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#3 - Talking Nemesis & Fire Trucks · The Chris and Mike Show

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I'm also the Gilbert Fire Department's 100th year
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anniversary hacked. Very nice.
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Very nice shout out to the Gilbert Fire Department and
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their 100th anniversary, right? Right.
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And my buddy Jake Slash, Todd Smith, who was around still
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around. He came to our many of our
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Nemesis shows back in the day. I remember him.
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He was cool dude. He still is a cool dude.
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Well, I only knew him for the very short time.
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I'm glad to hear he's still a cool dude.
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I personally would like to be sponsored by.
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That's great. I would personally like to be
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sponsored by Charvel Guitars. I will give my address out.
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Just give me a shout out, I accept all. 3 Charvels This is a
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beautiful 1989 STX custom. This particular guitar has
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played approximately 1000 shows on stage.
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Oh yeah, not many people have set the guitar with the string
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broke one night and you were oh. Yes, yes, OK.
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That's the guitar that broke a string on stage and and you
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were. That's a good story.
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That's a good story. So it is a good story.
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You can't make this up. We were in the middle of playing
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Vision. Vision.
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OK, I love that song. That's a good song, man.
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At the end of episode #1, I've made myself a note to shut my
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phone off, and I did not do that this time.
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So I apologize to all the people out there who are diligently
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listening. That is a good story though.
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So I had a roommate at the time and his name was Martin Norton.
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That was really his name and he decided that he was going to be
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my guitar tech slash bodyguard. The only problem is he was crazy
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enough to be my bodyguard, but he didn't know anything about
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the bodyguard. Yes, but he didn't know anything
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about being a guitar tech. So.
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I break a string in the middle of the song and this is the only
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guitar I have at the time because my other one had gotten
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stolen out of the back of my car.
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Fucking assholes. I worked one whole summer doing
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a paper route to buy that guitar.
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Fucking assholes. Yeah.
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Everybody out there driving around, holding up, driving
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around and they see musicians, instruments and drums and any
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type of musician material in the vehicles.
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Leave them alone. Starving Musicians Note starving
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for a reason. They spend their life savings on
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their equipment to get to where they want to be with their
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dreams. Take them and you motherfuckers
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that break into their cars and steal their gear are the scum of
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the earth. You have no idea the struggles
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that musicians have to go through when initially starting
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up to buy their own gear, right? Amen.
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So Amen. Back back to my story.
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I broke the string at one time. This is way too much
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information, but it's necessary to tell the story.
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This guitar had what you call a floating Tremelo, so the tuning
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of the guitar was in direct proportion to all the strings
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being on the guitar. So when you broke a string, the
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whole guitar went out of tune. So.
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Instantly I couldn't play. I was fucked.
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And being on stage in front of hundreds of people at the time,
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I panicked and went back behind my amps and the band valiantly
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played on for probably 10 minutes.
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Never, never missed a beat. These guys were true
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professionals. Everybody had fun.
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Chris took over, started giving out beers.
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It was a great time, but Marty came back and he said what can I
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do to help you man? I said you can get the fuck away
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from me is what you can do to help me because you don't know
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anything about what I need to do right now.
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Normally this guitar before I had it set up professionally by
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a friend of mine. Shout out to thad it.
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I had the floating Tremelo, so I ended up having a block put in
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here so that it was like every other guitar because I only had
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the one guitar at the time and it was probably a year before I
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got another one. I think I played at least six or
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eight months with just one guitar really well.
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Yeah, it was a while. And I begged Troy to sell me
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this guitar. This guitar right here was
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originally bought by Ray Stone. Remember Ray Stone from The
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Juice Boys? Oh, I do remember Ray Stone.
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Yeah. He jammed with us at the
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Electric Ballroom in the Fender Showcase room.
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Remember you guys got written up about doing that song in.
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Was it The New Times that wrote about that Roadhouse Blues?
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Yeah, they said it was the best version they had ever heard.
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And I concur. It was the Roadhouse Blues,
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right? Yeah.
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Yep, Yep. That was it.
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Yeah, I love doing Morrison, man.
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So I had. I had, I had the.
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I had the. I haven't.
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I haven't. Yeah.
