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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordy. It is a great pleasure to welcome on here.
Colin hay To News rid EO eleven ten kfa B Colin,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning to you. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
What is it about? You can have a great day,
a wonderful day, stress free, everything's going great, and you think, yeah, tomorrow,
tomorrow's going to be even better. And then you lay
your head down on the pillow and then suddenly it's like,
where's my birth certificate or whatever it is your brain
decides to do to keep you awake. This is I
(00:33):
love this song. How often does that song Overkill get
stuck in your head as you're trying to sleep at night?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, thankfully, not that often anymore. But other songs get
stuck in my head, like the latest the latest song
I'm Rehassing, for example, get stuck in my head. But
I don't really mind. I don't really mind melody's going
round in my head. I used to have its little
bit of trouble sleeping, but I don't have so much
trouble anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, it's that's a great song, and it features prominently
in an episode of one of the best TV shows
of all time, Scrubs where it kind of is woven
throughout the show as being in doctor Dorian's head as
he's dealing with a bunch of stuff there. How much
fun was that to work on that TV show Scrubs
for that that episode, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It was, it was, It was really great. Well, it
was great the way it happened because I got to
know Zach a little bit and he said, I'm just
I've got this gig in this television show. And he
brought along Bill Lawrence, who created the show, to see
me play one night, and he became obsessed with that
song with Overkilling, as a matter of fact, wrote that
episode which is called My Overkill, and asked me to
(01:44):
come in and be on the show. So it was
television's weird. You know, you sit around for about seven
hours and then you go okay, ready, okay, go and
and and you do what you have to do. But
it was very good for me because it increased my
live audience by by a huge amon because that show
(02:06):
was not only was it popular, but it was it
still had kind of kind of cult status in a way,
you know. So it was it was a very cool
show but very popular at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Colin Hay with us from Minute Work here on news
radio eleven ten kfa B. We have a chance to
be the media presenter for this show. My friend Jim
Minghi with the Omaha Dispatch, a long time music journalist
here in our community. He said, Well, I can't be
in the studio with you to talk to Colin Hay,
but I love him. Can you ask him a couple
(02:37):
of questions? So we'll do a couple of other Minute
Work songs with these questions from Jim, He says, Colin,
you performed who Can It Be Now countless times with
min at Work and as a solo artist, but playing
it with the All Star Band and Ringo must bring
a unique dynamic to this song. How does collaborating with
musicians like Steve Lukather and Warren Ham also in the
(03:01):
All Star Band influence your interpretation of this song during
live performances.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Look, it's just it's just a fantastic band to be
part of, simply because of the fact that you know,
really play my songs, and we play obviously Ringo songs
and Beatles songs and Toto songs and average white band songs,
and so everyone is a side man for everybody else,
so and everyone brings something different. And you know the
(03:32):
way they all stars play who can have been a
is you know, it's not radically different, but it's but
it's different from how I play it in my own
band and stuff. And you you just really let let
the song speak and let the musicians bring what they
bring what they will to the song and and just
leave it alone, you know. And there's nothing better than
(03:53):
playing the song on's page and than having after you
finished playing, having Ringo staying there a lot of that song.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, and I'm looking forward. I'm looking forward to to
hearing you play it with the Ringo Star All Star band.
I've heard you do it with Bare Naked Ladies and
that has a nice ring to it as well. Jim
also asks that Ringo has been on stage joining you
and singing down under. How does it feel to share
the stage with a member of the Beatles to perform
(04:23):
one of your songs and what does Ringo bring to
that performance for you?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, there's nothing like playing with Ringo because he was
in the Beatles. I mean, come on, he was in
the Beatles. That's the top of the food chain right there.
So so and H Ringo's gotta got a swing like
nobody else. And of course Greg Bissonette is playing the
(04:51):
drums as well, so having two drummers. But the novel,
the novelty never wears off of of playing one of
your songs, right they for example, and plumbing around and
some Ringos smiling. It's fantastic. Nothing better.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You've joined Ringo's band here several years ago, almost over
twenty years ago. How did the invitation come about for
you to be a part of Ringo's band and how
long did you have to think about that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, I I was on the freeway, and of course
I didn't have to think about it, think about it
at all, you know, as one of those instant reactions.
It's like being called to judy, you know, yeah, it was.
