Speaker 1: Hey, this is time Rush and you you lucky dog.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Doctor Sky Experience.
Speaker 2: Hey, Tom, here we go on a long three count
Speaker 2: in three two one, and welcome back. I'm Steve Kates,
Speaker 2: Doctor Sky. Welcome to The Doctor Sky Experience, exclusively here
Speaker 2: on talk radio seventy seven w ABC out of New
Speaker 2: York City and around the world. Our producer is Richard Dugan.
Speaker 2: The Doctor Sky Experience offers up great guests from the
Speaker 2: realms of astronomy, space, aviation, and weather, and also celebrity
Speaker 2: guest in the mix about this common sense interviews about
Speaker 2: American heritage and American exceptionalistm and today, ladies and gentlemen
Speaker 2: were speaking with a gentleman who really doesn't need an introduction,
Speaker 2: but we hear on this particular this show, The Doctor
Speaker 2: Sky Experience are proud to have Tom Rush. He's a
Speaker 2: gifted musician and performer who shows offer a musical celebration,
Speaker 2: a journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music
Speaker 2: has been, can be and will become. His distinctive guitar style,
Speaker 2: rye humor, and warm, expressive voice have made him both
Speaker 2: a legend and a lore to audiences around the world.
Speaker 2: His shows are filled with the rib aching laughter of
Speaker 2: terrific storytelling, the sweet melancholy of ballads, and the passion
Speaker 2: of the blues. He's also coming for our friends out
Speaker 2: here in the western part of the United States as
Speaker 2: he travels all over the nation in the world. He'll
Speaker 2: be coming to the Celebrity Theater here in Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 2: on November the nineteenth at seventy am. Tom Rush. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the Doctor Sky Experience. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 1: Thank you doctor. It's good to be here. I'm doing
Speaker 1: it so much. I'm living the dream.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what we want to hear from all
Speaker 2: the guests. With all the turbidity, I know, that's a
Speaker 2: weird word, the turbulence and turbidity of what's going on
Speaker 2: here in our nation. What we need, in many people's opinion,
Speaker 2: is ways to go back to what the Golden rule
Speaker 2: and what I think puts us all in that expressive
Speaker 2: mode is music and music like yourself. And we're so
Speaker 2: happy to have you here today to talk a little
Speaker 2: bit more about your background. But describing yourself in just
Speaker 2: a couple of words, acclaim singer and songwriter is what
Speaker 2: comes to mind. So tell us about your background. Let's
Speaker 2: go back to the days of what Harvard, Harvard University
Speaker 2: and the great city of Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Well, I did get my start back there. I hit.
Speaker 1: I came to Cambridge in the what was it, the
Speaker 1: fall of fifty nine, before you were born a kid,
Speaker 1: and there's this really amazing scene going on. And I
Speaker 1: got roped into hosting a folk music radio show on
Speaker 1: Harvard's radio station, thirty minute show on I think Wednesday nights.
Speaker 1: I had to have guests come on and I had
Speaker 1: so I had to go solicit people to hear on
Speaker 1: the show. And I go to the hooton Nannies what
Speaker 1: they called open micspect then, and I discovered you could
Speaker 1: get in for free if you had a guitar. And
Speaker 1: then I discovered you could get in for free if
Speaker 1: you had a guitar case. So I was six back
Speaker 1: in the guitar case and head out to the hoot
Speaker 1: Nanny and I got caught one night at a place
Speaker 1: called the Golden Vanity. It was hey, kid, get on stage.
Speaker 1: You got in for nothing. I had to borrow a
Speaker 1: guitar and got up on stage and did twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: It was terminally nervous, but apparently did well enough that
Speaker 1: I owner called me a couple of weeks later and
Speaker 1: somebody was sick and would I come be a substitute
Speaker 1: folk singer. And it's been pretty much down hill ever since.
