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DAVE EVANS: 50 Years Of Rock, Still Sexy And Tough · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: I'm in Mexico again. I'm sort of in and out
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Speaker 1: of the place a lot. You know, I'm traveling between
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Speaker 1: the Northern Hemisphere, Europe and back here and South America.
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Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons why I like Mexico
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Speaker 1: is central. You've got North America, South America. You've got
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Speaker 1: Central America where I am, and then they've got Europe
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Speaker 1: just across the Atlantic and Asia and whatever.
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Speaker 2: So that's it. Are you coming back down here anytime soon?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to be back around Christmas time.
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Speaker 1: One, because it's good to be back in summer, to
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Speaker 1: have Christmas in the summertime. But I've got more recording
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Speaker 1: to do, and that's really fantastic with the boys from Rabbit.
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Speaker 3: But it's going to be Dave Evans' songs.
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Speaker 1: Actually, there's I'm like a split personality, there's Rabbit, and
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Speaker 1: so it was so fantastic to do a Rabbit album
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Speaker 1: after all this time. But I've kept in touch with
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Speaker 1: the boys anyway, because they've been instrumental in a couple
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Speaker 1: of my albums. Yeah, the Ciner album and Judgment Day
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Speaker 1: album I wrote. I wrote the songs with Mark Tinson
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Speaker 1: and and the boys. David Hines and they said of
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Speaker 1: were on different songs. So I've kept in touch with
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Speaker 1: them as far as songwriting and recording is concerned.
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Speaker 3: But this is Rabbit, and it sounds like rabbit.
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Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. And not to mention, it's been
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Speaker 2: fifty years of Rabbit. How crazy is that when you.
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Speaker 3: Look back to that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you.
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Speaker 4: Ever imagine you'd still be tearing it up half a
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Speaker 4: century later?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we didn't really look that far ahead. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, when we're.
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Speaker 1: Young, you're just like you, you, what do you think
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Speaker 1: you're going to be doing?
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Speaker 3: You're not thinking that far ahead. Yeah, you're just just
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Speaker 3: rocking and hoping that it's going to last.
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Speaker 1: Is hoping it's going to last because you see so
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Speaker 1: many artists over the millennium, they only lasted so long.
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Speaker 1: You know, even your favorite favorite favorite, the Beatles, don't.
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Speaker 1: They didn't last that long when you think about it,
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Speaker 1: you know, and there's only a few bands like ac DC,
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Speaker 1: of course it's like fifty two years and many that
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Speaker 1: have lasted that long. So you're always hoping that you're gonna,
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Speaker 1: you know, last another.
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Speaker 3: Year, Yeah, another year and another year, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: But but I'm so lucky, lucky in a sense. But
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Speaker 1: I decided to go solo years ago, and that gave
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Speaker 1: me freedom to go anywhere I wanted in the world
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Speaker 1: and record with anybody I wanted in the world.
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Speaker 3: And if somebody gave me the ships, I said see.
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Speaker 1: You later, bye bye, and no problem, no problems, no problems.
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Speaker 1: So that gave me absolute autonomy.
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Speaker 3: Freedom.
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Speaker 1: And of course when I do travel around the world,
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Speaker 1: I use different musicians in different countries, so I don't
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Speaker 1: take a band with me. Yeah that's expensive. Yes, all
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Speaker 1: those air fairs and stuff like that, for get it.
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Speaker 1: It's just Dave and the boys. They're my fans.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, They're waiting for me in all the countries around
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Speaker 3: the planet. They're my fans.
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Speaker 1: I love my music, so they're all enthusiastics scens I
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Speaker 1: write yeah this, yeah, yes, So it's a really cool
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Speaker 1: and I get to write songs with other people, write
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Speaker 1: my own music by myself. I still write songs with
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Speaker 1: Mark Tinson from Australia and record with different musicians and
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Speaker 1: different producers from around the planet as well. So it's
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Speaker 1: really interesting and busy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like you've done this whole musician in
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Speaker 4: a really smart way by having different musicians all over
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Speaker 4: the world, like you were saying, join you, rather than
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Speaker 4: plugging everyone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I figured that out years and years ago.
