April 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Billy Sherwood, YES as a guitarist and keyboardist. He is the frontman of progressive rock groups World Trade, Circa and formerly Lodgic. In 2017, he joined Asia alongside YES bandmate Geoff Downes. He is also a solo artist, having released ten studio albums to date. // Billy Sherwood, on his upcoming tour // Jay Leno on caring for his wife with advanced dementia // North Hollywood Shooting .Starter homes cost over $1M. NFL fines Atlanta Falcons and defensive coordinator $350K. Vicki Lawrence at Haugh Performing Center. Wango Tango
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Speaker 2 (01:23):
We've got one of the world's greatest guests, not just
any guests, a guy named Billy Sherwood. He was a
the lead guitarist and keyboardist for Yes, the group called Yes,
and he's gone on out on his own now and
he's become a solo act, which I think he would
he should have done twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And he's where. It's Billy Sherwood.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
How you, Bob, I'm good tim How are you? I
gotta correct you. I just gotta correct you real quick.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm a bass player.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Sorry that I don't know why secontarist. I knew his
bass player, buddy, I mean I did.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I did play guitar for a little while, and yes,
but I'm a bass player.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, but you really changed your license. So you've been
on with this last time. I remember we did a
we did a show in Marongo and yeah, and you
taught the local band there how to play What was it?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What song did you teach him?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I forgot all about that owner of Lonely.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Heart Room, and that was great man.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And you taught these guys in like ten minutes how
to play that song.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, it was the beginner's guide to Yes. It was perfect.
It worked great.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Now it's not just yes though. Didn't you tour with Asia?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I did. I replaced John wenton sadly when he passed away,
he asked me to do the tour that they had
lined up. So I was the lead singer and bass
player for Asia on a tour, and then I've I've
since kind of got back to my own world and
I'm doing this solo tour, which is really exciting. It's
all East Coast for now, but I'm hoping to bring
it to the West as well.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So I am so excited for you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm glad that you finally got the balls to say
I'm better than all these guys, right, That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, I'm just excited to get out there and be
able to play. It's kind of a funny set of
music because it goes back from my first album, which
was Logic. I'm playing some music from which was produced
by the guys in Toto, and then I go into
this band world Trade, which is right where you and
I met when we were living in that same townhouse
there in Shermano when it goes through my career, playing
some Yes music and some other stuff. I actually co
(03:40):
produced John Wetton's solo album, so I'm playing a track
from that that we co wrote together, and a song
that I co wrote with Toto. It's a nice mix
of stuff. So anyone who wants to come see the show.
If you're on the East Coast and you're listening through iHeart,
which I do while I'm in London, by the way,
and it's always fun to tune into you guys. You
can go to Billy shore with music dot com for
(04:00):
all the information and find tickets and venue.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Billy Sherwood music dot com. Are you going to play
anything from you know? We used to live literally three
doors down from each other and used to play the best.
You know, you were writing the best music.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It still are.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But I remember listening late at night, two three o'clock
in the morning I get here coming down the hall.
I never complained because it's so great. Are you playing
anything from that from that era?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I am actually now that you mentioned it. The first
song I ever wrote with the bass player Chris Squire,
who asked me to take his place when he passed sadly.
The first song we ever wrote was called the More
We Live and it's on the Yes Union album. And
I wrote that and produced that in my living room
where we used to hang out on the couch. Wow there,
And yeah, I think I might have even played you
(04:46):
that track as well. So yeah, I'm playing some World
Trade stuff which I played you as well. Yeah, when
we were hanging back in the day. So yeah, this, this, this,
that music, and it's just amazing to be playing it
all these years later. It's it's so much fun. That
great band musicians, Dot Connor playing drums, John Thomas playing guitar,
and Scott Walton on keys. It's a tight band and
(05:07):
it's it's an hour and a half of just killer music.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. I wish you
could see it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm going back East Billy Sherwood Music dot com. Hey,
I can't believe you know, just in our lifetime, the
the the movement and how it technology has improved. I
remember when you used to buy those twenty four track machines.
They were like the size of a of a dresser.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I know, and you know I couldn't I couldn't pay
someone to take that damn thing. But it was all done,
you know what I mean. But let me ask you something.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If somebody used and you know what, and you couldn't
record on all twenty four tracks because the last couple
of tracks were sort of feathered or missing or ground up.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, well you didn't want to record near twenty
four because that was just like a given. And usually
the sink was printed on track twenty three so you
could lock up to another machine. So two of your
tracks were gone right there.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But when you used to record, when you recorded on
twenty four track machine and then you sent it to
somebody to add, you know, you physically would have to
take that tape and overnight it to somebody to add
another instrument or a vocal, isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah? And it was costly because they weighed a ton, right,
And you know it's funny you hear this argument about
do you like digital? I still like analog? And I said,
all I can tell you is the records I'm making now.
Because I produce a lot of records and I send
files out to people to play. Nobody's asking me to
send the twenty four.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Track that's classic. You know, did it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now with digitally, it doesn't lose any quality, Isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It is a perfect imprint of the sound you want.
And I learned this valuable lesson from Keith Olsen, who
produced my second record, World Trade, and you know he
he said, look, man, whatever you recorded you hear, that
will be it for all time. Wow. And I thought,
what a great thing. And this is when digital was
first starting. He had the first digital console at Sunset,
(07:11):
our sound factory over there on Roscoe's where we made
that record, Roscoe and Sepulvida. And I thought, oh my god,
this is where I want to go. And you know, sadly,
back in that day, it was so expensive to buy
a digital tape machine. It was a quarter of a
million dollars, so I had to wait a while. But
now I'm mixing records at thirty thousand feet, you know,
on the plane on my little laptop, you know, and
(07:32):
all that gear you remember seeing in my studio, the
racks and racks and stuff is all done digitally now
and it sounds exactly the same to my ears. It's
quite something, you know what.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's It's great though, because that's opened you know, your
business up to peep to many more people they couldn't
afford to have, you know, a quarter million dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, including me, you know. I mean, when you wanted
to write a couple of tunes, you're immediately dropping one
hundred seventy five bucks for a fifteen minute, twenty four
truck tape. And you know, sometimes you didn't like what
you ended up writing, you either have to like commit
and wipe it and start again, or just buy another
real tape. Those days are so gone now. It's it's
(08:12):
amazing how things have changed. But I love the digital world.
There's just it unleashed a level of creativity for me
personally that I could not couldn't really achieve on analog.
