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Speaker 1: The Voice starts seven o'clock on Sunday night on seven

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Speaker 1: and this year they're very lucky to have Richard Marx

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Speaker 1: in the chair hoping to be spun. He's with us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello Richard, are you guys?

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Speaker 1: Good? Good old there you are. We couldn't see you before. Hello. Now,

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Speaker 1: as a coach, what will you be looking for in

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Speaker 1: the contenders?

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Speaker 3: Tips? You know, like venmo I take venmo I take

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Speaker 3: any kind of payment.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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Speaker 3: Easy, it's easily, it's easily done. There's so many different methods,

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Speaker 3: so just sliply, slip me a few bucks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, behind the chair, my my Craikia might be different

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Speaker 4: than most in that I know that singing competition shows,

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Speaker 4: for for as long as we can remember, have sort

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Speaker 4: of conditioned audiences to want that big bomb stick, big singing, yelling,

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Speaker 4: hit the top of your range.

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Speaker 3: That's that doesn't do anything for me. I want to

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Speaker 3: I want to believe you. I want to be moved.

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Speaker 3: As my old friend Luther Vandross used to say, sing

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Speaker 3: to me, not at me. So that's what I that's

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Speaker 3: that's my criteria for what I'm looking.

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Speaker 1: For gymnastics, because this is the thing that I can't

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Speaker 1: The one thing I don't like about these shows is

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Speaker 1: they've not sung for three seconds and they've got the

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Speaker 1: microphone coming.

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Speaker 4: Out like this.

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Speaker 2: It's also the drama of everything.

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Speaker 1: It's like, give me a moment to you know, get

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Speaker 1: to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's just I find that historically there's been

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Speaker 3: there has been very lacking in dynamics, you know. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I'll give you an example. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: person who does it the best is John Varnhum and

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Speaker 3: always has. You know, he can. He can out sing anybody.

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Speaker 3: He's got the biggest voice you've ever heard. But then

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Speaker 3: he'll bring it down and he'll just bring you in.

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Speaker 3: He'll draw you in because he'll he's just full of dynamics.

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Speaker 3: He's such a master at that. Yeah, And that's that's

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Speaker 3: more of what I'm after.

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Speaker 1: Any argument from us.

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Speaker 5: DC cover and then he can do burn for you

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Speaker 5: and do it as well. I was going to ask

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Speaker 5: you exactly I know he's made of yours. Have you

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Speaker 5: had contact with John since been back in back in

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Speaker 5: town made? Have you spoken to John much?

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Speaker 3: Not in the last few months, but when I was

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Speaker 3: when I was in Sydney for those couple of months

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Speaker 3: earlier in the year. We spoke on the phone a

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Speaker 3: couple of times, and yeah we had I know he's

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Speaker 3: definitely been going through his his struggles, but when I

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Speaker 3: was on the phone with him, he stunded just the

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Speaker 3: same as he always did.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, great since helping him through and family big

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Speaker 5: time through.

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Speaker 1: Now you were at the Logis on Sunday night. Your

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Speaker 1: performance brought rave reviews all over the internet. The next morning,

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Speaker 1: what did you How did you feel about the Logans?

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Speaker 1: You would have done a lot of awards shows over

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Speaker 1: the years. We tend to think of ourselves as being

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Speaker 1: fairly laid back here, and I'm wondering if the logis

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Speaker 1: backstage at the Logis met that sort of idea I

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Speaker 1: have of that it was.

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Speaker 3: It was similar in certain ways and very different in others.

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Speaker 3: The main difference, I think the best way I can

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Speaker 3: describe it is someone asked me the next day, how

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Speaker 3: did you What was your experience? Like? I said, well,

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Speaker 3: it was an interesting week that night.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a lopped Yeah, you know, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean a lot would happen in a week's time in night,

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Speaker 3: That's what it felt like, felt like. I literally a

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Speaker 3: couple of times, I turned to my wife and I

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Speaker 3: went is this still going on?

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Speaker 2: The never ending story?

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Speaker 1: I'm fairly sure I've never been still awake for the

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Speaker 1: gold like, yeah, you have.

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Speaker 5: To check the results online exactly, Richard. I want to

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Speaker 5: take you back to nineteen eighty seven because I was

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Speaker 5: driving down West Coast Highway here in Perth and I

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Speaker 5: heard your song Don't Mean Nothing come on the radio.

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Speaker 5: I went, who the hell is this? And as an

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Speaker 5: Eagles fan, it it sounds like the Eagles And I

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Speaker 5: found out later of yeah, Joe Walsh was playing slide

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Speaker 5: guitar and the lead on there.

