1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:01,320 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. 2 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 2: I'm buzz night, and welcome to the Taking a Walk 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: podcast feed. Now we do from time to time like 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 2: sharing other podcasts that we like that we think you 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: might like, and we've shared some work with my friend 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 2: Jeff Zito before, who does a podcast called Celebrity Jobber. 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: On this episode of Celebrity Jobber with Jeff Zito, the 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: great guitar player Gary Hoey joins Jeff, So check out 9 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: the episode right now. 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 3: Hey, it's Jeff Zito and thanks for checking out another 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 3: episode of the Celebrity Jobber podcast number two on the 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,919 Speaker 3: Apple Podcast Music Interviews Chart. Past guests and episodes are 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: online at celebrity jobber dot com, streaming on Apple Podcasts, 14 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,959 Speaker 3: Spotify wherever you listen to podcasts, Please subscribe with love 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: a five star rating and leave a review. It's like 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 3: one big break change your life, and that is exactly 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 3: what happened to my guests this week. 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,919 Speaker 4: Gary Hoey, he had a hit. 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 3: Song on the radio right when I first got into 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 3: the radio business in the mid nineties, was a cover 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 3: hocus Pocus from the band Focus. But like how he 22 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 3: got to this place is truly an incredible story that 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 3: we're gonna hear about shortly, and we'll talk about his 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: first jobs before he was even in the music business 25 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 3: and some of the other jobs he has today. But 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: the story the big break Man, it's a pretty cool story. 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: He's guitarist Gary Hoey and my guest this week on Celebrity. 28 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 5: Jobber, The Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Zido. If you 29 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 5: like what you hear, please subscribe, give a five star rating, 30 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 5: and leave a review. Check out all our past episodes 31 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 5: on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you popped. What if 32 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 5: these celebrities weren't famous, what would they have become? What 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 5: was their first job? We're about to find out. 34 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 3: I guess I first heard of Gary Howey when I 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 3: was working at wynf in Sarasota, Florida. Maybe it was 36 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 3: hocus Pocus, which we you know, it was probably around 37 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 3: the mid nineties, ninety four, ninety five something like that 38 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: was when I first heard of you. And and all 39 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 3: these years later, still still rocking and rolling, brother. 40 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 6: Thank you man. I know it's crazy to think that. 41 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a song thirty years ago we put 42 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: it out, and somehow I've managed to stay in this 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: crazy business rocking and rolling it's amazing. 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 3: Now let me let me start off by asking, Gary, 45 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: are you from a musical family? 46 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: You know, what's interesting should say that, I wouldn't say 47 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: so much like there wasn't like instruments laying around or anything. 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: But my mom was a big music fan. So my 49 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: mom was always playing records and singing in the kitchen, 50 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: cooking food and you know, and she grew up like dance, 51 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: you know, kind of dancing and doing different things kind 52 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: of in the entertainment sort of world. You know, like 53 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: she did some ballet. She would do baton in the 54 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: parade and dance. And my mom was a kind of 55 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: a character, you know, an entertainer in her all right. 56 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 3: Right, So so what about mom and dad for for 57 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: actual jobs? 58 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 4: What did they do for a living growing up? 59 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 6: Growing up? 60 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,679 Speaker 1: Well, we grew up in a milltown, Law, Massachusetts. We 61 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: grew up, you know, in a pretty rough sort of town. 62 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: But my dad was actually a cab driver. He mostly 63 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: drove a cab. Then he started a roofing company where 64 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: him and him my brother did some roofing and stuff. 65 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: And my mom, my mom was a stay home mom. 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: My mom just raised six, six of us kids at 67 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: the house as long as I can remember. 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: Wow, that's a that's a big job. Six kids, six 69 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 3: how many how many boys? How many girls? 70 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 6: We had? 71 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: Well f four sisters and a brother. Four sisters and 72 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: a brother. 73 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 3: Wow, So tell me So Okay, so we grew He 74 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 3: grew up in mass in Lowell, which is, you know, 75 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 3: pretty blue collar town, pretty rough growing up. But what 76 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 3: was it about guitar? When did you get into guitar? 77 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 3: And what was it that got you interested in guitar? 78 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: You know it was I mean I was a teenager 79 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: and music was a great thing for me because it 80 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: kind of saved me. It kind of grabbed me and 81 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: just gave me something to really focus on. And but 82 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: what happened was I wish I could say, you know, 83 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendricks, the Beatles came on, you know, at Sullivan Show. 84 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: But it was really one of my sisters was dating 85 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: a guy that played the guitar, and he came and 86 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: sat at the kitchen table and just started playing like 87 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: three feet in front of me, and I was mesmerized. 