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Pairing Up For Clarity With KEVIN BORICH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hi there, This is Kevin Borich. I'm here with Chris and I'm here
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  with because of my new CD. I don't think you can see there on
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  the radio. Used there's only half of me there all the other parts.
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  Other people like schizophrenic album. I suppose you could call it anyway. Nice
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  to be here, Thanks, thanks for joining this Lake Heaven. Always a
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  pleasure speaking with you, my friend. Great, good to see you.
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  Mate. So you're released your latest album, Gas a couple of weeks ago.
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  Mate, So I know it hasn't been that long, but how's the
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  earlier reception been. It's been out, you know, amazing. I mean
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  it actually has charted two, which is something that that I haven't really had
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  since nineteen seventy nine or something. And yeah, I've got to number one
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  on their area blues charts or blues and jazz type charts, and so so
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  yeah, that that was a great achievement, I guess. And words out
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  and the reviews we're having and feedback from my social media and all that stuff
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  is it's pretty amazing. And there's so many diverse sort of styles on the
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  album. It s a schmagas board. I think I'll fuel for people to
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  eat up, you know, and diggesting brains and will wonder how and how
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  that happened. Yeah, it's just there's plenty of there's like, you know,
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  there's a bit even a jazz like the song which is called Covered and
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  Blue, I wrote about Amy Winehouse. Thought thought she was going off the
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  rails, and you know, she left left with and just left us with
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  blue. She took all her colors and died and so that's no good.
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  But I heard what she left was. And then there's the heavy mental thing
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  that about that's about the banks, you know how I have great distaste for
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  the banking of the world. And i'd already I've done a song on Totum
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  album and it was a really beautiful song, but it was the chain ganging
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  because we were kind of the slaves to them, you know, And it
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  had upright bass and I'm playing the National steel and all the nineing thit and
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  then Doc Span was playing some licks and and a half and it was really
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  like this, and that's okay. So that's what we listened. But then
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  a year or two later, Westpack got busted for charging dead people or doing
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  something disgusting, you know, and I just got really angry ill going to
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  heavy metal version of that song and who am I going to get this?
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  That the opening line light by light bulb moment at the moment like opening line,
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  I'm angry mad, I'll get angry to do it. Wow, big
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  flits. So then the chands in slightly different lyrics because they had been bustin
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  had been know what rawal commission about who you know? Who was the naughty
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  guy? No one seemed to get busted. And even in the middle of
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  the round the guitar solo, there's there's a political guy that was on TV.
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  I was on the radio ranting, I think as an ext labor guy,
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  ranting about how the banks haven't been busted. So I recorded it and
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  I've got that in the actual solo you could probably listening closely of him going
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  chanting dead people stuff. That's quite quite quite a motive for those listening who
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  haven't really got a clue while we're talking about Yeah, Melo you Actually it's
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  a special album in the each song is written and performed alongside different music glicons
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  such as Tim Rodgers as Leo Saya La Hooper, sees A Marchi and Mass
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  Swenty and plenty more, mate, So where did the idea need to do
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  that actually come from? It came from I had people, you know,
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  like the Carlos had done one years ago and you know, so it's there
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  they're sitting. But the songs that I've written on piano, I'm not a
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  great piano player, but I like things pop out, you know, and
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  the spiritual imagination and you keep chasing it. They were different songs that weren't
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  conjuescive to the three piece to lineup that I've got, but but they needed
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  to be done and with what would do them what the song asked for,
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  you know, And that that brought to the fact that I've got some R
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  and B songs here and I wanted a real soulful voice. So you know,
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  the first guy I thought it was in my plus he plays great guitars,
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  So you know, the song was kind of asking for stuff and that
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  I couldn't give because I didn't have that. So the idea was to sort
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  of team team them up and get people to help me really get the song
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  to expect I'm you know, what was your selection in process, Like when
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  you're looking for people to collaborate with, Like, did you write the song
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  with some in particular in mine, and then asking or did you write the
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  songs? And the songs were the songs and ideas. Some of them weren't
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  finished, but they were little bits on my iPhone or something and they present
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  themselves and then they're asking to be finished. And so it was. It
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  was really organic. The where kind had happened was some they were just popping
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  up and what I thought would suit worked, you know. So the songs
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  had a lot to do with with it. You know, they weren't finished,
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  but they were where they were into my pipeline, but not at the
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  end, finishing end, at the beginning of the popular and the idea was
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  to sort of identify and yeah that could be, yeah that could go with
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  you know, sort of like that. So did you actually finish writing songs
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  with each individual artist or did you I had the mostly finished except for the
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  moment Leo Sayer, which is bring love what's called bring Loving Back, but
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  I didn't have a title for it, and it was like, maybe you
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  could help me, help me find a way. The chorus had the chorus,
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  and Diverse had the chords and the structure, but I didn't want it
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  to be the boy girl thing, because that's what it starts to be like.
