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The Brett Keane Show: Struggles of Musicians & Authors Unveiled! · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Brett
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Keane and you are watching and listening to GOD TV Radio.
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The kind of shit that you really, really got to believe
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in. Freedom of speech in order to
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put up with. YouTube is not that kind of
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site, neither is Facebook. I hear old Zuckerberg's going to
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be going to jail soon, but right before he goes to jail, he made
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sure to censor me one more time on the fucking Internet over on
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Facebook. Made it to where I'm limited in
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all kinds of different ways. Didn't completely outright shut
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me down like all the other times before.
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But yeah, yeah, fucked good. And why?
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Because I posted one of my videos and it had a picture of
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Adolf Hitler on it. Although I don't endorse the
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Holocaust. Well, I believe in the
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Holocaust. I just don't endorse what
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happened to the Jews and I don't endorse Nazis.
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Zuckenberg and his little clown factory up there totally fucked
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me up. So yeah, best way to keep up
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with me is our x.com Brett Keene at Brett Keene Show.
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Link, As I said, will be in the comments.
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Before I get into this, I seen a comment from somebody out there
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while reading some of the fan material that's been made about
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me recently. There's a guy who's I, I've seen
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him do this a few times, this guy who claims to be a musician.
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He says, Brett Keene once invited me to come on the show
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and do some live material. And then whenever the show was
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about to happen, he didn't let me in.
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And my response, in case you didn't get my text or my e-mail
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a while back is it's true. I had told you that you could
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come on my show and do music and all that and I would be more
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than happy to spend an hour with you and jam out all that.
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But you problem is, is that although I was nice and I
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offered you that opportunity, the problem is, is that I have
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this tendency, this pattern about me because I'm a vlogger
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where I like to look at videos and then read the comments.
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And aren't some of the newest videos some of the fans out
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there who make those slattering videos about me?
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You decided to put an entire novel's worth of information
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about how much you hate my guts and what an idiot I am and how
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when you get to go on my show, you're going to try to embarrass
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me and mock me and all that. So my brain told me the rational
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thing to do was have you sit there on your thumb wondering
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what the hell happened. You know, like my family always
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says, if you're going to shit talk somebody, you're going to
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try to burn somebody. Yet you still want to get
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benefits out of them or opportunities.
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You should probably keep your fucking opinion to yourself and
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not put it out there publicly because the people that you're
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trying to screw over or get shit from may see it and then you get
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the conclusion, the results that you got just now recently.
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Oh shit yeah that was like a year ago.
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But this guy still leaving comments.
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I seen something on one of the latest filth.
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He's still butt hurt over that. Hopefully his Mama buy him some
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fucking cream for that. So today we're going to talk
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about the challenging challenges of being a musician as well as a
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writer. I remember I was born in 1976,
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so I grew up in the 80s. That was back when music
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actually had sold. It was really good and
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performances were big and over the fucking top.
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People loved going to concerts. That was a thing to do.
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Smoked your dope. Listen to their favorite tracks
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and shit live. Have a guy like Dave Mustang
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talk to everybody like absolute dog shit.
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This was this was the way it was in the 80s.
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Weird fucking hair, men with makeup and just really
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sprawling, crazy guitar work. And we had everything from
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dubstep to house music to funk to Blues to gangsta rap.
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Everything nowadays everything's all.
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I don't know it just I guess if you're into like some of these
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female teeny boppers and said are this bubble gum music them
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so be it. There's about a couple handfuls
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of groups out there that are worth the shit to listen to
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nowadays but even those bands have been around for a while
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like Nightwish and kill switch engage.
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These are talented bands, but besides that, most bands are 4
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chord alternative music's pretty much going out.
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We've heard all we can hear out of that kind of shit.
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No more radio headbands or smashing bumpkins.
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And there's no more bands that are like Metallica or Megadeth.
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That shit's out the fucking window.
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No more Slayer, no more anything like that.
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Lot of shit nowadays is just really toothless clean.
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Yeah, it's the way it is. So back in the day, growing up
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in the 80s, you see all these heroic fucking figures on the
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guitar, Randy Rhodes, Van Halen, this kind of shit.
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You see these awesome solos, these drum solos, something you
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never get to see hardly nowadays, these great fucking
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singers like Fred Mercury, even slower shit like Elton John,
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these just fantastic musicians that don't need to computerize
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everything, that could just naturally be badasses right in
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front of you. Well, all that went out the
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window, but it was something that I was inspired by.