Speaker 2: Wow, pretty amazing. So if you never got in there,
Speaker 2: this whole story, we wouldn't be doing today. I mean,
Speaker 2: just about time. Everything happens for a reason, I believe,
Speaker 2: and some good and some not good in life, but
Speaker 2: we're always talking about the good, and we're happy to
Speaker 2: have Tom Rush here, a very gifted musician, singer and songwriter,
Speaker 2: telling his story and talking about so many of the
Speaker 2: things and both you know, folks, obviously, if you follow
Speaker 2: this man's music, and hopefully you have, and by this interview,
Speaker 2: hopefully you'll learn so much more. He is coming once
Speaker 2: again to the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix November the nineteenth
Speaker 2: through seven pm performance. Get tickets wherever tickets are sold,
Speaker 2: and obviously there's so many out there on the internet.
Speaker 2: But this is fascinating and I want to talk a
Speaker 2: little bit more about this beyond that particular time. I
Speaker 2: want to hear a little bit more if you don't mind, sir,
Speaker 2: about Club forty seven, and exactly the whole genre of
Speaker 2: what you've put together here. It's amazing because people can
Speaker 2: go to your website simply Tom Rush dot com. I
Speaker 2: learned so much more about you. But talk about the
Speaker 2: existence and the whole concept of Club forty seven, I
Speaker 2: think people would want to hear.
Speaker 1: That, well, it was a coffee house in my mind
Speaker 1: it was. There were a lot of folk music establishments
Speaker 1: around Boston and Cambridge, but the Club forty seven, in
Speaker 1: my mind, was the flagship of the fleet, partly because
Speaker 1: it was one block from my dorm room and it
Speaker 1: was therefore irresistible. But they were the one place that
Speaker 1: brought in the legends. Everybody was hosting the local kids,
Speaker 1: myself included. Club forty seven brought in the people who's
Speaker 1: seventy eight seat collecting. You could sit in this little
Speaker 1: It was tiny, it was eighty six at eighty people,
Speaker 1: but you could listen to the Carter family, Doll Monroe
Speaker 1: Flat with scrubs on and on. They brought in a
Speaker 1: lot of the old blues guys, and I adored the blueskuys,
Speaker 1: partly because I was an English major. But these guys
Speaker 1: did this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask you, what'd you study
Speaker 2: in Harvard? So now we know an English major. How cool.
Speaker 1: I was going to be a biology major at the
Speaker 1: biology intro course. It's so bad that I had to
Speaker 1: switch to something. And Peter Actor, Peter Coyote was a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine back then before he was Peter Coyote,
Speaker 1: the actor, and he'll had said, well, English, English is
Speaker 1: a good background subject for almost anything. So I said, okay,
Speaker 1: and I signed up to the an English najor. That's
Speaker 1: partly why I'm a musician today. There's very little, uh,
Speaker 1: job opportunities attached to being an English nator.
Speaker 2: Interesting, so over there, I mean, just give us an
Speaker 2: example of some of the legends that came to Club
Speaker 2: forty seven because I was a New Yorker. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm out here in Arizona now for about thirty four years,
Speaker 2: but my roots go back to New York City and
Speaker 2: so many of the different clubs back there. I mean,
Speaker 2: even in the heyday of what they considered to be
Speaker 2: I don't even know if that's the right way to
Speaker 2: describe the genre punk rock, like CBGB's and all these
Speaker 2: other clubs in the village. So the history of Club
Speaker 2: forty seven I mean describe some of the acts that
Speaker 2: were playing there, because it sounded like the place to
Speaker 2: be if you're into this type of music in this
Speaker 2: time period, right.
Speaker 1: Well, Joan BIA's gotter start there, and there was also
Speaker 1: a very active folks seen in New York City. Dylan
Speaker 1: came out of came out of New York scene and
Speaker 1: those who you know a good deal of cross talk.
Speaker 1: Tom Paxton, it was just a guest on my online
Speaker 1: series Rockport Sundays. I was recording him two days ago.
Speaker 1: But Passon would come up, Van Rock gave and Rock
Speaker 1: come up, and Dylan came up to Cambridge and then
Speaker 1: we would go down there. It was a very different
Speaker 1: scene though, because in Cambridge there were a lot of
Speaker 1: amateurs and I mean that in a positive original sense
Speaker 1: of the word, people who just loved the music, had
Speaker 1: no intention of a coming professionals. It was a typewriter
Speaker 1: repairman who was a brilliant high harmony singer and mandolin player.
