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Has Vinnie Vincent’s Comeback Already Run Its Course? (2018 Archive) · Classic Metal Show

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SPEAKER_02: Hey everyone, this is John Keeble from Warbringer, and you're watching CMS-TV.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Bombay Black right here on your classic metal show.
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SPEAKER_00: That's something from their latest release called Psychomagnet,
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SPEAKER_00: and the name of that tune there is called Head Full of Hate.
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SPEAKER_00: And Chris,
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SPEAKER_00: believe it or not,
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SPEAKER_00: if you had a drummer already, I'd tell you who we had on the line with us.
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SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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SPEAKER_00: We have the one and only Eric Johnson on the show.
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SPEAKER_03: The guitar virtuoso guy?
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SPEAKER_03: The G3 guy?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's him.
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SPEAKER_00: No, it's not him.
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SPEAKER_00: It's his imposter.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the Eric Johnson that's a member of Bombay Black.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not the Eric Johnson, just the Eric Johnson.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: And we want to welcome him back to the Classic Metal Show.
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SPEAKER_00: So, how you doing there, Eric?
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SPEAKER_01: Beautifully.
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SPEAKER_00: How are you guys, Ben?
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SPEAKER_00: We're good.
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SPEAKER_00: We're good.
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SPEAKER_00: We're glad to see that Bombay Black is still out there doing what they do.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not a flash in the pan, a one and done type of band.
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SPEAKER_00: This is your, what, your third release now?
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SPEAKER_01: This will be our fourth.
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SPEAKER_00: Your fourth.
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SPEAKER_01: Third studio release, but our fourth actual release.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, well, hey, correct me if I'm wrong, and you did.
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SPEAKER_00: This is your third studio release,
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SPEAKER_00: Psycho Magnet, and you got to work with a big-time producer this time.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we got lucky on this one.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually,
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SPEAKER_01: he got in touch with us,
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SPEAKER_01: strangely enough,
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SPEAKER_01: through MySpace,
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SPEAKER_01: which got the ultimate indispensable pool of musicians in the 21st century, but...
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SPEAKER_01: He emailed us and said, you know, hey, guys, you sound really good.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd really like to maybe do a couple of remixes for you.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, well, screw that.
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SPEAKER_01: Why don't you just do a whole record with us?
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SPEAKER_01: Let's take the opportunity and make use of the opportunity being presented.
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SPEAKER_01: So we went and talked to Darth Kivel over at the Evil Kivel Empire.
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SPEAKER_01: That's Kivel Records,
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SPEAKER_01: by the way,
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SPEAKER_01: in case you guys are just...
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SPEAKER_00: And you are talking about award-winning producer Bo Hill as well.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And we talked to John, like, John, Bo wants to do a record.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like, fine, make me an album.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now he's listening and laughing his ass off.
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SPEAKER_01: It's great.
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SPEAKER_01: So anyway, we called Bo.
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SPEAKER_01: We set everything up.
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SPEAKER_01: He flew down to Little Rock to catch one of our shows and hung out at our studio for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: And we talked shop and threw some ideas around.
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SPEAKER_01: And pretty much we cut everything in our studio.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we'd send it to him, and he'd say, hey, this is cool, or let's try this, or whatnot.
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SPEAKER_01: There's really not a whole lot of changes on his end.
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SPEAKER_01: I think pretty much what you hear is what we came up with first go-around, generally speaking.
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SPEAKER_01: So we got it done.
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SPEAKER_01: He did the mixing and mastering, and now it's out.
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SPEAKER_03: Very cool, Matt.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, Eric,
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SPEAKER_03: obviously, man,
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SPEAKER_03: Psycho Magnet is,
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SPEAKER_03: at least in my ears,
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SPEAKER_03: and tell me if I'm wrong,
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SPEAKER_03: but it seems like it's a little bit of a departure from what you guys were doing in
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SPEAKER_03: the past.
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SPEAKER_03: It seemed like the previous albums had a little bit more of the 80s tinge to it,
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SPEAKER_03: where now you guys are just really becoming more of a straight-ahead metal band.
