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All right, here we got a guy from the left coast, California way.
And here's a guy who back in the 1960s started out with a group called 13th Floor.
And you met a couple of interesting guys that work with you, Lou Adler and Steve Barry and
also P.F. Sloan.
And by the way, P.F. Sloan is a guy, did you ever remember that song, Eva Destruction,
Barry McGuire?
He wrote that and many, many others.
Talk about how the name change came about from 13th Floor and also what it was like
working with those guys.
Well, for one, the Beatles was already gone, so we had to change their name.
And there was a 13th Floor elevator, so we had to change their name again.
So the grassroots was just like a, well, you know, it was the 60s, so you can run with
that one for a while.
It's an old political expression.
You guys have been around the grassroots long enough to know we're going to go all over
with that kind of thing.
But why grassroots?
Usually it's one word, grassroots.
Why did you break it up to grassroots, two words?
Well, grassroots, when you say it uses a political expression, is more of a grassroots movement.
You know, so
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
But getting back to working with P.F. Sloan and those guys.
No, P.F. Sloan was like a Bob Dylan kind of a guy, wrote a lot of great songs.
And unfortunately for P.F. Sloan, he never got a hit record, but we were an outlet for
all of his great talents and a lot of other great songwriters.
And we were fortunate to have 29 charted records on Billboard's Hot 100.
And thanks to all these guys here in Cleveland, we've been doing it for 38 years now.
You know, it's amazing.
Nowadays you see performers, they come up with a couple of hit records and they call
them major superstars.
I hate when they toss that around.
But yet, guys like the Grassroots and Rob and his band and so many of the others here
tonight have long
If you ever look up the long record list of songs, their discography, you wouldn't believe
all the songs that these guys have recorded.
And you know, like, it's the genesis of some of these songs, like Midnight Confessions,
you know?
Share with our audience, if you will, you've probably been through these things a thousand
times, but people are interested in knowing sometimes the idea, how that came about, why
you chose to record a song like that.
Well, Midnight Confessions was written by a guy named Lou Josey.
And if you listen to the words to the song, you'll know what this is about, guys.
But this is somebody else's girlfriend or somebody else's wife, actually.
She's got a ring on her finger.
But these are songs that, you know, were sent to us.
We either wrote them ourselves or we had some meetings on Monday mornings and listened to
these great songs written by some really fabulous songwriters.
And we would pick them out.
And this was just one that just stood out amongst, you know, a lot of songs that came to us.
Of course, you know, we were a little bit hazy on some mornings, you know, and we listened
to, you know, it was the 60s, folks.
And we did turn down a couple of really big songs.
There was a song written for us called Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me, Baby.
And we went, nah, we ain't gonna do that one.
And we turned that one down and it turned out to be a number one record for Hamlet,
Joe, Frank, and Reynolds.
Same guys that wrote that says, don't worry, we'll write you another one.
They wrote one called Two Divided by Love for us.
We turned down another one called Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.
Whoops.
But we did take Sooner or Later.
We did take Let's Live for Today.
We went, where were you when I needed you?
You win some, you lose some.
So we're just very fortunate.
We're happy to be here.
We've had a wonderful 38 years.
I figure I got about 26 more in me.
So we're
Well, that's, I guess, again, the people see you now, you look terrific.
And so what is Rob Grill and the Grassroots, what are you up to now in the year 2000?
You know what we're doing?
We're touring with a couple of bands like these great guys you've already seen tonight,
all the ones that are gonna come out here.
I want everybody to know, and all you guys are fans, you know these guys are just not
coming out of the woodwork tonight.
These guys have been on the road for all these years, honing their act and their skills,
and playing these hits every night all over the country, flying back and forth and back and forth.
And we're just happy to be here, and we're just gonna keep touring.
You know what's so great?
This is a fantastic concert.
However, we're putting this on for posterity on PBS.
Now PBS, tell me about your feelings about why PBS and why you got involved with a project like this.
