Sometime in the summer of 1990, I was fortunate enough to catch Gregg on Regis and Kathie Lee. I sat down to transcribe the interview (which was a bit more involved than I thought), and so far I only have half of the interview down. This interview takes place outside a studio lot, but I'm not sure where. It's definitely not in New York (where Live! is recorded). I presume it's somewhere in LA, but really, who knows?? (If anyone does, please let me know!)
To set the scene a bit, it's Gregg, Regis, a small crowd looking on, and a horse. Needless to say, there's a bit with the horse. That's the part I'm not sure how to transcribe because it's about 75% visual! If I knew how to make a .mov, I would. But for now...here's the start of the interview. Enjoy!
Regis: (the full intro was cut off) "The Young Riders" show, which is about six Pony Express riders in the old West. And here's Gregg Rainwater who plays Buck Cross on that show. Getting a lot of press lately, too Gregg.
Gregg: There's some stuff going on, yeah.
Regis: (holding a folded magazine) Here you are, one of the "Lookers" in US magazine. Says here, "Body Talk," he once got on an elevator with a woman, who pressed the fifth floor, he pressed the ninth floor. They got up to the fifth floor, and she didn't get off! She stayed on! He said (reading) "you missed your floor, didn't you lady?" And she said "I like your smile, big boy" [I presume some of this is ad lib on Regis's part...]
Gregg looks very embarrassed
Regis: Says it in the magazine!
Gregg: (to camera) I didn't write this stuff.
Regis: Ok, now let's talk about this "Young Riders" show. There's a lot of horse work in this. Where are you from?
Gregg: I'm originally from Detroit.
Regis: From Detroit? (laughs) Not many horses in your background!
Gregg: Not many, no. But uh, I rode when I was a kid. But it had been about -- when "The Young Riders" came up, it had been about six years since I'd actually been on a horse. Of course you go into the auditions, and the producers say, "So do you ride?" (pause) "Of course we do, of course we do!" The producers joke that the ink was still wet on our resumes under skills where it said 'horseback riding.'
Regis: So you had to take some lessons real quick?
Gregg: Yeah, our wranglers, Richard and Rose Lundin, they've been in the movie business for, I don't know, decades. And uh, we had ten days of intensive horse training.
Regis: It can be pretty tricky up there on the back of a horse! Any injuries?
Gregg: Uh, not due to the horses. I mean, we got off on hiatus, you know, and everything falls apart. You know, actually, there were four 'young riders' in footcasts as of a month ago.
Regis: Really?
Gregg: I being one of them.
Regis: No kidding?
Gregg: But no, I mean, they trained us well. So you just have to be smart. You just have to be smart when you're on a horse.
That's all I have transcribed as of now. Stay tuned for more!!
