Matt Ballinger, Greg Raposo, Frankie Galasso (Dream Street)

It Happens Every Time… with Dream Street! 

Did you know Dream Street was originally supposed to be a Broadway Show? Find out why a lawsuit forced them to break-up. 

Plus, wait until you find out how Matt and Greg met their wives while they were in the band! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and my Heart
Radio podcast. Hello, my Little Peanuts, It's me your host,
Lance Bass. This is Frosted Tips with me Lance and
my co host and lovely husband, Turkey Turchin. Hello there,
hello husband, Hi, Hi, how are you today? I'm fantastic.

(00:25):
How is your Easter? It was lovely? Yeah, okay, can
we tell everyone how amazing our little Easter party was.
It wasn't even a little Easter party. It's big. It grew,
it grew, yeah, original, It's gonna be twenty people because
we have this little play I think we've talked about
this before. We have a little play date, a weekly

(00:45):
play date with our friends that have kids. Yeah right,
that of the same age, and we do a little
music class. Well I'm like, okay, I do an annual
Easter egg hunt for my friends with kids. But now
that we have kids, it's kind of getting a little bigger.
It started out to three kids the last few years. Yeah,
this year there was probably like twelve or thirteen kids
in its frolicking. Yeah, really fun. It was so cute

(01:09):
and they had the best time. I know, we uh,
I go out for every holiday. I just it's just
my thing, and Easter I really love because no one
really does Easter. You know, Halloween, Christmas, even Fourth of July,
even Saint Patty's Day, like people go all out with
a nice party. Easter it's just more of kind of
like a little family. You go to church. You might

(01:30):
have a little Easter egg hunt somewhere, but I like
to throw like the big one for everyone. Did you
feel bad for Easter? I do feel bad for Easter.
It's like it's a holiday that doesn't get looked after
as much as the rest of them. So I'm there
for you. Easter. I am there for you. I mean
it even has a mascot. There's an Easter Bunny. I
mean it does have a mascot, I mean Easter Bunny.
And you know, compared to Santa Claus, it's like, oh

(01:52):
it's true. How can you, I mean, how many Easter
Bunny movies do we have? I'll tell you, I don't know. Zero. Uh.
In last minute, then goodness, I got an Easter Bunny
to come because I did not realize how much these
kids wanted to see an Easter Bunny because they're a
little I mean these kids were teeny I know, I

(02:12):
didn't realize either, And when that user bunny came out,
it was like, well, I was first off, I was
excited for because the rite of passage for me at
Easter is for an Easter bunny to come and scare
the crap out of all the kids. But in the eighties,
the Easter bunnies just were scary. They were horrifying. Now
they're not as scary looking, So I was weirdly excited

(02:33):
to see, like a couple of kids get scared, because
you know, I love my land scares. Yes, we all
know lands. So I put my uh my niece's boyfriend
Caden in a bunny suit that I just got at
Party City. Couldn't even see out of it at all.
These kids went nuts in the best way. No one
got scared, no one. And then when he left, they
were like, we asked the Easter bunny coming back, and

(02:53):
I'm like, no, kid, he got other houses. He got
other houses to hop too. You were bad this year.
You got no yeah, no egg for you. Yeah, no
egg for years. And then it just like cracks an
egg on their head and leaves that should be the
Easter bunnies thing. Yeah, right. Santa Claus has ho ho ho.
Easter Bunny should just like crack raw eggs on your head.

(03:15):
That's like the coal he gives. Yeah, yeah, he eggs.
It's fun. But we're gonna be finding the eggs everywhere
in this house because I know my friends and they
probably hid them in the craziest, hardest space as ever
for a two year old to go find. So we're
gonna have candy five years old. Well, I can't wait
about it because you know I'll be eating it. You would, actually, guys,

(03:37):
today we have dream Street. I'm super supers excited. You're
super excited, speed supers excited because you guys out there
have been requesting dream Street and we got it. We
got three of the guys. Jesse McCartney's gonna be coming
on at a different time because he could not come today,
but we have three of them are all together in
the Bronx right now. So right after this little message,

(04:00):
we're gonna be with dream Street. Please welcome. Dream Street
American boy band that was formed in nineteen ninety nine

(04:21):
with members Chris Trusdale, Greg Raposo, Matt Bellinger, Frankie Glasso
and Jesse McCarney. The band released one album and a
movie together just before they dispended in two thousand and two.
Way too soon for us, guys. But Dream Street Welcome
to the show, guys, Greg, Matt, Frankie, thank you for
having us pleasure. And then now where are y'all? Where

(04:42):
are y'all calling from? Right now? We are in the
Bronx at my house, actually the Bronx. Wait, are y'all
all living in New York these days? We all live
in this bedroom. Actually nice. It's like y'all quarantine during
COVID and just have not left yet. Yeah, we're like,
this works, let's just keep it. Well, it's good to
see that you are all still so close to this day.

(05:04):
Now we need a little history lesson on how Dream
Street came to be. All Right, Greg, you and Chris
were original members when the group was called Boy Wonder,
which what a name? Boy Wonder around nineteen ninety eight,
So how did this happen? So? Dream Street is the
name comes from Broadway being known as the Street of Dreams.

(05:27):
And originally we were actually supposed to be a Broadway
show and the producers had this concept of having five
boys doing a scripted show on Broadway. This was right
around the time Reality TV was taking off, Like Jersey
Shore was the hottest thing you know, around at the time.

(05:47):
So the Reality Broadway that they were trying to do
was that we would you know, put on the show
trying to get signed to a label, and then at
the end of the show we get signed, a song
gets on the radio, and then you'd be driving home
in your car and you know, you'd hear the song
on the radio. So yeah, I mean, I think that's
a brilliant idea. Why do you think that didn't Why

(06:08):
didn't they want to go that route and just bring
you out as a band. So I think what happened
was that Radio Disney picked us up. Like that portion
of the plan just kind of took off, and it
moved so fast that the Broadway concept just couldn't keep
up and ended up kind of just falling to the
wayside and we were suddenly a boy band. It was

(06:29):
also around the same time where Oldtown was doing that,
you know, right, yeah, making the band, I mean it
blew up was one of the first, like you said,
the Jersey Shore and I think the Osbourne's that's right
when reality started just going crazy. And one thing that
I've seen in a trend starting with like Otown and
around your era was that every band that was kind

(06:50):
of big after that had that television element, Like you
had to be on TV if it was a competition show,
if it was a reality of whatever it is. That
was the element that you had to to have in
order to make it in the biz. U did y'all
ever think about having your own I mean, I know
y'all did a movie together. Do y'all ever think about
doing a TV show? I would just like to say

(07:12):
that we don't admit to ever having done a movie. Yeah,
I think we need. I was part of it, even
though I don't know what movie you're talking about that
we have been there. Check out the movie shot with
the Instinct members and I think Ella Foe and Britney Spears,
I've not seen this. Oh yeah, it's a hard loop.

(07:32):
Proleman put a big movie together and put all of
us in it. It's horrible, almost as horrible as my
first movie on the Line, which I sometimes, you know,
pretend I didn't do also, but you know what you
had to go through that you know we need to
have a movie we actually remember. I let Michael here
watch on the Line for the first time, and Emmanuel Shrieky,

(07:53):
who was my co star, she had her boyfriend. She
came over to the house. We're like, you know what,
they wanted to watch the movie. I'm like, okay, we'll
watch the movie. Ye oh my gosh, like it was
so cringey because I thought it'd just be fun to
watch you could laugh at it. It was so bad
that you couldn't even laugh at it. Oh no, we
were laughing, you were Oh yeah, I didn't remember. Manuel's
boyfriend was listening total shock, like shock. And they broke

(08:16):
up not too long after that. I think it was
from that movie. Yeah they did. I mean, I'll admit
I've never watched it. I couldn't get Yeah, I've watched it.
I've watched It's tough to get there. Yeah, it also
broke up because of that movie. Okay. Groups never do movies.