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  And I'm going, well, I've done about quite a few songs like
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  to think of something bloody different. And I'm going, wow, well,
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  who's who's faded away and hasn't And I went the peace Sign. It's it's
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  been you know when I was in the sixties, you know, it was
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  center stage, you know, peace you know. So I was treating the
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  peace sign like the reason for it, and but I didn't have the title,
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  and I was I'd had the chorus and I've played it too to Leo
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  and he was in to do it, so and I said, mate,
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  I've come up against the wall here. You know, I don't want it
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  to be boy girl thinking. I told him about the peace side idea.
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  So you know, he comes back a week later, going call it,
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  I'm bring loving back moment, a nice things, some great lyrics, and
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  we went down to his plus and I recorded on Nick hang with me and
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  my producer and then all engineering and stuff. So yeah, just just worked
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  out like that, and it was and all the songs, all the other
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  songs I pretty much had done, you know, even the one with Joe
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  Walsh. You know, they were finished as tracks of the sentin and we
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  played guitar and sung because it's like tagged him and singing on most of them.
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  You know, I do a line and the guest of the line and
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  some whatever suited, you know, like Joe Hammond. Live it with Joe.
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  He'd the second verse, which was nate great because of my sort of
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  beginning of it, and then he takes it to another level, you know,
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  So it was all different? What is it all different but the same?
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  Isn't it a stupid thing to say? It is barely all run with
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  it? You know? It all turned out to be an honest thing here
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  with with your halfhead on it, only half my head. But I didn't
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  want to be too good distical, you know, a good look at half
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  you like why I cut it down the middle? The big question is,
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  but like, did anyone knock you back? Like? Was anyone out there
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  game enough to say no to the great Kevin Boris? Some are busy.
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  I had a couple of busy. Two passed away. I can't can't blame
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  him for that one. It was Doug Parkinson and Renee get Renee. So
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  yeah, there was one or two. I think I only asked one other
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  one was in the middle of doing an album or something. Yeah, two
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  too too, were busy, okay, strike crate mate. It was it
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  was a lot of work for you too, right, like several years to
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  sort of complete it. So was there ever any stage where you thought that
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  you'd bitten off more than you could choose, like maybe it was a little
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  bit too ambitious. That part of it was nothing to do with the music.
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  Was more about how when can we hook up and do it? And
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  you know, of course we didn't get them all on line straight away.
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  It was all like Joke and Larry and and Ross Wilson were the last two
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  guys that I could find and and and get. So yeah, that was
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  that was the pressure of of of it was you know, are we going
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  to have any anyone and at all, you know as a role And it
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  was Russell Horris was a good friend and he was care of you know,
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  and once you got on side, and that was like and people started hearing
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  the quality of it. I guess that all helped, you know, get
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  get the barrel rolling. You know, I understand he had like there's a
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  few different places he had records. It recorded in green rooms or some after
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  games and he just did it in bedrooms loud rooms. Yeah. Yeah,
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  I was great across across the internet and the season and March he did it.
