August 5, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 39 “The Animal”. Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Producer, Actor and Musician from Twisted Sister Mark Mendoza. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good evening and welcome to tee Time.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hey everybody, welcome to tea Time.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. It is Monday,
July twenty second. I'm gonna talk about my weekend real
quick and then get some in studio guests. Okay, So
basically Friday and Saturday, I was in Staten Island filming
Uninvited Guests with Omar Moore wrote it and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I play his wife Catherine and he plays my husband Derek. Yeah,
that was our movie night. We were both in our pj's.
So I had a blast filming. We have to continue filming.
We didn't get it all done. There was a lot
to do, but I did get hurt. I got a
little boo boo on my arm because I did my
own stunts and I was kind of like draged around
(02:07):
and tossed around. It was so much fun. I had
a blast, and I just want to say real quick.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
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Speaker 3 (02:15):
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Manhattan at the Iron Bar.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
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Speaker 3 (02:23):
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Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, let me get to my guests.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm so excited because this fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Minutes is going to go fast. He's a musician, he's
a producer. He's also an actor, and he does so
much more than that. Mark the Animal Mendoza is here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He William pronounced my last name wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He didn't. Mendoza said, excess number two.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You made me sit through that whole monologue there, Yeah,
I did with that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That was pretty quick for me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe I said yes to this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's a buster. He likes to bust them. Hey, listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You and I met a few years ago at an
event that Billy was doing Billy Mirror.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Shout out to Billy Mirraor and I.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sat and South yes and soa and Richard and Richard yes.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And we met there and that was that was a
few years ago, a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, it was longer than that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Year and a half ago. Yeah, it was not this Christmas,
the one before.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, And that's when we first met. And I said
I have to have you on my talk show. I
have done and done it and he said.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Sure, sure, Sure, sure, and I was able to put
it off this one. I was able to put it
off this long. I don't know what made me cave in.
I don't know why I put myself through such as you'll.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Get through it, I promise you think so.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So since then Mark and I have had a come full.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of conversations, more and more more conversations, and gotten.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Together about what time was I there was?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Wow, it wasn't that memorable for him?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Not?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So let's so let's get in it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Let's get in it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Let's get Originally from what west Ham said, yes, Melverne
and not at all?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's melbourn Va?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Melvern?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Via yah? Melvern? Yes, I was there three days ago
to stop the day.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's a long Island boy.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, yeah, I was. Yes, I lived in Malvern originally.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I went to George Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Middle Middle School, West HAMPSTI High School.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, but at twelve years old, So now we're twelve
years old, you picked up your first bass guitar.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Like, well, yeah, bass at twelve. I started playing guitar
at like about nine. Okay, Well that worked out nicely?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Did this is live?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That was? That was a phone? That's the first that's.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The first. So basically you wanted to pick up a guitar.
You picked up.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
They still play guitar that I know that, you know what,
I really play a lot the radio. I get the
noise in between channels.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Why the base because you were in the school like
school band and you play the clarinet, played the clarinet.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I got trouble because I whacked the kid over
the head with it. Who bothered me? He did?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So you used it as a weapon.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I use everything as a weapon, use hands. Yeah, I did.
I hit a kid with it who was constantly kicking
me in the back, and so I made it about
I think about three or four weeks. That was yeah,
And they threw me out.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
With the clarinet.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The clarinet and you you also played football when you
were in what high school?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In high school? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You went to uh we high school played football football.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You're a big guy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Six played football in an outside league?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Also yeah, yeah, what position were you?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What position you want exactly? No, I was alignment, big guy.
I figured that was alignment. You got to redo your makeup.
Now you look like a stop like red wo.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Getting hot in there. Okay, let's get down.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To Okay, so you were back then, you were like young,
you were twelve, you were into your bass guitar.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, just just to make it perfectly clear for you,
because you're gonna keep asking me the same questions and
I'm going to give you silly answers. But no, So
I picked up the guitar. I actually found a guitar
and an acoustic guitar in the garbage. It had it
like three strings on it. There were nylon strings, so
it's kind of like a like a Spanish and guitar.
So I just restrung it with metal strings and readjusted
(06:40):
the neck. I didn't know what I was doing, and
that's how I started playing guitar at about ten years old.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, and you and you you were also into many
bikes when you were very roung.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I was into bicycles, mini bikes, is motorcycles, dirt bikes.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Av Did you take like Bullswick beetle bugs and like turn.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Them into Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I was. I
had about fifteen years old. We a couple of friends
of ours, me and a couple other guys who were
given a Volksging bog that didn't work. It didn't run.
Yeh got it run in of course, of course. And
then we took the body off of it. We took
everything off of it, and well there was was sticking
up was two seats and the steering wheel and a
(07:22):
stick shift. Yeah, and it would fly. It was so
I was going to say, you have like we got caught.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I know you love motorcycles, you actually build them, rebuild them.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is like everything.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, you very mechanics, very mechanics. Yeah, you know, if.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You need to be rewired, I can, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What do you well, I'm turning sixties, so I might
need to tune up.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You're too old. They gotta trade you in for an.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What There are two things people need to know who
wrote ride my motorcycles that they need to know the
two things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They need to check.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Oh really, you're testing me now?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
One of the most important is air pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And pressure and what was the second thing?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What was go ahead? What was the second go ahead? Air? Pressure?
And lights? Lights, helmet, helmet, right, any safety gear.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Safety gear is very very important, very important. Ride with
the helmet all the time, right.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, my head's thick though, because it's scary. It's a helmet. Law,
what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, some people don't listen, you know, exactly right. So
straight out of high school.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I want to stop on that story for a second.
I had a friend of mine. I'm not going to
use his last name. His name is Mark. Okay, I
haven't seen him in a lot of years. I hope
he's doing well. But he was so against wearing helmets
that he would get tickets for all the time. So
one day he picked up his mother's spaghetti calendar okay
(08:46):
with the handle on it, and he put straps on
it and was wearing that as a helmet and he
still got the tickets. But he goes, no, it's a helmet.
So he showed up one day with all of the
guys hanging out and he was wearing a spaghetti calendar
on his Wow to Getty calendar. All right, walk, I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Woo Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So Stan, out of high school, eighteen years old, you
became the front man for a band called the Dictators.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I didn't become the front man.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, you were play the base. You were the bass player,
backing vocals.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yes, and you were opening back then for Blue Boys
to cult because it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Was the same. Was it the same?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, The Dictators and Bloys to Cult were the same
management production team Oman Krugman. Yes, right, and so we
got to play with Bloys to Cult often and like right,
like I know we toured with Alice Cooper, with with
zz Top, with Kiss. Just so many bands.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Became eighteen years old playing in front of twenty thousand people?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Like? It was a dream come true?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because that's all you wanted to do?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What was a dream come true? You know? I fell
into it. Also, I'm going to turn the sound off
on this thing because I'm not going to make the
same There's a.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Couple of pictures of the that you did the Dictators
your phone. We put them up.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I know you're like flash them right, Is that that's.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That one of them?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
No, that's not me. That's way before me.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now, way before him.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, what's the other one there? I am so looking
at the camera, looking at the screen on top right
like yeah, yeah with the big yes, big head of hair,
matter of fact on the Is there a way to
put that picture back on? Yeah? Yeah, put that that
same picture? Okay, So bottom left, yes, okay, we'll go
through the guys in the band top left for Scott
top Tenpin. He he passed away only about eight months ago.
(10:33):
Great guy in the middle was the is the singer
that's a handsome dick Matitoba, and of course me top right, yeah,
and then bottom right is Ross the boss Friedman. And
then in the middle in the bottom is Andy Schernoff
and far left and this is why I made you
put yeah the picture backed up far left on the
bottom is one of the best drummers vocalists in the
(10:53):
world ever, was Richie Teeter. And he was right, he was.
He grew up right here in massa Pequa, right, and
he's no longer with us for a bunch of years,
but some people around here still remember him and know him.
He was a great guy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I mean getting back to the dictators though, you
how did that all happen?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like, how did that fall into place?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So when I was about sixteen, I hooked up with
a bunch of guys, yeah, who were all about nineteen
and twenty, and they were looking for a bass player.
And they saw me playing like one of the town stages,
like the Town of Hampstead and the band that I
was in a high school band, Yeah, And they approached
me after him and said we'd like you to join
our band. And I was like, uh, you know, I'm
(11:33):
only sixteen. I can't get into bars. They go, now
you're tall enough, you'll get in. So I joined these
guys and it was I actually started playing with some
dysfunctional people who were already alcoholics, you know, young guys
and stuff. So it was very interesting and didn't I
could Actually I had a car. I had a couple
(11:54):
of hot rod cars. My parents didn't know about it, okay,
but I couldn't drive them and I wasn't going to
take them to clubs and bars and at the reck.
So they would pick me up and drop me off
with all my equipment and stuff. So long story short,
the band was very dysfunctional. But the drummer in that
band a very dear friend of mine, Freddie Knock, who
I talked about on my show often and I haven't
(12:17):
talked to him until about eight months ago. In forty
five years, we finally reconnected.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh beautiful. It was.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It was quite fun. It was quite funny and incredible.
So I haven't seen him. He lives in California, but
when we talk all the time. But he is the
important thing because when I auditioned and joined The Dictators.
I never knew of how I got the audition until
I talked to him again, because I always wanted to
thank him for that was kickstart. He said to me,
no matter what you think of this album, The Dictators
(12:46):
go girl crazy, no matter what you want, you have
to do this because it'll kickstart your career. And he
was right on target. Yeah, he could have given me
the numbers Filado and I would have won because he
was right on target. To this day, when I finally
talked to him again of like forty five years, it's amazing,
I said, thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like you said, you know you you you open for
Blue Oister Colton, then you toured with you said kiss
are your Speedwagon?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Nazareth on the same bill with far Enough.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Farner was the opening band on the first Crazy, one
of the first tours I was on. Yeah, they weren't
even on the radio yourself, what's that? But when they
were opening up the show, nobody knew who they were.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I know, how crazy is that? Though?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It was insane? So about six, about four weeks into
the tour, all of a sudden we show up and
you know, you listen to FM radio back then even
Amah and all of a sudden, it feels like the
first time is on every station.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
But that's like when you.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Play CBGB's and you're looking at Blondie before she was Blondie, Right.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I knew her well before she was Blondie. I knew
the Ramones before they were right. Yeah. I knew all
of the bands, all of them talking heads. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely,
I met them all, knew them all. Sure shows how
old I am. That's depressing.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So I witnessed all of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yes, yeah, but you all but when you weren't touring
and when you weren't playing out, you would go see
your favorite.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
One of my one again, one of my favorite bands.
