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#154 - Devilz by Definition · The Chris and Mike Show

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Here we go, and we're live. Here we go.
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Welcome to YouTube and Twitchers.
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Yeah, we're going to rock out a little bit just because we can.
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Sometimes I just can't. I can't turn it off, man.
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I like it, you know. I hurt my feelings, Andy.
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Coming. Here we go.
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That's all right. There you go, boys and girls,
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Chris and Mike. So we're here with three guys
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from Devils. By definition.
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We got the Pitbull pops and crazy COO.
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What are you guys doing this morning, man?
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What is? What's?
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Going on brother, just all about working my day job.
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Don't. Don't we all have day jobs, you
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know? Understand that.
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This. Is not a day job.
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Cool, so give. Us from left to right.
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Pitbull, What is your What do you do in the band?
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Oh, I'm not part of the band. I manage the band.
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I'm the label owner, the marketer, the I'm the
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everything. I'm the guy who wear.
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That's why we're happy you're here bro.
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Every. Exactly.
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Here man, I get paid to tell them what to do.
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We we love this. I just literally told a friend
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of mine the other day we started the band and we still had
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bosses. Actually, we had more bosses
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than we do at a regular job. So boys and girls, you don't get
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to be the boss even though you start the band.
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What do you do, Pops? I'm a roofer, I own a roofing
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company. What do you do in the band?
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Play guitar. OK.
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He's only the foul. He's only he's only the founding
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member. All this is playing guitar.
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Founding member. He stands there and looks sexy a
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lot. Guitar player, I'm with your
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brother. I widdly diddly occasionally.
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What do you do, Crazy COO? Me, I'm the vocalist, guitar
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player and Co producer. I should have known you were the
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vocalist by the hat. I've only read just recently
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started wearing this hat actually.
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We were actually just shooting the video for Devil's Night, and
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at the place we were shooting, I found a bunch of prop hats and
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stuff and I put it on my head. And while we were in full
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costume, everything I came out and Bruce just looked at me and
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he's like, OK, so that's the thing from now on.
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So it's got to find the right one.
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This one's good. I like it, but it's it's it's
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too tall. I need I need a little, a little
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bit. No, the only thing we need on
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that is the devil's logo, The brand new logo.
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We need that right in the middle, and that will complete
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it. Keep it tall, keep it cool, be
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loud. You're the vocalist, man.
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Just yeah. From one vocalist to another.
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Yes, yes, yes. The vocalist is the one.
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Is this a logo we're talking about?
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Is this a new? Logo the old one.
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No, that old logo, that's the old one.
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I need to fix that that's. The old one.
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That's ten years ago. It's the one on the FAR.
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Right at the top to the right. Right here.
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This one right here. Yes, there.
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That one. Yeah, 'cause I that's good,
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'cause I just put that up on the YouTube page for Chris and Mike
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show, so I got the right one. See you on the page The
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Evolution of the Logos. Yeah, we've been around.
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Yeah, I really like this one a lot.
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Oh, really? Right on they.
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Have they have and they just needed someone to come along and
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light the fire for them? And so that was you.
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That was you. You lit the fire there, Pitbull.
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Oh. Yes Sir, I, I, I run through
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walls. Walls do not stop me.
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My head bust through so many walls man.
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You're like Cam Scatterboo from the New York Giants then, right?
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Just just blow your head and go. It's.
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There I tell people all the time, you might want to stand
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out of my way or I will run right through you.
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That's why they call me the pit bull.
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Listen, man, that's the guy that you want.
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If you're in the band, you want that guy talking to the people
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who are going to be saying, Nah, we don't want these guys playing
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here. We want that guy.
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Exactly, Exactly, motherfucker. That's the attitude you got to
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have, man. And that's why we call him the
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Pitbull. Fucking right.
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I don't know where he is on your screen, but somewhere over
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there. Well, everybody just keeps
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bouncing around on my screen, so I'm just, I'm just watching the
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yeah. Yeah.
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So, yeah, so, so as as we do this, especially the bands, I
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like to share the screen because I like to show your stuff as we
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have the conversation. So as you can see, I'm on your
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Facebook page now. So, you know, we're just, you're
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going to see these things just kind of cycle through as we have
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the conversation. And then we're going to make
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sure we tell everybody where you're at, where you're coming
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from, what you're doing, what's on the docket for 2026, all the
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things, because it's all about the rock and.
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Roll man. So taking away Mike, I know you
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love talking to musicians, while I'll just.
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Navigate to the. Page and and there you go,
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brother. Go ahead, Mike.
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Fire away dude. So you guys got a new album
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coming out or is it out already? I listened to a couple songs on
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Facebook or Instagram, one or the other.
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Is that album out or is it coming out?
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Devil's Night, we are releasing the entire album on the 6th of
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June 2026. But we have a release strategy
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in place that's going to blow everyone away.
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We've got music videos, we've got singles coming out, we've
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got multiple releases per month. It's going to be, it's going to
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be a really fun time leading up to this.
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And then and then next year we're going, we're going places.
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OK, so we're. Going kind of talk to us a
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little bit about that. You know, obviously in this
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case, we don't like authors to give away their book, but you
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got an album coming out. So give away your release
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strategy so people can follow along as this goes along.
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I like this idea a lot. It it has been posted publicly
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on our Facebook so. Let me go ahead and pull it up
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and I'll read it off to him if. I got your.
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I got, I got, I got your Facebook up.
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Right now, tell him where to go. We can share it right here on
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the show. It was I'm on your Facebook.
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One one of the pit bulls posts from probably 2 weeks ago.
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He has it it up for us. I I got the release strategy
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right here. So on October 30th, we released
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Devil's Night, the track on Devil Night.
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I listen to that. It was a.
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Fitting A fitting night to release it because of the title
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on tomorrow. It's tomorrow actually at 10 AM
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we're releasing the video for Devil's Night.
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So like that playing tomorrow morning at 10 AM, on November
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25th we released Angel Warfare and then on December 12th we're
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going to release the Angel Warfare video.
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On December 30th we'll release Food Fight, and then on January
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16th we'll release the video for Food Fight.
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February 10th we'll release Train Wreck, and then on March
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3rd we'll release the video for Train Wreck.
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April 2nd we will release Liquid Death and May 1st we will
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release the video for Liquid Death.
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And then on June 6th, 2026, who released the full album with a
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bonus feature of a trilogy video that tells the story of Devil's
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Night. It's going to be like a 20
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minute video I believe, but awesome.
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Yeah, it sounds like that. He's got a whole lot lined up
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for this band. Plus they have a 56 show tour in
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Canada scheduled for 2026 with what is it 2-3 festivals. 3
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festivals, more and more. Keep throwing them.
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Sick of them as we go, yeah. So far, yeah. 3 so far.
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That's awesome, man. That's very awesome.
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I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get one of your things up here
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to show the world. So where did you record this
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album at? Did you go into a professional
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studio? Do you guys have a home studio?
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It's a friend's home studio that's been for a really long
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time. We've been going to him since
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the beginning. His name's Eric Gurney.
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He's got like a full pro setup but it is just the basement of
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his house and it's fucking awesome.
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Yeah, OK. Well.
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Shout Out has come a long way. I have been recording with him
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and previous bands since I was 861718 years old.