Speaker 1: It was the psychopharmacologist banjo player who was very popular.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these people had no intention of you know, getting
Speaker 1: matching suits and going on the road. They just love
Speaker 1: to play music. And in the I think the New
Speaker 1: York scene was much more professionally oriented. People didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: on their way to establishing careers. Anyway, some of the
Speaker 1: people that played there, let's see, Judy Collins played there.
Speaker 1: That the people I just mentioned, Furder Family, Flatten, Sdrugs,
Speaker 1: Go Monroe, some of the blues guys Sleepy, John Estes,
Speaker 1: book A White. I'm trying to think a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of the blues guys played there.
Speaker 2: It's an amazing story. I mean, Tom, this is so
Speaker 2: incredible because when we look at the story of your
Speaker 2: life here Harvard, they're studying what Yeah, you're moving on
Speaker 2: to your real talents. Lie obviously, I mean no doubt
Speaker 2: about it in this whole musical area. Because here what
Speaker 2: I'm about to say to the audience, I think it's
Speaker 2: pretty powerful. How long was it before you got decided,
Speaker 2: you know, to play there at the club and then
Speaker 2: the time that you signed or were signed by Electra
Speaker 2: Records in nineteen sixty five. I mean, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: How long were you at forty seven before Electra signed it?
Speaker 2: Was it like pretty quick?
Speaker 1: No, it actually wasn't. I was before I actually graduated
Speaker 1: at the club forty seven. They were pretty picky about
Speaker 1: who they hired. Yew I was playing, played a lot
Speaker 1: of the places around town, but there was a place
Speaker 1: called the Unicorn that was in Boston, and some guy
Speaker 1: came in and said, you want to make a record?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: His name was Dan Dan Flickingser, and I'd heard this before,
Speaker 1: and I didn't it really seriously, I said, okay. He
Speaker 1: actually showed up with this tape recorder the size of
Speaker 1: a washing machine and logged it down the steps into
Speaker 1: the Unicorn, and he recorded two nights, and I remembered
Speaker 1: him telling me it was unethical, morally indefensible to intercut
Speaker 1: between the two nights. He couldn't take the first verse
Speaker 1: from nine one and the second verse from night two,
Speaker 1: and really later is because he didn't know how to
Speaker 1: edit tape. But I was, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I had an LP and nobody else did, and somehow
Speaker 1: that made that made a difference. I was somehow more
Speaker 1: more legitimate. I don't know. But then what happened was
Speaker 1: that Vanguard and Prestige came to town and started signing
Speaker 1: up everybody except me, and I didn't, you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a real record deal. This guy was distributing
Speaker 1: me Live at the Unicorn LP out of the backseat
Speaker 1: of a studebaker, and I think we sold all the league,
Speaker 1: maybe three hundred copies. But finally Paul Rothschild was working
Speaker 1: for a Prestige. He signed me after Prestige, did two
Speaker 1: albums for them, and then moved over to Electure.
Speaker 2: Well it's interesting. I mean, you lived it. I'm just
Speaker 2: reading this and I'm fascinated by this, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: our listeners are signed by Electure. In sixty five he
Speaker 2: made three albums for them, culminating, as you know, in
Speaker 2: the Circle Game, which, according to Rolling Stone, what ushered
Speaker 2: in the singer songwriter era. So that's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 2: your place in history in this is fairly well documented,
Speaker 2: well deserved, and it's always a privilege in honor to
Speaker 2: talk to the people that make the music scene happen here.
Speaker 2: So congratulations on that. I mean, even though it's in
Speaker 2: the in the history of the past there, it's just
Speaker 2: an amazing story.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, ushering in the singers, ushering in
Speaker 1: the singer songwriters thing was because that Circle Game album
Speaker 1: was the first time anybody had recorded Joni Mitchell, James
Speaker 1: Taylor or Jackson Brown.
Speaker 2: Wow, so these.
Speaker 1: Three brilliant writers were introduced in this one project. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to ushered in anything or for discover anybody.
Speaker 1: I was just basically looking for good songs.
