Unknown: Goes back to the writing. You know, the King of
Queens are really good writers, and Seinfeld is good writers.
And it's hard to develop good writers in today's world,
because not too many people want to sit in front of a computer,
look at a blank screen and then take criticism for
it. This is the rich Redmond show, ladies and gentlemen,
here we are live at the rich Redmond show. Listen
to that door. That's baritone. Where are
we? Again, that's nice. We are in Spring Hill, Tennessee,
spring where
you live here. See, I don't live here. I live in St Louis. Okay,
I live everywhere. Lately. I'm like, all over North Hollywood,
yeah, St Louis, St Louis. And
you made the five hour trek in today with with your friends.
You got Chris and mark in the house. That's is here
for Chris and Mark. Here we go. All right, as we previously
mentioned, my hair is I'm losing my hair lately. I'm going with
these different items here, like taking the hems. Oh,
how's the hymns working? I don't know. I started like, you gotta
wait about 90 days,
right? Yeah, we see the difference. And now we got the
other stuff. Eta Durham is shampoo. It's, I don't know if
it's working or not, but I give it a go, and I get this other
stuff, give it a go, and then a doctor gave me this other pill.
Give that a go. Yeah. But, you know, losing the hand you get
your finasteride, and that's very difficult for us Italians
as part of our our thing is that we want a nice head of hair as
we're chowing down on a nice plate of pasta
like now. I'm just glad my hammer still works. So that's
all right, man. I mean, be it Italian, you know, you got your
hair, but you got your hammer too. Yeah, got the hammer to
work. So if I had a choice, I'd lose the hair, keep the hammer.
Yeah, that's true. You can
always shave your head. You get Oh, yeah.
And little limiting for for parts, yeah, you know, because
then you're that guy,
you're the bald guy, right? You're the ball guy, right?
Worked out for Michael Chiklis.
It worked great for Bruce Willis, you know, for the most
part, yeah, he did guide, right? Hey, Michael Chiklis is another
cat that plays the drums, and let's just get this out. The
elephant in the room is that there are so many drummers here.
Larry smashes a set of drums. Jim smashes a set of drums eyes.
And it's later. We got, I passed out some hand drums. We got some
L we got an LP set of tabletop bongos. We got an old toca, like
a, it's like a portable cojone. And then I got this little
sonar, and all these things are pretty time tested. They've been
on a lot of recordings. But we're gonna just jam, man. We'll
just do them, pull a McCarthy later, and we'll do a little
jam. When you say, pull him a kind, Hey, what is that? Because
he likes to play his bongos in the in the nude. Oh, you know,
that's his thing. It taps into his primal
that's his only fans.
That's just, that's crazy. Yeah, they were talking about doing
only fans to people like, oh, you can't do an only fan. Just
good for girls with, you know, this daddy out of Dang, I'm
like,
only music fans, right?
The impetus of that site was more of a pure approach, sure,
and for your fans, yeah, you know. And then it just went a
different direction. Well, I
think our friend, I got to watch it. But, you know, the drum
icon, Russ Miller has a new site called, I think it's called only
Drum Fans. And I'm like, You are smart. That's a very smart
thing. You know,
I'm going to look up right now, as we're talking to see if fans
only is available.
Fans only just flip it, flip it, just flip it. A new venture.
Make it like the Christian do only fans, which I'm not going
to, like, take my clothes off. I'm going to put music up on
there, because that's what it was supposed to do, yeah,
basically, Patreon, rights. Patreon, right? I'm going on
Patreon too. It's like, you know, we talk about musicians,
because nowadays it's like, you put a song up on a streaming
and, you know, we don't get paid, as if we don't have to
eat, like, fractions, fractions of a penny. Yeah, it's nonsense.
So, like, I'm thinking, like, okay, so we cut this great
track, God bless America. Yeah, tell us about, well, tell us
about that. Well, I had this thing inside me, man, you know,
like, okay, really, it wasn't like the Irvin Berlin version,
you know what? I mean, it was just that thing, you know, God
bless America. You know, you drive across America, and I'm
going here and there, and, like, yeah, you know, there's so many
beautiful places in America, so many different kinds of really
cool people, you know, especially coming New York and
Los Angeles and St Louis and Nashville and Chicago. And we
meet a lot of great people, all these little and you go on tour,
you meet a lot of really cool people. Man, it's like, you
know, and America's coming under fire, and whatever, everybody,
whatever, so on and so forth. We know what the temperature is
and, and it's like, no, man, you know. Like, this is like, you
know. So I had this thing I wanted to do, like, with
guitars, because, you know, I like guitars, yeah, you know.
And then, like, you know, I'm banging on drums. I call them
the bongos. No matter what it could be a trap set. It could be
whatever it's, the bongos, yeah, in the bongos. And like, you
know, come up with this thing. And next thing, you know, you
know, how it went, is that, you know, with these cats down to
Illinois, right? And it was like, you know, they jam out.
And, like, I brought it to them, and we, like, finagle doing it a
little bit, yeah, which you heard a little bit of that, you
know. And then it was like, coming, like, what are we going
to. Do like, and then Michael goodnight says, Yo, why don't we
get rich to lay the drums? And it's like, yeah, right, let's do
that. And next thing, you know, like, Michael goodnight, is the
guy to introduce me and rich, right? What's up? Michael, Mike,
he did the score for Saturday, you know, park the movie which
rich plays the drums on, you know, a whole bunch of stuff.
Post the trailer, whatever. So now it's like, we're on zoom
with you
over there, Tony Morris, place downtown. Battery, yeah,
and you're doing the drums, and me and Michael in North
Hollywood, California. Technology, technology is good
is it's not the greatest thing in the world, but it is good. It
works for like, it's got its place, right? It's like
everything else. And next thing you know, we got this great drum
track that you went off of a drum track like I recorded
myself at amp rehearsal in North Hollywood on my cell phone. Is
that where you were? Yeah, and sent it to you, and then blah,
blah, blah. And next thing, you know, you laid a kick ass drum
track. And I tried to work it out with this other cat who just
took it in a total different direction, yeah, you know. And I
was like, bro, it's not happening, man. He got a little
offended, but he's a great musician, great creative guy.
I'm like, bro, just ain't hitting man. And I ended up
bringing it over and sending it to Derek in St Peter's,
Missouri, which is St Peter, st, Louis, st, Charles. A lot of
saints in that area. I'm not going to say I'm one of them,
but no,
okay, so Larry, it really was a, it was a creative it was a
creative process.
Oh, yeah, really straight up. And it's like, it's like, went
from this to that to that, next thing, you know, you know, with
your drum track. Yeah, we were at the Ozarks, and we took your
drum track, sent it to Derek in St Peter's, and I went from the
Ozarks with these guys, Mark and Chris, drove all the way up in
an electric car, which means you have to stop and get charged
every now and then. It's not easy to get charged as it is to
just go pump petrol in the sucker. I know it's less
expensive and it's quiet and all of that stuff, but like, it's 30
minutes we're sitting there. Like, what's going on, man?
Like, you know, I mean, it's like an old, like an old flip
phone. You got to charge it, right? So, next thing you know,
I'm a Derek's and we got your drum track, and I just laid a
vocal to your drum track. Yep. And then Derek went to, went,
went to California, yeah, with a hard drive. No, not even, like,
he just went to California because he wanted to go see his
mom, which is cool. So, like, he's in California, and then I
don't even know where I was at that point in time, I guess I
was in New York, and we're trying to figure out how to do
this. And he's like, Oh, we got a couple of them on a Monday
night. Plane lands at eight o'clock, and we're going to, you
know, go to the studio. We're going to lay drums and guitar
and bass, you know. And, okay, cool, because Chris over here,
he's got, what's the name of a saw horse. He's got sawhorse
booked for July 2. So we got to get everything in order. So
Derek, to his credit, get delayed. Plane gets in at like,
one o'clock in the morning. Saw another friend of ours at the
airport, Savannah Lee, who her plane was delayed like 11 hours,
where she was going, which is a whole other journey. And she's
super talented too. That's how I met Chris through Savannah Lee.
And she's got some good music coming out too. You'll be on the
lookout for her, right? And now, so now Derek and her actually
crossed paths in the airport in St Louis. What a coincidence,
right? Derek goes home. I don't know what he did anyhow, the
next morning I show up at his house, he's got bass and guitar
already dropped to your drums, yeah, and we did
this whole thing over the internet, and I do today, I do
want to listen to it, Larry, and I appreciate you asking me to
play drums. And I think it's super funky. It's almost like,
it's kind of like, you know, like tone, Loke, you know,
hanging out with fish bone, hanging out with Run DMC, big
guitars, but people are probably gonna know who is this guy with
the cool shades, and let's just tell everybody. Hailing from
Mount Vernon, New York, he's called Los Angeles home for a
long time now. Calling St Louis home. He's coming to Nashville
more and more. He's a film and TV actor, writer and producer.
He's also a singer songwriter, producer, and he wrote and
directed a new film called Saturday in the park that we
both kind of collaborated on. It's going to drop sometime this
year in 2024 we're super excited about that. It's sort of a film
festival film, a very, very, very cool we're going to see a
clip from it. But just as an actor, look at some of these
credits. King of Queens, Donnie Brasco, thin, red line. NYPD,
blue. CSI, New York, LA law lockup, he's worked with actors
like Bucha no Depp, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Madonna
Sylvester, Stallone, highly accomplished, and our friend,
Larry Romano, that's who's in the house.
The music, the music is the connection at all times.
The thing is, is that the Muses connection at all times. And you
know, I respect and admire you as an actor. And you know, King
of Queens, I had the box sets my band is a big fan of the band,
so when the song, when that show was out, and then even after
that, in the early days of touring with Al Dean, we used to
have DVD players in all of our bunks, and we were living on.
Road, man, we were gone like 320 days a year. So in between
shows, we'd stop at Walmarts and we would get the, you know, I
buy a new season at Camp queens, or I buy a new season of
Everybody Loves Raymond. We pop men, and we hear all these
laughter coming from the different bunks. So we love the
show. And later, I want to play some of the highlights of, you
know, you know, Queen cousin Richie. I mean, he was the
cousin of Doug hefferny. Wasn't
he's the friend, the friend the five man friend. Yeah, exactly,
you know,
in the meantime, this is, this is a tune called God Bless
America that you guys, literally, over the course of a
month, wrote, tracked from a variety of cities, and then
mixed and mastered. You want to hear it? Jim here a little bit.
