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🗓️ 24 February 2022
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Switcher Chats. Music interviews brought to you by Music Matters with Carl |
0:10.0 | Crank Harris and Music Tribes Tonight. |
0:13.5 | Mr. Erick Martin, how are you doing today? |
0:24.5 | I'm good. I've been checked out a couple times this week, actually. |
0:28.7 | I'm kind of a weird intro here, but yeah, my children, they play basketball, and they |
0:37.5 | have to get tested all the time because you can't play the games, and then their parents |
0:43.6 | are being checked as well. So I'm like, everybody knows me in the COVID line. |
0:50.6 | You know what? I know gigs are starting to pick up, which is happening for me, too. |
0:56.8 | So it's sort of like, it's like that's just part of the game now. I've got to like make |
1:00.3 | sure everybody's safe. |
1:02.1 | Absolutely. There's nothing we can do, you know? Yeah, I mean, there's no band-aid, you |
1:06.7 | know? |
1:07.7 | Yeah, I just got to figure it out. |
1:11.2 | So tell me, tell me the Mr. Big Story. I mean, I know it's a story you've repeated many |
1:14.5 | times, but going back to 1988, I know Billy Sheanna just left David Lee Roth. He's putting |
1:21.1 | the band together. How did you guys first meet? |
1:23.9 | Well, you know who Mike Varney is? Yeah, I strapped no records, right? |
1:28.3 | Strapped no records, producer, guitar collector, pretty incredible. He called me up out of |
1:35.3 | the blue. I've known this guy for like a good 40 years, I think. I was in a band in the |
1:41.3 | 70s called Kid Courage from San Francisco, and he was in a band called The Nuns. And so |
1:47.2 | we've just known each other forever. He called me up and, you know, I was on Capitol Records |
1:52.5 | at that time, from like 85 to 80, well, it could have gone longer, maybe, but until Billy |
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