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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jeff Stevens back here on the Eighties Show podcast
(00:02):
with more of my conversation with Brian Adams. And Brian
I'm holding up a picture so you could see of
you and Tina Turner. You guys had such chemistry on
your recording of Its Only Love and your live performances.
It has to be a very special place in your
heart for Tina.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It is, and it's bittersweet because she's gone. What's interesting, Jeff,
is I just put out a new version of the song.
I don't know if you heard it or not.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yes, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know you re sang it. But is that Tina's
original vocal?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, no, it's a it's an unreleased version of her
vocal which I found in the Warner Brothers archive. I
thought it would be so good to have another version
of this out, so we just made a new track.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It was out on record day exactly. Very cool.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, so, so this is the classic It's Only Love,
and now you've got the new version, which, by the way,
is on your your own label, Bad Records.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bad. You know you know that you know where Badams,
you know where Bad comes from.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Adams.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, that was my high school.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh, your high school nickname was Badams. Yeah, I would
always see Badams in your liner notes, but I did
not know it was your high school nickname. That's pretty awesome,
and so my.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Record company is based off that. Every Yeah, everything bad
is good.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I love that, all right. So I saw when you
were talking about launching this big tour. There's going to
be of course, big hits, a couple of new songs,
also some deep cuts.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How do you even do a set list with all
of your songs?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A bunch of ways. And the way that I usually
do it is we have a thing at the big
beginning of our show. She's a QR code and you
can request a song in the show, and if there's
because there's so many peoples, yeah, we try and get
to one or two of them in the show. You know.
(01:49):
I requested by Jeff, and Jeff wanted to hear you
know best yet to come. So here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Beautiful, beautiful, all right, Well, I gotta I gotta make
sure to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think we saw you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We saw The last one was the summer of twenty
three with Joan jet at the key of for him
in La and yeah, you were doing some requests that
night for sure, chatting with Brian Adams, and Brian's got
a new tour, He's got a new album coming out
in the fall. I want to talk about you and
your guitar player, Keith Scott. He's always been there with you.
I mean I can remember him in all the videos,
(02:20):
all the times I've seen you on tour. You guys
have known each other forever. There is a special special
relationship there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Thanks. Yeah, I mean Keith and I've known Keith since
I was sixteen, and it's very brotherly. I've got to
be honest, you know, we're godfathers to our respective children.
And musically I sometimes don't have to actually say anything
because he already knows where to go. And we have
to have a thing. Back in the early days when
(02:48):
we were making demos of songs, we get to a
point on the song and say, let's just call Keith now,
because Keith will make it sound like a record, and really, yeah, yeah,
I mean you know, we get it like, we get
guitar based and drums done and it was sound okay,
and then you put Keith on it and it's like, oh,
now it's talking you know every time, every time he
(03:10):
would deliver.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He has the most melodic guitar solos.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The first time I met you was was nineteen ninety
two on Waking Up the Neighbors. We got a chance
to say hi really fast thanks to my buddy Scott
Fink back in the A and M days, and we
told Keith We're like, we're gonna be looking at you.
We had my buddy and I had front row tickets.
We bought front row tickets and I said, during One
Night Love Affair, when you play that solo.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
We're gonna be looking at you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And he literally saw us and he came over and
played the whole solo right in front of us. Because
to me, that's like, that's like quit essential Keith Scott guitar.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it's it's so good that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Sounds like Keith though. That's the kind of thing he
would do.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And you can see that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You could see it on stage when you guys are
playing You're you, You'll look at him and like smile,
and it's like, okay, you just read each other's minds.
I mean, you could see that stuff when you guys
are on stage, and I think that's that's super special.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You don't get that with every band.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, you know, we came from the clubs. That's where
we started out and then used to room together.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you made go through that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There is really a lot that we don't know about
each other, so good times.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, Brian, I want to talk a little bit more
about the new album coming out here in a minute,
but I also want to say we are so excited
that you are playing the twenty twenty five iHeartRadio Music
Festival to be your first time at the festival, and
it is it's obviously become iconic over the last couple decades.
