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Blast From The Past With ZAKK WYLDE From PANTERA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, what's going on everybody, Zach Wild pan Terra celebration getting rid of
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  the role with the Australian chapter. Beautiful Zach, thanks for joining us this
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  London by you got it man, Thanks for having me on my pleasure.
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  So, as you say, Pantsera hit austraight a headline not very soon,
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  starting in Melbourne on March of twenty first, before hitting Sydney of the twenty
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  third in Brisbane the twenty four. So are you packed and ready to go
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  mate or do you lean things like that to the last minute. Yeah,
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  without a doubt. We just got done wrapping up the last run of the
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  headlining shows and then we just did wrap it up right around your Madison Square
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  Garden, which was pretty amazing. And then yeah, it's been a great
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  time. I mean every night, you know, celebrating dying Vinnie and Philip
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  and Wrex and this amazing thing that they created and just brings everyone together.
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  So it's a it's a beautiful thing every night. Excellent and not Fast.
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  Also features Lamb of God, Disturbed, Skindred, Housto of the who Ast,
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  Alexander Prenny Moore Mane. So is there anyone on the lineup that you
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  haven't played with before. I don't know. I mean, you know,
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  I've been doing it long enough where you know, throughout the years you get
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  to know everybody throughout you know, festivals and doing shows with them and then
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  doing tours with them, so they're the lamb of God. Guys we've known
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  for a while now. So it's always great seeing that. What's it like
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  backstage and something like no face pray, like I can imagine it just be
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  like a high school reunion or buddies catching up. Yeah, pretty much.
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  I mean, but you know, mind you it is, I mean pretty
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  stacked throughout the day. I mean, you know, between the sound checks
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  and then we do uh the Panthera VIPs and the meet and greets and everything
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  like that, so there's really not a lot of time to hang, you
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  know, and then usually have to get done with the show. We split,
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  so you know you're off to the next mm hmm. Well uh but
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  yeah, but I mean at at times that we do get to hang,
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  it's it's always a good time, man. Yeah. And of course this
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  will be the first time that this lineup of Pansera has a tortoise trier with
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  yourself and Charlie. But I'm telling the light up. So what can fans
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  expect from the shape? Uh? Nothing, I mean, you know,
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  uh, I mean basically we've been doing it now for about uh I mean
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  not which I can't believe. I mean, it's been over a year since
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  we first went down and had the first batch of rehearsals, the boot camp
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  and everything like that, between uh playing down in Mexico City and everything like
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  that, and then chip all the South American chapters. But uh no,
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  it's it's every night, you know, Like I said, I'm beyond honored
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  and uh to you know, pay tribute to Diamond, Vinnie and and and
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  all the fellows. Man. It's just like I said, it's a beautiful
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  thing every night. Man. Yeah, Now I want to talk about this
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  Newture reversion of pants here a bit more, mate, Like you've been quite
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  a little saying that it's just Phil Rex and a few of their buddies,
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  like it's it's an interesting way look at it. Yeah, totally. I
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  mean it's just like, uh yeah, well Allied Forces me and Charlie over
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  here. So yeah, whatever, I mean, I always, you know,
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  whatever talks about them us doing this panther celebration. It was just you
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  know, I always told Bill and Rex and you know, whenever you guys
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  deal with the right time and you'd want to do it, of course I'll
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  be here to support you guys, and you know, pay tribute to the
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  brothers. So that's that's why it's always been so yeah, I mean it's
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  just like I said, I mean, we've all been friends for years,
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  so it's just a gathering of friends going out celebrating what they created. Yeah,
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  and the music world has been alive with rumors of this happening for years.
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  Broight, But how long was it actually seriously being discussed by you guys?
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  What doing the panthera celebration? Yeah, it's been for a while as
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  long as I can remember. You know, after if the Diamond passed away,
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  when when Vinnie was around, they there was talks about it then,
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  so you know, before Vinnie had passed away. So uh but you know,
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  I mean I just said, guys, if you if you ever need
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  you know, no different than you know, your truck breaking down in the
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  middle of the night and you call me up and you go, Zac,
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  can you come pick me up? So it's like, no problem, I'll
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  be there in a little bit. Look at it. And the first show,
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  as you say, it was back at Mexico's Heaven and Hell Festival last
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  year. So how the nerves before that show? Mate? Like, did
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  you got a lot on your play? You're not just playing music, you'd
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  like you say, you're celebrating the legacy. How the nerves? Just make
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  sure you remember the songs. What a approach did you take before the kabookie
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  drop? Oh, just make sure you remember the songs? And that was
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  a shot like that had any guy down? Was it everything he expected?