(08:36):
So okay. So when Boy Wonder performed for some record
labels back in at ninety eight, you know it was
definitely Broadway tap dance numbers. Uh, Greg, what do you
remember from that performance? So I remember specifically, um that
you know, they were paying all of the girls in pizza,

(08:57):
mostly like our friends and because you know, people that
we knew. But there was a moment, even though it
was fake um, where we came out and it was
the first time I experienced that like fandom scream um,
and I just remember like the chills because then, you know,
up to that point, we had all done Broadway stuff, um,

(09:20):
even auditioning for the band. It was supposed to be
a Broadway show. We were going on another Broadway audition,
like we had been doing our whole lives. Um, So
I hadn't you know, you know, it's more of like
a clap, you know, a Broadway lighting. But I just
more so remember that first, like I'm the yelling and

(09:41):
being like oh okay. I think that was the moment
I was like, okay, I want to I want to
be in a boy band like this. This is this addictive,
this is what it is. Really. I You'll never forget
your first yeah goose bumps from totally. It's also hard
to explained to anybody who has never experienced it. You know, yeah,

(10:03):
you'll never know. Well, after some feedback, the group rebranded
into Dream Street, named after Broadway enter Matt Frankie Jesse McCartney.
So Matt and Frankie, how did you get added to
the mix. Yeah, so so basically, like what happened was
they did a casting call in New York City for
a lot of like the actors. I mean, I have
been a couple of Broadway shows. I know Frankie was

(10:25):
in some Broadway shows. So they were just looking at
talent like around New York. And I remember I actually
like had stopped. I had done like four Broadway shows,
and I was like, I don't really want to do this.
I just want to be a normal kid. I want
to play sports. I want to play golf. I was like,
I'm literally retired. There was like this big joke that
we were talking about, but like I stopped doing it
all together for a while. And then my agent called me.
This is like I hadn't done anything like a year,

(10:46):
and he's like, listen, this is kind of different. Like
I thought you might be interested. And he was like,
they're doing a casting call for like a pop band,
and it's kind of like could be like insane, could
be like and I was like, okay, like you know,
I like him in singing stuff. I like music. I
like bands and everything. So I was like, let's go
for it. Let's try let's try this out. And then
I know, Frankie, you were at the casting call two. Yeah,
it was a big It was a big audition. Yeah,

(11:08):
a couple hundred people from New York. And obviously I
don't think we knew that Greg and Chris were already
in there. Yeah, so we were very They made us
audition too, because they wanted the footage, you know of
Oh yeah, I think it more natural you can't, right, Yeah.
So Chris and I were like, you know, secretly almost

(11:31):
like detectives in there. Yeah. Given your feedback, I mean,
did you did you have a hand in picking the
guys at all? Um? I don't know, I'd say more
so just like they definitely were paying attention to how
we vibe with people, chemistry reads, Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
I mean, like especially Frankie and I think, being like

(11:52):
doppel gangers, we like hit it off really really quickly.
I had known Matt actually because aside from The Boy Wonder,
I was in probably the Broadway equivalent to the Mickey
Mouse Club. Um, it was called the Broadway Kids, and

(12:13):
that was a group that I was also in with Chris. Um,
you know, pre Boy Wonder and pre Dream Street. So
I probably would say I've been the closest with him, um,
you know, because we had that history. But like Matt
and I think we did stuff because you were in
the Sound of Music. Yeah, I was in the Sound
of Music and the Kenyon I and I feel like
we were Broadway kids, think yeah. And I just feel

(12:35):
like I was like always are, and then the theater
was really close by and there would be people Chris.
Chris was actually in Sound of Music as well. He
came in a little later on, like as I was
doing the show, so you know, we were in it together.
So it's kind of like, you know, it's kind of
like this theater kids in that area where we would
kind of all get together. I think there'd be like
events we would go to let's all go play Laser

(12:58):
Tag or something, and people were be hanging out there.
And how old were y'all at this point, Yeah, because
y'all were young. Yeah, yeah, so thirteen or so, yeah,
I guess. I mean I remember I was like I
did it from fifth grade, but like eighth grade towards that, like, wow,
well that's that was the Broadway Broadway, So I feel
like and then we got into dream shoot like ninth grade,

(13:20):
So I want to see like thirteen fourteen. Yeah, I
remember like the audition happening when I was in eighth grade. Yeah,
the girls in school were freaking out that I was auditioning.
Well what was school like for you guys? I mean
y'all have been working actors pretty much your whole life.
What was that school life like? And did your friends
support you? Did you get some shit at school because
you were in Dream Street? Oh? I got some shit.

(13:42):
I went to a whole U. I went to. My
high school is an all boys Catholic high school. Oh yeah,
that's a hard crowd. Yeah. Yeah, that was especially in
the beginning, like before we had any kind of popularity,
you know, people just oh here was a great one.
My first day of high school, my principal found our
live tape like of a concert and that was the

(14:04):
first thing he played on every TV in the high school.
Look who we have coming to the school. That was no. Yeah,
so that was that was my insociation into high school.
But school, oh man, it was that was Yeah. School
was tough. I mean ninth grade. In tenth grade, I

(14:26):
had basically only girlfriends um and you know, all the
guys were like you know if that guy. Yeah, I know,
but you know they're all secretly like I wish they
were in the boy band, but like you know, like
you's got to like pretend, like it's not cool to
make yourself cool. I know. It's like the fans now.
You know. When we were in it, right, it was

(14:47):
girls and it was all fun. But now that we're older,
all the guys that are found like, yeah, I was
a fan. Yeah, oh yeah. It was so funny that
like you know, they would they would make fun of
you at one point and then like the next day
they bringing the their sisters album and oh yeah yeah right,
yeah yeah, or they're doing your song and like the
talent show in high school, Talent's right. All right, So

(15:11):
now dream Street is now fully formed. You released your
debut self titled album October two thousand. What a great year.
What was this period of time like for you guys,
because this was the height height of pop music and
you have a successful album. So describe your life at
this moment. Yeah, I feel like, I mean, the biggest

(15:34):
thing for me was, like I remember I would go
to the mall, like the mall, we go to the
local mall, and like girls would just start like like
has going standing outside of the store, just like staring,
and then I was like, whoa, this is crazy. It
was crazy, like once it goes to your personal life.
But it's true. We call that the mall test everyone,
you know, because when you become famous, especially like a
teen idol, uh, you just long to be normal sometimes

(15:57):
and you just want to go to the mall. Right,
but the mall test says you want to go, and
Sally Field does this and soap. If you want to
test your popularity, you go to the mall and see
who will like attack you or like want an autograph. Yeah,
I remember that. I also remember making the band Um
one of the seasons when we had like the men
and women group mix. They did not last like after

(16:18):
like a month and the show ended. Like he even said,
like I see a lot of you going to the
mall just so you can get attention, and he's like,
you better like stop like doing everything for that because
it's gonna end. And then if you're just doing it
exactly and then you're gonna be wanting that attention, you're
not going to get it, so you better focus on
the music. And they didn't do it. Yeah, and I'm
sure you're getting crazy amount of fans, you know, stalking

(16:40):
you everywhere, hanging out the hotels. Give us some great
fan moments, because every group has that that crazy story.
I mean, the one that always sticks out of my
head is just getting flashed in a Limo flash in
a limo. Classic classic fandom with my mom and the lid,

(17:00):
classic twins, like I want to look like my mom's
right here. I remember. So we did a mall for UM,
and we did a show somewhere. They just were not prepared.
They had no idea imagine what was about to ensue,

(17:22):
and they were highly under staff staffed. They was like
barely any security UM, and we were on stage and
it got to a point where like it became a
safety concern and they were like, we need to get
them out of here. So they like start taking us
out and then like I don't know what happened, but

