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Michelle Kath: The Terry Kath Mystery That Still Hasn't Been Solved (2014) · Classic Metal Show

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SPEAKER_03: Hi, I'm Roger Farquhar and you're watching CMS TV.
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It is your Classic Metal Show right here on
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theclassicmetalshow.com from Chicago 11
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that is called Taking It On Uptown featuring the guitar work
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and vocals of Terry
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SPEAKER_01: Kath,
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SPEAKER_01: Chris.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And on the phone with us,
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SPEAKER_01: I'd never spoken with her before and I was glad to have her on the show,
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SPEAKER_01: but this is the daughter of Terry Kath,
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SPEAKER_01: Michelle Kath.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Classic Metal Show.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me.
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SPEAKER_01: Well,
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SPEAKER_01: Chris,
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SPEAKER_01: she was just like,
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SPEAKER_01: I told her,
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SPEAKER_01: I said,
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SPEAKER_01: man,
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SPEAKER_01: I thought I scared you off because of your brutality,
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SPEAKER_01: Chris.
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SPEAKER_01: You and your potty mouth.
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SPEAKER_03: Takes a lot more than a potty mouth to scare me.
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SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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SPEAKER_01: Well,
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SPEAKER_01: Michelle,
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I reached out to you about a week ago because I went to see the
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band Chicago in its
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SPEAKER_01: current form,
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and it kind of reminded me of the interview that Chris and I
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did with Robert Lamb
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SPEAKER_01: about five years ago.
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I sent you the clip where he mentioned your documentary that
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you're working on.
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and and I thought to myself I wonder whatever became of that
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and I looked it up and
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I saw that you had a Kickstarter program out there where you're
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you know raising
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the money for the final production of this documentary video is
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that correct yes
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well tell tell us a little bit about this documentary what when
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did you have the
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idea to do this and and when did it get started and and at what
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stage are you at
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SPEAKER_03: Well, the idea was lingering for many a year.
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SPEAKER_03: In fact,
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if you've ever heard anyone make a documentary and say it takes
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them forever,
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SPEAKER_00: well,
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SPEAKER_00: it's true.
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So it came about probably around the time my son was born,
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and he's nine now,
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the idea.
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and I was banging my head around trying to figure out how to do
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it because I think
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SPEAKER_03: the hardest part is always the funds.
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How do you make anything happen with no money in this kind of
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day and age?
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And I knew that I could do it and I really wanted to do it and
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tell the story about
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SPEAKER_03: my dad and kind of give him some more exposure as a musician.
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So Kickstarter is just such a great platform because you can
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get everyone involved
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SPEAKER_03: and you can kind of take control of something
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SPEAKER_03: and make it happen.
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SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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SPEAKER_02: It's exciting.
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SPEAKER_02: Definitely.
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SPEAKER_02: Now,
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SPEAKER_02: Michelle,
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SPEAKER_02: let me ask you,
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SPEAKER_02: with a project like this and certainly with Terry's history in the band,
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the first thought that an outsider looking in would have is
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that maybe the band or
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the members that were around back when Terry was in the band
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would be the first
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SPEAKER_02: approach that you would make to not only help
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SPEAKER_02: help raise some funds for it, but also to contribute to it.
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Have you spoken to the older members of Chicago,
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and what has their response been to this point?
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SPEAKER_03: Well, we've interviewed them already.
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SPEAKER_03: We've interviewed everybody that's currently in the band,
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SPEAKER_03: and they've been very helpful and supportive in the project.
