A Yard Sale Beatles Album Set Dave Glover’s Life In Motion

A yard sale purchase gave a five-year-old Dave Glover a Beatles record, and he still talks about that needle drop like it rewired his whole nervous system. You may know Dave as the unfiltered voice behind The Dave Glover Show on KMOX and a staple of St. Louis radio, but we go past the persona and into the parts that shaped him: a complicated childhood, a lifelong creative drive, and the strange mix of shyness and performance that so many entertainers live with. 

We get honest about mental health and the creative brain, including anxiety, ADHD, therapy, and what it means to accept that some struggles don’t “get cured,” they get managed. We also dig into belief and identity, from his early years in evangelical Christianity and touring with a Christian band to landing in a place of hopeful agnosticism, choosing curiosity over performative certainty. If you’ve ever felt pressure to fit a label for work, family, or an audience, this conversation will hit close to home. 

Then the story takes a powerful turn into hospice volunteering and No One Dies Alone (NODA). After a NODA volunteer sat with Dave’s mother in her final hours, he trained to do the same, sitting vigil so people don’t die alone. We talk about what those rooms feel like, how presence changes you, and why gratitude gets louder when distractions go quiet. We also connect music and grief through the Beatles, including why Dear Prudence carries his brother’s memory, and we preview his Delmar Hall Beatles set packed with songs fans rarely hear live. 

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Transcript

Meeting Dave Glover Beyond Radio

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Welcome back to Soul Strings where we pull back the curtain on the stories, struggles, and moments that shape who we are. I'm your host, Gordon Montgomery, and today's guest is someone many of you already feel like you know. And if you spent any time at St. Louis Radio, you've definitely heard his voice. He's the longtime host of the Dave Glover show on Camo X, known for being real, unfiltered, and never afraid to say what everyone else is thinking. But today we're going beyond the mic because Dave isn't just a radio personality. He is also a musician, a storyteller, and someone who's lived a life full of highs, challenges, and a lot of perspective along the way. So we're going to talk about the band, the journey, the pressure of being on every day, and what it really feeds the soul behind the voice. Dave, welcome to Soul Strength. So great to have you on here today. Yeah, great to see you, Gordon. Oh man, I'll tell you what.

A Beatles Record Changes Everything

SPEAKER_00 1:06

You know, let's go back to the original story. Let's go back to you back when you were a kid and thinking about what you wanted to do in life. And what was a defining moment from your early life that shaped who you are today?

SPEAKER_02 1:21

So, speaking musically and really creatively, when I was five years old, so you have to know, uh, I love my mom and dad, but I grew up in a very complicated house, uh, very chaotic, you know, like kind of a typical World War II generation kind of thing. A lot of us grew up very whippy. And uh, so I didn't have a lot of room. I had two older siblings, my sister who was 14 years older, my brother Keith was 11 years older. They were both creatives. My sister is an artist, my brother was a musician. And uh when I came along very late, I wasn't expected at all. Uh, they didn't want any of that from me. I was gonna be their normal kid, and I ended up being their weird kid. And uh when I was five, I had the mumps. It was the last kid in North America to have the mumps. And my dad, very uncharacteristically, stopped at a yard sale to get me a toy. But what he brought me was the album Meet the Beatles. And I'm five years old, and they put the thing on the stereo and the hiss of the album, and it breaks into I want to hold your hand or whatever it was. And I felt something in me just change. Five years old. And I knew that I wanted to do that. And my brother was very anal, very don't touch my stuff, but I was so enamored with it that when he would leave, I would go in his room, pull the guitar case out from under his bed, open it up, just the look of the bright orange fake fur inside the case and the smell of the wood. I was just smitten from the very start.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

So it was guitar the so I guess guitar was the first instrument you started playing?

