WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.799 That's welcomeing out if we hear songbird right there. Hey, 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:07.240 Kenny g there man, I'm here, Hey, thanks for coming 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:09.279 on the show, and I want to talk about that 4 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:15.080 song first, Songbird. The story that I get is you're 5 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:19.800 getting ready to go out on Carson and you decided 6 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:22.239 the last second, you know what, I'm going to switch 7 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:26.000 from whatever song you had planned to Songbird. Do you 8 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.839 think that maybe helped cantapault your career even further. 9 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.280 I think that was a pivotal moment for sure, because 10 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.799 of the Tonight Show. Back in the day, for you 11 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.320 younger people, this was the only nationwide show that you 12 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.039 could be on at nighttime. There wasn't a Letterman, there 13 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:48.359 wasn't a Letto, there wasn't anything. There wasn't a Stephen Colbert, 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.479 there wasn't nothing. So if you were on that show, 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.200 that meant that you could reach the whole country. And 16 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.039 they did not want me to play an instrumental. We 17 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.560 had a song that had a singer and I was 18 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.920 playing the solo with it, and that's what they wanted, 19 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.719 and I switched him right at the very last minute 20 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:04.719 because the show was live. 21 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.400 That's what A did. So the Carson did he call 22 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.159 you over to the couch, because there's two types of guess. 23 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.599 If he really likes you, he'll call you over to 24 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.959 the couch, and sometimes not so much. Did you get 25 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:17.319 caught over to the couch. 26 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.879 On that first performance? I didn't. 27 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.599 I got the okay sign from Johnny okay. He probably 28 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.760 had no idea about anything. But then when I went backstage, 29 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.319 the guy that hired me just came in just screamed 30 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.439 at me, like, how dare I come on the show 31 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.680 and pull a fastood on him? And then I'm never 32 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.079 ever going to be on his show or anyone show again. 33 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:39.000 Oh my gosh. 34 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.159 What he was livid, He was so and anyway, but 35 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:43.560 I knew I did a good performance. 36 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:44.959 So what happened was. 37 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.560 That that the Johnny Carson guy he forgot that. The 38 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:52.840 people in the world saw that, they reacted positively, and 39 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.560 then six months later they called me to come back. 40 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.359 On the show, and that time I got couch. 41 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.719 That's awesome. Kenny g our guest. By the way, Cat's 42 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.400 Kenny g at the Louisville Palace Theater, talk about a 43 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.799 good show. May fourteenth, right around the corner and before 44 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.039 we get back in the interview, Kenny G. Just personally, 45 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.479 I want to say thank you for one of the coolest, 46 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.680 smoothest moments I've ever had. Oh boy, here it goes, 47 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.879 try so try to get Kenny G on the on 48 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.319 the show with as you Know. And so we started 49 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.599 we started texting, going back and forth, and then the 50 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:26.800 other night I said, honey, let's get in the hot tub. 51 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:28.599 We'll have a couple of kilists listen to Kenny G. 52 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.039 We're doing that, my phone goes off, which I never 53 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.439 respond to when we're in the hot time. No, it's 54 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.599 always just me and my wife and music, and she goes, 55 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.360 what are you doing? I said, hang on a second, honey, 56 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.879 I got to return Kenny G's text one of the 57 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.240 smoothest moves I've ever had. But it seems to me 58 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:48.680 like you're incredibly ground at Kenny G. What was more 59 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:52.000 important to you growing up was a family or kind 60 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:52.759 of seeking fame? 61 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.719 Oh no, No, I never thought about team at all. 62 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:57.080 It was only family. 63 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.159 And for me, it was just a dedication to it's 64 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:01.039 getting good at something. 65 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.039 I'm just that kind of guy. 66 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.719 If I'm interested in something, I want to know why 67 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:05.879 and how. 68 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:08.080 It works, and then I want to know can. 69 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.280 I well, of course I can get better at it 70 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.800 because it just requires me to practice. And that was 71 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.680 really all I thought about it, didn't think about anything. 72 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:18.080 And as far as the fame and fortune comes, that's 73 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.479 just a very very, you know, wonderful side effect of 74 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:23.879 the fact that, you know, it just turns out that 75 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.960 whatever instincts I have with music seem to connect with 76 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:29.599 people around the world. 77 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.520 And I'm just really lucky that what. 78 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:35.400 I like also connects with people, because it could have 79 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.400 just been the other way around. My music's different and 80 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.280 people could have went, well, you know, it's different, we. 81 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.800 Don't like it. But that wasn't the case, Thank goodness. 