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Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Old With The ALICE COOPER BAND · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: I'm Neil the drummer, and these are my buddies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dennis the bass player.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm Michael the guitar player.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful, and you guys do form the original Alice Cooper Group.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome, Yes, thanks for putting up with us, right, all right,
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  Speaker 1: just send my two kids home.
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  Speaker 5: So I think putting up in you guys is going
• 0:40
  Speaker 5: to be pretty easy. So you guys return as the
• 0:45
  Speaker 5: original Alice Cooper Group on the twenty fifth of July
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  Speaker 5: with the album The Revenge of Alice Cooper.
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  Speaker 4: So, firstly, how are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm wonderful, happy, Yeah, rock and roll back in the
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  Speaker 2: saddle again.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. It is, it is. It's something that part of
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  Speaker 4: you always knew what happened one day, or was it
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  Speaker 4: sort of coming to a bit of a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: No, we didn't know what was going to happen. We
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  Speaker 2: we thought it was going to happen a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times over the decades and then it didn't. So this
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like another one of those. We weren't
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  Speaker 2: popping in a champagne until we actually were in the
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  Speaker 2: studio recording, and.
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  Speaker 1: Even when we were in the studio recording the mixes
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen till like a year later, so then it
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  Speaker 1: got to be I want. I want to see the
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  Speaker 1: album cover in my hands before I believe it, which
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  Speaker 1: I have now, so we we know it's we know
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  Speaker 1: there's Dennis got his.
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  Speaker 4: No ie, I look good looking?
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  Speaker 6: They Oh yeah, it's this uh British artist Graham Humphreys
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  Speaker 6: who does horror movie posters.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and this.
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  Speaker 2: If you'll look on his website, you'll see that this
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  Speaker 2: fits right in with all of the horror fosters that
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  Speaker 2: he's done.
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  Speaker 1: He did welcome him. What do you do nightmare? Okay?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 4: And scribbler do I cover it for the didgy make
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  Speaker 4: this week? And it looks right all that as well?
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  Speaker 1: They did a great job. Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How did you guys all kept in contact over the
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  Speaker 4: eaves or did he's also the guy separate wives off.
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  Speaker 2: In contact? I mean, I'm married to Neil's sister for
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  Speaker 2: one thing. But I talked to Michael whenever I can
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  Speaker 2: track him down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loose on the desert.
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  Speaker 4: We get.
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  Speaker 1: Chris. We've gone back and forth. Dennison there in New
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  Speaker 1: England and Alison Michael are in Arizona. So we you know,
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  Speaker 1: during the the years that have passed by, we've always
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  Speaker 1: gotten together. Alice, you know, plays on tour and he
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  Speaker 1: comes to New England, Dennis and I go see a
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  Speaker 1: show we've and that's all through the eighties and the nineties,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course, after Glenn Bucks had passed away,
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  Speaker 1: some things in ninety seven, some things led us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got closer and closer. And then twenty ten Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame that really pulled us together. And I got a
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  Speaker 1: home in Arizona, so I go out there in the
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  Speaker 1: winter times now and and that's and we bring Dennis
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  Speaker 1: out there. So we you know, we've been slowly working
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  Speaker 1: up to it with the songs that we had on
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  Speaker 1: the Alice's sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: My Nightmare two and Paranormal Detroit Story. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Bob Ezra in the studio, us all live in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. It's just that still wasn't a guarantee we
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  Speaker 1: were ever going to do an album until you know,
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  Speaker 1: just decided, but a year before we actually got in
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  Speaker 1: the studio, still putting songs together.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Michael, I'm just going to say we're the
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  Speaker 3: band that wouldn't go away.
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  Speaker 2: Alice would not leave. So Neil says, we went to
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  Speaker 2: see Alice's shows. We didn't go to see the show.
