Hello everybody. It is episode number 794 here of Letterby Talk on the Tuesday, March 18th. Welcome to the show. It is a legend on today. Guitar player and powerhouse songwriter Chris Hayes from Huey Lewis in the News. It was an honor to speak to this man. I'd been wanting

to have mom for years, him, Huey Lewis. These guys were everywhere when I was growing up.

And as I've said many, many times before, I would be listening to Metallica and then I would listen to

Huey Lewis. Then I would listen to Starship and then I would listen to the tubes or Greg Ken,

Eddie Money. The Bay Area was a powerhouse of music and musicians and it was just fantastic to hear this man's story today.

He wrote some of the biggest hits for Huey Lewis, including I Want a New Drug, which

was everywhere all over the MTV and radio. Anywhere you went,

Huey Lewis was there.

I've been wearing this Huey Lewis sweatsh

for over the last couple years.

And it's always amazing how many people react to it.

Like, oh, I love that band.

And people do love Huey Lewis.

Right now, they loved them back then.

The news was part of that music juggernaut, I would say, of kind of, I don't even know what genre was.

It was, it was rock and roll, of course, but you had, like I said, you had

Huey Lewis. There was, of course, Springsteen born in the USA, had that sound, and

Eric Martin band. There were a lot of these bands, and I've talked about it before and I've had a lot of them on that were just this incredible,

just, I don't know, blue collar rock and roll almost, I would just say is what it is.

And Chris was right there in it, man. In that storm.

Out there showcasing at all those old school Bay Area clubs like Uncle Charlie's and New

Georges and the Stone and just an amazing time.

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