82 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.680 Now, every time we have a rock star musician, whoever 83 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.439 it might be on, mostly ten times out of ten 84 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.840 if I say where did it all start, they always say, 85 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.039 you know what, here's where it started. Ed Sullivan, the 86 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:01.439 Beatles you started? Because are you were inspired? Unless I'm wrong? 87 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.199 Correct me if I'm wrong, you were inspired by the 88 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.479 Ed Sullivan Show. But it wasn't the Beatles, right. 89 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:11.280 That's correct. Yeah, it was literally was their generic or 90 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.319 what I thought was just it was just a big band. 91 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.280 So I don't know who was the guest there. Could 92 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.279 have been somebody that was well known, but I don't know. 93 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.240 But it was just a big band. They were playing 94 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.519 their things, and then this one guy stood up from 95 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.199 the big band and played a saxophone solo. And I 96 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:28.439 looked at that, and I was actually watching it with 97 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.879 my mom and I was ten, and I looked at 98 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.279 my mom and say, hey, I want to play that instrument. 99 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:34.600 And then that's where it's started. 100 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.839 Kenny g is our guest. Now a time in did 101 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.680 you I'm sure where you were growing up going, you 102 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.759 know what, I'm going to be a sex symbol when 103 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:50.000 I've become a musician. We put this on Facebook, and 104 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.519 again women reacted to our post of that you were 105 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:57.399 going to be on the show. But you did get 106 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:01.399 a reaction from a demo. Was that the LUs you 107 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.839 wanted people to enjoy your music, but boy, it seemed 108 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.519 like the women were going crazy for you. 109 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:10.879 Well, I mean. 110 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.800 What you're saying really is what happened was that once 111 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.560 I did that Johnny Carson's performance, then people started to 112 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.560 hear by music. So so now radio stations back in 113 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.319 the old days days, if there was a radio programmer 114 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.480 and he or she decided what was being played, no 115 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.040 one would play my music on the radio on the 116 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.040 radio programs, and there was no instrumental music stations. So 117 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.480 we just went around to the pop stations and literally 118 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.879 knocked on their door. I walked into the you know, 119 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.800 the guy's office and say, hey. 120 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.360 Listen, would you play my little song? And they would. 121 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:48.160 This was the normal thing. My wife and I really 122 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.160 like your music, but we can't play it on our 123 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.040 radio shows. 124 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:51.600 Does it work? 125 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.360 But one guy took a chance, and that's when their 126 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.160 phone lines lit up, and it really was a demographic 127 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:02.360 of like, you know, thirty plus years old female right, 128 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.279 And then everybody started going, hey, wait a minute, if 129 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:07.800 we played the song, we'll get those ladies to call 130 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:08.480 in on our show. 131 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.519 And so then and then the word spread and that 132 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:12.959 so it became it became that. 133 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:14.839 But I'm not sure that. I'm not sure that the 134 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.360 women's reaction was. It wasn't for me as a as 135 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:19.360 a sax symbol. 136 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.079 It was just the music. I can't so that's how 137 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:22.439 that was. 138 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:25.160 I can't remember which musician was. It might have been 139 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.600 Warn Hayes, some Woy was on the It was a 140 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.680 guitarist was on the show, and he was talking about 141 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.120 that he had the first guitar that he ever played 142 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.879 and he still plays. He still uses it in concerts. 143 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.639 You started ten years old. Do you still have your 144 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.720 original sacks and if so, do you still play it? 145 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:42.000 Well? 146 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.079 I don't have the original at ten, but the one 147 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.800 that I bought in uh, when I was seventeen, that's 148 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:52.120 my original soprano saxon. Okay, that's the one I still play, 149 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.160 So I still that's my saxophone. 150 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:55.360 So all the. 151 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.800 Songs that I've ever played on anything that you've ever 152 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.680 heard is thatphone. 153 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:01.800 And that's the tax phone that. 154 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:03.240 I have, And that's the sex phone that'll be at 155 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.959 the concert you seriously on the fourteenth. 