(17:43):
they just turned us. They were like yeah, and so
we just started running through the hallways of the mall.
I'll never forget that, just like joking fans. Yeah, and
it became like an actual like stampede eat a fan.
I mean, it's probably really dangerous, but I remember like

(18:04):
turning the corner and seeing somebody be like, like, you
almost ran into me, and then all of a sudden,
like you know, hundreds or however many people just like
would turn the corner after us and making it into
the green room like that very last Well, some people
would think that would be so fun, but it's scary,
it really, and you're scared for the fans too because

(18:25):
you don't want them to get hurt. It was scary,
but a little pretty quickly, and then we're all like, whoa, yeah, Greg,
you know, speaking of concerts at the mall, you met
your wife Julie at the mall? Because how cool is
this story? I don't know if you read this, but
so there was a concert at the mall. He chose

(18:48):
julian Os to come up for like a solo, you
know how like you bring the girl up and that
up like becoming his wife in the future. What a story?
So like, how to tell us that love story? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
So she I was a sophomore in high school. She
was a freshman same school, and I had my eye
out on all the like you know, the fresh meat

(19:10):
that came into I knew I knew her, you know,
I knew exactly who she was, and we're as performing.
There happened to be some kind of like a painting
pro v modeling thing going on in the mall the
same day, so that's why she was there. And then
there was this big concert. They were interested, so they

(19:30):
just like kind of you know, was checking it out.
So each one of us would have a solo song.
On my solo song, I would always pull a girl
up on stage and serenader. I'd do the whole life.
Whoever screams the loudest, I'm gonna pull up whatever. So
I'm doing my thing. Um, the girls are screaming, and
Julie's her name is the only one in the crowd,

(19:51):
like literally holding her arms like this, and her sisters
and friends were around her like trying to like, you know, no, no, right,
So naturally I was I picked her. I pulled her
up on stage and did my little twirl a little
you know, hair behind the ear, singing. Um. You know,
she says like, oh yeah, I saw something in your eyes,

(20:14):
and you know she had she had a whole thing.
But that's so romantic. Yeah. The following week, we run
into each other in the hallway at school and She
was like, like, what are you doing here? And I
was like, I go to school here. Like she was
almost like, did you just come find me at my school?
You were like, you were like the malhanham On Tana.

(20:35):
I was literally just about to say that. I mean,
there must be wild. You're still actually in school, but
yet you're like in this boy band with all these fans.
It's a TV show. Yeah, I mean yeah, it's like
doesn't even seem real. No, I could you imagine if
you when you were in sync you were still in
high school? Oh no, I couldn't know. I could not imagine.
My high school didn't want me to come back. They're
like like, we're good because I because I left my

(20:56):
junior year and uh, you know I only had a
few classes left. Well, I'd like to walk with my
you know, class that I've known my whole life. And
they're like, yeah, we're good. We don't want you before,
so they would not let me finish that high school. Okay,
thank you very much, Matt. You also have a romantic
story when in dream Street you met your wife. Yea,
she interviewed you guys, tell us that story. Yes, it

(21:19):
was pretty weld. We did a show like in Pennsylvania,
that's where she's from, and like I remember, like our
this is like earlier on, so like producers were like,
you know, we got press coming, We're doing an interview,
and then I remember and then this like cute little
blonde girl who's like you know as like a young
girl comes and like starts to interview us, and I
just remember and we're all and the producer were laughing

(21:39):
like this is what they said. It's like, you know,
it's just like a girl, right, like a young girl. Um,
so that I always remembered her cousin that and then um,
you know, Facebook comes into into play a little bit
later on, and at that time, it was like the colleges,
Like I was in college. She was in college at
penn Stat and so it was only the colleges that
were in it. And then um, you know I slid

(22:00):
into her d ms per se you poked you poked her? Yeah,
in the Facebook actually a little poke here and there,
and then you know, and then um, you know, at
that point, you know, she was graduating and I was
like graduating going into the city, living in Manhattan. So um,
we kind of had set up at times, like you know,
let's hang out like this was. This was later on

(22:20):
passed the band and then we connected in New York
and you know, the rest is history. So I love that. Frankie,
do you not have a romantic story from your teenage years?
I don't. I met my girlfriend and in the industry,
but far after. Yeah, so frank he was in Jersey Boys. Yeah,
Jersey Boys, what a great Yeah. I was at my

(22:44):
theater when I did Hair Spray. Across the street was
Jersey Boys, and we always, uh, we would always moon
each other right before curtain call for the show Saturday night, right, Yeah, yeah,
Saturday Night mooning. Yeah. It was funny because I never
knew the guys or like saw the show because we
were all doing the show at the same time. So

(23:04):
it was like a year later finally got to see
the show. And wow, that's a good right there. All right,
let's get to two thousand and one, because you guys

(23:24):
are opening for artists like Brittany Spears. Uh at that time?
Did that feel surreal for you guys? You know, being
with Brittany and I need to know some good memories
from that tour, Like, give me some good Britney stories.
I have a good one. I remember when we opened
up for Brittany in Tampa, um, you know one. It
was like Britney Spears was like one of our I
remember Greg was like obsessed Britney Spears, like, you know,

(23:47):
it was like how are you who wasn't can we
do a hug? But like one of those situations and
she was really nice to us. She was dating Justin
at the time. But I remember we were all in
our dress room like right before we're you know, about
the reform and the bathroom and all of a sudden
warming up. Yeah, and we get a knock at the
door and it was justin Timber Like We're like and
he came in, um and he was talking to us

(24:09):
and he was so cool. We're like, oh my god.
You know you guys were definitely one of our influences. Well,
I was just saying I would yeah, this was the
Strings at Patched album we were obsessed with. Yeah, I
think Celebrity was on BP for every like every time
we're on a plane was just yeah, I feel honored. Yeah,

(24:33):
And I remember I remember he also too, he like
talked to us. It wasn't like hey, what's up, you know,
and then like I'm justin like he's and he was
honest with us. He was like, listen, like, you know,
we weren't having fun for a while. Now we're having
a lot of fun, and like that is the most
important thing to do in this industry, in this game,
Like you gotta love what you do. And I remember
that to this day. It was like I felt like, wow,

(24:54):
it was really cool. That was awesome. Yeah, I mean
you have to love what you do, and you have
to go through a lot of things, especially early on
in her career, and you know, as as team stars,
it's a lot to handle. So what was the family
unit like around you guys? How involved were your parents? Um,
since I were so young, pretty involved they had because

(25:17):
we were all minors, so right, yeah, probably more than
the average probably any other board man. I mean they
were there was always at least two or three of
them with us on their own. Yeah, But which which
parent was like the leader, because there's always that one
parent like ours was Justin's momb like Lynn, she she
took control just like it might say there was a leader,
but I will say that my mom was probably the

(25:38):
one always there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were all very ill, Yeah,
very very involved. Yeah, there was one like we had
we had a little reading and hangout not long ago,
and I think Matt was the one who pointed out.
He's like, guys, I think it's our first time we're
like away without our parents. Yeah, we went to Montana

(26:02):
and I shot that text. Yeah, and like you were like,
my mind is blocked. Yeah yeah, I mean, yeah, guys,
our parents aren't with us. Yeah. I think the fact
that we were coming up on being legal adults had
a lot to do with also why the group broke up,

(26:23):
because our parents were so uneasy about the situations and
not being able to legally be involved and be there,
and they were like, you know, I think I think
that had a lot to do with it. There's a
lot of there's a lot of factors, but yeah, well yeah,
because y'all went through Uh I think there was a
lawsuit because I mean, we all go through it. We

(26:44):
had our Loop Perlman, and it sounds like y'all had
someone similar the producers who formed Dream Street. Um, and
I know the parents got together and uh, I don't
know if they sued him, but I know that they
were saying there was a lot of like wide range
of conduct activities that definitely threatened and impaired your well being.
So what was and that ultimately led to y'all disbanding?

