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DIRTY KINGS' ANDREW SAMPLE: Everybody Says They Want Real Rock... So Why Is Nobody Listening? · Classic Metal Show

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SPEAKER_00: hey this is andrew from the band dirty kings and you're watching cms tv
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[music]
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SPEAKER_02: it is chris aiken presents and i of course am chris aiken glad to be here once again
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SPEAKER_02: and we are going to be talking a band that i wasn't aware of i feel like a douche
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SPEAKER_02: that there's three of these out here and i didn't know it uh
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SPEAKER_02: the new record is simply called three or dirty kings three the band is
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SPEAKER_02: the dirty kings and here to talk all about it is uh the main man himself from
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SPEAKER_02: the band it is mr andrew sample andrew how are you man
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SPEAKER_00: i'm good chris uh it's an honor to be here thanks for having me oh glad
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SPEAKER_02: to have you man and like i said at the start man i'm almost embarrassed
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SPEAKER_02: that i did not know your music because now that i've had a few weeks to really kind
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SPEAKER_02: of not only listen to the new record but listen back sell
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SPEAKER_02: as well i i really i don't know how to describe it i'm gonna let you do that uh but
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SPEAKER_02: it's compelling in a lot of ways there's so many elements of so many things
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SPEAKER_02: without being any of it you know i mean i had somebody
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SPEAKER_02: before you even start out i i had somebody asked me today about
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SPEAKER_02: who i was interviewing because you know that's what i do and
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SPEAKER_02: and they asked me i said i'm interviewing dirty kings i was in
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SPEAKER_02: and i interviewed sabotage so they knew sabotage and
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SPEAKER_02: then it was like um well what is dirty kings i was like well
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SPEAKER_02: there's sort of a clutch thing and there's sort of a kiss thing and there's sort of
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SPEAKER_02: a you know classic rock and little modern
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SPEAKER_02: but nothing modern rock you know it's this is a hard music to describe
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SPEAKER_02: so i'll let you kind of you know what you feel like you're creating
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SPEAKER_02: so what are you creating and what do you tell people
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SPEAKER_00: you're correct on all those things but also none of those things right at
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SPEAKER_00: the same time we are a twin guitar hard rock band
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SPEAKER_00: that's how we kind of decide or describe ourselves in
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SPEAKER_00: a nutshell um our main influences are you know 70s
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SPEAKER_00: and 80s bands kiss thin lizzy ufo those bands that rely
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SPEAKER_00: on twin guitar harmonies here
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SPEAKER_00: and there great vocals good backing vocals vocal harmonies things like that
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SPEAKER_00: but we do have
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SPEAKER_00: people that say hey you got a little bit of clutch influence or they may name
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SPEAKER_00: a new orleans band you know like the new orlands sludge scene
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SPEAKER_00: or desert rock yes all of that i think we've
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SPEAKER_00: taken in especially for this record dirty kings 3
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SPEAKER_00: i think is the widest variety of influences for us
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SPEAKER_00: and styles um everything from the stones
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SPEAKER_00: and Zeppelin to
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SPEAKER_00: you know metallica and the new wave of british heavy metal i think is in this record
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SPEAKER_00: so that's great to hear that you're you're saying that it's hard
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SPEAKER_00: to describe our music because it is but
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SPEAKER_00: to boil it down twin guitar hard rock pretty bare bones sure when you go
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SPEAKER_02: when you create music like this is it is it difficult to manage it and what i mean
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SPEAKER_02: by that specifically is when you're writing music and
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SPEAKER_02: you know a lot of people you know you take
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SPEAKER_02: a i don't know kill switch engage i'm just throwing any band out there they know
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SPEAKER_02: what they're supposed to sound like and they know immediately
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SPEAKER_02: if they don't you know what i mean yes you guys pulling a lot
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SPEAKER_02: of different influences from here and there is that a good thing is that a bad thing
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SPEAKER_02: or is it both from time to time depending on how it comes together we think it's
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SPEAKER_00: a very good thing especially being 10 years into this band now it'll be my 10th year
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SPEAKER_00: with the band later this year
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SPEAKER_00: they were around for a couple years before me without a lead singer
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SPEAKER_00: before they really started churning out original music but so as
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SPEAKER_00: a band that's been around for 10 years or a little bit more you know we don't have