So I'm all about the digital world.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Buddy, I gotta take a break. Can you stay with us?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah? Oh certainly.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I want to talk about Yes and touring with Yes?
How many times? How many tours did you do with Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a lot, I have to add it up. There
is many, many.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Many, many many years.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We're about to go back out in September and we're
going to swing through LA so you're gonna have great
time this time.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, I'm definitely coming. I'm definitely coming. All right, we'll
go back. We'll talk about when you're gonna be in
LA and more about recording and you going out on
your own.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Billy Sherwood music dot Com.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's the guy that is the talented guy out there
in Asia and also in Yes. He's a great songwriter,
great performer, and he's going on his own and it's
going to be a hugely successful tour. Billy Sherwood Music
dot Com. Billy Sherwood music dot Com. It's Conway Show.
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Speaker 2 (09:46):
Billy Sherwood is with us, the biggest stud in the world.
He's with the group. Yes, he's also with Asia, and
he's going out on his own. Billy Sherwood Music dot Com.
Billy Sherwood Music dot Com. Billy Traveling with Yeah and
that was your favorite group growing up, right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It was my favorite group since I was ten or
eleven years old. Yeah, amazing house life has panned out.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And your dad was in the music business, isn't that correct?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah? My dad, Bobby Sherwood, was a big band leader
in the forties and then he was on television on
the Milton Berle Show. Milton, my father. Dad's got a
star on Hollywood and Vine, right down the street from
Capitol Rush.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, you know he was. He was in Frank Sinatra's
film Pal Joey. He played the band leader who was
his Frank's kind of sidekick. We have a really nice career. Yeah,
and so my mom was a course line dancer on Broadway.
The two of them met and formed a family, and
they turned into their own act and they were in
(10:50):
Las Vegas for years as Phyllis and Bobby Sherwood, and
that's you know. I grew up in that and thought, well,
I guess this is what I'm supposed to do. Because
this is what my parents do. Everything seems real normal
to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Bud, I didn't know that story. There's got to be
a documentary on this. That's a great story.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yeah, and my.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dad's parents were in Bodville. I've got some amazing pictures
of them, Bobby and Gale Sherwood. It's crazy. Yeah, it's
a long line. Hey.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So, so, at age ten, your favorite group is Yes,
I can't imagine what it was like when you were
asked to join them, you know, twenty twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well yeah, I mean right around the time we were
hanging out was when I got the offer to join
as the lead singer because my band World Trade, Chris Squire,
heard and they were without a lead singer at the time,
and they asked me to jump in as the lead singer. Now,
I was the only one who didn't want to do
that because I kind of had a sense that they
(11:49):
were going to reunite with their original singer and that
I'd get crushed, you know, like a standing on the
train track, so to speak. So I said, Grips, you know,
as honored and as thrilled as I am, I really
don't want to do this, but I'm happy to remain
in the loop in whichever way that works for you guys.
And that became producing a couple of their albums. Joining
(12:09):
as a full member of years later touring with them
starting in ninety four. I think I'm the only member
in Yes who's actually toured with different versions of the band,
because you know, they've gone through several different versions and
I got to see all that up close and personal.
And yeah, it's just it's been an amazing career path
and one that I don't take for granted, you know,
especially when when we lost Chris Squire in twenty fifteen.
(12:32):
Hard to believe it's ten years already. I know you
guys are close spot, you know, Yeah, he asked me
to take a spot.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's unbelievable Billy Sherwood music dot Com. When you're playing
with the group, when you're out there touring with Yes
and you say to the audience, Hey, you know, we're
just not going to do Roundabout or Owner of the
Lonely Heart?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Would that cause a riot?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, but to be honest, they don't let me say
anything up there because it's Yes and Steve Howe does
all the talking. And I mean, you know you're going
to hear Roundabout when you come see it. I don't
know that you'll hear Owner of a Lonely Heart, But
really you'd have to talk to Steve how you'd have
to talk to Steve Howe about that one. But what
is a different guitar player? Right, That's not the hill
(13:15):
I'm gonna die on.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But I went to see you when you were in Toronto.
You were playing out in an open field in Toronto,
a huge audience. It must been twenty or thirty thousand
people there and you're playing and I noticed that the audience.
You know, that was back in nineteen ninety five, ninety six,
something like that, but the audience was still was was young.
(13:37):
It wasn't you know, your audience didn't age out. There
was still a lot of young people.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know. It's an amazing thing. And I think it's
because they're indoctrinated by the parents, but listen to Yes
music and then they get into them. So as I
had a kid when we were in Europe on the
last tour. We did a tour with Deep Purple last year,
and then we branched out on our own and we
went to Europe for ourselves, and there was this kid
who came up to me, probably twelve years old. He's
got the Close to the Edge record, which was made
(14:02):
in seventy two. I was seven when they made that.
Album and the kid comes up to me with the record.
He says, excuse me, mister Sherwoo, will you please sign
my album? And I said, are you sure you want
me to sign it, because I'm not on that record.
I think I was younger than you and they made it.
Oh no, but you're in the band.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
I want it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I love it, And I said. I looked at him
and I said, so, be honest, did your dad make
you listen to yes or do you really like it?
And he said, well, he's the one that turned me
on to it, but I love it, and I'd be
saying so. Point being is that it keeps recycling and
there's a lot of young people in the crowd.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And you know what's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I have a daughter who's nineteen, and I listened to
you know, I listened to the oldiest station. I listened to,
you know, a lot of Coast one on three point five,
and they played some old music. And she knows every
lyric to these old songs, because you know, that music
that we grew up with is still great and still popular.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I know, you know, I hate to sound old, but
it's like they don't write stuff like that day, do they? No,
you know, it's just a fact. Uh and and soon
it'll be a I writing us now, And you know
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Have you have you messed around with with AI yet
to write a song?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I have not. I purposely stay away from it, you know,
because I don't. I don't want to be influenced by uh,
you know, Skynet to write my next album.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I'm not in that boat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I've been looking to a for AI to replace me
every day for the last ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I'm just working.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But I did see I did see an interesting clip
of this this girl who says into her phone, write
me a song. My dishwasher broke and I'm bummed. But
I got to go to a movie tonight and it's
fit out with in seconds this thing that sounded like
Blink one eighty two. It was really good that I thought,
oh my god, what's happening here?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's great?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know that that new kid, I uh, well, who's
the kid that jumps off the piano and they get
does that song?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well bye bye in.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Benson Okay, I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Benson Boone, Benson Boone, so Benson Boone.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You know he said, he's got this hit song.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He's very popular, and and then he goes to AI
and says, hey, write me a song in my voice
with my type of lyrics. And literally twenty minutes later,
it was a song that came out that sounded exactly
like him. And he was shocked by he was really
turned off by it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Isn't that scary? You know? And then the AI comes
and sues you for copyright.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And when you do that, buddy, I I am so excited.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
When do you when is your first day or have
you already opened your first day on your own?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, I'm rehearsing in Van eyes right now for the
next few days. We fly out on the fifth and
the first gig is on the seventh in Pittsburgh and
at the City Winery.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And how many people will be going with?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You got a band of three other guys, Me and
three other guys. G'sitar based and drums, and it's really
raw and in your face and musical and and you know,
expressive and very progressive and it's it's really it's fun
to be able to play. It's a challenging set to play,
but I like it that way, you know, it keeps
siming my toes.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I can't wait for you to be back in LA
And nobody deserves more success than you. You worked your
ass off and you continue. You're a very creative guy,
very smart guy, and I love the music and I
think this is going to be huge, buddy, absolutely huge.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Right. Well, look, I really appreciate you having me on
the show and being able to speak about it, and
I hope people come out if they're on the East Coast.