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I'm 36 now so that's a long time ago.
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That's 20 years ago. So this guy.
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Well, shout out, this guy's wonderful.
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We call him the. Wizard audio sounds great, Yeah,
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now for a sound. Studio recording.
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When I got this album, when they sent it to me, I didn't know it
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was produced in a home studio. I was like this.
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This is that. That's why I asked the.
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Question. Great because normally home
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studio recordings are very muddy.
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Yeah. The one thing that I found, man,
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is it just it all depends. It's like the player it all, it
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all depends on the person who's operating the gear, right.
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I've seen guys do incredible things with way less gear than a
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pro studio has just because they understand what the finished
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product needs to sound like. And that's why I asked the
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question, because when I cranked it up through my surround
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system, it sounds like you guys went into Criteria Studios in
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Miami or something, you know, one of these big studios.
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So kudos to the guy that recorded it.
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That's why I asked the question. Eric will love to hear that
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brother. I will definitely share that
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with him. Thank you because that means a
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lot to me. The engineer can ruin a great
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song. I mean a Banton ruin a great
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engineer too. That's true.
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That's true. That is true.
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That is true. Again, honestly, because he's
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progressed with us, so he's known for the last 15 years what
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we're supposed to sound like. It shows right on.
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It really shows who does your video work.
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He's playing one of your videos in the background here.
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This is a teaser. This is the teaser of Devil's
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Night, right guys? Yeah, that's the trailer.
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So that that. Trailer.
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I'm sorry, I call them T the same thing, yeah.
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That's a local up and coming team from Windsor that consists
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of 3/3 fellas called HI Multimedia and they actually
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started out with me like 2 years ago shooting commercials for my
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roofing company and they've shifted their focus since then
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to making sure that the world knows how badass we are.
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So the all of the music videos. That's so cool man.
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All of the music videos we're shooting for this album are all
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going to be done through them. Nice.
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Well, shout out to those guys too, man, because your imagery
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so far from what I've seen really, that's what got me to
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start following you guys before we ever contacted you or wanted,
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you know, the mutual wanting to be on the show.
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However that went down, I started following you guys
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because your imagery caught my eye.
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I was like, what is this, you know?
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That's how I, that's, that's, that's how I found them because
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I, I, I saw you on something and then I reached out to you and
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says, Hey, let's get you on the show.
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And then, you know, here we are. But because Mike and I are big
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believers and, and you got to have the music for sure.
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And the music got to be able to stand on its own.
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But image is everything in this world.
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So you have to have something, you know, Guns and Roses
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wouldn't be Guns and Roses, right?
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Without Slash, with axles, teased hair and welcome to the
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jungle, and should have just, you know, an Izzy and Hiszle.
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It just wouldn't have worked. You'd be like, yeah, you know
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what I'm saying? So you know Kiss wouldn't be
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Kiss without their makeup, right?
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You don't want. Music makes you picture those
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images. You don't want not sponsor.
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Guys, well, I strongly feel though, go ahead, Bruce.
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Sorry, go ahead, Pops. There's a, there's a, there's a
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lag. It's all good.
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Come on, Pops. Come on, pops.
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Oh fuck, can't remember what I was going to say.
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Fuck. Jesus He.
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Said you strongly feel something.
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I mean, I have two feelings left for the both trying to kill each
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other, so I don't know what that means but.
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Fuck. Never mind, it'll come back to
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me later. Fuck.
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Jesus, I was, I was going to say that's what she said when you
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said you had a strong feeling of something.
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But don't bump. She does that a lot.
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She. Right as my mic just fell down.
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We got five guys who played heavy metal and rock'n'roll for
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30 years. It's going to get fun.
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It's going to get all right. It's already fun.
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So. Let's talk about like, how do
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yeah. So how did you guys, how did you
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guys all come together? What you know, like Mike and I
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have our come together story, right?
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The origin of of what we did and how we were and and that kind of
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jazz. What about you guys?
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How did you all come together as a band and create this?
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What's going to take over the world next year?
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Well, that's a really good fucking story.
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If you if you'd like to read that entire story, it is
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available on our website. It is the four page essay.
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Readers. Give us the elevator if.
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You want to give the Readers Digest version.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah. Long story short, we've been
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through 12 line up changes that I can remember off the top of my
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head since our inception. Like right since the oh,
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something's been trying to stop me from doing this, and every
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time something stops I just shift directions and keep going.
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Jamie came to me like 10 years ago as a bass player originally,
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and he's just kind of by necessity shifted his way up
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through the ranks Teddy Teddy's been with.
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I was happy and content being the hit player.
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You shut up, Teddy. Teddy came along just after the
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devolution and he's been with us ever since.
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To we, we literally dragged his poor ass out of retirement.
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He was doing nothing just like enjoying not having a tour and
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do all the bullshit and we suckered him back in and then
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cool stuff. We we literally just picked up
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in the last eight months. I mean, as far as other past
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members and stuff that that you're going to have to go
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really to vote because that's a long story, but that's the long
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and the short of how this particular grouping came
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together. So as Kuve mentioned, I'm I'm
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the only original member. I'm the founding member of the
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band. Oh, I do have.
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The hero of members of the band. Add part of this origin story
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because this is the most impressive part of the origin
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story in my opinion. Bruce learned how to play guitar
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by playing Guitar Hero. OK, after playing Guitar Hero,
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his inspiration to start the most phenomenal band on the
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planet is what sparked. I think that's very important
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for people to understand because that's that's his fucking
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awesome dude. That is awesome.
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You know what that means for all the listeners at home who love
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playing Guitar Hero? You guys can just pick up the
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guitar someday and just Start learning.
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If you're inspired, just do it. Just try because.
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You already can do it already. Have the melody.
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Yeah, you already have the melody ingrained in your head.
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That's the part you don't understand.
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You just need to figure out how to move the right way on a real
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guitar, right? You got to pull the melody out
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of you. Yeah, and that's the hard part.
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That's the part people don't understand is those games
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actually help way more than people realize.
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Science has proven it. It's not.
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You didn't get lucky. And you're right.
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Any of those kids who mastered Guitar Hero could pick up a
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guitar and learn how to play it fairly quickly.
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They just don't realize it. Yeah.
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And on how many? Other guys.
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Did well on that note, did you know the Duolingo the the the
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learn another language app? You can learn how to play chess
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and the piano as an alternative. Yes, really, really.
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Right on. I did right on that.
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I'm actually, I'm actually learning a bunch of different
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languages right now, Chinese, Spanish, Russian.
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I'm just, I'm just picking away at all these different languages
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just because I want to. And it's been, it's been fun.
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I actually really like that app. Yeah, and I like the fact you
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can learn how to play chess and piano because.
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Who would have thought it was? I I got yeah, I needed a break.
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And she was like, you know, you can play how to play piano and
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and I'm like, no shit. So there you.
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Know what I find fascinating? What's that?
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That my study of human nature just never lets me down.
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We got 2 singers here who both use Duolingo and we have two
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guitar players who are like, yeah, whatever, we're just going
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to go jam over here. Me and Pops, we're just like,
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yeah, OK. I just find it fascinating that
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we just met you guys. We have two singers right here
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and both of them are like, yeah, we used Duolingo.
