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BARONESS Talk DARK MOFO, Creative Evolution And The Power of Mystery · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Job.
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  Speaker 2: It's fabulous. Thanks so much. You guys are headed to
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  Speaker 2: Tasmania for Dark Mofo.
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  Speaker 3: What drew you to say yes to such a uniquely
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  Speaker 3: atmospheric and provocative festival.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's exactly that. It seems. It was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty like twenty three hours around the world.
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  Speaker 3: Are you excited for that flight? No?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't blame you.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys have been to Australia before. Do you
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  Speaker 3: have any standout memories or favorite cities from past tours?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Very Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Also, it looks I've never been to Tasmania either, but
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  Speaker 3: it looks beautiful and very cold.
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  Speaker 1: I was Tasmania once twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the entire audience.
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  Speaker 1: With a concentrator, So that was the weird experience.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 4: We played two pictures of beer on the bar.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knew.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane, period tree. Well, I hope that doesn't happen
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  Speaker 2: as chart.
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  Speaker 1: Weird.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. True. And well you're said at.
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  Speaker 3: Dark Mofo feature anything unique or tailored to the mood
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  Speaker 3: the festival.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to say, because not exactly. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: very lucky time.
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  Speaker 4: That we haven't played it played in Australia certainly never played.
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  Speaker 1: And probably some songs that we haven't played years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wicked.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome and I guess as well, you guys will
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  Speaker 3: be playing some of your newer.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff absolutely wicked.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys have evolved your sounds dramatically over the years.
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  Speaker 3: How do you decide when to push into new sonic
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  Speaker 3: territory versus refining your existing style?
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  Speaker 1: I would like to think that we do is push forward.
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  Speaker 4: And any refinements that you have on you older were
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  Speaker 4: older styles. That's just sort of the nature. Have to
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  Speaker 4: build a lot of foundations. But I think I think
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  Speaker 4: for the most interesting getting yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Not only the right capacity, the applications of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so to keep building on what you guys have
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  Speaker 3: already done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And your album artwork is iconic and deeply tied to
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  Speaker 3: each records identity. How does your visual process intertwine with songwriting?
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes you come third Records and it's currently sort of.
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  Speaker 1: A replace Stone like Stone was master?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely, And then so is the album from
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  Speaker 3: second obviously to the songs or are you guys inspired
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  Speaker 3: by the album art.
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  Speaker 1: Is a reflection on occasion?
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  Speaker 4: I think some of our much older some of the
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  Speaker 4: old directors Yellow Green, for instance, I think there was
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  Speaker 4: there was a little bit more two things going on
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  Speaker 4: at once the case.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and expanding on that as well, you guys
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  Speaker 3: have named albums after colors.
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  Speaker 2: Was that conscious conceptual path from the beginning?
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  Speaker 1: It was in the beginning, yet the initial idea was.
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  Speaker 4: Create a series of records based on the physical.
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  Speaker 1: As we finished that, we sort of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And has touring and creating music for over two decades
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  Speaker 3: changed the way you've used success or artistic fulfillment.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hope. It's really just been my entire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, any anyone else they have.
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  Speaker 1: Music and in the ways it's really important.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think any of us say that, granted, and
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  Speaker 4: you know it's you know, the yeah, you have to
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  Speaker 4: do that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 3: And how do you guys personally keep your creative fire alive,
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  Speaker 3: whether musically, visually or spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: Frustration that's a good one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can work something, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys have toured with some huge names. Do
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  Speaker 3: you have any stories you'd like to share being on
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  Speaker 3: tour with some of these other bands?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, that's all right.
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  Speaker 3: You keep your secrets and mental health and endurance are
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  Speaker 3: major topics in.
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  Speaker 2: Heavy music circles these days.
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  Speaker 3: How do you guys stay grounded amidst the intensity we
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  Speaker 3: work out?
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  Speaker 2: Really, you guys look at it, you're very buff.
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  Speaker 6: Love you.
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  Speaker 4: We aren't risk for complements that genuinely, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to miss sision that.
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  Speaker 4: We're on stage for an hour or two every day
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  Speaker 4: and then there's another twenty two hours to continue with, so.
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  Speaker 1: Are you know?
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  Speaker 4: I think sepal efforts in order to keep our minds.
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  Speaker 4: We try to keep our bodies in order to you know,
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  Speaker 4: in order to be able to perform our music the
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  Speaker 4: way that we want to with toughly and passionate demand.
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  Speaker 1: We have to. You have to.
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  Speaker 4: You have to look for your mind and your mind
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  Speaker 4: under shared are constantly aligned that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And you know downtime, do you guys all spend a
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  Speaker 3: lot of time together still or you like get away
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  Speaker 3: from me.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe furs.
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  Speaker 4: More and still moving hang out with each other? Are
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  Speaker 4: just getting, you know, getting at least you know, not.