Well, I mean, this is a wonderful thing that
Anything we can do to help public broadcasting, what they do for charity, what they do for
children, what they do for everybody as a whole, anything we can do to help that out.
And this is also, what a great way to get everybody here back together again in one spot.
And our agents are gonna love this too, you know that.
They're going, oh boy, well the work's gonna come down the line.
But just everybody to get back here in one spot and do this in one great show.
And hopefully this will spawn a bunch of other shows in the future.
And you guys just keep those cards and letters and dollars coming in to PBS, because what
a great thing it is, and what a great organization, huh?
Well you know
Here, I got some money.
Take a check.
Take up a collection.
You know, the thing is, Rob, the fact that PBS does such a wonderful thing in promoting
this music, and someone asked me earlier this evening, I was doing an interview, they
said, why is there such an interest, especially now, in this music of the 1960s?
And what will a show like this do for the music of the 1960s?
Well, I think the music of the 1960s is just what it's always been, great songs.
And that's what it's always been.
We were very fortunate to be around then to record all that stuff.
And that's why I think we still have careers today.
Are you still alive?
Oh my God!
These people.
Where did you get that suit?
I had it made.
Look at these
Don't fall off the mic.
Peter Noonan, of course, you know.
I just came out, I wanted to meet this guy from the grassroots.
You broke the microphone again, Peter.
I don't know what's going on with the microphone, but
Peter, I just wanted to talk like this, could you just show me how to do it one more time?
You know what, I loved you when you did When I'm 64, man, it was great.
Five more years before I'm 64!
I'll go back and warm up the lads.
All righty, Peter Noonan, how about that?
Peter Noonan in his rubber trousers!
You know, the amazing thing is, I get a chance to meet some of these guys backstage,
but for guys like Rob, who in the past have probably toured with a lot of these people,
meeting them again, in some cases it's been a long period of time,
out of the performers on the bill tonight,
which performers have been the longest time since you've had a chance to see them?
Well, this guy here, I see this guy all the time on the road.
Mark Lindsay I haven't got to see for a couple of years,
but all the rest of them I see almost all the time.
Chad and Jeremy I have never seen, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them.
You know, it's amazing that you guys, your paths cross very so often,
but the thing is that when you were doing the shows in the 1960s,
there were a lot of these package shows,
[G] and when you went on the road for a long period of time,
like Dick Clark used to do the Caravan of Stars and everything,
and when you did some of these shows,
what was it like traveling around the country,
did these one-nighters, and you'd go from city to city to city,
and you got to really get friendly, if you know what I mean,
with a lot of these performers and acts.
Those were some special times, were they not?
Oh, they still are.
And by the way, just to throw this in, 16 times on American Bandstand,
The Grassroots have the record, don't want to brag, just want to throw that in.
Well, we'll
And here's a guy who back in the 1960s started out with a group called 13th Floor.
And you met a couple of interesting guys that work with you, Lou Adler and Steve Barry and
also P.F. Sloan.
And by the way, P.F. Sloan is a guy, did you ever remember that song, Eva Destruction,
Barry McGuire?
He wrote that and many, many others.
Talk about how the name change came about from 13th Floor and also what it was like
working with those guys.
Well, for one, the Beatles was already gone, so we had to change their name.
And there was a 13th Floor elevator, so we had to change their name again.
So the grassroots was just like a, well, you know, it was the 60s, so you can run with
that one for a while.
It's an old political expression.
You guys have been around the grassroots long enough to know we're going to go all over
with that kind of thing.
But why grassroots?
Usually it's one word, grassroots.
Why did you break it up to grassroots, two words?
Well, grassroots, when you say it uses a political expression, is more of a grassroots movement.
You know, so
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
But getting back to working with P.F. Sloan and those guys.
No, P.F. Sloan was like a Bob Dylan kind of a guy, wrote a lot of great songs.
