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Before We All Die: CLAWFINGER Return With Perfectly Timed Fury · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you guys have just put out a new album.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me all about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's the last album was like nineteen years ago,
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  Speaker 3: so it's I guess it's about time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Temperature we played every year, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, played festivals and but you know, the point was
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  Speaker 3: that back in two thousand and seven eight, it was
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  Speaker 3: the the end of the CD area.
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  Speaker 2: Like you can make money out of selling CDs. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we are not the big band, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's more like we all right, we got
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  Speaker 3: to do something different differently.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have to get find.
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  Speaker 3: A job, you know, and do this for fun or
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  Speaker 3: just to take all the good gigs, you know, And
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  Speaker 3: so we did so and then we never meet up,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's hard to make music when you don't meet up.
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  Speaker 3: Back then it was, but now it's a different ballgame
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  Speaker 3: because it's we are communicating.
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  Speaker 2: You're in Australia, I'm in Norway. Yeah, it's like now
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  Speaker 2: it works.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can in fact see some different planets
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  Speaker 3: and make an album.
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  Speaker 2: And that is what we did.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, the whole album is made like I did
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  Speaker 3: guitars here at home, we sent sent you know, result
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  Speaker 3: over to the other guys and they sent.
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  Speaker 2: Files back and you know, with the files went.
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  Speaker 3: Like this, and so that's the way we made the
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  Speaker 3: album interesting.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's And how did you find that obviously to
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  Speaker 4: your being in studio doing album previously, did you find it.
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  Speaker 1: Was better or you had more room to work with
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  Speaker 1: or was more frustrating? What was the outcome?
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  Speaker 2: It's different.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more frustrating to being in the same
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  Speaker 3: room as the rest of the band. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: are like brothers. That's not brothers. You know, we've been
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  Speaker 3: around for like thirty five years, you know, six years,
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  Speaker 3: so it's like we know each other and yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: this was the way to do it, and we decided
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  Speaker 3: to try to give it a try after the manager
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  Speaker 3: said it was like really frustrated on us back in
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  Speaker 3: I guess it was twenty twenty one something. We had
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  Speaker 3: a meeting, like in net meeting and it's like, please,
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  Speaker 3: can we make another album before we all die?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? That's the title. That's the title, Before we All Die?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I like it because I was gonna ask you
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  Speaker 4: when I come about But that's actually a really cool story.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it comes from.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the title, but it's more like, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 3: how do we link this up.
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  Speaker 2: To to our profile some kind of way.
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  Speaker 3: Our profile is like we comment on things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: socially and you know, what's happening around the world.
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  Speaker 2: You know, zactly is very direct.
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  Speaker 3: In his lyrics, very very you know, open like this,
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  Speaker 3: you know, no metaphorus, just straight straight, So how do.
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  Speaker 2: We link it up? And it's like, well, take a
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  Speaker 2: look around in the world today.
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  Speaker 3: It's like before we all died, like fucking wars and
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  Speaker 3: crazy American president and and the environmental issues you know,
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  Speaker 3: with yeah, you know. So it's like it was link
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  Speaker 3: it up to to to what's happening in the world,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and to make the title work the
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  Speaker 3: way it's supposed to be, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, it certainly it comes together and brings
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  Speaker 4: it together. And I say, and there is a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things to write about in the crazy world that
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  Speaker 4: we live in these days. It's certainly gives for any
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  Speaker 4: lyricist or writers such as myself.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of lots of material out there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you try drive.
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  Speaker 4: Your best stuff from you know, at the hard times.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's funny. We never student to really like
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  Speaker 4: to write about when we're happy.
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  Speaker 1: To you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I think Sack and you know Sack is the singer. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: he's doing ninety nine percent.
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  Speaker 2: Of the lyrics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it's he can write about things,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in whatever mood he is seeing, he can
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  Speaker 3: write about the stuff that's needed here, you know, always
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  Speaker 3: like you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, I don't. I don't think that the mood is
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  Speaker 2: like a problem. You know. It's like it's not, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I got to get into the mood now.
