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Open The Floodgates With BRANN DAILOR From MASTODON · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bron from the band Mastodon and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: coming over there for some Good Things festival and I'm
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  Speaker 1: very excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for my thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks brother.
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  Speaker 4: So Mastadon will be in Australia as soon as part
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  Speaker 4: of Good Things Festival, which kicks off in Melbourne on
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  Speaker 4: December sixth, go through Sydney and Brisbane over consecutive days.
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  Speaker 2: Like's not that far yet.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you're get sort of person you're packed and ready
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  Speaker 4: to go in or do you leave things to the
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  Speaker 4: last minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a I'm a mourning of type of guy.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'll get I'll get it together probably the night
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  Speaker 1: before I've I can't. I can't count and tell you
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  Speaker 1: how many times I've packed and gone and gone away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty I know exactly what to do. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: very very light packer. I try to bring next to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: especially if I'm only gonna be gone for like a
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  Speaker 1: week or something. Man, you'd be you'd be uh, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be surprised at what I end up bringing.
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  Speaker 3: It's like bare bones, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: As a band bro like you, you're looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: playing festival shows is what you do is your own
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  Speaker 4: headline shows.
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  Speaker 2: Well they must be different, different base.
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  Speaker 1: They're different, you know. I just you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: happy to be there, man. I'm excited to get up
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  Speaker 1: on stage and playing from front of anybody. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if there's five people there, I don't care care
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  Speaker 1: if there's ten thousand people there. I give the same
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  Speaker 1: exact show every time. But I mean, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to say that if it's some crazy you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: opening Fire, Iron Maiden or something. You know, There's been
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  Speaker 1: there's been moments in my life, you know, like like
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  Speaker 1: big Show is where I'm very very excited to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know. But but I really like just I
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  Speaker 3: like playing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like being at festivals. Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if I'm playing during the day, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's a night. I just I you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pinch me moments in my life, of
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  Speaker 1: of I can't believe that I get to do this
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  Speaker 1: for a living. You know, I'm gonna try to ride
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  Speaker 1: it out, but you know, it's just very I'm very fortunate,
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  Speaker 1: super lucky dude to be able to do this for
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  Speaker 1: a living and so any opportunity I get to get
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  Speaker 1: up there with my sticks and sing my heart out
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  Speaker 1: for some people, I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it now.
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  Speaker 4: Good Things also features bands like Hey, Kerry King, The Cats,
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  Speaker 4: Lot Anthem, I'm forty one, ball at Bams L seven
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  Speaker 4: three to eleven, and more. Mate, But is there anyone
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  Speaker 4: on the lone up that you guys haven't played with before?
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  Speaker 2: Like it you would have played it pretty much my face,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've played with violent felms before. I
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  Speaker 1: think that that I think that that's a new one.
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  Speaker 1: But it's possible that we've with them, like on a
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  Speaker 1: random festival somewhere in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes those lineups are you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, there's eight stages and you can't keep track of
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  Speaker 1: But I think I would have remembered that.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm pretty excited about playing with violent fems.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's not familiar with mess It on Brylight
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  Speaker 4: run us through a typical livestyle, like what can people
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  Speaker 4: expect from you?
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  Speaker 2: Good Things?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's we're kind of like it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of the Metallica school of playing a live show.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like a bunch of dudes that are
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  Speaker 1: in jeans and t shirts and roll up there and
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  Speaker 1: kind of do our our talking on the field, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. We uh just get down to
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  Speaker 1: business and we play the hell out of our instruments
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of sweat and there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of blood maybe, but uh, that's kind of our deal.
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  Speaker 3: You know. We we got we have songs, and so
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  Speaker 3: we play. We play the songs.
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  Speaker 1: It's high energy and so I play all the notes,
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  Speaker 1: I play all my drums and uh, you know, usually
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  Speaker 1: there's a pretty decent sized pit going. But then there's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes where we ask the audience to do a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of math homework.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's a nice it's a nice balance.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 4: You also recently released the single Floods of trit And
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  Speaker 4: with the Lamb of God Made.
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  Speaker 2: So how's the only reception been for that song?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it seems good to me.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, haven't been able to get out there
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  Speaker 1: and play the song live or anything in front of people,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know, like it was.
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  Speaker 3: People seem to be digging it. People seem to be
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  Speaker 3: liking it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a heavy, it's a heavy song, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think fans of both bands were pleasantly
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  Speaker 1: surprised when we just sort of dropped it out of
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  Speaker 1: nowhere on.
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  Speaker 3: Them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think it's always cool and when when,
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  Speaker 1: especially a band like us and a band like Lamba
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  Speaker 1: God get together. We've been friends for long, longer than
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  Speaker 1: both bands have been really around, you know, since they
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  Speaker 1: were Burning the Priest and I met Randy and those
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  Speaker 1: guys in ninety eight or so.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just a cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: It just fun to collaborate with your friends, and just
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I like doing stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do more stuff like that. I think
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  Speaker 1: I want to jam with as many different people as possible,
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  Speaker 1: release songs with our friends, and I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be cool.
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  Speaker 2: How does something like that work?
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  Speaker 4: But like in the creating process, like both riot songs
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  Speaker 4: that you want and then you blend them together, or
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  Speaker 4: do you have certain parts that you write?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, how does it work well?
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  Speaker 5: For this?
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  Speaker 1: For this particular song, Basically Bill and I had come
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  Speaker 1: up with a song, you know, musically.
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  Speaker 3: And just basically asked.
