The music of Rick Emmett and his band Triumph has stood the test of time and his post rock professor and author duties brought together a passion project about his first favorite guitar. The Canadian guitarist returns to talk Blue Jays baseball, returning to a live stage this month and some words of wisdom about American honor and neighbourly trust.
Guitarist Rik Emmett of Triumph tells Nestor the Ten Telecaster Tales of new songs and stories\Rik Emmett, guitarist of the band Triumph, discussed his new project, “10 Telecaster Tales,” which combines a book and music. He shared his journey with the Telecaster, starting in the late 60s, and his custom-designed guitar. Emmett also touched on his love for baseball, particularly the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays. He reflected on his career, including the challenges of aging and performing live. Emmett mentioned his upcoming live shows in Canada and his plans for future projects. He also expressed concerns about the current political tensions between the U.S. and Canada.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Rik Emmett, Triumph, Telecaster Tales, guitar, music, baseball, Baltimore, Canada, rock and roll, cancer, arthritis, live performances, new album, ECW Press, sports radio.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Rik Emmett
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, M, S, T. Am 1570 task, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive. I used to do this thing back in the beginning of my career, 9293 9495 when I went from the almost famous music critic guy to be in the sports radio nasty Nestor guy the early 90s. There was no ravens around it all. And I would call around to every rock star I knew. And we called it based on the MTV thing. We called it our rock and jock special. And we did it all in one day. We aligned things were like meatloaf and Getty Lee and just all of these rock stars would call in and talk baseball, because everyone loved baseball, so I’m gonna, like assume this is a little bit of a rock and jock, but it really is just a pleasure to welcome Rick Emmett of the great, great band, triumph and incredible career, even since then, playing all sorts of beautiful instruments and beautiful sounds and teaching the children well, he is now up in Canada, where some would Say folks are even safer than they are here these days, and he’s playing his guitar, and he’s released a new Rick. I don’t know what to call this. Is it? Is it a book? Is it an album? Is it an LP? Is it a audio podcast? I’ve I’ve listened to the beautiful sounds, but I know this. It is 10 Telecaster tales with you. It’s not a baseball book like Getty, but you are here to talk about some baseball, as well as some rock and roll and some history. It’s great to have you back on and I see that you’re active and you’re out playing gigs again. Look at you.
Rik Emmett 01:34
Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s been a bit of a crazy thing. And yes, what do we call it? It’s a book and a bunch of songs and record, and first time I ever did downloading on a big way, and first time I ever did streaming in a big way. So it’s been an interesting sort of learning curve and a change in my career. But I hear you’re coming to our town for the season opener.
Nestor Aparicio 02:02
I am, I am, and let’s do a little baseball, and then we’re going to get into this. Because I want to talk, wait, I’m going to ask no one a big fan of yours. I am, so I can really geek out on triumph stuff, but I’m really not even that guy. I’m more like the here in the now of like, baseball, music, what’s going on you beating cancer? I mean, we got things to talk about, but it is baseball season, though, right? I mean, it is, it is, and
Rik Emmett 02:25
I had no idea why. I mean, obviously, from your style, I can tell you, you’re a radio guy from way back when, but this whole nasty Nestor thing, well, about that, there was storm
Nestor Aparicio 02:37
and Norman there back in the 90s. And on the radio, you see your shit, you know, because you’re a baseball guy. My friend, who was an artist, kids nicknamed me nasty Nestor, like Uncle Nestor. I lost a baseball bat, and I was sending them to bed early because I had a date and I was single late 18, 1980s they started calling me nasty Nestor when I went on the radio. My name’s Nestor. You know, weird that is like, and what it rhymes with. So I was just trying to come up with something fun. Janet Jackson had, you know, nasty, nasty boys, don’t, right? So I just, that’s it. There’s the whole story in 30 seconds. Rick Evan, there it is.