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  Speaker 1: Feel pain.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's usually the post thing. It's like, after you've
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  Speaker 4: been through the tame, you can reflect back and it's
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot easier to draw from the Yeah. So
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  Speaker 4: so he felt it less frustrating than obviously being Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's been like a different process, and I liked
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  Speaker 3: it very much.
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  Speaker 2: I think the other guys like it to. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it's like I get a song idea on
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  Speaker 3: a sound file or or several sound files in my
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  Speaker 3: computer my system, I hit play and I listen.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, it's like I have a coffee. The
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  Speaker 2: clock is not the studio clock.
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  Speaker 4: Is not like.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can I can eat dinner first, Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: eat dinner, okay, and I go down and I listen
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  Speaker 3: to it again.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I try something that was crap. It sounds
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  Speaker 2: really crap.
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  Speaker 3: I sleep on it and the next day like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: let's give it another go, and okay, now I got something.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, I can really melt things first,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then make something that's really good for me, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and deliver it back, you know, to to to the
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  Speaker 3: other guys and that that that way you're working suits
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  Speaker 3: me very well.
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  Speaker 1: So how does that come about?
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  Speaker 4: So like yourself obviously you know the guitarist, You've got
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  Speaker 4: some riots that you put down and send across and
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  Speaker 4: then you know, how does the polish the end product,
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  Speaker 4: I guess come together your lyrics like that do his
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  Speaker 4: lyrics then? Or your drummer or how does it?
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, it's it's uh.
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  Speaker 2: Together.
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  Speaker 3: And that record all the guitars here and Sack recorded
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  Speaker 3: all his vocals at home, and we send it to
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  Speaker 3: your who is like he's mixing the album. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like and sometimes he sends a message back,
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  Speaker 3: you need to do this better. It's not good enough,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it's like it's like the sound is
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  Speaker 3: not good enough or it doesn't really you know, work
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  Speaker 3: and the technically, Yeah, so maybe you have to redo
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  Speaker 3: it and send it to him again. And it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: thumbs up, it's good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Now I can work with it. And he puts all
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  Speaker 2: the ship together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and and and mix it, and the final
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  Speaker 3: product is coming from him.
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  Speaker 2: He's yeah, he did a really good job on his album. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, nice, nice.
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  Speaker 4: So do you find that that's that whole process as
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  Speaker 4: well as much better than bouncing up one another like
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  Speaker 4: in real time, putting it down and then getting us
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  Speaker 4: tracked together and then sending that off to you you.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember it so long ago, you know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Was gonna say, like in nineteen years like, did you
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  Speaker 4: like not run out of material to play?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's, it's it's nineteen years ago.
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  Speaker 3: It was from time to time very fun to do
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  Speaker 3: it back in that way, you know, being the same
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  Speaker 3: same room as the other guys, of course, But this
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  Speaker 3: is how it works now, you know, because we are
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  Speaker 3: on different way. We get together to rehearse maybe once
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  Speaker 3: or twice a year.
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  Speaker 1: You asked, these veterans, aren't you It's.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, we have to rehearse a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more now because we have a whole album to rehearse.
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  Speaker 3: It's not only one song and then another song like
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  Speaker 3: three years later the third song, you know, So we
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  Speaker 3: really have to meet.
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  Speaker 2: Up a little bit more now to rehearse the whole summer.
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  Speaker 3: We play the festivals, you know, and we get to
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  Speaker 3: get it into the blood. Yeah, and sometimes we sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's like say we play the gig in September and
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  Speaker 3: all winter goes, and then it's like April on May
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  Speaker 3: and then we we meet up without rehearsing, go directly
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  Speaker 3: on stage and it works.
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  Speaker 2: Why should we rehearse, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Stage?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's good, that's that's nice. That's refreshing to hear.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have been doing it, as you say, for
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  Speaker 4: such a long time. Has it's been any changes in
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  Speaker 4: the lineup from the band or is it's pretty much
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  Speaker 4: say the same.
