June 24, 2023 • 19 mins
Rick talks to musicians Garry Peterson, drummer from The Guess Who, and Bill Medley, singer from the Righteous Brothers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment.
Welcome back to Sports Byline USA, coast to coast, border
to border, and around the world on the American Forces
Radio Network. You remember the guests Who, These guys and
(00:22):
American women and so many other hits. They are one
of the great rock and roll bands of all time.
They were formed in the sixties and they're still going.
They have a new studio album coming up called Plein d'amore,
and the big single on that is called Headline and
joining us still rocking and rolling at his age, Gary Peterson,
(00:45):
the drummer of the guests, Who Gary is when you
got started as a kid? You did you think you
would still have this going on so long?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well? I actually started playing in nineteen forty nine when
I was four year years old, wow, which was way
before the guess who. But no, in answer to your
question seventy two years later, I did not project that
far into the future. But I'm very fortunate to have,
(01:21):
you know, lived through all the history of the band
and now been given the opportunity to create some more
new music to add to that legacy.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Tell us about the new album, because you know a
lot of times bands, like anything in life, they're fluid.
They can change, they can grow, they can evolve, but
sometimes you know that same sort of guess who sound
stays with it. So how is the new album?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, you know, first of all, I have to compliment
you on your pronunciation. Of all the interviews I've been doing,
your the only one that's pronounced the album planned the
Mower correctly. So that's great for you. But you know,
I've got the same feeling right now as I had
when we first started putting together the band and doing
(02:16):
our very first albums. It seems to be it took
a long time to get this group of musicians together
talent wise and personality wise, and it just seems like
it's for me, it's a dejavou situation. It's recycling in
(02:38):
the same way that it did before. I'm not saying
we may have the same success, but the feeling of
doing it is the same for me. And I never
thought at my age, which I'm now seventy eight and
still on the road, I didn't think I would be.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Doing this.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
When you go back. I mean, it's interesting how we
think about Motown and La even here in San Francisco,
New York, places where you know, London, hotbeds of music, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
and thinking about getting this band together. And of course
the great Randy Bachman was in that at the at
the very beginning before he left to go into bto.
(03:23):
But what was going on in Winnipeg in those days?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, so let me ask you, Christian, you just laid
out where it's from. What are the what are the
odds of that happening? I know, I know it's crazy. However,
Winnipeg was a hotbed of musical activity. I mean Neil
(03:48):
Young used to come and pick up my brother to
go and play with him when I was playing with
Chad All and the Expressions which became the Guest Who.
So there was there was a lot of music being
played live in Winnipeg. And so maybe that's the answer
to why that happened. But who knows. I mean, we
(04:12):
were we just kept doing what we were doing. And
we met Jack Richardson, our producer from Toronto, and he
took us to New York City to do a recording
session at a and R Studios, which was owned by
Phil Ramone, and out that came These Eyes in the
(04:34):
We'd Feel Full album. So you know, you just have
to keep working and you never know where the path
is going to lead you. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think about you know who your influences would be,
and guys like John Bonham and Keith Moon those were
contemporaries of yours. So would it be like, do you
take it back to Buddy Rich or like a Ginger Baker.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I met Buddy Rich when I was nine years old
in Winnipeg, so he signed a snare drug head to me.
So yeah, my musical experience goes back to jazz a
big band way before rock ever came in. However, then
I met Randy Bachman in playing little league baseball in
(05:20):
high school and he said, let's play our music of
our era, and so I said, I'm in, you know,
and that's the way that started. And who knows who
knew that we'd again sixty somewhat. I think it's going
to be sixty three years. I've been in this band
and doing a new album called Plan de Moore. I'm
(05:43):
one of the most fortunate guys in the world, and
I'm still learning to be a good rock drummer like
Ringo Starr and Charlie Watt and all the other great drummers.
