1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: In December, Harry conneg Junior is going to be in town. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: He's in town with his back Live tour at the 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 1: rac Arena Sunday, December three. Tickets are unsound now from 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: Ticketech and joining us Harry connieg Junior. 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: Good morning, Harry, Good morning y'all. How's it going very well? 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: It has been ten years since you last toured Australia. 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: Our pandemic aside. 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 3: Where have you been? What's been keeping you? 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 4: Oh gosh, it's awful to hear it like that. I mean, 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 4: I love Australia and I've come down there for so 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 4: many tours and films over the last thirty years. And 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 4: when I hear it like I haven't been there in 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 4: ten years, it's just like where did the time go? 14 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 4: I know, It's just a big world, you know, there's 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 4: lots of things going on in different places, and I'm 16 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 4: just happy I'm coming back. It's been too long and 17 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 4: you know, we're just going to give it all we 18 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 4: have when we come back down. Oh. 19 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 3: I love that you're kicking the tour off here in Perth. 20 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: I read somewhere the other day that you're a big 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: fan of Perth and you love our beaches, and of 22 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: course having the show in December, you're going to be 23 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: here just at the right time. 24 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,639 Speaker 4: Oh, it's per you know. I can't remember the first 25 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 4: time I went to Perth, but you know, I just 26 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 4: remember going to Coddle Slow in the Indiana Tea House 27 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 4: and I just absolutely loved it. I mean, it's hard 28 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 4: to describe the feeling in Perth. You know, it's a 29 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 4: really kind of just an amazing place, and the people 30 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 4: were so nice and just there over the years and 31 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 4: kind of traveling a little bit to Margaret River and 32 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 4: different places in the region. It's like, you know, it's 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 4: just I feel really lucky to be able to have 34 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 4: been there, you know. And then last October I took 35 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 4: my daughter Georgia there, so we can't wait to come back. 36 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the light, Harry. 37 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: I think we've got a really special light, you know, 38 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: as the you know, the wide open sky, and there's 39 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: something about the lot that you don't get anywhere else here. 40 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 4: I think you're right. You know. My mother in law, 41 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 4: Glenna Goodacre, was a very famous sculptor and she lived 42 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 4: in Santa Fe and she always talked about the light 43 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 4: and how artists would gravitate towards Santa Fe and I've 44 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,919 Speaker 4: always been really sensitive to that and to the feeling 45 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 4: you get. And I think you're right. It's just where 46 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 4: you guys are on the planet and how you know, 47 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 4: the way the sun is in the sky. It just 48 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 4: feels different. It's really special. 49 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, Harry, it's the love of music here in 50 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: the West too. 51 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 4: Mate. 52 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 5: I remember seeing you too back to back Notts a 53 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 5: sandal for about fifteen or twenty years ago with an 54 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 5: orchestra and your full band. It was just incredible. But 55 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 5: the love of music standing ovations both nots. That must 56 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 5: be unreal. When the people are on their fate at 57 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 5: the end of a gig like that. 58 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 4: You know, it's the greatest thing in the world. You know. 59 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 4: Just being on stage and performing is something I've done 60 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 4: for a long time, and you know, I treat every 61 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 4: show like it's, you know, the first and last show 62 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 4: I'm ever going to play. And if you can get 63 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 4: people to stand up at the end, it's the greatest 64 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 4: thrill and honor. It really really is. And so you know, 65 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 4: I take that stuff really seriously. I just want to 66 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 4: make sure that the people feel better even than they 67 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 4: did when they came in it's a lot to ask 68 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 4: people to come and you know, take time and spend 69 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: their money on your performance. So if I can get 70 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 4: them to stand up, man, it's like it's it's a 71 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 4: big it's a big deal. So it's a great feeling. 72 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: I'm guessing that growing up in New Orleans, NOLA, that 73 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: would have had to have had a huge influence on 74 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: your love of all things musical. 75 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 4: It's everything, you know. The thing about New Orleans is 76 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 4: music kind of comes to you. Like a lot of 77 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 4: places you go and they may have a really cool 78 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 4: music scene, but but like you'll be out on the 79 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,679 Speaker 4: street in New Orleans and music just kind of it's 80 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 4: just in the air, whether it's a brass band or 81 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 4: you know, people are playing in club and it's kind 82 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: of drifting out into the street. It's just it's just everywhere. 83 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,839 Speaker 4: And and for me as a kid growing up in that, 84 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 4: it was you know, I didn't really think about it 85 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 4: at the time, but looking back, I was really lucky 86 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: to have grown up in such an amazing musical environment. 87 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: Oh it's so on my bucket list. I just loved 88 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: that series Tremet. I mean the content, of course, aside 89 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: the music, and that was. 90 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 2: Incredible music and the food there. 91 00:03:58,440 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: You know, your way. 92 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: Around a TV movie or stage appearance would have been 93 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: some of the. 94 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 3: Highlights for you. I mean, everybody loved you and Will 95 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: and Grace. 