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An Avalanche Of Metal With TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tim rip Berwin's here. You know, I'm saying for
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  Speaker 1: just about everybody. How about that for a lead? Uh
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  Speaker 1: obviously the big thing now is KKs Priest, but but
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, out out hit in Australia solo just a
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  Speaker 1: great band and uh great guys with Andrew and Voya
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  Speaker 1: and and Joel and Jordan's and we've already played uh
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne and it was just great, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the crowd was so good and it was packed, slam packed,
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  Speaker 1: and uh so we're looking, you know these other shows,
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  Speaker 1: uh you know we have I think the out of
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  Speaker 1: the last four, I think they're all only one is
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  Speaker 1: on weekdays, so that kind of sucks, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: uh a long way to travel to play weekdays. But
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, I expect him to all be good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the the Melbourne show was on Violentine's Day
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  Speaker 1: and it was packed, so uh it was probably a
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  Speaker 1: night of that into a lot of relationships. So there
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  Speaker 1: we go.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice.
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  Speaker 3: But actually I got to say to you, Lok, from
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  Speaker 3: your point of view, it'll have to be good getting
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  Speaker 3: the sold outshine for the first on Melbourne, especially because
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  Speaker 3: this is your solo show, like you know, everybody's there
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  Speaker 3: to actually see you and you all material.
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  Speaker 2: You're not a band that you're representing the tim round.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think the guys in the band help
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  Speaker 1: as well. Really, to be honest, on this kind of
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  Speaker 1: a tour, I think that the band I put together,
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  Speaker 1: they're all known musicians and everybody knows they're great, and
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  Speaker 1: we played Melbourne last year. And but yeah, it's great
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  Speaker 1: for him to come out. And what's great is to
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  Speaker 1: start with a show like that and and that it's
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, because that's a hard sell, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you you have to you got you know, some some
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  Speaker 1: guy out there is going to be doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of chores around the house for a while to make
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  Speaker 1: it up. But you know a lot of couples were
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  Speaker 1: out there and it was it was a very romantic,
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  Speaker 1: heavy metal evening.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have finished the show in Melbourne on Valentine's Day,
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  Speaker 3: but you've still got a few to go. You've got
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  Speaker 3: Sydney this Thursday, Brisbane on Saturday, then you've got Adelaide
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  Speaker 3: and you're finishing Perth on the twenty fourth. So we
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  Speaker 3: just sort of spoke about this beaning solos all but
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  Speaker 3: what's going to be different this time around to your
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  Speaker 3: last few times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we've you know, we added some songs to
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  Speaker 1: the set list. We added another you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: two k Case Priest songs in there, and added a
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  Speaker 1: Beyond Fear song. We had a Scream Machine, We added
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  Speaker 1: a classic Beyond the Realms of Death, and the set
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  Speaker 1: list this time and Ice Earth when the Eagle Cries.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a really good set list, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Obviously, it doesn't you know. I
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  Speaker 1: had some people that said they wanted to hear a
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  Speaker 1: lot more Ice Earth and my airt Priest. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have one, two, three or four songs of my
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  Speaker 1: Ara Priest in there. But it's a you know, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to make a set list to make everybody happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of it's you want to make it fun
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. So it's kind of one of those setlists
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  Speaker 1: that you know, anytime I tour, I try to do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I have to. I mean I have to add
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  Speaker 1: in songs a lot of times that I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to do, to be honest, but I do it
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  Speaker 1: too to make it an enjoyable show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you mentioned that, right, like you have been insimony
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  Speaker 3: bands including Judas Pratty. So I said, there's Ingvay, Mount Stain, Diosi,
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  Speaker 3: Si Falls and Three Tremors, KKs Praise and of course Ripa.
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  Speaker 3: So coming up with the set list to keep everyone
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  Speaker 3: happy must be a fucking nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Bro it is it is, just says it is with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the same with KKSE Priest, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: you know? I mean you have to We do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of k Case but probably half and half. But
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  Speaker 1: the thing we don't do is a lot of my
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  Speaker 1: era a Judas Priest. We do one song, So people
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  Speaker 1: complain a lot about that. But it's the same with
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  Speaker 1: every every band and every artist out there. It's always
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  Speaker 1: a pain and a button. It's a challenge to make
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  Speaker 1: a setlist. You will not make anybody happy. And to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, in this day and age, it's impossible to
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  Speaker 1: make it somebody happy, you know. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna complain. I mean, listen, just by reading comments
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  Speaker 1: on posts of mine on social media, people know everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they know exactly how I should look, sound,
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  Speaker 1: what clothes I should wear, what setlists I should have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so you're not gonna make everybody happy. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what's it's really hard to do and you you
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  Speaker 1: nail it, you know. Uh, people want to hear winners Bane,
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  Speaker 1: my first band I released something with. Uh, so it's
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  Speaker 1: it is, it's tough and you kind of do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I've toured doing these songs, you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: my South America tour coming up. I think I've added
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  Speaker 1: Bloodstained into the set list and uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: might do Jugulator, but you know, it's it's it's tough
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But this is a really good one
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  Speaker 1: and the band's really great, a lot of energy, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. So it's it's it's definitely a great show,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And people, we got some great merch there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get hard lines. Him and his wife put together
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  Speaker 1: some some Amabel's put together some really good merch shirts.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we had some vinyl and stuff, and I
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  Speaker 1: brought some posters and eight by ten signed. So it's
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  Speaker 1: really a nice, nice show to come up. People don't
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  Speaker 1: want to miss it because it's not something that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen every day, you know, so try to get
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  Speaker 1: the word out, get their tickets and get out there.
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  Speaker 3: Fantass again you did touch on the backing band you've
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  Speaker 3: got with him, mate, like you've got some body good
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  Speaker 3: musicians there, and Joel and Jordan McDonald and Andrew Hudson
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  Speaker 3: and boy, I wasn't gonna try and say his last
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  Speaker 3: nings and I got to fuck it up. But Mullatinovich,
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  Speaker 3: tell tell us about it, tell us about them and
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  Speaker 3: why you've got them as part of the draw.
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  Speaker 1: Well, last shows a couple of shows we did last year.
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  Speaker 1: Joel and Jordan put this lineup together for us to
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  Speaker 1: do the shows, and I was just over the moon
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  Speaker 1: with him when I showed up. We did a rehearsal
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  Speaker 1: the night before the first show in Sydney and it
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  Speaker 1: was great. Uh you know, we do a little guitar
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  Speaker 1: solo instrumentally thing in there and a little drum solo
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  Speaker 1: and it's just like a complete show. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: a band that's that's played together. That's what it should be.
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  Speaker 1: Because and this was the first time when I just
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  Speaker 1: played with them, Because when I go to South America
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  Speaker 1: or Spain coming up, these are bands that I've played
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  Speaker 1: with before, so we you know, it's pretty solid. But
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  Speaker 1: now I was when I when I asked Joel about
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  Speaker 1: putting this run of shows together February. I was really
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  Speaker 1: hoping I could get the same lineup, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: they're all musicians. They're all busy, uh you know, with
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  Speaker 1: with life and music and jobs and careers and whatever
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  Speaker 1: it may be. You're going to be busy. But we
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  Speaker 1: were able to do it. And yeah, they are just
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  Speaker 1: great musicians and a lot of fun to be with,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's I mean, just the price of
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  Speaker 1: admission is just listening to to Jordan laugh all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's probably I think that's you know, people
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  Speaker 1: could pay just to hear that and see that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll beat that one up for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I've noticed lately you've been doing a lot of collaborations
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  Speaker 3: with smaller off and coming bands like Calvin Black and
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  Speaker 3: Wullgrave a Pyramid, there's quite a few more. Mate Like,
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  Speaker 3: as an artist, what do you get out of collaborating
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  Speaker 3: with bands that sort of more just starting out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot of fun, you know, I've always
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  Speaker 1: done it, but it really probably kicked in to a
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  Speaker 1: little more gear or even the idea at when COVID hit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had to do something, so I think
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  Speaker 1: I posted, Hey, I'm off obviously I'm off and and
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  Speaker 1: so that's what happens. I come home and if I
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  Speaker 1: have some time off, I mean, people say why do
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  Speaker 1: I do that all the time, And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't I do that all the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I go home, I'm off the road. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the main, the main priority in my career
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  Speaker 1: right now is KKSE Priest. That's the main priority. So whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously I was told that this year wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be much going on. We'll probably start recording
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  Speaker 1: a new record, you know, hopefully, but I had to
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  Speaker 1: book touring. But when I'm home, you know, I do
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  Speaker 1: vocals and and uh yeah, I do it for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. I mean it's just uh a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times I'll just post on social media and I'll
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  Speaker 1: give a little plug It's Ripper Vocals at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that I'm off the road. And if they want
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  Speaker 1: me to guest on the record, give me, give me
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  Speaker 1: a you know, drop me a line and we'll discuss
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  Speaker 1: and see if it can be done. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't do it for free. So uh, we'll make that
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  Speaker 1: point clear. Because I've had some offers and I think
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  Speaker 1: people think I do do it for free or they
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  Speaker 1: want to pay. You know, some of the offers are
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny. I I you know, it's uh a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've done a lot of great ones here in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great bands and a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good songs. I've had some really cool songs
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  Speaker 1: here as well. So yeah, it's a lot of fun
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  Speaker 1: to do a lot of different style stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go from like an eighties or seventies kind of
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  Speaker 1: a rainbow song to like a death metal song. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really funny to do all the different stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now've we mentioned before the long list of bands you've
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  Speaker 3: fronted in your career, mate, But musically, what do you
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  Speaker 3: get differently from each each band? I guess, like, is
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  Speaker 3: it a personal challenge to sort of be able to
