Loud Entertainment | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: So we've got a couple of gentlemen here, one of

0:02 Speaker 1: whom is very very colorfully dressed. But we have Larry

0:07 Speaker 1: from Loud Entertainment is here. Good morning, Larry, good morning,

0:09 Speaker 1: How are you good? Good? And you're your associate here.

0:12 Speaker 1: And by the way, for those of you, for those

0:14 Speaker 1: of you who are listening to the show, because obviously

0:16 Speaker 1: this is first and foremost a radio show, but if

0:19 Speaker 1: you are just listening to the audio, I do implore

0:21 Speaker 1: you go back and check out the video because we

0:22 Speaker 1: have mister I'm not sure your last name, Baboovich, Baboo Figure,

0:28 Speaker 1: Rich Fikovich, Pico Rich. I feel like there's an accent

0:34 Speaker 1: there that I can't replicate. But welcome, sir, Thank you, sir.

0:37 Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and thank you for allowing us in today.

0:39 Speaker 1: Absolutely no, it's wonderful, too wonderful to meet you both.

0:42 Speaker 1: So uh, we should and you know, we'll circle back

0:46 Speaker 1: back to it at the end, but I think kind

0:47 Speaker 1: of probably priority number one, at least for people listening

0:49 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, is you all got a big show tonight?

0:53 Speaker 2: Right?

0:53 Speaker 3: Yes, sure, we absolutely do. We got coming up tonight.

0:57 Speaker 3: We have a Metallica tribute along with the God Smack

0:59 Speaker 3: Trip at the Jewel right here in Manchester.

1:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, right across the street from where we are.

1:04 Speaker 2: You can throw stones at it.

1:06 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you you literally could. Yeah. Absolutely. So

1:09 Speaker 1: that's uh tonight. What time does that start?

1:11 Speaker 3: Doors open at seven? Show starts at eight. Tickets are

1:14 Speaker 3: available at the door.

1:15 Speaker 1: Now is it is it two different bands? Or are they?

1:17 Speaker 1: Is it one band tribute to both?

1:19 Speaker 3: Oh?

1:19 Speaker 1: Okay, oh, very cool, very cool? Now, you do you

1:23 Speaker 1: do a lot of tribute shows, right.

1:24 Speaker 3: We do. We probably put on at least fifty shows

1:27 Speaker 3: a year.

1:28 Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so you got something pretty much every week then, yeah.

1:32 Speaker 3: Pretty much. Sometimes next week we got three nights in

1:35 Speaker 3: a row.

1:36 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding. Wow, So that's kind of I feel

1:39 Speaker 1: like that's kind of your specialty, right, But it's not

1:41 Speaker 1: the only thing. Because you know, you're involved in Swarmy Fest.

1:43 Speaker 1: We should mention that too. Yep, you're the promoter for

1:45 Speaker 1: a Swarmy Fest coming up November fifteenth. That wore my

1:48 Speaker 1: I wore my Stepsis shirt of course, the new one

1:51 Speaker 1: that they gave me last week. Yeah, this will be uh,

1:53 Speaker 1: you know, this show, not the station, but this show specifically.

1:56 Speaker 1: We're one of the sponsors involved in that, and Jay

2:00 Speaker 1: and I always we always look forward to Swarmyfest every year.

2:03 Speaker 1: So this is going to be great and how but

2:06 Speaker 1: this is your this is your first year Loud Entertainments,

2:09 Speaker 1: first year involved in that, correct.

2:11 Speaker 3: In Swimmy Fish.

2:12 Speaker 1: Yeah great, So how did that come about? I'm really curious.

2:17 Speaker 1: It's it's a wonderful thing to be a part of,

2:19 Speaker 1: but to be you know, that's but you've got a

2:20 Speaker 1: little extra responsibility, right because like Jenny and I just

2:24 Speaker 1: have to show up and kind of represent what we

2:25 Speaker 1: do and whatnot. But as the promoter, you know, you've

2:28 Speaker 1: got a lot on your shoulders rights as the promoters

2:31 Speaker 1: of the show.

2:32 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, there's a lot of organization organizing things that

2:35 Speaker 3: particular show has. It's not just a show, I should say,

2:38 Speaker 3: it's not just a concert. It is actually a show. Yeah,

2:41 Speaker 3: we're going to bring a lot of different acts in

2:43 Speaker 3: and do some different things and you know, we try

2:45 Speaker 3: to bring you know, bring different people in and have

2:48 Speaker 3: a good time. And the more the merrier on that one.

2:51 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So how long has loud entertainment existed? And

2:56 Speaker 1: and and have have both of you been because baboo,

3:00 Speaker 1: you're your part. I mean, are you partners in this.

3:03 Speaker 2: Or are you There are three of us involved in it,

3:06 Speaker 2: were other gentleman named Joe Gun.

3:09 Speaker 1: It's okay, okay, So so you've been you've both been

3:13 Speaker 1: there from the beginning. Obviously you guys started you started it.

3:17 Speaker 3: We were actually doing a show at Default and uh,

3:20 Speaker 3: I at that point, I didn't know mister Bab. Yeah,

3:24 Speaker 3: and he walked in the room and I was sitting

3:26 Speaker 3: there with my girlfriend and.

3:27 Speaker 1: She said, I assume I assume you noticed him right away.

3:29 Speaker 3: Well she did. Yeah, she said to me, see that

3:32 Speaker 3: guy over there. I said, yeah. She said, that's the

3:34 Speaker 3: way a promoter should be dressed.

3:36 Speaker 1: Nice.

3:36 Speaker 3: So later on, after the show, there was a local

3:40 Speaker 3: band playing at a bar not five down the road,

3:43 Speaker 3: and uh, we went over there to see that after

3:45 Speaker 3: we were done, and mister Bab walked in again. Yeah,

3:48 Speaker 3: so I call her, sent him an email the next day.

3:51 Speaker 3: He sent me one back, and I mean, we've been

3:53 Speaker 3: pretty good friends since well I shouldn't even say good friends.

3:56 Speaker 3: We talked daily, so every day.

3:58 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. So then how did uh, I mean, did

4:02 Speaker 1: one of you pitch the idea to the other for

4:05 Speaker 1: loud entertainment or how did that happen?

4:07 Speaker 3: Well, that was doing our rebe once you tell him

4:10 Speaker 3: what's up with that? Which one on the question he just.

4:14 Speaker 1: Asked about Loud Entertainment, Like, how did the two of you?

4:17 Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like you became fast friends. But

4:19 Speaker 1: then how did Loud Entertainment come into existence?

4:21 Speaker 2: Well, Loud was doing shows and then as as Larry mentioned,

4:25 Speaker 2: we kind of met up at this little bar after

4:27 Speaker 2: a gig at at the ball okay, and he proposed

4:31 Speaker 2: that I do all of their events and m see

4:34 Speaker 2: everything that they do. Oh, okay, which is Gemini, Christmas

4:37 Speaker 2: a lot.

4:38 Speaker 1: Yeah.

4:39 Speaker 2: And I was, you know, slipping around getting here dribs

4:43 Speaker 2: and drabs, you know ones he twoesies. Now I'm getting

4:46 Speaker 2: like three nights in a given week. Yeah. I know

4:51 Speaker 2: some bands that you know, they'll do over one hundred

4:54 Speaker 2: gigs a year.

4:55 Speaker 1: Yeah.

4:56 Speaker 2: I see us in twenty twenty six being there. Yeah,

5:00 Speaker 2: and he sat at the latest.

5:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

5:03 Speaker 2: But there's a lot of venues that are closing. There's

5:07 Speaker 2: a couple of them that are that we're losing, and

5:10 Speaker 2: that will mean that the bands will have better, better attendance,

5:15 Speaker 2: I believe, because there's a lot of people out there

5:18 Speaker 2: for these tribute bands to get a foothold.

5:20 Speaker 3: I try. I try to say all the time that

5:23 Speaker 3: you know, at our age doing these tribute bands, you know,

5:27 Speaker 3: half of us have passed away. The other half never

5:29 Speaker 3: came back to music. So there's a small piece of

5:31 Speaker 3: pie to split up when there's nineteen shows going on

5:34 Speaker 3: within one hundred miles of each other, right, yeah, everybody

5:37 Speaker 3: gets everybody gets a few. Yeah, so when you do

5:40 Speaker 3: get that show with one hundred and fifty two hundred

5:42 Speaker 3: people in a small club, you actually had a good night,

5:44 Speaker 3: because that's that's accomplishing something.

5:46 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I hate to see venues closing though, that's

5:50 Speaker 1: that's terrible.

5:52 Speaker 3: One of the one of the big ones out on

5:53 Speaker 3: the what is that the boat? The boat, the boat

5:57 Speaker 3: is closing.

5:58 Speaker 1: It's cool though that like you guys take the attitude

6:01 Speaker 1: of well, you know, it's it's terrible when venues closed,

6:04 Speaker 1: but you know you got to find the silver linings, right,

6:07 Speaker 1: so show must go on. Yep, yep.

6:10 Speaker 2: Absolutely, There's never been more tribute pans now never ever. Ever.

6:15 Speaker 2: The first tribute band that I knew it was way

6:17 Speaker 2: back in the early eighties, was called Surgical Steel and

6:20 Speaker 2: they were copying Judish Priest. Yeah, and that was the

6:23 Speaker 2: only tribute Pan then, but now Gimani Christmas. There's a

6:27 Speaker 2: Linda ronstant One that's up at the two below.

6:29 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:30 Speaker 2: Ah, these tribute bands come out. We just got through

6:33 Speaker 2: having a couple of really great country western trips down

6:37 Speaker 2: at the Plymouth Memorial Hall, which we're going to be

6:39 Speaker 2: doing shows later on this year again excellent and some

6:42 Speaker 2: country events. We found out that there's a lot of

6:45 Speaker 2: people out there that you know, I know, you're a

6:47 Speaker 2: rock station, but there are a lot of country fans

6:49 Speaker 2: out there.

6:50 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We have actually our our guests in our

6:52 Speaker 1: number two, Matt Axton. He's white accent son. Oh my,

6:56 Speaker 1: so we got it. We got a country act in

6:57 Speaker 1: the second hour today as a matter of act. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

7:01 Speaker 1: we're having a little bit.

7:03 Speaker 3: We love all types of music, all genres, you know. Yeah,

7:07 Speaker 3: do what we can to help out no matter what

7:09 Speaker 3: it is.

7:09 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, So why why is it? Why do

7:13 Speaker 1: you guys think there are more attribute bands than ever

7:16 Speaker 1: right now?

7:17 Speaker 2: What?

7:17 Speaker 1: What? What's the reason for that? Do you think? I mean,

7:19 Speaker 1: is is there something that's driving that?

7:21 Speaker 2: Or yeah, they want to be musicians and they want

7:24 Speaker 2: to work.

7:24 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because you can. You can really make

7:28 Speaker 1: a living doing that, right, Sure you can. Yeah yeah, but.

7:32 Speaker 2: You also got realized that the competition is very rough.

7:35 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:36 Speaker 2: There's a couple of bands out there that do well.

7:38 Speaker 2: A guy named Miguel and Kalvis runs a band called

7:41 Speaker 2: Back in Black. They really do well. They're a C

7:44 Speaker 2: d C all over New England all the way to

7:46 Speaker 2: Western PA. Then there's a band called Crazy Train Ozzy Experience.

7:52 Speaker 2: These cats go on Hawaii.

7:54 Speaker 1: Now.

7:54 Speaker 2: Granted Ozzy just passed and the righting the crest of

7:57 Speaker 2: the wave, but they just got through performing for like

8:01 Speaker 2: eight thousand people.

8:02 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

8:03 Speaker 2: Uh, they're they're all over the place now and they're

8:06 Speaker 2: coming down to.

8:08 Speaker 3: The Jewel and the Jewel, I mean not to duel.

8:11 Speaker 3: Excuse me, They're coming down to the Vault next Saturday night,

8:14 Speaker 3: Crazy Train and uh who we got with them?

8:17 Speaker 2: Uh, sugar?

8:19 Speaker 3: Maybe there's so many shows on the schedule. Yeah, you

8:23 Speaker 3: say it because it's oh, Crazy Training, White Steak, which

8:26 Speaker 3: is the White Snake tribute. Those guys are hot too.

8:29 Speaker 3: They are really good right now.

8:30 Speaker 1: Yeah.

8:31 Speaker 3: Absolutely, they're starting to get more and more, playing bigger

8:33 Speaker 3: theaters and stuff.

8:34 Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, now how does it work? I suppose,

8:38 Speaker 1: I don't know if as as the promoters, if if

8:40 Speaker 1: you have to worry about this part, or it's more

8:42 Speaker 1: of the band has to worry about this part these

8:44 Speaker 1: individual bands. But I've always been curious about because that's

8:49 Speaker 1: not a with tribute bands. That's not a particular zone

8:52 Speaker 1: I've ever had any involvement in, Like, how does that

8:54 Speaker 1: work legally?

8:56 Speaker 2: Like any other job? Because pay a tax?

8:58 Speaker 1: No, but I mean, but I mean in terms of

9:01 Speaker 1: intellectual property and whatnot, Like, do you do you know

9:03 Speaker 1: any because I'm sure there's stories out there of bands

9:06 Speaker 1: that are maybe doing a tribute a tribute act and

9:08 Speaker 1: they get, you know, somebody kind of taps them on

9:11 Speaker 1: the shoulder, sends them a season assist letter or something

9:14 Speaker 1: saying we don't want you doing this and.

9:16 Speaker 3: You have to have original photos. Okay, use the word

9:20 Speaker 3: tribute a lot when you're explaining your shows. Okay, we

9:24 Speaker 3: just had a recent issue with our show that's going

9:26 Speaker 3: on tonight. Oh, about two months ago, when we started

9:30 Speaker 3: advertising the show, someone took our venue, our time, our date,

9:34 Speaker 3: and posted real pictures of the real Godsmack on stump hub.

9:39 Speaker 2: Oh.

9:40 Speaker 1: Wow.

9:41 Speaker 3: Actually, I started started getting calls from people and saying, hey,

9:44 Speaker 3: we just paid three hundred and eighty dollars before tickets.

9:47 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm like you crazy. So I'm actually

9:50 Speaker 3: letting them come tonight. Yeah, the people that don't have tickets,

9:55 Speaker 3: I'm just going to give them a break at the door.

9:57 Speaker 3: And they still got to you know, obviously they still

9:59 Speaker 3: got to pay to come in, but I'm gonna tell

10:00 Speaker 3: them that. I've already spoke to stump Hub and Stumphub

10:03 Speaker 3: said to let the people that don't have valid tickets

10:06 Speaker 3: to tell them to call them in the morning and

10:08 Speaker 3: they will. They'll fix the situation. They can't do anything

10:11 Speaker 3: about it until after the show.

