David Cassidy on the Web
David Cassidy Update
August 16, 2009
By Norm Clarke
Las Vegas Review-Journal
www.californiachronicle.com
Former Las Vegas headliner David Cassidy has gone full circle.
Cassidy, who starred in the hit TV series "The Partridge Family," has launched his ABC Family channel show "Ruby & the Rockits."
Cassidy told the KKLZ-FM, 96.3 morning show team of Mike O'Brian, Jim Tofte and Charly Kayle that he's essentially "playing himself as a former rock star dad who's getting to know his daughter."
Cassidy said he misses living in Las Vegas, where he played the lead in "EFX" (MGM Grand) and "At the Copa" (Rio). But he's "having a blast," he said, working with brothers Shawn, Patrick and Ryan. They are all behind the scenes on the new show.
In 1970, David Cassidy's No. 1 hit, "I Think I Love You," sold over 5 million copies, beating out The Beatles' "Let It Be."
Paul McCartney was Cassidy's hero "and the reason I picked up a guitar. I took no pleasure in beating him out in that category."
Cassidy later got to jam with McCartney before his first Wings tour, and it was "one of the true highlights of my life."
Asked why there were two drummers on the Partridge Family band, Cassidy said, "Well, little Jeremy Gelbwaks was let go 'cause he was a shin-whacker. ... He liked to kick all of us in the shins."
Gelbwaks left after one season.