I had a few locally, like Zebra Race Choir, Twisted Sister,
the Good Rats, Southern Southern Cross. There was a bunch
of bands that I go out and see a band
called Samantha, which is a whole another whole game we
can't talk about on TV. But in any case, uh,
(14:32):
but I went to see Twisted Sister a lot, you know.
And why did I go see Twisted Sister a lot?
Because they had the most girls in the audience. And
they were no No, and they were a very entertaining band.
I didn't know the guys, but i'd come off the road,
I'd go to Speaks or one of the other big
clubs that they were playing, and eventually met the guys.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You met them, and you actually, uh started working for them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You you you for a summer season.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, you like work for them for like six seven months.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And and after you worked for them, you actually.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Played with them.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They there's a story, a crazy story where you got
a phone call right that the bass player didn't want
to play anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Well, no, no, I always wanted to play.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You there they had some kind of epiphany or something.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And yeah, I don't want to get into he's a
great guy, Kenny Neil. Yeah, great guy, great, great bass player.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
But you got a phone call like you came home
from a gig, and like you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Came home Saturday night, it was about the beginning of
what's the middle of November Thanksgiving, Like you go to bed,
and then you gotta remember, in those days, you couldn't
just go home and go to sleep because you were
in a smoke filled club and I never smoked. So
you're clothing your hair, everything, so you gotta wash it.
(15:57):
You gotta throw the clothing and a hamper. Yeah, wash
your hair, wash everything down. And I'm laying down and
I'm just falling asleep and the phone rings, and I'm like,
who to leap? I'm gonna put my fist right through
this phone. Hello, it is JJ French. He goes, hey, Mark,
how you doing? I go, all right, what's this about? Yeah?
And he goes, are you still looking for a band? Go? Yes,
(16:21):
I am looking for a band. He goes, I have
one for you. I said, great, hopefully it's a good band.
He goes the best. I go, what band is it?
He goes twisted sister. I go, okay, So now I'm
gonna get angry at you. Okay, I'm gonna choke you
when I see Kenny just resigned. He just resigned. You
need a bass player. We couldn't think of anybody else
(16:43):
to even addition besides you. So do you want to
do it? And I say yeah, I'd love to do it.
He goes okay, great, click and he hangs up on me.
And I'm looking at the phone. No, no, you got
to hear this. I'm looking at the phone and I'm like,
what just happened? So I got to call him back.
So back then we still had dial fun of me.
It's going and I'm pushing it back, and I snapped
(17:05):
the dial off the phone, so I had to hang
up and then you could press the button ten times
or eight times or whatever I did. Then he picks
up the phone. He goes hello, he said, JJ, it's Mark.
He goes, you quit already? I said, no, what just happened?
And he goes, well, basically Kenny left the band, and
we want to know de and myself and the guy.
So I want to know if you'll join the band.
(17:26):
I said yes. He goes, okay, great, click and he
hangs up with me again. Now can I just go
back to sleep. No, the adrenaline's going. I'm all happy
and everything. So I didn't sleep the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We have some picks. We'll put up some pics of
his sister.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh they were asleep in the back. Let them take
that down. They're on break, they're on a break. But
there you go go. That's not long ago. That was
sure years ago. That was at a club called eighty
nine North. That first picture that's from nineteen eighty or so.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Did you do your own makeup?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was taught how to do that. It's good, better
than you can. Yeah, that's that's much more recent.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're kind of mixed up.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's okay. Whatever it is. That's from nineteen eighty seven.
That's Lovers for Suckers.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
No, that was come out and play. This is from
the club days. That's that's also about seventy nine eighty amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, I love this pic that there, please, that's one
of my favorite pick.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I couldn't tell you what that but that is definitely
somewhere in Europe. Yeah, and we never played less than
eighty five thousand people in Europe, so that could be.
Matter of fact, that could be grass popped. That's about
one hundred and forty thousand. Yeah, but I don't remember
which gig it is. Yeah, and the only reason AJ's
not in is he's still behind it. That was that
was made. That picture was taken while we were making
(18:52):
the Bekulia School video and I want to rock the
whole time period. So that was that was in the school.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Love it?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, Oh that's just say it is Aj. Yep, we
miss him a lot, We really do. That's also still
Tony Petrie is still the drummer. Yeah, the guy next
to me. And that's again around nineteen eighty eighty one.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yes, all right, let's stop there for now because I'm
gonna take my first break.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Please don't go away.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
More picks, videos, more, a lot more to talk about
with Mark, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked
like me. She stands for being a voice for people
that need a voice. My organization renovates homes for people
with disabilities, and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm very proud of the difference that we're making.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
To see that impact in my community inspires me to
work even harder for everyone around me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All right, is.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Everybody having a good time?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's what I thought? All right?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
So we are live Paradise Studios in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Give yourself around the Plus coming out tonight.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Well, Hi there, Teresa, It's Jihan Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparently you have a
great talk show called Tea Time on Strong Island TV.
I want you to have continued great success and have
a lot of fun. It sounds like you're having a
lot of fun, and that's pretty much the key to everything,
isn't it. So continued success, I'm proud of you. Have
(21:03):
a great day, Teresa.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Bye, Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I'm so
bady you're joining me tonight because I'm a mendo Mendoza Mendoz.
It's my accent. I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
A musician, producer, actor, he's done some acting, voice over work.
We're gonna like so get into it. You know, started
out with the Dictators once to Twisted, sister.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It was with Twisted for what ten ten? Something like
ten more? How long.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Did you get any higher? As you're asking me the question.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Because.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Right now since nineteen seventy eight, do to math, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But then he stopped, you went back, he stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
There was like some breaks in between. There was a
lot going on. You had a lot going on. But
I want to talk about your mom and dad real
quick if we can, okay, great, because they were both
veterans of World War Two, all right, and his mom
his mom was with the Cross and his dad was
in the army.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
My father, just because I'm sure there's a lot of
vets out there, and any veteran, you know, even law
enforcement watching, thank you for your service, No two ways
about it, thank you for service. So anybody who knows
the history of World War Two, my father was a
bastard of best Stone. He was easy company, Yeah, he was.
He was there.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and they did see you play with a C
d C.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Ones. Well, a c DC opened up for us before
they had bon Scott, the original a C d C.
And they opened up for us before nobody, nobody knew
who they were, their first down right now, right now.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It wasn't really their type of music, but they went
to support you because they were more into swing and
a C d C. No, your parents, your parents parents
were something. Listen, your parents were into swing and you
know that can call and you know you're talking.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
About a different era but completely different. You know. Did
they have ear plugs in Well, we didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Have ear plugs, so they folded up toilet papers.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like my father and like my dad, like my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
My father, my father would say at the end of
the show, he'd say, I don't understand what's going on here,
but I see it's real big congratulations, right because he saw.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The smiles on other people's Yeah, and he was just happy.
Your mom actually played piano.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
My mom was a great piano players. Yes, that's what
also she did during World War Two, they entertained the team.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she entertained the troops before.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The USO, way before the years later. You actually the
tour for the military.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yes, amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We were supposed to go to Mid East. The war
broke out and they sent us to South Korea. Probably
the highlight of my career. I had a great time.
They treated us, the military treated us like royalty. They
loved the fact that we were there entertaining them. It
was incredible. It really was huge.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's huge. You played. You played also with Leslie West
from Mountain.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Leslie West Mountain grew up one of my favorite guitar players,
top three guitar players. Leslie West got to know him well,
played with him on and off for about three years
in the mid to late eighties, and God rest his soul.
He's gone, and we're missing another amazing guitar player. There's
a whole bunch missing, like Eddie van Halen not too
(24:14):
long ago, another favorite of mine. He was a great guy.
It was a lot of fun to hang with. But
Leslie West, I grew up on him.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I grew up on Leslie West. And it was just
such a treat to finally play all the music that
I was growing up on with him, and he was
Unfortunately Will never got to know what kind of a
character he was. Leslie was a hell of a character.
I heard he really was. Story oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But you know mentioned before you never did drugs. He
never smoked.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He never smoked cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Drink maybe wine or something.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I think I've had half a glass of wine five
times in my life, so.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You actually are one of the few rockers never anything,
who never did anything, but.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Who can remember from that in the day.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's not a not a blur for I'm still it's
so funny. I run into guys like when I talked
to when the guys in the band to get together teach,
or I run into people in the business they go
you remember when this happened. I was like, oh yeah,
I forgot all about that. There was a lot of
crazy things right.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right right, it was.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It was a crazy one excuse me life, it was,
and it started early for me. You know, when I
was I was eighteen years old and I was already
on a toy with Blowy's to cult in coliseums. Yeah,
it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And your parents, what kind of advice did they give
you before you went out into the world, And they
want you to like you know now, obviously no one wants,
you know, you to make the wrong turn and no
straight and narrow.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You know, I could give you a long story when
I'm not going to. So basically, when I had, I
had to come to a point. I joined the Dictators.
I was already in them and were already playing CBGB's
and some other clubs in the New York City area
and Newishelle. Yea, and my tour managers at the time,
Steve Shank, to me, I said, You're gonna have to
make a decision because I was in a band. I
was in another band, a rock band, my drummer Freddie Knock.
(26:06):
I was in my first year of college. Yeah, okay,
and I had a job as a machinist for an
autoparts store, so I had a lot of things going
and of course college, so I came home and I'd
have to leave everything and go on the road.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Which college did you now?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So thirteenth grade, National Community College, thirteenth grade. So anyway,
so long story short, I came home, I talked, I
sat my parents down and I told them what, you know,
what the possibilities were. And my father said to me,
and I can't. I've done a whole bunch of oil
voiceovers today, so my voice is a little voice. But
(26:43):
my father said to me, and I'll try to imitate him. Okay,
you told us the whole story. Please go outside for
a few minutes. Let your mother and I speak. Okay, dad,
And I went outside and shot some hoops of basketball
and my mom comes out and says, Mark, why don't
you come inside? And I sat down and it was
(27:03):
a real quick answer. We know you're responsible. You could
do what you want to do, and you'll always have
a home here, but if it doesn't work, you make
us one promise. Dad. What is it? He goes, you
go back to school? And I never had to go
back to school. It worked.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But you know that's not the only promise you made,
your dad, because.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Before you you were you digging.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Up, before you joined Twist It, and your first gig
with them.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Was, oh, how'd you get that story? Would you get
that from me.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Listen to me. No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Right from you, but I do know that your first
gig with them was going to be on December tenth,
nineteen seventy eight, and your dad, unfortunately was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
He was ill and saw you can take it from here.
Yes made you he told you something.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yes, he knew he had met he had only met
D and JJ, because remember I started rehearsing with them
like a week or so before Thanksgiving. I knew most
of the songs already. So when we started rehearsing in
Susette De's wife. Susette made all of our clothes. Talk
about a talented woman, and she also designed the makeup.