10:12 Speaker 1: Okay, So somebody was pulling a scam. In other words, So, yeah,

10:16 Speaker 1: they Upstate took your show, made it look like it

10:18 Speaker 1: was the actual band. Yeah, and we actually got up Wow.

10:21 Speaker 3: We actually got a phone call from like god Smacks

10:23 Speaker 3: people and they're like, what are you guys doing. We're like, whoa,

10:26 Speaker 3: that ain't us. I got a call from John over

10:29 Speaker 3: at the Jewel and he said, what's going on? Why

10:31 Speaker 3: are you doing this? Yeah, he said, John, that's not us.

10:34 Speaker 3: So we all looked into it and we ended up

10:36 Speaker 3: figuring out that it was a scam.

10:37 Speaker 1: Oh that's crazy. I can see how that would happen though. Wow.

10:41 Speaker 1: So have you ever had a situation where a band

10:44 Speaker 1: is supposed to play and they come to you and

10:46 Speaker 1: they say, we've got a problem. We got a letter

10:48 Speaker 1: we heard from somebody's lawyer. Uh, that hasn't happened.

10:51 Speaker 2: That's good.

10:52 Speaker 1: No, that's good.

10:52 Speaker 2: You know, And if you really think about it, these

10:54 Speaker 2: tribute bands are doing the bands that they're you know,

10:57 Speaker 2: copying and on or because they're keeping their music, yes,

11:01 Speaker 2: and they're helping sell their.

11:02 Speaker 1: Product exactly exactly. Yeah. I often, you know, when the

11:07 Speaker 1: subject of tribute bands come up. You know, my favorite

11:09 Speaker 1: band of all time is Kiss, and I'm well aware

11:12 Speaker 1: that because i've you know, I've read a lot of

11:14 Speaker 1: books about this. How during the eighties when Kiss was

11:18 Speaker 1: in their non makeup era, you know, these tribute bands

11:21 Speaker 1: started popping up of kissing full makeup, and Kiss has

11:24 Speaker 1: always I've seen and heard a couple things that make

11:30 Speaker 1: me think in recent years they might have changed their

11:32 Speaker 1: policy slightly. But I know, for a long time, Kiss

11:35 Speaker 1: was really good about you know, they weren't going after anybody,

11:38 Speaker 1: leave them alone, let them do their thing, because they're

11:41 Speaker 1: actually helped. There was a Kiss tribute band in the

11:43 Speaker 1: early nineties. I can't remember who it was, but there

11:49 Speaker 1: was a guy from Boston who was in the band

11:50 Speaker 1: who they they did like five thousand seats at a

11:55 Speaker 1: tribute show in Canada, you know, doing the full makeup show.

11:59 Speaker 1: So it's it's like, you know, so they were making

12:02 Speaker 1: money and you know it helps, you know, it helps

12:05 Speaker 1: promote the band that they're a tribute of. But I

12:08 Speaker 1: do know too that there's like I remember a few

12:10 Speaker 1: years ago, I think there was a story about Springsteen

12:14 Speaker 1: was harassing somebody who was doing a Springsteen show, saying

12:17 Speaker 1: I don't want you doing But I don't know what

12:19 Speaker 1: the you know, details were about that eater, and maybe

12:22 Speaker 1: there was something that this guy was doing that that

12:24 Speaker 1: Springsteen objected to specifically. I'm not sure, but I know

12:28 Speaker 1: that you can run into trouble. But but it sounds

12:30 Speaker 1: like it's been pretty smooth for you guys overall.

12:32 Speaker 2: Right, Well, you got to remember the master Marketer is

12:35 Speaker 2: Geene Simmons. He's got one thing that I think it is,

12:39 Speaker 2: although a little bit harsh, very correct. He says if

12:43 Speaker 2: if you think that money cannot buy you happiness, you've

12:45 Speaker 2: never had money, right. True. He's the master marketer. He

12:51 Speaker 2: makes money off of everything he touches, and he's happy.

12:54 Speaker 2: He heck to have these kiss tributes out there. Yeah,

12:57 Speaker 2: there's one that Larry and I know well, Kiss Story

13:00 Speaker 2: with a guy named Vinnie, and Vinnie is spinning off

13:04 Speaker 2: a little bit into an Aussie trip that they call

13:06 Speaker 2: Sweet Leave.

13:07 Speaker 1: Okay.

13:08 Speaker 2: Vinnie's great. He's been a musician all his life. They're

13:10 Speaker 2: over in the New York area, Western New York area

13:13 Speaker 2: mostly so history hasn't come around. We're hoping we can

13:16 Speaker 2: set something up. Oh yeah in the future.

13:19 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And if you do it in

13:21 Speaker 1: they're coming here. We'd love to get him on the show.

13:22 Speaker 2: Oh if we'd love get him in the studio. All

13:25 Speaker 2: makeup and every they are bloody right on, I mean

13:32 Speaker 2: every aspect, boots everything, Kate, Yeah, perfect makeup.

13:37 Speaker 3: They are the most the blood running from his mouth.

13:41 Speaker 2: I don't know if he does that breathing fire. I

13:43 Speaker 2: don't believe he does that one. The pyrotechnic thing, and

13:46 Speaker 2: that's kind of a gene thing. I mean, you hold

13:50 Speaker 2: all the liquid in your mouth, you spew it out

13:52 Speaker 2: and then you purse your lips because if you draw

13:55 Speaker 2: back you can get a face full of fire.

13:57 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, who's the I mean, is there anyone

14:02 Speaker 1: you guys have booked who has particularly surprised you in

14:09 Speaker 1: terms of just how good where you go? Wow?

14:12 Speaker 2: Absolutely, young band named Under the Horizon has been very,

14:17 Speaker 2: very good.

14:18 Speaker 1: We love we love them, and we should clarify to

14:20 Speaker 1: for listeners who don't know that they're not a tribute,

14:23 Speaker 1: but there. We've had them on the show and Jenny

14:26 Speaker 1: and I just saw them last well it was a

14:29 Speaker 1: week ago today actually at Bad Burger Okay with Vices Inc.

14:32 Speaker 1: And Plagued Dad.

14:33 Speaker 3: They've been making some noise. I mean, those kids, and

14:36 Speaker 3: that guitarist is crazy. The drum is great yep. And

14:39 Speaker 3: the girl she loosens up a little more every single show.

14:42 Speaker 3: You find her doing something better and better and better,

14:45 Speaker 3: and she's just growing along with the band. And it's

14:48 Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, they're one of the better younger because

14:52 Speaker 3: they are really young. There ain't no one in the

14:54 Speaker 3: band that's over eighteen. Yeah yeah, but we try to

14:57 Speaker 3: put them in all our metal shows. We think they're great.

15:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

15:00 Speaker 3: I mean the dad, Mike Palmer. He's taking good care

15:04 Speaker 3: of them kids. He bought the bus.

15:06 Speaker 2: He's pushing them a yellow school bus. They got a

15:09 Speaker 2: yellow school bush. Yeah, the horizon on the side. It's

15:11 Speaker 2: really great.

15:11 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, take you back in time when they

15:14 Speaker 3: used to just travel around and a bus together. You know.

15:16 Speaker 3: Every time they pull up to a show, I'm waiting

15:18 Speaker 3: for the Pocas family to come back.

15:21 Speaker 1: Right right. They've gotten heavier too than when they started.

15:25 Speaker 1: The first time Jenny and I saw them live, it

15:27 Speaker 1: was right after they were on this show and we

15:29 Speaker 1: went I think it was that same weekend we went

15:30 Speaker 1: and saw them at the Tupelo. They were opening for

15:33 Speaker 1: was it Great White?

