Ep 76 MR BIG Singer Eric Martin comes on for a very funny Interview

0:00 Intro

00:10 Eric's early years & his first successful band 415

08:00 Billy gives Eric's son a bass for Xmas & the seeds of a reunion begin

10:00 Album covers and their stories

13:00 Ritchie Kotzen, Poison & Mr Big

15:00 Eric & Ritchie Kotzen songwriting

18:00 Breaking up & getting back together

19:30 Pat's death & the future of Mr Big

20:19 Mr Big has a new box set out & Eric would like to play out with Mr Big again

21:04 Steve Blaze & Geoff Tate t-shirts

24:00 Solo work

27:00 Steve Brown & PJ Farley ..... somebody maybe copied somebody's song

29:00 Plays guitar & song breakdown

30:00 Steve Brown and a Van Halen album?

33:30 The Gig Pigs & the bottomless text thread

35:00 Chris Jericho and the guys

37:00 Pete Loran & the Circus Lemonade story

41:40 Eric's guitars plus the cursed Gibson

45:00 Paul Gilbert gets a funny prank reversed on him live on stage (never heard before story)

50:00 Paul Gilberts drill & hair problems happen twice on stage

52:00 Eric spits water in the air and then Billy does a Dick Van Dyke fall on stage....

55:00 Touring with Rush

59:00 Just take my Heart .... the song and video

1:04:00 Eric's sisters in the club ..... "Looking for men, looking for men"

1:10:00 Label pressure & Wild World

1:13:00 Imagine if other Cat Stevens songs were chosen over Wild World

1:15:00 Covering songs and a tribute album of Rush

1:21:00 Vocal changes over the years

1:25:00 Japan and all the live albums

1:32:00 Preparing for his solo tour in covid days

1:35:00 favorite vinyl at he moment

1:36:00 The Beatles & the blue couch

1:40:00 Farewell

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