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SPEAKER_00: a record label we don't have management we don't have
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SPEAKER_00: a legal team we do everything ourselves so with that that grants us 100 control
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SPEAKER_00: over everything that we do i think with our first record you know
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SPEAKER_00: that was hey these are all the this is the first batch of 10 or 11 songs
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SPEAKER_00: that we've written as a band
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SPEAKER_00: we put that out as a record i think the second record crown jewel
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SPEAKER_00: that was released um i think that was more of a concentration for us to make sure
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SPEAKER_00: that we had a little bit of this and a little bit of that on the record you know
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SPEAKER_00: and we wanted to make sure that we had something that people could could consider us
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SPEAKER_00: but with this record we didn't leave anything on the table you know
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SPEAKER_00: if somebody brought in an idea that they were that they really believed in
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SPEAKER_00: that was developed
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SPEAKER_00: we didn't say no to it even if it was uncomfortable we definitely wrote outside
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SPEAKER_00: of our comfort zones on this record and with that came a big variance of song styles
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SPEAKER_00: at the same time i think that we developed the the vocals quite a bit more on
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SPEAKER_00: on this third record as well the backing vocals specifically i wrote lines just for
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SPEAKER_00: the guys to sing as backups that i wasn't singing on so we really
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SPEAKER_00: broadened the vocals as well which i think brought more melodic tendencies in some
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SPEAKER_00: of these songs especially the first single out of line
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SPEAKER_00: that chorus was really something that we struggled with as far as like
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SPEAKER_00: does this sound like us and if it doesn't well screw it let's make it sound like us
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SPEAKER_00: and we worked on it until we were comfortable with it so um we're very proud of
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SPEAKER_00: the fact that we wrote outside and maybe above ourselves on this record
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SPEAKER_00: to have this uh this array of styles for dirty kings three right on
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SPEAKER_02: for dirty kings three you know playing off of what you just said here
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SPEAKER_02: when you were putting it together was there a conscious effort to go further
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SPEAKER_02: than you had with crown jewel meaning you know i like this and i like that
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SPEAKER_02: but it's not quite where we want to be like you and you know this man you've been in
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SPEAKER_02: the business forever every single band in the world thinks
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SPEAKER_02: that whatever they just did
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SPEAKER_02: greatest thing that they've ever done yeah until three months later and
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SPEAKER_02: then it's like ah this sucks and i changed this i changed that i changed
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SPEAKER_02: that you know so so for you guys
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SPEAKER_02: when you were putting this together i'm sure you were looking back at crown jewel
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SPEAKER_02: at least subliminally and saying like some
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SPEAKER_02: of this wish we would have done these 10 things different this is what we're gonna
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SPEAKER_02: do with dirty kings 3 is that how it came to play
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SPEAKER_00: i tell you what i don't think it i don't think there was a plan um rightfully so
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SPEAKER_00: but i will say personally once we were about three maybe four songs into the writing
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SPEAKER_00: of this record i think i even told the guys i was like i don't know if we're writing
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SPEAKER_00: a better record than crown jewel because maybe there was this song that was
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SPEAKER_00: over here this song over here this over here and at the time i think i was thinking
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SPEAKER_00: are they are they together like is this gonna make are these supposed to be on
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SPEAKER_00: the same record but i i was able to get rid of that in my mind and just trust
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SPEAKER_00: in what we were doing as players and as
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SPEAKER_00: a band you know this lineup i think is i think we have some magic together you know
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SPEAKER_00: um
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SPEAKER_00: i truly believe that and you know after crown jewel was released you're right after
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SPEAKER_00: that record was released i was like you know i wish we would have done this i think
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SPEAKER_00: i think we would have done a better song if we would have done this um i tell you
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SPEAKER_00: after hearing this one so many times and it's been out for five
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SPEAKER_00: or six weeks now i wouldn't change a thing on this record and i think we all feel
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SPEAKER_00: that way i'll ask you
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SPEAKER_02: in six months you'll be like oh i would change all these things okay you're
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SPEAKER_00: on six months from now let's talk here we go exactly