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SPEAKER_03: Is that how you guys see it?
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SPEAKER_01: God, I hope so.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't get me wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: I love my 80s.
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SPEAKER_01: I grew up on that, but
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SPEAKER_01: I'm trying not to have us pigeonholed into,
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SPEAKER_01: oh, well, they're just trying to cop the old lady's vibe.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be another darkness.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't want to have one record and nobody cares anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: I definitely want to stretch that way.
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SPEAKER_01: I know that our guitar player and drummer Jim and Rob are both old school metalheads
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SPEAKER_01: from back in the day.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact,
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SPEAKER_01: sometimes we have to beat Jim with a boat paddle
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SPEAKER_01: because he'll start copping dime bag licks right in the middle of practice.
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SPEAKER_01: And I know it would make him a lot happier if we went that direction,
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SPEAKER_01: and I think eventually we'll be there,
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SPEAKER_01: but my voice can't hold up to that kind of abuse.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's still got to be on the melodic end of things.
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SPEAKER_03: And that's the one thing about this record.
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SPEAKER_03: While you guys did seem to heavy it up a little bit,
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SPEAKER_03: you didn't do so in the way that most bands do,
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SPEAKER_03: where you started growling and started importing a bunch of down-tuned,
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SPEAKER_03: You know, D-riffs instead of actually still playing.
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SPEAKER_03: You just took the songs and made them a little bit heavier.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that really was the whole idea.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't want to have to learn how to play a seven-string if I can avoid it just
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SPEAKER_01: because I'm set in my ways.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm old and stodgy.
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SPEAKER_01: But, you know,
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SPEAKER_01: just the challenge also of learning to transpose all that stuff
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SPEAKER_01: to make it sound heavy but playing it in different positions instead of just taking
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SPEAKER_01: the obvious way out and retuning everything.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought that was just fun for us to try and pull that off.
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SPEAKER_01: And the whole growling thing, I mean, if we started doing that, everybody does that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's been there, done that, it's over.
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SPEAKER_01: For me, it's just not the way I want to go.
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SPEAKER_01: Plus, I do a lot of freelance voice work,
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SPEAKER_01: and if I spend shows just, I mean, I'm not going to make any more money.
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SPEAKER_01: No one's going to hire me after that.
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SPEAKER_01: So I've got to take care of my voice as best as I can.
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SPEAKER_03: Right.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, dude,
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SPEAKER_03: with Psycho Magnet and with the other records,
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SPEAKER_03: the one consistent thread is that you guys,
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SPEAKER_03: and I'm assuming it's you,
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SPEAKER_03: because I'm assuming you write most of the lyrics,
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SPEAKER_03: you can't find a relationship that works to save your life, man.
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SPEAKER_03: Every single record is about awful relationships.
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SPEAKER_01: But it makes for good music.
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SPEAKER_01: Good point.
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SPEAKER_01: That's an important thing.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: Psycho Magnet still is along that trend,
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SPEAKER_01: but we have our first Semi-hopeful ballad with If Only on that album.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's that one, which has kind of a wistful tinge, but it's not totally a downer.
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SPEAKER_01: We have Knock You Down,
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SPEAKER_01: which I was watching Britney watch,
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SPEAKER_01: and it just, I don't know, it hit me all of a sudden.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know how it happened, but ten minutes later, the song was written.
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SPEAKER_01: Beats me.
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SPEAKER_01: We actually have our first party song on this record about the Shag Palace.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of female nudity.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, we're all about the nudity.
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SPEAKER_01: It's beautiful.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, it's a two-college town.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you expect?
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: So we had Bo Hill on the show here on the Classic Metal Show a couple of months ago,
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SPEAKER_00: and he was quite a pleasant interview,
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SPEAKER_00: and he was actually flattered that somebody asked to interview him.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, you said you recorded your stuff in your studio there and sent it to Bo,
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SPEAKER_00: so you didn't work with him directly,
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SPEAKER_00: or he worked with your tracks, or how did that work out?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, what we would do is we would record the basic ideas.
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SPEAKER_01: We'd send it off to him, because really a producer's role is not to...
