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Hey, dog, is Joey allright? Joey Faba, thanks for checking
in, my friend, good man, how are you? I got Joe
here too, My dad with meas well. Oh you guys are together.
Okay. I thought maybe we'd connectseparately. But that's great, perfect.
I love it. This is anabsolute great story. I'm so proud
to share it with everybody. JoeFava and Joey Fava both appearing on WLLZ
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MotorCity Rocks albums one in nineteen eightythree and one in twenty twenty two.
But how sweet it feels both ingreat bands in Detroit, the dad and
the son both coming together with WLLZ. Kind of like Kong and the Son
of Kong, you know what Imean. They were both great movies,
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and these were both great songs ontwo separate Wheels album Joe, I want
to start with you, buddy,your band artist was a part of the
very first wll the album back innineteen eighty three and now back in twenty
twenty two. You know, let'sskip a whole bunch of years, and
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your son, Joey Fava ended upon the you know new WLLZ first album
that we put out It's absolutely incrediblethat this whole thing went full circle.
And when I saw your post onFacebook, when I saw your post,
man, I almost started to cry, to tell you the truth, because
Joe, I'm so proud to havebeen a part of both these albums.
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It take us back to that band, because that was nineteen eighty three and
at the time when we put thatWheels album out, we put it out
to the whole world and we endedup with seven hundred entries. Yeah.
Well, I mean, you know, Wheels ignited everything as far as getting
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to that point with competing at theBEACONCA in New York. But the band
uh uh Eddie Layton, John Fame, and Rick Brook Uh. They were
in a band uh called Curtis HighFlash. Yes, and I was in
a band called Scandal with Tommy Farlessand John Fain and members from both bands.
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Uh. We created artists with boththose both those bands. Now Tommy
Farless he was the lead singer.Uh. No, Philip Schutnick was.
But Tommy had already moved on.Uh he was, I believe he already
he moved on with Muggsy at thatpoint. Okay, all right, yeah,
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yeah, it was weapons and MuggsyYeah. Yeah, Eddie uh,
Eddie had jeez, I mean endlesssongs, endless original songs, and we
spent a lot of time putting themall together, and there was a good
handful, especially out on the Roadagain. Yeah. Out of the Road
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again was actually the song that weall ended up picking. But I had
forgotten about the part where you hadto go tell me a little bit about
that. You had to go performat the Beacon Theater in New York.
Yeah. So the we were oneof the five finalists. There was a
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finalist from San Jose, one fromMinneapolis. I can't remember all the names
of the bands. Of course,bon JOVII from New Jersey, right right,
And so we all there was fivebands we competed that we played five.
Each band played five songs. Buton Jogi didn't have his band together
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at that point. And while wewere in the theater everybody's doing the sound
checks, I noticed bon Jovi,which again I didn't know who he was
at the time. He was upon stage with the band from the year
before, rehearsing a little runaway,you know, repeatedly because he didn't have
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a band, so that was theonly way he was able to perform that
night. Yeah, so as Irecall, and boy, it's starting to
flood back to me a little bit, but it was John bon Jovi was
his name. And what happened wasthere is that Double Day, the company
that owned radio stations, rock stationsacross the country. We're putting out these
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albums of local artists. It wasimportant to us at the time. It
was especially important to me because Iwas a music director and it was Detroit
and we're known for our artists.So there were some bands and you obviously
were picked out of the let mesee here, I got the old album.
Yeah, there was thirty There wasthirty thousand entries originally. Yeah,
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out of the out of the tenbands that are on the first w LLZ
album from nineteen eighty three. Yeah, you got chosen. You got chosen
to be picked to go to NewYork and represent Detroit. Well exactly.
Yeah, there was a there wasAdrenaline, Toby Red, the Tim Garrick
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Band, Ben sweet Alley, Yeah, Tommy Gunn Yeah, Yeah, AUTOMATX,
Bias Satellite and Tommy Gunn in thelineup. But uh, but what
we had determined from all of theseacts and some of them, you know,
went on to become a little bitbigger. Was that your song was
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the most viable to possibly get airplayacross the country, And wasn't this for
a record recording contract of some sort? Yeah, we got a we got
a single release on Atlantic Records.There you go, and but Wheels,
uh you of course it was.It was played quite a bit before the
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contest and after the contest. Yeah, I think the only other artist and
song that got picked to be playedwas run Away from bon Jovi. So
I mean, you know, whoknows. I mean two more steps forward
and you know, Joe, youcould have been John bon Jovi is Yeah,
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you know we just if we would, you know, just a little
more lock on our side, somebetter management, you know, things could
have worked out well. When youmentioned the names of the bands like Eddie
and and all of those guys,I mean some of the yeah, some
of the top players in Detroit atthat time, uh, you know kind
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of merged and melted into uh,you know when it ended up being the
band artist that is that is incredibleand at that time in nineteen eighty three,
just to kind of talk about thisalbum and how iconic it really is
Gary Graff and Jim mcfarrewell just toname a couple, and Michael Tinnick,
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who was like the head of BrassRing Productions at the time, were some
of the judges who went ahead.And you know, we put judges to
the you know, to task togo ahead and pick you know, what
artists we were going to have,and then I think the fans voted on
the album artists to send in NewYork, so, you know, and
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just looking at the cover, thephotography was done by the legendary Thomas Wessler
and the incredible iconic now late GaryGrimshaw. So just to take a look
back at that album alone. So, Joey, did you when we went
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ahead and put this album out herewith WLLZ now with iHeartRadio. Yeah,
were you familiar with Obviously you musthave been familiar with your dad's presence on
that first album, right, veryfamiliar. That's why I remember telling you
that when you brought this up tome, I go, oh my god,
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that's insane, because I mean Igrew up having, you know,
that first album, just being aroundit and knowing what it was, hearing
the stories, and I knew alot about it. So I was like
so excited that you were bringing itback for one and that was the coolest
thing to me. And the factthat we were going to be on it
was just insane because to me itwas like I've known about this whole life,
and now my band's gonna be includedon it, and it's so cool.
