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The Debut Single Rock Show From Robby Vegas Has Hit The Scene · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 2: Hey it's Robbie Vegas. How you doing.
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Speaker 1: What's going on, mister Robbie Vegas?
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Speaker 2: Not much? Man, how are you? Well?
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Speaker 1: Very excited to share a conversation with you because I
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Speaker 1: love how you explore so many different levels of creative
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Speaker 1: energy and you're able to bring I'm going to I'll
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Speaker 1: just say you're able to bring fruit to your vine.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you set out to do something and
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Speaker 1: you make it happen. That is so rare in this
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Speaker 1: modern day.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I just like to have my hand
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Speaker 3: in everything. It's just something that was ingrained in me
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Speaker 3: at a young age. You need to be involved in
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Speaker 3: the entertainment business somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Well, how did you deal with the people though that
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Speaker 1: tried to calm you down? Because I faced that all
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Speaker 1: the time as a broadcast where people say we need
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Speaker 1: you exclusively, you need to be here, and I go,
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Speaker 1: uh huh, it doesn't work that way. You need to
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Speaker 1: be everywhere, you know.
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Speaker 2: I kind of just always marched to the beat of
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Speaker 2: my own drum.
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Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I never really listened to
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Speaker 3: anybody who told me you can't or don't or you know,
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Speaker 3: that's not for you, because in my mind everything was
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Speaker 3: for me. So if you told me that I wasn't
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Speaker 3: going to do it, then I was going to try
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Speaker 3: ten times harder and do it.
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Speaker 1: Well, here you are with a song rock show. I
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Speaker 1: got to tell you the way you started off with
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Speaker 1: that guitar riff. They always tell us in radio that
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Speaker 1: you have to wait for the song hook. I think
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Speaker 1: that opening is your song hook and then everything else follows.
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Speaker 1: My god, I mean, where did that opening riff come
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Speaker 1: from before you start rolling out the rest of the
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Speaker 1: drums and everybody else in the show.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is where I need to give credit to
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Speaker 3: David Julian, who is my co writer on everything that
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Speaker 3: I'm doing currently on the upcoming album. You know, we
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Speaker 3: we co write everything together, and that opening riff that
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Speaker 3: riff rock Show was his, and he called me and
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Speaker 3: we were finishing up my record and he said, hey, man,
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Speaker 3: I got this this riff that I think you're going
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Speaker 3: to love, and we kind of talked about what we
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Speaker 3: think the vibe of the song should be, and then
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Speaker 3: he sent me the riff and I went nuts for it,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, I have to write this song.
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Speaker 3: This is going to be an anthem. This is going
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Speaker 3: to be my version of nothing but a good time
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Speaker 3: rock and roll, a night, youth Gone wild, whatever those
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Speaker 3: those eighties seventies rock anthems were. I heard it immediately
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Speaker 3: with rock Show, and we agreed that the song sounded
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Speaker 3: like something that rock and roll fans just would fall
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Speaker 3: in love with and just pump their fists and want it.
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Speaker 3: And David is, you know, probably most well known for
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Speaker 3: well number of projects, but the biggest one would be,
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Speaker 3: you know, co writing ten Thousand Folks for Ace Frehley.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, so you know, me and him, you know,
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Speaker 3: we're just a good team and it just kind of
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Speaker 3: fell into our lap. And then the where we wrote together,
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Speaker 3: the more we were like, I think there's something here.
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Speaker 3: So rock Show was born from the two of us It's.
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Speaker 1: So funny you bring up faces name like that, because
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Speaker 1: he did talk about David when when I talked with him,
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Speaker 1: when when he was releasing this album, you know, his album.
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Speaker 1: I'm going, oh my god, when you just said that,
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Speaker 1: I'm going, I'm at full circle right now, because now
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Speaker 1: you're talking about Ace and David and David and Asen
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Speaker 1: and it's like, it's like, isn't this amazing how music
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Speaker 1: has this family tree.
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Speaker 3: Oh, we're all intertwined and it's crazy. And as the
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Speaker 3: years go on, I find that more and more, as
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Speaker 3: you know, we're all hanging out at shows somewhere and
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Speaker 3: it's like, oh, you know this person and you worked
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Speaker 3: with that person, and oh how long did you know
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Speaker 3: this guy?
