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Involuntary Shutdown With LINK From THE MEANIES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I am link of the meanis and I'm here to
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  Speaker 1: talk shit, fairtasy. You couldn't pick a better person to
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  Speaker 1: talk shit with brother.
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  Speaker 3: Today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good, actually.
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  Speaker 3: Cool, Banana's Well. The ship that we are talking about
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  Speaker 3: specifically is your new single Shutdown, came out back on
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  Speaker 3: October the ninth grade. So yeah, perception meant for it
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  Speaker 3: was that, sorry, Haw's the reception been for it?
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  Speaker 4: I've talked well, I haven't talked to that many people,
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  Speaker 4: but it seems to be pretty well received. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's something a bit different sexy.
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  Speaker 3: Sexy is a word for you actually described it as
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  Speaker 3: you said sonically, it's the meanings that they're sexiest, and
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  Speaker 3: I've kind of agree. By there's a definite sense of
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  Speaker 3: sex appeal and swagen to the song.
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  Speaker 2: It turns me on listening to it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that sounds just stop mistler because I was
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  Speaker 3: overstaired on in your pants, around your face though, reckon.
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  Speaker 3: She's actually an old new song by Like, having been
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  Speaker 3: recorded twenty five years ago, so yeah, for so.
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  Speaker 2: Long we've gradually been.
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  Speaker 4: We released, initially released like an AP and a couple
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  Speaker 4: of EPs off that from that recording session.
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  Speaker 2: The more traditional meanis type songs.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I was just a bit confused at
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  Speaker 4: the time and kind of like record a whole bunch
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  Speaker 4: of ridiculous shit. You know, it's like disco song, there's
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  Speaker 4: fucking a country song.
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  Speaker 2: I know what the fuck I was thinking.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, So we did release those, and we had
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  Speaker 4: a whole bunch of other stuff that we've gradually kind
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  Speaker 4: of like done a bunch of singles, you know, over
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  Speaker 4: the last fIF teen years or whatever. So we'll have
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  Speaker 4: one of those tracks on the A side and a
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  Speaker 4: couple of Aussie bands covering our songs on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: So we've been lucky enough to have some really good
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  Speaker 2: bands do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Cool. Did you release it exactly as it was
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  Speaker 3: recorded twenty five years ago, or did you touch it
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  Speaker 3: up a bit? No?
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  Speaker 2: No touching, No touching it. I can't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: There's no touching anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Allegedly, Agen. So you're just the same as you build
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  Speaker 3: it out in the studio twenty five years ago. You
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  Speaker 3: churn around and chuck it straight out.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: Nice work. That's the same, and it's a little different
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  Speaker 3: music for you guys. So it was wrenching you were
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  Speaker 3: contemplating back at that stage. Were you just having a
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  Speaker 3: bit of.
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  Speaker 2: Fun, No, just I just yeah, it's kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: not that long after.
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  Speaker 4: I did sumarow People, and I was kind of like,
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  Speaker 4: you had a big on not being Pigeonhole, and now
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  Speaker 4: it's like, why the fuck would you do that with me?
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  Speaker 4: You just do it something else, which I did with
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow People, And yeah, it's just kind of stupid, but
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  Speaker 4: it is what it is. And I actually quite like
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  Speaker 4: that song, and I think that'll that song will work
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  Speaker 4: pretty pretty well in the set where I've just been
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  Speaker 4: learning the guitar that some of the funky guitar to
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  Speaker 4: go with it to play along with Jaws, because it's
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  Speaker 4: just I don't think it'll work live with one guitar
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  Speaker 4: because it's kind of like, yeah, a little bit going on.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I should be right by the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully we're having Redresshole here like while he should be
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  Speaker 4: rocking up soon at my place. We're going to be
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  Speaker 4: pressing just behind me in this room. So I've got
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  Speaker 4: it all set up to play, got.
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  Speaker 3: All the taxi down, the animals set up around watching
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  Speaker 3: you play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I had to.
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  Speaker 4: I had to move the spy, the big were the
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  Speaker 4: big spider on the roof. I had to take that
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  Speaker 4: out because while he hates spiders, so.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with him there. I ate the fuckings you touched
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  Speaker 3: on the fact that you've got any bands do it
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  Speaker 3: the B side, So on this particular one, you've got
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  Speaker 3: friends that Wrong doing a version and play this song
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  Speaker 3: every night. So personally, what was the idea behind having
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  Speaker 3: other bands cover your songs? And secondly, how do the
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  Speaker 3: our friends of Wrong boys get involved?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're friends of ours as all the bands that
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  Speaker 4: we've had on our singles. I don't I can't remember
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  Speaker 4: how how we even started. I think initially we were
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  Speaker 4: going to do an album of just bands covering our songs,
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  Speaker 4: and caught sounds like the Men. He's like those old
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  Speaker 4: records like sounds like Alice Cooper or and you'd buy
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  Speaker 4: it and you'd be phil ripped off because it's not
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  Speaker 4: actually Alice Cooper. You know, someone covering them that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, As for a single idea, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: whose idea that was. Probably Wally's.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like we are friends of boys had a bit
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  Speaker 3: of fun with it, though they're they're half taken the
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  Speaker 3: piss but half being serious, like.