Rik Emmett 03:14
Beautiful thing. Well, yeah, great. So what do you want to talk about baseball. So
Nestor Aparicio 03:21
here it’s baseball and music. And this is very important. I’m taking Luke Jones north of the border. I don’t think he’s ever been to Canada. I’m taking him Niagara Falls. He’s Mr. Baseball and all that. And I tried to teach him the okay Blue Jay song and teach him that. What do you want? Let’s play ball, you know. Okay? And and I said, That’s my memories of Blue Jays games. And I was there when Carter hit the home run and the city caught on fire in 9293 but I remember, I think of the Blue Jays, and I think of that hokey song that they did in the seventh inning stretch, because music makes the world go around. Rick Emmett, you know this
Rik Emmett 03:58
well? They say, sure, you know, gravity might have something to do with that. Anyhow, yeah, yeah. So and your Orioles, like, I’ve liked that team for about three or four years now, the influx of talent that has now sort of their their full boom major leaguers. So I like your chances. The J’s, I’m not sure about, but it’ll be interesting. There’ll be a rivalry there that exists, obviously. Yeah, so the American League East is looking competitive, you know, we’ll see. It’s still early in spring training. You know, it’s hard, it’s hard to judge,
Nestor Aparicio 04:39
as we’re talking here, Rick, we got a couple guys banged up Henderson’s. I spent the morning talking about gunner Henderson’s side and, you know, philosophy off of Grayson Rodriguez. I mean, I’m doing all of this baseball stuff. But the one thing, I mean, there’s a geopolitical thing happening that the Orioles are going to become very aware of on opening day, and me as an American, probably as well. But there’s just also Anthony Santander. Who was the big signing on your side, who was our guy? That’s the one thing I’ve heard as much about as the pitching as I walk the streets here is, hey, how they gonna replace his bat? 40 bombs. And you know, I mean, the Blue Jays, later, the Blue Jays spend money. I’ll say that. I mean, they give you and Getty, and everybody else loves blue jays. They’re a real they you’ve had an entertaining product. They’ve tried to remain competitive in spending money
Rik Emmett 05:22
they have. The big thing, of course, is that they went in big on the Latino players for a certain period of time. And now what’s happened is, when they go and they’re chasing some of these guys, they turn the J’s down, you know. And now they haven’t been able to resign Vladdy yet, you know. And that’s a kind of, a sort of Damocles dangling over the J’s. So if they can solve that issue, and hey, if Bucha has the kind of year that he can have, because last year he was, he was struggling last year, then you know, they can be a competitive team. And they’ve, you know, they’ve done some smart things, you know, I always like the competitiveness of Max Scherzer and and you know, now that they’ve got him, even if he doesn’t necessarily have value giving you six innings of greatness, you know, every every time out, he’s still a kind of a great influence there for, you know, work habits. And like the younger players will look to a guy like that and go, look at how hard he works, and he’s, he’s an old man. So there is that, you know, that they’ve got those kinds and they’ve always done that. They’ve always gone and, you know, brought in way back in the day, monitor, and, you know, people that were like, worth that work ethic guys. And so I like the team for that. But I don’t know, you know, you follow sports, so you know, if you don’t get any one of four or five things, you know if your bullpens bad, if you’re starting pitching is bad if, if you’re not hitting for power, you know a couple of injuries, like all of these things, any one of them can put you out of competition. Because you kind of have to have them all to have a full season that really, because it’s a grind, man, lot of games. We
Nestor Aparicio 07:06
got new ownership here, you know, after just 30 years of just awfulness that I am sort of famous for, that and the awfulness of their baseball the baseball ownership here, new ownership, it feels like they have enough money to do what they want to do financially, and they have something different this year, which is, at the trading deadline, they’ll be able to deal. They have deep depth in the organization. And I even said this to Luke. I said, you know, they got to deal westburg to get a pitcher in his prime, because that’s the way they’re going to get that picture. They’re not going to get that picture by giving Max freed two $30 million they’re going to acquire that picture right now. They went out and they’re renting starting pitching. They signed segano from Japan. He’s 35 years old. Finds the strike zone. Charlie Morton, we know his story. 20. It’s 41 years old. This is what they’re going with. But I keep saying July is a different season when you can deal and when you have an owner that says, All right, you need 50 million. Here it is, because we can win. And for that, we’ve not had that here. Ever, Rick, ever. Yes.
