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Hitman talks to Carl Bell of FUEL · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It is hit Man with you
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  Speaker 1: and I've got on the line with me right now.
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  Speaker 1: From the Grammy nominated Rock Icons Fuel, It is the
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  Speaker 1: Man that Myth, the Legend. Mister Carl Bell, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I am good? I am all of that you just said.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't I Yes you are, Yes you are.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lot. I'm just saying that was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been following you guys for quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been doing some I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 1: have been touring NonStop. I mean every time I see
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  Speaker 1: you guys were doing festivals, concerts, arenas everywhere. And now
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  Speaker 1: you guys got a brand new album that's coming out
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  Speaker 1: in October, a new single now that's coming out called
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  Speaker 1: uh want It, which I heard the other day. It's
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  Speaker 1: got more of an edgier, rougher sound, which I love.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about the new single want It.
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  Speaker 2: Uh It's heavier, but not out of character heavier because
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  Speaker 2: I obviously, when when we were first putting the record together,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, is this you know? This is pretty heavy?
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  Speaker 2: But then I meant, hey, so is it? Sounds like
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  Speaker 2: won't back down off the Daredevil soundtrack. It has that
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  Speaker 2: same kind of feel and I'm went, this is all
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  Speaker 2: this is all still good for us, and I like
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  Speaker 2: it heavier. We always wanted to be heavy band anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and so we and we have plenty of heavy music.
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  Speaker 2: This is just a continuation of that. But we're excited
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, So can we expect this in the in the
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  Speaker 1: album Pendulum?
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  Speaker 2: It is in the album Pendulum. We're actually on to
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  Speaker 2: another single now called Pull Me In. You can check
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  Speaker 2: that one out as well. We've dropped a couple of little,
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  Speaker 2: little sneak little nuggets here from this record and it
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  Speaker 2: will be on that and it comes out October thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: So, so you got to tell me the story about
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  Speaker 1: the time that Aaron Scott was on the Voice and
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  Speaker 1: they were he was doing of course hemorrhage, which he
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  Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job of it. And how did how
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  Speaker 1: did you find out about him? Did you actually see
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  Speaker 1: him when he was on the voice and you got
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  Speaker 1: interested or what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't. Kevin Miller the drum did Kevin. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the voice and he made Blake Shelton's team
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  Speaker 2: and he sang hemorrhage and so Kevin. Somebody told Kevin, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know this guy just sing your song last night.
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  Speaker 2: So Kevin started checking him out, calls me up and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this guy, you know, he's what do you think? And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who knows? So it was that was great, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a fan, which is even cooler. Right, So like
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  Speaker 2: Kevin said, dude, let's let's see what you'll do. And
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  Speaker 2: I at this time we were had another singer, which
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  Speaker 2: I know, I understand fans, I understand it. Fans are tough,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I was done. I was basically done. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I can't you know. And I said, if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do it, you rehearse him in. I'll just show
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  Speaker 2: up for the show. We'll see how it goes. But
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  Speaker 2: we had four shows hit Man, and it was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay. So I walked on stage the first
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  Speaker 2: show having never sang a song with her Scott right,
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  Speaker 2: and we had and I'm like, Kevin, if this is awful,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be awful for four shows. It's could
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  Speaker 2: be a long, long couple of weeks. But it was
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  Speaker 2: great and he, you know, he didn't have to learn
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lyrics because he was already a fan.
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  Speaker 2: He knew a lot of the songs, and so it
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  Speaker 2: just seemed like it was meant to be at the time.