What do you think when because this is going to
be a weekend obviously of all genres, all different kinds
(04:40):
of music, and all these great musicians and you're going
to be square in the middle of it in September.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Pretty cool to have you on the bill.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Man, I'm really excited to be asked. Who else is
on the bill?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
By the way, Oh, it's an amazing lineup this year.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sammy Hagar is going to be there, John Fogerty's going
to be there, but also Maroon five, Mariah care Ed,
Shearon Tate, McCrae.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
L O Cool Jay, Great Looking Forward, to that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So the album is out August twenty ninth, biggest tour
in years. You're hitting so many US cities, Canada first
and then come to the US in September. Could I
put a word in for some B sides or deep
cuts to the set list this year?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What would you want to on the set list? If
you could choose something? Enlighten me? Where if I'm you know?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I know One Night Love Affair is sometimes on and
sometimes not because you only have so many songs, but
that's a must for this guy. The best was yet
to come. Also Before the Night is over all right,
I love that one. All I want is you from
Waking Up the Neighbors? Was that ever officially a single?
But was it?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The last one.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Finally is well either best of Me which is awesome
or Home Again from Into the Fire?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay? Oh well, you know what? You should listen to
the live of the Royal apperat Hole in the Fire
session we did. We recorded the whole album. Yes, so
it's on there.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I got my kids got me that for Christmas last year,
and I was gonna wear the T shirt actually because
I got the T shirt with the pet with the
box set that is that is one of your best
works ever to basically redo all of your albums.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You said it was because the sound of the hall, right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's just a great place and good vibe. And I
also wanted to sort of commemorate the sort of launch
of my album cover Sorry, my my label. So that
was the beginnings of all that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
If somebody does not have that, both of them go
out and get them, because it's uh. And the thing is,
you're you're you have taken care of your voice. So
many artists, unfortunately have you know, have had some vocal issues.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'm walking some wood here. Do you do.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Anything special because your voice gets better? I don't hear
a lot of artists actually get better.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You actually get better.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's so nice of you to say. I don't do
anything other than try and get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And that is huge, it is huge.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I take care of myself. I don't you know.
I don't do anything to hurt myself. So I just
try and take care and get some sleep, and that's
all I can do. Maybe a cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I've seen you so many times in concert, and
I feel like I never see you drink anything on stage,
and I'm a singer in a band. I've sung for
three decades, and I have to have so much water
throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't drink.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
When I was forming, I.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Saw you do the Bare Bones tour and I thought,
for two hours you stood there and sang NonStop. I
thought he didn't have one sip of water? What am
I doing?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I noticed that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, I have a kind of theory about it, and
I might be really wrong, but it seems to have
worked for me. And that is if you drink a
lot of water. I mean maybe maybe some little sip
might be good, but if you drink a lot, you
dilute the natural lubrication from your saliva. That natural lubrication
is what protects you. So if you don't have that,
(08:00):
then you're more susceptible, possibly to hurting yourself. And so
I stay away from drinking on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's really interesting because I've I've definitely noticed, and I thought, well,
there's got to be some it's obviously working for you,
So that's that's really that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I may take that up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I mean it's subliminal because I never really It
wasn't until people started pointing it out to me, like, hey,
you didn't drink that whole show. It's like, oh, yeah,
I didn't. And I only only do if I feel
quite parched. So like if you if you're out on
let's say you're in an outdoor place and it's kind
(08:37):
of dusty and it's hot, you know, maybe yeah, I'll
have a sip because it's just because it's just if
you're just been a regular gig. Nah, I don't. And
unless there's something really strange happening in the in the
room where it's dry or dusty, then you know, I
just keep it. Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm going to take your advice.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know. It's just me. Everybody's different, you know, right.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, But I'm gonna give it a shot, and I'm
gonna give it a shot and see what happens. Brian,
I gotta let you go here, man, But I just
want to say congratulations on the tour. Roll with the
Punches The album is out August twenty ninth. The new
single never Ever Let You Go Man, all all the
other great songs too, Roll with the Punches and make
Up Your Mind and a little More Understanding, which sounds
like a classic Brian Adams song.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So have You heard all this stuff now.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, I got to listen to it all today.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm so glad you liked that song. That's I think
that's going to be a winner too, A.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Little more understanding. Yeah yeah, I like the organ.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah that was that was my organ solo.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Nice nice, all right, they're giving me the rap sign here, Brian.
Hope to see you out on tour. Maybe I'll see
you in Vegas in September. But thank you so much
for joining me today, man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Thank you so much for your kindness. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, and since we're on Zoom, here's a picture of
us last time I saw you on tour.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That's awesome, see you, Beddie se Man
I'm Jeff Stevens back here on the Eighties Show podcast
(00:02):
with more of my conversation with Brian Adams. And Brian
I'm holding up a picture so you could see of
you and Tina Turner. You guys had such chemistry on
your recording of Its Only Love and your live performances.