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I'm learning multiple languages right now.
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Chris is you learning Spanish and Pop Snyder?
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We're just going to go jam. To be able to like, go to Mexico
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and think Devil's Night in Spanish, you know?
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What I. Mean hang on, maybe, maybe say
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hello, How are you? Yes, that that part of it's
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cool. So when you said that, how
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would? Language be able to say hello,
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how are you in every language and every place that we travel
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to? That would not warms my heart
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when I see a singer that doesn't speak English.
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Fucking say stuff, right? Yeah, yeah, agreed.
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I absolutely agree. That's the first thing came to
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my mind. Crazy Coup is, hey, I'm going to
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learn all these different languages because I'm a singer,
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so I can be up there and say whatever I want to the crowd
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we're in front of because I learned it on the app.
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Yep. Very cool, just think.
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That's awesome. It is and and most everywhere
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you go you need to be able to say where is the bathroom.
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Right donde esta a banyo. Got Banyo.
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See. Cerveza por favor, That's the
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other one. Don't.
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I can I can conversational Spanish.
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Don't cerveza. Yeah, yeah.
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Mine's mine. Mine's no ma cervais, no ma
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cerveis muimal. Speaking, Speaking of Cerveis,
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as to the track that's coming out that we're releasing in
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April, I believe you said it was Eric for Liquid Death.
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That's that song I actually wrote.
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Yeah, I actually wrote that song about my alcoholism and the
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battles with alcohol. That's I've been clean 11 years
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now from alcohol now, not a drop.
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So that's. 7583, yeah, 7583 days.
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There's my 20 year chip. See, here's something that I'm
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seeing here. How do you music?
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I thought it's a lot of bad habits because of music.
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This whole thing with music, it makes you want to quit all of
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your bad habits and focus it on the energy of creating something
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instead of destroying. Because I mean, that's what we
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did when we had bad habits. I've I've had bad habits that
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I've been clean up for since like 2012.
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You know what I mean? So I'm saying a, a thing here
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and and it's all music. Music Dave Bro lives.
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Now this is going to this is this is this is going to blow
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your mind. So you wrote a song about
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alcoholism called Liquid Death, right?
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I wrote a song about alcoholism called Liquid Sin.
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True story, no? Bullshit, man.
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True. Swear to God, true story.
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Yeah, yeah, I'll send you the I'll send you.
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I'll send you the link after the show.
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But yeah, liquid sin, I'd love to.
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Hear about it? Absolutely.
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That's. Awesome.
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I think. Yeah.
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Yeah. Say it again, people.
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But maybe. We need to get from where on.
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Door with them in Canada next year.
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That would be fun. I'm in Arizona, Mike's in
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Illinois. Oh, nice.
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OK, cool brother. Nice.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the beautiful thing about
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Riverside Platform, man. There's no boundaries, there's
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no borders. It's just, we've had people on
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from South Africa, from Australia, United Kingdom.
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It's just it, it's amazing what this, this, what this thing can
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do nowadays, man. It's legit, especially with
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musicians because you know, it's that makes us be able to like I
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told you guys from the get go, Fridays we leave for musicians.
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So we, we, that's why we have flexibility with timing and
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stuff because it's, you know, it's Mike has a day off and we
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can just say, OK, this is music day.
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So you know, it's legit like that for sure.
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So how many, how many albums you guys have you put out as a band?
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Starting from the beginning, you've got yeah, well, full
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albums. I believe I would only cost.
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It doesn't matter. It can be EPS, It can be EPS to
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albums. Oh, we have a we have a few EPS
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out. We have 2016.
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The Devolution is our most latest full length album.
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We did release in 2023. On November 10th we released The
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Lost Days, which is recordings that date back to 2010, 2011,
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and so there's some bonus things on there too.
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We released it because of the sudden death of our original
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guitar player, Matthew Dobbin the Alien.
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And we're actually on the new album we're actually going to be
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featuring. We have a track specifically
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featured called Alien for him. And it it, I swear to God, I
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started crying when when I heard the final product.
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And it was it's, you know, a lot of love.
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That's why we're all brothers. You know, when somebody passes
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that was an original. Remember, he wasn't an active
23:09
member when he passed, but he still, man, he was still a good
23:13
friend of ours and we loved him very much.
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And yeah. So that being said, we released
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The Lost Days and actually, actually it's good music if you
23:22
want to take a listen to it. It's not as well produced as we
23:26
we have now, but it's the original Devils and they were a
23:30
crazy bunch of guys before I joined.
23:32
OK, OK. We're going to we're going to
23:36
bring this up a little bit. This is under the road.
23:41
Yeah. YouTube shuts us down if I play
23:44
this shit too long. So if if they shut us down,
23:47
we're going to send you a request to approve it because
23:49
you're on the show. But I want to I want to be able
23:52
to showcase your music, which is why we do this.
23:55
It is. It's fucked up again.
23:56
They. All they use this content.
24:00
Right. Yeah, they don't care.
24:02
Yeah, we're. Going to end up having to send
24:04
you an e-mail and with them and you'll have to prove it that
24:07
way, but I love it. Dude, it's fucking right on.
24:13
Oh man I haven't seen this video in a while.
24:15
Fuck is my beard grown shit. I've been watching it for days.
24:20
Bro I've heard this. Album go watch that this isn't
24:30
and we're even for sure we're even releasing a new version of
24:34
this song on the on the new album.
24:37
Oh, right on. This was what when we had done
24:40
this one. This was a single one off
24:41
recording from a good friend of ours from Visceral Sound and he
24:45
did it. He did a fantastic job.
24:47
But when? And we wanted to feature the
24:48
song on the album, but we didn't want to, we wanted to keep
24:52
everything sounding the same. So we re recorded it with our,
24:55
with our, our normal engineer, Eric Gurney.
24:58
And man, it's, it's, it's even better.
25:01
This, this one sounds good. It's even better.
25:05
OK, I got a question. I got a question for you.
25:08
Now I'm glad that Chris does this because it inspires me to
25:10
ask questions. You guys are both you're playing
25:13
rhythm and you're playing lead pops.
25:16
Or how do you guys work your guitar lines?
25:18
Do you guys both write your own things?
25:21
Does Pop writes all the guitar and you do your version of what
25:25
he writes or how do you guys work out the guitar parts is my
25:27
question. Honestly, it's a lot of 5050.
25:35
I love, I love to hear that. Yeah, we well, a lot of the
25:41
times pops. Well, the the devolution was
25:44
written before I joined the band.
25:46
I helped rework. Like when I came in, I actually
25:49
joined in as the bass player. I wrote all my bass parts and
25:54
then I was switched to lead and then I wrote all new lead parts.
25:57
So I have my creative flow through that album.
26:01
But beyond that, like the new songs that came together, it was
26:05
just like Bruce had a song that was already pretty much finished
26:09
and I came up and helped them put it all together and add the
26:13
finishing touches. And there were songs.
26:15
There's a lot of songs on this new album that I wrote and
26:19
presented to the band. And there's a lot of songs that
26:21
Bruce wrote, presented to the band.
26:23
There's some songs that we just collaborated on, but no, we do a
26:28
lot of our our writing process together and in spur the moment
26:32
things too. So, well, sometimes we'll just
26:36
shit out a song and it's done and it's like, wow, where the
26:41
fuck did that come from? Yep, right.