88 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 6: I was cooked, and I'm like. 89 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: You got to teach me how to play the guitar, 90 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 1: you know, And I got real excited. 91 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 4: So what did you think growing up. 92 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: Okay, so you start playing guitar because your sister's boyfriend 93 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 3: introduced you to it. But what did you think when 94 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 3: you were going to get older, when you were in 95 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 3: high school, did you think about college where you think about. 96 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 4: You know, what you were going to do for a living. 97 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 3: Did you automatically when you became introduced to the guitar, 98 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 3: did you know this is what your path was going 99 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 3: to be. 100 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: I did. Actually, I knew by the time I was 101 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: probably sixteen years old. 102 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 6: I knew that this is what I was going to 103 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 6: be doing for my life. 104 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: And I told my mom, I said, I want to 105 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: drop out of high school. I dropped out of high 106 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: school in the tenth grade and was in a band 107 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: and I went and got my ged and then just 108 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,119 Speaker 1: started playing in bands, I said. 109 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 6: And my mom was like, well, if. 110 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: You're going to get out of high school, I was 111 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: all I was doing was playing in bands. 112 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 6: She's like, if you're going to leave school, you have 113 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 6: to make money. You know, you can't just be a bum. 114 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 6: That's what I remember. 115 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 3: You're not floundering around this house, eating this food, just 116 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: having fun. You got to start making some money. 117 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: Sure money, So my mom, you know, I was a 118 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: guitar player, just playing, making hardly any money, bumbing. 119 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 6: Around my mom. 120 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: Literally, I said, some of my songs. My mom told 121 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: me when I was seventeen, She's like, you're out. You 122 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: need to go make a living and you need to 123 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: go see it out. So I left home when I 124 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: was seventeen and got a part time job and started. 125 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 6: Playing bands, and and that was it. 126 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: Did you have a job other than playing guitar where 127 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 3: you're making money at some point, like maybe your first job? 128 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 4: What was it? 129 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 6: I was? I was working. I mean I had the typical, 130 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 6: you know. 131 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: Paper route and all those kind of jobs. But I 132 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: remember working because I got We were living in a 133 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: you know, industrial you know, right on the river milltown, 134 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: and I worked in everything from shoe shops literally not 135 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: even lying, putting soles on the bottom of shoes, gluing 136 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: them on. Someone said, that's why I have I have 137 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: so much soul. And then I worked for Wayne Computers. 138 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: I was doing on the line. I was doing like 139 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: computer boards and expecting circuit boards. And then I became 140 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: a supervisor. I'll never forget this. I became a supervisor, 141 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: and then I was playing guitar and I got a 142 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: chance to auditions for Ozzy Osbourne and they were going 143 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: to fly me to Los Angeles to try out for Ozzy. 144 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: Where were we in a time for here? Like about 145 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: what year are we talking about? 146 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: This was in the eighties, probably eighty, you know, eighty 147 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: six eighty seven. I went out to LA to try 148 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: out for Ozzy. So I was twenty six years old. 149 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 3: And how did you How did you find out Ozzie's 150 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: looking for a guitar? How did that whole thing happen? 151 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: I was sitting home playing my guitar, the biggest fan 152 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: of Ozzy and I all of a sudden the radio 153 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: came on and I heard this British bumbling accent and 154 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: it was Ozzy on an interview in Boston BCN saying 155 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm looking for a guitarist your kid, and. 156 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 6: Wow, no, I dialed the radio station. This is a 157 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 6: true story. I dialed the station. I still had a 158 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 6: fold with the curly cord on it, and I throw 159 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 6: it on the ground and I went. 160 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: And I started playing Ausie riffs over the phone, and 161 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: the guy on the phone said, there's somebody on the phone. 162 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 6: That wants the audition for Ozzie, And he sounds pretty good. 163 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 4: You gotta be me. This is this is an insane story. 164 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: It's a true story. And I gave them my information. 165 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: They gave me a number and an address, and I 166 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: sent a cassette tape. It was a cassette to Los 167 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: Angeles and it has some demos and me playing. And 168 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: I got a call two weeks later that was flying 169 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: you to Los Angeles to try out for Ozzy Osborne. 170 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 4: You gotta be kidding me. This is an unbelievable story. 