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Speaker 2: And who's coming up on.
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Speaker 3: Your new album? And and my record is the same thing.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's a who's who of rock and roll.
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Speaker 3: When the when the record drops, people are going to go, wow,
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Speaker 3: all of these people are playing on this thing.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that I love about rock show
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Speaker 1: is is that. And I'm one of those people. I
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Speaker 1: like to go to a show to experience how it
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Speaker 1: all plays out with that live audience. And you're timing
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Speaker 1: on rock show and every and the way that you
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Speaker 1: place the vocals and when it is time to sing
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Speaker 1: that chorus, I mean, it is so perfectly in tune.
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Speaker 1: I just know they're going to be singing out loud,
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Speaker 1: and I sit there. Many times I'll watch the audience.
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Speaker 1: Then I watched the performer, and I watched them banter
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Speaker 1: back and forth and just fall deeper in love with music.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 3: I tested out Rock Show live for the first time
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Speaker 3: on the Monsters Rock Cruise, and all three nights it
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Speaker 3: went over huge and people do enjoy it. And it
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Speaker 3: was playing on the radio on the ship and people
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Speaker 3: were picking up the CD singles at the merch table,
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Speaker 3: and it really was one of those things where the
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Speaker 3: first time I played it, and of course was the
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Speaker 3: final song that I played, and I just looked out
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Speaker 3: at one point and I see all the heads bobbing
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, Okay, this is exactly what I wanted.
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Speaker 3: And it was cool to see it play out in
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Speaker 3: real time because that was the first crowd that heard
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Speaker 3: it live.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I was gonna ask you about that Monster of
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Speaker 1: Rock tour and being out there on the cruise, because
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Speaker 1: do do people go and do they sample new music?
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Speaker 1: And things, because that, to me would be the testing
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Speaker 1: before I take it to the massively out of control
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Speaker 1: live audiences.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, monss of Rock Cruise audiences are pretty
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Speaker 3: amazing because they do seek out new music and they
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Speaker 3: do want but they like it because it has that
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Speaker 3: eighties feel, that glam rock undertone. Even though I'm not
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Speaker 3: specifically sounding like Motley Cruze or you know, Poison or whoever,
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Speaker 3: you can hear the influences in it, and they respect
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Speaker 3: and appreciate that I want to keep that genre in
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Speaker 3: that music alive, and they can see how much in
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Speaker 3: me that I do love it. I'm not just doing
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Speaker 3: it to do it. It's like in my blood. So
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Speaker 3: you know, on the Montester of Rock Cruise, if you
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Speaker 3: get those people that go down their list of like okay,
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Speaker 3: well there's three bands playing at all times all day long,
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Speaker 3: but I've never seen this person and I've never heard
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Speaker 3: of this person, and so on and so on, and
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Speaker 3: they seek it out. And they had three chances to
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Speaker 3: see me. I played Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and they did.
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Speaker 3: There was people carving out time to make sure like okay,
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Speaker 3: if I see him this day or if I'm I
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Speaker 3: said this day, I can go this day and it
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Speaker 3: worked out beautifully. See.
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Speaker 1: I love it when they do that, when they when
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Speaker 1: they bring in people that are labeled, oh they're unknown,
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Speaker 1: they're unknown, and I'm going, wait a second, that's how
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Speaker 1: people listen to Spotify all the time. All this new
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Speaker 1: music drops in and people don't check out of it.
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Speaker 1: So I really respect these promoters for putting on a
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Speaker 1: concert like this because we're in the mode of discovering
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Speaker 1: new music, because we all want to have our own
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Speaker 1: band right now.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that's the perfect way to put it.
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Speaker 3: As like with Spotify, if you're listening to Warrant Winger
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Speaker 3: Faster pushyca at La Guns, you scroll to the bottom
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Speaker 3: of that screen on your Spotify it says artists similar
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Speaker 3: to and a lot of times you find bands that
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Speaker 3: you forgot about, never heard of, or to you they're unknown,
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Speaker 3: but to somebody else they're a favorite. You know, if
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Speaker 3: I can name drop somebody real quick. Next year's Monsters
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Speaker 3: Rockers Wednesday thirteen is one of the featured bands, and
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Speaker 3: there's going to be a handful of people there who
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Speaker 3: are going to be discovering him and in their minds,
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Speaker 3: he's quote unquote unknown, but to people like me the
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Speaker 3: last twenty five five years, he's been a staple in
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Speaker 3: my playlist. So it's it's one of those those cool things.
