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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Vinny, Sean Cassidy my main man. Welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thanks brother.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You were on with me in twenty seventeen to talk
up Emerald City.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah yeah, and we had great conversation. You remembered the
ceiling caving in at the Hartford Civic Center, talked about
your New Haven Coliseum show and you jumping through the
little Are you doing that on this tour? You jumping
through the little.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Pint the hoop?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, it was tremendous. No.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I do less coop jumping in this decade, Vinny. I
find it. The body doesn't handle it quite as well
as it did when I was twenty. Yeah, but I do.
I actually do some jumping on the stage. You know.
It's funny. I talked to the band about this. You
walk out. I didn't do concerts for like forty years.
My last concert tour ended in nineteen eighty at the Astrodome,
(00:50):
fifty five thousand people. I said good night. I didn't
know it would be the last concert until twenty twenty,
but that's just how my life went. It was great. Yeah,
but now I'm out there doing these shows again, and
it's just you know, they say just like riding a bicycle.
Will you walk out there? You get adrenalized. The audience
is like screaming at you and like, oh I just
I jump, I do flips, I do nice lives. Well, yeah,
(01:13):
but you don't get up quite the same way. Yeah
as you did.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah. Well you're looking good, Sean Cassidy. Let's be honest,
you're looking good. You're up there, you're able bodied. It
is funny. When we spoke in twenty seventeen, you even
said you weren't looking to do I think I brought
up let's all nod and you were like, nah, man,
I'm a producer and you would be giving us some
great team. I was.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was certain. I was certain I wouldn't do this again. Yeah, yeah,
absolutely positive, And I'm still kind of surprised. I'm doing it, frankly,
but I'm loving it. But I'm still writing and producing.
I just turned into New Pilot NBC yesterday, so that
is still my day job and my main job. But
I honestly I missed the connection with people. I think
the pandemic has something to do with it. We all
(01:57):
got so isolated, and I thought, man, if I can
get out there and like get people together in a room,
you know, for whatever reason, however big or small the
theater is, it's just I think it's just like a
healing experience of nothing else. And it's been really fun. Yeah,
and a lot of shows are fun there. People are
coming and oh yeah, you're in songs that.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I made the most of it. I seize the moment
one of your return. I trotted out our old interview
and I got a lot of love for it from people.
There's people around here who you have to understand, Truck.
You were so many people in my little world, my
little corner of the universe. You were a lot of
people in my eight. I'm fifty eight, our first concert,
(02:37):
so I'll hear from you. I post the interview like
that's my new aven colisseum. They know the date, and
I have to tell you due to that. It dawned
on me last night showing Cassidy, this is going to
be awkward to share with you too. And I love
the Hardy Boys and you know, I mean, I love
the books. Never mind, when I found out a TV
show was coming my way and then I wound out,
(02:58):
you know, getting it played by the guy was doing
the dual run run that was you know I had
that forty five. I love that song. But you're the
reason I got into radio. You know. True story. It
dawned on me last night, tell me Yeah. So I
was at an event and the top forty station in town,
casey one on one, they were just they were live
somewhere and they're asking everybody what their first concert was,
(03:21):
and they were passing the microphone run and people were
saying what their first concert was, And when it came
to me, I said Jay Giles band. And then they
went on to other people and I said excuse me,
excuse me, and they're like, what, I go I lied
to you all. It was Sean Cassidy ah, and I
got a big to be honest with you. Sean, you
were first, then Andy, I left, Andy gibb out all together.
(03:43):
Jay Giles was third. It made the host.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, I thought Jay Giles back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And it made the host laugh so hard. He goes,
that was really funny. Do you want to come in
and be on the show? And I returned due to
getting a laugh. And now here you are on the
road and you're killing it and we're getting you. At
Foxwood's March thirteenth the Road to Us.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
To Us Tour, it was full of chicks locks.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The you know, when I was in sixth grade, the
show was full of checks, and I went with my
sisters and their girlfriends. I was the only guy.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, that might have been why you were a little
shy about sharing that. I understand that. And by the way,
my shows now are full of chicks too, But they
also I know it. I have a lot of husbands
and boyfriends that come, and I my dirty little secret
is I do the show for those guys because a
lot of them, I know, get dragged along and I
want them to leave going. You know, I don't want
to beat that guy up anymore. I kind of like him.