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SPEAKER_02: well well um andrew for for not only for you but for the guys in the band
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SPEAKER_02: as well you know crown jewel for people
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SPEAKER_02: that don't know was what five six years ago something like that right it's end
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SPEAKER_00: of end of 2001 so yeah 2021 21 wow where'd that come
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SPEAKER_00: from record label days right right um uh yeah so you know four and a half years
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SPEAKER_00: between between albums and we certainly didn't expect it to take that long but
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SPEAKER_00: also going back to not having a label or management pushing you we take all
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SPEAKER_00: the time we want to and i'm glad we did
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SPEAKER_00: because again these songs are well developed um we trusted in ourselves as
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SPEAKER_00: as you know writers and as editors you know to make it right
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SPEAKER_00: and make sure it was completely finished um so
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SPEAKER_00: again you know i don't think that we left anything on
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SPEAKER_00: the table uh we didn't kick out ideas that well
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SPEAKER_00: that doesn't sound like us let's just work on something else but no no let's take
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SPEAKER_00: that idea and keep working it until it's comfortable so hopefully that answers
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SPEAKER_02: for for a band that does not have a Signature hit will say but you know, um
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SPEAKER_02: and and obviously the other thing that happened between then and now was
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SPEAKER_02: that little global thing that took everybody off the map for five years sure it took
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SPEAKER_02: a lot of bands at your level out completely where bands just stopped
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SPEAKER_02: because they couldn't get together
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SPEAKER_02: or it didn't feel like they they would get back together and it didn't feel
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SPEAKER_02: the same whatever did you guys have that moment yourself and if not how did you keep
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SPEAKER_02: from getting into that pit well um
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SPEAKER_00: jamo jameson our drummer joined the band in 2020 um i'm thinking in the summertime
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SPEAKER_00: so it was it was during the first six months of pandemic okay um we played a couple
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SPEAKER_00: of shows live with him
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SPEAKER_00: that's back when everybody was distancing and had masks on in the audience
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SPEAKER_00: and we would have masks on until we played and that was our goal was like get
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SPEAKER_00: a couple of albums below our belt or a couple of live shows with jmo
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SPEAKER_00: and just concentrate on writing and getting this record done so for us when
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SPEAKER_00: the crown jewel time it was perfect because we didn't have a lot of live shows
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SPEAKER_00: to play so we can concentrate on writing the end of that record and recording it
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SPEAKER_00: and putting that out
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SPEAKER_00: but supporting that record after it came out was still tough
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SPEAKER_00: because man we were playing two three shows a month
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SPEAKER_00: before pandemic regularly you know and after coming out
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SPEAKER_00: with crown jewel we were like well you know we were playing like live stream shows
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SPEAKER_00: right and things like that which were you know those were odd for everybody um
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SPEAKER_00: so i think we kind of built back up
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SPEAKER_00: since then um you know we still don't play as many shows as we did
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SPEAKER_00: before pandemic um because some of the clubs shut down you know just like a lot of
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SPEAKER_00: the bands shut down we don't have as many live music venues as
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SPEAKER_00: here in colorado as we did before pandemic so um you know
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SPEAKER_00: the opportunities aren't quite what they used to be which is okay
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SPEAKER_00: with us now looking back you know we're five years older now you know some
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SPEAKER_00: of us have grandkids now so there's you know life changes as well but as
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SPEAKER_00: with everything in life i think you always want to do better with quality
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SPEAKER_00: over quantity um and so our shows that we play now i think are
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SPEAKER_00: uh better supported they're better promoted and there's better outcomes as well
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SPEAKER_00: so i don't think pandemic really i think for us we took advantage of it in
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SPEAKER_00: the right way because again we were recording our second record
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SPEAKER_00: when everything really hit and kind of you know stopped the world for a while
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SPEAKER_00: but you know um we we used it to our advantage you know right on
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SPEAKER_02: well man rock fans around everywhere always say these days they say they want real
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SPEAKER_02: rock back and i can't tell you how many times i hear
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SPEAKER_02: same stupid comment and i will slam everybody every time when they say there's nothing good
