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Speaker 2: is with John Cafferty from John Kafferty and the Beaver
Speaker 2: Brown Band. How you doing, sir?
Speaker 1: Hey John? How you doing? Man?
Speaker 2: I am fantastic and I'm excited to visit with you.
Speaker 2: And you know again, I'm a child that grew up
Speaker 2: in the eighties and love, love, love the music from
Speaker 2: back then, and you got all kinds of fun stuff
Speaker 2: you're working on right now. Let's chat about that.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for saying, and yeah, we do. We just
Speaker 1: made a new album. It's been a while since we've
Speaker 1: been in the studio to create a whole new batch
Speaker 1: of songs. But having celebrated our fiftieth anniversary a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, we thought it was time to, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe take another take another shot at creating some fun songs.
Speaker 1: So that's what we did.
Speaker 2: I love that. Now. How has the music industry changed
Speaker 2: over the time that you started way back in the day,
Speaker 2: and now you're still doing it today. Hey, how has
Speaker 2: the music industry changed during that time?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, my job hasn't really changed all that much.
Speaker 1: Every Saturday night, I walk on a stage somewhere USA,
Speaker 1: I count the foe and I got a great rock
Speaker 1: and roll man that, just like you know, turns the
Speaker 1: house upside down. So my job hasn't changed all that much.
Speaker 1: How the music is recorded, I was presenting how it's
Speaker 1: shared with one another, Howard's I mean, that's a whole
Speaker 1: other world that has changed quite a bit.
Speaker 2: And the thing that's fun good music is good music,
Speaker 2: and I think that you know, again, you've got some
Speaker 2: phenomenal music from back in the day, and you've got
Speaker 2: some really good music now. There was one of your
Speaker 2: songs recently featured in a movie, Ricky Stanicky, which is
Speaker 2: a funny movie. Let's talk about that song.
Speaker 1: The guy who directed the film is a guy named
Speaker 1: Peter Farrell, one of the Farrelly brothers. And you know,
Speaker 1: they used to come see us when they were kids.
Speaker 1: They used to sneaking the bars we were playing when
Speaker 1: they were younger. And he was working on that film.
Speaker 1: He was in Australia, and I wanted to know if
Speaker 1: I had anything new, and we were making the album.
Speaker 1: I hadn't finished the album yet, but I had that
Speaker 1: song Day in the Sun, and he heard it and
Speaker 1: he loved it, and I used it in the film.
Speaker 1: So yet another song in movies that we're probably up
Speaker 1: around forty years so over.
Speaker 2: The years, absolutely, and one very famous movie that you
Speaker 2: got to do the entire soundtrack, it seems for Eddie
Speaker 2: and the Cruisers, and a lot of the music from
Speaker 2: that movie. Again it's all from you, from John Cafferty
Speaker 2: and the Beaver Brown Band. But those songs became huge
Speaker 2: hits because of the movie and because they were great songs.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for saying. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: unique opportunity for us. We were a band that had
Speaker 1: been together for quite a few years. We were a
Speaker 1: bar band, extraordinary, very entertaining, and had the you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the early history of rock and roll
Speaker 1: under our fingertips, and we're writing songs in that vein.
Speaker 1: And you know, a guy named Kenny Vance was walking
Speaker 1: down the street one day in Greenwich Village Yours heard
Speaker 1: the sound of the band coming out the window and
Speaker 1: came in and watched us, and we never knew he
Speaker 1: was there. And an about a year later he came
Speaker 1: up for the script for Eddie and the Cruises and
Speaker 1: we were off to the races.
Speaker 2: I love that, And again, what an amazing movie. And again,
Speaker 2: the music makes the movie with You could have done
Speaker 2: that same movie with bad music and the movie wouldn't
Speaker 2: have worked, and the music wouldn't have worked. So I
Speaker 2: think you guys brought the magic seasoning to that to
Speaker 2: make it work all around.
Speaker 1: Well, probably a very collaborative effort, you know, but I
Speaker 1: think the composite characters that were created with the actors
Speaker 1: on the screen and the musicians behind the screen, seemed
Speaker 1: to work pretty well.
Speaker 2: Now you've got a bunch of songs that are iconic,
Speaker 2: see it y tough all over. I mean again, a
Speaker 2: bunch of music in movies, which you know, probably up
Speaker 2: there with anybody as far as that. And now you
Speaker 2: put out this new album and I'm reading here that
Speaker 2: the new album almost didn't happen. Why is that?
Speaker 1: We were a band that, you know, when that window
Speaker 1: of opportunity from the eighties sort of evolved and evolved
Speaker 1: into new styles and music being played, we did to
Speaker 1: sort of you know, we just sort of went back
Speaker 1: to what we knew how to do, which was to
Speaker 1: be a live band. Only Now we had a couple
Speaker 1: of years under our belt and we were able to
Speaker 1: play around the country. But we never stopped playing. But
Speaker 1: we never we didn't really think that we had a
Speaker 1: place in the record business anymore, which was pretty much
Speaker 1: true for a number of years with our record deal.
Speaker 1: But you know, at this point, we had celebrated our
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary, we had this greatest Hits record coming out.
Speaker 1: Was contacted by our friend Bruce Springsteen down New Jersey.
Speaker 1: He was right around his car listening to some of
Speaker 1: the songs I had written, and he said, I think
Speaker 1: you need more I think you need more stuff, So
Speaker 1: I need a bigger playlist from you. So he, you know,
Speaker 1: sort of, you know, give us a little encouragement to,
Speaker 1: you know, keep moving towards making new songs.
Speaker 2: So when we listen and love it, we can thank
Speaker 2: the boss for that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you can thank him for a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if this one is real high
Speaker 1: up on his list. But I just heard heasily dropping
Speaker 1: seven new albums all at once, just mind boggling to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I am excited to hear some of this new music.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time today. We appreciate it, sir, well,
Speaker 2: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I hope you have fun with this day. And the
Speaker 1: song is bringing smiles, so a lot of faces around
Speaker 1: the country and you know we're coming into that. So
Speaker 1: new album's called Sound of Waves and is the new
Speaker 1: single day the song again.
Speaker 2: Our guest today has been Johncafferty from John Kafferty in
Speaker 2: the Beaver Brown Band, and sadly I can't play that
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