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  Speaker 2: We went up to stir up some trouble backstage one
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  Speaker 2: time one time, and the people who worked for Alice
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  Speaker 2: aren't sure how to handle that because one time we
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  Speaker 2: went backstage, and you know, Alice's touring band. They're all great,
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  Speaker 2: they're all really nice people and very talented, but we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to tease everybody, including people in our own band.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Alice Cooper way. So we were backstage and
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  Speaker 2: the three guitar players had to go in a room
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  Speaker 2: to tune up, and while they were tuning, then we
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  Speaker 2: opened the door and said, you know, the Jimmy Hendricks
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  Speaker 2: experience only needed one guitar player, and then closed the.
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  Speaker 4: Door, pretty going down like lead balloon good hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna tell you, like even on this album,
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  Speaker 4: like what's all right in the fact that you guys
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  Speaker 4: are all back together again, but it's still called The
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  Speaker 4: Revenge of Alice Paper like he's pretty self indulged in any.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he sold everybody off for years, We've up sent
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  Speaker 1: everybody now it's our.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Alice Cooper fans all these years. You know
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  Speaker 2: there's Alice Cooper fans that never had it easy promoting,
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  Speaker 2: trying to talk other people into becoming Alice Cooper fans.
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  Speaker 2: But they're still out there. Who would have ever thought
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  Speaker 2: that this fifty two years later, there would be this
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  Speaker 2: kind of a worldwide global reaction to us doing another album.
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  Speaker 2: But they're out there, and it's great because now they
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  Speaker 2: all can say yeah, yeah, and Yon, yeah, I told.
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  Speaker 4: You so, let's go.
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  Speaker 8: I have been the album actually musically, guys like you
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  Speaker 8: trying to keep the original seventies feel it again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a mixture of it. Just the way we write,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chris, It's just I don't think we never
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  Speaker 1: have a preconceived notion. Michael writes a song, Dennis writes
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  Speaker 1: a song. I write a song. We play for each other.
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  Speaker 1: Do you kind of like you know, do you like it?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about it? That's how we start,
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  Speaker 1: and then we get together and play. And then I
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  Speaker 1: play like Neil Smith, Dennis plays like Dennis down the
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  Speaker 1: way Michael plays like Michael Bruce. We can't help playing
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  Speaker 1: the way that we have always played and over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's gotten better too. I mean, you know, very very
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  Speaker 1: we practice a lot. We haven't just been put up
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  Speaker 1: our music. I mean I've got so many drums that
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have room for other things this day
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  Speaker 1: and age. But no, we've We've always worked hard and.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to play like Neil Smith, but it was
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  Speaker 2: a disaster.
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  Speaker 9: You ever go that, it's always a disaster because you
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  Speaker 9: don't have You have to have enough drums, that's the secret.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't. I don't even have one drum. That's
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  Speaker 2: where I went wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But you do a hell them a lot with four
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  Speaker 1: strings though, Dennis, I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he goes part of Alison Is show in
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  Speaker 8: Scotland about eight years ago and they had I think
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  Speaker 8: you got the original band come on stage with the
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  Speaker 8: band ahead of the time you as part of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. Uh. We did five shows in the
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  Speaker 2: UK and.
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  Speaker 8: Always had one of them, always had the one in Scotland.
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  Speaker 4: Right. He caught fire at the end of the show,
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  Speaker 4: something up on the top of.
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  Speaker 2: The yeah, yeah, right that and everybody was hoping no,
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  Speaker 2: but he noticed it. But you're the guy that noticed it.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't tell you until I've just told you now
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  Speaker 4: who got on fire one of the fire.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that was a fantastic show. I'll still remember
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  Speaker 8: to that day. It was fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That was just just us, Chris the original band with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Roxy. Ryan Uh, he's done some shows with us
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  Speaker 1: before pulling in for Glenn of course, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Alice went through his whole show. We played about the
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  Speaker 1: last half hour thirty five minutes of our greatest hits
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it was like a whole new set
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  Speaker 1: was starting. The curtain came up and we did the intro,
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  Speaker 1: this big dramatic intro to I'm eighteen. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: very very heavy version, theatrical, you know version of I'm eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: And the crowds loved it. I mean it was it
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  Speaker 1: was exciting for us and Uh in the final I
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  Speaker 1: think the final encore was allas to see traditionally the
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  Speaker 1: schools out the wall. Then the other the other members
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  Speaker 1: of his touring band came out with us, but but
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  Speaker 1: otherwise it was just you know, the four of us
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  Speaker 1: on stage with Ryan Roxy and it was powerful.
