Reflections from Bob Gaudio
May 6th, 2008CelebrityNews24-7 has posted their recent Q&A with Bob Gaudio–the man who wrote most of The Four Seasons hits, co-founded the group, and sang on stage as part of the group until the early 1970s. Here’s a preview of the interview:
RL: What is the magic and the lasting appeal of the Four Seasons as the Jersey Boys? Why now 40-45 years later is it part of an era that’s bigger now than it was back then?
BG: That is a difficult one to answer especially for me. This is the first time that I have been able to be an audience participant, to sit in the audience and feel what they must have felt during that era of the sixties and the seventies. I have to credit the writing and direction of Des, Marshall and Rick. It is so well put together that I think it would stand up even if the songs weren’t that popular. I think it is just the show is so well done otherwise it is just a bunch of familiar songs.
RL: Frankie continued on and was the front face of the Four Seasons.
You had driven the bus, you created the bus, you built the bus and yet you are not anywhere near as well known as he is still to this day. Does that irk you, do you laugh about it?
BG: It is chosen place to be for me. I don’t know if I was side by side with him in the performance dept. if things that were accomplished could have been accomplished. There is an outside view that I have always had of our partnership. The 45 years of handshake. I think it was an important thing that I could look in and be a lot more objective. I was not caught up in the limelight. I still feel that way today. I am thrilled. I’m certainly a lot more recognizable now, but not to the point where it is hindering.
I’ve seen Jersey Boys twice in Chicago and have developed an enormous crush on Bob Gaudio both then and now. I did not realize what he meant to the group and what an amazing talent he continues to be.
In December of ’63 I was 14 years old and seeing this wonderful play brings me back to the best years of my life. Thank you Bob Gaudio for driving that bus..both then and now!
Comment by sandysue — May 6, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
“The way I see Vegas is it is like NJ without the grass.” Or Siberia with silicone. Ha ha ha.
Meeting Mr. Gaudio at the Palazzo at the 4-4-08 opening was was such a thrill for me. I was as tongue-tied as a teenager but I made him smile with a recollection about the Four Seasons from 1962 which he recalled too, so I felt a little less foolish. It was such an honor. If you know what I’m talking about, you know what I’m talking about.
Thank you, Mr. G.
Comment by stubbleyou — May 7, 2008 @ 11:16 am
I met Bob Gaudio the first week-end of “Jersey Boys” in New York. I introduced myself to him, and he spent about 10 minutes talking to me before the Sunday matinee. He was so gracious.
He was also in the audience in La Jolla for closing night. All during intermission, he signed autographs and visited with people.
He really is such a nice gentleman!
Brenda
Comment by Brenda — May 7, 2008 @ 2:54 pm