156 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.839 Wow, that's impressive. Kenny G's our guest. Don't miss this 157 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:16.439 show Louisville Palace Theater, May fourteenth. You always did it 158 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.399 your weight. You know, you were talking about how you 159 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.839 know you wanted to the Tonight Show with Carson wanted 160 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.319 you to do a number that had lyrics to it. 161 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.319 You called the Autumn what the Last Second? And I 162 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.240 find that this was a this was a hardcore move man. 163 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.639 It's in the eighties. Uh, you've taken off you got 164 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.600 the career you are. Kenny g and then Clive Davis 165 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.839 and the record label. They say, hey, well, will you 166 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.319 to do an American songbook cover album? But it's other 167 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.839 people's songs and you didn't do it. It was a hard 168 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:52.240 telling Clive Davis. No, and I mean because it's Clive Davis. 169 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:54.079 Yeah, very hard. 170 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.519 Clive Davis for those that don't know, he's like the 171 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:00.920 ultimate record company executive. He's the one that that signed 172 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.560 Santana and he signed you know, I think Jimmy Hendrix 173 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:08.720 and Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell and like, so he's 174 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.800 and you know, very and you know Barry Manilow and 175 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.399 Rod Stewart and all the people. So he comes from 176 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:20.240 the perspective that whatever he says, you've better listen to 177 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:20.920 because he's. 178 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:21.879 The star maker, right. 179 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:23.680 So he would tell me to do this and I 180 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:25.399 didn't want to do it. So yeah, it was hard 181 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:27.680 to say though, because he would say this is but 182 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.879 this is to his credit, he said, Kenny, is your career. 183 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.080 You do what you want, but I'm just looking. You know, 184 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.080 this will be the biggest career move in the wrong 185 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.759 direction that you'll ever make if you don't listen to. Oh, 186 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.120 I said, Okay, I'll take that chance. 187 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:43.200 Clive, Wow, the. 188 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.039 Guts on you. I want to go back to when 189 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.080 you're seventeen years old. I want to find out this 190 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:51.679 story is true or not. You get to back Barry 191 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.480 White somehow on saxophone, and then years and years later 192 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:58.799 you become Kenny g who we know today. You get 193 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.120 an award at the Sotree Awards and then you run 194 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.000 into him at the restroom. Is there true to that 195 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.080 that you? You say, Hey, Berry White, I played with 196 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.480 you on X Y Z and then he asked you 197 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.679 just to hand you a tack? Is there truth today? 198 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.480 It's all true? Said through. 199 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:23.159 Yeah, that was you know again, like the young listeners, 200 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.159 Berry White was the ultimate R and B singer. So 201 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.720 anybody that any male black singer that you know in 202 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.759 the world. And let's say there's ten real popular ones. 203 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.919 If you combine them and multiplied by a hundred, that's 204 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:36.960 how popular Erry was. 205 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:37.440 That's right. 206 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:42.360 And so I at seventeen, I through different contacts. 207 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.399 I was still in high school. I left the gig 208 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:45.000 and I. 209 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:46.720 Played the gig and I did really well, and it 210 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.279 was really like the kind of the start of me 211 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.600 being a professional musician. And so the Soul Train Music 212 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:56.120 Awards does not give many awards to white guys. 213 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:57.159 But I got I got one. 214 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:58.840 In fact that I have two, but that was my 215 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.000 first one that I got from Soul Trained Music Awards. 216 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.799 And again I'm feeling on a high because you know, 217 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:08.240 Whitney Houston's getting one that night and Gladys Knight's getting. 218 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.039 One and I'm getting one. I'm thinking, man, this is 219 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:11.440 all this is super cool. 220 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.440 So in the bathroom, very white walks in and I 221 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.559 blabb her the whole story about starting with him and literally. 222 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.279 Looks at me and he doesn't doesn't could. 223 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.080 Care less what he said, goes, hey, baby, hand me 224 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:27.600 a paper towel. Then he walked out, and then I, 225 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.000 you know what, then I cleaned. I cleaned the bathroom 226 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:30.480 after him. 227 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.159 You know, I was like, I guess that was my job. 228 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.279 Well you got it, Kenny g. You know, so you 229 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.759 mentioned Whitney Houston. I've always heard that you were with 230 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.120 Clive Davis when he discovered Whitney Houston. Is there truth 231 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:41.679 to that or not? 232 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.600 Well, it's true that I was with him on the 233 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.960 day that he went to watch her her performance to. 234 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:50.559 To then sign her. 235 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.600 Okay, think he had already already decided to sign her, 236 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:54.759 but he they. 237 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:56.279 Were going up to watch her. 238 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.759 Uh whatever you want to call that was like a 239 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.480 not like an audish, but she was doing this special 240 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.919 performance and everybody from the record company went. 241 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:05.519 Up to watch her. 242 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.879 And I was there with Clive and it was I 243 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.200 did you know, look, I leaned over to Clive, said 244 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.240 Clive Seiner, and then he did, so, you know, I 245 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:14.759 take total credit for it, but of course he probably 246 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:16.519 already do all that before I said a word. 247 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:21.399 The great Liberaci that they said Liberachi would practice six 248 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.200 to eight hours a day even when he's Liberaci's in Vegas. 