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I looked at Metallica, Queen and and everybody Led Zeppelin, and
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I said, damn, I'd love to be this.
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But the problem was, as I like many young people during that
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time, we were under the delusion that Rock'n'roll was fucking
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fun. That it was supposed to be
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something where you get some buddies or family members
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together and then you go out and jam and you get fucking paid to
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be on stage and be adored like a God, you know, that's people
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think, wow. Well, for me, although I thought
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all that was neat, the most thing about it for me was the
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thing that really pulled me was I knew that I was creative at a
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very young age. I learned how to play the piano
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and and the keyboard and all that, and also started in
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eventually picking up a guitar and playing some chords and
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shit. I realized that, hey, maybe back
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then I believed in God. And remember, I was an atheist
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for a long time and then became a got back into the faith again.
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But when I was younger and still believed in something, believed
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that there was a God, I actually believed that there was a
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calling for me. I thought, my goodness, after
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all the shit that's been thrown at me in my fucking life, this
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must be what it is that God has for me.
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And I got this whole neat ass idea in my head that I got to
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take out the message. I got to stay secular in the
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music, but still bring God into it and be able to reach the
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masses and shut. I mean, I was planning way
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fucking ahead and I thought it was just a matter of getting
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your instrument, making a good fucking track and then going
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well, there lied the problem immediately.
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So the equipment is expensive. I'm fucking poor as a kid.
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And so I I got with what I had. I had a a fucking shitty little
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Casio keyboard, the kind of shit you would buy at fucking Walmart
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or something. I was good at it, but couldn't.
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You can't go on stage with some shit like that.
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These synthesizers I ended up finding out are thousands of
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dollars. Like a fucking cord or
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something. Or a more advanced, obviously
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Casio. Not the kind you'd get at a
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fucking yard sale or something. Or a flea market.
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And then you got to find other people who can actually play
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with you. Even if you're musically
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inclined and you can play guitar, keyboards, and maybe
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even belt out some octaves sang and shit, you can't play.
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You can't do it all. Unless you have some kind of
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expensive music synthesizer and computer.
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Where you can lay out the tracks, but back then if you
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were to lip sync music or you were to play a fucking recording
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in the background while playing to it, your ass would be booed
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off the stage. You weren't allowed to do that.
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You either play the instrument, sing the songs, or get the fuck
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out of here. Get off the stage was the
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attitude of people of the 80s. So that wasn't a option.
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A computer, do that kind of shit, sample down the music,
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play it along with myself. So now you got to go out and
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find people. Well, when you're a young
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person, people your age are just starting out.
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They not everybody's naturally gifted.
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Some people have to practice for fucking years.
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So I went years, years looking for people who had talent, and
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by the time most people hit around 1718 years old, people
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were already Alcoholics, drunk or fucked some cheerleader and
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got her pregnant and ended up having to take care of a baby
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and all that and couldn't go out and do anything.
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That's if they actually stayed with the girl they impregnated
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in the 1st place. So you're dealing with drug
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addicts, you're dealing with losers, you're dealing with
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people who weren't smart enough to put on a fucking condom.
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You're dealing with people who are narcissistic, who think
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they're better than what they actually are.
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See, when I started getting into music, I always had these ideas
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of how I wanted shit to sound. It's like I could hear the song
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before I even put it out. It's like I could envision it
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like some kind of fucking autistic Rain Man.
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I just knew what it was in my head before it actually was born
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or came to birth. I knew exactly, not just the
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arrangements, the chords, the intros, the outros, where a solo
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needed to be our bridge, but I also knew where effects needed
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to go, or when the voice should do this, or when the voice
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should do an echo, or, you know, jump throughout your speakers.
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All these things. Or when the guitar should streak
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out and you go into a fucking chorus or something like that.
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I had all these techniques and ideas, but the people I ran
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into, they didn't have shit. They didn't envision anything
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like this. They didn't understand
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arrangement. All they knew is they like
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listening to Metallica on the radio or fucking Nirvana.
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And that's what they wanted to be, you know, losers who wanted
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to be Kurt Cobain. And then they used Burnouts who
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fucking smell like piss for the week, wanting to be the next
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Metallica. Unfortunately, when they would
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sit there and hear you play something on the keyboard, the
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keyboard, depending on the sounds you use, can come off
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very soft. See, I didn't have a problem
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with doing heavy metal and dust real, but I could also turn
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around and do slow ballads and other shit.
