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Hitman Talks to Rick Plester (Black Symphony & The Foundry) · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: We're one oh five to five the X. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is hit Man with you, and it's happening tonight
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  Speaker 2: at Ace's North sixty five tenth Street, McAllen and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's the Metal Classics Tour with the Foundry. Now we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about former lead singer of Iron Maiden Blaze Bailey.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about Disturbed bassist John Moyer, Twisted Sister drummer
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  Speaker 2: A J. Perrow, And I've got on the phone right
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  Speaker 2: now from Black Symphony guitarist Rick Pluster.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing, dude, We're doing fantastic. Thanks. Cover yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I thinks I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are on the road on the way to
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  Speaker 1: the valley right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, right where.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct, all right.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening tonight now, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally an all star cast for people who don't
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  Speaker 2: really who don't know that much about Black Symphony. Tell
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit about it. I've checked out some
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  Speaker 2: of your guys videos on YouTube and you guys are phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: But tell people about Black Symphony.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was a group that I put together in
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  Speaker 3: the mid nineties and you had a really good run.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the success was you know, Japan and South.
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  Speaker 3: America and our biggest territory of Europe, and we had
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good run minimal in the United States, kind
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  Speaker 3: of starting to grow near towards hearing a phenomenal lineup,
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  Speaker 3: and it was we had a really good run. We
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  Speaker 3: charted in fifty some countries, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where America wasn't one of them,
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  Speaker 3: but it was. It was a good run and a
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  Speaker 3: good creation.
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  Speaker 5: And I've moved on from it now and looking forward.
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  Speaker 4: To two other things. And you know, it just ran
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  Speaker 4: its time.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, here we are with the Foundry now
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  Speaker 3: and getting ready to rock it.
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  Speaker 1: Up all right now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you know you got the opening act is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the Ratchet Doll's local homegrown favorites. That's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be cool. Tell me a little bit about the
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  Speaker 2: Foundry you guys. Have you guys been touring for a
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  Speaker 2: while now? Are you guys maybe recording a CD? Are
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  Speaker 2: you guys going to go like release the CD pretty soon?
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be original music? Or at the show?
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  Speaker 2: Can they expect little snippets of some of the songs
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  Speaker 2: from from each individual artists?
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  Speaker 1: There?
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  Speaker 3: A few years ago, Blaze and I. We we did
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  Speaker 3: a tour together with some guys from Toronto, Canada, and
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  Speaker 3: we met him in Boston and we did a United
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  Speaker 3: States tour. We pretty much did most of the major
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  Speaker 3: major cities and we really found a great chemistry between
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  Speaker 3: Blaze and I, and so we started working on some stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I've been mixed and.
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  Speaker 3: Mastering and writing some songs for some of Blaye's solo records,
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  Speaker 3: and we worked on a couple of things, and last
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  Speaker 3: year we had this idea to put this together. I
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  Speaker 3: kind of said, hey, you know, Blaze was talking about
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  Speaker 3: coming over and I said, well, why don't we throw
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  Speaker 3: something together. And so we put a lineup together with
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  Speaker 3: John Moyer on base and had James Kotek from the
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  Speaker 3: Scorpions on drums. We did at run last year. We
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  Speaker 3: had so much success and fun that we knew we
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  Speaker 3: were going to do it again.
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  Speaker 4: At some point.
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  Speaker 3: It's just everybody's schedules because they're basing. You know, there
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  Speaker 3: are regular bands obviously, so it's fitting it in in between.