(04:36):
He's kind of funny, and the show is funny.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah. Yeah, you're telling a lot of stories. It's got
kind of a story. It's kind of a storyteller's vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Now, right, Well, that's my job now, you know, Benny,
I've been for thirty years. I've been writing and producing
television as a storyteller. So when I finally made the
transition in my brain, which I obviously hadn't made in
twenty seventeen, to go out and do this I realized, Oh,
here's how I can do it with some authenticity, so
it's not just a guy trying to replicate his success
(05:04):
when he was twenty. I'll go out and tell stories
and frame the songs with stories that kind of present
them in a surprising way or reveal something about them
that people don't know. And I'll talk a lot about
my family as well and kind of the arc of
this crazy career I've had. And I talk about the audience.
I know that for the lot of the audience, my
(05:25):
concert was their first one, or my poster or whatever record,
and it's a connection. It's not the road to me,
it's the road to us for a reason.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, the under Wraps poster was up in Rachel Green's
room in an episode of Friends. You must know that.
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I have a little story with that. Yes. I was
at Warner Brothers at the time producing a show called Invasion,
and they were shooting Friends on the lot and they
called me and they said, hey, we want to put
a poster review in Jennifer Aniston's character's bedroom, school bedroom,
college bedroom. Yeah it was her No, great, that'd be fun. Yeah,
(06:05):
So they used the poster and afterwards, she signed it
for me and it came back to me. And here's
the surprise. When I was a young kid, like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
I did magic shows all over LA. I did children's
birthday parties. Yeah, I played Jennifer Aniston's fourth birthday as
a magician. So she signed the poster Dear sean thanks
(06:26):
for the awesome magic show loved Jen.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Did you remember that at the time or was this
something Oh yeah, you do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's wild.
That is a hell of a story you did. I
just blow it for you. Is that something you probably
are going to share at Foxwood's. That's a great story.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I used to share it my early version of the show.
I've moved on. I have new stories now, So that
was a special part of the old show that I
shared with you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. Well, I always thought it was a tremendous move
as far as friends is concerned, to have that poster
up on the wall, you know. And that was a
great record too, I mean, you went on from de
Do Run Run? You know? Do Do Run Run? Is
the only song I ever called into a radio show
to request and my brother caught me and he broke
(07:11):
my balls. Sean. He broke my balls about that speaking
of brothers, since the last time we spoke, we lost David.
And you know, on that day, I got the most
beautiful message from my daughter because she's like, I know
today it must be difficult for you. She went through
this whole thing. And when I said to her, I go,
(07:32):
I think you think Sean Cassidy, I mean Dave. I
love the Partridge family. I'm like, oh, it wasn't the
Hardy Boys. I oh, no, it was his brother. But
that was very speed of you. And I saw you
and David in Blood Brothers here in New Haven. You
did yeah, great show. And I think you were with
your mom too, right, look at the gist of that show.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Mom, My mother was not in Blood Brothers. That was
Petula Clark okay, who played our mother. Okay of a
David and I did that show on Broadway for like
a year and a half back. I sing a song
from Blood Brothers in my show. I got my nephew Cole.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I got to see this.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
My nephew Cole plays guitar with me and he takes
the part that David saying, we sing it together. Yeah,
And I miss David every day he passed in twenty seventeen.
I don't know if it was four.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
After, we would have had to have been after. Yeah,
absolutely right, must have just missed it. But yeah, I
mean that's that's heartbreaking. So I got to see the show.
I got to meet you in person, Sean. You've played
a huge role in my life. You've changed real Come
come to Fox.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, I'd love to meet you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I got to set that up. And I just want
to give a quick shout out to Well. Now, when
I say my first Crush, it's going to sound really
weird of it, but that is it's a great great
name for a wine. Man. Is it a white? Is
it red? Do you have both? Very at the above. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We live in the wine country of Santa Barbara and
a few years back we decided to put out a
wine and we give money from the wine to a
great organize called No Kid Hungry. It feeds kids all
over the world and it's a labor of love. It's
not profitable, but the wine is extraordinary. So if you
go to my First Crush dot com, you can join
(09:11):
our wine club and we can have a lot or
two together someday and you can help feed some kids
and enjoy the wine.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'd love to order up some of that. So do
you have a what is the white? Is it a
chardon Do you have a penal greasy? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, we have a Chardonnay, we have a Vigner. We
have an Italian blend that's white. I would and we
have our valleys famous for pino noir, which is a
light red. We have all clients.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I got to check it out. Sean Cassidy, You're better
than ever you change. I mean, you're a huge part
of my life, a huge part of a lot of
people's lives. And I love that you're on the road. Man.
I hope to arrange meeting you at Foxwoods or glad
to get you back here in Connecticut and just continued success. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thank you, Vinny. I look forward to meeting you. I
know a guy can get you a ticket.