So we went through this whole process. My father was
(28:20):
already in the hospital dying, and we had planned that
December tenth. It was I believe it's a Wednesday. I
don't know exactly everything. So that was going to be
my first gig on stage, which happened to be a
club called Zaffi's in Piscataway, New Jersey. All right, So
I went to see him on December sixth, right, he
(28:47):
was okay, yeah, and he made me come up and
stand alongside of his Beddy grabbed my hand, shook my
hand and said, no matter what happens to me, you
keep going. Okay, and you don't, you know, you got
to stand up attention and salute my father. That not
he didn't make me do that, but that's yes, sir,
I s so I did. And he told me, no
(29:08):
matter what happens to him, you keep going. Don't stop
on my account. And I was like, well, I talk
about a hard charger. My father, he was a hard charger.
I mean, he was a tough character for World War Two.
Great dad, though, Great dad. So I leave, I go
to rehearsal. My sister and my mom would show up
at the hospital after me and spend a few hours
(29:28):
with him. And the next day I went back. So
I'm walking in and one of the nurses that I
knew there grabbed me and says, Mark, don't go in yet,
just sit down here. So I did. I figured that
the doors closed. I figured they're doing a procedure or
you know, whatever they're doing. So his doctor came up
and sat down next to me. So I'm like, hey, doc,
what's up now? Like do the usual bugs bunny tune?
(29:50):
What's up? Doc? You know and he goes, I don't
know anybody to tell you this, but you missed him
downstairs having the procedure done. He goes, no, no, he's gone.
You mean gone, that's it over. He goes, yes. I said,
when he goes about fifteen minutes ago. You missed him
by about fifteen minutes. I was like, oh, this is awful.
(30:13):
This is really awful. So he said to me, call
your mother and your sister. Don't tell him to drive
like maniac's getting here. You're not saving a life. And
when you guys get here, you can visit with him
for a few minutes and then we have to move
him out of there. So they did. They showed up,
and of course, and of course there's a little funny
part here. You know, not that my father passing away
(30:33):
was funny. It wasn't. It was heartbreaking. So we're sitting
outside in front of the hospital and it's it's Pearl
Harbor Day. It's the Sember seventh. You know, figures that
he passed away on Pearl Harbor Day. So it's Sember seventh.
We're all sitting on the front steps of the hospital,
and you know, my sister and my mom are crying.
I'm half in a bag too, crying and stuff, and
(30:54):
I go, ah, you know what, let me call the
guys in the band and postpone this. And my mom
is just a stop trying. And my mom said, no, no,
your dad, your father told us that he gave you
an order to go. And my mom's line was exactly
was you better follow what he told you to do
or he'll come back and get you. But but she goes, no,
(31:16):
do what he told you to do.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And I know you were torn because because you buried
him the day before.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, well he died on the seventh and burned him
on the ninth.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You kind of felt guilty about it.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Because and so here was I'm standing on stage, right,
standing on stage having one of the greatest times in
my life, and in between sets, I'm crying, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But he was looking down on He made me do it.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
He made me do it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, but I believe he was. He was, he was
with you, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh, yeah, he always is. He's always around. But it's
just so that's the basic story.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
That's the basic story.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
All the dreaded details.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We have a couple of videos from TS Can we
play it?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A couple of them they're really quick. We got three.
Let's let's give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Shouty, go right into the other one if you want
only that's the same one.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just live in the next tip.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
And there's one more.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's it, all right, no problem, no, no worries nowhere.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We're on top of the productions. Yeah. We we're good.
We're good. We're the very first one up there, I
believe was the first time we played the Redding Festival
in England. Okay, okay, yeah, and uh or it was
Castle Donegan. That's from the early eighties.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The second one is in the mid two thousands at
one of the big festivals.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yes, because you guys, you never stopped. You never like
broke up, but you just stopped playing live.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Like you can't. Yeah, we kept, we kept putting out,
releasing more albums and CDs.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And maybut albums. I have two of them right here.
This is Stay Hungry.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I'm gonna hold it like that, so there's no because
I still have the cellophane on it, okay, and the
other one is under the bleed.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I hold it like that. I'm holding them, holding them,
holding them.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So if you want to hand me that Stay Hungry
album for a second. Yes, okay, so this year, yes,
twenty twenty four, let me make sure I don't have
glare on it. Twenty twenty four is the fortieth anniversary
of Stay Hungry. Wow, right, this is the fortieth anniversary Holy.
In October, we're releasing a double album on vinyl. Also
(34:02):
double album, yeah vinyl, and all kinds of extra tracks,
oh my gosh, of which I don't think they were
released really, so it is coming out. Everybody's wondering when
it's happening.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And twenty twenty three. Last year was the fiftieth anniversary
of Twisting.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Holy band started in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You remixed, You remixed Under the Blade I did, which
sold more than which sold more than three million copies,
like way.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Over under the Blade.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, no, no, under the Blade, which sold more than
three million copies when reissued by Atlantic Records.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I'll put that in.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And you also mixed Still Hungry and a twisted Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Produce and mixed produce and mixed Still Hungry. Yes, yes, amazing,
and also a twist. It's so talented, am I? Really?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You have no idea he's so talented.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I get to check that okay.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Okay, so let's talk again. We will continue because this
is going very very fast.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What are we going to We're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We're going to talk. We're going to talk, or you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
He likes my accent. He doesn't want to get rid
of it. Okay, So what's.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
The timing on the engine?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, I'm not that.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
No, no, no, no, no no, tis.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
So let's let's acting acting. The man is on IMDb.
You got some creds.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You did a short film called Bullified where you played
office some mark. It was a short short film. But
in twenty thirteen, you did Send No Flowers, the movie
Yes with Sean Young and Tony Leblanco and you and
Fred Carpenter did that move.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
He was he was the director, and.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I did a movie with Fred.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Also, Fred's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I love him great, he's great. How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So it was a lot of fun. But I wasn't
in the movie very much. I only had a few lines.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You was still in it absolutely, okay. Yeah, it was fun. No,
it was great. It was great.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I did on Confessions of a Hitman with him, I
played a prostitute and I only had a.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Couple of wis.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Played more than once ninth and then in obviously nineteen
eighty three to twenty ten, you did a crap load
of music videos.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
You did a ton, a ton. It was a ton
of music videos.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
You did behind the music musicians for disaster relief. You
did The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show
with Craig Ferguson, Growing Up Twisted, Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Long Island Uncovered. You did My Long Island TV, the
Real radio.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Show, Fox News.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
We Are Twisted, Ethan's Sister rock show featuring Twisted Sister.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
You did What is Classic Rock?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Twenty twenty three Again twenty twenty three, you were inducted
into the Metal Hall of Fame. Congratulations, thank you, and
what else do we have here?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
God also said soundtrack? You did soundtracks.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You were producer of soundtracks in eighty four, No Small Affair,
nineteen ninety eight, Strangle Land, and twenty nineteen ninety one one,
which was a TV series all produced, produced, produced. You
also did video footage. You did Video on Trial, which
was a TV series. You did Quiet Riot right which
(37:24):
now you're here, there's no way back. You did the
Top ten, revealed you did Breaking the Band, which was
a TV series all yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You did all that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You did a ton of stuff, and you're still going
because now you're doing voice.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You know, you mentioned how your voice is.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
We got that. I produced with JJ French. I produced
the first seven Dust album, which was their biggest Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Sorry I left that out.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I left that out.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Sorry, sorry, But I told him if I get him
any of my fun facts are wrong, to correct me.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
So I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
But you know an album called Reckless.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Okay, I don't have any of that, so keep giving.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Well, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
But you you mentioned your voice, and you did a
lot of work today because you are doing a lot
of voice over.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I do a lot of voice for the work.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
You have a great voice.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well, thank you. You know, yes I do. It's rough
because I did a whole whole bun Bosso put a
fun though as they call it, right, an opera.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
You do, you do, and I want to know how
you got into that because it's a great gig.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Years ago I would just at sessions and things like that.
I'd imitate things and imitate people I'm not an impressionist
at all. I don't people just say certain things a
certain way. Like one guy heard me imitate a Monster
truck commercial and I don't know if I can do
the voice right now because it's breaking up this weekend.
(38:51):
This weekend only at the National colis seeum Monster Trucks.
So you heard me do that. And then he said,
you know, I have an agent heard me do that.
He said, I have some people out west and down
south that want that voice. And then I got it.
So that's when it kind of really started. But that
was I don't know, fifteen sixteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
That's how long you're doing.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, So I have regular things. I do regular drops
for radio stations their contests. I do corporate like if
you're in a if you're on the board of a
corporation and they have a big meeting in their boardroom
and there's a big video screen showing everything, I'm the
voice in it. They don't know it's marked well, I'm
sorry hitting that microphone. They don't know it's marked from
(39:32):
Twisted systems. But I'm just a generic voice. And any
other thing which I just fell into was I do.
I also read with video manuals for machinery.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Okay, yeah, so you're basically understanding most of the stuff
you read.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Well, I know about machinery. That's what I'm saying, your background.
But yeah, so I'm actually in the middle, like for
like the last year, doing and I can't say who
it is or what it is, but I'm talking about
I'm doing the actual online video for how to operate
and troubleshoot this massive machine that's bigger than this room,
(40:11):
that makes parts for a military contractor. And it's not
even done yet. When I'm constantly updating the manual every month,
I got to go back and read more and change things.
So that's been ongoing.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's great, it's great.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So do you like them?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I like you?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Oh, thank you? I like you to what do you
like to do? The like the radio the radio stuff
for radio and announce.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It like, yeah, it's easy. It's you know, when you
do it for such a long time, you know it's
easy to do. I mean, I got to wake up
at four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
You wake up at four thirty in the morning and start.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Trying because it has to be They need.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
It before their morning shifts. Oh, okay, once in a
while I have to get up at like two in
the morning because some radio.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Voice even deeper when you first wake up, like I
sound like Brenda Vacaro when I first were well.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I can usually make it deep all day long, but
it's kind of rough now because I did a whole
bunch of stuff today, so and I haven't had any
more tea. You can hear it's cracking a little bit, right,
that's just because everything I was reading today.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, But I get up at like four point thirty
in the morning, and by about ten to five I'm reading. Okay,
I open my emails, I look at everything they want done,
I record them, and by quarter after five, five thirty latest,
I'm back in bed sleeping, and then I wake up
my normal time and do you know everything else I do?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Okay, Yeah, all right, that's kind of that's kind of
like a cool gig.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
It's a very cool gig. Yeah, I have no complaints.
So what are the body out there looking for? Voice over?
You call me?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Do you what do you do? I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Obviously your your vocals is an instrument. It is an instrument.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Well, of course it is yours is an instrument too.