Speaker 2: Well as evidence to that here, I mean, here's a
Speaker 2: quote and you know it well. Quote Tom was not
Speaker 2: the only one of my early heroes, but also one
Speaker 2: of my main influences. End quote James Taylor. I mean,
Speaker 2: what powerful stuff is that? I mean, God bless you.
Speaker 2: I mean your your humility comes across here. But that's
Speaker 2: a great accomplishment in this particular genre of music. But
Speaker 2: I want to ask you this, if you described to
Speaker 2: us in this particular episode Doctor Sky Experience singer songwriter.
Speaker 2: This is so interesting because you mentioned Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie.
Speaker 2: Here we talked about Joni Mitchell, Hank Williams, Paul Simon,
Speaker 2: James Taylor. Of course, I'm understood that even David Crosby,
Speaker 2: who was a singer songwriter then he crossed over to
Speaker 2: the rock genre. But tell us a little more, what's
Speaker 2: the what's this inspiration for singer songwriter? I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not a music person, but I love to listen to it.
Speaker 2: And I love to listen, like many people, to so
Speaker 2: many bands and acts. But from your experience, Tom, how
Speaker 2: would you define singer songwriter In your experience, it's just amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, it's you know, I think it's it's something that's
Speaker 1: evolved Before James Jackson and Jony Ah, most most big
Speaker 1: stars didn't write their own songs. See, you know, other
Speaker 1: people wrote the songs that they performed and made into hits.
Speaker 1: And starting with with those three, singer songwriter became a thing.
Speaker 1: I wasn't actually much as a singer songwriter, although that
Speaker 1: that album Circle Game album did contain probably my most
Speaker 1: covered song, didn't call No Regrets. It's been done by
Speaker 1: by you two and Carl Nomel and a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I've recorded it. Put my first
Speaker 1: three kids to college.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: But I actually started writing more songs lately. I've written
Speaker 1: more songs in the past ten years, and I did
Speaker 1: in the first fifty and my latest album, which is
Speaker 1: called Voices, I think it's my best work and it's
Speaker 1: all songs that I wrote myself, which has never happened.
Speaker 2: Before, right, and a new song nothing but a man
Speaker 2: I mean. But in this particular interview here on the
Speaker 2: Doctor's Sky Experience. I want the audience to hear this,
Speaker 2: and I'm taking liberty to read something here because these
Speaker 2: are your words. But what I'm trying to get at
Speaker 2: here in a moment, I'd like to ask you to
Speaker 2: describe the feeling and what the meaning behind No Regrets is.
Speaker 2: But here we go, and you know the words by heart.
Speaker 2: I know you're livin's too long, overdue, too far, too long.
Speaker 2: I've had nothing new to show you. Goodbye, dry Eyes.
Speaker 2: I watched your plane fade off west the moon, and
Speaker 2: it felt so strange to walk away alone. So obviously
Speaker 2: as I read this, and I won't read all the lyrics,
Speaker 2: because what we're gonna do is we're gonna actually play
Speaker 2: this version of your amazing song. Here songwriter Tom rushes
Speaker 2: No Regrets an audience. I'd like them to hear this,
Speaker 2: and then i'd like to have you describe a little
Speaker 2: bit more about the meaning of this particular song, No Regrets.
Speaker 2: So here we go, folks are going to play that.
Speaker 3: I know you're leaving too long. O we do for
Speaker 3: far too long, and I've had nothing new to show
Speaker 3: to you. Goodbye, dry Eyes. I watched you play fade
Speaker 3: off wisdom, and it felt so strange to walk away along.
Speaker 3: It's no regrets, no.
Speaker 4: Tears, goodbye, don't want you back.
Speaker 3: We only cried again, say goodbye again.
Speaker 4: The hours of yours echoll like empty rooms, the thoughts
Speaker 4: we used to share.
Speaker 3: I now keep alone. I woke last night and spoke
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 4: I'm not thinking you were gone, and it felt so strange.
Speaker 3: To lie awake along.
Speaker 4: There's no regrets, no tears, goodbye, don't want you back.
Speaker 4: We only cried high again, say goodbye again, dark friends
Speaker 4: of dad, to turn my nights to day, strange faces
Speaker 4: in your place.
Speaker 3: Can't keep the ghosts.
