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Filling The Void With ANDY LAPLEGUA From COMBICHRIST · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Well, I am Andy from comby Christ and we are
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  Speaker 1: coming to Australia again again. Uh and it's been too
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  Speaker 1: long and I am.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's just been too long man. I'm really looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it. So where are you? Where are you
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  Speaker 2: in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I am in Brisbane mate, So that's going to be
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  Speaker 3: You're starting in Brisbane on the Age, So I reckon,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be front and center, hoping you don't call.
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  Speaker 1: Yeh, I'll be in early. I'm actually going into Brisbane earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of friends in Brisbane and uh,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to come in and actually spend my
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  Speaker 1: birthday in Brisbane and then so yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be there for a little bit. Yeah, I'm I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just saying it. I'm really excited to come back. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be good to for for so many reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the shows, and I'm looking forward to playing
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  Speaker 1: again and.
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  Speaker 2: Meeting new and old friends. You know.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So de sign income Bechrist to return to
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  Speaker 3: Astry to put it down under again tour in September
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  Speaker 3: for three show's starting in Brizzy.
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  Speaker 4: On the Ite, then you get Sydney and finished in.
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  Speaker 3: Melbourne the twenties, so it's not far away, right, Like,
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  Speaker 3: I know, you do a lot of travel and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of touring, but you get excited about it tour
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  Speaker 3: four weeks after or do you sort of waite until
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  Speaker 3: it catch really close?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I don't pack until the day I leave.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you like me.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I as soon as I start packing,
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  Speaker 1: That's that's when my travel starts mentally, so but I
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  Speaker 1: always I.
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  Speaker 2: Always stay I stay so busy.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like one of those things like when you
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  Speaker 1: do certain things that you don't do all something like
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  Speaker 1: I of course I still love touring Europe. I still
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  Speaker 1: love touring in the US. I still love touring everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But there is those places where you do every now
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  Speaker 1: and again, not so often because we do play Europe
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  Speaker 1: every year, we do play you know, the US every year.
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  Speaker 1: We used to play even Russia, like every year, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's so easy. It's like obviously not in the more,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to be doing that for a while
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  Speaker 2: if ever. But I always love going back to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I love Japan, you know, in South America, Like there's
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  Speaker 1: places that we just don't go to very often.
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  Speaker 2: And when we do. Of course, it.
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  Speaker 1: Looks extra much forward to it, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a carrot a little bit, you know, the motivation.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, yeah, we got this coming up and
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be that's like the golden carrot. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how long we'll travel? It is from here
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  Speaker 1: and I'm in Atlanta. I'm on the east coast, so
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  Speaker 1: I have to go to the west coast here first too,
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's a long it's a long travel for
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  Speaker 1: three shows, and but it's worth every minute to allow
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  Speaker 1: of trouble to come some Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome, Simon.
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  Speaker 3: It has been a couple of years since you're ready last.
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  Speaker 3: So what's changed with christ in that?
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  Speaker 2: A lot? I mean it's a lot and nothing. You know, there's.
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  Speaker 1: My my concept and my idea of why and how
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  Speaker 1: and everything is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's I I create, I create, you know. It's like
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  Speaker 1: this is my canvas. You know, I paint and I
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  Speaker 1: do my thing, and I don't really care what's cool
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  Speaker 1: or not. I'm just going to do my thing regardless.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's so that hasn't changed my mindset. It's
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  Speaker 2: the same. I still just kind of do do do
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I hate to repeat myself as most of
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  Speaker 2: the thing. And uh, but so with that said, like
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  Speaker 2: it should be something new all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that being something new all the time is
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  Speaker 1: maybe what's the same.
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  Speaker 4: Very ambiguous but exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: So see in that way, it's it's it's I'm still
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  Speaker 2: this is something.
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  Speaker 1: But we have I have, I have a new band members,
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  Speaker 1: I have my drummer recently, like we went his own
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  Speaker 1: way for focusing on his family because he just he
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  Speaker 1: is becoming a dad now in in August, so it
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  Speaker 1: would have been a really bad time for him to
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  Speaker 1: go to Australia like right after himself.
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  Speaker 2: Depending yeah, I guess that depends.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so I I really I support like we
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  Speaker 1: support him, all of us support him and crew, and
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  Speaker 1: I always have to emphasize that our crew is always
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  Speaker 1: just as important as the band.
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  Speaker 2: You know. So for crewrent band, we are a family.
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  Speaker 1: Will support him for going his own way taking care
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  Speaker 1: of his family, and I respect that a lot. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that your personal life should always come before
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  Speaker 1: being in.
