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PODCAST: Episode 833- The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 10.17 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. What's up everybody, it's TV.
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  I am back once again with another ghostcoldman.com weekly
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  ritual. Got to be honest, I was very
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  tempted to cancel today. I'm sure we'll talk about the
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  Ace Freely news and the passing of the Kiss legend.
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  A whole piece of my childhood is gone.
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  Did not expect this news. Been a very hard summer and fall
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  with passings of people. And it is.
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  It is a lot Skull bashers here. What's up buddy?
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  And Jay Rubino, 13, and Christopher Cameron.
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  We've both been watching ghost cult stuff is here.
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  Yeah. I thought about canceling.
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  Then I thought about just doing an ACE centric show and my
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  partner advise me like, prepare better and do one tomorrow
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  that's a little more thoughtful. I know the prevailing wisdom for
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  all the live streamers is let me get this thing out quickly to
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  take advantage of things. You know, I'll have some further
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  comments about how my journalistic fellows have
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  handled this entire situation. I can't say that I'm super
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  thrilled about how it's all been handled, but yeah, we're here
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  for the weekly show. Scooter is here.
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  What's up, Scooter? I'm very sad, bro.
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  I know you can dunk. People can dunk on KISS and and
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  Ace was far from perfect. And I'll talk more about it
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  tomorrow when I do a stand alone live streaming podcast about
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  him. But yeah, man, thank you, Hugh,
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  you know, just fucking sad. But we're here.
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  I decided to Sally forth and do the show.
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  It's a little late, but I'm. I'm doing it.
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  I'm doing the damn thing. It's going to be a short one
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  because I, you know, I may cry. You may see me cry.
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  I don't do performative crying or crying on cue, but I may just
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  get overcome because I already got choked up earlier.
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  Put on some KISS music and it was like, oh, God, I can't.
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  I really like, honestly, Gene almost bought it last week.
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  You fall asleep at the wheel on the Pacific Coast Highway.
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  I don't know if you've ever driven up the PCH in California.
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  It's all rocks and mountains and cliffs down to the ocean.
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  And I crashed into a parked car because he fainted.
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  Because he's on new meds, apparently.
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  Yeah, man. KISS, Black Sabbath, Led
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  Zeppelin and Lizzie Queen, Pink Floyd.
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  That's my whole AB CS. That's my whole childhood.
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  Before I was out of diapers, I was rocking out.
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  I will always love Kiss. Kiss is imperfect.
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  Kiss is a reflection of middle America, is, you know, got its
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  faults and flaws in all the best and worst ways.
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  They are American. But you know, Kiss Ace is an
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  icon and he is everything about him.
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  I don't even think it's a question that he was the most
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  talented person in Kiss. And I'm a huge Peter Criss fan.
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  Like, I wanted to be Peter Criss when I was a little kid, but
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  we'll talk more about that tomorrow.
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  I'm going to bang through the show.
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  And hey, Southeast of heaven. I am high as fucking working on
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  the pieces we speak. Yeah, man.
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  Like, you know, it's the same. Every time someone dies, I have
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  to write up an obituary. Hope I didn't miss anything
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  crucial. Be thoughtful and smart.
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  And, you know, I think there's this very gross thing.
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  And. And Don, you can my Padre here,
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  Don from Southeast of heaven talking to talk with Don and
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  glacially musical podcast. Don is one of my hetero life
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  mates. I love you too, buddy.
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  Thank you. You know, there's this kind of
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  like very shitty because again, a lot of people who do what we
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  do are not trained writers. And even if you weren't a
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  trained writer, there's just like a lack of decorum and and
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  and ability when it comes to talking about someone that's
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  passed away. Turn to woe Band is here.
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  Christine, Michelle, thank you for all passing by.
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  Mason. Gee, welcome back.
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  Anybody that's watching. Thank you, Ace and Ozzy hanging
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  out out there. Yeah, I saw that.
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  I think a lot. Yeah.
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  I'm a wreck, bro. I'm a wreck.
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  I know. Well, I mean, like, I don't
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  know, Don, you wrote a book. You published a book about a a
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  semi memoir slash rock history book.
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  It's brilliant. I told you that before we were
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  friends, I was, you know, very well enamoured with your book.
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  I would actually like to have a poster of the the album cover,
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  the book cover. But anyway, I have not written a
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  book. I would like to.
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  Melissa is here, my love. Hello.
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  I'll see you in a few hours. But anyway, I got to get this
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  done so I can go pick up my sleep meds and then go see my
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  girlfriend. But anyway, and cry a lot.
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  But yeah, man, I think there's a lack of quality writing and
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  decorum, especially when someone dies.
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  It's very salacious and mean. A lot of people were pushing the
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  Aces dead thing before it was announced.
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  There were only four sources. I would have accepted an
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  acceptable confirmation of Aces passing and I'll talk about that
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  tomorrow. And everybody was like for the
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  clicks, doing it for the clicks. And I think, I think that's
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  fucking gross, really gross. But anyway, let's do the show.
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  I have a fun a fun picture of me.
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  Here is me taking a selfie in my fit for a metal show.
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  I had like one of the most metal weeks of my life.
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  You know, I've been I went to two shows this week.
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  I've been rocking out a lot. I've been listening to a lot of
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  music. I got like in the flow of
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  writing again for the first time in a while where I felt like
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  very into my zone and I'm I'm really having a hard time.
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  Thank you Scooter, I love you too.
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  I'm having a hard time processing my grief about Ozzy
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  and now Ace is gone. This is just fucking terrible.
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  Not to mention a whole bunch of other losses, Brent from
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  Mastodon. But anyway, thank you everybody
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  for the love and support. I am not doing well.
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  Hello family, I hope you are fine.
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  I am not fine. And George Carlin got way too
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  young. Here's the tip menu in case
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  people want to drop us a tip. I appreciate it.
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  You know, I did talk to my good homie Jim today.
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  Slayer's wine. He may pop in here sometimes.
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  He pops in. And Jim and I were talking, you
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  know, he's fighting cancer again.
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  But he should. He still has a very good
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  prognosis. And, you know, we were talking
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  about how sad it was. Ace is really the first.
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  Eric Carr is really the first KISS member to die.
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  But it's very sad that A should perish.
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  And you know, like I said, we almost lost Vaseline Dion.
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  Great name, by the way, incredible stage name.
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  Vaseline Dion. That's amazing.
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  You're a genius. I don't know if anyone has ever
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  told you you're a genius, but you're a goddamn genius.
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  I'm going to just drop the tip menu here on Tick of the Talk.
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  A lot of people reached out and called me.
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  That's another reason why I'm going late.
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  I just needed comfort and care under the circumstances.
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  I'm sorry. I really I am.
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  I keep promising to do these at a more consistent clip and it's
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  it is a struggle. I won't front.
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  Where is this fucking comment thing?
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  Hold on here we go. Hey Instagram, hey TikTok make
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  this shit easier for me. TikTok might be going away as we
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  know it. All the all the time I've spent
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  investing in this platform, it may be disappearing as an app
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  for America. We have to start all over again
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  with a new with the new. I'm not wearing pants.
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  I'm wearing pajamas underneath this misfit shirt.
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  And hello, Melissa. All right, so here, let's do the
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  show. I'm sorry, I'm rambling. 8
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  minutes in. Let's get to it.
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  You know, we start every week with the announcements, and
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  obviously we're going to talk about Ace.
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  We already, you know, started about talking about Ace.
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  So we'll talk more about them in a minute.
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  Again, Ghost Cult turned 13 last year.
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  Yeah, I hear you. Let's take this to Friendster.
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  Let's bring back Friendster. Just a crazy year for musicians
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  and actors passing away. Very sad, but we'll all be there
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  for each other words, Scooter. Scooter, I appreciate you.
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  You're wonderfully, wonderfully said my friend.
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  So we turned 13 last week. I was supposed to.
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  Hey, Ken is here, Ken. Ken is a huge kiss fan.
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  We were talking about the passing of ace.
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  First person to call me first person.
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  I, you know, second person. You know, first person to call
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  me second person I talk to about it.
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  Overall, this box behind me is supposed to be a giveaway I'm
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  starting to do for the 13th anniversary.
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  That was last week. It's gimmicky.
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  It's like 13 items for $130.00. Somebody's going to win it.