And as I said, I know you're listening to globally,
which is amazing every time.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'm driving around London with my girlfriend and she's like,
oh my god, is that Conway again. I'm like, yeah,
I need work on a list of the Conway.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And she's like, all right, I'm out of here. Buddy,
you're the best. Oh good Hey, So when you're back
in town, please come in.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I would love that. So I'll keep you posted and
i'll text you when I know the hard dates. But
it's going to be somewhere September October and Good is
going to be coming to town and I'm gonna you know,
anybody from paying by. You guys are like family, So
anyone who wants to come you guys will have a
great time.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's great, all right, buddy, you're the king. Thanks man, all.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, and thank you Sharon, appreciate it. Yeah, Oh, take
care of you guys, all right, Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, there he goes Billy Shrewood music dot Com.
That guy's great.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I you know, I bet I've met a ton of
people in my life, famous people, musicians, have been around
a lot of that industry myself in my life. But
when I met him at one of your birthday parties
at Marongo, I was just I was a little bit
a little bit awestruck. And that doesn't happen, is that right?
Just the yes connection and me growing up with that stuff,
and it doesn't hurt at all that he is just
(18:43):
one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's it's almost like you almost think it's like fake.
You know, you're like, hey, when is this guy? When's
the shoe gonna drop? He's gonna yell at somebody. But
he sat there and taught these kids for twenty five
minutes how to play roundabout on their instruments and performed
it for everybody. You know, with these guys doing half
assed instrument and It was great and he loved doing it.
(19:06):
You know, he did it for nothing. He just got
up there and then jam with him.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I definitely want to Seehi when he's out here.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
He's the best, really, one of the greatest guys I've
ever met my life. Billy Sherwood music dot com. Go
check him out. He's traveling on the East Coast with
his own band. He was the UH he was in Asia.
He was also the bass player in Yes. He wrote
a lot of the music, the new music that Yes
uses and very very talented dude. Billy Shrewood music dot com.
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Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh my god, what Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
This blared from my dad's record player when I was
a kid every day.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
In the early seventies. Now it's visceral memories for me.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Here in that this is where you would get friends
together and listen to a whole album and not even
get drunk or smoke pot just you know, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen years old, two three friends get together and you'd
sit in your buddy's bedroom and just listen to an
entire album.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And that was normal, man, You know, they don't do
that anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
No, who does that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Nobody?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, teenage girls do it when Taylor Swift puts
out a new album, but they do it by themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But I don't know if your daughter's like this, But
as I was telling Billy Sherwood, our last guest, my
daughter knows every lyric to all those songs I grew
up with in the seventies. That's insane, every one of them.
I'm like, how do you know this song? And she goes, well,
mom listens to them, and you know, girls pick up
lyrics much easier than guys.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Oh my god, I'm horrible at lyrics.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know any lyrics to any I don't know
the entire song lyrics two of the entire not one.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Song Happy Birthday to Me is about it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, maybe happy Birthday can get it.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I even screwed that by saying happy Birthday to me exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But my daughter can hear a song once and she's like, yeah,
I got it, and just remembers the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, my daughter's kind of like that too.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I think it's something with women. I think it's their ears.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, they do it, kind of super ears.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Though they do. I can be at a restaurant my
wife and I'm ordering.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I'm looking at the menu, and I'll say, hey, what
are you gonna have? Shees, hold on, hold on? I go,
what's going on? She has three tables over they're having
an argument of something. I said, what are they arguing
about it? She goes, hold on, hold on. Now, two
tables down the other way, they're discussing something else. She
can hear all these conversations.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And she can have a conversation with you and order
her food as well.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How'd you know that women are amazing? Are they?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'll take this one angel.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now there goes the amazing part.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They just battle each other over.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Whenever I go out anywhere that has multiple people in
a room, I always depend on Jen to translate and
tell me what people say, because I can't hear it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It's all mud to me.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I used to have to go with my dad if
my dad went to three Hollywood parties in his life.
But if you were to go to a restaurant and
have dinner with you know, or go to a meeting
or you know, a dinner party, whatever, and there's gonna
be celebrities there. I had to go with him and
I had to tell him who these people were. And
I didn't know any of me either. But I mean
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I would have to say to my dad, I go, okay,
this guy coming up.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
He was in.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Blazing Saddles. He also did the kilburn Id Show. His
name is Harvey Korman and he's like, what who?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But he didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
My dad didn't know anybody nobody. He's like me, you know.
And I like it that way that I don't know
the actors. So when I go to see a movie,
I can see a movie without being distracted by Oh,
there's a Ted Danson in a saving private ryme ah?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Man, all right, Jay, I'm sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Jay Leno is in the news. The Lovely jay Leno
has a beautiful story about him and his wife. His
wife is going through some challenges physically, emotionally, mentally, and
jay Leno is standing right next to her side.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Man, that is a cool dude.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I mean, I think that's really what defines a marriage.
