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Walking The Musical Tightrope With CORY MARKS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, my name is Corey Marks, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a brand new album called Sorry for Nothing available everywhere
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here talking with Chris Beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Corey. Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, Hey, thanks for having me pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you say, you released your third studio album,
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  Speaker 3: Sorry for Nothing, just last week, bro, So how's the
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  Speaker 3: only reception been for it?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I think it's been great so far, and not
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  Speaker 1: only in North America, but of course down Under and
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  Speaker 1: all over the all of the globe. So it's been
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm really happy, happy to hear that and
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  Speaker 1: see that. So it's been a project I've been waiting
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  Speaker 1: to release and working on for the last four years.
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  Speaker 1: So to finally have it out, it's uh, it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's up to the world to see how they
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  Speaker 1: how they acknowledge it, and hopefully they love.
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  Speaker 3: It in the modern Asian music, mate, Like, how do
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  Speaker 3: you engage your success of an album?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it is it? Feedback? Is it sounds Spotify?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: It's so much going on and it's hard to sort of
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  Speaker 2: tell in it.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I have no idea because you know, there's there's somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Spotify numbers and streams and
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  Speaker 1: certain songs or albums, and you can feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: really doing well, or you can see it in the
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  Speaker 1: in a chart position, and but things may not still
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  Speaker 1: be happening, like tours or or something you know isn't
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  Speaker 1: isn't happening. It's but you can see comments on your
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  Speaker 1: social media of people all over the world, all over
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  Speaker 1: the globe and loving it, especially in certain areas. And
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's all about the fans. If the fans
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  Speaker 1: are loving it, keep playing it, keep sharing it, requesting
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  Speaker 1: at radio, and get me to wherever you are.
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  Speaker 3: A second can tell us a bit more about sorry
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  Speaker 3: for nothing from a musical point of view and what
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  Speaker 3: you've done for with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've always kind of stayed true. Well, I've always
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  Speaker 1: stayed true to who I am and what I believe in,
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  Speaker 1: what I enjoy doing. You know, as you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm country, I'm rock, and I'm a little bit of metal.
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  Speaker 1: And in this record, you know, you have songs that
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  Speaker 1: I've I've written about a year ago, all the way
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  Speaker 1: to songs like Late Night of Drinking Again where that
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  Speaker 1: was maybe seven or eight years ago, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a little it's it's you know, it's thirteen
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  Speaker 1: songs of that I think represent me the best right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know where where I've you know, what I've been through,
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  Speaker 1: where I've been, and how far I've come, and where
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  Speaker 1: I plan on continue to go and and and continue
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  Speaker 1: to do. And hence the and hence the album title
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  Speaker 1: Sorry for Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say that the album title is sort
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  Speaker 3: of it's a statement of sources, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a powerful statement.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, you know, I think I've obviously been
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  Speaker 1: known to keep outside of that. I guess industry box
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  Speaker 1: where they try to force you to look, sound and
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  Speaker 1: act a certain way. And I think it's our job
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  Speaker 1: as artists to create the art that that we know
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  Speaker 1: and we live. And you know, that's what I write about.
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  Speaker 1: I I write about what I know and what I've
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  Speaker 1: been through and what I've lived, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: it's very you know, a lot of people can connect
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  Speaker 1: to that, whether it's love, love, loss, or or or
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  Speaker 1: pain or growth or you know, a Saturday night out
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  Speaker 1: on the town.
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  Speaker 4: With with the boys said before, right like, the album
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  Speaker 4: is a stubtle blending of a rain of rock as
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  Speaker 4: Root's country, there's a bit of metal in there, so
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  Speaker 4: and then the rotting process and recordings, like how did
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  Speaker 4: you find the balance between those genres?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've written so much. I mean, these
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  Speaker 1: thirteen songs are are hand picked, but out of probably
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  Speaker 1: close to one hundred songs that I wrote over the
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  Speaker 1: last you know, four or so years. And I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with me, when I make a record, I
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  Speaker 1: want it to be very much like my live show.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you know, when you see me live,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna hear some Pantera, You're gonna hear maybe some Azzi,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear some Merle and of course you know,
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  Speaker 1: some cool med leys in between my songs. But this
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  Speaker 1: this record specifically, and like just like the last one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we want to start off with a bang
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  Speaker 1: and take you for a ride where you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's big and heavy at the start. You know you
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  Speaker 1: can sing along, you know a little bit further in,
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  Speaker 1: bring it back down to where it all started, where
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  Speaker 1: it's acoustic me and a song and and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the fans, and then we bring you right back up
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  Speaker 1: and then with a bang. So that's kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's how I try to try to make my albums
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's what we've done with this one
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  Speaker 1: here is you can almost envision what it would be
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  Speaker 1: like to see me live.
