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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gunner. My brother. It is Brett Michaels, your brother.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ah, Brett Michaels, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I am doing awesome, doing awesome. I'm so excited to
see a carve day. We are gonna light it up.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
You know, you guys, as Poison came here in twenty thirteen,
it was a hell of a show. What are your
memories of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, first of all, as a race fan, it is
like Christmas to me meets New Year's Eve meets a
good kicker of what I call family reunion mixed with
a barbecue, and they're just happened to be a big
race breakout.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean the old snake pit back in the day,
things will get a little out of control.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Every year I have a guy get a hold of me.
That's like, you know, I was a guy that set.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Fire to my car in the snake pit in nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Every year that guy contacts me.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You wait, my dad was there. It's a family tradition.
Dad does it every year. This year he vows to
keep his shirt on. He said, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Brett Michaels, the All American Red Jacks Miller. Like CARB Day,
it's going to be this Friday. Hey, when you've been
out at the speedway before, have you ever gotten a
ride in a two seater from Mario Andretti? And there's
other retired racers that do that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yes. So Mario's a friend and we've gone out to
do Barrett Jackson in different events. I go to a
lot of the races and play the events. Right, I've
got to drop the flag. I got to do everything
I have not I have not now I've sat in
but have not been around the track. So me and
John Bon Jobi went down to do it. I dropped
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the bag. He he came in there and got to
go around the track and I almost jumped down off.
I almost plane down the ladder and got in the car.
I almost pushed him out of the way and got
in the car. So we but here's what happened. Before
we had signed on to do this, we had two big,
big events on Saturday and Sunday going down to Florida,
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and so I'm going to make CARB Day my special day.
But every time I'm in Indianapolis, I go out there,
I race the go karts. We like if anyone watches
my history with this event in racing, it's a good time.
And with poison. I have called every year about Brett
Michael's band bringing all killer poison hits, no filler for
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Let's go thirteen. Let me do my math. Let's see
that candle twelve years, twelve and a half years minus
one takes bad two. Yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, it is the biggest sporting event in the world,
and we are sold out. Grandstand seating for the race
on Sunday is sold out for the first time since
the one hundredth running in twenty sixteen. You're talking about
three hundred and fifty thousand people will be inside the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway and that means that Friday is going
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to be huge as well for you.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, you almost made me start crying. I made a
vow when we talked to everyone there. You have to
ask the marketing team. I said, my goal is this
is one of the if not the greatest event in
the world, and I'm putting it up there super Bowl.
I'm just saying I'm a sports fanatic. Yeah right, I'm
a sports fanatic. I said, we are vowing on this
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phone call. Go big, then go bigger to one of
the biggest celebrations the feel of Americana, our celebration. I'm
the son of a veteran. We're going to celebrate our
veterans on stage, our frontline workers, first responders, our utility
workers will be on stage with me. We are going
to make this a family tradition, celebration of the great
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freedoms this country has. But we vowed on that call,
and you've got to call them to get verification. We
were going to sell this out that we were going
to were going to ring the bell, and we weren't
given up till the fight to celebrate with sober Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
My goodness, it's going to be a massive weekend. I
am the son of a veteran as well. In fact,
my father was first lieutenant Vietnam Era, and I was
born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in an old Nazi hospital
because it was a historical site and there were little
red swastikas inlaid in the marble, and they just covered
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it with a sheet because they wouldn't let them paint
it over.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I can't beat that story, but we add to it
as the son of a veteran, and my cousin Bobby
United States Marine, he was two Purple Hearts during Vietnam.
My father Korea right, Korean veterans. Yeah, and then my
uncle Nick May Forever Rest in Peace was Kia and
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World War II at the Battle of the bulsh In
best Own.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So this is my sisters, are it off an air
Force base? My whole family serves. It's the real deal
for me. And you're ready because I play over in
Germany a lot and overseas. I know all the places
you're talking about. We just got back as Brett Michaels
and the band from playing Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi
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at all the forward operating bases.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Wow, what an incredible experience and those servicemen and women.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You could see the appreciation.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm sure one million percent. If your listeners have a
chance to go to the Bretmichaels dot com social platforms,
just check this out. I just did Boardwalk Rock right,
and I'm doing it with fuel and nickelback, Shine Down, Deth,
Leopard Lit, you name it. I bring them all on
stage with me, and then I brought all the veterans
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up and there's sixty thousand people in these pictures going.
It was a sold out event and they were going
crazy on the beach. When the veterans walked, I said,
here's your real rock stars to night, and they went nuts.
They went. I do it every night at every show,
as you know, but it went. It was a beautiful
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day and just it felt like everybody was just everyone
just coming together. It felt good.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, you know, God bless our veterans and active duty.