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And that was if I'm right,cry if I'm wrong with that was
the first one back right for twentytwenty two. Yes, yeah, we
did. So that was so cool, man. So yeah, I was
very very familiar with it. Andthat's also was you know, for me,
it meant even a little bit morethan everybody else, maybe, you
know, just because it's it wasmore of a sentimental thing to me too.
So it was like, it's justone of the coolest things ever to
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me. And you know, Ithink when we were talking that might have
just like went right through me.I don't know if I didn't you know,
if I didn't pick up on itor you know, because I have
to tell you guys, I wasso excited that I got the green light
from my heart to put this together. And then you know, there were
a few hurdles in between to actuallybring this thing. You know to fruition,
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so, you know, and itwas a little different process, Joe.
They didn't have to be subjected tothe public and five hundred judges and
all of that. We kind ofsat around here, some of us people
who are you know, part ofthe WLLZ Corps, and just looked,
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you know, across the landscape ofDetroit today, which you know, let's
face it, Joe, back ineighty three, there were so many more
original Detroit bands that not only wereworthy of being on an album, but
could draw you know, two threefour thousand people to a club or to
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a concert. Yeah. The competent, Yeah, the competition was was was
fierce and uh it maybe it mayjust stay on your toes and it made
it made you play your best always, you know, because they were always
really really good bands and a lotof the bands would go see each other
on nights that you were off.You would go check out other bands to
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see what they were doing. Andand like you said, they were all
really good at the top of theirgame. Well, yeah, I mean,
think think of a band that's outthere today, uh, you know,
having the task of trying to fillup Harpos at three thousand people or
the Ritz at twenty five hundred peopleand or you know, and and at
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the time back in nineteen eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, local
bands were constantly being picked to openup Pine Knob concerts, you know,
I mean Adrenaline opening for Arrowsmith andToby Red opening for the Police and things
like that. So yeah, wehad some opening we did back then.
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We did Head East, we didEldon Lee and and playing four you know,
four and five nights a week.I mean the minimum it was always
three nights a week. I meanyou had to beg for a week off.
There were so many clubs and everybodywanted you to play ConTroll their calendars.
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You know. Well, your sonis a beast on the kit,
of course, so yeah, he'sbeen going since he's two years old.
Yeah, I mean two years old. I put him behind the kit and
stood behind him and got his handsgoing to play a beat, and he
just took off. And he hadto play standing up when I got him
his little little kit because he couldn'treach the pedals sitting down. And then
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by the time he was eight,he wanted to play guitar and but he
was really into it because he wantedto take lessons and perfect himself and get
as good as he could. Wellthat is that's really paid off for you
though, Joey, because I know, not only do you play drums for
Colido, but you and Christina alwaysgo out and you're always playing acoustic guitar
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back in her up on those sologigs that you guys do in you know,
restaurants and bars around town. Yeah. So yeah, so it's cool
doing that. You know, it'slike completely the opposite end of the spectrum.
Like you know, we're like thisloud, bombastic, an intense rock
band, and then it's like we'relike in the corner sitting playing beautiful little
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acoustic song. So it's cool.It like satisfies all my my, you
know, musical wanta deep. Iguess you know, it's like it's funny
to do it. Also, Ireally enjoyed doing and we may have to
talk Christina in to do it outon the road again. Yeah right,
I would love that, you know, maybe for my birthday party or something.
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Yeah, get your dad up there. So Joey knows that I'm a
big fan of not only himself butthe band. Uh, you know,
from the very first recordings of Colido. But we all met and I don't
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know if you guys remember this ornot, but we all met in some
small bar and I was enamored withJoey. The band that you were in
before Colido, which I never seemedto be able to remember their name.
It was I Robotis Robots in theGarden, Okay, So it's probably a
good thing that you left that bandbecause even I can't remember the So I
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was like, it was a bunchof my friends I had grown up with
and it kind of just ended upsizzling out on its own. Everyone was
just kind of even doing the thingsor whatever. And that was wild though,
because that's how I met Christina andCohe from Clago was we had played
they were they were in another bandat the time, and we played together
and met and I remember just watchingboth of them and I was like,
whoa man, Like she things reallygood and he's a really good bass player.
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So immediately my like, you know, wheels returning, And that's kind
of basically what we met and immediatelygot along and that's what started Colido.