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SPEAKER_03: But the reality is that
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the funding of a film I mean unless you know someone's really
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willing to just hand
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you over a big lump sum of money I did that just was never my
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approach my first
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approach would have never been to go to them and say hey I want
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to make this
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documentary and you guys are gonna be in it can you give me
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some money you know
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SPEAKER_00: what I mean I mean it's not their project it's not their venture
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it is very representative of the era of an era of one of the
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most iconic classic
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bands basically in history so on that level and I'm not saying
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you're wrong or
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right I'm just curious if they and it sounds like they have
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been very forthcoming
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SPEAKER_02: and willing to work with you oh yeah yeah and there it
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it's such a unique avenue because obviously they have so much
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love for my father so
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to come in as his daughter and kind of say I want to make this
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film about my dad
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help me they're just like of course we'll be there like when do
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you want us to meet
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SPEAKER_03: you and that was honestly really great because when you have the idea and
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SPEAKER_03: everyone's like well you're talking about
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something that has such a the brand itself is so huge and
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everything is so iconic
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about the logo and everything are you sure that you know that
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was the first
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question are you gonna be able to get these guys to do an
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interview because you
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don't have a film if you don't so the fact that I was able to
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sit down with them
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and have these conversations and kind of explore my dad's life
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through various
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SPEAKER_03: people's points of view has been amazing sure absolutely
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Well,
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Michelle,
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I want to take you back just a little bit,
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just for curiosity's sake here.
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SPEAKER_01: When your father passed away, I was 15 years old.
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SPEAKER_01: As a matter of fact, I have this whole folder as a kid.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact,
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I wrote a couple of reports in school on the band Chicago and
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wrote a piece about
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SPEAKER_01: the passing of your dad and
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SPEAKER_01: You were only two years old at that time
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Now,
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at what point did you start becoming aware of who you were or
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who your father was?
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SPEAKER_01: At what point did it start,
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SPEAKER_01: like,
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my dad was this guitarist in this band and when did you start
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realizing his legacy,
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SPEAKER_01: I guess I should ask?
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SPEAKER_00: I think that his legacy was always around.
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SPEAKER_03: Always.
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SPEAKER_03: I can't remember...
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SPEAKER_03: that it was ever hidden or anything you know my mom kept so much of their
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memorabilia I mean obviously everything in our house was theirs
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together the stuff
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that they had lived in their homes and not to mention all the
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gold records and all
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the awards I mean they were always around plus the family of
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the women and the
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SPEAKER_03: children was really prominent in my life and I spent most of my youth
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SPEAKER_03: still with the kids whose dads were in the band, the Chicago kids.
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SPEAKER_03: So it was always kind of around, and I always kind of knew who he was.
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SPEAKER_03: I can't remember ever anything being hidden or sheltered from me.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, that's not really what I meant.
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SPEAKER_01: When did you become self-aware that, hey, my dad was this guy?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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how about what age did you start discovering his his art or his
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music or while that
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was my dad but you know obviously a two-year-old I mean you
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don't realize it then
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but yeah but so at what age did you start like delving into you
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know his his art
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SPEAKER_00: well that definitely was more in my teenage years um
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obviously everyone's always kind of had a Chicago tune that
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they know from some
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point in their life but I think at some point in my teenage
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years I was like okay
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so what were his songs what were my dad's songs and then kind
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of more seeking them
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out and trying to find his stamp on things and hearing to hear
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his voice and see
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SPEAKER_03: well which ones did he write and yeah definitely in my teenage years
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SPEAKER_01: Now,
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SPEAKER_01: growing up,
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SPEAKER_01: you said you grew up with the children of the members of Chicago,
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SPEAKER_01: but I'm assuming you went to public school or yes,
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SPEAKER_01: no?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, we didn't all go to school together.
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SPEAKER_01: No, what I meant is that you...
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When I was that age,
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I actually went to Catholic school when I was a little girl.
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Sure,
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but did people know that,
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hey,
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did they know you as Terry Kath's daughter?
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SPEAKER_00: You know, I wasn't aware of that.
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SPEAKER_00: I think more maybe adults or parents did.
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But I mean,
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I don't think any of the kids really paid attention too much to
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that.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: though,
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SPEAKER_00: actually,
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SPEAKER_03: in my teenage years,
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when I was kind of hanging out with guys that were really into
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playing music,
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SPEAKER_03: you know,
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SPEAKER_03: as a lot of teenagers are,
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SPEAKER_03: they got it.