15:34 Speaker 3: They're doing that again?

15:35 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I can't remember it was Great White.

15:38 Speaker 3: It was they're actually opening up a Great White again

15:40 Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks.

15:41 Speaker 1: The reason I couldn't remember is because Jenny and I

15:43 Speaker 1: went to that show, but we just stayed for Under

15:44 Speaker 1: the Horizon and they were where, you know, we just

15:46 Speaker 1: wanted to see them, and they were kind of.

15:48 Speaker 2: Like another great band that we're working with and see

15:50 Speaker 2: a lot of potential with. There's a new band kind

15:53 Speaker 2: of new Stone Crusher. I don't know.

15:55 Speaker 1: I don't know them.

15:56 Speaker 2: They got a new album out. Their stuff is really

15:59 Speaker 2: really hot.

16:00 Speaker 1: Okay.

16:00 Speaker 2: The vocalist was named best vocalist in the local area

16:04 Speaker 2: by a Worcester magazine. I can't remember exactly which magazine.

16:09 Speaker 3: He's got some pipes, no doubt.

16:10 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he's got one of the best. When

16:12 Speaker 2: he hits the high notes, my toes.

16:14 Speaker 1: Girl, really yeah nice. So a little bit of a

16:21 Speaker 1: changing gear is baboo. I have to ask you because

16:24 Speaker 1: Larry said was talking about I should ask you this

16:27 Speaker 1: about the time you met Ozzie.

16:28 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, excuse me. So there was a casino in

16:35 Speaker 2: King of Prussia, PA that he came to. Of all places,

16:38 Speaker 2: he was five hours drive away from me, my idol,

16:41 Speaker 2: my lifelong idol. You know all the places in no world,

16:44 Speaker 2: he's five hours.

16:45 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:46 Speaker 2: So I went for all four days and I met

16:49 Speaker 2: him several times, and the last day I met him.

16:52 Speaker 2: But when I first come up to him, I was

16:54 Speaker 2: kind of expecting him to go, oh, gosh, look there

16:57 Speaker 2: I am, and he kind of went ouh, geez, no no,

17:02 Speaker 2: but I have this coat on and he dug it

17:05 Speaker 2: and he goes Sharon. Sharon goes, oh, see, you look

17:08 Speaker 2: at this blouch coat. So I've got pitchers with Sharon too.

17:13 Speaker 2: She doesn't even weigh eighty ninety pounds. I don't think

17:15 Speaker 2: she's so tiny. Yeah, yeah, gosh. But when I met Ousie,

17:21 Speaker 2: he could barely walk and he was sitting in a

17:24 Speaker 2: chair where there was two hundred people to meet him.

17:26 Speaker 1: What year was this, roughly twenty twenty twenty three, twenty

17:30 Speaker 1: twenty three.

17:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, so being a pressure pa.

17:33 Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, so this was fairly recent.

17:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very recent.

17:36 Speaker 1: Yeah.

17:37 Speaker 2: So I got to sit by him, and I have

17:41 Speaker 2: two rings that were custom made to copy. Is this

17:44 Speaker 2: cross ring and this star ring? So he sees the

17:47 Speaker 2: cross ring and he's fascinated with it and he says,

17:49 Speaker 2: moin to gout, I said, of course, there's just cold.

17:52 Speaker 1: You're Aussie.

17:53 Speaker 2: I got born man silver. But anyway, he's looking at

17:57 Speaker 2: he can't see. He's pushing my hand down. My hand

18:00 Speaker 2: is on his leg. Yeah, you're not supposed to touch these guys.

18:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I.

18:04 Speaker 2: You know, shirk back and the guy on the other

18:07 Speaker 2: side starts laughing. The photographer starts screaming. Ozzy Ozzy won

18:12 Speaker 2: two three to tap the snap the picture, you get

18:14 Speaker 2: one shot.

18:15 Speaker 1: Okay.

18:16 Speaker 2: So I got this shot of Ozzy and me grinning

18:19 Speaker 2: like hell and Ozzy looking at the photographer, and right

18:23 Speaker 2: after the shot he goes, you wank and called him

18:27 Speaker 2: matter a couple of times. Was not happy at all

18:29 Speaker 2: because he want to talk about this ring.

18:31 Speaker 1: Oh okay, so.

18:33 Speaker 2: The guy that was there, I hope I guess that

18:34 Speaker 2: lanker on here.

18:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fine.

18:40 Speaker 2: So anyway, the guy guy give us some time, and

18:43 Speaker 2: Ozzy was fascinated where to come from talking about it.

18:47 Speaker 2: Then he goes, look, Oz got two hundred people, we

18:50 Speaker 2: got her, he's along. The last thing he said to

18:53 Speaker 2: me was he goes, there's only two things that well,

18:55 Speaker 2: Mike all got one. Hey you got the other?

18:58 Speaker 1: Wow?

19:00 Speaker 2: Three feet up the ground. I went and floated away.

19:03 Speaker 1: Yeah that's pretty cool.

19:05 Speaker 2: He was gonna come to Phoenix, Arizona and do another

19:08 Speaker 2: one of those things. Yeah, only an hour flight from

19:11 Speaker 2: LA Yeah, in a lyrics yet you know, yeah, he

19:15 Speaker 2: couldn't even do that. I bought tickets for that and

19:18 Speaker 2: that one they didn't.

19:19 Speaker 1: Hold it and got canceled.

19:20 Speaker 2: Hyeah, Yeah, and I couldn't afford to get over to

19:23 Speaker 2: England for the last show. Yeah, I mean that.

19:25 Speaker 1: Was just gosh, no doubt, no doubt, what a what

19:29 Speaker 1: a way to go out though, like doing that show

19:31 Speaker 1: and raising all that money for cancer research and for kids.

19:36 Speaker 2: And Ozzy was saying, man, everybody said he was black

19:40 Speaker 2: and dark, but he was very, very Christian.

19:43 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's funny. It's funny you mentioned

19:47 Speaker 1: that because I remember, uh, he was on this was

19:49 Speaker 1: years ago. He was on Alice Cooper's show, and uh,

19:54 Speaker 1: some people might not know this about Alice Cooper, but

19:55 Speaker 1: he's a devout Christian and I remember I remember at

19:58 Speaker 1: the end of the interview Ozzie he kind of went

19:59 Speaker 1: out his way to say God bless you to Alice,

20:01 Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, that's interesting because you just don't

20:04 Speaker 1: expect that necessarily. But but the but the character, you know,

20:08 Speaker 1: the character of Ozzy Osbourne, you know obviously under that

20:12 Speaker 1: was you know, you know, a really good guy. But

20:15 Speaker 1: but I've always said, too Black Sabbath to me is

20:19 Speaker 1: and this is not an original thought. Others have said

20:21 Speaker 1: this too, but the most misunderstood band in in history,

20:26 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I think, actually I

20:27 Speaker 1: think Ozzy said that once. You know, because if you

20:31 Speaker 1: if you perceive Sabbath as being like evil and dark,

20:34 Speaker 1: and well, yeah they're dark, but but their songs are not.