171 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: So this basically happened with you just listening to the 172 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: radio one afternoon. Ozzie just happens to be on and 173 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 3: he says, I'm looking for a guitar player. 174 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 4: You called in, you got through. 175 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 3: You started playing riffs live on the air, and Ozzie 176 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 3: hears it and says, hey, I want you to fly 177 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: out to Los Angeles. I mean, so you fly out 178 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 3: to Los Angeles. Tell me what happens. 179 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 6: Yeah. 180 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: I fly out there and I get the auditioned songs 181 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: that I have to do. They let me know. I 182 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: get prepared. I fly out there and I get off 183 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: the plane. There's a guy waiting for me with my 184 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: name on a thing, and I get in. He's waiting 185 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: with a limousine outside. I've never been in a limo 186 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: of my life. 187 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 4: It's like a movie, right, It's like a movie man. 188 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 1: And I'm in this limousine and I'm flying down Sunset Boulevard. 189 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: I've never seen California in my life, palm trees and everything. 190 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 6: And he's driving kind of fast. 191 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: We're whipping around the roads and I'm getting there and 192 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is incredible. And I walk in and 193 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: there's a hallway with twenty guitar players all lined up 194 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: with long hair and leather jackets. It's a cattle call, 195 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: like they all look like me. And I'm like, this 196 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: is crazy. And I get to go in the room 197 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: and I actually play with Ozzy. He comes in the 198 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: room and we're playing I don't know and crazy trained 199 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: and he's talking to me and I'm just in awe. 200 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 6: I'm just I can't even believe that I'm standing here. 201 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: And the amplifier they had me play through the Marshall 202 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: stacks were so loud. I'd never heard anything so loud 203 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: in my life. When I hit a chord, it almost 204 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: knocked me on the ground. 205 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 6: It was incredible. 206 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 3: This is right around the time that Zach Wild became 207 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 3: the guitarist of Ozzie. 208 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: So I don't want to. I don't want to. 209 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 3: I guess jump this and say you didn't get the gig. 210 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 3: But what happened from here. 211 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: Well what happened was it turned out to change my 212 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: entire life because getting the audition with Ozzy and getting 213 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: to Hollywood and experiencing that and knowing I had talent. 214 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: You know, I knew I worked hard, I had talent 215 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: that Ozzy literally said to me if you don't get 216 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: the gig, because they called me back for a second day. 217 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: I came back a second day, so I knew they 218 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: were taking a hard look at me. 219 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 6: And then I played again. And then the second day. 220 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: Ozzie said, if you get the giggle, you don't, you 221 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: need to move to Los Angeles. You need to come here. 222 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: And so I got home. I found out I didn't 223 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: get the gig. It was Zach Wild, which made total sense. 224 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 6: He was perfect. 225 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: But I came home and I sold everything I had 226 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: and I got into U haul and I drove across 227 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: the country to California. I listened to what Ozzie said, 228 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: and I went there and I found a manager and 229 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: I signed up Warner Brothers Records, and my career took off. 230 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: And I believe I owe it to Ozzy. 231 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 4: I believe that had to be. 232 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 3: That's like when you ask somebody what their big break was, right, 233 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 3: and a lot of people will say, like, hey, you know, 234 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 3: gradually I worked up. 235 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 4: That happens a lot. 236 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 3: You know, hard work pays off and gradually they make it. 237 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 3: In your circumstance, do you consider that whole situation, that 238 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 3: whole story had to be your big break? 239 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: Right? 240 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 6: I think it was. 241 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: I think it was my big break because I'm a 242 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: kid in a milltown in Lowell. 243 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 6: Who do I know in Los Angeles to get an 244 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 6: audition with a big gig. I don't know anybody. 245 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: I don't have a manager, I don't have a publicist, 246 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: I don't have anybody. 247 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 6: I just have my talent. 248 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: And I had the balls to pick up the phone 249 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: and play over the phone. And I had the balls 250 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: to fly to Los Angeles and do the audition, which 251 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: was very scary, and it taught me a lot just 252 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: going through that experience. It aged me, you know by 253 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: doing it, because you learned so much. 254 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 3: You had the guitar in the amp hooked up and 255 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: ready to go just like you are right now. 256 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 6: I did. I had I had a practice amp, you know, 257 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 6: just sitting on the. 258 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: Floor and I have my guitar there, and you know, 259 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: I was always playing and just when I on the radio. 