26:45
We've I, we, yeah, we've done that so many times back.
26:48
It's it's insane, right? But that's that muse, man.
26:50
You get that creative use flowing and, you know, Mike
26:52
butts out a riff and all of a sudden I got my lyric book.
26:54
I'm like, oh, this shit, this fit fits perfectly.
26:56
Then you just, you tweak a little bit here and there, all
26:58
of a sudden boom song. So and those to me are the best
27:01
songs you write because you don't overthink them.
27:03
They just get channeled to you somehow and all of a sudden,
27:05
boom, here you go. Absolutely.
27:10
Oh yeah, so. You guys were more like us and
27:13
the fact that everybody has their own input and what's going
27:17
on, right? You're not telling each other
27:19
what to do. It's more somebody's got an idea
27:21
and you guys all work around that idea, right?
27:24
I tell them what to do all day long.
27:31
Right. Because I mean, you know.
27:33
This crazy ass motherfucker is up at 4:00 AM every goddamn day
27:37
and I'm getting messages by 6:00 AM and I get up and I go work.
27:40
I, I work concrete. Like I'm actually sitting on the
27:43
job site right now. My kind boss has let me have
27:46
this time to talk to you guys and this motherfucker 6:00 AM
27:51
every morning, morning, morning devils.
27:54
Here's your here's your list of shit that that has to be done
27:57
today. I'm like, oh perfect, that's
28:01
awesome. It's.
28:03
Great man, no rest for the. Wind He keeps us.
28:05
He keeps us on our time. Yeah, but Jamie Jasper said it
28:12
bets no sleep, no rest, if that's what it takes to be the
28:15
best, you know? So I set my alarm for like 4:30
28:18
every morning. I wake up and I get to work and
28:20
I make sure that they got everything that they need coming
28:23
because I mean, they deserve it. They're a hard working band and
28:26
they they need what they need and I'm going to get it for
28:29
them. Yeah.
28:30
Hey, you're back. Oh, you have a connection
28:33
problems there, pops. No, my phone overheated.
28:36
I had it sitting on the dashboard and I had my fucking
28:39
heat on. Oh oh, it's cold in Canada
28:45
already. Oh yeah, it's like 70. 8° here
28:48
in Arizona. Oh, shut up.
28:50
Stop it. You're, you're in Arizona.
28:52
You don't know what is it today, Bruce?
28:57
Like 60°. Like 52.
29:01
I think I remember when I was living in.
29:04
Phoenix, I would wake up 6:00 in the morning and I would have an
29:07
ice, one of those water bottles of ice you put in your fridge.
29:12
And by the time I walked out of my house, walked down the
29:14
street, it was already melted. So Arizona doesn't get cold.
29:18
I lived there. Yeah, no, and I was joking when
29:21
I said it was 78°. I just guessed and fucking lo
29:24
and behold, it's 78° right. Now 78°.
29:27
And I, and I'm like why? Why?
29:29
Like it was supposed, well it was supposed to be 60° a day and
29:32
rainy and it and it decided not to rain until Sunday.
29:34
It's like, stop teasing me man. Let's go, you guys.
29:37
Normally it would be cold here too, but we're having like.
29:43
Well, this year was not bad. It was nice.
29:45
We didn't really get hot to the middle of like hot, hot to the
29:47
middle of August, to the middle of September.
29:49
July was nothing. It's where it's been years past,
29:53
man. Like it.
29:54
I don't think it broke 110 maybe two or three times until middle
29:58
August. Yeah.
29:58
That's. Great bro, like again it was it.
30:01
Was in. Arizona, so like 110 is nothing.
30:05
That's every day. No, right.
30:08
Yeah. You just wake up.
30:09
It's another day, you know. We happen to live in the
30:11
southernmost tip of Canada, right in Windsor, ON.
30:15
We're right across the border from Detroit, OK, And it fucking
30:19
gets hot here, OK, stupid hot, especially because we're
30:22
surrounded by the the Great Lakes.
30:25
So we get the lake effect and everything.
30:26
And the humidity here is damn near unbearable.
30:30
Sometimes in the middle of summer we'll be like 100° and
30:35
with the humidex it's like 130 a 140.
30:38
It's fucking insane. I.
30:42
Can. Handle I can handle dry heat
30:45
like we have in Arizona yes, when we I'm in Kentucky right
30:48
now. So like we get humidity, bro, it
30:51
feels like I can't breathe. I'm going to die.
30:54
And it's only it's not even the hottest it normally gets in
30:56
Arizona, but it's dry heat, so you can handle that.
31:00
And as humidity, yeah, I'll tell you, bro.
31:03
I'll tell you, I'll tell you a funny story, Pitbull, because
31:07
you were born and raised there. I lived there for almost 20
31:09
years myself. That's How I Met Chris.
31:11
We formed the band. I brought our drummer back here
31:15
to mix our first demos before Chris even joined the band so
31:20
that we could get a good singer. And he was here maybe 2 days and
31:24
my mom and dad wanted to have a cookout.
31:26
And we're all standing out on the patio.
31:29
And he might he might have lasted 15 minutes.
31:32
And he looked at my dad and he said, I'd love to continue this
31:34
conversation with you, Mr. Michaels, but I don't know how
31:38
you people live here. I can't breathe.
31:39
I got to go in the air conditioning.
31:42
My dad started laughing. He's like you were born and
31:44
raised in Arizona, which is what they call hell on earth, you
31:47
know, as far as the United States is concerned.
31:49
It's. The seventh, he, he, he got such
31:53
a kick out of that. It's the big difference between
31:56
dry heat and humidity, man. It is, Yep.
32:01
Yep, Yep, 100% my job and. I'm from Illinois originally.
32:05
So I so I understand. Yeah, I understand.
32:10
So let's talk again because, because Pitbull dropped that
32:13
stuff off so quickly, what can we expect from you guys next?
32:16
What's the what's, what's the most recent thing that's common
32:18
that we can, we can get our 28 countries to to chime in and and
32:21
go get and pursue and download. Or buy well if you.
32:24
Can get people if there's the next single that's.
32:31
OK. I didn't hear that because you
32:35
talked over each other. It's there's a lag and it's.
32:38
Driving. I know, I know.
32:39
It happens. Go ahead.
32:41
Oh. OK, gotcha.
32:43
Angel. Warfare.
32:43
What? What?
32:48
What I said was Angel Warfare's the next big release after we
32:51
drop the video tomorrow. I believe that's cool.
32:56
The third. Is that the 30th, Eric?
32:59
The Angel Warfare is the 25th of November 20. 5th 25th That's my
33:05
mistake. The 20. 5th of November.
33:08
Is the. Warfare.
33:11
But the music video that's dropping, the music video that's
33:17
dropping tomorrow is going to is going to be worth a lot of
33:20
attention that I can assure you. OK.
33:24
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we had to pull some
33:26
tricks to get Google Ads to go and run campaigns on it.
33:32
Really. Well, you know, with with
33:34
certain imagery, they don't necessarily like it.
33:39
I guess this day and age, I don't mean to.
33:43
I'm just going to, I'm just going to say what I'm going to
33:45
say. You want.