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Speaker 1: Like with ac DC, all the hassles I had there
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Speaker 1: and different band members and all the bullshit that was
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Speaker 1: going on and managers all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: It was like stuck with these people all the time,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 1: And uh, and then with Rabbit, I love I love
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Speaker 1: the boys and Rabbit, but you're stuck with each other
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Speaker 1: all the time.
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Speaker 3: You're get on. It does nerves a little bit at times.
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Speaker 3: We do. It's just you know, if you get married,
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Speaker 3: I guess you know. That's why people have three or
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Speaker 3: four marriages. They can't stay itself after a while. They
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Speaker 3: might even love each other, but they can't handle it
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Speaker 3: any longer.
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Speaker 1: So the way I live, I thought, no, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to just be solo. It gives me complete autonomy. I
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Speaker 1: can do whatever kind of music I wish right, my
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Speaker 1: own stuff, and be with so many different musicians and
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Speaker 1: keep me absolutely rocket, you know, because I'm meeting you guys,
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Speaker 1: and it's like, right, guys, pe DC, power, energy, dynamics, conviction,
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Speaker 1: let's go and they go, yeah, yeah, So it's always
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Speaker 1: enthusiastic all the time. And they're so excited when I
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Speaker 1: arrived in different countries, they're so excited.
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Speaker 3: Because that makes me excited, you know, all the time.
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Speaker 3: So it's really been fantastic.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's awesome.
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Speaker 4: And what made you get back with Mark and say
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Speaker 4: let's do another Rabbit album.
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Speaker 3: Well it's his, it was his idea.
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Speaker 1: And because we were working all the time together doing
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Speaker 1: stuff and always in touch with each other like always
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Speaker 1: have been.
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Speaker 3: And he just said, look at bad time.
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Speaker 1: We did a Rabbit album, Dave, you know, like, and
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Speaker 1: I thought, yeah that.
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Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, I thought.
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Speaker 1: About it really and and it was time really to
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Speaker 1: do another Rabbit album because Rabbit's a great band. It's
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Speaker 1: a party band, baby, it's party time, you know. And
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Speaker 1: it's always been like that. A Rabbit hit the stage,
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Speaker 1: the whole place just goes nuts and happy and that's
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Speaker 1: rock this thing, you know, And that's been Rabbit's whole
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Speaker 1: image the whole time. And and I said, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: world needs.
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Speaker 3: Rappit at the moment instead of all.
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Speaker 1: This grunge stuff, all you death metal and all this
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Speaker 1: bloody crap stuff, you know.
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Speaker 3: Like put your risks music.
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Speaker 1: No, the world needs rabbit, all right, let's rock and
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Speaker 1: because I do that anyway, you know. But yeah, so
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Speaker 1: I thought this, it's great and the boys are up
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Speaker 1: for it, and it's a it's just happy.
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Speaker 3: It's a happy, happy, happy album. And it's rock and roll.
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Speaker 3: Baby sexy and tough. That's chicky and tough. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 3: rock and roll. I love that.
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Speaker 2: And you've been a part of it is You've definitely
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Speaker 2: been a.
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Speaker 4: Part of Ossie rock history since day one, from original
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Speaker 4: a CDC days back to Rapit and beyond.
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Speaker 2: What's the biggest difference between the rock scene then and now, Well.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot more bands back in those days,
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Speaker 1: and there was because we didn't have the Internet, and
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Speaker 1: everybody went out. Everybody went out, mammos out of their house.
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Speaker 1: No one's stuck around at home. What's there TV? So
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Speaker 1: we all were.
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Speaker 3: Out everywhere, and there were so many bands, millions.
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Speaker 1: Of bands, different types of bands, all trying to get
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Speaker 1: a record deal because there wasn't many record labels, hardly
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Speaker 1: any in those days.
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Speaker 3: So if you signed, you were like touched by God yep.
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Speaker 1: Overnight, you were God overnight, and you're almost guaranteed to
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Speaker 1: get radio airplay too in those days, because as I said,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't many record labels and there was a quota
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Speaker 1: that the radio stations had to meet legally they had
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Speaker 1: to have like twenty five percent of wherever it was
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Speaker 1: Australian content that was legal.
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Speaker 3: Yep, they had to do it.