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Yeah, my brother uh in 1974, when I was 10, he bought me a 1972 blonde telly. And uh six months later, I had torn the crap out of it and he came back and he took it back. And so 25 years ago, when I started playing in the Dave Glover band, I bought an exact guitar to that, played it every gig. We did about 500 gigs. Um, and then when my son Nick turned 30, who's also a guitarist, I gave it to him, which was I I love, I love, I love that about musicians. Like I love the way George Harrison gave people guitar. And so I've tried to do that. And I've given Dave Cows guitar and Jimmy and guys who I play with. And uh my brother, who was always kind of a difficult person, came home once, once I was grown and had some success, and I was collecting guitars, and I had about 15 guitars just laying in a room, and he read me the Riot Act, and he said, These are living things. They're not, they don't, they're not meant to be in a closet, they're meant to be in a bar. And I've always thought of that. And so I don't keep a bunch of guitars anymore. I either I play them or I give them away. But drums was really it is my main instrument. Uh, I started playing on a single floor tom, then I got a snare. Um, they drew straws to see who was gonna be in the band in fifth grade, and I didn't make it. So I was very anti-orchestra and I'm a rock and roller, uh, which really just meant that I never had lessons and I never really learned, you know. Um, I remember now everything for me was sandplot. Uh, I was always pretty good at stuff. I was a pretty good little athlete. I took to drumming really quickly, thought I was great at both. But then I went and played college sports and realized oh, everyone's as good as me, but they try harder. And the same thing with music, you know, like I met Pasoni and I'm like, oh, damn it. You know, like he speaks a language that I don't speak, right? I don't have that musical language. I don't know what an F minor seventh is. I don't know how to really do a paradiddle. I just sort of listen and I'm with you.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

I'm just sort of Paul McCartney can't read music, so we're in good company, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:10

Yeah, I've just always been sort of a mimic.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. You

Building A Band With Pros

SPEAKER_00 5:14

know, since we're talking about the band, tell me a little bit about the band, uh, what makes the group special, and um tell me how many guys are in the band, who's in the band, and let's talk a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yeah, so my original band was with Dave Cows and uh Greg Hulub and Mark Quinn uh from El Monstero and Joe Dirt. And then later on, we added Jimmy Griffin. And Jim played with us for about 10 years, and we stopped playing during COVID. So we started a new band, and so it's Dave Cows again. He's my you know life partner. And uh we have Dave Ryan on bass, who built everyone's amp and fixed everyone's amp. We have Eric Nost on drums, we have Chris Nacarado on guitar, and the one I'm super excited about because I've been such a fan of his for so long, is Dave Farber, who plays saxophone for El Monstero and is the lead singer of Super Jam. And uh this is gonna sound overly self-deprecating, but you'll get it. Uh, I like you said, my life has been highs and lows. And my highs, a lot of them have been that I've been good enough at stuff to make it into the room with people who are really good at stuff. You know, I kind of fake my way through Washu Law School and ended up in rooms with geniuses and uh sports, you know. I played with guys who went pro. And in music, uh, I'm playing with Jimmy Griffin and Dave Farber, and it's just been a privilege. It's just a privilege. We had we have a gig coming up on April 17th at Domar Hall, and we're doing a Beatles set. And so we've had three or four rehearsals, and we had one last night. And I've always, you know, my original Dave Glover band was great, but it's just such a pleasure to play with pros, you know? Like slide easy, doesn't it? It really, it really does. Like, I'm used to being in bands like from high school and college, and no one's ready, and everyone's just playing jump by Van Halen, you know. Yeah, that always drove me crazy for being such a weird, quirky slacker guy. I've always liked practices where you prep. Uh, and these guys show up, and the first time we run the song, it's ready to go. It's like it's it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Yeah, and you know what? That's so interesting that you said that, you know, because one of the things as a singer back in the 80s that I hated, because I'm a singer, right? I'm not playing a musical instrument, but was rehearsals. Oh my gosh. It's like just I just want to get on stage and perform. I don't want to do rehearsals. Yeah, but when you're playing with guys like you said, those rehearsals become really enjoyable because you're just watching these masters at work do stuff that you're like, how do they? I mean, they put it together so quickly and so easily and so effortlessly that it just makes it enjoyable.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Well, you you I I've told you this before, but you were a big part of my uh adolescence, which happened in my 20s. And uh I had been super, super religious. I toured with a Christian band, I was gonna be a minister, and then that all went out the window about halfway through law school, and so I was kind of cosplaying, being a badass partier, right? I didn't know what I was doing, but we would go to uh stages and we would watch you guys play, and you guys were like Bon Jovi and Van Halen all wrapped into one for me, you know. Just looking I thought I was, yeah. Well, you you were to me, you had me fooled. So yeah, but thank you for that. That is a whole era of my life that I love.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