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SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, man, that's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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some of the guitar nerds in high school but yeah I don't think
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most of the kids
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Now the ones that did you know find out who you were was it
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like a curiosity to hey
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can I come to your house and look at his guitars or any of his
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equipment or you
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SPEAKER_02: know you know it was that
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part of the attractiveness to you not that you're not
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attractive but I'm saying
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that they would like befriend you in order to say hey man I got
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to see Terry Cass
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guitars or his amps or whatever it was there was a couple
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people that were like
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definitely so excited when they found out that we potentially
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had some stuff at our
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house when I was a kid or a teenager actually but not
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necessarily befriending them
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SPEAKER_03: you have to I mean
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Here's the overshadowing thing about that point in my life is
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that you have to
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SPEAKER_03: remember my mom married Kiefer Sutherland.
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SPEAKER_01: Right, I was going to get to that next.
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SPEAKER_03: So that was more the case.
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SPEAKER_00: People didn't know Terry Kath.
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SPEAKER_00: They weren't like, oh, but yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Right, wow
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well since you brought it up your mom was married to Kiefer for
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about three years
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and you have a half sister yeah and you know and I don't even
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want to get into how
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you know growing up was that a strange environment for you that
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your mother was
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married to a guy who was you know basically he was up and
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coming he was a very hot
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SPEAKER_01: property at that time
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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SPEAKER_03: I was kind of not really aware of it so much until,
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SPEAKER_03: I guess,
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SPEAKER_03: it's funny because,
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SPEAKER_03: yeah,
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SPEAKER_03: I mean,
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SPEAKER_03: when we moved in with him,
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SPEAKER_03: it was kind of like the start of his career.
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So it's kind of like I can base his career on where we were
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living and things like
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SPEAKER_03: that and then how it kind of progressed.
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But to me when we moved in with him I think the movie Lost Boys
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had just come out
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So all I cared about was meeting Corey Haim Because I think I
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had posters of him on
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SPEAKER_00: my wall Sure
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so I was kind of oblivious to the rest of it so there was no
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real star power to him
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in your eyes I'm not saying there wasn't star power to you he
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was just your stepdad
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and that's it and there was nothing else yeah is it and I'm
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going to jump around
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here a little bit but when your history and when your family
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history is basically
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SPEAKER_02: surrounded by celebrity does that kind of take
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celebrity you know I don't even know how to put this most
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people they meet somebody
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famous they're falling all over themselves looking for a pen to
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get an autograph
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you obviously grew up you know in a celebrity environment from
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literally from the
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time from the day you were born you know did that take all
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aspect of celebrity out
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of your life to where you are now to where you would not really
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get excited to meet
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know whoever whoever that's famous well kind of
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so I'm very aware of like people's space and being like oh I
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don't think I could go
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up and say hi just because that might be annoying but then
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there's certain people
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where I'm just like oh like I think one time I was around Steve
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Martin and I really
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really was just like I want to take a picture with Steve Martin
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so bad but I didn't
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go and ask him but yeah I think it just makes me more aware of
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their own personal
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SPEAKER_00: space and I don't want to be that person
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SPEAKER_02: Sure, sure, definitely.