Rik Emmett 08:06
Well, you know, part of the Baltimore success story, from my perspective, was that they just had so many years of great drafting that they created a depth that now they’re able to, you know, turn onto different things using the depth, though, the homegrown depth that they that they had. But now it’s like, Okay, now we can play with the big boys the way the big boys have always played and and you have to do that when you’re in a division with Boston and New York. If you can’t play on all those levels that you just put you got to spend money. You have to, there’s, there’s no other way around it, you know. So anyhow, blah, blah, blah, Baseball, baseball. Let’s talk about something else now. All right,
Nestor Aparicio 08:49
here we go. He’s moving us along. Rick Emmett is here, long time, guitarist, musician, teacher, schooling me. All right. So inspiration, um, playing a Telecaster. I where and when and how old were you when you first touched your first Telecaster? Oh, I
Rik Emmett 09:06
would. It would have been around 6768 you know? And it was the first good electric guitar that I had when I decided, okay, like I wrecked up my knee playing with football in high school and when I was 17 years old, and it was like, Okay, this is no longer going to be, you know, the sports and athletics not going to be for me, because the knee was, the injury was that severe. So then I went, Okay, well, music has always been the nice thing in the choir and playing guitar, and, you know, ever since I was a little kid. So I was like, Okay, I’m going to give the music thing a full shot. So got myself a Fender Telecaster and a Fender amp, and I got my union card, and I started playing in, like, Jewish wedding bands and Bar Mitzvah bands and and wearing a suit and doing that thing. But the tally was this guitar that was like, you know, the cliches, you know. Was millions. I mean, of course, Keith Richards guitar, Bruce Springsteen guitar, so a Telly has been this iconic thing, but it was there right from the beginning with Motown bands and and the guys in the Wrecking Crew all had tellies and, and, you know, making all those records out in Los Angeles. And it was the guitar that kind of crossed the boundaries. It brought American music of both sort of white, pop and black, blues and R, B like it was the guitar that made it happen, you know, so very versatile. And then growing up Toronto, that was the guitar you could afford them before you could afford a Gibson Les Paul, you know, unless Paul’s were much rarer and harder to find Telly, you know, you can. I, my used one, I think was 250 bucks, you know, so you can afford them on the money that you were making as a pin boy in the bowling alley. And, you know, so that was, that was how it all started. And there were just so many things about the telly. Jazz guys here in Toronto. Ed picker was a real sort of role model hero for Canadian guitarists and and he was a tally guy, you know, granted, he stuck a humbucking pickup in there. But so did Keith Richards, you know. So anyhow, that was the thing. And it was iconic. And so at a certain point in time I was, I was asked to, well, I sort of motivated myself. But I had a guy that does pickups for me, and we started talking about, maybe we should custom design a telly that will combine things that, you know, I really love, a shorter scale length. Oh, a Gibson string height off the face. Oh, a couple of these new humbucking pickups that Mike Smitty Smith had. So, you know, I go, Okay, let’s, let’s, let’s do this. I’m willing to fork out. So we got a guy in a local town, Oakville, Garen de kessian, and he sort of was the builder, and Smitty was my pal, and he kind of curated the thing. But I was there the whole time, for about a year and a half, going tweak this, tweak this. Let me, let me see how the neck feels. No, no, let’s shave this all the you know, blah, blah, blah. So then we got it going and and that I was writing music at the same time there those guitar pieces were becoming these things. Then I talked to my editor at ECW press. I said, Listen, I’m thinking, instead of just liner notes, I’m thinking about writing the book like really going into some comprehensive depth about just the guitar and the designing of the guitar, and then the writing of the songs, and what are the songs about all that stuff. So he went, I’m in. That’s great. It sounds like a great idea. So, it’s book, it’s, it’s 10, you know, songs. It’s a guitar, it’s, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman.