You know, I don't think I remember you saying that. I don't think I remember you coming out to see us. That's that's great, that's amazing. You know, it just goes to show you you never know what type of, you know, I don't think I made an impact, but just thank people in in our lives, we don't realize an impact that we may have made on somebody in time, and then you know, later on you find that out. It's like it's it's that's crazy. I love that.

From Evangelical Zeal To Agnostic Hope

SPEAKER_00 8:59

You know what? Since you brought it up, and this is called soul strings. Tell me a little bit about that. I mean, tell me a little bit about thinking about being a minister, and and it sounds like me and you almost had the same lifestyle a little bit. I grew up in a very strict household. My dad was, you know, couldn't have my hair above an inch above the collar, you know, and we went to church three times a week Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, and it was very strict. And um, tell me a little bit about your life as far as that goes, and about the ministry and what happened with that.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

So I've always been uh a thinker and a seeker and very open to things. And we grew up in the era of in search of with Leonard Nimoy and Bigfoot and all this stuff, and uh, but I didn't grow up in a particularly religious household. And when I was about a senior in high school, uh, my girlfriend's uncle was a pastor of an evangelical assembly of God, speaking in tongues and tambourines and the whole thing. And so I became a Christian and uh I pretty quickly found a Christian band and uh great players, and we had a great time for a few years, you know, just touring around and you know, doing shows with, you know, uh on the same bill as some of the big, you know, Christian bands back then. And uh then in law school, I went through a really bad breakup, and I took the path of draft where I just shook my fist at God and said, How dare you? I'm your golden boy. I'm out there touring in this band and giving the the uh the call and you know helping people get saved and here this happens in my life. Very immature. And so for about two or three years, I was a very immature atheist, just doing whatever damage I could do out of pure, you know, selfishness and smallness. And um, I grew up out of that and I did some deep dives historically, philosophically, intellectually, read a bunch of books on both sides, and just came to the conclusion that I'm an agnostic. Um, I have too much respect for people who have the balls to declare that they are a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or whatever, Zoroastrian. I have too much respect for them to cosplay that. Uh, a lot of people in my industry pretend to be conservative, pretend to be Christian, you know, because it helps them and helps them with their audience. Uh, I just try to say, well, here's what it is, and you can like me or not. So I'm a hopeful uh agnostic. I don't adhere to any of the religions. Uh, I pray every day. When I pray, I'll I'll usually say something like, uh, hey, if there's someone out there that can hear my thoughts, I would really like some help. And if it's Jesus, I apologize, let me in. If it's Zaraster, tell me about yourself. Um, so I'm still, you know, it's kind of a cliche when people say, like, well, I'm an atheist, but I'm spiritual. Uh, I'm just open. I don't know. In the true sense of agnosticism, I don't know. And rather than trying to make something up or convince someone of something, I'm just gonna kind of ride it out and see where it goes.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Well, you know, and that's a great honest answer. Um, and I believe, you know, I I'd really like how you put that, that you have too much respect for people who do, you know, profess to be Christians and your friends and people that you do know, you know. And I think that same respect is due to you as well, you know, to believe and and to search, you know. It sounds like you're still searching a little bit, yeah, you know, and and uh whatever God that you think it is, I'm sure he appreciates it, you know, and appreciates that search. And that's that's when he works on people the most, is when they're searching, you know, seeking you shall find, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Yeah,

