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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Liberty around with Quinlan Kintera.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
In Albany, living legend.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, how are you guys, how's going?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good man, former longtime drummer for Billy Joel. It's our friend,
Liberty de Vito new album out with the slim Kings
called super Love. Congrats on the new project. We were
just listening to the track. Very cool man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm very proud of it.
You know, a lot of people when I parted plays
with Billy, they were saying like, oh, when has Liberty
ever done? You know, he's just light with Billy and
he wrote on his tail coat tails and I put
out a book and I doing the thing with the
slim Kings. You know, I'm pretty proud of this Rutger.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The thing with the slim Kings is, you guys are
just come across very cool.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You guys is very chill. Nice job. I don't know
how to describe it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, you know what it is, people say, is the
music when you hear it, it sounds familiar but new
and fresh. Liberty, Oh, because it's that old school stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You know, it's got the sound for sure.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Remind me Liberty am I right when I when I
when I remember, you're the one who said, uh, honesty
could be called sodomy as a song.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, that's me, sid me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How did Billy take that? Such? That's great?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, I write the lyrics. I don't know how
to read music or anything like that, so I would always.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Ask Melly for his lyrics.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So he had this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Song that didn't have any words yet. So as we're
recording it, he's hearing in his headphones, SI, of me
such a lonely words. They know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's the beauty of making.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I screwed up a couple of other Billy Joel's songs
with lyrics. There's one that I can't say it on
the radio. Uh, the song my life. There's a reason
why it is an instrumental thought in the beginning that
I wrote lyrics to that, And he goes, I can
never write lyrics to that again.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, you sullied it for it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Liberty de Vito, So you were in the Billy Joel
documentary on HBO recently, and so it goes you were
in both parts. We both found it fascinating how much
of that entire Billy Joel's story did you already know?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did you already know all of it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I did not know the beginning, you know, with his
father that did slapped him in the head and he
knocked him out, all that kind of stuff. I didn't
know that part.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Did you know the suicide attempts?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I did he did with the shoe polishing stuff. Yeah.
I'm very good friends with Elizabeth too, so we heard
a lot of those stories.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So that was Billy's first wife.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yes, and she really, she really had an impact on
you guys, didn't she an impact?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
She made Billy exactly And just think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
This was in the seventies. She becomes a manager and
now she's walking into what is a man's world, you know,
and she's not taking any crap from anybody.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
What a fast story there.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It really was a well done documentary.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Well, when you look back on your on all the
shows that you've done, We'll Stay Stay, which is Billy
right now? Do you have a favorite show over the
years that you've enjoyed the most.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, there were so many of them. I mean, we
went around the world twelve.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Times, I know, but you know, different places, like I
loved going to Australia. It was always so much fun
because you know, we were young and the girls all
wanted to come to America, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They were trying real hard to get to America. But yeah,
but going to the Soviet Union was a big deal,
you know, all right?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, the Liberty to Veto and his new band or
his band the slim Kings, not new the band The
slim Kings have a new album out, Super Loving Get
a Vile edition too.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And he's also.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Drummed for Billy Joel, which is you know, I mean,
I like, I don't know, man, Like, who else you
put drump from a partney? Are they all the same
once they get to that level? Are they all the same?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Honest?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah? I mean like like the intensity of it or
the stage. Could he get me bigger than Billy Joel?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Uh? Playing with Paul was was pretty big? Yeah, pretty big.
I mean each each person that I played with had
had their own thing going on, Like the Stevie Nicks
was was like this this person in her own self.