I mean, that's really what love is.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
You mentioned your wife. You also mentioned another couple and
sex in the back seat, And how about the connectivity
of that to the nineteen fifty five Buick Roadmaster.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Well, I met my wife in that car, and I
think we had our first experience in that car.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
So we've always had that car.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, on our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I said, let's
go back to where we first park and made out
in the car, and the carse You go back twenty
five years later and you're not quite as agile as
you were when you were twenty five plus. It's now
a housing development in the place where we kind of
figured out where said, well, this is.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Kind of where we were. Honey, that house wasn't there,
but I'll try to get his to the house.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
And of course, you know, I hit the horny at
one in the morning, the lights come on in the porch.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
The guy comes out.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Okay, this is not going to be the romantic encounter
was the first time.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
While she did write comedy, you have said, you guys
couldn't be more opposite one another.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Marry the person you wish you could be. And that's what.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
If I married another self centered person who was funny,
one of us would die.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
My wife is does a lot of charity work.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
And you know, things like that, and it worked out great.
You know, I married the person had the ideals I
wish I had.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I believe she used to read like fifteen books a week.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Something you read two to day. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
What made her the most independent woman you've ever known?
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Well, she's a voracious reader and a feminist and all
those things fighting for women's rights.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So she has the speed bumps.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
I always like that.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I always drawn to women that want to do good.
When I was single, it was teachers, nurses, you know.
And people are in it for not necessarily self gain,
you know.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
She yeah, obviously now has an advanced form of dementia.
What do you think for you going through that has
taught you about yourself?
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I have never been particularly challenged, and I was not
in the army. I didn't have to shoot anybody. I
didn't have to risk my life when I got married.
You sort of take a vow, and I will I
live up to this? Will I be like a sleazy
guy if something happens to my wife, I'm out to
the cashier at the mini mart. No, I didn't, you know.
(25:54):
I enjoy the time with my life. I go home,
I cooked in Afar watch team. Yeah, and it's okay,
it's okay, It's it's basically what.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
We did before, except now I have to feeder and.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Do all those things.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's a great guy. That's a great man, Jay Leno.
All right, when we come back, we'll tell you Vicky
Lawrence is performing in town. We also have Wango Tango
information to give out, and you got to get your
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here North Hollywood. First, find out what's going on with
the shooting.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Yeah, Mark, you're looking at the intersection or near the
intersection of bel Air A Sherman Away at the ninety
nine cents store the l Super Shopping ball complex here
North Hollywood. Officers from LAPD are investigating a shooting call here.
They're looking for a gray Ford Fusion that was possible
involved in that shooting. Now, the good news is there's
no reports of any injuries. LAFD responded to the scene
and they left without transporting anybody. So we're hoping that
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if there were any injuries in this that they are
minor for now. Liven Air seven Gibs on jo CBC seven.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, another crazy day in Los Angeles. NFL is
finding that kid for pranking Sanders.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Is it Shad do? Should do? Should do?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Shado Sanders Leon? Dion Leon Sanders Kid, who went to
the Cleveland Brown.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Tonight the NFL finding the Atlanta Falcons and their defensive
coordinator Jeff Ulbrick three hundred and fifty thousand dollars after
Ulbrich's son admitted to a prank call on the college
Football Start during the draft.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Going forward, I promised my son and I will work
hard to demonstrate we are better than this.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay, this is the uh, the father of the twenty
one year old who took the phone number from his
dad's cell phone or iPad and called Dion Sanders Kid
and said, hey, we're going to I'm calling you from
the Saints and we're going to draft you. And it
(29:15):
was a prank call, a prank call. And this is
the father of the twenty one year old. And the
father was fined one hundred thousand dollars for leaving sensitive
information on his iPad where anyone could get to it,
although it is his kid is not anyone, but the
NFL wants to make an example out of these people
(29:36):
to not leave sensitive equipment around or sensitive material or
phone numbers around on iPad or an iPhone that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Other people could grab. Going forward, this is the the
father going forward.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
I promised my son, and I will work hard to
demonstrate real better than this.
Speaker 12 (29:52):
Colorado quarterback Shadora Sanders, son of NFL legend Dion Sanders,
anxiously waiting for his name to be called in the
second round, hope when the phone.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Rang, Mickey loomis here, jam of the same.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
But it wasn't the Saints on the phone. Video posted
online shows twenty one year old Jack's Aldbrick and a
friend making the call.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're gonna take you with our night speaker.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Are here?
Speaker 12 (30:12):
Man Sanders live streaming on Twitch during the draft.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Skeptical nobody got this number to though.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
The Falcons say Olbrick got Sanders number from his father's
unlocked iPad and tonight the NFL finding the Falcons two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and Olbrick wone hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You imagine when dad called that kid and said, Hey,
you got to come up by the house.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We have to have a talk. How about that drive?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Because this kid, Jacks lives a couple miles away from
his mom and dad's house. How about that drive where
you're going to drive over to your dad's house. You
completely after your dad over. You've embarrassed the hell out
of him. You cost him one hundred thousand dollars, which
I'm sure he is going to make the kid pay
(31:00):
the one hundred thousand dollars over the course of.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Years, rightfully.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So in that drive the dad's house, you disappointed and
embarrassed your father.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
It's the biggest nightmare of sons.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I don't know what it's like for daughters, but I'm
telling you, sons, when you embarrass your father publicly like
this where he gets fined by his employer, you.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
Fed up for failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.
David Jacks Olbrick apologized to Sanders, who was eventually drafted
by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Look, there's a lot of craziness in there. Normally I
would celebrate a crank phone call. I think they're funny,
I think they're great. I think this one. I'm not
going to condemn it radically because I I appreciate anybody
that goes for the joke or the punchline. I don't
want to s all over this kid. He's only twenty one,
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He's going to make mistakes. So even Shador Sanders said, look,
he's young, he's twenty one, he's going to make mistakes.
He even gave that kid a pass. So it was
just the whole thing was bizarre. But now that you're
Sander's gonna be Cleveland. He's got an opportunity to prove
himself there. I bet that will sell a lot more
(32:30):
seats in Cleveland. Now to go see if this kid's great,
and you hope he is right. Nobody's hoping he's failing.
You hope he wins a super Bowl. Wouldn't that be
great and goes home with a Super Bowl? That would
be cool. Got to pull for that kid. He's the
underdog now, nobody wanted him after five rounds Now, I
(32:52):
want to watch him play every Sunday. I love underdogs.
I love long shots. I'm a long shots guy at
the track long shots. This gets a long shot. I'm
backing him all right, real live Mike Kelly up next
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Speaker 4 (00:47):
Crap, their cookies are good.
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the greatest chicken ever. It's unreal. I didn't try this spicy.