So it's crazy all that works.Yeah, And I remember joe you came
up to me and we were talkingabout, you know, the the early
days and the first album and artist, and and you looked, you just
look so proud of Joey up there. Yeah, I mean, I am
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very proud. He's just he workedreally hard at it and he he just
he's a great player. And itshows, you know, it's you can
tell when people are watching that they'rewatching something special. You know. Well,
when you measure the success today,it's different then back then, obviously,
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But if you measure the success todayKalido has, you know, they've
hit a very very high mark.I mean the festivals and the albums and
the reviews and the concerts and thecrowd and what Christina calls her family,
which is essentially, you know,fifty thousand people following her continuously on you
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know, social media. Maybe onehundred thousand, I don't know, could
be a million by now. ButI'm impressed, very impressed when I see
all that on social media. Sothe one thing that you know, Joe
and you and I were never ableto be a part of was being a
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comic book and we were never superheroes, you know, but Joey apparently is
a superhero, and uh, somebodyhad to do it. Out of you,
you know, three, someone's gotto do. So Joey, Joey,
tell us a little bit because Iknow, the last time I had
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you and Christina on uh, thatthing was just about to come out.
So now it's out. Tell mea little bit about, uh, how
you're feeling about the comic book andeverything about it. Man, it has
been incredible. It's so it's it'sa whole different kind of form of media
for us instead of just you know, doing our shows and we have our
merch and we go out and youknow, we play a show and then
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we have our merchany will come.It was like we just actually did a
an in source signing in Plymouth andit was crazy because I was like,
wow, like we're we're here setup and we're signing these books and like
we didn't play it notes Like it'swild kind of you know. So it's
it's branching us out into more media, which is cool, but yeah,
it was insane. Man. Itjust came ross by our buddies kind of
had the ideas and brought it upto us and we were into it right
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away, and it slowly just kindof turned. It started getting wheeled as
we would you know, move onwith it, and more of would started
happening, and yeah, it turnedinto just it's crazy, we're gonna have
it's gonna be a four book seriesand we're gonna do a graphic knowledge after
that. But we just released thefirst book April twelfth at Astronomicon actually here.
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Oh wow, Yeah, it wasamazing. Man. It's like,
it's just it's a whole different Likeit's funny because you guys were just talking
about how different things are now,I guess than they were. And now
it's like you know, with socialmedia and with everything, it's it just
branches out more. It gets usout some different people and it's harder to
you know, it's I'm not sayingit's harder to got people back then or
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whatever we're now, it's just different. But yeah, it's just it's it's
pretty cool, man. Like we'restill we're new to it and we're just
kind of getting a feel for it. But everything we've done so far has
been really cool and I'm very veryexcited about it, really excited for the
next book out. We're gonna startto doing them quarterly. So yeah,
yeah, I thought there, Yeah, I thought it was a brilliant move
because there are so many more distractionstoday for young people. Exactly back then,
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you know, we we you know, radio pretty much dominated your you
know, view of life when itcame to rock and roll, but not
so much today. Let's you know, let's put the cards on the table.
Now for people, it's like andkind of they can stream or whatever,
so it's harder to maybe you know, necessarily get in front of them
and get them interested in something,you know sometimes. So I think it's
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a cool thing for us, andI've been really having a blast with it.
I mean, I love comic books, and you know, I grew
up loving kids and stuff like that, and they say comic books and I
was like, you know, apparentlyit's pretty popular. Because when we went
to the uh A couple of saradaysago in Plymouth there where they had the
comics, I mean, there wasa line out the door. It was
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it was for hours. Yeah,it was pretty wild. Actually, yeah,
it was great though. It wasreally fun. But yeah, you
have to you have to think ofthe fact that the demographic that loves Colido
music may or may not have knownthe band before the comic book, so
you know, they they find thiscomic book. They and and you know,
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like back in the day, youwould you would see something interesting.
Uh when it was a record,you'd pick it up, like a roxy
music album or something, and you'dtake it home and you'd give it a
try. People don't do that thatmuch today, but with comic books,
I think they do. And andnow all of a sudden you've got you
know, new fans coming from awhole new gendre. It's just it's it's
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perfect, Actually, it really is. You're right. There was I was
watching them at their table signing thecomics, and there was people that had
no idea about the band. Yeah, which is cool. Just people come
up with the free comic book dayventoo and they're like, oh you o
a band. So it's like itjust it gives it. It puts it
out there a bit more and letspeople kind of, you know, grab
a hold of it. It's like, you know, like, I mean
that's how it is back back inthe day. I mean, be like
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you go see like Iron Maiden Recordsand see Eddy on there like I'm getting
this. You know, you didn'teven know it was exactly right. This
is cool. So it's a coolthing for us and nowadays too, you
know, like physical media is lastand I promise and it was as well,
you know, so it's like it'scool for us to have like a
physical thing and it's the book andI can flip through it. And I
think people like that as well too. It's nice to have, you know,
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a physical album, a physical book, and that kind of stuff is
cool. So we've been enjoying it. Well, Joe, brace yourself because
if they come calling about a TVshow, then you know, I mean,
can you spell monkeys? Uh?We were saying at end of the
day we were lasting, but yeah, that'd be so funny, dude.