And unfortunately for P.F. Sloan, he never got a hit record, but we were an outlet for
all of his great talents and a lot of other great songwriters.
And we were fortunate to have 29 charted records on Billboard's Hot 100.
And thanks to all these guys here in Cleveland, we've been doing it for 38 years now.
You know, it's amazing.
Nowadays you see performers, they come up with a couple of hit records and they call
them major superstars.
I hate when they toss that around.
But yet, guys like the Grassroots and Rob and his band and so many of the others here
tonight have long
If you ever look up the long record list of songs, their discography, you wouldn't believe
all the songs that these guys have recorded.
And you know, like, it's the genesis of some of these songs, like Midnight Confessions,
you know?
Share with our audience, if you will, you've probably been through these things a thousand
times, but people are interested in knowing sometimes the idea, how that came about, why
you chose to record a song like that.
Well, Midnight Confessions was written by a guy named Lou Josey.
And if you listen to the words to the song, you'll know what this is about, guys.
But this is somebody else's girlfriend or somebody else's wife, actually.
She's got a ring on her finger.
But these are songs that, you know, were sent to us.
We either wrote them ourselves or we had some meetings on Monday mornings and listened to
these great songs written by some really fabulous songwriters.
And we would pick them out.
And this was just one that just stood out amongst, you know, a lot of songs that came to us.
Of course, you know, we were a little bit hazy on some mornings, you know, and we listened
to, you know, it was the 60s, folks.
And we did turn down a couple of really big songs.
There was a song written for us called Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me, Baby.
And we went, nah, we ain't gonna do that one.
And we turned that one down and it turned out to be a number one record for Hamlet,
Joe, Frank, and Reynolds.
Same guys that wrote that says, don't worry, we'll write you another one.
They wrote one called Two Divided by Love for us.
We turned down another one called Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.
Whoops.
But we did take Sooner or Later.
We did take Let's Live for Today.
We went, where were you when I needed you?
You win some, you lose some.
So we're just very fortunate.
We're happy to be here.
We've had a wonderful 38 years.
I figure I got about 26 more in me.
So we're
Well, that's, I guess, again, the people see you now, you look terrific.
And so what is Rob Grill and the Grassroots, what are you up to now in the year 2000?
You know what we're doing?
We're touring with a couple of bands like these great guys you've already seen tonight,
all the ones that are gonna come out here.
I want everybody to know, and all you guys are fans, you know these guys are just not
coming out of the woodwork tonight.
These guys have been on the road for all these years, honing their act and their skills,
and playing these hits every night all over the country, flying back and forth and back and forth.
And we're just happy to be here, and we're just gonna keep touring.
You know what's so great?
This is a fantastic concert.
However, we're putting this on for posterity on PBS.
Now PBS, tell me about your feelings about why PBS and why you got involved with a project like this.
Well, I mean, this is a wonderful thing that
Anything we can do to help public broadcasting, what they do for charity, what they do for
children, what they do for everybody as a whole, anything we can do to help that out.
And this is also, what a great way to get everybody here back together again in one spot.
And our agents are gonna love this too, you know that.
They're going, oh boy, well the work's gonna come down the line.
But just everybody to get back here in one spot and do this in one great show.
And hopefully this will spawn a bunch of other shows in the future.
And you guys just keep those cards and letters and dollars coming in to PBS, because what
a great thing it is, and what a great organization, huh?
Well you know
Here, I got some money.
Take a check.
Take up a collection.
You know, the thing is, Rob, the fact that PBS does such a wonderful thing in promoting
this music, and someone asked me earlier this evening, I was doing an interview, they
said, why is there such an interest, especially now, in this music of the 1960s?
And what will a show like this do for the music of the 1960s?
Well, I think the music of the 1960s is just what it's always been, great songs.
And that's what it's always been.
We were very fortunate to be around then to record all that stuff.
And that's why I think we still have careers today.
Are you still alive?