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SPEAKER_02: now you know you hear that so often and that's just straight lazy because i'll argue there's
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SPEAKER_02: more good than there was in the absolute heyday i don't care what you say to heyday is 70s 80s
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SPEAKER_02: even 90s i if you dig and you don't look for something that has 13 million streams or whatever
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SPEAKER_02: there's tons of great music out there and there's more ways than ever to get to that
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SPEAKER_02: as a guy in a band how do you react to that man especially and
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SPEAKER_02: as somebody that's worked in the business i mean you know how to promote a band
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SPEAKER_02: if nothing else for people that don't know andrew used to be a publicist
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SPEAKER_02: so he knows how to work a band absolutely that has to drive you crazy
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SPEAKER_00: when people say stuff like that well you you you hit the uh nail on
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SPEAKER_00: the head you know by saying it's just pure laziness now if you just listen
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SPEAKER_00: to fm radio and are you know wanting your mtv back well then you're not going
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SPEAKER_00: to find what's out there now you know but now more than ever yeah i mean
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SPEAKER_00: the way music is absorbed now you have to go digging for it a little bit
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SPEAKER_00: but that's that's rewarding
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SPEAKER_00: when you find something or you're turned on to something that was right in front
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SPEAKER_00: of your face all you had to do was go to this side or that side or
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SPEAKER_00: or you know i always i think the band camp is one of the great resources
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SPEAKER_00: that is still underused we love our band camp page because you can stream us
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SPEAKER_00: from around the world you can listen to our records if you like it you can buy one
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SPEAKER_00: of our lps one of our cds one of our t-shirts from our band camp page it's not just
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SPEAKER_00: a streaming service
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SPEAKER_00: it's a service for bands to to move physical product and i think we're stupid
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SPEAKER_00: if we think that physical product is going to come back and be the main way
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SPEAKER_00: that people listen to music it's not going to happen it's always going
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SPEAKER_00: to be streaming from here on out but the fact that vinyl is
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SPEAKER_00: so popular now cds are coming back bands always do limited run cassettes now you
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SPEAKER_00: know all those formats are still valid
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SPEAKER_00: so getting back to your question your topic yeah it's pure laziness
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SPEAKER_00: if people don't think there's nothing good that's new out there you're just not
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SPEAKER_00: looking or ask a music fan ask somebody that used to do what I do that used to be
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SPEAKER_00: a publicist or a radio promoter guy
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SPEAKER_00: you know go to a local record store and ask the guy sitting behind
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SPEAKER_00: the counter what's new
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SPEAKER_00: that you know this this is what i like you know what should i look
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SPEAKER_00: at now what should i listen to you know again i think you're right it comes back
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SPEAKER_02: to pure laziness no i i a thousand percent agree and the other thing
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SPEAKER_02: that i think is frustrating and has to frustrate you as a band in the especially in
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SPEAKER_02: the 80s but also in the probably to the mid 90s
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SPEAKER_02: the big bands took care of the little bands it always took care you know the
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SPEAKER_02: the bands fed the scene all of my cds whether it's my hair metal years
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SPEAKER_02: or my death metal years or whatever era i was
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SPEAKER_02: in myself was always fed there was always a big band like in 1990 i found i kind
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SPEAKER_02: of transitioned out of hair metal into death metal
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SPEAKER_02: and i started and i started where where most people started i started
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SPEAKER_02: with cannibal corpse butchered at birth you know and and
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SPEAKER_02: then sepulter arise those were like my two those were my two starters
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SPEAKER_02: of extreme metal but then when i saw those bands you know then i would see
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SPEAKER_02: who's this immolation band or who's
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SPEAKER_02: this you know uh malevolent
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SPEAKER_02: creation yes and you know you would
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SPEAKER_02: be and even that in the 80s they did
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SPEAKER_02: that you know i remember seeing kiss
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SPEAKER_02: and getting slaughtered discovering
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SPEAKER_02: slaughter because i was there in time
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SPEAKER_02: to see kiss earlier you know
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SPEAKER_02: the establishment used
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SPEAKER_02: to take care of the...
