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Why Did Thunder Break Up—and What Brought Luke Morley Back? (2008 Archive) · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, this is Craig from Forbidden, and you're watching CMS TV.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_02: Brand new Thunder right here on the Classic Metal Show.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's from their latest release called Bang.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the name of that tune there is called Carol Ann.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Chris, you know as well as I do that I'm a big fan of Thunder.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you're kind of a Johnny-come-lately when it comes to the band Thunder.
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  SPEAKER_02: But nevertheless,
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  SPEAKER_02: we're always happy to have somebody from the band Thunder here on
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  SPEAKER_02: the Classic Metal Show with us.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we want to welcome back Luke Morley to the Classic Metal Show.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome, Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to be here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Luke, Chris and I were just talking off air about the fact that we're both Thunder fans.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Chris will admit that up until about two years ago,
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  SPEAKER_02: he didn't even know who you guys were, but now he's a diehard fan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, this is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: All we need is a few more million like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm ashamed to admit it, Luke.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anything about the band until Robert Johnson's Tombstone,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then because of that, I went back and got everything else, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's always a kind of – it's been a bit uphill for us in the States,
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  SPEAKER_01: obviously,
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  SPEAKER_01: because we don't have
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  SPEAKER_03: a regular release there,
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  SPEAKER_03: but the more people like you guys have spread the word,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, we really appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Luke, obviously, man, the new album getting ready to come out is called Bang.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very much in the same style as what you've done throughout your career.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's almost a little bit more diverse than a lot of the stuff
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  SPEAKER_00: that you've been doing,
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  SPEAKER_00: where especially the last album was a more up-tempo type record.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one kind of does the roller coaster a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was there something different in the writing this time?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a little bit more.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that perhaps...
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  SPEAKER_01: The circumstances under which we
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  SPEAKER_03: recorded this one,
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  SPEAKER_03: the fact that we were kind of in a big old castle out in the country,
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  SPEAKER_03: it was a very kind of English thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think because we recorded it, we weren't under any sort of time pressure.
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  SPEAKER_03: We had a lot more time to write the songs.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I kind of let myself wander a little bit more.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I guess that some of the last songs written are more kind of diverse,
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  SPEAKER_03: like Turn Left at California being one and Retribution being the other.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they're kind of things like things we've not done before,
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  SPEAKER_03: but they, in the context of the album, you know, they kind of work great.
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  SPEAKER_03: And for us, I mean, our only criteria is, you know, does it feel good?
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  SPEAKER_03: Is it a good tune?
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, will we feel comfortable playing it live?
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  SPEAKER_03: And if it ticks, If all of those things, then we just go with it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Luke, the future of Thunder was in jeopardy a few years ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: You guys almost called it a day, and there might have been no more Thunder.
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  SPEAKER_02: But what happened to bring you guys back and start recording great music again?
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  SPEAKER_02: Am I correct in saying that you guys almost were no more?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, we stopped for a couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that we got to a point
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  SPEAKER_03: where we'd been doing it kind of 11 years and in
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  SPEAKER_03: that 11 years, you know, a few things had changed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some of the guys had kids and,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: we'd done a lot of touring and recording and it had been the focus of our lives
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  SPEAKER_03: for sort of 11 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I suppose as the songwriter, I mean, I felt like I needed a bit of a rest from it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: I said to the guys, listen,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: it'd be good to kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: let's just kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's kind of pause for a while and do some other things, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it was never a case of, we're not going to do this again.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was just kind of, it was like an indefinite break, if you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think the thing that pulled it back together was we were offered some shows in
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  SPEAKER_03: the UK on a really good package with Alice Cooper and a few other bands.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we thought it'd be fun to just get together and do the shows and see how it went.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I started writing a few songs just kind of with that in mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then that turned into an album which was shooting at the sun.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then everything kind of fell in again naturally after that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was the way it should have happened.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everything we do tends to be fairly spontaneous.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not really good at planning things.
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  SPEAKER_03: We just kind of do them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I stumbled across Thunder for the first time back in about 1990
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  SPEAKER_02: when you guys were featured on the Donington Festival.
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  SPEAKER_02: And David Coverdale was very, very much in your corner.
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you guys still friends with David Coverdale?
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  SPEAKER_02: You guys do anything with Whitesnake at all?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well,
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  SPEAKER_03: actually,
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  SPEAKER_03: we did some shows here in the UK in the summer,
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  SPEAKER_03: which were great fun, which was with Whitesnake and with Def Leppard.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that was quite an interesting three shows, just three arena shows.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it was a lot of fun because, obviously, you know, all the Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, what is the scene like over there for good, hard,
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  SPEAKER_02: Blues-based rock such as Thunder, Def Leppard, Whitesnake.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because over here in the States,
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  SPEAKER_02: especially this past,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll say the last two years,
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  SPEAKER_02: there's been kind of a resurgence of what we consider classic metal,
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  SPEAKER_02: which we're doing handstands over because you obviously got bands like Iron Maiden,
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  SPEAKER_02: Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell featuring Ronnie James Dio.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: New releases from bands like Testament.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course, Motorhead is still going strong.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Chris and I like to go to a lot of those shows.