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  And she's doing the Baby Animals album and in a break she just had
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  a backing track that would scent and she gave it to the engineers. Can
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  I do it there? You know? So? And then of course I
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  and Moss was stranded and nooser because I think that was the lockdowns, and
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  and he was getting pretty bored, I think, so we are asked him
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  in a perfect time. So he just drove down here to my studio and
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  this place I'm sitting right now and got downstairs and then he's singing and it
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  was amazing. Wow. Of course it wasn't just singers on the album too,
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  like you say, like you've also got Joe Walsh, Andy and must
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  contribute guitars and Jay kam Leary pops up on sacks Russell walls. So was
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  there any guidelines of rules for those guys playing the instruments? So did they
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  just come in and lay down what they wanted? No? You know,
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  people of that cab you respect, You're not gonna you know, you know,
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  they hear it and and they've they've got the talent to morph their idea
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  into it, which is enhancing. You know, there was no one doing
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  something that wouldn't be acceptable. You know, you'll go free reign because they
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  are that talented, you know. We The only thing was that I changed
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  one song and it was nixt suggestion that was some one with Ela Hooper was
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  I had already called it it on a live album I did. It's called
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  I'm Together, and it was like a shuffle, a blue shuffle, but
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  it wasn't a kind of an up tempo blue shuffle. And and he saw,
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  why don't you try doing it trad jazz, So we did and with
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  her voice it really suits. It just made probably where the song should have
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  been originally. You know, that was the only one that was already written.
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  The other one we're all pretty knew in the bag. Yeah, So
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  now the album's out, made it and the works done. Like looking back
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  on it, the satisfied with what do you achieved? Yeah, I'm surprised.
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  I'm really surprised at how great it is really because and it's and it's
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  because the way the people have really injected their talents into it, into it
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  really that's that's what some serviced those songs to their max. I don't think
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  we could have done any better than what it is. So when you've you
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  know, even when you're you're sitting now and and listen to it, you
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  know, a lot of things I've done in the past I would I would
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  want to do again sometimes, but not this one. It's got the big
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  stamp of approval, the official Tenmith stamp of approval. That's it pretty hard
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  approval, mate. Sometimes is it something that you do again later or is
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  that sort of just something now you've done and you're gonna put it on the
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  shelf And I think we'll just leave it at that for the time being.
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  We don't want to think ahead too far, sort of like to put the
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  politics saying only the three years of thinking and then they just want to get
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  back in. So, yeah, you know, it was it was a
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  real challenge, but boy, it's just turned out so great and the reaction
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  that we're getting on on the social media and stuff, because I'm I'm having
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  to really get stuck into that, which I'm not that good at it,
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  but I'm getting help. So it's amazing what people are saying about it and
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  the different reasons that they are enjoying it and the way they describe it.
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  It's pretty touching really because it's an emotional thing because they are all my children,
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  these songs that area and to see people get that much out of them
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  as the reward. You know, I did Chris and John play on this
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  album too, or they cast aside for other Yeah? Yeah, there they
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  are on about five tracks. My son's playing on our four, yeah,
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  so, but they're on the rest. I think he's on four or five.
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  He had to do the jazzy one brushes. He's the brush and got
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  the uprade boat. So it's real cool man. You know. They are
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  probably two of the two of the coolest cats we come across in the music
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  industry, those two. Yeah. Yeah, they are fantastic and they're great,
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  great human things and really helpful for me. You know. They both
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  can drive. I've had drums that don't drive, and they both drive,
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  and they willing to help and the loadins and all that stuff that we still
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  do because you know, going on the days of the six ton truck,
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  of the four roads that I had. It's just the music scene has suffered,
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  you know, due to the apathy from the government, I reckon because
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  they just make it harder and harder for venues, and the poker machines didn't
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  help, and over time it just suffered. But we're right fighting back.