Living With Anxiety And ADHD

SPEAKER_02 12:50

I uh I turned 60 last year, and it was a real epiphany for me in a few ways. Um, I have lifelong uh mental illnesses. Um, I I don't know that I've ever really been depressed, although I've been on medication for it. For me, it's mostly anxiety, and it's pretty traceable to my childhood. It's pretty textbook. Um, but my whole life I've just been very anxious and very ADHD and uh just just all the classic cliches I've got them. And in the last couple of years, I've been doing therapy for like 20 years. I realized, oh, you're gonna die with it. Like you're it's not it's not gonna go away. It's not the flu. This is something you're going to have when you're 90. And I might be 90 because my mom just passed away in 97.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Um, I'm sorry to hear that. My mom's not my mom's 95 right now, so yeah, it's it's amazing. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear about that.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

It'll be two years uh ago in July. Um, but yeah, I'm going to always have that. And uh analogously, I think I will die not knowing who got it. Even if I become a Christian again, I don't know that anyone, I think everyone dies not knowing what's going to happen when they open their eyes. Some people have more faith than others, some people are more certain than others, but the thing we all have in common is we don't know. And I think all of us, if we do get to open our eyes again after closing them for the last time here, I think we'll all be surprised. I don't think anyone's got it knocked, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Oh, yeah. There's no way we can actually, I mean, we all have our own individual ideas of what God looks like, you know. And and and uh none of us, like you said, I agree with that 100%. We're not gonna know, but when we do open our eyes again, we will know. And uh that's that's the beauty of

Hospice Vigil Work With NODA

SPEAKER_00 14:40

it. Um, you know, let's um one thing you talked about your mom, and I do know know this a little bit that uh you volunteer your time with with on hospice with hospice yeah people. Tell me a little bit about that. I I I man, I commend you for that. That's not easy to do, and I know it wasn't easy for you to do, uh, I believe with your mom, and I know it's not easy, and that's kind of what led you. But tell me, tell our audience a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Yeah, so my mom lived by herself, uh, and on opening day of 2024, she fell. And it happens to so many older people, and she uh broke her hip and she had to have surgery. And when she came out of it, she was never quite the same. It kind of mimicked dementia. And so she lived another five months and she was on hospice. And the day before she passed away, uh someone came to us from Bethesda and said, Hey, you guys are here 24-7. You need a rest. We have an organization called NOTA. No one dies alone. And these volunteers will sit with your mom from 6 a.m. 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in two hours shift. And I was just blown away. I honestly'm like, who would do that? Like, that's crazy talk. So I went and bought a bunch of honey buns and sodas and left them, you know, for the volunteers. Well, she passed away that night at 3:30 in the morning with one of the volunteers. And um, I got a call at four, your mom's passed away. He gave me a big page of I was playing her violin music and she was peaceful and it meant the world to me. So I decided pretty quickly that I was going to become one of those people. Um, and so I volunteered to become a member of NODA. I took the training, which was extensive. It took a few months. And uh about a year and a half ago, I started doing two things. Um, I sit vigil, like they did with my mom, with people who are imminently passing away. Uh, so I've probably done that uh, I don't know, a couple dozen times. And uh that's amazing. So for two hours, you're sitting with someone who could die at any second. Um, and your job is just to make sure they're not alone. Uh yeah, I don't want to annoy them, I don't want to be a problem. So I usually put on music. I have a dossier. Uh, my first guy was named Ray, he was a Beatles fan. And so I started playing Beatles for him. And I noticed that even though he was very out of it, he would smile on certain songs. So I started talking to him. And uh, one of the greatest moments of my comedy career is I was able to make Ray laugh. And I just thought, what a privilege. This guy's lived 90 years uh doing all these things and family and successes and failures, and I get two hours of his final 24 hours. That is a privilege. Uh, so yeah, I've been doing that, and then I have uh hospice patients who are not imminently dying, uh, who I go and visit about once a week. And right now I have a great pair. Uh they're sisters, one is 107.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

The other one, who's called Baby J is 97. They lived together their entire lives, never married, never had kids, and now they're in rooms next to each other in a nursing home. And uh, so I I they're my patients, so I go visit every time.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

That's incredible. That's a good did you ask them what their longe what their what the their little potion is that they're taking for their longevity of life?