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  Speaker 3: do so much stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? What are you what are you actually getting
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  Speaker 2: out of it?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's it's uh, it's still me singing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess that's kind of the thing. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoy. Uh, Obviously, the songs I'm gonna enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the most is the ones I've been involved with so much,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the with my Era Priest, and I
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  Speaker 1: really really enjoy the k Case Priests. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years has been so successful with k
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  Speaker 1: Case Priest. The last album was was just such a
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  Speaker 1: banger and a winner, uh all the way around on
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  Speaker 1: the record and it's and we're really the great guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great, great time live on the road. But
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  Speaker 1: when I do, when I do these these tours, that
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy singing all of them, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: a couple couple celebration numbers in this set list for
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  Speaker 1: some but when people ask me to do different things,
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  Speaker 1: different styles, I love doing it all. It's all a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different, but it's still always me singing it. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little more challenging when it's somebody else who
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  Speaker 1: already sang it, and they might be a lot different
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  Speaker 1: than me, especially the higher natural voice stuff, and they
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  Speaker 1: want me to do it so or they want a
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  Speaker 1: certain vibe and I might not be my vibe. But
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  Speaker 1: I just enjoyed doing it and it makes me a
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  Speaker 1: better singer being able to sing all the different stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Now, before I let you go, Ripper, I've started off
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  Speaker 3: a new segment called photo Bomb, where basically I stroll
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  Speaker 3: through social media before I speak with you, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: find some pictures that I want to know a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more about. The first one on Bampoy. Hey, this
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  Speaker 3: one here, like you've been giving to kta Albuq. He
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  Speaker 3: might but what is what is that actually main? O?
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  Speaker 3: When do you get a ka a city? What is
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  Speaker 3: that actually main?
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  Speaker 1: Do that in Australia, U, It's just a tribute in
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  Speaker 1: a in a you know, it's like winning an award,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Really, Actually that key from when I was
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  Speaker 1: told from the mayor the key was actually like a
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  Speaker 1: replica of a real jail key, So I guess I
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  Speaker 1: I should keep it in my pocket at all times
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  Speaker 1: in case I get arrested. But yeah, KK and I
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  Speaker 1: each got one, so it was a pretty It was
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  Speaker 1: really cool. It was the first time I ever got
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  Speaker 1: a key to a city, so that was a great
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  Speaker 1: honor to do. That's a it's a really big honor.
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  Speaker 1: And this mayor happens to like heavy metal obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: he's I think, uh Mark got a key from except
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  Speaker 1: I know he got a key and he I think
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  Speaker 1: this guy goes to some metal concerts and and gives
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  Speaker 1: gives keys out to some metal people that you know
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  Speaker 1: him and his brother comes along and so it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's an honor to get one.
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  Speaker 3: So if you get caught playing up in town, can
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  Speaker 3: you just pull the key out and it's like you
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  Speaker 3: get at his japree cod.
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  Speaker 1: Well, either that or I have to reach around the
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  Speaker 1: bars and open it up with the key. Very good.
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  Speaker 3: Now this other one we haven't got there use in Australia, mate,
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  Speaker 3: So I just want to know.
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  Speaker 2: Is this how you make the cactus?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's uh, that is an Australia to let you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's uh, that's a winery here. I'm not gonna let
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  Speaker 1: him know because they might not let me back. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's in the Megalong it's in the Megalong Valley
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  Speaker 1: here close to uh it's close to Black Heath really
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  Speaker 1: and up here in the Blue Mountain. It's in the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Mountains, Megalong Valley. Uh. That was that the Megalong
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  Speaker 1: Valley winery that was at the one next door. But
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  Speaker 1: my girlfriend suggested that if I could spice up the
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  Speaker 1: grapes a little bit before they come in the season,
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  Speaker 1: So I figured, let's let's help them out. So this
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  Speaker 1: means that just basically means Chris is that I will
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  Speaker 1: have my own wine out pretty soon.
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  Speaker 3: And it also means there's going to be people watching
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  Speaker 3: his drinking that merry long wine.
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  Speaker 2: Who is spitting it out all over the place right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was before you could tell that what I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't peeing on the grapes. I was peeing on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe I wasn't, who knows.