33:46
To RIP it off like a Band-Aid. Dude, OK, this day and age has
33:49
become really pussified and some types of imagery.
33:54
You can't be really advertised and there's a lot of cool shit
33:57
going on in this video. It's like it's like an action
34:00
movie, you know what I mean? There's a lot of, it's like an
34:03
action horror movie and sometimes the getting it to be
34:09
advertised is very difficult. So you got to run through
34:12
different tricks of the trade to make sure that it can get what
34:16
it needs and get the proper eyes on.
34:21
Yeah, I feel you. Censorship is is just
34:24
ridiculous. And it's weird how the
34:25
censorship is different now than it was 40 years ago.
34:29
Yeah. When what they're are you
34:32
kidding? What they're doing 40 years ago
34:33
wouldn't jive today. Right.
34:35
What they were doing 10 years ago wouldn't jive today.
34:40
True. Yeah.
34:41
True. It's yeah.
34:42
Here's my thing though, man. And and this there, there's
34:48
attitude is what used to sell record attitude and living on
34:53
the edge and pushing the boundaries is what metal and
34:57
rock were all about. And now their censorship wants
35:01
to put everything in a little tiny box and make everything
35:05
politically correct. But that's not what this is.
35:08
It's art. And art is not meant to be
35:10
politically correct. Exactly, back in the back in the
35:15
in the Clinton era you guys would be satanic and going to
35:18
hell and Tipper Girl would have had a field day with your name
35:21
and your imagery. It's like everybody thought Ozzy
35:23
was the Prince of Darkness. Oh my God, you're going to hell.
35:26
Fuck you. Ozzy was a human being that
35:28
found his place in the rock'n'roll world and has a
35:31
legacy that will last forever. For us, if you, if you're
35:35
anybody who's Ozzy, you're going to fucking know that Ozzy loved
35:39
God. Ozzy talked about God all the
35:41
time. He wore a fucking cross for
35:43
Christ's sake. Yep, not an upside down one.
35:45
And Tony Iommi. Uh huh.
35:51
Yep. What is always He always say it.
35:52
Love you all, God bless you all. Yeah, God.
35:54
Bless you all. You know I.
35:58
Yep. And you?
35:59
A lot of the music was against the tyranny and against the
36:04
oppression of, of, of shit, I mean, and that's why they
36:08
labeled it that way, because they didn't want people to hear
36:11
what he was really saying. Instead, they labeled him as the
36:16
satanic guy, you know what I mean?
36:19
So nobody would actually pay attention to his word.
36:23
Yeah, No, Mike, we've Mike. And I've had conversations about
36:26
his lyrics and really if you dive into his lyrics, you're
36:28
going to be really surprised. The message he was sending, a
36:31
lot of it was anti war, anti bomb, because where he grew up
36:35
in Birmingham, the time that he grew up in Birmingham and the
36:37
poverty and coming out of World War 2 and all the kind of
36:39
darkness and and bullshit that was going on in their world.
36:43
It's, it's kind of like everything he wrote was more of
36:46
a protest song or just calling something out.
36:49
And then he had his stuff like Crazy Train.
36:51
But even Crazy Train had some of the little snippets of a protest
36:54
in it. If you really dive deep into the
36:55
lyrics. So it it's true, they, they
36:58
censor what they fear and that's the bullshit because what you're
37:02
creating art, music is, it doesn't matter what level it is,
37:05
it's art. The one thing that I agree with
37:07
Pitbull on is there used to be a pushback, right?
37:11
And now, because everyone wants to make money and be monetized,
37:16
the people who used to be rebellious, as soon as there's a
37:20
little bit of pushback, too many people are saying, OK, we won't
37:23
do that, right? Yeah, everybody's falling in
37:26
line and it's really ruining that's.
37:28
It Yeah. Like who We used to say, who the
37:32
fuck are you? Right?
37:33
We had our middle fingers. We're we're us.
37:37
We're going to do what we want to do.
37:38
We don't care what you want. You live your life your way.
37:41
We're going to live our life this way.
37:43
Nobody's hurting each other. So what's the problem exactly?
37:46
There used to be that mutual pushback.
37:50
There just isn't anymore. Well, there is with me.
37:53
I push it every day. I put the boundary, I put I.
37:55
Try to, too. I think everybody in the screen
38:01
right now tries to do that. But we're in the minority right
38:03
now, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah.
38:05
Yeah. Yeah, we are.
38:08
Yes. Yeah, I, I'm, I'm enjoying your.
38:11
I'm enjoying your pictures here, man.
38:12
See, now this this, this, this is a cool picture.
38:15
Yeah, that's right. But see, back in the day, you're
38:17
like, Oh my God, you're all going to hell if you listen to
38:19
these guys. Worship the devil.
38:23
And you know what I want This is definitely a little bit now.
38:28
Devils by definition, yeah, let's get the origin of devils
38:30
by definition. It's it's.
38:32
Actually more of a play on words than anything.
38:35
Because it's we. We are devils only by
38:40
definition, right? And we are.
38:45
Which is the way I took. It I thought, I thought the way
38:48
that you see us, the way that you interpret us, you but by
38:52
definition of a devil, that is us.
38:55
But it's actually the quite opposite because we're actually
38:58
really good, loving people who care about community and we care
39:01
about our friends. Our actual, our fan base is
39:05
called the Devil's Fam. And that means that you are part
39:08
of the devil's family. And the Devil's Fam starts with
39:11
us as brothers, as musicians. Now Eric's part of the Devil's
39:16
fam, and our Devil's fam just keeps growing and growing and
39:19
growing. And.
39:24
What I have up right here just just proves that point because
39:27
you're talking about shout out to warriors on this post and
39:30
it's talking about recovery isn't easy and everybody's going
39:33
through a battle. Everybody's going through a
39:35
victory like we talked about. I'm over 20 years sober.
39:38
You have 11 years sober. Mike's been clean since 2015
39:41
ish. So it it's true.
39:42
It's it's I love that. I love how you just explained
39:45
your band name. That's legit, man.
39:47
That's a fucking really cool way.
39:49
And I love. It to have that name, I love it.
39:51
I love it because, you know, like anybody who wants to
39:54
categorize these people as evil people.
39:56
I mean, Bruce, he's the most like find human possible, bro.
40:01
This guy goes out and feeds homeless people like if.
40:05
That's being a. Devil, if that's being evil,
40:08
then you know, I don't know, I think people got this shit like
40:11
backwards. Yeah, agree.
40:14
I've had this conversation with more people then I can count,
40:19
man, guys like us. I've I've encountered more
40:24
graciousness and I would give you the shirt off my back kind
40:28
of mentality than I ever found when I was in the church.
40:32
You're not saying there's anything wrong with God or the
40:34
church. If that's what makes you happy
40:36
and be a good person, that's great.
40:37
But I found my family and music and I've always encountered the
40:42
attitude that you guys just described about yourselves.
40:45
You get your aggressions out on stage and recording music.
40:48
You don't need to be mean in real life.
40:51
Right. No.
40:54
And you'll see that if you ever come to one of our live shows,
40:57
you will see how much love there is at the show and how much
41:02
energy that we put out as as musicians, as artists.