It was I don't know how to be honest. Well,
there used to be a guy used to produce the
(05:43):
Ringo shows and I got a call on this on
the freeway, ask asking me if I wanted to be
part of the Ringo Star All Star band, and so
of course I said yes. And that was in two
thousand and three, so you know, I did it in
two thousand and three. Then I did a television thing
(06:03):
in two thousand and five. I did two thousand and eight,
but then I didn't. I didn't get asked for another
ten years. But I've been doing it. I've been playing
in the band since twenty eighteen now, So I think
that I think that Ringo from all reports likes this
particular this particular group of musicians to play with. So
it's been pretty stable for that length of time.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
How many times you you heard ringos stars say peace
and love six and four or up to six hundred
and eighty four, Okay, so you must have talked to
him today, add a few more. But yeah, he's he
is something else. I've had a chance to talk with
him as well, and I look forward to being on
(06:46):
that stage in front of seventy thousand plus of our
closest friends in Omaha on what will absolutely be a
perfect night at Memorial Park. For this free concert from
the City of Omaha in the Omaha Parks Department at
Memorial Park on Friday, June twenty seventh, You've got a
chance to be on the stage with Ringo Starr and
his all Star band after Mike Campbell on the Dirty
(07:07):
Knobs rock that stage. Mike Campbell and Tom Petty and
the Heartbreakers, And I've talked with him as well, and
he had nothing good to say about you, which is weird.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know he loves you and he can't wait to
see you in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, me too. I just I saw him the other night.
We were just talking about talking about this show. By
the way, I really love Omaha. I love coming to Omaha.
I don't really know all that much about it, but
it's always a very welcoming place. And last time I
was in Omaha, I remember I went to the I
went to the we went ringo, and I went to
(07:44):
Wolford's and he bought me up, brought me up black water.
You know those waters that are from a volcanic water.
I always remember that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, yeah, Omaha. Well you guys played the stir Cove
just a few years ago across the river and Council
blofs Omaha. Council bloffs one wonderful uh metropolitan area. We're
known for blackwater, Warren Buffett, and vegemite sandwiches here in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah sure, I mentioned. Nobody in Omaha has ever had
of savagen. And you know you can happily. You can
happily go through your whole life without having a vegemite sandwich,
if you if you so choose. However, if you should,
if you should want to have some vegamine, have it
on a little multi grain toast, well done with butter
(08:32):
and just a very very small amount of vegemite. And
if you want to make it deluxe, have some avocado
on the side. And that's a good breakfast right there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That you know, all that minus vegemite actually sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But how do you know if you've never tried, if you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Made it, I would eat it. On this program, Colin,
we've got a different delicacy, and we ask all of
our favorite guests on the show to say a line
for us that we feel is the best thing to
hear first thing in the morning. Now, the line is,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. But
since you're calling, hey, I'm hoping we can get the line.
(09:11):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. I
hope you don't chunder, Oh you really must.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's it's good morning, honey. I made you I need
you pancakes. I hope you liked them. And I hope
it doesn't make it Shanda.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's what we wanted. Thank you, Colin. I look forward
to seeing you later this month back here in Omaha.
All right, Scott Byes mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordy. It is a great pleasure to welcome on here.
Colin hay To News rid EO eleven ten kfa B Colin,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning to you. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
What is it about? You can have a great day,
a wonderful day, stress free, everything's going great, and you think, yeah, tomorrow,
tomorrow's going to be even better. And then you lay
your head down on the pillow and then suddenly it's like,
where's my birth certificate or whatever it is your brain
decides to do to keep you awake. This is I
(00:33):
love this song. How often does that song Overkill get
stuck in your head as you're trying to sleep at night?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, thankfully, not that often anymore. But other songs get
stuck in my head, like the latest the latest song
I'm Rehassing, for example, get stuck in my head. But
I don't really mind. I don't really mind melody's going
round in my head. I used to have its little
bit of trouble sleeping, but I don't have so much
trouble anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, it's that's a great song, and it features prominently
in an episode of one of the best TV shows
of all time, Scrubs where it kind of is woven
throughout the show as being in doctor Dorian's head as
he's dealing with a bunch of stuff there. How much
fun was that to work on that TV show Scrubs
for that that episode, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It was, it was, It was really great. Well, it
was great the way it happened because I got to
know Zach a little bit and he said, I'm just
I've got this gig in this television show. And he
brought along Bill Lawrence, who created the show, to see
me play one night, and he became obsessed with that
song with Overkilling, as a matter of fact, wrote that
episode which is called My Overkill, and asked me to
(01:44):
come in and be on the show. So it was
television's weird. You know, you sit around for about seven
hours and then you go okay, ready, okay, go and
and and you do what you have to do. But
it was very good for me because it increased my
live audience by by a huge amon because that show
(02:06):
was not only was it popular, but it was it
still had kind of kind of cult status in a way,
you know. So it was it was a very cool
show but very popular at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Colin Hay with us from Minute Work here on news
radio eleven ten kfa B. We have a chance to
be the media presenter for this show. My friend Jim
Minghi with the Omaha Dispatch, a long time music journalist
here in our community. He said, Well, I can't be
in the studio with you to talk to Colin Hay,
but I love him. Can you ask him a couple
(02:37):
of questions? So we'll do a couple of other Minute
Work songs with these questions from Jim, He says, Colin,
you performed who Can It Be Now countless times with
min at Work and as a solo artist, but playing
it with the All Star Band and Ringo must bring
a unique dynamic to this song. How does collaborating with
musicians like Steve Lukather and Warren Ham also in the
(03:01):
All Star Band influence your interpretation of this song during
live performances.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Look, it's just it's just a fantastic band to be
part of, simply because of the fact that you know,
really play my songs, and we play obviously Ringo songs
and Beatles songs and Toto songs and average white band songs,
and so everyone is a side man for everybody else,
so and everyone brings something different. And you know the
(03:32):
way they all stars play who can have been a
is you know, it's not radically different, but it's but
it's different from how I play it in my own
band and stuff. And you you just really let let
the song speak and let the musicians bring what they
bring what they will to the song and and just
leave it alone, you know. And there's nothing better than
(03:53):
playing the song on's page and than having after you
finished playing, having Ringo staying there a lot of that song.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, and I'm looking forward. I'm looking forward to to
hearing you play it with the Ringo Star All Star band.