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Yeah. Ray bought this guitar
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originally in 1989. He sold it to Troy, who played
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in Common Ground that I ran sound for.
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Troy worked with me at a place called Color Masters when I was
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doing graphic arts. That's where my that's where my
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Charvel Model 6 got stolen. So I knew that Troy had bought
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this guitar from Ray and I begged him to sell it to me and
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he sold it to me for 300 bucks. So.
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Shout out to Troy. I still have it, and I still.
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Love it. It's It's always been my #1.
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Oh yeah, so. So here's a.
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Here's a little known fact about electric guitars.
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OK, fire away, little fire away, Mike.
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Little known fact about electric guitars.
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When you truly understand what you're looking for in the
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instrument, you do not plug the electric guitar in first.
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You play it acoustically in a quiet environment and you're
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listening for the sustain of the wood.
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If you hit the note and it doesn't ring out in the wood,
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it's going to sound like shit when you plug it in.
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It's not even worth plugging in. This guitar is made out of swamp
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ash. And it has a just a beautiful
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mid range tone to it that cuts through anything beautiful right
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now. I guess while we're on the
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subject with Nemesis, maybe we should talk about Nemesis.
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We could talk about, I have a question because this is our
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third one and you know I inadvert you don't want to say
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something, check, say something right.
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Hello. Check.
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Test. Hello.
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So, yeah, so, so The funny thing.
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I'm here. Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you.
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Can you hear me? Yeah, I got you.
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OK, well what's weird is is my mic.
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My mic's not using this mic, it's using that mic, which is
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weird. So I'm just making sure you can
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hear me because for some reason even though this is plugged in
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to my focus right and it's selected.
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Oh, I got you. It's not going through your
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condenser mic right now, no. Like on the bottom of this where
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I click mic, it shows internal microphone built in.
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So hopefully that isn't Jack with our sound quality at all.
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That would be a drag, you know. So anyway, let's talk about the
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rock'n'roll bands that should have been Hello.
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Lay it on me. What's your fondest memory of
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Nemesis? Moving this around, my fondest
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memory of Nemesis had to be the the the cigarette incident on
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the electric ballroom Just. Do you want to tell that story,
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or do you want me to? We could both tell it.
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All right, so we were, we were, we were preparing to go on.
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We were preparing to go on. I forget who we were, who we
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were opening up for, but we were preparing to go on.
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It was. The Marshall Tucker Band, I'm
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always saying I'm nervous Synergy.
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And those that know me, there you go.
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Those that know me know I have nervous synergy.
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So I was antsy. I was pacing back and forth, you
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know, and not nervous, just antsy.
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Just I I was never the first time we ever played live.
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I was nervous because it was the first time ever with a band
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live. I don't really count Disturbed.
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We played like 2 shows and they were open mic stuff.
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So. But with Nemesis, because we
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were playing, you know, real gigs, we were selling tickets,
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we were opening for national bands or yeah, national acts,
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whatever you'll call it. And I remember every show,
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because you smoked you, you, you'd have your guitar and you'd
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always have a smoke stuck up in the the keys, you know?
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Hold on. One SEC, One SEC.
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A big smoker. Because, you know, I wasn't.
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OK, OK. See that you could.
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There you. There you go.
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There you go. Ladies and gentlemen, just so
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you know he wasn't kidding. That's a permanent cigarette
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burn. Yeah.
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There you go. I don't smoke.
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You know, I never really did because being a singer, you
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know, I always felt it would get damaged my my instrument, right.
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But every now and then, every now and then, just, you know,
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for the hell of it, before every show, I would, I would, I would
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do a shot of Jaeger and drink a beer.
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And so I had done that and I still was kind of antsy, white,
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amped up. So I grabbed your smoke.
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Took a drag. Inhaled and put it back.
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We all should take it from there.
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Yes, because what he didn't know was that I had a guy that lived
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about, I don't know, 5-6 doors down from me when I lived at
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Metro Village, also where Barton Norton lived.
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For those that are following along with the Nemesis story,
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Martin Norton and myself lived at Metro Village.
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There was a kid. I don't know.
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He was probably 5-6 years older than us.
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And he lived right by the pool, so everybody had their door open
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in the summertime and we'd all be hanging out and drinking.