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Yeah, they're they're pretty, they're pretty out of it. And uh the 107-year-old is hilarious, and she just roasts me every time. And I think she's on like a 60-second loop. She kind of forgets what's going on. And the first time I met her, she said, Well, tell me about yourself. So I tell her, you know, I do a radio show and I have a son and a daughter, and blah, blah, blah. And she sits there for about 10 seconds and she goes, What would make you think that I'm interested in any of that? Oh my god, I just got roasted by a 107-year-old woman. Um, so yeah, and and it is difficult. And here's I I did it for two reasons. Three. One, to honor my mom, two, to try to pay back some of the bad karma I've caused in life, which I have. I ran through it pretty quickly and I bruised a few people. And thirdly, in 25 years of doing my show, I have been given way too much credit for raising money and being philanthropic and all this stuff. Because at the end of the day, I just show up in a blazer and I tell a couple jokes. It's it's easy. Sitting with people who are dying is not easy, and it's especially not easy for me. I've always been very weirded out by that. I don't like the concept, I don't like the physicality of what happens when people die. So I felt like maybe this is something I can do where not I'm not looking for the credit, for the credit to be deserved, but internally I can know you're doing something hard that's helping other people.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Oh, that's what a testament to you, brother. I mean, honestly, that is hard. I don't know of too many people that would do do that. And um, how does that affect you? And we'll move on to something else, but how does that affect you? Watch do I know you're doing this out of your mom and you're doing it uh, you know, to help others, but how does that affect you at the end of the day when you go home and then you just sit in silence and and think about your day with them? How does that affect you?

SPEAKER_02 20:02

It's it's been incredible for me. It's been uh one of the most remarkable things I've ever had happen to me in my life because you know, we all, all eight billion of us, you never know what's going on with someone behind closed doors, right? Absolutely having trouble in their marriage, they're having trouble at work, they're just completely lost. We all have that stuff. I tend to live mine out a little more out loud on the show and share all those things, um, just in hopes it it'll help people to know it's it's everyone. Um, but when you're in that room for two hours with the candles lit and the soft music playing, and you're holding their hand or you're brushing their hair, whatever you're doing, nothing matters. I'm not thinking about Donald Trump, I'm not even thinking about my kids. I'm 100% focused on this human life, which has maybe minutes left. And first of all, don't screw it up, don't do something that's going to cause them anxiety. Uh, and like I said, it's just such a privilege. And um, you go you drive home changed every single day. You take a little bit of them with

Presence And Memories Before Screens

SPEAKER_02 21:12

you.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Wow, you know, that John O'Leary, our buddy John O'Leary, we both know him. You know, he said that one time at one of the events. I went to go listen to him. I always see him, and I said, Don't make me cry this time. He makes me cry every time I listen to a story. Um, but uh he said that, and it really stuck with me is that we're all so busy. It's like, and what you're doing with them is being in the moment at the moment. And he said, We all need to be more in the moment at the moment that we're with people. It's like we're with people, but actually we're not really with them. We're thinking about this and we're thinking about that when we're doing stuff. And I think me and you grew up in a time period where it was like we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have the internet, we didn't have all this stuff. And I think that's why we have so many great memories. When we talk to people, you know, like uh um some of the great old radio personalities, Jack. Buck, Jay Randolph, those guys, they're great storytellers, but that's because there was nothing to they memorized everything up here, didn't write anything down because there was nothing taking them away from the actual moment that they were in. And I think that's why we can't, as we get older, or you know, the generations they can't remember anything because they're too distracted, you know. They can't be in the moment.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

