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Can Carl Sentance Finally Step Out Of Krokus' Shadow? (2009 Archive) · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, this is Mark Storacci and you're watching CMS TV.
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  SPEAKER_03: Stay tuned.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is your classic metal show right here on theclassicmetalshow.com.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's brand new music from Carl Sentence.
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  SPEAKER_02: And if you don't know who Carl Sentence is,
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  SPEAKER_02: Chris, you might recognize him from Crocus and the Geezer Butler Band.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's been a guy that's been around,
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  SPEAKER_02: not a household name here in the U.S.,
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  SPEAKER_02: but nevertheless, he's still out there being active.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's got a new release called Mind Doctor.
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  SPEAKER_02: And on the phone, we've got the mind doctor himself, Carl Sentence.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the Classic Metal Show there, Carl.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi there.
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  SPEAKER_02: How are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, we're good, Carl.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've never had you on the show before.
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  SPEAKER_02: And as I said,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: you're not a household name here in the U.S.,
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  SPEAKER_02: but we're willing to find out all about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Carl, obviously, man...
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  SPEAKER_03: You have played with a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you obviously had your moments in Crocus and with Geezer Butler,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I believe with Paul Chapman as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe a good place to start might be to kind of find out a little bit of background
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  SPEAKER_03: on you and how you've worked your way in and out of playing
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  SPEAKER_03: with all these different famed musicians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was just word of mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: sending different tapes off and people hearing me and just meeting people on
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  SPEAKER_00: the road, basically, is how I got to, you know, to get with some of these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I've been lucky in that respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be better,
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  SPEAKER_00: but, you know, I've had some great times and played with some great musicians.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm happy with that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: and this is my first album and I'm just really proud of it, you know, very happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm not sure what else to say, really.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Carl,
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  SPEAKER_03: listening to Mind Doctor,
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  SPEAKER_03: it doesn't really sound like the stuff that you've done with the, um,
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  SPEAKER_03: in your past,
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  SPEAKER_03: although, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's certainly because of you it has those elements,
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  SPEAKER_03: but this is just more of a straight-up rock record.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is that kind of what you're into these days?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I've always been into just,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, straight down the road rock music, you know, um, Very easy listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've always been into that kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that now's the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't been able to do it in the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: And eventually I got to do it myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't financially and the way things were.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now it's a lot easier with technology.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can record from home and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's just a lot easier to do now.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, on your new album, Carl, you have some pretty well-known guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why don't you tell everybody who's on your album with you and how you hooked up with these guys?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the first one I can mention is obviously Don Airy from Deep Purple.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I met Don years ago when I was in a band called Persian Risk.
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  SPEAKER_00: I met him in London.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I bumped into him years later on the road.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were playing the same festivals when I was with Crocus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was with a band called Company of Snake, you know, some of the White Snake guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we kind of exchanged numbers at that point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then a few years later,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a call from Don and he wanted me to sing on his album and do some shows
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  SPEAKER_00: with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's how I hooked up with Don.
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  SPEAKER_00: And through that, Chris,
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  SPEAKER_00: also Chris Childs from Thunder,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's playing the bass and he produced most of my albums.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he also played along on Don's album as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of how I got in touch with Chris and Harry from Thunder.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, they're the three guys that are playing on my album and fantastic musicians.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm very pleased and proud to have them on my album.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Carl,
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  SPEAKER_02: we are big fans of the band Thunder and we've had Harry on the show and He loves
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  SPEAKER_02: the classic metal show,
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  SPEAKER_02: so if you mention the classic metal show to him,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure he'll give us rave reviews.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But we're kind of sad that the band Thunder broke up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Me too, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw them last week in Sheffield on one of their last shows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a very sad moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: You never know with these bands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They may all of a sudden get back together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: He seems ashamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a fabulous band.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think Danny Bowes is an amazing singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look up to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's an amazing voice.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, with these star players being on your album,
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  SPEAKER_02: do you have any intention of doing any shows live to showcase any of this music?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or is this just a studio project for you?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or how does this work?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been talking to a couple of promoters and obviously it's very difficult
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  SPEAKER_00: for someone like me because just using my name,
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  SPEAKER_00: Carl Sentence,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's just not that easy to get to people to put their money into it
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  SPEAKER_00: and promote my name.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there is a few that are looking into it at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think what I need to do is get over into Germany and places like that where
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is quite close to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's just not that easy to get your foot through the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I definitely want to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the moment I'm writing another album.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not going to stop.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Carl, I know that you did a stint with Crocus.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you know Mark Starace at all?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've met him a few times, yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: So one thing that I've always been interested in is when you have a band that...