This is going to be a great weekend for the country,
country to come together. Let's put everything aside for a
weekend and just enjoy ourselves, especially at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Bret Michaels with us Friday Night with the All American Rejects.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Actually the show will start around three point thirty or
four o'clock after all of the.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You know, the pit stop competitions and some practice on
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Brett I wanted to ask you.
You've been on stage with a lot of people. Is
there ever been someone that you're on stage with from
the world of rock that made you a little bit nervous,
like a huge superstar.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Probably one of the most nervous. I ever got because
it was the first guitar riffs I learned the two.
I got most nervous with Jimmy Page of that one
because my first one bound Down, Down Down, Yeah, that's
my first guitar riff. When my music teacher wanted me
to play Mary has a Little Lamb, I said, oh,
hell no to that. There's what we're playing. I'm not
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making that up. And then and then a diabetic youth camp.
I'm six years old. Diabetic youth camp. Music saved my
life and I learned to play bound down owned to
condone down owned and don't know by the day they
do do doot boom? Skinnered, so skinnered and everybody I
get nervous and excited on stage with I do. I'm
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a fan of music, but it was Jimmy Page made me.
I got Jimmy Page, and that made me skinnered. Walking
up with Buffett was what an honor. And I knew
every lyric to Margueritaville. He looks over you got to
tell people this story. He looks over me. I walk
out place goes where in places going crazy. It's the
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on or and he says, you know every lyric right,
You're not gonna screw me. I go. I know every
single lyric and I even do the B side lyrics.
I'm like, no, no, go to the B side. I
know them too, and we nailed it.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
We are speaking with Brett Michaels.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Now I'm going to give you my musical guilty pleasure,
and then I would like to hear one from you.
If people laugh about this, I've been in rock radio
for thirty five years, but I happen to be a
rather large fan of air Supply. They're a guilty pleasure
of mine and I've seen them many times. Does Brett
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Michaels have a musical guilty pleasure?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
One million percent? First of all, that's a great choice.
Air Supplies great, Yeah, but great. Like I love all music,
music is diverse. That's what is supposed to be. I
love my yacht rock. I'm not kidding you. But then
I'm working out. If you heard my workout, it's it's Metallica.
And the next thing you may have on there is
some train. Then the next thing you may have is
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some country, somep you know. It's but my guilty pleasure
that makes me feel good when I'm having a bad
diabetic day and I need to just feel good. Is
any Christmas music whatsoever? Oh, I know that sounds nuts.
People say that's a sign of crazy. I said, well,
hell yeah I am. But I said, well, duh, yeah,
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but that Christmas music. When I put on not King Cole,
the Christmas song Sinatra, Dean Martin, it makes something. It
does It colms my soul to a good time in
my life.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, there is something about Christmas music. There's
a reason why some radio stations go twenty four hour
Christmas music, like two weeks before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh no, they moved it up. It's almost before Halloween now.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, it's it's it's incredible, all right. Bret Michaels Friday Night,
the All American Rejects will be there as well.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Miller like carb Day before we let you go.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I love to ask artists because I have lost pieces
of my vinyl collection over the years. Do you still
have a vinyl collection and or do you actively add
to it?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah? The answer is yes and yes. So I just
want to say this. I keep my vinyl. Please don't
laugh at me. I'm not a hoarder. I'm an organizer.
There's a difference, okay, right, not a hoarder. I have
a whole special section that my daughter's twenty five and twenty.
Now they laughed at me and now they can't get
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enough of it. I have VHS right, Wow, I love
my dhs. Yeah. I've got albums, lots and lots of
cassettes in the professional cassette racks. I have eight tract
tapes in a fake leper or not fake let me say,
is fake snake skin black box with eight tract tapes
in it? Wow? I didn't give all of them and
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it worked well. In my galaxy in the Ford five
hundred right, a track tape player, which I are you
ready for this? I got the conversion to bump up
the cassette. Remember the conversion. No, you're too young. They
had a conversion. I could shove the conversion into the
AH track Kate player and then shove my cassette.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh my god, I never had one of those.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But yeah, it doesn't surprise me what a great gimmick
cassettes at eight tracks were because you remember getting a
pencil out your number two pencil and having to wind
the tape back into a cassette every day.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I have Van Helen. One got wrapped so many all
my cassettes. If anyone needs one fixed, please call me.
I will help you out. I've got a number two
pencil with you eraser, you need the racer and I
can wind that back up for you real quick.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Like, Oh my gosh. It is gonna be just a
hell of a party. It always is when Brett Michaels
comes around. Friday Miller lied Carb Day at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway with the All American Rejects. Well, thank you
for all the good vibes, all the great music over
the years, Brett, and we cannot wait to see you Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I can't wait. Friday is just the beginning. This is
a celebration of the best race ever. I love you,
my brother. I'll talk to you soon.