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SPEAKER_01: Not always physically there.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, you look at Bob Rock, you have your producer, and then you have your engineer.
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SPEAKER_01: The engineer is the guy who sits down and gets the sounds,
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SPEAKER_01: and he's the one who does all the legwork.
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SPEAKER_01: The producer's saying, okay, well,
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SPEAKER_01: let's throw an AKG-41 on the kick,
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SPEAKER_01: and let's throw an SM-57 on the snare,
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SPEAKER_01: and try playing it this way,
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SPEAKER_01: or let's, why don't you try throwing some pillows in there.
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SPEAKER_01: He's kind of the director where you have He's saying what to do and supervising
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SPEAKER_01: the thing, and the engineer is the one who actually does the work.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's how we did that.
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SPEAKER_01: And him and Ty had a lot of time to talk and swap notes and compare mics and everything else.
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SPEAKER_01: So pretty much that's how that came together.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, in the past,
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SPEAKER_00: we've talked to the way that Bo was describing it,
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SPEAKER_00: and a lot of the bands have been describing it.
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SPEAKER_00: We speak with Steven Piercy quite often,
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SPEAKER_00: and he gave us his lowdown about working with Bo in the past.
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SPEAKER_00: And he said that Bo almost became the sixth member of RAT with as much input
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SPEAKER_00: and direction as he had with the RAT sound and the RAT image and whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: So I was wondering if he did the same thing for recording this new Bombay Black release.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, just...
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SPEAKER_01: When he came in,
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SPEAKER_01: we had a totally different setup as far as how we used our monitors,
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SPEAKER_01: how we mic'd certain things,
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SPEAKER_01: what mics we used, different techniques that we had never even thought about before.
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SPEAKER_01: And he came and said, well, have you guys tried this?
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SPEAKER_01: And again, it was the same old thing.
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SPEAKER_01: He's saying, hey,
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SPEAKER_01: try this,
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SPEAKER_01: throw this in here,
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SPEAKER_01: see if you can mix these two things together,
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SPEAKER_01: see how that sounds, go for this tone and that kind of thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And it was really, literally, it was directing us toward a final mix.
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SPEAKER_00: So, the end result, are you happy with it?
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SPEAKER_00: Is this the best end result that you were expecting,
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SPEAKER_00: or did it turn out better than you had hoped, or what?
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SPEAKER_01: I honestly did not have any preconceived notions,
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SPEAKER_01: because I didn't want to have it built up in my head one way and
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SPEAKER_01: then see it go another and go, you know, it's like the new Indiana Jones movie.
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SPEAKER_01: I went in there thinking it was going to be one thing,
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SPEAKER_01: and it went totally off kilter on something else.
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SPEAKER_01: So when it came to this,
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SPEAKER_01: I pretty much just sat back and said,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: Bo's going to do his thing,
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SPEAKER_01: and I'll just unplug my brain and enjoy it for what it is,
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SPEAKER_01: and it turned out fantastic.
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SPEAKER_01: I was thinking, okay, it's going to be better than before, but I love it, absolutely love it.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, Eric,
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SPEAKER_03: you know,
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SPEAKER_03: with the new record,
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SPEAKER_03: the one thing I noticed on Psycho Magnet is you guys,
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SPEAKER_03: specifically yourself and Ty, and what's your drummer's name?
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SPEAKER_03: Rob.
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SPEAKER_03: And Rob.
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SPEAKER_03: Rob and Ty especially are much bigger in the mix, and your guitars are definitely...
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SPEAKER_03: Very loud and very boisterous.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm curious,
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SPEAKER_03: when you're working on a project with this and you're working with a producer like
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SPEAKER_03: that,
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SPEAKER_03: do you go out and look for different gear or does a guy like Beau
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SPEAKER_03: and yourselves just find new ways to present the sound that you capture from
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SPEAKER_03: the gear that you had?
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SPEAKER_01: Really, I think it's more the latter.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's merely just taking what we have to work with and just looking at it
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SPEAKER_01: in different ways.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, we have very set ideas.