I know that every generation, almost by definition, thinks that they had it the hardest and also thinks they had it the best. And I'm no different. I think we grew up in the single best generation of humans because I don't know about your mom and dad, but my mom and dad didn't have much of a childhood, right? It was depression, then yeah, World War II. My dad was in the South Pacific at 17 years old. Um, I had a real childhood. I rode my bike for 50 miles a day, and no one knew where I was.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

And we behind the fogger that went through the streets.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Remember, we drive sucking in the fog. I swear to God, this is true. My every parent in South Roxanne, which is where I grew up, would put their lawn chair in the front yard and watch all of us ride our bikes behind the mosquito fogger, and the last one to pass out one. That is true. And the parents would just be like drinking Ham's beer and rooting for kids, and you just see kids peel off and run into the ditch or a tree, and it's crazy, but it was great. It was great.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

You know, you talk about your ADHD and some of the things going on in your life, but then I I think today's society is so easy to push medications on kids that are create that are creative. You're creative, and I I think it's more of the create creativity, the side of the you know, your creativity that makes you who you are. So your brain is constantly thinking, and it's thinking about uh you're thinking about guitar while you're thinking about telling a joke, while you're thinking about, you know, and because you're so creative. And I find that with anybody, I'm the same way. I mean, I can be in thought. Next thing you know, I'm thinking about something else in two seconds. Like, and I look at myself and I go, How did I get there? Yeah, how did I go from here to here? It's like I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

I just learned in the past year or so that about half the people on earth have no internal monologue. So the way to me, I have at least one play-by-play guy in my brain. Sometimes it feels like a few, and everything I do, it's like, oh, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Zero. Boy, I guess that's an improvement for Mountain Dew diet. Uh, mountains, I like the mountains. I saw Bigfoot once in the mail. Like it's a constant, constant thing. Kevin Wheeler, who's on my show, who's one of the smartest guys I know, has no internal monologue. So when he drives home at night, it's just like things either happen to him or it's silent. Isn't that crazy to think of someone who has no basic invasive, intrusive thoughts going on? You're just like, oh, Burger King, me want Burger King, me get whopper. And just so yeah, I think you're right. I think that people, um, whatever brain it is, left or right, I always forget. Um, I'm so completely that way. Uh, numbers, forget it. I have no head for math. I'm incredibly lazy unless I'm doing something I love and then I'm a workaholic, you know. Like I just kind of a classic creative, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Tell me the

Radio Improv Stand-Up And Music Flow

SPEAKER_00 25:29

difference uh before we get to the band and the show coming up. Tell me the difference between radio versus music. You're behind the mic on both of them. What tell me a little tell me about that difference for you and what it brings.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

Yeah, that's a great question. So I I would split what I do into three. So I do the show four hours a day, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. So it's basically 16 little shows. And within each segment of my show, I usually do about three different things. So I can just show you. Um, like, here's what a show looks like it's one page of serial killer scribblings. Uh and that's my four-hour show. And so I just go in, I don't know what I'm gonna do until it hits me. So it really is like four hours of improv. Then I do stand up, I do about a one-hour stand-up show, and then I play music, and they're all similar, but they require different tools and scratches, different parts of my brain, you know. Um, the thing I love about it, I'm an ensemble guy. I do perform solo sometimes, but I don't really like it. I'm gonna, I'm a I'm a teammate. And Jimmy Griffin and I were talking about this, and you'll know exactly what I mean. If you're an active musician, play a lot of gigs, maybe one out of every five gigs. It doesn't matter whether you're playing in front of 5,000 people or five people, every now and then the music gods wake up and they grant you this gift of complete and total locking in. You know what I mean? Like, and it's supernatural. It's not just that you're all playing the right chord, it you lock in on like a primordial level, and you just look at each other, and I I don't mean to be goofy, but it's almost orgasmic. It's just a feeling in your body that people who never play music will never know.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

