#2550 - Rick Springfield

“And I just, I've always wanted to do it. You know, I mean, since I was 11 years old when I first saw and held my first guitar, that was what I wanted to do. And really, it's kind of centered around playing guitar, although that's not what I'm necessarily known for, but that's what I enjoy the most, you know.”

“For what? What happened? I didn't show up anymore. I discovered the guitar. And I had a serious depression when I was a kid. I still deal with it. But I was failing in the only arena that was available to me at the time, which was school, you know, with friends in school and work and all that, school work.”

“And I just wasn't doing well and it was really dragging me down. And I discovered the guitar started staying away from school because I couldn't face going to school. But, you know, instead of playing video games and getting stoned, which wasn't available to me at that point, I was reading Robert Bloch and August Derlef and great writers because I loved horror and playing the guitar.”

“His name was Pete Watson. He was the leader of the band. I was a guitar player in the band. I wasn't a lead singer or anything. And he must have gone somewhere where we didn't go on the days off and picked up something.”

“I was the guitar player in this band. It was like a four-piece band. And I arranged this version of Eleanor Rigby that was, to me, now it sounds like Black Sabbath, although I'd never heard Black Sabbath back then.”

“they didn't pick him that he broke the band up. So I was a free agent and they said, well, you want to join us because our guitar player is leaving. So I said, okay, so I wore the pink thing for a while and I said, this has got to go. You couldn't deal with pink? Yeah. There's photos and it's horrible.”

“It's pretty bad. So I pushed them more because Led Zeppelin was on the horizon. I pushed him more into the guitar. You know, I've got to play guitar, and I wanted the guitar to be kind of the center of the thing. So I pushed him into a much heavier thing. And this Elna Rigby was our first really big hit that we had over there that I arranged.”

“You got to go solo. Why did she say that? I don't know. She just thought it was the next step for me. She thought getting back in another band and being the guitar player was, she said, she thought I had more to offer, more going for me and a better career if I went solo. So I released this Speak to the Sky song that I wrote for my mommy.”

“What's that? It's weird that rock and roll has kind of faded. I never thought the guitar would kind of become uncool. I thought once we got through disco, where it would just in the background, and suddenly there was ACDC, and you're going, oh, so God, the guitar is back.”

“Because there was disco and there were ballads on the radio. They didn't know what to do with a guitar-based pop record. So they finally released it. And that the whole DJ thing happened. What was the single that they released?”

“And in the middle of the show, the guitar tech brought it out to me and I smashed the shit out of it like this. Oh, wow. And Roger lost his shirt. He got, oh, my, he thought it was the real one.”

“You know, I kind of gravitate towards that. I've got to be doing something. And it was like I take a guitar to the beach. We go to Bora Bora, and I take a little guitar when I sit on the beach, because I can't just sit on the beach. It feels like kind of wasted time.”

“I was nervous. I was a blues band. I mean, I kind of was raised, my guitar playing was based on, you know, because of Clapton and all those guys, was based on a lot of the blues players, B.B. King and, you know, all the early players.”

“And she had a boyfriend there, and I would try and chat with her. I never really had chat with girls. That's one of the reasons that the guitar really helped there. I never could go up and go, hey, babe. I was not that, I was never that guy. So, um, and I tried to talk to her, and she had nothing, didn't want anything to do with me because she had a boyfriend.”

“It's like state of the art. All the latest and greatest stem cell technology. They have hyperbaric chambers, red light therapy, all this. I mean, everything that's state of the art they have. Wow. Yeah. I wish I'd known that you had a bunch of injuries. I would have had you come in there. I'd make a trip back to see if they could.”

“So they do red light? Oh, everything. Hyperbaric. I've done hyperbaric. You should get one. You should get one in your house. It's a fucking game changer. Yes. There was a study out of a university in Israel. They did these...”

“Do you have one at home? Yes, I do. And if you have like a whoop strap or an Oura ring or anything like that, it'll show that you've had an incredible recovery. It'll like specifically show from one session, you have an amazing recovery today And it's specifically because of this hyper-oxygen- saturated environment of the hyperbaric chamber.”

“And so what I do is I have a cold plunge. So I have a cold plunge just right next to my sauna and I go back 34 degrees. Wow. And so I go back and forth. It seems cold, but I'm so used to it. It's not cold anymore.”

“Yeah. It's worth it just for that. It's worth it just for... If you could sell a pill that makes you feel as good as I feel when I get out of that cold plunge, that shit would be on every shelf. Yeah, without the cold plunge. But it's available. You just do it.”

“Wow. Wow, that's crazy. But Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland was also about LSD. I don't know. I think there was a lot of influence.”

“And they said, and John said, well, I'm not playing bass. And George said, I'm not playing bass. And so Paul said, I guess I'll play it. So he got the Beatles, found the Beatle bass in Germany. And there's a photo where you can see it in the silence case up against the wall where they're playing.”

“And I still do that. I still take care of my skin. And I'm actually in a trial with a company called Bemi that is really unique. And I've been in the trial for four years with this stuff where they take a sample of your cells from behind your ear and they grow your cells and the growth serum, they pull the growth serum from that and put it into something that you put back on your face.”

“And I do, you know, creatine before workout and the protein after. Creatine is actually good just for mental benefits. Creatine increases cognitive performance, and it's really good if you're tired. One of the studies they've shown is that people that have sleep deficit, like if you're sleep-deprived, one of the very best things for performance, mental performance is creatine.”

“I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think it's good for you, for sure. But there's not robust studies on it like there is with the dry sauna. So the Finnish have been using dry saunas forever. And they did a study over 20 years with quite a large sample group.”

“My diet is like 90% meat. That's mostly what I eat. Wow. Yeah, I eat meat and fermented vegetables. I'll fuck around and have a sandwich or a slice of pizza or some pasta. Like last night I had chicken parmesan. It was great. But most of my diet, like 80 to 90% is meat.”

“Both of them are about that? Yeah, the other's a continuation of it. One's called Magnificent Vibration. The other one's called World on Fire. And it's dark humor, very dark humor.”

“I read that 200%. It feels different. Like when you do it, you feel better. Do you have one at home? Yes, I do. And if you have like a whoop strap or an Oura ring or anything like that, it'll show that you've had an incredible recovery. It'll like specifically show from one session, you have an amazing recovery today.”

“It was the talent, and there's also the volume. Have you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers? No. Well, one of the things it talks about is it just talks about, it's a great book. And one of the things in the book, it talks about why something became extraordinary.”

“I do prenuvo. I do blood draws. What's prenuvo? Prenuvo is a body scan, MRI body scan. I mean, you were asking about, you know, just how I stay in shape, but this is all part of it is knowing what is going on inside you, you know, and not ignoring anything, which is not to say, you know, I won't slip off a curb and get hit by a bus one day.”

“something that you put back on your face. And it's have you heard of Skin Medica has one, only they use baby foreskins. Baby foreskins for real? Yeah, newborn foreskins. Really? Yeah, that's what they get the growth factors from.”

“Yeah, the other's a continuation of it. One's called Magnificent Vibration. The other one's called World on Fire. And it's dark humor, very dark humor.”