I'm still trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Learn American Woman. You guys are Canadian. So was there
a little bit of truth behind that American women stay
away from Me?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know? It was a jam on stage, and I
think what came out that night when we first did that,
it was just like we started playing and what came
out came out and it developed. I think it's like
any painting or poetry that people write. It's in the
(06:29):
eye of the beholder. So what you get out of
it is I don't think no one sat down and
wrote those lyrics with any kind of thought. They just
came out and every night we would play. Once the
first night we played it, the crowd went wild and
(06:50):
we kept it in the show. We said, we have
to keep this in the show, and it kind of
morphed like the telephone game, and then we finally went
in and recorded it in the studio. I mean, there's
no there's no hidden meaning behind it, other than there
might be comments on what we saw going on around
(07:14):
us in the United States at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Gotcha, I know you got to run. So one more
question for you nowadays I'm cool, Yeah, yeah, I mean
I'm in the seventies. I would buy forty fives. That's
how I got my singles. But now you got Apple
Music and Spotify. I know you've already racked up over
one hundred thousand streams just to see the music industry
from when you started off with like forty fives, I
(07:39):
mean with seventy seventy eight's was at it back in
the day and now yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's it's entirely different. I mean, we used we would
record an album and then we would go on tour
to sell that album. Today you put out an album
to get to dates. It's totally backwards. And this new
(08:04):
album we're putting out, we've already put out four video
singles off the album and they're up there. Three of
them are up on our social media right now that
you can view. The album doesn't even release till July thirtieth,
but we're playing four cuts off the album already on stage.
That's half the album and the album Plendi Moore is
(08:27):
going to have eight video singles off of every cut
on the album is going to be a video single,
So it's it's we're learning an entirely new way to
sell music.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's great stuff. As Gary mentioned, plend More is the album,
some great cuts like Headline and across the Line. The
tour Wednesday kicking off at the Kenley Amphitheater and Light
in Utah. You can find out more information online. But
once again the new album blend the more by the guests, who.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
One a great pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Gary Peterson, classic iconic rock drummer. Thanks for joining us,
my man, and have a great tour.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank you, God bless everybody and all our fans and
you and your family. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right, the pleasure was ours. I'm Rick Tittle. We'll
take a quick break and we will come on back
on Sports Byline. You're listening to the Rick Tittle Podcast
on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh time, this guess good such.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And all right, thank you for that, And of course
the unmistakable voice of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame er, the iconic Bill Medley, and we're quite happy
to have him join the show. Rick Total with you,
nationally syndicated out of San Francisco and around the world
world on the American Forces Radio Network. Bill is back
(10:03):
out on the road tomorrow at the Rivera Theater or sorry,
the Riviera Theater in Buffalo, and a couple of days
after that at the Marion Palace in Marion, Ohio. May
seventh at the Palace in Canton, Ohio. And the list
goes on and on. Bill, welcome back to the show.
Getting out on the road. Are you finding it taxing
(10:25):
or is it like riding a bike?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, it's riding a bike is getting tougher to pedal.
You know, I tell people, you pay me to travel,
you don't pay me to do the show. The traveling
is just in the airports are getting a little tougher
and tougher, and so it's tough. But it's worth it, man,
(10:51):
you know once you get in front of the audience
and the show starts and it's all worth it. But yeah,
it's good. A little tougher.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Out there, no doubt. Now for you, you have your fans, obviously,
But what's it like when you see like college kids
and the younger ones that are that are new to
your music, Like, how heartwarming is that that you're still
making new fans?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, you know, it's it's wonderful. I mean, it's wonderful
when anybody likes you. But it's it's great. Uh, it's
great to do. Uh you know when kids, when kids
love it. And I can understand why kids would love
uh you know, the Beatles and and all that stuff,
because you know, it's just uh, it's real relatable music,
(11:41):
you know, to what they're going through and this and that.
But but I love it. I mean we uh, you know,
we we were very fortunate in the end of the
eighties our song and Top Gun. Then I did the
song for Driddy Dancing, and then un Shane Melody was
in Ghosts. So uh, it's you know, it's wonderful. I mean,
(12:03):
it really is heartwarming when kids, and a lot of
kids will come and say, well, I say, why are
you here? They say, well, my mom and dad played
your music all the time in the house and we
just love it, so that it is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's great you think about you know, you mentioned these
iconic movies and these songs that go with them. You've
lost that love and feeling was in the first Top Gun,
And now that everyone's seen the new Top Gun, they're
going back and rewatching it and it's giving you a
whole new kick. On that song, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, it really is, And thank god they're doing that.