But yeah, man, that's uh, that would be amazing. I mean,
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that'd be crazy. It's a reallygood story. I'm really excited about
it. We we really said thatwe were gonna do with that. We
weren't going to just like throw thisbook together and put it out and just
be like a whatever kind of thing. Like, we really hired a top
comment team all have years and yearsof experience in the industry, and they've
you know, we've written an incrediblestory, I think, and the art
is just it's incredible. I'm reallyreally honored to be a part of it
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and excited. So what's up comingfor Colido Joey? Where are we going
with the band? So we gotsome shows coming up. We haven't been
playing too much lately. We've beenrecording new music and we have just constant
stuff that's gonna get ready to comeout. But we've been releasing a song
about every sixth and seven weeks.Yeah, you know, two months.
But we have a show June firstin Battle Creek with a band called Plush.
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I think we talked about it lasttime when that's talking to you.
And then we're doing some shows withour buddies and alien Ant Farm. We're
doing June fifth in wydott At District, going forty two all right. We're
doing June eighth in french Town,New Jersey, June ninth, Frooklyn,
New York, June eleventh, andMechanicsburg, PA. And then we're gonna
have another show June fifteenth in Indiana. It's like the little festival type of
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deal. And then another festival inGlen four, Wisconsin August sixteenth with Faster
Pussycat, Bullet Boys, Probot,couple other bands. So we have the
stuff coming up some summer shows.Yeah, well, talk about amazing stories,
you guys. Joe Fava, JoeyFava U Joe from the old days
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back with Artists, and Joey Favatoday with the band Collido. I have
to tell you, talk about amazingstories. This is absolutely one of them.
I don't think this probably could happenin any other city but Detroit,
where you know where we're Yeah,it's crazy, it is great. It
kind of blows my mind. It'swild. So I'm really really appreciate you
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having time talk about this and givingit the love because it's it is very
cool, and I appreciate it.Oh yeah, definitely. You don't know
how proud I am to have been, you know, not only a part
of the first one, uh,but then this new this new brand,
uh, and you know, itjust it just makes my heart feel good
and and it truly is a Detroitrock radio music story. So you guys
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are this. You're on both ofthem. And I still can't play anything
other than you know, three chordsongs. But hey man, you made
all this happen, dude, especiallywith you bringing it back as well.
It's so cool because you know,it's a lot of work I know,
and it's got to be a laborlove, so it's very appreciated, very
cool. Man. Well, Ido have to give a big shout out
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now that we've gone down that roadto Jason Hartless Senior and Jason Hartless Junior,
their record company, sound City MusicCompany. Uh. They really they
stepped up and you know, tookit upon themselves to make sure that this
happened as well, for not onlyme, but for the radio station and
for the city. Uh. Idon't, I don't. I don't think
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anybody made any money. But wedid make an impact. And if all
we got out of it was thisstory, I'm happy that we did it.
You know that I am too.Man. Yeah, all right,
Well, you can still find thethe WLLZ album. I find the first
one, Joe. Occasionally I'll gointo a you know, into a record
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store or you know, a resaleshop, and I'll be digging around and
there's that album. And every timeI find one, I buy it.
So if anybody needs them, I'vegot him, you know, like for
five hundred bucks apiece in my basement. And but the thanks for replacing mine,
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my original one? I asked Joy, I said, Hey, maybe
you can ask Doug if he hasone because mine is skipping. Yeah.
Well, I, like I said, I pick him up wherever I go.
But yeah, this newer one fromtwenty twenty two, MotorCity Rocks twenty
twenty two, it's still out there. As a matter of fact, I
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saw at Village Vinyl and now SterlingHeights they had a couple left. Bob
over there at Rock of Ages tellsme, you know, he's got a
couple. We put out a fewmore of the first one than we did
this most recent one from twenty twentythree, so there are still a few
out there if people want to golook for him. You know. Weirdsville
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Records in Mount Clemens is another placetoo, But yeah, check your record
stores the next time you're out thereand look for those Wheels albums, because
you know, I hate to tellyou, Joe and Joey, but I
don't know if we're ever going tosee this in Detroit anytime too soon again.
So you know, I'm glad youguys, but I'm glad you guys
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were a part of it. Andthanks for coming together for me today to
do this. I really appreciate it. Of course, man, we're honored
to do it, dude. LikeI said, you know, it's the
huge part of our lives and tohave it come together like that is pretty
special. Yeah, it is.You're taking the time and everything. Man,
you're the best. All right.Well, Joe Faba and Joey,
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thank you so much, you guys, and uh. I will be seeing
you guys soon. Yes, yes, we'll see you soon. All right.
I just want to come with someof the shows, but hang out.
Oh yeah, I'm definitely going tobe down there District one forty two,
so I'll see you there. Allright, we'll see you then.
I guess I'll see you there then. Okay, I'll see you there,
dad, Okay, hi dog,thanks again. All right, thank you
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guys. Bye bye bye bye bye.
Hey, dog, is Joey allright? Joey Faba, thanks for checking
in, my friend, good man, how are you? I got Joe
here too, My dad with meas well. Oh you guys are together.
Okay. I thought maybe we'd connectseparately. But that's great, perfect.
