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HEAVY talks to KERRY KING Backstage at GOOD THINGS 2024 · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Ten minutes like the lightest make I've ever held.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're going to open eye you all right? He
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  Speaker 3: had all the good good questions.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm pubbied off you. That's right, it's all right,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 2: What's right?
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  Speaker 1: Repons?
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  Speaker 2: The building looks like a cruise you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for here today at Good Thing
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in Melbourne, Jimmy and I are speaking
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  Speaker 1: with the one and only Kerry King.
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  Speaker 2: Kerry, thanks for joining the cheers. Good to be here.
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  Speaker 1: How pleasure to have you here, my friends. So you've
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  Speaker 1: you've wrapped up a couple of side shows already with
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  Speaker 1: Mastering on in Sydney and Melbourne. Mate, So it's not
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  Speaker 1: that nice sort of way to ease into the tour,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just doing a couple of shows like that
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  Speaker 1: before hitting the festival.
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  Speaker 4: On is it's going to make the festival extremely easy
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  Speaker 4: because we were playing like seventy five minutes and today
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  Speaker 4: we're playing fifty, so we don't even break a swing.
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel to be back in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: A few years for I love Australia, dude, Yeah, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been here since twenty nineteen. Very good to
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  Speaker 4: be back. I wish we could come here more often actually,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, hey, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean they're gonna put out more music, so you want
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  Speaker 2: us back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So how does it feel like these days playing shows
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  Speaker 3: like as a new solo project as opposed to like
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  Speaker 3: the multi generational legacy like Slayter is? Like, is there
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  Speaker 3: a different vibe therefoil?
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely a difference.
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  Speaker 4: It It's kind of got the feeling of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when we started Slayer kind of except I have a
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  Speaker 4: whole career in my in my week, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean. But the yeah, the excitement is is every
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  Speaker 4: bit like when Slayer came out. You know, we're all
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  Speaker 4: super excited to be playing together. Me and Mark hang
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  Speaker 4: out every day off, so it's it's just getting used
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  Speaker 4: to your new friends, really, I mean, in.
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  Speaker 2: The music's business as usual. It's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: The turnouts have been great, the response has been great,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, we're just digging it. Yea.
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  Speaker 3: And outside of the shows, how's luck your day to
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  Speaker 3: day life?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Is it different that you're in your own project than
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  Speaker 3: not in this big kind of what's that commercial monster?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, not in a nice way.
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  Speaker 2: But how's that changed.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's just in a nutshell, it's just coming in
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  Speaker 4: with a mindset that I'm not in charge, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because with Slayer, I'm always in charge. So I've been
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  Speaker 4: in charge for the last you know, at least twenty
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  Speaker 4: five years when we you know, started headlining and just
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  Speaker 4: continued to headline. But you know, I never had a
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  Speaker 4: big attitude anyway. So it's it's again business as usual.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I don't come in expecting, you know,
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  Speaker 4: everything to be you know, like platinum, so to speak.
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  Speaker 4: If things aren't exactly right, like, it doesn't matter, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. Just we're here to play and and
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  Speaker 4: once we do that, we'll have some drinks and get
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  Speaker 4: that all out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that brings to your next question. I had a
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  Speaker 3: bad production values between you know, the slashes and.
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  Speaker 2: What you're doing now.
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  Speaker 3: So it is a more raw kind of thing now because.
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  Speaker 2: It is fresh, very very raw.
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  Speaker 4: Because everything we do en Slayer costs a lot of money,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and fire being the most expensive and the
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  Speaker 4: biggest difference. We certainly can't afford to be rolling with Pyro,
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  Speaker 4: although we have Pyro today ironically, So yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a much bigger show, you know, interchangeable backdrops and ship
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  Speaker 4: burning on stage we got we got a backdropper too,
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  Speaker 4: and like I said, today we have fire, but for
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  Speaker 4: the other two we don't.
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  Speaker 2: And we're just up there raging.
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  Speaker 3: Actually got a little waller. Guys shot have make some
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  Speaker 3: really good obvious at the rist is guy playing rining
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  Speaker 3: blood and it was writing and you had the red
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  Speaker 3: launch one.
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  Speaker 4: You'd be surprised how often that happens over outside.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't on my bastart. Just I was thinking about
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  Speaker 3: the production stuff. But you racally had a switch from
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  Speaker 3: basse a rich today guitars, how's that going for you?
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  Speaker 2: Excellent? You know they're there.
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  Speaker 4: You know now that I've been there since about eighteen
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  Speaker 4: or nineteen. You know, we've made some new shapes, we
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  Speaker 4: made some new designs, we made some new inlay designs
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  Speaker 4: for the fret board, and you know that I'm impressed
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  Speaker 4: with the quality. And I've met the actual dude that
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  Speaker 4: that runs the wood machine. So I've been to the factory.