And kind of like a runner's high, you get to a certain point.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Yeah, yeah. So that's my favorite thing about it. That's my favorite thing about it. I am uh almost pathologically shy. I'm a very, very shy person. I'm never ever the most talkative or loudest guy at the table. Um, but I have always had this ability to perform. My brother and my sister uh were both way more talented than me, but I was the WB frog. You know, I was the one who would just get up there and do impressions for my first grade class or jump up on stage when I was three-year-old, three years old and play tambourine. Um, so a little bit of a disconnect, but in 25 years of doing the radio show and meeting so many creatives, you know, famous musicians and famous actors, a lot of people are like that. There are a lot of WB frogs out there.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Oh, yeah. I met Harry uh um Howie Mandel years ago when I was still playing in the bands back in the 80s. We went and saw Howie Mandel. It was at the Westport Playhouse where it was still the turntable style stage. Remember?

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

And uh and I got to meet Howie Mandel at Bogarts on the Landing. So I'm watching, I think I was watching Street Corner Symphony. I was watching the band, and I'm standing there. I went to the show, saw how Howie Mandel went to Bogarts on the landing, and I'm sitting there watching the band, and I look to my right, and Howie Mandel standing right next to me. He's got a baseball cap on and a coat, and he's just standing there watching the band. And I look over him and I go, What's up, Howie? And he goes, Hey man, what's going on? And I go, It looks like you're trying to be incognito. I won't blow your cover. It's like we sat there and talked for a couple minutes, but he was incredibly shy, incredibly shy. Yeah, and uh I'll never forget the I'll never forget the line at the show, too. He's standing on the on the stage and it's turning, and all of a sudden he just gets real quiet. Remember, he had that animated little kid type of feel when he was back then, and he goes, I feel like a piece of lint on a record. That's what he said. It was pretty funny. Those those people that didn't get to ever see the you know, the uh that stage, the turnstile stage. That was pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

Yeah, that's another thing that we had so great is music. Like my daughter Phoebe's 21, and she's into her music, and that's great. And I don't expect her to be listening to my music, but when we were her age, you can go to the landing and see seven amazing bands and just go from boomers to Kennedy's to Sundeckers. Who's the best?

SPEAKER_00 29:56

You know, that's something that's kind of missing today, too, is this generation can get on YouTube and create stuff. So I don't have to pay their dues, they don't have to play live five nights a week, you know. Yeah, I mean, I remember in Nichols, we played 14 days straight. My voice was shot, you know, after those 14 days, and um, they don't, you know, but you're right, go and be able to go. And that's missing today is I told Kelly the other day, I said, I can't think of any young bands that are playing around here that are younger, you know, like we were. We were in our 20s, our 18, 19, 20s playing music, and I don't see that today. And it's it's kind of sad, you know.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

I agree, I agree, and you know, they're doing something else. Um, I never see kids playing sand lot football in my neighborhood, they don't know they're even missing it, they're doing something else. My dad probably thought, like, oh, why is that kid not rolling a big circle with a stick, you know? And just like, we have other things we're doing. But I just happen to think that live music fills a spot in your soul that nothing else does. And uh, every time I'm at uh a live music event, seeing one of my buddies, um whether it's Steve Ewing or you know, whoever it happens to be, Al Monstero, I took the whole family this year. I I no one no one's ever died thinking I wish I would have seen less live music. No, absolutely get get out there and and I just I truly think that there are five or six things that touch our soul directly, and I think that's one of them.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Absolutely. Kelly got on me last year because I was on a mission to see as many concerts as possible. It was like, are we really going to another concert? We're going, we're going. All right. So, one question, and let's get to the show. Yeah.

Dear Prudence Grief And The Beatles

SPEAKER_00 31:44

What's one song, either one that you've played or one that you love that perfectly captures a session of your life?

