 Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Rep and I am proud to announce my guest for this evening's episode, the iconic Stan Bush. Stan how are you doing this evening sir? Doing great. How's it going? Going very well sitting there, sitting back, relaxing, waiting for this impending snowstorm that we're supposed to get this weekend. Oh my. Winner in West Virginia what are you gonna do? Well first off I want to thank you so much for agreeing to meet with me on the channel. As I said earlier you have been a big part of my life since 1986. I have constantly listened to your music up until today. Your music is in my jeep and I listen to on the way to work so I really appreciate this. Oh it's my pleasures. Thank you for the support. No not a problem sir. Now for everybody watching how this is gonna work like my normal sit reps I have 10 questions here for Stan though they're a little different than the questions I normally ask my viewers so I'm gonna go over my 10 questions and then if we have any time left I'll try to get answer some questions that you guys may have in the chat. So without further ado we'll go ahead and get started. If you're ready sir. Yep yep. Alright well question number one I have been a huge fan of yours since 1986 when I first heard you announce the arrival of Optimus Prime and Transformers the movie. What's it like being so well known for the song The Touch even 35 years later I guess 36 years later now. It's been a really cool ride I mean people tell me that that song had an impact on their life you know and really good stuff positive stuff you know maybe they were having a tough time of it and you know the song helped helped you know some in some way you know inspire them or whatever and anyway it's very humbling to hear that stuff you know and I appreciate it. No you're welcome I told Stan earlier behind the scenes when I first rolled into Baghdad I had one little earpiece and I played The Touch as we crossed that border just kind of psyching myself up. So like I said big big part of my life. Now question number two most of my viewers know you from Transformers the movie. Can you tell us a little bit about where your career has taken you since then and what is some of your proudest achievements. Well we'll see around the time of The Touch when we recorded that back in 86 there were a couple of other things I did the first two Jean-Claude Van Damme movies I sang three songs in each of those movies Bloodsport and Kickboxer and so those were you know some other stuff that I did that still sort of getting people still know me from that stuff and anyway during the 90s and all up until now I've been doing albums I just just released the newest one is number 14 so I've been yeah dare to dream that's good upside down too. Yeah anyway the during the 90s of course you know the rock music kind of imploded for a bit the 80s rock stuff that I do sort of went away when the grunge thing came but anyway seems to be back in a big way and what's cool is you know how The Touch and the Transformers it sort of became more of a big a bigger phenomenon later it you know it was like a resurgence of you know people into the the whole Transformers thing and of course the Bay films and all the other ones and the latest one Bumblebee used The Touch again and so that was pretty cool but yeah and then The Touch has been a bunch of other stuff you know boogie nice was Mark Wahlberg singing it so anyway yeah a lot of good stuff it's been a real cool ride it's it's whenever I do a show a concert Europe or here in the States yeah I can't do a show without playing The Touch you know that's the closer that's the you know and people love the song it's a really it's a cool song it's a great message and it sort of started off a whole series of songs like that that I don't know it almost became a calling for me to sing stuff that sort of helps maybe inspire you know give give hope and of course it's been a crazy year past year for everyone and you know we need a little positivity I think in the world yes sir Kato's on here and he just said yes they use The Touch in the show the Goldbergs too so I've heard that on Hulu is a great show yeah yeah all right that's awesome I love hearing stories like that all right question number three kind of ties into what you just talked about one of the things I love about your music is how uplifting and motivating it is and of course I just went and already told you that about going into Baghdad but with the uplifting sound that you do or you have was that your plan when you started out or did it just evolve that way it just kind of evolved that way like I said The Touch a lot of things started happening for me around that time people heard the I started becoming known as a singer and did a lot of stuff in LA commercials like Toyota trucks and Coors beer I was doing a lot of big stuff back then and singing on other albums like you know Alice Cooper and Jefferson Starship anyway it was it was a pretty cool time you know being called for a bunch of stuff and they were like I don't know maybe four or five of us rock singer guys you know the beer voice the big you know that did most of the big the big commercials back then but yeah as far as the inspirational side though it's there were each album I've done since then there's been