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Kicking Old Habits With JAHRED GOMES From HED P.E. · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name's Jared. I sing for head pe We got
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  Speaker 1: that new record that just came out called Detox, and
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  Speaker 1: we're on our way to uh South America and then
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to get to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Jared, thanks for joining us today, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, thank you bro, thanks for having me, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: taking out the time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely pleasure man. So as you say, head Peve
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  Speaker 2: returned to Australia early next year, run a show starting
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  Speaker 2: in Perth on February second before going through Adelaide, Melbourne,
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  Speaker 2: Sydney and finished in Brisbone on February the ninth. Then
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  Speaker 2: you head to New Zealand, do Willington, christ Church and
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  Speaker 2: Auckland made so I can tell you now I might
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  Speaker 2: have still a couple of months away, but people in
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  Speaker 2: Australia are pretty excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, man. It's always a good time whenever
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  Speaker 1: we whenever we get to your country and rock out. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I've never I've never had a bad show in Australia. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's always been great.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how you have a VENI since two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and iteenne, So what's changed with head Pa since then?
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  Speaker 1: Whoa is that? Jesus? Sorry? That is twenty eighteen. I
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  Speaker 1: think we've been there since then, but I'll take your
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  Speaker 1: word for it. Well, we put out this record, Detox,
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  Speaker 1: which has done really well at debuted number one on
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  Speaker 1: iTunes Rock and Metal, and so we just been happy.
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  Speaker 1: We played a lot of festivals this year and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good tours. We just got back from the
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  Speaker 1: UK touring with Soil and Nonpoint and Union Underground and
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  Speaker 1: that was amazing. So I'm just working on this secret
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  Speaker 1: record that I'm about to deliver, and just staying busy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, busy with the music.
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  Speaker 2: That's said for the benefit of our said might not
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  Speaker 2: have heard head speed for a senior's live before, but
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  Speaker 2: a certyfical live show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a typical live show. Well, you know, we try
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  Speaker 1: to take you on a journey. You know, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of storytelling, so you know, we'll take you everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to like have a beginning, in a middle
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  Speaker 1: and an end to the show, you know, hopefully provide
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  Speaker 1: some catharsis some venting for anybody who comes down. You
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  Speaker 1: know it will we go from like very pensive hardcore
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  Speaker 1: to like party music to you know, metal punk, reggae,
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  Speaker 1: hip hop. You know, in uh in just the right amounts.
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  Speaker 2: How do you find touring in the modern age? Mate,
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  Speaker 2: Like Headview's always he's always been an honest and open
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  Speaker 2: band and you say what you feel. But the world
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  Speaker 2: is becoming so sanitize these days that if you fight
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  Speaker 2: in public, people get offended. Made life? Have you had
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  Speaker 2: to check yourself with all or just keep being you
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  Speaker 2: and not giving me?
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  Speaker 1: But you know, people do say that what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I guess in a reference to some
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  Speaker 1: sort of counsel culture that does exist. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, you know, now with the Internet, it's and
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  Speaker 1: with like hip hop music and rap music is there's
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  Speaker 1: still a lot of dirty stuff out there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I do know what you're saying. I myself as
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  Speaker 1: an artist, if I could go back, I definitely would
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't write some of the more provocative stuff that I
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  Speaker 1: thought was like, you know, I tried to push buttons
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  Speaker 1: a lot in my earlier years. You know, now that
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  Speaker 1: I'm like a family man and a dad, I hear
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  Speaker 1: some of that old stuff and I'm just like rubbing
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  Speaker 1: my head like, uh, you know, like how good you
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  Speaker 1: what were you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: But hey, it is what it is, and it's there
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  Speaker 1: for eternity, and hey, I'll have to live with it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, going back to your question though
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  Speaker 1: about how I approach whether I think I'll get canceled
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  Speaker 1: or not. You know, I guess I'm lucky because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in my younger years when sex, drugs and rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll and I was singing about all of the
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  Speaker 1: dirtiest stuff. And now I'm like a family guy anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and a proper you know, husband and father, so I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you know. Although on the last record, I did
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  Speaker 1: put out a pretty nasty song with some pretty you know,
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  Speaker 1: provocative lyrics, but it's nothing near the like angst written
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  Speaker 1: like oh I'm really pissed off at a chick at