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Speaker 1: And so you knew you get a record out there
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Speaker 1: with a record label, you're just about guaranteed you're going
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Speaker 1: to get airplay. So that was so that was the goal,
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Speaker 1: the impossible dream to sign for the label when you're
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Speaker 1: starting off from nowhere, you know. And so, and it
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Speaker 1: was competitive, really competitive, and you had to be different.
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Speaker 1: Every band had to have its own gimmick to stand
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Speaker 1: out from the other lot. The music as well, and
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Speaker 1: it was diverse. So you could go out to check
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Speaker 1: As nightclub or something in Sydney and see fight for
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Speaker 1: bands as different types of bands and exciting, some boring
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Speaker 1: of course whatever, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: They were trying their best at this.
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Speaker 1: The different clothes on them and the music will be different,
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Speaker 1: different instruments.
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Speaker 3: It was interesting all the time, and.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was vying to try and get this record deal.
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Speaker 1: That was like the impossible and you know, Lucky for
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Speaker 1: some of us, we managed to do that. And the
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Speaker 1: thing was also, if you didn't make it by the
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Speaker 1: time you were twenty five, it was over.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was over for it. Yeah, gone, Maybe you're
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Speaker 3: too old. And if you look at.
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Speaker 1: All the bands, the Beatles and the Rystones, they're all
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Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two, twenty they were young guys. All
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Speaker 1: the bands were, you know, twenty five was old over
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Speaker 1: the hill and that, and that's what made you work
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Speaker 1: so hard. In twenty twenty one. You got I've got
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Speaker 1: about four or five years to make it. You'll be
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Speaker 1: in bands for as long as you like. But to
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Speaker 1: make it, they had to do it. By twenty five.
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Speaker 3: That was it. And so it was manic. You were.
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Speaker 3: That's all you thought about.
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Speaker 1: You're out every night watching the other bands, writing songs, talking,
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Speaker 1: trying to get the combination together, the magic combination.
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Speaker 3: You know, the beat the right guys. It was exciting,
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Speaker 3: That's that's what it was.
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Speaker 1: And but now, well, just all the guys I live
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Speaker 1: home with, live at home with their mum and dad,
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Speaker 1: a lot of them, you know, it's not exciting. And
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Speaker 1: the record labels these days they've got control again, and
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Speaker 1: all the bands sound the same, you know, they want
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Speaker 1: to they want a sameness.
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Speaker 3: So that so right now, the record labels, there's millions
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Speaker 3: of them out there.
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Speaker 1: Whatever, they're dictating to the bands what they want, and
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Speaker 1: so you're conforming to what the bands want.
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Speaker 3: The record labels won lot. It wasn't the fifties. A
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Speaker 3: lot of the time.
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Speaker 1: The guys all sort of looked the same and did
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Speaker 1: the same thing. And the songwriters for them, songwriters for them.
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Speaker 1: They didn't write their own songs. Elvis didn't write songs. Well,
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Speaker 1: some of them did, but not a lot. So you know,
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Speaker 1: if I was a young guy starting off today.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how you look at it.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like there's a lot of labels out there,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of them they're no good.
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Speaker 3: They don't do anything for you. They're just nominal.
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Speaker 1: A website you're on there, they don't promote it. They've
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Speaker 1: got no money. They got no money, and you've got
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Speaker 1: to have money to promote. And that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So CBS Records, I signed with Rabbit. You know, they're
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest labels in the world. They were
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Speaker 1: CBS Records. They had money to spend.
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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, and so it's it's a lot. It's
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Speaker 3: different these days, but lucky, lucky for me. I don't
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Speaker 3: worry about it. I'll do what I'm doing. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: I did it.
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Speaker 1: I already did that years and years and years ago.
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Speaker 1: But you're still today even now. You're only as good
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Speaker 1: as your last show, only as good as your last show,
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Speaker 1: and only as good as your last record, and as
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Speaker 1: good as your last record. So we've got the new
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Speaker 1: album out now, Defenders of Rock. It's got to be great.
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Speaker 1: It can't be just oh rappers put out an album
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Speaker 1: ball dust. It's got to be great. Yeah, and we're
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Speaker 1: mindful of that too. So every song a killer, no
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Speaker 1: song a filler, right, as Dave evers motto, all my
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Speaker 1: albums a killer, no song, filler.