I was a little disappointed that they somehow Someway didn't
put it put it in the new one. But it's
great that people are going back and watching the first
one and they hear that song, and that song was
pretty pretty cool in the movie.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So for you, when you get out on the road,
does it you know, does it feel like your career
was one hundred years ago when you started off in
the fifties and sixties, or does it kind of seem
like all those memories are were just like yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, when we're on the plane or in the airport,
it feels like one hundred years ago. But that literally
the minute we get on stage, I feel like I'm
twenty five years old. It just I don't feel you know,
you do love and feeling or unshaying melody, and the people,
(13:35):
the audience just reacts so wonderfully. You know, they they
snuggle up and they start holding hands and you know,
and we know that that's why they're coming to the shows.
They hear those songs because they meant a lot to
them in their younger years. And so yeah, no, I
(13:56):
still feel like I'm literally twenty five years old. When
I go on stage, I know I don't look at well.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I mean, it's hard, the breathing, the voice, it's hard
to get all that. I know you a couple of
years ago had to throat cancer. Scare I mean, is
it Are you amazed that your voice is still holding
up after all these years?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I'm absolutely amazed. I mean, we recorded the song a
Little Latin Lubilo in nineteen sixty three, and I can't
believe we're still doing it in the show. But no,
I've been blessed, you know. But I started voice lessons
probably in the seventies, and the boy saved my life,
(14:44):
you know, just learning how to learning how to do
it correctly, and it doesn't change sound of your voice,
just lets you. You know, it's just like an engine
for a car. You know, you oil it enough oil
in it and this and that, and it keeps keeps
keeps on running. So I have to give my vocal
(15:08):
coaches all that credit.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Also, you know, when you think about when you're with
the Righteous Brothers and in your solo career, you made
friends with so many other performers, and correct me if
I'm wrong. You were friends with Elvis too.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, we're very, very good friends. I worked at the
Hilton in Las Vegas when Elvis was there. I was
working in the the lounge and you obviously in the
main room. Of course, on my lounge seat a six
hundred people. But yeah, we became real good friends. And
(15:46):
we did the first American Beetle Tour and the first
American Rolling Stones Tour. Wow, and got to meet all
those guys and uh, yeah, And when we did the
Beatle tour, it was before love and Feeling and and
it seemed real teeny bopper because you know, the young
(16:08):
girls are screaming and crying and uh, you know when
the Beatles were on, when we were on, there were
just yelling we want the Beatles, a whole different thing.
But but but but later on we we realized that, wow,
we had a front, front row seat of history. And
(16:29):
so yeah, we got that. We got to know a
lot of the other artists and become friends with them.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Who was I want to ask you who you didn't like?
But out of you know, those early days, I mean,
it's fascinating the Beatles and the Stones you open on
their first tours. That's amazing. But who are who are
some of your outside of all this couple, Like did
you get to know John and Paul or did you
get to know you know, like Mick and Keith, who
are some of your favorites?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well? I got to know Keith real well. And as
matter of fact, I just went to a Stone show
you a couple of three four years ago and got
to talk to Keith, and it well, everybody except Mitt
was in another room doing some interviews and got to
(17:17):
talk and laugh about the old days and talked about
an hour. And yeah, John and Paul we were all
on the same plane. So they would come back and
we had a guitar player, a great blues guitar player,
Barry Rolera, and George would come back and say, who's
(17:38):
playing that guitar? And so he would sit down with Barry,
and Barry would tell him a lot, a lot of
the tricks of how to do this and that, and so, yeah,
you know, it's really interesting in this industry. If you
meet you know, if you run into Gary Puckett three
(18:01):
times a year, you feel like your old friends. You know,
it's it's kind of interesting. But because you don't really
have an opportunity to hang out a lot. Yeah, but
you get to know him. I mean, Glynn Campbell and
Kenny Rogers a lot. Those guys were real good friends
(18:21):
of mine and we traveled with both of them. And yeah,
I mean, and you know what, man, one on one,
every one of those guys are wonderful people. They're just
great guys.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Very cool. I know, you got to run everybody. Make
sure to check out Bill Medley as I say, he
is on tour tomorrow at the Riviera Theater in Buffalo,
Marion Palace Theater and Marion, Ohio on the sixth, the
Palace in Canton on the seventh, back in Massachusetts at
the Lowell Memorial Auditorium on the eleventh, and then nearby
at in Plymouth on the twelfth. It goes on and on. Bill,
(19:01):
A real treat to have you on. I'm getting you
tired just talking about it, all right, Hey, Bill, thanks
for coming on. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh, bless you, Thank you man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight
Side Network.