Oh my God!
These people.
Where did you get that suit?
I had it made.
Look at these
Don't fall off the mic.
Peter Noonan, of course, you know.
I just came out, I wanted to meet this guy from the grassroots.
You broke the microphone again, Peter.
I don't know what's going on with the microphone, but
Peter, I just wanted to talk like this, could you just show me how to do it one more time?
You know what, I loved you when you did When I'm 64, man, it was great.
Five more years before I'm 64!
I'll go back and warm up the lads.
All righty, Peter Noonan, how about that?
Peter Noonan in his rubber trousers!
You know, the amazing thing is, I get a chance to meet some of these guys backstage,
but for guys like Rob, who in the past have probably toured with a lot of these people,
meeting them again, in some cases it's been a long period of time,
out of the performers on the bill tonight,
which performers have been the longest time since you've had a chance to see them?
Well, this guy here, I see this guy all the time on the road.
Mark Lindsay I haven't got to see for a couple of years,
but all the rest of them I see almost all the time.
Chad and Jeremy I have never seen, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them.
You know, it's amazing that you guys, your paths cross very so often,
but the thing is that when you were doing the shows in the 1960s,
there were a lot of these package shows,
[G] and when you went on the road for a long period of time,
like Dick Clark used to do the Caravan of Stars and everything,
and when you did some of these shows,
what was it like traveling around the country,
did these one-nighters, and you'd go from city to city to city,
and you got to really get friendly, if you know what I mean,
with a lot of these performers and acts.
Those were some special times, were they not?
Oh, they still are.
And by the way, just to throw this in, 16 times on American Bandstand,
The Grassroots have the record, don't want to brag, just want to throw that in.
Well, we'll
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_ All right, here we got a guy from the left coast, California way.
And here's a guy who back in the 1960s started out with a group called 13th Floor.
And you met a couple of interesting guys that work with you, Lou Adler and Steve Barry and
also P.F. Sloan.
And by the way, P.F. Sloan is a guy, did you ever remember that song, Eva Destruction,
Barry McGuire?
He wrote that and many, many others.
Talk about how the name change came about from 13th Floor and also what it was like
working with those guys.
Well, for one, the Beatles was already gone, so we had to change their name.
And _ there was a 13th Floor elevator, so we had to change their name again.
So _ the grassroots was just like a, well, you know, it was the 60s, so you can run with
that one for a while.
It's an old political expression.
_ You guys have been around the grassroots long enough to know we're going to go all over
with that kind of thing.
But why grassroots?
Usually it's one word, grassroots.
Why did you break it up to grassroots, two words?
Well, grassroots, when you say it uses a political expression, is more of a grassroots movement.
You know, _ so_
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
But getting back to working with P.F. Sloan and those guys.
_ No, P.F. Sloan was like a Bob Dylan kind of a guy, wrote a lot of great songs.
And unfortunately for P.F. Sloan, he never got a hit record, but we were an outlet for
all of his great talents and a lot of other great songwriters.
And we were fortunate to have 29 charted records on Billboard's Hot 100.
And thanks to all these guys here in Cleveland, _ we've been doing it for 38 years now.
You know, it's amazing.
Nowadays you see performers, they come up with a couple of hit records and they call
them major superstars.
I hate when they toss that around.
But yet, guys like the Grassroots and Rob and his band and so many of the others here
tonight have long_
If you ever look up the long record list of songs, their discography, you wouldn't believe
all the songs that these guys have recorded.
And you know, like, it's the genesis of some of these songs, like Midnight Confessions,
you know?
Share with our audience, if you will, you've probably been through these things a thousand
times, but people are interested in knowing sometimes the idea, how that came about, why
you chose to record a song like that.
Well, Midnight Confessions was written by a guy named Lou Josey.
And if you listen to the words to the song, you'll know what this is about, guys.
But this is somebody else's girlfriend or somebody else's wife, actually.
