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Speaker 1: Z and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it seems yacht rock, my favorite genre, has had

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Speaker 2: a massive renaissance of late, and we thought it was

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Speaker 2: fitting to have the forefather of this on for a chat.

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Speaker 2: Christopher Cross is hitting our stages later in the year

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Speaker 2: alongside the legendary band Toto.

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Speaker 1: What an incredible night. Can't wait? Christopher Cross?

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Speaker 3: Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 4: We're great?

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Speaker 1: We are. I'm happy to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Where. We spoke to Steve Lucatha from Toto before and

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Speaker 4: we're just talking about yacht rock and I said, how

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Speaker 4: do you feel about the term yacht rock? And he

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Speaker 4: was sort of cool with it? What about you? How

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Speaker 4: do you feel about it? Oh?

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Speaker 3: You know, we're getting cooler with it as time goes on.

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Speaker 3: It's it's been kind of a love hate thing, I

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Speaker 3: think for all of us. But as I said, we're

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Speaker 3: warming up to it. Actually, the documentary that just came

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Speaker 3: out as a document isbel Max, my daughter produced it.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I thought that documentary was extraordinary and the band in it,

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Speaker 2: Yachty Crue, who play back to back your Rocker, coming

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Speaker 2: to visit Australia and we spoke to them too. They

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Speaker 2: are filling the floor every night what is it about

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Speaker 2: this genre of music that's having this resurgence, you think.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's based on the songwriting. You know,

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Speaker 3: it was an era where there was a really quality songwriting,

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Speaker 3: quality production, great studio musicians, and so it's a kind

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Speaker 3: of bygone, or it to a certain degrease. I guess

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Speaker 3: people are embracing it. You know.

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Speaker 2: I read somewhere that you said you'd finance just original

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Speaker 2: songs by selling weed, and you're probably not the only one. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: musicians ship was more successful than that, or we wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have you with us, right, Well.

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Speaker 3: Meliane was admitting it. Yeah, I did. I had quite

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Speaker 3: a thriving business and made some money and was able

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Speaker 3: to buy some studio equipment and invest in a studio

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Speaker 3: which allowed me to do my demos, which eventually got

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Speaker 3: me my deal. So you know, all spare.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be hard to sell weed because you know, you

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Speaker 4: got the cops, but then also you've got the other

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Speaker 4: weed dealers, and then you've got people ripping you off.

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Speaker 4: And someone ripped you off. You can't go to the cops,

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Speaker 4: can you. No.

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I recall I had a

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Speaker 3: stereo in my old day. Stereo in my glove compartment

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Speaker 3: and I stashed a little bit of weed back there

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Speaker 3: and it got stolen, and I went down the police department.

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Speaker 3: They recovered my stereo, and then they proceeded to inform

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Speaker 3: me that they found a little something behind the stereo

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Speaker 3: and how dare I have the weybos to ask them

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Speaker 3: to retrieve my stereo when there was the weed behind it?

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Speaker 1: And did you get the weed back? Funnily enough did

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Speaker 1: that disappear?

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Speaker 3: I did not get the weed back, and they definitely

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Speaker 3: informed me that they're going to keep their eye on me.

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Speaker 2: You and Toto are great friends, and you're going to

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Speaker 2: be together chewing together. Will there be Shenanigan's backstage? Are

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Speaker 2: you all still partiers?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think you talked to Steve Lucasther. I think that

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Speaker 3: answered that question. Yeah, yeah, Steve. I've been friends with

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Speaker 3: the guys for years, and of course they played on

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Speaker 3: a lot of my big hit is like all Right

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Speaker 3: for my second album Arthur's Theme. They're the studio musicians

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Speaker 3: on a lot of my big hits. So it's a

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Speaker 3: great reunion for me. We're obviously very old friends. They're

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Speaker 3: amazing musicians, and we just did a long tour six

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Speaker 3: weeks in Europe. We had a great time, so we're

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Speaker 3: really looking forward to bringing the show down there.

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Speaker 4: And if there's one Tito song that you would love

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Speaker 4: to play from those guys, what what is it? What's

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Speaker 4: your favorite Tito song?

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Speaker 3: Well, interestingly, it's I think everybody loves Rosanna because the drum,

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Speaker 3: the drum track from Jeff Pacaro, who's no longer with

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Speaker 3: this is just unbelievably amazing. Also have to say I'm

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Speaker 3: a big fan of the song Africa, which is not

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Speaker 3: one that anyone felt like could be a hill on

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Speaker 3: the radio, but it turned out to be the one

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Speaker 3: of their biggest hits ever. Of course, which love David

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Speaker 3: Page song and I love that.

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Speaker 4: Well, we give that song thanks because quite frankly, it's

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Speaker 4: kept us in employment for the last twenty years on

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Speaker 4: this radio and help not to mention, not to mention

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Speaker 4: ride like the Wind, which.

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Speaker 3: Is yeah, it's kept them and kept them going to.

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Speaker 4: In fact, it's kept a whole industry going, Christopher, So

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Speaker 4: we give you thanks for that. For tickets and tour information,

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Speaker 4: you can head to ticket tech dot com dot a

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Speaker 4: you Christopher Cross, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to see you when you get here.

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Speaker 3: Guys, lovely to see. I hope I get good to

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Speaker 3: meet you impressed when I'm there.

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Speaker 1: We'd love that super okay, thanks Mabe