(27:07):
So what was that relationship like with y'all and like
what was going on? Give us the team? I feel
I feel like the big thing with that. I mean,
we can get into like a lot of the team,
but like the big thing was you know, I feel
like with what I read is like a lot of
these bands, you know, you go to lawsuit, you settle,
and you kind of move on. Like our band didn't
do that, Like it actually went to try so like
it like and like legally it was like you can't

(27:28):
really be a band, so um, you know, so that
was tough because you're kind of it wasn't like, oh
we faded out or you know, it wasn't kind of
meant to be. It was like, we can't do this anymore, right, well,
because they own your name, so you couldn't go forward.
Yeah that's what lu because we went to court and
it literally took an hour for the just to be like, um, yeah,

(27:49):
so those five guys aren't in sync, but you, mister
Luke proma you're in sync. She's like, yeah, that's so
we got our name back and we were able to
go forward. But for a while we were trying to
think of a new name for our group because we
didn't think we would actually be able to own it. So,
I mean, what did that do to you? I mean,
you're a successful band and then all of a sudden
business gets in the way, and you know, the outside

(28:11):
influences of management just you know, just make you stop. Well,
I mean, what did what do you feel like and
what did you think you were going to be able
to do after that? I think it's probably different for
all of us. For me, we have been kind of
running really hard for many years at this point, just NonStop,
and it was kind of a nice break in a sense.

(28:33):
You know. I feel like in my head it was like, oh,
this will this will happen somehow at some point, you know,
but in the meantime, let me just go be a
normal person, enjoy yourself. Yeah yeah, right. And then, you know,
there were some opportunities where it was a possibility that
it might you know, resurrect itself, and then it didn't happen.

(28:54):
But I don't think it really settled in for a
few years for me anyway. To be honest, but yeah,
you for me, I grew up playing guitar and writing
my own Musicum, and I always dreamed of, you know,
performing music that I've written and being in a band
and doing that. I was in a garage band. It's
growing up. So I was like, this is great. Listen.
You know, I made it to a point where I

(29:15):
have the support of a fan base and I have
these connections and these people. I know, but we didn't
quite make it so big that I'm necessarily going to
be tight cast as the boy vang guy for the
rest of my life. UM. You know, when you're sixteen
years old, you were already a little bit you know,
on cloud nine, and so I just thought the world
was at my fingertips, and you know, I was going

(29:38):
to accomplish every single thing I could dream of. So
I was stoked about it. I was like, you know,
I started playing in a band, I started recording my
own music. I was, you know, pursuing the career that
I really always dreamed of having. Um, you know, hindsight
is twenty twenty, Like you know that that point in time,

(30:00):
I was like, this is great, you know, like we
you know, I accomplished just enough to get me to
the next step. Yeah, and for me, you know, I
had always like I'd worked like really hard in school
and like for me, like college was something like I
was always going to do. So at that point when
it broke up, we're kind of getting into like senior year,

(30:20):
and I was able to play, like I played lacrosse
and soccer in high school and was able to like
kind of you know, graduate with all my friends that
I've grown up with and known since I was like
three years old, so like a latta that was nice.
And then I got and then I went to you know,
I went to college and that was really like a
great experience. I started like a band in college and
we played like all around Boston, so like I feel

(30:41):
like it was really good. And then m but I
do agree like it sounds in a bit a bit
later where you're like, you know, you don't realize that
you caught you know, you caught that magic in a bottle, right,
and like how it's like you can't even explain like
how it just can explode. And then to get that
back is like you think it's when you're younger, you
think it's just like, oh, well, I can start this, right,

(31:02):
I can do that. This is a once in a
lifetime opportunity. They don't really get that. And I think
that's a little while and like I said, you know,
and then you kind of keep trying for things and um.
But at the same time, it's like that that moment
in time and you know, hence this twenty But I
wasn't even sure if that's what I wanted to do too,
you know at that moment either because I was so young.
You know, it's like you're you're going to college, you're eighteen,

(31:25):
Like is this what you want to be? An op star?
Do you want to be into music? So I feel
like there's there's so many emotions that go into it. Um.
So you know, it's it's kind of interesting. I think
for the four of us, including Jesse, you know, we
were two left footed, you know, guys who would never

(31:45):
had any formal dance training. We're probably never really meant
to be in a boy band other than the fact
that we could sing. Um. You know, Chris was built
and designed and made for the root. You know, he
was an incredible dancer. Um, just just you know, was

(32:06):
really in his element. Yeah, So I think for for
us for it was more of a you know kind
of role with it versus like we've arrived. Yeah, you know,
like this is where I meant to be. And I
totally can relate to that because I'm I'm the Yeah,
I'm that guy. I was not built for a bad dance.
What am I doing? How? How am I here? Like

(32:29):
I can't dance? Oh god. I remember the audition process
where they would start teaching us combination. I was like,
what am I doing? Yeah? But it is so fun
after you're doing, like okay, this is great, Like I
enjoy this. I enjoy Yeah. Yeah. It was from learning
the carrophy that was just always the hard part for me.
I was like, yeah, all right. One of the best

(32:49):
things about dream Street was your style. I mean you
were the epitome of the year two thousand. You had
the baggage T shirt, oh yeah, the big the cargo pants.
I mean you you look up in a dictionary of
you know, two thousand fashion, it is dream Street. Now.
We did not have much say so and what we wore, unfortunately,

(33:10):
because we I think we're the worst dress band in
probably music history. Yeah, but it was like also like
super iconic for the time. Your outfit kind of because
it was so horrible. Yeah, but at the time didn't
really realize that. You're like, wow, no, no, you definitely realized. Okay, okay, oh.
I would every time they bring a rack of clothes,
I would always be the last picks. I'm like, I

(33:30):
don't care because this is all horrendous this and they
always put me in like the stupidest things and always orange.
Did any of you have like a particular color they
like to put on you? Because I was on the
orange guy orange orange, and our Joey was like yeah, yeah,
I remember, like like didn't Jesse like have like goggles on,

(33:54):
like act like water like, yeah, yellow, Like our unfortunate
scenario was that we did get to pick. Yeah, it
was you know, you don't have to admit that, you
don't have to. There was a lot of trips the
hot topic. I feel like back in the day, you
back to the mall, always back to the mall. I was.

(34:16):
I was the jersey guy, convinced them like, let me
go sports. We'll go to like eat City and I'll
put like a different, different sports jersey on. And so
I was happy with that because, yeah, I used I
used to think of myself as like the AJ of
the band, and I got into the I was like
the tank top guy for me and my like spaghetti arms.

