This is actually a pretty sweet interview - it must have been fun to do.
EightE1
· 1 year ago
My first concert -- August 3, 1987 -- was Eddie Money at the York Fairgrounds in York, PA. My buddy and I were maybe the equivalent of four or five rows back (it was general admission). He put on a terrific, no-bullshit rock and roll show, from "Two Tickets" and "Baby Hold On" to "Shakin'" and "Where's the Party" to "We Should Be Sleepin'" and the other stuff from the Can't Hold Back album, which was still charting pretty high at that point. Great show.
His new keyboard player, incidentally, is Chris Grove, late of Survivor, who's a terrific musician and, if memory serves, the guy who threatened Jefito when he posted tracks from the last Survivor record a couple years back. Break him in good, Eddie.
Rob EightE1
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
I was going to come in here and crap all over the place about how sad it is to go country (and turn your big hit into a country song) and write a musical about yourself... But the Money goes on to sound like a pretty alright guy just making the best of the new music landscape. Damn you, Eddie. You couldn't have just been a prick and made things easy on Snark Boy here. You had to be a decent Joe...
Elaine
· 1 year ago
Dw, I'll do the crapping for both of us. Eddie, I implore you, please don't rerecord your music with a country twang. Please? Even if it worked out to be a moneymaker, you'd still be walking in Jon Bon Jovi's pretentious footprints. Come on! You don't want THAT!
Having said that, I love Eddie Money & always have. That's why it pains me even more to think of "I Wanna Go Back" and "Shakin'" redone with fiddles.
Elaine
· 1 year ago
I had to come back after listening to these cuts. That live "Two Tickets" is FANTASTIC. How long ago was this recorded? He is in fine voice, and that band is really tight. Now I wanna see him live. I also really like his daughter's vocals in the other two.
You know something? For many years, I thought "Two Tickets to Paradise" was a sexual double entendre. Then I read an interview with him and found out it's really a song about surprising your sweetie with vacation airline tickets. Gotta love it.
JonCummings
· 1 year ago
That version of "Two Tickets" is from a live-acoustic EP called "Unplug It In" from 1992. You can get it from Amazon, either as a CD or downloads.
As Butthead would say, if I had "two tickets to paradise," I'd never leave the house.
Sara
· 1 year ago
Here's something you may not now. He was the backing voice on Kenny Loggins "I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)" But those stupid Columbia Records exceutives did not give him credit!
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His new keyboard player, incidentally, is Chris Grove, late of Survivor, who's a terrific musician and, if memory serves, the guy who threatened Jefito when he posted tracks from the last Survivor record a couple years back. Break him in good, Eddie.
Rob
EightE1
Having said that, I love Eddie Money & always have. That's why it pains me even more to think of "I Wanna Go Back" and "Shakin'" redone with fiddles.
You know something? For many years, I thought "Two Tickets to Paradise" was a sexual double entendre. Then I read an interview with him and found out it's really a song about surprising your sweetie with vacation airline tickets. Gotta love it.
As Butthead would say, if I had "two tickets to paradise," I'd never leave the house.
Loggins "I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)" But those stupid Columbia Records exceutives did not give him credit!