At one time, the Orioles were trying rock concerts to bring in fans. Nestor Aparicio liked that idea. Eddie Money once played a post-game show next to The Warehouse. Where’s the party? Right here…
Eddie Money, who was in Louisiana for a show, discussed his upcoming performance at Camden Yards for the Milwaukee Brewers vs. Orioles game on Father’s Day. He reminisced about his early days in San Francisco, his brief stint as a police trainee, and his rise to fame. Money highlighted his love for baseball, mentioning his 14-15 baseball stadium performances and his involvement with the Elizabeth Glacier Pediatric States Foundation. He also shared his busy touring schedule, performing about 140 shows a year, and his admiration for classic rock bands. Eddie expressed his gratitude for his fans and his enduring passion for both music and baseball.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Eddie Money, Louisiana show, Camden Yards, Dodger fan, San Francisco break, police trainee, rock band, classic rock, baseball stadiums, pediatric foundation, touring schedule, baseball connection, Father’s Day, bachelor party, adult entertainment
SPEAKERS
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Eddie Money, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Ed, as promised, he was going to call on Wednesday, then he called on Thursday. Here it is on Friday. I’ve always been a big Eddie money fan. Eddie is going to be playing the post game, Milwaukee Brewers Oriole game on Sunday. It’s Father’s Day. Hopefully my kids going to spring for some cheap tickets, and I get to see Eddie money play as well. You got live view satellite. I think he’s in Louisiana right now. Eddie money joins. What’s up? Eddie, how you doing? Man,
Eddie Money 00:29
what are you doing there? How’s everything going? Man,
Nestor Aparicio 00:31
everything is just outstanding. Are you in Louisiana today? Yeah, but Louisiana
8Eddie Money 00:35
doing a show down here in the middle of the state? Man, he missed Creole food. You know, some gumbo this, and Gumball that, and crawfish this. It’s really a lot of fun down here. I can’t wait to get up to Camden Yards. What a beautiful ball park, huh? Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 00:47
for you. I mean, I got to think you’re probably Yankee Mets or something like that, or,
Eddie Money 00:52
you know, I live in LA, you know, my was a little kid. My father was an usher at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, you know, I grew up with Duke Schneider and peebley Reese and Roy Campanella. I’ve always been a much, pretty much of a Dodger fan, and I live in LA, you know, you know. But those guys couldn’t, they got great picture, but they couldn’t hit their way out of a paper bag. A very depressed, well,
Nestor Aparicio 01:09
8I mean, a lot of people depressed about their baseball team at this behind
Eddie Money 01:12
the Giants. And I got a couple of guys that live in from the band, in the band that come from San Francisco, kill them and fire them, you know.
Nestor Aparicio 01:20
Well, that’s where you made your break, right in San Francisco. Yeah, Bill,
Eddie Money 01:23
grab the legendary Bill Graham signed me. I wrote two things, very nice, baby on I got signed Nestor to thing called the Battle of the Bands in San Francisco. It was a rainy Tuesday night, and I told everybody, Hey, stand up in front so, so it looks like the price is kind of filled up, and we wound up getting the first record deal, actually over video cassette tape. How about that?
8Nestor Aparicio 01:42
Wow. All right, well, I mean, I know all these stories about you. I was a music critic for a number of years, and, you know, did a lot of stories with the rock star stuff. The one thing that always sticks to you was that you were a cop. I mean, and 25 probably 30 years since you’ve been a police officer, correct?
Eddie Money 01:58
Yeah, actually, I was a police trainee. I mean, it took the same physical, that a patrolman would take and the same mental aptitude that’s, you know, a cop would take. But I was on a policeman when I was 19. I mean, I was going to be on the I was going to be in the academy for two years, and they’d have the credit to the job on the force. But, you know, tell you, Nestor, my hair was getting really good in the back, and I’m saying, and I couldn’t really see myself in uniform for 20 years. My life had a great rock and roll band happening. You know, doing this and that, and to me, would have been like joining the Air Force the Marine Corps. But instead of going in for two or three years, it’s like 20 years. And you know, when you’re 1920, years old, that’s that looks like a lifetime to you, you know.