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  I'm going to do it tomorrow. I can't do it today.
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  I just didn't have it in me to do it and would have been the
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  last thing I did before going live.
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  But anyway, 13 years ago is called Ken.
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  Thank you for being there for me, brother, and I'm really
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  sorry. Ken has been like me, a Kiss
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  band since the first band I love, first band since
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  childhood. Kiss saw Ken saw a KISS back in
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  the day. His parents took him.
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  Amazing. We're giving away tickets to see
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  the Cults Death cults Failure, and patriarchy in LA on the
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  30th. So if you want, feel free to
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  sign up. I will drop the link right now.
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  Again, if you're in the California area, sign up.
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  If you're not in the California area and you definitely can go
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  to the show. Keep trying.
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  But I really would like to give 5 pairs of tickets away to
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  people that can actually go to the show.
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  I know golden voices, you know, have some issues, but you know
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  they are they are who they are. Let's see I will put this
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  comment everywhere but Facebook because if you start putting too
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  many comments on Facebook, they block you because Facebook is
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  fucking dumb. All these social networks are
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  disappointing the shit out of me and really, you know, I that's
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  why I'm reactivated our newsletter.
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  I started doing more on YouTube and, and things like that with
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  my own YouTube channel. Please go follow me at ghost
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  call Kefi 666. I will be doing some very
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  premium content there soon. We are going to do memberships
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  and and stuff. So yeah, a star.
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  This sucks. I will do a live stream about it
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  tomorrow afternoon. Not from here, but I'll do it
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  tomorrow and we'll talk more about it then.
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  RIP to one of the goats. Sean Malloy.
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  What's up, brother? Thanks for being here.
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  One of the goats. No Dime bag, Darrell, no
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  Megadeth, no Metallica, no Misfits, no Pantera, no Skid
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  Row, no whole Mötley Crüe, no nobody.
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  If you don't have Ace. And even though Gene and Paul
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  conceived a kiss and all these things, Ace was the talent in
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  kits, man. He really was.
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  But we'll talk again. I'm going to go very docking
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  right. Every band Don's favorite band
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  docking. Yeah, man.
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  All right. Also this week, heartbreaking
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  D'Angelo the the neo soul R&B singer died at 51.
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  It kind of breaks my brain. He had pancreatic cancer is a
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  horrible way to go. And and his child with Owen guns
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  is here. His child with Angie Stone.
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  Angie Stone died in a horrible car crash this spring.
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  So now that child, how you know, have her grown and is parentless
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  after like 6-7 months apart? Like heartbreaking.
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  You know, DeAngelo, you know, kind of hit big and then kind of
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  retreated from the spotlight. He had some personal travails
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  and trials and, and stuff and what a tough life he had, even
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  though success and fame, even there was always a chance he was
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  going to continue to cut, you know, do stuff.
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  John Lodge of The Moody Blues died late last week.
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  This was a heartbreaker for me. I love The Moody Blues, one of
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  my favorite groups growing up. You know, John is the person
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  that pushed them into progressive rock along with
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  Justin Hayward and took them away from kind of a Rolling
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  Stones, Kinks, pop rock, Beatles pop rock to a real progressive
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  rock powerhouse. And they weren't the first band
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  to do the symphonic thing, but they were the maybe the best
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  band to do it actually. No disrespect to Metallica and a
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  bunch of other bands who've done it.
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  Diane Keaton died this week. Does turn out that she did.
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  She was sick for a very long time with an undisclosed illness
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  and then she contracted pneumonia and that's what killed
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  her. Which sucks.
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  I know. You know, just to talk about
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  this with my best friend about how wonderful she was, I can't
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  afford a photo of Diane Keaton. I was able to get a photo of Ace
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  to use for our social posts. This is a screen grab from The
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  Godfather. Obviously one of the greatest
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  films of all time. Her acting career was fucking
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  stellar. She did have a romance with
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  Pacino and they ended up not staying together which is too
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  bad. And he talked about how
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  heartbreaking her death is for him.
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  He loved her forever. They just did is met each other
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  at the wrong time or some shit and just what a what a champion
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  actress she was forever and ever.
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  Go look up all her stuff, not just Annie Hall, not just the
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  Godfather. She really was never in too many
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  stinker movies. She was always like uplifted
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  everything she was in kind of like Dennis Hopper, how I think
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  about it. Hey, now I've done it is here.
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  I was just about to give you guys a shout out.
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  We'll talk about that in a minute.
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  We've been talking a lot about Ace freely and a bunch of other
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  things. This one kind of fucking broke
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  my brain a little too. Another fucking great legend
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  lost. Tamanobu Itagaki, who obviously
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  invented Ninja Gaiden, died at 58.
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  I don't know what he passed away from, but you know, obviously
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  humongous game designer. You know, like a legendary game
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  designer. So just a whole week of heart
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  breaks and heartaches on the good news this week in 1991, you
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  know, Metallica in their kind of a sense before the Black album
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  went from being kind of this underground.
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  All of thrash metal was underground, but they went from
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  being this real underground band to being like a headliner of of
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  local festivals. Day on the Green was the Bay
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  Area metal festival and it had gone back to like Scorpions and
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  Van Halen and Ozzy and David Lee Roth solo and all these things.
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  And then Metallica headline. Look at this line up.
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  I'll begin this for a minute. Day on the green Metallica
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  Queens Reich. This is 1991 Metallica Queens
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  Reich at the height of Queens Reich empire and and mind crime
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  Faith No More humongous here, right?
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  And Soundgarden, Holy fuck, that's at Oakland Stadium.
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  They now disused baseball stadium where the A's used to
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  play. Fucking wack.
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  Too much sadness. Hopefully the year will end on a
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  high note. I feel you bro, I feel you I
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  feel you. Start from scratches here on the
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  good news for Halloween season, we still got a few more weeks
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  till Halloween. Evil Dead premiered this week in
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  1981. One of the most creative great
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  movies of all time of the entire horror genre and frankly it's a
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  revolutionary movie just in general.
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  Shout out to my man Sam Raimi. Every set that day was amazing.
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  Queen's right set was mind blowing.
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  Word to the fucking bird bro. They're all on YouTube I think
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  you can watch them. You have the shirt?
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  Sick bro. That's a great shirt.
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  Also this week in history, I'm Afraid of Americans by David
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  Bowie with 9 Inch nails in the Trent Reznor in the video.
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  Great video, one of the best videos of the whole decade.
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  And that's saying something from Bowie and 9 Inch Nails.
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  We both have some of the most iconic videos of that time, but
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  a super fucking great video and song.
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  I've been bugging out on that recent acquire.
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  I don't know if you guys watched the my other podcast, The
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  Relation, the musical podcast where I got that great radio
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  show, vinyl performance recording from Bowie and 9 Inch
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  shells. God says I'm afraid of Americans
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  as we speak. You know, Mitch McConnell is
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  alive. Orrin Hatch.
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  I don't wish death on anybody, but these mother fuckers are
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  going to just die well after we're all gone and we had to
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  lose Ace in a terrible fucking way.
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  What a fucking shame. But OK.
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  Also in metal history, in the last week, here is a bunch of
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  albums that came out. Maybe it will jog some memories
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  for you. Maybe you will go stream it.
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  Maybe you'll be like, I need that on vinyl and go get it.
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  That's why we do these things. We talk about birthdays.
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  There were a few birthdays I missed this week.
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  We did Doc Coyle. And I wish Michael Alago a happy
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  birthday, his 66th birthday. He's a wonder and a gem.
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  But yeah, Dennis is here. What's up?
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  Dennis? Nikki J Rod, what up?
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  Welcome back. So released this week in medal
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  history. You believe the first death
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  medal record ever possessed 7 churches.
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  Also released this week in history.
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  Ozzy down to earth. Not my favorite Ozzy record but
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  solid Co CS brilliant and Grammy award-winning wise blood.
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  If you wonder why Load and Reload sounds like they do, it's
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  because Metallica and James Hetfield got like completely
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  addicted to corrosion and conformity.
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  Overkill Mother fucker. Feel the Fire, their debut
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  album. Excellent.
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  Not a little more punk rock than the thrash metal they became,
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  but pretty good. Rivers of Nile, I think this is
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  their debut. Lorna Shore, the most talked
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  about band in the last three or four years.
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  Pain Remains, this is their debut with Will Ramos on vocals.
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  We had a really good interview with Will around this time.
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  And yes, the singer of Lost Prophets is dead.
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  Yes, we talked about him last week.
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  Fuck that. Trivium had an excellent record
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  this week in history. Yeah, man.
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  Understood. Understood.
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  Can get well. Be kind to yourself.
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  Love you much, brother. And again, thanks for the
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  support today on the A stub. It's just been fucking dreadful.
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  Hey, Karen, this year. What's up?
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  Karen? Good to see you again.
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  Yep. The Lost Prophet singer died.
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  Maybe we, you know, we get we lose a great one.
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  We get rid of a terrible one. Creators endless pain.
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  This is their debut. Be Well Ken, thanks for being
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  here. Death Angel.
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  This dream Girls. Oh God, I love me some Death
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  Angel. Looking forward to the Death
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  Angel Christmas shows in December.
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  Insomnium. I feel like I have this record
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  autographed by the band somewhere.
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  Like I was at a show and I wasn't intending to buy, like
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  they were on tour for an album that came out a couple of years
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  ago. But this was the record they had
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  the vinyl and it was signed that I made like an impulse buy.
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  I was working at the time and I was like, I have extra cash,
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  I'll buy this record. One for Sorrow.
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  Great record. But I also was like, is it my
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  favorite Insomnium record for sure or not?
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  Gotta get some cookies and milk feedback soon I bet.
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  I bet you got the munchies, bro. I'm going to get wrecked on some
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  gummies later. Sacrifice.
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  My second favorite Canadian metal band after Voivod.
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  Forward to termination. What a what a colorful album
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  cover this was. Not a lot of album covers use
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  yellow in the 80s and 90s. My Dying Bride, the light at the
• 20:15
  end of the world. I'm so sad about the My Dying
• 20:20
  Bride news. I think I briefly touched on it
• 20:22
  last week that Aaron Slash was let go.
• 20:26
  Slash left My Bride. My Dying Bride.
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  He's on tour right now with his new band, High Parasite.
• 20:32
  We'll talk about that. ACDC, their best live album with
• 20:37
  Bon Scott, If you want blood. This was like the ACDC 70s.
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  People remember something stupid.
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  Welcome back, Tom. It's been a minute.
• 20:48
  Thanks for being here. Pete Golan is here.
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  Overkill years of decay. Great record.
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  This also came out in the last week.
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  And here's a great record, Enslaved, the former ghost
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  called album of the year for 2017 E the E record.
• 21:05
  It probably means like in Old Norse or whatever, it has like a
• 21:08
  deeper meaning, kind of like how kanji means phrases in Japanese
• 21:12
  and not one letter for all you tattoo folks.
• 21:17
  Flotsam and jetsam Quattro. Not my favorite.
• 21:19
  Their third, their 4th record was like every thrash band tried
• 21:23
  to be grunge or Metallica. Black album dude, the king of
• 21:27
  space, bro, I'm so sad about ace, bro, I'm so fucking sad.
• 21:30
  Thank you for your comment and I'm and I'm glad to see you back
• 21:33
  here. So Exodus Zitro out Duke's in.
• 21:40
  Don is missing that comment I think but looking forward to see
• 21:44
  Duke's maybe do some of this music that he originally
• 21:47
  recorded and then Zitro replaced him and that's all recorded.
• 21:50
  Re recorded the whole album in one week.
• 21:56
  Raven Rock until you drop. Pretty solid record.
• 22:00
  I love this. This thing always cracked me up
• 22:03
  when I saw this album cover as a little kid.
• 22:05
  Iron Man in live after death, the great Iron Man in lies out,
• 22:08
  Duke's in Duke's out Huntelton. Dude Rick hunt is awesome.
• 22:11
  I love Rick Hunt, I've interviewed him a few times for
• 22:14
  his current bands and he's got that band Nefarious.
• 22:18
  You like Zetro Overdukes. A lot of people do.
• 22:21
  Zetro also never in the same room as the ghost of Bon Scott.
• 22:25
  I like Dukes. The records Dukes made.
• 22:28
  He absolutely fucking nailed the assignment, brought them into a
• 22:33
  modern sound. He saved the band.
• 22:34
  They were done when Zetro Zetro quit the band after they
• 22:39
  recorded Tempo of the Dam seven days before going on tour to
• 22:44
  promote Tempo of the Dam and Zedro quit and they had a tour
• 22:47
  book with Megadeth as the opening band for Megadeth, the
• 22:51
  Middle band and Steve Escoval from Defiance and a bunch of
• 23:02
  other Skin Lab. Right.
• 23:03
  Like great great vocalists and I love Skin Labs.
• 23:05
  Skin Labs back making new music too.
• 23:07
  I've seen them live recently. I'm so happy.
• 23:09
  And I saw Defiance finally last year.
• 23:12
  Blood and Bled Out was their best album since Fabulous
• 23:15
  Disaster. I heartily disagree but OK.
• 23:18
  I think Atrocity exhibit A&B, go back and listen to those with
• 23:21
  Dukes. But Tempo is great.
• 23:23
  Tempo has blacklist which is one of my favorite songs.
• 23:25
  OK, my favorite ace solo. I mean the solo and she is
• 23:31
  fucking just so soulful and she is an incredible song to begin
• 23:35
  with. Gotta love the live version of
• 23:39
  Rock'n'roll all night. He crushed it.
• 23:41
  He fractured mirror rock soldiers.
• 23:46
  You know, you know, he's he's the most talented person in KISS
• 23:50
  and by far. Very sad, very sad.
• 23:53
  I've been a KISS fan since I was like two or three years old.
• 23:56
  It's crazy. KISS Army 75, Black Diamond
• 24:00
  Outro. Oh, that's a great one too.
• 24:02
  Live especially. I love Black Diamond.
• 24:03
  Black Diamond is an incredible song.
• 24:06
  Fates Warning. Here's a great record.
• 24:07
  I bet Don has. Hey.
• 24:10
  Yeah. And that's the deal once again.
• 24:12
  You know, if you want to drop us a tip and a tip menu.
• 24:15
  I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 24:16
  If not, that's OK too. I'm going to reduce my embigen
• 24:20
  and go back to this. Of course, we got the Cash App.
• 24:23
  If you want to hit it, hit it, and if you don't, that's fine
• 24:27
  too. Once again, it's time for
• 24:29
  features. And of course, we do live
• 24:31
  streams. I only did the one this week.
• 24:33
  We'll talk about it in one more minute.
• 24:34
  Tomorrow I will go live and do a specific show about Ace Doctor
• 24:39
  Love in Detroit. Rock city, dude.
• 24:41
  Yeah, Killer Doctor Love is great.
• 24:43
  Great song, great solo. Everything Shock Me has to be
• 24:46
  one of his best solos. Die Bad Garrels favorite guitar
• 24:49
  solo and the one that made him want to play guitar.
• 24:51
  Mojave Experience. So I went live on Monday and I
• 24:54
  will probably be going live for the next bunch of Mondays as we
• 24:57
  have become a partner with the festival.
• 24:59
  The debut festival taking place in Joshua Tree National Park in
• 25:04
  March. I may yet go for it, go out
• 25:07
  there for it, We'll see. But in the meantime, we agreed
• 25:09
  to partner with the festival to help them promote it.
• 25:12
  We helped make their second lineup announcement.
• 25:15
  They had previously announced Earthless as one of their
• 25:18
  headliners along with Dead Meadow Bay Area.
• 25:20
  What up? And then I came on Monday and I
• 25:23
  announced Acid King and John Garcia of Chias doing an entire
• 25:27
  career retrospective set with his current band.
• 25:31
  Our rate base is here. What up?
• 25:32
  What up? Travis is here.
• 25:35
  So yeah. Well, hobby experience.
• 25:38
  Stay tuned every Monday about 2:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Eastern
• 25:42
  for me to go live every week in the next bunch of weeks and
• 25:44
  announce new bands coming on for that be pretty quick pretty
• 25:49
  brief live streams. We'll see how they do, but I'm
• 25:53
  I'm excited to work with them. So yeah.
• 25:55
  Also hey, now I've done it. Now I've done it.