Well, pop it up. There's a cowbell in there too. Cowbell
while
the storm clouds gather from across the sea. Let us swear
allegiance to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for
this land we all share as we raise our voices in solemn
prayer, God Bless
America through the night with the light from above. Yeah. Out,
who knew that Irving Berlin could rock like that dude? Well,
it's really not him, it's us, yes,
just kind of took off on that lyric and all of that, and we
did another version lyrically, yeah, where I just, you know,
and the third verse to this is, like, fresh lyrics, yeah, you
know, because he covers it was written in 1918 and then we, I
guess we recorded in 1939 we're in 2025 you know, we want to say
God bless America, but there's a lot of things that have changed
about America in the last so on, almost 100 years, right? Years
or more, really, and but it's still the greatest country in
the world, and it's where people from all over the world meet to
come as one, yes, and you never really when I very, very look,
I'm not a very formally educated person. I did a little bit of
community college, and I did this sociology class, and he
says that the teacher said that to America, New York is the
world to the world. New York is America, yes. And, you know, and
now I go to New York just recently on my recent journey,
and I'm up in the Bronx with a whole group of people, different
ethnic type, and then I'm, you know, then from this, I was up
in a luxury suite in the Bronx, and then I'm down on the streets
in the Bronx, which I love, that the if you ever go to Yankee
Stadium. You got to go to the Yankee twin see my friend Eleni,
the Greek goddess. She's got the Yankee twins. You got the DJ
blasting. And I come from the suites of the Yankee Stadium
with Ronnie Bloomberg, Mickey rivers, two time world series
champion, right? All those cats and blah, blah, blah, you're a
huge baseball guy, let's just say baseball people. And next
thing, you know, I'm crossing river Avenue after the game to
the Yankee twin, and they got Nelly from St Louis, blasting
out the speakers, yeah? So, like, you know what I mean,
that's what they're blasting, you know, and everybody's
dancing. You got this whole eclectic vibe. And then from
there, I went to a party with my Haitian friends out in Brooklyn,
yeah, next year? No, I'm at a karaoke at like 2am on a Monday
morning.
It's the melting pot of all melting
pots. And there's people singing in Spanish, singing Russian
songs, karaoke, singing a rock and roll, singing soul music.
And yeah, and, you know? So, I mean, yes, as far as New York,
it's ingrained in me, you know. But now, as I branch out and I
see the rest of the world, always, I had a chance, chance
to be in Los Angeles, which is that now I'm in the Midwest, and
it's bad, man. I love it badass. I mean, was in a good way. You
like, you enjoy your time in the Midwest. Absolutely, man, is a
lot of elbow room. And there's a whole, you know, there's a good
there's culture here too.
I like about Spring Hill, Tennessee. You got some nice
sidewalks. Birds are chirping. Kids are playing. I got to be
slower when I back out. I don't want to you know, the kids are
playing, playing ball in the street.
That's good. Playing ball on the street is good.
But let me tell you this. I think that most people you know
would say, oh my god, this guy is a New Yorker, Mount Vernon,
New York. Tell us about your new york experience coming up as a
child, your folks was there music in the house,
yeah? You know, like people mistake me. They go the Bronx.
I've never, I never lived in the Bronx. Mount Vernon, New York,
is the closest I got. Two houses down was the border, and that
was pretty much the majority of my life, in the first two and a
half decades of my life, yeah. And on the south side of Mount
Vernon, it was a lot of people that came up from the south,
maybe the they were descendants of slaves, maybe two, maybe two,
three generations before. So they had that, you know, that
thing going on right there. But everybody was real cool with
each other. And you listening to am radio on the transistor radio
on the hood of a Chevy when you're five, you know, six,
seven years old, and it's playing an am. That Motown
stuff. And then my father moved us up to Rockland County, is a
half hour north of the Bronx, and across the bridge, across
the bridge, you're familiar with New York, right? And, you know,
and it's looking back on, it was Nyack tap in, and it was, it was
a lot of Bronx kids with fresh air in their lungs. Did you go
to the Long Island drum setter up there? Long Island drum
setter. You know, Long Island accuses me a Nyack, yes, right.
I've been there nice
drum shop. Well, there was Manny's, there was Manny's
writing,
yeah, yeah. Mash, right.
Being in Mount Vernon, though, another actor came out of there
who was a part of the Boys and Girls Club, I guess he was a big
part of it. He also gave back to it quite a bit. Was old Denzel.
Denzel Washington, right? Yeah, he was a few years ahead of me.
Denzel, a lot of talent comes out, well, a lot of talent comes
out of stat out of Mount Vernon, New York in general, right? And
I was, and, you know, Rockland County, where I went for, you
know, Mount Vernon was always the constant, because that's
where my Aunt Nancy lived, and she was like my grandmother, 209
South 12th Avenue. And that was, I always that vibe, you know,
Rockland County for many years for that was the country. It was
a little bit but it was that country was Bronx kids with
fresh air in it. Yeah. You know, my first band that I had in high
school was with Danny Spitz, who went on to form anthrax. That's
right, that's right. So that was like my first band, you know?
And so when did you start playing drums? Larry, well, in
Mount Vernon, New York, the fabrio School of Music. I was
maybe five years old, and I was in there. And it started really
because of my family, not blood related. My uncle, Carmine, Jim
and azo, who was married to my mother's sister, right? His son,
Jerry, played the accordion. And Jerry had two kids who had four
sons, Ricky and Buddy were the two. Oldest Bud was on drums and
Rick was on bass. Rick went on to, like, do a lot of the
orchestration for a lot of Sony movies. Okay, big time stuff,
you know. And Bud is he went on to write and direct feature
films, independent feature films, in the States. He's out
in Germany now. He's doing a lot of television, promptly, like
very prominent German TV out there. So Bud was on the drums.
He was an inspiration. So at the family parties, I see cousin bud
on the drums. But I just took to the drums. I mean, you're a
drummer, you know, you just kind of take to it. You just, we've
jammed over at Tony's place. Yeah, two kids. It was great.
Yeah, we played it up and and so that, you know, that's the
foundation, I guess the family parties that you because you get
in a mix and then, you know, playing the drums. But
my parents never wanted me to be in the music. Least
my father didn't, yeah, well, what was your trajectory for
them? What they want you to
do? My father wanted me to play center field for the New York
game like DiMaggio, the magic three on five days. It's
like, I want you to be a policeman or a fireman or go
into the trades or something. No, I want you to be a baseball
player. But
not only that, center field,
he set the bar, but you played
a lot. I played, and I wasn't very good. I had some really
good years coming up, and it had some really not so good years,
because my head wasn't into it. My head was more into girls and
rock and
roll. But it allows you all these years later, to be a super
fan of the game.
I Yeah, you know, I could name this, that the other thing, and
then getting to go to Yankee Stadium, hanging out with Mickey
Rives, was the center fielder for the Yankees when they won a
World Series in 77 and 78 so I was 1415, years old. Make the
quick was one of my like, whoa. You know Ronnie Bloomberg. He
was another guy. He was a Yankee. And so we talk a lot of
baseball. You know baseball, and you know all time, NFL,
football. You
know your stats, buddy, you were ripping off the stats backstage.
Yeah. Two years ago you saw us at the Hollywood Amphitheater in
St Louis, and we usually play that every year sometime in July
or August. It's always the hottest temperature wise show of
the year. I mean, you I have to hydrate and drink Gatorade all
day long because it is an intense show. But yeah, you were
ripping the stats backstage. So you know the game you playing
drums. Now, you told me, before you got into acting, music was
always in your life. Love of baseball was always in your
life. Before you got into acting, you went to the Fashion
Institute of Technology. Did you finish?
No, okay, no, no, school, formal education wasn't my thing. How
long were you at fit like, it's two semesters, taking night
courses, yeah, well, my father was in a garment business. Oh,
okay, you know, he had dress factories up in Mount Vernon,
New York, and cutting rooms and stuff like that. So, but, you
know, by the time I came of age, the garment business was moving
out of the country. And, you know, being a drummer, they came
up with a drum machine, and music in New York was changing
at that point, yeah, which is some of like the movie that you
played the drums on the score Saturday Park is about a kid
who's a drummer. Yeah, tell
us. Tell us about, tell us about the the
story behind that play, which became the film that you
directed, and the plot.
The plot. The storyline is that, well, it's semi
autobiographical, and is that, you know, here's this kid, he's
a drummer, and his parents are putting the pressure on him that
you gotta, you know, you gotta start paying rent, you gotta get
a union job. You gotta, you know that, that and the other thing.
And here's a drummer in New York City, where the music was
changing, the sound was changing, and they come up with
the drum machine. So he's really cooked, you know? And it's about
him deciding what he wanted to do with his life, moving forward
as a drummer, you know, when they come up with the drum
machine. Now we're looking at AI that's taken over everything,
right? Yeah, if you go back, you know, you go back, okay, it's
like, you know, the ice man who's to deliver ice to
residents, right? Oh, yeah. You know, they come up with the
residential ice box, the residential refrigerator, so
he's out of business. And now you look at the drummer who's
facing the drum machine in New York City night. But we all
survived it. We survived with the drugs, because the music is
you can't what you did that day and all of that and the
camaraderie, you can't beat it. Man, no, you can't be just no
computers going to do it. Man, I think,
I think we're safe. AI is going to be here. New drum machines,
new technology is coming, but you can't replace the head and
the heart and the spirituality and what the collective energy
when people get to collaborate in a room. So, so really, it is
the tale of but it's two friends, Danny and Mike, yep.
Danny, Mike, yeah. And the And what's wonderful about the film
is somebody you know, who did study acting in Los Angeles for
five years, got my sad card. I got to see these two great young
actors. And the scene is final scene in the movie. I can't tell
you, because it totally be a spoiler, but it's a 13 minute
scene. It's pretty long. Yeah, it might be longer than 13
minutes. It might be even longer than 13 minutes. And I asked
you, like, hey, that wasn't like, one take, was it? And you
laughed at me like it took, like, one night, whole COVID.