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To me, everything was music, everything was on the table and
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the gauntlet. I was willing to do soft shit,
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heavy shit, all that. But you always find these people
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who want to be like somebody else.
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They don't want to create music that is actually better or
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badass and completely different or unique.
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They want to be like everything else.
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They want to be like Eminem, you know, Everybody has their idol
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worship, I guess. Now, don't get me wrong, I
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looked at all these other bands and thought, wow, these guys are
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incredible. But I always thought if I worked
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hard enough, I could do better. I could actually do something
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interesting. Because I started thinking, man,
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it must suck for Metallica and some of these bands that not
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only are they trying to sell CDs, but they got to go on the
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fucking road and play the same songs over and over and over
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again. And I thought to myself, man,
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with ADHD and all that attention deficit disorder, I'd end up
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fucking getting bored awfully fucking quick.
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So there would need to be different shit happening during
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the show, along with some really interesting music that I could
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play over and over that wouldn't drive me up the fucking wall.
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Listen to Don't Be Shocked folks, There's a lot of big
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bands out there. Metallica hate playing and
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they're the Sandman and they don't like playing shit off to
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Kill Them All album because it's fucking old and they've done it
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a million times and now they're like, fuck it.
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Some songs they won't even play at all.
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That they were just OK for the album and they never intended on
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playing that motherfucker ever again afterwards.
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I didn't want to get myself into that rut, but then I found out,
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uh oh, rock'n'roll isn't as fun as what everybody claims.
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I discovered that you got to get the equipment somehow.
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You got to get a hold of companies and fucking try to get
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your music distributed. It wasn't as easy back then.
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You didn't have distro kid, You didn't have all these CD Baby
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and stuff like that, that you could just upload your fucking
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music back then. You had to.
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If you wanted to do anything that sounded professional, you
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had to go to a fucking studio that cost a lot of money, an
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hour and you better know what the fuck you you got planned.
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You better be prepared or you're going to waste a lot of time and
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a lot of fucking money. And that's the problem I ran
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into. Most of the studios that existed
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were far away. There wasn't shit all over the
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place. Whenever I was a young man,
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there wasn't. The Internet was still running
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on a fucking modem making horrible noises like some
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fucking cat is dying when you're trying to load into it.
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You could be waiting 20 minutes before you ever get in there.
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So fucking forget about uploading WAV files before MP3's
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were invented. What a mess.
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WAV files and MP3 is only a couple megabytes but aren't a
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fucking Internet modem. It would still take you almost
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an hour to download a track our fucking modem, but broadband,
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you can do that in a little bit. But even a WAV file could be 30
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to 50 fucking megs. It's crazy shit.
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If you don't understand technical talk or anything like
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that or computer stuff, I'm sorry.
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I apologize. I'm just telling you was a mess.
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And just to be able to afford a computer and back then computers
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were the size of fucking Elon Musk rockets.
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They were huge. If you wanted a decent computer,
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you'd have to have a room filled with all these fucking hard
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drives and ports going on. What a mess.
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So that was out of the picture for quite some time.
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Years went by before they started making computers even
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capable of running things like Cakewalk, Cool Out Pro, and
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music editing software. So oh, what a mess.
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But it wasn't for me. I knew that there's no way I'm
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going to be able to do this. I can't go to studios over and
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over. People.
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I was barely lucky if musicians I was working with showed up on
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time or even showed up at all because they were busy getting
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drunk or they went to a party the night before.
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So I decided man, how can I do this, live the dream without
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having to put up with all these fucking losers?
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How do I do it? Well I decided I need to look in
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the sound engineering myself. Maybe it'll be cheaper if I just
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put shit together and a Commission isn't being run on
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me. If I learn how to do it myself,
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then I don't have to worry about being fucked over by some record
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company or some. Bullshit studio that's charging
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me up the asshole. And that's what I did.
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I learned sound engineering and while this was going on, I
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taught my brother some chords and he ended up blowing up,
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becoming a a great fucking guitar player.
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But then our next problem came. Once we got to the point where
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we could actually record our fucking music, then we had to
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find the distributor. And what a distributor is, is
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you got to find a company out there that's willing to take
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your music and fucking sell it for you.