She's got a ring on her finger.
But these are songs that, you know, were sent to us.
We either wrote them ourselves or we had some meetings on Monday mornings and listened to
these great songs written by some really fabulous songwriters.
And we would pick them out.
And this was just one that just stood out amongst, you know, a lot of songs that came to us.
Of course, you know, we were a little bit hazy on some mornings, you know, and we listened
to, you know, it was the 60s, folks.
And we did turn down a couple of really big songs.
There was a song written for us called Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me, Baby.
And we went, nah, we ain't gonna do that one.
And we turned that one down and it turned out to be a number one record for Hamlet,
Joe, Frank, and Reynolds.
Same guys that wrote that says, don't worry, we'll write you another one.
They wrote one called Two Divided by Love for us.
We turned down another one called _ Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.
Whoops.
_ _ But we did take Sooner or Later.
We did take Let's Live for Today.
We went, where were you when I needed you?
You win some, you lose some.
So we're just very fortunate.
We're happy to be here.
We've had a wonderful 38 years.
I figure I got about 26 more in me.
So we're_
Well, that's, I guess, again, the people see you now, you look terrific.
_ And so what is Rob Grill and the Grassroots, what are you up to now in the year 2000?
You know what we're doing?
We're touring with a couple of bands like these great guys you've already seen tonight,
all the ones that are gonna come out here.
I want everybody to know, and all you guys are fans, you know these guys are just not
coming out of the woodwork tonight.
These guys have been on the road for all these years, honing their act and their skills,
and playing these hits every night all over the country, flying back and forth and back and forth.
And we're just happy to be here, and we're just gonna keep touring.
You know what's so great?
This is a _ fantastic concert.
However, we're putting this on for posterity on PBS.
Now PBS, tell me about your feelings about why PBS and why you got involved with a project like this.
Well, I mean, this is a wonderful thing that_
Anything we can do to help public broadcasting, what they do for charity, what they do for
children, what they do for everybody as a whole, anything we can do to help that out.
And this is also, what a great way to get everybody here back together again in one spot.
And our agents are gonna love this too, you know that.
They're going, oh boy, well the work's gonna come down the line.
_ _ _ But just everybody to get back here in one spot and do this in one great show.
And hopefully this will spawn a bunch of other shows in the future.
And you guys just keep those cards and letters and dollars coming in to PBS, because what
a great thing it is, and what a great organization, huh?
Well you know_
Here, I got some money.
_ Take a check.
Take up a collection.
You know, the thing is, Rob, the fact that PBS does such a wonderful thing in promoting
this music, and someone asked me earlier this evening, I was doing an interview, they
said, why is there such an interest, especially now, in this music of the 1960s?
And what will a show like this do for the music of the 1960s?
Well, I think the music of the 1960s is just what it's always been, great songs.
And that's what it's always been. _ _ _ _
We were very fortunate to be around then to record all that stuff.
And that's why I think we still have careers today. _
_ Are you still alive?
Oh my God!
These people.
Where did you get that suit?
I had it made.
_ Look at these_
Don't fall off the mic.
Peter Noonan, of course, you know.
_ I just came out, I wanted to meet this guy _ from the grassroots.
You broke the microphone again, Peter. _ _ _ _ _ _
I don't know what's going on with the microphone, but_ _ _ _
_ _ Peter, I just wanted to talk like this, could you just show me how to do it one more time?
_ You _ know what, I loved you when you did When I'm 64, man, it was great.
_ Five more years before I'm 64!
I'll go back and warm up the lads.
All righty, _ _ Peter Noonan, how about that? _ _ _
Peter _ _ _ _ Noonan in his rubber trousers!
You know, the amazing thing is, I get a chance to meet some of these guys backstage,
but for guys like Rob, who in the past have probably toured with a lot of these people,
meeting them again, in some cases it's been a long period of time,
out of the performers on the bill tonight,
which performers have been the longest time since you've had a chance to see them?