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SPEAKER_01: You take this mic,
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SPEAKER_01: you set it up in this position,
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SPEAKER_01: and there's your sound where Bo was coming in and saying,
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SPEAKER_01: well, try this mic, but set it at this angle or put it at this distance.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's so many different tricks to getting the sound.
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SPEAKER_01: Part of recording drums in particular, it's an art.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not a science, it's an art.
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SPEAKER_01: And what may look great on paper, theoretically, may not work.
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SPEAKER_01: The end result is what comes out of those speakers.
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SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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SPEAKER_01: And you try some different stuff and somehow it works.
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SPEAKER_01: You're standing back going, I don't know why it works, but it works.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_03: Now, I'll be the first one to admit to you, Eric,
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SPEAKER_03: I'm not a musician that can listen to something and tell what kind of tone you get
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SPEAKER_03: or if you play with a certain kind of feeling or whatnot.
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SPEAKER_03: But I was actually talking to the guys in Ronin and they were really conscious
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SPEAKER_03: about telling me how They were using astronomy heads to get a bigger sound
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SPEAKER_03: than they were getting in the past.
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SPEAKER_03: I believe they worked with Black Metal Ray on their production,
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SPEAKER_03: but overall what they were trying to say is they did experiment
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SPEAKER_03: with some different gear just to capture different sounds,
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SPEAKER_03: striggle pedals and astronomy heads and stuff.
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SPEAKER_03: Did you guys ever consider maybe going out and trying different gear just
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SPEAKER_03: to get different sounds, or is that maybe something that comes with a bigger budget?
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SPEAKER_01: I think we at one point thought about that.
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SPEAKER_01: I know I thought, hey, I should go pick up a Mesa or just something else to throw in the mix.
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SPEAKER_01: But I think at the end of the day,
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SPEAKER_01: we all agreed that it would be better to work with what we have,
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SPEAKER_01: not just from the financial standpoint,
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SPEAKER_01: but now that we had Bo,
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SPEAKER_01: a guy who's had the experience and the knowledge,
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SPEAKER_01: to be able to take what we have and see how far we can push it.
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SPEAKER_01: And that way on the next album, yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm already looking at investing in a few different pieces of gear just
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SPEAKER_01: to bring something new to the table every time we sit down to start tracking
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SPEAKER_01: a new record.
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SPEAKER_01: That way I always want to build on the next one,
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SPEAKER_01: always have something new that we didn't have before.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, Eric,
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SPEAKER_00: everybody knows who are big fans of hard rock,
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SPEAKER_00: especially 80s hard rock,
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SPEAKER_00: knows that Bow Hill worked most notably with Rat and Warrant.
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SPEAKER_00: He obviously was within your price range, huh?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
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SPEAKER_00: Did you guys have to go get day jobs to pay his bill or what?
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SPEAKER_01: Not really.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was really a partnership with the label.
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SPEAKER_01: I think the label is really concerned that these guys really want to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: And we stood up and said, hell yeah, we do.
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SPEAKER_01: I can say that right.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's okay.
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SPEAKER_01: But we said, yeah, we put up and they ponied up as well and we went after Bo, no problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, your label boss there, John Kivel, where has he been hiding?
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SPEAKER_00: We haven't heard or seen from him in at least a year.
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SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: He calls me about two or three times a week.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe he doesn't like us.
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SPEAKER_01: Always two or three times a week.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess he doesn't like us anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I could use a break.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you want me to tell him to call you?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, he just seemed to have disappeared off the map there,
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SPEAKER_00: and both Chris and I were actually talking about him on the show a couple
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SPEAKER_00: of weeks ago,
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SPEAKER_00: saying we hadn't seen or heard from him in at least a year,
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SPEAKER_00: and we were just wondering what happened to him.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm glad to hear he's alive and well.
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SPEAKER_01: He has been pretty busy lately.
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SPEAKER_01: He's really been trucking it.
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SPEAKER_01: He's got several releases coming up, a couple of which we're working on.
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SPEAKER_01: Now that we got finished with ours,
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SPEAKER_01: we're playing shows here and there,
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SPEAKER_01: and then we're also handling a few of his new acts that he's got in.