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Speaker 1: You know, Please do not move. There's more with Robbie
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Speaker 1: Vegas still ahead, the name of his debut single rock Show.
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Speaker 1: We are back with singer, songwriter and professional wrestler Robbie Vegas.
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Speaker 1: So do you go through personality changes when you are
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Speaker 1: right there at the crossroads of rock and roll and
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Speaker 1: pro wrestling begin And what I do is because I'm
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Speaker 1: a writer, I'm a I'm a jock, I'm a producer,
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Speaker 1: and so every one of those people have a name
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Speaker 1: of their own. Do you go through the same thing
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Speaker 1: where you give them a name or do you have
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Speaker 1: a compartmentalized quite nicely?
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: The thing with with the wrestling and the rock is,
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Speaker 3: for the longest time I kept them separated. And at
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Speaker 3: one point something clicked in me. I think somebody says something,
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Speaker 3: Oh you do that. You're you're this rock star guy,
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Speaker 3: and you're you're out there playing in bands and you're
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Speaker 3: writing music and you're in studios, and why are you
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Speaker 3: not just bringing that to wrestling? Because if you come
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Speaker 3: out here and just do that rock star guy. That's
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Speaker 3: who I just turn it up to eleven and then
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Speaker 3: that's when everything clicked for me. So now I think, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I do have to tap into something. But it's the
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Speaker 3: same something that I tap into when I'm recording a
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Speaker 3: song or playing a live show, and you just get
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Speaker 3: into that headspace of you know, as far as wrestling goes,
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Speaker 3: the Monikers, Rockstar Robbie Vegas, So you tap into that.
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Speaker 3: Whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy. It's like,
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Speaker 3: what is Rockstar Robbie Vegas today? But it's very close
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Speaker 3: to the same thing I have to do with walking
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Speaker 3: on stage on say the Monsters rock crews, like you
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Speaker 3: have to become that person. It's now I don't have
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Speaker 3: to separate the two anymore. For the last however many years,
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Speaker 3: it's been just this is me all the time. I
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Speaker 3: just turn it up to eleven when I get in
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Speaker 3: the ring, so there really is no compartmentalizing anymore.
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Speaker 1: The roar of that crowd between the two are they
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Speaker 1: one and the same because I live for that roar.
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Speaker 1: That is my addiction in life. I've got to feel
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Speaker 1: what that energy is doing as it comes toward me.
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Speaker 2: It is. It is very much one and the same.
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Speaker 3: I you know, when you're playing a song that you
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Speaker 3: wrote and people react to it, the adrenaline Russia is great.
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Speaker 3: And when you're letting those emotions out and you're strumming
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Speaker 3: that guitar, you're hitting that high note, whatever it might be.
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Speaker 3: And the same thing for me goes into wrestling, but
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Speaker 3: maybe not so much the moves I'm doing, but the
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Speaker 3: reaction I could pull out of people with my storytelling
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Speaker 3: in the ring or the moments that I create. I'm
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Speaker 3: not so much worried that they went ooh or ah
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Speaker 3: when I hit like a big kick or something. It's
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Speaker 3: more when I get up on the top rope after
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Speaker 3: I did something really crappy to the other guy and
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Speaker 3: making everybody boomy, and I just open my arms and
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Speaker 3: they go nuts.
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Speaker 2: Or it's one of those things where it's the shoes.
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Speaker 3: On the other foot and I'm the good guy and
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Speaker 3: I finally get my big comeback spot and they start
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Speaker 3: going nuts. Because you know, those are very much the
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Speaker 3: same to me as writing a song.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling a story.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know how you made that transition from
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Speaker 1: that guitar to lead vocals, because when I would move
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Speaker 1: up to lead vocals. I left everything behind because I
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Speaker 1: can't do two things at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll be honest with you.
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Speaker 3: I was always a guitar player from the time I
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Speaker 3: was six years old and I started playing music live
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Speaker 3: with my first show I was thirteen, and when I
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Speaker 3: turned fourteen, I got my first band. I've been playing
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Speaker 3: live music ever since, and I was always some phone
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Speaker 3: of guitar player. But with this new record, all I
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Speaker 3: wanted to do is be the front man. I was like,
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Speaker 3: you know, forget the guitar. I'm just gonna sing. I
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Speaker 3: have high notes that I want to hit. And now
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Speaker 3: that the record came together, it's okay, Well Robbie is
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Speaker 3: the lead vocals and rhythm guitar, and it's just the
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Speaker 3: way that it played out. And you know, I had
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Speaker 3: it dead set that I was just going to be
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Speaker 3: the front man, but at this stage in the game,
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Speaker 3: it's like, you know what, you know, I'm gonna have
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Speaker 3: to be back on guitar duty.
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Speaker 2: It just worked out that way.
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Speaker 1: I got to give you kudos on your podcast, and
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Speaker 1: the reason why is because when you live the life,
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Speaker 1: you ask the better questions and when you've got those
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Speaker 1: guests in there, Oh my god. I mean it's like
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Speaker 1: you went right there with them. You didn't have to
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Speaker 1: be a fly on the wall. It's almost like you
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Speaker 1: have lived it before, which is why you're able to
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Speaker 1: ask what you do and dive into those methods of
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Speaker 1: basically creative energy with you. I mean, because it's a
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Speaker 1: collaboration when you're doing your podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's one of the reasons why I even
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Speaker 3: wanted to do the podcast to begin with, because all
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Speaker 3: the years of being on the road with music or wrestling,
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Speaker 3: I loved hearing people's stories and I love the experiences,
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Speaker 3: and I love the shared experiences and the camaraderie and
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Speaker 3: the brotherhood that we were building and what brotherhood and
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Speaker 3: sisterhood in some cases. And you know, I was like, man,
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Speaker 3: I would really like to sit down with some of
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Speaker 3: these guys and just talk and just let people hear
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Speaker 3: the conversations that we have. And that's where the podcast
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Speaker 3: was really born from, was my shared experiences. So some
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Speaker 3: of the guys that I have on are people that
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Speaker 3: I've known for years and years and years, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I called in favors of you know, hey, when your
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Speaker 3: new album's coming out, let's go on my show and
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Speaker 3: talk about it, and it just kind of spiraled into
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Speaker 3: what it is now. But I do really enjoy hearing
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Speaker 3: their stories and talking with them, and I would like
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Speaker 3: to believe that that comes across.
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Speaker 1: Well, it does come across, and right away when I
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Speaker 1: hear it, I'm going, oh, no, wonder he's putting together
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Speaker 1: the inspirations that he's had in life, which comes from
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Speaker 1: two of the biggest bands of all time, The Beatles
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Speaker 1: and Kiss, who were all about the press, who were
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Speaker 1: all about shaking hands and kissing babies and getting to
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Speaker 1: know other people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think I've kind of adopted that because
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Speaker 3: of them, because I.
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Speaker 2: Do enjoy those aspects of it as well. To me,
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Speaker 2: that stuff doesn't feel like work. It's fun.
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Speaker 3: And you know, if it wasn't for a Kiss and
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Speaker 3: it wasn't for the Beatles, I don't know that I
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Speaker 3: would have the passion that love for music that I
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Speaker 3: have right now. And then getting to do, you know,
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Speaker 3: cool things and experience cool things and getting my own
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Speaker 3: time to hang with Ace and you know, I did
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Speaker 3: a couple of gigs, playing a side show like VIP
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Speaker 3: Stage four, Kiss and you know, things like that we're
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Speaker 3: just very like full circle moments for me where it's
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Speaker 3: like serendipity, you know, like you fell in love with
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Speaker 3: this because of these guys. And here I am playing
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Speaker 3: a few minutes before they're about to play right over there,
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Speaker 3: and or we're having a conversation with Ace and saying, hey, man,
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Speaker 3: you know my co writers the same co writer as yours.
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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, now now I'm one
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Speaker 3: of the boys, right, Oh yeah, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: You know, does it feel like that the garage band
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Speaker 1: has made it? Because I mean, to me, when I
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Speaker 1: was a kid, that's what I wanted to be most
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Speaker 1: of anything. I just wanted to be in a garage band.
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Speaker 1: And then when it grows from there, it's like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, just enjoy the ride.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
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Speaker 3: I mean I remember, you know, getting my first what
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Speaker 3: I consider brakes and music where when I started fronting
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Speaker 3: my own band, and you know, I got to open
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Speaker 3: up for Bang Tango and I got to open up
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Speaker 3: for Wednesday thirteen, and all of a sudden, it was like,
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Speaker 3: oh my god, things are happening, like this isn't just
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Speaker 3: like playing for your mom and dad and brothers and
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Speaker 3: sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins anymore, you know,
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Speaker 3: like people actually care. And then like the first time
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Speaker 3: you hear your song on the radio, and the first time,
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Speaker 3: you know, you get to headline a show at a
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Speaker 3: big venue, and all of those things start to like
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Speaker 3: pile up, and you go, you know, I think I'm
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Speaker 3: becoming more professional here. And if I could say, you know,
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Speaker 3: my first two epis that are out right now, you
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Speaker 3: can tell that they sound more like the ideas are
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Speaker 3: there and the songs are good, but they sound demo.
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Speaker 1: We yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then you go and you start to listen to
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Speaker 3: Nothing to Lose break Free Rock Show, and you go, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: he stepped up into the big leagues. You know, like
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Speaker 3: you start to hear the change and the quality of
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Speaker 3: the recordings and the ideas that go into making these songs.
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Speaker 3: And that's kind of why I left those EPs up.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to take them down. I'm proud of
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Speaker 3: the songs. I'm proud of my pong writing, but I
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Speaker 3: do see the growth and it's like if these were
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Speaker 3: graage band type demos and now I'm in the big leagues,
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Speaker 3: and that's like a really proud moment.
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Speaker 1: You know, man, you are spot on with that, because
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Speaker 1: that's the way I feel about Justin Bieber said, Okay,
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Speaker 1: he was a punk kid when he came in, he
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Speaker 1: was a teen idol blah blah blah. And then when
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Speaker 1: you listen to his music today, you're realizing, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: he's growing up right here in front of us. And
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Speaker 1: I wish more people could do that so we could
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Speaker 1: have deeper conversations with music. But you're right, when you
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Speaker 1: get up to that third collection of music, you're going, Whooo,
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Speaker 1: this has got something to it because I'm feeling more
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Speaker 1: experience here and an understanding with who I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: connecting with.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's insanely important, and I think
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Speaker 3: that's something that gets overlooked. Or you know, some artists
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Speaker 3: will be like, oh, I'm gonna take down all my
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Speaker 3: old stuff or just this stuff. So I'm like, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm not doing that, Like I want my old stuff
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Speaker 3: up there so you could see my growth. Or and
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Speaker 3: you know that First Angels and Damon's EPA put out,
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Speaker 3: there's some killer hard rockings on there, you know, so
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Speaker 3: it's like, you know, take it for what it is.
15:30
Speaker 3: If it sounds demoly great, Well, when I play them live,
15:32
Speaker 3: They're gonna blow your face off.
15:35
Speaker 2: God.
15:35
Speaker 1: That reminds me so much of my martial arts instructor.
15:37
Speaker 1: When I got my third degree black belt. He looks
15:39
Speaker 1: at me and he says, do you think this is yours?
15:41
Speaker 1: I said, I think I earned it. He says, no,
15:43
Speaker 1: it was the people before you. They earned it for you.
15:46
Speaker 1: Now you've got to go teach it so that they
15:48
Speaker 1: will earn your theirs for you. And I feel the
15:51
Speaker 1: music is the same way. We're all charged up by
15:54
Speaker 1: so many people before us, but we're not talking about it.
15:56
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about you is that you
15:58
Speaker 1: are not afraid to talk about your inspirations.
16:01
Speaker 3: No, not at all, because you know what, if it
16:03
Speaker 3: wasn't for them, I'm nothing. You know if I'm not.
16:05
Speaker 3: If you can't hear the influences in my music, then
16:08
Speaker 3: you know I'm doing something wrong. Because I love rock
16:11
Speaker 3: and roll. I love music, and I love the bands.
16:14
Speaker 3: I mean when I say I love the bands that
16:16
Speaker 3: I love, I love the bands that I love, and
16:18
Speaker 3: I'm not afraid to go out and do a photo
16:21
Speaker 3: shoot in one of their T shirts or like whatever,
16:23
Speaker 3: and people are like, oh, don't be a fan. Like,
16:25
Speaker 3: no be a fan, because if I wasn't a fan,
16:28
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have Rock Show. Because Rock Show is my
16:31
Speaker 3: homage to everybody that came before me. It's the Hey,
16:35
Speaker 3: thanks Kiss, Thanks Poison, Thanks Skidro, Thanks Motley Crue, like
16:39
Speaker 3: I'm writing for them. When I write a song like
16:43
Speaker 3: rock Show, that's like listening to the lyrics, like rock
16:46
Speaker 3: and roll is in my veins, It's in my blood,
16:48
Speaker 3: and it's in the blood of everybody that pumps their
16:49
Speaker 3: fist into those shows, and I think that's a beautiful
16:52
Speaker 3: thing to celebrate.
16:53
Speaker 1: So then when you step into that kind of a
16:55
Speaker 1: bluesy guitar when it comes to rock Show, I mean
16:58
Speaker 1: right away my heart was going, oh my god, this
16:59
Speaker 1: is like a skinner to this is like a thirty
17:01
Speaker 1: eight special kind of a vibe to it. Were you
17:03
Speaker 1: thinking of that, because I mean that bluesy vibe that
17:06
Speaker 1: you've got in there, Oh my god, it just gives
17:08
Speaker 1: it a great unique touch all its own.
17:11
Speaker 3: When I think bluesy vibes in my rock and roll,
17:14
Speaker 3: my mind immediately goes to Cinderella. Yeah, yeah, you know,
17:18
Speaker 3: like Great White. You know, it goes to some Hendrix stuff.
17:22
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, so like, that's more where
17:24
Speaker 3: my mind goes with that. So when I hear a
17:26
Speaker 3: good shuffle like rock show, I'm like Cinderella right off
17:30
Speaker 3: the top of my head. My mind goes to, you know,
17:32
Speaker 3: night songs, long cold winter like, and I'm like this,
17:35
Speaker 3: this is gonna be fun. And I kind of tap
17:37
Speaker 3: into that when I think of blues rock.
17:39
Speaker 1: Man, when you bring up bands like that, I know
17:41
Speaker 1: that you've been on the road with April Wine. I'm
17:43
Speaker 1: gonna geek out on you here. Being from Montana, April
17:45
Speaker 1: Wine was huge because we were that close to the
17:47
Speaker 1: Canadian line. So I'm really freaking jealous that you are
17:50
Speaker 1: next to a band that helped shape me back in
17:52
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties.
17:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, that show's actually coming up in about a month.
17:57
Speaker 2: It's April Wine time. God. Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's.
18:01
Speaker 3: That's gonna be really fun. I saw April Wine i
18:06
Speaker 3: want to say, less than two years ago for the
18:08
Speaker 3: first time ever, and they were very good. And yeah,
18:11
Speaker 3: then I got this offer to do this VIP stage
18:14
Speaker 3: gig and it's April Wine and Triumph and I will
18:16
Speaker 3: be playing first, and yeah, I'm very excited for that.
18:21
Speaker 3: Just in general, it's going to be so much fun
18:23
Speaker 3: and two bands that are just like iconic And I
18:26
Speaker 3: never thought I would ever see Triumph, So that's that's
18:28
Speaker 3: pretty wild.
18:29
Speaker 1: Dude. You should sit down and have a conversation with him.
18:31
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to make it a point to
18:32
Speaker 1: do that, especially for your podcast, because I've had him
18:35
Speaker 1: on the show. Oh my god, what an experience, because
18:39
Speaker 1: once again I thought you were already influenced by Triumph
18:42
Speaker 1: because of the way that you share your story. They
18:45
Speaker 1: get it.
18:47
Speaker 2: Oh my, you know.
18:47
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you, Triumph is one of those bands
18:50
Speaker 3: in my life that I've always loved that almost you
18:54
Speaker 3: they fly under the radar even if you love them
18:56
Speaker 3: sometimes yeah, and then all of a sudden you hear
18:58
Speaker 3: one of their tunes and you go, oh my god,
19:00
Speaker 3: I forgot that's one of my favorite songs.
19:02
Speaker 2: It's like the craziest thing.
19:04
Speaker 3: But they're the vocals and the music writing, and it's
19:07
Speaker 3: just I cannot wait to see that show. I really can't.
19:10
Speaker 3: And Phil X and Todd Kerns being up there amazing.
19:14
Speaker 1: What kind of merch are you doing, man, because you know,
19:16
Speaker 1: fans are all about that merch right now. I mean
19:18
Speaker 1: they're doing it. Movie theaters. They're doing it everywhere and
19:20
Speaker 1: they want rock merch.
19:23
Speaker 3: So right now, if you go on my website, you're
19:25
Speaker 3: going to get Robbie Vegas T shirts, buttons, keychains, bandanas,
19:28
Speaker 3: the CD singles. I got a couple of different trading
19:32
Speaker 3: cards that I'm on. I know people are big into
19:33
Speaker 3: those right now, with a new one coming soon, I think.
19:37
Speaker 3: I actually and what else is on there? I think
19:41
Speaker 3: that's pretty much the bulk of it. But I mean
19:43
Speaker 3: it's a pretty cool mercher. I'm very proud of it.
19:46
Speaker 3: And there's also going to be a couple of surprises coming.
19:50
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to do some like shotglasses and
19:52
Speaker 3: coozies and things for summer.
19:54
Speaker 1: You know that's going to sell, Oh my god, and
19:57
Speaker 1: they'll be out there toasting you in that live crowd. Dude.
20:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what I'm hoping for. Man, fill up
20:03
Speaker 3: that shotglass or put your beer in your Robbie Vegas
20:05
Speaker 3: cuzy and come out and see the show.
20:07
Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you
20:09
Speaker 1: your tour because I would love to see you here
20:11
Speaker 1: in Carolina.
20:11
Speaker 2: Man.
20:13
Speaker 3: Well, right now, I'm adding dates regularly, but you can
20:16
Speaker 3: go to Robbievegas dot com to see what I have
20:19
Speaker 3: at the moment, but there will be more coming, especially
20:22
Speaker 3: towards like end of summer fall. There's going to be
20:25
Speaker 3: a lot of because I do the acoustic shows and
20:27
Speaker 3: the full band shows. So right now I'm going to
20:29
Speaker 3: finish up my acoustic stuff and then we're gonna we're
20:32
Speaker 3: gonna hit the full.
20:33
Speaker 2: Band stuff after that.
20:34
Speaker 3: And you can also find me on Instagram, which is
20:36
Speaker 3: my most active socials, Robbie Underscore, Vegas Underscore Official, So
20:41
Speaker 3: those are the two places, but all the links are
20:43
Speaker 3: on Robbievegas dot com and that includes links to all
20:46
Speaker 3: the music, the podcasts, all the social media everything.
20:49
Speaker 1: You ever going to take that podcast out there and
20:50
Speaker 1: take the music with you in the way of being
20:52
Speaker 1: at a live stage, and even if it's a small
20:54
Speaker 1: intimate club like a comedy club, and just because you've
20:57
Speaker 1: got that in your voice, I can hear your storytelling
21:00
Speaker 1: in capability, and then all of a sudden you reach
21:01
Speaker 1: for your guitar like Ted Nugent, you say, all right,
21:03
Speaker 1: let me just play a song for you right now,
21:05
Speaker 1: and then boom, you're on your way.
21:07
Speaker 3: You know, I've considered that many times, to be honest
21:10
Speaker 3: with you, and it's funny that you should say Ted Nugent,
21:12
Speaker 3: as he's another one of my biggest influences, and especially
21:16
Speaker 3: with what you just said, how he'll just be talking
21:18
Speaker 3: about something pick up a guitar player riff and watching
21:21
Speaker 3: him do that so many times has crossed my mind
21:24
Speaker 3: to be well, you know, the live podcast thing could
21:27
Speaker 3: work for stuff like that. So it has crossed my mind,
21:29
Speaker 3: but I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, not
21:31
Speaker 3: because I don't want to, just because I've been extremely busy.
21:33
Speaker 1: I get it, man, Well, you got to get back
21:35
Speaker 1: to this show anytime in the future. The door is
21:37
Speaker 1: always going to be open for you, mister Robbie Vegas.
21:40
Speaker 2: I appreciate that very much, and this was a lot
21:42
Speaker 2: of fun. Thanks for having me.
21:43
Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
21:45
Speaker 2: Okay, I will do my best