Well, this guy here, I see this guy all the time on the road.
Mark Lindsay I haven't got to see for a couple of years,
but all the rest of them I see almost all the time.
Chad and Jeremy I have never seen, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them.
You know, it's amazing that you guys, your paths cross very so often,
but the thing is that when you were doing the shows in the 1960s,
there were a lot of these package shows,
[G] and when you went on the road for a long period of time,
like Dick Clark used to do the Caravan of Stars and everything,
and when you did some of these shows,
what was it like traveling around the country,
did these one-nighters, and you'd go from city to city to city,
and you got to really get friendly, if you know what I mean,
with a lot of these performers and acts.
Those were some special times, were they not?
Oh, they still are.
And by the way, just to throw this in, 16 times on American Bandstand,
The Grassroots have the record, don't want to brag, just want to throw that in.
Well, we'll
And here's a guy who back in the 1960s started out with a group called 13th Floor.
And you met a couple of interesting guys that work with you, Lou Adler and Steve Barry and
also P.F. Sloan.
And by the way, P.F. Sloan is a guy, did you ever remember that song, Eva Destruction,
Barry McGuire?
He wrote that and many, many others.
Talk about how the name change came about from 13th Floor and also what it was like
working with those guys.
Well, for one, the Beatles was already gone, so we had to change their name.
And _ there was a 13th Floor elevator, so we had to change their name again.
So _ the grassroots was just like a, well, you know, it was the 60s, so you can run with
that one for a while.
It's an old political expression.
_ You guys have been around the grassroots long enough to know we're going to go all over
with that kind of thing.
But why grassroots?
Usually it's one word, grassroots.
Why did you break it up to grassroots, two words?
Well, grassroots, when you say it uses a political expression, is more of a grassroots movement.
You know, _ so_
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
But getting back to working with P.F. Sloan and those guys.
_ No, P.F. Sloan was like a Bob Dylan kind of a guy, wrote a lot of great songs.
And unfortunately for P.F. Sloan, he never got a hit record, but we were an outlet for
all of his great talents and a lot of other great songwriters.
And we were fortunate to have 29 charted records on Billboard's Hot 100.
And thanks to all these guys here in Cleveland, _ we've been doing it for 38 years now.
You know, it's amazing.
Nowadays you see performers, they come up with a couple of hit records and they call
them major superstars.
I hate when they toss that around.
But yet, guys like the Grassroots and Rob and his band and so many of the others here
tonight have long_
If you ever look up the long record list of songs, their discography, you wouldn't believe
all the songs that these guys have recorded.
And you know, like, it's the genesis of some of these songs, like Midnight Confessions,
you know?
Share with our audience, if you will, you've probably been through these things a thousand
times, but people are interested in knowing sometimes the idea, how that came about, why
you chose to record a song like that.
Well, Midnight Confessions was written by a guy named Lou Josey.
And if you listen to the words to the song, you'll know what this is about, guys.
But this is somebody else's girlfriend or somebody else's wife, actually.
She's got a ring on her finger.
But these are songs that, you know, were sent to us.
We either wrote them ourselves or we had some meetings on Monday mornings and listened to
these great songs written by some really fabulous songwriters.
And we would pick them out.
And this was just one that just stood out amongst, you know, a lot of songs that came to us.
Of course, you know, we were a little bit hazy on some mornings, you know, and we listened
to, you know, it was the 60s, folks.
And we did turn down a couple of really big songs.
There was a song written for us called Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me, Baby.
And we went, nah, we ain't gonna do that one.
And we turned that one down and it turned out to be a number one record for Hamlet,
Joe, Frank, and Reynolds.
Same guys that wrote that says, don't worry, we'll write you another one.
They wrote one called Two Divided by Love for us.
We turned down another one called _ Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.
Whoops.
_ _ But we did take Sooner or Later.
We did take Let's Live for Today.
We went, where were you when I needed you?