20:38 Speaker 1: They're not promoting anything. I don't think anyone really thinks

20:42 Speaker 1: this now anyway, but back in the day, you know,

20:43 Speaker 1: people who are afraid of it whatever. You know, they're

20:46 Speaker 1: not promoting something satanic or anything. It's a you know,

20:48 Speaker 1: it's a commentary on life and the world. And you know,

20:51 Speaker 1: war Pigs I think is one of the greatest anti

20:54 Speaker 1: war songs ever. But you know, if you go online

20:58 Speaker 1: and you look at you know, look up a list

21:00 Speaker 1: of great anti war songs, you know, you he are

21:02 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff from the you know, like more

21:04 Speaker 1: of the from the hippies and whatnot, but you know,

21:07 Speaker 1: you won't see war Pigs on that list. But it's like,

21:09 Speaker 1: why not. It's a fantastic anti war song in my opinion.

21:13 Speaker 3: Baboo spent a lot of time out on the road

21:16 Speaker 3: throughout his life, and he's met many, many big rock stars. Yeah,

21:20 Speaker 3: and he's used to tell him how you got all

21:23 Speaker 3: your miles there, Baboo?

21:25 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm curious.

21:28 Speaker 2: I used to work for an Arizona company called Arizona Instruments,

21:32 Speaker 2: and they sent me all over the world starting then

21:35 Speaker 2: I got a job with another company in Massachusetts called

21:38 Speaker 2: Liquood Solids Control. Okay, they sent me all over, and

21:42 Speaker 2: then I got my own company. I went all over.

21:44 Speaker 2: But while I was working for Arizona Instruments, I was

21:47 Speaker 2: in Canada with a green card, a gold American Express card,

21:52 Speaker 2: Carte Blaunch, go wherever I want, no supervision, and Rush

21:57 Speaker 2: would be playing on Triumph these places down in the

22:01 Speaker 2: United States with thousands of people.

22:03 Speaker 1: Yeah.

22:04 Speaker 2: In fact, I saw him in eighty three at the

22:06 Speaker 2: US Festival in California. Triumph.

22:08 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

22:09 Speaker 2: And so I was up in Canada and they were

22:12 Speaker 2: playing and I'd go see him. They couldn't even sell

22:14 Speaker 2: out five hundred seats, no kidding. In their own country

22:17 Speaker 2: they were not as popular as the United States. Well, consequently,

22:21 Speaker 2: I get up and get to meet the band, and

22:23 Speaker 2: by time two years was over with, I knew the

22:26 Speaker 2: band's brush and the band Triumph well enough that if

22:29 Speaker 2: there was a show in Cold Lake, Alberta, I found

22:32 Speaker 2: a business reason to be there. I was in the

22:34 Speaker 2: dressing room and I you know, I knew Neil parrot

22:40 Speaker 2: very well. Really, he was well written, he was an author.

22:44 Speaker 2: He was he was such an introvert. He didn't want

22:47 Speaker 2: to have a lot to do with people. Right the

22:49 Speaker 2: show was over, he would run to the limo.

22:52 Speaker 1: I've always heard that about him from other people who

22:54 Speaker 1: knew him. Yeah, that he Yeah, he was. He was

22:56 Speaker 1: not comfortable with the fame part of being.

23:00 Speaker 2: The only time he comes from behind his kit to

23:03 Speaker 2: stand with the other guys in the band. Was the

23:05 Speaker 2: last show he ever played.

23:07 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:07 Speaker 3: How many times have you chased kiss around the country?

23:10 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, my ex wife April was kissing on

23:14 Speaker 2: a member like eight Yeah. Yeah, so team any Christmas

23:17 Speaker 2: if they came within five hundred bloody miles, I had

23:21 Speaker 2: to go there, yep, and take her there and get

23:23 Speaker 2: as good a tickets as we could afford. And back

23:26 Speaker 2: in the eighties we spent five thousand dollars for a

23:28 Speaker 2: meet and greet. Wow, that was a lot of money then, yeah,

23:32 Speaker 2: but a lot more then.

23:34 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:35 Speaker 2: But they did it right. It was an hour. We

23:37 Speaker 2: got to meet everybody in the band. Yeah, we got

23:41 Speaker 2: They had food, they had drinks. They spent at least

23:44 Speaker 2: fifteen twenty minutes with everybody in there. Yeah, we got

23:47 Speaker 2: all the pictures we wanted on our cell phones and such.

23:50 Speaker 1: Yep.

23:51 Speaker 2: So I've got to say that Chris Kiss is one

23:54 Speaker 2: of the best marketing marketed bands out there.

23:59 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the most heavily merchandise band in history, I think.

24:02 Speaker 1: I think the Beatles is number two.

24:04 Speaker 2: Oh gem and Christmas you can buy Kiss casket, Kiss condoms.

24:10 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with all the with all the time that

24:12 Speaker 3: he spent out doing all this rock and roll stuff,

24:15 Speaker 3: it's really a privilege to have him working for LOUD

24:17 Speaker 3: because he knows you know, he knows a lot of people, people,

24:21 Speaker 3: especially in New England. Yeah, a lot of people are

24:24 Speaker 3: starting to know who the baboo is. And yeah, we

24:28 Speaker 3: have a great time with him. And I'm glad to

24:30 Speaker 3: have him Aboard, actually kind of took him, and he's

24:33 Speaker 3: gonna be he's kind of the face of LOUD because

24:35 Speaker 3: of his character and yeah that makes sense. Yeah, you

24:37 Speaker 3: got a little trading cards made up to the autographs,

24:40 Speaker 3: and yeah, we're having a good time with it.

24:42 Speaker 2: And that autograph card is gonna be worth so much

24:45 Speaker 2: after I'm dead. Just it's gonna be worth its own

24:47 Speaker 2: weight and papers.

24:50 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us we've got Larry and a baboo.

24:53 Speaker 1: How do you say her last time again? Thinkovich Speakovich, yep,

24:57 Speaker 1: I got it. You got it all right from Loud

25:00 Speaker 1: Entertainment here with us in studio. And so what's kind

25:05 Speaker 1: of the long term you got I mean, you guys

25:09 Speaker 1: are running at quite a pace, right we are.

25:11 Speaker 2: And we're about to hold the theater events. We just

25:13 Speaker 2: finished one at the Plymouth Memorial Hall.

25:16 Speaker 1: Okay.

25:17 Speaker 2: We've got the theater up and jaff in New Hampshire

25:22 Speaker 2: the Park Theater, and we've got Marshfield Fairground. We're trying

25:25 Speaker 2: to do a three day event there in twenty twenty.

25:27 Speaker 1: Six, okay.

25:28 Speaker 3: And we got a couple of locations that we play

25:29 Speaker 3: in Providence with music. We go down the Cape, we

25:33 Speaker 3: have Lawil Hall obviously.

25:35 Speaker 2: We're here in Manchester Lot and we're down at the

25:38 Speaker 2: Vault quite a bit too, okay. I do a little

25:41 Speaker 2: MC work at places like Rascals for my good friend

25:45 Speaker 2: Frank Upolo. Okay, and there's a little plug for you, Frank.

25:50 Speaker 3: It was great. It was great to meet him. He

25:51 Speaker 3: took like a half hour of his time. The other

25:53 Speaker 3: night we went to his club to see this country

25:55 Speaker 3: line dance thing that works out well for him. So

25:58 Speaker 3: we went to check it out and he what gave

26:00 Speaker 3: us about a full half hour of his time just

26:03 Speaker 3: to talk about what everybody's doing. Yeah, he was Yeah,

26:06 Speaker 3: what a guy, nice guy.

26:07 Speaker 2: Man, Frank's a whale in our polland yeah, yeah, he's

26:11 Speaker 2: definitely he's got that minors touch almost anything he touches.

26:15 Speaker 1: Now, what do you guys look for in terms of

26:16 Speaker 1: venues to whole events? Like, like, are there are there

26:20 Speaker 1: specific things that you.

