone on this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe I'm not with a lot of people.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm not one that can get into listening to one album.

[SPEAKER_04]: All afternoon, I'd rather hear bounce around the iPod and this is for the iPod generation that you're playing hit and to do this and the surprise people I think it's a pretty cool, I'm given the Pats off to Ringo.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that's a pretty cool thing as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know, bring it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then he does he does a couple Beatles songs for us.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is one that they did I believe on the Ed Sullivan show.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was his show number when the Beatles first got together.

[SPEAKER_03]: So for a fan, this was big.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he's also drumming and singing which is really cool to watch because you realize he's been doing this for 60 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, he just get behind a kit and do it awesome.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then he gets up from his kit and he walks over to a piano and plays horribly.

[SPEAKER_03]: And sings the first part of this from the White Album.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I mean, he really, he sucks on piano.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he's having so much fun with it, that he sits down and he plays this horrible lead like this.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, you know, bum, bum, bum, bum, and he sings the first part of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's why Ringo needs to have these people around him.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly, well, you can't.

[SPEAKER_04]: As Ringo done concerts like this for a long time.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: About 30 years.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had the talent in people, but then he sings the first verse and then the entire band kicks in and it's fantastic because, you know, again, big guitars and just big sound and little voice, but very recognizable, then we get to a moment that

[SPEAKER_03]: is another chilling moment because it's such a part of my childhood and my entire life when he says, I'm going to do any song you want.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do any song you want and Steve look at there starts to play the beginning of day tripper.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says, I don't do that one.

[SPEAKER_04]: So they do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: They do that mistake and then you without even any sort of any sort of fanfare he just goes into.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he was the lead voice on yellow submarine and people go out of their mind out of their mind and I mean I tear up Because you're seeing this happen right in front of you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me you know, let's talk about yellow submarine.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is a song a nostalgic song That I can understand that completely

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to because it's just such a... Well, you grab onto it as a kid.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's such a magical song for like...

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a happiness in that song that really... Well, play the hook and you get it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I look back at this song.

[SPEAKER_04]: This makes me smile.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it was so cool because they had, you know, just so together, they've sampled all the sounds, the bubbles and the chains and everything.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it sounds like the record on stage, they're projecting bubbles on a screen behind them.

[SPEAKER_03]: And the best thing is when it gets to the call and response, you're coming to Florida.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're really starting to motivate me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm actually going to go to a concert.

[SPEAKER_03]: It could be special and when they do the call and response at the end We go sky up blue and see you've got 20,000 people doing the call back to him in perfect harmony It's just a beautiful moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know you go sky up blue

[SPEAKER_03]: Sky and Blue!

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, this is normally the part of the show where I would be mocking you for your enthusiasm, but you are describing it in such a way where I get it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And as a person who is a passionate concert gore, I mean, this had to be special.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was really cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was really cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love this show, you're doing a good job of recreating it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's fantastic.

[SPEAKER_03]: So then Ringo says he's gonna take a small break and I'm gonna leave you with at least two magical moments And he said do you want magical moments?

[SPEAKER_03]: They said yeah, let's do it So he leaves the stage and Hammond Stewart is the guy from the average white band gets up and he says this was They did two nights at Wolftrap.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says it's so great to be here It seems like I haven't been here since last night It gets a good laugh and then the band goes into

[SPEAKER_03]: And the guitar is so dead on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Clean and precise, and then you had to have a horn player up there that's perfect.

[SPEAKER_04]: That has to do multiple horns.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the way that goes.

[SPEAKER_03]: And what's so important about the average white band is the way they pair the snare.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not telling you anything you don't know.

[SPEAKER_03]: The horns are paired with the drum so well.

[SPEAKER_03]: That gives it that extra punch, and to watch the eye contact from the sax player and the drummer, they are as one, and that's why the record sounds exactly right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he sings the lead and sounds fantastic.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they said, now it's time for our second magical moment of the night, and this is another one where it blows my mind because this guy was a woodstock.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he's...

[SPEAKER_03]: When the organ starts like this and it's right now, it's starting to get dark.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it just sort of fills the room and Steve Luka third can play just like Steve Luka could play like anybody.

[SPEAKER_03]: So what we've got here is the signature organ sound and the voice that's exactly right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then the guitar sounds it's like I dropped a needle on the 45.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just so great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Mano man you're describing it.

[SPEAKER_04]: What else?

[SPEAKER_04]: And they put your old guys up on stage, looking like they're having the time in their lives, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: All in very big, flowy shirts.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's about this time on Gypsy Queen when my mom looks at me, she says, they just turned it up, didn't they?

[SPEAKER_03]: I said, yeah, it's getting louder.