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This kid was a little weird. He was standoffish, kind of a
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strange guy. But I saw him sitting on his
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patio one day and he was rolling cigarettes.
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And you know, for those who are younger people in the audience,
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marijuana wasn't always legal. We used to have to hide it and
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if you got caught with it, they would actually put you in jail.
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So we didn't talk about it and we hit it and only those that
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were in the know, we're in the know, right?
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So I get the bright idea. I'm like, he's rolling
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cigarettes. I wonder if you could roll a
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cigarette into a joint. Right.
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So this poor kid, he cleans up his cigarette rolling machine
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and he's into it just because we're giving him the time of
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day, right? He was so fascinated.
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That we wanted to hang out with him and I felt sorry for him,
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but I was happy for him at the same time.
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So we take our weed over there, we get it all broke up, not
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really having thought it through.
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We were a little naive and stupid.
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Marijuana is very sticky, tobacco is not sticky.
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We we ruined this poor kids rolling machine.
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So that's the only reason we only had one joint.
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Because we couldn't get another one through the machine, I bet
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he spent days cleaning that thing, man.
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So then poor Chris, he sees my cigarette like it's always there
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and he's just used to grabbing it.
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Because this wasn't we weren't weekend warriors.
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We were either practicing every day or we had a gig.
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There were no days off. So.
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Whether we were at practice or whether we were at a gig, he was
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just used to grabbing it, taking a drag, drinking his beer.
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That was his thing. So being in the middle of the
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song, we had no way to tell him. So I looked at Scott and he
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looked at me and we just both started laughing.
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And Needless to say, I think Chris had one of the probably
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better times he had on stage that night.
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It was one of those things where there's a couple couple more
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songs in the set. It's like, well, I feel really
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good, absolutely better than I normally feel like.
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What's going? On here, man.
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Yeah, so tell the general public who is not experienced, tell
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tell everybody that is not experienced with the great
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blessing to the earth that is the THC in the marijuana, that
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all it does is make you feel better, right?
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Correct. That's that's all it did.
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It just it it it it took the anxiety I had down for sure and
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just you know we knew we knew all our stuff forwards and
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backwards. So it wasn't you know, I I I
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pride myself on never having forgotten lyrics or or fucked up
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the song, you know, from a from a musical standpoint.
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I mean practice we did, you know, when we were building
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songs but live never messed anything up.
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You know, I'm sure there was times I was out at you, but
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that's just being live. But with with that night, it
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just remembered by two or three songs later, man, it was just, I
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was just I was just kind of like in so in I could hear and feel
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everything musically. It was kind of a trip to where
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you just. It's one of those weird moments
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where you're just In Sync with everything, like everything you
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guys were doing and I was doing. It was just, I mean, it wasn't
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until like a week or so later, but I realized what I did.
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But and swimming up, she'll be in a blast, you know?
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And then just jamming and having fun, which is what it was always
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about to me. Just jamming, have fun.
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Whatever happens, happens. Just, you know, own the space
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and time you're in and make the most of it.
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Put smiles on people's faces down.
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Well, I I think you hit the nail on the head.
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you said.
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That there were times that you were out of key.
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There were times that Scott speed up and slowed down.
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There were times that I hit the wrong note.
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The one thing that we always, the one thing that we always
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reinforced all the time to each other is everybody's going to
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make mistakes. For the love of Christ, don't
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stop. Correct.
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Right. Yeah.
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Because if you stop, it's a train wreck.
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Just just, yeah. Because The thing is, the
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audience doesn't right. And the audience doesn't know
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you made the mistake. Unless they followed us from day
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one and know everyone of our songs forwards, backwards, and
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even then sometimes some of those stands that we had, you
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know, knowing that we may have done something a little awkward.
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I don't think it was ever really caught by them because like you
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said, we just kept playing. We just played through it.
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And that's the the true tightness of a band is, is, is
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you just never stop like that Mellencamp show we talked about.
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I think the first episode when he was from he was drumming and
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his snare, his snare, he he popped his snare.
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We heard he popped the snare because you and I both looked at
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him and as soon as we looked at him the the drum tech guy
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grabbed. I just snare, snare his, his
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hand came up. By the time I went back down and
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hit that snare, that new snare top was on that set.