• 25:59
  We premiered their entire new album stream and I'll guest is
• 26:03
  out tomorrow and shout out to claw hammer PR.
• 26:06
  Now I've done it is like the Child of Mr. Bungle and Made out
• 26:11
  of Babies and Stolen babies. No relation to made out of
• 26:15
  babies and Devin Townsend's more weird, mystical shit.
• 26:20
  Great band. Love the record.
• 26:22
  I jammed it out. I ran the premiere.
• 26:24
  You go check it out. It's one of the top posts on our
• 26:26
  site today. Interviews this week feature
• 26:30
  length interviews on our YouTube and podcast.
• 26:32
  Tom Osmond, my managing editor of our reviews team, also does
• 26:36
  interviews and he interviewed Steve Austin of Today's The Day.
• 26:39
  I've interviewed Steve in the past.
• 26:41
  New Today is the Day album, out now.
• 26:43
  Probably one of the best albums of the year re re released on
• 26:47
  his reactivated label Supernova USA Records.
• 26:52
  Very excited for some today as the Day best.
• 26:54
  Some of the best 90s and 2000s medal was made by this band and
• 26:58
  he produced probably every band you love.
• 27:02
  Also if you like grindcore and death metal, Nuclear dudes.
• 27:06
  I talked to John Weissman about their current record Truth Pace.
• 27:10
  They have another new record coming out cuz Grind For Life
• 27:13
  and just busting out bedroom albums.
• 27:15
  But another new record is coming out in November so we'll have
• 27:18
  another interview with them soon by my pal Morgan Evans.
• 27:24
  Also I ran my interview with Cosmic Reaper.
• 27:27
  Pretty cool, fun Stoner rock psychedelic doom band from the
• 27:31
  Carolinas. Excellent stuff.
• 27:33
  Also, just in case you missed it, recent interviews we've done
• 27:36
  include Halloween and a bunch of other bands, Ashes and Aries.
• 27:40
  Matt Barlow, formerly of Ice Earth, maybe again, future Ice
• 27:43
  Earth singer again, probably someday.
• 27:47
  Stu block out, Matt Barlow in, Zetro out, Dukes in, and of
• 27:53
  course the glacially musical podcast My Hetero.
• 27:56
  One of my hetero Remote Life mates, Don, is here from that.
• 28:01
  Just hang Rock'n'roll over. Yep bro, that was my first vinyl
• 28:04
  I ever bought. Rock'n'roll over when I was five
• 28:06
  years old. Came out over the summer when I
• 28:08
  was about to turn 5. I got some cash on my 5th
• 28:12
  birthday. Grew up in pretty bad poverty,
• 28:14
  but once in a while we got things and I was given a fistful
• 28:18
  of dollars and I got walked down to Pelham Parkway in the Bronx
• 28:22
  with my mom next to the OTB and everybody puffing cigars.
• 28:28
  And I got that rock'n'roll over. And I brought it home.
• 28:31
  And my brother was tired of me touching his KISS records.
• 28:33
  And I got my own little Fisher Price phonograph and my KISS
• 28:36
  record that probably fucked up that record.
• 28:38
  But I love me some rock'n'roll over.
• 28:41
  I won't you Glacier Musical podcast is currently doing a
• 28:46
  series. I am leaning on Alice In Chains.
• 28:49
  I'm so pumped. One of my top three bands of all
• 28:51
  time. Shaffer in prison, hopefully.
• 28:53
  Yeah, maybe we'll see already. He ratted, so hopefully he
• 28:57
  doesn't get murked out in the wild in Florida where he lives.
• 29:01
  You know, he rat, he ratted on the Proud Boys so he could get
• 29:03
  out of jail. He was going to go to jail for a
• 29:05
  long time. So anyway, glitchily musical
• 29:08
  podcast. We did our first few episodes on
• 29:10
  Alice In Chains. We were supposed to do another
• 29:13
  Chaser this week anyway, and then we decided maybe we'll do
• 29:15
  another Alice episode, but I think we're going to end up
• 29:17
  doing Ace. We are all big Kiss fans, Nick,
• 29:20
  Cameron, Don and I, so stay tuned for that.
• 29:23
  All right, now the news rundown. I'm going to whip through this.
• 29:26
  It's going to be a little condensed because I'm going to
• 29:28
  hit the road and I got to make the pharmacy in time to get my
• 29:30
  meds. Metal festival Sip Your World
• 29:34
  has been leaked. People, people.
• 29:40
  Oh, nice man, the local store you love was going out of
• 29:42
  business, Dom says. And he hooked me up with album
• 29:44
  covers. That's sick, bro.
• 29:46
  So sick new world. The Internet will not fucking
• 29:51
  let up. I wanted to come back, people
• 29:53
  wanted to come back. There have been a lot of updates
• 29:55
  to their website, but apparently they're not smart about it.
• 29:58
  So the lineup is now like not the lineup, but the when it is.
• 30:03
  So it looks like it's going to be the last weekend in April
• 30:05
  back in Vegas, there were some rumors about Texas.
• 30:07
  It still might be do another one in Texas.
• 30:10
  System of down is the headliner. I would imagine most of the
• 30:13
  lineup from last year is going to be this year.
• 30:17
  Maybe Metallica comes back, maybe Linkin Park comes back,
• 30:19
  Maybe neither of them come back. People seem to keep blaming
• 30:23
  Metallica Linkin Park as the reason the festival was
• 30:26
  cancelled. I know the reason it was
• 30:27
  cancelled and I've talked about it a bunch of times, including
• 30:31
  on Reddit. So if you're at Signal World
• 30:34
  when we're young is this weekend, then they'll probably
• 30:36
  announce it then and I'll talk about that in a second.
• 30:38
  So yeah, when we're young, also by the same company that does
• 30:42
  Shaky Knees and Coachella and Lollapalooza and when we're
• 30:46
  young. So when we're young, we'll we'll
• 30:47
  probably get some some news soon about it.
• 30:56
  Once again, reminder about the Mojave experience.
• 31:00
  It looks pretty cool. Man, that Lastic New World
• 31:03
  lineup was cool. The one that didn't happen.
• 31:05
  The one that did happen, John brings more.
• 31:08
  Welcome back, John. Salon Cuts is here.
• 31:11
  Zoko is here. Good to see you my friend.
• 31:13
  Thank you for tuning in once again.
• 31:16
  This looks cool. What is this FFF The FYA fest
• 31:22
  taking place in January? Hatebreed Marauder.
• 31:29
  Haywire Mind Force from New York.
• 31:31
  Bullshit. Everybody takes 1/4 order.
• 31:34
  Magnitude Mongrel, No Idol. Scarab.
• 31:36
  See the Pain? Whispers Drain Gorilla Biscuits.
• 31:39
  My favorite hardcore band ever. Flesh Water and it turmoils a
• 31:43
  lot of people going to get punchy punchy in the pit for
• 31:45
  this one. Missing Link Also from New York
• 31:47
  on their gridiron. Good Shit Good Things festival.
• 31:51
  We've been talking about that for a while.
• 31:53
  Jimmy James, What's up? We've been, oh, the one that
• 31:57
  didn't happen. Yeah, that lineup was great.
• 31:59
  I think it's too many bands make it 2 days.
• 32:01
  It's too much money for one day. It's too much to do in one day.
• 32:05
  There's no way to actually enjoy the festival if it's too many
• 32:08
  fucking bands. That's my personal feeling.
• 32:11
  We do love covering it. I would love to cover it again,
• 32:14
  but I don't think I will be going this year unless something
• 32:18
  crazy happens like pool plays it.
• 32:20
  I don't write this minute. No matter who they get, I've
• 32:23
  seen them all and I don't think there's like enough of a draw.
• 32:26
  And there's other things I want to do like Mojave Experience,
• 32:29
  maybe Maryland Deathfest. Anyway, Good Things Festival
• 32:32
  taking place in Australia has now announced all their
• 32:34
  sideshows. So all the headline bands, Tool,
• 32:37
  all time Low, all American Rejects, Machine Head Knock
• 32:39
  Loose, Lauren Ashore refused their who were playing their
• 32:43
  last shows ever in Australia, Fever 333.
• 32:46
  These are all sideshows. Score was added a bunch of more
• 32:49
  Australian dates. This looks cool.