It's usual A lot of.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Things true, but you but hello, this is you.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
You have to write, right.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Was there ever a time when you're like, oh, I
feel something coming on and but it.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Takes some Yeah, all the time, but so far during COVID.
During COVID, when I was still doing the normal stuff,
most of it was pretty normal. There was two other
guys that couldn't do it because they had COVID, they
had no voice, they were in the hospital. So I
took up all I did. I did like three times
the amount of work every day every week because people
(42:22):
are home and they were even watching TV more and
listening to the radio more. So I had even more work.
I got paid for it, but it was it was rough.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
That's a fun gig, though it was ron gig I've done.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I've done voiceover in the past, a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
How many degrees before Top Dead Center?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I am not doing that tonight. No, I'm not, Man.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I'm breaking your concentration yet.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
He is, he is. But I knew this was going
to happen, and I really don't mind.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
But you know what, trying to behave well.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
He's trying to behave Becau because he doesn't behave.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
But I'm going to give some shout outs while we're here.
I'm gonna give out some to Anne, Michael Norton, my mind,
Michael Norton.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Michael Norton, Michael Norton, Norton, Norton.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That's the first day, Norton, Norton, Norton. I love you.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Think it's just.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Who else? But yeah, Michael Norton, Johnny. I'm sorry. I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
You want to buy my glasses? I do.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I need my readers, you have to.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I apologize to everyone, but I want to thank everyone
for watching. I'm sure Bruno is watching, and Greg and
everyone who's watching, thank.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
You so much. I appreciate your help. Greg, Gregg, Philippo.
He's in Florida.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Also, hey, listen, let's take my.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Last break, shall we? Is that my last break and
my second break?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
This is the second one?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Second?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Only?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Second? Always so not taking the third. We'll be back
after this. Don't go away.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (44:11):
I'm Georgia Rose, founder of Zancuda. You can watch me
on the soul Space podcast every Friday at noon on
Channel twenty for spiritual guidance and as you all know.
That is how I first opened into my own psychic
gifts was through the angelic realm astrology. And so we've
got Mars and the Sun together in Scorpio, which creates
a lot of combustion. In the astrological world, we call
(44:32):
it Akazini and taro. When the four cups right side up,
it means we have a lot of choices to make,
and we're not looking at what's really being divinely given
to us. We're too busy in the busyness of the
choices to really see the.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Divine intervention of divine timing and fine diving.
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Speaker 5 (45:02):
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you watching me? You should be watching Teresa Kindis Dracy
tee Time with Teresa Kinda Dracy. Makes sure you you
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Speaker 2 (45:19):
We'll see you there the way you say my name.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Hey, everybody, welcome back to tea Time. I'm with Mark Mendoza.
That's right, yeah, okay. And he is a musician, bass player,
wonderful bass player.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I really just spar with it, just far with it.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
He just he just plays around with it, you know,
with a producer and an.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Actor voice over work.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I'm acting right now.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Is there anything?
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Is there anything you haven't done that you want to do?
As far as the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I will get it. Like, no, I can't say that here,
I really can't. You got me caught here just asking.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
No, I mean, would you want to do life theater?
Would you want to do I.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Would love to expand myself in acting. Yeah, I really would. Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Good to know. So all my producer director friends there,
ye here you go.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, you know. I started working on a film right
before COVID, Like we started working on it about six
weeks before the world shut down, and it was in Ohio.
And that was the first time that I was working
in a serious movie where I was a serious part.
Everything else I'm either an outlaw biker or under the
(46:31):
cover of cop. Everything that I've been it was either
one of those two. So, but it shut down. It
hasn't come back yet, but they keep talking to me
about it, you know, so if it comes back, I
would be glad. It was good. It was a lot
of fun. There's a lot of work, you know. I
was there for about about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
You don't realize, you know, unless you're on set.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of work goes into all
of this stuff. You know. We were talking about the
other day. We were talking about the videos, the TS
videos I was on when we made We're Not going
to Take It okay, and the long form video which
never really got big. You know, there was We're not
gonna take It, I want to rock the Price, and
we did a long form video but we're on set
(47:12):
for thirty eight hours and that was brutal, and a
lot of it was on camera. They'll keep redoing the angles.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
And the themes. I mean, it's just it's great.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
It's a lot of work. I'm not complaining about it.
I'll do it anytime.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
No, no, no, But you just to get back to
Twist It, sister.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Real quick.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
You you would ta get Is it correct me? Is
it true that you were to Gather ten years before
Twisted got signed?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
The band started in nineteen seventy three, okay, okay, and
we basically by the time we got to eighty three,
we were signed and had under the Blade out okay,
and started on Can't Stop Rock and Roll. I joined
the band in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Because because you and I heard that you've done over
like seventy five hundred shows. But when you were playing,
you were doing five shows a night.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Like No, No. Five five to six days a week,
usually five days a week. Usually we didn't play one
day and Tuesday or sometimes four days a week, but
we played three shows a night, three shows night, and
the last show, the third set. We didn't bring d out.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Because well, there's no wimp.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
That's he's a real trooper when it comes to performing
and singing without doubt, so we would do it without him.
We do the third set, which was famous in itself
because we did a lot of different things. So jokes
played other songs, just people WI yell out a song,
we would try to play it, and even myself, Eddie Eddie,
myself and Tony and AJ when he was in the band.
(48:43):
Also we would just do three piece songs and even
JJ would take a break. Yeah, So it was it
was a lot of fun the club. There was a
lot of fun. But we had thousands of shows under
our belts by the time we got signed. So when
we first did our first tour, yeah, we got like
I don't know. I think if we went on stage
for forty minutes, we're like usually used to traveling for
(49:06):
a couple of hours, doing three sets, getting out of
a club at two o'clock in the morning, and then
traveling an hour and a half to get home.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
I know, So we didn't get warmed up. You tour
and you to it a lot.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
You to it all over Europe, you were all over
you were all over.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
South America, Asia. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah. Is there a place like it didn't hit?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I mean, oh yeah. I mean we never played although
we would have Africa, you know, we never played the
Mid East and Middle East. Okay, we did play Russia,
you know, and I know there's all kinds of world
problems with Russia and everything like that, but let me
tell you something. It was an amazing experience just to
be in Russia, be in Red Square and you know,
(49:49):
just see everything firsthand. You know, it really was. And
the people with the fans were incredible, the people, the
government was great to us, The fans were amazing. So
you know, I know there's other problems, but still that
was was great.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
You really were will you You can find Mark on Facebook,
You can find him on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Mark the Animal Mendoza.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
He's all over social media, you know, because you have
up you have actually has an upcoming show this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
If you're not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Saturday night, dude, Saturday Night. I play with a local
band called Joe Rock and the All Stars. And Joe
Rock is a famous guy. Joe Rock is Joe Rock
from one two point three B A B. Yes he is,
and he's got his on air show and he's in
four other markets also around the country. So he's got
a band called Joe Rock and the All Stars at
(50:37):
a place called Liam's Landing in Amityville. And for those no,
for the people who don't know it, it used to
be called Jacomo Jack's. Same building, different owners will be
there this coming Saturday evening, right and the all Stars.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I love it. I can't wait to see you play.
I really can't.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
I mean, unfortunately, I'm working Saturday. But we're gonna we're
gonna make it happen. And better fact, talking about making
things happen, you had your own podcast I did, Yes
you did, but you're going to It was called twenty
two now well it was.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
It's an Area twenty two Productions.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Area twenty is the name of the company, and.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
My particular show is twenty two now now right.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
And you also interview people in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Yeah, but I did a better job than you. No
comment because you're going to come on my show. You
think this is difficult, but no, I will come on
your show. I don't have it's a lot of fun. Yeah.
I've been off the air.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
For people runs and roses, heavy hitters, heavy big heavy hitters,
mostly musicians, not all.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I had some other people on.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
But you're going to be starting this back. We did
it for what six, like six years?
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I did it for five and a half years.
Speaker 3 (51:56):
Five and a half years, and he took a little hiatus,
and you're going to start back.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Up in like four to six I want to say,
just when things fall into place. It should be about
four to six weeks, maybe eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yeah, and it's gonna be on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
Nights, always Tuesday night at seven o'clock live.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
And and he'll put that on his social media when
he starts up with everything, I will, and I'll share it,
you know, let people know it's important.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
So, hey, we have my tony half minutes left, Mark, what.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Do you want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
I'm not too sure. I think I covered pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
You really think, so.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Well, I know there's there's a lot listen. I can
do two hours with this man. I could do an
hour just on twist It and then an hour on
his own.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
You know, we have to create clean because it's actually we.
Speaker 3 (52:42):
Do have to keep it clean because you know people,
did I behave?
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Did I behave?
Speaker 2 (52:46):
He's good.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
But we're gonna be on TV Saturday morning at ten
am on Channel twenty four people who live on Long
Island and get.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Optimum to Oh that's right, I got to put that out.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Also, Yeah, people want to see it, watch it. So
but I'm excited. You can't. You know, you finally made
it to Beautiful Paradise Studios here in Massapequa.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
It actually is a great place, you know, it really is.
I haven't been here for years and it was originally upstairs.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Were there any picks that we could throw up that
we didn't get to? I think we have all there
is you and John.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
That's Johnny Depp. He's in a band with Alice Cooper
and a bunch of other great musicians, yes, called Hollywood Vampires.
Nice and I went up to Bethel in the Woods,
which is Woodstock and there's a beautiful amphitheater there, and
I went to see them and I was backstage with
the guys.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Anything after that, there might be more, I haven't I
don't know. I don't know. I gave him a bunch.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
There, you well, that's an old twister. Yeah, just you
wanna hang on to that photo for a second, so
I'm far left looking at the picture. The next one
is Tony Petrie. He was the drummer in the band
when I joined, and unfortunately he passed away a few
days ago. Yeah, unfortunately, Yes.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
So okay, I'm glad we got to them. Listen.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
I am so thrilled that you and I connected when
we did, and that you you did my show, because
you know what this means the world to me.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
It really does, does it?
Speaker 1 (54:10):
You'll pay daily for this, I'm sure? Right, Well, we
have forty seconds left?
Speaker 2 (54:18):
We do?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Is it really forty seconds left? Come on something thirty five?
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I want to thank everyone for watching tea time and
supporting me. I really do appreciate it, you know, Just
like I say every week, tell everyone you love you
love them, and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
Chow. Everybody say goodbye, I love you, I love you.
Speaker 9 (54:37):
Good Bye, everybody bye.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Anything to
Speaker 2 (55:12):
S.
