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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jeff Stevens. It's my eighties show podcast. He's won
sixteen Grammys. He's a composer, he's a performer, he's on
tour this summer. Lots to talk about with the David Foster.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you, man, ay, Jeff, I'm really doing well,
man excellently.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Congratulations on the release of Boop the Musical. It is
out today.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is It's been a long time coming, buddy, but
here we are. You know a decade later that some
good things take time.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, you have touched so many things that have that
have just you know, literally changed music the decades that
you've been involved in music. In your sixteen time Grammy winner,
most people would like to be nominated once, but you've
actually you've actually won sixteen times. Not to mention the nominations,
but but I thought it was interesting you said, this
(00:50):
one has been marinating for a while, and does that
make it more of a thrill for you to have
it come through?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, I've been thrilled so many times in my
life with just the unexpected and thrilled, like you said,
with Grammys and hits and things that you you know,
when you're growing up, probably like you probably like our listeners,
your listeners like you, just don't think you're going to
get to the places you get to. And I've always
(01:18):
tried to move the goalpost. Certainly, doing a Broadway musical
was on my radar for the last ten or twenty years,
but nobody was really asking me to do one until
Betty Boop came along and the folks, you know, kindly
asked me to do it, and I put my heart
and soul into it, and it was really one of
those things where I didn't know whether we were going
to get across the finish line. But now here we
(01:40):
are June sixth, The album is out. It's really good.
The shows on Broadway at the Broadcast Theater, our actress
to our lead actress, nominated for Tony on Sunday Night
for Best Actress in a Musical, and you know, we
got here. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's pretty awesome. Are you doing stuff around the release
today to celebrate?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I mean I'm doing the you know this radio
tour talking to folks like you, and and then the
rest of the day is just going to be like
another normal day, go to work and maybe I'll buy
the album that you can still buy an album, can you?
I love I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Know when people actually still buy albums. And that's that's
kind of become a thing again. Isn't that great? You
were involved in so many, you know, cassettes and albums
and CDs and and really it's they're all coming back?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Are CDs coming back to? No?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They can't be that, No, they actually are. I saw
that that they're actually making new CD players. I still
have my old ones, but yeah, they're actually making new
CD players. I was now the thing, I can't believe
those cassettes. Why would you ever if you're going to
do something, why would you do a cassette again?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, let me tell you why cassettes actually sound great,
Because you know that that hiss that starts when you
put a cassette on before the music starts, yep, and
you get that hiss. Now, when the music starts, the
hiss goes away, But the hiss doesn't go away. It
just blends itself into the music, which is what makes
it warm. And it's just such a great sound. It's
(03:05):
like film, you know, it's imperfect. It's not digital. It's
like film. And so we used to listen to our
mixes on cassettes all the time and to get the
true because that's the way people were listening to music.
They weren't listening to it on big you know, one
hundred thousand dollars studio speakers. So I actually love cassettes.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well you know what that's I still have probably five
or six hundred cassettes, and my wife's like, can we
just get rid of these? I'm like, I can't. I mean,
some of them were literally recorded off the radio, but
some you know, and I make my own mistapes of stuff.
But I did always think they sounded great. I just
thought they weren't as convenient. But they sound.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Great, Yeah, they do. They're very punchy, very compressed. Yeah,
it's not it's not an accurate representation, but it's a
cool representation of what you've done.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, talking to David Foster, you've got a big tour
this summer as well. You and Chris are going to
be coming around and Catherine are going to be coming
around the area here pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, we're I think we're going to come near you.
You're where are you exactly?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Ohio?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh? Yeah, Dayton, Yeah, Yeah, I have a great friend
in Dayton. By the way, named Teresa Huber, so hopefully
we'll visit her there. But and we love going to Dayton.
We played all around there and in Dayton. So my
friend Chris Bodie and I were great friends for twenty
five years, great admirers of each other musically, and you know,
kind of our music tastes are a little apart. He's
(04:23):
obviously a great jazz musician, but he also has great
pop flair as well, and we're going to mix the
two and then have Catherine in there to sing for us,
because you don't want to hear Chris or Ize sing.
