really couldn’t do it if I didn’t want to be out
there. We’ve had days, especially overseas
sometimes, we’ve played in Latin American
countries and the show is advertised to be
on at 9:00 pm and typically it will go on at
10 or 10:30. And then the next place you
play the only way to get there is a flight at
6:00 am in the morning so you get back to
the hotel at 2:00 you know grab a couple of
hours and then it’s up and running again.
So those things are very hard, but I enjoy
it a lot, and I’ve been doing it so long now
you know I’ve been on the road for more
than half my lifetime. So I’m pretty much
used to everything and I’ve seen it all and
done most of it.
Air Supply has performed more than
5,000 live shows. That is quite the
accomplishment.
It’s amazing and I think as we get older
- and no matter what life you’re living in
fact my daughter when she was 14 or 15
she said I can’t wait to get out of school
till school is over and finished and i said
to her just wait until you get into the real
world it’s going to go by quicker than you
can imagine - and it does I can’t believe it’s
already nearly 2019 and we have another
year of shows under our belts. It just flies by
at this point. At this point now in my career
I couldn’t be happier. I’m happily married
and have a beautiful wife and a gorgeous
dog. Life is great.
How do you keep things fresh and exciting
after so many live performances?
We love to play the songs that we play,
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first of all. And the fact that you can go
anywhere in the world and play them and
get the response that we do, you know
“Lost In Love” and “Here I Am” and “Sweet
Dreams” and etcetera, that’s really exciting
because sometimes now in the audience
there are fourth generation fans. You know
people are bringing their young children
to the shows to expose them to the music.
We also play with great musicians. The
current lineup of the band is from 7 years
to about a year the latest guy has been with
us. So every time somebody new comes in
they bring in their - obviously their talents
- but their perspective and their view on
the songs. Graham is always fine-tuning
everything, and we play, basically when
we start a show for the year it’s basically
the same one, but I don’t know how many
times we’ll go into sound check - which we
do before every concert - and he’ll say ‘I
want to take a look at this part of the song’
or ‘I want to take a look at that’. And other
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