Nestor Aparicio 02:35
So how does it? How does a kid from New York wind up in San Francisco that?
Eddie Money 02:39
8Well, you know what? My band moved out to California. They moved out to Santa Monica, then I moved out there to Santa Monica with them. And I wasn’t crazy about living with everybody, so I put my thumb out, and I moved up to Berkeley, California, and went to UC, Berkeley up there, and hung out up there, and I started a rock band out there in Berkeley, California, played the club scene, and everything that I wrote to Dick’s paradise baby, hold on. And all his head said, I got a rock and red, you know, then I got a record deal. And next thing I know, I was selling millions of records. I was on the road with the roller stones, with the who, you know, everybody from the Fleetwood Mac to with Jake Iles to Steve Miller, didn’t make any difference to me. For you,
Nestor Aparicio 03:17
20 years later, after so many hits in the early MTV days. And, I mean, I got, I should have saved the money, huh? Well, yeah, but I mean, here you are. You’re still back out on the road playing rock and roll shows. I’m friends with the guys from sticks and journey RSP wagon. I saw them out in Vegas a couple of weeks ago. Meet low still back out on the road. He’s a big baseball fan, and checks in. I saw rush out on the road last year. Getty’s a big baseball fan. So you know, we get we get our share rock stars in and out on the program. But so many years later, so many of the classic rock bands are still out there where you can go out, reach them, touch them, feel them, hear them, sing, dance and relive all those memories. Yeah, it’s
Eddie Money 03:59
wonderful. So you know, I’d say, when people really got into music in the 70s, in the 80s, Nestor, you know, they used to buy your records. They wait for the next record. They know all the lyrics. They know what what you did on television. I mean, fans, fans in the 70s, in the 80s, you know, they’re still going out and buying my records and things like that. They’re really fantastic people these days. You know, I mean, you got creed, you got the Google dolls, but it’s like the flavor of the month. I mean, these kids, they’re very sick on these days, including my daughter, they’ll buy one record, and they will follow the band to the second, second stage two. You know, it’s, it’s crazy. We
Nestor Aparicio 04:31
always wonder whether the creeds and the Stone Temple Pilots 20 years from now, in the year 2020, will they be out playing the Paragon Casino and Resort in martsville, Louisiana, as you’re doing tonight. I don’t really
8Eddie Money 04:44
know, you know, that’s really up to the fans, you know? I mean, right now, I mean, with the snaps to this and doing everything else like that, you know what, I think the fans, what they do is that, that really, they don’t record that much music anymore, either, that they’re going to download it, they’re going to get into somebody, and they’re going to, you know, the, you know, two, one. Slater, they’re going to get it to something else. I mean, people don’t buy records the way they used to. You know, for
Nestor Aparicio 05:04
you, do you feel fortunate that it happened for you at the time when there was such an explosion? I
Eddie Money 05:09
hate selling it all phone, but I was really glad to make records in the 70s, in the 80s, in the 90s, it was, it was a great period to be alive. Like you said, I’m very good friends with, you know what? The you know, stick scenario, speed wig and love a boy. And these guys that are, you know, Pat Benar, these are still very good friends of mine, and it’s we’re very fortunate to have the fans that we do. You know what I’m saying. So
Nestor Aparicio 05:30
8how many baseball stadiums have you played in in your day?
