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Revisiting The Curse With DAN JACOBS From ATREYU · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name's and Jacobs and I play guitar for the
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  Speaker 1: band to treat.
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  Speaker 2: You Dan, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me. I appreciate it, my pleasure, mate.
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  Speaker 4: So that's why you return to Australia in July twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five for run of dates with Memphis May Fire,
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  Speaker 4: starting in Brisbane on July the night before, hitting Sydney
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  Speaker 4: in Melbourne Adelaide and finishing in Perth on July fifteenth, Mate,
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  Speaker 4: that's a pretty good double bill yourselves in Memphis May Fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: We've never been down that way with Memphis before so
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  Speaker 3: and they've been friends with us for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: We've done several tours with them before the year, so
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  Speaker 3: it's alway fun to tour them, and it just seemed
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  Speaker 3: like it made sense and also too to come down
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  Speaker 3: and get to play the Curse and whatnot. And it's
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  Speaker 3: entirety it's a you know, it's gonna be a good
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  Speaker 3: time well.
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  Speaker 4: And it's built us as a co headlining tool, mate,
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  Speaker 4: So what does that actually mean? Does it mean you
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  Speaker 4: alternate the last spot of the night or you got
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  Speaker 4: the same same set length?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same, I beat the same set length we play.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're closing the shows every night, but it's
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  Speaker 3: it's yeah, it's a co headliner.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 4: And as you say, you're going to be celebrating the
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  Speaker 4: twentieth anniversary of your second album TOCUR, So does that
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  Speaker 4: mean you're going to be playing the whole thing right
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  Speaker 4: to back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll be playing all that and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 3: in some other treats as well while we're while we're there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how do you going to play in an album
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  Speaker 2: front to back? Bright?
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  Speaker 4: Like, when you write it, I can't imagine that you
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  Speaker 4: ever thought you'd be playing the whole album one day?
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  Speaker 2: So is it difficult to fit on like little nuances
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  Speaker 2: and stuff? Isn't there?
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  Speaker 3: As long as we have time, you know, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: you can try to try to put breaks and pauses
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  Speaker 3: in the right places where it doesn't feel awkward, or
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  Speaker 3: some songs just need to kind of go right into
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  Speaker 3: the next sort of thing, And that's just also just
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  Speaker 3: one way to approach it.
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  Speaker 1: Some bands don't even play them necessarily in order.
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  Speaker 3: They might just kind of mix it up and play
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  Speaker 3: them in a or even play it back to front
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  Speaker 3: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, start the last song worked the way forward,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I mean we're gonna we're gonna come
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  Speaker 3: and just play the album in its entirety, front to
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  Speaker 3: back and.
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  Speaker 1: Give it to you the way it was meant to be.
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  Speaker 2: What are some of your memories of micing that album?
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  Speaker 1: But oh man, I remember we recorded it or demoed it.
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  Speaker 3: I should say we had the whole album completely written
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  Speaker 3: and recorded in the order that you hear it on
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  Speaker 3: the album now. I mean it was like we just
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  Speaker 3: put the whole thing together and when we turned it
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  Speaker 3: into the producer to be like, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, is this cool, he was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's just record this. It was.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually pretty interesting how much the demos and the
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  Speaker 3: recording or it's just all the same thing as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to like chopping songs up or moving things around or
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  Speaker 3: changing the order. But we demoed it the same way
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  Speaker 3: it is on the record, which is kind of fun.
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  Speaker 3: And we recorded it up in Canada on in an
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  Speaker 3: area called Gipson on this island. Half of it was
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  Speaker 3: done in the studio in Vancouver and which is called
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  Speaker 3: Brian Adams Studio.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Warehouse. We did basically the repro.
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  Speaker 3: There and then some drums, and then when we came
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  Speaker 3: back when we were done at the end of it,
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  Speaker 3: for a week, we did all the mixing there, but
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  Speaker 3: majority of the two weeks of the recording, we're all
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  Speaker 3: on this island where we were basically like locked there
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  Speaker 3: to an extent, Like we didn't leave for two weeks,
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  Speaker 3: so we didn't leave this dude's house. We just stayed
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  Speaker 3: at his house and recorded for two weeks. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: go any like bars or restaurants or anywhere. We just
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  Speaker 3: stayed at this dude's house in the woods in like
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  Speaker 3: the middle of nowhere for two weeks. And it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of making us go crazy a little bit, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that kind of played into the vibe of
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  Speaker 3: the album a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I look it back, would you consider it a significant
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  Speaker 2: album that's his career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'd say that was the first album
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  Speaker 3: to kind of really put us on the map. I
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  Speaker 3: mean our first record before that, you know, Suicide Notes
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  Speaker 3: and Butterify Kisses. We had our song Lipclocks in Black and
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  Speaker 3: the Theft that kind of made some waves, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't until we released Right Side of the Bed and
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  Speaker 3: the Curse that like everything started to change and we
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  Speaker 3: could feel like our presence in the industry kind of
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  Speaker 3: escalating quickly. Yeah, so it's I mean it's at the time,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to know where it's really going as far
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  Speaker 3: as long term, but you know, in the moment, you
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  Speaker 3: could definitely feel something special was happening and.
