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Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

#491:Gregg Rolie/Keyboardist, Singer of Journey and Santana

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Today I have a 2 time Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee

Mr Gregg Rolie as my guest.

This man is a founding member of Santana and Journey.

His B3 playing, singing and songwriting is absolutely next level.

Back in 1969 Gregg played Woodstock as a member of Santana and the rest is history.

After leaving Santana, Gregg and Neal Schon start the band Journey and record 3 records before adding lead singer Steve Perry.

With Steve, Journey make the masterpiece "INFINITY" a record i consider one of the best ever to come out of the Bay Area

You can catch Gregg these days playing in Ringo Starr's band who are currently out on tour right now.

Oct 11th Gregg has a brand new solo record coming out called Sonic Ranch and you can hear the brand new single out today on iTunes called "What About Love"

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody thanks for tuning into another episode. It'll have to be talked. It is Monday, August 26th and this is episode number 491.

0:11.8

G.F. 491. Here we are. And getting the day started. Thanks for tuning in like you always do or maybe you are a new listener. Thank you for that. Also welcome aboard. Spread the word. Tell your co-workers, your friends, your fans, your friends.

0:29.8

Tell them about this podcast. Let's keep it growing. Let's get it out there. Let's get it global. Let's get it nationwide.

0:39.8

As the ZZ top would say. Anyway, I don't know. I'm fired up. I'm up early today. I'm headed to the to the next specialist finally after with three weeks of waiting.

0:53.8

I'm going in to see what I can do about my herniated disc. But enough of that. I've talked about it over and over. And let's get into what's happening today.

1:05.8

A two-time rock and roll hall of fame inductee. A legend is on today. And I am not using that word lightly. I'll tell you.

1:16.8

Over 400,000 people were out at Woodstock in 1969. But only a handful played Woodstock. My guest today. Mr. Greg Raleigh played there with Santana. And after that his entire life changed.

1:37.8

And everything changed in the music world. It was incredible to get to sit down with this man again. Of course I had him on about six months ago with Neil Sean and Dean Castanola.

1:49.8

When I went to see Journey Through Time. But I was definitely trying to figure out how I could sit down with this man again and really talk to him.

2:03.8

And dig way deep into this man's career. I mean you got to look at what he's done. He was in Santana.

2:10.8

Lead singer playing B3 and all kinds of keyboards. Then him and Neil Sean leave Santana. They start Journey. And that thing becomes a behemoth.

2:22.8

And here he is at 72 years old still out playing rock and roll touring with another legend, a beetle Mr. Ringo star.

2:34.8

So I just can't even tell you how fired I am fired I am how fired up I am to bring this episode to you guys because it's it was exciting to have a man and thank you Greg for doing the show. I mean when you're 72 you can be doing anything other than a podcast.

2:56.8

So thank you Greg Raleigh and yeah man I'm going to get into that in a minute but let's go over a couple things and then we'll get there.

3:06.8

Just got back from the Texas run with the incredible friend mentor and superhuman that I love. Mr. Mark Marin.

3:18.8

The guy that basically was my Woodstock who changed my career about seven years ago when he had me on the podcast and even before that influencing me and really the reason I do this show.

3:35.8

And all that was out it was great I hadn't got to I never really traveled with Mark I don't think as far as no I have a road trip we flew into Dallas did a show there amazing ran into car drove to Austin another show there amazing then drove to Houston so in three days we drove across that big.

4:04.8

State we ate tons of fucking meat barbecue everywhere had the the tunes cranking we went all over the board from AC DC to grateful dead to what else were we rocking.

4:23.8

Oh man at one point we threw on just a stones two hours of stones and we're just singing where it was glorious.

4:35.8

You know they're one of my favorite movies is this film called Fan Dango and it's about these three guys that that buried a bottle of wine.

4:48.8

Is that what's called fan Dango yeah I think it is they bury a bottle of wine and twenty years later they decided to go on a road trip and go dig it up.

5:00.8

And I think in this day and age the road trip is really you don't hear much about it I don't hear a lot of people going we're going on a road trip.

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