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SPEAKER_02: the scene i don't think the establishment cares about the scene anymore
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SPEAKER_02: the establishment's fine if it dies as long as they still have a gig
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SPEAKER_02: and that's horrible it's it's i think that does more damage than even spotify
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SPEAKER_00: or anything has done i think you're right and going back to the 80s
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SPEAKER_00: and 90s you know tours that would have three and four bands um back
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SPEAKER_00: then were usually not fairly i wouldn't say similar in style
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SPEAKER_00: but you could absorb all the bands on a bill
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SPEAKER_00: a friend of mine were just talking about the complete control tour of 1992
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SPEAKER_00: which was obituary cannibal corpse agnostic front
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SPEAKER_00: and malevolent creation i believe like agnostic front being in that band like
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SPEAKER_00: the oddball band but they were so well established that that show went
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SPEAKER_00: over like gangbusters where i saw it you know and i think now you know touring
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SPEAKER_00: bands it's all about it's all buy-ons now it's not like hey we want to take out
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SPEAKER_00: a younger band that we believe in it's like well who wants to pay the most for this
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SPEAKER_00: whose dad has a trust fund exactly exactly so you're right
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SPEAKER_00: the establishment doesn't take care of itself uh
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SPEAKER_00: the music industry record labels don't want to develop
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SPEAKER_00: bands like they used to and if you've got somebody who's on
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SPEAKER_00: the way up well put somebody there on that support slot to ride their coattails
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SPEAKER_00: in there and have those fans pick up on this band that really doesn't exist anymore
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SPEAKER_00: and i kind of miss those years as well when you went to see your favorite band
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SPEAKER_00: or band that you've been waiting to see because they're the the next big thing all
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SPEAKER_00: of a sudden you discover that opening band
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SPEAKER_00: or that you know so it's just really not
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SPEAKER_02: the same way anymore you're right no it's it's it's not and
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SPEAKER_02: and i mean it's it's frustrating i mean i i've seen so i discovered more than half
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SPEAKER_02: of my collection from seeing bigger bands that's just how i've always done it and
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SPEAKER_02: then recently you know if you go to
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SPEAKER_02: a big show now you know obviously i'll use metallica because that's the easiest one
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SPEAKER_02: who are they taking out pantera that needs no help uh wolf yeah limp biscuit they don't need
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SPEAKER_02: any help they don't need a help wolfie really is getting handed everything you know he doesn't
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SPEAKER_02: need the help it's like dudes take out dirty honey and i and they don'T even need the
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SPEAKER_02: help but they're still small enough that
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SPEAKER_02: you know they could rival sons or one of those bands could rise up to be
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SPEAKER_02: that next piece and nobody takes care of them and that's just terrible
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SPEAKER_00: i will say that there's one thing that happened in the last several years
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SPEAKER_00: that i thought was fantastic and uh there's a band from saint joseph missouri
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SPEAKER_00: which is a small town about 30 or 40 miles from kansas city missouri um
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SPEAKER_00: a three-piece band with three brothers in
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SPEAKER_00: the band they're called radke r-a-d-k-e they were actually
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SPEAKER_00: on century media put out one of their records about 10 years ago small um
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SPEAKER_00: kind of a i mean you call them i guess a punk band but they've got a lot
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SPEAKER_00: of different styles they did three or four shows with the foo fighters took them out
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SPEAKER_00: and so that to me i was like how did that i don't even want to know how
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SPEAKER_00: that happened the band radke is managed by their father
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SPEAKER_00: you know okay right it's really a good story but that's very few and far between
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SPEAKER_00: you know anything anymore like any major tour
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SPEAKER_00: is you know you get like radio band out with radio band
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SPEAKER_00: with support from radio band yeah it's boring
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SPEAKER_00: you know i i think it's happening right now or about to happen again
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SPEAKER_00: rob zombie and marilyn manson again yeah how many times
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SPEAKER_00: is that yeah how much time did the twins of evil
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SPEAKER_00: toured together whatever you know it's like same old crap going to
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SPEAKER_00: the same audiences too.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