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He didn't miss a beat. It was insane probably.
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That was at cricket. So there's probably, what,
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20,000 people there? So I'm going to guess maybe 1000
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people saw that if that if that because it was just that
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flawless of a of a transition from and boom you know you
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needed that guy insured guitar deck.
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I did, absolutely. That would have been great to
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have that night. Because just having it don't,
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you know, I I actually got to go back.
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There's no way I waited a year to buy another guitar that that
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that story just came out of a fantasy land, because what that
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night taught me. Was that I could never play
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another gig without another guitar again.
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And if you remember, that's when I borrowed my cousin's Paul Reed
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Smith. He had that beautiful Red Paul
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Reed Smith. It was gorgeous, yeah.
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So I use that and then the I use that and then the guitar that I
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have now. But I always, dude, I always.
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Now, well, the Paul Reed Smith got stolen, so that's probably a
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story for another day about scumbags.
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If you remember that guitar got stolen out of my apartment off
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the air, I'll tell you who I think it was.
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But I don't want to publicly shame someone because they were
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never convicted. But I have my suspicions as to
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who it was, OK. Fair enough.
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And you were you were going down the path about something about
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the band? No, I just what I think the
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difference between a band that can power through mistakes to
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where nobody else notices. And you're right, we used to ask
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people all the time that followed us from day one or
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happened to be engaged to or married to the one of the people
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in the band. What did you think?
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Did you hear, you know, a mistake here or there and. 99
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out of 100 times they'd say no, it sounded great or it sounded
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better than the last time. We only knew that.
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And we were conscious of not paying attention to the fact
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that we played these songs thousands and thousands of times
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at practice, at gigs. We played them till we were sick
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of them, and then we played them about 1000 more times.
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And then we were ready. Like Chris said, we played them
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from our subconscious. We would do things that thank
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God we had. Recording ability Back then,
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because we'd watch those tapes that you recorded and Scott and
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I and yourself, we would all hear things that we didn't even
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know we did that night, right? So actually the songs would
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evolve and grow as we played them more because we never
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limited ourselves to. They have to be a certain way.
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Nope. And playing live.
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Every time you play live, regardless of the band,
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everybody, every musician knows it's faster.
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You just unintentionally your music's faster alive.
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That was the one thing I heard about Charlie Watts.
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Rolling Stones drummer. Like he kept all those
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motherfuckers in check. Like he never speed up.
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He never slowed down. He was, he was like a human
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metronome. They called him because his his
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drumming was on point. Regardless if it was in front of
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five people or 500,000, he wouldn't waver at all.
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He was like the metronome drummer of all time.
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He's dead, right? I think he's dead.
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Yes, poor Charlie just died recently and I saw him in an
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interview and the one thing that I took away from that interview
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that I always remember is he was asked why he never showed his
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ability. Because Charlie was a bad ass
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drummer. That guy could play anything.
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And the interviewer said, you know, why don't you showcase
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that more often? And Charlie said, I play what
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Mick and Keith asked me to play. I play what the song requires,
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and I'm proud to do that. He knew what he signed up for.
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It's the whole thing that we talked about with songwriting
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within our own band. It's all about the song, man.
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It's not about me. It's what can I do to make this
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song that much better at this moment in time?
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Correct. Right, Exactly.
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That was the one cool thing that we talked, I don't know, we
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talked about this, but that's the one cool thing about you and
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I's relationship. I could give you, I could give
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you a lyric, I give you a which I wrote them out as there's
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always rooting in in a in a four verse, four line verse, you know
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chorus type ballad from a poetry standpoint.
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Because that was my background in writing was poetry.
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So I could give you something that typically would have you
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know two or three verses and a pre course and a chorus and two
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or three verses and a you know, a bridge in there and then a you
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know, wrap it up course and you could take that.
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And the next time we played together we'd have music that
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emulated what what I was thinking of emotionally and the
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feeling of the song. You just you made it work which
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is cool and the only and I'm not comparing us to INXS at all.
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But the only time I've ever come across anybody that had that
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kind of uncanny ability that you and I have with Michael
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Hutchinson and and the musicians in in XS because I saw I saw
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Doctor Miner on them. They would give him music and he
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would leave the room and go through his notebooks like I
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used to go through and boom, oh, here it is blah blah blah
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melody. Here you go.