41:07
And every fucking time that we go play man, everybody fucking
41:13
either stand still because they're not sure what how to
41:16
process it, or they're fucking going bananas as they're loving
41:20
it and they're feeding off of our energy.
41:26
And rightfully so, because you want that energy for a live
41:28
show. That's what, that's what keeps
41:29
people coming back. That's the energy, That's the
41:31
vibe, right? That's, you know, that's how you
41:33
suck people in. You know, we would, we would
41:35
play for bands like Sacred Reich.
41:36
And we were nowhere near, we were nowhere near the sound of
41:39
Sacred Reich. But because we could kind of go
41:42
across genres and because we just came out on stage and
41:45
played three songs in your face, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
41:47
It's like you'd love us or hate us right then and there.
41:49
After, you know, 9-10 minutes, you're going to know if we're
41:53
worthy of being on that stage with the bands we're opening up
41:55
for and playing with. And nine times out of 10, you
41:58
know, people kept coming back and we kept growing our, you
42:01
know, growing our, our reputation, growing the fan
42:03
base, just like you guys are doing this show by show.
42:05
Stay true to what you're creating and, and people will
42:07
follow you. It's the ones that kind of fuck
42:10
around and, and waiver, you know, you know, you get 1 little
42:13
dent in your armor because of your name or your look or your
42:16
style or how you come across and all of a sudden, you know, the
42:18
world's collapsing around you. So you got all I got to change
42:20
that. I don't want to offend anybody.
42:21
Fuck that. Be yourself, be true to who you
42:23
are. Judgments are going to come.
42:26
Judgments are going to come and go regardless, right?
42:29
You're going to get, I get when I shave my head.
42:31
Like legit when I shave my head they put us in a in a fucking
42:34
Skinhead concert because I look like this now.
42:39
We didn't realize this guy had a show at the.
42:41
Time and we, you know, we but we hung and we but you but you know
42:45
what I'm saying? But you know, because of who
42:49
right, but because of who we are, it didn't matter.
42:51
We just went out there rocked. So, you know, I, I judgments,
42:56
people that judge are the ones that typically are the most
42:58
strong willed Christians in the world because, you know, again,
43:02
they judge what they fear or they judge what they don't.
43:04
Understand because. They have to have their yeah.
43:08
And I know you can't answer, OK, but I mean, I've actually, I was
43:12
born into a church and I'm not a Christian at all, but I was born
43:16
into the church. I read the Bible.
43:18
So here's my question for all these judgmental assholes.
43:22
Have you actually read the fucking Bible that you claim to
43:25
worship and believe in because it says love is the law.
43:30
Don't judge people and be kind you know what I mean?
43:34
Amen bro what it says. But I don't see that coming from
43:39
these people at all. Nope.
43:43
You don't. I am no expert on any level
43:46
either, but I asked the same questions you do Pitbull.
43:48
I'm like, I read enough of it and I was exposed to enough of
43:52
it to know that the way you're acting is not right.
43:54
That's all I need. To you know what I mean?
43:56
At the end of the day, man, just be good people like it's not
43:59
hard. It's hard to be a good for, in
44:01
fact it takes more energy to hate somebody or or to be a Dick
44:04
right buddy unless they have it. Well said.
44:07
If they need to get punched if they fuck them in the.
44:11
Right, right. Save that energy for the people
44:14
that deserve it, right? Religion in itself is about
44:19
like, it's about trying to establish morality right.
44:24
You need to establish morality within people to give them a
44:30
sense of what is right and what is wrong.
44:32
Otherwise the only way you know what is right and what is wrong
44:35
is what you were taught by your parents or whoever raised you or
44:42
by your life experiences. Right.
44:47
Like I mean agree that is in my opinion that is religions and
44:51
original purpose. Original purpose.
44:57
Right. And that's why religions have
44:59
changed and evolved so much over the over time because they they
45:02
keep getting, oh wait, but we can't do it like this.
45:04
We got to do it like this, you know, oh, if we just tweak this,
45:08
if we take this word out of this verse, then it's fine.
45:10
Like the Catholics take the word out of begotten son.
45:14
I forget the whole verse itself, but it's, you know, they took
45:18
the word begotten out. I'm like, you can't take the
45:20
word begotten out. That's how it was written.
45:21
That's how it was originally interpreted, right?
45:23
You can't just change it because you want it to flow better for
45:26
the next generation of, of, of people.
45:28
You're trying to get to adhere to your policies and terms
45:31
because to me and Mike and I've talked about forever religion
45:36
people, some people need religion, right?
45:37
Some people need that accountability.
45:38
Some people need to be told how to pray and, and how to, how to
45:40
live a life. And I get that and I respect
45:42
that. But at the end of the day,
45:44
religions are all about money. It's, it's, it's a machine.
45:48
The most, the most powerful companies in the world, the
45:51
Catholicism and Mormonism. Why?
45:52
Because they had their trillions and trillions of dollars.
45:55
They surround themselves and they, they alter perception and
46:01
things like that because it's Christian Scientology, right?
46:04
They all fucking are, are just corporations that are are, you
46:09
know, kind of grinding the thought process and the belief
46:12
system to their advantage. And then when shit hits the fan
46:15
like the, the priest and molesting kids or the, or the
46:18
people in the LDS church killing people, well, they're just the
46:21
byproduct. They're just, they're the one
46:23
percenters. Fuck you.
46:24
They're the one percenters, man. You buried the one percenters.
46:27
There was like 80% of your shit. You buried it to keep it quiet
46:30
because otherwise you'd explode. Here's the way I end that
46:33
argument. Here's the way I end that
46:35
argument, Chris, with the people who are bound and determined
46:38
that they're going to die on that hill.
46:43
If that religion was started today, it would be shut down so
46:46
fast your fucking head would spin.
46:49
If you found out that somebody was diddling kids in a brand new
46:52
religion, the government would shut that fucking thing down so
46:55
fast your head would spin. But because it's old, it gets to
46:58
stay around it. That's how ridiculous it is.
47:01
But people don't. They don't think like that,
47:04
right? They look at me like I'm weird
47:07
because I think differently. I'm like, how do you not put two
47:10
and two together there? Yeah, I don't get it.
47:14
Back to music. Yeah, it's tough.
47:15
Religion. Back to me.
47:17
Back to me. I took.
47:18
I took us down the path, man. Hey, man.
47:21
I did write a song. I did write a song about it
47:23
called. Faces, we're not having an
47:25
interview right now. This is a conversation.
47:28
We're not. No, no, no, exactly.
47:30
I just. I just.
47:31
Yeah. I just don't want to.
47:32
I just don't want to, you know, I don't.
47:34
I mean, religion's cool and all, but I'd rather talk about music
47:37
and devils by definition and what you got coming and what you
47:40
got going on. And you know, we want to make,
47:42
we're going to make this all about you guys, because that's
47:45
what it's about, man. It's about the rock'n'roll, you
47:47
know, so and we can find your stuff on podcasts.
47:53
I'm not podcast and all the, all the, all the iTunes, Spotify,
47:58
right? People want to go check.
47:59
Out your music. Cool, cool.
