1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: We are one month out from Rob Thomas visiting us 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: for the All Night Days tour. 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 2: It's been a long time since I've had one of those. 4 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: And All Night Day He's going to be at the 5 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Riverside Theater Friday, October twenty four and Saturday October twenty five. 6 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: Tickets are available through Ticketech. His new album All Night 7 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Days is out now and he's with us this morning. 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: Good morning, Rob. 9 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 3: So can we just say that, like we're a month 10 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 3: away from Rob Thomas Day, Rob. 11 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: Thomas Thomas, we absolutely can. 12 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 3: I want to make it. I want to make it. 13 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 3: I want to make it a thing like that. 14 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: Yes, a celebration of all things Rob Thomas. I love it, 15 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: Rob Thomas. 16 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 4: Festivus, it's everything and everybody gets a day Rob. Why 17 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 4: shouldn't you exactly? 18 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 3: Thank you? Thank you so much went. 19 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: Through to have you coming back. You seem to enjoy 20 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: coming to Australia just a bit. Yeah. 21 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's been almost thirty years. You guys 22 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 3: have been really really nice and we've had I think 23 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 3: a really great relationship together. You know, you guys have 24 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 3: been always kind of down for my brand of whatever. 25 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, we get you, we do. 26 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what I feel. 27 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been getting you for a very very long time. 28 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 4: So now we're up to the sixth solo album. You know, 29 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 4: there's Matchbox and then there's Rob solos, six of those 30 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 4: all night days. Does the album don't come from being 31 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 4: able to listen to it on a Saturday night as 32 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,639 Speaker 4: well as a as a Sunday day. It's an anytime album. 33 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that every record I have has to 34 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: have your Saturday nights and your Sunday mornings, right, Like 35 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: you have to think that you feel great about and 36 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 3: then the things that you feel sad about. 37 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 4: And is it also a little bit about yeah, up 38 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 4: all night because you know you are in the music biz. 39 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 4: Lisa might not still be up for staying up all night, 40 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 4: but I'm sure you are. 41 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 3: Well I'm not normally, but then something about being on 42 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 3: the road makes you have to and therefore I do 43 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 3: appreciate the fact that I get to do that. 44 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. So did you start working on this album mid 45 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: COVID lockdowns? 46 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 4: That's what we heard. 47 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, you know, originally in twenty twenty, I was 48 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: going to make a solo record. Yeah, and then the 49 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: world kind of shut down for a minute and when 50 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three Matchbox we decided to make a record, 51 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 3: and so some of these songs got put on hold. 52 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: Some of them were out on the Matchbox record, some 53 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: of the Matchbox record wound up on this record. It 54 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 3: just you know, it was a whole process. 55 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 56 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 3: The good thing is I know for a fact that 57 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: these are the best songs that I have because I 58 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 3: didn't just put them out immediately, like I got to 59 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 3: sit on them for a minute. Like you know, by 60 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 3: the time I put this out, I was so glad 61 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: for you guys to hear it, Like I was like, 62 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 3: you guys like this right, You guys like it right, 63 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: right right? 64 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 4: Because obviously you know you've written stuff for the band, 65 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 4: you've not now you're up to the sixth solo album. 66 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 4: Does inspiration still come to you easily from new material? 67 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so, because, like I said, I write 68 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 3: all the time, and I don't try to write a 69 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: record to try to define me. I just write records 70 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: defining the moment that I'm in. And my moment is 71 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: probably a lot like what you guys are going through. 72 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 3: So like I could write a song about a moment 73 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 3: that I'm going through, but that moment is something that 74 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 3: you guys understand, you know what I mean, Like I 75 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: write about maybe I'm getting older, or maybe I'm writing 76 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 3: about a fight that I just had with my wife, 77 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: but like we all understand how that moment makes you feel. Yeah, 78 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 3: and so those moments come easily. So I think when 79 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 3: you don't try and write for an artist and you 80 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: just try and write for a person, it's way easier 81 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: and people relate to them a lot more. 82 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, that's the thing. 83 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even have one good song in me, so 84 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: it's nice when someone can write. 