I'm not there yet. Uh but you tried to go spicy, cruse,
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I did. How was it any good?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It was actually really good. It wasn't too spicy. It's
got a quick hit. Oh then it's just not too bad.
It doesn't keep going nice, nice, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We've got one of the world's greatest guests, not just
any guests, a guy named Billy Sherwood. He was a
the lead guitarist and keyboardist for Yes, the group called Yes,
and he's gone on out on his own now and
he's become a solo act, which I think he would
he should have done twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And he's where. It's Billy Sherwood.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
How you, Bob, I'm good tim How are you? I
gotta correct you. I just gotta correct you real quick.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm a bass player.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Sorry that I don't know why secontarist. I knew his
bass player, buddy, I mean I did.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I did play guitar for a little while, and yes,
but I'm a bass player.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, but you really changed your license. So you've been
on with this last time. I remember we did a
we did a show in Marongo and yeah, and you
taught the local band there how to play What was it?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What song did you teach him?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I forgot all about that owner of Lonely.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Heart Room, and that was great man.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And you taught these guys in like ten minutes how
to play that song.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, it was the beginner's guide to Yes. It was perfect.
It worked great.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Now it's not just yes though. Didn't you tour with Asia?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I did. I replaced John wenton sadly when he passed away,
he asked me to do the tour that they had
lined up. So I was the lead singer and bass
player for Asia on a tour, and then I've I've
since kind of got back to my own world and
I'm doing this solo tour, which is really exciting. It's
all East Coast for now, but I'm hoping to bring
it to the West as well.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So I am so excited for you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm glad that you finally got the balls to say
I'm better than all these guys, right, That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Well, I'm just excited to get out there and be
able to play. It's kind of a funny set of
music because it goes back from my first album, which
was Logic. I'm playing some music from which was produced
by the guys in Toto, and then I go into
this band world Trade, which is right where you and
I met when we were living in that same townhouse
there in Shermano when it goes through my career, playing
some Yes music and some other stuff. I actually co
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produced John Wetton's solo album, so I'm playing a track
from that that we co wrote together, and a song
that I co wrote with Toto. It's a nice mix
of stuff. So anyone who wants to come see the show.
If you're on the East Coast and you're listening through iHeart,
which I do while I'm in London, by the way,
and it's always fun to tune into you guys. You
can go to Billy shore with music dot com for
(04:00):
all the information and find tickets and venue.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Billy Sherwood music dot com. Are you going to play
anything from you know? We used to live literally three
doors down from each other and used to play the best.
You know, you were writing the best music.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It still are.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But I remember listening late at night, two three o'clock
in the morning I get here coming down the hall.
I never complained because it's so great. Are you playing
anything from that from that era?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I am actually now that you mentioned it. The first
song I ever wrote with the bass player Chris Squire,
who asked me to take his place when he passed sadly.
The first song we ever wrote was called the More
We Live and it's on the Yes Union album. And
I wrote that and produced that in my living room
where we used to hang out on the couch. Wow there,
And yeah, I think I might have even played you
(04:46):
that track as well. So yeah, I'm playing some World
Trade stuff which I played you as well. Yeah, when
we were hanging back in the day. So yeah, this, this, this,
that music, and it's just amazing to be playing it
all these years later. It's it's so much fun. That
great band musicians, Dot Connor playing drums, John Thomas playing guitar,
and Scott Walton on keys. It's a tight band and
(05:07):
it's it's an hour and a half of just killer music.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. I wish you
could see it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm going back East Billy Sherwood Music dot com. Hey,
I can't believe you know, just in our lifetime, the
the the movement and how it technology has improved. I
remember when you used to buy those twenty four track machines.
They were like the size of a of a dresser.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I know, and you know I couldn't I couldn't pay
someone to take that damn thing. But it was all done,
you know what I mean. But let me ask you something.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If somebody used and you know what, and you couldn't
record on all twenty four tracks because the last couple
of tracks were sort of feathered or missing or ground up.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, well you didn't want to record near twenty
four because that was just like a given. And usually
the sink was printed on track twenty three so you
could lock up to another machine. So two of your
tracks were gone right there.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But when you used to record, when you recorded on
twenty four track machine and then you sent it to
somebody to add, you know, you physically would have to
take that tape and overnight it to somebody to add
another instrument or a vocal, isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah? And it was costly because they weighed a ton, right,
And you know it's funny you hear this argument about
do you like digital? I still like analog? And I said,
all I can tell you is the records I'm making now.
Because I produce a lot of records and I send
files out to people to play. Nobody's asking me to
send the twenty four.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Track that's classic. You know, did it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now with digitally, it doesn't lose any quality, Isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It is a perfect imprint of the sound you want.
And I learned this valuable lesson from Keith Olsen, who
produced my second record, World Trade, and you know he
he said, look, man, whatever you recorded you hear, that
will be it for all time. Wow. And I thought,
what a great thing. And this is when digital was
first starting. He had the first digital console at Sunset,
(07:11):
our sound factory over there on Roscoe's where we made
that record, Roscoe and Sepulvida. And I thought, oh my god,
this is where I want to go. And you know, sadly,
back in that day, it was so expensive to buy
a digital tape machine. It was a quarter of a
million dollars, so I had to wait a while. But
now I'm mixing records at thirty thousand feet, you know,
on the plane on my little laptop, you know, and
(07:32):
all that gear you remember seeing in my studio, the
racks and racks and stuff is all done digitally now
and it sounds exactly the same to my ears. It's
quite something, you know what.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's It's great though, because that's opened you know, your
business up to peep to many more people they couldn't
afford to have, you know, a quarter million dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, including me, you know. I mean, when you wanted
to write a couple of tunes, you're immediately dropping one
hundred seventy five bucks for a fifteen minute, twenty four
truck tape. And you know, sometimes you didn't like what
you ended up writing, you either have to like commit
and wipe it and start again, or just buy another
real tape. Those days are so gone now. It's it's
(08:12):
amazing how things have changed. But I love the digital world.
There's just it unleashed a level of creativity for me
personally that I could not couldn't really achieve on analog.
So I'm all about the digital world.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Buddy, I gotta take a break. Can you stay with us?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah? Oh certainly.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I want to talk about Yes and touring with Yes?