26:22 Speaker 3: Depending on the popularity of the band kind of tells

26:25 Speaker 3: you what size stity you're gonna need. Okay, it always

26:29 Speaker 3: doesn't turn out that way. Sometimes, you know, sell out

26:32 Speaker 3: a smaller club is a better thing because it's a

26:34 Speaker 3: you've got a great show and yeah it's packed and

26:36 Speaker 3: people are having fun.

26:37 Speaker 1: Better to have a small room that's full, right, then

26:40 Speaker 1: it's then a big room that's exactly empty.

26:42 Speaker 3: But you got Tribute South there, like, well you can

26:44 Speaker 3: help me out with this, but like get the let out.

26:47 Speaker 3: Oh they're killing it. They're killing it. The fifteen twenty

26:50 Speaker 3: thirty thousand people coming out to a tribute really yeah, wow,

26:53 Speaker 3: killing it all over the country.

26:55 Speaker 1: Wow.

26:55 Speaker 2: I held an event at the Plymouth Excuse Need the

26:58 Speaker 2: Lowell Memorial Theater. I was trying to get the Lead out,

27:04 Speaker 2: Get the Lead out, and they were seventy five hundred. Yeah,

27:07 Speaker 2: within a month they were over ten thousand.

27:09 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Wow.

27:11 Speaker 2: Within three months they were twenty. They sold out the

27:14 Speaker 2: Red Rocks two nights in a row, really bad. Took

27:16 Speaker 2: them up to forty and I believe that Get the

27:19 Speaker 2: Lead Out is right around fifty thousand this show now,

27:23 Speaker 2: And you know, it's really interesting because there's farmer members

27:26 Speaker 2: than led Zeppelin. They don't really even look like any

27:29 Speaker 2: of led Zeppelin members, but their music is very, very

27:32 Speaker 2: good and their promotion is top shelf.

27:35 Speaker 1: Yeah. So are they the most successful tribute band?

27:39 Speaker 2: I would believe so, Yeah, I can. I would think

27:41 Speaker 2: so because there's three that one completely unchained and yeah,

27:45 Speaker 2: completely unchanged, killing the two and they're very confident about

27:49 Speaker 2: what they can draw.

27:50 Speaker 3: They come.

27:50 Speaker 1: They do a great job in Allison chains tribute.

27:54 Speaker 3: Uh, the one we know has Vani Okay, the Allison

27:58 Speaker 3: change band that we used a lot. It's called Nothing

28:01 Speaker 3: Safe as a matter of fact, and November fifth, November twentieth,

28:07 Speaker 3: maybe you'll have to look and look up Loud Entertainment.

28:11 Speaker 3: Look up Steve O and they're having a great Lane

28:15 Speaker 3: Staley tribute. Every year, Steve would fly out to Seattle

28:20 Speaker 3: to do the vocals for a show out there that

28:22 Speaker 3: they have that tributes Lane Staley, and Steve actually met

28:27 Speaker 3: Lane Staley's mom and he has collaborated with all of

28:31 Speaker 3: them to bring us a great show here in Boston

28:33 Speaker 3: at the Ballroom. And it's gonna be a nothing but

28:36 Speaker 3: a tribute to Lane Staley. And it's gonna be it's

28:39 Speaker 3: gonna be multiple artists on the stage doing things like

28:42 Speaker 3: songs in him and things for him, and one special

28:45 Speaker 3: song for his mom. And yeah, it's gonna be a

28:48 Speaker 3: great show. If you're here in Dallas and Chains and

28:50 Speaker 3: you want to see the memorial, you're going to see

28:53 Speaker 3: a really good a really good show.

28:55 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very cool.

28:56 Speaker 3: Once again, it's not a concert, it's a show.

28:59 Speaker 1: Yeah you know, Yeah, Yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha. Do

29:02 Speaker 1: you guys have any advice for so you know, a

29:04 Speaker 1: lot of musicians listen to the show, a lot of

29:06 Speaker 1: industry people. That's that's kind of our niche audience. I think,

29:09 Speaker 1: do you have advice for if there's a musician listening

29:12 Speaker 1: who wants to start a tribute band or maybe they

29:15 Speaker 1: want to do a solo tribute thing or whatever it is, Like, like,

29:17 Speaker 1: do you have advice for how to get into it,

29:19 Speaker 1: because obviously there's you know, when you're doing that and

29:23 Speaker 1: you're kind of doing that in tribute to someone else's

29:27 Speaker 1: artistic vision and they're what they've created. I mean, there's

29:30 Speaker 1: there's probably there's probably mistakes that people make right when

29:33 Speaker 1: they try to do that.

29:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, when you put out a tribute to it's like,

29:37 Speaker 3: you know, you gotta be good, you got to have

29:40 Speaker 3: it down, yeah, because if you don't, it doesn't serve

29:43 Speaker 3: the purpose of what you're trying to do. Yeah, so

29:45 Speaker 3: don't don't try to jump out too quick. Get yourself

29:48 Speaker 3: together before you, you know, decide to take the stage

29:52 Speaker 3: with someone else's name, so to speak. It's uh yeah, yeah.

29:55 Speaker 2: Make sure you've really got them on it, because it

29:58 Speaker 2: can't do thisstribute stuff halfway right right?

30:02 Speaker 1: What about have you guys worked with anybody who who

30:05 Speaker 1: doesn't do it, like who kind of puts their own

30:08 Speaker 1: twist on it. Like I'll give you an example that

30:11 Speaker 1: I don't know if they're still around or not. But

30:12 Speaker 1: there was a tribute band. I happened to find them

30:14 Speaker 1: on YouTube one time, a Kiss tribute band called Reason

30:17 Speaker 1: to Kiss and they what but what they did because

30:20 Speaker 1: the name of the band was a play on the

30:23 Speaker 1: song Reason to Live, which obviously came out during the

30:25 Speaker 1: non makeup era. And what this band did was they

30:28 Speaker 1: called the Reason to Kiss and it was they were

30:31 Speaker 1: doing acoustic versions only of eighties non makeup era Kiss songs.

30:36 Speaker 1: So there's really it's funny because some of these Kiss

30:38 Speaker 1: tribute bands they find like this weird niche and it

30:41 Speaker 1: was like, I was kind of fascinated by it. But

30:43 Speaker 1: that's but they're obviously doing something different. They're doing Kiss,

30:46 Speaker 1: but they're putting their own spin, their own twist on it.

30:50 Speaker 1: I mean, have you guys worked with anybody who does that,

30:52 Speaker 1: because there's a risk in doing that, right, because that

30:55 Speaker 1: that can blow up in your face, Like, like, do

30:58 Speaker 1: any of the bands that you guys have worked with

30:59 Speaker 1: do anything like that?

31:02 Speaker 2: No?

31:02 Speaker 1: No, no, would you if you came across someone who

31:06 Speaker 1: did do something like that, would you give him a

31:08 Speaker 1: chance or would that be too.

31:09 Speaker 3: We're always wanting to give you a chance. You're just

31:11 Speaker 3: gonna show us what you got. Yeah, we'll find a

31:13 Speaker 3: stage for you. It's just you got to have it, right. Yeah.

31:16 Speaker 2: We being promoters, we can't be left with the bag.

31:20 Speaker 2: I mean right. You know. So one of the reasons

31:24 Speaker 2: that we've been able to get so far is because

31:26 Speaker 2: we've been able to work with some bands who nobody

31:29 Speaker 2: else at touch Yeah, and we go in a semi

31:34 Speaker 2: partnership with them, We say, look, this is it. We'll

31:38 Speaker 2: split whatever happens to play for the door.

