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Sandi: Cookies For A Koz. I love the red velvet.
Dave: Have you tried them, really?
Sandi: Yes I have. I'm a cookie sommelier, you know.
Dave: A cookie sommelier?
Sandi: Yes I am.
Dave: Who knew that there was such a thing?
Sandi: Who knew?
Rick: You're the world's first.
Sandi: The world's first, I am.
Dave: You have a very good job then.
[music break]
Sandi: Starting over again. That is what we're all about. We're on a
midlife road trip. What inspired you? What inspired the song?
Dave: The song was written by a very good friend of mine named Dana
Glover. She came to my office and played it about five years ago. I heard
the song and I had one of those emotional experiences that everybody, no
matter what age you are or where you are in life, everybody is sort of
having to push the reset button because their lives look differently than
they thought they would at this point in time. I called Dana and I said,
"How would you feel about making this sort of a center piece of this
album?" The timing worked out perfectly, and then all the other songs just
sort of started to fit together perfectly. As I like to say, that's the
tree trunk of the album, and all the other songs are the branches.
Sandi: What's on your bucket list? What are things that you haven't
done that you want to do?
Dave: My biggest fantasies revolve around travel I would say. That's
when I'm able to take my music to other countries. I just love being
immersed in different culture, and music is a wonderful way to travel the
globe and not only share what but may also kind of take all these wonderful
experiences in and bring them back to my life here and try to find ways to
Sandi: You have been a working musician since you were a teenager.
Was there ever anything else you wanted to do or thought you would do?
Dave: Yes. There's a whole laundry list of things. I worked for my
dad when I was a kid. He was a doctor, a dermatologist. Don't tell
anybody. I shouldn't actually say this on camera, but he has passed away
now, so they can't really do much to him, but he had me assist in minor
surgeries, and I was like 13. So, totally illegal!
[laughter]
Dave: That was my dad. So, I thought well, I want to be a doctor,
but then I had to realize eventually that there was a whole lot of school
involved in that, and that was not going to be.
I loved business growing up. I was always in to some business or
another, whether it was selling stickers or making these pottery kind of
things. I thought about being an architect for a good chunk of time. I
love the entertainment business, too, and I thought about being an agent
for some communications corporation or something like that, but music just
sort of came and bit me, and I've been on that road ever since.
Sandi: I saw Emeril on the drums with your band.
Dave: Yep.
Sandi: Have you gone into the kitchen?
Dave: I have. I can make a couple things. I make cedar plank salmon
on the grill.
Sandi: Oh, that's a good one.
Dave: I make very, very good eggs in the morning. I make them really
good. I call them special eggs, and there are all different kinds of
ingredients. Usually kind of with a fajita tortilla and some hot sauce and
wrap some black beans. That's a kind of south of the boarder breakfast
that I can do pretty well. Other than that, not much.
Rick: Did you ever get to eat Emeril's leftovers?
Dave: Are you kidding me? That was the only reason I took that gig.
Dave: He would make all this stuff, and he would work out these
unbelievable things, and then he would say, "Okay, I'm out of here. The
shows over. Dave, guys, here you go." We would be left alone with all
this incredible food.
Sandi: Oh, that's awesome.
Dave: I kissed him every day I saw him.
Dave: At the beginning of my career people would say, "How did you
get it started?" You've heard of payola where they used to pay the radio
stations under the table. My mom invented cookie-ola, which was where any
radio station that played my music, she would send them a batch of cookies.
Believe me, we got extra spins that way.
Sandi: I love that.
Dave: When she passed away, the cookies were no more, and my sister,
who is a very good chef, by the way, she started to feel the pangs of that,
which is why the cookie have to go just because our mom is not here. She
started with the traditional chocolate chip, and then she ventured out, and
she has a business now called Cookies for a Koz, and a percentage of the
proceeds go to Starlight Children's Foundation which is one of my mom's
favorite charities and mine as well. Facebook in huge in my life. I will
probably, if there's something that's going on, I weill probably use
Facebook as the first place that I will let that information be known. Of
course, I use my website as well, and Twitter, too, but Twitter for me is
kind of like, I just got back from a place called Sanya, China. It's an
island off the mainland, and that's where the Miss World Beauty Pageant was
taking place. There were 115 of the most gorgeous women in the world.
These were all like Miss USA, and Miss Canada and all the European
countries, and all over the world, 115 countries. When I walked into the
hotel and I saw all these people, I said, "I need to get this out
immediately." I took a picture, and that's what I tweeted. I said, "Look
where I am, suckas."
[laughter]
Sandi: You travel a lot. What's your number one travel tip?
Dave: I would pack half as much, and I'm still not going to wear
everything, so that would by my travel tip is, don't do what I do. Be a
little bit harder on yourself, because if you can travel lightly, and I
think that's a good thing in life in general, to go through life with not
necessarily a lot of stuff. It makes you a lot more free and an ability to
kind of switch gears, more nimble and be able to do a lot more things
because you don't have all that stuff.
Rick: Says, "I'm in therapy for a midlife crisis." That's what our
program is all about. We put one just like this on your saxophone.
Dave: Okay, great! This is going to go on my soprano sax case, by
the way. Is that alright?
Rick: That's perfect.
Dave: See, then it won't ruin the sound of the saxophone.
Rick: Uh oh.