you know two or three those of those kind of songs and I don't know I had this philosophy that you know each of us creates our own reality I mean we have more power way more power than we then we ever realize you know we can to make something happen and bring bring about good stuff in the world and I don't know I mean I don't I don't always get there but it's it's something nice to aspire to you know I think definitely what is a mythbusters Adam Savage would always say I reject your reality and submit my own that's good alright question number four as a veteran I really have to commend you for the song unstoppable any artist who creates a song is a tribute to the troops gets my utmost respect did you have any particular motivation when doing that song yeah actually my co-writer and friend Lenny Macaluso we wrote that one together and it was inspired initially by the the Boston bombing actually how people kind of came together and this this sort of whole new spirit emerged from that tragedy you know and it I don't know if you noticed in the music video for unstoppable there's there's people jogging in that that's that's in Boston that little clip from that yeah that that marathon but yeah it was unstoppable was a really cool video because it was basically a statement about the country and how you know we've we've weathered so much together as a country and I you know I love this country and I know you do too and thanks so much for your service I said that before but I'll say it again thank you yeah so you know it's just I think it's it's a great thing I mean to to shout out hey you know America's a great place definitely we got to get that song on the air right now we got to get everybody together again yeah yeah exactly because when we when we unite we are we really are unstoppable you know I will never forget September 12th that was the day I was proud of us to be an American you couldn't go anywhere without seeing you know the American flag flying everywhere and it was just such a sense of unity like like you said you know we all came together with this tragic event and I was so proud to be an American then and now look at us now I mean we've got to come together and that's one thing I got to commend the Transformers community for I have met so many great people through those plastic robots back there and nobody cares what your political beliefs are where you come from none of that you like plastic robots you're cool in my book no you're you're exactly right some of the nice people I've ever met in my life have been at conventions and people come up and they're just awesome people I really I got to say that I mean just some of the most wonderful people they have these you know stories about things and they say stuff like you know soundtrack to my childhood and you know different things what I got a fan letter from a little kid one time and you know he was obviously a kid you know he said something he told me in the letter he says you're my biggest fan you know he had it back that's great okay so you lose myself oh this this one ties into something you just said I'm glad you said this earlier I am also a huge Alice Cooper fan and so is my son Dylan we actually took him to his first concert last November and we took a six year old he was five then to an Alice Cooper concert dressed as Alice he had to make up the hat leather jacket and everything you mentioned you performed with him do you remember what song or album that was it it was on it wasn't a performance but it was singing on the album itself the recording and I don't remember which the title of the album but it was in would have been late 80s early 90s probably that's probably when he got his resurgence because I remember his poison out and came out yeah the one with Wayne's world was at it I don't remember Centipede was on there that that song okay yeah maybe you can tell me which album that is I'll go dig and I've got his entire library very nice he's very very good guy real solid person I understand he's quite quite the golfer too so yeah but he was very nice to me yeah it was so funny I mean my son just absolutely loved Alice Cooper and we had the opportunity to take him to a concert everybody thought we were nuts some people thought we were nuts and thumb some people thought we were the greatest parents ever all right right I'll send you a picture of him in his costume here later on okay okay moving on to question number seven now my math may be wrong I figured that this is your 12th so solo out let's see there were two in the 80s the one the first one was on CBS records and it just has my name then the second one was with Standbush and Barrage which had the touch on there and then I can name them all but but there were the thing is though that it makes it a little bit sort of debatable is a couple of the albums during the 90s were sort of like collections or whatever a couple of compilations so they weren't no they had songs that were already out on other records so it was sort of a you know wasn't like one we recorded a new album from the ground up and there were also one that was released in Japan that had a couple of different songs but it had the same had a different title than the one that released in the rest of the world so you know that kind of stuff and that's why it's it's a little