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  Speaker 2: That was a rowdy crowd.
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  Speaker 4: That you'll see that there was dumbers up. There wasn't it.
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  Speaker 4: It was like nine guitars something that.
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  Speaker 1: Was a good night.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't ask for a better crowd than that.
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  Speaker 4: Now, well we had a boy. We're still talking about it.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously good because I've read this album, like, you've released
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  Speaker 8: the singles Black Mamba and the Worldwide.
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  Speaker 4: So that's all the public set a chance to digest. Yet, like,
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  Speaker 4: is that a good stuny representation of what you expect
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  Speaker 4: from the whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, didn't we tell you there's only two songs on
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  Speaker 2: the album? I know I've had a loop of warning,
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  Speaker 2: Well there's there's plenty more to be revealed, and that
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  Speaker 2: we're getting there. We're in Hey, it's July first, so
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fifth, we're in the we're in the month
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to be released, so look out.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, thirteen brand new songs. Chris one remake the Yardbird song.
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  Speaker 1: That sort of a a tip of the hat to
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  Speaker 1: both Jeff Beck who passed away, and that's where we
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  Speaker 1: decided to do that song. And and and that was
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  Speaker 1: one of Glenn's favorite songs when the early Spiders and
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  Speaker 1: NAZ used to do Yardbird covers and Glenn did I
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  Speaker 1: mean the band, I wasn't part of the band then,
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  Speaker 1: but they were all you know, I knew who they were.
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  Speaker 1: I seen him and they did that song amazing. And
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  Speaker 1: then two songs the Return of the Spiders twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and The Titanic over Underture. So those, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: those you know have been heard before. But there's thirteen
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  Speaker 1: brand new songs on there, totally sixteen and I we
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  Speaker 1: tried not to have a single filler song anywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the album, as we always have done.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and most it like stepping back into the studio together,
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  Speaker 8: like did the groove come straight back? You know, like
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  Speaker 8: it was it like on the bike while they say, oh,
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  Speaker 8: was it a bit rusty?
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  Speaker 2: And no, straight we went in the studio to see
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  Speaker 2: if it was rusty, to get the cob webs out,
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  Speaker 2: but there was nothing. It was just we walked in
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  Speaker 2: and it was still there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And we had done that, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the recording one Ealysi's three of us solo albums, So
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  Speaker 1: we had been in the studio doing about three songs
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  Speaker 1: on each of those albums. So we'd already been back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all of us live in the studio the
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  Speaker 1: way we have to do it. It's never remote ever, Well,
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  Speaker 1: where we according to bedtracks to get that live feel
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  Speaker 1: and excitement.
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  Speaker 8: What was the first song he's jammed on when he
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  Speaker 8: got back together for this one?
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  Speaker 1: The first song? That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't Black Mamba early on.
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  Speaker 1: I have the list, but I don't have it in
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  Speaker 1: front of.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. We did them so fast that after
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  Speaker 2: I walked out of the studio, after the dust had settled,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't even name all the songs that we had recorded.