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  Speaker 4: They're not that's a pretty faithful rendition of the song
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  Speaker 4: is actually better than our version.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's on a part, let's put it that way. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 2: it's very good.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys are just like fucking amazing live harmonis and
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  Speaker 4: performers like it's we did that too with them, And
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  Speaker 4: I was just like watching them just go fuck me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because I've always wanted to do three part
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  Speaker 4: harmonies live and I've never really done. Every band I've
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  Speaker 4: done has always been like two part harmonies and hadn't
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  Speaker 4: had the third person to do it. So I've always
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I did write three part harmonies for some
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  Speaker 4: of the songs live they'd just be two part harmonies.
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  Speaker 4: But you watch those guys do and they're just fucking
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  Speaker 4: so spot on.
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing. A lot of people look at friends
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  Speaker 3: for their humor, you know, and they're on stagey's but
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  Speaker 3: actually pretty fucking good musicians as.
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  Speaker 4: Well, mind blowing were good. I mean I was watching
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  Speaker 4: them with my jaw was sitting the ground. It's just
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  Speaker 4: like I'd forgotten because I hadn't seen him in a
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  Speaker 4: long time. And yeah, amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And did the bands get to choose what song they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to cover or do you just give them one
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  Speaker 3: and say run with it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to ask Wally that one. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just what was left.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, no, I have no information.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well we'll move on to the second track then,
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  Speaker 3: which is by Perth band called Leeches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They did a pretty good job of that too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're a really good live band, Leeches and also friends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing Bennie's band. He's coming down.
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  Speaker 4: Playing with the Meanies on every run of shows, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm playing in his band with him, and will also
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  Speaker 4: be rehearsing behind me just here on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got basically I've got the mean He's rehearsing tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Then on Thursday I'm having a run through with Mark
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  Speaker 4: McCartney who's playing in Bennie's band, and then rehearsing on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday with Bennie's band.
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  Speaker 2: So it's hopefully the neighbors don't.
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  Speaker 3: Fucking hopefully they last the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: At least we've got electronic drums though, so we can
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  Speaker 4: do it at a kind of relatively kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Acceptable level, you know, But your way that's hard. It
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  Speaker 2: always turns up louder.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to the start broad on. You got to
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  Speaker 3: start around nineteen eighty eight, so yeah, I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: you've got climate like in Australia at the time, that
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  Speaker 3: gave birth to the.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning where do we fit in?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think we ever really considered ourselves kind
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  Speaker 4: of like a punk band, you know, when we've started
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  Speaker 4: doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like and we didn't quite often.
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  Speaker 4: We'd play with all sorts of different types of bands
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  Speaker 4: and whatever, so we weren't really part of, I guess
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  Speaker 4: the punk scene, but we'd cross over and some of
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  Speaker 4: those bands that play with us and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was just it's so different now. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of in remembering now because it's so feels so
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  Speaker 4: alien the way it was back then. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: like you just you had no I mean there was
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  Speaker 4: no when we started doing it.
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  Speaker 2: There was no.
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  Speaker 4: Chance of becoming big. I mean the biggest you could
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  Speaker 4: hope for was playing to a thousand people. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there was no we can be like Amaal and the
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  Speaker 4: Smiffets or you know that sort of size band and
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  Speaker 4: out sort of bands just didn't do that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Mudhoney had come in and played the old Greek or
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  Speaker 4: you know, whatever to you know, fifteen hundred people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that was as big as it got with the
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  Speaker 4: alternative sort of music. And then of course Nirvana happened
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  Speaker 4: and things changed and we still didn't get big.
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  Speaker 3: There around around the same time the grunge did really
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  Speaker 3: take off. Like was there a rivalry of sorts between
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  Speaker 3: everyone else and grunge back then? Like were the nasty
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  Speaker 3: cousins no one liked?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't recall there being any I mean there was,
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  Speaker 4: It was probably kind of with certain bands like Pearl
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  Speaker 4: Jam or whatever. You had the kind of the backlash
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  Speaker 4: and whatever. I don't I don't remember it ever happening
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  Speaker 4: with to my knowledge, with Nirvana, you know, or like one.
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  Speaker 2: Of those bands.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just I guess a lot of bands
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was great because it gave them the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to maybe make make a quid if they got big.
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  Speaker 3: And you've probably been just a few times before, brother,
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  Speaker 3: but it still fascinates me, like the bound of bands
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  Speaker 3: from your era, like You've got your Spider Baites, Cosmic
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  Speaker 3: Psycho as your gurgitator, preenzil got the Rocky got Streaming Jets, Babe,
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  Speaker 3: the Animals the Paul, Like, there's so many bands from
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  Speaker 3: that era are still going and going strong, like, but
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  Speaker 3: there's never been another era like it that I can
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  Speaker 3: remember where there's so many and strong, Like what do
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  Speaker 3: you put that down here? Do you put it down
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that we just don't give a fuck
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  Speaker 3: as we're old and we just still we want or.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It could it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 4: It could just be kind of like the bit of
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  Speaker 4: old man kind of thing, just like sticking with what
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  Speaker 4: you you know, was in your in your window of
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  Speaker 4: like passion, you know, because when you're a teenage at
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  Speaker 4: early twenties whatever, that's when you're to me, that's when
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  Speaker 4: I was the most excited about seeking going out and
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  Speaker 4: seeking music. So it's like you're always going to look
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  Speaker 4: back at that as being, uh, you know, something special
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  Speaker 4: that I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever it is, mate, keep it coming Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we will.
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  Speaker 3: Guys. You mentioned the fact you're practicing before, bro, that's
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  Speaker 3: because you've got a single launch stall coming up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: on the thirty person of October and you get Frankston,
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  Speaker 3: the Newcastle and Sydney, so more in there. What God
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  Speaker 3: can we expect from the meanings in twenty twenty five, Broh's.
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  Speaker 4: Probably going to be pretty sad, to be honest, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're just hoping for people to let's just be patient
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  Speaker 4: with us and forgiving.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty pathetic.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed there's no Brisbane in there. Itimt is that
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  Speaker 3: to be an out sooner or you give me hope?
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  Speaker 3: I hope?
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  Speaker 2: So I always love going to Brisbane. Yeah, what's your space? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we we'll get there sooners.
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  Speaker 3: Now, before you go, bro, We've got a new segment
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  Speaker 3: called photo Bomb, So basically itroll through your social media
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  Speaker 3: and I'll come up with a few photos that I
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  Speaker 3: want know some more about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, like.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't look like the most comfortable place to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I think that.
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  Speaker 4: I think of the guts there, I think that was
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  Speaker 4: possibly the I think that was the Friends on tour
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  Speaker 4: if I remember correctly. Yeah, just yeah, just in the
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  Speaker 4: in the Virgin lounge.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're getting free drinks.
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  Speaker 3: What's for the fucking with the old bookmaker's bag there too, mate?
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  Speaker 2: Ah right there? Yeah, I think of it as a
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  Speaker 2: doctor's bag.
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  Speaker 4: It's like I've got my box of tricks in there
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  Speaker 4: to heal people, you know, sonically. Yeah, that's they're just
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  Speaker 4: a solid touring bag. I put everything in there, my clothes, everything,
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  Speaker 4: and that's all I take.
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  Speaker 3: I've found one more than it's just classic band fucking
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  Speaker 3: touring photo. This one.
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  Speaker 2: Fuck is that Wally looks that looks fucking old.
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  Speaker 3: That's from Germany in two thousand and nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, it's not twenty nineteen ears, that's the nineties.
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  Speaker 4: So because that's the only time we went to Germany
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  Speaker 4: in the early nineties.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like he's fucking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I remember that van.
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  Speaker 4: There was no windows and just all of us have
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  Speaker 4: been the back just rolling around, you know, like just
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  Speaker 4: fucking bumping up against the wall, the walls, and it
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  Speaker 4: was pretty uncomfortable, and you went it wasn't quite long
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  Speaker 4: enough for the lie stretched out, So it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: we had We had a big barrel full of lukewarm
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  Speaker 4: fucking beer or covered in oil. I remember, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: because we were in Spain and you couldn't get a
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  Speaker 4: fucking cold drink at the servos for some reason. Things
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  Speaker 4: have changed now, but so we we bought a we
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  Speaker 4: found an old drum, but we didn't realize that had
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  Speaker 4: oil in it, so you know, some still had resid
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  Speaker 4: oil residue, so we filled it up with ice and
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  Speaker 4: put the bier in there. Then eventually the cans will
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  Speaker 4: end up being covered in oil.
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  Speaker 3: And you drunk them anyway, didn't you of course? And
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  Speaker 3: roll all right, brother, we thing very much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: Made me to pure speaking, a single shutdown is out now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very smooth, fucking, funky sextual piece of chocolate.
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  Speaker 3: Get along and see the boys that are so thanks mate,
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  Speaker 3: as brother, you take care you too, so.
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  Speaker 2: You just I'm sure lets some on the you're right
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  Speaker 2: aside job. Everything is just you go yoana Roma my
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  Speaker 2: pop is a consequent show. God no, you have a
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  Speaker 2: test show.
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  Speaker 3: That try that tried, you go as that tried. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: You had a side shut down, cool it down a sto.
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  Speaker 4: And now not just resistance.
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  Speaker 2: You're just where's the persists?
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  Speaker 3: I don't show. That's a on the back of that
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  Speaker 3: ride that.
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  Speaker 2: T you're right side, that's that's true, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot just kick shut.
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  Speaker 2: Just fine you go. Oh my my bad, it comes
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  Speaker 2: a question, God no.
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  Speaker 3: Show shut down
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  Speaker 4: You