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  Speaker 2: My band, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I've always tried to make it just so so
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  Speaker 1: it's people feel welcome and so it's a part of
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  Speaker 1: their life.
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  Speaker 2: It's a part of being a part of this family.
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  Speaker 1: But and uh so I got a new drummer for
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  Speaker 1: for the I don't have a new drummer yet, but
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  Speaker 1: I have a new drummer.
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  Speaker 2: For the Australian shows. Australian drummer is amazing and his
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  Speaker 2: name is Todd Hanson and he's just.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, So Tod's playing for us. So it's I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited. Uh I know it's a bit of a hero,
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  Speaker 1: uh among you guys too, So it's I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: to play with him. And I have a new guitarist,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Amy, which is probably one of the best guitarists
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  Speaker 1: that I've ever that I ever heard playing period. And
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  Speaker 1: I met him through Eddie from Suicide Salnce like there
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  Speaker 1: were roommates at some point and Eddie was out hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with me at the show and Jamie was there
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  Speaker 1: and that's how we met. And his amazing guitarist. It's
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  Speaker 1: his first time in Australia as well, so so.
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  Speaker 2: It's I'm really excited for him.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Elliott, who is my keyboarder and
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  Speaker 1: my bass player. He's he's not he's not new in
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  Speaker 1: the band at all.
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  Speaker 2: Is actually one of the people has been with me
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  Speaker 2: the longest.
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  Speaker 1: But he was used to be crew, but because he
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  Speaker 1: kind of fucked himself, he did too good of a
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  Speaker 1: job as a cruise he stayed stayed as crew for
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  Speaker 1: the longest time.
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  Speaker 2: But he's also it just happens to be an absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing musician and performer, and so he's in this was
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  Speaker 1: like during COVID, I think where we decided where it's
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  Speaker 1: I got to have him.
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  Speaker 2: As a full time member of the Man as well.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we were freshly packed with a new new lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Eric thirteen is still with me. It was with me
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  Speaker 1: the last time I was in Australia too. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be playing a lot of old material.
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  Speaker 2: And mix it in with some new stuff. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We've still got even one more song coming out and
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  Speaker 1: end of August that we've got to be performing as well.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and it's really excited. I'm really excited man.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, tell you what do you think of Toddy's
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  Speaker 3: hair out without the dreadlocks. He looks like a completely
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  Speaker 3: different man on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen so many videos of him play and it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like two different.
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  Speaker 2: Completely different people, but thirty years younger. Yeah, it's but
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  Speaker 2: it's come in. I'm in an amazing drummer, right, and a.
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  Speaker 3: Really nice guy to go with it, Like normally don't
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  Speaker 3: get it for two together, but he's actually gone both.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, trust me, I know all about it.
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  Speaker 1: I've dealt with enough musician see in my life as well, so.
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  Speaker 3: It's not always to get both letter in drama and
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  Speaker 3: you go to drama. Well, so speaking of your live shows, man,
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  Speaker 3: like you guys have got a reputation for your bulls
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  Speaker 3: hair and live show. So for the benefit of anybody
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  Speaker 3: might not have seen compy trives before running through a
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  Speaker 3: typical live show and what you expect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to describe from the inside, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's so easier when somebody else describe it, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: But if I should describe it, it is it's the
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  Speaker 1: place where where every like where everything becomes one. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, so with the crowd and with the sound
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  Speaker 1: and with the light and everything, it's like we just
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  Speaker 1: become one.
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  Speaker 2: It's like and unless you've seen us play. You can't.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard to even imagine.
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  Speaker 1: But I I it's it's not stage anymore. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: not a musical stage anymore. It's kind of like you
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  Speaker 1: become a part of like happening in one way because
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  Speaker 1: I just emerged myself so much into the the music,
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  Speaker 1: and you give everything in the physical physical and mentally
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  Speaker 1: you give everything, but you receive everything from the audience
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  Speaker 1: for most parts too.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's where we become one, you know, like.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's kind of the closest experience I get
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  Speaker 1: to spiritual, you know, it's you're not up there. I
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  Speaker 1: hate the feeling of being just me against them being
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  Speaker 1: like every now and then we will have a show
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  Speaker 1: where it's like maybe in a place we never played
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  Speaker 1: before or whatever, and most people are receptive, and then
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  Speaker 1: you maybe you have like if it's an East European
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  Speaker 1: country and you've never been to the city and there's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's thirty people. It's the alternative music there
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  Speaker 1: and they're out and it's kind of standing in the
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  Speaker 1: watching and that doesn't mean that it can't be a
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  Speaker 1: great show. Don't don't don't get me wrong. But if
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  Speaker 1: if you don't feel the connection, you feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of we're just these people on this platform
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  Speaker 1: like performing in like what.