What happened was it took a couple days. And, you know, I
knew that. I knew and you know, someday we'll be able to get the
behind the scenes footage out there, because I knew that once
it warms up in the Bronx, because we shot it entirely in
the Bronx, once it starts to warm up in the Bronx, forget
about Thursday, Friday, Saturday night. You're not filming out
there, because there's too many people that are coming out and
they just want to get out there, and they want to be the warm
weather. They want to be out on the street, yep. So we lost a
couple days because of that. Then it was some other stuff
that went down that we could that could have been helped, but
wasn't. So it took about five days to film that, you know, but
you know, the actors were right on. As you can see, they're
really happening those actors, what
are those two young cats doing now? Please tell me they're
still in the biz. Well,
we lost track of Aaron. Aaron sauter, he was played Mikey. He
pretty much disappeared. That's crazy, yeah, off of social
media, off of every day, maybe something tragic happened. I
think we kind of would have known that, right? Yeah, you
know. I mean, maybe he's turned into a monk or a Buddhist or
something like that, I don't know, but he was fantastic in
the role. As you know, I originally read him for the role
of Danny, but when he read for Mikey, when he read for Danny, I
knew he was Mikey. Well, I played both roles on stage. So I
played not, not at the same time, when we did it as a work
in progress with Ana Strasburg at the Lee Strasberg Theater
Institute that I played Danny the drummer. Greg heck played
Mikey the guitar player. Okay, then we went off, off Broadway.
I played Danny again. Michael oselini, he played, he played
Mikey. Okay, that's where Stallone's casting agency, Agent
found me. Joy Todd, she found me. She cast me in a movie with
Sylvester Stallone called lockup, yeah. Then when we did
it in Los Angeles, I played Mikey and Walt Woodson played
Danny, so I was very familiar with both roles. Wow. So that
the part, I mean, that's actually a an acting exercise
that I have been privy to, which is very hard, because you have
to wrap your you got to wrap your head around the other
person in that same scene. Yeah,
it's a lot of back and forth. It's playing off each other. And
then every play, every production of the play, went
really well. It evolved. And then as far as when we got to
casting it, you know, Aaron sort of got red for Danny, but I cast
him as Mikey, yeah. And then we had another actor who I wanted
to cast musicians that were real musicians so they could put a
soundtrack together. And Mikey's a real musician, and I cast
another kid. He was really good, and he was a drummer, so I put
him above the eventual Danny, who was Ilya Constantine, but
then he didn't show up for rehearsals. What? Yeah, anyway,
Oh, I gotta go skiing in Aspen. Don't blow your chances, kids.
So I had to get rid of him. That sucks. And that's where Ilya
Constantine came in. He had five days to learn the script
at that is a lot of dialog, dialog, man. So that's very
impressive. Yeah, it was good. Let me ask you this, and it
seems like you look out for your friends, because now Victor
Williams, yeah, played Doug Heffernan. Friends in the King
of Queens, co worker, and you cast him, yeah? So you guys kept
in touch over the years, yeah. And then wasn't Chuck Zito in
the Sopranos. Chuck Zito, and I don't think Chuck, I mean, he's
been in a lot of Italian, American based movies, wasn't
he? I could have sworn
he was in Oz tonight. Oz in grave Zen, yeah. Big part in
Osman, right? And, you know, he plays a tough guy, because he's
a legitimate tough guy, let's face it, right? So, you know,
he's always been cast as that role. So when I what I wanted to
do is I cast him as, you know, as the loving, caring father,
yes. And you know, people like, What do you mean? Chuck is a no.
Because, you know, when you're writing and directing stuff, you
know, you look at these actors. You look at no matter how
interesting they are as a person, as an actor, they're
1000 times more interesting as a person. So, you know, here's
this guy who's known for being the former president of a
motorcycle club, you know, tough guy, so on and so forth. Leader,
yeah, all that stuff you know, and, and it's like there's more
to him than that, you know. And to be able to know, knowing him,
you know, knowing him, seeing him in certain situations, okay,
I could cast him as that role, which is more exciting for me
than to, like, cast a guy straight on as a tough guy.
Yeah, you know, it's more fun to play like that. So. But all this
comes from decades of study and acting, studying movies, being
in movies, being in TV shows, and people ask me if I want to
go back into acting. And sometimes I say, I don't know,
you know, like, I don't like, really playing certain roles,
you know,
please tell me that. Please tell me you enjoyed the part on the
can Queens because you were
spectacular. Yeah, I did. I had some fun with it and but here's
the, here's the thing is that I, you know, you talk about, you do
some of that positive stuff, like all that stuff. So
motivational, yeah, the motivational stuff. So now here
I am, okay. I used to visualize because, you know, here look at,
look at how it goes. My father was basically, you know, trying
to grooming me to play center field for the Yankees. Look at
the long shot, bro, yeah, you know, I mean, like, that's that.
Then he's in the garment business, which basically, not
basically, is going overseas. So I'm cooked on that one, right?
And then you got the drum and stuff and got the drum machine.
I'm cooked. I'm done, yeah? Like, how do I really figure
this out, how to make something happen? Like, I'm dead in the
water at 22 years old, right? With no education and but I
wasn't giving up. I mean, so does that take you to Los
Angeles acting, because I was going down Seventh Avenue or
Broadway one day, and you open up one of those boxes with the
newspaper in it, or a pamphlet, and it was for the Learning
Annex. And it was different classes. Want to learn how to
play piano, which I took that one I'm not which it was fun.
One to How To Lose Your New York accents, which I have no
business trying to lose my New York accent because, you know,
later on, I found out that, like, it was a selling point for
you, right, exactly. And there's a whole other story with that
one. And then there was a commercial acting class, Whis
Barron. And when I went, I said, let me give it a go, you know, I
mean, because I got to figure out how I'm gonna eat, right?
And I went in there and I read, and, you know, there was a
class, and it was a whole group of people, and, you know, New
Yorkers, I was probably considered more like a bridge
and tunnel person, you know, from the outer boroughs coming
into Manhattan, which is more worldly. And it was a lot of
people in there that, you know, it was a little slightly
intimidated. You could tell they probably did four years of
college, or maybe even all of that. And here I am with maybe
one, two years of community college, which I really, you
know, didn't grab much out of it, right? So, except from that
note from the sociology teacher and but when I read, I said, You
know what? Just keep going straight forward, man, just do
it. And I did, you know, sometimes you get nervous and
you feel like the heat's coming out the top of your head. And I
was it, but the teacher says you got something. So when she said,
You got something, I remember, you know, driving home, I had
this Audi with a blanc stereo, and like, 120 watt, watt amp
system in the back. And I'm cranking Van Halen, because I
was, do you know, I'm into Van Halen totally, totally, was into
Van Halen and David Lee Roth. And, of course, we talk about
that in the movie Saturday in the park, but I'm driving there,
and I'm thinking, like, I'm gonna get into acting, and I'm
gonna make money with acting, because I don't have to worry
about a drum machine. I don't have to worry about getting a
band together. I could do this on my own, right? Because, you
know, when you get a band together, there's always a guy
that, even up till now, just three months ago, I thought I
had a band, and next thing, you know, the guy's like, oh, I
don't know, my wife ain't gonna let me do it and all of this
stuff. I'm like, what? Yeah, there's always the the weakest
link, you know what I mean. So, like, I'm on there on my own.
So, like, what happens is, I says I'm gonna work and get some
acting gigs, and then I'll be able to go on to music, yeah?
And so I got the movie with Stallone, then I ended up
working with Madonna. And, you know. Her story was like, Oh
yeah, I'm going to do music and get into movies. Which she did,
you know, she did what she wanted to do. You were in one of
her videos, right? I did the video. Oh, Father with her,
okay, where, you know, which was a black and white video David
Fincher directed, he went on to direct seven and a lot of great
movies. What a fantastic thing, right? You know? And so now I'm
sitting there. I have responsibilities. As a young
man, I had kids, so I didn't want to leave them like living
in squalor. So I did whatever I had to do to survive, but I
wanted to do music all the time, and movies are a boom, a hit,
boom. Next thing you know, you're going to Australia for
five months, which was great on a thin red line. But then what's
your next gig? So I like, I started to, first of all, once I
got into acting, I would visualize myself with Stallone,
which I ended up working with Stallone. So the visualization
stuff worked. I visualized I had the Rolling Stone magazine with
Madonna and Rosanna or cat on the cover. I kept that on my
wall. And then next thing you know, within you know, I was
working with Madonna. So like, I visualized all that you are
tapped into the law of attraction. Larry, I was tapped
in pretty seriously. And I'm I kind of tapped out for a while,
and I got to tap in again, yeah, but, and I'm working on that,
but so because as years go by, you know, I realized that, you
know, you see how people get beat down, you know. But to keep
going, you know. So now, what I figured out after the Stallone
movie, if I get a TV show, I could be my own record label. So
I got a TV show, so my responsibility is to keeping a
roof over kids house. And, you know, keep keep a roof over the
kids and feeding them. How many
kids you got? I got three, and the most of them are in Los
Angeles now. Well,
yeah, well, yeah, you know, they are where they are, and they
grown man, but I'm like, I did my thing. I did what I had to
do, you know? And when I got the TV show, I was able to finance
rehearsals, recordings, the whole bit, and we recorded three
albums.
Now, is this in New York, or is this one Sunset Strip with Los
Angeles? Yeah, with some of these cast of characters, which
is like Ty Dennis, who played with the doors, and Robbie
Krieger the new doors. And then you had a who's Lance Morrison.
No, I work with and Lance Morrison on some other tracks.
Yeah, that you know my cousin Ricky, and I Ricky the guy that
he's he's the base cousin who ended up orchestrating a lot of
music for Sony Records or movies and stuff like that. So Ricky
and I wrote two songs when I was in Los Angeles, when he came
down to Los Angeles, and back in 91 when we were doing the play
in Saturday and park, yeah. And then he found a cat named Jimmy
Hunter, who was from Detroit, and we went and did 16 track,
uh, one inch tape, but with a drum machine, yeah, but Jimmy's
a drummer. He's really good with the vocals and doing stuff like
that. And Jimmy brought in Lance Morrison, Penny wonzo, Keith
Howland, Jimmy Corey, Johnny duva, yeah. And Lee Thornberg,
uh, Tom Pollock on a horns.