(34:38):
But I thought I was so cool and I would
always have like an open button down and just like
the Tan with the just the one shoulder hanging out
like that was that was my my m Yeah. Oh
the heart drob yeah, which you know every every band, uh,
you know, turns into the character there supposed to be,

(35:00):
you know. I was like the shy one, you know,
the friendly one. Which one? Uh? What what were you guys?
Starting with you, Frankie, what was your m O? I
think I was dubbed the older brother, right yeah, yeah,
you're kind of like the way next door. Yeah, you know,
like the sweet, nice gentleman, I would say, because nobody
knew me, So what about you grab I think that

(35:22):
was the one that was kind of put on. Yeah. Yeah,
I was definitely like, you know, the more rock guy,
the edge hear, you know, the borderline like stripper all
by choice and and that's that's the worst part. Yeah,
I really chose that you knew you knew who you were, man,

(35:46):
you knew who you were. Matt, what was your your
I feel like I was like the sporty spice, you know,
definitely one of the sports route and like all sports
and Jesse, Jesse, he's two years younger than the rest
of us. Oh yeah, which you know at that age,

(36:06):
two years younger is just it. Really Justin was two
years younger than us because he was fourteen. But he
never we never treated him like he was the young
one because he was more mature than the rest of us.
I mean he started so young. So actually, yeah, that
was just very true, very same. Uh. You know, Jesse

(36:29):
was in many ways a lot more advanced than us. Uh,
but he was two years younger, so there was that
little brother thing. And then Chris Hard, I mean he
was the real pop star of the and the best
dancer for sure, which we already said, Well, I mean
that was well, I love that, y'all. Guys. I mean

(36:52):
you obviously you seem like you're still super close, and
I know you are close with Jesse. Um. And unfortunately
Chris did pass away in twenty twenty through COVID or
horrible COVID experience. Um, did that make you tighter as
a band when some tragic like that happens? And I know,
I think y'all came together and did a tribute to him. Um, yeah, like,

(37:13):
how how did you all handle that? I mean, that's
something you never you would never think would happen, right,
you know, he was so young, so you know, the
the two of us or the three of us luckily
lived pretty close to one another. So over the years
we stayed in touch with see each other every now
and then. But you know, Chris and Jesse are out
in LA it's hard to really ud be with them

(37:34):
and see them often. And so you know, for me personally,
I hadn't seen or spoken to Chris, and over twenty years,
I want to say, you know, um, you know Jesse
was pretty close to about the same as well. But
when something like that, when you go through something like
we have together, it's such a unique experience. Ye, it's

(37:54):
a bood yeah, And I mean, no matter what happens,
it's you look back at that time those of your brothers.
So I think it hit all of us pretty hard, unexpectedly,
even though you haven't spoken so long, you know. Yeah, um,
y'all did uh? I know y'all came together, Um, I
guess it must have been a virtual way of coming
together to you know, perform and as a tribute to them.

(38:17):
Who who kind of like headed that up? Like who's
the first to call everyone if you ever want to
get together? Oh? Is you Greg? Yeah? Yeah. I was
definitely the closest with Chris. You know, we had that
history even before Dream Street. I think it definitely hit
me the hardest. Um. You know, his family had actually
asked me to host an online funeral for him, and

(38:40):
you know, I had spent a lot of time putting
together a video and getting videos from everybody, you know,
doing that cover I actually had did I did that
acoustic cover myself a few months prior, and then I
had a whole bunch of people messaging me, oh will
you record that? Like we really like the way that's
sounded acoustic. Um. So it was something I was doing anyway. Um,

(39:04):
when Chris passed, it became something I had to do. UM.
And so I think you know when I when I
reached out to these guys, I was like, hey, guys,
I'm I'm doing this. I'm gonna put it out there
just because you know, it was my therapy. UM. I
didn't know what their reaction to that would be like,
but I was I was really um surprised that not surprised,

(39:27):
but just touched bye bye. It was like I didn't
even have to ask twice. UM. They were just like
what do I do? Um? You know? So I I
I a little basement studio UM that I basically just
you know, recorded it in. I had a buddy of
mine mix it. I sent it to these guys. They
all recorded. I mean I think you recorded off your iPhone.

(39:50):
I don't. And you know, considering that it was done
remotely and with very basic equipment quick um and very quickly.
I mean, Frankie, I actually edited the video. So it
was definitely a community, communal project. But I felt, you know,
really strong about it. Um. You know, I actually wrote

(40:11):
a song for Chris that I haven't done anything with.
You know, I've been writing, and I've still been doing stuff,
but more for myself and you know, like i'll write
music for my kids or my wife. It's not something
I've been doing to like make a career out of um.
But like, yeah, you know, I music is very therapeutic

(40:33):
for me, so it was helpful for me to release
it in that way. You know, I've even mentioned to
these guys if they wanted to join me on this
song I wrote for Chris. It's a bit of a
dream Street homage. So we haven't talked about it in
a long time, so well, I think we should bring
it up now because since you guys, I mean, I
would love that Frost the Tips got dream Street back

(40:55):
together for at least one more song. I'm sure you'll
get asked all the time, just like in Saint Guys,
when's the reunion? Could that be a possibility? I mean,
you are all close, you know, you and Jesse are
all close. What's the possibility of at least one more song?
I mean i'd say never, say never. I mean, who knows, right,
I mean, I think the big when Chris passed away,

(41:16):
that was a big wake up call for all of us.
It really did his home and it was like wow,
because you don't you just don't realize. Everyone gets involved
in their own stuff. Everyone's doing this that, and the
next thing you know, like he's gone and we're never
going to be in the same room again ever. Just
that like Hsue hit everybody. It just you know, I
think we all became much more, you know, much closer
because of that. We took this trip in Montana, like

(41:38):
two months ago. And I think a lot of that
has to do with the fact that, like, you know,
we need to see each other, we need to make
more of an effort. And it was like an amazing trip.
It's amazing time. But I do think that that kind
of like brought everyone back because you just don't you know,
you don't realize how precious life can be. So that's true.
I know we selfishly think that, you know, we'll just
live on forever, right, we have to. We have all
the time in the world. But yeah, you have to

(41:59):
like just grab life, you know, buy the balls and
just make it happen. Sometimes. Um, you know, I would
like I get I would love to hear a song
from you guys. So and I'm just and I'm really
gonna say that we're the ones who made this happen.
If it does, even if it's going to come back
to this interview. I see this is we put the
little seed in their head, right, you heard it here first, Yes,
got the frost and tips bump is what we call it.

(42:20):
We do something good, we do we do the Lord's
work on this show. Yea, we do all right? Who
all has kids in here? Okay, So we're all becoming

(42:42):
like family men. Uh okay, So Matt, you have, how
many kids do you have? I have two kids? Yeah,
I have. My son just turned to actually last week,
and my daughter turns five in two weeks. Oh my gosh.
How great ages, right, because ours are a year and
a half right now, and it is awesome. You know,

(43:02):
they're starting to like talk and run up to you
and hug you. It's it's the best in the world. Greg,
I know you have kids. How many kids you up to? Yeah,
he wins. We just got home a month ago with
our fourth No way, congratulations, Yeah you got seven four?
Well at three, but he'll be four in a few weeks. Two. Nope,

(43:26):
he's three. They keep changing every year. Yeah, but yeah,
I mean they're just like the light. Oh, I mean,
could you imagine if did y'all ever want to be dads?
I mean coming from because I don't know, when you
do something like a boy band, you kind of get

(43:47):
stuck into teenage mode a lot mentally. And there was
a time in life or I just never like I
thought I could have a family because I always felt
like a kid myself. And now we're at the age
where like we're having kids. Is this something you'll always
wanted to do, was to have kids? It's yeah. I
mean for me, I have three younger sisters. I was
always a big kid at heart. I was great with kids.