Good evening and welcome to tee Time.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hey everybody, welcome to tea Time.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. It is Monday,
July twenty second. I'm gonna talk about my weekend real
quick and then get some in studio guests. Okay, So
basically Friday and Saturday, I was in Staten Island filming
Uninvited Guests with Omar Moore wrote it and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I play his wife Catherine and he plays my husband Derek. Yeah,
that was our movie night. We were both in our pj's.
So I had a blast filming. We have to continue filming.
We didn't get it all done. There was a lot
to do, but I did get hurt. I got a
little boo boo on my arm because I did my
own stunts and I was kind of like draged around
(02:07):
and tossed around. It was so much fun. I had
a blast, and I just want to say real quick.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Murdered by the Mob is there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I am as Bunny and Murdered by the Mob is
a murder mystery show. It's the longest running show in
Manhattan at the Iron Bar.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Just go to Murder by Themob dot.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Com to see when we have an upcoming shows.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, let me get to my guests.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm so excited because this fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Minutes is going to go fast. He's a musician, he's
a producer. He's also an actor, and he does so
much more than that. Mark the Animal Mendoza is here.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He William pronounced my last name wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He didn't. Mendoza said, excess number two.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You made me sit through that whole monologue there, Yeah,
I did with that.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That was pretty quick for me.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe I said yes to this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's a buster. He likes to bust them. Hey, listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You and I met a few years ago at an
event that Billy was doing Billy Mirror.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Shout out to Billy Mirraor and I.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sat and South yes and soa and Richard and Richard yes.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And we met there and that was that was a
few years ago, a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, it was longer than that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Year and a half ago. Yeah, it was not this Christmas,
the one before.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, And that's when we first met. And I said
I have to have you on my talk show. I
have done and done it and he said.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Sure, sure, Sure, sure, and I was able to put
it off this one. I was able to put it
off this long. I don't know what made me cave in.
I don't know why I put myself through such as you'll.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Get through it, I promise you think so.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So since then Mark and I have had a come full.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Of conversations, more and more more conversations, and gotten.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Together about what time was I there was?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Wow, it wasn't that memorable for him?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Not?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So let's so let's get in it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Let's get in it.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Let's get Originally from what west Ham said, yes, Melverne
and not at all?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's melbourn Va?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Melvern?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Via yah? Melvern? Yes, I was there three days ago
to stop the day.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's a long Island boy.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, yeah, I was. Yes, I lived in Malvern originally.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I went to George Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Middle Middle School, West HAMPSTI High School.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, but at twelve years old, So now we're twelve
years old, you picked up your first bass guitar.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Like, well, yeah, bass at twelve. I started playing guitar
at like about nine. Okay, Well that worked out nicely?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Did this is live?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That was? That was a phone? That's the first that's.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The first. So basically you wanted to pick up a guitar.
You picked up.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
They still play guitar that I know that, you know what,
I really play a lot the radio. I get the
noise in between channels.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Why the base because you were in the school like
school band and you play the clarinet, played the clarinet.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I got trouble because I whacked the kid over
the head with it. Who bothered me? He did?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So you used it as a weapon.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I use everything as a weapon, use hands. Yeah, I did.
I hit a kid with it who was constantly kicking
me in the back, and so I made it about
I think about three or four weeks. That was yeah,
And they threw me out.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
With the clarinet.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The clarinet and you you also played football when you
were in what high school?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In high school? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You went to uh we high school played football football.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You're a big guy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Six played football in an outside league?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Also yeah, yeah, what position were you?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
What position you want exactly? No, I was alignment, big guy.
I figured that was alignment. You got to redo your makeup.
Now you look like a stop like red wo.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Getting hot in there. Okay, let's get down.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To Okay, so you were back then, you were like young,
you were twelve, you were into your bass guitar.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, just just to make it perfectly clear for you,
because you're gonna keep asking me the same questions and
I'm going to give you silly answers. But no, So
I picked up the guitar. I actually found a guitar
and an acoustic guitar in the garbage. It had it
like three strings on it. There were nylon strings, so
it's kind of like a like a Spanish and guitar.
So I just restrung it with metal strings and readjusted
(06:40):
the neck. I didn't know what I was doing, and
that's how I started playing guitar at about ten years old.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, and you and you you were also into many
bikes when you were very roung.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I was into bicycles, mini bikes, is motorcycles, dirt bikes.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Av Did you take like Bullswick beetle bugs and like turn.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Them into Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I was. I
had about fifteen years old. We a couple of friends
of ours, me and a couple other guys who were
given a Volksging bog that didn't work. It didn't run.
Yeh got it run in of course, of course. And
then we took the body off of it. We took
everything off of it, and well there was was sticking
up was two seats and the steering wheel and a
(07:22):
stick shift. Yeah, and it would fly. It was so
I was going to say, you have like we got caught.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I know you love motorcycles, you actually build them, rebuild them.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is like everything.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, you very mechanics, very mechanics. Yeah, you know, if.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You need to be rewired, I can, I can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
What do you well, I'm turning sixties, so I might
need to tune up.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
You're too old. They gotta trade you in for an.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What There are two things people need to know who
wrote ride my motorcycles that they need to know the
two things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
They need to check.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Oh really, you're testing me now?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
One of the most important is air pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And pressure and what was the second thing?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What was go ahead? What was the second go ahead? Air? Pressure?
And lights? Lights, helmet, helmet, right, any safety gear.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Safety gear is very very important, very important. Ride with
the helmet all the time, right.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, my head's thick though, because it's scary. It's a helmet. Law,
what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, some people don't listen, you know, exactly right. So
straight out of high school.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I want to stop on that story for a second.
I had a friend of mine. I'm not going to
use his last name. His name is Mark. Okay, I
haven't seen him in a lot of years. I hope
he's doing well. But he was so against wearing helmets
that he would get tickets for all the time. So
one day he picked up his mother's spaghetti calendar okay
(08:46):
with the handle on it, and he put straps on
it and was wearing that as a helmet and he
still got the tickets. But he goes, no, it's a helmet.
So he showed up one day with all of the
guys hanging out and he was wearing a spaghetti calendar
on his Wow to Getty calendar. All right, walk, I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Woo Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So Stan, out of high school, eighteen years old, you
became the front man for a band called the Dictators.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I didn't become the front man.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, you were play the base. You were the bass player,
backing vocals.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yes, and you were opening back then for Blue Boys
to cult because it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Was the same. Was it the same?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, The Dictators and Bloys to Cult were the same
management production team Oman Krugman. Yes, right, and so we
got to play with Bloys to Cult often and like right,
like I know we toured with Alice Cooper, with with
zz Top, with Kiss. Just so many bands.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Became eighteen years old playing in front of twenty thousand people?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Like? It was a dream come true?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Because that's all you wanted to do?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What was a dream come true? You know? I fell
into it. Also, I'm going to turn the sound off
on this thing because I'm not going to make the
same There's a.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Couple of pictures of the that you did the Dictators
your phone. We put them up.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I know you're like flash them right, Is that that's.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That one of them?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
No, that's not me. That's way before me.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Now, way before him.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, what's the other one there? I am so looking
at the camera, looking at the screen on top right
like yeah, yeah with the big yes, big head of hair,
matter of fact on the Is there a way to
put that picture back on? Yeah? Yeah, put that that
same picture? Okay, So bottom left, yes, okay, we'll go
through the guys in the band top left for Scott
top Tenpin. He he passed away only about eight months ago.
(10:33):
Great guy in the middle was the is the singer
that's a handsome dick Matitoba, and of course me top right, yeah,
and then bottom right is Ross the boss Friedman. And
then in the middle in the bottom is Andy Schernoff
and far left and this is why I made you
put yeah the picture backed up far left on the
bottom is one of the best drummers vocalists in the
(10:53):
world ever, was Richie Teeter. And he was right, he was.
He grew up right here in massa Pequa, right, and
he's no longer with us for a bunch of years,
but some people around here still remember him and know him.
He was a great guy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I mean getting back to the dictators though, you
how did that all happen?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like, how did that fall into place?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So when I was about sixteen, I hooked up with
a bunch of guys, yeah, who were all about nineteen
and twenty, and they were looking for a bass player.
And they saw me playing like one of the town stages,
like the Town of Hampstead and the band that I
was in a high school band, Yeah, And they approached
me after him and said we'd like you to join
our band. And I was like, uh, you know, I'm
(11:33):
only sixteen. I can't get into bars. They go, now
you're tall enough, you'll get in. So I joined these
guys and it was I actually started playing with some
dysfunctional people who were already alcoholics, you know, young guys
and stuff. So it was very interesting and didn't I
could Actually I had a car. I had a couple
(11:54):
of hot rod cars. My parents didn't know about it, okay,
but I couldn't drive them and I wasn't going to
take them to clubs and bars and at the reck.
So they would pick me up and drop me off
with all my equipment and stuff. So long story short,
the band was very dysfunctional. But the drummer in that
band a very dear friend of mine, Freddie Knock, who
I talked about on my show often and I haven't
(12:17):
talked to him until about eight months ago. In forty
five years, we finally reconnected.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh beautiful. It was.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It was quite fun. It was quite funny and incredible.
So I haven't seen him. He lives in California, but
when we talk all the time. But he is the
important thing because when I auditioned and joined The Dictators.
I never knew of how I got the audition until
I talked to him again, because I always wanted to
thank him for that was kickstart. He said to me,
no matter what you think of this album, The Dictators
(12:46):
go girl crazy, no matter what you want, you have
to do this because it'll kickstart your career. And he
was right on target. Yeah, he could have given me
the numbers Filado and I would have won because he
was right on target. To this day, when I finally
talked to him again of like forty five years, it's amazing,
I said, thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like you said, you know you you you open for
Blue Oister Colton, then you toured with you said kiss
are your Speedwagon?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Nazareth on the same bill with far Enough.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Farner was the opening band on the first Crazy, one
of the first tours I was on. Yeah, they weren't
even on the radio yourself, what's that? But when they
were opening up the show, nobody knew who they were.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I know, how crazy is that? Though?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It was insane? So about six, about four weeks into
the tour, all of a sudden we show up and
you know, you listen to FM radio back then even
Amah and all of a sudden, it feels like the
first time is on every station.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
But that's like when you.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Play CBGB's and you're looking at Blondie before she was Blondie, Right.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I knew her well before she was Blondie. I knew
the Ramones before they were right. Yeah. I knew all
of the bands, all of them talking heads. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely,
I met them all, knew them all. Sure shows how
old I am. That's depressing.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So I witnessed all of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yes, yeah, but you all but when you weren't touring
and when you weren't playing out, you would go see
your favorite.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
One of my one again, one of my favorite bands.
I had a few locally, like Zebra Race Choir, Twisted Sister,
the Good Rats, Southern Southern Cross. There was a bunch
of bands that I go out and see a band
called Samantha, which is a whole another whole game we
can't talk about on TV. But in any case, uh,
(14:32):
but I went to see Twisted Sister a lot, you know.