Nestor Aparicio 12:42
Rick Emmett is here. He is all of the above as well. You know, I’ve been sort of geeking out having you on this. We got John Palumbo from crack the sky on because I saw their band two weeks ago. You’re getting out and playing. My dear friend Gina shock has put the Go Go’s back together, and she’s trying to get in the shape to play. And I, for all of you, all of these rock stars that have lived long enough for me to live long enough to be 56 and grow my hair long and still love your music. I find it fascinating to see the tapestry of all of your lives in your art. And whether Getty’s doing a big base book, and you’re doing a big Telecaster book, or someone’s writing a book about their lives, or they’re taking their pictures or stories, which I have your book here. So I want to promote this too, because lay it on the line. The last time you came on, this was more like the story of your life. So you write this biography, kind of like, Alright, I’ve told you all everything. I want to tell you about the band and this and that and all that. And then there’s like, alright, well, I’m going to pick the guitar up and do something else. What leads you to this project, and more importantly, having some rock star friends and a little bit older than me, the ability to get back and play on a stage against me. Clapton had made dates this week and stuff. There’s just something about when you can play, you should play, and you feel like you must play, and you’re playing again a little bit. But it’s not the easiest thing in the world. It’s like baseball, you put the ball down, you have to pick it back up to be able to play it the way you want to play. Yeah,
Rik Emmett 14:06
but there, I mean, you know, sports and athletics, it’s kind of like, let’s say, as an artist, you decided you wanted to be a dancer. You know, you’re going to get into your 30s and you’re going to realize, well, I just can’t, I can’t compete at the same level anymore, and at a certain point you’re going to turn to choreography, you know, it’s just, that’s the way it’s going to go, right? And when you’re when you’re a player and, and, you know, I was a player that played at a certain level, you know, I think if you’re a guy like, I don’t know, you know, and I don’t want to, I’m not bad mouthing anybody, but, but a guy like Neil Young, he’s going to be able to keep motoring along at the same level, he’s not going to have any, you know, Bob Dylan can kind of still do what he did, because he wasn’t trying to play virtuosic kinds of things. A player like Getty, a player like me, it becomes harder, like my pal Steve Morse, you know, he’s struggling with arthritis, and I’ve got some arts. Rightist issues to now, and there’s certain things I can do, there’s other things that I can’t. So you asked me, you know, if I come off a memoir and I’m starting to write this 10 Telecasters thing, why? Part of it is like, well, there’s still things that I can do, and I want to do them while I still can. I want to, you know, I want to have the ambition to chase that and see if I can’t make it happen. So, you know, it’s not necessarily, technically, physically, the stuff that I could have done even 10 years ago or 20 years ago. It’s just not but, you know, finger style things, I can get around. I can do some things. So while I can’t. And the idea about playing live Nestor that it’s like, okay, the all my career, the proof of the pudding was that you took it out live and you played it, and then that was what made this passive income kind of stuff, the music you wrote, the records you made, like it wasn’t real until people saw you in the flesh, and you came to town and you did their thing. That was the selling of the tickets was also the thing that made everybody else believers record companies would go, okay, yeah, of course, that’s what you gotta do. You gotta tour. And everybody, every interview I ever do. So you come into our town, you know you’re gonna, you’re gonna come play. It’s the proof of the pudding, right? On all levels. So, you know, I don’t want to go on tour again. I don’t want to have to do the complaints, trains, automobiles, hotels, you know, like, it’s just that’s too much of a grind for a guy in his 70s. That’s, you know, gone a one round with cancer and couple of rounds with arthritis now, and I go, okay, that’s not in the cards. But what if I go and I play a couple of little live dates and small theater kind of thing? What if I go and do in the same way that you and I are having this conversation? What if I go and I do a thing where a podcaster guy interviews me live, and I got a guitar handy, and I added a few things, like, when people buy tickets to come and see that. Yes, apparently they would, you know, because these I’ve done, I’ve set up three of these things in the next month, and one of them, you