48:05
That's awesome. And I didn't want to find your
48:08
deaf and I want to find find your website again because I
48:10
want to pull that up. Talk to us about your
48:12
relationship with Eurek Records, because a lot of people, they
48:16
know that name. That would be my area of
48:19
expertise. So I started this label
48:23
self-made records and I got ripped off by a lot of people,
48:29
you know, I mean, and I just, I was so hard to build my
48:33
reputation that build things and I was getting ripped off left
48:37
and right by different companies and FOMO companies, so-called
48:40
companies. So finally I just started
48:43
reaching out to labels and Eric happened to be one of them that
48:47
answered me a lot of wouldn't give me the time of day and they
48:51
had this digital distribution program.
48:53
I'm like, hey, I run my label. What I'll do is I'll put in my
48:57
contract that my artist will use your digital distribution and
49:01
maybe we can work together this way and I can utilize your
49:04
services. And he said, sure, they had no
49:07
problem with it. We, we had a meeting, I had a
49:10
meeting with Tim Bailey and Richard Vale and all that.
49:13
And next thing you know, I've got these the cool thing where
49:16
they let me give a free digital distribution to any band that I
49:20
want to. So I knew nice, like, all right,
49:23
cool. We're going to, I'm going to
49:24
bring some people on and we're going to do this.
49:26
And that allows me to use marketing teams, Eric, to market
49:31
bands. So when they signed on with me,
49:34
they inevitably signed on being an Earache digital distribution
49:38
artist, which allows U.S. market them through Earache people.
49:43
That way we know we're getting real marketing.
49:45
We're getting legit label marketing instead of some guy in
49:49
his basement telling me that he can do this.
49:51
And I get put in like 5 web scenes and you know, it's, it's
49:56
a horrible thing out here, man. In the industry, people don't
49:59
like you to talk about it. But I talk about it and I put
50:02
people on blast all the time, especially at the scam artists
50:05
because it's something that people need to know.
50:07
People need to know about how hard it is for these bands.
50:12
These guys put so much money into their career that for some
50:16
asshole to come along and RIP them off, it's just it's an
50:20
atrocity, you know what I mean? I'm glad you said that, because
50:25
that's so true. That's why they call me the
50:28
Pitbull. That's why we got.
50:33
The That's good, man. That's good, absolutely.
50:35
Well, in the music business, it's just, it's the same thing
50:38
in any entertainment kind of business.
50:40
You need somebody like Pitbull out there to be the face of the
50:44
band, to speak for the band. Because what he just said is so
50:48
true. We're behind the scenes,
50:50
spending all our money buying gear, writing songs, rehearsing.
50:54
There's only so many hours in the day.
50:57
And after you hear these guys's music, it might not make sense
51:01
if you don't understand musicians.
51:03
But we're kind of compassionate, empathetic people, most of us.
51:07
So it's hard for us to put up a mean face and say, we demand
51:11
this from you, right? You need somebody like him out
51:14
there going, we demand this from you.
51:16
Yeah. Yeah, accurate.
51:21
Yeah, because at the end of the day, we're just entertainers,
51:23
man. We, we would love entertaining
51:25
people. We love sharing our souls
51:27
because let's face it, you know, those of us who write the lyrics
51:30
and you know, it's, we're sharing a piece of our soul.
51:32
So it's, it's just something, you know, other people resonate
51:36
with it. Then you're, you're, you're
51:38
getting the point across. You're doing.
51:39
The keyword is love. You said it.
51:41
Yeah, three times. You know what we love?
51:43
What we do, and we love the people that love what we do.
51:46
Yep, and you know what that hits that that hits me the right way,
51:50
even right on my right, right on my my Facebook profile, I have a
51:56
saying that I've followed my entire life and that's music is
52:00
the essence of life because without to not beat.
52:04
So that's that kind of fault. Yeah.
52:08
Oh, yeah, absolutely, man. It's the soundtrack of our
52:14
lives. You know, I think, I think Green
52:16
Day said that unfortunately in a song, but it's true, you know,
52:29
All right, so I know you guys, you guys are all working and
52:31
stuff. I don't want to, I don't want to
52:32
bleed into too long of a conversation.
52:34
But devils by definition, people just Google you.
52:36
You're going to find all the all the links, all the social media
52:39
stuff, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, all the iTunes
52:44
platforms, YouTube itself. You don't actually have a true
52:47
like website is just because when I type in it goes to
52:50
YouTube. Is that right, Pitbull?
52:51
There's not an actual just standalone website.
52:53
Yet they're on my website. I can send you the link for
52:56
that. They need to go to website.
53:00
You guys got to get on that, but I have them on.
53:02
My yeah, we'll get on that. Do they have their home page on
53:06
my website where you could find all their strange links?
53:09
Go to self-made Records LLC and click that website and you can
53:14
you can definitely see all the artists that we've represented.
53:17
Just ignore those and go to Devils by Definition.
53:21
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
53:24
Yeah, selfmaderecordsllc.com. Yeah.
53:30
Right. So that makes me happy you were
53:33
on here, Pitbull, because now I know you just friended us on
53:37
Instagram. I'd like to put a face with the
53:39
people I'm now I know who I'm talking to, right?
53:42
It just, it makes it makes it cool to know who you're talking
53:45
to. Absolutely.
53:48
Hell yeah. I follow everybody who chose
53:51
support to the industry and everybody who has integrity.
53:55
That's important to me, you know.
53:57
And that's what we're trying to do here, man.
53:59
We're trying to help people that are like we're, we're coming up
54:02
along with you guys. So we hope that we all just keep
54:06
growing at the next level together.
54:08
That's our whole goal here. You promote us.
54:11
And helping people is what we are all about.
54:14
Or. We're promoting you.
54:15
Yeah, right. Absolute.
54:18
Thing, man, it's it's that's why we do what we do.
54:19
That's why we like having bands. So this is the Self-made Records
54:22
LLC Facebook page for those of you tuning in and checking it
54:25
out. And then you just go featured
54:28
the featured artists, you know which again, there's devils by
54:31
definition, their new logo. You can find their website on
54:35
the side right there where it says the website on the about
54:39
page by OK there. Let me see there.
54:47
You go. It's on the side where the links
54:51
are. Do you guys have merch that
54:58
people can buy because. Yeah, that's why, that's why
55:00
he's going at because I know people are going to buy your
55:02
shirts and stuff. I want one right?
55:03
Now I'm going to right now, if we have a little crime left, I'm
55:08
going to send you this right now so you can find it.
55:11
No, we're cool. We're just trying not to hold.
55:13
You here? I think I found it Pitbull.
55:15
Oh, you're good. Bruce is his own boss.
55:17
I. Don't know.
55:20
OK, Yeah, OK. Right on.
55:21
Cool. You guys are up there ticking
55:23
ass. I really want one of those
55:27
shirts with the new logo with the skull.
55:29
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like I like, like legit.
55:32
That's where I was going with this.
55:33
I want to. I want to pimp you out, man.
55:35
I'll wear it on the podcast for sure.
55:37
I want to, I want to promote you, you know, that's, that's
55:40
what we do. Oh yeah, hell yeah, brother.
55:43
We appreciate everything. Are you, are you emailing your
55:46
emailing to me Pitbull? Yeah, I'm going to e-mail it to
55:49
you right now. OK.
55:50
Sorry about. That's cool.