And why did I go see Twisted Sister a lot?
Because they had the most girls in the audience. And
they were no No, and they were a very entertaining band.
I didn't know the guys, but i'd come off the road,
I'd go to Speaks or one of the other big
clubs that they were playing, and eventually met the guys.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You met them, and you actually, uh started working for them.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You you you for a summer season.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, you like work for them for like six seven months.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And and after you worked for them, you actually.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Played with them.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They there's a story, a crazy story where you got
a phone call right that the bass player didn't want
to play anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Well, no, no, I always wanted to play.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You there they had some kind of epiphany or something.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
And yeah, I don't want to get into he's a
great guy, Kenny Neil. Yeah, great guy, great, great bass player.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
But you got a phone call like you came home
from a gig, and like you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Came home Saturday night, it was about the beginning of
what's the middle of November Thanksgiving, Like you go to bed,
and then you gotta remember, in those days, you couldn't
just go home and go to sleep because you were
in a smoke filled club and I never smoked. So
you're clothing your hair, everything, so you gotta wash it.
(15:57):
You gotta throw the clothing and a hamper. Yeah, wash
your hair, wash everything down. And I'm laying down and
I'm just falling asleep and the phone rings, and I'm like,
who to leap? I'm gonna put my fist right through
this phone. Hello, it is JJ French. He goes, hey, Mark,
how you doing? I go, all right, what's this about? Yeah?
And he goes, are you still looking for a band? Go? Yes,
(16:21):
I am looking for a band. He goes, I have
one for you. I said, great, hopefully it's a good band.
He goes the best. I go, what band is it?
He goes twisted sister. I go, okay, So now I'm
gonna get angry at you. Okay, I'm gonna choke you
when I see Kenny just resigned. He just resigned. You
need a bass player. We couldn't think of anybody else
(16:43):
to even addition besides you. So do you want to
do it? And I say yeah, I'd love to do it.
He goes okay, great, click and he hangs up on me.
And I'm looking at the phone. No, no, you got
to hear this. I'm looking at the phone and I'm like,
what just happened? So I got to call him back.
So back then we still had dial fun of me.
It's going and I'm pushing it back, and I snapped
(17:05):
the dial off the phone, so I had to hang
up and then you could press the button ten times
or eight times or whatever I did. Then he picks
up the phone. He goes hello, he said, JJ, it's Mark.
He goes, you quit already? I said, no, what just happened?
And he goes, well, basically Kenny left the band, and
we want to know de and myself and the guy.
So I want to know if you'll join the band.
(17:26):
I said yes. He goes, okay, great, click and he
hangs up with me again. Now can I just go
back to sleep. No, the adrenaline's going. I'm all happy
and everything. So I didn't sleep the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We have some picks. We'll put up some pics of
his sister.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh they were asleep in the back. Let them take
that down. They're on break, they're on a break. But
there you go go. That's not long ago. That was
sure years ago. That was at a club called eighty
nine North. That first picture that's from nineteen eighty or so.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Did you do your own makeup?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was taught how to do that. It's good, better
than you can. Yeah, that's that's much more recent.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're kind of mixed up.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
That's okay. Whatever it is. That's from nineteen eighty seven.
That's Lovers for Suckers.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
No, that was come out and play. This is from
the club days. That's that's also about seventy nine eighty amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, I love this pic that there, please, that's one
of my favorite pick.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I couldn't tell you what that but that is definitely
somewhere in Europe. Yeah, and we never played less than
eighty five thousand people in Europe, so that could be.
Matter of fact, that could be grass popped. That's about
one hundred and forty thousand. Yeah, but I don't remember
which gig it is. Yeah, and the only reason AJ's
not in is he's still behind it. That was that
was made. That picture was taken while we were making
(18:52):
the Bekulia School video and I want to rock the
whole time period. So that was that was in the school.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Love it?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, Oh that's just say it is Aj. Yep, we
miss him a lot, We really do. That's also still
Tony Petrie is still the drummer. Yeah, the guy next
to me. And that's again around nineteen eighty eighty one.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yes, all right, let's stop there for now because I'm
gonna take my first break.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Please don't go away.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
More picks, videos, more, a lot more to talk about
with Mark, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked
like me. She stands for being a voice for people
that need a voice. My organization renovates homes for people
with disabilities, and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm very proud of the difference that we're making.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
It.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
To see that impact in my community inspires me to
work even harder for everyone around me.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
All right, is.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Everybody having a good time?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's what I thought? All right?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
So we are live Paradise Studios in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Give yourself around the Plus coming out tonight.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Well, Hi there, Teresa, It's Jihan Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparently you have a
great talk show called Tea Time on Strong Island TV.
I want you to have continued great success and have
a lot of fun. It sounds like you're having a
lot of fun, and that's pretty much the key to everything,
isn't it. So continued success, I'm proud of you. Have
(21:03):
a great day, Teresa.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Bye, Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tea Time. I'm so
bady you're joining me tonight because I'm a mendo Mendoza Mendoz.
It's my accent. I can't help it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
A musician, producer, actor, he's done some acting, voice over work.
We're gonna like so get into it. You know, started
out with the Dictators once to Twisted, sister.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It was with Twisted for what ten ten? Something like
ten more? How long.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Did you get any higher? As you're asking me the question.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Because.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Right now since nineteen seventy eight, do to math, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But then he stopped, you went back, he stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
There was like some breaks in between. There was a
lot going on. You had a lot going on. But
I want to talk about your mom and dad real
quick if we can, okay, great, because they were both
veterans of World War Two, all right, and his mom
his mom was with the Cross and his dad was
in the army.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
My father, just because I'm sure there's a lot of
vets out there, and any veteran, you know, even law
enforcement watching, thank you for your service, No two ways
about it, thank you for service. So anybody who knows
the history of World War Two, my father was a
bastard of best Stone. He was easy company, Yeah, he was.
He was there.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and they did see you play with a C
d C.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Ones. Well, a c DC opened up for us before
they had bon Scott, the original a C d C.
And they opened up for us before nobody, nobody knew
who they were, their first down right now, right now.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
It wasn't really their type of music, but they went
to support you because they were more into swing and
a C d C. No, your parents, your parents parents
were something. Listen, your parents were into swing and you
know that can call and you know you're talking.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
About a different era but completely different. You know. Did
they have ear plugs in Well, we didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Have ear plugs, so they folded up toilet papers.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like my father and like my dad, like my dad.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
My father, my father would say at the end of
the show, he'd say, I don't understand what's going on here,
but I see it's real big congratulations, right because he saw.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The smiles on other people's Yeah, and he was just happy.
Your mom actually played piano.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
My mom was a great piano players. Yes, that's what
also she did during World War Two, they entertained the team.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she entertained the troops before.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The USO, way before the years later. You actually the
tour for the military.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yes, amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We were supposed to go to Mid East. The war
broke out and they sent us to South Korea. Probably
the highlight of my career. I had a great time.
They treated us, the military treated us like royalty. They
loved the fact that we were there entertaining them. It
was incredible. It really was huge.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's huge. You played. You played also with Leslie West
from Mountain.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Leslie West Mountain grew up one of my favorite guitar players,
top three guitar players. Leslie West got to know him well,
played with him on and off for about three years
in the mid to late eighties, and God rest his soul.
He's gone, and we're missing another amazing guitar player. There's
a whole bunch missing, like Eddie van Halen not too
(24:14):
long ago, another favorite of mine. He was a great guy.
It was a lot of fun to hang with. But
Leslie West, I grew up on him.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I grew up on Leslie West. And it was just
such a treat to finally play all the music that
I was growing up on with him, and he was
Unfortunately Will never got to know what kind of a
character he was. Leslie was a hell of a character.
I heard he really was. Story oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But you know mentioned before you never did drugs. He
never smoked.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
He never smoked cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Drink maybe wine or something.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I think I've had half a glass of wine five
times in my life, so.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You actually are one of the few rockers never anything,
who never did anything, but.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Who can remember from that in the day.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's not a not a blur for I'm still it's
so funny. I run into guys like when I talked
to when the guys in the band to get together teach,
or I run into people in the business they go
you remember when this happened. I was like, oh yeah,
I forgot all about that. There was a lot of
crazy things right.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Right right, it was.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It was a crazy one excuse me life, it was,
and it started early for me. You know, when I
was I was eighteen years old and I was already
on a toy with Blowy's to cult in coliseums. Yeah,
it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And your parents, what kind of advice did they give
you before you went out into the world, And they
want you to like you know now, obviously no one wants,
you know, you to make the wrong turn and no
straight and narrow.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You know, I could give you a long story when
I'm not going to. So basically, when I had, I
had to come to a point. I joined the Dictators.
I was already in them and were already playing CBGB's
and some other clubs in the New York City area
and Newishelle. Yea, and my tour managers at the time,
Steve Shank, to me, I said, You're gonna have to
make a decision because I was in a band. I
was in another band, a rock band, my drummer Freddie Knock.
(26:06):
I was in my first year of college. Yeah, okay,
and I had a job as a machinist for an
autoparts store, so I had a lot of things going
and of course college, so I came home and I'd
have to leave everything and go on the road.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Which college did you now?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So thirteenth grade, National Community College, thirteenth grade. So anyway,
so long story short, I came home, I talked, I
sat my parents down and I told them what, you know,
what the possibilities were. And my father said to me,
and I can't. I've done a whole bunch of oil
voiceovers today, so my voice is a little voice. But
(26:43):
my father said to me, and I'll try to imitate him. Okay,
you told us the whole story. Please go outside for
a few minutes. Let your mother and I speak. Okay, dad,
And I went outside and shot some hoops of basketball
and my mom comes out and says, Mark, why don't
you come inside? And I sat down and it was
(27:03):
a real quick answer. We know you're responsible. You could
do what you want to do, and you'll always have
a home here, but if it doesn't work, you make
us one promise. Dad. What is it? He goes, you
go back to school? And I never had to go
back to school. It worked.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
But you know that's not the only promise you made,
your dad, because.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Before you you were you digging.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Up, before you joined Twist It, and your first gig
with them.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Was, oh, how'd you get that story? Would you get
that from me.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Listen to me. No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Right from you, but I do know that your first
gig with them was going to be on December tenth,
nineteen seventy eight, and your dad, unfortunately was in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
He was ill and saw you can take it from here.
Yes made you he told you something.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yes, he knew he had met he had only met
D and JJ, because remember I started rehearsing with them
like a week or so before Thanksgiving. I knew most
of the songs already. So when we started rehearsing in
Susette De's wife. Susette made all of our clothes. Talk
about a talented woman, and she also designed the makeup.