SPEAKER_02 31:51

Wow. Um, probably Dear Prudent. So we do a lot of Beatles. I think more than being a vocalist, I'm more of a mimic. Uh, since I was a kid, I've always been able to do uh impressions and all this kind of stuff. And two things are at work. One, there's this quirk of nature where my singing voice sounds a lot like John Lennon. It just does. Uh lots of worse than that. Um so I love doing the Beatles. We do it really well. My brother, who I lost in 2002 to suicide, uh, his favorite song, and our song together was always Dear Prudence. So every time it's first of all, it's a great song. No one plays it live. Um and so, and when I do, I'm always fighting back tears. You know, I'm Scottish, I cry every day. Um, so that's probably the song that uh is the most meaningful to me. I love the most and I love performing the most. And we'll be doing it at the Del Mar Hall show.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Well, let that thank you for sharing that. I really appreciate that. Let's talk a little bit about uh I kind of lost your camera, I don't know what happened, but that's okay. Um, let's

Delmar Hall Show And Closing Harmony

SPEAKER_00 33:07

talk about this concert coming up at the Del Mar Hall. I believe it's Friday, April 17th at 8 p.m. I've got the link at the bottom. Go to Ticketmaster to get tickets. So tell us a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_02 33:17

So this is our first show back. It's our first show with this lineup, and we're gonna be doing about 40 minutes of uh Beatles. We picked out songs you don't typically hear. Uh, I have them written down here somewhere. And uh we'll be doing like Hey, Bulldog and Don't Let Me Down and Dear Prudence. Um I I haven't said this on the show, it's kind of like a surprise, but we're also gonna be doing uh I Want You, She's So Heavy from Abbey Road. Um, so it's gonna for Beatles fans, you're gonna hear music done very uh authentically and very respectfully. We're not we're not taking liberties with it. So you'll be able to hear the Beatles in a really authentic sort of sonic way. Uh, and hear some really cool songs that most people don't do.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

Man, there's something about that song, I want you. I love that song. You know, it's just it's just it's everything. I mean, it it's passionate, it's driving, it's kind of sexual. I mean, it's it's I mean, it's it's got so much passion in it. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Yeah, it's really a lot of people say it's the first heavy metal song.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Wow. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. Dave, thank you so much for being on the show today. Uh, we look forward to coming and seeing seeing you at the show. Um, I just appreciate your time. I appreciate everything you do. Uh, it's so great to hear talk to you and the compassion that you have on some of the things that you do, like the hospice work. And you know, you've been you've been through a lot, a lot of ups and downs, and you're very creative. And I just I admire you and uh I'm just grateful for your time today. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Well, thank you, man. You guys have been great to me and great to me in my career. I really appreciate it, and I I appreciate your thoughts. And uh again, like uh on one of my show sheets, I wrote down what the F is this? Like about life. Just what are we doing? I think it was when Artemis II took the pictures of the earth, and you're like, every single thing that's ever happened, every worry I have, every giant mountain I have to climb is on this tiny little speck of dust out in the middle of nowhere, it really puts it in perspective. So if my show is anything or playing in the band or what stand-up, whatever it is, and this is gonna sound this is gonna sound very smalty. But as a musician, if you think of life on earth just being this one giant harmony, it wouldn't be the same harmony without your voice, without your note. And when my brother took his own life, this one of the first things I thought was that note is gone from my chord. And so what I try to do is add my note to this grand harmony and try to be an example of for people that it doesn't have to be a perfect note, it can be dissonant, uh, it can be sharp, it can be flat, major, minor. Whatever your note is, is what it is. Don't try to change it. And I know that sounds like big and dramatic and schwalty, but that's just kind of the way my brain works.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

No, I love that. And you know what the beauty about music? The beauty about music is even though those people are gone, their notes and music continue to go on in our lives, and and that's a part of them that just is instilled in us that will never go away. And and you'll transition that to your kids and their kids to their kids and and so on. So yeah, you're so right on that.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Yeah. Well, thank you, man. I really appreciate this.

SPEAKER_00 36:59

Uh I appreciate you. And uh have a great show. Uh have a great show today, too. On the air. Thanks, Dave. Appreciate you, brother. See you back. All right, bye-bye.