85 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: Everybody try. 86 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 4: Everyone's I mean, whether it's a good song is another matter, 87 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 4: but everyone's got a song. 88 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm listen, I'm a I'm a I'm a 89 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: I'm a lover of songs, right, So you know that 90 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: moment where you have a song that just for some 91 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 3: reason you love it because it explains how you feel 92 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 3: in a way that you couldn't say it oh. 93 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 2: All the time. Well, that's what I mean. 94 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 3: It's must have someone writ to do. 95 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, totally tell us about the shows at the riverside. 96 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: Who's coming with you? 97 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 3: So each place that I go in Australia, were taking 98 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 3: a different artist from that local place, I think. And 99 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 3: then with you know, with my Soco band, it's been 100 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: this band that I'm in. It I've been with for 101 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 3: twenty years, so it's not like a just a hired band. 102 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 103 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 3: And it's also my son is the guitar player in 104 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 3: the band, so it's like it's it's family and it's 105 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: joy and it's fun. So like our thing is when 106 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: we come to see you, we don't play music for 107 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 3: you guys. We want you guys to be a part 108 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: of this night that we're all curating you, I mean, 109 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: because it's like we only get so many of these 110 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: nights and it's our night too, and we want everyone 111 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 3: to have a great time. 112 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 4: Does the mouth off at you because you know your dad? 113 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, because I'm also his boss. 114 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: Now I believe your manager also managed David Bowie and 115 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: George Michael. And is it true that your last memory 116 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: of George is watching Avatar with him in Australia? 117 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, in Sydney. Yeah, he was there for his tour 118 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 3: and I was just finishing my tour. Yeah, so him 119 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: and I went to go see Avatar together and then 120 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: my last memory was actually him and I an elevator 121 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 3: fighting about Avatar. 122 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 2: Whether it was a good movie or not. 123 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he did not like it. I thought it 124 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 3: was really good. Different, but you know, it's funny my 125 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: wife and my wife friend had to me like him 126 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 3: and I. That was kind of our thing. We always 127 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 3: talked about music, and we always we disagreed on everything. 128 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: Like my favorite album was Pink Floyd the Wall, and 129 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: he thought it was Ship. That was like, no, no, no, 130 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: it's a great record. 131 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 2: It is one of the greatest things of all time. 132 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you're my age and like doing drugs 133 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 3: listening to it. It's amazing. 134 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: It was built for it. It was wait for it. 135 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 4: Absolutely so. Do you remember the very first time you 136 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 4: heard yourself on the radio? How did it feel? 137 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 3: I do, because it was like one of those moments 138 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: you would expect. Like we were in the van and trailer, yeah, 139 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 3: driving you know, like to the like across the country 140 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 3: in America to get to like our next gig, and 141 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 3: we were moving into Dallas and we we were listening 142 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 3: to a seat a tape cassette at the time. I 143 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 3: don't know if you if you kids know what a 144 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 3: cassette is. 145 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 2: Along the freeway dot you so. 146 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 3: We ejected the cassette and the second that we did, 147 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 3: our song came on. I remember like we were like 148 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 3: we saw like Dallas over there and we were like 149 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: we had that moment, We're hands in the air. We 150 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 3: just felt we felt like we had made it. And 151 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 3: then by the way, that song later on did not 152 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: do well and we almost got dropped. Care felt like 153 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 3: we were giant. 154 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 4: It would it would all. Thanks all thanks to a 155 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 4: dodgy cassette. We love it. 156 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 2: There you are winding it back on with a pencil. 157 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: Rob Thomas. 158 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: We can't wait to have you in town October twenty 159 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: four and Saturday, October twenty five for Rob Thomas Day, 160 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: nay two. 161 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: Days it is. It's a festival. Tickets are available through 162 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 2: Ticke Tech. 163 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: The album All Night Days is out now. Thanks for 164 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: joining us this morning. 165 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 3: Guys, Thank you so much for your time. We're gonna 166 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: have a really good time. 167 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 4: We look forward to seeing you at the Riverside Theater. 168 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 3: Thanks Rob, Thank you guys so much. 169 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 2: Bye.