(44:08):
I always loved kids. Um, so it was you know
if my wife, as much as I love her, said
to me, I want no kids, like sorry, it isn't
gonna work out. So yeah, I mean I was born
to be a dad. Um and you know, I just
I just love love having kids. Yeah. What about you, Frankie,

(44:31):
kid that you know of I know how that tour goes.
Frankie's right now we have a we have a beautiful
little dog. That's about it. That's right, dogs exactly for
you know now that Frankie, you're a great uncle. And

(44:51):
y'all have kids, you know, looking at their future. Do
you do you wish your experience for your kids or
would you want them to be like no, kay, I don't.
I don't care for you to go in entertainment like
for me. Um, you know, I want to. I want
to expose them to music and act and like all
these things that I was exposed to. I don't want

(45:12):
to push you know, I don't think pushing is the way.
But I definitely want to expose them to all these things,
and you know, taking the shows or have them see
me sing. You know, I'm in a band, so we
play like local shows and mainly for the kids too,
so they can see me perform. So I think, I
really like that and I want to I want them
to see it. But again, you know, I'm not a
person that's like, you gotta do this, so you know,

(45:33):
I'm the same way. I like, you know, expose them
to everything. If I had a wish, if they went
to entertainment, I would wish there'd be a drummer or
something like that, because I you know, you're in the business.
You get to, you know, love what you do, but
you don't have to deal with the fame part of it.
And that's I think what I My kids can do
whatever they want to do, but I just don't want
that pressure on them because I know what it's like

(45:54):
and a lot of people just can't handle that. So
that's a good take. Yeah, to order my right, what'd
be cool? I want my daughter to play drums, though
I think it'd be so. Her name is Violet Betty
and I we named her that because I think it's
the coolest rock bands like name ever, it's like welcome
Violet Betty. Yeah if you don't want her to yeah,

(46:15):
you don't want her to be famous, but he gave
them stage names. But again, she's just she'd be the
drummer though, like you know, so she'd kind of be
in the bag, you know, not making all the headlines. Well,
I'm glad we've decided this for her. Yeah, I mean
she kind of has to be with a name like that, yeah,
as she kind of does. Um. So, Yeah, you guys
have worked so hard at such a young age. It

(46:37):
must have taught you guys a lot. What are some
lessons and your biggest takeaways from your experience with Dream Street?
I would say just the industry in general, or you know,
performing and singing and all that is. You're not tied
to one thing, I feel like, you know, so, I
think we've all been very fortunate to be you know, acting,

(46:58):
singing and uh in dream Street, doing all these things,
and then we find out later in life that we
actually really enjoy doing lots of different things, whether people
forming or you know, whatever the case may be, and
that you have different phases. I feel like in my
that's that's. Uh. The takeaway from me is, you know,
enjoy what you're doing at the moment because you may

(47:19):
not be doing it later and something else will take hold.
And yeah, I mean it definitely showed U versatility. Uh
you know, like right now, I'm I've been writing and
recording country music out of Nashville's joying a heavy metal band,
doing like heavy metal covers of Bye Bye Bye and
other pops. That's so he can show the shoulder again, right, Okay,

(47:44):
can I YouTube this because I need to see this
metal version of bye Bye Bye? Yeah? I will, I will.
I will slip into your DMS. I haven't heard back yet.
Link Okay, I never checked MS. I tell you you
need to check. He always is like yeah, I mean,
so I look at my dam's like, oh my gosh,
I've missed so many because I'll like go to your

(48:05):
account to look a mind on your phone and I
see all these messages from so many people. I forget
it there and I'm like, why are you not responding?
I'm just horrible. I'm horrible at social media. I post,
I don't read anything. I was like, dude, done, yeah, yeah,
just same. It's for my mental health. Okay, I just
completely just forget all right? What other I don't think,

(48:29):
gregor Matt what else did you learn from being in
dream Street? What lessons did you take with you? I
feel like the big lesson I learned was like you
just gotta keep putting one foot in front of the
other and just like you know, just keep moving forward
because you never really know what's going to happen. There's
highs and lows to every part of life. But as
long as you just keep moving forward and having a
positive attitude, like nothing can really get you down because

(48:51):
there's just so many elements and aspects to life that
you know, just to live in the past, like what's
what's the point? Right? Take you take what you learn
from the past, and you shape that past and you
have you know, positive experiences from it. But um, that's
what I've really learned. It's hard when you're young like
that to to understand what you were just talking about,
because you know, you're you're told that you were something

(49:14):
for so long, like you have to be this, you
have to be this, and you don't know that you
can evolve and you don't know how to pivot, you know,
and you're always just like right now, we're talking about
your past all the time. So you're having to live
in the past so much so it's sometimes hard to
you know, kind of like go forward because everything that
people want to talk about, even in my life is
just in sync. It's like that's all they want to

(49:35):
talk about. So I'm constantly living in the past, although
I'm always told like, don't live in the past, live now. Yeah,
but it's hard. But uh yeah, well, I mean basically
the same point is how monumental a moment can be
and how twenty plus years later there's you know, a
member from one of our favorite bands who want to
talk about it, and you know, like people still ask

(49:59):
about it. On occasion, you'll get stopped to take a
picture with somebody and it's just like crazy, how it
you know, in all honesty, it was just a blit.
I mean we didn't even get to really like go
like we were just like we were at the starting gate. Yeah. Yeah,
And so it's it's definitely a lesson that you know,

(50:21):
even a moment can really last um which it which
it has yeah, which has been pretty cool man. Yeah.
And I also feel like, you know, if something is
so good, Like take advantage of that moment, you know,
and don't think it's gonna last forever, like living it
And that's what I've seen, Yeah, because it could go quick. Yeah,
and it will. When you guys tell your kids about

(50:44):
your days with Dream Street, how will you describe it?
A lot of fun? Yeah, you know, my three year
old is actually really into dream Street uh and loves
listening to it and you know, wants to be a
rock star. Actually he's really into BTS right now. Who

(51:05):
is yeah, so uh yeah, I mean, look, it's it's
it's for me. It's about having fun. You know, we
were we were miners. We weren't like having to put
food on the tables or make a living, you know,
so like financially Like I don't even know if we
made any money. I didn't care if we did or not,
because that's not what it was about. And that's what

(51:28):
the adults wanted you to hopefully to get paid. This
is amazing. We could just all right, let's get some
frosted tips here. You all had to make a really
good first impression to be in the band. Um, and
even Greg was there, you know, spying on everyone. Um,
what tips do you have for people's first impressions for

(51:50):
jobs or relationships, uh, going through strong suit you know,
if it's a regardless of what it is. In our instance,
it would be singing, you know for the first thing,
saying what you know, saying you know, you sound good
doing you know, if you're going for some other kind
of interview, really push forward your strong your strong points. Um.

(52:11):
And also it's it's a cliche, but be you. You know,
that's that's what people want to see. You know. It's
so easy to tell when somebody's trying to put something
on somebody that they think you want them to be.
You know, so well, especially these days, I mean, especially
like with gen Z, I mean they're all about authenticity,
you know, because and I think it might be because

(52:32):
of TikTok and the social media. It's like people can
just really see through anything fake these days. Well sometimes
people see through fake things with people with comte. It
takes a lot more to pull the wool over your eyes.
Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know, do you research too.
It's good to be prepared, and you know, if you
can find something in common that you generally like, you know,

(52:53):
you know, or have a common interest with that person.
I think that helps. I remember, like my dreamshoot audition,
like I had heard that like Brian Lucue was like
a big Jets fan, and like I was really into sports.
I remember like making like a Jets chant at like
the end of the you know, end of my Like, yeah,
I was into sports, Like it was like the Jets, Jets, Jets.