And I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be
a lot of fun. I mean, we we truly love
each other in a real brother kind of way. And
we were doing a couple of interviews yesterday, Chris and I,
(04:43):
and we were remarking that like, in twenty five years,
we haven't had one even remotely cross word with each other,
and we worked together a lot, So it's gonna maybe
this will be the death of us. We'll start arguing
on the bus.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Keep them on separate buses, folks. Yeah, that tour is
going to be at the Rose Music Center, and yeah,
you and Catherine were here maybe I don't know, two
years ago for your Christmas show. So we love that
you include stops in Dayton for sure. So looking at
the show for a second, I mean you have this
massive library. I mean, how in the world do you
pick what songs to play, especially when you're kind of
(05:20):
merging with you know, a little bit more of a
jazz guy. And you said it's going to be kind
of poppy. So where are you meeting on the set list?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well, you know, Chris came over a couple of days
ago and we sat and we sat in my office
for three hours and we talked it through and we
came up with the setlist, which obviously includes some of
his great jazz moments, some of my pop moments, and
some stuff where we can come together through Catherine basically
or mostly through her is the common thread for the
(05:46):
three of us to be on stage. And at the
end of the three hours, he was like, yeah, good rehearsal. Man.
We weren't even near a piano or a trumpet. It's like, yeah,
good rehearsal. We just had okay, you're right, yeah, And
it was and we're going to act, actually have a
day of rehearsal in New York before we start the tour, okay,
and we'll be using his band for the most part,
(06:07):
and they are brilliant and they can do anything. So
it's really exciting for me and for Chris too well.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I bet and Catherine just I mean, she could sing
the phone book. We always used to say, you know,
she could sing the phone book. She's her voice just continues.
Actually she just gets better.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and she's making an album right now. Well, she's
working on music right now in Nashville, So people got
to be watch out for that because it's really going
to be great, awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I feel like we're just getting started. I know, I
got to let you go. We look forward to seeing
you here. But David, thank you for the music for
so many years. And everybody go out and get boop
the musical.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Jeff, thanks for your time. Man. We do love Dayton,
I really mean it. This is a great town and
we look forward to coming there or near you very soon.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'd love to come say hi, man. It would be
so great to meet you someday.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, man, anytime, all right, Thank you David Dargia
I'm Jeff Stevens. It's my eighties show podcast. He's won
sixteen Grammys. He's a composer, he's a performer, he's on
tour this summer. Lots to talk about with the David Foster.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you, man, ay, Jeff, I'm really doing well,
man excellently.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Congratulations on the release of Boop the Musical. It is
out today.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It is It's been a long time coming, buddy, but
here we are. You know a decade later that some
good things take time.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, you have touched so many things that have that
have just you know, literally changed music the decades that
you've been involved in music. In your sixteen time Grammy winner,
most people would like to be nominated once, but you've
actually you've actually won sixteen times. Not to mention the nominations,
but but I thought it was interesting you said, this
(00:50):
one has been marinating for a while, and does that
make it more of a thrill for you to have
it come through?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, I've been thrilled so many times in my
life with just the unexpected and thrilled, like you said,
with Grammys and hits and things that you you know,
when you're growing up, probably like you probably like our listeners,
your listeners like you, just don't think you're going to
get to the places you get to. And I've always
(01:18):
tried to move the goalpost. Certainly, doing a Broadway musical
was on my radar for the last ten or twenty years,
but nobody was really asking me to do one until
Betty Boop came along and the folks, you know, kindly
asked me to do it, and I put my heart
and soul into it, and it was really one of
those things where I didn't know whether we were going
to get across the finish line. But now here we
(01:40):
are June sixth, The album is out. It's really good.
The shows on Broadway at the Broadcast Theater, our actress
to our lead actress, nominated for Tony on Sunday Night
for Best Actress in a Musical, and you know, we
got here. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's pretty awesome. Are you doing stuff around the release
today to celebrate?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I mean I'm doing the you know this radio
tour talking to folks like you, and and then the
rest of the day is just going to be like
another normal day, go to work and maybe I'll buy
the album that you can still buy an album, can you?