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  Oh? Yeah, it was amazing. I was probably that was probably the
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  last time I got butterflies in my stomach, you know, before the Kabooki
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  drop, like kind of like how I did my first show with Ossie back
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  when I was twenty years old. So it was like the anticipation, like
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  wow, the rush because otherwise, like you know, you just try and
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  stay as calm as possible for the show. That's the way I was approaching
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  you know, it doesn't matter whether you're playing a phone booth or you're playing
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  in front of one hundred thousand people. It's just you approach it the same
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  way. Yeah, And of course I like yourself and die bag with great
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  friends. Right. So from a personal perspective, what does it mean to
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  you to be up there playing music? Key right? Uh? Like I
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  said, it's it's a beautiful thing, man, you know, you know,
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  and you know, seeing seeing the reactions on everybody because you know,
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  the Pantera faithful that have seen the band, you know, could take a
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  trip down memory lane and just get flooded with awesome memories of back in the
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  day. And then you have all the uh, the younger generation that never
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  got this to witness the real things. So you know, for them to
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  hear, you know, to still hear this music live just shows you how
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  the strength of the songs and the strength of what the guy has created.
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  So it's like I said, I think it's a beautiful thing every night,
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  just seeing the looks on everyone's faces because I you know, I never got
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  a chance to see Zeppelin live, so I mean it would be, you
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  know, kind of the same thing with me if they went out and towed
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  with Jason. You know, it's like the same kind of thing, you
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  know. I mean, obviously you know it's not it's not zepp one,
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  but it's just to hear those songs and see the guys reform. So that's
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  what it's all about. Yeah, and then hell like if it all do
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  you put your own spin on things? Like do you try and recreate what
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  don did? Or do you put a bit a zach canto it at all?
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  No? You just you You You play the wrongs. I mean,
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  obviously I'm gonna play how I play, But you stay faithful to the songs.
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  Yeah, but you've you've got your own distinct like Sam and people can
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  tell it Zach Wald when you play the guitar. So is that that's still
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  there in this? Yeah? Well, I mean if Dime was if Diame
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  was doing the same thing for me, if he was filling in for Ozzie
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  and he was, you know, was playing the solo and no more tears
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  even no matter what, if he played a note for note, it would
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  still have dimes touch and Dime's feel in his tone. So ah, yeah,
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  it'd be it'd be like the same thing. So you know, but
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  you stay, it's no different than when we were doing you know, Ozzie
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  stuff. When I'm playing mister Crowley. You stay faithful to what Saint Rhodes,
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  you know, wrote the same thing when I do Jake stuff, I
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  stay faithful to you know, Jake sol and Bark at the Moon and everything
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  like that. Yeah, and what's your personal favorite song to play? Very
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  ready up there? Well, I mean we just put Floods in a set
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  now and uh, you know, and that's just you know, really it
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  was a really special song for Dime, you know, when he was really
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  proud of that one. I mean, but I I love I love from
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  the beginning to uh, giving the guys a hug before the kabookie drops right
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  down to the ball at the end of the night, the whole the whole
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  trip is just it's amazing. Yeah. And rumors also been circuliting than the
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  moment might have. Bet you guys write some few music together. Is there
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  any treat to that? What's that, buddy? Rumors have been circulating about
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  this line up writing some original music together, and any truth to that?
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  Uh? No, I mean, I guess that would be a bridge we'd
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  crossed when we get there. But uh, we're so busy doing this right
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  now. There's we've never even thought about it. Yeah, and no,
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  first, you will also be playing with King Parrot. It came over and
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  played some shows with the Over the end of last year. But now to
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  get over those boys. Wait, who's that buddy King Parrot? Oh the
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  King Parrot guys? Yea, because they're promost you're not. They're great guys,
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  man, great people for sure. A kick ass band as well,
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  good good laugh, aren't they. Yeah, without a doubt they kick ass.
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  Said. There's a few other things happening with yourself a black Label Society
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  at the moment, right, I'm starting with a new collaboration with Dunlop and
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  some new guitar fedals, Right, so tell us a bit about that.
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  Well, yeah, me and Jimmy just you know, we just reintroduced all
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  the the tunnels I've used forever, so uh just you know, distortion,
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  the my course, the phase and then we're putting out the roador vibe again
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  in the wah so uh just trying true pedals and then I'm gonna be putting
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  the strings out again. So uh yeah, it's just everything I use so
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  and it worked. What that's the main thing exactly, And befose I just
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  announced the berserkis feature in Black Lives Society. Cody James Cutch, Splkestone,
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  Cherry and Hate small Mate like tell us about that what was now is the
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  right time for you to put on your n festival. Well, you know,
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  I'm training for the thumb wrestling and the Miss berserkis as well, so
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  I'm looking I'm gonna That's why I'm training. My thigh gap, my uh
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  is looking strong, and I'm in my diet's on point, so I'm looking.