So, So Keith every Keith is a friend, and he played 20 years
with Chicago, and you got Lance Morrison, who played bass on
Jagged Little Pill and Ty Dennis and I were buddies. We're
Facebook friends, small world. Man, yeah, so the music and the
acting were all kind of going together. You're studying at the
least Strasbourg. That was
back in 8687 by this time I'm in LA and, you know, and I tapped
into all that music. And, you know, these guys, they hadn't,
Lance had not played with, you know, this is before he played
with, honest, right? Yeah, before Keith was with Chicago,
Jimmy Corey, he's a fan. He ended up with Beth Hart. Oh,
nice. Beth Hart, you know, she's, she rocks. Oh, right,
exactly. You know, Johnny Dover, at that point, already played
with, I think Johnny Edgar, winter, or something like that.
But, um, and those, that's a different sound. And Lee
Thornburg, Tom Pollock, they must have played with, like,
maybe tower power. They got to, they that hammers. They call
them hammers, you know. But once I got the King of Queens, the
goal, the dream was to have a quartet, whereas bass guitar
drums, and that's where Ty Dennis came in on drums, Angelo
Barbera on the bass, who's like a, just, he's a, he's a, I don't
know. He's just a wild hammer, man. He's a jackhammer. He says,
some of the stuff he does, he's unique, yeah. And then Mick was
on guitar, and then I was just like, doing what I do, groveling
and saying my lyrics, scream my lyrics and the feelings. And we
ended up, so the King of Queens, when we talk about how fun it
was. So I would be going to this, you know, TV sitcom, CBS,
yeah, which, you know, it's, they have the network and the
studio and the analytics, and they all of this stuff. And then
I'm going, like, flipping the hat, and, you know, putting on a
different hat, and then just going into a studio, usually,
amp rehearsal in North Hollywood. And North Hollywood
was not the way it is right now. It's gentrified. There was,
like, the buildings that are there now were not there, yeah,
you know. And. And and it just had that vibe. And next thing
you know, I'm going into this rehearsal room with these
musicians who obviously went on to that, obviously went on to do
great things, so they're no joke. So it was just Wild Rock
and Roll and, like, rah and that was really what it was. So I go
from the corporate TV
show. Yes, is America's network. That's the family network,
right? You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah. Then you're, you're living a double life. Larry, so
that show ran from 1998 to 2007 and what? What seasons were you
on? I was in the first two seasons 1998 1999 Yeah, amazing.
And if for those that don't remember, you got Kevin James,
who played Doug hefferman, who is a delivery man for a sort of
like a faux ups. You had Leia Remini, who played Carrie
Heiferman. And, of course, God rest his soul. Comedic genius
Jerry Stiller played Arthur Spooner. Oh, my God, he's
hilarious. And then your buddy, Victor Williams, and then Patton
Oswalt. Patton Oswalt actually played the voice of an animated
character when I did my acting part with Christopher Maloney
from law and order on a television show called Happy on
the Sci Fi Channel. So Patton was the voice of an animated
character. So I had to act, and there was like an ant. They put
in this animated character between me and Maloney. And it
was, dude, it was so fun. I mean, just to be thrown in the
deep end of the pool. Like, here's this super, multi decade
trained thespian actor, Christopher Maloney, and here's
this drummer with a little acting training that got this
job, and they throw me into the deep end of the pool and action.
And I, dude, I hit my mark and I I did my thing. Yeah, yeah.
Crushed.
I heard some things,
things little bit. Now, before I really want to play the trailer
to we heard God bus America, I want to play the trailer to
Saturday in the park. But can we quickly do this little best of
compilation of your character? Richie on the gay queens, just
for everybody can have some nice belly laughs. So I love the
show, and it runs reruns all the time, which means you do
Hillary checks? Would you do Hillary? That's a whole story,
right? Lady, you got to do it.
I don't know. She's
filling out that skirt a little bit too much for my
taste. Nah, see, I love a little jiggle, jiggle on the first
lady. Hey, moose.
Question for you, now that your wife's sister moved in, the two
of them, ever you know, get into an argument, then maybe start
whacking each other with pillows. Next thing you know, a
little playful wrestling leads to a lingering because
I'm asking. Oh, somebody's cranky. Hey, Santa Claus, you
missed.
Moose, relax. We got you covered. Hey, Chens, go get me a
big stick. If we whack him, maybe candy will come out.
This is where he
the hell is this
a new car? No, seriously, what is
it? It's a car. Hey, maybe you spent some time in Luxembourg.
You wouldn't ask him stupid questions.
Where did clowns come out
so you find anything you want to watch yet,
no. Daytime TV is brutal.
What are we supposed to watch? What the way we were on the
romance channel,
that on anybody want to watch it?
You? No,
hey, hey, this remote. It keeps jumping around. Hey, moose. Hey,
Richard, listen, sorry. I'm late. I was at OTB, and I just
kept winning trifectas. The exact is a couple Daily Doubles.
Unbelievable, boom. $28 Mom's
coming in from St Louis. I got to pick a gotta pick her up from
the airport that
night. St Louis. Oh, she could watch Ultimate Fighting with us.
Hell, I met her. She could be in it.
St Louis, Larry, great stuff. Hey. So what was the schedule on
this sitcom you're rehearsing Monday through Thursday? You go
live in front of a studio audience. Studio audience on
Friday,
right? Yeah. So we get the, let's say we filmed on Friday
night. So Friday night, we go back to, you know, come home,
and they would, I guess nowadays, they email you a
script, but we would have a hard copy of the script at our front
door or wherever we were living. And then, you know, so you got
sad, you know, you peruse through it Friday, because
you're still coming down off the show, which I know, you know
what that's about. And then, um, and then, you know, Saturday,
maybe dabble a little bit, Sunday, a little then Monday,
you'd have a reading with the cast and maybe the network and
the studio, and you maybe rehearse a little bit. Then you
go home early. Me. Tuesday, you come back, there's new pages,
rehearse a little bit, go home. Wednesday, you really start
hitting it. You're reading for the studio. You're reading for
the network. Final tune ups. Thursday is when they start
doing the lights, they blocking, and you block in and that stuff.
And then, you know, Friday, you come in for your hair, your
makeup, a bop it, Bing, and then you shoot the show, and you go
home, start all
over again. And it's like a live thing with a live studio. It's
mostly tourists coming into, you know, Los Angeles, and maybe
they get the pizza and they get them all excited. You got a warm
up cook comedian. Hey, you guys ready to see the That sounds
exciting? It really is good, man. I don't know what the
current state of sitcoms are, but I think that the
laugh tracks are, I don't know they sound, yeah, and that the
new high definition thing is weird. So I think that the multi
cam, oh, sorry, the single cam, like family, modern, family 101,
documentary, yeah, that kind of got more popular.
But I think that really, really a sitcom format, and the way it
is, it has to be brought back, yeah, yeah, because it's just a
classic format, man. You know,
22 minutes, there's trouble. I mean, Jim and I are huge fans
of, you know, Three's Company. We talk about Three's Company
all the time.
My Uncle Pete did the sound on Pete's threes, like the boom
operators. Oh, he was, like, one of the mixing guys in a bag. My
Uncle Pete got my Uncle Pete Romano, my father's brother. He
came out to California 1949 he wanted to pioneers of radio and
music. You know, he was an engineer on when Phil Spectrum
was producing Mac. He was an engineer with Mac Davis. He's
got gold records on the wall. Gold records, platinum. Yeah. My
Uncle Pete was a hammer, but he was a three. He was on Three's
Company. I guess at that time he might have been doing full doing
Foley, yeah, kicking back. You know, they keep taking it easy,
but he was the guy that was cutting it with a razor blade,
yeah? Mac Davis and all of those cats. I
can't imagine being on that set with John Ritter being as a such
a physical comedian, and the tripping and the falling and the
spinning and the over exaggerated. It's just so
enjoyable.
Yeah, you know, it goes back to the writing. You know, the King
of Queens are really good writers, and Seinfeld is good
writers. And it's hard to develop good writers in today's
world, because not too many people want to sit in front of a
computer, look at a blank screen and then take criticism for it.
Yeah. You know, I would think that Fox was trying something
many years ago, which I played a role in it, where they would do
plays and see if they could run into a TV
show. Oh, wow. Like, almost, like a, like, a farm, yeah,
incubator, incubator, right, you know. And I think because, you
know, a sitcom is a sitcom, man, you can't beat that. You know,
when you watch those all time, classic sitcom, Norman Lear
stuff. I mean, right? Whether you, no matter how you feel
about Archie Bunker or the Jeffersons, or go down Happy
Days, or Laverne and Shirley, King of Queens, Raymond, you
know Ned and Stacy, which Ned and Stacy was written by Michael
Whitehorn, who is wrote, co wrote, co created the King of
Queens, and it's one of my favorite shows. But that sitcom
formula, I don't know why they got away with it. They got to
get back to it if they want to. I
hope it comes back. I really do, because I'm such a fan of it.
Yeah, tell us about Jerry Stiller, why he's a genius,
classic, old time New York guy, you know, sounds like a song and
dance man, like,
yeah, you know, he's like, I think is, you know, is a New
Yorker man, like an old time New York guy, you know, and his wife
and Mira, she was just a very interesting person, hardcore New
York person, yeah, you know. And I don't believe she comes from
an era where being offended would be acceptable, yeah, oh,
I'm offended. Well, that's unacceptable. He's part of
comedy. It's just part of life, too. Life is, you know what I
mean, like, Oh, I'm so offended. Like, you're offended. Too bad,
you know, it's, oh, I'm sorry I offended you not, you know.
Like, and she's like, you know, she comes from that era where no
one is safe and no one should laugh.
Like, Don it's like, Don Rickles, he got away with
everything because he spared no one,
right, right? Spared no one.