260 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 6: I don't even know what possessed me to call up. 261 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: And say, I'm just gonna play over the radio, right, I. 262 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 4: Mean, who would, I know, it's crazy. And I mean. 263 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 5: The Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zido Celebrity Jobber. 264 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 3: If that never happened, Gary, I mean, you ever you 265 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 3: ever think about if you never picked up the phone 266 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: and you never called the radio station and played for 267 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 3: Ozzy on the radio. I mean, have you ever just 268 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: kind of like one day reflected back to your life 269 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: and some man, you know, if I didn't make that 270 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 3: call this, maybe I'd be in a local band or 271 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 3: just doing something completely different. 272 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: At a very good point, I think there's a good 273 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: chance if I didn't pick up that phone that my 274 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: life would definitely not have taken the turn that it 275 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: did and the opportunities that came from it. And I 276 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: also think of the other side of the coin is 277 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: what if they said, guess what you are the new 278 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: guitarist for Ozzy. 279 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 4: Iye right. 280 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: I also thought about that and how my life would 281 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: have changed if that had happened, And would I still 282 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: have had two kids living in the woods in New 283 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: Hampshire where my kids know who I am and my 284 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: wife knows who I am and we have amazing relationships. 285 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 6: Or would I be divorced and my kids would know 286 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 6: who I am? Yeah, I just wonder like where would 287 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 6: I be? 288 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 1: And I've thought about that and if I didn't pick 289 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: up the phone so much wouldn't have happened and taught 290 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: it taught me for the rest of my life. When 291 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: a moment comes where you can seize an opportunity and 292 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: you can put yourself out there, do it because the 293 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: worst that can happen is somebody says no, which could 294 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: still turn into an opportunity. 295 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 4: That's true. 296 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 3: You know, I never really thought about that, And you know, 297 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 3: I was just having this conversation with somebody the other day, 298 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 3: like nobody owes you anything. You know, if you you 299 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 3: want something bad enough, you got to go out there 300 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 3: and get it. 301 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 4: And you can. But don't be the guy that's like, 302 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 4: woe is me? 303 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 3: Nothing good ever happens to me when you're not ever 304 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 3: taking a chance and going outside of your comfort zone 305 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 3: to try to make your dream happen, which you tried 306 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 3: to do. It didn't work out with Ozzie, but it 307 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: did work out. He gave you the advice. He moved 308 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 3: to La. You did, and one by one all these 309 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 3: things started happening. 310 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 4: Unbelievable. 311 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 3: It's a great story, Gary, And I mean, like I said, 312 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 3: I started, you know, I started in my career back 313 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 3: in the early to mid nineties at a station called 314 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 3: wyn F in Sarasota, Florida. And I remember it was 315 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 3: the song hocus Pocus from Gary Howey that got me 316 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 3: familiar with You, which was an old cover of the 317 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 3: Focus song. 318 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, it was. 319 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 6: An old song by Focus. 320 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: And again that was just a vehicle for me to 321 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: let people hopefully hear what else I was doing. You know, 322 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: I wanted to do a great cover song and have 323 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: some fun and you know, and in life, I mean, 324 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: all the opportunities that we take. I tell my son 325 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: this now, who's playing in my band? You know, I 326 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: tell him when you're meeting, when you're out doing something, 327 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: you never know what opportunity are going to come. And 328 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: you got to keep yourself open in life to making 329 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: relationships and connecting with people. And I tell them, when 330 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: you meet somebody, don't be afraid to say, hey, can 331 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: I get your phone number? Can we stay in touch? 332 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: You know, I'd love to stay in touch. And it 333 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: could be, it could be Brian Nathan Queen. You know, 334 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: it could be. It doesn't it doesn't matter. You can 335 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: still You're right. 336 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 4: Oh, it's important. 337 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 3: It's it's so important, and I think it's a it's 338 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 3: a good lesson for for anybody, you know. 339 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: Just uh, you. 340 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 3: Never know who that person is that you run into, 341 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 3: you know, and I guess it goes back to another 342 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 3: you know, it goes back to the I don't know 343 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 3: if it's a saying or not, but don't be a dick. 344 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: You know in life, you know, you never know who 345 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: you're going to meet. You maintain good relationships with people 346 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: or you know, you definitely you have a chance. You 347 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 3: never know who you're going to meet along the way. 348 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 3: And your story is definitely one that I'll never forget. 