I recently saw Ronnie Spector do something similar here in New York where she told stories and sang and showed footage of her career. He is a documentarian. I mean, he wasnt that much older than you but he had that sort of authoritarian but yet gentle nature about him. KAYLAN: No, Ive decided Im done! He finds that heart and soul in the audience members that I cant take the time to look for. Kaylan worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Cheap" (1974) and "Dirty . That would be absurd and stupid. We get up onstage and we cant help being a bit goony about it. I think thats the most important thing. Ill take credit or blame for the lineup this year, because I think its really strong. Wed had hits with Let Me Be and You Baby as well. Who havent they seen onstage in 20 years that would just blow their minds? Thats why you put together a show and go, Where is Gary Lewis? I highly recommend it. Interview with author Howard Kaylan | Michael A. Ventrella What? Howard Kaylan - Wikipedia I pity the fool who would do that, because I know what the situation was at that point, when youre somebody elses vocalist. VENTRELLA: The Hendrix story is one of my favorites but youve regaled that a couple of times in other interviews. I think most of the people in my position who have been doing rock shows for as long as I have feel the same way. You wouldnt find a bunch of plumbers in their 60s that would get together for three months for any reason. Its just bizarre. But Ill pre-sign all that stuff; records too, and CDs. We had to fight in court for many years for that name; it cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars we had to borrow. Knocking The Beatles Penny Lane out of the number one position on the singles charts was a big deal so all of a sudden there was a renewed respect for the band. Its just amazing. We never shot the ending, though, as I pointed out. Then we kept hearing from Max (Weinberg) and Steve (Van Zant) that Hungry Heart was gonna make the album. Its a great, great thing for them and its a great, great thing for us. If youre on a stage right now and youre just some sort of a clone, wearing a flannel shirt, facing straight ahead, playing your hit records, leaving the stage without talking to, oh, I dont know, the members of your own band, collecting a million-dollar check and taking a limo home until the next gig I would say thats a gyp. Theres a huge difference between telling people you were on Ed Sullivan and showing them you were on Ed Sullivan. So theres a certain strata you get to. Gail had ways of making sure that there would be a distance between us instead of the closeness we had. KAYLAN: OK then, its been great talking to you, Michael! Nonetheless, thats what makes touring fun for me in that I get to involve myself in the creation of something else and then I do a show! VENTRELLA: Isnt that amazing? They cant change the fact that Happy Together was one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, and they cant erase my name. I know what Im singing is a hit record for hit records sake. I think any time you put a bunch of clucking chickens and saws and trees falling from speaker to speaker which in stereo youve got to admit makes a big difference as opposed to the mono version of Sound Asleep which is Whats that? Howard Kaylan is one of the greatest singers in the rock & roll pantheon whom ironically is fated to become an obscure footnote lost in the drift of time. Id get too old or feeble or alzheimers would set in or lord knows so I decided to get it all off my chest. Now, absolutely perfect to Frank meant on any given night, particularly on Billy the Mountain, we had to figure out where we were because we had to throw in an awful lot of local references. You dont get asked back if you left a bitter taste in their mouth or if youre hard to work with or if youre prima donnas or any of that crap. Cafe! I hope it didnt disappoint because I told everything. There just isnt. Like I said before, move on. I dont want to be bored. I wanted every fact in this book to be absolutely perfect. If Dylan wasnt out of his mind stoned then he was doing the best imitation Ive ever seen in my life because his face was in his foodI think it was an omelet, Im not exactly sure. It was a lot of fun and if you paid attention to it and got the fact that there we were on the inside of the record dressing up like twelve different groups and sounding like twelve different groups Im not sure that the public understood it but Ill tell you, Zappa did. And they come away from a Happy Together concert seeing two-and-a-half hours of solid hit records sung by the actual people who made them famous, not the bass guitar player, not the original drummer, but the real, actual guys. It was closer to his personality than he wanted to hear . Jerry didnt want that. Howard Kaylan - First to visit England | GRAMMYs - YouTube And hes still doing it all: hes currently on the road with the Happy Together tour for the rest of the summer, stopping all over the United States. If you can just keep yourself busy then you can hang out for the rest of your life doing what you like. But, Ive had a lot of positive comments as well. It made for a lot better audience experience and it made Frank laugh! You dont know me and you dont know my story. HK: It was pretty much as I imagined and thats what made it different from our first three hits, even though they were hit records and they put us on the road and they put us on TV Happy Together put us on The Ed Sullivan Show. He doesnt know