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November 15, 2024 • 11 mins
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Frankie Anunziato the mediums. Everybody goes to see the mediums.
You don't do the nuns thing, do you?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I use Benny? How you doing, Buddy? Are you you
know in high school? I was, Yeah, then's kind of
Len's kind of dropped out a little bit, buddy.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah. Well, your brother posts very profound.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's look in Where's dare soul and see the darkness
that you contribute to the world. Nuns And he signs it nuns.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So I think I think nones might be a little
bit more. Yeah, sal sal sala hung on to the
noun thing. I agree, I agree. One hundred percent. Yeah. None,
None is definitely more popular with sALS than Frank. Yeah,
but listen then, I was always I was always a
black sheep.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Were you really? Yeah, I'll tell you I envy sALS
Uh what seems to be a real piece, and I
genuinely do I envy the piece that he.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, listen, I am. Let me say I I agree
on hundred percent. Listen. During my very dark days, uh,
Sal was uh and is uh an incredible mentor to
me and me and him have a bond that is
just absolutely incredible and uh, honestly, I I always turned

(01:48):
in for advice and you know, uh on every level.
So he's a He's a giant force in my life,
very big.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Now was your childhood? Was your and I thought you
were new Haven?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Were you eat Saven born and raised?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Davin Steven?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You're a Steven? But you know, but your father was
new Haven? Or your grandfather?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Very my grandfather, my grandfather, yes, which everybody knows. Most
people know is who was Midge? Yeah, Midge?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
He everybody grew up then as you know, uh, in
the old days of fear Haven, James Stree, Blatchley Avenue,
Grand Avenue, all Italians. Uh, my father grew up there.
My grandfather grew up there. Yes, and then my grandfather
moved eventually to East Haven on Thompson Avenue.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah. A lot of people, a lot of those those
guys did. Uh. You know. I grew up with Whitey
Tropiano and Cathy. They were basically I was told to
call them, you know, uncle Whitey and Catherine was my girl. Uh.
That was the address I actually gave to be able
to attend East Haven High School because I didn't live

(02:57):
and he said I lived in the co So when
I would get in trouble, they would look up my
address and they'd be like, this is it for you,
Pennikini And then they would see the address and go
all right, I just go back a nervous you know,
just go back to Gris. But I funny have said
that because.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I think I think my not proud of this. By
the way, boys and girls stay in school. But my
senior year, I think I had six credits and you
needed eighteen. But no I ever questioned me.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
But weren't you an Eli Whitney guy.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
No, that was my brother Anthony. I was strictly Steven.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, Yeah, so I wanted to ask you. So was
your family at least as far as you and I
don't know about Anthony, but was it a living room
full of you guys playing insurance or maybe the basement
were their guitars all around?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Was it was? It was absolutely then, It was all
of us. I mean even my brother Anthony, believe it
or not, as him Jaffy Decent's finger. Yeah, but my
brother Sal was the one who picked up the guitar
and you know, was self taught. You know, we would
we would get we would get woken up at three
in the morning by a bunch of like, you know,
like twelve people and be like Frankie Sous come on sing,

(04:07):
you know, like, Oh, my father was an avid, avid
Beatles fan and love music.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, that was my house because it wasn't for him.
Maybe a little bit more, but there was a lot
of Beatles in my house growing up. Big piece, yeah, yes,
big part of my upbringing.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
That that that laid down the foundation for you know,
me and style and stuff, and me and style always
from a very young age harmonized Simon and garfunk call
Beatles and uh, you know, he was the one. If
it wasn't for him I wouldn't be doing this forty
some years later. So he was the one who got
me on my path.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well that's what I wanted to hit you with. So
for the last I gotta say, a couple of years,
I get hit all the time. You got us. Come
and see the mediums. The mediums are playing right down
the street even tonight. Yeah, you're a down the street
at my house at the stand in Branford. Yeah. And
and they've been turning up, like more and more people
are hitting me, from Mike McCarty to Freddie a Troit.

(05:02):
You gotta go and see Frankie's playing. Frankie's been so
I got. I'm just being perfectly honest with you here.
When you texted me yesterday, I've been twenty five years together.
I would have thought it was fun. I told you guys,
because of so much of a buzz these last couple
of years, I would have never thought twenty five years.
I would have thought at best ten. I can't believe

(05:23):
you've been doing twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Then, as you know, probably better than anybody who is
a you know, doing what you did for a living.
And it's kind of sad and me and my partner Tom,
who's in the mediums, talk about this constantly. You know.
I think the last maybe three or four years, twenty
five years later, almost four thousand gigs later. I think
that last three or four years, we're starting to get

(05:47):
the recognition that we deserve. Honestly. Yeah, you know, there's
not there's a there's a ton of musicians out there,
but Tom and I really put into work, you know,
hundreds of songs tonight, just off the We decided on
Monday that let's do an eighties night. So all week
Tom and I are on the phone just like, you know,
let's try, and I ran, let's try, you know, freaking

(06:08):
human league. Don't you want me to be?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
So we do kind of stuff that I think a
lot of duos and don't do. We keep it real
fresh and and I think because of the hard work,
people are starting to see that, you know, we're really
good and if they want to come out and have
a good time. A lot of the people from around
here who haven't seen each other in years start coming

