Eddie money no control professional#
It works better that way, A band should really be friends, not just a professional entity that gets together three times a week. Whereas these guys here have played the clubs in Sacramento, San Jose, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco-they're old club dogs, like myself. All they used the Eddie Money band for was as a stepping stone.
I had a couple of guys in the band, Gary Ferguson and Steven Ferris, who were L.A. Q: So, they're not just your backup band?ĮDDIE: This is the band. When the band introduces me, they introduce me as their lead singer. You can't put yourself on a different level-like Rod Stewart. When I'm down in L.A., I usually just rent a cheap little pad and stay close to the band. I mean, I don't want to turn into Journey. So when I come home, I usually wind up back in the old neighborhood, hanging out. And when I write, I feel like I'm back in Oakland because since I bought the new house, I've only been in it for about six months in the last four years. I've got a nice house and a pool and stuff, but I'm never home. I'm from Oakland basically, so to speak, and I moved out to this rich, uppity class suburbia where I live now. Q: On the last album there were comments about hard times.ĮDDIE: Yeah, well, even being rich and famous and a rock'n'roll star. The band feels good, I feel really great about my career, and I wanted more of a party atmosphere. I think Where's the Party? is a better record than that because No Control was a little down, it was a little pessimistic, but with Where's the Party?, I'm up. It was a very sincere and strong album because it was very much from the heart. I had to come back because that's what I did for a living. It's almost like Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman he couldn't get thrown out 'cause he had nowhere else to go. It was kinda like the "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" syndrome. Yeah, I put a lot of energy and effort into No Control. Q: Well, your last album was almost a comeback because you had that big layoff.ĮDDIE. We didn't do a world tour on the last one, but we could've. But basically, yeah, we tour around the world. I don't sell too many records in Europe I don't think they like Irish Catholic kids in London, you know. We're not too big in Europe or Australia, but there are so many bands in there that are trying to make it in the States-at least I'm big in my own back yard. Q: You've pretty much been around the world now, haven't you?ĮDDIE: Yeah, basically. Then I got signed in 1976 by Bill Graham, and this is my fifth album. I got thrown out and ended up going to Santa Rita -that was horrible! Then I joined the Rockets and in 1974 or '75 I started Eddie Money. I went to college and I was going to be an English teacher, but that didn't work out. Q: How long have you been out here in San Francisco from your native Brooklyn?ĮDDIE: I came out to California in 1968 when I left the police department. Perched atop equipment cases in the hallway, he seemed rather shy, with his head down, sort of an "aww, gee" feeling, but now and then glancing up, with a smile in his blue eyes. I watched and listened for a while, and the the band took a break so that Eddie and I could talk. There they all were on the stage in the rehearsal room: Randy Nichols on keyboards early Money associate John Nelson on lead guitar, who had rejoined just in time for the No Control tour bassist Ralph Carter and brand new fill-in drummer, Jeff Campitelli from local Bay Area band, The Squares (Joe Satriani's band) and Eddie, hunched over in a chair playing sax into the lowered microphone. When I arrived, the band was hard at work on their last rehearsal before their two-days-hence departure for the beginning of a four-month tour to promote the new album, Where's the Party? "Sure," I said, "I'll be there in half an hour." "Can you go on over to Eddie's rehearsal studio right away?" It was Bonnie Simmons, BGP Management, on the phone with, at last, the time to meet Eddie for the interview we'd been attempting to set up for weeks.
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