1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:01,560 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: Our guest is Dennis Deyong. You know him as the 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: lead singer of Sticks, the soundtrack of My Life and 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: for many of you, the soundtrack of yours. Dennis, how 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 2: are you my man? 6 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: It was also the soundtrack of my life dog on it. 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: I'm guessing you made a little more money off of 8 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 2: it than I did. 9 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: You know what you'd be guessing correctly, But dog Lina, 10 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: don't tell Uncle Sam. He's chasing me down the street 11 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: as we speak. 12 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: You know, I was looking you up. Dennis Young. Dennis Young, 13 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: lead singer of Sticks coming to Stafford Center, right here 14 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,319 Speaker 2: in our own community on October eleventh. I'll be there, 15 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: and I suggest you should too. In fact, I'll even 16 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 2: give you the phone number to get your tickets. Two 17 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: eight one, two eight sixty nine hundred. It's at the 18 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: Stafford Center. There's not a bad seat in the place. 19 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 2: I was looking you up, and you started a lot 20 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: earlier than I realized. They show you starting in nineteen 21 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 2: sixty one. That's a lot earlier than I expected. 22 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, actually it was I think as I look. You know, 23 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: I had to really investigate this a couple of years 24 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: ago myself. But It was nineteen sixty two and I 25 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: was fourteen and the Pinazzo brothers were twelve. We lived 26 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: across the street from each other, and we just formed 27 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: the band as kids, and we had no aspirations of 28 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: being in a rock and roll band in nineteen sixty two. 29 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: You know, we were just guys. I played accordion, Chuck 30 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: played the guitar, and John played drums, and we were 31 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: just you know, hacking around having fun. We started out 32 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: playing weddings for you know, friends of our relatives, and 33 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 1: then you know, when we saw the Beatles in sixty four. 34 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: I remember seeing them on Ed Sullivan and thinking to myself, Hey, 35 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: that's a good job. And so I just I just 36 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: did an interview with Dallas because I'm playing there as well, 37 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: the night before, night after night after in Houston, and 38 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: I just thought about this. I saw the Beatles in 39 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: sixty four, and then two weeks later, two weeks later, 40 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: I went to a dance and met my wife. And 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: we've been married forty two years. So that was quite 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: a big That was quite a big two weeks for 43 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: me where I decided who I was going to be 44 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: with for the rest of my life and what career 45 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: path I was choosing. So when it said sixty two, 46 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: it sounds like Stix was then, But that was just 47 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: three rottle kids. No. 48 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: No, But if you'd asked a young dnist young at 49 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: fourteen years old, if you had, if you had asked 50 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: what you were going to be when you grew up, 51 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 2: what'd you think it was going to be? 52 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: Then? When I was fourteen, I don't know if I 53 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: still had aspirations to be the center fielder for the 54 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: White Sox or not. I may have, but it might 55 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: have been dawning on me that maybe I didn't have 56 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: the skill set. But you know, I probably I probably 57 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: would have had that was my first dream. 58 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you you wouldn't still be playing center 59 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: field for the White Sox if you'd done that. And 60 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: yet you can still tour the world and sing your 61 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: music and share it with folks. 62 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: This has gone right. And I went to the White 63 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: Sox game two days ago and I thought to myself, Okay, 64 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: I'm still a rock star. Anyway. The thing is, I've 65 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: said this a million times, but had I known I 66 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: was going to last this long, I think my sphinkers 67 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: would have been a lot more relaxed when I was 68 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: twenty five, if you know what I mean, said, hey, 69 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: it's going to be okay. But you know, when you're 70 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: young and you're full of it, you're trying to you're 71 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: trying to make your way in the world, and you 72 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to last. You have no idea. 73 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: In fact, somebody said to me two days ago, what 74 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: about all that this stuff and that stuff and those 75 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: clothes you had. I just gave this stuff away over 76 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: the years because I never thought I was going to 77 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: last this long. 78 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: Are you surprised when you go out and tour and 79 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: realize we've been talking about you coming to town October eleventh? 