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Speaker 4: I love that what it's to live by. And look,
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Speaker 4: the songs are quite short and they're punchy. Was that
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Speaker 4: a conscious effort, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's the way I do it with
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Speaker 1: my live shows too, the because bang, there's the song,
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Speaker 1: next one bang, then the next one bang, and every
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Speaker 1: song a different story, every song, a different story, different feel.
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Speaker 3: So you're exciting the crowd all the time. The next
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Speaker 3: song Okay, let's go. It's okay, what's the next one,
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Speaker 3: what's the next one?
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Speaker 1: Smiling rock on a and with this particular story and
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Speaker 1: you get that emotion going. Yeah, with a different riff.
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Speaker 1: And Mark Tinson from Rabbit, he's a riff master. He's
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Speaker 1: a king of all riffs. They called me the King
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Speaker 1: of all badasses. Yeah, that's what Texans called me. I
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Speaker 1: lived in Texas for ten years and that's what they
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Speaker 1: called Dave. They when you're the king of all badasses.
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Speaker 1: And and Mark Tinson, he's the king of all riffs.
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Speaker 1: He's just got a million of riffs. He's just an
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Speaker 1: amazing guy. He's got fantastic riffs. So it's important you
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Speaker 1: have great rifts, you know, great hook lines, great hook
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Speaker 1: lines in your song that they sing as soon as
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Speaker 1: they hear it the first time. When you come around
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Speaker 1: to the chorus the second time, they're singing it, waiting
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Speaker 1: for it.
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Speaker 3: They're singing that song. And that that was the secret.
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Speaker 1: Of Ozzie Rock all those years ago. The secret of
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Speaker 1: Ossie Rock was that chorus. And we got that from
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Speaker 1: bands like Slade. When Slade came out to Australia, they
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Speaker 1: blew us away Slade was just the most incredible.
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Speaker 3: Band we've ever seen. They live, They took the live.
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Speaker 1: Pub scene from England to the big stage and we learned, Wow,
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Speaker 1: it was fantastic. We learned from that and and that's
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Speaker 1: where a lot of the Aussie rock came from, that
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Speaker 1: English pub rock that we love when we saw them
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Speaker 1: come out here and and so the same now. The
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Speaker 1: songs are short to the point, get them excited, and
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Speaker 1: then you stop the clap, let them clap, let them clap, and.
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Speaker 3: They clap, they go crazy, and then you go you're smiling.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they're waiting for the next song, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: waiting for the next.
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Speaker 3: One, and you give it to them. Power of that.
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Speaker 1: And that's what's great about the short songs like that.
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Speaker 1: A long song with what another lead breaks like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know you can play guitar. I know that.
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Speaker 3: He showed us that in the first song.
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Speaker 1: Yes, first song and so no uh and that's the
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Speaker 1: secret of Ossie rock.
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Speaker 3: Years ago it was like that, even excited and I
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Speaker 3: still do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just about to say, you've got so.
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Speaker 4: Much energy, Dave, how do you how do you kept
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Speaker 4: that alive all these.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, baby, I have no idea. It's just
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Speaker 3: it's always like that, has always been like that. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and everybody says the.
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Speaker 1: Same thing as young They all say the same thing
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Speaker 1: around the world.
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Speaker 3: Where the hell do you get your energy from? I said,
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Speaker 3: I don't know, and I don't how do I know?
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Speaker 4: It's awesome, it's a gift. Look, you've seen Trent's come
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Speaker 4: and go grums, new metal, indie e truning. But rock
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Speaker 4: really never dies. What do you think keeps rock alive?
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Speaker 3: People like me? Yes, people like me? Yeah. I mean
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Speaker 3: there's not many of us left. And but the ones
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Speaker 3: that are like me from the old school, the real
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Speaker 3: real rockers we grew up with it.
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Speaker 1: Look, I was at school kid at school, rock and
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Speaker 1: roll was real rockers in the town were real guys,
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Speaker 1: and they walk around town looking so cool and the
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Speaker 1: hair slipped back, the purple shirts and stuff, and it
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Speaker 1: was like wow, you know, and you didn't mess with
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Speaker 1: these guys because they could know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And so what I always say is rock and roll
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Speaker 1: guys they're sexy and tough, and they weren't.