I've heard you do it with Bare Naked Ladies and
that has a nice ring to it as well. Jim
also asks that Ringo has been on stage joining you
and singing down under. How does it feel to share
the stage with a member of the Beatles to perform
(04:23):
one of your songs and what does Ringo bring to
that performance for you?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, there's nothing like playing with Ringo because he was
in the Beatles. I mean, come on, he was in
the Beatles. That's the top of the food chain right there.
So so and H Ringo's gotta got a swing like
nobody else. And of course Greg Bissonette is playing the
(04:51):
drums as well, so having two drummers. But the novel,
the novelty never wears off of of playing one of
your songs, right they for example, and plumbing around and
some Ringos smiling. It's fantastic. Nothing better.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You've joined Ringo's band here several years ago, almost over
twenty years ago. How did the invitation come about for
you to be a part of Ringo's band and how
long did you have to think about that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, I I was on the freeway, and of course
I didn't have to think about it, think about it
at all, you know, as one of those instant reactions.
It's like being called to judy, you know, yeah, it was.
It was I don't know how to be honest. Well,
there used to be a guy used to produce the
(05:43):
Ringo shows and I got a call on this on
the freeway, ask asking me if I wanted to be
part of the Ringo Star All Star band, and so
of course I said yes. And that was in two
thousand and three, so you know, I did it in
two thousand and three. Then I did a television thing
(06:03):
in two thousand and five. I did two thousand and eight,
but then I didn't. I didn't get asked for another
ten years. But I've been doing it. I've been playing
in the band since twenty eighteen now, So I think
that I think that Ringo from all reports likes this
particular this particular group of musicians to play with. So
it's been pretty stable for that length of time.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
How many times you you heard ringos stars say peace
and love six and four or up to six hundred
and eighty four, Okay, so you must have talked to
him today, add a few more. But yeah, he's he
is something else. I've had a chance to talk with
him as well, and I look forward to being on
(06:46):
that stage in front of seventy thousand plus of our
closest friends in Omaha on what will absolutely be a
perfect night at Memorial Park. For this free concert from
the City of Omaha in the Omaha Parks Department at
Memorial Park on Friday, June twenty seventh, You've got a
chance to be on the stage with Ringo Starr and
his all Star band after Mike Campbell on the Dirty
(07:07):
Knobs rock that stage. Mike Campbell and Tom Petty and
the Heartbreakers, And I've talked with him as well, and
he had nothing good to say about you, which is weird.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I know he loves you and he can't wait to
see you in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, me too. I just I saw him the other night.
We were just talking about talking about this show. By
the way, I really love Omaha. I love coming to Omaha.
I don't really know all that much about it, but
it's always a very welcoming place. And last time I
was in Omaha, I remember I went to the I
went to the we went ringo, and I went to
(07:44):
Wolford's and he bought me up, brought me up black water.
You know those waters that are from a volcanic water.
I always remember that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, yeah, Omaha. Well you guys played the stir Cove
just a few years ago across the river and Council
blofs Omaha. Council bloffs one wonderful uh metropolitan area. We're
known for blackwater, Warren Buffett, and vegemite sandwiches here in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah sure, I mentioned. Nobody in Omaha has ever had
of savagen. And you know you can happily. You can
happily go through your whole life without having a vegemite sandwich,
if you if you so choose. However, if you should,
if you should want to have some vegamine, have it
on a little multi grain toast, well done with butter
(08:32):
and just a very very small amount of vegemite. And
if you want to make it deluxe, have some avocado
on the side. And that's a good breakfast right there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That you know, all that minus vegemite actually sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But how do you know if you've never tried, if you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Made it, I would eat it. On this program, Colin,
we've got a different delicacy, and we ask all of
our favorite guests on the show to say a line
for us that we feel is the best thing to
hear first thing in the morning. Now, the line is,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. But
since you're calling, hey, I'm hoping we can get the line.
(09:11):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. I
hope you don't chunder, Oh you really must.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's it's good morning, honey. I made you I need
you pancakes. I hope you liked them. And I hope
it doesn't make it Shanda.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's what we wanted. Thank you, Colin. I look forward
to seeing you later this month back here in Omaha.
All right, Scott Byes mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
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