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Speaker 2: It was it light sitting there? Which did Joe play

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Speaker 2: that in the first album?

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Speaker 3: Well, it was just such a such a crazy situation.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was my first record. I was a

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Speaker 3: massive Eagles fan. The radio, at least in America was

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Speaker 3: not playing anything like that at that time in nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty seven. It was hair METALEP and it was dance music.

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Speaker 3: And for me to come out of the box with

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Speaker 3: this sort of retro southern California eaglely kind of rock

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Speaker 3: song was daring enough. But I think that I don't

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Speaker 3: think I know that what got the attention and what

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Speaker 3: got it on the radio was having that familiarity and

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Speaker 3: having Joe Walsh play the guitar. So I never met

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Speaker 3: Joe before. He just he heard the demo of the

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Speaker 3: song and liked it and said, yeah, I want to

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Speaker 3: play on that. And you know, we've known each other

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Speaker 3: ever since then. In fact, I just saw him a

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Speaker 3: few weeks ago and we were at a at Ringo

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Speaker 3: Star's birthday. Ringo turned eighty five, and I worked Ringo

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Speaker 3: and he's a dear friend and his brother and his

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Speaker 3: brother in law is Joe Walsh, and so I hadn't

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Speaker 3: seen Joe in a while, and we were standing there

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Speaker 3: at the party and I I had the presence of

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Speaker 3: mind to put my hand on his shoulder and I said,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if I've ever done this

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Speaker 3: to your face, but I got to thank you. You

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Speaker 3: changed my life. Playing on my changed my whole life.

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Speaker 3: And we got it and we gave each other a

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Speaker 3: big bro hug and it was really a beautiful moment.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Never mind hair Metal, You've always had a lovely head

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Speaker 1: of hair yourself, Richard Box.

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Speaker 3: Any hair at my age, my ripe old age. I'm

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Speaker 3: very grateful.

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Speaker 1: Still, absolutely are we all You've had a ridiculous number

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Speaker 1: of hit songs. Is there any one success that sort

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Speaker 1: of is particularly meaningful above all others, Like you weren't

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Speaker 1: expecting that one to be a success or something.

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Speaker 3: No, that wouldn't be a good example, because I never

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Speaker 3: expected any of them to be. You know, I've never

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Speaker 3: written a song in my life and thought, oh, this

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Speaker 3: is a hit song. I really never have. They've all

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Speaker 3: been great surprises to me. You know. I figured out

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Speaker 3: really early on that back when I was working with

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Speaker 3: a record company especially, I would just make an album

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Speaker 3: of songs that I wouldn't care which song they chose

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Speaker 3: as the singles. So I would just say to them,

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Speaker 3: whatever you guys think is gonna you know, make a

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Speaker 3: make a dent, you know, And sometimes they would say, well,

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Speaker 3: we're going to go with this and make a really okay.

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Speaker 3: But I learned really early on that that's not my forte.

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Speaker 3: I don't. You know. My wife Daisy will hear a

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Speaker 3: song once on the radio and she'll just spot whether

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a hit or not. Her track

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Speaker 3: record is incredible, So now she's my A and R person. Yes,

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Speaker 3: she's my creative. So when I'm making an album, I'll

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Speaker 3: but what do you think? And she'll go I like

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Speaker 3: this and in this one and this one, and she's usually.

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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, making you dance May You Like a Freight

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Speaker 5: Train one of the first seven singles in the top

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Speaker 5: five in the Billboard.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible. Your head must have been spinning.

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Speaker 3: It was. It was an incredible time. Yeah. I just

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Speaker 3: kept sort of like wiping my eyes and going really,

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Speaker 3: it was almost like the logis really.

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Speaker 1: Still all right, Well we must go. The Voice begins

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Speaker 1: Sunday night on the seven at seven. We look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing who you spin your chair for.

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Speaker 3: Do not miss this season. And I know I'm here

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Speaker 3: to plug, but trust me, it is such an enjoyable,

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Speaker 3: entertaining time on that show. The Coach, all the coaches,

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Speaker 3: we get along really well. There's a lot of shenanigans,

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Speaker 3: as I say, and some of the best talent I've

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Speaker 3: ever heard on any singing competition show. So I hope

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Speaker 3: you guys enjoy this.

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Speaker 2: I just want to say, you're waving your Grammy in

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Speaker 2: front of the other coaches. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard.

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Speaker 2: All that happens. Bye,