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SPEAKER_00: no it is yeah we need we need we need to bring that sort of um leading
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SPEAKER_00: in all younger bands and with the old ones again that needs to come back
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SPEAKER_02: right on man well dude let me pull it back
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SPEAKER_02: to your band we've gotten way off track here okay but let me pull it back
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SPEAKER_02: to your band i i wanted to ask you specifically and i don't know
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SPEAKER_02: if you will know this or if you're gonna have to defer this
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SPEAKER_02: but i have some questions about the guitars themselves i love the textures of
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SPEAKER_02: of guitar that you guys that you guys are doing i don't know if it's
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SPEAKER_02: if you're layering or if you're
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SPEAKER_02: double and triple tracking things or what but there's a sound that just feels real
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SPEAKER_02: and I don't know how else to put it other
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SPEAKER_02: than it feels real it feels like what I've heard in a million rehearsals you know
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SPEAKER_02: from bands that's almost always better than the slick produced thing
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SPEAKER_02: that you come up with is that something that you guys actively work on or is
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SPEAKER_02: that just the nature of
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SPEAKER_00: how this band sounds it is how we sound because we are
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SPEAKER_00: a gibson marshall band okay our guys play gibson les paul guitars and we run
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SPEAKER_00: through marshall amps and that has been our standard since i joined the band
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SPEAKER_00: and it's kind of been a strict a strict thing with us you know um our guys we kind
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SPEAKER_00: of ventured out a little bit in the studio this time we used one of the guys use
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SPEAKER_00: a les paul jr uh we use a stratocaster on
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SPEAKER_00: on one of the songs we used a couple
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SPEAKER_00: different things to do some different textures
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SPEAKER_00: like you said but we're
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SPEAKER_00: mainly, you come see us live
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SPEAKER_00: my guys are playing Les Paul's
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SPEAKER_00: through Marshalls
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SPEAKER_00: but we do pay close attention
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SPEAKER_00: to the tones and when we recorded
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SPEAKER_00: this record, we had all
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SPEAKER_00: that in mind. We record
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SPEAKER_00: live in the studio
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SPEAKER_00: The rhythm tracks are done
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SPEAKER_00: live. We come in so well rehearsed
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SPEAKER_00: and
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SPEAKER_00: then after that we'll do guitar solos and then vocals over the top but
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SPEAKER_00: the music is recorded live so that gives it a great energy
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SPEAKER_00: so those guys aren't sitting in the studio doing individual tracks over and
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SPEAKER_00: over again we're getting one and two takes out of these songs and then we build
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SPEAKER_00: on top of that there isn't three or four different guitar tracks laid
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SPEAKER_00: over those those are like raw tracks with guitar solos being put over the top
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SPEAKER_00: of them but you're right though as we pay
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SPEAKER_00: meticulous attention to the tones that we come out with
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SPEAKER_00: and we just we've always said that we don't need to be produced we just need
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SPEAKER_00: to be recorded well right because our raw sounds we pay a lot of attention to
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SPEAKER_00: so i'm actually really glad that you brought that up and
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SPEAKER_00: the guitar players will be ecstatic to hear that as well
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SPEAKER_00: because we do think it sets us apart from most bands who maybe just don't
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SPEAKER_00: i think a lot
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SPEAKER_02: of bands these days are comfortable staying comfortable you know what i mean it's
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SPEAKER_02: and and especially on guitar
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SPEAKER_02: that is comfortable being comfortable sounds like every piece of ai garbage
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SPEAKER_02: that i get that's that comfortable guitar sound that yeah it sounds like this or
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SPEAKER_02: that but it all sounds the same i love this because it doesn't sound the same and
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SPEAKER_02: and
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SPEAKER_02: of all the different comparisons that i made at the start to all
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SPEAKER_02: the different bands you cannot put a finger on a band
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SPEAKER_02: and say these guitars sound like these guitars you can't do it it's a great perk
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SPEAKER_02: to your music thank you for that
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SPEAKER_00: and again we i think we just pay attention up front more to um drums