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Again, there wasn't this whole big old thing on the Internet
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where you could just put tracks up and then see how it flies.
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You know, digital stuff was just starting to come into its making
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as I was becoming a young man. But I had learned a lot about
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analog. I'd learned a lot about
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computers, learned a lot about equipment.
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And, you know, I just took it as, all right, so I'm not going
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to be out on stage anytime soon and should do until after at
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least 20 years old. Luckily I did get to go to a
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couple parties where some people had instruments and I did go up
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on in front of the parties and shut and jam out and do some
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stuff. And I also got to do some show
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and tell things when I was a kid and end up winning little ugly
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fucking ribbons and stupid banners and stuff that nobody
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really gives a fuck about. But to actually go out and do
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some big stuff, that's what we were waiting for.
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Unfortunately, as my brother got better on the guitar, we found
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herself in a position where he wanted to do his own vision, his
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own thing. And unfortunately we couldn't
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make a compromise, even though I was willing to do everything
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that he wanted to do. I wanted to get him to do some
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guitar work alongside compose next to the keyboard, but he
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thought the keyboard sounded weak.
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Now I found myself in the same position as I did when I was
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working with other people. They wanted to be Metallica, not
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Queen. They wanted to always be heavy,
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sound like Slayer, scream at the world instead of every once in a
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while, slow it down and do a scorpion's track or something or
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something slow. Or you run into musicians who
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don't know how to create originals or unique shit and
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they just want to be a cover band where they cover their
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favorite bands and wear the same clothes and basically make
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themselves up like a fucking doll.
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We had so many tribute bands, so many cover bands, and so on.
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I remember when I finally got to be out in front of people and do
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my original shit, I felt so accomplished and good.
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But I did recognize the difference between cover bands
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coming out and blasting something that's been on the
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radio a million times and everybody's going wow, yay, and
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the crowd goes wild as opposed to doing something they've never
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heard. Now I got people who said, hey,
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that's really cool, that's neat music and all that afterwards.
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But you, you understand if you're up against something
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that's already professionally done and already been put
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together, fuck, you're, you're doomed.
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Hell, I've seen a band do fucking the cover tune A Blaze
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of Glory by Bon Jovi and they got an explosive ass appraisal
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for that. So working with people, learning
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how to actually do the shit, finding out that not a damn bit
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of it's fun at all once you do manage to get on the road at
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all, even if it's just for your local area, Oh my God, you got
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to get all this equipment into a fucking vehicle.
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You better hope you own a truck and you better hope the
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weather's good that fucking day because you got to somehow drag
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all your bullshit wherever you go.
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And you also, when you're doing music, you can't think of how
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fun a song is. You got to think of, is this
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song going to work on the radio? Is this people going to even
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like this track? You may love it with all your
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heart, but there's those decisions that other musicians
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make when you're working with them.
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You're like, would this get any air time you got to admit and
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confess? Oh, probably not.
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It's got some drogatory language in it and it's got some pretty
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rough topics, so that may not fly too well.
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What about a, you know, a lovey dovey track?
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Sure could do that. But then when people hear the
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crazy shit, the, the crazy shit you got on the album, uh, all
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they're like, what the fuck? You know, It's weird because
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unfortunately when people hear songs on the radio or they hear
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things out there, they, that's what they expect the band to
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always sound like, you know? That's why it seems like when
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you buy an album that's always formulated, it's pigeon holed
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into one single genre. Like if somebody hears a rock
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song on the radio and they go to buy the CD, they don't want to
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hear a country track or a fucking industrial track or
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something that's off the wall, different than the track that
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they originally heard on the radio, even if the other stuff's
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way better. So this is the kind of shit you
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run into with producers and people who are willing to
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distribute. They'll listen to it and go,
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what the fuck? Why do you have like a slow
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ballad here, a bluesy song there, a death metal thrash
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track here, and what's the deal with your fucking name?
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What's the deal with some of these songs being upbeat and
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then the other one sound almost fucking satanic?
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Yeah, if you listen to some of my music nowadays, I got some
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songs that sound very what a church would probably buy, what
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Christians would probably jam out to going down the road.
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But I got other tunes that are so fucking hardcore it would
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make Trent Reznor for 9 Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson blush.
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So I get that way. I don't like doing the same
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fucking noise over and over again.
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I like so many different styles of music that I always try to do
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something unique and different than the next.