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Here's your melody here's your song What the fuck.
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But that was just he had that connection and I just for
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whatever reason you know I always had that connection
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that's and it's it's I never had that with any other guitar
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player I've ever played like ever.
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I've had to explain. I've had to, you know, I don't
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know you and I just have that thing.
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It was easy, man. It was super easy version of
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yeah, yeah. It just always flowed naturally,
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you know, but but we made it work that way because we, you
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know, we don't have, neither one of us have an aggressive
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personality when it came to. Really anything.
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You know, it was having a good time and it wasn't, it wasn't a
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competition, you know, I wanted to do justice to your lyrics.
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And it was just fortunate that you like the music that I wrote,
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you know? The thing that I've missed in my
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life is having Scott behind the drums because that was equally
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as easy to get a song written because.
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I can sit here and come up with riffs for days, you know that.
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I'll just come up with one after another, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
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But what? His Forte?
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And there's never been anybody I've sat in a room with before
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or since that could piece something together that he heard
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for two seconds? 2 minutes?
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Two days ago? Two weeks ago.
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He just had a his brain being a drummer, it was super easy for
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him to take pieces and put them together like a puzzle, You
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know, he would say you played this thing the other day.
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Now you're doing this. If you come up with just a
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couple chords here, now we got a bridge and we can tie those two
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things together. It would take 5 minutes sitting
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here at my computer trying to do that on Garage Band.
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Holy crap man. It takes me days because I'm not
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a drummer, right? Well, there's a big difference
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of. Yeah, and there's.
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And there's a big difference of of of making music in the same
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room than it is, you know, over the Internet.
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Like a lot of the bands that put music out during COVID, right.
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And they would be recording their part like Guns and Roses
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the last time before they broke up.
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Originally, nothing was recorded in the same spot.
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Like actually this shit and send it to slash, even Van Halen.
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The last record was Sammy from a documentary I watched.
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Sandler would go in and lay the the vocals down after they were
27:29
done laying the music down. Like to me that would have
27:31
sucked. I was like fuck you.
27:32
I'm not going in there by myself.
27:33
It's not happening. It's because to me you got to
27:37
have that that camaraderie and that rapport with with your
27:42
brothers and your you know because music's music and you
27:45
need everybody there in order to you know do the thing.
27:50
So it's just it's just I I don't know how people can do it
27:56
without being in the same room like we're we're we're you and I
28:01
are going to work on some stuff It's going to be interesting to
28:03
see how we how we pull it off. If we pull it off being because
28:07
we fed so much off each other energy you know that that it's
28:16
just it'll be interesting. If I'm dinging, that's because
28:18
my my son is chiming in from Okinawa.
28:28
He can chime in all he wants. He's defending our freedom.
28:30
Thank you very much for your service.
28:34
Exactly. Yes, he's sending a messenger,
28:37
but yes. Tell him hi from the podcast and
28:42
thank him for our service. For our service.
28:46
For his service. Jesus, Absolutely.
28:50
His service services the service.
28:53
Our services, We're sitting our asses in this chair trying to
28:56
provide some entertainment for the fine folks out there, right?
29:03
Right in this 92 fucking degree day in Arizona on November 7th,
29:08
2020. Three.
29:11
So Chris was on the West Coast. And he's enjoying 93 degrees.
29:17
And it was a it was a pleasant 63 degrees here in Pontiac, IL
29:20
today. Beautiful, beautiful.
29:28
Yeah, it's all good, man. It's all good.
29:32
That's why I moved back here 68 degrees.
29:36
You can brag when I'm freezing my nuts off.
29:38
Has a winter, right? That's good.
29:41
Just going to say, how's the winter?
29:44
You know, right. What do you start and I haven't
29:46
been in Illinois, I mean I'm from, I'm from Illinois too, so
29:49
the listeners understand that but.
29:51
Yes, all the cool people come from Illinois 50 years.
29:56
All right, this is true cheap trick.
30:00
Adam Jones from Tool and us. Tom Morello from Raised Against
30:05
the Machine, Billy Corgan from Actually the whole Smashing
30:10
Pumpkins. I believe they started in
30:12
Chicago. Really Disturbed is from
30:16
Chicago. REO Speedwagon is from
30:22
Champagne. I knew that.