I love I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Know when people actually still buy albums. And that's that's
kind of become a thing again. Isn't that great? You
were involved in so many, you know, cassettes and albums
and CDs and and really it's they're all coming back?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Are CDs coming back to? No?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They can't be that, No, they actually are. I saw
that that they're actually making new CD players. I still
have my old ones, but yeah, they're actually making new
CD players. I was now the thing, I can't believe
those cassettes. Why would you ever if you're going to
do something, why would you do a cassette again?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, let me tell you why cassettes actually sound great,
Because you know that that hiss that starts when you
put a cassette on before the music starts, yep, and
you get that hiss. Now, when the music starts, the
hiss goes away, But the hiss doesn't go away. It
just blends itself into the music, which is what makes
it warm. And it's just such a great sound. It's
(03:05):
like film, you know, it's imperfect. It's not digital. It's
like film. And so we used to listen to our
mixes on cassettes all the time and to get the
true because that's the way people were listening to music.
They weren't listening to it on big you know, one
hundred thousand dollars studio speakers. So I actually love cassettes.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well you know what that's I still have probably five
or six hundred cassettes, and my wife's like, can we
just get rid of these? I'm like, I can't. I mean,
some of them were literally recorded off the radio, but
some you know, and I make my own mistapes of stuff.
But I did always think they sounded great. I just
thought they weren't as convenient. But they sound.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Great, Yeah, they do. They're very punchy, very compressed. Yeah,
it's not it's not an accurate representation, but it's a
cool representation of what you've done.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, talking to David Foster, you've got a big tour
this summer as well. You and Chris are going to
be coming around and Catherine are going to be coming
around the area here pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, we're I think we're going to come near you.
You're where are you exactly?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Ohio?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh? Yeah, Dayton, Yeah, Yeah, I have a great friend
in Dayton. By the way, named Teresa Huber, so hopefully
we'll visit her there. But and we love going to Dayton.
We played all around there and in Dayton. So my
friend Chris Bodie and I were great friends for twenty
five years, great admirers of each other musically, and you know,
kind of our music tastes are a little apart. He's
(04:23):
obviously a great jazz musician, but he also has great
pop flair as well, and we're going to mix the
two and then have Catherine in there to sing for us,
because you don't want to hear Chris or Ize sing.
And I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be
a lot of fun. I mean, we we truly love
each other in a real brother kind of way. And
we were doing a couple of interviews yesterday, Chris and I,
(04:43):
and we were remarking that like, in twenty five years,
we haven't had one even remotely cross word with each other,
and we worked together a lot, So it's gonna maybe
this will be the death of us. We'll start arguing
on the bus.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Keep them on separate buses, folks. Yeah, that tour is
going to be at the Rose Music Center, and yeah,
you and Catherine were here maybe I don't know, two
years ago for your Christmas show. So we love that
you include stops in Dayton for sure. So looking at
the show for a second, I mean you have this
massive library. I mean, how in the world do you
pick what songs to play, especially when you're kind of
(05:20):
merging with you know, a little bit more of a
jazz guy. And you said it's going to be kind
of poppy. So where are you meeting on the set list?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well, you know, Chris came over a couple of days
ago and we sat and we sat in my office
for three hours and we talked it through and we
came up with the setlist, which obviously includes some of
his great jazz moments, some of my pop moments, and
some stuff where we can come together through Catherine basically
or mostly through her is the common thread for the
(05:46):
three of us to be on stage. And at the
end of the three hours, he was like, yeah, good rehearsal. Man.
We weren't even near a piano or a trumpet. It's like, yeah,
good rehearsal. We just had okay, you're right, yeah, And
it was and we're going to act, actually have a
day of rehearsal in New York before we start the tour, okay,
and we'll be using his band for the most part,
(06:07):
and they are brilliant and they can do anything. So
it's really exciting for me and for Chris too well.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I bet and Catherine just I mean, she could sing
the phone book. We always used to say, you know,
she could sing the phone book. She's her voice just continues.
Actually she just gets better.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and she's making an album right now. Well, she's
working on music right now in Nashville, So people got
to be watch out for that because it's really going
to be great, awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I feel like we're just getting started. I know, I
got to let you go. We look forward to seeing
you here. But David, thank you for the music for
so many years. And everybody go out and get boop
the musical.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Jeff, thanks for your time. Man. We do love Dayton,
I really mean it. This is a great town and
we look forward to coming there or near you very soon.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'd love to come say hi, man. It would be
so great to meet you someday.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, man, anytime, all right, Thank you David Dargia
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