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So well, years went by. I produced some music.
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Some of the my music I was able to produce, but not in the way
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that I wanted to. Like for instance, some people
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have heard some of the old stuff.
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I had some of the old albums and there was so much more I wanted
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to do, but I didn't have the people to work with and I ended
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up having to do a lot of the fucking work.
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I wrote the lyrics, I wrote the music, and I had to either do it
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all myself. I was a great keyboardist.
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I was what I would call an amateur fucking singer.
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I could not. I'm no Fred Mercury.
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I Can't Sing like a high pitched person or like Sebastian Bach
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from Skid Row. But I had this low kind of
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authoritative voice that back then took me a while to get
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control over. I always thought that singing
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would be easy because you'd sing to your favorite bands on the
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radio and you know you can't hear yourself, so you don't know
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that you're sounding like dog shit.
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And then when you record yourself, that's when it's like
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being in a confession booth. All your sins come out and
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they're recorded. So you listen and you're like,
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holy fuck, I sell like dog shit and I'm not.
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So you try a different approach and you try and it turns out
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that you could be taking 20 fucking takes.
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So, oh, music is not when someone says it's their job.
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If you meet a professional musician, there's a reason why
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they're called professionals. There's a reason why they are
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where they're at, and it's not just because of their talent OR
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their creativity. You got to have fucking money to
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begin with, and you have to know the right people.
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If you don't, it's like being a YouTube.
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If you don't know nobody up at YouTube, you don't know any
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advertising. 90% of the people that are bigger on YouTube are
29:20
are financed by fucking YouTube itself and Google.
29:24
These people like Mr. Beast and shit.
29:27
They are buddies with YouTube. They know the motherfuckers
29:30
personally. That's the reason why they're
29:31
out there. But if you don't know anybody,
29:34
your shit goes nowhere. That's why a lot of people
29:40
wonder to themselves, how is it that this person who has a
29:44
million Subs can say the shit they do, but if a guy who's got
29:49
a couple 1000 Subs says the same shit, he'll get shut the fuck
29:53
down? Well, unfortunately that's like
29:58
that's the way it is. Music writing's kind of the same
30:04
way. You sit down, a lot of things
30:10
start going through your head that don't belong there.
30:13
If you're going to write something, you better write
30:16
something that you know that you enjoy and don't listen to other
30:21
people. Other people are going to say,
30:23
why don't you write a story about this or write a story
30:26
about that? When you sit down and write
30:28
something that's three hundred 400 pages long or more, are you
30:33
right enough that you're going to end up with a trilogy?
30:39
You cannot listen other people because they're going to tell
30:45
you to cut shit up. They're going to tell you throw
30:48
away things that are actually good, and they're going to tell
30:52
you to do what they envision every fucking time.
30:56
Everybody's always got an opinion, and there's always
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people who are not capable of doing shit themselves.
31:03
Same with musicians. They got all these fucking great
31:06
ideas, but they cannot do what they say they're going to do.
31:12
I remember whenever I wrote my shit out, I tried showing
31:17
people, showing, you know, companies and organizations and
31:21
shit. I tried sending them manuscripts
31:23
and they're like, well, we're not really into Stephen King
31:27
type stuff. They compared me to that.
31:30
I didn't say I was anything like that.
31:32
They did, oh, we don't do this kind of shit.
31:36
We're more into romance, we're more into philosophy, we're more
31:40
into this yada, yada, yada. It's always some bullshit.
31:45
So I ended up having to go self-publishing.
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And what that means is you basically, you find the
31:50
distributor, you do the book the way you're going to do it.
31:54
And that also is not fun either, because now you got to go, OK, I
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need an editor, I'm coming up with stories, but I don't know
32:04
how to fucking clean it up. And, you know, do proper fucking
32:08
English on this shit. And then you go to try to get
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those people and they're going to make you pay hundreds of
32:16
dollars, some of them thousands of dollars back in the day to
32:20
clean some shit up. Well, I was just a juvenile at
32:23
the point that I was starting writing and doing music like
32:28
that. So who the fuck was going to
32:30
work with me? And that's pretty much what it
32:37
got down to. I remember on my first album, we
32:40
actually saved some money and paid some guy to make a piece of
32:46
artwork for our album cover. And this guy charged me up the
32:50
fucking asshole. And the picture was terrible.