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  SPEAKER_02: Obviously,
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  SPEAKER_02: you sang with Crocus for a while where Mark was in the band originally and
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  SPEAKER_02: then he came back to the band.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's it like for two singers who front the same band when they meet face-to-face?
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  SPEAKER_02: What do you say to one another?
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  SPEAKER_00: We just have a beer and say, hi, how are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have any problem with anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think Mark's...
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a great singer, and I think at the time, it's what Crocus needed to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They needed to get the original guys back together for business,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they've done quite well out of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But no, that's what I think about it anyway.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Carl,
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  SPEAKER_03: you play there,
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  SPEAKER_03: you performed and sang on the Round 13 record,
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  SPEAKER_03: which even according to your own website,
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  SPEAKER_03: it doesn't sound like you were real happy with that record.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you were okay with your performance, but you weren't real thrilled with that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Was it frustrating for you to come in at that point with the band?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, it wasn't frustrating.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I mean, it was a great experience for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just didn't feel,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think at the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the writing was also handled by Manny,
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  SPEAKER_00: the bass player at the time, and Rabbit, the drummer.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I just didn't feel it was like the original Crocus.
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  SPEAKER_00: My songs are very simple,
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  SPEAKER_00: easy-listening songs,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I think that's how the early Crocus stuff was, that Round 13 is not like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit more complex.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, it was a great experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I still think it's a great album,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I didn't think it was like, you know, the easy listening earlier Croker songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was just my opinion on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, as you move forward doing a solo thing,
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  SPEAKER_03: do you find it hard to where promoters and whatnot,
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  SPEAKER_03: they want to put the names of your past projects out front instead
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  SPEAKER_03: of actually letting you build your own brand?
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  SPEAKER_03: Meaning that,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: they might want to have a poster that says,
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  SPEAKER_03: Crocus singer Carl Sentence, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think they have to do that, you know, for someone like me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They need to do that because, you know, it sells tickets, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, of course, I want to, you know, I'd love to build my name.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think that that's just a dumb thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you,
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  SPEAKER_00: I toured around Europe with Don Airy in January and And I saw a lot of names
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  SPEAKER_00: on big posters, but they all used the bands that they were in from the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's just business.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I can tell you, Carl, that you're no Al Adkins or Dave Evans, that's for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Carl, what do you want to tell us about this new release called Mind Doctor?
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  SPEAKER_02: Anything special that stands out for you aside from the fact that you've got
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  SPEAKER_02: an all-star lineup playing on your new disc?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the only way I can...
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  SPEAKER_00: If people like straightforward rock and they like catchy tunes and foot tappers
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  SPEAKER_00: or headbangers, whatever you want to call them...
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  SPEAKER_00: I think in that vein, it's a great album.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll be doing more.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to stop now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, why would you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope it's whoever's going to listen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: I have a feeling that within the year 2011,
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  SPEAKER_02: everybody's going to know the name of Carl Sentence.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, Carl.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you can go visit Carl over at his website.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's got a nice website over there at carlsentence.com,
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  SPEAKER_02: and he's also on the MySpace at myspace.com slash carlsentence.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the new CD is called Mind Doctor,
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  SPEAKER_02: so go pick that thing up and, you know, put a little coin in Carl's pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can go and have a few beers tonight.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, Carl, well,
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  SPEAKER_02: if there isn't anything else,
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  SPEAKER_02: we're going to ask you the traditional classic metal show question,
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  SPEAKER_02: and I'm sure you probably have had an experience with this guy.
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  SPEAKER_02: How has Lemmy from Motorhead influenced your career?
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  SPEAKER_00: I met Lemmy years and years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's been a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: How has he influenced me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: LAUGHTER I think the only way Lemmy, I mean, he's a fabulous player and very loud and crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think the way he's influenced me, he's kept it real.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's a very down-to-earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: a lot of people don't realize,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: when you meet him, he's a very straight, down-to-earth guy and a really nice guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's very important in the music business,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, just to be a regular guy, you know, don't try and be anything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And...
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what I've learned from Eddie, if that makes sense to you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, Carl, once again, the new release is called Mind Doctor.
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  SPEAKER_02: Carl's sentence coming at you.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Carl, we always let our artists pick a closing song and maybe tell us a story about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what would you like us to play from your new CD?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think Girls Got Fire, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got to be one of the simplest songs on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's definitely a foot-tapper story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my experiences with a few women in America.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's some crazy ones there, as well as nice ones, of course.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this probably says it all.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, well, here it is.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is Carl Sentence from his Mind Doctor release,
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  SPEAKER_02: and this one is Girls Got Fire exclusively here.
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