How many times? How many tours did you do with Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's a lot, I have to add it up. There
is many, many.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Many, many many years.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We're about to go back out in September and we're
going to swing through LA so you're gonna have great
time this time.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, I'm definitely coming. I'm definitely coming. All right, we'll
go back. We'll talk about when you're gonna be in
LA and more about recording and you going out on
your own.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Billy Sherwood music dot Com.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's the guy that is the talented guy out there
in Asia and also in Yes. He's a great songwriter,
great performer, and he's going on his own and it's
going to be a hugely successful tour. Billy Sherwood Music
dot Com. Billy Sherwood music dot Com. It's Conway Show.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
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Tomorrow might be the last King game of the season.
They lost last night. They've lost three in a row
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a fourteen and a half goal favorite for tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Seems high.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It seems high, or maybe I misread it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't know. Possible, possible.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Billy Sherwood is with us, the biggest stud in the world.
He's with the group. Yes, he's also with Asia, and
he's going out on his own. Billy Sherwood Music dot Com.
Billy Sherwood Music dot Com. Billy Traveling with Yeah and
that was your favorite group growing up, right?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It was my favorite group since I was ten or
eleven years old. Yeah, amazing house life has panned out.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And your dad was in the music business, isn't that correct?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah? My dad, Bobby Sherwood, was a big band leader
in the forties and then he was on television on
the Milton Berle Show. Milton, my father. Dad's got a
star on Hollywood and Vine, right down the street from
Capitol Rush.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, you know he was. He was in Frank Sinatra's
film Pal Joey. He played the band leader who was
his Frank's kind of sidekick. We have a really nice career. Yeah,
and so my mom was a course line dancer on Broadway.
The two of them met and formed a family, and
they turned into their own act and they were in
(10:50):
Las Vegas for years as Phyllis and Bobby Sherwood, and
that's you know. I grew up in that and thought, well,
I guess this is what I'm supposed to do. Because
this is what my parents do. Everything seems real normal
to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Bud, I didn't know that story. There's got to be
a documentary on this. That's a great story.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yeah, and my.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Dad's parents were in Bodville. I've got some amazing pictures
of them, Bobby and Gale Sherwood. It's crazy. Yeah, it's
a long line. Hey.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So, so, at age ten, your favorite group is Yes,
I can't imagine what it was like when you were
asked to join them, you know, twenty twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well yeah, I mean right around the time we were
hanging out was when I got the offer to join
as the lead singer because my band World Trade, Chris Squire,
heard and they were without a lead singer at the time,
and they asked me to jump in as the lead singer. Now,
I was the only one who didn't want to do
that because I kind of had a sense that they
(11:49):
were going to reunite with their original singer and that
I'd get crushed, you know, like a standing on the
train track, so to speak. So I said, Grips, you know,
as honored and as thrilled as I am, I really
don't want to do this, but I'm happy to remain
in the loop in whichever way that works for you guys.
And that became producing a couple of their albums. Joining
(12:09):
as a full member of years later touring with them
starting in ninety four. I think I'm the only member
in Yes who's actually toured with different versions of the band,
because you know, they've gone through several different versions and
I got to see all that up close and personal.
And yeah, it's just it's been an amazing career path
and one that I don't take for granted, you know,
especially when when we lost Chris Squire in twenty fifteen.
(12:32):
Hard to believe it's ten years already. I know you
guys are close spot, you know, Yeah, he asked me
to take a spot.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's unbelievable Billy Sherwood music dot Com. When you're playing
with the group, when you're out there touring with Yes
and you say to the audience, Hey, you know, we're
just not going to do Roundabout or Owner of the
Lonely Heart?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Would that cause a riot?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, but to be honest, they don't let me say
anything up there because it's Yes and Steve Howe does
all the talking. And I mean, you know you're going
to hear Roundabout when you come see it. I don't
know that you'll hear Owner of a Lonely Heart, But
really you'd have to talk to Steve how you'd have
to talk to Steve Howe about that one. But what
is a different guitar player? Right, That's not the hill
(13:15):
I'm gonna die on.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But I went to see you when you were in Toronto.
You were playing out in an open field in Toronto,
a huge audience. It must been twenty or thirty thousand
people there and you're playing and I noticed that the audience.
You know, that was back in nineteen ninety five, ninety six,
something like that, but the audience was still was was young.
(13:37):
It wasn't you know, your audience didn't age out. There
was still a lot of young people.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know. It's an amazing thing. And I think it's
because they're indoctrinated by the parents, but listen to Yes
music and then they get into them. So as I
had a kid when we were in Europe on the
last tour. We did a tour with Deep Purple last year,
and then we branched out on our own and we
went to Europe for ourselves, and there was this kid
who came up to me, probably twelve years old. He's
got the Close to the Edge record, which was made
(14:02):
in seventy two. I was seven when they made that.
Album and the kid comes up to me with the record.
He says, excuse me, mister Sherwoo, will you please sign
my album? And I said, are you sure you want
me to sign it, because I'm not on that record.
I think I was younger than you and they made it.
Oh no, but you're in the band.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
Man.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
I want it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I love it, And I said. I looked at him
and I said, so, be honest, did your dad make
you listen to yes or do you really like it?
And he said, well, he's the one that turned me
on to it, but I love it, and I'd be
saying so. Point being is that it keeps recycling and
there's a lot of young people in the crowd.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And you know what's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I have a daughter who's nineteen, and I listened to
you know, I listened to the oldiest station. I listened to,
you know, a lot of Coast one on three point five,
and they played some old music. And she knows every
lyric to these old songs, because you know, that music
that we grew up with is still great and still popular.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I know, you know, I hate to sound old, but
it's like they don't write stuff like that day, do they? No,
you know, it's just a fact. Uh and and soon
it'll be a I writing us now, And you know
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Have you have you messed around with with AI yet
to write a song?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I have not. I purposely stay away from it, you know,
because I don't. I don't want to be influenced by uh,
you know, Skynet to write my next album.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I'm not in that boat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I've been looking to a for AI to replace me
every day for the last ten years.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I'm just working.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But I did see I did see an interesting clip
of this this girl who says into her phone, write
me a song. My dishwasher broke and I'm bummed. But
I got to go to a movie tonight and it's
fit out with in seconds this thing that sounded like
Blink one eighty two. It was really good that I thought,
oh my god, what's happening here?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's great?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You know that that new kid, I uh, well, who's
the kid that jumps off the piano and they get
does that song?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well bye bye in.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Benson Okay, I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Benson Boone, Benson Boone, so Benson Boone.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You know he said, he's got this hit song.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He's very popular, and and then he goes to AI
and says, hey, write me a song in my voice
with my type of lyrics. And literally twenty minutes later,
it was a song that came out that sounded exactly
like him. And he was shocked by he was really
turned off by it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Isn't that scary? You know? And then the AI comes
and sues you for copyright.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And when you do that, buddy, I I am so excited.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
When do you when is your first day or have
you already opened your first day on your own?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, I'm rehearsing in Van eyes right now for the
next few days. We fly out on the fifth and
the first gig is on the seventh in Pittsburgh and
at the City Winery.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And how many people will be going with?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You got a band of three other guys, Me and
three other guys. G'sitar based and drums, and it's really
raw and in your face and musical and and you know,
expressive and very progressive and it's it's really it's fun
to be able to play. It's a challenging set to play,
but I like it that way, you know, it keeps
siming my toes.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I can't wait for you to be back in LA
And nobody deserves more success than you. You worked your
ass off and you continue. You're a very creative guy,
very smart guy, and I love the music and I
think this is going to be huge, buddy, absolutely huge.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Right. Well, look, I really appreciate you having me on
the show and being able to speak about it, and
I hope people come out if they're on the East Coast.