from cartoons any more. Ive just been around way too long to accept that sort of an end to my career. Because it feels like its improvised in various parts. Subscribe NOW to GRAMMYs on YouTube: http://grm.my/1dTBF8HAbout GRAMMYs: The recording industry's most prestigious award, the GRAMMY, is presented annually b. Hes sort of my real life nemesis! Weve known each other for over 50 years. Weve cultivated it for an awful lot of years. I really dont, and thats the way I want it. Then youve got, my God, Chuck Negron. Let the maids just keep knocking like crazy on the door, Im not answering, and just catch up. Are you ever going to record a new album? ! We were shocked. Australian dude, really helped on that. Id like to think that he knew what he was saying and was just riffing on us. Was that because he was trying to go in a different direction or do you think there was something else there? I knew it wasnt going to happen and the main reason it didnt happen was that we had been a tight-knit little bunch and it cost Frank dearly. Thats one of the big regrets of my life, that I never met George. I think you get to bring something new to the relationship if youve learned something outside of it. I had been spoiled as far as working with Zappa was concerned. Dont spend the $350. You were obviously the smart kid in your school so I dont think youll have any problem. Well, I cant do that! There wasnt anything in my car, it was just harassment for harassments sake and every longhair in 1966 got the same treatment in Laurel Canyon, thats just what happened. (co-written with noted music scribe Jeff Tamarkin) Kaylan takes the reader on a wild and no-holds barred . I think it made a big difference. Its different. We said, What are you talking about? Then when it came out we were like, We killed him, we ruined his career, this is horrible. I loved the guy and now he put out this piece of crap. Thats what it meant to us. In his time of his recuperation, the only person who had his ear was the lovely Miss Gail Zappa. I think about that sometimes, what the next shift might be for legacy acts, although I hate that term. To have passed that up, to have not participated in it because you were in a long-term relationship Im not sure that I buy it. Franks making me do all this!. The sparse use of highs on that record, theres something very mystical about the mid-range and the effect that Joe put on the vocal and the background voices. They werent on the road with Frank, they didnt see what he did, they didnt live through what I lived through. What, Im not going to talk about it? That would be dumb. Ive got a really good summer ahead of me and Im going to be writing a book while Im doing it. I think hes a lot more comfortable educating kids and trying to get them to on their correct career or religious paths and I think its a really worthwhile place to be. KAYLAN: No, that was not scripted. They had us by the short and curlies but they were never the bosses of us. That keeps it new for me. Trying to generate a little sense of humor out there! It was another of those factory-turned-out songs by Bonner and Gordon, the same writers of Happy Together. VENTRELLA: Its very small but its a big tourist area I dont live in that particular town, but its pretty central to other areas and lots of colleges and you might have a good crowd! We didnt hear from anybody there, Frank included, for eight months. Some of the books place Mark and me in a room with Frank trying to put a band together in the late 60s when we were still under contract to White Whale Records and making records as the Turtles, when we were still years and years away from even thinking that we would need to join the Mothers of Invention to have a life in show business. Ive got nothing to gain by lying to any of these guys, and Im still around to sign your books if you send them to me. Was that unusual, especially when you were first starting with the Turtles? But that was as close as I ever got to George. It sounded so weird and so good that they recorded just the echo, just Mark and I sitting inside the echo chamber instead of going out into the studio. Never working with Roy Orbison, too. We didnt play Happy Together live for a very long time but we had the demo with us and we just rehearsed it over and over. I ignore the past and I keep going. Im also looking forward to seeing you when you play at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, which is near me. This guys got the best voice Ive ever heard in my life; he always did. Now, a fine artist. VENTRELLA: When you say See that man over there? Ex-wives will come to me and say What are you thinking? First of all, theyre surprised to hear that theyre in the book. KAYLAN: Well no, youre absolutely right. Ive never felt that bad. You take something like Billy the Mountain which seems to be just telling a story and then all of a sudden without a cue, things change and its obviously very well practiced. In her case, she didnt get that. Its the only edge Ive got left. Thats when you need a sense of humor. I think everybody is going to do this very, very soon, and Im just waiting until our rock n roll lives are kind of done. Nobodys really told the truth about the 60s; everybody glosses over it and turns it into a fucking VH1 movie. KAYLAN: Thank you! HK: Oh yeah, all in the grand old tradition of wood-shedding the tune. We were interesting, but the label would give us things like Who Would Ever Think That I Would Marry Margaret. And Id say Wait a minute; Ive got as much sense of