349 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 3: And still to this day, Gary, you're still you're still 350 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 3: touring full schedule. 351 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 4: You got a new music coming out. I understand, Yes, we. 352 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: Just released a new album Avalanche. Yeah, I'm still making 353 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: new music. I'm toying with my son. He's in my band. Now. 354 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: Life is really good, man. I'm you know, I'm still 355 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: feeding my kids on rock and roll and uh. You know, 356 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: I talk about taking chances and getting out there and 357 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: the relationships you you make with people are really what's 358 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: going to get you where you need to go, because 359 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: people want to hang out with people that they like, 360 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: you know. But it's also you know, you have to 361 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: to survive in this business. You have to be diversified. 362 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: Like I'm a teacher, I'm a mentor, I'm a guitar player, 363 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: I'm a producer, I'm an engineer. You know, I'm a 364 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: a valet cars. I mean, I do whatever it takes 365 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: to feed my family. And and so I think in 366 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: any business, you gotta don't look at yourself as one dimensional. 367 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: Find out other things that you're you're good at and uh, 368 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: and don't just look for a hand up for yourself, 369 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: give other people a hand up. I always love to 370 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: work with young musicians and mentor them and you know, 371 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: give them some help. 372 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 3: So Gary, you're you're talking about all these other jobs 373 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 3: that you have still to this day with within the 374 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 3: music business. You're you're, you know, not only performing putting 375 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 3: out new albums, you're also a producer, an engineer. Tell 376 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: me about all the different jobs you have within the 377 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 3: music business. 378 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I started messing with the 379 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: knobs and becoming an engineer many many years ago. People 380 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: would leave the studio and I would hang around with 381 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: you know, Thompson, Barbriero, Richie Zito, you know Tom, all 382 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: these amazing producers that I got to work with, and 383 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: I would hang around and ask them questions and try 384 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: to learn about the tricks and the trade. And so 385 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: I ended up becoming a producer. 386 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 6: I produced Leeda. 387 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: Ford's last record and just we just did another record together. 388 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: And I've worked with Ricky Lee Jones. I've worked with 389 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: Tom Waits, I've worked with Jewel, I've worked with so 390 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: many people. And and again, being in the studio with people, 391 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: you have to bring the best out of people as 392 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: a producer, So that's what I do. I'm good at 393 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: helping people to feel comfortable when they're in the studio. 394 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: And when I'm not working, you know, sometimes I'm creating 395 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: for ESPN Sports. If I'm not on tour, I'm writing 396 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: for Disney. I have songs in several movies, Danny DeVito, 397 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: Decka Halls, Beethoven, The Dog Movie. And so I've survived 398 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: for thirty years by not just doing one thing. I'm 399 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: a pretty diverse person. 400 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 3: On June eighteenth in Saint Petersburg, you're playing with Lou Graham, 401 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 3: the original lead singer of Foreigner. Lou Graham's All Stars. 402 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 3: That's going on at the Palladium in Saint Pete and 403 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 3: that's on June eighteenth. Tell me a little bit about 404 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 3: the Lou Graham's All Stars. 405 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great working with Lou. It's funny because I 406 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: love Fearner. I grew up on the music and thirty 407 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: years ago, when hocus Pocus came out, my first hit song, 408 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: I ended up opening up so Foreigner and the Doobie Brothers. 409 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 6: I was the opening band. 410 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: So I got to tour for sweets with Lou and 411 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: hang out and you know, get to hear him, and 412 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: we you know, we became kind of friends. You know, 413 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: we hung out and then I didn't see him for 414 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: a few years, and then we started doing some things 415 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: together with Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp. Well, he would 416 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: come in as a guest, and then I did some 417 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: Cluises where he was on there. So we kept winning 418 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: into each other. And then my friend Tony Franklin plays 419 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: bass for him The Fretless Monster, and called me one 420 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: day and said, Lou's looking for a guitar played to 421 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: Phil Infis and dates would you want to do it? 422 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, I would love to, and came 423 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: down and we really hit it off. And so Lou's 424 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: been using me for, you know, for most of the 425 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: shows at this point, and as much as I can do. 426 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 4: Man, new album is out. 427 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 3: It's called Avalanche Garyhoey dot com. That's Gary h o 428 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 3: e Y dot com. Find out more about where Gary's 429 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 3: performing his music. You could buy his new CD, Avalanche Gary. 430 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 3: I got to tell you, man, great story, and I 431 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 3: was so so glad to finally get a chance to 432 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 3: talk to you after all these years. I know that 433 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 3: my old budd he's Stan and Haney used to have 434 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 3: you on their show all the time, but I never 435 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,479 Speaker 3: had an opportunity to speak to you before, so I 436 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 3: was glad I finally got a chance to hook up 437 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 3: me too. 438 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: Man, I'm so glad that we did get to talk. 439 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: And yeah, Stan and Haney were really cool guys. Man, 440 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: so many years. I think your shows off the air 441 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: now right. 