32:54
And because it cost so fucking much money and was put in the
32:59
right format for us to use at the time, I wasn't good.
33:03
I was good at art, but not graphic design.
33:06
Like, I could Draw Something really cool, but I could not get
33:10
on the computer and make all kinds of fucking neat shit.
33:15
So we went ahead and we used that for our album cover.
33:18
Some people think it looks cool. I think it's absolute dog shit.
33:22
I think it looks stupid. It looks cartoony.
33:25
It's a picture of a dragon fighting a warrior, but it
33:28
doesn't look like what you're probably thinking.
33:31
The warrior looked like shit. He had this light coming off of
33:35
him like he was pink and the dragon looked like something off
33:39
a fucking Pokémon. It wasn't the the cool Satan 7
33:43
headed dragon of revelations biblical shit that we were.
33:47
That was original vision. Well so I wrote my books
33:57
eventually after being turned down over and over before going
34:01
into self-publishing. I threw all the shit in the suit
34:04
case, put it in the closet and went ahead to go ahead and
34:09
forget about it. And I said oh this ain't going
34:12
to happen. I wrote enough to make 3 fucking
34:15
books here and I can't get any of this content out there.
34:20
So my wife one day her and her buddies are looking through the
34:24
shit. They find it and they say hey
34:27
this is really really good. Now this made me smile and it
34:32
made me happy. But when a family member or your
34:35
girlfriend or wife tells you that something's good, you
34:38
always got in the back of your mind.
34:40
Well of course she thinks so. She's my wife she's always going
34:44
to tell me everything's fucking good right?
34:46
So unless you hear it from a bunch of like millionaires and
34:51
shit running a company, it's not really going to help you in the
34:55
end you although you appreciate the support and love and all
34:59
that. So went ahead and said, all
35:04
right, well, if we're going to do this and we need to get it
35:06
self published. And there was a company that
35:08
just came out on the Internet just shortly after broadband.
35:13
We had a motherfucker published, but we didn't.
35:15
I didn't have a good editor. I had two girls.
35:18
And every once in a while my wife helping that actually went
35:21
through the shit to edit it. And it turned out that there
35:26
were mistakes, bullshit and all that.
35:29
And I had to let people know that I was a kid when I wrote it
35:34
and this is what the fuck I was dealing with.
35:38
So if you're going to buy it, don't have any remorse because
35:42
there's going to be some issues and problems.
35:45
And back then people accepted it.
35:49
But nowadays I've accumulated some fucking assholes, some
35:53
trolls who don't give a shit about what I said back in the
35:57
day. They're going to use whatever
35:59
they can to dog you into the fucking ground.
36:02
They don't. People don't sit around and
36:04
think, damn, these people try as hard as they can.
36:08
They try to write a write a fucking book.
36:11
They're trying to do music. They're trying to do something
36:14
to better their life or better their family's existence and
36:17
shit. People don't think like that.
36:19
They just think, fuck you, I don't care if you spent so many
36:23
years doing this and that, we're just going to wipe our ass with
36:26
whatever you got. Well, I had one more bright
36:31
idea. I put out three fucking books,
36:35
put out another one, but I ended up shutting it down and I ended
36:41
up putting out some music, a couple albums worth, and I got
36:46
this Brian idea in my head, which turned out to be one of
36:50
the most fucking dumb mistakes I've ever made in my life.
36:54
As many of you know, I ended up coming to YouTube almost 20
36:57
years ago, started doing my shit.
37:00
I was still, I was in my early, No, not my early, but yeah,
37:06
early 30s, I think I, I'm not sure, could have been 29 to 30.
37:12
Who fucked cares? Boy it is.
37:14
I was on the Internet for a long time, even before I started
37:17
doing YouTube. So I put the shit out there.
37:20
My music, my art, all this kind of stuff.
37:24
Books I get on YouTube end up becoming Internet famous for a
37:30
while there and thinking to myself, well damn, this might be
37:35
the way to advertise. This might be able to say, look
37:39
folks, if you love what I'm talking about and what I say,
37:42
you might also find my music interesting or my books and shit
37:46
like that. So what did I do?
37:49
I let people know this is where you can find me like I do my
37:52
radio station. This is my shit.