249 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.000 Do you still practice every single day or do you 250 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.720 get to some point where you say, you know what 251 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:31.799 the muscle memories there, I'm Kenny G I don't need 252 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:32.519 to practice. 253 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.360 No, no, no, I practice every day, really practice every 254 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.759 day for yeah, for three three hours. 255 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.519 Is my number? Okay, every day? 256 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.519 Oh, absolutely absolutely. I'll do it today, I did yesterday, 257 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.759 I did the day before, I'll do it tomorrow. I've 258 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.639 done it every day for the last you know, fifty years, 259 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.879 and it'll just be It's just part of my life 260 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.919 and it's always well when I when I'm in control 261 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:56.120 of my time at home. 262 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.720 It's in the morning. On the road, it's in the afternoon. 263 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:00.159 And that's the. 264 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:04.679 Way coasts dedication. Well, well, listen, Kenny G. When Tony 265 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:06.600 mentioned that we put up the posts senor doing the 266 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.240 show women coming out of the woodwork, have him call 267 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.480 me on my personal cell phone. You name it whatever. 268 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:16.000 But we got to talk about the hair man pretty sexy, 269 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.440 the Kenny G hair. I've heard that you only shampoo 270 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.919 it like one one time a week or something to 271 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.720 keep it fresh. How do you keep the hair? Is 272 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:25.799 there any kind of routine? 273 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.120 Yeah, what I do is every night I'll pick an 274 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:31.440 audience member to come up and wash my hair. 275 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:36.080 For me to the kid it totally and that worked out. 276 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:40.399 Uh. 277 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.840 You know, I just got lucky that my grandmother had 278 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.320 curls and she passed them down to me. And uh 279 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.080 so that's it. You know, there's no big story. 280 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.240 I don't do anything special other than than just I 281 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.639 don't shampoo it too much. That's all just and people 282 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.759 that know about you know, having healthy hair. 283 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:57.879 No, it's not good to shampoo every day. That's no 284 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:58.519 big secret. 285 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.720 Kenny is our guest. Just one more question, Kenny G. 286 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.720 So you're you're in Seattle, you're in your formative years, 287 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.840 you're doing it all right, and you're in the stock 288 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.799 game somehow, and you invest in a small, little coffee company. 289 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.480 Talk about that for a second, because I think that's 290 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.000 quite brilliant and lucky if you ask. 291 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.399 Me, well, definitely lucky, definitely lucky, you know, just being 292 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.919 in the right place at the right time. My uncle 293 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.360 was a you know, prominent businessman in Seattle, and he 294 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:32.799 called me one day and said, Hey, you know, I 295 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.720 know you've sold some records, so I bet you've got 296 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:36.600 some at least some money. 297 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.159 You should put some money behind this company called Starbucks 298 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:43.840 there look at to raise money and expand. And so 299 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.360 I took his advice. 300 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.200 I give you the Forrest Gump of sa. 301 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.759 Kenny g one last question. So I gotta ask you this. 302 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.360 When you come out and the popularity of your music, 303 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:00.919 I think it's its own carey, but you might be 304 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.879 able to say, smooth jazz when you come out, does 305 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:08.639 the jazz community come after you negatively? And if so, 306 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.759 do you even care or do you just press forward? 307 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.720 Oh? I don't care. Okay, I don't care about anything 308 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.879 like that. But you know, I think the jazz is. 309 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.240 The traditional jazz community did come after me at one point, 310 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.799 but I think they're tired of it because they see 311 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:27.720 that it goes nowhere. 312 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.440 It It doesn't matter what they say, you know, we're 313 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:32.440 all entitled to play our music the way we. 314 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.919 Want to, and so yeah, I couldn't care less what 315 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:35.960 they say about anything. 316 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:40.279 He's Kenny G. Over seventy five million, over seventy five 317 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.320 million albums sold. Catch him don't miss this concert live 318 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.519 at the Louisville Palace Theater, May fourteenth. Kenny G. I 319 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.480 can't thank you enough of mego for coming. 320 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.360 On, my friend, my pleasure. Thank you guys, and have 321 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:53.320 a great rest of the day. 322 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.159 Well see on the fourteenth. There you go, Kenny G. 323 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.000 Good guys. 324 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.759 Good still Starbucks? Huh yeah, ground floor Starbucks. 