(06:31):
to the gigs and they get together. It's almost like
a little reunion. So yeah, so I think a lot
of people are starting to recognize that you know, listen
if you want to have a good time and get
away from this crazy world for a couple hours. And
you know, see it a really good duo to come out.
And I think after all the hard work is starting
to pay off.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yet, like I said, I'm getting hit all the time.
And you guys have quite a look. You're playing the
stand tonight. You're playing it La loopa.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Next week hotspot North Haven, you know, really popular rally caps.
I gotta be honest, And that's probably not far from me.
That's in North Branford. Right after that next Friday night,
I just not familiar. But that Westbrook Elk, Yes, not
long after that he got b Strow in East Haven
Stony Creek Brewery. That's the one I know for a
fact I can make it out to. But Frank and

(07:19):
again we're on with Frankie Nunciato, the Medium's great band.
I ran into Frank recently with Johnny Amandola at the
Black Crows Show. What a great show that was. And
you want and know what too. You know, we had
a great conversation outside and then I post my pictures
and I'm the radio guy, and you post your pictures.
Mine are from like across the street. You guys had

(07:40):
like third row. It was really humiliating. How did you
get those sleeps?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hold on a second, Hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Let me correct you here, I was with a girls
she ohotos all right, yeah, well he's a big shot.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh listen, no disrespect this sound, because about a year
or two before that sound was racist enough to bring
me and Johnny to see the crows. He's a giant
black crowsban.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
They were tremendous.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Second row. Yeah, and he took us out at dinner.
My brother sounds the best, but no was second row.
He he lived.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
He probably just got off a plane from Punta Khana.
He's just I can't take it. I can't take his
yoga poses, his downward dog. I can't take it. Yeah,
he's a character, and and I love his video clips
of him performing too. But you know, I wish you
told me. I wish I could. I'm thinking of some
great eighties tunes right now. I said the ones you

(08:34):
dropped because they're very they were new wave, and that
was such an interesting moment in our lives as as
eighties hard rock. You know, guys growing weaned on Black
Sabbath and Maiden I didn't run into a lot of
other guys Frank at that time who were down with
like even the police I had to fight for because

(08:57):
I loved the police right right away. I loved you.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, well you know what it is, Ben, I
think would also separate us from a lot of other
duos and stuff like Tom and I don't go for
the usual with this, with this duo. I think everyone
when they hear acoustic duo, they think, Okay, they're going
to do James Taylor, they're going to do Mercury Deville.
Like Tom and I try to do stuff that is
completely bizarre, like you know, we do under pressure by

(09:21):
clean you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Like in the duo, that's a challenge.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
It is is that it's a challenge. We try to
do stuff that you wouldn't think would be heard from
an acoustic duo. So you know, we might do war
Pick and then we might do don't stay it so
close to me by the police. So it's all over
the map. And I think that's why people appreciate it
so much because we put in the work. You know,
it's tough, it's tough to do, but it's it's very rewarding.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I think a lot of you got a lot
of people who appreciate what you're doing. You got a
lot of fans. I hear from people all the time,
and they said they appreciate that. Yeah, I got to
see you play. I'll tell you you know what you
should do tonight. But you know, I don't want to
be a what who's behind the a little zebra? Who's
behind you gonna hit that? Who's gonna hit that?

Speaker 1 (10:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Can one of you guys hit that note?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
At fifty nine? Not anybody?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
What a great show.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I struggle. Tom said to me, you want to do
Who's Crying Now? By Journey? I'm like, no, I don't.
Steve Perry, No, no, no, no, two ways yeah no.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean I'm a huge Journey fan and Steve Perry Finn.
There's there's ten songs I can think of that I
would want to hear before that one, but hey, it
was a huge hit for the band, uh, Giant, Giant. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I gotta get center my love though tonight. If anybody
wants that's an interesting one.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
That's a late, a later hit.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Last night I actually watched the video of it, the
one with Greg Rally, and then Steve Steve Perry's really
kind of backup vocals. What's what was that?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh, it's just.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
The same way you love me, just as same way
you love great so great, I mean that's a great
double harmony or whatever, double vocal. Uh song.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well that's when Perry pretty much like just almost just
gone to the being. And like Greg Rowley was a
big part of that band. Yeah, and they were doing
they were going.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah. I thought that was great stuff. That produced great stuff.
NA got no more like, you know, no more giving
Freddy a trow Bs excuses. I gotta get over there.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Uh and yeah, listen, you're gonna have a You're gonna
have a ball. It's a good time. And I'm not
just just saying that to say it. I mean I
think you'll you'll, you'll genuinely really good time you come out.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, it's all I hear. I've got this Stony Creek
show now that's Saturday, December seventh. Nice Christmas time for me. Anyway,
I've got that one already marked down, but there's a
sluid dates even before then. The website is the mediums
dot Net nuns Frankie and Unziato so great having you
on and I'll be seeing you soon.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
My man, Benny, thanks so much for I really appreciate it. Man,
have a great day, Buddy.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You two my mem
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