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SPEAKER_02: Well,
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SPEAKER_02: let me ask you another question about your dad,
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SPEAKER_02: too,
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SPEAKER_02: and this is,
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SPEAKER_02: it's probably more about you than your dad,
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SPEAKER_02: but,
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SPEAKER_02: you know,
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SPEAKER_02: your father passed away when you were two,
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SPEAKER_02: and
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The only person I could think of that could probably sort of
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relate in a similar
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SPEAKER_02: way,
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SPEAKER_02: and I'm sure there's more,
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SPEAKER_02: but would be somebody like a Jason Bonham who,
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SPEAKER_02: you know,
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SPEAKER_02: kids of a celebrity musician whose legacy is bigger than
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in fact is probably all that the kids remember of of that
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person you know for you
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as the daughter of somebody that quite clearly you probably
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don't remember you know
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how do you how do you justify that in your own head you know
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like the love of a
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father and the the the emotion that you would have toward a
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father to go so far as
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SPEAKER_02: to literally be wanting to make a documentary about his life
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my answer was going to be make a documentary about them but it
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got you made it
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deeper I think yeah well I think for me it was just kind of you
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know it got to the
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point where I had my own children and then it was like oh where
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is this other
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person that's kind of missing from the equation for them as
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well but I was lucky
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SPEAKER_03: enough to have other father figures in my life but
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I think honestly the answer to that probably comes more in
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actually making the
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documentary and listening to everybody's story and then going
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into post-production
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and then listening to everyone's stories again then I'm like oh
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wow oh this is why
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I'm doing this now I get it he's this person he's that person
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or you know my mom
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SPEAKER_03: said this about him and
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and then I'm like oh okay now I get why I'm doing this because
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just the struggle to
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make a documentary can take over sometimes and lead you like it
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becomes a machine
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it becomes this great idea like oh let me get to know my dad
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let me like expose his
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legacy and then just the hurdles it takes to get the machine
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going to make it
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happen and now that I'm listening to the interviews again it's
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kind of like oh now
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SPEAKER_03: I feel like I kind of really have a piece of them
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which I will share with everyone at some point so you truly
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feel closer to you know
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like a closer bond to him now that you've that you've
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experienced so many people
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you know basically drawing the picture of his life for you yes
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yeah it's pretty
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SPEAKER_00: cool actually
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Well Michelle you know it's a tragic thing you know that that
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happened back then
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now being that Terry was such a integral part of the band
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Chicago did did the
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SPEAKER_01: Chicago organization take care of you and your mom?
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You know I think that that's a tough one it's it the politics
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of the industry is I
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SPEAKER_03: mean you've got to be tough to be in there
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SPEAKER_03: And I think that the smartest thing that my dad did,
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SPEAKER_03: which my mom to this day was just like,
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SPEAKER_03: it's crazy that he even set it up,
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SPEAKER_03: but he had set up very intricately wills and documents.
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And she was like,
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I learned so much about the fact that your dad did that.
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SPEAKER_00: He couldn't have known, but he just set everything up.
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SPEAKER_03: So,
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SPEAKER_03: I mean,
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SPEAKER_03: in the sense that to this day,
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SPEAKER_03: you know,
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I own his publishing and am in charge of that aspect of his
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music to make sure
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SPEAKER_03: that,
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SPEAKER_03: you know,
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SPEAKER_03: everything's okay and in the right place.
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SPEAKER_03: But I think that, you know, I mean, it's really complex.
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SPEAKER_03: I don't know if you've ever tried to break down the music industry,
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SPEAKER_03: but to this day,
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SPEAKER_03: we have someone that helps us out with our...