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  Speaker 3: Not since two thousand, two thousand six seven something.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Then have we changed the drummer a couple of times,
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  Speaker 3: just like spinal tap, did you know? Yeah, but the
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  Speaker 3: guitar player he e quit in two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 3: and then we drummers and then from two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: seven till now.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same same, same bunch.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, nice, excellent.
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  Speaker 4: And so you've got plans to do some motoring with
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  Speaker 4: your new album that you've got coming up coming down under.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I wish we could we could go to Australia
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  Speaker 3: and play, you know, I really wish to, but it's economical,
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  Speaker 3: it's an economical question, you know. But what we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do this summer is like play like eight or
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  Speaker 3: nine festivals all over Europe, and then we have a
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  Speaker 3: club tour in the fall, going to I think eight
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  Speaker 3: countries in central Europe in a bus three weeks, like
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  Speaker 3: we did back in two thousand and eight something the
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  Speaker 3: last time we did it. So it's gonna be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to do this again, you know, a club tour, a
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  Speaker 3: proper club tour.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome. And so when was the last time you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been to Australia. You have got to get
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  Speaker 1: out of here down on the yep.
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  Speaker 3: I've never been to Australia. We never played Australia and
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  Speaker 3: I personally never been to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to go there. For me, it's like
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  Speaker 2: so exotic, you know, I would love.
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  Speaker 3: To be there.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. It's it's I'm like, it's not really exhorted,
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  Speaker 1: but it is. It is there. We are very lucky
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I know that that's definitely going to be
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  Speaker 4: on your before we all die for the Bugget list
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  Speaker 4: is Yeah, the ideas go for sure that that's that
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  Speaker 4: would be a really great way to promote your album.
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  Speaker 1: I think just saying if.
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  Speaker 3: Things are happening for us and we get a good offer,
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  Speaker 3: we will, yeah, consider going there. And I'm sure that
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  Speaker 3: everybody thinks it's.
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  Speaker 2: Really fun and exotics to go to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: It's all we think about. Now you might get some
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  Speaker 1: office so that would be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope for that. You know, I can see the
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  Speaker 2: tour in Europe is selling very good.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we have to move some of the venues
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  Speaker 3: up a little bit bigger, you know, to bigger size,
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  Speaker 3: and one is.
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  Speaker 2: Sold out and you know, so it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: Really seems like things are happening for us here in Europe, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I really hope maybe that will happen. That was
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  Speaker 3: you know, some kind of way spread out to the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world too.
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  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I'm sure that absolutely will, especially if
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  Speaker 4: you've got some die hard fans and you got some
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  Speaker 4: new nineteen years I have been waiting for it. So
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  Speaker 4: it's probably my very very smart marketing tactic as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like, just make them wait for that
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  Speaker 4: long that when we do put something out, they're just
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  Speaker 4: going to be all over it just because out of
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  Speaker 4: curiosity if nothing else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you might be right about that. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 2: because it's we have had all i.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, the thirty three years we've been like if you know,
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  Speaker 3: releasing albums.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: People from the whole planet, you know, that is commenting
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  Speaker 3: and sending us messages.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like we have people who are connected all
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  Speaker 3: over the planet, but it's like our main market is
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  Speaker 3: in Europe and and but it's.
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  Speaker 1: A good thing about your stats. You can see where
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  Speaker 1: where you're today.
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  Speaker 2: You can do that. You can see the stats so
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  Speaker 2: much easier. You know, you could go to spotyby and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like everything, don't you how all they are where they're from?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like a great Yeah, it's very old and I can
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  Speaker 4: see how people get focuses on that it's not the
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  Speaker 4: wrong right thing to focus on your putting your stuff
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  Speaker 4: out there, but yeah, it isn't interesting. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Well,
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much for coming to having chat with
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  Speaker 4: us tonight and
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me