80 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: And I have been surprised how many really young fans. 81 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: I mean, I expect my generation to want to see sticks, 82 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: to want to see Dennis de Young, to want to 83 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: listen to the music. But I'm surprised how many young 84 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: people have grown up because their parents listen to it 85 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: and it's their music. 86 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of turned out that way. I think a 87 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: lot of that has to do, obviously with classic rock radio. 88 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: But you know, if we look back now, and we're 89 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: honest about it, if you look at the end of 90 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: the late sixties, probably through the middle eighties. That was 91 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: a pretty that was a time for from music in 92 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: our country, and a lot of great songs were written 93 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: by American bands, and I think at the time, once again, 94 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: at the time, it was judged differently because we were 95 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: coming from you know, the great explosion of music from 96 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: fifty five through maybe like nineteen seventy, when you know, 97 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: all the great origin years of rock and roll existed, 98 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: and then we were the second generation and they thought, well, 99 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: this can't be as important. But really, the songs have lasted, 100 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: and that's why I think people still like to come 101 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: out and hear this music. And we welcomed the old 102 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: farts and the young parts. 103 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: Are you when you're out touring? What is the number 104 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: one most Dennis Dejung is our guest, What is the 105 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 2: number one most requested stick song that you get? 106 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: I think Straway to Heaven? Oh that was Led Zeppelin. 107 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those give me that's all right? 108 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Do we all? Do? 109 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 2: You know? You all run together. 110 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: All these great things, you know, A bunch of guys. 111 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: Look along here, that's too long a song. You don't 112 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 2: want that. 113 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: I think the most requested song to hear people actually, 114 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: let me think about this well, since we play every 115 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: popular song in my set when we come down there. 116 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: I've got this band that duplicates the sound and the 117 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: spirit of those Stix albums absolutely magnificently. I have a 118 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: fellow named August Zadra who does uh sings a renegade, 119 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: blue collar man, too much time in my hands and 120 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: pooling yourself, and he plays a wicked lead guitar. I 121 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: have two great guitar players, so I think they're gonna 122 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: hear all the hits. So it's rare that some you 123 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: know what he'll do here, you'll hear real hardcore fans 124 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: yelling out songs that nobody else would even know. But 125 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: By and Mars we play everything that they that the 126 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: audience wants, and so I don't really hear a lot 127 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 1: of requests. But if you were to ask me what 128 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: song seems to be the quintessential, it would have to 129 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: become sail Away. Yeah, I would think that would be it, 130 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: and then followed closely by you know Lady, and Renegade. 131 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 2: We use we use Renegade as a bump on the 132 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: show a lot of just it opens so strong. That's 133 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 2: that's a great bump song for any genre of talk 134 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: radio host. 135 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and so there you go. But you know, 136 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: when you think of the Lady Baby Beth of Times 137 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: comes Ailway, don't let it and this, you know, mister 138 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: Roboto show me the Way, the Grand Illusion, Lauralive, Renegade, 139 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: Luca on on. There's a lot of a lot of 140 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: songs there that people really like, and so we play 141 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: them on. And this band I have, like I said, 142 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: is great. My wife, my lovely Brites is in who's 143 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: been with me, like I said, forty two years. Uh, 144 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: she's on stage singing, and so we just have a 145 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: good time. And you could check out dennistyoon dot com 146 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of videos up there. You can 147 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: see see what it looks like. But it's a you know, 148 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a great rock show. 149 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: It'll be live at the Stafford Center October eleventh. Tickets 150 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 2: two A one two eight sixty nine hundred two eight 151 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 2: one two eight sixty nine hundred. Be a fun evening. 152 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 2: I'll be there and I hope you'll join me. It 153 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 2: will sell out, so don't wait till the last minute 154 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: to get yours. 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