You know, they create their own characters, you know, which
is brilliant. Ronnie Spector was another one who was like,
(04:34):
oh my god.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
This woman is so good, you know, absolutely what a
career man I imagine you probably have a set of
keys to maskin square garden by now.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Now right, already think the cotton with a big deal
with the dump in the back, you know, in the
dressing rooms, you go in the locker rooms and instinct,
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Are you part of the we are.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We are the world deal?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Were you part of that at all?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No? No, Billy went out there and did Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I wasn't sure if you got to be involved in that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Cool. He doesn't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm more of a band aid. Do you know it's
Christmas count of Okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What that's my charity. Hey, this is liberty. This is
what I took from the Billy Joel documentary. And so
it goes, Billy is not going to quit drinking. Do
you get that wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, he's not. Well, now you know, he's got these
issues where he keeps falling stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yep, that's not due to drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I just meant like when he was forced to like
choose being sober or or women were drinking, or women
he chose to drink.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Didn't he?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, he lost weight? Was I remember, and you do
that because I just just drank wine. I didn't need anything.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, we all know how that works.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I mean, but he found he found the balance. I guess,
good friend.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think it's tough balance.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So he So, have you talked to Billy? Is he
gotta be okay?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Hopefully he will be. I don't know if he's going
to play again, but he should be okay, you know,
at least to enjoy some of that money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, I bet you have.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I bet you have Anton fig and Max Weinberg's phone
numbers in your phone.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I actually do. Larry Mullen, let's see who else.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Do you still live in New York City?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I live in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes, you don't have like, you don't have a desire
to go somewhere warmer. You're a Brooklyn guy through and.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Through, a Brooklyn guy through and through. And my wife
is even more Brooklyn girls through and through. But we
just did come back from Turks and Caicos, uh, just
two days ago, which was beautiful, and uh, you know,
we we have to stay a couple extra days because
there was a blizzard up here, and I'll fly some cancels.
(06:57):
But you know, you're back in start hurting when you
sit on those those lounge chairs by the pool.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The man who's been sitting on a stool behind a
drum kit forever.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Super Love from the Slim Kings is out slim Kings
dot com. You can grab it on Amazon or Apple
or any digital platform. Really well done album man. Congratulations,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I think we all owe you a huge thank you,
Liberty for all the years and keeping time for us,
for all these amazing songs.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, if if the Lord's making up there or the
Slim Kids make it up there, you know, look us up.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We'd love to have you in Albany. Thanks Liberty, thank you,
Liberty around with Quinlan Kintera.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
In Albany, living legend.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, how are you guys, how's going?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good man, former longtime drummer for Billy Joel. It's our friend,
Liberty de Vito new album out with the slim Kings
called super Love. Congrats on the new project. We were
just listening to the track. Very cool man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm very proud of it.
You know, a lot of people when I parted plays
with Billy, they were saying like, oh, when has Liberty
ever done? You know, he's just light with Billy and
he wrote on his tail coat tails and I put
out a book and I doing the thing with the
slim Kings. You know, I'm pretty proud of this Rutger.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The thing with the slim Kings is, you guys are
just come across very cool.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You guys is very chill. Nice job. I don't know
how to describe it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, you know what it is, people say, is the
music when you hear it, it sounds familiar but new
and fresh. Liberty, Oh, because it's that old school stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You know, it's got the sound for sure.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Remind me Liberty am I right when I when I
when I remember, you're the one who said, uh, honesty
could be called sodomy as a song.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, that's me, sid me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How did Billy take that? Such? That's great?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, I write the lyrics. I don't know how
to read music or anything like that, so I would always.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Ask Melly for his lyrics.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So he had this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Song that didn't have any words yet. So as we're
recording it, he's hearing in his headphones, SI, of me
such a lonely words. They know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's the beauty of making.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I screwed up a couple of other Billy Joel's songs
with lyrics. There's one that I can't say it on
the radio. Uh, the song my life. There's a reason
why it is an instrumental thought in the beginning that
I wrote lyrics to that, And he goes, I can
never write lyrics to that again.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, you sullied it for it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Liberty de Vito, So you were in the Billy Joel
documentary on HBO recently, and so it goes you were
in both parts. We both found it fascinating how much
of that entire Billy Joel's story did you already know?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did you already know all of it?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I did not know the beginning, you know, with his
father that did slapped him in the head and he
knocked him out, all that kind of stuff. I didn't
know that part.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Did you know the suicide attempts?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I did he did with the shoe polishing stuff. Yeah.