Speaker 5: Away now, just beyond the darkest hour, just behind the dawn.
Speaker 3: It still feels so strange to lead my life alone.
Speaker 4: There's no regrets, no tears, good bye, don't want you back.
Speaker 4: Lead only cry again, say good bye.
Speaker 2: Well that was great. I'm glad that we had a
Speaker 2: chance to play. But let's talk a little bit more
Speaker 2: about the meaning of these words. I mean, may I
Speaker 2: ask you, is that a personal tragedy in your life
Speaker 2: about love? Or is this some compilation that you pulled
Speaker 2: together from other people who've had heartache? I mean heartaches
Speaker 2: everywhere but hopefully we come out of it and we
Speaker 2: feel better about oursel's.
Speaker 1: Actually an extrapolation from a real life experience. Okay, I
Speaker 1: had a girlfriend, girlfriend from New York named Juel Lumberton,
Speaker 1: and I met her in New York, and she actually
Speaker 1: flew up to Cambridge, flew up to Boston and spent
Speaker 1: the weekend with me. I never spent that many days
Speaker 1: and nice than anybody before. And I took her on
Speaker 1: Monday morning, took her back out to Logan Airport and
Speaker 1: put her on a plane, and it flew away, and
Speaker 1: it felt kind of strange being alone. And from that
Speaker 1: I just extrapolated it into being the end of a
Speaker 1: long relationship, which in fact happened and came true and
Speaker 1: we didn't break up after some years. Sure, but it
Speaker 1: was imaginary. The first first iteration of it was be
Speaker 1: thinking about, well it could feel like this this and
Speaker 1: that happened.
Speaker 2: Sure. Wow. And the last words, as you know them
Speaker 2: by heart. I'm just going and letting the audience hear
Speaker 2: this and please comment. I have no regrets, no tears, goodbye,
Speaker 2: don't want you back. We'd only cry again, say goodbye again.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, the end of an experience but that's
Speaker 2: powerful stuff. And then let's pony off of that that
Speaker 2: so many other people in the music industry, what have
Speaker 2: done iterations of this particular song. Give us an example
Speaker 2: of some of the people who've done their version of
Speaker 2: Tom Rush's No Regrets. It's understandable that there's many people
Speaker 2: who've picked up on this and what's so great? What
Speaker 2: a high honor to have someone who's written something and
Speaker 2: in your original version. There's been iterations of that that
Speaker 2: also have what a different tone, a different sound, but
Speaker 2: the meaning of the world.
Speaker 1: There have been heavy metal versions have recorded No Regrets
Speaker 1: include Lee Hazelwood and Margaret Waylawn Jennings, Olivia Newton, John
Speaker 1: Shirley Bassey, Emmy Lou Harris, Robbie Williams. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: who that is. The Walker Brothers in England a huge
Speaker 1: shit with it. That was what put myents through college. Hazelwood,
Speaker 1: Midge you were who had a band called Ultrabox heavy metal.
Speaker 2: Heard about it.
Speaker 1: He did. Midge did it. That heavy metal version of
Speaker 1: No Regrets is so ponderous. He could only get two
Speaker 1: verses into an eight minute cut. And then there was
Speaker 1: some rap group and I can't think of their name.
Speaker 1: They had a big hit with No Regrets, which I
Speaker 1: did not recognize. Somebody played it for me. Why are
Speaker 1: you playing this? What is it? Don't you know? Don
Speaker 1: it's no regrets?
Speaker 2: No why I'm rush old me?
Speaker 1: And you too actually used to use the chorus in
Speaker 1: some of their stage shows for a while. There was
Speaker 1: an extra zero on my royalty statement that year.
Speaker 2: Well well deserved. And also I want to share with
Speaker 2: the audience here in our time today. You obviously returned
Speaker 2: with a big splash back in nineteen eighty one. Here
Speaker 2: we go folks selling out Boston's prestigious Symphony Hall. Describe that,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's no easy thing to do, and certainly
Speaker 2: a place like that. I mean you have people who
Speaker 2: know that, great performers there. I mean, what a great
Speaker 2: experience is. Describe that to this audience, to the even
Speaker 2: to this day of the stories.
Speaker 1: Well, that was the start of a series. I actually
Speaker 1: I actually own the name Club forty seventies Days and
Speaker 1: I do shows under that banner. I say that the
Speaker 1: theme of the shows is basically, there are a couple
Speaker 1: of established artists, myself being one, and then a couple
Speaker 1: of newcomers, brilliant people that you've never heard of, and
Speaker 1: I basically browbeat everybody into playing with one another. And
Speaker 1: the shows are a lot of fun. But I've done them.
Speaker 1: I've helped to introduce a whole lot of pull out
Speaker 1: of young artists and hopefully it's been helpful to them.
Speaker 1: But absolutely the series, it's been Anthony Holland Boston, an
Speaker 1: annual thing for a while that I've most have done
Speaker 1: it Carnegie Hall in New York and Kennedy Center in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And a bunch of leathers, resubstantial venues.
Speaker 2: It's a great story, Tom, But let's ask this question
Speaker 2: as this radio show is heard around the nation, the
Speaker 2: Doctor Sky Experience. We're here on talk radio seventy seven
Speaker 2: WABC at a New York City and around the world.
Speaker 2: I of course hailed from Phoenix, Arizona, but an original
Speaker 2: New Yorker. But this isn't about me. It's about you.
Speaker 2: Describe what people can expect when they come to the
Speaker 2: concert on November the nineteenth, Celebrity Theater. A great opportunity
Speaker 2: to experience your music not only in the past, but
Speaker 2: also the present and learn so much more about the
Speaker 2: thing that you have called Sundays. What the whole program
Speaker 2: that you do for Sundays. That's amazing, poscribal.
Speaker 1: So let's talk let's talk about the Celebrity Theater. Well, also,
Speaker 1: the same show will be in Tucson the next night.
Speaker 1: The Celebrity Theater is actually headlined by Dave Mason and
Speaker 1: Al Stewart, and I are going to support mister Mason,
Speaker 1: so it should be fun. I've worked I've not worked
Speaker 1: with the Day before, but Al and I have done
Speaker 1: a bunch of shows together over the years, and he's
Speaker 1: a treat. I'm looking very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, the the online series you're referring to
Speaker 1: is called Rockport Sundays. Or urge your listeners to go
Speaker 1: to Tim Rush dot com and there's but and right
Speaker 1: steering in the face you can click the Rockport Sundays
Speaker 1: has been a series I started back at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the pandemic when I didn't have any shows. I said, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a song and a story. This is video.
Speaker 1: I've got very professional video and audio guys helping me.
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting in my kitchen sing you a song
Speaker 1: and tell you a story and it takes about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and I post them every Sunday morning, but they stay
Speaker 1: up for eight weeks. You can watch them whenever you want,
Speaker 1: and there's all different tiers. It's a subscription series of
Speaker 1: different tiers based tears ten bucks a month and people
Speaker 1: are eleving it. And now that I'm back on the
Speaker 1: road and back on stage, I'm still going to keep
Speaker 1: doing it. It's been a lot of fun and I'm
Speaker 1: roping a bunch of my buddies into being guests. We
Speaker 1: just recorded Tom Paxton, Jonathan Edwards has been there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go up to Toronto and where in life foot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a busy man. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Sometimes soon it's not a lot of fun and we
Speaker 1: just shoot the breeze and sing a song. I'll do
Speaker 1: a song, I'll do a song. Maybe you'll do a
Speaker 1: song together. And it's now we just had our one
Speaker 1: hundredth episode and I'm looking forward.
Speaker 2: To That's amazing.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 2: And people need to go to the website talk rush
Speaker 2: dot com to learn so much more about this. But
Speaker 2: your touring scheduled is awesome. Obviously here coming to the
Speaker 2: West in Arizona here in November. But also I'm looking
Speaker 2: on your schedule and you're going into the year of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. For all of our friends in the
Speaker 2: New York City market, don't forget he's coming in there
Speaker 2: April twenty twenty three. Areas like Connecticut, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: lots of other locations as your tour continues. A very
Speaker 2: proud moment in music history is where purget honor to
Speaker 2: speak with Tom Rush today, a very talented singer and songwriter.