humor as the next guy but I will not throw my work out into the street like that. Thats just crap. That was the end of the movie. But this time it was obvious to us by the hubbub about that particular table and then our road manager coming up to us and saying, Hes here, Dylans here. So we thought wed go out with his song It Aint Me Babe instead. KAYLAN: George Harrison. This was a flying shot in hell. We take along an entire busload of students from Belmont University, where my partner, Mark [Volman], is a professor. So, anybody with any kind of a past, get your slides together! I dont even know what to make of that because she wasnt, but if thats her attitude, then Im glad. I dont think we could get back in the groove of the hits and having a good time that late in the show if we stopped and thanked everybody who had fought. Hes making me do all this. We performed at her AFI benefit in Hollywood met some of the most amazing people in the world Ed Asner, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, Phyllis Diller and these people Mary had worked with her whole life you name it, they were there in the audience, from Dick Van Dyke on down. In the midst of his fathers reputation and the telethons and all that crap, Gary maintains a place in rock history all by himself. All of my ex-wives, all of my ex-managers, everybody knows [everything]; they were put on the carpet because of this. Awesome interview w/ great singer/performer. I dont want to meet anybody that Im working with. Truly. It was the first time we didnt have any studio supervision. Mary had requested our presence, so it was a very cool thing. I thought I would really, really hear it from this woman, but through our daughter, she tells me that she thought she was held in very high regard considering. He is the artiste, man. Howard Kaylan is an American rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band, The Turtles.-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Now, Strawberry Shortcake is the biggest surprise in your book. The better part of a year. Is that a frog? Im always thrilled to work with new directors, new producers, people I havent worked with, just to see how they work. Home / Turtle Talk with Howard Kaylan (Interview). It will never be a group any more. Its a show. I dont think thats what he wants to do. Interview with DLTSP (part 1/4) But, we were lucky enough to be around so many showbiz legends. There was the Penis Dimension stuff and taking it into the penismobile which was designed and totally functional and ready for scripting and we never got around to doing it because we ran out of time. Ive known these guys since the 60s. VENTRELLA: Was 200 Motels mostly scripted or was there any improvisation? I had to go into a twice-a-week therapy, where I will go right after I finish talking to you. Were all theatrical acts. When you do Strictly Genteel at the end, was that scripted as well? It wasnt just the records. I didnt think Frank would ever listen to it. Probably our lack of proximity to each other. But, I do believe that that is the wave of the future. All of a sudden we were doing shows like the Mike Douglas Show or Merv Griffin and we were always doin the couch and getting interviewed by the hosts and that was rare. What are they going to do to me now? Bring us back to that night. For those who arent quite sure if their turntables still work, were including a special Turtles/Flo and Eddie spindle so you can play the 45s on your existing record player. Hed seen Howard giving a taped interview earlier for a documentary by Henry Diltz and wanted to ask him a question. Living in LA together, singing on everybodys records together, even flying into New York and doing radio together and relocating for that very purpose. Dont let anybody tell you otherwise. It was a TV show and they ran that thing into the ground, and then the album got very, very popular. We were the guys. We were making up words that were meaningful to us and singing things like yogananda. Hed turn it into stuff that he would recycle. You know, I never thought about myself as somebody who wanted to set the record straight, but I guess in a lot of ways, its true. The reason I didnt sign with Steely Dan back in 1970 was because they had only asked if I would sing lead. You hear it on a record no matter what it is and go, Oh, those guys! They knew what they were getting. I thought my first wife would really be on my case because in her particular instance, I was cheating on her from day one, and I finally left her and gave up everything for the freedom that another girl gave me. What made you decide to write a book now? Of course. Weve done it separately, but it brings us together. After that was over and he recovered, he redid his band and he did not ask you back. VENTRELLA: Thats a great song. That is not my intention. But I do know that the executive producer of the movie was Roger Corman, who I was thrilled to meet and work with over the course of this thing. We just felt like he was wasting his time and thought it was a throwaway bullshit B-side. KAYLAN: How big is this town? It shows in her actions and what she does and thinks. Its cool. I did not want my life to be that because it isnt that, and neither was Soupys and neither was anybodys that I know. I did it at the Grammy museum, at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and several other museums and its really, really been great. I could not teach school. Mark Lindsay brings in another audience all together. We were invited to Frank's apartment