Eddie Money 05:34
Not enough, I’ll tell you. But I tell you, we play a lot of them. It’s really fantastic get out on the road and say all the new ballparks. I’m looking forward to getting the Camden Yards. I’d say we played it about maybe 14 to 15 ballparks. Maybe
Nestor Aparicio 05:47
so with Camden Yards calls. And I know the Euros are putting this thing together about six, seven weeks ago. They’re calling Joe jets coming in. A couple of weeks they got rich Springfield coming in. There’s a lot of, you know, national bands that are coming into doing these after games. And I remember Gulfstream park down in Florida during the racetrack. Yeah, that’s where I met Pete Rose. Yeah, in the winter, they do imagine that meet Pete Rose at the racetrack. Very nice. Eddie. I like that. Eddie money joining us here. But I think the entertainment for people that want people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, to come out, to go to a ball game, to put a concert in conjunction with the ball game. Eddie, I don’t think 20 years ago people thought to do that kind of thing. I
Eddie Money 06:27
agree with you 100% man, and it’s really great to get out there and to really get a great, you know, right after the game, you know, be doing songs like shaken and two tickets and take me home tonight. Think I’m in love, and I’m out there signing T shirts every night to the Elizabeth glacier pediatric states foundation. So I get a chance if you really get up close and plug
8Nestor Aparicio 06:45
that again. What’s that pediatric agent? You’re from New York. You talk too fast. Yeah.
Eddie Money 06:49
Well, you know, I do a lot of work for the Elizabeth glacier pediatric states foundation. You know, go to the hospital and visit these kids. They’re wonderful children, and they got a lot of faith in their nurses and their doctors and their parents. And, you know, I’m out there representing them, and it’s just really, really cool, you know? So then I get a chance to really Hobnob and mingle with the people have come down to the shows and find out what they want to hear, what they don’t want to hear. And it’s really great. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 07:13
for you with we’re getting out on the road. How many dates a year you doing these days? Eddie, yeah,
Eddie Money 07:17
8I tell you my my idol the pages. You could somebody like a BB King, this guy gets out there and he does super, super big shows, either shows in little clubs. I’d have to say the BB King probably does at least 290 shows a year. I think that’s fantastic. But, you know, I do maybe about 140 shows a year.
Nestor Aparicio 07:35
Is that almost too much for you at this point? I mean, like you said, you should have saved your money and all that. I mean, that’s sort of a running joke. But, I mean, I got to think you still out playing because you like the play, not because you absolutely positively have to be out making a living at this point. Well,
Eddie Money 07:49
you know, how many chances does the rocks get a chance to go play camping yard? So I do the fight for do the first pitch out the other day in Milwaukee. You know, I go to all the Dodgers games, I think stops, makeup banners. I did a big show from Mike social and his daughter. I mean, I’m very close to baseball. I’ve got a song I wrote called looking through the eyes of a child, which I put on my next record. And we’re donating all the money to the inner city league fund through major league baseball. So I got a lot of ins. You know, I know what Chuck. Chuck Finley is a good buddy of mine. I know a lot of people have played the game, and I can, you know, I think a lot of rock stars want to be, want to be major league baseball players. A lot of Major League Baseball players want to be rock stars. It’s really crazy. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 08:26
Jack McDowell always had a band, and Mike macero Smith Smithereens and Jack were in a band
8Eddie Money 08:31
together. You know, the Dreyfus out here in LA is kind of rock being himself, you know, for
Nestor Aparicio 08:37
you with baseball. And I know a lot of people have been disenchanted with baseball. Eddie, I do sports radio. Man, we hear it every single day. We see the empty seats. We see people walking away and leaving the game. What is the connection for you being a guy that, like you said, from New York, followed Dodgers with you through your family? What is it that still connects you to baseball, that gets you excited? Because there’s so many things to be pissed off about baseball, about?