So we went through this whole process. My father was
(28:20):
already in the hospital dying, and we had planned that
December tenth. It was I believe it's a Wednesday. I
don't know exactly everything. So that was going to be
my first gig on stage, which happened to be a
club called Zaffi's in Piscataway, New Jersey. All right, So
I went to see him on December sixth, right, he
(28:47):
was okay, yeah, and he made me come up and
stand alongside of his Beddy grabbed my hand, shook my
hand and said, no matter what happens to me, you
keep going. Okay, and you don't, you know, you got
to stand up attention and salute my father. That not
he didn't make me do that, but that's yes, sir,
I s so I did. And he told me, no
(29:08):
matter what happens to him, you keep going. Don't stop
on my account. And I was like, well, I talk
about a hard charger. My father, he was a hard charger.
I mean, he was a tough character for World War Two.
Great dad, though, Great dad. So I leave, I go
to rehearsal. My sister and my mom would show up
at the hospital after me and spend a few hours
(29:28):
with him. And the next day I went back. So
I'm walking in and one of the nurses that I
knew there grabbed me and says, Mark, don't go in yet,
just sit down here. So I did. I figured that
the doors closed. I figured they're doing a procedure or
you know, whatever they're doing. So his doctor came up
and sat down next to me. So I'm like, hey, doc,
what's up now? Like do the usual bugs bunny tune?
(29:50):
What's up? Doc? You know and he goes, I don't
know anybody to tell you this, but you missed him
downstairs having the procedure done. He goes, no, no, he's gone.
You mean gone, that's it over. He goes, yes. I said,
when he goes about fifteen minutes ago. You missed him
by about fifteen minutes. I was like, oh, this is awful.
(30:13):
This is really awful. So he said to me, call
your mother and your sister. Don't tell him to drive
like maniac's getting here. You're not saving a life. And
when you guys get here, you can visit with him
for a few minutes and then we have to move
him out of there. So they did. They showed up,
and of course, and of course there's a little funny
part here. You know, not that my father passing away
(30:33):
was funny. It wasn't. It was heartbreaking. So we're sitting
outside in front of the hospital and it's it's Pearl
Harbor Day. It's the Sember seventh. You know, figures that
he passed away on Pearl Harbor Day. So it's Sember seventh.
We're all sitting on the front steps of the hospital,
and you know, my sister and my mom are crying.
I'm half in a bag too, crying and stuff, and
(30:54):
I go, ah, you know what, let me call the
guys in the band and postpone this. And my mom
is just a stop trying. And my mom said, no, no,
your dad, your father told us that he gave you
an order to go. And my mom's line was exactly
was you better follow what he told you to do
or he'll come back and get you. But but she goes, no,
(31:16):
do what he told you to do.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And I know you were torn because because you buried
him the day before.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, well he died on the seventh and burned him
on the ninth.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You kind of felt guilty about it.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Because and so here was I'm standing on stage, right,
standing on stage having one of the greatest times in
my life, and in between sets, I'm crying, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But he was looking down on He made me do it.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
He made me do it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, but I believe he was. He was, he was
with you, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh, yeah, he always is. He's always around. But it's
just so that's the basic story.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
That's the basic story.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
All the dreaded details.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
We have a couple of videos from TS Can we
play it?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A couple of them they're really quick. We got three.
Let's let's give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Shouty, go right into the other one if you want
only that's the same one.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just live in the next tip.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
And there's one more.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's it, all right, no problem, no, no worries nowhere.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
We're on top of the productions. Yeah. We we're good.
We're good. We're the very first one up there, I
believe was the first time we played the Redding Festival
in England. Okay, okay, yeah, and uh or it was
Castle Donegan. That's from the early eighties.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The second one is in the mid two thousands at
one of the big festivals.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yes, because you guys, you never stopped. You never like
broke up, but you just stopped playing live.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Like you can't. Yeah, we kept, we kept putting out,
releasing more albums and CDs.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
And maybut albums. I have two of them right here.
This is Stay Hungry.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I'm gonna hold it like that, so there's no because
I still have the cellophane on it, okay, and the
other one is under the bleed.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I hold it like that. I'm holding them, holding them,
holding them.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So if you want to hand me that Stay Hungry
album for a second. Yes, okay, so this year, yes,
twenty twenty four, let me make sure I don't have
glare on it. Twenty twenty four is the fortieth anniversary
of Stay Hungry. Wow, right, this is the fortieth anniversary Holy.
In October, we're releasing a double album on vinyl. Also
(34:02):
double album, yeah vinyl, and all kinds of extra tracks,
oh my gosh, of which I don't think they were
released really, so it is coming out. Everybody's wondering when
it's happening.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And twenty twenty three. Last year was the fiftieth anniversary
of Twisting.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Holy band started in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You remixed, You remixed Under the Blade I did, which
sold more than which sold more than three million copies,
like way.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Over under the Blade.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, no, no, under the Blade, which sold more than
three million copies when reissued by Atlantic Records.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I'll put that in.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And you also mixed Still Hungry and a twisted Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Produce and mixed produce and mixed Still Hungry. Yes, yes, amazing,
and also a twist. It's so talented, am I? Really?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You have no idea he's so talented.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I get to check that okay.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Okay, so let's talk again. We will continue because this
is going very very fast.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What are we going to We're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We're going to talk. We're going to talk, or you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
He likes my accent. He doesn't want to get rid
of it. Okay, So what's.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
The timing on the engine?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, I'm not that.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
No, no, no, no, no no, tis.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
So let's let's acting acting. The man is on IMDb.
You got some creds.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You did a short film called Bullified where you played
office some mark. It was a short short film. But
in twenty thirteen, you did Send No Flowers, the movie
Yes with Sean Young and Tony Leblanco and you and
Fred Carpenter did that move.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
He was he was the director, and.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I did a movie with Fred.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Also, Fred's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I love him great, he's great. How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So it was a lot of fun. But I wasn't
in the movie very much. I only had a few lines.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You was still in it absolutely, okay. Yeah, it was fun. No,
it was great. It was great.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I did on Confessions of a Hitman with him, I
played a prostitute and I only had a.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Couple of wis.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Played more than once ninth and then in obviously nineteen
eighty three to twenty ten, you did a crap load
of music videos.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
You did a ton, a ton. It was a ton
of music videos.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
You did behind the music musicians for disaster relief. You
did The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show
with Craig Ferguson, Growing Up Twisted, Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Long Island Uncovered. You did My Long Island TV, the
Real radio.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Show, Fox News.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
We Are Twisted, Ethan's Sister rock show featuring Twisted Sister.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
You did What is Classic Rock?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Twenty twenty three Again twenty twenty three, you were inducted
into the Metal Hall of Fame. Congratulations, thank you, and
what else do we have here?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
God also said soundtrack? You did soundtracks.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You were producer of soundtracks in eighty four, No Small Affair,
nineteen ninety eight, Strangle Land, and twenty nineteen ninety one one,
which was a TV series all produced, produced, produced. You
also did video footage. You did Video on Trial, which
was a TV series. You did Quiet Riot right which
(37:24):
now you're here, there's no way back. You did the
Top ten, revealed you did Breaking the Band, which was
a TV series all yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You did all that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You did a ton of stuff, and you're still going
because now you're doing voice.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
You know, you mentioned how your voice is.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
We got that. I produced with JJ French. I produced
the first seven Dust album, which was their biggest Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Sorry I left that out.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I left that out.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Sorry, sorry, But I told him if I get him
any of my fun facts are wrong, to correct me.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
So I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
But you know an album called Reckless.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Okay, I don't have any of that, so keep giving.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Well, that's that's it.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
But you you mentioned your voice, and you did a
lot of work today because you are doing a lot
of voice over.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I do a lot of voice for the work.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
You have a great voice.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well, thank you. You know, yes I do. It's rough
because I did a whole whole bun Bosso put a
fun though as they call it, right, an opera.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
You do, you do, and I want to know how
you got into that because it's a great gig.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Years ago I would just at sessions and things like that.
I'd imitate things and imitate people I'm not an impressionist
at all. I don't people just say certain things a
certain way. Like one guy heard me imitate a Monster
truck commercial and I don't know if I can do
the voice right now because it's breaking up this weekend.
(38:51):
This weekend only at the National colis seeum Monster Trucks.
So you heard me do that. And then he said,
you know, I have an agent heard me do that.
He said, I have some people out west and down
south that want that voice. And then I got it.
So that's when it kind of really started. But that
was I don't know, fifteen sixteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
That's how long you're doing.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, So I have regular things. I do regular drops
for radio stations their contests. I do corporate like if
you're in a if you're on the board of a
corporation and they have a big meeting in their boardroom
and there's a big video screen showing everything, I'm the
voice in it. They don't know it's marked well, I'm
sorry hitting that microphone. They don't know it's marked from
(39:32):
Twisted systems. But I'm just a generic voice. And any
other thing which I just fell into was I do.
I also read with video manuals for machinery.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Okay, yeah, so you're basically understanding most of the stuff
you read.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Well, I know about machinery. That's what I'm saying, your background.
But yeah, so I'm actually in the middle, like for
like the last year, doing and I can't say who
it is or what it is, but I'm talking about
I'm doing the actual online video for how to operate
and troubleshoot this massive machine that's bigger than this room,
(40:11):
that makes parts for a military contractor. And it's not
even done yet. When I'm constantly updating the manual every month,
I got to go back and read more and change things.
So that's been ongoing.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's great, it's great.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So do you like them?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I like you?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Oh, thank you? I like you to what do you
like to do? The like the radio the radio stuff
for radio and announce.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It like, yeah, it's easy. It's you know, when you
do it for such a long time, you know it's
easy to do. I mean, I got to wake up
at four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
You wake up at four thirty in the morning and start.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Trying because it has to be They need.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
It before their morning shifts. Oh, okay, once in a
while I have to get up at like two in
the morning because some radio.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Voice even deeper when you first wake up, like I
sound like Brenda Vacaro when I first were well.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I can usually make it deep all day long, but
it's kind of rough now because I did a whole
bunch of stuff today, so and I haven't had any
more tea. You can hear it's cracking a little bit, right,
that's just because everything I was reading today.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, But I get up at like four point thirty
in the morning, and by about ten to five I'm reading. Okay,
I open my emails, I look at everything they want done,
I record them, and by quarter after five, five thirty latest,
I'm back in bed sleeping, and then I wake up
my normal time and do you know everything else I do?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Okay, Yeah, all right, that's kind of that's kind of
like a cool gig.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
It's a very cool gig. Yeah, I have no complaints.
So what are the body out there looking for? Voice over?
You call me?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Do you what do you do? I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Obviously your your vocals is an instrument. It is an instrument.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Well, of course it is yours is an instrument too.