And as I said, I know you're listening to globally,
which is amazing every time.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I'm driving around London with my girlfriend and she's like,
oh my god, is that Conway again. I'm like, yeah,
I need work on a list of the Conway.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And she's like, all right, I'm out of here. Buddy,
you're the best. Oh good Hey, So when you're back
in town, please come in.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I would love that. So I'll keep you posted and
i'll text you when I know the hard dates. But
it's going to be somewhere September October and Good is
going to be coming to town and I'm gonna you know,
anybody from paying by. You guys are like family, So
anyone who wants to come you guys will have a
great time.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's great, all right, buddy, you're the king. Thanks man, all.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Right, and thank you Sharon, appreciate it. Yeah, Oh, take
care of you guys, all right, Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, there he goes Billy Shrewood music dot Com.
That guy's great.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I you know, I bet I've met a ton of
people in my life, famous people, musicians, have been around
a lot of that industry myself in my life. But
when I met him at one of your birthday parties
at Marongo, I was just I was a little bit
a little bit awestruck. And that doesn't happen, is that right?
Just the yes connection and me growing up with that stuff,
and it doesn't hurt at all that he is just
(18:43):
one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's it's almost like you almost think it's like fake.
You know, you're like, hey, when is this guy? When's
the shoe gonna drop? He's gonna yell at somebody. But
he sat there and taught these kids for twenty five
minutes how to play roundabout on their instruments and performed
it for everybody. You know, with these guys doing half
assed instrument and It was great and he loved doing it.
(19:06):
You know, he did it for nothing. He just got
up there and then jam with him.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I definitely want to Seehi when he's out here.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
He's the best, really, one of the greatest guys I've
ever met my life. Billy Sherwood music dot com. Go
check him out. He's traveling on the East Coast with
his own band. He was the UH he was in Asia.
He was also the bass player in Yes. He wrote
a lot of the music, the new music that Yes
uses and very very talented dude. Billy Shrewood music dot com.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty bro.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh my god, what Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
This blared from my dad's record player when I was
a kid every day.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
In the early seventies. Now it's visceral memories for me.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Here in that this is where you would get friends
together and listen to a whole album and not even
get drunk or smoke pot just you know, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen years old, two three friends get together and you'd
sit in your buddy's bedroom and just listen to an
entire album.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And that was normal, man, You know, they don't do
that anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
No, who does that.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Nobody?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, teenage girls do it when Taylor Swift puts
out a new album, but they do it by themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But I don't know if your daughter's like this, But
as I was telling Billy Sherwood, our last guest, my
daughter knows every lyric to all those songs I grew
up with in the seventies. That's insane, every one of them.
I'm like, how do you know this song? And she goes, well,
mom listens to them, and you know, girls pick up
lyrics much easier than guys.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Oh my god, I'm horrible at lyrics.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I don't know any lyrics to any I don't know
the entire song lyrics two of the entire not one.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Song Happy Birthday to Me is about it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, maybe happy Birthday can get it.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I even screwed that by saying happy Birthday to me exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But my daughter can hear a song once and she's like, yeah,
I got it, and just remembers the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, my daughter's kind of like that too.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I think it's something with women. I think it's their ears.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, they do it, kind of super ears.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Though they do. I can be at a restaurant my
wife and I'm ordering.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I'm looking at the menu, and I'll say, hey, what
are you gonna have? Shees, hold on, hold on? I go,
what's going on? She has three tables over they're having
an argument of something. I said, what are they arguing
about it? She goes, hold on, hold on. Now, two
tables down the other way, they're discussing something else. She
can hear all these conversations.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And she can have a conversation with you and order
her food as well.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How'd you know that women are amazing? Are they?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'll take this one angel.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now there goes the amazing part.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They just battle each other over.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Whenever I go out anywhere that has multiple people in
a room, I always depend on Jen to translate and
tell me what people say, because I can't hear it.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It's all mud to me.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I used to have to go with my dad if
my dad went to three Hollywood parties in his life.
But if you were to go to a restaurant and
have dinner with you know, or go to a meeting
or you know, a dinner party, whatever, and there's gonna
be celebrities there. I had to go with him and
I had to tell him who these people were. And
I didn't know any of me either. But I mean
(22:21):
I would have to say to my dad, I go, okay,
this guy coming up.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
He was in.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Blazing Saddles. He also did the kilburn Id Show. His
name is Harvey Korman and he's like, what who?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
But he didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
My dad didn't know anybody nobody. He's like me, you know.
And I like it that way that I don't know
the actors. So when I go to see a movie,
I can see a movie without being distracted by Oh,
there's a Ted Danson in a saving private ryme ah?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Man, all right, Jay, I'm sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Jay Leno is in the news. The Lovely jay Leno
has a beautiful story about him and his wife. His
wife is going through some challenges physically, emotionally, mentally, and
jay Leno is standing right next to her side.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Man, that is a cool dude.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I mean, I think that's really what defines a marriage.