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment.
Welcome back to Sports Byline USA, coast to coast, border
to border, and around the world on the American Forces
Radio Network. You remember the guests Who, These guys and
(00:22):
American women and so many other hits. They are one
of the great rock and roll bands of all time.
They were formed in the sixties and they're still going.
They have a new studio album coming up called Plein d'amore,
and the big single on that is called Headline and
joining us still rocking and rolling at his age, Gary Peterson,
(00:45):
the drummer of the guests, Who Gary is when you
got started as a kid? You did you think you
would still have this going on so long?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well? I actually started playing in nineteen forty nine when
I was four year years old, wow, which was way
before the guess who. But no, in answer to your
question seventy two years later, I did not project that
far into the future. But I'm very fortunate to have,
(01:21):
you know, lived through all the history of the band
and now been given the opportunity to create some more
new music to add to that legacy.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Tell us about the new album, because you know a
lot of times bands, like anything in life, they're fluid.
They can change, they can grow, they can evolve, but
sometimes you know that same sort of guess who sound
stays with it. So how is the new album?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, you know, first of all, I have to compliment
you on your pronunciation. Of all the interviews I've been doing,
your the only one that's pronounced the album planned the
Mower correctly. So that's great for you. But you know,
I've got the same feeling right now as I had
when we first started putting together the band and doing
(02:16):
our very first albums. It seems to be it took
a long time to get this group of musicians together
talent wise and personality wise, and it just seems like
it's for me, it's a dejavou situation. It's recycling in
(02:38):
the same way that it did before. I'm not saying
we may have the same success, but the feeling of
doing it is the same for me. And I never
thought at my age, which I'm now seventy eight and
still on the road, I didn't think I would be.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Doing this.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
When you go back. I mean, it's interesting how we
think about Motown and La even here in San Francisco,
New York, places where you know, London, hotbeds of music, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
and thinking about getting this band together. And of course
the great Randy Bachman was in that at the at
the very beginning before he left to go into bto.
(03:23):
But what was going on in Winnipeg in those days?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, so let me ask you, Christian, you just laid
out where it's from. What are the what are the
odds of that happening? I know, I know it's crazy. However,
Winnipeg was a hotbed of musical activity. I mean Neil
(03:48):
Young used to come and pick up my brother to
go and play with him when I was playing with
Chad All and the Expressions which became the Guest Who.
So there was there was a lot of music being
played live in Winnipeg. And so maybe that's the answer
to why that happened. But who knows. I mean, we
(04:12):
were we just kept doing what we were doing. And
we met Jack Richardson, our producer from Toronto, and he
took us to New York City to do a recording
session at a and R Studios, which was owned by
Phil Ramone, and out that came These Eyes in the
(04:34):
We'd Feel Full album. So you know, you just have
to keep working and you never know where the path
is going to lead you. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think about you know who your influences would be,
and guys like John Bonham and Keith Moon those were
contemporaries of yours. So would it be like, do you
take it back to Buddy Rich or like a Ginger Baker.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I met Buddy Rich when I was nine years old
in Winnipeg, so he signed a snare drug head to me.
So yeah, my musical experience goes back to jazz a
big band way before rock ever came in. However, then
I met Randy Bachman in playing little league baseball in
(05:20):
high school and he said, let's play our music of
our era, and so I said, I'm in, you know,
and that's the way that started. And who knows who
knew that we'd again sixty somewhat. I think it's going
to be sixty three years. I've been in this band
and doing a new album called Plan de Moore. I'm
(05:43):
one of the most fortunate guys in the world, and
I'm still learning to be a good rock drummer like
Ringo Starr and Charlie Watt and all the other great drummers.