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  Speaker 1: And so here we are, you know, right, and you guys, actually,
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  Speaker 1: you guys wrote the song wanted together, right. It was
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  Speaker 1: him and you that kind of put this song together right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, I was kind of burnt out. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna lie. I'm like, oh my god, here we are again,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And he was a little over. He he
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  Speaker 2: was a little scared to bring a song to me
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  Speaker 2: because again, as a fan, he knew that I had
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  Speaker 2: written all lyrics and music to everything in the Fuel
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  Speaker 2: catalog mostly, so he was a little scared to bring
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  Speaker 2: but he said, I've got this idea. Well, of course
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious because I'm wanting to see where he's at
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  Speaker 2: is or as a writer. And I was blown away
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  Speaker 2: because he's the first guy. Maybe sound strange, but he's
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  Speaker 2: the first guy in a band that I've ever been
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  Speaker 2: in with that could set behind a computer and run
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  Speaker 2: a pro tools rig because none of the other guys
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  Speaker 2: ever could. So now he submits, he HiT's play on
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  Speaker 2: this song. It's drums, bass, guitars, and his vocals and
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  Speaker 2: it's rough mix and so the song was already up
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  Speaker 2: on its legs. That's fantastic, right, yeah, just you know here,
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  Speaker 2: I got a couple I got a couple of chords. Here,
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  Speaker 2: Carl write this song for me. It was I've got
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  Speaker 2: soul song, and I was like, great, and I let's
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  Speaker 2: start working on that. And so we started working on it,
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  Speaker 2: wrote a lot of lyrics for it, put it all together.
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  Speaker 2: I added the keyboards. I thought the keyboards needed to
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  Speaker 2: lift it, so I added the keyboards to it and
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  Speaker 2: just tweaked the song out. But it was fantastic. But
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  Speaker 2: that original idea came from Aaron.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Carl Bell from the Grammy nominated rock
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  Speaker 1: icons band Fuel, who's got a new album.
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  Speaker 3: Coming out in October.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's gonna be around almost Halloween, which is going
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of cool. And you have a new
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  Speaker 1: single called want It, and you're also going out on tour.
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  Speaker 1: I actually did a little bit of research before you
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  Speaker 1: got on the phone with me. Right now and check
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  Speaker 1: to see it. Thanks chat GBT. On this, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: when was the last time Fuel played in Corpus Christi
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  Speaker 1: Texas and according to chat GBT, it says you played
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  Speaker 1: here March ninth of twenty fourteen at Bruser Street Ice House.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: About time that I think Fuel needs to come back
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  Speaker 1: and play at Concrete Street Amphitheater and blow the house down.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I know it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't believe everything Ai said. Can you come on
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  Speaker 2: Skynet Skynet told you we were there August in twenty fourteen. No,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right though, we are. We used to
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  Speaker 2: play what's the place that was like all concrete outdoor, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the Concrete Street Amphitheater. Yeah, all right, we used
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  Speaker 2: to I remember that from Corpus Christie back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: I remember we played there a lot back of the day,
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  Speaker 2: and you guys were great, and we love Texas anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so it was always Texas is always a big fan
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  Speaker 2: of us and supported us very well, so we appreciate
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  Speaker 2: that as well. But yeah, we do. Let's get back there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's like, I'm looking forward to seeing you
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  Speaker 1: guys back out on the road again.
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  Speaker 3: I saw.
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys have a show coming up in September.
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  Speaker 3: I think with switch Foot and Lit also which I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think that'd be a great show altogether. I think
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  Speaker 1: it it'd be great to see all you guys together,
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  Speaker 1: and of course seeing you back down here in the
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  Speaker 1: South Texas sun too would be kind of cool. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things, one of the questions I always ask
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  Speaker 1: every single band why I do an interview with them is,
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  Speaker 1: and you probably already know this, Corpus Christy is a
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  Speaker 1: rock town. There's a lot of rock clubs that are here,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of local rock bands that are here. What
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  Speaker 1: advice can you give to local rock bands that are
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  Speaker 1: here to take them to the next level?
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  Speaker 3: What can they do to get to the next level?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty six years ago, I might be able to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure now the world has changed. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the answer is probably going to be go
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  Speaker 2: viral online. I mean, the sad truth of where we're
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  Speaker 2: at because you see all these memes online where they're saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the moment the musician realizes all he is
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  Speaker 2: is a content creator. That's kind of the world we're
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  Speaker 2: in in some sad way. But that's probably your best bet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you wanted me to be completely brutally honest,
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  Speaker 2: your best bet is to get online. You know, record
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  Speaker 2: companies are signing people based on the number of followers
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  Speaker 2: they have and then they'll supply the talent. So know,
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  Speaker 2: it may not be the bright and shiny answer you want,
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  Speaker 2: but that's kind of reality of where we are. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, maybe it's another out that we
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  Speaker 2: didn't have back in the day. So maybe that's an
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  Speaker 2: out that you can exploit and make it happen for
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  Speaker 2: you because a lot of people are you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's the way of the world. But I
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  Speaker 2: would just say keep writing and keep writing because you
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  Speaker 2: get all your power from your songs, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: right until you're sick of writing, and then write a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch more after that. It's just you got to
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  Speaker 2: have good songs. You get your power from songs, and right,
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  Speaker 2: compare yourself to what other people are doing. Are you good?