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  I'm looking forward to it. But yeah, it's just basically I've known
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  all the bands that are on and I've known all everybody for years, so
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  it's just uh, basically just putting a party together and just getting all my
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  getting all my friends and getting everybody the jam at it. So I'm definitely
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  looking forward to that for sure. Yeah, and there's somebody in the promotion
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  too about a ride for Dime. What's happening then, Well, the Ride
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  for Dime is going to take place. You know, we spoke with Rita,
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  you know, because she's been doing that for years now, and then
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  uh, you know, we reached out to Riada because we talked to her
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  all the time and it's you know, she was We were like, Rita,
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  you want to do the Ride for Dime over at that she was like,
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  yeah, it'd be great. So yeah, we'll be celebrating Dime as
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  well, and then uh, it's just going to be a gathering of you
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  know, berserkers and just get the whole community together and everybody have a good
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  time. Shit. Yeah, now what else is happening with Black Bible Society?
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  Might got anything else to report for us. I've just been writing and
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  stuff like that. So you know, we're recording and uh, you know,
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  who knows where we're gonnaut the next album. I mean, obviously it'll
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  be ready to go probably, I would figure maybe somewhere at twenty twenty five,
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  maybe, you know, because I mean we're so busy doing everything right
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  now. But I mean the only show we got coming up right now is
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  the Berserkus and then uh, but the album, the album will be ready
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  to go, I'm sure. But I mean I'm still writing away and I
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  still got you know, even when we take these breaks from the Pantera celebration,
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  I'll get in the studio and up in the Vatican here and then we'll
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  just start recording some more stuff. Yeah, speaking of that too, right,
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  Like you've done a lot of albums and a lot of writing over the
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  years, right, sir, When it comes time for you to sit down
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  and write, Like, do you find it becomes easier or hotter to come
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  up with fresh new material? I guess the more you do it. No,
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  I think with anybody, you know, a musician, you just sit
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  and you just keep writing until you get something you like, you know what
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  I mean. No, but it really is the truth. I mean,
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  you know, you could be sitting noodling for a little bit and then all
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  of a sudden, you know, a cool riff comes out or whatever,
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  and you you know, and then you're off and running, you know.
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  So, or you get inspired, I mean you could hear something, you
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  know, you could be listening to Dabbot There's that one, or you know
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  anything. I mean, if you're listening to the rock radio and then you're
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  a cool rip or whatever and it inspires you to jam something and then you
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  just it takes you on a completely different path and you end up coming up
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  with a new song. So yeah, it just but you know, I
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  think it's just you just keep writing until you get stuff that you're inspired with,
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  and you then you have something. But I usually just sit down in
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  there out in my gym out here that doom grew up ink Gyron dan Over
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  there and I got my you know, practice lamp out there, and I'll
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  just start writing, yeare cool? All right? Right, well, plase
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  off for this, Like I don't want to give it too much attention because
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  I hate dealing the negatives. But there are people out there who are spiking
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  out against his panciery unything, right, So what message if you got to
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  them before you to austraya Nothing? I mean, it's just like, you
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  know, if you don't want to go, you don't go. It's not
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  my job to convince anybody about anything that they should like pizza or they should
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  like led Zepp on a Black Sabbath or the Rman Brothers, you know.
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  But uh, my own thing is we're don't go. If you don't like
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  vegetables, don't eat them. You're an absolutely champion, right No, But
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  it's like the truth. I mean, I'm not going to try and convince
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  somebody they should like led Zuppe on a Black Sabbath. They're like, I
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  don't like them, I'm like cool, I like them. That just means
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  more a Zeppelin as that habits for me, all right, Zach will absolutely
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  pleasure talk me again. Bro, It's always always fund so we'll see you
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  out here March twenty first for the first show in Melbourne, without a doubt,
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  brother, So uh, we'll see you there. And until then,
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  I'll talk to you a little bit, my brother. I'll try and I'll
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  try and convince some of my friends to like zap One in Sabbath and and
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  Balhalla Java. I'll do the same way. We'll see how we gotta combined.
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  Ah hi, my brother. I'll be in a little bit, buddy,
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  all right, God take care of man. Great talking to you,
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  brother. Take care buddy,