It's usual A lot of.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Things true, but you but hello, this is you.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
You have to write, right.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Was there ever a time when you're like, oh, I
feel something coming on and but it.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Takes some Yeah, all the time, but so far during COVID.
During COVID, when I was still doing the normal stuff,
most of it was pretty normal. There was two other
guys that couldn't do it because they had COVID, they
had no voice, they were in the hospital. So I
took up all I did. I did like three times
the amount of work every day every week because people
(42:22):
are home and they were even watching TV more and
listening to the radio more. So I had even more work.
I got paid for it, but it was it was rough.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
That's a fun gig, though it was ron gig I've done.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I've done voiceover in the past, a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
How many degrees before Top Dead Center?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I am not doing that tonight. No, I'm not, Man.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I'm breaking your concentration yet.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
He is, he is. But I knew this was going
to happen, and I really don't mind.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
But you know what, trying to behave well.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
He's trying to behave Becau because he doesn't behave.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
But I'm going to give some shout outs while we're here.
I'm gonna give out some to Anne, Michael Norton, my mind,
Michael Norton.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Michael Norton, Michael Norton, Norton, Norton.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That's the first day, Norton, Norton, Norton. I love you.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Think it's just.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Who else? But yeah, Michael Norton, Johnny. I'm sorry. I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
You want to buy my glasses? I do.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I need my readers, you have to.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
I apologize to everyone, but I want to thank everyone
for watching. I'm sure Bruno is watching, and Greg and
everyone who's watching, thank.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
You so much. I appreciate your help. Greg, Gregg, Philippo.
He's in Florida.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Also, hey, listen, let's take my.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Last break, shall we? Is that my last break and
my second break?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
This is the second one?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Second?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Only?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Second? Always so not taking the third. We'll be back
after this. Don't go away.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (44:11):
I'm Georgia Rose, founder of Zancuda. You can watch me
on the soul Space podcast every Friday at noon on
Channel twenty for spiritual guidance and as you all know.
That is how I first opened into my own psychic
gifts was through the angelic realm astrology. And so we've
got Mars and the Sun together in Scorpio, which creates
a lot of combustion. In the astrological world, we call
(44:32):
it Akazini and taro. When the four cups right side up,
it means we have a lot of choices to make,
and we're not looking at what's really being divinely given
to us. We're too busy in the busyness of the
choices to really see the.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Divine intervention of divine timing and fine diving.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
Where the place? Watch the Soul Space podcast.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I ain't doing South the Voice, Valentin Eddy, Why are
you watching me? You should be watching Teresa Kindis Dracy
tee Time with Teresa Kinda Dracy. Makes sure you you
follow Teresa on Facebook. Tee Time with Teresa Kindas Dracy.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We'll see you there the way you say my name.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Hey, everybody, welcome back to tea Time. I'm with Mark Mendoza.
That's right, yeah, okay. And he is a musician, bass player,
wonderful bass player.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I really just spar with it, just far with it.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
He just he just plays around with it, you know,
with a producer and an.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Actor voice over work.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I'm acting right now.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Is there anything?
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Is there anything you haven't done that you want to do?
As far as the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
I will get it. Like, no, I can't say that here,
I really can't. You got me caught here just asking.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
No, I mean, would you want to do life theater?
Would you want to do I.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Would love to expand myself in acting. Yeah, I really would. Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Good to know. So all my producer director friends there,
ye here you go.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, you know. I started working on a film right
before COVID, Like we started working on it about six
weeks before the world shut down, and it was in Ohio.
And that was the first time that I was working
in a serious movie where I was a serious part.
Everything else I'm either an outlaw biker or under the
(46:31):
cover of cop. Everything that I've been it was either
one of those two. So, but it shut down. It
hasn't come back yet, but they keep talking to me
about it, you know, so if it comes back, I
would be glad. It was good. It was a lot
of fun. There's a lot of work, you know. I
was there for about about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
You don't realize, you know, unless you're on set.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of work goes into all
of this stuff. You know. We were talking about the
other day. We were talking about the videos, the TS
videos I was on when we made We're Not going
to Take It okay, and the long form video which
never really got big. You know, there was We're not
gonna take It, I want to rock the Price, and
we did a long form video but we're on set
(47:12):
for thirty eight hours and that was brutal, and a
lot of it was on camera. They'll keep redoing the angles.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
And the themes. I mean, it's just it's great.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
It's a lot of work. I'm not complaining about it.
I'll do it anytime.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
No, no, no, But you just to get back to
Twist It, sister.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Real quick.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
You you would ta get Is it correct me? Is
it true that you were to Gather ten years before
Twisted got signed?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
The band started in nineteen seventy three, okay, okay, and
we basically by the time we got to eighty three,
we were signed and had under the Blade out okay,
and started on Can't Stop Rock and Roll. I joined
the band in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Because because you and I heard that you've done over
like seventy five hundred shows. But when you were playing,
you were doing five shows a night.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Like No, No. Five five to six days a week,
usually five days a week. Usually we didn't play one
day and Tuesday or sometimes four days a week, but
we played three shows a night, three shows night, and
the last show, the third set. We didn't bring d out.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Because well, there's no wimp.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
That's he's a real trooper when it comes to performing
and singing without doubt, so we would do it without him.
We do the third set, which was famous in itself
because we did a lot of different things. So jokes
played other songs, just people WI yell out a song,
we would try to play it, and even myself, Eddie Eddie,
myself and Tony and AJ when he was in the band.
(48:43):
Also we would just do three piece songs and even
JJ would take a break. Yeah, So it was it
was a lot of fun the club. There was a
lot of fun. But we had thousands of shows under
our belts by the time we got signed. So when
we first did our first tour, yeah, we got like
I don't know. I think if we went on stage
for forty minutes, we're like usually used to traveling for
(49:06):
a couple of hours, doing three sets, getting out of
a club at two o'clock in the morning, and then
traveling an hour and a half to get home.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
I know, So we didn't get warmed up. You tour
and you to it a lot.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
You to it all over Europe, you were all over
you were all over.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
South America, Asia. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah. Is there a place like it didn't hit?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I mean, oh yeah. I mean we never played although
we would have Africa, you know, we never played the
Mid East and Middle East. Okay, we did play Russia,
you know, and I know there's all kinds of world
problems with Russia and everything like that, but let me
tell you something. It was an amazing experience just to
be in Russia, be in Red Square and you know,
(49:49):
just see everything firsthand. You know, it really was. And
the people with the fans were incredible, the people, the
government was great to us, The fans were amazing. So
you know, I know there's other problems, but still that
was was great.
Speaker 3 (50:03):
You really were will you You can find Mark on Facebook,
You can find him on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Mark the Animal Mendoza.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
He's all over social media, you know, because you have
up you have actually has an upcoming show this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
If you're not doing anything.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Saturday night, dude, Saturday Night. I play with a local
band called Joe Rock and the All Stars. And Joe
Rock is a famous guy. Joe Rock is Joe Rock
from one two point three B A B. Yes he is,
and he's got his on air show and he's in
four other markets also around the country. So he's got
a band called Joe Rock and the All Stars at
(50:37):
a place called Liam's Landing in Amityville. And for those no,
for the people who don't know it, it used to
be called Jacomo Jack's. Same building, different owners will be
there this coming Saturday evening, right and the all Stars.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I love it. I can't wait to see you play.
I really can't.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
I mean, unfortunately, I'm working Saturday. But we're gonna we're
gonna make it happen. And better fact, talking about making
things happen, you had your own podcast I did, Yes
you did, but you're going to It was called twenty
two now well it was.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
It's an Area twenty two Productions.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Area twenty is the name of the company, and.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
My particular show is twenty two now now right.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
And you also interview people in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Yeah, but I did a better job than you. No
comment because you're going to come on my show. You
think this is difficult, but no, I will come on
your show. I don't have it's a lot of fun. Yeah.
I've been off the air.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
For people runs and roses, heavy hitters, heavy big heavy hitters,
mostly musicians, not all.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I had some other people on.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
But you're going to be starting this back. We did
it for what six, like six years?
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I did it for five and a half years.
Speaker 3 (51:56):
Five and a half years, and he took a little hiatus,
and you're going to start back.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Up in like four to six I want to say,
just when things fall into place. It should be about
four to six weeks, maybe eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yeah, and it's gonna be on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
Nights, always Tuesday night at seven o'clock live.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
And and he'll put that on his social media when
he starts up with everything, I will, and I'll share it,
you know, let people know it's important.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
So, hey, we have my tony half minutes left, Mark, what.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Do you want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
I'm not too sure. I think I covered pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
You really think, so.
Speaker 3 (52:32):
Well, I know there's there's a lot listen. I can
do two hours with this man. I could do an
hour just on twist It and then an hour on
his own.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
You know, we have to create clean because it's actually we.
Speaker 3 (52:42):
Do have to keep it clean because you know people,
did I behave?
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Did I behave?
Speaker 2 (52:46):
He's good.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
But we're gonna be on TV Saturday morning at ten
am on Channel twenty four people who live on Long
Island and get.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Optimum to Oh that's right, I got to put that out.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Also, Yeah, people want to see it, watch it. So
but I'm excited. You can't. You know, you finally made
it to Beautiful Paradise Studios here in Massapequa.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
It actually is a great place, you know, it really is.
I haven't been here for years and it was originally upstairs.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Were there any picks that we could throw up that
we didn't get to? I think we have all there
is you and John.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
That's Johnny Depp. He's in a band with Alice Cooper
and a bunch of other great musicians, yes, called Hollywood Vampires.
Nice and I went up to Bethel in the Woods,
which is Woodstock and there's a beautiful amphitheater there, and
I went to see them and I was backstage with
the guys.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Anything after that, there might be more, I haven't I
don't know. I don't know. I gave him a bunch.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
There, you well, that's an old twister. Yeah, just you
wanna hang on to that photo for a second, so
I'm far left looking at the picture. The next one
is Tony Petrie. He was the drummer in the band
when I joined, and unfortunately he passed away a few
days ago. Yeah, unfortunately, Yes.
Speaker 2 (53:58):
So okay, I'm glad we got to them. Listen.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
I am so thrilled that you and I connected when
we did, and that you you did my show, because
you know what this means the world to me.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
It really does, does it?
Speaker 1 (54:10):
You'll pay daily for this, I'm sure? Right, Well, we
have forty seconds left?
Speaker 2 (54:18):
We do?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Is it really forty seconds left? Come on something thirty five?
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I want to thank everyone for watching tea time and
supporting me. I really do appreciate it, you know, Just
like I say every week, tell everyone you love you
love them, and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
Chow. Everybody say goodbye, I love you, I love you.
Speaker 9 (54:37):
Good Bye, everybody bye.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Anything to
Speaker 2 (55:12):
S.
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