It has to be a very special place in your
heart for Tina.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It is, and it's bittersweet because she's gone. What's interesting, Jeff,
is I just put out a new version of the song.
I don't know if you heard it or not.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yes, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know you re sang it. But is that Tina's
original vocal?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well, no, it's a it's an unreleased version of her
vocal which I found in the Warner Brothers archive. I
thought it would be so good to have another version
of this out, so we just made a new track.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It was out on record day exactly. Very cool.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, so, so this is the classic It's Only Love,
and now you've got the new version, which, by the way,
is on your your own label, Bad Records.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Bad. You know you know that you know where Badams,
you know where Bad comes from.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Adams.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, that was my high school.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh, your high school nickname was Badams. Yeah, I would
always see Badams in your liner notes, but I did
not know it was your high school nickname. That's pretty awesome,
and so my.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Record company is based off that. Every Yeah, everything bad
is good.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I love that, all right. So I saw when you
were talking about launching this big tour. There's going to
be of course, big hits, a couple of new songs,
also some deep cuts.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How do you even do a set list with all
of your songs?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A bunch of ways. And the way that I usually
do it is we have a thing at the big
beginning of our show. She's a QR code and you
can request a song in the show, and if there's
because there's so many peoples, yeah, we try and get
to one or two of them in the show. You know.
(01:49):
I requested by Jeff, and Jeff wanted to hear you
know best yet to come. So here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Beautiful, beautiful, all right, Well, I gotta I gotta make
sure to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I think we saw you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We saw The last one was the summer of twenty
three with Joan jet at the key of for him
in La and yeah, you were doing some requests that
night for sure, chatting with Brian Adams, and Brian's got
a new tour, He's got a new album coming out
in the fall. I want to talk about you and
your guitar player, Keith Scott. He's always been there with you.
I mean I can remember him in all the videos,
(02:20):
all the times I've seen you on tour. You guys
have known each other forever. There is a special special
relationship there.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Thanks. Yeah, I mean Keith and I've known Keith since
I was sixteen, and it's very brotherly. I've got to
be honest, you know, we're godfathers to our respective children.
And musically I sometimes don't have to actually say anything
because he already knows where to go. And we have
to have a thing. Back in the early days when
(02:48):
we were making demos of songs, we get to a
point on the song and say, let's just call Keith now,
because Keith will make it sound like a record, and really, yeah, yeah,
I mean you know, we get it like, we get
guitar based and drums done and it was sound okay,
and then you put Keith on it and it's like, oh,
now it's talking you know every time, every time he
(03:10):
would deliver.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
He has the most melodic guitar solos.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The first time I met you was was nineteen ninety
two on Waking Up the Neighbors. We got a chance
to say hi really fast thanks to my buddy Scott
Fink back in the A and M days, and we
told Keith We're like, we're gonna be looking at you.
We had my buddy and I had front row tickets.
We bought front row tickets and I said, during One
Night Love Affair, when you play that solo.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
We're gonna be looking at you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And he literally saw us and he came over and
played the whole solo right in front of us. Because
to me, that's like, that's like quit essential Keith Scott guitar.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So it's it's so good that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Sounds like Keith though. That's the kind of thing he
would do.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And you can see that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You could see it on stage when you guys are
playing You're you, You'll look at him and like smile,
and it's like, okay, you just read each other's minds.
I mean, you could see that stuff when you guys
are on stage, and I think that's that's super special.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You don't get that with every band.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, you know, we came from the clubs. That's where
we started out and then used to room together.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you made go through that.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There is really a lot that we don't know about
each other, so good times.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, Brian, I want to talk a little bit more
about the new album coming out here in a minute,
but I also want to say we are so excited
that you are playing the twenty twenty five iHeartRadio Music
Festival to be your first time at the festival, and
it is it's obviously become iconic over the last couple decades.