in New York after one of the shows. And I certainly wouldnt! You gotta get some bang for your buck. But we heard something in the song that all of those other bands didnt hear. Thats all I ever wanted on this planet, was to walk a little heavy and to leave some footprints. so I wasnt really really worried about it, but it did open up a lot of emotions. Flo and Eddies keyboard player was Donnie. I want to make sure that people realize how wonderful this guy was and what he went through. Weve got a lot more dates this year than we had in the previous seven years of doing this tour across America. If youre doing a summer tour for instance, and getting four hours or five hours of sleep a night, theres one point in your week where youve gotta kind of say, Okay, this is it. Shes a great, great chick. Thats not what Im going to go out like, at all. That must have been a nice little paycheck. Then you realize all those hits that he had, Count Me In, Green Grass, and Everybody Loves a Clown, and stuff that isnt This Diamond Ring, which was so huge you just think oh my God, this guy is going to be a giant draw. There are people so curious about what he looks and sounds like. Any other stories youve thought of since the book got out that you want to share? Is that a ratchet? Were very blessed. The book is full of humor, of course, but so were the Turtles and your entire career. This is when all three guys [Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton, and Cory Wells] were in the band. Of all the people youve met you have some great stories in the book about Lennon and Hendrix and a lot of sad losses, too, with Nilsson and Bolan and Zappa Is there anyone you wish you could have worked with that you didnt? It didnt feel like rock history, but it certainly felt like it was the time to take advantage of your status in the rock community. If youre on the road like we are for three months at a time, if you can get a good sleep once a week thats enough to carry you through, but if you cant, then strange things start happening to the human body, oh, around the age of 65. But Chip knew what he wanted to hear and he actually heard in his head the blend of horns and voices. Im proud of us all. But, I think its a good thing. If I couldnt have it that way, I didnt want it any other way. Mark lives in Nashville and I live in Seattle. We were her favorite group; still are, as far as I know. Kubernik: Interviews with Volman and Kaylan on Frank Zappa We could wear tuxedos and get away with it instead of being those scruffy idiots from the first album cover. Beyond that, he has a vision of the future and a checklist of goals to accomplish, including writing more books. I know for a fact that 99.9999% of the so-called committed people in a relationship during those years strayed almost on a nightly basis. Howard Kaylan interview - Part 1 | Dim Lights Thick Smoke Promotions They are so out of context that its like reading Johny Barbatas autobiography, where not one thing in there is factual. I gotta give credit where credit is due to Chip Douglas, who was our bass player at the time, for really getting it together vocally for and writing out horn parts, even though I think Jerry Yester wound up doing some of those. We talked to one of the 2020 winners, Zelal Kaya from Tommy Douglas Secondary School in Woodbridge, ON about how to handle the Loran Scholarship interview . I dont think he had even opened up that mike yet; I dont think he had found that track. I dont know about you, but I cant live without knowing where my next meal is coming from for eight months, just waiting by the telephone and hoping somebody would tell me were a group again. The only kind of a reason I can give for that acceptance of my words is that I did tag all of my mistakes with the line, I was an enormous asshole. To leave someone else holding the bag would be to put the blame on the wrong individual; she had nothing to do with it. We didnt do that. Thats one of the largest reasons that we dont do sound checks, that we dont do rehearsals. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes tomfoolery you'll miss without it!This week, we bring on the legendary, boss Howard Kaylan. It was sad, man. I remember getting that and at first being confused because I thought it really was a bunch of different bands but I was twelve. VENTRELLA: The idea that the man who sang Penis Dimension was doing Strawberry Shortcake was kind of interesting Im pleased to always be associated with this particular tour. Me, once again the straight man, the Louie Prima of the group, being Williard Isenbaum the insurance salesman and Mark being The Duck, as he is in life. He was not that kind of a guy. Howard Kaylan worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. KAYLAN: Well, Im glad it made it to FM radio. Thats just stupid. Youre not afraid to name groupies, ex-wives, friends, enemies Anyone objected to that yet? Theres no reason we need to be next-door neighbors. You need separation and you need your own space. The Popdose Interview: Howard Kaylan - Popdose You know, a Wilbury I never got to meet. And I didnt even mention Roger Corman in the book at all, but Ive got to put him right up there with one of the big influences on my life. He had it opening up in XXX theaters and downtowns all over America next to XXX porno movies because he didnt know how to sell it. He proved it by lack of commercial success, in his early works especially. We told him from the get-go, Youre out of your mind. Its been so long.. Flo and Eddies bass