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  Speaker 5: And fans of all of those genres.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned that they're pretty judged metal mate, so but
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  Speaker 3: was it a risk at all sort of trying to
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  Speaker 3: fit somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: I'd get a bit of backlash from you for.
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  Speaker 1: I always get backlash, but again, they just need to
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  Speaker 1: read the title of the album and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and realize who I am and what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm just an artist writing songs and
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  Speaker 1: stories that i've that I've lived and that I love
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  Speaker 1: based on the music I grew up on. And that's
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  Speaker 1: anywhere from you know, Jimmy Rodgers, Merle Hager, Whale and
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  Speaker 1: Jennings to Ozzy Osbourne, Panthera and Brian Adams. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a mix of a mix of a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of everything. And you know, like I've said before, what
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  Speaker 1: you see is what you get and you can expect
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  Speaker 1: it live too.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I want to talk about one song in particular,
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  Speaker 3: which is not make my Country Rocklight as an interesting
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  Speaker 3: play on words like you could say that a couple
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  Speaker 3: of different ways, like was it was it written by
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  Speaker 3: that or did you sort of write it and look
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  Speaker 3: at the title and go, I'm pretty clever.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually I first called it was uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was just called country rock. But the label thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a little too generic, it was a little too whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, there's we just I said, well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't we just go with the hook, gonna make my
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  Speaker 1: country rock, And you know, it could really go, It
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  Speaker 1: could really go both ways. I looked at it as
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  Speaker 1: in the genre of music itself, making my country music rock. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: But also, like you said, there's gonna be critics and people,
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  Speaker 1: well that's not rock or that's not country. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna stir things up a little bit, as I typically
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  Speaker 1: always do for whatever reason. If you don't, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't stick between the lines, and I make my country rock.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And they also feature, if you guess, artists
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  Speaker 2: on the album, including Saliana from God, Smack at DL
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  Speaker 2: from bed Wolves, Mick Miles, and so was fare.
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  Speaker 3: The songs are there on and why what are those
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  Speaker 3: particular artists?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think guilty. Uh, you know, I wrote that
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  Speaker 1: one with uh, the same guys that would make my
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  Speaker 1: country rock with. But I added to that was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was Kyle O. Deell, you know, and he's he's
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  Speaker 1: a great guitar player and producer on the on the
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  Speaker 1: hard rock side, and just the musicality I thought was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the musical aspect of guilty and uh getting
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  Speaker 1: a no DL a little bit, you know, being friends
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  Speaker 1: with some of the guys in Bad Walls, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: and we're on the same label. It was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of a perfect fit when his name came up, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I heard he wanted to do it
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  Speaker 1: and love the song. I thought, well, let's just let
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  Speaker 1: him do his thing. He's a talented dude, great vocalist
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  Speaker 1: and singer and you know he I just thought he
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  Speaker 1: did a great job with that. And and then we had
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  Speaker 1: a great phone call apter kind of reflecting on the
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  Speaker 1: lyrics and how we feel very similar about you know,
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  Speaker 1: if living my life is a crime, then I'm guilty.