(53:15):
It was like just fun to like do that. I
don't know, I think that that might have helped a
little bit. Of course. I'd say my advice would be
to do what you can to stand out. Um. You know,
when I auditioned, even though it wasn't fully real, Um,
you know, I showed up with my guitar. I think
I was the only one with an instrument, and I

(53:35):
was like, I think I auditioned with like an Elvis
tune and I was just shaking my hips and you know,
throw pelvic thrusting in the air. And they were like, yes,
you want that guy right exactly exactly. So you know,
don't be afraid to stand out, you know, and go
against the grain, um, don't be shy um and work

(53:58):
ethic too. I feel like, just you know, you gotta
put your time in. You know, well if It's like
when Matt said, with research and just be prepared, there's
nothing worse than showing up to something and it's obvious
that you didn't take any interest. Yeah, that's what they say.
Preparation plus opportunity equal success. Yeah, it's a good little

(54:19):
so true. All right, let's get to your fan questions,
because the fans are going crazy that you guys are
on this show. So let's get to travel Bug nineteen
eighty eight. What is your craziest fan moment? Oh? I
think we already talked about some fan moments, but do
you have a craziest fan moment? I had a girl
like Steel Grass off my parents' lawn, Like Patrick Grass

(54:39):
went in the same who pats Grass? Your mom was
like pissed. Yeah, oh my god. It's someone like eBay
Auction off of Yeah. We were at Ze one hundred. Yeah,
we were eating breakfast during an inter and we left

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some French toast and they thought it was a joke,
you know, as a joke that like we're gonna ebaye this,
you know, half eaten French toast off. And it became
a thing and it went for like thousands of dollars,
and I finally met the fan that got the French
toast and yeah, they still have it frozen in their freezer.
Yeah they did. Yeah, yeah it was frozen. I remember

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someone took photos of me in like a hot tub
like in California. R R. But I remember, and then Greg,
but I remember that it was going for like fifty bucks,
not a thousand. My grandfather used to be in the
phone book and we had the same name, and you

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lived two blocks away, and so they would he had
a running list. He would take down everybody's name and
over there he would like hand me the list and
like these people call him, like Papa, I'm not going
to call these people back. Could be a good boy.
You call these people, you know, when you check into

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hotel rooms. We'd always use aliases. Do you all remember
any of the aliases that you would use. That's a
good question. I know we used them, but I don't know.
Mine was always uh, I don't know. Mine was always
Ben dover fast Ah. I think my might have been
bon Joey. Yeah, that's when they exactly Joey. For tone

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would always use Who's the porn Star? Jeremy Ron Jeremy.
He would always use Ron, And I remember we were
in Vegas. I think it's a Billboard awards or something.
He's under Ron Jeremy and Ron Jeremy just happened to
be staying in our hotel too, so they were like
always getting each other's calls throughout the state in Vegas.
Joey Love because I'm sure that was a hero of his.

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All right, what other guys, Oh, yeah, we got one
from We just watched this actually before you guys came on,
so you can talk to us about this from Mexi.
Kiwi want us to ask you about your infomercial for
your CD. You were just watching it before. Do you
remember that. I don't think many people did infomercials. Yeah,
it was that the one on Nick Knows everywhere. It
was like a commercial. It was actually commercial and that's

(57:13):
really what. Yeah, that's that's honestly that. That was a
huge thing for us, and it was you know, no
one really did that. I think it was a very
thing unique strategy. It worked out well because I think
we were like, that's when our album sales really started
to take off. That so it's very smart because especially
because that's the girls going wild, right, I mean, infomercial

(57:35):
was the big thing the psychic hot lines, like you know,
like all those now albums, yeah, are the ones that
always had um and yeah on them. Yes, yeah, he
killed it. I don't see many commercial head but I
could imagine it's really good business, and like you said,
it really blew you guys up just from that commercial.

(57:55):
It's very smart. It's also like we were literally young
for like the TRL cur like, I feel like they
weren't going to put us here well because we were
like a little bit younger, um, and then we were
like doing a little bit of Disney, but that was
kind of like a good way to just like hit everything.
So I think that was part of ourselves is that
at the time, you guys were huge factreet boys were huge, um,

(58:16):
but no offense, y'all were old boys. Then the half
of the fan base, you know, the girls were twelve thirteen,
and they were looking up at these like twenty year
old dudes, and here we were like, yeah, we're your age,
Like I'm thirteen two, what's up? Boys? Yeah, So I
think that was part of the like allure of dream

(58:37):
Street was we were like an actual boy. Yeah, definitely
little boy. Yeah, exactly what they used to say all
the time actual they're actual boys. It's so true because
like when would you start the band? Yeah, you are boys,
but then by the time you have success, you're now
no longer teenagers an you board, We're still trying to
appeal to preteens out there. It's a little cappy if

(58:59):
you have to say so. Uh, did you guys realize, um,
what the Let's get Funky Tonight lyrics were about? When
you recorded it from Kimmy haph We definitely realized what
it happens every time was about. Well, tell us what
it's about. It happends every time when I see you. Yeah,

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it happens every time. It happens every time. It's magic
when we meet. Let's go, Let's go down on Dream Street. Yeah,
oh god, all the hidden messages and songs like that,
Like parents today like, oh my god, I let my
kids listen to that because so many and even some

(59:42):
InSync songs. I mean, we were pretty clean, right, but
I look back, I'm like, wait, that was pretty risky
back there. Oh yeah, digital get down, Yeah, internet set
before the thing. I didn't know what that what that meant,
thought too. I was very innocent at that time. Can't
believe you would make me seeing that. Guys, Oh my gosh.

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All right, uh okay, let's talk about Oh j Key
two thousand and four wants to know what are each
of you working on right now? What project are you
most excited about right now? Musically, I'm dropping an album
on four to twenty I recorded in two thousand and
nine but I never released. But that's coming up really soon. Yeah,

(01:00:25):
it's a good day. Yeah, that's coming up soon. And
then I have like other multiple albums that I'm you know,
like I mentioned earlier, I've been making music and writing
but really just for myself, and I haven't been like
putting anything out. I just hate that part of the process,
just like creating and making and recording and singing. I know,

(01:00:46):
the business part sucks, it really does. This part does suck.
So I finally was like, you know what, like who cares,
I'm just gonna put this stuff out. So, yeah, I'm
actually releasing a whole lot of new music this year.
We got this album on four to twenty coming out,
and then I think in the spring we're gonna drop
another album and then maybe another one winter. So I'm

(01:01:07):
putting music out. I'm just I'm just doing it that
has great. We'll be looking forward to that. What about you,
Matt for me, So I'm in a band and we
play I mean it's really a lot more for fun.
But we'll do like half originals, half covers, and like
they've been to the shows, like I've played like local
breweries on it's great. Like the kids come, like Greg's

(01:01:27):
kids have been there, so like to me, like that's
really fun. And we play like maybe like four or
five shows a year, So like that's something I really
look forward to. My kids love it, So I just
really like doing that. And then maybe we'll play a
couple of shows in the city. I don't know, and
if we record, who knows. I don't know. We're not
really putting like any sort of pressure on it, but
it would be cool to do something and put out something.

(01:01:47):
So I'll keep you guys posted if we ever get
to that pot, please do Frankie, Yeah, what you got going?
So I've kind of transitioned over into the more corporate
band scenes. So you know, we have a work for
a company called Stage They nine here in New York,
and we had a whole bunch of bands that corporate
events and wedding events. And uh, we also have a
fun nineties band that we go out with all the

(01:02:08):
time called Stiffler's Mom. I love it. Great shows. Yeah,
you can catch a stifflers Mom show highly right. Oh
my god. We have a great nineties cover band here
called Saga Genesis and they just played last Wednesday. So
Ryan Cabrera and Lexi Coffin is Alexa Bliss w W Star.

(01:02:29):
Their first anniversary was last Wednesday. So they rented out
my club Heart and through a huge nineties two thousand's
prom and so every way came in like nineties prom
attire and we had Saga Genesis, you know, bringing back
all that music. It was so much fun. Did you
guys get to go to your prom? I did, Yes,

(01:02:49):
I went to Yeah, I had a junior enteritior prom
that good. I went through a few proms. I went
to my own. It was awesome and it was kind
of at the tail end of everything. So we were
that was right when we broke up. Yeah, so like
my senior year, like you were saying, like I played,
I played on my soccer team, which you know was
always important to me. What was love playing soccer? I

(01:03:12):
never got to um, So, yeah, we kind of had
a little bit of the best of both worlds. Yeah,
you got you got to live some of your childhood
and you got to be in this crazy adult business
and become super stars. Yeah it was nuts. That's nice.
All right. Before I let you go, we'd love to
bring back an old teen magazine if y'all can see this.