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  Speaker 1: a girl lyrics that I used to write, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I always, you know, I'm always trying
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  Speaker 1: to blend my songwriting between reality and totally fantastical stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I'm just you know, creating out of my imagination,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So just trying to balance that as well
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  Speaker 1: is fun, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And you've been doing this for a long time, bro,
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  Speaker 2: So have you ever had a night when you when
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  Speaker 2: you're about to go on stage and you're just not
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  Speaker 2: feeling it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know what, the only time, if I could
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  Speaker 1: be like painfully honest, the only time I'm not feeling
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  Speaker 1: it is when I walk into a room and the
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  Speaker 1: crowd is much lighter than I think it should be. Meaning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't mind. I make my living in
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  Speaker 1: tiny bars all over the planet, and I'm used to
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  Speaker 1: playing for less than one hundred people. But if I
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  Speaker 1: get to a town where I know I do really
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  Speaker 1: well and I walk into a room and my normal
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  Speaker 1: crowd isn't there, then I can kind of get a
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  Speaker 1: little pissed off at the the way the game works,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the promoter didn't do his job, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: so like that's the only time when I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: then then I might have to, you know, do an
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  Speaker 1: extra shot of Jaeger. But even in those even in
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  Speaker 1: those situations, Bro, I'll find my way to like get
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  Speaker 1: in the groove and and give give my best for
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  Speaker 1: that show you know.
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  Speaker 2: Now you mentioned before, but at the relationship fifteen studio
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  Speaker 2: album Dtox, like last year, might say, how was it
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  Speaker 2: received by the fans?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people love Detox, Bro, It's one of the best
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  Speaker 1: received records in a long time. I've done so many records,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they all don't hit the mark. Although you know,
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  Speaker 1: I always do my best, you know, I'm always excited
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  Speaker 1: to release them, but you know, people aren't always feeling
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  Speaker 1: what I'm feeling, you know. But on this one, the
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  Speaker 1: timing was right because everybody was feeling detox for sure.
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  Speaker 2: At the time. It came out, like you said that
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  Speaker 2: the band has incorporated more rap elements and the music
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  Speaker 2: is notably heavy and thrash orientited. Like now no one's
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  Speaker 2: come out and the fans have had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: listen to it, did you do you think that that's
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  Speaker 2: a general consensus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, people are the fans would are saying
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  Speaker 1: it's like the best record in ten, fifteen years or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of hurts my feelings, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: like all the other ones suck or what. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's bittersweet. But I'm just glad people like it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So after fourteen previous albums might than three decades of music,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit call to make making adjustments on that,
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  Speaker 2: like putting more the thrashing there and notably heavier light.
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  Speaker 2: Was that was it a risk of sorts? So I
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  Speaker 2: guess to sort of explore that that territory.
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  Speaker 1: Again, No, I don't think that Detox was a risk.
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  Speaker 1: There was no risk there because I wasn't like breaking
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  Speaker 1: new ground or it was. It was kind of the
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  Speaker 1: like I kind of knew that people were going to
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  Speaker 1: really dig it because it's uh, you know, giving the
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  Speaker 1: people what they want without just like making it mindless.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It was a deeply personal record and the
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  Speaker 1: music hits hard, but it's also again not coming out
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  Speaker 1: of left field. It's just that heavy headpe metal punk
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  Speaker 1: rock stuff, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: No respect to bands that do. My admit. One thing
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  Speaker 2: I love about Headpa is it it's still making new
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  Speaker 2: music and he's still touring wars and prease. A number
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  Speaker 2: of bands happy just to continue touring their existing catalog.
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  Speaker 2: But is that something you've spoken about as a band
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  Speaker 2: to continue that going or is it just in a
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  Speaker 2: your DNA what to do a lot of touring and
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  Speaker 2: keep making music instead of just just resting on your laurels.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just touring the all back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what it's. It's it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a cautionary tale of someone who uh didn't plan for
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  Speaker 1: doing anything else in his life. You know, so rocking
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  Speaker 1: out and making a buck, you know, for playing a show.
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  Speaker 1: It's all I've known for over thirty for thirty years now,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I never I sadly never finished university.