bit up in the air but there should be 14 I have 12 listed on standbush.com and they're all available of course I got my information okay you heavily know the two that aren't on there are the first two and that's because I don't own the rights to those that's why I'm you know the rest of them I own the masters so you know that's why they're available on standbush.com excellent I totally lost what I was going to ask about this oh let's see oh I was just gonna say what can you tell us about this one this is your brand new album as you can see I got the autographed copy yeah and this was just released in November correct yeah yeah it's brand new yeah Dare to Dream was written most most of it was in 2020 there were a couple of songs that were from the 2019 like the one of the singles one of the songs called the 80s was a song about 80s rock and that was released in as a single in the summer of 2019 and it's the music video has my son as a young me in the video and anyway it's a song about 80s music and thinking back about being a kid and how you know how music gets you back in time so that's what that song and then later that year there were a couple of other ones that that I wrote and recorded and then but nearly the whole album the whole rest of the album was all written and recorded during the pandemic which yeah it was a the COVID thing was a bad thing and then you know hard on a lot of people and my heart goes out to everybody who suffered but if it was one silver lining for me and my producer is that's all we did was work on the album for most of the year so it was actually a good time creatively I think some of the best songs I've ever written were from this past year so real happy with the album it's getting great reviews it was named number number 10 of the album of the year for yeah so that was pretty cool to hear and they got dare to dream is the title track has a floating like a yeah like a ship that's floating in through the air like anyways kind of a surreal cover but you know there's a kid like a teenager guy younger guy standing on the hill or the mountain or the rock or whatever looking up at this you know it dreamscape basically he's he's dreaming this stuff and and it's it's it's also kind of goes into what we were talking about before how you know whatever you can dream well you know it's just like the song dream big is the same message where you know you think of stuff that you you know want to achieve like follow your dreams and and reach for stuff you know and you know the you pretty much have a limitless potential as a human you know when when you dare to dream I mean it's to be trying to be uncorny but you know what I mean it's well it's funny I told you earlier we've been listening to that dream big a lot lately and my son he really likes it too and I was telling him because there's a line in about the father telling the son dream big that's what I'm explaining to him I said don't let anything stop you go be whatever you want to be he is so hardcore set on being an adventurer and tell me bear factory but you know that's what you wanted yeah no it's cool it's that's that's the way we need to tell our kids you know like all of my kids are college graduates and stuff and so I'm real I couldn't be prouder and it's just one of those things you know that you I think all of us we want the best for our children and and so forth my kids are all grown now but you know what I'm saying I even have a grand baby she's she turned one year old this three two days before Christmas so well congratulations my son was my 40th birthday surprise good that's great I remember running into a friend of mine at the post office he was bragging about his daughter just going off to college we graduated he's bragging about his daughter going to college and I was like well my son did something good too and he said what he said learn to walk well I did not share my questions with you whatsoever but my question number eight was I have to tell you the 80s has become one of my favorite songs I listen to it almost daily since it was first released what can you tell us about that song and you've already answered that already kind of already yeah it's hard when you don't know what the questions are coming not to spoil the thing but yeah it's like I say I think a little bit of that was maybe partially inspired by the summer of 69 because you know that's you know he Brian Adams great song by the way my it was one of the best songs ever and but that's about looking back and you know when they were when they were kids and you know and it's just like I say the music just like a time machine it's takes you back and the other thing in the music video I didn't mention I rented a VW bus because you know that's what my my son and a couple of buddies that have a band in the video they were in a hot girl you know they were like in the VW bus and it was like you know kind of like looking back I mean I had one of those in high school I've got an interesting story about a VW bus when I was growing up my mom and dad they had they both had a beetle dad had a balloon and mom had a yellow one bumblebee and then they had the VW bus and in the mid 70s my car seat was a playpen bolted to the floor of that VW bus so I'm just bouncing around like a pinball that's great yeah my dad made made it