What do you think when because this is going to
be a weekend obviously of all genres, all different kinds
(04:40):
of music, and all these great musicians and you're going
to be square in the middle of it in September.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Pretty cool to have you on the bill.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Man, I'm really excited to be asked. Who else is
on the bill?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
By the way, Oh, it's an amazing lineup this year.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sammy Hagar is going to be there, John Fogerty's going
to be there, but also Maroon five, Mariah care Ed,
Shearon Tate, McCrae.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
L O Cool Jay, Great Looking Forward, to that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So the album is out August twenty ninth, biggest tour
in years. You're hitting so many US cities, Canada first
and then come to the US in September. Could I
put a word in for some B sides or deep
cuts to the set list this year?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
What would you want to on the set list? If
you could choose something? Enlighten me? Where if I'm you know?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I know One Night Love Affair is sometimes on and
sometimes not because you only have so many songs, but
that's a must for this guy. The best was yet
to come. Also Before the Night is over all right,
I love that one. All I want is you from
Waking Up the Neighbors? Was that ever officially a single?
But was it?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The last one.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Finally is well either best of Me which is awesome
or Home Again from Into the Fire?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay? Oh well, you know what? You should listen to
the live of the Royal apperat Hole in the Fire
session we did. We recorded the whole album. Yes, so
it's on there.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I got my kids got me that for Christmas last year,
and I was gonna wear the T shirt actually because
I got the T shirt with the pet with the
box set that is that is one of your best
works ever to basically redo all of your albums.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You said it was because the sound of the hall, right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's just a great place and good vibe. And I
also wanted to sort of commemorate the sort of launch
of my album cover Sorry, my my label. So that
was the beginnings of all that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
If somebody does not have that, both of them go
out and get them, because it's uh. And the thing is,
you're you're you have taken care of your voice. So
many artists, unfortunately have you know, have had some vocal issues.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'm walking some wood here. Do you do.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Anything special because your voice gets better? I don't hear
a lot of artists actually get better.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You actually get better.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's so nice of you to say. I don't do
anything other than try and get some sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And that is huge, it is huge.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I take care of myself. I don't you know.
I don't do anything to hurt myself. So I just
try and take care and get some sleep, and that's
all I can do. Maybe a cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I've seen you so many times in concert, and
I feel like I never see you drink anything on stage,
and I'm a singer in a band. I've sung for
three decades, and I have to have so much water
throughout the show.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't drink.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
When I was forming, I.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Saw you do the Bare Bones tour and I thought,
for two hours you stood there and sang NonStop. I
thought he didn't have one sip of water? What am
I doing?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I noticed that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, I have a kind of theory about it, and
I might be really wrong, but it seems to have
worked for me. And that is if you drink a
lot of water. I mean maybe maybe some little sip
might be good, but if you drink a lot, you
dilute the natural lubrication from your saliva. That natural lubrication
is what protects you. So if you don't have that,
(08:00):
then you're more susceptible, possibly to hurting yourself. And so
I stay away from drinking on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's really interesting because I've I've definitely noticed, and I thought, well,
there's got to be some it's obviously working for you,
So that's that's really that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I may take that up.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I mean it's subliminal because I never really It
wasn't until people started pointing it out to me, like, hey,
you didn't drink that whole show. It's like, oh, yeah,
I didn't. And I only only do if I feel
quite parched. So like if you if you're out on
let's say you're in an outdoor place and it's kind
(08:37):
of dusty and it's hot, you know, maybe yeah, I'll
have a sip because it's just because it's just if
you're just been a regular gig. Nah, I don't. And
unless there's something really strange happening in the in the
room where it's dry or dusty, then you know, I
just keep it. Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm going to take your advice.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know. It's just me. Everybody's different, you know, right.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Right, But I'm gonna give it a shot, and I'm
gonna give it a shot and see what happens. Brian,
I gotta let you go here, man, But I just
want to say congratulations on the tour. Roll with the
Punches The album is out August twenty ninth. The new
single never Ever Let You Go Man, all all the
other great songs too, Roll with the Punches and make
Up Your Mind and a little More Understanding, which sounds
like a classic Brian Adams song.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So have You heard all this stuff now.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, I got to listen to it all today.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm so glad you liked that song. That's I think
that's going to be a winner too, A.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Little more understanding. Yeah yeah, I like the organ.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah that was that was my organ solo.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Nice nice, all right, they're giving me the rap sign here, Brian.
Hope to see you out on tour. Maybe I'll see
you in Vegas in September. But thank you so much
for joining me today, man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Thank you so much for your kindness. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, and since we're on Zoom, here's a picture of
us last time I saw you on tour.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That's awesome, see you, Beddie se Man
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