I love it. This is anabsolute great story. I'm so proud
to share it with everybody. JoeFava and Joey Fava both appearing on WLLZ
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MotorCity Rocks albums one in nineteen eightythree and one in twenty twenty two.
But how sweet it feels both ingreat bands in Detroit, the dad and
the son both coming together with WLLZ. Kind of like Kong and the Son
of Kong, you know what Imean. They were both great movies,
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and these were both great songs ontwo separate Wheels album Joe, I want
to start with you, buddy,your band artist was a part of the
very first wll the album back innineteen eighty three and now back in twenty
twenty two. You know, let'sskip a whole bunch of years, and
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your son, Joey Fava ended upon the you know new WLLZ first album
that we put out It's absolutely incrediblethat this whole thing went full circle.
And when I saw your post onFacebook, when I saw your post,
man, I almost started to cry, to tell you the truth, because
Joe, I'm so proud to havebeen a part of both these albums.
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It take us back to that band, because that was nineteen eighty three and
at the time when we put thatWheels album out, we put it out
to the whole world and we endedup with seven hundred entries. Yeah.
Well, I mean, you know, Wheels ignited everything as far as getting
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to that point with competing at theBEACONCA in New York. But the band
uh uh Eddie Layton, John Fame, and Rick Brook Uh. They were
in a band uh called Curtis HighFlash. Yes, and I was in
a band called Scandal with Tommy Farlessand John Fain and members from both bands.
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Uh. We created artists with boththose both those bands. Now Tommy
Farless he was the lead singer.Uh. No, Philip Schutnick was.
But Tommy had already moved on.Uh he was, I believe he already
he moved on with Muggsy at thatpoint. Okay, all right, yeah,
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yeah, it was weapons and MuggsyYeah. Yeah, Eddie uh,
Eddie had jeez, I mean endlesssongs, endless original songs, and we
spent a lot of time putting themall together, and there was a good
handful, especially out on the Roadagain. Yeah. Out of the Road
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again was actually the song that weall ended up picking. But I had
forgotten about the part where you hadto go tell me a little bit about
that. You had to go performat the Beacon Theater in New York.
Yeah. So the we were oneof the five finalists. There was a
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finalist from San Jose, one fromMinneapolis. I can't remember all the names
of the bands. Of course,bon JOVII from New Jersey, right right,
And so we all there was fivebands we competed that we played five.
Each band played five songs. Buton Jogi didn't have his band together
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at that point. And while wewere in the theater everybody's doing the sound
checks, I noticed bon Jovi,which again I didn't know who he was
at the time. He was upon stage with the band from the year
before, rehearsing a little runaway,you know, repeatedly because he didn't have
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a band, so that was theonly way he was able to perform that
night. Yeah, so as Irecall, and boy, it's starting to
flood back to me a little bit, but it was John bon Jovi was
his name. And what happened wasthere is that Double Day, the company
that owned radio stations, rock stationsacross the country. We're putting out these
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albums of local artists. It wasimportant to us at the time. It
was especially important to me because Iwas a music director and it was Detroit
and we're known for our artists.So there were some bands and you obviously
were picked out of the let mesee here, I got the old album.
Yeah, there was thirty There wasthirty thousand entries originally. Yeah,
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out of the out of the tenbands that are on the first w LLZ
album from nineteen eighty three. Yeah, you got chosen. You got chosen
to be picked to go to NewYork and represent Detroit. Well exactly.
Yeah, there was a there wasAdrenaline, Toby Red, the Tim Garrick
(05:24):
Band, Ben sweet Alley, Yeah, Tommy Gunn Yeah, Yeah, AUTOMATX,
Bias Satellite and Tommy Gunn in thelineup. But uh, but what
we had determined from all of theseacts and some of them, you know,
went on to become a little bitbigger. Was that your song was
(05:46):
the most viable to possibly get airplayacross the country, And wasn't this for
a record recording contract of some sort? Yeah, we got a we got
a single release on Atlantic Records.There you go, and but Wheels,
uh you of course it was.It was played quite a bit before the
(06:06):
contest and after the contest. Yeah, I think the only other artist and
song that got picked to be playedwas run Away from bon Jovi. So
I mean, you know, whoknows. I mean two more steps forward
and you know, Joe, youcould have been John bon Jovi is Yeah,
(06:31):
you know we just if we would, you know, just a little
more lock on our side, somebetter management, you know, things could
have worked out well. When youmentioned the names of the bands like Eddie
and and all of those guys,I mean some of the yeah, some
of the top players in Detroit atthat time, uh, you know kind
(06:54):
of merged and melted into uh,you know when it ended up being the
band artist that is that is incredibleand at that time in nineteen eighty three,
just to kind of talk about thisalbum and how iconic it really is
Gary Graff and Jim mcfarrewell just toname a couple, and Michael Tinnick,
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who was like the head of BrassRing Productions at the time, were some
of the judges who went ahead.And you know, we put judges to
the you know, to task togo ahead and pick you know, what
artists we were going to have,and then I think the fans voted on
the album artists to send in NewYork, so, you know, and
(07:41):
just looking at the cover, thephotography was done by the legendary Thomas Wessler
and the incredible iconic now late GaryGrimshaw. So just to take a look
back at that album alone. So, Joey, did you when we went
(08:01):
ahead and put this album out herewith WLLZ now with iHeartRadio. Yeah,
were you familiar with Obviously you musthave been familiar with your dad's presence on
that first album, right, veryfamiliar. That's why I remember telling you
that when you brought this up tome, I go, oh my god,
(08:22):
that's insane, because I mean Igrew up having, you know,
that first album, just being aroundit and knowing what it was, hearing
the stories, and I knew alot about it. So I was like
so excited that you were bringing itback for one and that was the coolest
thing to me. And the factthat we were going to be on it
was just insane because to me itwas like I've known about this whole life,
and now my band's gonna be includedon it, and it's so cool.