know, in a theater, two nights, sold out in like, 24 hours, boom, you know. So I go, Okay, well, there’s a hunger for it, you know. I’m not sure how hungry I am, but we’re going to find out, you know, yeah, so that’s really what’s going on there. And, you know, I’m going to say this too. I mean, part of it is, I there’s things you want to try to prove to yourself, you know, I go, Well, yes, I retired, but you know, next, late next month, my wife and I are going to go on a trip, or go to Paris for springtime, and then we’re going to go up to Amsterdam, and we’re going to take a river cruise with some pals all the way down to Switzerland. We’re going to take our time. We’re going to have the thing, and I think I’m going to be able to handle that, you know, like, that’s a kind of a touring thing that I can handle where I won’t have the pressure of any gigs at night. But before I do that, I thought I’m going to try to sneak in a few gigs. And then after I big May, have the big trip, when I come back, I’m going to sit down, and I’m going to, you know, take stock of my whole life again. And I’m going to say, Okay, where do I go from here? Because this has been a flurry of activity in the last little while, for sure. And, you know, well, we’ll, we’ll see where I stand come you know, middle of May, 3 week of May. Yeah, alright,
Nestor Aparicio 18:23
so as we tape this with Rick Emmett live at Black bellows parlor Collingwood on March 21 so you’re doing a little bit of a combination. You’re an online thing as well as a sold out ticketed thing in theaters. What does it take for you to pick the guitar back up and create a little mini set for a little mini thing, you know, you know, not putting together a tour in any way, but to come together with what you want to play in front of people at
Rik Emmett 18:52
this point. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so the Collingwood thing, that’ll be relatively easy, because half of it is yak, yak, you know, and the two shows that are April 10 and 11 at the redwood theater in Toronto, those are, I’m intending to come out and first set solo, play all of the 10 Telecaster tales, and then have a break see if, you know, get some oxygen, you know, whatever. And then come back out, and my old pal, Dave Dunlop is going to join me in the second set, and we’re going to do some stuff that’s a little more comfortable, sneak in a couple of old time things you know, like it’ll be more like what I used to do. So there is a psychic kind of pressure that exists if you’re going to go out and do you know, 10 pieces of repertoire that you’ve never done live before. That’s like, Okay, getting naked and walking out of the high wire, you know? And what does it take? It takes I rehearse a couple hours in the morning, a couple hours in the afternoon or in the evening, so that I’m getting in at least four or five hours a day now to try to make sure that. Uh, just that I got this stuff in my brain, that I got the stuff in my hands and, and you’re trying to create a motor memory, you know, and that’s because I am kind of conscientious Now, having said all that at the age of 71 you know, there’s still a real element of its high wire, and there’s no net, you know, like it could it could it could come off the rails any second. And that’s another thing of I think that’s why people buy tickets to see people live too. They kind of go there’s more danger in this. And you know, to quote a famous artist, David Bowie, he would say, you know, art has to be when you go into the water and you go until your feet aren’t touching bottom anymore, and you’re a little uncomfortable, and you’re it’s a little bit dangerous, and, you know, you’re not sure what’s going to happen. And so I think, as an artist, that’s one of the things that I, I’m trying to do, that’s not, not to say that I don’t prep. I do, you know, like that, there’s a reason why you practice and rehearse, but, but that live thing has a danger that’s just, it’s addictive, and it’s, you know, it’s been a part of my life ever since, you know, so, yeah, you
Nestor Aparicio 21:15
know, Rick, back in the day, I we used to laugh around the newspaper when I had older editors, and, you know, I would call your allied forces, or, you know, seven, whatever your next album was your project, and you’re just making an album. It was a, yeah, come on, you’re making some music. It wasn’t a project. This feels like a project, right? This is a book, sort of made of liner notes of music. This is, like the whole, it’s like a 3d thing, maybe from back in the 80s, where there would have been a book to accompany it. Sometimes neil peart wrote us a little liner notebook. And I know artists used to like to write a lot of things in there, but this is a little bit of a combination. I listened to the music. You can click on buttons up at Rick emmett’s website, which you can find at Rick emmett.com and click and listen to some music. It’s beautiful guitar music, right? And I don’t know how else to explain it. I mean, what, what bang would it be in the prog rock the new age? What would you call this jazz? I, you know, I guess it’s a little bit of everything, but it’s beautiful Telecaster music. And not unlike the, I don’t know, the first 10 chords of lay it on the line, the sound of that, at least, yeah,