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  Good guys. Can't get the good guys down. Yeah, the drummers that
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  can drive me. And how's this for a story for you? Like I
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  looked after a band from the States a couple of weeks ago, and their
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  drummer came out. I didn't bring anything with him, or didn't even bring
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  his own drum six have we got the sound check for the first show and
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  he's got to sit up there and played. And I had to go scrounging
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  through the band room and like looking under couches and ship looking for a set
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  of old drumsticks. So here's somebody sound check with the kidding, Well,
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  where was the kid? What was he hitting? I think we hired a
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  kick for him but didn't bring any hardware, which is fair enough. He
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  is from overseas, but didn't ever bring his own drumsticks. It's like seen
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  all the drummers, but he took the cake. That one line drummers they
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  just turn up with the sticks. But yeah, when it's when it's back
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  line hide and stuff, so that that's cool. You know you look mini
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  skirt made. That's so I'll say, yeah, there was a bit expectant
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  when wants everything it made me should have came nude and then I would have
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  left, So I would have been trade off one for the other. You've
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  just recently finished up a toore mate promoting this album, But have you got
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  anything else planned? Like, I know you're you're a prolific live player,
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  mean, so what what are you going around the corner? Well, I'm
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  you know, there's there's the songs that make it or weren't suited for that,
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  But I'm just going to keep keep doing when keep my door open,
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  the doors open for songs, and we've we've got some basic ones down already
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  and we're just gonna we're taking a break and doing what you have to do
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  to promote this one, and we'll get back into the slot again and hopefully
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  come up with with an album. You know, you chasing chase something new
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  and something that. So that's what that's what the doors opened. You know,
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  here's a question I don't pull out very often made It's only very few
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  people I asked this too, But you definitely definitely qualified it being able to
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  answer this I made so You've had a great history in music, which is
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  pretty understatingly obvious. But one day when you did give it up, man
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  like, what do you hope to leave as your musical legacy. Well,
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  it's similar to what's happened with the album, would be fantastic. And people
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  who have enjoyed my stuff. A lot of people come up to me and
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  say, well, I started playing guitar because if I came to see you
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  at a show, or I have people my age bring along their their teenage
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  or you know, twenty year old son or daughter and they are enjoying the
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  music. You know, I think the music will will will sort of bigger
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  legacy. And the fact that I did it up until my late years and
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  still able to perform and do it shouldn't mean something to somebody, but it's
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  meaning a lot to me because I'm still able to do it. I mean,
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  you know, a human is not going to last forever, and you
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  know it's all it's all on the hill from physically and until we turn to
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  dust. You know, I'm you know, I've got to still the blue
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  lift. You know, if you got any many local gigs coming up right,
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  I'm living just around the corner from me. An now I'm at our
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  Red Cliffs. So you got anything up really think coming up round this way?
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  So well, it's down in New South Wales. It's in September,
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  September. I don't know what the data is. It's up the RSL and
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  it's for the blues club down there. So it's on September on a Sunday.
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  I can't remember what something got in front of me. I should have
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  it, but sorry about that, but it told me on my website right
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  check it out. But I'll come on anyway next time, yea in the
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  general facility, I'll pop along and yeah, we will be sort of you
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  know. I went to Melbourne and it was really cold down there, so
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  and I was you know, I remember I remember outloading once in a winter
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  and I'm swater myself. I'm never coming down again in winter and narrow.
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  I was down in Malbot winter. It was because the album got put back.
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  We're waiting to be able to get more people and it just got pulled
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  back the to so yeah, it was very cold and you know, people,
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  I don't particularly want to go out when it's really cold. Winge and
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  winds and wings when it's cold, put the wine muff on, you know,
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  Well, thanks very much for your time. Been a pleasure as usual.
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  Album of Duets is out now at all good outlets and online on all
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  the socials, I believe. And firstly when I say she's an absolute pearl
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  of an album, making gratulations and oh yeah, I've got to mention too
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  that see this this this version here, which was a twelve page booklet,
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  was like forty nine dollars. But we've just got a new twenty dollars version
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  coming out, which is just it opens out. It's much more affordable for
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  folks. So twenty dollars. And you can go to my website and there's
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  a pre sales going on right now and they will be delivered in any any
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  DAYWT Kevin Boris dot com. Yeah, and then there's a link there you
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  go to it, hit that and it'll only be twenty bucks this time,
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  because I put the link up with the article when I when I publish it,
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  and see if we can push you for the traffic. Your away,
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  All right, fantastic moment. All right, then we're good to talk.
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  You make good to see you smile and face again. Brother. Good on
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  you, Chris, and I'll catch up with you hopefully soon. Thanks very
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  much for your help, buddy. Thank Bro. Bye,