Hey, Vinny, Sean Cassidy my main man. Welcome back to
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thanks brother.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
You were on with me in twenty seventeen to talk
up Emerald City.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah yeah, and we had great conversation. You remembered the
ceiling caving in at the Hartford Civic Center, talked about
your New Haven Coliseum show and you jumping through the
little Are you doing that on this tour? You jumping
through the little.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Pint the hoop?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, it was tremendous. No.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I do less coop jumping in this decade, Vinny. I
find it. The body doesn't handle it quite as well
as it did when I was twenty. Yeah, but I do.
I actually do some jumping on the stage. You know.
It's funny. I talked to the band about this. You
walk out. I didn't do concerts for like forty years.
My last concert tour ended in nineteen eighty at the Astrodome,
(00:50):
fifty five thousand people. I said good night. I didn't
know it would be the last concert until twenty twenty,
but that's just how my life went. It was great. Yeah,
but now I'm out there doing these shows again, and
it's just you know, they say just like riding a bicycle.
Will you walk out there? You get adrenalized. The audience
is like screaming at you and like, oh I just
I jump, I do flips, I do nice lives. Well, yeah,
(01:13):
but you don't get up quite the same way. Yeah
as you did.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah. Well you're looking good, Sean Cassidy. Let's be honest,
you're looking good. You're up there, you're able bodied. It
is funny. When we spoke in twenty seventeen, you even
said you weren't looking to do I think I brought
up let's all nod and you were like, nah, man,
I'm a producer and you would be giving us some
great team. I was.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was certain. I was certain I wouldn't do this again. Yeah, yeah,
absolutely positive, And I'm still kind of surprised. I'm doing it, frankly,
but I'm loving it. But I'm still writing and producing.
I just turned into New Pilot NBC yesterday, so that
is still my day job and my main job. But
I honestly I missed the connection with people. I think
the pandemic has something to do with it. We all
(01:57):
got so isolated, and I thought, man, if I can
get out there and like get people together in a room,
you know, for whatever reason, however big or small the
theater is, it's just I think it's just like a
healing experience of nothing else. And it's been really fun. Yeah,
and a lot of shows are fun there. People are
coming and oh yeah, you're in songs that.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I made the most of it. I seize the moment
one of your return. I trotted out our old interview
and I got a lot of love for it from people.
There's people around here who you have to understand, Truck.
You were so many people in my little world, my
little corner of the universe. You were a lot of
people in my eight. I'm fifty eight, our first concert,
(02:37):
so I'll hear from you. I post the interview like
that's my new aven colisseum. They know the date, and
I have to tell you due to that. It dawned
on me last night showing Cassidy, this is going to
be awkward to share with you too. And I love
the Hardy Boys and you know, I mean, I love
the books. Never mind, when I found out a TV
show was coming my way and then I wound out,
(02:58):
you know, getting it played by the guy was doing
the dual run run that was you know I had
that forty five. I love that song. But you're the
reason I got into radio. You know. True story. It
dawned on me last night, tell me Yeah. So I
was at an event and the top forty station in town,
casey one on one, they were just they were live
somewhere and they're asking everybody what their first concert was,
(03:21):
and they were passing the microphone run and people were
saying what their first concert was, And when it came
to me, I said Jay Giles band. And then they
went on to other people and I said excuse me,
excuse me, and they're like, what, I go I lied
to you all. It was Sean Cassidy ah, and I
got a big to be honest with you. Sean, you
were first, then Andy, I left, Andy gibb out all together.
(03:43):
Jay Giles was third. It made the host.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, I thought Jay Giles back in the day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And it made the host laugh so hard. He goes,
that was really funny. Do you want to come in
and be on the show? And I returned due to
getting a laugh. And now here you are on the
road and you're killing it and we're getting you. At
Foxwood's March thirteenth the Road to Us.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
To Us Tour, it was full of chicks locks.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The you know, when I was in sixth grade, the
show was full of checks, and I went with my
sisters and their girlfriends. I was the only guy.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, that might have been why you were a little
shy about sharing that. I understand that. And by the way,
my shows now are full of chicks too, But they
also I know it. I have a lot of husbands
and boyfriends that come, and I my dirty little secret
is I do the show for those guys because a
lot of them, I know, get dragged along and I
want them to leave going. You know, I don't want
to beat that guy up anymore. I kind of like him.