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SPEAKER_01: We're remixing some bands, one from Norway called Fate Circus.
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SPEAKER_01: They just sent their stuff over, and Ty's having his way with it, and it's sounding fantastic.
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SPEAKER_01: But he's got about three or four releases before the end of the year that are all coming out.
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SPEAKER_01: So he's really trying to stay on top of that and make sure the deadlines get met and
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SPEAKER_01: the artwork and everything else.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a busy guy.
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SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, Eric,
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SPEAKER_03: Bombay Black,
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SPEAKER_03: the one thing that I have noticed about the band,
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SPEAKER_03: while the U.S.
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SPEAKER_03: market pretty much stays fickle to you guys, it really seems like you guys have...
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SPEAKER_03: You built a very solid following outside of the U.S.
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SPEAKER_03: I understand you guys basically dominated when you went over to the U.K. How was that?
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SPEAKER_01: That was a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_01: It's always cool to be able to go to another country and play
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SPEAKER_01: for people you've never met because the nice thing, I mean, we play around here.
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SPEAKER_01: I see a lot of the same faces.
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SPEAKER_01: I prefer to play for new faces I haven't seen before.
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SPEAKER_01: Plus, you get to play with other bands.
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SPEAKER_01: You sample the cultures.
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SPEAKER_01: You sample the beer.
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SPEAKER_01: Especially if you're our guitar player, you sample the beer.
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SPEAKER_01: And just being able to play for these guys and try to present something different.
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SPEAKER_01: The one thing I noticed with a lot of the bands that play these kinds of things,
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SPEAKER_01: and this is going to sound bad,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't mean it like that, but it's like there's a set formula.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, you've got your guitar player here and he plays in this little box
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SPEAKER_01: and you've got your keyboards here.
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SPEAKER_01: And everybody kind of has their location on stage.
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SPEAKER_01: And, you know, there's some people, there's a line you don't cross.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: We use that for a lap counter.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: You get up there, you raise hell.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: You've got to swing from the lights and throw confetti at people to get their attention.
17:52
SPEAKER_01: I smashed my guitar last time, which was definitely brought down the house.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: They loved that.
18:00
SPEAKER_01: And it's currently hanging up at the venue now, which is pretty cool.
18:04
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, it's just, you get up, you put on a show.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: And that's really the thing.
18:08
SPEAKER_01: And I think in a lot of ways,
18:09
SPEAKER_01: people don't expect you to go demolishing your gear or breathing fire
18:14
SPEAKER_01: or whatever it is you do.
18:16
SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of fun to see their faces.
18:18
SPEAKER_01: And, you know,
18:18
SPEAKER_01: we come over and we're just four rednecks and we'll destroy the stage if you give us
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SPEAKER_01: a chance.
18:23
SPEAKER_03: Very nice.
18:24
SPEAKER_03: Is it disappointing when you come back here after playing in front of
18:30
SPEAKER_03: From what I've heard anyway, I've seen shows outside the country.
18:35
SPEAKER_03: It's just such a different vibe, man.
18:37
SPEAKER_03: You go over there and people are thirsty for metal and hard rock.
18:43
SPEAKER_03: Then you come back here and outside of your hometown,
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SPEAKER_03: you travel 100 miles in any direction and you're fighting to get 50 people
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SPEAKER_03: to give you a chance, man.
18:52
SPEAKER_03: Is it disappointing, I guess is the word, to...
18:56
SPEAKER_03: To come back to the U.S. and have to struggle when you know that you're creating good music?
19:03
SPEAKER_01: At one point, yeah, it did get to me.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: It did bother me.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: There's the old saying, you get no respect in your hometown.
19:11
SPEAKER_01: And I think the whole reason for that was just when
19:17
SPEAKER_01: the dominant music became hip-hop, it was not just a change in music.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: It was a whole change in culture.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: Everything switched at that point.
19:26
SPEAKER_01: When you've got executives doing the fist tap and using all the crunk phrasing
19:31
SPEAKER_01: and everything else, I mean, things change big.
19:36
SPEAKER_01: And I finally made my peace with it after a while.
