WEBVTT - Some Time With...Gary Griffin (Part 1) 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.560 Hey, Fanorrito's welcome back to how Rude Tannerito's Our guest 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.200 today is a delightful surprise. We have been talking about 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.960 the Rippers and the Mullets a lot on this podcast, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.920 and today you get to meet one of the most 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.120 influential rippers. He is a keyboardist and a vocalist who 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.240 was not only a member of Jesse and the Rippers, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.440 but also performed with the Beach Boys. He has been 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.479 a part of Full House ever since the beginning season one, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.559 episode two, and we are so thrilled that he has 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:52.120 joined us today. Please welcome my personal favorite ripper, no 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.800 offense to the other Rippers and the Mullets, the Redheaded Ripper, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.120 Gary Griffin. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.720 Whoo Hi Gary, look at us old. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.840 Forever forever. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.160 Oh God, so good to see you. Oh my goodness. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:15.120 We're so excited to have one of the Rippers on 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.880 the show. And you know, we're going back and watching 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.720 this from the beginning, and we didn't watch it really 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.800 like as kids, we didn't watch the show. We were like, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.520 glad we did it, it's over, you know, right, and 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.319 I did not. We both were talking about like we 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.639 didn't realize how integral the Rippers were to the first 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.479 couple of seasons. First episode two of the first season, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.400 Yea and I Will Episode two standing on a speaker 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.240 dancing was like the best time of my life up 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:48.320 until that point. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.680 Pictures of that episode, which I should send to please. Yes, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.040 Oh yes, Unfortunately miss miss Kimmy Gibler is not in 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.480 the picture. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.040 There's plenty of Kimmy to come. Yeah. Now, I remember 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.160 I had like purple spray painted hair in the front. Yeah, 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.920 it's probably like before they made like hair spray paint. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.000 It was probably just actual spray paint in the eighties, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.520 lots of toxic chemicals. Yeah. Yeah, they were like, nah, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.680 you'll be fine, just don't breathe in you know. I 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.480 guess we should tell Gary that we we just kind 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.200 of jump right in and we start. So ignore all 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.400 the the other people on the that you see on 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.440 there just listening and being creepy. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.960 They're on their phones playing games, that's what they're doing. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.960 They're ignoring all of us. They're yeah, yeah, yeah, they're 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.200 ignoring us, and they're just like hoping. They're hoping for 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.280 the best, and we don't get threw it up, Sweeten. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.359 So Andrea, I haven't seen even you know, it's been 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:37.280 like thirty years. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.680 Since far well, since it's ended. Yeah, since it ended. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.920 That's wild. I know, it's so fun. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.400 It's so fun getting to go back and watch all 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.839 of the rippers and their mullets, Like there's so many 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.440 mullets in the thirty years. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.360 That puts me in my mid forties, I believe. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you were obviously, I mean you 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.040 were about DJ Kimmi's age. You're a very tall child star. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.640 He had a growth spurt early. It was yeah, yeah, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.720 you had a fake ID. You were playing with the Rippers. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.240 You were like, nobody knows I'm ten. Yeah, no, it's fine. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.520 The thing I didn't realize about those episodes. I didn't 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.400 know it at the time, but I had a mullet 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:12.239 and I didn't even. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.160 The red mullets. Yeah yeah you did. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.960 Later people saying you did you had a mullet. You know, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:17.720 I did not. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.720 You know, they were sneaky, they were sneaky, they were 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.400 they were just sort of omnipresent. You didn't even like 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:29.840 you had a mullen. You didn't even know it. You 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.920 wouldn't even like they were. They were just sneak up 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.680 on you. And then only in hindsight do you realize, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.360 Oh my god, I was a victim. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.440 Of a mullet. There's no problem with that now, it's no. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.680 Thank goodness, thank goodness. We were so glad when when 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.160 John finally cut his hair in season two or like, blessed, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.800 thank you, mullet. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.960 You look in the encyclopedia on your mullet, it says 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:52.920 see also stamos commet. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.800 Yeah, absolutely true. It's true. It's not it's more than 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.960 a mullet. It's just a stamele. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.440 But it was cool. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.160 It was more than a mullet, and all. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.240 The guys that's what we aspired to. We thought, God, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.480 if I had hair like stainless meant right, this whole 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.160 thing would be so easy. That would be styling. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:18.760 But seeing you like and like realizing how much the 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.640 rippers were involved and on set and with us, like, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.839 how did how did the rippers come to be? What 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.560 is the origin story of If we don't know, if 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.720 we don't, this actually too Yeah. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.400 Be tired, I'll tell you nippity all right. Prior to 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.960 Full House, John was on General Hospital, of course, and 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.880 he his character Blacky Parrish. They wrote him a storyline 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.360 where he had a rock and roll band, Blackie in 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.640 the Riff Raft, and I had just met John just 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.720 prior to that. He was, Oh, the backstory is kind 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.200 of cool. He was a teenager and he would come 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.000 to see our band at not very fair yes, and 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.240 he was an Aspire actor and he said, I've got 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.680 an audition this week for General Hospital. And we were 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.880 all like, oh, great kid, that's great, good luck. You know, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.320 that's that's gonna be great. Man. And of course within 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.279 two weeks he's a major teen teen idol. You know. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.359 He got the job right then. And he came to 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.520 us and said, hey, they want to make my guys. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.919 He's gonna have his own band, Blackie and the Riffraff. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.159 You want to be in it? I said, sure, What 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.440 what am I doing? You're gonna be on General Hospital? 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.200 Oh yeah. So I was brought in it to be 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.279 part of the band on General Hospital. But the weird 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.920 thing was I had no experience acting nothing. I've never 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.400 even been in a school play, a church playing nothing. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.560 I've just been a musician only my whole life. My 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.880 whole life is only like thirty years old at that time, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.640 but no, probably less. But so they brought me. They 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.320 brought me in a couple of our buddies in to 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.640 be the riff raff. But for some reason they started 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.880 writing scenes. But they're giving me speaking lines and tons. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.000 Of wow intimidation. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:00.479 And page see I go. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.680 Oh my god. Yeah. Soap operas are super hard too, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.120 because it's like, hey, here you arrive at this time 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.479 in the morning. Here's ten pages. Learn them now see 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:10.440 see you in an hour. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.159 Like I had no idea what I was doing, but 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.520 I didn't know enough to not say anything like what 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.000 do you guys? Are you guys nuts? Why are you speaking? 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.960 I don't know what I just said. Well, I'll just 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.720 give it a try and let's see how it works out. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.839 So I would have, you know, scenes with John long 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.280 extended scenes, but I was just like the what do 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.640 you call exposition? I would just be saying the things 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.400 that that the viewers need to know, like, hey, Blackie, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.279 we got that big, big show at the Armory this weekend, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.640 and you know we got to rehearse because we have 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:38.600 a new drummer. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.080 And right right right, let me tell you all the 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.200 reasons why we're having this conversation. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.719 That's never like, hey, Blackie, let me tell you how 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:46.640 I feel about. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:51.400 Things, for sure. But you know, they almost made your 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.440 character die and then come back to life with an 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.640 evil twin, so it's it could have. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:02.160 You know, well, you remember Blackie John's character, he caused 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.200 the death of his girlfriend. Oh, that's how they wrote 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:07.320 him out of the show because he had to go 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.200 off to prison because I didn't know that. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.040 I see, I didn't watch General Hospital. My parents were 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.120 g H fans, but I don't know this backstory. And 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.960 I did not know that you were a General Hospital star. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.520 You were about you're about one at the time. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.520 Yeah, and I was on Days of Our Lives, so 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.920 I was on a competing, competing show. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.080 Yeah, I didn't watch General She also has a soap background. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:27.440 I feel so left out. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.679 So we're written out of the show finally because Blackie 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.480 goes off to prison and we were and we you know, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:34.800 just that storyline. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.560 Ended at least of your riff raft duties. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.000 I was relieved Riff. So then Full House comes along 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.600 and this character, uncle Jesse's going to have a band. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.840 So John comes back to me. He said, well, we're 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.720 gonna have a band again. Jesse and the Rippers want 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.880 to do that one. So yeah, I want to do that. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.800 Of course, I go from a being, you know, a 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.080 number one daytime TV General Hospital, number one daytime showing 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.040 to Full House, which turned out to be extremely successful too, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.640 but who knew at the time, right, So that's how 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.160 the Rippers came. He said, well, come on, do you 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.560 be the Rippers? And I said, well yeah, And I 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.400 felt kind of guilty about it because there were so 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.480 many aspiring actors in that city who would kill for 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:19.320 that job, and here I am completely unqualified when they're 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.600 giving me the scenes I was on. I counted I 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.680 was on about thirty five episodes the show. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.040 Wo oh my god. I didn't realize that either. I mean, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.800 I knew you were on a bunch, but like I. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.840 Said, eight seasons, about four or four to five per season, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.440 which was like, I was down there a lot because 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.480 John and I worked on a lot of music scenons, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.120 so way more than that to work on stuff. But 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.120 being on the shows on like thirty something episodes, that's and. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.040 They gave you lines on our show too, like in 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.679 season one in the in the cabin and then up 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.080 Inake Tahoe or whatever, when Jesse goes to get away 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.040 from the kids, you have lines there. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.240 Oh I had lines. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.760 I wouldn't know that you aren't or it was all 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.160 that experience on General Hospital. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.360 My biggest regret was I never got to do a 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:02.199 scene with Andrea. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.440 I know this is a tragedy. I hear that there's 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.360 a there's rumor that this particular ripper could be actually 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:10.199 related to the Gibler. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.760 Just tell me that's what that's what we decided. We 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.719 decided Uncle. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.760 Gary Gibbler is the relation here? 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.480 Yeah, it tracks. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.040 So proud of that. But I did. I don't know 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.560 if Maddie got the picture, but I did send a 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.600 picture of when we did Fuller House. Yeah, Rumber Jody, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.040 but we you we did a scene with the rippers. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.840 You guys were going to buy back the Smash Club 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:35.360 or that's. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.720 Right, the Smash Club had been turned into a laundromat. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:43.360 So the rippers are in the launch have to be there. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.000 All of them, right, like they've never left the Smash Club. There, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.040 they're trapped forever in those walls. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.640 And you say to me, what are you guys doing here? 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.840 And I say something, guy, Well, it's Friday night. We're 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:59.120 doing our laundry for the last twenty years. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.040 Yeah, yeah, to night. It's not a club anymore. I 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.160 guess we do the loan right now. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.280 I thought that was a great So. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.240 How did you put how did you put these particular 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.560 rippers together? How did John who put them together? How'd 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:12.760 you find them? Were they friends? 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.040 You know? There have there have been so many rippers 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.360 through the years, there have been a. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.000 Lot of you know, sure there have been a there's 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.400 been some. I've definitely noticed some cycle through, but I 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.000 also know there's like, you know, two or three that 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.800 have been pretty consistent, right. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.079 Oh. Yeah, And Roger Lodge was in there a lot, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:36.320 and uh my buddy Tony Shooto from Baltimore, and Mark 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.680 Vogel was one who was in. But we were going 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.840 through it the other day because Dave is going to 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:42.800 do a podcast also. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.439 Yeah, yeah, he's doing. He's doing as he came on 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.800 as a guest to ours, and then we're gonna gonna 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.280 go do his as well. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.200 He wants to try try to assemble as many rippers 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.800 as he can. Quite a challenge because everybody's everywhere else 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.240 these days. Ray Yeah, he's in Pakistan. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.000 Believe I know, he's doing some really incredible work over there. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.000 Yeah, there's quite a struggle keeping them safe. I do. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.160 He'll send me every couple of weeks, He'll send me, Hey, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.760 can you do a piano? Can you do a piano 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.520 part on this song I'm working on? So yeah, yeah, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.920 I go down to my basement where I have a studio, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.120 work for an hour, push a button. And it's in Pakistan. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:28.199 Amazing. Yeah, it's really cool. He is working on bringing 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:33.760 music education to young people in Pakistan and was in Afghanistan, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.920 but obviously they've now had to across the border into 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.640 Pakistan after the Taliban because he also there's the school 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.400 I think teaches a lot of young women music, which 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.559 is forbidden obviously under the talban. So they had to 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.960 go to Pakistan and do some stuff. But it's really 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.520 the miraculous love kids is Lanny's. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:58.079 Yeah, they're really great. The girls can play guitar quite well. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.240 Yeah, yeah they done. They released videos they're like of 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.240 these young women singing and like it's really incredible. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:07.840 Yeah. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.400 Do you remember a ripper? 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.360 Okay, this has a been a We've talked about this 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:11.840 a lot. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.160 This is gonna seem really weird. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.320 There's a one particular ripper in a recent episode we 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.040 watched Who's got a rat tail that he has a ponytail, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:22.800 the bullet's and a ponytail, but then he has a 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.199 rat tail that kind of comes around his neck. I 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.040 don't know if you remember this ripper. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.640 Yeah, it was a look if you thought if you 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.120 thought your surprise mullet was one thing, let me tell 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.000 you the rat tail just elevated the celebrated rat tail 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.320 with some beads at the end of it. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:44.160 I'm sure you remember Randall Curia. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.560 Yeah, Randell, there were a bunch of Yeah. Landy actually 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.079 taught me to play guitar for an for our episode 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.200 of of As We Were Girl Talk. One of the 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.360 rippers taught me to play guitar, and then John would 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.040 practice remember my. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.920 Home studio to pre record. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.480 Yeah, that's right. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.040 And I was young and with one of the other girls, Marla. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.679 Marla and you were young, and I thought, oh, this 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.320 is going to be torture. These girls would be so 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.960 this is gonna take forever. It took about this long 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.960 if you're just singing this song, so good, thank you. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.360 That was the first time I ever recorded music. That 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.560 was the first time I was ever in like a 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.640 music studio. That was the first time i'd ever sung 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.920 in front of a microphone. Yeah, well that's not true. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.000 I had sung in front of microphones and like you know, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.280 talent shows and pageants. What it but like as far 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.959 as to be recorded by a professional musician with the headphones, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.200 Like I felt so cool? 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.960 Well you were, yeah, you both you both were exceptional 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.240 talents as little tikes. I mean I was. I didn't 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.520 watch about acting or anything, but I'll watch you guys 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.160 do it. I thought, God, these kids are good. Everything 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.160 that comes out of their mouth sounds like it's being processed. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.240 Right then, you know, there's no prep, there's no mulling 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.960 over the lines. Okay, I got a line coming up here, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.520 It comes here, it comes here, it comes here. Okay. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.520 Do you know? You had every natural as could be? 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:12.880 Thank thank you. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.680 That's why I've become such the great actor that I 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:16.760 am today. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.960 Well, you know it's with the award season approaching, I 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.640 just really want you to remember carry when you're up 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.320 on that stage, who taught you what? 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:24.600 You know? 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.880 We'll wait for our shout out. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.000 People the names again, Angela and what. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.720 Right? So how I would love to know Gary, how 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.280 you got into music yourself? Like how did how did 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.160 you become a musician. I love hearing the backstory of 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:44.680 this and. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.120 My On my fifth birthday five, my aunt friend said, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.200 I'm going to offer you for your birthday one year's 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.440 with a piano lessons and I was like this excited 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:59.560 about it. I don't get a new toy or anything. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.080 Analysis Okay, So I said, okay, let me think about 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:08.360 it it. So sometime in the next day I consulted 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.600 my older brother who's five years older, who knew in 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.080 my mind, who knew everything. You know. John said, yeah, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.160 you should do that. You should learn to play the piano. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.320 That'd be great, look good. So back to Anan the 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.840 next day, I said, yeah, I want to do that. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.400 So I started piano lessons at age five, and from 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:25.880 what they tell me, I was I was. I took. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.160 I was really good right away, like for a little kid, 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.760 it's really good. Then I completely lost interest in it 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.040 until I was about twelve or thirteen, and I started 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.520 hearing rock and roll on the radio, and then it 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.600 all kind of clicked. Oh, so I could play these 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.920 songs I'm hearing on the radio. I could learn along 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.320 the piano. That would be kind of cool. So that 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.640 was it, and then from then on. It was just 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.280 no looking back. I just played piano, and that's the 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.840 only thing I've done in my life, playing rock and 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:52.320 roll bands. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.600 So actually, I mean not a bad life though, you 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.680 know that's right, Other than your illustrious soap career. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.880 Called me back at General Hospital. All that may come home. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.880 They never you know, it's once you're in. Once you're in, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.440 they never let you go. Gary, don't be modest. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.640 You've performed with the Beach Boys, which is so incredible. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.160 How did you meet them? 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.680 What to take us through? 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.800 That's a good one. That's a good one. I was 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.840 just I was a big fan all through my childhood, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.680 a big fan of Beach Boys, and I would go 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.320 to their shows anytime they came to the area. I 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.080 grew up in Cincinnati, which is kind of where I 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.120 am now, but anytime they would come to the area, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.400 I would go to their shows and be one of 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.960 those you know kids hanging back. Hey, I know all 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.000 your songs. I should be in your band. You know, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.560 you should let me be in your band. I know 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.160 all your that's great, that's great. So I kept bugging 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.680 them for several years and then out of the blue, 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.520 I got a call, like in nineteen seventy seven, said Gary, 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:48.560 this is Mike Love. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.160 He's a great Mike Love and Bresion by the way, perfect, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:53.040 thank you. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.640 We need a keyboard player in the van if you 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:02.000 think you'd be interested in doing that. Wow. So that's 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.960 how it started. That's incredible persistent and they called me 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.919 and they harm me and I in and out of 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.560 their world since nineteen seventy seven. Wow. Wow, the last 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.600 bunch of years, I've been playing with Brian Wilson, touring 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.760 with him, right, so great, so so great. But he's 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.439 he's pretty much retired now. He's kind of yeah, unable 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.480 to get out there. He's you know, eighty yeah, eighty 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.440 two in June. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.840 I remember, I think when Brian was on the episode 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.840 of The Beach Boys. Wasn't that kind of the first 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.240 time in a while that he had done anything? 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.720 It was that era. Yeah, he had been brought back, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.680 he had been sort of so, he'd lost some weight, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.280 he was in better physical shape able to do something 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:46.680 like that. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.000 Yeah, And I think because he'd kind of stepped away 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.359 from the band for a while and then kind of 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.960 came back, right, So it was, you. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.879 Know, he was in and out. Yeah, his life the 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.880 fact that he's still going, he's still doing he's still 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:06.000 doing well is just a yeah Brothers, which is yeah, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.680 so's He's quite a guy. 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.119 Such a musical legend though. And you know, Andrey and 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.840 I were talking about it the other day, how like 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.639 when we were kids, we were like, oh, cool the 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.520 Beach Boys and yeah, you know, and like going going 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.800 on stage at the coliseum with them or whatever, and like, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.040 we just watched that episode of US at the Coliseum 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.200 when the Beach Boys first. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.160 Show it too. I just watched at the guys. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:34.760 It was so like I watching it back and again, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.159 I haven't watched it in thirty some odd years. I 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.480 haven't watched that. I like, a little fool in my 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.080 office was like bah bah, like just it was so 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:50.520 full of joy. It was so fun, Like the crowd 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.840 in that episode was, you know, just loving it. The 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.679 band was having fun, all of us as cast we like. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.439 It just was such a great memory and it was 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.119 something I hadn't watched in such a long time. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.320 And I was like, wow, I remember I was down 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:06.960 there that day. I wasn't in the scene, but I 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:08.960 was down there hanging out with you all cool and 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.120 cracks me up. I watched that the other day too, 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.600 and this scene, you know, they they're panning across the 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.840 stage while you're singing rob Ran and as they get 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.119