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  Speaker 3: What happened was we got, you know, the idea to
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  Speaker 3: do it again this year, and we we've got a
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  Speaker 3: j Perrow on drums, and Twisted Sister and the chemistry
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  Speaker 3: just really really works well with this particular group. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: what we're doing material wise is as as you know,
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  Speaker 3: classic metal. Most material is this Iron Maiden material from
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  Speaker 3: the Blaze era. We do some other Iron Maiden stuff
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  Speaker 3: from also from the Brus era, and uh, some of
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  Speaker 3: the Blaze material, we do some Twisted Sister stuff, and
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  Speaker 3: uh and a few other surprises.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I know Blaze is in
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  Speaker 2: the vehicle with you. Let me ask you a Blaze
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  Speaker 2: A quick question.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, hey, Blaze, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh great? Thanks, Yeah, it's going absolutely great here. It's
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  Speaker 5: just going really well. All the reactions that we've had
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  Speaker 5: so far on the tour have been incredible. Fan it's
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  Speaker 5: going absolutely brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Now now you guys have been going through Texas this month,
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  Speaker 2: and how how's been the reaction so far with the
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  Speaker 2: crowds at some of the shows that you guys have
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  Speaker 2: been doing well.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of the shows are smaller, they're.
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  Speaker 6: Not close and personal because the five that we want
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  Speaker 6: is to kind of get a real connection with the
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  Speaker 6: fans and.
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  Speaker 5: For people to really experience the music close up. That's
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  Speaker 5: really worked. People have really caught onto that and it's
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  Speaker 5: just got absolutely great. We've had everybody singing the songs
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  Speaker 5: and getting into the shows. The reactions have just been incredible.
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  Speaker 5: So I couldn't be happier really with what's happened. And
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  Speaker 5: it's a real surprise as well. I didn't expect to
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  Speaker 5: have such a great reaction and so much support from all.
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  Speaker 7: The funds in Texas.
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  Speaker 5: It's just been absolutely great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Texas, Texas are huge rock fans and
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  Speaker 2: of course people of course remember you from when you
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  Speaker 2: were part of Iron Maiden. Rick was telling me that
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  Speaker 2: you you were also doing a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: solo project. Also, how's that going.
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  Speaker 5: It's going great.
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  Speaker 7: Since I left Iron Maiden, then I've made seven of
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  Speaker 7: my own albums and I'm completely independent.
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  Speaker 4: I do everything butself.
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  Speaker 7: I do all over a lot of places.
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  Speaker 5: In Europe and I'm very popular in myself and that's
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  Speaker 5: going really really well.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's nice to get together.
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  Speaker 5: With the guys in the bank, you know, with our
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  Speaker 5: fancy projects. We're started to get.
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  Speaker 7: Together with different polls and really.
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  Speaker 5: Have that vibe of playing music together.
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  Speaker 7: And the main thing is it says that our slogan
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  Speaker 7: is where method is made.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we really love making music exactly.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's that's why, you know, that's why we're doing it,
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  Speaker 5: and we try and fight time to do it.
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  Speaker 7: We just love to get together and make me.
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  Speaker 5: The support that we find is absolutely incredible. People seem
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  Speaker 5: to really get the vibe of what we're doing with
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  Speaker 5: our gig. And you know, we love to have fun.
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  Speaker 7: Music is serious and we absolutely play them things that
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  Speaker 7: we can, but we enjoy it so much.
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  Speaker 5: We have a lot of fun doing it.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anywhere I can get ahold of John Moyer now?
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  Speaker 2: If I can get just a couple of minutes with him?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Hi Maya, Yeah, I thought it, lazy pie, I think.
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  Speaker 1: John.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 1: John? Are you there?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? I don't have the sexy English accent that place does,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll give you some authentic Texan.
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  Speaker 1: How are you there?
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  Speaker 7: You go?
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  Speaker 1: John? How's it going? How are you? How is it
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  Speaker 1: going with the Foundry so far?
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  Speaker 4: It's fun, man, We having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: Now metal songs and and uh, you know, I get
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  Speaker 4: to play with A J. Parow again. And for those
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  Speaker 4: of you who don't know. A J and I were
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  Speaker 4: an Adrenaline Mom together really and uh yeah yeah yeah
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  Speaker 4: after I was originally Adrenal Mom with Mike Fortnoye. But
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  Speaker 4: Mike left before the last record to do Winery Dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 4: And we bought an A J. Parow and the last
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  Speaker 4: A Mob record was and AJ Wow Men of Honor,
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  Speaker 4: and you guys were probably playing a couple of tunes off.
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  Speaker 2: Yea as a matter of fact, Yeah, that that wow.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, souh.
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  Speaker 4: You know last year we did the Founder and we
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  Speaker 4: had James Kotak from uh, I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying his name, might I think it's from the Scorpions, right,
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  Speaker 4: And he came into did a great job this time around.
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  Speaker 4: Uh you know, when we were trying to you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of reform the lineup and we were talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: When I realized that AJ would be available, I reached
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  Speaker 4: out to him. I said, man, would you like to
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  Speaker 4: do this? Because he really played this metal stuff great,
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  Speaker 4: like it's it's not it's not eighties you know hard rock.
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  Speaker 4: I mean this is like European metal, you know, with
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  Speaker 4: with with all the double bass that you'd expect to
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  Speaker 4: hear from metal with the big you know, choruses about
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  Speaker 4: freedom and you know, fighting your oppressors. So it's real
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  Speaker 4: powerful music. You know, it's not cheesy cock rock, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what I really love about it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I've of course, I've got to ask you this
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  Speaker 2: question now, because of course you are, you were with
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  Speaker 2: the band, you're with the band disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: When is this start getting back together and going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing that?
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  Speaker 4: He asked the questions I should assume that.
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  Speaker 1: Get on the phone and you're gonna ask me.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I'm gonna ask that every text, every text.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't your first question, though, so I'll give you that. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you actually like a little four play before you hit
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  Speaker 4: me with that one.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Well, So I got laughing on the
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  Speaker 4: van right now. You know what, there's no plans. We
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  Speaker 4: got no plans. You know, I'm sure you know we're
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  Speaker 4: not broken up. You know, I hate to turn and
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  Speaker 4: get back together. We're friends, we see each other. We're
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  Speaker 4: just taking a hiatus now. As far as when the
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  Speaker 4: band's gonna come back with an album or with a tour,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I just can't say right now, but you
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  Speaker 4: know it's it's always on the table, so anything can happen,
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  Speaker 4: but right now there's no plan.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know you're enjoying it with the Foundry right now,
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  Speaker 2: especially going through Texas right now, so I know you're
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  Speaker 2: having a blast as it is. In fact, I know
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  Speaker 2: when you get down here, I got take all you
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  Speaker 2: guys out to go get some great Mexican food while
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  Speaker 2: you're down here, since you're so close to the border.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely sounds great. And you know, I'll tell you this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, besides Adrenaline Mob and and I mean, if
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  Speaker 4: you want to get caught up, besides Adrenaline Mob and
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  Speaker 4: besides you know, Disturbed and this. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: doing with the Foundry. You know, I've been producing a
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  Speaker 4: lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Bands lately, so really that's been a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of what I've been doing is working with hard rock
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  Speaker 4: and heavy metal bands, and and you know, I've been
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  Speaker 4: out on the East Coast a lot. Actually, I produced
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  Speaker 4: the band from Houston recently called SETI. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm always doing even if I'm not in the band
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  Speaker 4: and I'm out there doing something, I'm always like helping
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  Speaker 4: new bands. I have a rock school and often, so
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  Speaker 4: you know, I stay busy, and you know, for me
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  Speaker 4: being able to do the Foundry, it's just like fair Beat.
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  Speaker 4: I just get to go out and rock. It's much fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: John, all right, now, let me let me speak now
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  Speaker 2: with Aju and and and get some information out of
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  Speaker 2: him concerning some great stuff that's going on with the
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  Speaker 2: band and of course with Twist his sister.
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  Speaker 1: If AJ's available.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he sure is. Okay, we'll see you guys, so man,
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  Speaker 4: come on to the show. Will not be disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you dude. Hello, ay j how
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  Speaker 1: are you that? I'm doing great? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good, man.
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  Speaker 7: I'll try to try to sound like my friend Blaze over.
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  Speaker 3: Here, so he's been walking at all.
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  Speaker 4: But how you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. How is the touring going so far
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  Speaker 1: with the Foundry with you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? It's great, man, These guys are great. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know I've done touring with John and