• 32:51
  Hard Rock Hell in England is taking place coming up soon in
• 32:54
  November. Royal Republic is the headliner.
• 32:56
  Steel Hart, Reactivated, April Wine, Black Eyed Sons, the still
• 33:01
  unfortunately named Wigwam, Please change your name,
• 33:04
  Junkyard Drive and a bunch of other British rock bands and
• 33:06
  European rock bands. They also have an award show.
• 33:09
  They have a Prague show. You don't care for Tool, that's
• 33:11
  fine Don, I'm a big fan. Nick from Gleecely Musical hates
• 33:15
  Tool, but I am going to try to make him do Tool next year.
• 33:19
  Sonic Temple keeps adding a bunch of bands.
• 33:21
  Rockville has added a bunch of bands.
• 33:23
  Got much more metal with this line up change, so we'll see.
• 33:28
  They're shaping up to be pretty. Get big headliners, include My
• 33:31
  Cam and Bring Me the Horizon, so more headliners to go still.
• 33:38
  All right, that's the festival wrap up for this week.
• 33:40
  Sonic. Yes Sonic Temple looks fucking
• 33:43
  great and Rockville is looking solid which is why I kind of
• 33:47
  feel like really sick in the world is really competing
• 33:51
  against Sonic Temple and Rockville and not Coachella.
• 33:55
  But the problem is a lot of people from Vegas lead Vegas to
• 33:59
  go to Coachella because of the short flight times.
• 34:02
  Savant is here so the rush tickets are on sale and they are
• 34:06
  anywhere from $59 to $600.00 apparently according to
• 34:11
  something I heard. So I would like to go to this.
• 34:13
  They added a bunch more dates so every city, LA, Fort Worth,
• 34:17
  Chicago, New York, Toronto, Cleveland, they added two more
• 34:19
  nights in each city for a total of 480 thousand plus people per
• 34:24
  city except Mexico, which I think they're still doing maybe
• 34:28
  one or two. I'd like to go to this but not
• 34:31
  for 600 bucks. I just saw this tour, Judas
• 34:35
  Priest and Alice Cooper Tuesday, we covered it yesterday.
• 34:39
  Phenomenal show. COC opened very clever marketing
• 34:43
  by COC to put the back. The video screen behind them had
• 34:47
  the their brand new album double album cover for 2026 unnamed.
• 34:52
  No music yet but pretty fucking rad.
• 34:55
  Cooper was incredible. I don't want to spoil everything
• 34:58
  but it's a classic full Cooper show even though it's a headline
• 35:01
  show. And Priest was phenomenal.
• 35:04
  Great fucking show. I'm so glad I got to go.
• 35:07
  Shout out to my boy Jorge from my band Angst.
• 35:10
  Follow us at Angst Music SF, we're hopefully going to work on
• 35:14
  some new stuff soon. Metallica has one more show left
• 35:17
  in this year, and that is the Qatar Grand Prix in a place
• 35:20
  they've never played together before.
• 35:22
  Qatar kind of one of our enemies.
• 35:24
  I don't kind of know why they're playing there, but OK.
• 35:28
  OK, let's let Qatar train Air Force pilots on US soil for them
• 35:36
  to later bomb our friends. Cool.
• 35:39
  Anyway, I also saw this show yesterday.
• 35:41
  Dark Angel. I am officially too fucking old
• 35:44
  for a six band bill on a Wednesday.
• 35:46
  I was dying by the end of this thing.
• 35:48
  I was highly entertained. It was an excellent show.
• 35:51
  Tonight is the final night in LA and at the Belasco.
• 35:56
  But the show last night was great.
• 35:58
  I absolutely love the Hyrax comedians can't go to Riyadh but
• 36:03
  Metallica can go to Qatar. Exactly exactly my friend.
• 36:07
  Exactly. But anyway, Dark Angel I don't.
• 36:09
  I'm just going to take one second to tirade a little.
• 36:12
  The Internet is shitting on Dark Angel for their album people
• 36:16
  have not heard and for their merch I guess it shows.
• 36:19
  And their AI artwork. Yes, the artwork for the album
• 36:22
  cover looks kind of AI and they used an AI visualizer for the
• 36:25
  lyric video. And you know, I interviewed Gene
• 36:29
  Hoagland here on the channel. You can check that out.
• 36:31
  And Gene was like we're starchly anti streaming and anti Spotify
• 36:34
  because they will not pay us what we deserve.
• 36:37
  I don't want my music on Apple Music.
• 36:38
  They don't pay either. They pay worse than Spotify
• 36:40
  apparently. And I just as soon as make my
• 36:44
  own record label and put records out myself.
• 36:46
  You want the Dark Angel record, buy it from their website or buy
• 36:49
  the physical CD or vinyl and buy the thing.
• 36:52
  Now I will say I went to the tour hoping to buy the record
• 36:55
  and they didn't have it. They will have it tonight in LA
• 36:58
  apparently. But I was like how do you not
• 36:59
  have the record? But also fucking new music is
• 37:03
  fucking killer and stands up to the best dark Angel shit I
• 37:06
  heard. So like I don't know what the
• 37:08
  fuck people are talking about. The songs are killer, the merch
• 37:10
  look cool. I don't know what the fuck
• 37:12
  people are mad. They're like they heard it was
• 37:14
  bad, someone said it was bad, and the whole Internet and all
• 37:18
  of Reddit said it sucks, it doesn't suck.
• 37:22
  Review coming soon to Ghost Call.
• 37:24
  Probably within a week or two. Better Lovers is going on to
• 37:28
  where they kicked off their UK tour tonight or European Tour.
• 37:32
  Hopefully we catch them in the UK next week.
• 37:34
  Today is the day has some touring going on for November.
• 37:36
  This looks pretty fucking killed and Never Give In tour.
• 37:41
  This looks amazing. Atomic.
• 38:16
  I'm back, OK? Hey, it's me.
• 38:18
  Fuck me, all right? I lost my fucking lost my
• 38:22
  slideshow for a minute. But yeah, man, like what a drag
• 38:28
  people are just want to hate on shit, bum me out, you know?
• 38:32
  There's enough fucking hatred in the world, and I just don't have
• 38:35
  the fucking patience for it, you know?
• 38:39
  I just don't have the patience. I'm almost done with the show.
• 38:43
  I'm almost out the door. Probably like 1520 minutes, 5 to
• 38:47
  10 more minutes for the show, 20 until I leave.
• 38:49
  All right? Anyway, Capra.
• 38:56
  Yeah, man, it's a flag, technically, that Tyler sent me.
• 38:59
  I love Capra. I do hope they can come back
• 39:01
  someday. I know they're kind of on a
• 39:03
  extended hiatus. I feel like Capra and Gozu were
• 39:12
  the only two good bands on that Black Light Media sub label from
• 39:17
  Metal Blade. Hey, it's me all right.
• 39:21
  Now I got to catch back up where the fucking slideshow left off
• 39:24
  where it was like concerts and tours.
• 39:26
  Right? Shot them at a horror show.
• 39:34
  Sick, bro. Yeah, Horrors.
• 39:35
  I love that band. I need to interview them.
• 39:38
  I haven't talked to them in a couple of years and I would like
• 39:40
  to get back to talking to them. Their last record was fucking
• 39:44
  killer. All right, so Dark Angel, Better
• 39:47
  Lovers, Today Is the day, Atomic Bitch, Wax and Crowbot.
• 39:53
  So Don see if that's coming near you and maybe I will send you
• 39:56
  out to it. Primer 55, I know we've been
• 40:01
  talking about New Metals, Sick, New World and System of a Down
• 40:05
  and Mudvane and Slipknot having like one of the best runs of
• 40:09
  their whole career the last couple of years.
• 40:11
  And Primer 55 is doing their first tour in like 15 years.
• 40:16
  Bobby Burns was on death's door 7-8 months ago and now he's
• 40:20
  going out on the road. I do hope he's going to take it
• 40:22
  easy. Take it slow bro, Take it slow.
• 40:26
  Season to Risk, another band I love, is coming my way to the
• 40:29
  West Coast soon. I'm going to try to catch that
• 40:31
  in December. Prong is Due continues to do a
• 40:36
  little bits of touring for their 31 years of cleansing or
• 40:42
  something. VNV Nation announced the tour
• 40:45
  today. We'll get that up on the site
• 40:46
  overnight, but I'm really excited about the VNV Nation.