I'm still trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Learn American Woman. You guys are Canadian. So was there
a little bit of truth behind that American women stay
away from Me?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know? It was a jam on stage, and I
think what came out that night when we first did that,
it was just like we started playing and what came
out came out and it developed. I think it's like
any painting or poetry that people write. It's in the
(06:29):
eye of the beholder. So what you get out of
it is I don't think no one sat down and
wrote those lyrics with any kind of thought. They just
came out and every night we would play. Once the
first night we played it, the crowd went wild and
(06:50):
we kept it in the show. We said, we have
to keep this in the show, and it kind of
morphed like the telephone game, and then we finally went
in and recorded it in the studio. I mean, there's
no there's no hidden meaning behind it, other than there
might be comments on what we saw going on around
(07:14):
us in the United States at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Gotcha, I know you got to run. So one more
question for you nowadays I'm cool, Yeah, yeah, I mean
I'm in the seventies. I would buy forty fives. That's
how I got my singles. But now you got Apple
Music and Spotify. I know you've already racked up over
one hundred thousand streams just to see the music industry
from when you started off with like forty fives, I
(07:39):
mean with seventy seventy eight's was at it back in
the day and now yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's it's entirely different. I mean, we used we would
record an album and then we would go on tour
to sell that album. Today you put out an album
to get to dates. It's totally backwards. And this new
(08:04):
album we're putting out, we've already put out four video
singles off the album and they're up there. Three of
them are up on our social media right now that
you can view. The album doesn't even release till July thirtieth,
but we're playing four cuts off the album already on stage.
That's half the album and the album Plendi Moore is
(08:27):
going to have eight video singles off of every cut
on the album is going to be a video single,
So it's it's we're learning an entirely new way to
sell music.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's great stuff. As Gary mentioned, plend More is the album,
some great cuts like Headline and across the Line. The
tour Wednesday kicking off at the Kenley Amphitheater and Light
in Utah. You can find out more information online. But
once again the new album blend the more by the guests, who.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
One a great pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Gary Peterson, classic iconic rock drummer. Thanks for joining us,
my man, and have a great tour.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank you, God bless everybody and all our fans and
you and your family. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right, the pleasure was ours. I'm Rick Tittle. We'll
take a quick break and we will come on back
on Sports Byline. You're listening to the Rick Tittle Podcast
on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh time, this guess good such.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And all right, thank you for that, And of course
the unmistakable voice of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame er, the iconic Bill Medley, and we're quite happy
to have him join the show. Rick Total with you,
nationally syndicated out of San Francisco and around the world
world on the American Forces Radio Network. Bill is back
(10:03):
out on the road tomorrow at the Rivera Theater or sorry,
the Riviera Theater in Buffalo, and a couple of days
after that at the Marion Palace in Marion, Ohio. May
seventh at the Palace in Canton, Ohio. And the list
goes on and on. Bill, welcome back to the show.
Getting out on the road. Are you finding it taxing
(10:25):
or is it like riding a bike?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Well, it's riding a bike is getting tougher to pedal.
You know, I tell people, you pay me to travel,
you don't pay me to do the show. The traveling
is just in the airports are getting a little tougher
and tougher, and so it's tough. But it's worth it, man,
(10:51):
you know once you get in front of the audience
and the show starts and it's all worth it. But yeah,
it's good. A little tougher.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Out there, no doubt. Now for you, you have your fans, obviously,
But what's it like when you see like college kids
and the younger ones that are that are new to
your music, Like, how heartwarming is that that you're still
making new fans?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, you know, it's it's wonderful. I mean, it's wonderful
when anybody likes you. But it's it's great. Uh, it's
great to do. Uh you know when kids, when kids
love it. And I can understand why kids would love
uh you know, the Beatles and and all that stuff,
because you know, it's just uh, it's real relatable music,
(11:41):
you know, to what they're going through and this and that.
But but I love it. I mean we uh, you know,
we we were very fortunate in the end of the
eighties our song and Top Gun. Then I did the
song for Driddy Dancing, and then un Shane Melody was
in Ghosts. So uh, it's you know, it's wonderful. I mean,
(12:03):
it really is heartwarming when kids, and a lot of
kids will come and say, well, I say, why are
you here? They say, well, my mom and dad played
your music all the time in the house and we
just love it, so that it is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's great you think about you know, you mentioned these
iconic movies and these songs that go with them. You've
lost that love and feeling was in the first Top Gun,
And now that everyone's seen the new Top Gun, they're
going back and rewatching it and it's giving you a
whole new kick. On that song, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, it really is, And thank god they're doing that.
I was a little disappointed that they somehow Someway didn't
put it put it in the new one. But it's
great that people are going back and watching the first
one and they hear that song, and that song was
pretty pretty cool in the movie.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So for you, when you get out on the road,
does it you know, does it feel like your career
was one hundred years ago when you started off in
the fifties and sixties, or does it kind of seem
like all those memories are were just like yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well, when we're on the plane or in the airport,
it feels like one hundred years ago. But that literally
the minute we get on stage, I feel like I'm
twenty five years old. It just I don't feel you know,
you do love and feeling or unshaying melody, and the people,
(13:35):
the audience just reacts so wonderfully. You know, they they
snuggle up and they start holding hands and you know,
and we know that that's why they're coming to the shows.
They hear those songs because they meant a lot to
them in their younger years. And so yeah, no, I
(13:56):
still feel like I'm literally twenty five years old. When
I go on stage, I know I don't look at well.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I mean, it's hard, the breathing, the voice, it's hard
to get all that. I know you a couple of
years ago had to throat cancer. Scare I mean, is
it Are you amazed that your voice is still holding
up after all these years?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I'm absolutely amazed. I mean, we recorded the song a
Little Latin Lubilo in nineteen sixty three, and I can't
believe we're still doing it in the show. But no,
I've been blessed, you know. But I started voice lessons
probably in the seventies, and the boy saved my life,
(14:44):
you know, just learning how to learning how to do
it correctly, and it doesn't change sound of your voice,
just lets you. You know, it's just like an engine
for a car. You know, you oil it enough oil
in it and this and that, and it keeps keeps
keeps on running. So I have to give my vocal
(15:08):
coaches all that credit.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Also, you know, when you think about when you're with
the Righteous Brothers and in your solo career, you made
friends with so many other performers, and correct me if
I'm wrong. You were friends with Elvis too.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, we're very, very good friends. I worked at the
Hilton in Las Vegas when Elvis was there. I was
working in the the lounge and you obviously in the
main room. Of course, on my lounge seat a six
hundred people. But yeah, we became real good friends. And
(15:46):
we did the first American Beetle Tour and the first
American Rolling Stones Tour. Wow, and got to meet all
those guys and uh, yeah, And when we did the
Beatle tour, it was before love and Feeling and and
it seemed real teeny bopper because you know, the young
(16:08):
girls are screaming and crying and uh, you know when
the Beatles were on, when we were on, there were
just yelling we want the Beatles, a whole different thing.
But but but but later on we we realized that, wow,
we had a front, front row seat of history. And
(16:29):
so yeah, we got that. We got to know a
lot of the other artists and become friends with them.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Who was I want to ask you who you didn't like?
But out of you know, those early days, I mean,
it's fascinating the Beatles and the Stones you open on
their first tours. That's amazing. But who are who are
some of your outside of all this couple, Like did
you get to know John and Paul or did you
get to know you know, like Mick and Keith, who
are some of your favorites?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well? I got to know Keith real well. And as
matter of fact, I just went to a Stone show
you a couple of three four years ago and got
to talk to Keith, and it well, everybody except Mitt
was in another room doing some interviews and got to
(17:17):
talk and laugh about the old days and talked about
an hour. And yeah, John and Paul we were all
on the same plane. So they would come back and
we had a guitar player, a great blues guitar player,
Barry Rolera, and George would come back and say, who's
(17:38):
playing that guitar? And so he would sit down with Barry,
and Barry would tell him a lot, a lot of
the tricks of how to do this and that, and so, yeah,
you know, it's really interesting in this industry. If you
meet you know, if you run into Gary Puckett three
(18:01):
times a year, you feel like your old friends. You know,
it's it's kind of interesting. But because you don't really
have an opportunity to hang out a lot. Yeah, but
you get to know him. I mean, Glynn Campbell and
Kenny Rogers a lot. Those guys were real good friends
(18:21):
of mine and we traveled with both of them. And yeah,
I mean, and you know what, man, one on one,
every one of those guys are wonderful people. They're just
great guys.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Very cool. I know, you got to run everybody. Make
sure to check out Bill Medley as I say, he
is on tour tomorrow at the Riviera Theater in Buffalo,
Marion Palace Theater and Marion, Ohio on the sixth, the
Palace in Canton on the seventh, back in Massachusetts at
the Lowell Memorial Auditorium on the eleventh, and then nearby
at in Plymouth on the twelfth. It goes on and on. Bill,
(19:01):
A real treat to have you on. I'm getting you
tired just talking about it, all right, Hey, Bill, thanks
for coming on. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh, bless you, Thank you man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight
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