37:55
Unfortunately, when I made the transition from atheism to faith
38:03
in God, even before that, I was already starting to question and
38:08
people noticed it. I was starting to make videos
38:11
where I was like, I've been doing a little bit more
38:13
research. I've been doing some more
38:15
reading and I've been having some strange feelings going on
38:19
with me just by fucking merely mentioning that set people off
38:23
like a like they had fire under their asshole and suddenly you
38:29
go from being this cool motherfucker that seems to be a
38:32
part of the gang to oh man, what?
38:36
He's buddies with that shit. He's being friends with the
38:39
people we hate. What about all those years of
38:42
shit talking, blah, blah, blah, and then he's going to turn into
38:46
a pussy ass religious person? Well, that put a damper on
38:51
things for me. It was like, yeah, well, people
38:56
are people, you know, you can't expect everybody to love you.
39:00
But it did have an impact on some family members.
39:04
Like for instance my sister went on to making her own YouTube
39:08
channel and podcast and changed her name completely so people
39:13
wouldn't even know who the fuck she is or know her association.
39:17
My brother he didn't want to put music up on the channel and was
39:23
barely willing to allow me to help create a YouTube channel
39:27
for him so he could put up his guitar music.
39:31
And exactly what he was worried about happened.
39:35
People who had issue with me went after him and they shit all
39:39
over him. They still said oh your guitar
39:42
works good but your family members like Brad is a loser and
39:46
shit like that. So he had to put up with that
39:49
daily and that got old real quick.
39:52
So here I am trying to build something from my brother, help
39:56
him out and the haters are all over his fucking ass like
40:01
maggots and shit. A lot of my family members who
40:11
use Facebook ended up having to lock down their Facebooks and
40:15
shit because it wasn't enough for people to fucking come at
40:20
me. They had to come at my loved
40:23
ones. So really put a damper.
40:29
Obviously people went over to my books, they seen my books over
40:33
on Amazon, and without even reading the material, they put
40:37
all kinds of hate. So Amazon ends up turning
40:40
around, making rules up like Netflix did, where unless you
40:44
can verify that you bought shit, you're not allowed to leave
40:47
comments anymore. They just started doing that
40:49
about a year ago because people were flooding organizations and
40:55
companies. One of the reasons why YouTube
40:57
took down the dislike button because bastards on the Internet
41:01
would go to a a trailer or a movie or a video and just
41:05
fucking bought it to death. They'd either bought it or
41:08
they'd sign in out of several sock accounts and fucking screw
41:13
people's videos up. And then it would knock them
41:16
down in the algorithm and the search engine.
41:19
Well, Google said fuck that. They got them an AI artificial
41:23
intelligence that does the web crawling for them.
41:26
And they put a stop to a lot of that shit.
41:30
Amazon, the same thing. Facebook so hard.
41:36
But the point is, is that it did some did some annoying fucking
41:41
things. When opportunities were seeming
41:46
to be there, people decided because you didn't worship their
41:52
ideology or go with their bullshit.
41:56
At least Christians the the beauty of Christians whenever
41:59
they're mad at you, when a Christian gets mad at you,
42:02
they'll simply tell you, you fucking asshole, you're going to
42:05
hell with the shit that comes out of your mouth.
42:08
And then that's the end of the conversation.
42:11
Christians rarely stalk each other unless you're marked
42:14
Stony. A Christian that they're tired
42:18
of you, they'll just tell you fuck off, you're going to burn
42:21
in hell, you better find God one day and that's it.
42:25
And they'll never have nothing to do with you again.
42:29
A church will kick you out on your ass, but they're not going
42:31
to come hunt you down. Non believers on the other hand,
42:36
oh fuck, you could go 10 years never showing your face around
42:42
them and they're willing to fucking cut you in two the
42:46
moment they see you. And don't even get me started.
42:50
Are Muslims. Oh, if you're an apostate, you
42:53
pretty much sealed the deal on that shit.
43:00
So yeah, nowadays there's so many resources, so many
43:07
resources that you can do with computers and equipment and all
43:11
that to be able to make music because of AI and some of the
43:16
technologies come forward. I can actually write a fucking
43:20
book and then run it through an AI and tell the AI to fix all my
43:24
grammar, edit my shit. Of course, you got to reread
43:28
your stuff and make sure the AI didn't fuck something up or add
43:32
a Terminator into your story or something like that.