30:29
There's got to be more, yeah. There's more.
30:34
I just can't remember. Those are some pretty those are
30:36
some pretty big bands. Yeah, I'm sure there is.
30:41
Yeah, absolutely. I could Google it, but you know,
30:47
so, so people, so we should probably plug this down.
30:49
So it's a crystal mic show. We're on.
30:51
Where are we on? We're on Spotify, we're on
30:53
Apple. Where else?
30:55
Yes. OK.
30:58
So we are on Spotify, we are on Apple Music, we are on Google
31:03
Podcast, we are on Amazon Music, and we are on iHeartRadio.
31:13
I have confirmed Spotify. I have confirmed Apple.
31:19
I have confirmed iHeartRadio. I have not confirmed Amazon
31:22
Music or Google. I will do that soon.
31:30
OK. I need to.
31:33
Reach out to SO yes, Gavin and find out where he's at with our
31:36
logo. We definitely appreciate the
31:41
people who have been listening and if you can share it or get
31:46
people to share it on your social media.
31:48
We should currently be working on a Facebook page and an
31:53
Instagram page and all that stuff will be coming soon and
31:56
when we get it, we'll let you know we're going to have a logo.
32:00
We need the logo to put on those pages.
32:02
So that's why they haven't been made yet.
32:04
I've had, I've been questioned about a couple things.
32:07
That's one of them. Yeah, I just.
32:10
I just text Gavin right now. Like, dude, where's the logo?
32:13
Where's the. Logo.
32:14
He's on the ball, man, so sometimes.
32:19
We do appreciate the people who have listened and subscribed,
32:23
Absolutely. Oh, I see.
32:27
I haven't looked at anything now but yet, 'cause I'm that guy
32:30
that just I don't. I don't.
32:32
I don't want to know how many followers we have.
32:35
I don't want to know how many subscribers we have.
32:38
I just want to do our thing. So I'm going to let you do that,
32:43
but I kind of got to have to be that guy because I would like to
32:50
monetize this at some point, right?
32:55
Oh yeah, absolutely. I have to know how many hits we
32:59
have so I can contact those people, right?
33:04
Yeah. Yeah.
33:05
Like we maybe we can get Gilbert Fire Department to sponsor us.
33:08
You know, bring a fire truck to my house during the show.
33:10
Park it out front. Turn on the sounds.
33:14
You know if I had a little fire truck, I'd.
33:17
I'd show it to you. But it's in the other room.
33:18
You don't have any fire trucks, really.
33:21
Like you have a little man on the wall with a fire truck.
33:22
Though I can I can make a weird little dash say that he's.
33:31
Going to show us a picture of his grandson.
33:34
On the fire truck. His grandson loves fire trucks,
33:39
by the way. Has a lot of grandsons do.
33:42
I'm sure my little nephew likes fire trucks too.
33:45
This could be another. We were talking fire trucks
33:48
while they were gone. By the way, shameless sponsor
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plug. Oh, right on.
33:53
Yeah. See, there's little man at the
33:56
Gilbert fire station number one with.
33:59
He's got his little ladder fire truck right there.
34:02
And then the real life fire truck right there.
34:04
My buddy Todd gave me this. So this is mixed tiles.
34:09
Mixed tiles. You want to put your memories on
34:11
the wall? Little magnet stickers, boom on
34:15
the wall. So.
34:16
Mixed tiles. So let me tell you, let me tell
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you there's your sponsor, Mike. If you ever find yourself
34:22
driving down Interstate 55 past Hudson, IL.
34:27
Find my brother because he's a volunteer fireman there and
34:30
he'll give Little Man a ride on the fire truck, I'm sure.
34:36
But I don't. I don't know what I've been
34:39
doing in Illinois with Little Man because he's not mine.
34:42
He's my grandson. Yes, he is your grandson, but if
34:46
you ever find yourself. If I do, If I do.
34:49
You know where to find a place for him to get in a fire truck?
34:55
Yeah, yeah, 'cause he gets that here with Todd.
34:57
Like, I think he's been to the station three Times Now.
