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Bryan Adams · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: It's Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: So bro, Mario Lopez joining me right now, one of
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  Speaker 2: the best selling musicians of all time, Grammy winning artists.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Brian Adams. How you doing, Brian? I'm good, Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for taking the time. Been a fan for
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  Speaker 2: a while, so it's nice to speak with you. I
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  Speaker 2: saw your set from the iHeartRadio Music Festival the other week,
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  Speaker 2: rocked it out. What's it like playing the festival like
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  Speaker 2: that with with the wide variety of artists from different genres.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's fine, great, I'll play with anybody. I
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  Speaker 1: like that attitude. I like that very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Your new album, Roll with the Punches is very much
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  Speaker 2: like that attitude. That's been out for about a month
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  Speaker 2: and now people are digging it and you've accomplished so
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  Speaker 2: much in your career. What what keeps you motivated as
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  Speaker 2: far as writing new music? Al Well, this most recent
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  Speaker 2: album is on my first four as an independent artist,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's like I've got white earrings but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And so got quite excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: And at the time when it actually happened and I
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  Speaker 3: was no longer signed, I remember walking upstairs and just thinking, well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess I got to Roll with the Punches, and
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  Speaker 3: that's actually quite a good title.
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  Speaker 1: For a song, and so thus was the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the album.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool title, Roll with the Punches. You mentioned also
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  Speaker 2: make Up your Mind the first couple of singles. Any
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  Speaker 2: particular inspiration behind those, Well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I said roll with the punch It speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's about getting up and facing adversity and
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  Speaker 3: standing on your own and make up your Mind kind
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  Speaker 3: of a special song. I use it as in my show.
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  Speaker 3: I use it to showcase my drummer Pat Stewart because
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  Speaker 3: he's if you listen to if you listen to the song,
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  Speaker 3: you'll see why.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you're going to be on tour all
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  Speaker 2: fall along. I'm trying to hit that LA show in November,
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  Speaker 2: and I hear your set is over a couple hours long,
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  Speaker 2: which is cool.
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  Speaker 1: It always has been. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You You clearly keep in shape right there. Any particular
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  Speaker 2: routine you like to get into to keep the stamina
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  Speaker 2: night after night.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think the thing that's best about
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  Speaker 3: being One of the things you have to do as
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  Speaker 3: a singer is you sort of have to always keep
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  Speaker 3: working because it's like when an athlete trains to run
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  Speaker 3: a marathon or something, you have to sort of build
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  Speaker 3: up to it. And I think the same with voices.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to keep them, keep them in certain.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep it in shape to muscle. You've
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  Speaker 1: been in shape. Yeah, it's a muscle exactly. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: of course.
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  Speaker 2: And over the summer you became one of the few
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  Speaker 2: artists to play the Amphitheater of Pompeii in Italy. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the place was built around seventy BC, which is wild.
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  Speaker 2: What was that experience like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I played it acoustically just with my guitar, and I
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  Speaker 3: love playing in Italy.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's an amazing place to play.
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  Speaker 3: And to have played that particular Amphitheater, which was originally
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  Speaker 3: one of the first places that I went.
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  Speaker 1: The first Western band played I think it was Pink
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  Speaker 1: Floyd back in the seventies. Wow. And so just to
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  Speaker 1: be part of that legacy's pretty cool. I loved it. It
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  Speaker 1: was amazing, The food was amazing. That you mentioned guitars.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true you actually own and play one of
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Cash's guitars.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do have one of Johnny's guitars. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Had nineteen fifty six Martin d eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a story behind that or you just got
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  Speaker 2: an auction or something.
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  Speaker 3: A friend of mine owned it and he came on
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  Speaker 3: hard times and I said, well, if you if you're
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  Speaker 3: looking get rid of the guitar, I'd be happy to
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  Speaker 3: take it up your hands. He said, I would appreciate it,
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  Speaker 3: and so he s that they give me to be
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  Speaker 3: a good home. So yeah, I've been using it for
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  Speaker 3: a bun of years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome, very cool. Do you have any newer
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  Speaker 2: artists who you like right now that are out the Trivanna.
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  Speaker 1: But there's loads of them. Yeah, I love I love how.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really encouraged bashi by the songwriters today.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's there's just people that can write stuff that
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be able to write and saying yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know who am I thinking of?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Lowly Young for example, and Billie Eilish and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'd appreciate talent. Well, everyone listen. Please be
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  Speaker 2: sure to check out Brian's new album, Roll with the Punches,
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  Speaker 2: which is out now and head over to Brianadams dot
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  Speaker 2: com for all of his tour dates.
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  Speaker 1: Brian appreciate you checking in, Hey, so nice to have
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  Speaker 1: you be on the show. And keep going with the
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  Speaker 1: punches man.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I try to every day right on brother
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez.