 Let's walk. All right. All right. Here we are on the streets of Montreal with John Krabi. Yes I know you've been here many many times before. Yes, I was actually telling my friend Chris the first time that I was here was with the scream and there was quite a bit of trouble to be had apparently there was two girls in the club drinking standing right in front of us and then we went to the bus after the show and the girls came on the bus and we just assumed that the drinking age is 21 whatever we brought them on the bus and then our bus was completely surrounded by police because they were only 17 here in Montreal the drinking age is under 18 you just bring a library card it's a joke that's that's press the button to walk there we go yes the drinking age has always been 18 so is this a like a market area touristy so this this is St. Catherine street it is the heart of downtown okay east is that way west is that way but this is the heart this is the central when people come to Montreal to visit this is the street they walk down awesome I know you're usually in a tour bus Rilano's going to walk backwards now he's quite good at it because we've done this more than one time yes so here we go this is an old church here right yes I really don't know which church it is but apparently it's an old one uh well it's got a cross on it so apparently it's a church yeah all right so I know Montreal is one of the first tour dates and you're like ripping through the rest of North America yes all right well I'm I've been on tour right now with uh Tom Kiefer oh great and Winger in America until August 18th August 19th is laundry day at the Karabi household and then I start with the Dead Daisy's August 20th and I believe we're coming back up here to theater Fairmount Fairmount yeah all right so you're in the Dead Daisy's yes you're out of the Dead Daisy's you're back in the Dead Daisy's okay I can't come off you every time I try to get out they pull me back in no it's uh what's up with that no as they say in Seinfeld no you know you know what when I was in the band when I first joined the band we did this record Revolution and something magical happened and it just blew up and we were we were doing festivals and we were opening for kiss everywhere let's go this way let's go this way grab it Orlando let's yeah yeah we're gonna grab a seat but I want Orlando to go in front of me on that side because the sun is coming this way all right um yeah but we it just blew up and we it was like as much as I enjoyed it I enjoyed this you know the success and the traveling it really just was crazy like we were you know do a record come off tour rest for a couple weeks and it go right in and do a record and then go right back on tour again and in three years we did four albums it was a lot you know and uh so for no other reason and that but to be honest with you I have my son in my other ear who's my drummer in my solo band and he's like dad you suck like I can't believe like you know I I came here to be in your band and now you're in the daisies so I just took some time off and they got Glenn Hughes they did very well with Glenn they did a couple great records and Glenn said okay I'm gonna go do my deep purple thing uh thanks and so David Lowe I saw that coming by the way I saw that coming with Glenn Hughes I he doesn't he does I love Glenn Hughes I love his voice but I saw it coming you know he just can't sit still for one album one tour more than one album one tour it you know that's just my perspective on it right you know I love Glenn he's he's he's a insane singer songwriter um you know but they called me said oh hey man you rested I go yep and so David said do you want to come back and I was like yeah sure so they we got this best of record coming out well it's it's out now for pre-order but I believe it comes out like August 18th I think um and it's a great album there's a little bit of everything from all the different singers and players I've had and uh and then we're gonna go on tour and just have some fun all right here's a bit of history you see there the bay yes sir that was a fur trade it was a company like a fur trader trader company one of the first called the Hudson Bay Company yes and that's how you know Montreal was built off of the fur trading yeah which a lot of northern cities in North America were at the time so there's that's a historic building right there I'm not sure and on top of there it says company de la Bay Hudson that's the company the Bay Hudson Bay Company yeah yeah right so there's a little bit of history for you want to show no I know I I've uh I've seen uh I I knew I back in the day I mean even was it like what's happened book Jack London called the wild you know what I mean that's all like up here in Alaska just all this whatever the fur trading and so well here's another interesting place see the place called Burger King yeah that comes from the land of America awesome from where you're from yeah I don't eat there Burger King I'm just kidding I'm just kidding um all right now what is it quarter pounder with cheese okay no no no same call the call the lever it's not the what you think in France what you know burger Royale no that's France France but you know they even change that in France because I was in France and it was just called quarter pound actually I didn't even see a quarter pounder there so here's your book let's plug your book yeah it's a coloring book for those of you don't know how to read like me I have a confession I never learned to read so I just fake it it's in Braille okay horseshoes and hand grenades how did that title how'd you come up with that title it was my father my father unfortunately passed away in 2014 and he had the driest sense of humor um but with wisdom yes and like I remember saying to him one time I forget what ban I was in whether rat or dead daisies whatever but I said something like oh man my ships finally come in and as quick it just dry he goes well your ship's coming in don't be at the airport and I was laughing about it well when I did my acoustic record I did half the record was old songs that I reworked acoustically the other half was new and I was joking with him he goes what are you going to call your record you know and I said um I don't know maybe John Karabi's almost greatest hits and he said or you could just call it horseshoes and hand grenades brilliant so I said what does that mean and he said oh there's an old phrase you know when we're you're in the military or whatever he goes uh close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades so it means you were closed but you weren't quite there you know what I mean so I was like okay great title let's walk towards a statue okay makes a good background all right so what am I getting in this book everything I mean okay Mali crew everything you're getting wives girlfriends my youth my all the trouble I got into as a teenager like you're getting a little bit of everything from the statue king Edward this is king Edward I could read the uh what it says in memory of I don't know it says 18 14 or something 1914 you know how bad my vision is mine's just as bad these are prescription people come here let's go sit on the statue the area here so the book yes in terms of okay I mean I know everybody's asking you this question but I'm gonna ask you it anyways okay dirt yeah you want to sit here you could sit here for a bit I know you need a little bit great yeah dirt there's the movie the movie the movie the movie the movie and we'll talk about the book after what do you think they could have done better in that movie to portray you I mean they had to portray you because they had to show Vince left the band picked up the pieces and then Vince was back how do you think it should have been you should have been portrayed I kind of uh I I do have to you know respectfully disagree I think they could have just showed the band split up and then show them talking to get back together again I the only thing that bugs me about that movie is that they took the unfortunate liberty to make it look like I was playing in high school gymnasiums to like eight people I feel bad for you actually when I saw that that's not right I'm fine it is what it is dude shit doesn't bother me at all anymore I'm like whatever but um I I uh I thought that was a little bit overblown the the you know the their perception yeah their view of that time I mean it's it's kind of funny if you go on if you go on uh YouTube and type in you know John Karabi Mali crew live 94 it's like yeah none of the shows were sold out but we still played the three four five six thousand people seven thousand people depending on the size of the arena um so I just thought that was a little shitty and and then the other thing is if they were going to put me in the movie which they did I'm just angry that they didn't get Morgan Freeman to play me yeah or Johnny Depp or maybe that's not a Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman okay we'll go with Morgan much wiser but you know he's always wise in every movie he's just cool in every movie all right so you've you have worked with Mick Mars how long were you in Mali crew for five years that's a long time to put you in a minute of the movie right you worked with Mick Mars the whole controversy with Mick and Mali crew sorry about that Orlando when you were in the band did you did you perceive him as uh a hired gun or was he more did you perceive him as somebody who was part of the organization mech yeah listen when I was when I was in the band the band was intact so so even even me I was not a hired guy I was a member of the band I old paperwork I could show everybody to prove but uh so you were a 25 percent yeah I was I was a member of the band like I it said member of the band you know so in the corporation you were you own the shares of whatever percent no no no I was a member of the band but it was a it was an escalating thing like the first year I got a member I had input I had input oh boy something's happening here okay so so when I was in the band it was like I was a you know a member and it was a escalating percentage like so the first year I was like even though I had 25 percent of input writing and all that stuff to other things like merch other other companies they had I was like 10 percent then the following record it was 15 percent and then it would eventually work up to 25 but as far as the writing publishing you know when we were on tour I was a member you know and Mick was you know he's not who you like now they're trying to make him perceive like it was some sort of hired gun on the side no I mean that's the perception I'm getting I'm not saying that's what it is I haven't I got to be honest to do this I'm kind of clueless all right like no no no I I I made it a point to you know I said what I had to say in the very beginning when that first press release came out that Mick wasn't going to tour due to his health yada yada yada and I made a couple statements somebody asked me a question I made the statements and now I'm just sitting there saying like I'm keeping my mouth shut but none of the drama surprises me do you know what I mean that's all I got to say um what's next for John Krabby this gig tonight tomorrow I'm in Ottawa and then I go right back to america and I've got uh continue on until august 18th with Tom Kiefer and winger uh music music wise I you know what I'm always writing I'm I'm now that I'm back with the daisies um once we decide to do a new record Orlando that way yeah once we decide to do a new record we're going to um you know I'm gonna send them a bunch of songs there we go everyone's rolling and uh I'm gonna send them a bunch of songs and the ones they like will do and the ones that they don't like I'm gonna finish recording and you know we'll go from there but just keep writing keep doing my thing and live shows you know I I've got my fingers in a few different things I I uh there's a paramount plus um docu series coming out that I've I've kept winger myself d snider Dave Sabo um Janet from vixen we've all been we're all involved in and then uh I also developed a tv show that I just recently signed a production deal for um just waiting for the hollywood screenwriters to get off strike um but once you need some voiceover work I'm in here hi welcome yeah yeah it's it's but we gotta wait till the till the writers get off strike so um so I'm I've got my fingers in a bunch of different shit you know what I mean on that note everybody go check out the dead daisies they're actually they're coming out on tour in a month yes we'll join again fair mount theater is a theater fair mount uh august 26 I I believe it's the 30th 30 yes and um you know and uh we're we're actually it's it's awesome this time because there's parts of Canada I've never been to so we're going from east coast to west coast and it's awesome all right so John Karabi solo gig tour dead daisies a lot of cool stuff happening thank you for being on the show thank you for having me and we'll see you next time in the middle of our I guess I should say mercy mercy vocal see you