Kevin Cronin

That's funny because Dave Amato, who plays, who joined REL...

been with us for 35 years.

He took over for Gary.

He played with Ted Nugent for five years.

Okay.

Yeah.

So Dave was kind of the Derek St.

Holmes replacement.

And he tells a story about how he lived with Ted when he first joined the band.

And he said when he was alone with Ted, they'd wake up in the morning, go down to the kitchen,

Ted had fresh eggs, you know, they'd make eggs, they'd cook breakfast, just talking about whatever, you know, and it was just normal.

Dave said, when one person, one other person entered the room,

All bets were off.

Ted turned into Terrible Ted, the Motor City Madman, you know, at home.

But if that person left, so it was... Basically, if you were one-on-one with him, Ted kind of dropped the facade.

But the minute there were two people, now it's an audience.

I remember what I said.

My response was, it's about time you called it.

Because by that time... That's amazing.

But by that time, REO had made a couple albums with Mike Murphy singing.