35:00
His, his, his first one was really cool.
35:02
I should have brought it off the wall too, because the the size
35:05
of him, the picture I took, he's flying.
35:09
He's doing this little flying thing he's doing.
35:10
He was not funny like this, but he's flying.
35:14
So he's flying like this with the big fire truck next to him.
35:19
And it's just he captures the moment, 'cause that was the
35:21
first time he went to the fire station and his eyes just kind
35:26
of got a buddy, Ian Campbell, who's a trucker from the truck
35:28
driving company. So I took him over to Ian's
35:31
house one day because Ian was working on the brakes in his, in
35:34
his, in his, in his semi. But he took the whole thing so
35:37
she, she, not this tractor trailer took up like in front of
35:40
his house and his neighbors on both sides.
35:43
And little man is a cul-de-sac. So he got out of, out of my
35:45
truck, put him on the ground. He was just like this thing was
35:50
massive to him, right? Because he was only, you know,
35:54
as high as my knee. And here's this monster.
35:56
And so Ian was cool, man. He let him in the cab.
35:58
He let him message the headphones and push all the
36:00
buttons and shit. We got him.
36:02
That's awesome. Get him in the back.
36:04
You know the cargo. And he was running up and down
36:06
that the ramp. Super nice guy they have, They
36:08
have the annual Ugly Sweater Christmas party we go to every
36:11
year, which is coming up next month.
36:12
So that should be fun. Super nice family.
36:15
Met them, the booster guy for football when Jake was in high
36:20
school. But yeah, it's nice to have
36:23
those kind of friends that that have things that the little ones
36:26
get into. Well, it's.
36:29
Crazy because this was a cool day.
36:30
Because he was. He's old enough.
36:33
All of a sudden, my brother just decided he wanted to be a
36:35
volunteer fireman. So we got one in our family now,
36:38
too. That's awesome.
36:43
And it is. It is.
36:45
Yeah, for the other brother, Matt.
36:47
OK. Yep.
36:50
I just got one brother, and then I have a sister.
36:52
I don't think you can be a volunteer firefighter.
36:54
Oh, yeah, OK. I don't think you can be a
36:56
volunteer firefighter in Arizona.
36:57
At least down in the Valley. I think he got to be legit.
37:01
Well, he lives in a pretty small town, you know.
37:05
Yeah, yeah. Does he have a little fire bell
37:08
in his house? So when the fire goes off, he
37:10
rings to go right on. No shit.
37:12
I'm I'm sure that's how it works.
37:14
I have no idea I. I see the pictures that he posts
37:18
on Facebook and he told me that he became a volunteer fireman.
37:21
And past that, I really don't know how it works.
37:23
I'm sure they got to have something to where they can get
37:25
a hold of him because they're on call 24/7.
37:28
You know, maybe we'll have to have him on the podcast and
37:33
we'll talk about fire stuff. He can tell us about the trucks,
37:39
what it took to be a fireman. I don't know anything about
37:43
being a firefighter. So there you go.
37:45
We could learn about that. You have to.
37:48
Yep, you have to go to school. Think you have to go to school
37:55
at some point in time, or you have to be in the military to
37:57
learn all the firefighting things.
38:01
The one thing that I will share with you that that that you're
38:04
not going to miss is the Arizona crud.
38:09
Remember the Arizona crud. You.
38:11
Know I do. I had it many times, yes.
38:15
And yeah, that's what's going on right now.
38:20
That's what's going on right now.
38:21
So if you think I'm doing this a lot, that's because I'm doing
38:24
this a lot because the Earth just some people don't
38:28
misconstrue my my stifling. For something, yes.
38:34
He's definitely not a cocaine addict.
38:36
So no, no drug. Free right here.
38:47
So what else should we chat about in this episode #3 of the
38:51
Crystal Light Show podcast as we are fastly approaching 40
38:56
minutes on the time and you'll be happy to know I haven't had
39:00
to pee, so that's good. You know, normally I have to go
39:04
to the bathroom by now, but not right now.
39:06
Not today. Not today.
39:09
We have ways of making that happen.
39:11
So nobody knows, you know, You know, I do.
39:16
I don't really know. Oh, because you could pause it.
39:18
That's right. But you could pause the thing
39:20
and I would disappear and come back.