19:38
SPEAKER_01: I said, you know what?
19:40
SPEAKER_01: We get up, we do what we do.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: If we blow something up in the process, so be it.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: The thing is, we always go out, put 120% of the show.
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SPEAKER_01: At the end of the night, I'm happy.
19:51
SPEAKER_01: If we can get at least one more person there who's never seen us before
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SPEAKER_01: and may become a fan, it's worth it.
19:57
SPEAKER_03: Right, definitely.
19:58
SPEAKER_03: Now, with the U.S. shows,
20:01
SPEAKER_03: I understand you guys are playing one of the bigger rock fests that's going on here
20:06
SPEAKER_03: in the next month or so, is that correct?
20:09
SPEAKER_01: That is true, Dakota Rock Fest, which is the weekend of July 25th and 26th.
20:16
SPEAKER_03: Okay, and how'd you guys end up on that one?
20:20
SPEAKER_01: I have no idea.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: Now I've got to think about it.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: Actually, it was John Kibble who put that together for us.
20:31
SPEAKER_01: He had another one of his bands already on there,
20:33
SPEAKER_01: and I kind of was like, hey, you think you can get us on that?
20:37
SPEAKER_01: He made some phone calls and plays for the guy,
20:40
SPEAKER_01: and the guy was like,
20:41
SPEAKER_01: well, you know, you guys are coming in sort of last minute, but he heard the album.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: He said, okay, fine, you're in, you're in, let's do it.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: Well, John's an influential guy that way.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Well, John's a very influential guy that way, so it doesn't surprise me at all.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: He knows how to pull those strings.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Chirp, chirp, no comment.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: All right, Eric.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: I do not speak of the dark in those terms.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: All right, Eric.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you give us the website there where people can find out about Bombay Black.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: Best bet is www.myspace.com slash BombayBlack.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: All right.
21:26
SPEAKER_00: Sounds good.
21:27
SPEAKER_00: And people can see you where this summer?
21:30
SPEAKER_00: Just that Rockfest so far?
21:31
SPEAKER_00: No tour plans yet?
21:34
SPEAKER_01: We will be at O'Reilly's in Dallas on July 5th.
21:39
SPEAKER_01: We'll be in Little Rock at the warehouse with some other great local acts,
21:43
SPEAKER_01: Land of Mines and Wishtrod.
21:45
SPEAKER_01: On July 12th,
21:47
SPEAKER_01: July 25th and 26th is Dakota Rockfest,
21:49
SPEAKER_01: and then we'll be back in Little Rock at West End Smokehouse on August 2nd.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, excellent.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: All right, Eric,
21:57
SPEAKER_00: we appreciate you taking a little bit of time to talk to us here on
22:00
SPEAKER_00: the Classic Metal Show.
22:01
SPEAKER_00: Go visit Bombay Black at their MySpace, myspace.com slash Bombay Black.
22:06
SPEAKER_00: Go pick up their new CD, which is entitled Psycho Magnet.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Is that it there, Eric?
22:14
SPEAKER_01: That's all for me.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: I hope you all enjoy it and appreciate the time.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: All right.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: Well, we always let the artists pick a closing song here,
22:22
SPEAKER_00: so why don't you pick a song off the new CD and maybe tell us a quick story
22:26
SPEAKER_00: about it.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'd have to go with SSCR.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: SSCR stands for South Faulkner County Resistance,
22:35
SPEAKER_01: but we say blind because we couldn't make resistance rhyme.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: But basically,
22:39
SPEAKER_01: it's about our party house in Conway,
22:41
SPEAKER_01: and in particular,
22:43
SPEAKER_01: one little incident involving a guy,
22:46
SPEAKER_01: a girl playing strip pool, and then the sex that ensued afterward.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: Excellent.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: Which was caught on tape, still cameras.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: I think the guy sketched it out with pen and ink.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, it was happening.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: Let's remember the moment.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: Right.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: And this is normal.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: This just happens there all the time.
23:06
SPEAKER_01: No big deal.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, Eric.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Well, go pick up the new Bombay Black Psycho Magnet,
23:16
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