(01:03:34):
Whoa Yeah, I want to see if your answers match today.
All right, so get back into your head. The year
is two thousand. It's a pop star magazine. Valentine's questionnaire. Okay,
so let's start with you, Greg. What do you look
for in a girl? Let's see if it matches? Oh boy,

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yeah right, I look for a girl whose name is Julie,
have a brown hair, to be border weak in and beautiful.
Yeah said, I like to have a good time with
a girl. Okay, that makes sense. She has to be funny,

(01:04:21):
funny like when she can laugh at my jokes. She
has to be funny like when she was a joke.
Oh yeah, okay, you're you're better. Let me read. Then
we can have a really good time. Also when we
have things in common. Yeah, I mean that's what you like.
That sounds like Julie. All right, Matt. Yeah, yeah, Matt,
what you say what you like? What do you look

(01:04:42):
for in a girl like her? And a girl who
I feel like? Um? Like? I said something like good
personality and like a cute face. Yeah, she pretty much.
You said she's got to be good looking, cute, and
have a good personality. I like a girl has a
good sense of humor. Look, it's you. That was pretty good.
Nothing seems is Danielle and her name is Danielle. Yeah

(01:05:05):
you wrote that too, amazing nothing changes in twenty three years.
I love it. Cranky all right, Frankie, what do you
look like for in a girl? Oh? Man, I probably
went with the same cliche, good personality, attractive, uh and funny. Well,
you said she definitely has to have a good personality,
has to make me laugh. Looks are always nice. But

(01:05:26):
it isn't number one on my list. Oh totally, but
it is, you can admit it. Listen many years later, totally.
All right, Now, before we really let you go, we
need to know your fans and you know what we
need to be watching right now listening to So what
are we binging on television right now? What do I
need to watch? We actually, Jess got into Yellowstone and
I think probably because of a montown A trip. Yeah,

(01:05:52):
yellow Stone. I haven't started yet because I went and
I did the eighteen was it eighteen fifty three? I
don't know whatever, whatever the how is that? It's really
her great things. Yeah, it's really good. I love it.
So I'm kind of watching out of order. So we
got Yellowstone and the other ones we have to put
on our list. Any other TV shows they can be
Formula one and anybody watching Formula one Drive and Survive.
He loves Formula One. It's actually my girlfriend's favorite show.

(01:06:19):
So I'll give it a world. Putting that down, we'll
go our comfort zone. There's there's a documentary series called
This Is Pop on Netflix, which is which is I'm
more into like documentary type stuff, but yeah, it's it's
pretty cool. There's one episode specifically on like the Swedish

(01:06:41):
songwriters who wrote all the stuff and this Pop Max Martin.
Yeh yeah, so that's pretty cool. I think appropriate for
this podcast. You did you did you ever work work
with the Swedish guys at all? So the guy who
wrote hit Me Baby One More Time wrote it happens
every time. I was gonna say I listen to that
song on my It's got that. It's got that Dennis

(01:07:01):
Pop Max Bard. Yeah, you know that's in every single
song that they write, like that has to be a yeah.
I mean he's his name is Jorg Yes, he was
featured in that documentary. Um so it's like for me
very cool to watch and feel like like, you know,
just a hand a hand away from it. How about you?

(01:07:25):
I was you know we what we watched last night?
We're starting to watch is uh Friday Night Lights? Ye?
Class so good? Kind of. I had seen like a
couple of seasons like later on, but Diane had not
seen any. So we started from like the first season.
It's so good. What's my into football? Now? So good?

(01:07:46):
Oh man? So good? Are we shotting out of music too? Yes? Now? Okay,
So for me, the thing that I've been listening to
for a while now is just is Dermot Kennedy. I
don't know if you get heard of this guy Dermitt.
His songs are awesome and I saw him in Brooklyn
Steel before the pandemic, maybe like three or four years ago.

(01:08:06):
He's from Ireland and he's got this like Mumford and
Sons meets like Ed Sheeran, but like really just like
killer tenor vocals um so, and he's actually playing the
Garden in June, and Dale and I are gonna we
got tickets that we're gonna go check it out. It's awesome.
I would highly recommend. I love I love hearing new

(01:08:26):
artists through actual artists, because yeah, I definitely I go
check it out. One of my favorites was Damien Rice
speaking of Irish guys like he's so good. Yeah, all right,
any any other music guys that we need to be
listening to. I love I'm sure you know. I love
Alan Stone, John split Off, Brooklyn Guy, kind of R

(01:08:47):
and B Souls, Titan love It. I mean, one of
my all time favorite vocalists is a guy in Mark Broussard.
I have seen him and so like that's We tried
to get him to perform at our wedding, I know,
and he almost and he almost did, but he had
a show yeah that night. Literally, I mean that's just that.

(01:09:10):
Just shul one of my good friends, purchased a cameo
of him singing it happens every time to me. Now.
It was really good, So DM me that video because
I want to see I need to see that one.

(01:09:32):
I tried doing like like a harmony over it, and
I was going to post it, but I just figure
out how to like kin get there think it. I mean,
are you all on on cameo? No? No, weren't you
on cameo? They said, no, thank you please? The fans

(01:09:52):
would love you guys. So great. All right, guys, well
this has been great get to know you. Uh you know,
I your group is a little young for me of course,
so I didn't really get to enjoy it as it
was going live. But it's so great to like go
back and reminisce and and see what y'all experienced and
the similarities that we all had, you know, doing this

(01:10:15):
as teen idols. Um, it's uh, is it weird that
people call you teen idols already? All? Is that like
something that you're proud of? So I feel like back
in the day we might have been a little bit
more edgy about it, but now it's like such a
unique thing. Yeah, nobody such so little percentage of people
get to experience. Definitely, it's a fun club. I mean,

(01:10:38):
how many how many boybanders are there? Even? Really? Right
now we're gonna find out on this show because there's
definitely I know we're running out of guests. Yeah, I know,
we're already doing the front the extra frosting, so we're
bringing in like we had Debbie Gibson now right after
you guys, I'm gonna be doing Tiffany. Uh. So we
have some like really fight like teen idols that go

(01:10:58):
along with the boybanders. But it is it's a fun
club and I like that. I actually had some frosted
tips spot Oh yeah, I mean it was a rite
of passage for any I wanted, but my high school
was so strict. I wasn't allowed to have any of
that stuff. I could frost my tips, I couldn't. But yeah,

(01:11:23):
it's the only way they could tell the difference between us. Yeah,
rusted tips. That's so funny. Well, Frankie, Greg Matt, thank
you so much for being with us. Please give a
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(01:11:45):
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I don't even know my own I told you, isn't
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what it is. Right, you'll find it, You'll find it out. Yeah, exactly,
all right, guys. Well it has been a pleasure. Y'all.
Are lovely, um enjoy your day, and I can't wait

(01:12:06):
for the reunion that we have created here on Frostaticky.
Thank you so much. Oh I am a dream street.
What are the fans called a dream street? They're called
dreamers street streeters, dreams streets. Uh, I love those guys.

(01:12:31):
They're so great. Like I said, I was, you know
obviously you know too just a few years old or
I'm too old for that group. And even I was
too old because I was the same age as them.
But like you know what, you usually like people like
a little older than you. Yeah, I guess you don't
want kid music, Yeah, you're like, oh, I want like
the cool and the next cool things, like the people
slightly old of you, especially when you're like twelve thirteen,

(01:12:53):
So like I was, you know, backs and for a
band that was only making music for a couple of
years together. Look at the impression they have made on
the fandom out there and just music. I know, yeah,
that's incredible. So I love those guys. There were so sweet.
I'll catch up with them again normal. Yeah, yeah, I
like it. They've they've definitely well, it's great that they

(01:13:15):
got to live a quasi normal life. It is like
they had like a blurb of like superstardom and then
but it was like quick enough where they can go
back into their regular life and it's continue being like
teens and then college aid skids normal. How cool? Yeah?
All right, guys, Well, that is all the show we
have for you. Thank you so much for your questions.
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