31:40 Speaker 1: Yep.

31:42 Speaker 2: And some of the venues can't fill. We had the

31:45 Speaker 2: Jewel over here, we had two hundred in there one night, pet.

31:49 Speaker 3: White Athlete, White Snake and looks to Kill, Yeah, it

31:53 Speaker 3: looks at Kill, Motley Crue Yeah. Yeah. We had a

31:56 Speaker 3: good time over there that night.

31:58 Speaker 2: We did well.

32:00 Speaker 3: Night. Show's got a lot of tickets sold to it.

32:02 Speaker 1: Good.

32:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna be a great show tonight if you

32:04 Speaker 3: can get out at the Jewel in Manchester, New Hampshire.

32:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to.

32:08 Speaker 3: Be having Metallica and a Metallica tribute Yea and a

32:12 Speaker 3: guard Smack tribute called head Smack. Okay, and on point

32:18 Speaker 3: like that's great. I can't Yeah, it's it's nice. It's good,

32:23 Speaker 3: it's loud, it's it's real solid.

32:25 Speaker 1: Is it? Is it just the two bands or is

32:27 Speaker 1: there is there an opener who's not not really advertised

32:30 Speaker 1: or is it just yeah, yes, two? Yeah. Do you

32:33 Speaker 1: guys do a lot of shows a Jewel or.

32:35 Speaker 2: At one time we're gonna do fifty, but we just

32:38 Speaker 2: have to back away and yeah, two other shows other places. Yeah,

32:42 Speaker 2: we couldn't put all eggs in one basket, right.

32:45 Speaker 3: I would say we're probably at the Jewel like twice

32:47 Speaker 3: a month, okay, even three times. Sometimes. We got a big,

32:51 Speaker 3: big next Thursday night, excuse me, next Friday night. We

32:56 Speaker 3: have a national tribute coming to the Jewel called Satisfaction.

33:00 Speaker 1: Okay.

33:00 Speaker 3: They are a great rolling Stones band that like travels

33:03 Speaker 3: the world.

33:04 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

33:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's gonna be a great show over there.

33:07 Speaker 2: And you know you got to have some horns to

33:10 Speaker 2: get up there and do Mick Jaggers.

33:11 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's absolutely.

33:16 Speaker 3: We're absolutely gonna Halloween Potty coming up on October seventeenth

33:19 Speaker 3: over here at the Jewel. Yeah, we're going to be

33:21 Speaker 3: bringing Lords of Salem, which is a rob Zombie tribute, okay,

33:25 Speaker 3: and uh, Sun and Steel, which is an Iron Maiden tribute,

33:30 Speaker 3: and both of them are like great, oh really, yeah.

33:32 Speaker 2: We enjoyed it.

33:33 Speaker 3: Some people come and you know, they watch it and

33:36 Speaker 3: they're like, wow, I didn't think anybody else could do that. Yeah,

33:39 Speaker 3: and some of the guys are really really good at

33:42 Speaker 3: what they do.

33:45 Speaker 1: And then what like, what what's the what's the biggest

33:47 Speaker 1: show you guys have done so far? Like in terms

33:49 Speaker 1: of attendance, were the one that one that really stands

33:52 Speaker 1: out is.

33:52 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, we had a country show last week that's

33:54 Speaker 3: a fifteen had fifteen hundred seats. Yeah, we did okay

33:58 Speaker 3: with that, and most of them are like somewhere between,

34:01 Speaker 3: say two hundred and five hundred. Seems to be our

34:05 Speaker 3: big We're trying to branch out. We want to get

34:08 Speaker 3: into those places that are selling one thousand and fifteen hundred,

34:11 Speaker 3: two thousand seats because we want to bring in those

34:14 Speaker 3: national acts from around the around the country, around the world.

34:17 Speaker 2: I completely unchanged. Jean Henrickson is willing to work for

34:22 Speaker 2: the door. He's so confident a part of the door.

34:25 Speaker 2: He's so confident in him, his draw and his band.

34:29 Speaker 2: Yet one time he had this guy that was the

34:32 Speaker 2: most fantastic drummer I can think of, but he's got

34:35 Speaker 2: a drummer now and equals him. Yeah, I mean it

34:37 Speaker 2: just that's kind of Jean Henrickson is Tommy Henrickson of

34:42 Speaker 2: the Hollywood Vampire's older brother.

34:44 Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh interest so.

34:46 Speaker 2: And I mean Jane and I are two years different

34:49 Speaker 2: difference in age, and he's like a chiseled Greek statue.

34:52 Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, I mean I don't even know of

34:55 Speaker 2: any twenty year old who can go shirt let's but

34:57 Speaker 2: he can go shirt Oh.

34:58 Speaker 1: No kidding, Oh that's cool. He just see.

35:01 Speaker 3: Him up there jumping around like he's twenty five.

35:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, just had hip surgery, but he still does

35:06 Speaker 2: the kicks up and over the microphone.

35:08 Speaker 3: Wonder why he's had Wonder why he's had hip surgery?

35:12 Speaker 1: Wow? Wow, Whatever Iggy Pop's been doing, he must have been.

35:15 Speaker 1: This guy must have been doing it too, or he

35:18 Speaker 1: needs he's.

35:19 Speaker 3: Doing it though, and they're doing very well. Matter. They're

35:21 Speaker 3: all over the place a matter of fact, yesterda, I

35:23 Speaker 3: think last night or tonight they're in Melbourne, Florida. Early. Yeah,

35:27 Speaker 3: completely unchanged. It's got it going on.

35:29 Speaker 1: Wow.

35:30 Speaker 2: He does over one hundred and twenty gigs a year.

35:32 Speaker 2: He's the hardest. Like I said, the don' only know

35:35 Speaker 2: if two of the guys that worked as hard as him.

35:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh wow.

35:38 Speaker 3: Sometime in the early spring, if you follow us, you'll

35:41 Speaker 3: get the date. We're going to be doing a big

35:43 Speaker 3: festival at the Marshfield Fairgrounds in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

35:46 Speaker 1: Okay.

35:47 Speaker 3: We plan on having two really big bands there on

35:49 Speaker 3: Friday night that'll you know, pack us in. Then Saturday

35:54 Speaker 3: night we're doing I think eight bands, and then Sunday

35:57 Speaker 3: we're going to do a family southern country thing with

36:00 Speaker 3: pig Roast on Sunday. Okay, so well, basically have a

36:02 Speaker 3: show for the entire weekend. Yeah, there's gonna be a

36:06 Speaker 3: good time.

36:06 Speaker 1: Okay.

36:07 Speaker 3: We got some really good good people that are available

36:09 Speaker 3: for it, and we're starting to put it together. We

36:11 Speaker 3: should have a set date by the end of the week.

36:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice.

36:14 Speaker 2: I'm hoping we can get four Horsemen in on that.

36:17 Speaker 3: That would be nice.

36:18 Speaker 1: Four Horsemen.

36:19 Speaker 2: Who are Who's that Metallica trip one of the best

36:22 Speaker 2: ones out there? Oh yeah, Sean do a good act.

36:26 Speaker 2: I want to tell you really.

36:28 Speaker 1: M who By the way, so what what band has

36:32 Speaker 1: the most like from what you've observed has the most

36:34 Speaker 1: tributes because I've always had the impression there's a lot

36:38 Speaker 1: of Motley Crue tribute bands. Am I am? I right

36:40 Speaker 1: about that? It seems it seems like they're a Motley Crew.