into a camper he built a little thing on top that pops up a tent kind of thing and it's funny because a couple of years after he made that and we went up camping in the in the mountains North Carolina he a couple years after that that's when VW came out with a camper van that had very similar design to what he came up with so it was pretty cool you know he kind of built it himself so you know he well he did build it so it was a positive yeah it's cool thing now talking about the 80s we were talking about the song the 80s and I don't have this question down but I actually thought of it after I wrote everything another thing I love so much about your music it maintains that 80s sound I mean you listen to Dare to Dream and then you pop in the Transformers movie soundtrack the music is it's the same it has that same I guess tempo if you will and I love that is that something also that you're like hey I am an 80s guy and that's what I'm gonna stick with pretty much I love that because I'm sitting there uh yeah this work too and they're like oh is that an old song that's a brand new song which just has that 80s I love anything 80s my producer he's an 80s child too you know guy my best friend he grew up in Germany but he's been in America for a long time but uh he's just amazing the guy plays guitar great and uh he's a great studio engineer and plays keyboards and everything so he he and I work together but uh he's he's quite quite talented so he helps put those tracks together and like you know I was talking to my buddy of mine and you know if you if you did track like of that quality back then it would have spent a hundred grand doing a record like this you know and uh anyway but you know home studios you can do stuff cheaper now and but he's got you know he's really if you know what you're doing and you see he does he's he's very talented now you're talking about the home studios in the video the 80s I know you're you look like you're singing in a garage or a basement and then you look back at unstoppable it looks like you're singing outside your garage so you do a lot of that at home yeah well the 80s I'm sorry the unstoppable video that was just outside at a place out in the country and and the uh it was kind of like a barn in in the background and uh the uh yeah the one we did a soundstage two was two locations the soundstage was where we were performing but uh we had like rented gear and uh it's uh I did a newer music video maybe ask the next question you could ask me about uh for for Netflix and this was very recently and it came out in the end of November uh called uh it's it's a song born to fight and it's uh to promote their two most popular anime shows uh Baki and King and Ashura and uh the song's born to fight and it was the final song for for the album but Netflix reached out to me and asked if I could write song a song for them for this promotion and uh they Lenny and I my you know guy co-wrote the touch we came up with a song born to fight and recorded it and they loved it and they did a music video with me and then clips from the cartoon uh series you know the those two I mentioned better it's like ultimate fighting kind of stuff and uh but it's uh animated it's a really cool video it's right on on stanbush.com that's the one right to top right now correct yes and number one that's the first song on the album yeah it's a great power track but thank you all right question number nine real quick when you have any plans to tour once the pandemic ends if ever yeah I mean we um I've been approached by uh some places in Europe uh Spain also journey um about uh doing some stuff it see how things go but hopefully this summer we'll be getting some shows going it all depends on how quickly you know everything bounces back uh now that we have the vaccines and uh they're gonna be you know hopefully within a few months it'll be uh opened up again back back to pretty much normal I'm hoping okay I'm very proud of my state we've been rocking with the vaccines we're not going by the federal guidelines we're just use utilizing each county's health departments and we're just we're rocking we have all of our uh nursing home uh clients everyone of those is inoculated my wife works higher education she's got inoculated so everybody's we're rolling so I'm I'm hopeful for the future as far as that's concerned that's great that's excellent all right my last question before we start going into the audience uh this is one just for me big part of your career is these plastic robots do you yourself have a transformers collection not really um I have a I have a few uh upstairs in uh you know still in their boxes and that that have been given to me at conventions and whatnot uh but no I I'm not really a collector that's what I said one day I'm too small I I don't even have I got like three guitars and that's it a lot of guys I don't have like you know 30 of them or something I've never collected things I I'm not a collector type of person really I have what I need and that's that's it you know yeah it's funny so many times I'll think about I've got some all this stuff over here it's just it just sits there but I wouldn't get rid of it now for nothing especially now I know a little one's downstairs just drooling waiting at the chance to get those well that wraps up my questions