But he was also self deprecating as well. Yes, yeah. So, I mean,
that was the, you know, everybody could laugh at
themselves back then. Yeah, yeah. That doesn't
happen. You know, people don't have thick skin nowadays. You
know, people are offended over this tiny other thing. And it's
like, it's, it's up to, I guess, our generation as the elders, to
sing ace. It's like, when Cher smacks Nicholas Cage in the
face, you know, in Moonstruck. Snap out of it, yeah. What's
wrong with you? Yeah. Snap out of it. You know. You know, like,
I mean, as far as anything's concerned, you everything, like,
You got to be careful that you might offend somebody. It's
like, No, bro,
it's too bad. I'll be honest. I think we turned a corner. We're
back. We heading back. It's society, yeah, I think so we got
that, yeah, because people just got enough. Is Enough already?
Are we talking?
Did we turn the corner? I think we did. Okay, good. Well, we
got, according
to the book, we turned the corner.
Okay, the metal and keep going. Bring pay phones back.
It'll take about 20. Years,
maybe 20. Hey, man, just think about the here's the deal. And
just made COVID made me think about this. Just think about the
amount of germs that are on a New York City pay phone. People
put that thing up to their ear, in their mouth, they're touching
all the buttons,
and they were healthy. Oh my God, when Kramer went and swam
in the Hudson River. And, I mean, we used to swim in Lake
Candlewood. That thing is just a puddle. It's, you know,
Candlewood lake up and, you know, we're familiar with that.
And going up in New York, that was the first man made lake. It
was a lake, yeah. And they basically pumped water out of
the Housatonic River into the Candlewood Valley. They created
a lake. They dammed both ends, and it's essentially a battery.
But they have recreational squats pond. Does that ring a
bell? No, really? No. There's a lot of New Yorkers used to come
up to Candlewood or squats. Pond
was the one that we used to go hang out.
He was too busy. Welch baseball
music. Watches Lake. Welch Lake, I think it was called. It was
not too far out from from Rockland County. Yeah, that's
what happened. I ended up playing double headers on
Saturday and Sunday, and really, just like, what was the ante?
And, you know, I mean, it was, you know, whatever. But, you
know, I still like to throw the ball around and play baseball,
and, you know, do a little bit of this and that, and follow the
game a little bit. But, you know, so,
you know, Larry, like, when I'm into, like, you know, I'm in the
grocery store and I'm trying to find the perfect avocado, and I
hear a song I play on it comes on, it's still, still pretty
fun. You pat yourself on the back a little bit like I did
that. Man, there's not a lot of people do that. So you see
yourself on the television show. You
don't watch myself. No, no, you don't watch it. No, I hate it.
Yeah. It's one of the reasons why I didn't want to be on a
Sopranos. Because if I was on a sopranos, I couldn't watch it.
And I read, you asked to be, we know, I never approached it.
Man, there was a whole chapter or two of my life that after the
K of Queens and after the Kristen Chenoweth show, that had
nothing to do with the entertainment industry, there
was a lot to go on with my screenwriting and so on and so
forth like that, but I kind of started doing other things,
which is, you know, a conversation for another day.
And, yeah, because of just the environment of Hollywood in
general, yeah, I don't necessarily vibe with it at, you
know, 100% I vibe at maybe 50. And if you don't want to vibe
with it 100% you're kind of not in the league, you know, right?
So a lot like being in a mob, you
know, you didn't ever have Lee Remini coming over and be like,
Hey, have you heard of Scientology?
Yes, she definitely brought that up a
few for reals, yeah. She certainly changed her tune on
it. She
changed her tune on it, yeah, for whatever reasons it may be,
you know. And you know, Patton Oswalt is an atheist, and Lee is
a Scientologist. So that was the but that never became a problem
with me on the set. I'm always a person that you know, you
believe what you want to believe. Just don't, you know,
don't try and jam something down my, you know, throat, you know
what? I mean. Yeah, whatever, bro, I don't care. Yeah,
Oswald, though he's, he's, uh, he's a genius, real smart,
seemingly, like I've seen him on, like, game shows, yeah, in
jeopardy. He knows all the words, yeah. Apparently knows
Yeah. Seems like, it seems
like maybe they give you a study book. If you're gonna go on
those, those shows, they're gonna be like, here it is. It's
this thing. Like, it can ask you any of these things, you know,
and it's up to you, as you know, to put in your bathroom time
and, like, you know, study the book, yeah? But so, okay, so
this is so fun to hear. Let's, let's talk. Maybe pull up the
trailer to Saturday in the park. Yeah. And the music to Saturday
in the park is a collection of kind of, like, rock inspired
remakes, like, hey, let's do something in the spirit of like
this. You know, this ace freely song from aces solo record. And
then there's some, what I would call take a drum set and throw
him down a staircase, kind of my wild improvisations. It was
basically improvisational drum set that was used to create like
energy from scene to scene, right? Am I right saying that,
right? So that's what the score consists of, right? And this is
the trailer that is going to promote the movie that is coming
out this year, give everybody a taste of the movie. Yeah, here
we go. Yeah.
1986 New York City. Oh 5050.
Fuck the five. Oh, I'm telling you, may catch is on the news.
He's come down on all this graffiti,
rock and roll, hip hop. Y'all know these guys beat my fucking
meat. B murder, dirty cops. John Gotti. The mob runs everything.
John Gotti runs everything. And neighborhood friends for life.
Speaking about his shame in a waste, Where's your friend?
Oh, fuck Angelo. Stop him. He's got my money. What's he talking
about? He's full of shit. That guy. Well, look who it is,
Manhattan, Danny. Stop you
and your friend. Mikey, playing at double music all the time.
You're not kids don't walk. It's not devil music. The name of the
band is the devil maniacs. It's devil music.
It was one night in the time of their lives, a hell of a
drummer, you wouldn't wake it right up there with the best we
can fucking make it me and you and never let nothing stand in
the way of your dreams when the past will collide with
the future. Small bed man and Larry Davis, cops gonna wrap
them down so they tried to kill
him. The kids selling drugs.
That looks like we ran out of internet. Hold on.
Hey, it's exciting, though. And here's another crazy, small
world. Is that the reason that you and I know each other,
Larry, is because we have a mutual friend, Michael,
goodnight, who's a he's a musician and a film editor in
Los Angeles. He does a lot of, you know, trailers and promos
and epks, and just like, you know, high level stuff, he's a
fantastic editor. And over the years, he has edited reels for
me and my friends. And then I found out he was a musician.
Next thing I know, he's got this project called Warlords of Mars,
which is basically him playing all the instruments. And then he
has a neighbor next door that's this crazy, like boa Zappa type
poet. And the guy writes no lyrics. He just takes Michael's
tracks and just starts riffing on these things, and it's pretty
brilliant. Yeah, so Michael, Michael and I trade. He'll be
like, I'll be like, Hey, man, could you put my new
motivational speaking reel together for me? It would
usually cost this amount of money. And then I go and I'll
play 1212, drum tracks. So yeah, so I think I probably had on
recorded like 20 tracks for him. Really good music too. Yeah,
Mike, he's just some stuff together
too. Definitely, we definitely got down, man.
He's a, he's a product of of living in the heart of show
business for decades. Just a nice guy and super smart. What's
up? Michael,
yeah, no, like you said, right, exactly. He's a he's Orange
County Hollywood guy, and he's, like, knows all this one and
knows that one knows all the names, like, I know baseball. He
knows each actor's name. He knows what movies this is from,
what that's from, so on and so forth. So it's a good
combination. And, yeah, when I first brought it up to him, I
says, Hey, man, the movie is about a drummer and a guitar
player, and the lead character is a drummer. So why don't we
get a drummer to you know? And initially somebody said for me
to play. I'm like, nah, nah, nah, nah. And it's like, oh,
let's try rich Redmond. And I think he pulled I'm like, well,
who's that guy? He's like, he pulls up a video of you playing
with slash Yeah, with slash Yeah, and Leanne rimes on
background, and
Winona Ryder and Paul Rogers. Yeah, it was sorry. What did I
say? Why not a writer? Oh yeah. Well, you know,
yeah, there you go. Oh yeah. I don't know if she sings back up,
but yeah, they were hammering. I'm like, what this guy, you
know, this guy? He's like, Yeah, like, all right.
Top guy too, right, yeah. And the
next thing I know, I got Larry Romano on the phone. Hey, rich.
Larry Roman I'm like the guy from the King of Queens, yeah.
And next thing you know, we're in the same room together. We're
doing the thing. So it's all these amazing, you know, small
worlds, human relationships, a really, really cool thing. So
I'm excited for the film for you, because I know that it
started as an idea. It became a script. You put it up in New
York. You put it up in Los Angeles, you've filmed it. You
put your heart and sweat into it. Everybody look it up. You
can look it up on IMDb and just kind of watch, you know, Larry
and I socials, and we'll let you know when the film comes out.
Yeah, definitely keep a keep an eye out, because we're doing it
independently. We spoke about the, you know, how things have
changed in the business where, you know, used to cut a record,
you sell records, you sell CDs, you sell cassettes, and, you
know, airplay and you can make a living. And same thing with
movies and social media and streaming has changed all of
that. There is some upsides to it. But as far as the movie is
concerned, we, you know, we're going to hold private
screenings. If anybody wants to have a private screening of the
movie. They get a theater that's, we could do something
like, yeah, you know, we're doing our own marketing, our own
distribution. I'd
love to see it put up at the Franklin theater. I think that
would be perfect. It's a perfect, you know, like when the
the wrecking crew had that film about, you know, the the
Wrecking Crew in Los Angeles, they, they premiered the film
there, and it was nice. It's perfect size for events. And,
you know, a little bit of the press can come out, and some
cute little downtown Franklin that might be, you know, that
might be a thing. And, and, God, in Los Angeles, where we could
do it somewhere, I know, a small little theater there somewhere
on Santa Monica or something, you
know, very big movie. Well, yeah, it's
interesting Los Angeles has changed very much for the not
good, you know, yeah, it hasn't. It's not a place where, you
know, Neil Diamond said, LA is fine. The sun shines all the
time. LA is about to rent, being low. So you could be an artist,
you know, and you could, you know, hang in there. And we
talked about this last time we're together is that, you
know, New York is, New York is hanging in there. I could say,
you know, Los Angeles is, is not doing very well. Yeah, was the
last time you were out there. I've been out there three times
this year. So I was out there just for June 7, and so when I
was out there last month. And, you know, it's just not a place
where it's not what it was.