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  Speaker 1: The sacy now each other for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Frequently I would say like I don't know, yeah, last
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  Speaker 4: the time.
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  Speaker 1: By these guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yea, but yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no We're not trying
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  Speaker 4: to break up.
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  Speaker 1: New York. They was really yeah, like there's like an
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  Speaker 1: unspoken like.
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  Speaker 7: Don't yeah yeah, like okay, well like what we're like
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  Speaker 7: to hang out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. I think it's healthy to have some time apart.
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  Speaker 1: We will do because when we're on Joy, spend twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours.
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  Speaker 2: Ago all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You sorry your life. Shows are emotionally intense and immersive.
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  Speaker 3: What do you hope people walk away with after seeing
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  Speaker 3: a Baroness set?
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  Speaker 2: Guaranteed?
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  Speaker 4: I think you want to hope that everybody you know,
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  Speaker 4: I know that our bands with the music, I know
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  Speaker 4: where there's a you know, there canopy a emotional between
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  Speaker 4: our fans and our state performance. So are invested by that.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that whatever is that they're trying to get
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  Speaker 4: out of the show, that we give them a place
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  Speaker 4: where that you know, where they where they have experience.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a recive of energy. If somebody wants to say,
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  Speaker 4: or you know, first.
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  Speaker 1: Day, somebody wants to sit there and really pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to what we do as musicians, since.
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  Speaker 4: We must the technical aspects of perfect I think that
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  Speaker 4: this band.
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  Speaker 1: Is a good one for both sorts of things.
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  Speaker 4: There's both exchange of energy, and we also write very technical,
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  Speaker 4: technical music, so there's there's also about details.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: So they're sort of something for every fan there, I
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  Speaker 3: guess is what you're trying to say. Yeah, yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: do you really feel the fans energy as well when
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  Speaker 3: you're up on stage?
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  Speaker 4: I address the show is not whether or not.
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  Speaker 1: The show is.
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  Speaker 4: What shows and what are they? What are they demanding
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  Speaker 4: as desisions and where do they allow us? I think
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  Speaker 4: that's the interesting thing. Yeah, because the Case show is
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  Speaker 4: basically acal where we just go through the motions.
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  Speaker 8: I think really so after a while, Yeah, yeah, their
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  Speaker 8: reactions very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought about it like that. That's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know the other thing that is taking sports where
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  Speaker 1: it's like play the man on the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Think, I think that's that's how I like to think
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  Speaker 4: that we're not playing plan the audience giving us, giving
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  Speaker 4: us what we need.
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  Speaker 1: It dictates you know what kinds of.
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  Speaker 4: You know, what sort of temple dynasty? I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think those positions feel this way. But the crowd is everything.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, great answer. And you've cultivated a deeply loyal
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  Speaker 3: fan base. What's one thing you wish more people knew
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  Speaker 3: or understood about Baroness.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I'm want to get the juicy answers out of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Like that, there's the game in the modern music can
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  Speaker 4: be this older explanation, that can be this sort of
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  Speaker 4: exposure that you get to the behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 9: I think sometimes runs counter to the artists themselves. So
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  Speaker 9: all the chests that we are doing, any musicians.
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  Speaker 4: There were, I think it's it's kind of an important thing.
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  Speaker 4: So we're you know, like closed off or anything like that,
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  Speaker 4: but you think it's nothing that it's not matter.
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  Speaker 3: What have you guys been listening to on the tour
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  Speaker 3: bus lightly, any guilty pleasure tracks or unexpected genres.
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  Speaker 2: Really? Mm hmm, okay, well that is a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: There was also we had breakfast today and there was
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  Speaker 1: a juke box are Hide They were beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I remember what we were talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Before with bands, you know, Explod showing so much of
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  Speaker 3: the behind the scenes and all that. And I think
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  Speaker 3: you have a really good point because one of my
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  Speaker 3: favorite bands ever, they've been doing a lot of behind
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  Speaker 3: the scenes touring camera blog sort of thing. Whilst I
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  Speaker 3: love it, it is a bit like there's nothing left
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  Speaker 3: to explore there with them. It's like they've shown us everything.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's a really good point you made
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  Speaker 3: about keeping some things, you know, hidden.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, I don't know. Yeah. And last question,
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  Speaker 2: you get to curate a dream festival lineup? Three bands
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  Speaker 2: alive or dead? Who's playing? Yes of us? Yes, okay, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah yeah, Wicked. So we've got the Queen, We've
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  Speaker 2: got King Floyd two more.
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  Speaker 6: So okay, okay, we're rocking with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Wicked, Wicked, what a That is amazing. Guys, Thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for you know, I did, I did,
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  Speaker 3: That's my own. Thank you guys so much for talking
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  Speaker 3: with me today. I'm sorry it was a bit cutting
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  Speaker 3: in and out.
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  Speaker 2: There, but thank you guys so much. We can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to see you here in June. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you,