[SPEAKER_03]: So they turned it up, it's just great.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then, so they do that, and they do the whole jam, and it's not, sometimes when the band is up on stage, and they do a jam like that, it feels very self-indulgent, and this didn't.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was just great time.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, I'm not sure the song was ever appropriate, but it was a big hit to a good single-long record and he's having a blast with it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love this song.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're 16, you're beautiful in your mind.

[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we have an interview.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I mean another great hit record and they're all doing the back of it sounds just like the song and then But I mean you got to remember a different era, you know, but it's like God I hate that we're even having that discussion.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know maybe the singer was 16 Maybe he was talking about young love first love first love for

[SPEAKER_04]: minute work again.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, minute work.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this, he varies from the guy that's singing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and the league guitar is calling.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: So he's the guy that had that cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of sound that nobody else had.

[SPEAKER_03]: And also he is a really, I'll give him this.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's a great singer.

[SPEAKER_03]: He messes with meter and lyrics because he's having fun with it.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's okay because it's his voice, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that was fun and now you know Ringo's backup on the kit fun to watch just fun to watch Ringo drum I mean, and maybe that's me, but it's very cool because he still has the same sort of you know style It's always like Ringo drumming looks like Ringo doesn't care about drumming That's well, I don't think Ringo is cared about a lot of things for a long time But he's always like he really he is I could show you videos of where he explains it He is a left-handed drummer that plays right-handed.

[SPEAKER_03]: I believe yeah

[SPEAKER_03]: And so he's got a weird style now this made me laugh like he will go like with his left hand on the high hat Yeah, exactly that it's totally his method is totally wrong Very very interesting you would love this joke because now the guy from Toto stepped up to the mic He said I know that everybody is known one or two songs that we played here tonight and he gets a big laugh and he says But we're gonna play something new you've never heard this song before.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you like it and you hear a genuine

[SPEAKER_03]: In the audience because you know everyone always tries to put something from the new album wise I hope you like it, but you've never heard it before brand new song And the drunk starts and they play Africa if I throw it all in everyone Which is so great for him because this was it

[SPEAKER_03]: Who did they they did a cover of this last week last year we are going to cover of this which is basically like a cover band that was so accurate But it had it back on the charts again and again.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is one of those songs

[SPEAKER_03]: that it has almost like a sonic flavor to it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And when it filled the pavilion, it just sounded so good.

[SPEAKER_05]: I hear the gums echoing tonight.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're enjoying yourself, Arch.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm having a great time.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you get to go on vacation after this.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm thinking now, they've got to, they can't be anything left in their arsenal.

[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to go from this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right into the end.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, come on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-huh.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's didn't even play this.

[SPEAKER_04]: It would stock too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I believe they did.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did, I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so again, trying to wrap my head around the fact that I'm seeing something that was played at, would you give any expectations that you were going to see a show like this?

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: Where was going to be these, these, then I don't want to say they're none of them are obscure hits.

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a couple of like the Ringo's thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: But this is like,

[SPEAKER_04]: Just great stuff that everybody, I mean, these are wonderful, wonderful songs they're playing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was there to hear Ringo sing one song.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was, I mean, I said, if he, I didn't even know if he'd drum.

[SPEAKER_03]: I said, if he drums, that's great.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a bonus.

[SPEAKER_03]: But at this point, I'm out of my mind.

[SPEAKER_03]: He did a Ringo drum, there's another one that Ringo does.

[SPEAKER_03]: While he drums and sings, which is, this was from their first album, I believe.

[SPEAKER_03]: And so, you know, for me, exciting, it wouldn't mean so much to you.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I'd like to, but then you'd be right back in at Mike because they go with And that's it be now and that slot player is picked up the sacks and again is nailing the sacks at phone And the drummer is on point, but again, what sells this is the lead vocal because he sounds like this

[SPEAKER_04]: such a unique vocal.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, really such a, such a sound.

[SPEAKER_03]: You were, this is 83 or 4, I think.

[SPEAKER_03]: But you weren't on the radio yet, were you?

[SPEAKER_04]: I wasn't on the radio at WABA, but I think I've played this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I certainly tell you that 82.

[SPEAKER_04]: 82.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm getting from the research department.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's right, where it's amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's that long ago, really, really special.

[SPEAKER_03]: And again, I think they've got to be out of trick, but then they play the third total record that completes our total triumvirate.

[SPEAKER_04]: So there seems to be a theme here of three songs for every person that makes for a hell of a concert.

[SPEAKER_03]: I would think that the audition process is you go and you sit down with Ringo and he says, so if you have three hits, you're in.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're in about into the band, you get to play at three hits and then the moment that I was waiting for And as you know, I had a very emotional day because I dropped Julia off at school and my favorite song of all the Beatles Soto stuff happens and it was absolutely worth it

[SPEAKER_04]: Photogram.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, such a great song.

[SPEAKER_03]: Not a Beatles song or Ringo Ringo song.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ringo's first big hit.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and I believe it was the first big hit by any solo Beatles.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'd have to check out the question about this particular song.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why is this song special to me?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why would this song, uh, this song was on my original Connecticut School of Broadcast?

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a really audition to it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Really?

[SPEAKER_04]: Space Race by Billy Preston, photograph by Ringo Star, rock on by David Essex, of the way we were by Barbara Streisand.

[SPEAKER_04]: And these were, I had to have a variety of songs or free ride by the Edgar winner.

[SPEAKER_03]: You really did.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that was top 40 then though, too.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't remember what, you know, where the last gas station I put gas in my car is located.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I can tell you from my 1975 audition tape.

[SPEAKER_04]: This was a, these songs are all 75 or earlier.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And photograph was just such a wonderful talk-up song that I remember it well.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so they're winding down now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is, I mean, at this point, I really do have a tear rolling down my face, but this is a special song because...

[SPEAKER_03]: This is the song that Ringo sang at George Harrison's tribute concert.

[SPEAKER_03]: They did one year after George Harrison died.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's so sweet because he gets up there and he says, this song is about a loss, love, but now the meaning is so much more.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's, I always associate it with George Harrison's passing, but they go.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you got seven musicians up there and they sound like an orphan.

[SPEAKER_04]: So many people, somebody ought to send this to Ringo because I mean, this is the greatest concert promotion I have ever heard.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're probably already back in their old man houses now, but this is pretty special stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: This sounds like a great show.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then special show.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then the Ringo does two closers were winding up.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is his Buck Owens cover, and probably his most famous Beatles vocal.

[SPEAKER_03]: After Yellow Submarine, but this is a fun one.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is on the Help Soundtrack originally, not from the movie Buck Owens.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then the moment we've all been waiting for, he steps up to the microphone and he does not disappear.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know what's coming.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I got to say that what they did was very cool is they actually did start with the band singing Billy Sheers like they do have to start to put the album

[SPEAKER_05]: What would you think if I said you got into, would you stand up to walk out?

[SPEAKER_03]: And as I'm looking, I can see the entire house under the pavilion, because I'm in the back row.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're swaying like muppets.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're in such perfect synchronization.

[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone is having me.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is the best description of a concert I've ever heard in my natural life.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is so cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is really, really, that's got to be, man, what a, I mean, and what was the total time frame on the, uh, the concert?

[SPEAKER_03]: I'd say about maybe just under two hours, no intermission, perfect.

[SPEAKER_04]: right out of sight, not a down moment the entire show and who to funk it, who to funk right now, Franco got up there and tried to do his own stuff and be a sleep fest.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you know, I mean, because you can't sustain that on a he's known that he knows show business smart the kind of guy Ringo is smart guy he knows how to entertain you know this sounds like one of the more you know entertaining and really to me a much better concept than when you're bringing out REO Speedwagon and

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_03]: I really didn't find it in Chicago.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, they always started getting, bring the pieces together, put it, put out a great sound and recreate the songs.

[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to recreate the bands in their entirety.

[SPEAKER_04]: You recreate the songs in a masterful way.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's a formula that I'd love to see.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I hope to see more artists do.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought of you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought of you because when we stumbled into that all-star show at the Super Bowl, that Northwest Air all-star show.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that was just the one-off.

[SPEAKER_04]: You remember the song they were playing when we walked through the doors?

[SPEAKER_03]: It was foreigner, wasn't it?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it was.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, God, is it feels like the first time?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: You remember, that was a moment.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was great.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, who the fun that we would be playing on that stage, you know, later on?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: New Orleans live show.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was great.

[SPEAKER_03]: But anyway, so that was it was an amazing show and then they on court.

[SPEAKER_03]: They all came out and they sang give piece of chance and it was just a lovely lovely evening I don't know why I waited so long to see Ringo.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think in the back of my head I was worried that it might be disappointing and you don't want that and when in fact it made it 20 times better So if you come to the website, I'm gonna find out where he's going.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's that's awesome Now here's the most amazing Beatles fact that I can give you of the day though Maddie hates the Beatles

[SPEAKER_04]: Maddie, what did you think of that?

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I'm very curious, because I am, you know that I'm not, if I'm five minutes into that, and I think Rob's providing us with a sleep fest, I did not know what was coming with that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought he was gonna talk about his concert.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know that he was gonna spend the bulk of the show talking about it, but I was there.

[SPEAKER_04]: What were your feelings in that the way that was presented?

[SPEAKER_01]: The variety of it did sound amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like a show that I would even be a part of and enjoy.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I did it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't eat the recap.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for not hating the recap, Maddie.

[SPEAKER_03]: Would you get a beer when Ringo was singing or what would happen?

[SPEAKER_01]: I would get a beer for every song.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's it, that's it, that's it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Mike O'Marrow, radio entertainment.