96 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 4: That was one of the highlights for sure. You know. 97 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 4: I remember I was I was kind of watching the 98 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 4: end of it was a season finale, and I was 99 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 4: watching with my wife Jill, and I remember Grace, uh, 100 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 4: I think she like ran into a pole or something 101 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 4: that got knocked out, and then you see this stillhouette 102 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: of this guy on a horse pulling up and you 103 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 4: couldn't see who it was. And I remember loving the 104 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 4: show so much and saying with Jill, oh, I wonder 105 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 4: who that's gonna be. And then it turned out it 106 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 4: was me. You know, they called him asked me to 107 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 4: be that guy, So that was that was really cool. 108 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 4: I think I was supposed to do two or three shows, 109 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 4: and I ended up doing you know, a lot more, 110 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 4: and you know, that was that was a highlight. I 111 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 4: think about some of the great actors that I've worked with, 112 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 4: like you know, Sandra Bullock and Renee Zellweger and you know, 113 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 4: people that I've worked with on Broadway doing Broadway shows. 114 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 4: I just I've been very lucky to have I had 115 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 4: a chance to work with some amazing people. 116 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, Harry. 117 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 5: Recently I got to see Jackson Brown playing live in Perth, 118 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 5: and like yourself, he loves a great piano sound. There's 119 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 5: something about the live piano and not how much you 120 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 5: know you play and how much you love the instrument. 121 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 5: But what's this piano PARTTI? Are you now a celebrity 122 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 5: piano teacher? What's going on? 123 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 4: Well? I wanted to figure out a way to teach 124 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 4: people how to play piano who know absolutely nothing, and 125 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 4: that's most people. I mean, I think everybody loves music, 126 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 4: but you know, not everyone can play, and every sort 127 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 4: of lesson you see online, you know, starts at a 128 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 4: maybe a beginner level, but not at a very very beginning. 129 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 4: So I just wanted to kind of show people teach 130 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 4: them how to play piano based on the way I 131 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 4: play and the way I learned how to play, and 132 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 4: teaching people how to play music as opposed to just 133 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 4: like I could teach you how to play a song, 134 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 4: but then that would be the only song. You know. 135 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 4: If I teach you how to play music and the 136 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 4: basic building blocks, you can play anything you want. Because 137 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 4: you'd be able to hear it. So I came up 138 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 4: with this idea called Piano Party, and it's really taken off. 139 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 4: It's you know, people can sign up and you know, 140 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 4: buy a membership and and you know, learn at their 141 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 4: own pace. And it's been really really cool watching people 142 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 4: who know nothing about music learn how to play. 143 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 3: It's like the you know, teach a man to fish. 144 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: That's right, go ahead of mom, rather than just keep 145 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 2: you're exactly. 146 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 4: Right, love exactly right, because what happens, Yeah, if you 147 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 4: go to a party or something and somebody says, hey, 148 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 4: I want to sing so and so song, you know, 149 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 4: and you don't know it, you'd be able to figure 150 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 4: it out, you know, because you know a little bit 151 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 4: about music. It's really it's really been a lot of fun. 152 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: It's great. Harry. 153 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question, and it might 154 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: be annoying and you might roll your eyes, and I 155 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: apologize if that's the case. But because your music that 156 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: you do is so broad, I would love to know 157 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: if you have a favorite song. 158 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 4: Oh no, that's a that's a great question. I mean 159 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 4: there are songs that kind of coming oh you know 160 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 4: in my mind, you know, like I might have a 161 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 4: favorite one day that you know the next day, I 162 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 4: don't know. It's like a song you get stuck in 163 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 4: your head. But like there are songs like classics, songs 164 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 4: called like there's a song called star Dust, which is 165 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 4: just a it's just like a work of art. It's 166 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 4: like the it's like the Mona Lisa. You know. There's 167 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 4: that's pretty great, you know there's. Yeah, if I had 168 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 4: to pick a favorite, that's probably it, just because it's 169 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 4: such a perfect piece of Yeah, that's a good one. 170 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 5: Hey, Harry, I want to put a perf myth to 171 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 5: rest or. Maybe you can say it was true. And 172 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 5: you might not remember this, but there's a newsreader on 173 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 5: Perth is an absolute legend. His name is Rick Catt, and 174 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 5: he's been reading the news forever. And I heard this 175 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 5: his story that he ran up to you at a 176 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 5: beach in Perth and introduced himself because he's such a 177 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 5: big fan. Do you remember anything to do with that? 178 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 5: Because I've heard this story for years, I'll answer. 179 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 4: I'll answer it this way. Yeah, I'll answer it this way. 180 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 4: I don't not remember it. I don't want to make 181 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 4: him feel that very good. 182 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 3: I don't want to make him so many people every day. 183 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: He's a big music fan. 184 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 3: Ricky, Well, look we I mean, we really are. 185 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: We're running out of time, but a reminder that tickets 186 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: are on sound now from Ticke Tech for Harry Knick 187 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: Junior's back live tour at the rac Arena on December 188 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: the third. It's a Sunday night. It's going to be fabulous. 189 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: Harry Conic Junior, thank you so much for joining us. 190 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 4: Thanks that was fun.