It is not affordable for an upcoming artist, that's
not affordable and, you know, and is something that goes with
that grind, that creates that creativity, you know, you know.
So, you know, it's just collective mindset, yeah, and
I've. Find that St Louis has a much better environment for
artists. You know, much better environment. Yeah, much better
environment. Because you're not to worry about this high
overhead. And 475, $5 for a gallon of gas, and you got to
drive everywhere. You know, we're looking at reasonable
overhead. Is there a lot of gentrification going on in St
Louis as well, I hope not. Is there? Is there? A lot of,
are there.
I live on a hill, and it's, you know, it was, it was originally
called day go Hill, which is a derogatory name for Italians,
which they really don't bother me at all. Guinea and wop does
Yes, but they go, kind of sounds cool, but yes. And, you know,
there is some benefits to, you know, but there are places where
you could really, you know, buckle down if you're an artist.
One thing for sure, though, still in New York and Los
Angeles, well, Los Angeles, if somebody got a gig in LA they're
showing up. If somebody has an opportunity in Los Angeles,
they're showing up sometimes, I think in St Louis, my
experiences is that somebody has a chance to do something, they
might blow it off, yeah, you know, because they don't
recognize the actual opportunity that's there. You know, when Los
Angeles, they're starving for the opportunity in New York,
they're probably, they're starving more for the
opportunity. They're going to show up. But we got to bring
back in person auditions, this, going this, the actors cannot be
continually going on camera for auditions
seven years, years, right?
Some of the cast of The Office is from St Louis, Jenna Fisher
and
Phyllis, whoever played
to a lot of times. Jim loves the office. There's a lot of talent
that's come out of St Louis already, you know. But
why did you when you left Los Angeles? Why did you pick St
Louis? Of all the
cities, I didn't really pick it. Okay, guys kind of picked me in
some way. It's there's a whole other story of how I ended up
having to leaving Los Angeles because I got I I'm a cancer
survivor myself, so, you know, go down to 125 pounds in St
Louis, and Los Angeles is really kicking my tail. And I had two
German Shepherd dogs that I didn't want to put into a pound.
So I just kind of got in my vehicle, and I tried it out
there in Henderson, Nevada, for a little while. And there's a
whole other story there, where I had to tip out of there, but
somebody told me that my dogs could live outside, and I had to
tell her, no, you live outside. I know Henderson very well.
It's, it's it's nice. I like it in the wintertime because it's
cool and all of that. But when, when, when you whatever you want
to say, the woman that you're living with suddenly tells you
that it's okay for your dogs to live outside. Where I stand on
that is, it's okay for you to live outside, because you're not
putting my dogs outside. So next thing I know, I'm packing up my
truck and I'm, that's my country western song, got my dogs and
mctuck, and it's, I couldn't head west again. I headed east,
yeah. And I ended up, you know, hitting St Louis. I ended up
coming down to Nashville, checking it out a little bit,
which to tell you, man, I got into Nashville and I tasted that
traffic, and I'm like, No bueno, man, I'm not doing this was in
2018 oh, really, yeah, it's much worse. Now
the entire state of California is moving here. I
mean, I just was another thing too, right? And then, you know,
you go up to St Louis, where everything is 12 minutes away.
Hey,
wait, there's St Louis. They got some barbecue.
They got some Yeah, okay, the city got pretty little women,
and so to St Louis. Yeah, some, yeah, single and mingle, yeah.
Just got out of a nice relationship that really was not
didn't end the way I wanted it to, but I wrote a couple songs
about it. So there you go. What you got? You got some walking
papers that you could turn into some creative man. I couldn't be
any happier, right now, that's for sure.
You have the attack like the Italian draw, the Taylor
Sheridan shows like Tulsa King that have come out. It's a
sliced alone production, right? Yeah, any interest in, you know?
Hey, you've worked with them before. I mean, sure, bring a
ding. Ding. Hey, you
know, if they want to put me in a room with a cast in there,
right?
I mean, we'll cut through all the red tape of casting
directors and go in the back door.
Well, you know, she said, you know, it could, who knows what
happens, you know. I mean, who knows how it happens? I'm here,
um, listen, if there's a good part and I'm, you know, and it's
a good, you know, there's, like, if there's a good part and
there's good people involved, if I could show up and, you know,
I'm able to do it, I would. He's got interested. But rock and
roll, really music, you know, that's my thing, man, yeah,
yeah. He
seems like that. The Taylor Sheridan universe seems to have
a lot of a certain kind of bent to it. You know what? I mean,
there's a land man, land man as well. A great show, yeah, you
know, in the Tulsa King Courtney and I have really been enjoying
watching it. You got Frank Grillo, who's now in it, yeah?
James Russo got in there too. I really. Yeah. I mean, sure, man,
I look, I got a screenplay that Sylvester Stallone, if I, if he
was to be in it, I would love to direct a minute and it's, it's
something that I was working on. One director that was attached
to it for a while was the director who directed Rocky and
Karate Kid, John G avidson, yeah. So I would love to work
with Sylvester Stallone in that capacity, directing him, because
it's the role of
it's a role that he would really do well. And, yeah,
yeah, he seems like a really nice guy. It was nice to me.
Yeah, you know, I met his brother,
you know? Oh, yeah, Frank, yeah. He's a musician,
but I got you some stories. But, I mean, we have Frank. I mean,
God, he wrote the music for a lot of the films, yeah, you
know. And that's him harmonizing at the trash can with the fire
in the alley. They're doing the thing right, yeah. What other
movie
Roadhouse too, wasn't he
was the one with Mickey ROG Barfly. Barfly, yeah, Mickey
plays Bukowski.
It was another movie that he was in, though, Frank Stallone that
I we just watched it. Gosh, but he was, I worked in radio in Las
Vegas for four years, and we used to have a whole bunch of
people coming through the stations at the time, and he
came in, I'm like, looking at, you know, I was getting in
there, putting my stuff down. All the morning shows are doing
their thing, and you never know who you run into at this at
these stations. So he's just kind of following me around. And
I go to get my coffee. And he's like, Hey, can I get some
coffee? I'm like, yeah, come on, you know, what do you you know,
what station you on? He's like, I'm going to be on ksfn and
kluc. I'm like, oh, you know, what do you do? He's like, Oh,
I'm an actor and a musician. I'm like, Cool. What have you know,
what have you been? She's like, Oh, my name is Frank Stallone.
I'm like, oh, that's how I know you.
Hey, great guy. Totally cool. You got Pacino, you got Deb, you
got pen, you got me. So these guys, plus all have different
styles of working, styles of preparing any any fun stories or
insights for the actors out there.
Well, Al Pacino didn't say much to me on the set, but that's
because the two characters were like he was. He was my father
and he didn't like me very much, you know, but then Johnny Depp
and I, we got along very well. He gave me the CD to his music
as a band called P really good stuff. Yeah. So that was John.
Now he's in the Hollywood Vampires. There. He goes crazy
with Alice Cooper, right? Crazy. And
he got to play with Jeff Beck, right? So, like, Come on, let's
be real. And I was still on, was just great to work with. For me,
yeah, it was really cool to work with. Madonna. Was really great
to work with. Yeah, so Kristen channel with, there was some
really fun people to work with. Without a doubt. I didn't have
any scenes with Sean Penn, but we were in the jungles of
Australia for five months, so I had a lot of start a lot of
stories on set for five months when a world war two movie,
yeah, sweat and humidity, you know, had to get a bunch of
shots, I bet. Well, yeah, malaria, well, yeah, none of
that stuff, man. But, you know, they gave us the heads up not to
swim in the ocean by the estuaries, because the
crocodiles go out into the ocean to the sea. We're by the Coral
Sea. And you know about some kind of bird you could head
monk, you and kill you, yeah, a bunch of spiders and snakes and
scorpions, yeah. And they got, but they got some people out
there, really cool people, and I've still remained in contact
with a lot of them. So that was, that was just a great
experience. And, you know, and it was a great experience. I can
have a, you know, that's something. And we didn't get to
work with Sean Penn, but I got to hear a lot of stories.
Definitely, a lot of stories. Amazing. Yeah, yeah, man. And
so St Louis, since 2018
Yeah, 2019 19, yeah. There you go. And then, you know, of
course, COVID hit, and all that stuff. Kind of slowed stuff down
a little bit, yeah, and then still getting over, you know,
injuries and stuff like that, and then, but it all, it always
comes back to what's in your in your mind all the time, and it's
always going to be music, really, for me. I mean, movies
are fun, definitely, without a doubt, TV sitcoms are fun. You
know? I know writing one is a chore. Writing a movie is less
of a chore, you know. And but when you get in that room with a
bunch of cats and you got the drums and the guitar going and
the bass going, and it's like, it's
terribly exciting, yeah, it's still, it's just never gets old,
not for me, you know, it doesn't. And I can't say movies
or TV or movies got all for me, but I'm just saying when I wake
up in the morning or when I go to bed at night, it's always a
rhythm or something to that effect. Right now, where I live,
I got a drum set in my living room, which I hadn't had since I
was, you know, I never had a drum set in my living well, I
guess I did at one point in time, you know, St Louis, you
got a house you get to open up, yeah, that's the other thing,
right? I got it. I got a spot, right? Like, I talked to good
night about that too. It's like, you know, because we've written
a couple songs together, yeah, where I would put a drum track
down in St Louis, and then blah, blah, blah. But like, if he was
in St Louis, all you got to do is come to the house, plug in
the bass. We got to re. Recorder. I got 12 track digital
recorder we could just create. Yeah, we're in Los Angeles, you
know, he's got a cool apartment. But then if we wanted to do the
live drums, we got to go to amp, gotta go to amp, gotta go to
amp. Which amp is great, yeah? Like 75 bucks an hour. Well,
yeah, you know, they could get by for a little less, but still,
right? Exactly, you know, by the time you end up with all of that
stuff. And, you know, so but being an independent artist in
today's world, there's a definitely a lot of Vantage to
it, like he says, we could have a showing of the movie with his
wizard theater down here, the Franklin the Franklin theater.