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Speaker 3: They were sexy on purpose, like yeah, sexy, and they had.
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Speaker 1: To be tough because the guys in the town would
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Speaker 1: come up, you go, yeah, what do you want to
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Speaker 1: and what's it to you?
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Speaker 3: Man? Bang cop that?
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Speaker 1: So I used to say the boys they wanted to
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Speaker 1: be like the rockers, and the girls wanted to be
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Speaker 1: with the rocks.
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Speaker 3: That's it, yeah, baby, the boys wanted to be like them.
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Speaker 3: They couldn't they're too scared to be like them, yea,
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Speaker 3: and the girls wanted to be with them. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And that's sexy and tough, and that's real rock rock
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Speaker 1: and roll, and that's still alive today. And I have
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Speaker 1: to roll my sleeves up and still yeah. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: why a role I did that school and you'll show
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Speaker 1: your muscles. Let's rock and roll, baby.
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Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is I'm real. I'm a real guy.
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Speaker 3: I'm a real rock and roller. Yeah, And that's it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not pretending, you know, I'm I'm in a hotel
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Speaker 1: room here in Mexico. I dropped my slaves, rolled up,
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Speaker 1: There's no one to see me except me, and that's
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Speaker 1: that's enough.
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Speaker 2: That's it. I don't think anyone could question that about you, Dave.
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Speaker 4: And look, you've also got former Roase tattoo drummers Scott Johnson.
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Speaker 2: On Let's get loud. How did that collapse come out?
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Speaker 2: And what did he bring to the mix?
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Speaker 3: The guy, I don't know. I didn't even know he
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Speaker 3: was on it until not long ago because they put
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Speaker 3: the music. No, I didn't know, because they put the
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Speaker 3: music down to a lot of this stuff and uh.
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Speaker 1: And I flew from from wherever I was in the
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Speaker 1: world to Australia last Christmas, just for a few weeks.
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Speaker 1: I was here and while I was here, I went
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Speaker 1: up to Newcastle to to mark Tints and studio and
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Speaker 1: then he had the music all down for all the
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Speaker 1: songs already down. Most of it was already down, so
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Speaker 1: I just had to sing sing the songs, which I
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Speaker 1: knocked him over like that band band band, But they're
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Speaker 1: all done. I don't take any any time to do
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Speaker 1: it because I've been doing it all my life.
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Speaker 3: I know what to do.
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Speaker 1: And and I didn't know who was on the drug
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Speaker 1: because Phil screens that drummer. Phil's not well, he's not
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Speaker 1: you know, he's got eyesight problems. He's got blind something
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Speaker 1: like that, and so he's the only non original in
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Speaker 1: the band.
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Speaker 3: Only because he's very very ill.
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Speaker 1: We still said, come and play, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 3: He can do it by braille or something. I just
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Speaker 3: hit a tambourine or some bad thing. But he didn't.
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Speaker 3: He said no, no, I won't be on the album.
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Speaker 1: So so apparently there's like three different drummers on the
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Speaker 1: album and uh and Scott's one of the drummers. He's
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Speaker 1: an x X rose tattoo drama. So that's nice, you know,
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Speaker 1: to have that. So that's something I didn't even know
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Speaker 1: about Angela until I, yeah, a few days ago.
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Speaker 3: We can go something.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, wow, oh yeah. Yeah, so it's cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm so busy. And the music sounded good to me. Yeah,
18:21
Speaker 1: it's like it yeah, could have been feel, could have
18:24
Speaker 1: been Phil playing.
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Speaker 2: You know, was there anything on the album?
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Speaker 4: Then, having said that that you excluded that you listened
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Speaker 4: to and you're like.
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Speaker 3: Nah, everything was great. Everything was fantastic. It's like falling
18:38
Speaker 3: off a log. This stuff with us. We've been doing
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Speaker 3: it for so.
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Speaker 1: Long and I've been writing songs with Mark Tinson for
18:44
Speaker 1: years and we have a complete understanding.
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Speaker 3: There's no arguments about anything.
18:51
Speaker 1: We know exactly what we want the lyrics and stuff,
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Speaker 1: and the feel that it's just old school and like
19:00
Speaker 1: it's like I had I don't know so many songs
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Speaker 1: to do, and it was just like doing a gig.