(08:43):
And that was if I'm right,cry if I'm wrong with that was
the first one back right for twentytwenty two. Yes, yeah, we
did. So that was so cool, man. So yeah, I was
very very familiar with it. Andthat's also was you know, for me,
it meant even a little bit morethan everybody else, maybe, you
know, just because it's it wasmore of a sentimental thing to me too.
So it was like, it's justone of the coolest things ever to
(09:03):
me. And you know, Ithink when we were talking that might have
just like went right through me.I don't know if I didn't you know,
if I didn't pick up on itor you know, because I have
to tell you guys, I wasso excited that I got the green light
from my heart to put this together. And then you know, there were
a few hurdles in between to actuallybring this thing. You know to fruition,
(09:28):
so, you know, and itwas a little different process, Joe.
They didn't have to be subjected tothe public and five hundred judges and
all of that. We kind ofsat around here, some of us people
who are you know, part ofthe WLLZ Corps, and just looked,
(09:50):
you know, across the landscape ofDetroit today, which you know, let's
face it, Joe, back ineighty three, there were so many more
original Detroit bands that not only wereworthy of being on an album, but
could draw you know, two threefour thousand people to a club or to
(10:13):
a concert. Yeah. The competent, Yeah, the competition was was was
fierce and uh it maybe it mayjust stay on your toes and it made
it made you play your best always, you know, because they were always
really really good bands and a lotof the bands would go see each other
on nights that you were off.You would go check out other bands to
(10:35):
see what they were doing. Andand like you said, they were all
really good at the top of theirgame. Well, yeah, I mean,
think think of a band that's outthere today, uh, you know,
having the task of trying to fillup Harpos at three thousand people or
the Ritz at twenty five hundred peopleand or you know, and and at
(10:58):
the time back in nineteen eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, local
bands were constantly being picked to openup Pine Knob concerts, you know,
I mean Adrenaline opening for Arrowsmith andToby Red opening for the Police and things
like that. So yeah, wehad some opening we did back then.
(11:22):
We did Head East, we didEldon Lee and and playing four you know,
four and five nights a week.I mean the minimum it was always
three nights a week. I meanyou had to beg for a week off.
There were so many clubs and everybodywanted you to play ConTroll their calendars.
(11:48):
You know. Well, your sonis a beast on the kit,
of course, so yeah, he'sbeen going since he's two years old.
Yeah, I mean two years old. I put him behind the kit and
stood behind him and got his handsgoing to play a beat, and he
just took off. And he hadto play standing up when I got him
his little little kit because he couldn'treach the pedals sitting down. And then
(12:13):
by the time he was eight,he wanted to play guitar and but he
was really into it because he wantedto take lessons and perfect himself and get
as good as he could. Wellthat is that's really paid off for you
though, Joey, because I know, not only do you play drums for
Colido, but you and Christina alwaysgo out and you're always playing acoustic guitar
(12:35):
back in her up on those sologigs that you guys do in you know,
restaurants and bars around town. Yeah. So yeah, so it's cool
doing that. You know, it'slike completely the opposite end of the spectrum.
Like you know, we're like thisloud, bombastic, an intense rock
band, and then it's like we'relike in the corner sitting playing beautiful little
(12:56):
acoustic song. So it's cool.It like satisfies all my my, you
know, musical wanta deep. Iguess you know, it's like it's funny
to do it. Also, Ireally enjoyed doing and we may have to
talk Christina in to do it outon the road again. Yeah right,
I would love that, you know, maybe for my birthday party or something.
(13:16):
Yeah, get your dad up there. So Joey knows that I'm a
big fan of not only himself butthe band. Uh, you know,
from the very first recordings of Colido. But we all met and I don't
(13:37):
know if you guys remember this ornot, but we all met in some
small bar and I was enamored withJoey. The band that you were in
before Colido, which I never seemedto be able to remember their name.
It was I Robotis Robots in theGarden, Okay, So it's probably a
good thing that you left that bandbecause even I can't remember the So I
(14:01):
was like, it was a bunchof my friends I had grown up with
and it kind of just ended upsizzling out on its own. Everyone was
just kind of even doing the thingsor whatever. And that was wild though,
because that's how I met Christina andCohe from Clago was we had played
they were they were in another bandat the time, and we played together
and met and I remember just watchingboth of them and I was like,
whoa man, Like she things reallygood and he's a really good bass player.
(14:24):
So immediately my like, you know, wheels returning, And that's kind
of basically what we met and immediatelygot along and that's what started Colido.
