Speaker 1: Taking a walk.
Speaker 2: I think as an artist, we all go to extremes.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's an artist out there who likes
Speaker 2: to live in the middle of the road.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Taking a Walk with your
Speaker 1: host Buzznight. Today, Buzz is joined by actor, musician, activist,
Speaker 1: and author Corey Feldman. Corey has appeared in countless movie
Speaker 1: and television shows, and he got a start starring in
Speaker 1: a Cleo Award winning McDonald's commercial when he was just
Speaker 1: three years old. He was also on the New York
Speaker 1: Times bestseller list for his twenty thirteen autobiography, Corey Agraphy.
Speaker 1: He's always colorful, and he's got a lot on his mind, and.
Speaker 3: We'll hear it all.
Speaker 1: Next with actor, musician, author, and activist Corey Feldman on
Speaker 1: Taking a Walk with Buzz Night.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 4: Hi Corey, Hello, Hi, thanks for being on Taking a
Speaker 4: Walk virtually but nonetheless thanks for being on man.
Speaker 2: Hi, Buzz though, are you great?
Speaker 4: Corey, Hey, Congratulations on the new song Deceptive Deborah, Thank
Speaker 4: you very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a very exciting single, very exciting surprise.
Speaker 3: What a cheery, uplifting love song.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I was feeling romantic and I thought
Speaker 2: what better for the love rechoors to her than something
Speaker 2: super cheery and positive. I can make us all feel
Speaker 2: wholesome and wanted and needed. No I'm joking, but you know, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: love sometimes is a many feathered bird, and it is
Speaker 2: not always a good feeling. Sometimes love can be a
Speaker 2: painful feeling, as we all know, and that's okay, but
Speaker 2: it's something to talk about. So that's what art is about.
Speaker 2: Art is about being subjective and putting our feelings down
Speaker 2: and getting them out there, regardless of whether they're a
Speaker 2: positive or a negative experience. And so therefore I try
Speaker 2: to be true to form.
Speaker 4: She got blood in her eyes. You think you know her,
Speaker 4: but you better think twice.
Speaker 2: Boy, oh boy, yes, have you ever met anybody like
Speaker 2: that before?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 2: Never, of course, not, of course not.
Speaker 4: Can you talk about how music can be this soothing force,
Speaker 4: but it also can be this tool that's the equivalent
Speaker 4: of hitting someone over the head with a two by four.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that it can be all of those
Speaker 2: things at the same time. I don't think that's my intention.
Speaker 2: You know this, The irony of this is just as
Speaker 2: it were. But in fact, you know a lot of
Speaker 2: people are going to say, well, you know, did you
Speaker 2: write this about your wife because you're going through a breakup. No,
Speaker 2: I actually didn't write it about my wife. This is
Speaker 2: not about Courtney. It's just a true coincidence that this
Speaker 2: is what popped out, because sometimes you know, you don't know,
Speaker 2: you're just writing something, and sometimes things pop out. I
Speaker 2: have had a lot of deceptive devras in my life,
Speaker 2: so I think it's more of a figurative kind of term.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's really specified around one particular person.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but of course a lot of people will
Speaker 2: draw that connection.
Speaker 4: So you mentioned art earlier, and I was thinking about
Speaker 4: the songwriting process comparing it to artwork. Would you classify
Speaker 4: yourself as Monet or Jackson Pollock?
Speaker 2: I probably neither. I would say definitely more on the
Speaker 2: gouty type side of anything maybe or Salvador Dali, you know,
Speaker 2: more of the psychedelic art I suppose where you have
Speaker 2: to kind of think about it and it might have
Speaker 2: a double meaning. There might be going more going on
Speaker 2: beneath the surface than you expect, looking for the multiple layers,
Speaker 2: being able to read something into it and getting something
Speaker 2: out of it. Because I think you know, for me,
Speaker 2: when I write, I want to tell a story, but
Speaker 2: I also want to make sure that I leave somebody
Speaker 2: with some form of a message. And it's usually a
Speaker 2: positive one, even if it's sometimes you got to keep
Speaker 2: your eyes open or watch it back or whatever. You know,
Speaker 2: it's cold, hard truths can be tough, but at the
Speaker 2: same time important lessons in life. Right, So I think
Speaker 2: it's I think you know, it's all about putting the
Speaker 2: message out there one way or another.
Speaker 4: Looking back at your career, well, one of my favorite
Speaker 4: movies of all time is stand By Me, and I
Speaker 4: was I was looking at the soundtrack of stand By Me,
Speaker 4: with so many great songs in there, everything from every
Speaker 4: Day by Buddy Holly to Jerry Lee Lewis, great Balls
Speaker 4: of Fire, and of course you know the Benny King
Speaker 4: stand by Me.
Speaker 3: What are some of your favorite songs from stand by Me?
Speaker 3: The movie?
Speaker 2: You know, I always loved rock and Robin. I think
Speaker 2: that's that's a great one. And of course that starts
Speaker 2: off the film at the very beginning with the treehouse scene.