• 40:49
  So already we got like 9 Inch Nails, VNV Nation and probably
• 40:54
  Stabbing Westward coming back on tour next year.
• 40:57
  Not all together, that would be sick, but a Nine Inch Boys noise
• 41:00
  or whatever. Dream Theater is coming around
• 41:02
  on tour. We're hoping to cover that on
• 41:04
  the East Coast next week. They are continuing to support
• 41:06
  their comeback record with Mike Pornoy.
• 41:08
  Paradise Lost just released a new album, Don, and they are on
• 41:12
  tour right now with Mesa and Parasite featuring Aaron,
• 41:14
  formerly of My Dying Bride. I hate saying that sentence.
• 41:19
  Gore continues their tour with Helmet and Dwarves.
• 41:21
  And they just added a bunch of new dates to Australia by
• 41:25
  popular demand because Gore, you know, you know, people want to
• 41:29
  try to come for them. And Mike says fuck Dream
• 41:33
  Theater. But Mike, you know, you're in a
• 41:34
  thread with Paul and Omar, who love Dream Theater.
• 41:36
  So, like, those are your boys. Maybe you should think
• 41:38
  carefully, son. Talk shit.
• 41:41
  Get a shot Ice T lemonade. Anyway.
• 41:46
  Hell, let's just appreciate that.
• 41:47
  This photo of Corey Glover of Living Color and disciples of
• 41:51
  Verity and Keith David, one of my favorite actors ever, just
• 41:56
  hanging out, just hanging out, posting pictures on Instagram
• 41:59
  and then going to like a meal together in a combo.
• 42:02
  They've been friends for a long time.
• 42:04
  You know, I know Corey goes back to the 80s as an actor, even
• 42:07
  before Living Color took off. So kind of fucking fun.
• 42:12
  All right, once again, a brief reminder if you want to drop us
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  Yeah, I know that doesn't hurt me.
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  You think that hurts me, bro? 1983, Mike.
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  So yeah, obviously the story of the day, the story of the week,
• 43:41
  the story of now is Ace passing away.
• 43:43
  This shit sucks. He took a spill in his studio a
• 43:46
  few weeks ago. We didn't have very much info.
• 43:50
  October like a month ago. He had the accident less than a
• 43:53
  month ago. 3 weeks ago. Very quickly he passed.
• 43:56
  So he had a fall in his to home studio while recording his new
• 44:00
  covers album. See if that comes out or not
• 44:02
  Don't know. Last record as of now will come
• 44:07
  out in his lifetime. Is that 10,000 volts record?
• 44:09
  Sorry, not that great, but all right, Ace already did
• 44:13
  everything he has to do in his career.
• 44:14
  There's nothing to prove. And there was very little info
• 44:17
  put out. And Eddie Trunk said, you know,
• 44:19
  very coyly, like, oh, I know what's going on, but I'm sworn
• 44:22
  to secrecy. And it's like, well, you know,
• 44:24
  if there's something bad, tell us.
• 44:26
  And then we started here. The last couple of days he was
• 44:30
  on in the hospital and he wasn't doing well.
• 44:32
  And then today we heard he was on life support.
• 44:34
  The parent, the family and the wife had decided to maybe, you
• 44:37
  know, let him go because he had no brain function.
• 44:41
  A brain bleed is the official cause of death.
• 44:43
  But it's possible he had a stroke.
• 44:44
  It's possible he had his head. We don't know.
• 44:47
  But it's horrible, horrible way to go 74.
• 44:50
  You know, maybe all these old guys need to just be careful and
• 44:53
  baby themselves and just do less, say less and do less.
• 44:56
  You know what I'm saying? KISS put out a statement.
• 44:59
  I will read it to you. Thank you to my wonderful
• 45:01
  girlfriend for sending me this. I was wondering when KISS would
• 45:05
  put out a statement again. I do feel like the media
• 45:08
  coverage of this has been fucking terrible.
• 45:11
  We are devastated by the passing of Ace Freely.
• 45:13
  He was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier
• 45:16
  during some of the most formative, foundational chapters
• 45:18
  of the band and its history. I feel like I want to read this
• 45:21
  in the Gene Simmons voice. He is and will always be a part
• 45:24
  of Kisses legacy. All the our thoughts are with
• 45:27
  Jeanette, Monique and all those who loved him including our fans
• 45:30
  around the world. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of
• 45:33
  Kiss. I'm sure Peter will put out his
• 45:35
  own statement. I Rachel's here.
• 45:40
  What's up, Rachel? Ghost cultist Rachel.
• 45:43
  So yeah, man, just fucking brutal.
• 45:47
  Ozzy. The pumpkin patch design of Ozzy
• 45:51
  was finally visited by Sharon and Amy and Kelly this week.
• 45:56
  This is a big pumpkin patch every year where the owners of
• 45:59
  the pumpkin patch do a display with the pumpkins.
• 46:03
  It's usually voted on by fans of their social media.
• 46:06
  I Slices is here. Sludge metal.
• 46:09
  Fucky ass here. I also say sludge metal.
• 46:12
  Fuck yeah all the time. Especially when I'm listening to
• 46:15
  Conan. Anyway.
• 46:20
  Ozzy pumpkin patch visited by Sharon.
• 46:22
  Pretty cool Ozzy documentary again.
• 46:25
  I watched the second go of it last weekend.
• 46:27
  It is brutal. I will do a review of it soon or
• 46:33
  another like a written review of it.
• 46:35
  I already did a live stream review of it.
• 46:36
  I'll do a written review soon. Ozzie has the number one best
• 46:39
  seller for the 6th or 7th time. Ask Doctor Ozzie, I am Ozzie, a
• 46:45
  bunch of other Ozzie's ABC's. These books were all best
• 46:47
  sellers. His final book Here I have it.
• 46:51
  I started reading it, I got to finish it.
• 46:54
  The other big news of the week, MTV Europe.
• 46:58
  Paramount, the parent company of MTV is canceling all the other
• 47:01
  MTV related channels. If you think this is not
• 47:03
  extending to the US soon, you are sadly mistaken.
• 47:08
  Granted they're on different properties in Europe and it's
• 47:11
  probably a licensing thing. All these channels will shut
• 47:13
  down on the 21st. This is less than a year after
• 47:17
  Paramount just wiped out the servers with mtv.com and MTV
• 47:21
  News and Comedy Central's website and all these other
• 47:25
  properties they own. Fucking wack.
• 47:27
  I understand that MTV is not a music channel anymore and I
• 47:30
  thought the VM as thing was mostly terrible except the
• 47:33
  tribute to Ozzy. But yeah, man, I know nostalgia
• 47:37
  is not always the best for you, but like, it's, you know, on TV
• 47:41
  is part of a lot of people's upbringing.
• 47:43
  I just want to thank everybody watching it on Instagram,
• 47:47
  YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and everywhere else.
• 47:52
  Thank you, y'all, TikTok, Metallica played the Dreamfest,
• 48:01
  the Dreamforce convention by Salesforce last night.
• 48:06
  And I posted this overnight before I went to bed.
• 48:09
  And yeah, pretty interesting. There's like video, every video
• 48:13
  you see of Metallica and then somebody with the camera pans on
• 48:16
  the fans and people are just like this, glazed over, bored as
• 48:20
  fuck, don't appreciate shit. Like I understand like Metallica
• 48:26
  got a huge corporate payday and probably got, you know, their
• 48:29
  partners with Salesforce for a long time.
• 48:31
  I love fans just being fucking absent.
• 48:35
  Like here's here's the greatest rock band of our time, the
• 48:38
  greatest metal and rock band ever maybe.
• 48:40
  And like people are just fucking emotionless while they're on.
• 48:43
  And Benson Boone opened also and I know he's great.
• 48:45
  I saw him this year too. But like, you know, if you do
• 48:48
  corporate shit, you're going to get corporate fake ass sell out
• 48:52
  people who are not going to fucking appreciate shit.
• 48:56
  Maybe it's time for them after 15 years to stop fucking with
• 48:58
  this company. By the way, this company that
• 49:00
  wants like troops to come into San Francisco, the CEO said he
• 49:04
  would like troops to come in here.
• 49:05
  But listen, I live here. It's not that fucking bad.