So it's crazy all that works.Yeah, And I remember joe you came
up to me and we were talkingabout, you know, the the early
days and the first album and artist, and and you looked, you just
look so proud of Joey up there. Yeah, I mean, I am
(14:48):
very proud. He's just he workedreally hard at it and he he just
he's a great player. And itshows, you know, it's you can
tell when people are watching that they'rewatching something special. You know. Well,
when you measure the success today,it's different then back then, obviously,
(15:11):
But if you measure the success todayKalido has, you know, they've
hit a very very high mark.I mean the festivals and the albums and
the reviews and the concerts and thecrowd and what Christina calls her family,
which is essentially, you know,fifty thousand people following her continuously on you
(15:35):
know, social media. Maybe onehundred thousand, I don't know, could
be a million by now. ButI'm impressed, very impressed when I see
all that on social media. Sothe one thing that you know, Joe
and you and I were never ableto be a part of was being a
(15:56):
comic book and we were never superheroes, you know, but Joey apparently is
a superhero, and uh, somebodyhad to do it. Out of you,
you know, three, someone's gotto do. So Joey, Joey,
tell us a little bit because Iknow, the last time I had
(16:18):
you and Christina on uh, thatthing was just about to come out.
So now it's out. Tell mea little bit about, uh, how
you're feeling about the comic book andeverything about it. Man, it has
been incredible. It's so it's it'sa whole different kind of form of media
for us instead of just you know, doing our shows and we have our
merch and we go out and youknow, we play a show and then
(16:40):
we have our merchany will come.It was like we just actually did a
an in source signing in Plymouth andit was crazy because I was like,
wow, like we're we're here setup and we're signing these books and like
we didn't play it notes Like it'swild kind of you know. So it's
it's branching us out into more media, which is cool, but yeah,
it was insane. Man. Itjust came ross by our buddies kind of
had the ideas and brought it upto us and we were into it right
(17:03):
away, and it slowly just kindof turned. It started getting wheeled as
we would you know, move onwith it, and more of would started
happening, and yeah, it turnedinto just it's crazy, we're gonna have
it's gonna be a four book seriesand we're gonna do a graphic knowledge after
that. But we just released thefirst book April twelfth at Astronomicon actually here.
(17:25):
Oh wow, Yeah, it wasamazing. Man. It's like,
it's just it's a whole different Likeit's funny because you guys were just talking
about how different things are now,I guess than they were. And now
it's like you know, with socialmedia and with everything, it's it just
branches out more. It gets usout some different people and it's harder to
you know, it's I'm not sayingit's harder to got people back then or
(17:45):
whatever we're now, it's just different. But yeah, it's just it's it's
pretty cool, man. Like we'restill we're new to it and we're just
kind of getting a feel for it. But everything we've done so far has
been really cool and I'm very veryexcited about it, really excited for the
next book out. We're gonna startto doing them quarterly. So yeah,
yeah, I thought there, Yeah, I thought it was a brilliant move
because there are so many more distractionstoday for young people. Exactly back then,
(18:10):
you know, we we you know, radio pretty much dominated your you
know, view of life when itcame to rock and roll, but not
so much today. Let's you know, let's put the cards on the table.
Now for people, it's like andkind of they can stream or whatever,
so it's harder to maybe you know, necessarily get in front of them
and get them interested in something,you know sometimes. So I think it's
(18:32):
a cool thing for us, andI've been really having a blast with it.
I mean, I love comic books, and you know, I grew
up loving kids and stuff like that, and they say comic books and I
was like, you know, apparentlyit's pretty popular. Because when we went
to the uh A couple of saradaysago in Plymouth there where they had the
comics, I mean, there wasa line out the door. It was
(18:53):
it was for hours. Yeah,it was pretty wild. Actually, yeah,
it was great though. It wasreally fun. But yeah, you
have to you have to think ofthe fact that the demographic that loves Colido
music may or may not have knownthe band before the comic book, so
you know, they they find thiscomic book. They and and you know,
(19:14):
like back in the day, youwould you would see something interesting.
Uh when it was a record,you'd pick it up, like a roxy
music album or something, and you'dtake it home and you'd give it a
try. People don't do that thatmuch today, but with comic books,
I think they do. And andnow all of a sudden you've got you
know, new fans coming from awhole new gendre. It's just it's it's
(19:37):
perfect, Actually, it really is. You're right. There was I was
watching them at their table signing thecomics, and there was people that had
no idea about the band. Yeah, which is cool. Just people come
up with the free comic book dayventoo and they're like, oh you o
a band. So it's like itjust it gives it. It puts it
out there a bit more and letspeople kind of, you know, grab
a hold of it. It's like, you know, like, I mean
that's how it is back back inthe day. I mean, be like
(20:00):
you go see like Iron Maiden Recordsand see Eddy on there like I'm getting
this. You know, you didn'teven know it was exactly right. This
is cool. So it's a coolthing for us and nowadays too, you
know, like physical media is lastand I promise and it was as well,
you know, so it's like it'scool for us to have like a
physical thing and it's the book andI can flip through it. And I
think people like that as well too. It's nice to have, you know,
(20:21):
a physical album, a physical book, and that kind of stuff is
cool. So we've been enjoying it. Well, Joe, brace yourself because
if they come calling about a TVshow, then you know, I mean,
can you spell monkeys? Uh?We were saying at end of the
day we were lasting, but yeah, that'd be so funny, dude.
