🎵 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Richard Clapton

Our good friend Richard Clapton joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's Richard Clapton. Hello, Richard, Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
What about you?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
We're coming back to your new show State Theater. I
love when you perform at the State Theater. Tell us
what you're up for.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
This year six to September, and this will be the
third year in a row. Mahalia Barnes is going to
sing yep and maybe yeah, maybe a special guest as well.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
The last time you perform, they got me to present
some trophy to you up on stage. And I was
very mindful of it because they said do it at
this time, And I said, well, wouldn't we do it
before he goes off stage at halftime.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Because you have the time for his oranges.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Half time for the oranges and a rub down with
some liniment. They get no, no, no, Richard will be
into this. And then and I said, and you know what,
I never rely on musicians to give me direction with stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Because who said that to you? The dudes?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
They go no, no, he knows that the band knows
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
When were you told to go up though?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's told to go out just before he played another song,
and you gave me this look and I.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Went, what what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That was much gold record drop some acid and I
just appeared. So I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I was let us straight at what happened. We were
all acid.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's for your ant acid for your read.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
But everything's okay. I didn't freak you out that night
because I was so worried. It was a big unwielding.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think it probably takes more than that to freak
Richard out.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
It certainly does. The first compare ever was Michael Chug
who I recall going, yeah, I give him the best
years my ef.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
He likes to swear. Yeah, what's the weirdest thing that's happened?
When you've been up on stage? Have you looked out
and seen pets or have you seen lights fall off?
What's happened?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Maybe maybe it's getting a bit cliche. The Nearly Young
story about when he was standing behind me.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I don't know the story.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, I did this Neil Young tour in the late
eighties with six week tours, absolutely phenomenal, you know, a
highlight of my life. But anyway, I got on really
well with Crazy Horse his band, and we were having
a lot of late late nights in the hotels and
I hadn't yet met Neil. And we got to Sydney
Entertainment Center and I went to run off stage and

(02:34):
he sort of grabbed me and he said, do an
encore a man, do a note of song. So I
did another song and then it went over well and
I went to walk off and Neil grabbed me. He
had that you know, the big buffalo bill jacket with it,
you know, fringing and fringing and stuff, and he sort
of grabbed me and he goes, so you're a Ralph,

(02:56):
You're a bad boy. When are you going to let
my band go to bed? And then expleted expletive and
he threw his head back and he said, I decided
to rename my who are up?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Ralph never Asleeps?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
And this is what you're going to see when you
perform a head to ticketmasker dot com dot au for
Richard Clapton for the fifty years since your debut album
Prussian Blue. Feels like that thing came out yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh it does. It's like fifty. I was fifty then