19:05
Speaker 3: I didn't have to.
19:06
Speaker 1: Go over this line and over that line. I just
19:08
Speaker 1: got up and sang that song. I knew it was
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Speaker 1: about me. Yeah, I know that, let's go baby.
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Speaker 3: And we did. We just rocked it and he rocked it.
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Speaker 3: And that was like doing a gig.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
19:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 1: How to do it, you know, don't do it at all.
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Speaker 1: So it was just really fantastic.
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Speaker 3: It was great fun and that was the whole point.
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Speaker 1: It was fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, and so it
19:33
Speaker 1: didn't take long at all.
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Speaker 3: And it was funny.
19:38
Speaker 2: That's wicked. That's so good.
19:40
Speaker 4: And in your quote you said this record makes a
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Speaker 4: statement about the state of wrong today.
19:45
Speaker 2: What's that statement loud and clear?
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Speaker 1: Well, well, as I was saying before, a lot of
19:50
Speaker 1: the music it's you know, they rock hard, all that
19:54
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, but it's pretty morose, you know. I
19:57
Speaker 1: see the audience is all around the planet everywhere, and
20:01
Speaker 1: you know, they don't get a lot of they don't
20:03
Speaker 1: get big.
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Speaker 3: Crowds at some of these gigs.
20:05
Speaker 1: They don't and and the music's sort of pretaked down.
20:12
Speaker 1: Really you know it's dark and and uh, and the
20:15
Speaker 1: crowds are just sort of you know, they're not happy
20:19
Speaker 1: that the bands, the bands themselves, the guys in the
20:24
Speaker 1: bands themselves are not like us.
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Speaker 3: We're enthusiastic, we're gonna do it. Yeah, that's right.
20:31
Speaker 1: That that was the way we were back in that generation. Uh,
20:35
Speaker 1: we've got problems, like, no problem, it's going to fix.
20:38
Speaker 3: The damn thing and get on with them.
20:39
Speaker 1: And so the kids today, the younger ones, I see them,
20:44
Speaker 1: they're just but with my music, my personal news. Dave
20:47
Speaker 1: Evans music, badass rock and rabbit. Now they're not like that.
20:50
Speaker 1: Mos are not what I walk out and go, that's right, baby,
20:54
Speaker 1: and smile and what they're doing they smile and back,
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Speaker 1: come on.
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Speaker 3: Smile yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And we rock
21:00
Speaker 3: rock rock.
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Speaker 1: I'm sexy and tough. I say, I say, where sexy
21:03
Speaker 1: and tough? Don't forget it? And the crowd love that.
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Speaker 3: Of course, they go, where's sexy and tough?
21:08
Speaker 1: I said, that's right, and they will love it, baby,
21:11
Speaker 1: And they all show me their muscles so calm boys.
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Speaker 3: Crowd will go like that.
21:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:16
Speaker 3: And the girls and all the girls go like that too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do they all go yeah, and that's all positive,
21:23
Speaker 1: great stuff.
21:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, and get the crowd involved like we used to do.
21:28
Speaker 2: That's it used to that's it is. Bring the energy.
21:32
Speaker 3: That's what we did.
21:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I still do it.
21:35
Speaker 4: Look, you've played in so many places around the world.
21:39
Speaker 4: What's your favorite crowd where.
21:41
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter? My favorite crowd. And the thing is,
21:44
Speaker 1: you know, people say, what's your favorite crowd? Were they
21:46
Speaker 1: a good crowd?
21:47
Speaker 3: You know?
21:47
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, they were a good crowd because I
21:50
Speaker 1: made them into a good crowd exactly. That's the answer.
21:54
Speaker 1: I made them into a good crowd. What are they
21:55
Speaker 1: good crowd? Yeah, they're all waiting to rock I walked
21:57
Speaker 1: on the way crowd. Okay, they're like that too when
22:02
Speaker 1: they see me. Yes, they do scream and yell. But
22:05
Speaker 1: that's the same everywhere. But you it's up to you
22:08
Speaker 1: to make them into a fantastic crowd.
22:10
Speaker 3: That's my job. And say come, are you sexy and
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Speaker 3: tough roppers? And they go, yeah, we are mayby with
22:19
Speaker 3: you smiling, smiling, and so.