55:52
I just got a hop. No, you're good, bro.
55:54
You're good. That's why I bring it up,
55:55
because I want to. I want to promote you guys.
55:56
I know. We pulled that logo up.
55:58
I'm like, I want that shirt. I know, I know when you first
56:01
messed, sort of messed, when you first messed me, you had all
56:03
just a just a ton of links and whatnot.
56:05
So yeah, they've got shirts, they've got coffee cups, they've
56:09
got phone cases, all kinds of stuff.
56:12
Yeah, I just emailed it to you. If you click that link, it'll
56:15
take you to the devil by definition.
56:17
And then just Scroll down, it says devils by Definition, Link
56:20
Merc and all that good stuff. Cool.
56:23
So there it is. They're going.
56:25
To have a lot of stuff and especially when they go on tour,
56:27
they're going to have a lot more.
56:32
So, new release. Yeah.
56:33
OK, Devil's merch. I got it.
56:34
Devil's merch. OK, So here we go boys and
56:37
girls. We'll share that link for sure,
56:40
and I'll be hitting that link because I want a shirt.
56:43
Yeah. That the shirt, the shirts we
56:45
just put over Devil's Snyder spot, too.
56:50
Sweet. Oh, and it includes it and it
56:53
includes a download. Mike, you get the shirt and a
56:55
download of Devil's Night, Devil's Night, pre-order Devil's
57:00
Night CD. Nice.
57:01
We got vinyl records. Oh, that's one thing we need to
57:04
we have a blood splatter final album.
57:07
There it is right there dude. Nice.
57:11
Dude, that's awesome, man. It's.
57:13
Pre-order only so we need to get it.
57:16
We actually need to hit 100 orders so we need to entice some
57:20
people to start pre ordering this because we this needs to be
57:25
a thing. Yeah, if you go to the Devil's
57:29
By Definition music links on that site right there that I
57:33
just sent to you on the far right, see the Blood Splattered
57:37
vinyl record and that is for pre-order and they have to sell
57:41
100 for the production to start right now.
57:45
I believe there's like 10 OK, We we need to get more people to
57:50
buy and it looks really cool. So you know.
57:54
Yeah, yeah, it's the, the website's dragon.
57:56
But it could be me because I had like 8 windows open trying to
57:59
pimp all your guys and stuff. So after the show, I'll
58:01
definitely get on there and, and share it with Michael.
58:03
We'll we'll put it on our page and stuff and, and help you guys
58:06
get because that's what we do. We're going to help you, help
58:08
promote you, because you know you're not the demons that
58:11
people think you are. No, we are far from that and I
58:15
don't want to give away too much about our tour, but it's going
58:19
to. We're doing.
58:21
We're trying to help as many people as we can along the way,
58:24
and that is all I'm going to say for now.
58:29
Cool, awesome. Now, is the tour limited to
58:32
Canada or are you coming to the States?
58:34
This tour is a Canadian tour. Pitbull OK, so when you come to
58:40
the States, so when you come to the states, when you go to when
58:44
you go to Chicago, you want to hit up Mike.
58:45
When you come to Arizona, you want to hit me up because both
58:47
of us want to go and see you guys live.
58:50
Absolutely, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
58:53
Love to come to the Windy City. So anything else you guys want
58:56
to share before you have to get out of here?
58:58
Yeah. Anything else you guys want to
58:59
share Pops you got? Anything I.
59:03
I think we. Just OK, we covered all crazy
59:08
cool. Just a quick.
59:14
Go ahead, crazy coup. This is driving me nuts.
59:19
Jane. I was just going to give a quick
59:21
shout out to my family, My, my, my wife, my kids, Cameron, Casey
59:26
and my wife Sarah and everybody who supported me along the
59:29
years. I love you all, all my family.
59:32
Yeah, there you go. Awesome.
59:36
Yeah, Pitbull. Anything you got man.
59:42
Me. Yeah.
59:45
I was waiting. I was waiting for pops to feed.
59:49
Oh yeah, I think we covered. Listen to these guys, watch
59:54
their videos, hear their music if you like their music.
59:57
Oh, don't be a dirtbag. Buy a T-shirt if you're going to
1:00:00
RIP the music off the Internet. It's cool if you don't buy CDs
1:00:03
or vinyl. I understand music's free, but
1:00:05
if you're going to download the shit for free, don't be a
1:00:08
dirtbag. Buy a T-shirt.
1:00:11
Thank you, that's usually my support.
1:00:14
Yeah, and I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you I don't
1:00:17
buy one song, I buy the album. So I go on iTunes and I buy the
1:00:20
full album. I just don't buy one song
1:00:22
because again, I like finding those hidden gems that you don't
1:00:26
release yet. And it's like, holy shit, this
1:00:28
should be a hit song and that they haven't just got to it yet.
1:00:31
So Pops, you were going to you think you wanted to say
1:00:34
something, but then we all the delay kind of screwed things up.
1:00:36
So anything you want to say, Pops.
1:00:43
I don't have anything, everything, just much love to
1:00:49
have anybody that's been been a part of the journey so far and
1:00:53
especially you guys for taking time to stay with us today.
1:00:55
We appreciate it very much. Dude, you, you took the time to
1:00:59
join us, man, we. Appreciate you guys man this
1:01:02
it's a mutual admiration. We this was our vision is to
1:01:06
give a platform to musicians and anybody that had a dream that
1:01:10
they wanted to put out there, it kind of morphed into this.
1:01:13
So it's extra special to us when it's musicians because that's
1:01:18
near and dear to our heart. We know what it takes to start a
1:01:21
band from the ground floor and get to the point where you guys
1:01:24
are at, where you're trying to breakthrough to the other side.
1:01:26
So we wish you all the success in the world.
1:01:29
Man, you seem like stand up guys.
1:01:31
Your music is awesome. Your visuals are awesome.
1:01:35
Just keep on keeping on, man. You're kicking ass.
1:01:37
Yeah. Hell yeah.
1:01:38
Thank you very much so much. Because you're who you are,
1:01:43
you're going to love how we close the show.
1:01:44
So if you're feeling suicidal, depressed, or just your minds in
1:01:48
a bad in a bad spot, go outside and run and go scream in a
1:01:51
pillow. Go journal.
1:01:52
Go work out. Do something to help change your
1:01:54
state of mind. If you can't find somebody to
1:01:56
talk to, text 988 because somebody is standing by to help
1:01:59
you get through the struggles you are struggling with.
1:02:01
Tomorrow's a better day with you in it because we don't want you
1:02:03
leaving a hole in somebody's heart because somebody does love
1:02:05
you and they will miss you. With that being said, I'm Chris.
1:02:08
He's Mike. This is Pops crazy coup and the
1:02:10
Pitbull from devils by definition.
1:02:12
Definitely go check them out. Google the name.
1:02:15
You're going to love the music and love the merchandise.
1:02:17
You love the visuals and not only that, they're super nice
1:02:19
stand up humans with a great fantastic life resume
1:02:23
collectively. So give them the time of day.
1:02:25
You will not regret it for all of us.
1:02:27
Until next time. See you peace.
1:02:30
Steve, thanks. Love you brother.
1:02:32
Love you too. Thank you guys so much.
1:02:34
Thank you. Don't leave yet.