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  Speaker 2: We we went in with over fifty songs. Yeah, ron so,
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  Speaker 2: so we were kind of just deciding what to do
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  Speaker 2: next on the spot. So what which song did we
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  Speaker 2: do first? Neil has it written down somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm but I don't have it here. I mean, I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really remember. You're right, Dennis. It was a
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  Speaker 1: blur so many, so many songs that we you know,
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  Speaker 1: Bob was going to be happy to get five songs done,
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  Speaker 1: and we uh, you know, bedtracks to four five songs,
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  Speaker 1: and we got all thirteen of them. We had to
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  Speaker 1: redo one of them. That's when we did it. And
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  Speaker 1: Dennis and I met with Bob and Alice and in
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Nashville and we did Intergalactic Vagabond Blues. There was a
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  Speaker 1: problem with the drums, the drum mics on on the
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  Speaker 1: one we did, Yeah, so we had we had to
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  Speaker 1: redo it. And that's when we met the guitar player Yazzi,
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  Speaker 1: that Bob had found in Nashville, real hot Rode guitar
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  Speaker 1: player that helped us with a lot of the lead
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  Speaker 1: work on the album.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there was even a song that was missing
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  Speaker 2: that we had recorded and somehow it got lost in
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  Speaker 2: the mix, and luckily Neil had written notes and he goes, hey,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, we did another song.
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  Speaker 1: Really the album. Yeah, Bob didn't. Bob didn't remember that
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  Speaker 1: we'd even done this song. And I forget which one
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  Speaker 1: it is too. I'm not quite certain that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to guess, but I went back in my notes,
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  Speaker 1: and then they went to the studio and on that
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  Speaker 1: specific day they looked in their charts and they found
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  Speaker 1: the song. So, I mean, that was amazing that Bob
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  Speaker 1: didn't remember it or didn't have a note written about it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't remember doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I even remember Dennis, but it wasn't like this day
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  Speaker 1: and age. You know, I go, I kind of remember,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean I even came close to remember it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's face it, it's like way back then there
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  Speaker 2: were so many We had a tape recorder, but we
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: couldn't afford tape. So we would work for a ten
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  Speaker 2: hour rehearsal and come up with these ideas and come
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  Speaker 2: back the next day and couldn't remember what we had
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  Speaker 2: done the day before. It all had gone up and smoked,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: So Bob, Bob would remember them.
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  Speaker 4: Would Now you mentioned Bob a few times.
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  Speaker 8: We're talking about the produce of Bob and he's been
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  Speaker 8: with you guys pretty much from the start.
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  Speaker 4: Like how important is he to the sound of his music?
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  Speaker 2: All important?
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  Speaker 1: Critical, he had to be involved. He's our George Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob is part of the of the group. He's
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  Speaker 2: part of the chemistry. We all collaborate. Everybody has ideas
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  Speaker 2: for everything that we do. We discuss it, sometimes loudly,
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  Speaker 2: and Bob will be the final say when it comes
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  Speaker 2: down to a standoff where we can't decide which idea
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  Speaker 2: we like best and then we move forward. But Bob's there,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the humor is there amongst all of us, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's all important. He's a key part of the chemistry, and.
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  Speaker 1: Bob is one of the reasons that he's like at
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  Speaker 1: this point, the fifth member of the band, like Dennis said,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got to be in the studio, all of
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  Speaker 1: us together, Alice, Michael, Dennis and I playing live in
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  Speaker 1: the studio with Bob at the helm. And that's critical
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. The chemistry, like Dennis said,
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  Speaker 1: but it was also he's a master of the technology.
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  Speaker 1: In today's world, I wouldn't even know where to begin
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: knowing what he knows. And I mean he has people
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  Speaker 1: taking notes all the time. It's about as state of
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  Speaker 1: the art as producer as you can get anywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the planet.
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  Speaker 4: That's good. That's good. I think the biggest thing people
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  Speaker 4: are going to want to know about this, Like, I've
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: heard the album, so I can attest to it.
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  Speaker 8: But how successfully do you think he's attacted the rule
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: and not apologetic sound of the l Escaper band from
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have, Yeah, Michael, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: Question now you know, how much do you think we
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: have captured the field of the original group?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Lots?
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I mean it's still us and we
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: still go about it in the same way. We're still
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  Speaker 3: working with Bob. Glenn's always there with us and we're
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: having a good time and the rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. We when we play together, we can
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: play together if we're all still around in the future.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: We played against still going to be exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: because that's that's how we play, that's how we write songs.