You got the Tivoli up in the high point up in St Louis. We
got here and there. And just let it go. And you know, the people
that are in the audience right now, if they want to really see
some new stuff out there and and keep it alive. And
what about the festivals? How do you could you get it into the
Telluride and the Venice and the
I've been through the festivals with a movie as a producer,
yeah? And, you know, my honest opinion on festivals is that
bogus, man,
is it like some serious politics for winning as bogus,
interesting. They have agendas, you know, all of this stuff,
when the bigger ones probably have more agendas where they're
trying to push like a social whatever, which, you know, they
trying to make it that it's supposed to be art imitates
life, but that what they're trying to do is they're supposed
to have, they're trying to have life imitate art. And you can't
do that, man, you know. And it's, they're doing it, but it's
failing. You know, the they might make these big tent hole,
tent hole, tent hole, tent pole movies, right? But like, at the
end of the day, it's, there's, they don't. It's like, what do
you watching some guy flying around in pantyhose, make him
believe he's a spider, or make him believe. Like, I mean, there
are people that love this stuff, but like, for me, like, I don't
want to give two hours of my life, where, what do I get out
of watching a guy making believe he's a spider? Spider? Man,
yeah. Well, whoever, spider super, this guy, that. Man,
you're
not a big fan of the Marvel movies or anything. Oh,
no, because, I mean, like I said, people that are, God bless
it. It's all well and good, but I don't want to give I watched,
you know, the Pope, McCarthy village. I watched rocky I
watched the godfather. I watched, you know, for unlawful
carnal not carnal knowledge. Was like you watch these movies from
Bangor, watch Woody, Allen movies, when you come out of it.
You know, not only did you have some laughs or did you enjoy the
story, but you come out of it like a little bit, like with a
bit of life that might enhance your
life. Woody Allen can write. He's great, great clarinet,
clarinet player too, yeah. And I just had these guys. These guys
are from the Midwest. They never really experienced Woody. And,
you know, I put the Woody Allen movie on for them. I think it
was Danny Hall. No, I put Hannah and Her Sisters on. Ah, okay,
see, Could you, could you imagine I'm watching Hannah and
Her Sisters, and I just watching the whole thing play out. And
these guys started watching it, too. Yeah, you know, because
they start going, Wow, they draw you in, because it's real life,
real it's real human beings. Yes, you know, that's
interesting. So you know when part of the plot at towards the
end of Saturday in the park is, is when you know the two
characters are trying to decide, what are we going to do? We got
to get out of here. We got to go try to make it. We're not
getting any younger. And they mentioned, oh my god, David Lee
Roth just quit Van Halen. He put his own band together with this
guy named Billy Sheehan and Greg Bissonette on the drums. Next
thing I know, we sent the trailer to Greg. Greg is so
happy to be named. Dropped in the movie. Billy is happy to be
named the movie we went and we broke bread with Billy over at
brick tops, yes, in Cool Springs, yeah. So they're so
happy. But,
you know, I'm so happy. They're happy. That was a big part of my
life. And we would Mike nickel from Germany, yep, my bro from
Germany, which was I wanted, that's great. Billy picked up
the tab. Thank you, Bill. Thanks. How's it going? And I
saw Greg Bissonette in Los Angeles. He actually remembered
a whole bunch of lines from the movie, and then he bought me.
Then I said, I was like, Wow, where did you guys go? Forgot
the name of the place, but it was in Westlake Village, Los
Angeles, and you know, he's on tour with Ringo now, yeah, but
you know, that's that time. Okay, so 1984 the album came
out. Right then 85 Dave came out with crazy from the heat, which
was an EP going crazy from the heat. California Girls,
just a gigolo and TV
and I always love Van Halen, like, I tell you, Danny Spitz
came to my house with Anthony Amendola back in, I guess, 78
and we they bring this their amplifiers, and I got the drum
set, and they're like, Did you ever hear this band called Van
Halen? But back then, like you listen to a song on the radio if
you didn't stay in the car until they came and told you who the
band was. So I was like, Nah, I never heard of Van Halen. And
they started ripping up any talking about love. I was like,
Oh, I know these guys, you know. And then then I had taken a trip
to California to see my Uncle Pete with the gold records on
the wall, and I met cousins that I didn't know I had. And it was
like the California thing, man, like, whoa, wow. Like, couldn't
wait till they come back. Like, yeah, like, you know, we're from
New York. Like, oh, you're from New York. That's really cool.
Like, really do you're from California. That's like, really
cool too. Like, because that's where Eddie and Dave and Alex
and Michael Anthony come from. So now, when they go through
that breakup, I was like, man, it's like, my parents are
getting divorced. I was broken up. Like, man, what that? What's
that about, you know, that found its way into the film. Found the
ways into the film, because that's a transition, too. And
then, you know, so,
Larry, were you there on the Sunset Strip for the Sunset
Strip? Golden Era?
Yeah, many nights. 8485 80 No, no. Came a little later, a
little later. 86 a little bit so Guns and Roses, yeah, like
little bit of them, right? Exactly. Um, yeah, it was
happening, and it was happening up until the 90s, right? Whiskey
Viper. You go to the rainbow late night, you run into Ron
Jeremy. He's playing the Pac Man Machine. You get a slice. You
end up in the red leather seats. And you never know who you're
gonna end up in a seat with at the red leather seat with,
yeah, uh, LA, was Grace. Did you
read their book? No brothers. Alex put it out. It's actually
right behind you there the shelf. Yeah, that's one. Next
one. Basically, it's a great book, yeah, and he I actually
listened to it. Alex read it, okay, and it's a really
interesting take on it goes right on up to the point where
they make 1984 he does not give any attention to Sammy Hagar,
yeah,
it was, you know, they came up with some good songs. They
definitely got some good songs. But after you was Van Halen, was
David Lee Roth, there's no doubt about it. And then, you know,
obviously I was broken up over this and the fella, this fella
that he was actually a catcher on a baseball team that I was
playing with the Scarsdale Redskins at the time, guy,
vodka. And I'm like, Oh, man. I was all, he's, no wait, man,
bro, David Lee Rock, got Billy Sheehan on base. Why? Well, like
a super band, yeah. Oh, he's got Stevie VI and great. I'm like,
really? And then I went and got that first eat them and smile
out like, Oh, wow. These guys are happening. So they made
their way into the script because they were a big part of,
like, helping me getting over Van Halen breaking up that eat
them and smile album was just off the charts. Man. That was
good one right at the next and then when I loved it, right? And
then I went to go see him live, they were like, Whoa. You know
Greg Bissonette wasn't he's done some acting himself. He's Winnie
the Pooh. He's Winnie the Pooh. Did you
know that voice act? So Greg didn't tell you when you broke
bread. So, so Greg has been the voice of Winnie the Pooh for
like, a decade, really, yeah, because he's got that gravelly
voice. He's got a gargling with your razor blade kind of
voice. It's like a raspy voice, like listening to him, it makes
you want to catch your breath, yeah? Because you feel like he's
running out of hand
to watch it now. Well, you know what's really cool about him?
He's from Detroit, yeah, and Detroit, he was telling me his
stories about living in Detroit, you know. And, you know, in the
movie, we didn't know, because, you know, there's no social
media at that time, we thought he was a California guy. So they
go commission. That's from California, but they do say
something by Detroit. Yeah, you know, New York is like Detroit.
It's cold, which means that you spend your your winter time,
either in the basement or the garage, playing music. It's like
Detroit, man. But yeah, those guys really, they, they
definitely smooth it out. A lot of the pain of Van Halen
breaking up. What a cool thing. Well,
maybe Greg or Billy will get the trailer or will let no Stevie VI
that he's also name dropped in the movie. Only way I know how
to get to him is that I believe he's really good friends with
Dina Carter, and I know Dena Carter, but I think Greg would
be a faster track to get to Stevie and let him know that,
you know, he's name dropped in the movie. I'm sure he'd get a
kick out of he seems like a super nice guy. Okay, man. So, I
mean, what a, what a, what a history, a history in music and
film. The the movie is coming out this year. You got this
song, God bless America. What are you gonna do with that? Man,
what you guys
gonna do? You know, I just let it ride, you know, man, people
want to hear it. And it takes, you know, it's about, you know,
we did some, we did one version with, you know, some of the
original lyrics, and added third verse, And then I did another
version where I just put all my lyrics to it, because it's
America 2025, we're living in. So, you know, what happens with
it nowadays? You know, if I, if we had a record label and a
publicist, would be on every radio station in America
tomorrow, right?
But nowadays, the people that need to find it will find it.
You kind of just, you know, you throw it against the wall and it
goes into your body of work. It's really great. It was so
cool to be involved with it. Brother, appreciate
you. Yeah, and you really pulled it together, because it's like,
you know, once those drums are clicking, man, just jamming on
it. You know, the drums are slamming, and then it just goes
from there. Yeah, in the pocket. Way to go. Keep it simple, yeah.
Hey, Larry, what is, what's your favorite color?
Geez, I think I'm gonna go blue. Okay,
okay, we get a lot of blue. I want to think blue or black. I.
Favorite
drink, favorite drink, yeah, well, it depends what day or
month or what you know, that stuff is, you know, I mean, as a
coffee, no drink, coffee. I'm off coffee for quite some time.
I was, I was, I was for quite some time, one of my favorite
drinks was water with barley, hops and yeast. Yeah, that was a
favorite one. Then I took a little break off of that, but
that's coming back into the fold. Well,
when I met you a year ago, you were off the yeast
off. I was off. I go back and forth between drinking beer and
not drinking beer and standing by. But you know, a nice
pineapple juice, freshly squeezed vacation drink, orange
juice, freshly squeezed. You know what? I mean? Something
like that. Some nice juice. Green tea, nice. I mean, I used
to really love coffee, but I love it too much, me too. Yeah,
I'm gonna have another one after this. I know. See, I'd be right
there with you, like, oh, let's get a pack, pack of Marlboro
reds and a whole pot of coffee. Yeah, that was high school. See,
that. Yeah,
my preference was camels. No filters. No, we had filters, but
it was camel wines,
okay, camel wise, yeah, yeah, man, yeah, you know. I mean, you
know, you go to Europe and people smoke cigarettes, and I
don't have a problem with it. I have no problem whatsoever. They
are still puffing away over there. Yeah, I have no problem
with secondhand smoke.