Speaker 2: Obviously not just in my opinion, but the opinion is
Speaker 2: so many people out there. Again go to his website,
Speaker 2: Tom Rush dot com, and I got to ask you
Speaker 2: something else that's interesting here. I'd like to talk about
Speaker 2: your experience with COVID, because God bless so many people
Speaker 2: have suffered the heart of this particular disease. And if
Speaker 2: you don't mind, sir, just share with us your story,
Speaker 2: because I've understood you know, it's a very important story
Speaker 2: to talk about how you're a survivor.
Speaker 1: Well, I got it early on earlier after this is
Speaker 1: in March at twenty twenty and I was doing a
Speaker 1: string of shows in Florida, and I had a week
Speaker 1: off and then I had more shows in Florida, but
Speaker 1: at the tided I would go home to New England,
Speaker 1: to Rockport, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time,
Speaker 1: and I think on the plane going north, it's where
Speaker 1: I got the bug. But it was no fun. I
Speaker 1: spent five days getting worse, five days really feeling awful,
Speaker 1: and five days getting better. I was lucky I was
Speaker 1: not hospitalized. My doc I was phoning in, texting in
Speaker 1: my little statistics twice a day, and he said he
Speaker 1: came very close to telling me to come into the hospital,
Speaker 1: but I basically just got better on my own. I
Speaker 1: do not recommend it. I advise everybody he get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I know the vaccines aren't perfect, but they will They
Speaker 1: will keep you out of the hospital and keep you
Speaker 1: out of the moor hopefully.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's amazing, but so many people have passed from this.
Speaker 2: As you know, I've lost some close friends here here,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure the listeners of this radio show far
Speaker 2: and wide around this country. Tom we all know the problems.
Speaker 2: But the good news is a survivor mentality is what
Speaker 2: people need out there, especially in these tough times. You know,
Speaker 2: we don't talk politics on this show. But obviously the
Speaker 2: way things are headed, it's a very divided country right now,
Speaker 2: no matter what our beliefs are. But the truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is, let's hope that through music like yourself
Speaker 2: and others, it brings joy and hopefully peace to the
Speaker 2: heart of the people that are out there. And I
Speaker 2: want to thank you, sir for being part of this
Speaker 2: radio experience today. Yes, Steve Kates, the Doctor Sky Experience
Speaker 2: once again, probably heard here on Talk radio seventy seven
Speaker 2: WABC out of New York City and around the world.
Speaker 2: Our producer and thank him ahead of time, is Richard Dugan.
Speaker 2: So we talk about these great realms and I know
Speaker 2: you probably don't know that, Tom, but the great way
Speaker 2: this radio program started was talking about because of my
Speaker 2: astronomy background, science, aviation, space and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But we have made it a habit to talk about
Speaker 2: so many I have so many celebrity guests, and we
Speaker 2: talk about American exceptionalism. Here, great stories to keep us
Speaker 2: proud that we're Americans, and hopefully our country continues in
Speaker 2: a positive play. So I want to thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Time's website is Tom Rush dot com. You get the
Speaker 2: last words sir, and I do appreciate your time here
Speaker 2: on the Doctor Skuy Experience.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for having me on, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to coming out to Arizona. It's a
Speaker 1: treat for me to do shows. I just love. I
Speaker 1: love playing songs that I love for the people, and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for doing it for another fifty years.
Speaker 2: God bless you, and let's hope that we can get
Speaker 2: there to see you in person along with many other listeners.
Speaker 2: Celebrity Theater for those listening on the West Coast or
Speaker 2: the western part of the United States, Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 2: November nineteenth, seven pm. Coming across across the nation and
Speaker 2: back to the East Coast. This tour continues well into
Speaker 2: April of twenty twenty three, New York Metro Market. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, sir. If you stay on the line
Speaker 2: with us as we go to the hard would like
Speaker 2: to ask you a quick a few questions. That concludes
Speaker 2: this interesting introduction and experience. The Doctor Sky Experience heard
Speaker 2: here again on Talk Radio seventy seven WABC in New
Speaker 2: York City and around the world. Until next time, Stay healthy.
Speaker 2: We do appreciate all of our listeners out there, and
Speaker 2: thank you FRO