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  SPEAKER_02: And everywhere we go, they're selling out everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's a phenomenon,
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  SPEAKER_02: especially here in the States,
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  SPEAKER_02: since the last 15,
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  SPEAKER_02: 18 years has been pretty dry as far as good metal
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  SPEAKER_02: or good hard melodic rock is concerned.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on over in England?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's interesting you should say that because I think the same kind
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  SPEAKER_01: of thing is happening here.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're getting more and more digital radio stations that are just dedicated
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  SPEAKER_03: to playing classic rock or hard rock, which is great.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's kind of helping it at a grassroots level.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the internet means that bands can get out there and connect with their fans directly.
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  SPEAKER_03: And also you're getting...
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  SPEAKER_03: Like the tour,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: I was talking about earlier with Whitesnake and Deflippard,
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  SPEAKER_03: you're getting more bands coming together for like a package tour,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is like a fantastic value for the rock fans and great fun for the bands too,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I think it's very healthy.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, classic rock, as we know, it's kind of always there or thereabouts.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's just that I think that now...
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  SPEAKER_03: There seems to be more stations and independent publications coming out and talking
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  SPEAKER_03: about it and writing about it and playing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's really good for the groundswell.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully the end result of that will be more young bands coming along doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Luke,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the new record, Bang,
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  SPEAKER_00: it seems like you wrote some songs that were not only personal to yourself
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  SPEAKER_00: but pretty pointed in their message.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess the first one I wanted to ask you about is who is Carol Ann?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I can't remember.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a kind of generic woman, really,
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  SPEAKER_01: because it's one of those things that happens,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: I think in every guy's life,
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  SPEAKER_03: when he's kind of that sort of age,
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  SPEAKER_03: you go out,
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  SPEAKER_03: you have a few too many beers,
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  SPEAKER_03: you wake up in the morning and you're kind of a little vague as to what happened,
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  SPEAKER_03: but you know something happened.
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  SPEAKER_03: And...
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  SPEAKER_03: And there's that horrible kind of paranoia where,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know something but you can't kind of remember what the girl looks like
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  SPEAKER_03: and that's kind of a fairly terrifying prospect.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: the guy in the song,
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  SPEAKER_03: he has this kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: this sort of thing that happens to him and his only clue is he wakes up and he has
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  SPEAKER_03: a phone number and a name scrawled on the back of his hand in lipstick, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, we've all kind of been there.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've never been there, Luke, because we're not big rock stars like you.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're just like run-of-the-mill guys.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, chicks don't dig us like they do you band guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think you're being too modest there, old boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Luke,
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  SPEAKER_00: the other one I wanted to ask you about is a song that's almost certain to become
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  SPEAKER_00: the soundtrack to everybody's relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, I'm talking about the song Love Sucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the story there?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: falling in love can even,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's a great thing,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it's a bloody awful thing as well,
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  SPEAKER_03: because what it does is it interrupts everything,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, the whole rhythm of your kind of mind and body and where you're at.
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  SPEAKER_03: And most of the time, it's kind of a false dawn and it lets you down.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: there's so many songs written about how wonderful love is
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  SPEAKER_03: or how terrible heartbreak is, but there's nothing about how terrible love is.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just thought it was an interesting thing to kind of look at it in a negative way
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  SPEAKER_03: and just think of some of the feelings that you have when you can't kind
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  SPEAKER_03: of concentrate on anything and your whole life gets turned upside down
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  SPEAKER_03: because you've met this girl or if you're a girl,
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  SPEAKER_03: if you've met this guy or if you're gay, you're a boyfriend, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_03: But it's the sort of thing that happens to everybody.
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  SPEAKER_03: But nobody tends to kind of talk about the negative aspects of it
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  SPEAKER_03: and that's what I try to do and obviously maintain a sense of humour throughout it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Luke,
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  SPEAKER_02: I know that you guys are predominantly a European-based band,
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  SPEAKER_02: unless, of course, there was some interest and thunder over here in the States.