Yeah, it's actually kind of endearing, because once you're a
smoker and you smell it, it's,
Oh, that smells. Yeah, right, it does.
It just makes me think I am in a dive bar, and I love this
jukebox, and I love these people that I'm with and but, um, you
don't get that, that rustic, musty smell in the bars anymore,
like you used to no except when we went and watched a band at
the Elks Lodge up in like, Gallatin, they all smoked, and
they had the smoke eaters. It's like, oh, this is how a bar used
to as a place. St Peter's, like that too. Salvatore's, you could
smoke in there.
So how do they get around it in Gallatin? Because
that's part of Elks Lodge. I mean, it's like they write the
wrong rules. Yeah? Okay, gotcha,
yeah, that's another thing about too, about God bless America.
Like, you know, we got to start re, you know, writing our own
rules again, man, you know, doing unhealthy things, yeah?
Like these, I mean, these whole universal rules, you know, like,
Yeah, I'm not, I'm totally not down with the fast food stuff,
because that's like, whatever, like,
our food supply has been poisoned.
So there are you probably really with the green tea, yeah, and
the no fast food and all that. That probably became part of
your, your modus operandi when you were treating your kid. We
all
remember when McDonald's before that, too, though, yeah,
McDonald's tasted a lot different. Yeah, kids,
yeah, yeah. It was, like, fresh ingredients. It was awesome.
Yeah, it
was actually not bad.
Yeah. In Europe too, I was in Germany for a month, and you go
to McDonald's and it's like, wow, I want to go again. Yeah?
It says, but now it's like, a real meal. Yeah, we Well, I
think that's another thing we're getting on the right track. Of
people are realizing how much poison that we actually eat. We
stopped in like, Marion, Illinois yesterday, get
something to eat. And I'm thinking, like, here we are in
the middle of all this farmland, and all all the food sources
are, you know, processed food, yeah, right, genetically
modified, you know. And, you know, that's one thing we can't
let happen to our music and our art, yeah, you know, we kind of
stay, you got to stay with, you know, doing our thing. Man, no
computers, and just get out there and, you know, and bring
back garage bands. Yeah,
there's one, there's some food guy that I don't mind, and that
is peanut. M, M's, I don't care what they're doing. I love it. I
got, I got. That's my treat, you know, like one once a month or
whatever, I'll have my peanut. M, M's, you know, gotta try to
keep it off the bus. That's, that's the deal once
for me. It's apparently, lately, the dove bar ice cream. Oh yeah,
that's good stuff.
Yeah, for me, it's been wayward woman lately. Yeah, this way
would mean women with bow legged women. No, I don't know about
that, just I love them. Yeah, wayward women,
you're so like Richie, your character definition. Richie was
a ladies man. You know, he was single, he was single, he was a
ladies man. Hey, if I'm
a ladies man, but maybe you know man, but
again, gonna getting back to the movies and everything like that.
What were we talked about? It yesterday? Jaws. 50th
anniversary this month.
Keep me out of the ocean. I always love to go on the ocean.
Until I saw jaws.
Did it spark any sort of an acting thing for you? I mean,
especially the US. You
know, you guys studied the screenplay for it, because it's
a great screenplay, but it really, JAWS just kept me out of
the ocean. Man, it's like, I'm not, I'm not down with the
ocean. Man, God,
that movie now we are guests, yeah, we are guests their
house. Yeah, no, I'm not down with that. You know, that's what
we share,
that snake, Scorpion, spiders and sharks, snakes, scorpions
and spiders. Those are the four S's, yeah, no, yeah, that's for
sure.
Another s in there too.
When they get to the sharks, and like the dangerous fish get to
the Hudson River, they probably turn around and.
Well, now it's clean. So interestingly enough, I found
out this last year when Robert F Kennedy was integral in cleaning
up the Hudson River. When I was a kid growing up in Rockland
County, the Hudson River was polluted. It was dead. You
couldn't go nowhere near it. But he started something like the
River Keeper. He actually got the corporations to clean it up,
and it's pretty clean right now. You'll see dolphins in there.
You'll see, yeah, like the waterways have cleaned up, and
there's some other stuff going on, like, where I was in Queens,
I was living in college point for a little while, where they
get oysters, and they put the incubate the oysters, and they
put river oyster beds around the in the around the shoreline, and
they clean the water. And the waters looks, you can see the
bottom in the Long Island Sound, it's really right in Queens, you
know, it's
crazy for me. I actually did a job down, I want to say around
Mount Vernon, probably more towards where the Whitestone is,
and heading back up. I'm like, you know, I got a half an hour
to kill. I've never been to city Island. It's like a resort,
yeah, it's interesting. It's a whole different world. You ever
been to city Island? Bronx,
New York, is an island. There's a movie called City Yeah, there
is,
yeah, but it's a really, like a detachment from that whole area.
Yeah, it's a village in the Bronx, right? Bronx is an
interesting place. I love it. I love it still. And each borough
is different. Oh, sure is, yeah, each borough is different. But
that TV show that I did with Maloney, we shot in
Jamaica Queens at a in a real prison. There is a part of the
prison that they that is still functioning, and then a couple
of areas of the prison that they use to shoot television shows
like, I'm sure, like NYPD and CSI and all the all the lettered
shows, yeah, yeah. It's pretty crazy. The rights of passage
shows the rights of walking, walking down the hall, taking up
the entire hallway, shows, yeah,
but it shall go to cool.
Larry, what? What final question are your favorite? So you had
your favorite, favorite food. Favorite food? Which?
Fair Food? I mean, you know, lately, I've been just, you
know, eating spinach salads with garlic and, you know, I lay off
the tomatoes for a while with spinach, sounds with garlic
cloves and olive oil. Chicken like that. Yeah, chickens, okay.
I like steak. I like hamburgers, if I get obviously a good pizza
pie, you know, but I run the gamut,
man. Okay, so St Louis, did you find a good pizza place? I mean,
I can't say no, they obviously is different than New York.
There's the Pie Guy on Manchester. They're close to New
York. And Pizza de gloria is on the hill, and they make their
own kind of pie or fresh ingredients. That's a really
good spot. But, you know, coming from New York to New York, New
Jersey, Long Island. I mean, it's a different thing that
you're used to. Man, yeah, it's
Jim McCarthy. I, I'm a loose New Yorker, because we grew up on
the border. But, you know, and even Connecticut, where we were,
Connecticut got a pizza too, in New Haven, yeah, but we were, we
had the, we were the beneficiaries of Manhattan, you
know, the Bronx, that kind of area of a town, good Italian,
yeah, you could throw a rock and get
great. Yeah, that's the other thing. You know, the food in New
York is, it's, it's tough, right? Yeah, it's tough to come
anywhere else, yeah, you know,
we went to Manhattan, Cami saying at
Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall. Carnegie
Hall, yeah, wow. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice?
She couldn't, she couldn't care less, but she, you know, we
spent a couple days in Manhattan, and it's like all we
did was eat Italian food, just to get it, just to fill
our quota. Little Italy so fun. You got to go to Eataly. Italy
is fantastic. Yeah, I enjoy
Italy. Put some weight on you, man, I know, but it
doesn't do that in Italy, you can actually lose weight by
eating there.
I never been to Italy. How is it? We've
never been there because, because I know that my people
are from Napoli, Naples,
my father's family's from Naples. Gotta get there. Yeah,
yeah. I got this opportunity to get citizenship with port Italy.
Port Italy, and I'm really working with them to get
citizenship. But yeah, I mean, I would be fun going to Italy. I'm
sure that they would know me from the Stallone and Pacino
movies. Yeah, Germany, the King of Queens, is really big out
there. But who knows. I mean, right now, you know, lately,
I've been traveling around America. Here, St Louis,
Nashville, Los Angeles, New York, and fill in my quota. God
bless America. God bless America, right? You know, Larry,
I really appreciate you making this trip out here, not just the
Spring Hill from Nashville. You drove five hours from St Louis.
Get your posse here. These guys doing the thing. Guys, thanks
for for being here, Chris and mark, and the film is gonna come
out sometime this year, Saturday in the park. Everyone watch for
that. Everybody look for God Bless America the track, and
look for Larry and his new roles. He's got new roles coming
up. Really it's gonna happen. I feel it now. You got a drum in
front of you. Jim's got a drum. I'm in front of you. Let's take
this thing out. Style man,
oh, wow, look at this.
So Larry, you start a jam. You can just kind of put it kind of
between your legs like that. Just
like, yeah, you
Hi, I'll go four bars. I'm
I am in the house. I
it. Let you guys do here we go, last
time, first time ever on the rich Redmond show, three drum
specialists, jamming, McConaughy style. Larry, thanks
for being here. Man, wanted to Google one thing about wayward
woman. I want to know what that actually
that means women who have lost their way,
word way, the way we word
word. What is the definition wayward woman generally refers
to a woman who deviate from societal societal norms or
expectations, often characterized as rebellious,
independent or unconventional behavior. The term could be
found in various contexts, including literature, social
commentary, historical studies and often nuance. Well, in
reality is I find wayward women the most interesting women.
That's right, yeah, you say deviate from norms and
expectations and a bit rebellious and independent,
yeah, which that's perfect for you? Larry, yeah, I don't know
about perfect, but it's definitely like lights my fire.
Yeah, maybe, maybe someday we will be perfect. That'd be great
to find the perfect one, right? For sure, as we all search
the perfect, you're funny man, yeah.
Okay, anyway, with women out there, just so you know, if
you're deviating from societal norms and or expectations and
you're rebellious and independent and unconventional.
Well, Uncle Larry is in the house. I don't know about Uncle
Larry.
Uncle Larry, that's Larry McCarthy. Jim McCarthy,
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