36:42 Speaker 1: Tribute bands are everywhere.

36:43 Speaker 3: Alison Chains too have a lot of them. Yeah, that's

36:46 Speaker 3: it's saturated with Alice and Chains out there.

36:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

36:48 Speaker 3: Only there's a couple that are really good. But then

36:51 Speaker 3: you know, you got some.

36:53 Speaker 2: Some of the East coast outlets. That's the only that's

36:56 Speaker 2: the only Alice band out here. There's only one on.

36:58 Speaker 3: The West coast out at something.

37:00 Speaker 2: Mike Carmo is freaking I go out with other people

37:05 Speaker 2: and when I went with Mike Carmo to see Alice Cooper,

37:10 Speaker 2: people were walking past me like I was.

37:12 Speaker 1: A ghostly to get a picture with Alice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike.

37:16 Speaker 3: Mike's great. He puts on the whole act. It's so

37:18 Speaker 3: theatrical up on the stage because he's acting out like

37:22 Speaker 3: the the meaning of the song the whole time. He's

37:27 Speaker 3: very just like Alice Cooper does. Yeah, very good with that?

37:35 Speaker 1: Is that did you bring that in?

37:37 Speaker 2: No?

37:38 Speaker 1: Oh, that's Jenny's He can't steal Jenny's.

37:42 Speaker 3: I can't drive.

37:44 Speaker 2: I'm hoping I could get some water.

37:46 Speaker 1: We're almost We're almost. We're almost done, guys, because we're

37:49 Speaker 1: getting close to we're getting close to the top of

37:51 Speaker 1: the hour. What's that? No, you don't know, so I'm older.

37:55 Speaker 2: I was like, whoa, if it would have been not opened,

37:59 Speaker 2: I would have Yeah.

38:00 Speaker 1: We can only have water in here, any We only

38:02 Speaker 1: have playing water in this room anyway, because if if

38:04 Speaker 1: something gets spilled, it's I'm in a lot of trouble.

38:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, no fire on the ship, that's right, A lot

38:10 Speaker 3: of cords around you.

38:11 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but no. We're about down the segment anyway.

38:15 Speaker 1: But before we wrap up, so I want to thank

38:17 Speaker 1: you guys for coming in. This has been wonderful and

38:19 Speaker 1: like I said too, you know, because I've been in

38:21 Speaker 1: the music industry for a long time, but the tribute

38:23 Speaker 1: band zone isn't something I know that much about. So

38:25 Speaker 1: this has been really interesting for me because I love

38:27 Speaker 1: to learn as much as I can, and it sounds

38:29 Speaker 1: like you guys are having a lot of success, which

38:30 Speaker 1: is great, so I love it. Where should people go online? Like,

38:35 Speaker 1: where's the best place to go to keep up with

38:37 Speaker 1: everything that you guys are doing with Loud Entertainment or

38:39 Speaker 1: anything else that you want us to know about.

38:41 Speaker 3: Love. Loud Entertainment has a Facebook page called Loud entertain

38:45 Speaker 3: Entertainment from Massachusetts. Will get you there. Okay, you're looking

38:48 Speaker 3: for the logo of Loud, which is a orange, yellow

38:51 Speaker 3: and red speaker with the big word Loud across it,

38:54 Speaker 3: and we yeah, I would go online.

38:58 Speaker 2: You'll see my image on Facebook representing the company.

39:02 Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

39:03 Speaker 2: And I have a page called Tazzi Productions. Oh okay,

39:10 Speaker 2: loud stuff.

39:10 Speaker 1: On excellent, excellent. Okay, we do a lot.

39:13 Speaker 3: So we're really having a good time with this. And

39:16 Speaker 3: like I told you earlier, I haven't been at it

39:18 Speaker 3: all my life, so I'm I'm full of energy and

39:21 Speaker 3: I'm not burnt out, so I am ready to conquer.

39:24 Speaker 3: And then yeah, this guy over here, it's nice to

39:27 Speaker 3: have him around because all his knowledge of rock and

39:28 Speaker 3: roll and everything really helps us out absolutely.

39:31 Speaker 1: And one more time too, for people who are listening

39:33 Speaker 1: to the show live on Saturday, talk about remind people tonight,

39:37 Speaker 1: Big Show Tonight, Big Show, Big Show Tonight.

39:40 Speaker 3: The doors open at seven.

39:43 Speaker 2: At the Jewel.

39:44 Speaker 3: At the Jewel and the show starts at eight, okay,

39:48 Speaker 3: and come on down. There are a few seats available.

39:51 Speaker 3: We do have a very good, solid crowd there tonight. Yeah,

39:54 Speaker 3: and we'd love to have you. We'd love to have

39:56 Speaker 3: you any loud show. And we'll be back next Thursday

39:59 Speaker 3: with the Status Faction, Rolling Stones Tribute National Act excellent

40:03 Speaker 3: and uh if you can, if you're in the North

40:05 Speaker 3: and uh in the down towards South Shore, we have

40:09 Speaker 3: a great shows going on at the Vault and with

40:13 Speaker 3: like I said, that's next Saturday night with Whitesnake and.

40:18 Speaker 1: Crazy Train, Crazy Train. Okay, very good, very good. Well guys,

40:21 Speaker 1: thank you about so much. This has been wonderful Larry

40:24 Speaker 1: and Baboo Bigovich.

40:25 Speaker 2: And by the way, I want to say one more thing, Yes,

40:28 Speaker 2: come to this show because I'll be throwing about two

40:30 Speaker 2: dozen T shirts, some totes Babu t shirts.

40:33 Speaker 1: Nice.

40:34 Speaker 3: One more thing I just want to mention is swammy

40:37 Speaker 3: Fest again.

40:38 Speaker 1: Oh yes, thank you.

40:39 Speaker 3: They're a local band. We love those guys over the

40:44 Speaker 3: They float to their own beat. Yeah, very down the

40:47 Speaker 3: middle type of people and uh, the shows they put on,

40:51 Speaker 3: it's like we don't just don't want to bring you

40:53 Speaker 3: to a concert at their stuff. We want to bring

40:55 Speaker 3: you to a show. So we've added so much to this,

40:58 Speaker 3: different acts, different types of people, you know, different things.

41:01 Speaker 1: Silent Season is co edlining, got.

41:04 Speaker 2: Under the Horizon.

41:05 Speaker 1: It's going to be a great nice Yeah.

41:08 Speaker 3: Cherry Fog.

41:10 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll mentioned Cherry Fog. I think when they

41:14 Speaker 1: were when because Sepsis was here last week and I'm

41:16 Speaker 1: not familiar with them, but I'm looking forward to seeing them.

41:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a party if you can

41:20 Speaker 3: make it out the Swarmy Fest, don't miss it. And

41:22 Speaker 3: also don't miss our Halloween party over at the Juwel

41:25 Speaker 3: on October seventeenth. Okay, Lords of Salem Rob Soombie tribute

41:31 Speaker 3: and a Son and Steel Iron Maiden tribute. Okay, Okay,

41:36 Speaker 3: it'd be a great time, Okay, fantastic, fantastic. All right, Well,

41:40 Speaker 3: so we'll let you guys go.

41:41 Speaker 1: Thank you both so much, And if you are listening

41:43 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, we have Matt Axton coming up in

41:47 Speaker 1: the second hour, calling in from the road. He's on

41:49 Speaker 1: a big national tour, yes, and so there is plenty

41:52 Speaker 1: more to come. But guys, thank you both again so much.

41:55 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,