But yeah, man, that's uh, that would be amazing. I mean,
(20:44):
that'd be crazy. It's a reallygood story. I'm really excited about
it. We we really said thatwe were gonna do with that. We
weren't going to just like throw thisbook together and put it out and just
be like a whatever kind of thing. Like, we really hired a top
comment team all have years and yearsof experience in the industry, and they've
you know, we've written an incrediblestory, I think, and the art
is just it's incredible. I'm reallyreally honored to be a part of it
(21:07):
and excited. So what's up comingfor Colido Joey? Where are we going
with the band? So we gotsome shows coming up. We haven't been
playing too much lately. We've beenrecording new music and we have just constant
stuff that's gonna get ready to comeout. But we've been releasing a song
about every sixth and seven weeks.Yeah, you know, two months.
But we have a show June firstin Battle Creek with a band called Plush.
(21:30):
I think we talked about it lasttime when that's talking to you.
And then we're doing some shows withour buddies and alien Ant Farm. We're
doing June fifth in wydott At District, going forty two all right. We're
doing June eighth in french Town,New Jersey, June ninth, Frooklyn,
New York, June eleventh, andMechanicsburg, PA. And then we're gonna
have another show June fifteenth in Indiana. It's like the little festival type of
(21:55):
deal. And then another festival inGlen four, Wisconsin August sixteenth with Faster
Pussycat, Bullet Boys, Probot,couple other bands. So we have the
stuff coming up some summer shows.Yeah, well, talk about amazing stories,
you guys. Joe Fava, JoeyFava U Joe from the old days
(22:17):
back with Artists, and Joey Favatoday with the band Collido. I have
to tell you, talk about amazingstories. This is absolutely one of them.
I don't think this probably could happenin any other city but Detroit,
where you know where we're Yeah,it's crazy, it is great. It
kind of blows my mind. It'swild. So I'm really really appreciate you
(22:40):
having time talk about this and givingit the love because it's it is very
cool, and I appreciate it.Oh yeah, definitely. You don't know
how proud I am to have been, you know, not only a part
of the first one, uh,but then this new this new brand,
uh, and you know, itjust it just makes my heart feel good
and and it truly is a Detroitrock radio music story. So you guys
(23:04):
are this. You're on both ofthem. And I still can't play anything
other than you know, three chordsongs. But hey man, you made
all this happen, dude, especiallywith you bringing it back as well.
It's so cool because you know,it's a lot of work I know,
and it's got to be a laborlove, so it's very appreciated, very
cool. Man. Well, Ido have to give a big shout out
(23:26):
now that we've gone down that roadto Jason Hartless Senior and Jason Hartless Junior,
their record company, sound City MusicCompany. Uh. They really they
stepped up and you know, tookit upon themselves to make sure that this
happened as well, for not onlyme, but for the radio station and
for the city. Uh. Idon't, I don't. I don't think
(23:48):
anybody made any money. But wedid make an impact. And if all
we got out of it was thisstory, I'm happy that we did it.
You know that I am too.Man. Yeah, all right,
Well, you can still find thethe WLLZ album. I find the first
one, Joe. Occasionally I'll gointo a you know, into a record
(24:12):
store or you know, a resaleshop, and I'll be digging around and
there's that album. And every timeI find one, I buy it.
So if anybody needs them, I'vegot him, you know, like for
five hundred bucks apiece in my basement. And but the thanks for replacing mine,
(24:33):
my original one? I asked Joy, I said, Hey, maybe
you can ask Doug if he hasone because mine is skipping. Yeah.
Well, I, like I said, I pick him up wherever I go.
But yeah, this newer one fromtwenty twenty two, MotorCity Rocks twenty
twenty two, it's still out there. As a matter of fact, I
(24:57):
saw at Village Vinyl and now SterlingHeights they had a couple left. Bob
over there at Rock of Ages tellsme, you know, he's got a
couple. We put out a fewmore of the first one than we did
this most recent one from twenty twentythree, so there are still a few
out there if people want to golook for him. You know. Weirdsville
(25:21):
Records in Mount Clemens is another placetoo, But yeah, check your record
stores the next time you're out thereand look for those Wheels albums, because
you know, I hate to tellyou, Joe and Joey, but I
don't know if we're ever going tosee this in Detroit anytime too soon again.
So you know, I'm glad youguys, but I'm glad you guys
(25:42):
were a part of it. Andthanks for coming together for me today to
do this. I really appreciate it. Of course, man, we're honored
to do it, dude. LikeI said, you know, it's the
huge part of our lives and tohave it come together like that is pretty
special. Yeah, it is.You're taking the time and everything. Man,
you're the best. All right.Well, Joe Faba and Joey,
(26:02):
thank you so much, you guys, and uh. I will be seeing
you guys soon. Yes, yes, we'll see you soon. All right.
I just want to come with someof the shows, but hang out.
Oh yeah, I'm definitely going tobe down there District one forty two,
so I'll see you there. Allright, we'll see you then.
I guess I'll see you there then. Okay, I'll see you there,
dad, Okay, hi dog,thanks again. All right, thank you
(26:22):
guys. Bye bye bye bye bye.
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