You win some, you lose some.
So we're just very fortunate.
We're happy to be here.
We've had a wonderful 38 years.
I figure I got about 26 more in me.
So we're_
Well, that's, I guess, again, the people see you now, you look terrific.
_ And so what is Rob Grill and the Grassroots, what are you up to now in the year 2000?
You know what we're doing?
We're touring with a couple of bands like these great guys you've already seen tonight,
all the ones that are gonna come out here.
I want everybody to know, and all you guys are fans, you know these guys are just not
coming out of the woodwork tonight.
These guys have been on the road for all these years, honing their act and their skills,
and playing these hits every night all over the country, flying back and forth and back and forth.
And we're just happy to be here, and we're just gonna keep touring.
You know what's so great?
This is a _ fantastic concert.
However, we're putting this on for posterity on PBS.
Now PBS, tell me about your feelings about why PBS and why you got involved with a project like this.
Well, I mean, this is a wonderful thing that_
Anything we can do to help public broadcasting, what they do for charity, what they do for
children, what they do for everybody as a whole, anything we can do to help that out.
And this is also, what a great way to get everybody here back together again in one spot.
And our agents are gonna love this too, you know that.
They're going, oh boy, well the work's gonna come down the line.
_ _ _ But just everybody to get back here in one spot and do this in one great show.
And hopefully this will spawn a bunch of other shows in the future.
And you guys just keep those cards and letters and dollars coming in to PBS, because what
a great thing it is, and what a great organization, huh?
Well you know_
Here, I got some money.
_ Take a check.
Take up a collection.
You know, the thing is, Rob, the fact that PBS does such a wonderful thing in promoting
this music, and someone asked me earlier this evening, I was doing an interview, they
said, why is there such an interest, especially now, in this music of the 1960s?
And what will a show like this do for the music of the 1960s?
Well, I think the music of the 1960s is just what it's always been, great songs.
And that's what it's always been. _ _ _ _
We were very fortunate to be around then to record all that stuff.
And that's why I think we still have careers today. _
_ Are you still alive?
Oh my God!
These people.
Where did you get that suit?
I had it made.
_ Look at these_
Don't fall off the mic.
Peter Noonan, of course, you know.
_ I just came out, I wanted to meet this guy _ from the grassroots.
You broke the microphone again, Peter. _ _ _ _ _ _
I don't know what's going on with the microphone, but_ _ _ _
_ _ Peter, I just wanted to talk like this, could you just show me how to do it one more time?
_ You _ know what, I loved you when you did When I'm 64, man, it was great.
_ Five more years before I'm 64!
I'll go back and warm up the lads.
All righty, _ _ Peter Noonan, how about that? _ _ _
Peter _ _ _ _ Noonan in his rubber trousers!
You know, the amazing thing is, I get a chance to meet some of these guys backstage,
but for guys like Rob, who in the past have probably toured with a lot of these people,
meeting them again, in some cases it's been a long period of time,
out of the performers on the bill tonight,
which performers have been the longest time since you've had a chance to see them?
Well, this guy here, I see this guy all the time on the road.
Mark Lindsay I haven't got to see for a couple of years,
but all the rest of them I see almost all the time.
Chad and Jeremy I have never seen, so I'm really looking forward to seeing them.
You know, it's amazing that you guys, your paths cross very so often,
but the thing is that when you were doing the shows in the 1960s,
there were a lot of these package shows,
[G] and when you went on the road for a long period of time,
like Dick Clark used to do the Caravan of Stars and everything,
and when you did some of these shows,
what was it like traveling around the country,
did these one-nighters, and you'd go from city to city to city,
and you got to really get friendly, if you know what I mean,
with a lot of these performers and acts.
Those were some special times, were they not?
Oh, they still are.
And by the way, just to throw this in, 16 times on American Bandstand,
The Grassroots have the record, don't want to brag, just want to throw that in.
Well, we'll