player was Pons. I set my goals there and I wasnt going to take anything else and I wasnt going to compromise. It gives live concerts a bad name, it really does. I could not be a Methodist minister. From The Battle of the Bands to our B sides: Can You Hear the Cows all the way back to Umbassa and the Dragon were talking 1966 we were trying to do humorous, Stan Freberg kind of B sides on Turtles records and wondering if there was an audience for it. Getting to work with him was stellar! Answer: Howard Kaylan sang with all of them. Well, own it. There wasnt any monogamy in those days. And Graeme Shirley Strachan from Skyhooks was wonderful. We got to be good friends with a lot of these people, like Mary Tyler Moore. I wasnt wrong. We grew up in a funny time in Hollywood. Having students around probably adds to the great vibe among the artists on the Happy Together tour. We had over a dozen kids with us who were interns for their entire slice of the summer, and they earn college credits for their work. Posted on July 1, 2007 by dladmin. WALL ART NOVELTY ITEMS SHEET MUSIC Howard Kaylan: A Turtle Comes Out Of His Shell And Gives The Final Word On Six Legendary Rock 'N Roll Myths! At one point in the 80s, we had our offices right down the hall from George Burns office. Ive been a fan of yours for so long and so glad that you were willing to talk to me. Youre signing off. KAYLAN: Well, you know, we worked twelve hours a day every day. Shed Rather Be with Me didnt go to number one but it was damn close. We had three separate periods of hit records during the years that were separated by periods of anxiety. It was just unbelievable. I spent the night in jail, and we were released early the next morning on our own recognizance because it was illegal search and seizure. Sometimes theres magic and sometimes there isnt. If I had plans, Id feel like I was back on an itinerary. Weve all done it. HOWARD KAYLAN: I had always planned on writing a book when it was later in my life but then I looked around and realized that it was later in my life, and if I didnt tell stories now, Id probably never get to tell the stories at all. I remember seeing the Happy Together tour a few years back and watching him high-kick. Dw. He would come into work every day, at 97, 98 years old, in a suit and a tie. VENTRELLA: Ive seen it probably about three times, although admittedly not in the past twenty years or so. I want to have as much fun every night as I hope the people in the audience have, because for most of them, thats the only chance in their lifetimes to see us. So naturally, I took advantage of the opportunity to talk to Mark Volman, who was more than willing to chat about every facet of his long and varied career with partner Howard Kaylan. You can read their books too, I recommend that you do; if youre a completest, youve already gotten them. KAYLAN: It truly wasnt improvised. Ultimately youre a lot better off just buying the CD and putting your headphones on. A Turtle Turns 75 - Rock and Roll Globe Well, thank you. VENTRELLA: Speaking of band names, you ended up with Flo and Eddie, which you were not very happy with as far as identification, but it was too late to change it at that point, right? If the order had been reversed and Shes My Girl was released before it, I think it would have been a bigger record. And that was our last record. We knew it. They can call it The Hum Bugs; they can release it on any label. It would have happened had I not been carted off from that party on Blue Jay Way that night in 1966. I felt it wasnt going to work. That, Im sad about. Rock Cellar Magazine: Why choose to do book yourself, not with your partner Mark Volman? KAYLAN: Instant cult. I dont think you can have a social relationship with a business partner. Its whats going to happen. Kaylan who founded the California-bred hitmakers the Turtles in 1965 with longtime bandmate Mark Volman feels it's important to broaden your . There are people out there that are doing music in their 70s and 80s that charge you $350 a ticket (I wont name names) and they come out, they do their hits, they do their happy little show, they wont talk to the other members at all, they all come in separate limos and when the show is over they all go back to their little Canyon homes maybe $10 million richer but let me tell you something. KAYLAN: Interesting was the idea. From hanging out with The Beatles in the Swinging Sixties to performing at The White House with The Turtles, encounters with a whos who of show biz, their acclaimed work in the duo Flo & Eddie (which also featured longtime Turtles cohort Mark Volman), to laying down backing vocals on such classic records as T-Rexs Get it On and Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen, Kaylans gift as a masterful storyteller makes Shell Shocked an exhilarating read. We spoke for about 45 minutes, had some great laughs, and talked about his interesting life. Only your grandparents can tell you about it now, kids, or you can learn from others, but it was unbelievable. I know an entire generation of girls that grew up on that who still kind of melt when you sing those words. I think its necessary. Its an interesting answer for a man who happened to be in New York to promote the release of his highly-anticipated autobiography Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc., which chronicles all of those points I mentioned above, and so much more. And we walked. There werent very many chances at that stage to improvise.
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