I know I wanted to keep this short we didn't want to go too long with uh this interview and I'm going to go into the chat now and if anyone has any questions for Stan first off I'm going to apologize if I miss some of you guys but now's the time to ask Al Cato just said that uh you don't collect transformers you collect fans aww that's really nice that's great all right let's see what we have here there we go we love you Stan aww thank you thanks so much love you too I think what how this works it takes a while for them they'll comment on YouTube and it takes a while to jump over on here oh here we go what guitars does Stan Bush use well I have a prs uh it's it's actually the uh Korean model that's cheaper and it's just as good as the prs pretty much that you would buy for a lot of for two grand and you can get it for 600 bucks I have that and I have a strat um and then my acoustic guitar is my main thing I mean that's I bought it new in 76 and it's uh it's an amazing sounding guitar I write all my songs on it it's a martin an older martin so yeah nice here we go this is going back to the anime again where I just lost it oh here we go these things move by so fast do you remember the song you did for sailor moon back in the 90s oh yeah uh she's got the power uh yeah that's uh it's funny because people a lot of people asked me about that they said oh you saying sailor moon yeah it was one of those things that kind of called me at the spur of the moment and I went in and sang on the trans on the uh not trans the sailor moon uh it was like a soundtrack album and uh anyway but yeah you know when I was first collecting or list buying music for myself my own money I always bought soundtracks because I can always get a variety of music let's see uh might know the answer to this one who's your favorite transformers character bumblebee bumblebee nice oh this is nice right here you're an inspiration to not just me but to everyone keep being awesome oh exactly that's so nice thank you here's someone asking do you keep in contact with peter cullin I've met him several times over the years and he's always been incredibly nice uh you know at the conventions and so forth but I don't know him well but um he's always been really nice when I met him so when I see him now here's I lost it again somebody was asking about Cobra Kai here it is I just started watching that show that's a great 80s throwback show show yeah I like it too just wrapped up season one myself you know then have you been approached to write any music for Cobra Kai since it's so much since they deal with so many 80 songs no but I'd love to hopefully that'll happen at some point yes that's netflix I mean come on netflix I know I write yeah I might see about that see if I can pursue something on that line but uh let's see oh here here's the flip side of the coin who's your favorite Decepticon oh wow um I don't know honestly sorry I don't really have an answer see that you played that well that way you don't offend anybody who's you know megatron fan star screen fan yeah well but I tell you I do I can say one quick thing and that's something's coming up very soon on the next week or so uh and just be watching it's uh and it's gonna involve what we've been talking about and nice just check your first folks yep yep just check standbush.com and you'll see it's it's involving netflix and uh anyway nice let's say here who is your favorite band to tour with oh wait um I don't know I think my favorite one of my favorite bands is is uh well back back in the day was the the original foreigner the the early foreigner stuff uh that's that stuff's great and I don't know it's it's kind of uh I don't know too many modern bands but I I really like I've always liked uh Zeppelin and you know the eagle. You think you're wrong with them. Yeah that's right it's just just a lot of stuff. Now here's somebody asking do you own any Transformers t-shirts? He almost put one on for the show. Mm-hmm yeah I almost did I got I got a few of them. All right here we go there's Rodimus Primalz on here making sure that everybody knows to go to standbush.com to pick up this album. Oh that's great. Great guys I've met all these guys through YouTube it just it's blown my mind like I said this community is great now we're at the 30 minute mark and I promised you we would end this at 30 minutes and we're going to do that so you can go and spend some time with your family and have dinner uh once again thank you so much for agreeing to do this I am just humbled that you came on my little channel and it just made my night like I said you've been a big part of my life since I was 11 years old. Thank you so much for having me appreciate the support really do. Oh not a problem and as I always say in my videos does a copy of Dare to Dream belong in your collection absolutely standbush.com that's where you can find it's also on amazon or any other online media retailer from what I can tell great cd all the songs are top notch I've been listening to this constantly since I bought it so check it out guys you are not going to be disappointed and stand thank you once again for coming on the show all the best thank you now take care and guys I appreciate you all in the chat for checking me out uh this is patria prime signing out hello take care see you later