Welcome to Music Matters Podcasts with Darrell Craig Harris, talking about all things

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Hi, everybody, welcome to Music Matters Podcast podcast and today I have an awesome guest and actually a friend too

Ritchie Castellano

Guitarist songwriter now producer kind of wears a bunch of hats with Blue Oyster

cult. How you doing, Ritchie? I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on your show.

You're welcome. I'm excited. We first met, we were doing the Queen Symphonic Spectacular Rock Show.

That was, I guess, now what, three or four years ago. I don't know, it seems like a long time ago.

That's the best way to meet somebody, I think, is when you get thrown into the fire on a gig like that

yeah exactly you shake hands and then you have to play some really challenging music

together under very stressful circumstances that's yeah that that's how you really you

really see someone at their best or worst.

Exactly.

I mean that's a funny thing like the Queen's stuff separates the men from the boys.

We've all heard those twos when you have to actually play them it's like oh yeah yeah I think I

met a bunch of musicians that I've become friends with from those gigs because

it feels like you've been through battle together. Yeah we love Richard too the

conductor is awesome. Yeah absolutely. So you're a Brooklyn boy right? I was born in

Brooklyn I moved over when I was very little so I spent most of my life growing up on Staten Island.

Awesome yeah that's I mean Staten Island's a cool place because you're like

obviously you're in the city but you're not right in the middle of everything.

Yeah it's like I get I get to be and I can get to Brooklyn in 10 minutes

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