I'm very good friends with Elizabeth too, so we heard
a lot of those stories.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So that was Billy's first wife.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yes, and she really, she really had an impact on
you guys, didn't she an impact?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
She made Billy exactly And just think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
This was in the seventies. She becomes a manager and
now she's walking into what is a man's world, you know,
and she's not taking any crap from anybody.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
What a fast story there.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It really was a well done documentary.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Well, when you look back on your on all the
shows that you've done, We'll Stay Stay, which is Billy
right now? Do you have a favorite show over the
years that you've enjoyed the most.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, there were so many of them. I mean, we
went around the world twelve.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Times, I know, but you know, different places, like I
loved going to Australia. It was always so much fun
because you know, we were young and the girls all
wanted to come to America, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They were trying real hard to get to America. But yeah,
but going to the Soviet Union was a big deal,
you know, all right?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, the Liberty to Veto and his new band or
his band the slim Kings, not new the band The
slim Kings have a new album out, Super Loving Get
a Vile edition too.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And he's also.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Drummed for Billy Joel, which is you know, I mean,
I like, I don't know, man, Like, who else you
put drump from a partney? Are they all the same
once they get to that level? Are they all the same?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Honest?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah? I mean like like the intensity of it or
the stage. Could he get me bigger than Billy Joel?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Uh? Playing with Paul was was pretty big? Yeah, pretty big.
I mean each each person that I played with had
had their own thing going on, Like the Stevie Nicks
was was like this this person in her own self.
You know, they create their own characters, you know, which
is brilliant. Ronnie Spector was another one who was like,
(04:34):
oh my god.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
This woman is so good, you know, absolutely what a
career man I imagine you probably have a set of
keys to maskin square garden by now.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Now right, already think the cotton with a big deal
with the dump in the back, you know, in the
dressing rooms, you go in the locker rooms and instinct,
you know.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Are you part of the we are.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We are the world deal?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Were you part of that at all?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No? No, Billy went out there and did Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I wasn't sure if you got to be involved in that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Cool. He doesn't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm more of a band aid. Do you know it's
Christmas count of Okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
What that's my charity. Hey, this is liberty. This is
what I took from the Billy Joel documentary. And so
it goes, Billy is not going to quit drinking. Do
you get that wrong?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, he's not. Well, now you know, he's got these
issues where he keeps falling stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yep, that's not due to drinking.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I just meant like when he was forced to like
choose being sober or or women were drinking, or women
he chose to drink.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Didn't he?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, he lost weight? Was I remember, and you do
that because I just just drank wine. I didn't need anything.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, we all know how that works.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I mean, but he found he found the balance. I guess,
good friend.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think it's tough balance.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So he So, have you talked to Billy? Is he
gotta be okay?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Hopefully he will be. I don't know if he's going
to play again, but he should be okay, you know,
at least to enjoy some of that money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, I bet you have.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I bet you have Anton fig and Max Weinberg's phone
numbers in your phone.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I actually do. Larry Mullen, let's see who else.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Do you still live in New York City?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I live in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes, you don't have like, you don't have a desire
to go somewhere warmer. You're a Brooklyn guy through and.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Through, a Brooklyn guy through and through. And my wife
is even more Brooklyn girls through and through. But we
just did come back from Turks and Caicos, uh, just
two days ago, which was beautiful, and uh, you know,
we we have to stay a couple extra days because
there was a blizzard up here, and I'll fly some cancels.
(06:57):
But you know, you're back in start hurting when you
sit on those those lounge chairs by the pool.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The man who's been sitting on a stool behind a
drum kit forever.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Super Love from the Slim Kings is out slim Kings
dot com. You can grab it on Amazon or Apple
or any digital platform. Really well done album man. Congratulations,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I think we all owe you a huge thank you,
Liberty for all the years and keeping time for us,
for all these amazing songs.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, if if the Lord's making up there or the
Slim Kids make it up there, you know, look us up.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We'd love to have you in Albany. Thanks Liberty, thank you,
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