39:21
But I'm good. I'm good.
39:23
Though Or I can just talk to get a bottle like little man.
39:26
I can just talk to general public while you're gone, you
39:30
know, right? I could tell them some stories.
39:34
Yeah, so, so. True story.
39:37
Yeah, true story. I don't know, about a month ago,
39:41
maybe a month and a half. I take little man to school
39:44
every day. So we get up, they bring them
39:46
over, they hang out. I take them to school through my
39:49
truck. He looks at me like scared to
39:51
death, pop up. I got to pee, you know, reaches
39:55
down and grabs hold. I'm like shit because I have
39:58
nothing. And at home it's like, dude go
40:01
out and pee in the grass. So luckily I had a water bottle.
40:07
So take the lid off the water bottle, dump the water out.
40:12
There you go, little man. Pull the shorts down.
40:15
Take his dangling in the in the water bottle.
40:17
He proceeds to fill about 1/4 of that water bottle up.
40:19
He's looking at me like, what the hell are you doing
40:22
scribbling back on? Pull his pants back up, open my
40:24
door, dump it out, and he's just just like, whoa, what did you
40:29
just do? Needless to say, he hasn't had
40:32
to go to the bathroom ever again in my truck while waiting to go
40:35
to school. I would say that would probably
40:39
have solved it for me. Yep.
40:43
So I'm like, hey, well man, you got pee?
40:44
No. OK.
40:46
If he does backyard, go pee in the grass.
40:49
Let's go Every now and then he'll pee in the front yard,
40:51
which is kind of funny. But birds, I'm seeding and the
40:56
birds are in my yard. Away birds.
41:04
It's winter grass time in Arizona.
41:07
Oh yeah, I remember that. Anything else you want to talk
41:10
about? I don't think we had any
41:17
anything else, I don't think. I don't think I had anything
41:21
else. We will cover the We'll cover
41:24
the Nemesis subject from time to time.
41:29
Like to thank everybody for listening and share it with your
41:32
friends. Yes.
41:36
And remember, little man and his fire truck, everybody should
41:40
smile on that note. Exactly.
41:43
We'll leave everybody with a smile.
41:44
They should, they should here leave everybody with a smile.
41:48
The fact that he he, he, he had the the sense to bring his
41:53
ladder truck with him and he was playing with his ladder truck
41:57
while a ladder truck in the background was being washed.
42:00
That picture is he didn't hang out right at the.
42:03
That picture is amazing, man. I love it.
42:08
Yeah, I was portrait with my with my iPhone, my Apple iPhone
42:12
I-15 Pro. You should like, submit that to
42:16
some kind of contest or something, Yeah, yeah, it's the
42:21
portrait mode, man. Portrait mode on the phones are
42:23
so unbelievably. Cool.
42:25
Yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, it's just and I just
42:29
take him in the. I just take him in the mall.
42:30
Nikki was with me that day, so I didn't have to be latched to
42:32
him, you know? But he we popped him up there
42:36
because it was hot. And he had his fire truck and he
42:40
was talking about his fire truck and fire truck behind him.
42:44
But yeah, and you can't really tell when he's got a he's got a
42:47
really cute little grin on his face because because you know,
42:51
best day ever when you're 3 years old, you get to go to a
42:54
fire station. Damn right.
42:56
Don't get anybody from Mike Michaels.
42:58
I'm Chris Dunham. I would like to give a shout out
43:01
to Chris Dunham until next time. He's Chris Dunham.
43:05
I'd like to give a shout out to Rhonda and Sunshine and Hannah
43:09
and my mom and my dad and my sister and my brother-in-law.
43:14
Those are like our first 10 listeners or so.
43:17
So thank you very much for being patient with us and we'll keep
43:20
getting better. We're going to learn how to do
43:23
music and video and. Going to get amazing bear with
43:29
us. What's your shout out?
43:32
I can do music right now. Oh, he's going to do music right
43:36
now. It's over 4 and 20.
43:41
That's my shout out. There's our shout out.
43:44
We have to get off here in 13 seconds, right, 10-9, please.
43:53
Goodbye, ladies and gentlemen. Right on dude.
44:04
That's good. I It's weird my mind.