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  Speaker 1: Randy to come in and do and write lyrics and
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  Speaker 1: do some vocals alongside Troy, and then we asked Mark
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  Speaker 1: if he would get with Brent and do a dual
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  Speaker 1: like solo thing on it. So that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: it went for this one in particular. But it can
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  Speaker 1: go any kind of way, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: If if there was if it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more like pre plan that we're going to go in
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  Speaker 1: the studio and write a song together, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: could be like, okay, you bring you bring a couple
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  Speaker 1: of parts, and I'll bring a couple of parts, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you know, there's all different ways that
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  Speaker 1: could go.
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  Speaker 3: But that's how this particular thing ended up going.
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  Speaker 4: And the Pressure release says that it marks the first
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  Speaker 4: step in the most recent chap dollars right in the
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  Speaker 4: next chap tofore I stood on, mate, say what do
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  Speaker 4: I mean by that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I guess it's like the first
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  Speaker 1: new music from masted On since Huston Grimm. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say that it means that, you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the next step. Uh, you know, I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 1: that the song is indicative of the new material, but
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that any single song would ever be
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  Speaker 1: indicative of the overall sound of anything that we were
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  Speaker 1: going to come out with, because I've think that and
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  Speaker 1: sort of pride ourselves on offering, especially when we're putting
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  Speaker 1: out a full album that it's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: variety to it. So I wouldn't say, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a puzzle. I look at an album like a puzzle.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You got to every there has to be balanced there,
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  Speaker 1: and everything sort of fix fits together and tells one
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  Speaker 1: long story, but it doesn't necessarily all sound the same,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 4: So does that mean that he's actually underway writing the
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  Speaker 4: next album or is that just is that something for
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  Speaker 4: the future.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, No, we've been Yeah, we've been writing for We
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  Speaker 1: were writing before the the uh the Leviathan tour here
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  Speaker 1: in the States in Canada, and uh it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just now digging back in because we've sort of
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  Speaker 1: just got home from that tour we got we were
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  Speaker 1: gone for two months and then we had like a
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  Speaker 1: month and a half long of like weekend warrior stuff
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  Speaker 1: where we were going out and doing festivals on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: and so you can't really split your mind in two there,
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  Speaker 1: and like say, okay, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: work on new material.
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  Speaker 3: Then we're going to drill the set. Then we're going
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  Speaker 3: to get on.
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  Speaker 1: A flight and go play this festival and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back on It just doesn't work like that, So
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  Speaker 1: we are going to we're digging back in. Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: think on Monday is when we really start fine tuning
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  Speaker 1: some of the material that we had before.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Well, just say, like the thing with festivals is
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  Speaker 4: like people go along with that and they don't know
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  Speaker 4: every band on the lineup. So say someone's come along
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  Speaker 4: to good things that they don't know too much about Macedon,
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  Speaker 4: Like what three songs would you tell them to listen
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  Speaker 4: to you?
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  Speaker 2: So they got a bit of a picture of what
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  Speaker 2: do expect.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, I would say I would listen to Blood
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  Speaker 1: and Thunder, the Last Baron and Mother Puncher, Right all right.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Well, before we let you go, we started a
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  Speaker 4: new segment where before I chat to you, I go
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  Speaker 4: through your media and check pick out a couple of
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  Speaker 4: photos you just sort of explaining what's going on there.
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  Speaker 4: So the first one I found was this one, like,
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  Speaker 4: what's the guy with that head?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember what was happening there?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that was on tour with Primus. Probably
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  Speaker 1: I'll take what's that night in it.
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  Speaker 3: So it was yep, that was on.
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  Speaker 1: Tour with Primus in twenty eighteen, and somebody brought ahead
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  Speaker 1: with long hair and they were using it the head
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  Speaker 1: bang instead of themselves headbanging, so I guess maybe who knows,
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  Speaker 1: like the person might have had vertigo, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to make it look like they weren't having a
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  Speaker 1: good time, so they figured I might as well. I
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  Speaker 1: should probably bring a you know, ahead of a mannequin
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  Speaker 1: or something that has long hair so they don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm not into it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fair assumption.
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  Speaker 4: And I found this one too of Troy. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: how often does he get down and do push ups
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  Speaker 4: before he's playing.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's part of the Metal Allegiance thing
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  Speaker 1: that he does from time to time. And I've done
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  Speaker 1: it before as well, which is pretty fun gig with
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  Speaker 1: those guys. But the problem is that he just comes
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  Speaker 1: out and sings and he doesn't play the bass, so
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know what he's like.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: His hands, or he doesn't know what to do with himself.
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  Speaker 1: Really well he's not singing, so he might as well
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  Speaker 1: just do some push ups and try to get in shape.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Very good matter right, Well, thanks very much for your time, Brad.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a pleasure speaking with you. Mastered On will
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  Speaker 4: be in Australia as part of Good Things is December.
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  Speaker 4: Tickets are at least eighty percent sold in every city,
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  Speaker 4: so get a lot at your tickets to get along
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  Speaker 4: soon or you'll probably miss out.
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  Speaker 6: Wash colloks on fire to.
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  Speaker 7: Can wash all white water.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, house flutie folk time to d order it a
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  Speaker 6: far soft light.
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  Speaker 7: fill your s collar.
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  Speaker 6: Not gonna stop your wow tide.
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  Speaker 7: So I'll here just sun.
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  Speaker 6: Shot burner, short time away, walking house, be a.
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  Speaker 7: Last stop a nice nice until out just serious to
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  Speaker 7: I came out sick thirty times so.
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  Speaker 6: Swater dogs areta sy.
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  Speaker 7: War I tried.
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  Speaker 6: By I saw boy I swiss
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