Rik Emmett 22:21
yeah. You know that’s for sure. There’s, there’s, there’s, it’s what I it’s what I used to be, it’s, it’s what I am now. It’s kind of what I hope to be so and as music goes, there’s a lot of R and B in the bottom layer of it, you know, because I was a blues guy when I got my first Telly, when I played in basement bands, and we were learning Led Zeppelin licks. But we were also learning, you know, the Nasser blue by the Yardbirds. And we were learning how to play, I don’t know, you know, John Lee Hooker tunes and Charlie muscle white. And, you know, like, born in Chicago, and, you know? So there’s a kind of a bluesiness in what I’m doing, but it’s, it’s solo, finger style guitar. So it’s going to end up, there’s going to be moments where you’re going, Geez, that sounds like it’s jazz, you know. Or there’s going to be ones where you go, Oh, that sounds kind of flamenco. This kind of sounds like Lenny bro a little bit, you know. And as I’ve been doing interviews, people are going, geez, you know what it reminds me? And they’ll say, and they’ll say, and I’ll go, yeah, there’s some of that, you know. And, like, I’ve always loved Pat Metheny. So there’s a kind of, there’s a little bit of influence from that direction, although not at Pat’s level. I mean, to me, he’s like, you know, Rick emmett’s sort of down around here in your guts, and Pat metheny’s sort of up here in heaven, anyhow, so that’s what it’s all about. Now I’m going to go back to something you said about projects. Look, you are clearly never in a band like triumph, because you were, you would know that an album was definitely a project. Art, artwork, everything, right? And how are you going to get the three guys to agree to get together and do pre production and do all the writing and, like, it was like, going to the dentist for root canal, you know, before you even got into the studio. And then when you finally did, it was like, Oh, God. How are we going to make this work? You know, how are we going to find enough material? Because, of course, we were a touring entity, and just to find the window to be recording, then we would never have enough material, and we would be desperately coming up with ideas. And every time, like, not just the first few albums, but every time, it was like, Oh man, you also
Nestor Aparicio 24:34
made albums too too many, too quickly, and didn’t have the expectation of you do tour 11 months a year and put an album out every year, really weird, right? I was, I looked back on
Rik Emmett 24:45
it, and every band of that era complains about that, that it was ridiculous. And of course, eventually we sued our ca because they were suspending our contract for every calendar day that went by. They were, they were adding two days to the length of the contract for non delivery of. Problems, because we were out touring, and we were trying to sell the one we’ve already put out, and we were having success. And, oh, should we go to Europe, or should we go to Japan, or should we go to Australia, you know? And those things, they eat up huge chunks of the calendar. And now here’s your record company going, well, that’s okay, boys, you can deliver late, but meanwhile, legally, they’re postponing your life. And so we sued them, and then we lost the lawsuit. And so it’s
Nestor Aparicio 25:26
in the book, it’s in, it’s in lay it online, right? It is, right,
Rik Emmett 25:30
it is. And so every album was a project, my friend. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 25:35
in the end, though, as someone who had to say, what is it? I could say it’s an album, you know, new album. Do triumph albums out. I don’t know what to call this. This is a project like, this is not a, this is a book. And you it’s a it’s a combination, I guess, in a modern way. And that’s kind of cool. 10 Telecaster tales with Rick Emmett, baseball fan, Canadian extraordinaire, and getting out and plucking and playing. And you can click right now and listen to the music you can get on the zoom as well. And when are you coming to Annapolis and playing RAM? Said, Rick, I mean, I have to ask that question, right? You know
Rik Emmett 26:11