442 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 4: It is just they just retired back in last August. 443 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 6: Well, legendary guys. 444 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: And a funny story is my mother lived in Fort 445 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: Myers and when I came down, I came to see 446 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: her and see them, and she made them a big 447 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 1: thing of lasagna with some salad and garlic bread, and 448 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: I brought it to them and then they talked about 449 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: that for ten years. 450 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, they usually don't eat listener food, but I think, yeah, 451 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 3: your mother's cooking was a different story altogether. 452 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 6: So but great to chat with you, man. 453 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: I wish you were great summer and hopefully in the 454 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: fall I was some new holiday music. 455 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 6: Maybe we can chat again. 456 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 4: Awesome, Gary, thanks so much, man, you too, have a 457 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 4: great day. 458 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 6: Jeff, thank you. 459 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: Maybe not the most recognizable name, Gary Hoey, but you 460 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 3: see that big break hearing Ozzy on the radio in Boston, 461 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 3: he calls the station starts playing guitar on the phone. 462 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 3: Just so happens that Ozzie's looking for a guitar player. 463 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 3: They fly him out to la Unfortunately he doesn't get 464 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 3: the gig, but he said that experience changed his life 465 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 3: because Ozzi said whether you get it or don't. You 466 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 3: got to move out here to Los Angeles. This is 467 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 3: where all the gigs are. So I kind of what 468 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 3: I took from that whole story is, you know, it 469 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 3: could have been a sad story, right, like, ah, I 470 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 3: didn't get the gig, but it wasn't a sad story. 471 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 3: Just because he didn't get the gig, it didn't end. 472 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 3: He did move to Los Angeles, doors did open, signed 473 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: a record deal with Warner Brothers, had a hit song 474 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 3: on the radio, hocus Pocus. You know, it led to 475 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: not only a career of you know, music and performing 476 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 3: music live, but behind the scenes stuff. He's a producer 477 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 3: and he's worked with Leada Ford and Jewel and he 478 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 3: does some sound design projects and his written stuff for Disney. 479 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 3: So you see how this whole thing did work out 480 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 3: for Gary Hoey. If you're in the Tampa Saint Pete area, 481 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 3: Gary performing with the original singer of Foreigner, Lou Graham 482 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 3: at the Palladium. 483 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 4: That's Wednesday, June eighteenth. 484 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 3: See if I can hit Gary up on Twitter, See 485 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 3: if he'll give me a pair of tickets to that gig. 486 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: Think I'd like to go. Talked about his first jobs 487 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: outside of music. He was resoling shoes, also inspected some 488 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 3: circuit boards for computers. Both those jobs don't sound very exciting, 489 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 3: so really glad that the whole music thing worked out 490 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 3: for Gary Man. 491 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 4: What a story. 492 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for checking out another episode of 493 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 3: the Celebrity Jobber podcast streaming on Spotify, Apple podcast wherever 494 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 3: you listen to podcasts, Please subscribe with love a five 495 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 3: star rating and leave a review. You can check out 496 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 3: past episodes online Celebrity Jobber dot com number two on 497 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts Music Interviews Chart. You can also follow online 498 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 3: at YouTube dot com, slash the ad Signed Celebrity Jobber 499 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 3: or on ig Celebrity Underscore Job or Underscore Podcast. This 500 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 3: is definitely one of the most exciting stories I've heard 501 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 3: in a long time. And even though he didn't get 502 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 3: the gig, you know, Zach Wilde got the gig for 503 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 3: Ozzy Osbourne, who by the way, is retiring June fifth, 504 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 3: is very last gig in his hometown of Birmingham in 505 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 3: the UK. And Gary didn't get the gig, but it's 506 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 3: still worked out and still putting out new music and 507 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 3: performing and he has a lot to be proud of. 508 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 3: Gary Hoey everybody's got a story and got some great 509 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 3: celebs lined. 510 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 4: Up for the future. 511 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 3: We'll get to hear their stories coming up right here 512 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 3: on the Celebrity Jobber Podcast. 513 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 4: Thanks again for listening. I'm Jeff Zito.