(04:36):
He's kind of funny, and the show is funny.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah. Yeah, you're telling a lot of stories. It's got
kind of a story. It's kind of a storyteller's vibe.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Now, right, Well, that's my job now, you know, Benny,
I've been for thirty years. I've been writing and producing
television as a storyteller. So when I finally made the
transition in my brain, which I obviously hadn't made in
twenty seventeen, to go out and do this I realized, Oh,
here's how I can do it with some authenticity, so
it's not just a guy trying to replicate his success
(05:04):
when he was twenty. I'll go out and tell stories
and frame the songs with stories that kind of present
them in a surprising way or reveal something about them
that people don't know. And I'll talk a lot about
my family as well and kind of the arc of
this crazy career I've had. And I talk about the audience.
I know that for the lot of the audience, my
(05:25):
concert was their first one, or my poster or whatever record,
and it's a connection. It's not the road to me,
it's the road to us for a reason.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, the under Wraps poster was up in Rachel Green's
room in an episode of Friends. You must know that.
Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I have a little story with that. Yes. I was
at Warner Brothers at the time producing a show called Invasion,
and they were shooting Friends on the lot and they
called me and they said, hey, we want to put
a poster review in Jennifer Aniston's character's bedroom, school bedroom,
college bedroom. Yeah it was her No, great, that'd be fun. Yeah,
(06:05):
So they used the poster and afterwards, she signed it
for me and it came back to me. And here's
the surprise. When I was a young kid, like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
I did magic shows all over LA. I did children's
birthday parties. Yeah, I played Jennifer Aniston's fourth birthday as
a magician. So she signed the poster Dear sean thanks
(06:26):
for the awesome magic show loved Jen.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Did you remember that at the time or was this
something Oh yeah, you do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's wild.
That is a hell of a story you did. I
just blow it for you. Is that something you probably
are going to share at Foxwood's. That's a great story.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I used to share it my early version of the show.
I've moved on. I have new stories now, So that
was a special part of the old show that I
shared with you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah. Well, I always thought it was a tremendous move
as far as friends is concerned, to have that poster
up on the wall, you know. And that was a
great record too, I mean, you went on from de
Do Run Run? You know? Do Do Run Run? Is
the only song I ever called into a radio show
to request and my brother caught me and he broke
(07:11):
my balls. Sean. He broke my balls about that speaking
of brothers, since the last time we spoke, we lost David.
And you know, on that day, I got the most
beautiful message from my daughter because she's like, I know
today it must be difficult for you. She went through
this whole thing. And when I said to her, I go,
(07:32):
I think you think Sean Cassidy, I mean Dave. I
love the Partridge family. I'm like, oh, it wasn't the
Hardy Boys. I oh, no, it was his brother. But
that was very speed of you. And I saw you
and David in Blood Brothers here in New Haven. You
did yeah, great show. And I think you were with
your mom too, right, look at the gist of that show.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Mom, My mother was not in Blood Brothers. That was
Petula Clark okay, who played our mother. Okay of a
David and I did that show on Broadway for like
a year and a half back. I sing a song
from Blood Brothers in my show. I got my nephew Cole.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I got to see this.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
My nephew Cole plays guitar with me and he takes
the part that David saying, we sing it together. Yeah,
And I miss David every day he passed in twenty seventeen.
I don't know if it was four.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
After, we would have had to have been after. Yeah,
absolutely right, must have just missed it. But yeah, I
mean that's that's heartbreaking. So I got to see the show.
I got to meet you in person, Sean. You've played
a huge role in my life. You've changed real Come
come to Fox.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, I'd love to meet you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I got to set that up. And I just want
to give a quick shout out to Well. Now, when
I say my first Crush, it's going to sound really
weird of it, but that is it's a great great
name for a wine. Man. Is it a white? Is
it red? Do you have both? Very at the above. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We live in the wine country of Santa Barbara and
a few years back we decided to put out a
wine and we give money from the wine to a
great organize called No Kid Hungry. It feeds kids all
over the world and it's a labor of love. It's
not profitable, but the wine is extraordinary. So if you
go to my First Crush dot com, you can join
(09:11):
our wine club and we can have a lot or
two together someday and you can help feed some kids
and enjoy the wine.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'd love to order up some of that. So do
you have a what is the white? Is it a
chardon Do you have a penal greasy? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, we have a Chardonnay, we have a Vigner. We
have an Italian blend that's white. I would and we
have our valleys famous for pino noir, which is a
light red. We have all clients.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I got to check it out. Sean Cassidy, You're better
than ever you change. I mean, you're a huge part
of my life, a huge part of a lot of
people's lives. And I love that you're on the road. Man.
I hope to arrange meeting you at Foxwoods or glad
to get you back here in Connecticut and just continued success. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thank you, Vinny. I look forward to meeting you. I
know a guy can get you a ticket.
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