• 49:08
  It's not any worse than any other major city in the country.
• 49:11
  It's not fucking rotten. It's or people on fire.
• 49:13
  It's San Francisco. People are trying to get their
• 49:15
  fuck on and eat Korean hot dogs with like hot honey salt, you
• 49:19
  know, honey on it. Like get fucked.
• 49:21
  The city is fine. We don't need the government in
• 49:23
  here. So yeah, Metallica last night
• 49:27
  they did. On the plus side, Metallica did
• 49:30
  play well. But on the plus side, Metallica
• 49:32
  Saved My Life had its debut at the Mill Valley Film Festival
• 49:36
  earlier this week. And hopefully soon we're going
• 49:39
  to get a wide release and a video on demand.
• 49:42
  I hope it's coming before the end of the year because I really
• 49:45
  want to see this fucking thing. The friendly man is here.
• 49:48
  What's up? What's up?
• 49:49
  What's up, LA woman? Good news, some good news.
• 49:53
  Finally, Charlie Benonte and Carla Harvey finally tied the
• 49:56
  knot in Las Vegas this week. Gene Simmons married them fresh
• 50:00
  off in his car accident. I'm Gene Simmons.
• 50:02
  I hate to think of what he charged them to get married, but
• 50:04
  they love Gene and they love Kiss.
• 50:06
  And I'm sure they're all bumming today because they love Kiss so
• 50:09
  much. And the wedding look cool.
• 50:12
  The photos look cool. Charlie and Carla are adorable.
• 50:15
  They make music together with her project.
• 50:17
  She's also in Lords of Acid and her band The Violet Hour.
• 50:21
  And obviously Charlie has Anthrax with a new Anthrax
• 50:23
  record coming out, probably a Pantera live album coming out
• 50:26
  with this current iteration of Pantera with Zach Mazel Tov and
• 50:31
  All the Best to the Benantes. Rob Zombie did announce his new
• 50:36
  album, The Great Satan with the most boring ass fucking artwork
• 50:40
  I've seen in a pretty dull song. But you know, Rob Zombie fans,
• 50:43
  if you're a fan, you kind of know what you're going to get.
• 50:45
  You know, Hoobajou, Godzilla, Bamba Lamb, Black Betty, Bamba
• 50:50
  Lamb. Yeah, that's every fucking White
• 50:53
  Zombie song and Rob Zombie song. But I love White Zombie.
• 50:57
  Rob Zombie not as good, but anyway, good for Rob Zombie.
• 51:00
  Another interview I will probably never get.
• 51:02
  Let's talk about this. This is a big story in the last
• 51:05
  week, Andrew Lee of the San Jose death metal band ripped to
• 51:08
  shreds. This was a story we started to
• 51:11
  talk about this last week where there was a death metal festival
• 51:15
  in Illinois. We talked about it because all
• 51:17
  the bands dropped off like within a few days of it.
• 51:19
  Most of them international couldn't afford to get the visas
• 51:22
  here or wouldn't granted their visas.
• 51:24
  A lot of them were sketchy but I didn't focus on that.
• 51:26
  I focused on the hey if I paid to go to a festival in like 3
• 51:29
  days before the festival 60% of the lineup dropped, I'd be
• 51:33
  fucking mad. And the rest of my brethren in
• 51:36
  the music world dunked on them and I felt bad.
• 51:39
  But anyway. Anyway, Andrew was supposed to
• 51:47
  play with Master at Gilman Street, which is basically the
• 51:51
  CBG VS of Berkeley. It's a legendary punk venue.
• 51:54
  I've gone there a bunch of times.
• 51:55
  I saw better lovers there, almost got my head handed to me.
• 51:58
  I've done some karaoke there. I have a Berkeley membership
• 52:00
  card, Gilman membership card. I always dreamed of coming,
• 52:05
  living here and going to that place to see shows.
• 52:07
  And I fucking did it. I made my dreams come true in
• 52:10
  multiple ways. And he dropped off the Master
• 52:15
  show because Master did not drop off the show with a bunch of,
• 52:19
  you know, sketchy, fucked up fans, racist fans.
• 52:22
  So there was a debate about this.
• 52:25
  Gilman has not commented on it. He called everybody out.
• 52:28
  People were angry at him a lot. He gave a very cogent,
• 52:33
  intelligent response in this personal video.
• 52:36
  The full video is on his YouTube.
• 52:38
  There's a smaller video. I wouldn't mind talking to
• 52:40
  Andrew or, you know, one of us here at Ghost called talking to
• 52:43
  Andrew about this. He made a long case about
• 52:45
  American, Asian, you know, racist racism, America's racist
• 52:50
  history in general, America's racist history toward Asian
• 52:53
  Americans and the racism he himself has faced and called
• 52:56
  out. And, you know, it led to a
• 52:59
  pretty interesting debate on our socials because I posted about
• 53:01
  it. I posted a question like, you
• 53:04
  know, do we have a racism problem?
• 53:06
  We clearly do and a lot. And he felt like even other
• 53:09
  Asian American artists don't talk enough about it.
• 53:12
  And maybe they should. Let me know what you think in
• 53:13
  the comments. Speaking of Iron Maiden, we
• 53:18
  talked about this having an anniversary recently.
• 53:20
  Live After Death is getting a deluxe remaster.
• 53:23
  It's Iron Maiden's 50th anniversary.
• 53:25
  There's so many cool shit things happening, tours and album
• 53:30
  reissues and this coffee table book that got out.
• 53:32
  So there's a cool picture of Steve Harris for no reason.
• 53:34
  There's an Iron Maiden coloring book that's coming out.
• 53:37
  They've had a series of those actually from a British company.
• 53:40
  Adult coloring books. So pretty cool.
• 53:42
  Not like adult coloring books, but coloring books for adults.
• 53:45
  Punctuation matters. Phrasing we showed you.
• 53:49
  We talked last week about Tobias of Ghost backing up his favorite
• 53:53
  Swedish pop rock artist in Linkoping, where they're from.
• 53:58
  No make up, just Tobias soloing and smiling.
• 54:02
  Lot of fun. What a fun guy.
• 54:04
  This is pretty cool and terrible at the same time.
• 54:07
  Aftershock is notorious for in Sacramento which I did not go to
• 54:12
  this year but hopefully next year will be the year I get back
• 54:14
  there. Aftershock is known as a place
• 54:17
  where phones get robbed. Aftershock is a place that's too
• 54:19
  dusty and dirty and people get sick.
• 54:22
  And listen man, if people are crowd serving anybody, I
• 54:28
  understand you might touch a butt or you might touch a leg or
• 54:32
  you might touch somebody's boob. If they're fucking swimming,
• 54:36
  you're a fun guy. This this guy dressed up as
• 54:39
  Ronald McDonald. Like if you're going to fucking
• 54:41
  grope crowd servers and harass, sexually harass people, maybe
• 54:45
  not be dressed up as Ronald McDonald at a festival because
• 54:48
  they found him like that, cut his bracelet off, ejected him.
• 54:53
  I only urge people to come forward.
• 54:55
  No one had really like accused him directly.
• 54:57
  It was just hearsay or I saw him do it.
• 55:00
  But if he if you've been an aftershock or whatever and you
• 55:04
  know who this person is, yes, it's not ratting.
• 55:07
  Come forward and tell the cops because he can be prosecuted.
• 55:11
  Dress up like Pete headset. I mean Pete headset is a normal
• 55:14
  white. He is every average white guy.
• 55:19
  I got to tell you, everybody that ever kicked my ass my whole
• 55:21
  life was a boring white guy. All right, anyway, so at least
• 55:25
  some justice was done. He was kicked out of the fest.
• 55:27
  Thank you, Danny Wilmer, thank you.
• 55:28
  Security again talked about BNB Nation for some touring.
• 55:33
  Revocations new albums out now. I have a new interview running
• 55:35
  on Monday with Revocation. They're on tour right now.
• 55:38
  Absolutely one of the best death metal albums of the year out on
• 55:41
  Metal Blade. Very excited about all these new
• 55:43
  things. And again, I talked about this a
• 55:45
  little last week, you know, don't get mad.