325 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:02.720 Darn it. 326 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:04.960 All right. 327 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.840 Eating and Eland folks, give them a call. Five nine 328 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.240 eight hundred. You're selling your house here. The equity in 329 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.519 your home is higher than it's ever been ever that 330 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.200 you've owned that house. Keep that equity in your pocket 331 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:20.600 because they only charge one percent commission rate. Five eight hundred. 332 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:22.039 Eatland and Edland. 333 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.799 Sims furniture. Baby, let's talk about that bedroom. Put some 334 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.200 Kinney g on. But the bedroom's got to look good. 335 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.559 How about a seven piece bedroom set for nine and 336 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.440 ninety nine dollars? You hurt me right, Beautiful furniture at 337 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.320 Sims Furniture at prices you're gonna love. I don't care 338 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.080 if it's the bedroom, the kitchen, the dining room, the 339 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:49.159 laundry room. Yeah, that's right, the do the do the 340 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.039 dryer thing. They sell appliances there too. You go love 341 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.279 Sims Furniture one M Sims, Dixie Highway and Preston Highway. 342 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.080 Stick around more on the way News Radio eight forty W. 343 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:10.759 Yeah, a h C minor there and then maybe then 344 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:11.879 jump to an E. 345 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.159 Kenny, Kenny, we're back on the phone. Listen. I'll go 346 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:17.320 over that song with you later. 347 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:17.679 Dude. 348 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.840 Okay, yeah, I love you too. Sorry, dude, I didn't 349 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.320 know we were on the air. This is embarrassing. 350 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.320 I'm proud of you. You kept your emotions in check. How 351 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.840 about that man when you were interviewing Kenny. 352 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:35.679 G Baby making music? I wanted to tell him, you know, 353 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.320 my wife, is it true? You gotta be in science 354 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:39.480 when you were in fourth grade. 355 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.559 That's so cool, Kenny, that's so cool. 356 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.279 Hey, Kenny g h. The wife and I would like 357 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.879 to make sweet sweet love to your music. The other people. 358 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:53.840 Uh, no word on the pope yet, but I think 359 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.480 we could possibly have one before our show was over. 360 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.279 Do you want me to text the Vatican and see where. 361 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:07.960 I don't don't do not even I can the phone down. 362 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:07.119 Down unless they're going to textile baby. 363 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.640 So once we have our producer John Alden, he's got 364 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:16.119 his eyeballs and one TV screen is specifically on the chimney. 365 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:18.720 Yeah, but here's yeah, but look what he did. The 366 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.799 guy dresses up like the Pope. He's got any bitty 367 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.000 chimney right there with a smoke bomb just waiting. Yeah, 368 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.559 you don't have to go. Look, we appreciate the extra effort, dude, 369 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.000 but it's radio. Nobody could see you. That's true. What 370 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.480 a waste of time. Yeah, I feel. 371 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.920 Bad And Dwight show will go directly to Rome. Yes, 372 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.200 if we see white smoke coming out of that pipe. 373 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.599 And as a matter of fact, if it doesn't happen today, 374 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.319 they may fly this show to Rome. Idea were the 375 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:46.440 best journalists. 376 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.599 Cover it live? Food's kind of good in room? 377 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.559 Yeah, spaghetti, it's kind of good. There is one conclave 378 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.480 that lasted three years? What if this one lasted? 379 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.079 Oh? How long ago was that? Though? 380 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.920 Like in the years ago on a long time ago. 381 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.359 That's not happening here, let me look it up. 382 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.160 Food from Rome is at Lots of Pasta. I don't 383 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.039 know if you knew that, right, that's the pasta that 384 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:10.880 I buy there. It's a little bit more expensive. But 385 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.119 guess what we always talk about how when you buy pasta, 386 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:16.759 the cheap stuff will make you bloated and you almost 387 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.279 have to lay down. You're like, I feel bloated because 388 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.759 it's cheap. It's cheap pasta. When you go to Lots 389 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:23.720 of Pasta, you go straight to the back, you go 390 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:25.640 right past the deli's on the right and just go 391 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.000 straight back to the back and they have all this 392 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:33.200 imported pastas from Italy. You eat as much as you want, 393 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.640 you don't feel full, you don't bloat. It's just better, 394 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.119 all right. And then get the homemade the right there, 395 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:46.000 homemade sauce or gravy right there at Lots of Pasta 396 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.279 stop on Buy thirty seven, seventeen Lexington Road, in the 397 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:51.079 heart of Saint Matthew's. 398 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.640 Lots of Pasta. Hey, how's those energy bills high in 399 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.759 the summer, high in the winter. Well, it probably is 400 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.519 those windows and doors. How old are they? Man, that's upgrade. 401 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:05.319