Speaker 2: And you know, I really like the lollipop you know
Speaker 2: that we did on the train tracks. That was fun
Speaker 2: as well, So it's a fun movie. And by the way.
Speaker 2: You know, we are on tour right now. We're hitting
Speaker 2: the US. We're getting ready in about a week we
Speaker 2: leave and our first show is on Saturday, a week
Speaker 2: from Saturday in northern California. So we're going to be
Speaker 2: all over the United States. And while we're on this tour,
Speaker 2: we do a section of the show which we dedicate
Speaker 2: to the film's soundtracks and you know, kind of going
Speaker 2: down memory lane, and that's exactly what we do, and
Speaker 2: we play them by me actually is one of the
Speaker 2: songs during the show. So hopefully some of your listeners
Speaker 2: can make it out and see us live and get
Speaker 2: a chance to experience it, because it is a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. It's like a giant sing along and just
Speaker 2: as you said, it's like memory lane. Everybody chimes in
Speaker 2: and sings along and it's like Kumbaya. It's lots of fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're also on some of the shows. I think,
Speaker 4: aren't you Paine tribute to Lost Boys as well.
Speaker 2: That's right. Well, we go through we do like a
Speaker 2: movie section of the show, so there's a lot there's
Speaker 2: a lot of ground that we cover. You know, it's
Speaker 2: a big show, but we do some of the you know,
Speaker 2: classic hits people want to hear, going all the way
Speaker 2: back to the eighties, you know, some of the songs
Speaker 2: that I wrote for film soundtracks, and then of course
Speaker 2: some of the stuff that you know has been popular
Speaker 2: in recent years, like my top forty Billboard songs and
Speaker 2: those kinds of things. And then we go through all
Speaker 2: the kind of classic film soundtracks, because there's people forget,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of number one films associated with a
Speaker 2: lot of my films, So you know those songs we're
Speaker 2: going to be doing, from Goony's to stand By Me
Speaker 2: to Lost Boys. We kind of go through like the
Speaker 2: whole chronology of it. It's really fun. It's like a
Speaker 2: time machine. It's like getting into a time machine full
Speaker 2: of love and having a great positive experience. That's the mission.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: How did you learn the importance in life of having
Speaker 4: really diverse interest Well.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. First of all, I think as
Speaker 2: an artist, we all go to extremes. I don't think
Speaker 2: there's an artist out there who likes to live in
Speaker 2: the middle of the road, because you wouldn't be an artist,
Speaker 2: you know, if you didn't feel on a very heightened
Speaker 2: sense of awareness as an artist, if you weren't ultra sensitive,
Speaker 2: if you weren't ultra aware have some kind of insight,
Speaker 2: then you wouldn't really have much to offer the rest
Speaker 2: of the world. The whole idea is being able to
Speaker 2: like reflect and be able to write it down in
Speaker 2: some way, whether it's through a painting, whether it's through words,
Speaker 2: through poetry, through a script, through music. However we can
Speaker 2: transcribe it, it's still an emotional exchange from one human
Speaker 2: to another. And that's why we're also petrified and terrified
Speaker 2: of AI because you know, we're literally talking about computers
Speaker 2: taking over our emotions or our job to project those emotions.
Speaker 4: So there's so much that you give to the world
Speaker 4: in terms of how you highlight many different causes and
Speaker 4: important things, and I want to give you the time
Speaker 4: to talk about a few of those because I think
Speaker 4: it's important how you put yourself out there for those.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I mean, look, I've been working on
Speaker 2: many great causes through the years, you know, but we're
Speaker 2: very you know, grateful that I've had an opportunity to
Speaker 2: do certain things. You know, there's a lot of different
Speaker 2: areas I work in, whether it's children's rights, protecting children,
Speaker 2: helping to change laws. I am an ambassador for Child USA,
Speaker 2: so I helped to change laws in different states regarding
Speaker 2: statute of limitations. I've also helped change laws regarding animal rights.
Speaker 2: I do a lot of work with animal rights. I've
Speaker 2: changed laws actually. In fact, in Boston, I helped change
Speaker 2: some real laws, real gestation crates and things like that
Speaker 2: in Boston. And pigs. I think we outlawed the pigs
Speaker 2: not having enough room to turn around, things like that.
Speaker 2: So yes, I work in all sorts of different areas,
Speaker 2: but basically any way that I can to help children
Speaker 2: and animals and the environment as well. You know, things
Speaker 2: that don't necessarily have their own voice, I try to
Speaker 2: help them find one or lend mine.
Speaker 4: Three of your favorite musicians that maybe you'd like to
Speaker 4: jam with in your career.
Speaker 2: Oh, Paul McCartney, David Gilmore and Billie Joel.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was definitive.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would give pretty much anybody's belongings to be
Speaker 2: old to, including mine. Okay, fine, mine too, to be
Speaker 2: able to work with any of those guys.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Corey Felban, thanks for being on taking a walk man, appreciated.
Speaker 4: Good luck on the release and good luck on the
Speaker 4: tour man.
Speaker 2: Nice talking to you too, and I hope to see
Speaker 2: you guys up there in that area very soon.
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