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  Speaker 2: You released album since then might so how would you say.
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  Speaker 4: That, I try your sound is growing or change either
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  Speaker 4: of those records.
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  Speaker 1: There's I mean, I have several different ways I like
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  Speaker 1: to look at.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, one is, you know, every producer you work with,
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  Speaker 3: you you know, you get a new experience and you
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  Speaker 3: learn things tricks and and whatnot. And as well as
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  Speaker 3: just touring with different bands and traveling, there's so much
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  Speaker 3: that goes into your your own evolution as a songwriter
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  Speaker 3: and as a band member that you that goes along
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  Speaker 3: the way. So everything every time you hear another record,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's been influenced by even more things, uh for us,
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  Speaker 3: So it gives us more kind of vocabulary as far
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  Speaker 3: as you know, effects or the way we approach writing
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  Speaker 3: or I don't know, just the overall sound goes even
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  Speaker 3: doing stuff as far as you know a tray, you
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  Speaker 3: sound has so many different kind of arms to it.
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  Speaker 3: There's heavier side of us, there's softer sides of us.
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  Speaker 3: There's punk sides, there's more hardcore sides, more metallic sides,
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like with every record we kind of
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  Speaker 3: lean into one or the other, sometimes a little bit more. Like,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, we just did a thing called the Panoya Sessions,
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  Speaker 3: which is a you know, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: it's an acoustic record. It's like a reimagined thing, but
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  Speaker 3: it's it's kind of showcasing the softer side of our band,
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  Speaker 3: which has always been an element that we've always had,
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  Speaker 3: and this doing stuff like the Curse kind of focuses
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more on the heavier side of our band.
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  Speaker 4: I was actually going to bring up the Paranoya Sessions,
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  Speaker 4: which just came out recently, like it's songs of your
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  Speaker 4: own revisited and reimagine and chew covers on there. It
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  Speaker 4: is an interesting idea because, as you say, you stripped
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  Speaker 4: the songs back a little bit late. But where did
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  Speaker 4: the idea for that come from?
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  Speaker 1: Actually it came from our VIP meet and greets.
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  Speaker 3: We were offering trying to find, you know, somebod who
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  Speaker 3: can offer to our VAP experience at the time that
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  Speaker 3: was just a little bit more elevated and wanted to
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  Speaker 3: give people their money's worth and and get something that
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  Speaker 3: was unique and that you couldn't get at our main show.
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  Speaker 3: So we're like, why don't we just down a couple
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  Speaker 3: of songs and do them acoustically and it could be
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  Speaker 3: fun just kind of like just do a different spin
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  Speaker 3: on it, make them almost feel different, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: a totally different song, but at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: relatable enough for you know, it is the song that
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  Speaker 3: we're playing. So he's did this, and the reaction we
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  Speaker 3: were getting was just was really really well where everyone was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, man, this is awesome. I didn't know you guys
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  Speaker 1: could do this.
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  Speaker 3: You guys should put something out like this where oh
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  Speaker 3: maybe maybe we will. And after getting that response enough,
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  Speaker 3: we're like, okay, you know, let's let's just have some
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  Speaker 3: fun with this and put this out just as like
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  Speaker 3: a fun project, you know, not necessarily like a this
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  Speaker 3: is the new direction of the band or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: or we're trying to become some you know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: super chill loungee band or anything like that. But it
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  Speaker 3: was it was more just like, let's just do something
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  Speaker 3: fun that kind of lays off of a side of
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  Speaker 3: us that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't get to see.
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  Speaker 2: And what was your selection process for songs on that?
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  Speaker 4: Like I kind of imagine that every song you've done
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  Speaker 4: would fit that treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was.