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  Speaker 4: There was a change in the upper echelon in Dean
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  Speaker 4: and I just said, listen, I want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: the guys that were making my guitar still are because
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  Speaker 4: they do excellent stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm super happy to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have to to adjust your playing style at
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  Speaker 3: all with the new guitars or did they pretty well fine.
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  Speaker 4: Cheering them to Yeah, they're they're essentially copies of each other.
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  Speaker 4: You know, fret boards are not fret board, but the
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  Speaker 4: neck width and stuff is. You know, I I'm meticulous
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  Speaker 4: like this.
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  Speaker 2: I've taken my chrometers and done neck measurements and say
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  Speaker 2: make it like that. I didn't do that with Dean.
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  Speaker 2: I just said this feels about right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a certain different something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's stuff you get used to. It's like playing
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  Speaker 4: a Kayler or Floyd Rose. You know, you don't go
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  Speaker 4: back and forth. You start with one and you stick
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll throw it back.
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  Speaker 1: If you're released David album from Hell rise back in May,
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  Speaker 1: like you were going to have a prettyvious scene audience.
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  Speaker 1: But was it overall received better than you expected?
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  Speaker 4: It all? I was pretty sure about the content. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we'd worked on it, me and Paul for a long
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  Speaker 4: long time. I mean some of this stuff, you'd be
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  Speaker 4: amazed how long I keep rifts like residue. I think
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  Speaker 4: the body of that song is over twenty years old,
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  Speaker 4: but I just didn't have the friends to marry it
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  Speaker 4: to to make it a good song. But I knew
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  Speaker 4: I liked it, so I just kept it around. I
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  Speaker 4: think that was I think that's been around since the
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  Speaker 4: last time Paul was in the band, and here it
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  Speaker 4: finally came out. So you know, that's an odd case.
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  Speaker 4: But there was leftovers from Repentless. There's stuff I've written
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  Speaker 4: since Repentless, and a lot of stuff left over from
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  Speaker 4: from How I Rise. It's going to make up most
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  Speaker 4: of the record too, whenever we get to that. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, I knew I'd played for some close friends
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  Speaker 4: and that won't lie to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I felt really strong about it, and all
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  Speaker 4: the feedback I got from my friends was you don't
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  Speaker 4: know how good this is. And I'm like, well, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's pretty good, but you know, time will tell.
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  Speaker 1: We had our first argument over it, like over who
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  Speaker 1: was going to get to review it, and we both
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  Speaker 1: came in the same completion that its like it is
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  Speaker 1: a slam of metal.
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  Speaker 2: Quickness tool that makes me happy. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I just I just got an email or text the
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  Speaker 4: other day that we were the only metal band on
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  Speaker 4: Rolling Stones top one hundred. I'm like, that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: And then you made an awesome choice with vocalist.
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  Speaker 4: To right, And the best thing we did was keep
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  Speaker 4: that all quiet until we announced it when we wanted
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  Speaker 4: to announce it, because the speculation on the internet was
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  Speaker 4: crazy and nine times out of ten everybody would say
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  Speaker 4: Phil was going to do it, and I knew ages
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  Speaker 4: ago Phil wasn't going to do it, but I didn't
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  Speaker 4: tell anybody to keep the hot down.
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  Speaker 3: So we was having like Mark in the band, like
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  Speaker 3: he's such a kind of multifaceted vocalist, like he can
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  Speaker 3: go all over the place. Is there any kind of
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  Speaker 3: possible songwriting opportunities there to maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Use some more.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm totally open to writing with with Phil, with
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  Speaker 4: whoever has music or lyric ideas. It's just with all
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  Speaker 4: my downtime for record one, I had so much shit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and that might spill over to record too,
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  Speaker 4: being all mine as well. I'm not totalitarian like that.
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  Speaker 4: I want that to be the case. That's that's the
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  Speaker 4: furthest thing from the truth. So whenever we start working
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  Speaker 4: on record too, if anybody's got ideas, I'm definitely gonna
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  Speaker 4: listen to him and Mark.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing about Mark, we were here before he
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  Speaker 2: got the gig.
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  Speaker 4: He was doing demos with us for like eight nine months,
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  Speaker 4: just because you're my friend, and you know I started
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  Speaker 4: the first session. I'm like, listen, if we're gonna run
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  Speaker 4: with this, we got to recreate you. I want people
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  Speaker 4: to hear you sing on my album and not know
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  Speaker 4: it's you.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we did pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic from upstage. Thanks very much for you to
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  Speaker 1: carry absolutely absolutely preasure speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you want I to get a little happy snapped
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  Speaker 1: you before you go.
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  Speaker 2: Off? Kerry good.
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  Speaker 1: Very much, Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: They are they really did you want to try and
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  Speaker 3: squeeze one from that car?
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  Speaker 2: That is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Caro, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: How could.
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  Speaker 1: Without killing audio? Seventh Jed, I was gonna confirmed because
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  Speaker 1: not too said myself, Well, what anyone when getting er thirty,
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  Speaker 1: I might hear you.
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  Speaker 2: We got a Mark and kept gown