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or contracts wherever my dad's music goes and to this day it's
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still so hard for me
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to understand I think in honesty the best thing is just legal
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documents is what
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kind of took care of it just to make sure it didn't get messy
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for my mom who was
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very young not legally married to my dad and really didn't have
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a say much at that
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SPEAKER_03: point you know Excellent
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Well fast forward now you know you get like you mentioned you
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kind of explored your
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dad's works when you got into your teen years and then you got
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into your adult life
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and you said that you know at the when your first child was
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born nine years ago you
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SPEAKER_01: decided you wanted to take on this task of making a documentary
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and how did you begin you know going about this thing I mean
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did you talk to
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somebody in the business or was it I talked to so many people
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and took classes you
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don't even know it's like but what I'm realizing now that I
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didn't know back then
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back then I was thinking that I was going to walk into the room
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and give someone
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this amazing idea and they would go great let's make that and
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then I would be able
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SPEAKER_03: to make the project
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but that's not the reality of something like this something
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like this is the labor
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of love any kind of independent documentary filmmaking is like
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an all-encompassing
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project I met with all kinds of amazing people that were like
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this is a great idea
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but and they had all these reasons and I'm realizing now why
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none of them could
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take it on because they couldn't it was my venture and I had to
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figure out how to
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SPEAKER_03: do it and
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and I think after banging my head against the wall for years
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and years and years
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trying to figure out how to start it someone told me about
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Kickstarter and we did a
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Kickstarter campaign two and a half years ago to raise the
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initial funds for
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development and production and honestly without a platform like
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that I would have
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never been able to get this off the ground I can't tell you how
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many people were
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SPEAKER_03: like oh this is great
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and then if it actually doesn't become a film at least you have
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some great video
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footage to show your children right like no I don't want to
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just show my children I
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want to show everybody sure now who you know are there people
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who have contributed
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like old video or film or is this all archive stuff that you
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found in your dad's
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collection or what's going to be a part of this the coolest
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thing one of the
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SPEAKER_03: coolest things is going to be my dad's
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SPEAKER_03: home video footage that he shot himself.
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SPEAKER_03: Now,
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SPEAKER_03: he's not in it,
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SPEAKER_03: and there's no sound because it's just old Hi8 video footage,
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but it's a really cool kind of filmmaker-y point of view that
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kind of takes you
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SPEAKER_03: into his world and his personality.
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Then,
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since we're actually doing post-production now,
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we're compiling everything and
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going through everything and figuring out the directions we're
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going to go with the
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film story we are just trying to figure out what is going to be
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there in terms of
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live video footage but I think the real good angle that we're
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going to take is
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taking people's stories and recreating them with pictures so
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that we can take
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numerous pictures and create scene almost as if there is a
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picture of whatever it
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is that person's talking about even though there wasn't so
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we're gonna kind of take
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elements but then also create our own elements because
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obviously the minute you use
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anything you have to pay someone for it unless they write it
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off and give it to you
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you know right it's a really interesting process that the end
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of the end of the
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SPEAKER_03: filming
22:51
is also a huge hurdle to cross huge mountain I mean my gosh I'm
22:56
like overwhelmed
22:57
every day but I'm really excited I mean I'm really excited to
23:02
be here and bring it
23:03
together and I think that the main thing that like kind of
23:06
helps me with what
23:07
direction we're going to go with is the Terry Cass fan group
23:10
because what they post
23:11
and what they're interested in because they're always posting
23:14
like really cool
23:15
stuff I've never seen I'm like where'd they get that picture
23:17
from and what's this
23:18
SPEAKER_03: video footage and
23:20
and then there's like comments and I'm like okay and I'm always
23:23
asking them I'm
23:23
like hey do you guys have stuff send it to me email it to me
23:27
because they're like
23:28
you know they're all over it more than I am they probably know
23:31
more video footage
23:33
and photos than I do so right well what at what length do you
23:39
think this video will
23:40
be how long do you think it'll be well I think it'll I mean it
23:44
will be not I think
23:45
but it'll definitely be a full length feature in terms of the
23:48
actual minutes I'm
23:49
SPEAKER_03: not sure
23:50
SPEAKER_02: So it'll be feature length What is your thoughts as far as the release?
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SPEAKER_02: Are you targeting an actual in-theater release?
24:01
Are you targeting the more modern Netflix and Amazon Prime and
24:06
that type of an
24:07
SPEAKER_02: avenue or DVD release?
24:09
I'll be totally honest with you because I've been talking every
24:13
single day is a
24:14
SPEAKER_03: crash course in this process
24:16
and I think up until recently I was totally blagging it just to
24:22
get through to the
24:23
next part and make people think I knew what I was doing so
24:29
basically at this point
24:30
once we're able to put together the film in some sort of draft
24:36
that we like and
24:37
SPEAKER_03: other people like honestly I think it's going to really depend
24:41
for me of course Netflix is like a given it's going to be there
24:45
but what happens
24:45
between the time we're done and Netflix is still kind of an
24:49
open door and I'm
24:50
learning again because now we're starting to talk to packaging
24:55
and distributors and
24:56
it's just like I don't know where they're going to take it they
25:00
might say let's
25:02
take this to theaters first or they might say let's get it on
25:05
this network first
25:08
SPEAKER_03: but someone was telling me the other day that Netflix has changed
25:11
and the documentary department at Netflix is a big deal there
25:18
and they're actually
25:19
SPEAKER_03: putting money into it so you never know.
25:21
That might just be the avenue and they might actually advertise
25:26
it as well.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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SPEAKER_02: Now Michelle, I've got to ask this one because Neely won't.
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SPEAKER_02: Would you consider letting Neely narrate this for you?
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Four friends from the College of DePaul University gathered in
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a basement and they
26:01
all shook hands deciding that this was going to be a project
26:05
that they would all
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SPEAKER_01: die under.
26:06
SPEAKER_01: How's that?
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SPEAKER_01: uh Michelle uh
26:50
I know you have a website out there for terrycalf.com and tell
26:54
us how people can
26:55
get involved with your Kickstarter I know it comes to the end
26:59
on Wednesday this
27:00
SPEAKER_01: coming Wednesday so how can people get involved?
27:03
Four days left the easiest way to direct you there is just to
27:07
go to terrycalf.com
27:09
and check out the website and click on one of the donate now
27:13
buttons and it'll take
27:14
SPEAKER_03: you to the Kickstarter page which has a trailer and
27:18
a little bit more information yeah we have four days left I
27:22
mean we're trying to
27:23
take it as far as we can but it's also I mean we're not going
27:26
to do this again so
27:27
this is the last chance for people that kind of want to get
27:30
involved and say they
27:32
backed a project and kind of be a part say they were part of
27:35
the process and little
27:37
things like the terry cap stickers probably won't come around
27:41
again and we're
27:43
SPEAKER_03: making postcards and things
27:46
for the campaign specifically so like little things that just
27:49
to give back to
27:50
everyone to say thank you four days left and you actually have
27:55
some pretty cool
27:57
gifts over there for various levels of participation yeah the
28:02
coolest thing you
28:03
know I wanted to find something new because last time we gave
28:06
away photographs
28:07
taken by my dad this time we're giving away prints of his
28:13
actual handwritten work
28:15
so poetry things that never became songs or recorded songs and
28:19
then lyrics to
28:21
actual recorded songs and his compositions you know you can
28:25
kind of see how he
28:27
worked through a song in his writing it's really cool actually
28:34
I mean I've always
28:36
when I was trying to figure out what we could give away and
28:39
then I opened up this
28:40
SPEAKER_03: folder and I was like what you know
28:44
SPEAKER_03: Let's give this away.
28:45
SPEAKER_03: Why should I just hold it in my hands all my life?
28:48
SPEAKER_03: Let's share it for a period of time.
28:51
SPEAKER_02: Definitely.
28:53
SPEAKER_02: Michelle, I just got on just a straight personal note.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: It has nothing to do with the documentary, but it's just more curiosity.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: When you hear Chicago on the radio now, what emotion do you get?
29:05
SPEAKER_02: Are you happy to hear it?
29:06
SPEAKER_02: Are you sad to hear it?
29:07
SPEAKER_02: Is a little of both?
29:08
SPEAKER_02: Does it depend on the song?
29:09
SPEAKER_02: What?
29:11
SPEAKER_00: Definitely depends on the song.