Eddie Money 08:59
Well, yeah, there’s a lot of things to get mad about baseball, but what I want to strike was really ridiculous. And I’ve seen a lot of these major league baseball players be super, super nice to the kids. And I’ve seen, I think, these people, and how many people get a chance to play the major leagues? How many people really get a chance to go to the big show, like, how many people really get a chance to be rock stars? You know? I mean, I just think, I think baseball players hold themselves up pretty, you know, pretty respectably. I think the most of them as a whole, appreciate everything that fans do for them. And I mean, they’re in a great place. They’re very lucky to be there. And they should, you know, every day they should thank their lucky stars that there are. They are who they are, you know. And I, you know, I love, I love the game, and I love the major leagues. And, you know, I like Fox Sports Network. I like the games on ESPN, man, come on. Man, I’m a baseball junkie. Man, well,
Nestor Aparicio 09:44
8we’re looking forward to seeing you on Sunday. Got a Father’s Day, your daddy, yeah, I
Eddie Money 09:48
got five kids. Man, five kids. Eddie, I’m
Nestor Aparicio 09:50
coming in with you on Sunday. You know, actually my
Eddie Money 09:53
son, my 11 year old, just got the game warmly up. They got one out in the outfield. Man, you know, of course, they lost the championship, but you know, they came. Close. You know, that’s
8Nestor Aparicio 10:00
all I got it. I
Eddie Money 10:01
got two kids playing ball and I got one kid playing lacrosse. So I’m out there all the time, you know. So
Nestor Aparicio 10:06
I made Sunday, it’s Father’s Day that you’re playing this, this post game thing. Any thoughts about fathers and baseball and rock and roll and holding it all together? Well,
Eddie Money 10:15
8I tell you to shoot. My heart goes out to to Barry Bonds right now, because he’s losing his dad. Bobby Barnes was, you know, one of the world’s greatest cities. Bad lifetime 337, and I just lost my mother to cancer. And I, you know, I feel bad for Bobby, you know, you know, Bobby bonds is really sick. You know, I think everybody should really appreciate their dads, because they’re not going to be around forever. And you know, Daddy’s a wonderful people. You know, I love my father, and then I got him around. And, you know, my father used to play catch with me, and baseball’s big part of my life. And I got that, you know, from just way back when. And now, when I was six, seven years old, played ball with my dad, and I played, you know, I played catch with my kids too.
Nestor Aparicio 10:52
So you got to take a little BP on Sunday. Eddie, yeah, you
Eddie Money 10:55
know what I’d say, I wish the kids were out, but I’m going to see him on Monday, you know, right, all right,
Nestor Aparicio 10:59
man, well, look, we really appreciate you checking in and your enthusiasm, not only for baseball but but also for the rock and roll, you give us a lot of, a lot of pleasure. I gotta tell you. Man, think I’m in love. Did it for me back in the 80s. Man, I got a I got a special I got a special backseat. That’s great little tune. Yeah. Man, yeah. So good, good luck to you. We’ll see you on Sunday down at the ballpark. I think I’ll be there with my son if we get the opportunity. So if you
8Eddie Money 11:24
guys don’t want to tell you something, I got nothing against the girls, but listen to that song by the bank. What olives are sealed by the Go Go’s lips to see if they stole it from me. It’s actually I think I’m alone.
Nestor Aparicio 11:35
Hey, man, I got a little little story for you here. I want to share this with you, because if I swore, if I ever got a chance to talk to you that I would tell you this story. Last night was my bachelor party. Eddie, I’m getting married in
Eddie Money 11:45
a couple of weeks. Hey, congratulations. Hey, nice little girl, or what? Yeah, beautiful
Nestor Aparicio 11:49
8New Hampshire girl. She’s a Red Sox fan, but we’re trying to work through that, you know, time being but you know, we were at a special adult entertainment establishment last night, and I’ll never forget being in an adult entertainment establishment. There was a girl on a pole, and it was like a 10 foot high pole, and she had legs that were about nine and a half feet tall, and she was dancing to the song. She takes my breath away, right? Your song? And I just wanted, yeah, I just wanted to let you know that that your songs are alive and available everywhere. You know,
Eddie Money 12:22
I know. I know. I mean, a lot of the young ladies that get out there and say, a lot of these girls dance studio, they’re trying to raise kids able to get a distance job. A lot of the girls in these clubs, they like shaken they like she takes my wet breath away in the sort of common take me home tonight. You know, I’m glad to say that, you know, my wife starts crazy about it, but I the girls on those phones gonna get kicked out of Eddie money, I’m gonna love
Nestor Aparicio 12:46
this. Eddie, take care, man. Rest the pipes. We’ll see you on Sunday. Camden Yards,
Eddie Money 12:50
okay, Happy Father’s Day to everybody. Oh, I
Nestor Aparicio 12:54
appreciate that. Eddie, thanks, man. All right, there he goes. Eddie money, joining us. Live here by satellite. You.