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  SPEAKER_02: Would you guys ever consider coming over here to the States and doing some shows?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you ever get any offers or any chance of that ever happening,
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  SPEAKER_02: or are you pretty much confined to the European market?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_03: obviously,
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  SPEAKER_03: Our problem is that we,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: occasionally people will talk about it and we'll get into a conversation about it,
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  SPEAKER_03: but for us to come out there,
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  SPEAKER_03: I think what would need to happen is we'd need to kind of have some kind of support
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  SPEAKER_03: on the ground, some kind of, you know, release, national release.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we've been in a long way down the road with several people,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it's kind of never worked out to be the right sort of thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Over the years, we've learned that if something doesn't feel good, you shouldn't do it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Having said all of that,
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  SPEAKER_03: we're kind of talking to somebody at the moment about maybe coming out and doing
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  SPEAKER_03: a couple of showcases, one in New York and a couple of other places as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, like I said,
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  SPEAKER_03: there's some very early stages,
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  SPEAKER_02: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: are you familiar with the big rock festivals that seem to be popping up here over
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  SPEAKER_02: the last couple years,
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  SPEAKER_02: like Rock, LaHoma,
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  SPEAKER_02: and Rock in the Bayou,
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  SPEAKER_02: and the... Yeah,
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  SPEAKER_03: I've been watching all those kind of things happen,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: because you read about them in the rock press over here,
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  SPEAKER_03: and they're very interesting, and once again, it's another thing that we're...
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  SPEAKER_03: We're talking to our agent about,
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  SPEAKER_03: because obviously he has,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: the agency,
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  SPEAKER_03: they're a big group,
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  SPEAKER_03: international,
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  SPEAKER_03: they have big offices all over the state, so that's definitely a possibility.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, the one thing that I'd like to make clear is we would love,
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  SPEAKER_03: love to come out and play and tour over there,
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  SPEAKER_03: because,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: It is kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's where rock music started,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: and all the kind of music that kind of influenced stars,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: albeit via other bands like the Zeppelin and the Stones and the Who,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, it all came from America.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm lucky enough to have sort of,
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  SPEAKER_03: I've been around the States once with Power Station,
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  SPEAKER_03: playing second guitar with Power Station in 97.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it was fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_03: We went to kind of all sorts of places that I never would have gone to.
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  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, I got a real kind of feel for, Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, we like you here on the Classic Metal Show,
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  SPEAKER_03: so you're welcome to come over and just perform in the studio and go home
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  SPEAKER_03: if you like.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, listen, be sure of one thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: If we get out there, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_03: I know I have support with you guys who have been with us,
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  SPEAKER_03: and we'll find a way to get there,
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  SPEAKER_03: don't worry,
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  SPEAKER_03: and we'll come over there and hang out with you guys and do some stuff there.
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  SPEAKER_03: That'll be fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you need to bring up your old pal,
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  SPEAKER_02: David Coverdale,
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  SPEAKER_02: and tell him when he puts that white snake juggernaut on the road over here
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  SPEAKER_02: that you'd like to be the special guest on that bill.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure David would love to help us, but he doesn't like following us very much.
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  SPEAKER_01: LAUGHTER
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it modestly prevents me from saying any more, but yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Luke,
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  SPEAKER_00: the one thing I did want to address with you, too,
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  SPEAKER_00: is in addition to Bang,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's not like you guys have been or really
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  SPEAKER_00: since you got back together are ever short of music.
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  SPEAKER_00: You put out a couple of months ago two EPs with basically another album's worth
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  SPEAKER_00: of material, six of one and half dozen of the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's going on right now with you guys that you have this much...
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  SPEAKER_00: Creative energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I know the last album had, what,
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  SPEAKER_00: 12 or 13 tunes, this one has 12, and then six more, six, seven more in between.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of music in a year and a half.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think what it,
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure,
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  SPEAKER_01: to be honest with you,
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  SPEAKER_01: I just got on a kind of really,
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  SPEAKER_01: a really good
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  SPEAKER_03: streak writing,
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  SPEAKER_03: and there's no particular reason for it, it just kind of turned out that way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's the strange thing about songwriting is you never know kind of quite
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  SPEAKER_03: where you're going with it.
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  SPEAKER_03: You sit down and,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, you hope all kind of stars align nicely and some good stuff comes out.
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  SPEAKER_03: But, you know, once again, I just got on a roll and wrote a lot more songs.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: you have to kind of,
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  SPEAKER_03: well, just because I've written a lot of songs doesn't mean they're good.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you have to kind of edit and sort of maybe...
