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The Top 5 John Corabi Fronted Releases! · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_03: What if I told you the most underrated album
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  SPEAKER_03: in Motley Crue's entire catalog isn't even with Vince Neil?
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  SPEAKER_03: And what if I also told you that the guy who sang it has a whole discography
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  SPEAKER_03: of absolute heaters that most people completely sleep on?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's what I'm going to do today,
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  SPEAKER_03: as today I am ranking my personal top five John Karabi albums.
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  SPEAKER_03: And number one is almost certainly going to piss some of you guys off.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is Chris Akin, and I am back once again with another edition of Chris Akin Presents.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, today we are doing something fun, at least fun for me.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are going to be talking about one of my top five singers of all time.
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  SPEAKER_03: That is John Karabi.
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  SPEAKER_03: John Karabi has had a great career,
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  SPEAKER_03: although he's kind of like maybe the most successful of all
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  SPEAKER_03: the journeymen out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: When you think of all these heavy metal singers that have kind of walked
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  SPEAKER_03: through several projects and bands and stuff,
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  SPEAKER_03: Karabi is the guy that is always kind of listed near the top of it,
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  SPEAKER_03: and for good reason.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's made great music.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we will identify that great music right here by going through his top five.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, I'm going to be clear on this.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are just my picks only.
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  SPEAKER_03: You guys are free to tell me that I'm full of shit or that my picks are dead on
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  SPEAKER_03: or what have you.
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  SPEAKER_03: But whatever it is, I'd love to hear from you.
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  SPEAKER_03: So leave a comment.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let me know your top five or let me know which ones of these you do not agree with
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  SPEAKER_03: or do agree with.
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  SPEAKER_03: And let's talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's figure out if we can find a happy place for all of us to hold hands and get along.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, on YouTube and on Rumble.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure that'll
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, let's get to it, shall we?
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  SPEAKER_03: Start off with number five, top five John Karabi fronted albums bands of my personal taste.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number five, I'm going to Union.
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  SPEAKER_03: Union's second album, The Blue Room, came out in 2000.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was kind of Union-like.
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  SPEAKER_03: Union hit kind of strong at the beginning, and then it kind of faded pretty quick.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then they came back with the Blue Room, and it was definitely a more mature-sounding band.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was very clear when they did the first one,
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  SPEAKER_03: even though the first one is great, that they were kind of learning each other.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bruce Kulik is also in this band from Kiss, obviously the Kiss fame, the makeup-less Kiss fame.
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  SPEAKER_03: I believe Brett Fitz is in this band playing drums.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it was a cool band.
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  SPEAKER_03: But the first album,
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  SPEAKER_03: I think they rushed out really quick,
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  SPEAKER_03: trying to capitalize on the Motley Crue fame or notoriety,
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  SPEAKER_03: whatever you want to call it,
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  SPEAKER_03: that Krabi was going through, as well as the Kiss notoriety.
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  SPEAKER_03: So they put together something fast.
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  SPEAKER_03: They wrote some great songs, but there's a couple songs on there that I kind of skipped.
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  SPEAKER_03: But anyway,
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  SPEAKER_03: the second album comes out,
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  SPEAKER_03: it is much more solid, much more meaty, heavier, and Krabi sounds perfect.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like that perfect combination of blues and hard rock all mishmash together.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's great songs on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hypnotized is a really good one.
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  SPEAKER_03: The opener, Do Your Own Thing, is really good.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everybody seems to like Who Do You Think You Are, which I do too.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love that motherfucker, motherfucker.
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  SPEAKER_03: And not just because it's profane, but because it just fits.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a great record.
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  SPEAKER_03: At number five for me, Unions, The Blue Room from 2000.
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  SPEAKER_03: And like I said, we are counting down my personal top five, John Karabi fronted releases.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're moving up to number four here.
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  SPEAKER_03: And for number four for me and this one, I'm sure a lot of you will not dig, but I love it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love acoustic stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love when these guys just kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's them and an acoustic guitar,
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  SPEAKER_03: maybe one of those little box things that drummers play.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what that's even called.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's just like a wood box and they just kind of beat on it with their hands.
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever that thing is, I love that sound.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Karabi put out an album in 2012 called Unplugged.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this to me is just,
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  SPEAKER_03: if you're a John Karabi fan, you have to listen to this because you get...
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  SPEAKER_03: You get his essence of what he's all about.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's just so many great songs on here.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of them are stuff you'd know.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of it is Motley stuff and Union, or yeah, not Union.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think there is Union as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: But also The Scream, you know, there's just a lot of good songs on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of songs that you'll know.
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  SPEAKER_03: But what makes it special is that it's just kohlrabi.
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  SPEAKER_03: Basically with acoustic guitar and a little light drumming on it so
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  SPEAKER_03: that it is very raw and you really feel it almost like if you were sitting in
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  SPEAKER_03: the room when he was writing these songs.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's really, really strong.
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  SPEAKER_03: I encourage everybody to check it out.
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  SPEAKER_03: John Karabi, Unplugged from 2012.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, moving forward.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number three, John Karabi's best fronted releases of all time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number three for me is The Scream with Let It Scream.
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  SPEAKER_03: For a lot of people, this was their first taste of John Karabi's voice.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's some that knew him from Angora.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I think a lot of us discovered Karabi in 1991 with The Scream.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, Let It Scream...
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  SPEAKER_03: It was not this huge record either.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was on Hollywood Records.
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  SPEAKER_03: They really didn't have the ins yet for that kind of music from their label.
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  SPEAKER_03: And obviously it didn't charter anything,
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't believe,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it did introduce the world to John Karabi
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  SPEAKER_03: and it certainly caught Nikki Sixx's ear,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is probably why when they decided to dump Vince,
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  SPEAKER_03: they called him, was straight off of this record.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a great record.
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  SPEAKER_03: I Believe in Me is a great song.
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  SPEAKER_03: Father, Mother, Son is a great song.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's just a lot of really good stuff on here.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's remarkably harder than I think people realize it is.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of, I don't know, it's bluesy, definitely.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's kind of a Karabi staple, is that it's got that blues vibe to it.
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  SPEAKER_03: But...
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  SPEAKER_03: It's just strong.
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  SPEAKER_03: The only negative that I have to Let It Scream is I felt like the production was
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  SPEAKER_03: a little overpolished.
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  SPEAKER_03: And for a guy like Karabi, he does not need that.
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  SPEAKER_03: He needs to be raw.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this was a little slick, which is probably why it didn't do very well.
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  SPEAKER_03: But for me, it does okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number three, Let It Scream by The Scream.
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  SPEAKER_03: And now we are moving on to number two.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number two is one that I talked about earlier here.
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  SPEAKER_03: That is the debut from Union from 1998.
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  SPEAKER_03: This thing, I know as a Motley fan and as a Kiss fan, I was super excited to get this.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I want to be clear about this.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was definitely a John Karabi Motley Crue fan.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I definitely,
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  SPEAKER_03: of Kiss,
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm that weirdo that doesn't necessarily love all the makeup stuff,
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  SPEAKER_03: but I love most of the makeup List Kiss,
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  SPEAKER_03: which a lot of that was Bruce Kulik, you know, from Asylum on, Bruce Kulik.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love those records.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, Hot in the Shade, I thought was pretty good.
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  SPEAKER_03: Certainly I like Asylum.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know the world doesn't, but I do.
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  SPEAKER_03: Revenge.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, these are good records.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I was all on board when they announced this band with two people that I really,
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  SPEAKER_03: really enjoyed.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they made a really strong record.
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  SPEAKER_03: It definitely feels 90s.
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  SPEAKER_03: I will admit,
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  SPEAKER_03: while it's high on my list,
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  SPEAKER_03: it does feel a little dated compared to pretty much everything else
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  SPEAKER_03: that I mentioned here so far.
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  SPEAKER_03: But there's a lot of great songs on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Around Again, October Morning Wind, Old Man Wise, Pain Behind Your Eyes.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are killer songs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely some of the best, if not the best, that Karabi has been involved in.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a great record.
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  SPEAKER_03: It went out of print for a while.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now it's back.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I love that it's back.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I wish that they could find a way to do it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, a reunion show or something, a reunion show.
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  SPEAKER_03: That would be very cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: I would definitely be into that,
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  SPEAKER_03: but there's probably not enough people that be into it,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is why it doesn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_03: So for me at number two,
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  SPEAKER_03: that would be Union,
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  SPEAKER_03: self-titled from 1998,
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  SPEAKER_03: which leaves us with the number one of my list of top five albums fronted
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  SPEAKER_03: by John Karabi.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not going to surprise anybody.
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  SPEAKER_03: I literally wrote a book about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I certainly am a fan.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact, the book is right here.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wapow, Motley Crue by me.
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  SPEAKER_03: And of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: that's because my favorite from John Karabi is
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  SPEAKER_03: the 1994 Motley Crue self-titled album.
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  SPEAKER_03: The one album in the Motley catalog that does not feature Vince Neil.
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  SPEAKER_03: To me, it is the best album in the Motley Crue catalog.
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  SPEAKER_03: Period.
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  SPEAKER_03: End of statement.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know those of you that live for Shout at the Devil or Dr. Feelgood totally disagree with me.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can be wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love this record.
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  SPEAKER_03: I love it so much.
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  SPEAKER_03: It just was a different Motley Crue, a heavier Motley Crue, a meaner Motley Crue.
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  SPEAKER_03: They weren't looking just to sing songs to get them laid.
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  SPEAKER_03: They were singing like about real shit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like songs like Misunderstood were great.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now there were some uplifting songs as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like Love Shine is a really good song.
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  SPEAKER_03: But most of the stuff was like the hooligans holiday type stuff
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  SPEAKER_03: or Till Death Do Us Part, even angrier stuff like Uncle Jack.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, these were some really, really strong things.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think that they got bit by two things.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think one, the timing was really bad.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, 1994, everybody was into grunge.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't care what Motley Crue sounded like.
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  SPEAKER_03: People were still going to be like, oh, those guys from the eighties.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that,
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  SPEAKER_03: that definitely bit them because honestly,
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  SPEAKER_03: a lot of grunge people,
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  SPEAKER_03: if you would have called this something else, it probably would have done better.
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  SPEAKER_03: Black Crows didn't have any problems selling any records in that same time period.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I think if it was called anything else,
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  SPEAKER_03: it probably would have done a little better
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  SPEAKER_03: At least it wouldn't have been shunned as hard as it was.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the other thing to it is the obvious.
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  SPEAKER_03: John Karabi didn't sound anything like Vince Neil.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think that killed him.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not so much on these songs.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think people,
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  SPEAKER_03: if their only real experience to it was hearing these songs,
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  SPEAKER_03: I think they'd probably like it a little more.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I know a lot of us, myself included, when they announced the tour, we went to those tours.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it was them and Type O, the show that I saw.
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  SPEAKER_03: And...
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  SPEAKER_03: Karabi singing the other songs is where you kind of lost me.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, I didn't really enjoy hearing Karabi singing Home Sweet Home as much as Vince.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's stunning because Vince is so horrible and always has been live.
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  SPEAKER_03: But those are still his songs to sing.
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  SPEAKER_03: And to have another guy with a totally different sound,
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  SPEAKER_03: totally different pitch, a totally different depth to his voice...
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  SPEAKER_03: People just weren't going to gravitate to that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the same thing as like Blaze Bailey joining Iron Maiden.
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  SPEAKER_03: Same exact principle.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, Blaze is a good singer.
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  SPEAKER_03: Blaze has a couple of really good albums out there, Blood and Belief and Silicon Messiah.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there's greatness there.
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  SPEAKER_03: So Blaze can absolutely sing, but in Iron Maiden, it just didn't work.
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  SPEAKER_03: It wasn't what we wanted to hear.
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  SPEAKER_03: Same thing happened to Karabi here.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think people just didn't want to hear it and they weren't going to accept it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Makes it all the more shocking and surprising that John Bush was able to do it
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  SPEAKER_03: and get over with Anthrax because it's almost the same scenario,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it worked sort of for Anthrax, did not work at all for Motley Crue.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's why Anthrax had, what,
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  SPEAKER_03: 10 or 12 years with John Bush and Motley Crue had one and done with John Karabi.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's my list.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll recap it real quick.
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  SPEAKER_03: At number five, Union's The Blue Room.
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  SPEAKER_03: At number four, Unplugged from John Karabi.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number three, The Scream, Let It Scream.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number two, Union self-titled.
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  SPEAKER_03: And at number one, Motley Crue, self-titled 1994.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's my list.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's your list?
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