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  Speaker 2: Are you not? Is this song good or bad? And
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  Speaker 2: just keep trying to perfect what you do and spend
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  Speaker 2: that ten thousand hours trying to get there, to do it,
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  Speaker 2: as they say, to make yourself a professional or whatever
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  Speaker 2: that number is, Well, it's a lot. If you join
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  Speaker 2: a rock band to not work, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: and then you're trying to be successful. You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to you know, it's going to be a hobby because
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  Speaker 2: a rock band or any band, it's a lot of work. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it looks it's a lot of fun and you see
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  Speaker 2: the finished product when we're on stage jumping around, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of work to get to that. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, work. It's basically the same concept for everything.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I get it. I get exactly what you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I miss the days of when you used
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  Speaker 1: to go to a rock to a bar and there's
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  Speaker 1: like a bar band that's there that wound up later
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  Speaker 1: on becoming.
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  Speaker 3: A huge, huge band.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the way they were, like, oh I found
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  Speaker 1: them in a little bar somewhere, you know. One of
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  Speaker 1: the stories, one of the one of the stories I
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  Speaker 1: loved telling was is and it shows a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of my age. But back when I was in the
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  Speaker 1: military and I was stationed in Aganya, Guam, I went
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  Speaker 1: to this little I went to this little island bar
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  Speaker 1: that was there that all that all the military people
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  Speaker 1: used to go to too, And there was this band there
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  Speaker 1: that was rocking, and it was just they were just
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  Speaker 1: tearing it up and we're like, wow, who's this band?
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  Speaker 1: And they were like, man, this band came from from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and they they came down here to perform
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  Speaker 1: and they were such cool guys. And I was like, really,
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  Speaker 1: what's their name. Their name is Tesla, and I was
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  Speaker 1: like wow, yeah. It was before Tesla had just gotten signed.
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  Speaker 1: And actually on their very first album, the first thing
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  Speaker 1: they have on there when they were thanking people on
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  Speaker 1: the and the credits on their in their album cover
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  Speaker 1: it said to think that thank the fans that the
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  Speaker 1: let's let's used to listen to us in a little
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  Speaker 1: bar in Guam, which I thought was so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So it's like no, and we've we've played some
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  Speaker 2: shows with those guys. I love Tesla. When that first
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  Speaker 2: record came out, that thing was on repeat. I could
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  Speaker 2: not believe it. I just loved that record. And then
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  Speaker 2: we've played a bunch of shows with him lately as well.
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  Speaker 2: But that's crazy. At of guamov It. I never thought
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  Speaker 2: or they had a Sacramento. I think originally maybe had
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  Speaker 2: a Sacramento out there. They're some great guys man, and
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  Speaker 2: we've had some good times with those guys, but I
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  Speaker 2: think that goes to show what you're saying is you
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  Speaker 2: just got to work. We the same way. We were
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  Speaker 2: in the trenches for years before playing anything. Anybody would
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  Speaker 2: let us play, any bar that would let us play,
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  Speaker 2: we played them, and we worked for years doing that
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  Speaker 2: before we got signed. So I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that still might be applicable to today. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I you know. And I've got the utmost
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  Speaker 1: respect for you, dude. I love the span. I've been
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  Speaker 1: listening to you guys for years. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the new album coming out. I can already, I can
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  Speaker 1: already here in my car.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it and looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: you guys out and about on tour again. So I
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  Speaker 1: mean best of luck to you, dude, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be I'm gonna be one of those guys that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in the crowd rocking with you when you guys
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  Speaker 1: are on stage. I'm looking forward to seeing you guys
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  Speaker 1: very very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I appreciate it, man, I appreciate you support all
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  Speaker 2: these years. Yeah we did. We love Texas. We know,
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  Speaker 2: Corpus chris Er. You're time to get back there, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure.