![]() Jenkins adds “Having Steve and Cory and me together playing the songs…there’s a reason that it works. But our show today is way better because we took that time off. If we did anything wrong, it’s we just stopped touring as a band. “When we were out on the road and had hit songs on the radio all the time and playing to a young audience, it’s almost surreal to look back on it. If we didn’t have that kind of camaraderie, we would be doing this,” Lerios offers. “We’ve been a three-legged dog for most of the time. Still, having 75 percent of the original lineup together for a band inching toward 50 years is pretty damn good. The current lineup also includes Larry Antonio (bass/vocals) and newer addition Robbie Wyckoff, now handling the majority of lead vocals. The groom, Jenkins, and Lerios reformed Pablo Cruise the next year. Bruce Day died in 1999.įlash forward to 2004 and the four original members regrouped to play Price’s wedding. That was sometimes with Price, whose “day gig” was heading a successful e-learning company. Lerios would go on to score a lot of TV shows and movies (including “Baywatch”), while Jenkins would form country rockers Southern Pacific, work as a sideman to some big names, and occasionally fly the Pablo Cruise flag. Other minor hits like “Don’t Want to Live Without It,” “I Want You Tonight,” and “Cool Love” would follow, with more albums and lineup changes, but Pablo Cruise would call it quits in 1986. “It took me a whole frickin’ year to get over that relationship! But at least I got two great songs out of it!” Jenkins laughs. 6), and equally inspired by the same woman as “Whatcha Gonna Do?” The next album, Worlds Away, offered the equally big hit “Love Will Find a Way” (also peaking at No. I wish I had tapped into that more.”Ī&M/Universal Record Cover Cockrell abruptly left the group, replaced by former Santana bassist Bruce Day. “And the sort of duet part with me and Bud made it something special. When it did come out and was a big hit, I felt vindicated!” Jenkins says. “I thought it should have been the first single, but it came out after ’ because that’s what the record company wanted. But despite having “hit” written all over it, it was not the album’s first single release. ![]() The lyric was inspired by Jenkins’ troubled romantic relationship at the time, with Lerios asking his bandmate what he was going to do when she left him. Their self-titled debut came out two years later, but it would be their third record A Place in the Sun and the single “Whatcha Gonna Do?” that launched their career, hitting No. The party line is that their name came from the idea that “Pablo” represented a down-to-earth person ,and “Cruise” a fun and laid back attitude toward life (in a TV interview for the show “Through the Decades,” Jenkins would admit that, um, there also may have been some LSD involved). The original lineup included Lerios, Jenkins, Steve Price (drums), and Bud Cockrell (bass), with Jenkins and Cockrell sharing lead vocals. Pablo Cruise first formed in 1973 in San Francisco when some members of the bands Stoneground and It’s a Wonderful Day joined forces. “Afterward, I love seeing the look 0n their faces when they realize that people our age can still rock, and they get fired up over classic rock.” “It’s interesting and encouraging when parents bring their kids to the show,” Jenkins adds. We joke with them that we want them to get up, but slowly!” Our fans are older and not screaming all the time, so they come to hear the music. “But now, we can have a lot of and fun interplay with the audience. “I always make jokes to some of the audience that they’re too young to be there!” he laughs. And while part of that is due to the continued appeal of classic rock among fans middle aged and older, Lerios says their audiences are made up increasingly of multiple generations and younger faces. Today, Pablo Cruise is in the midst of its busiest touring schedule in nearly 20 years, and it brings them to the Dosey Doe on August 4. “He was 12 years old, and his dad knew Will Ferrell!” “For six to ten hours, my son thought I was the coolest guy on the planet!” he laughs. But there was an even bigger benefit for him. Guitarist/vocalist David Jenkins adds that the band got to play the after-screening premiere party, joined on stage by Ferrell and co-star John C. We didn’t have anything to talk about! But we did and when reporters asked us what we were doing there, we said ‘We have a T-shirt in the movie!’” “They wanted us to walk the red carpet at the premiere, and I didn’t want to. It got our phones ringing again,” says keyboardist/vocalist Cory Lerios. Screen Grab from the Columbia Pictures movie "Step Brothers." “We had to sign off on it, but had no idea how much it would be in the movie! And that gave us some great publicity.
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