I mean, that's really what love is.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
You mentioned your wife. You also mentioned another couple and
sex in the back seat, And how about the connectivity
of that to the nineteen fifty five Buick Roadmaster.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Well, I met my wife in that car, and I
think we had our first experience in that car.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
So we've always had that car.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, on our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I said, let's
go back to where we first park and made out
in the car, and the carse You go back twenty
five years later and you're not quite as agile as
you were when you were twenty five plus. It's now
a housing development in the place where we kind of
figured out where said, well, this is.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Kind of where we were. Honey, that house wasn't there,
but I'll try to get his to the house.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
And of course, you know, I hit the horny at
one in the morning, the lights come on in the porch.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
The guy comes out.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Okay, this is not going to be the romantic encounter
was the first time.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
While she did write comedy, you have said, you guys
couldn't be more opposite one another.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Marry the person you wish you could be. And that's what.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
If I married another self centered person who was funny,
one of us would die.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You know.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
My wife is does a lot of charity work.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
And you know, things like that, and it worked out great.
You know, I married the person had the ideals I
wish I had.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I believe she used to read like fifteen books a week.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Something you read two to day. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
What made her the most independent woman you've ever known?
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Well, she's a voracious reader and a feminist and all
those things fighting for women's rights.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So she has the speed bumps.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
I always like that.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I always drawn to women that want to do good.
When I was single, it was teachers, nurses, you know.
And people are in it for not necessarily self gain,
you know.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
She yeah, obviously now has an advanced form of dementia.
What do you think for you going through that has
taught you about yourself?
Speaker 9 (25:31):
I have never been particularly challenged, and I was not
in the army. I didn't have to shoot anybody. I
didn't have to risk my life when I got married.
You sort of take a vow, and I will I
live up to this? Will I be like a sleazy
guy if something happens to my wife, I'm out to
the cashier at the mini mart. No, I didn't, you know.
(25:54):
I enjoy the time with my life. I go home,
I cooked in Afar watch team. Yeah, and it's okay,
it's okay, It's it's basically what.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
We did before, except now I have to feeder and.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Do all those things.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's a great guy. That's a great man, Jay Leno.
All right, when we come back, we'll tell you Vicky
Lawrence is performing in town. We also have Wango Tango
information to give out, and you got to get your
tickets before Friday. The tickets go up in price on Friday.
Go to AXS dot com. Wango Tango is going to
(26:29):
be May tenth in Huntington Beach. It's gonna be the
talk of the town.
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news from the NFL. Let's get the local breaking news
here North Hollywood. First, find out what's going on with
the shooting.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
Yeah, Mark, you're looking at the intersection or near the
intersection of bel Air A Sherman Away at the ninety
nine cents store the l Super Shopping ball complex here
North Hollywood. Officers from LAPD are investigating a shooting call here.
They're looking for a gray Ford Fusion that was possible
involved in that shooting. Now, the good news is there's
no reports of any injuries. LAFD responded to the scene
and they left without transporting anybody. So we're hoping that
(28:07):
if there were any injuries in this that they are
minor for now. Liven Air seven Gibs on jo CBC seven.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, another crazy day in Los Angeles. NFL is
finding that kid for pranking Sanders.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Is it Shad do? Should do? Should do?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Shado Sanders Leon? Dion Leon Sanders Kid, who went to
the Cleveland Brown.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Tonight the NFL finding the Atlanta Falcons and their defensive
coordinator Jeff Ulbrick three hundred and fifty thousand dollars after
Ulbrich's son admitted to a prank call on the college
Football Start during the draft.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Going forward, I promised my son and I will work
hard to demonstrate we are better than this.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay, this is the uh, the father of the twenty
one year old who took the phone number from his
dad's cell phone or iPad and called Dion Sanders Kid
and said, hey, we're going to I'm calling you from
the Saints and we're going to draft you. And it
(29:15):
was a prank call, a prank call. And this is
the father of the twenty one year old. And the
father was fined one hundred thousand dollars for leaving sensitive
information on his iPad where anyone could get to it,
although it is his kid is not anyone, but the
NFL wants to make an example out of these people
(29:36):
to not leave sensitive equipment around or sensitive material or
phone numbers around on iPad or an iPhone that.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Other people could grab. Going forward, this is the the
father going forward.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
I promised my son, and I will work hard to
demonstrate real better than this.
Speaker 12 (29:52):
Colorado quarterback Shadora Sanders, son of NFL legend Dion Sanders,
anxiously waiting for his name to be called in the
second round, hope when the phone.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Rang, Mickey loomis here, jam of the same.
Speaker 12 (30:03):
But it wasn't the Saints on the phone. Video posted
online shows twenty one year old Jack's Aldbrick and a
friend making the call.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're gonna take you with our night speaker.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Are here?
Speaker 12 (30:12):
Man Sanders live streaming on Twitch during the draft.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Skeptical nobody got this number to though.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
The Falcons say Olbrick got Sanders number from his father's
unlocked iPad and tonight the NFL finding the Falcons two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and Olbrick wone hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You imagine when dad called that kid and said, Hey,
you got to come up by the house.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We have to have a talk. How about that drive?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Because this kid, Jacks lives a couple miles away from
his mom and dad's house. How about that drive where
you're going to drive over to your dad's house. You
completely after your dad over. You've embarrassed the hell out
of him. You cost him one hundred thousand dollars, which
I'm sure he is going to make the kid pay
(31:00):
the one hundred thousand dollars over the course of.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Years, rightfully.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So in that drive the dad's house, you disappointed and
embarrassed your father.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
It's the biggest nightmare of sons.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I don't know what it's like for daughters, but I'm
telling you, sons, when you embarrass your father publicly like
this where he gets fined by his employer, you.
Speaker 12 (31:35):
Fed up for failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.
David Jacks Olbrick apologized to Sanders, who was eventually drafted
by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Look, there's a lot of craziness in there. Normally I
would celebrate a crank phone call. I think they're funny,
I think they're great. I think this one. I'm not
going to condemn it radically because I I appreciate anybody
that goes for the joke or the punchline. I don't
want to s all over this kid. He's only twenty one,
(32:08):
He's going to make mistakes. So even Shador Sanders said, look,
he's young, he's twenty one, he's going to make mistakes.
He even gave that kid a pass. So it was
just the whole thing was bizarre. But now that you're
Sander's gonna be Cleveland. He's got an opportunity to prove
himself there. I bet that will sell a lot more
(32:30):
seats in Cleveland. Now to go see if this kid's great,
and you hope he is right. Nobody's hoping he's failing.
You hope he wins a super Bowl. Wouldn't that be
great and goes home with a Super Bowl? That would
be cool. Got to pull for that kid. He's the
underdog now, nobody wanted him after five rounds Now, I
(32:52):
want to watch him play every Sunday. I love underdogs.
I love long shots. I'm a long shots guy at
the track long shots. This gets a long shot. I'm
backing him all right, real live Mike Kelly up next
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