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  Speaker 2: Are we doing here? What are we really doing?
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  Speaker 1: Like there's I am I never understood musicians, so just
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  Speaker 1: like they're performing for an audience, like my our show
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  Speaker 1: is it's obviously performing with the audience. It's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a if you if you're constantly like just like being
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  Speaker 1: like us against them, then there's there's no point being there.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: And you released to your song called Desolation not too
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  Speaker 3: long ago, tore Bro, Like, is that a standalone single
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  Speaker 3: or is it part of the next album cycle?
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  Speaker 1: It is, It's very much a part of the new
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  Speaker 1: album cycle. I am pretty deep into the album already.
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  Speaker 2: Working on it right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be out until June May or
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  Speaker 1: June next year, but we will have a few more
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  Speaker 1: singles coming out from that album over the next few
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  Speaker 1: months and until the album comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Really and it's a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is it's like it's it's I know, it's like now
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking against what I'm doing, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like trying to follow technology and how things are being
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  Speaker 1: done because I just like to write music and perform
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  Speaker 1: and the release is it's like that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: why you have a record label.
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  Speaker 2: They deal with and releases and how to do and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like, yeah, we want
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  Speaker 1: half the album out of singles before we do the
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  Speaker 1: whole album. And the I'm like, so you want, you know,
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  Speaker 1: six seven singles before you even get to the to
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  Speaker 1: the album, which is I guess it's kind of cool
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  Speaker 1: for the for the audience, but I'm used to do
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  Speaker 1: like throw out.
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  Speaker 2: One one single and like two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Before the album, you know, just but but that's how
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  Speaker 1: how everything's being done right now.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I guess that's what we're doing too.
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  Speaker 1: And but it also gives you the time to like
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  Speaker 1: to really focus on one song at a time as well,
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  Speaker 1: and like instead of just the album as a whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: Like so few people are really sitting down and listening
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  Speaker 1: to just an album from A to B.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. People make their.
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  Speaker 1: Own playlist or they listen to just playlists or whatever
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  Speaker 1: through Spotify or Apple or whatever they go to.
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  Speaker 2: And so I.
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  Speaker 1: Understand it, but I also like the physical version of
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  Speaker 1: an album, you know, the vinyl and reading.
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  Speaker 4: The fold around like.
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  Speaker 2: It that's it. Yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 1: We did cassettes of the last album, of the previous album.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We came with a little pen little pencil and
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  Speaker 2: only people. Only people who used to have cassettes. The
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  Speaker 2: understand under that, sitting there with it, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Just pulling tape out and straightening it out and putting
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  Speaker 1: it back in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, tape literally taping.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and no, so's it's a physical releases is still
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  Speaker 1: very important to me too, but it's yeah. But so
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what we're looking at us. So I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: much all the way in on a new album, and
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  Speaker 1: Desolation is just the first step of it. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm tapping into a lot of nostalgia, Like I would
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  Speaker 1: like to say, on this album, I definitely I feel
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  Speaker 1: like for the first time, I'm actually actually being inspired
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  Speaker 1: by myself for once. It went with So the biggest
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  Speaker 1: inspiration for this album is really looking back at what
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  Speaker 1: I've done before and taking taking a look and.
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  Speaker 2: Musically music of.
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  Speaker 1: Course, but you yeah, I don't want to ever recreate
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  Speaker 1: or trying to recreate something I've done before, for example,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not going to go back and try to
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  Speaker 1: make a sound sound like sound like shut Up and
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  Speaker 1: Swallow or Blue Trail or anything like that, because they
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  Speaker 1: were done. They had this own time that has his
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  Speaker 1: own on time and history, and it has its own
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  Speaker 1: sound because it was a certain time.
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  Speaker 2: It has certain I had certain equipment.
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  Speaker 1: I have certain ideas of how I wanted to do things,
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  Speaker 1: and priorities in how I presuitably, you know, listen to
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  Speaker 1: music as well.
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  Speaker 2: So things are different.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm definitely taking kind of taking a kind of
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into my own musical history. But that also
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just goes back to fully electronic things. That also
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  Speaker 1: goes back to my punk and hardcore days and stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So when you say that you look back into your
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  Speaker 3: history lot, do you do? You do you sit down
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  Speaker 3: and listen to your old albums to sort of get
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  Speaker 3: back in there. You try and more put yourself in
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  Speaker 3: a mind space back then, what's what's your process?
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy, I don't really listen.
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  Speaker 1: To a whole lot of music that is anywhere close
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  Speaker 1: to what I'm doing. And it's I guess that started
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  Speaker 1: at some point deliberately, So I wouldn't subconsciously like you know,
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  Speaker 1: like like there's I feel like that when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to music, there's really nothing. There's well, there's there, there's
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  Speaker 1: original music, but there's nothing truly original. In one way,
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's been put together in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: You're basically mixing elements that has been done before and
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  Speaker 1: you're creating something new.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a collage of an old painting
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  Speaker 2: to go to put it this way, you know.
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  Speaker 1: That's that I feel That's how it is with music period,
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  Speaker 1: with everyone. But I try not to listen to too
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  Speaker 1: much music that I would consider being in the same
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  Speaker 1: same direction as the of the music that I'm writing.
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  Speaker 1: I owned the time area when I'm actually writing music,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be listening to I'm listening to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff like you know, Massive Attack, and listen to
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  Speaker 1: like just music that is way different, even in country
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  Speaker 1: music whatever whatever it takes, that is different.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course I listened to everything when I'm
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  Speaker 1: on tour and when we were doing like when it
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  Speaker 1: were just being social, being around people everything, But I
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  Speaker 1: never really sit down and listen to something specific to
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  Speaker 1: be inspired by.
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  Speaker 2: However, we did.
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  Speaker 1: We just did a couple of years we did some
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  Speaker 1: old school shows. Where we did was just fully electronic shows.
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  Speaker 1: We'd just only all the old material and it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just so much fun. We had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fun doing it, and the crowd loved it. We loved it,
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  Speaker 2: And that is kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of where I dipped my nostalgia into because I was like, man, as,
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  Speaker 1: I really liked doing this.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Where I got that, you know, inspiration from for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the new stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, cooky, all right, men, Right before I let
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  Speaker 3: you go, I've got a new segment I've started called
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  Speaker 3: photo Bomb, which is where I was telling you about
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  Speaker 3: the back screen before. So basically, I've troll through social
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: media before we've got a chat. I've come up with
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  Speaker 3: a few photos that I want to know a bit
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  Speaker 3: more about. So the first of them is I want
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  Speaker 3: to know who or what is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is that is my lovely brother Joe. Let's
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  Speaker 2: my old drummer.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say brother, it's like we're we're I
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  Speaker 1: look at him as my sibling. We might not always
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  Speaker 1: get along, but his his like blood to me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, that is that is Joe.
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  Speaker 3: What's he what's he He looks fantastic, but what's Is
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  Speaker 3: it a dress up party or is that just his
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  Speaker 3: normal proba?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: That is just it's just what he looks likes on stage. Man,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: That's just that's just what he looks like on stage.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Now what do you love him?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: But it's it's it takes a special person to be
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: comfortable doing that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Well, he's definitely a special person.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: The other fight I want to come up with is
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: it's wanted a bit more people laid back. But that day, man,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that looks like a terrible way to travel.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: You know what The funny thing about that that that
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: specific bus and I only remember it because it's, uh,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: that's the bus from last year, and.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: That specific bus is actually the best buss I've ever had.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Uh It's it's so comfortable. It's so amazing and comfortable.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Like, but it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Takes you know, I have been I started I'm revealing
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: how old I am and how long I've been doing this,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: But you know.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I've been touring.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I've been touring since like ninety four, ninety three, ninety four,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and my first nightline in tour was end of ninety four,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Beginning in ninety five and it was the most horrible
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: tour bus you can imagine, going through Germany in the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: middle of the winter and it was just leaking in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and things were freezing. Like I had I had to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: have a sleeping bag inside of my bunk with my
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: blanket because everything just got wet and it froze at
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: night and you walk up and your blanket was just
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: like icy and it was horrible.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Man. So going from that to that, I mean, it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: been the thirty year to the upgrade, a thirty.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Year upgrade, and we just slowly just got more and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: more comfortable every time, and you get used to it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: You know, you're your bunk is basically a coffin with
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a little curtain. But I can't imagine anywhere where as.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Sleep better, don't sleep. That's that's. I close that curtain,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I turn.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Off the light, and I'm out until that bus stops.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's it's a happy place. It's it's
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: not a bad place to be at all.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: It looks like there's room for casino, even on that
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: wad in a swimming pool.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Right. Yes, there's a double it's a double decker. It's
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: actually a big lounge and kitchen upstairs.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're bringing that to a strike with I'm gonna
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: jump on and come, come for a trip.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna way.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I was a little nervous for what picture would come next,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: so I'm fine.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Because we usually had a time. Now I know that
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you're nervous about one. For the next one, I'm going
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: to dig deeper