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  Speaker 1: And then my interpretation of what I do you know,
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  Speaker 1: have my signature on it. Dennis definitely has his signaturons
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: as the bass player we do as a as a
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  Speaker 1: rhythm section. And then Alice of course with his melodies
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  Speaker 1: and his lyrics, and he he always he never fails
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  Speaker 1: in surprising us like he Dinnis in a while ago.
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  Speaker 1: He sometimes he uses the lyrics that we've written in
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  Speaker 1: songs and sometimes he'll change them. But he's the singer.
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  Speaker 1: That's his job. He has to be comfortable when he
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: he's got to sell that song and to do it,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: he has to to come up with great things. And
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: he surprised me. He surprised me when the when the
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  Speaker 1: when the band was was together, you know, doing schools
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  Speaker 1: out and billion other babies. Some of his lyrics, I
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  Speaker 1: just go, these are really fucked up, man. This is
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: this is good and uh and that's the way it's
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  Speaker 1: always been and and even today on this on this album,
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  Speaker 1: I just go, yeah, there's still I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Alice for not crossing the line in in uh and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: being uh in cursing or swearing, he can still make
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: some very colorful visual uh scenes and lyrics and some
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: of these songs. If you listen to him, I can
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: only see him on stage with what the staging would
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: be or the story around him. They come to love.
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  Speaker 1: It makes them come to life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Alice was as excited as anybody, and the excitement
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  Speaker 2: was and the us feeling like teenagers in high school again.
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  Speaker 2: Was there the joking You know, we joke around a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't but that doesn't seopardize the the focus,
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  Speaker 2: which is to make the best song that you can do. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But we just had a blast. It was so much
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  Speaker 2: fun and it was so overdue and uh, we're ready
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to do it again.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: It was almost it's almost like skipping out on steady
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: time when you get that we managed to have fun
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: in there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: That only year at the band guys like It's gone
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: down in history is one of the most influential and
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: controversial eras of rock bands ever.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: But do you feel like he's very ever controversial. Yes, yeah, intentionally.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Well that intensely. We I mean before I joined the band,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: before we changed the name to Alice Cooper. But there
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was there was always that element of doing something that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: was totally unexpected because we were all we all went
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to art class. Again's where I that's where I met
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Dennis and Vince, Alice and Glenn in art class in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona. And so we always
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: have to look at things differently than just the music
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I want to add to it. But then as time
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: went on and we found our niche, we came up
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the name of Alice Cooper. We created what Alice Cooper was,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and it was there was a dark side to it
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and a pop pop side to it too, with hit songs,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: which isn't easy to do by the way, but we
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: uh we we took the our love of movies and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: whether it's adventure movies like James Bond or horror movies
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: like Frankenstein and the Werewolf and Dracula and we so
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: we were influenced by the like a lot of musicians
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: in our time, the British invasion. That was a huge
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: influence in music in America, and so now now it
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was our turn to be influenced by it and turn
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it into something new. And as it went from the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: sixties into the seventies, and it was Vietnam War, it
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: was Charles Manson, lots of dark stuff going on in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the world, and we we hit it a really good
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: time that again we didn't think about it was just
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: part of the way we wrote what do we do?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: We break open pillows on stage?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: That happened. We were we were used at that point.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: We didn't have any money, but we wanted to do
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: theatric so anything that wasn't bolted in the show. But
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Neil and I on one particular occasion, the band would
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: get hotels, you know, and we would we would pay
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: for two people and then the rest of the band
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: would sneak in or whatever. And then when we got
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: to a point where we could afford to share a room,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: so so I might be me and Alice one night
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: and whatever, but it was me and Neil and for
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: some reason we were bored and we started like, uh,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: pounding each other in the head with pillows and a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: little rip happened, and the pillow and the feathers went there,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and so then we go, hey, wait a minute, you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: let's let's use it. When the next thing, you know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Michael decided, well, we can spray those pillows all the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: kingdom come with if I just borrow the fire extinguish. Sure.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And then, like Michael said, we stopped doing the feather
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: storms when Holiday inn Hotels went to foam pillows.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: And the other reason why I went to five pillows.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, throwing foam at the audience wasn't quite as good.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Did the same effect.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: We had to go to the Lawrence Welk bubbles at
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: that point.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Now I want to talk about the track What happened
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: to you guys? Would you Do?