29:13
definitely depends on the song because uh there's songs when
29:17
you hear my dad that
29:18
are just like oh it makes you stop and like color my world or
29:22
something like that
29:22
if that comes on you kind of have to stop I have to stop and
29:25
kind of go oh so
29:27
beautiful um other songs just come on like grocery shopping or
29:32
when we go places uh
29:33
SPEAKER_03: like we'll be on a family outing or
29:35
I think we were on our way to Caribou Ranch and we were with my
29:39
mom and the kids
29:39
and everything and then the Chicago song comes on it's like oh
29:43
there he is with us
29:45
and then other songs like their songs from the 80s or whatever
29:49
is more like fun
29:50
because it came out when I was old enough and you know everyone
29:53
in my generation
29:54
usually that's the only Chicago song they know right well what
29:59
is your absolutely
30:00
SPEAKER_01: favorite most favorite Chicago song that your dad sang
30:06
you know memories of love I've just always that when you were
30:12
asking me when I was
30:13
discovering him as a musician I mean that was the one that
30:17
really got me every time
30:19
and it's so beautiful sure now you know when it when it comes
30:25
to you know when it
30:26
comes to the less you know horn driven songs and more of the
30:30
guitar driven songs I
30:32
SPEAKER_01: mean your dad could have been a metal guitarist
30:36
Yeah Now have you been to the I'm sure you have Have you been
30:40
to the Rainbow Bar
30:42
SPEAKER_01: and Grill in Hollywood?
30:44
I have And you've seen that picture of him on the wall in the
30:47
outside terrace area?
30:49
Yes Yeah I always sat at the table next to that if I could Well
30:54
you know that below
30:55
SPEAKER_00: that picture is a picture of me as a little girl Is that a fact?
30:59
That is a fact That I did not know Well the next time you go
31:02
there you can check it out Sure
31:05
now what is your suspicion or your hunch I know there's a
31:10
guitar that's missing
31:13
what is your suspicion or hunch where do you think that guitar
31:16
is well gosh you
31:19
know we've been kind of all over there's two more places it
31:24
could be but since it's
31:27
SPEAKER_03: kind of part of the film and we've kind of
31:30
the guitar has become its own character in the film I can't
31:33
really give it away yet
31:34
because then you'll know when you watch it where I am in my
31:38
journey I was just
31:42
asking the question but it's really exciting like I can't wait
31:46
to go see these
31:48
SPEAKER_00: people and find out if they have it okay fair enough
31:53
SPEAKER_01: Well, Michelle, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to us here.
31:58
SPEAKER_01: Later this evening,
32:00
we're going to talk to another good friend of ours who has just
32:03
wrapped up a
32:04
SPEAKER_01: documentary film.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: It's just absolutely awesome.
32:08
SPEAKER_01: His name is Bob Nobandian.
32:10
SPEAKER_01: He lives right there in the L.A. area.
32:12
SPEAKER_01: He just did a documentary on early L.A. hard rock and metal.
32:20
and I got to see an advanced copy of it this weekend and it is
32:24
just phenomenal oh
32:27
cool that was good times in LA too yeah absolutely sunset strip
32:33
no kidding alright
32:36
SPEAKER_01: Michelle is there anything else you want to plug you know aside from the
32:39
documentary I know that you have a career outside of the
32:42
documentary you do some DJ
32:45
SPEAKER_00: work right I do DJ work
32:47
SPEAKER_00: In fact,
32:48
I'm going to get off the phone and go get ready for another
32:51
Saturday night in
32:52
SPEAKER_00: Hollywood Nice!
32:54
SPEAKER_01: And exactly what do you do?
32:56
SPEAKER_01: Are you like private, do like private parties or club DJ or what is it?
33:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
33:00
SPEAKER_00: so we do a lot of private parties But then,
33:04
SPEAKER_03: you know,
33:05
just regular like kind of Hollywood bars as well I kind of do a
33:10
lot of these kind
33:13
of like kitsch lounge bars where they're kind of doing like the
33:16
throwback vibe
33:18
Those are kind of like regular,
33:20
regular jobs,
33:21
but the private parties are pretty fun,
33:23
too.