what? I tell you this of all the places that I would maybe go that was always a great place to play. Loved that venue, loved just the feel of it. It was, it was a nice place to play. And you know, there’s videos on YouTube you can find of moments at at the Rams Head. I still have a T shirt somewhere. A ram said t shirt, you know. But you know, I honestly, you know. And not to end on a down note, but because of all of the BS that’s going on now between America and Canada and you know, just that, the guy that you guys decided to elect as president
Nestor Aparicio 26:51
not me stop. I gotta say I’m worried coming across the border. I i am what, for the first time in my life, I’m worried that you may have said, Nah, boycotting Nestor show. He’s in America. It’s like, I love you and your people. This is going to break my heart because that hat,
Rik Emmett 27:09
buddy, just make sure you’re wearing that hat, because there are going to be people that are walking around that, like that. Mike Myers on Saturday live, was talking about elbows up like Gordie Howe, you know, like we’re going to be defensive now, because it’s
Nestor Aparicio 27:24
so wrong. Rick, I apologize on behalf of all of
Rik Emmett 27:27
us. The Republicans in your country are offensive people, and they’re they’re being offensive to the rest of the world. So, you know, I love the fact that there are Americans that don’t agree with that, but we are going to be defensive. And yes, your Orioles are going to get a little bit of that. They might hear some booing of your national anthem and stuff. It’s not that I don’t love what America stands for. And you know, the greatest part of my career happened because of the support of Americans. They’re still the largest amount of fans that I have, but whatever happened to the America of Lady Liberty? Whatever happened to the America that had an open mind and an open heart and open open arms like, come on, you know, like that. That’s the thing that’s in it’s gone now, and it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s something to regret. So I’m just telling you, you know, if somebody’s got their elbows up, you just have to go to a Yeah, okay, you know, I I’m sorry. You know, wear a little maple leaf over your heart. You’ll be fine. I have
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never met a Canadian, and I’ve traveled all over the world who did not have a maple leaf on the outside of their bag as a subtle message to anyone, anywhere else, I’m with them, not them. And this is a team I’m on, and I always found that to be really neat in when I was a kid in Australia, when I’m 29 and there’s a bunch of young girls, and they all have Canadian and I’m talking them about they’re from. Man, it’s wherever they’re from. And then the rest of my life, I’ve just all wherever I am, in the Caribbean, wherever you are Canadians, where that they’re Canadian. And this is why, and at this particular point, I I would give you the whole floor and say, I’m with you. You know, believe me, I sit here. We fight it all day long, friendships, all the things you know and read about on your side, on behalf of my parents who fought against what that is, it’s, it’s, it’s shameful, and I humbly come into your country, even though I’m not the most humble American, but you know that, but I try not to be the ugly American. Rick. You know what I’m saying now we know what that is. Rick Emmett is here. You love his music. I love his music. I think he’s a great guy, even though he reached for the wrong baseball team. But we’ll we’ll sort that out on the field, and I hope to get you back here when we get democracy back, so you can come to rams Eddie, to proper crab cake with me and and play the music that you love to play. Thank you for your time. Thanks for the magic power and the music all these years and all that good stuff by the book. Uh, it doesn’t have the happiest ending. I guess it does, because you’re all alive and well. So it is a happy ending.
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Show the other one, show the other one show the
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other I don’t have the other one in front of me. I can pull it up 10 Telecaster tales. I’m telling him this to go online. This is on the internet. All you have to do is click. I am.
Rik Emmett 30:17
I’m gonna clip the wings on my PR girls, she should have made sure that you had one of those books on that. Sure wouldn’t
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let it into the countries. Probably right. There you go. I’m not going to blame that only. I’m with my love for Claire and ECW press. Rick, thanks very much. Happy opening day to you. And one day, man, one day of you know, a beer and a ball game or something like that. But get ready for these gigs. And it’s just great to see you. You look young, you look healthy, and that’s the most thanks. All right, thanks. Rick Emmett of the great band triumph, joining us here. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We’ve never stopped talking Baltimore positive.