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  SPEAKER_03: Judge yourself harshly to make sure that all the stuff you release is cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because the great thing about the position we're
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  SPEAKER_03: in now is obviously we run our own label over here,
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  SPEAKER_03: so we make our own decisions about what we release and when we release it.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: So we can release any amount of material at any time.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: So it makes it quite interesting.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_03: Having a kind of drip-feed of material between albums,
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: I think it will become the way for a lot of bands.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: With the internet playing such a big part in releasing music,
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: album formats are going to change.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: Once again, we just make it up as we go along.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_03: If it feels right, then we just tend to go with it and do it.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think that one of the reasons that you've been able to maintain such
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: a strong fan base has been all the little cool extras that you do?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know for me personally,
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: as a new fan to the band,
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: I was stunned when I found all these live shows that you guys put out,
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: all the Christmas shows and stuff.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's just cool extras like that that makes you guys like a more personable band
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: than like an Aerosmith or somebody, you know what I mean?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean,
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: there's some weird stuff,
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_03: you know, that's kind of happened in music in the last few years.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_03: You know, like,
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: people kind of charging people for,
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: like, charging fans for meet and greets and stuff.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's kind of, I think that's kind of strange.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know,
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_03: ever since the band started,
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: we've always done a meet and greet after every show,
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: you know, unless it's absolutely impossible.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that you,
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: when you actually get down to it,
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: it's people that buy your records and buy your tickets that,
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: you know, Well, Luke,
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_03: are you guys hip to marketing your music like on iTunes or some kind of
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: a digital download?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: Are you strictly just CDs?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, we have digital things changing all the time.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: In fact,
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: a guy who's kind of a retail guru in the UK,
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: he was over in the States last week in New York,
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: talking to one of the guys who's involved with running American iTunes,
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: and we think,
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: we're not 100% sure yet,
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_03: but it looks very much like Bang's going to be their rock album of the month
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: at some point later in the year, maybe November.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: Which is a fantastic thing for us because what that means,
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: obviously,
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: is there'll be lots of people kind of logging onto iTunes over there in the States
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: that will see us,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: and see the album and be able to kind of listen to the music or won't have heard
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: of it.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: So that's a very cool thing, isn't it?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, congratulations and a band, one of the lesser known bands here in the States.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: I couldn't tell you about another band that deserves it more than you guys
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: because you guys have been plugging along there for so long and You don't get quite
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: the recognition that you should get,
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: but you guys are a solid band, and obviously Chris and myself really enjoy Thunder.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's great.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, we really appreciate it.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: When people get behind music because they like it and they believe it, it's a fantastic thing.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's great to have you guys supporting us over there.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: It's a really good thing.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Luke, well, is there anything that you want to tell us that we haven't covered yet?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: You know, anything you want the fans to know that we haven't touched on at all?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you can mention the band's website,
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: which is www.thunderonline.com,
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: which is always a cool
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: thing so people can find out pretty much everything I need
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: to know.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: And apart from that, it's,
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: anybody out there that hears us and likes us,
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: you know, spread the word, tell people.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: Because,
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: we'd love to get out there and play,
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: and if enough people kind of want it, then, you know, we'll be able to do it.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_03: Sure, excellent.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: All right, well, the name of the new CD from the band Thunder is just called Bang.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: Why the name Bang there, Luke?
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know, I have no idea.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: We all sat around and thought, what are we going to call it?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: And...
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Danny,
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_03: the singer, came up with Bang.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not quite sure why.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: And none of us could think of anything better.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: And then we started thinking about it as a kind of graphic image
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: and what we could do with it and stuff.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: And we all thought it was pretty cool, so we went with it.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: That was a very explosive name there, Bang.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: That's the thing, you know.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we'll incorporate that into the live show, you know, maybe have a few explosions.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we'll just blow Harry, our drummer, up again, you know.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: Very nice.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Luke, it's always a pleasure to speak with you.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: Glad you took a few minutes to talk to us here on the Classic Metal Show.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: Go out and find the new Thunder release called Bang.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: Go visit them over at their website at thunderonline.com and drop them a note
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_02: and let them know you heard them here on the Classic Metal Show.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_02: So, Luke,
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember if we asked you this question before,
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: but we're going to ask you again nevertheless.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: How has Lemmy from Motorhead influenced your career?
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: You did ask me this before, and I can't remember what I said.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: How has Lemmy influenced my career?
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he's taught me that facial warts aren't a good thing, so I try and not get them.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: And he's the meanest Pac-Man player I've ever seen.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: So if I was going to learn,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: if I was going to take up playing Pac-Man professionally,
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: I'd go see Lemmy and get lessons,
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: because I spent two years watching him do that when I was a lot younger.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Luke,
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: we appreciate you taking the time out,
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: and as a tradition here,
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: we'll let you pick a song off the new CD, Bang, and maybe tell us a story about it.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, right, well, let's go with on the radio, as that's an interesting thing.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of,
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: it's a thinly veiled stab at the BBC,
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_03: which obviously,
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: as you guys I'm sure know,
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: is the main kind of radio station in the U.K.,
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: And they've never ever put us on a playlist.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: So this has become a bit of a joke to us in the end.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: So I decided to write a song about it.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a certain amount of vitriol, but it is done with a sense of humor.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, here it is.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_02: This is brand new Thunder from their Bang release.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: And this is called On the Radio, exclusively here.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: On your classic metal show.
• 21:37
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