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SPEAKER_00: as well you know joey shapiro who runs avalanche studios where we record in denver
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SPEAKER_00: he used to play drums for xyz he's not the original drummer but he toured
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SPEAKER_00: with them was all in their latter years amazing drummer himself but you walk
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SPEAKER_00: into his drum room he's got a rack of 40 different snares up there and he's like
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SPEAKER_00: let's pick one and see what we can come up with you know on
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SPEAKER_00: the crown jewel record we used um a snare that uh belonged to uh wild mick brown
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SPEAKER_00: from dawkin on a couple of tracks so it's just great to have that
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SPEAKER_00: at our disposal um you know and we frankensteined a drum kit
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SPEAKER_00: for this new album dirty kings 3 jmo's our drummer's dw kit but we brought
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SPEAKER_00: in this special kick drum we used this you know special tamma snare drum that joey
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SPEAKER_00: had in mind for us so we had kind of a frankenstein kit
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SPEAKER_00: but man it sounds great same you know with the guitars
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SPEAKER_00: and we didn't borrow any guitars but again those guys know how we want to sound
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SPEAKER_00: so they just mic us in a way that they're going to capture that sound and they know
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SPEAKER_00: that they don't have to tweak
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SPEAKER_00: the tones they just you know just record us well give it
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SPEAKER_00: a little reverb you know mix it well it's good so i i appreciate that you uh
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SPEAKER_00: that you can pick that out excellent
25:41
SPEAKER_02: well man on this show we tell everybody as i said before
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SPEAKER_02: if you're gonna stream it all right fine stream it a couple
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SPEAKER_02: of times two three whatever but buy something for god's sakes buy a hat a shirt
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SPEAKER_02: a vinyl a disc mp3 whatever it is buy something to support the band so
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SPEAKER_02: the band can continue you mentioned your band camp why don't you give out the link
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SPEAKER_02: to the band camp as well as any other good places to purchase the actual three
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SPEAKER_02: that benefits you guys
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SPEAKER_00: that would be bandcamp of course
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SPEAKER_00: so that's dirtykings719.bandcamp.com
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SPEAKER_00: you know everywhere else like spotify
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SPEAKER_00: and apple music they stream at what a hundred and 116 at 128 you're right well
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SPEAKER_00: with bandcamp it's a higher it's 192 i think yeah yeah so that's
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SPEAKER_00: a better sounding stream so you can stream us from there buy the digital version
26:38
SPEAKER_00: the cd version the lp version
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SPEAKER_00: a couple of our t-shirts up there that you know comes directly to us money wise
26:46
SPEAKER_00: as far as that we don't have a real website to go to you know that's just
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SPEAKER_00: an expense you don't need anymore as an independent band
26:52
SPEAKER_00: but you know you can keep track of us at facebook.com slash dirty kings
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SPEAKER_00: and our instagram we keep pretty busy there and that's dirty kings 719
27:02
SPEAKER_00: so all those places you can follow us at and again the best place
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SPEAKER_00: to purchase our music is band camp if you're not local here in colorado
27:10
SPEAKER_02: right on and if you're local in colorado you better be going to
27:12
SPEAKER_02: a show don't be that's right a bum be at a show yes yes sir nice well man
27:18
SPEAKER_02: the record is awesome it is simply called dirty kings three uh i suggest everybody
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SPEAKER_02: at least check it out and if you like it buy it please do do something good for
27:27
SPEAKER_02: the band and um andrew this has been a lot of fun man thanks for joining me here
27:31
SPEAKER_00: on me too and it's such an honor to be um with you and i know you know with
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SPEAKER_00: with charlie's metal shop you and i both grew up
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SPEAKER_00: um with the metal shop and i got a chance to interview charlie several years back
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SPEAKER_00: on my old radio show so this is kind of a full circle moment for this this metal kid
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SPEAKER_00: so i i appreciate that man and you too congratulations on all the years of of
27:52
SPEAKER_00: of pushing metal and just being a friend to all
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SPEAKER_00: the bands out there well thank you man
28:09
SPEAKER_01: yo metalheads you ready to let the beast out of its cage this ain't just
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SPEAKER_01: an album this is iron maiden's the number of the beast the riffs hit harder
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SPEAKER_01: the bass thunders deeper dickinson's voice rips your soul in half
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SPEAKER_01: run to the hills hallowed be thy name the title track
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SPEAKER_01: that made eddie immortal every track sounds like it's straight from
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SPEAKER_01: the devil's own amp crank it to 11 and feel the power
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SPEAKER_01: that defined heavy metal don't walk run to the link at the bottom of the screen
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SPEAKER_01: and grab this beast right now before it sells out