43:34
Like Skynet, but all this technology and all these
43:39
resources, they help out a writer and they help out
43:45
musicians big time. The big problem with this though
43:49
is even though all the resources exist now, the world stage has
43:54
become more competitive. If you remember back in the 80s,
43:59
you had about 50 well known groups and a lot of these bands
44:03
were from the 70s and shit and still survived into the 80s.
44:09
A lot of metal bands that survived there was like a couple
44:12
handfuls and most of them either died, were in accidents, did
44:16
drugs, that kind of shit, broke up, that kind of thing.
44:23
But nowadays you got all this. But because everything has been
44:27
made so easy to be able to do, to be able to get what you want,
44:34
now hundreds of thousands of amateurs all over the world can
44:38
do shit, especially with AI. Instead of paying an artist
44:43
thousands of dollars to create an album cover, all you got to
44:47
do is go to grok and say hey grok over on social media X say
44:52
hey, design me a picture that has this shit in it and it might
44:56
put you out something 100 times better than what the fuck you
44:59
could pay for if you went to a professional.
45:02
So it put a lot of artists out of Commission.
45:06
As far as music and shit like that.
45:08
With computers like Cakewalk and software like Cool Edit and
45:13
other neat ass things, you could pretty much do anything.
45:18
You can even buy a piece of equipment.
45:19
It's like a processor where you can make your guitar sound like
45:23
a fucking keyboard or a synth, things like that.
45:28
But that also makes it to where everybody in the world can
45:32
perform and do something crazy. So you better somehow find a way
45:37
to find your niche to be completely unique.
45:42
And as far as books go, unfortunately books haven't
45:45
gotten into a position yet where even though you can get a free
45:49
editor by using artificial intelligence, there's still
45:54
books are still under the setup where they don't advertise you
45:58
unless you find some big book company.
46:00
So that really hasn't progressed at all.
46:03
And besides that, most people don't even read the big thick
46:06
books anymore. With paper, they can read right
46:09
off their computers. And a lot of people nowadays
46:12
have a low IQ, so they rather just read a couple paragraphs
46:16
off of a page. And the artificial intelligence
46:19
has gotten so good that you don't even have to read anymore.
46:22
You just say, hey bitch, read that shit off the screen for me.
46:27
It reads a couple lines. You get a fucking idea of what
46:30
the hell it's talking about. You say all right bitch, shut
46:32
up. And then you, you can make a 20
46:37
minute video fucking yapping about something shit because the
46:40
AI just lays it all out for you and tells you what's up.
46:44
Most of the time, 90% of the time when I make a video, it's
46:49
all right out of my brain or shit that I've seen on the news
46:53
or something in philosophy I've thought about or something
46:56
creative. But nowadays, yeah, an AI can
47:00
really, really tell you, tell you some neat shit.
47:05
I just wonder what would happen in 100 years if we let
47:09
artificial intelligence and robots do most of the work for
47:12
us. What will the world be like?
47:15
I know a lot of people are going to lose jobs, people already
47:18
are, but what would happen if we had like some kind of supernova
47:24
or some kind of sunspot that ended up knocking everything out
47:29
with EM waves? When we survive because we've
47:34
become so weak as a species that we create things that we can
47:40
depend on, and then we become compulsive and lazy and don't
47:45
really do anything with our fucking hands anymore.
47:48
Our brains, we just get smart enough to make the thing and
47:53
then we allow ourselves to get stupid unless we think that
47:57
there's some new technological breakthrough, then suddenly we
48:00
get a handful of people. I think that's what happened too
48:03
in the world. I think that, you know, you
48:07
always hear these politicians saying, well, the reason why we
48:11
work with China and the reason why we work with these other
48:13
countries is because they got extremely sophisticated people
48:20
who know a lot of shit. But in America, a lot of people
48:24
are dumb. The education system's low.
48:28
And you know, that's possibly true because our politicians
48:32
only wanted cheap. They didn't give a fuck if
48:34
people were dumb or not. So maybe that is maybe that's
48:39
true. Maybe that's one of the big
48:40
reasons why a lot of manufacturing companies and
48:43
digital people went elsewhere, you know?
48:52
All right, so I've been talking for almost an hour now and yes,
48:59
I still do podcasts and shit, but I do most of my stuff on the
49:02
radio if people are interested. Don't really care that much
49:07
about fucking YouTube. YouTube is boring to me, so
49:14
that's the best place to really hear me whenever I'm at my
49:18
pivotal best. All right, God bless.
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