22:21
Speaker 2: Are they Yeah.
22:22
Speaker 1: And when they leave my show, they've been rock hard
22:24
Speaker 1: and they're just happy. And that one word you asked
22:27
Speaker 1: about the difference between bands these days.
22:29
Speaker 3: I go out there to make them happy exactly. Yeah.
22:35
Speaker 3: That's one word that they don't ask anymore. Those rock
22:38
Speaker 3: and whatever. I go to make them happy. Yeah. Yeah.
22:42
Speaker 1: People don't even ask that question. I say to people,
22:44
Speaker 1: you're happy, You're happy? Now, I ask people that question.
22:47
Speaker 1: They say, yeah, nobody asks anybody.
22:49
Speaker 3: If they're happy. Ever, how you doing, You're right? How
22:53
Speaker 3: you okay? Are you're fine? Fine? No one says, hey,
22:58
Speaker 3: are you happy?
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Speaker 1: They don't ask that word, but I do, and I
23:03
Speaker 1: appreciate it. They go, oh yeah that you ask me?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not too bad. Yeah. Happy, that's
23:13
Speaker 3: the word.
23:14
Speaker 1: And so some magic and so I asked people are
23:18
Speaker 1: you happy?
23:19
Speaker 3: And they go, well, not really? I said why, what's wrong? Yeah,
23:23
Speaker 3: And they'll tell you.
23:23
Speaker 1: They all they've got somebody to talk to, yeah, someone
23:27
Speaker 1: to cry on the shoulder, and they go, well this happened,
23:31
Speaker 1: and said it'll be okay. Yeah, I can fix that.
23:34
Speaker 1: If you can fix it, you will, You said, I
23:36
Speaker 1: can fix that here there. Are you happy now?
23:39
Speaker 3: Yeah? Now, yeah, I'm happy. Now that's roight. Yeah. It's
23:45
Speaker 3: a great word to use for people. Question are you happy?
23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to start using that now. I love that, And.
23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you happy? And you can make people happy
23:57
Speaker 1: and they love you forever. Listen, they're just going to
24:00
Speaker 1: say if you make people happy, yeah, they love you
24:03
Speaker 1: to make them happy.
24:07
Speaker 3: That so much.
24:08
Speaker 4: And finally, Dave, when you look back at the young
24:10
Speaker 4: Blok fronting ac DC in seventy three, what would you
24:13
Speaker 4: tell him now fifty years on, I'm still belting it
24:15
Speaker 4: out the same fire.
24:20
Speaker 3: Rockin days. Just keep rocking, That's what I'd say, because
24:23
Speaker 3: I am.
24:24
Speaker 1: I'm still Dan Rocken with a lot of them are
24:26
Speaker 1: long un so just keep rocking. In fact, in fact,
24:30
Speaker 1: I got some advice when I was with a rabbit
24:32
Speaker 1: from a one of the top agents, a guy called
24:37
Speaker 1: Jimmy Towers. He's one of the top agents in Sydney,
24:41
Speaker 1: and after a show one of his favorites, he loved us.
24:45
Speaker 1: He said to me after the show, said Dave, I'll
24:47
Speaker 1: give you some advice. I said what he said to
24:50
Speaker 1: be successful? He said, just keep being busy. Busy, busy, activity, activity, activity.
24:58
Speaker 3: People have got to.
24:58
Speaker 1: See you doing stuff all the time. Act no matter
25:01
Speaker 1: it's big or small, it doesn't matter. Just do something
25:05
Speaker 1: and then people will know that you're popular. And when
25:07
Speaker 1: you're popular. They all want you.
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Speaker 3: That's the advice that Jimmy gave me and I'll give
25:12
Speaker 3: you and.
25:13
Speaker 1: All your listeners of viewers to keep busy. Activity, activity, activity.
25:22
Speaker 2: Never stop, never stop.
25:24
Speaker 3: Love that.
25:25
Speaker 2: Oh Dave, we loved it as a rock. Congrats on
25:29
Speaker 2: fifty years with Robert. We hope to thank you, Thank you.
25:34
Speaker 3: I have to be back to so thanks Ange. I
25:36
Speaker 3: really appreciate it very much. Thank you all right, Sex,
25:40
Speaker 3: don't forget it.