33:24
SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: All right, Michelle.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: Well,
33:27
if you want to get involved with Michelle and her project with
33:31
the Terry Caff
33:32
SPEAKER_01: documentary,
33:33
SPEAKER_01: go over to TerryCaff.com.
33:35
SPEAKER_01: She's got a Kickstarter.
33:37
program that ends on Wednesday so you need to act quick if you
33:41
want to throw a
33:42
SPEAKER_01: couple dollars that way and be a part of this production.
33:46
I'm looking forward to seeing it when it comes out and I'm glad
33:51
I had a chance to
33:52
connect with you and bring you on the show because Chicago has
33:57
played a very large
33:58
part in my growing up and having that legacy part of the
34:02
classic metal show means a
34:03
SPEAKER_01: lot to me.
34:06
thank you thank you for having me well Michelle we ask a
34:11
traditional classic metal
34:12
show question to everybody and I don't know if you'll have an
34:15
answer for this but
34:16
then again you might surprise us and you might have an answer
34:19
okay how has Lemmy
34:22
from Motorhead influenced your career uh let's see um either
34:29
besides the fact that
34:29
SPEAKER_01: he's always at the rainbow oh you do know that all right go ahead
34:37
and the last time I went to the Rainbow well I think anybody
34:40
that can ride around
34:41
on a motorcycle with a dog on the back is pretty influential
34:45
wow look at you that's
34:47
the first time we've ever heard that pretty amazing Michelle
34:55
alright well go help
34:56
out Michelle terrykaff.com get involved with the kickstarter
34:59
and got any other
35:00
SPEAKER_01: websites or any places you want people to check out Michelle
35:05
SPEAKER_00: I won't distract them from the TerryCast.com right now.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: All right.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: Just four days left.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: That's the big one for me.
35:13
SPEAKER_01: Okay, excellent.
35:14
SPEAKER_02: And you will come back when the movie comes out, right?
35:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
35:17
SPEAKER_00: All right, awesome.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: If you'll have me.
35:19
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you're welcome.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: I'll try to find another Motorhead story.
35:25
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to wear black for a long time.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
35:31
Well you did shock me with your answer Michelle I gotta admit I
35:36
was surprised you
35:37
had an answer Good one Alright go help out Michelle
35:42
TerryCath.com And Michelle I'm
35:45
gonna end the show Or end this interview rather With another of
35:50
your dad's
35:51
compositions here I'm gonna play In the Country You got any
35:55
thoughts on that song?
35:58
um let's see in the documentary just going and talking with
36:01
everyone and compile
36:03
like really listening to what everybody talks about when we ask
36:07
them about songs um
36:09
in the country came up in connection to just my dad's role um
36:15
deep-seated love for
36:16
nature and um like the kind of freedom that he felt when he was
36:21
in nature um hence
36:23
SPEAKER_03: caribou ranch i suppose and that song
36:26
Oh,
36:26
well,
36:27
one more before I let you go,
36:28
and I have to get your thoughts on this.
36:32
Your dad played a part in the James William Garcia movie,
36:37
Electric Glide in Blue.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: Did you have any thoughts of your dad shooting Mickey off his motorcycle?
36:49
SPEAKER_00: It's crazy, because when I watch it, I'm like, he's so cool.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: What, your dad?
36:54
SPEAKER_01: He's so cool.
36:55
yeah putting that shotgun out the back even though he's
36:59
supposed to be like the bad
37:00
guy or whatever but you know when you're watching a movie most
37:03
people tend to like
37:04
the bad guys like Darth Vader or whatever yeah well if you've
37:08
never seen the movie
37:09
Electric Glide in Blue Robert Blake plays a motorcycle cop and
37:16
Michelle's dad blows
37:17
him right off his motorcycle with a double barrel shotgun
37:21
pretty cool pretty cool
37:25
well you know it's fake so I can say that right all right
37:30
Michelle we appreciate
37:31
you taking the time and well here it is this is Chicago
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37:37
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