• 55:47
  Record labels are going to record label Orner Shore's on
• 55:50
  Century media just like you're owned by Sony, just like believe
• 55:55
  now owns nuclear blast and and Warner Brothers and Electra are
• 55:59
  owned by you know, and Roadrunner is owned by Warner
• 56:02
  Brothers. So these big bands are going to
• 56:04
  promote Grammy consideration. Don't like Lawrence Shore is not
• 56:09
  a sellout band. They have unexpectedly broken
• 56:13
  due to the mainstream, which I think is fucking incredible.
• 56:16
  Green Purple Unicorn is here. But you know, like don't
• 56:21
  begrudge them. This is what the labels are
• 56:23
  trying to do. They're trying to promote their
• 56:24
  bands because getting a Grammy, even nominated is a bump in your
• 56:28
  screens and helps your band. So they're just doing normal
• 56:31
  record industry things. The Medal is not supposed to get
• 56:34
  a Grammy. Metal people have been getting a
• 56:36
  Grammy since Jethro Tull. Motherfuckers get get into it.
• 56:40
  Jethro Tull, the greatest metal band we know.
• 56:43
  I almost done here. I read a review.
• 56:47
  So last week we told you about Erwan having this goth Sunday
• 56:51
  smoothie from Billy Corgan. I don't know why he's claiming
• 56:54
  goth when he was goth for like 5 minutes.
• 56:57
  But one of my favorite writers ever is Dan Ozzy.
• 57:00
  He Co wrote such books as Sell Out and the major label feeding
• 57:06
  frenzy of Pop punk and tranny with Laura Jane Grace of Against
• 57:10
  Me. And he just blogged about how
• 57:12
  horrible it was. He he paid like $25 for it and
• 57:16
  it was disgusting. Awesome.
• 57:19
  Fucking awesome. All right, let's just normalize
• 57:22
  this picture of Nick Cage and his son Weston, the black metal
• 57:25
  kid for no reason. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:29
  Wes was telling me about what Tane and cradle filth.
• 57:33
  I love them so much. You could just imagine Cage just
• 57:36
  going in on how much he loves to attain an emperor.
• 57:42
  Discord was hacked this week. This is one of my favorite
• 57:44
  channels. You know, top music attorney, a
• 57:48
  lawyer reacts. She does a lot of these and
• 57:51
  she's been talking about, you know, why you shouldn't be on
• 57:55
  Spotify anymore and what and Discord got hacked.
• 57:58
  So like go change your password on Discord immediately.
• 58:01
  I did it already follow her channel.
• 58:04
  All right, really quick. Let's do the new music Friday
• 58:06
  when you get the fuck out of here really quick because I'm
• 58:15
  kind of over today, not going to lie.
• 58:20
  OK, here are the new albums coming out for October 17th,
• 58:24
  2025. Band name, album title, record
• 58:30
  label if there is one, and maybe a little bit of minutiae if I
• 58:35
  know it. 84 Tigers, Nothing Ends.
• 58:38
  That's the side project of Pennywise.
• 58:40
  Spartan Records. Age of Ruin.
• 58:42
  Nothing Man self released an abstract illusion.
• 58:44
  The Sleeping City is for some excellent death metal.
• 58:47
  Black and death metal on Willow Tip Records.
• 58:49
  We reviewed that Arab risk. Moonlight pyromancy on Matriarch
• 58:53
  Records. Armored Knight.
• 58:55
  The quest for sacred melody on dying Victims record.
• 58:57
  Bastard Skull. Bastard Skull on Wormhole Death
• 59:01
  for some heavy metal Battle Beast for some symphonic
• 59:04
  progressive metal. Power metal, Steel bound.
• 59:07
  We just ran that review on Nuclear Blast Records, Boris
• 59:10
  Reissues, Drone Evil and Pink coming soon on Relapse Records.
• 59:15
  I hope to get copies of those. Maybe I'll bring some content
• 59:18
  here. Very underrated and excellent.
• 59:20
  Karach. I'm grand the Cult of Khaliba EP
• 59:23
  on season amidst and amazing black metal Computers Kill
• 59:28
  people The storyteller on Colonel Panic records.
• 59:30
  I think that's punk. Coroner the great thrash metal
• 59:33
  band is back. Oh yes, Old Skull was very good.
• 59:38
  Don hot dog. Hell, you're so silly.
• 59:40
  Old Skull was fun. Coroner new album Dissonance
• 59:43
  theory. You got to review that.
• 59:44
  Also Daedric has the light left on fixed records for some
• 59:48
  industrial EDMEBM music. Dear Forbidden subtitled
• 59:55
  Disfigurement and Brio on Nefarious Industries, so clever
• 59:59
  that name evoken great death. Doom band Mendacium on Profound
• 1:00:04
  lore. I have an interview coming up
• 1:00:05
  with that band. Let's see.
• 1:00:07
  Geobia XA on on Heavy Sounds for some psychedelic rock that you
• 1:00:12
  would probably love. Don Grave Ripper from Welkin to
• 1:00:15
  Tundra on Wise Blood Records for some Stoner doom hellbearer.
• 1:00:18
  Dr. Fates for some heavy metal High on wheels Monkey.
• 1:00:22
  On Clonosphere record for some Prague internal bleeding.
• 1:00:25
  The legendary Queens in Long Island death metal band Settle
• 1:00:29
  all scores on Maggot Stomp records.
• 1:00:31
  Cool name reference there. Obituary song name check right.
• 1:00:36
  Let's see. Calpang destroyer of world on
• 1:00:39
  morbid subcultural records. I interviewed them a long time
• 1:00:41
  ago. Meteora named clearly for the
• 1:00:44
  Linkin Park album Broken Mind EP on H Music Moon destroys.
• 1:00:49
  This is 1 Dawn for you. She walks by Moonlight.
• 1:00:52
  Great album title for a Kiss song re release on Blues Funeral
• 1:00:56
  Records. Let's see.
• 1:00:57
  What else? Paslin Canton's new solo album
• 1:01:01
  formerly of a Perfect Circle and Pixie's Triste on Hideous Human
• 1:01:04
  Records, which is her own label. She owns Pyre, Inexorable,
• 1:01:09
  Inexorable Prepotenance. All right, Sabaton.
• 1:01:14
  New album legends, Better noise music.
• 1:01:16
  Anybody else a Sabaton fan? I like them, but I don't listen
• 1:01:19
  to them all the time at home. You know?
• 1:01:21
  If I see them live, it's fun. New metal from Atlanta.
• 1:01:25
  Silly goose. What the fuck is up?
• 1:01:26
  Denny's not that bad, but what the fuck is up?
• 1:01:29
  Subway. That's those guys.
• 1:01:30
  Keys to the city on Blue. Great music films, great black
• 1:01:34
  and death metal and post punk. A little feral darkness on
• 1:01:37
  redefining darkness. Tribal gaze.
• 1:01:40
  Invading brilliance on nuclear blast.
• 1:01:42
  Oh wait of sleep. The abyss into which we all have
• 1:01:44
  to stare on oral music and Wretched decay, Wretched decay,
• 1:01:52
  Metal Blade Records. That is all your new music.
• 1:01:54
  Friday. I am not doing a mailbag.
• 1:01:58
  This hat is my mailbag. I got this at the show because I
• 1:02:01
  couldn't get a Dark Angel vinyl. Pissed, but OK, I'm still going
• 1:02:04
  to order it, but fucking annoyed.
• 1:02:06
  But yeah, this is my new sacred right, Cat.
• 1:02:08
  This is my 1, you know, But I bought a few stickers and things
• 1:02:11
  like that. They're in my bag outside.
• 1:02:13
  But anyway, that's the show. What a fucking just a fucking
• 1:02:17
  bleach fucking time. I had such a good week.
• 1:02:20
  Until today. I'm going to continue to try to
• 1:02:23
  have a good weekend. As I say every week at this
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  junction of the show, it's a tough time in the world, so
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  please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, stay
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  metal as possible. I am not in a mood to dance a
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  jig, so I'm just going to do the Ace freely from Kiss Meets the
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  Phantom of the Park. Rest in power space man.
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  We love you. We will always love you.
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  From my hometown, the Bronx, I will be on tomorrow to do a live
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  stream about Ace's life and work and why he matters.
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  Thank you for being here and supporting me one more week.
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  Thank you for supporting everybody that works at Costco.
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  Meg now peace.