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  Speaker 1: So there's nothing else for me, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. I fucking love it. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: giving you both sides of the coin, right. I love
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  Speaker 1: making music, and I love singing, and I love writing
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  Speaker 1: and I love performing. But let's be honest, like if
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  Speaker 1: I was on a if I was making more money,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be touring less, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So if you can go back in time quickly, mate,
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  Speaker 2: like you still had p back in nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 2: So what's the musical what's the musical climate? Like that
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  Speaker 2: they birthed the band and.
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  Speaker 1: Happen well in ninety four. It was like, you know, Nirvana, Offspring,
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  Speaker 1: Rage against the Machine, Uh, Beastie Boys, Uh, Cypress Hill,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Dre Snoop Dog, you know, Nine Inch Nails, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn Manson, Uh, Bad Religion. There was so much good
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  Speaker 1: music in ninety four. I'm sure there is there is
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  Speaker 1: all the time. But you asked me in ninety four, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's very easy for me to go, you know, Mary J. Blige, Sublime,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just fucking the Deaf Tones, corn like all
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  Speaker 1: that shit was popping off in southern California. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's very inspirational time to get my career started.
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  Speaker 2: And at the time, like Install of Music, it blended
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  Speaker 2: rock punk that was rested as gangster rat and saw music.
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  Speaker 2: Like these days, a lot of bands are doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Back then, it was it was a pretty fresh concept.
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  Speaker 2: Like did did people? Did people take to it straight
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  Speaker 2: away or did? I sort of did take a bit
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  Speaker 2: of time for people to understand what you were doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it seems like music became more purified after after
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  Speaker 1: our genre there. You know, there wasn't as much of
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  Speaker 1: the high bred music. We're just metal here and trap here.
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  Speaker 1: Having said that, though we get I gotta say I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressed at how well received Headpe is no matter
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  Speaker 1: where we play, after or before, we're normally playing with
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  Speaker 1: all day of metal bands and hardcore metal bands and
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  Speaker 1: people just you know what, it must be just good.
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  Speaker 1: We're putting out good The music's is a good vibe
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  Speaker 1: even when it's heavy. So I don't know, people were
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  Speaker 1: treated well all the time. Like I say, we played
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  Speaker 1: like big festivals this year, big rock festivals in the US,
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  Speaker 1: and we were treated so well by the fans every time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now you mentioned something earlier about a secret records, so
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be seeking for much longer. When
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  Speaker 2: I ask you about it, what's going over that head?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't really say what it's about, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a wreck. I really it's a totally
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  Speaker 1: top secret. But I'm a i'm a I'm delivering it
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  Speaker 1: in the next you know, in the next week, so
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  Speaker 1: people are going to start hearing about what it is
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  Speaker 1: as soon as I'm I kind of you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you're working with companies, you have to kind of go
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  Speaker 1: by their schedule of announcing stuff and and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, to say much more then, because you sound
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  Speaker 2: like you want to talk about it, but you get
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  Speaker 2: in trouble if you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I almost got started, but I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: better shut up. Ah.
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  Speaker 2: I thank Mabel. One fought a question before we got
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  Speaker 2: in by life had to he You've had a long
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  Speaker 2: and distinguished career, but one day when you do decide
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  Speaker 2: to pull stumps, what do you hope the inscription would
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  Speaker 2: be on your musical teamstone.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha yeah. Oh, that's a great question. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a great question. It's hard for me to give a
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  Speaker 1: quick answer to uh, yeah, yeah, you stumped me. You
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  Speaker 1: stumped the panel because I'm like getting really deep and
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  Speaker 1: right now, you know, I'm picturing my tombstone and you
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  Speaker 1: know you've given me like a question as if it's
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be written in stone, because I want it
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  Speaker 1: maybe to be one of my There's a there's a lyric.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lyric from Detox, uh from the last song
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  Speaker 1: pH where in that? In that I do this one
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  Speaker 1: bar where I go, I never made it big, but
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  Speaker 1: I made it. I never got to buy my mom
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  Speaker 1: a crib, but I guess I made it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so I think that would be cool. I never made
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  Speaker 1: it big, but I made it is probably would really
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  Speaker 1: just sess everything about my career.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful Jamel, thanks very much for your tom that I
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  Speaker 2: might head pa R in Australia feverry next year. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be coming along to the Brisbane Show, I might sayful
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  Speaker 2: you get to catch up and sago Ay.
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  Speaker 1: My man, Chris, thanks for taking the time, bro, please
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  Speaker 1: check in with me. Come to the show Man