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  Speaker 3: I mean some of them are you know, singles that
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  Speaker 3: were just like kind of bigger songs throughout our career
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  Speaker 3: that even just the structurally or the melodies and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: felt like we could really convert them over and do
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  Speaker 3: a different style, you know, a lot easier to where
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  Speaker 3: it would translate and make sense.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Even picking uh, you know, even like the cover songs
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot, we wanted to both of those because because
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  Speaker 3: the record has this kind of somber feel to it,
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  Speaker 3: we chose both, you know, an Audio Slave song and
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  Speaker 3: also a Tom Petty song, both artists that have passed away,
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  Speaker 3: or Chris Cornell in particular, and we wanted the songs
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  Speaker 3: to kind of be a nod to them, and also
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  Speaker 3: we wanted you to be able to feel the loss
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  Speaker 3: of them in the songs, like feel that they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: we wanted them to feel kind of slower and sad
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  Speaker 3: in a way. So that was kind of the approach
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  Speaker 3: to those two songs, and.
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  Speaker 1: They sound beautiful like that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's just like a like it
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  Speaker 3: it feels appropriate given you know, the type of music
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  Speaker 3: that they were doing, as well as you know, them
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  Speaker 3: not being here anymore. Yeah, but yeah, everything else is
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  Speaker 3: just songs and you're just whatever kind of felt good,
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  Speaker 3: where like this song feels good. And also just having
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  Speaker 3: a variety across you know, most of our records to
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  Speaker 3: really kind of give people a nice career spanning taste
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  Speaker 3: of things.
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  Speaker 4: And then did fans respond to it the way you
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  Speaker 4: thought they would or I hope they would?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you get you get you're like like
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  Speaker 3: anything you put out you're gonna have. You know, half
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna be like this is the greatest thing ever,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have other half people are like, you
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  Speaker 3: guys are pussies?
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  Speaker 1: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: This isn't this isn't this isn't the a train you
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  Speaker 3: I know, But it's like it's not supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: like that's not what it is. It's it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: about us, like like like I said, we're not trying
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  Speaker 3: to like become that or anything. It was just like
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  Speaker 3: a fun thing to do because you know it's it
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  Speaker 3: is it, you know it is a part of us.
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  Speaker 4: I guess in one way or another before I let
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  Speaker 4: you go, mate, We've got a new segment called photo Bomb,
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  Speaker 4: where basically I troll through your social media before I
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  Speaker 4: chat with you.
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  Speaker 2: Pick you out a couple of fighter all right.
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  Speaker 4: The first one I've found is this one, like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure if you guys are actually enjoying itselves, having fun,
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  Speaker 4: if you're in pain.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is I believe this is might even
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  Speaker 3: be in aus Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Honest, I got green hair or billow share. When was this?
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  Speaker 3: This is well, this is on our last run of touring,
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  Speaker 3: so it might be. Maybe it wasn't Australia in Australia,
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  Speaker 3: it's in Europe UK. But we uh we we like
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  Speaker 3: to have a good time all the time, and this
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  Speaker 3: is a you know, this is us. You know, a
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  Speaker 3: few drinks deep and a few songs in and we
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  Speaker 3: start getting extra friendly.
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  Speaker 2: You look like you know, capra shaw I at a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of no, not one bit.
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  Speaker 4: And the other one I've found is this fun. I
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  Speaker 4: want to know what's going on here. It looks like
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so this is some sort of pre show. We're
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  Speaker 3: singing harmonies right now. Yeah, we have a we have
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  Speaker 3: a thing that we do the called teer jerkers. It's
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  Speaker 3: actually something that we learned from the good Charlotte guys
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  Speaker 3: years ago, back in like I mean like twenty years
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  Speaker 3: ago and like warped Tour kind of thing. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a thing called it's basically just a small
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  Speaker 3: shot and what we do if we want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: initiate a teer jerker before we're playing, someone will just
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  Speaker 3: go tea.
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  Speaker 1: Or any in any k tea or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 3: And as soon as somebody hears that, anybody that wants
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  Speaker 3: a shot has to jump in with a harmony.
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  Speaker 1: So we eventually ends up the thing.
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  Speaker 3: We're all singing these harmonized you know, the four or
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  Speaker 3: five six parts, spending how many people want to get
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  Speaker 3: in harmonies, which then you pour shots for all those
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  Speaker 3: people and do teer jerkers.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's super.
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  Speaker 4: Fun alright, By any any messages Perstryan fans before you
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  Speaker 4: come out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we we always love seeing you guys and coming
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  Speaker 3: out and playing for everyone it's it's one of the
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  Speaker 3: funnest places to play in the world and one of
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  Speaker 3: the best countries to visit in jen as a getting
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  Speaker 3: to be a tourist on our tourist side of being
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  Speaker 3: a band, So we're excited and appreciate everyone you know
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  Speaker 3: who's stuck around for twenty five years of our band's
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  Speaker 3: career and ready to get some more of it.