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: Also features riffs from Glenn Buxter, of course, pasted in
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: ninety seven, so has it even possible?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It was a cassette that I kept in a good
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: place because good room temperature and away from magnets and
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: everything all these years, because I always wanted to finish
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: that song for Glenn because it was just an early
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: morning jam him doing this riff. And then I told
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Bob Eesser and I had it, and he says, sure,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: you know, with technology, we can clean it up and
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: use it. So Bob had cleaned the riff up, added
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a click track, and then the band in the studio
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: spontaneously on the spot, we wrote a song to that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: rift that we thought Glenn would have liked.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened to you? The name of a great song?
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: All right, guys, Before we got I was gonna ask
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: you one question. It's a bit of bit out there,
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: a bit of left field. But one day, when you
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: guys do decide to call a day and retire, what do.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: You hope the use scription would be on your musical seamstone.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Let's see when I retire. I am retired, not dead yet,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: but you know what I found about found out about retirement.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I'm working just as hard, but without a regular paychecks.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I've retired three times, Chris, because I got into another
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: occupation and residential real estate here in New England for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: about thirty years. So I retired from music, got into that,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: retired from from that, and then I retired again from everything.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But always been playing music the whole time. So that's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: kind of what you know, kept us, you know, kept
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: kept keep perfecting our craft, keep writing songs and hopefully
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: we'll do more in the future. But uh yeah, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: don't think retirement is a word that we really could
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: ever relate to along with the other the other phrase
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: growing up. So we're not going to retire or grow up.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That's forbidden after birth.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: After that, Rebird sounds a little better.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I go with I'll just got.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: A mental image set of your next album cover called
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Aftabath and I didn't like it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: So when you when you buy the album and walk
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: out of the store, you can't walk out of the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: store until you cut the umbilical cord with your teeth.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, hey, I don't know, guys, what do you think?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I think he should be in the band?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He's on something.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: Time with you has come to an end, unfortunately, but
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: it has been an absolutely pleasure get to know you.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Go It's the Revenge of Alice papers out July twenty fifth,
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: and it is a fucking good album. Guys, He's abouder
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: once again. So congratulations and hopefully come to Australia, said Australia.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yeahs Chress for helping us spread the word.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, no wries it all you guys, take care and
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: we'll see us s again.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: They we all my ones, crashing through the night, living
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: in the shadows, hidden from the light, in a direction,
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: shopping in our cloth.
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: Cose baby, when you're hungry, because jungle is long.
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: Running with the wom.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: S.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Maybe wear the wow the woes?
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah, where the wild ones?
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: We live in every town, We on the city.
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: Street, We move, be on the ground.
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: There is no change in us, and you'll suffer if
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: you try. We got the rage in us because it
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: makes us feel lost, running with.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: The wild woes. Maybe wear the wild? Who?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: What can you feeling? Rolling thunder? Who your mind? Dragon under?
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Can you see it? Captain? Happy at coming? Burning? Burning like.
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: We are the damn ones.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: This is the life with you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: There's no redemption, there's nothing left. Bose.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: If you see you coming, you have time to.
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: Pray when you hear the motors gunning.
• 29:04
  Speaker 12: Just get out of a wood.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: Running with the n the wa wold was? Who was?
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: Can you feel it?
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Roll the suner?
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: Lose your motheram? Drag your under?
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: Can you see kept hopping up? Putting bad? Would like
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: a bumping up
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Or