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  Speaker 1: So there was that make my country rock when I
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  Speaker 1: when I first wrote it, I was, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was in Nashville and I was supposed to go to
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  Speaker 1: mix house and we we'd scheduled to hang out so
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  Speaker 1: sure enough I was over at the mixed house and
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  Speaker 1: I was actually one of the first people to hear
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  Speaker 1: his his new album, his Mars album.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he asked me, do you had you
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  Speaker 1: have any demos that you wrote, and said, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago I wrote the song and
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  Speaker 1: you know you want to hear it. Of course you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hear it. So we played in the studio
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough I had to ask, Hey, would you
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  Speaker 1: mind throwing some guitar on it for me? And he said, hell, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: this thing's kicks ass, this is this is what I
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  Speaker 1: like to hear. Give me about a week and I'll
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  Speaker 1: I'll throw some guitar on it. So once I knew
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  Speaker 1: I had Nick, I thought to myself, well, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: let's do you know, because by the time this song
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  Speaker 1: comes out, it's probably gonna be around five years of
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  Speaker 1: Outlaws and Outsiders. So I thought, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: ask anybody else but but the Outlaws boys first, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: Travis Tripp, you know when I sent them a song
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  Speaker 1: called me up when I was on tour up here
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  Speaker 1: in Canada, and you know, with a Georgian accident, he says, well,
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  Speaker 1: the last song did pretty good, now, didn't it, So
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  Speaker 1: why don't we do this again? I said, hell yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I had Travis, I'd Mick and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then Ivan was on the other side of the world
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  Speaker 1: touring in Germany, and you know, it was crazy. They're
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  Speaker 1: out with Metallica and there's lots going on, and so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I understood if he couldn't do it, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, we want another rock vocalist on it, and
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  Speaker 1: there was there's a few names that were thrown around.
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  Speaker 1: But when I heard Sally Erna, I thought to myself, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up, you know, on Godsmack, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: a hockey player. A lot of the guys in the
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  Speaker 1: hockey room you're playing Godsmack, and you know, as a
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  Speaker 1: drummer myself, I remember seeing him, you know, doing that
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  Speaker 1: drum off battle during his live show and I was
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  Speaker 1: both being you know, songwriters and vocalists, but also doing
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  Speaker 1: the drum solo alive for both Rush fans too. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought, man, Sally Erna could do this, this would be,
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  Speaker 1: this would be He'd be the guy man, especially especially
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  Speaker 1: when you hear that make my Country rock. And I
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  Speaker 1: was about a week later, I was you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was my guy. That's why I wanted out of the
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  Speaker 1: list that was there. And sure enough I get a
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  Speaker 1: text from maybe Sally Earn, a big, beautiful text thanking
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  Speaker 1: me for having him on the song and and how
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  Speaker 1: much he liked the track and thought it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be great for me and that he might even
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  Speaker 1: love the song more than I do. So that was
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  Speaker 1: really special. And that's the story behind make My Country Rock.
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  Speaker 2: Right now.
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  Speaker 3: That long as and outside as before, like that was
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  Speaker 3: off your previous album Who I Am, and it was
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  Speaker 3: a massive success. Did I put any extra pressure on
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  Speaker 3: you going into Sorry for Nothing?
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  Speaker 5: The fact that one was big?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know, especially when so much time
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  Speaker 1: has passed and you've kind of really with that song
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  Speaker 1: really created this linge for other artists to do you
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  Speaker 1: know that whole Like you know, country and rock was
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  Speaker 1: starting to kind of jive together after that hit, and
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot more of it now, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: once you know in the writing process, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just again I write from straight from the heart and
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  Speaker 1: what you know, what I believe in when I live.
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  Speaker 1: But when you put a record together, you can only
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  Speaker 1: hope it's going to be just as good as your
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  Speaker 1: debut album, if not better. So I'm you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: there's that pressure on me, but I can't control it.
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  Speaker 1: It's out of my hand. I just know that I
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  Speaker 1: think I put together a kick ass record that's beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and and rocking on both the country and rockside and
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  Speaker 1: everything in between. And I hope the critics and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and and the listeners will feel the
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  Speaker 1: same way that are just going to go into this
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  Speaker 1: album with an open mind and love the shit out
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I speaking of your debut album, LTE like you
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  Speaker 3: started your career with this Man in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: So what was your early vision for your music? I guess,
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  Speaker 2: And where did you fit in back then?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't fit in back then, either I believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not. And you know it was still it was still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, either a little too rock for country, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially up here in Canada, because I still I still
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  Speaker 1: deal with that. Or you're just not in the click
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're not You're not you know whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is you don't. You don't fit into that that specific
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  Speaker 1: circle of artists that you hear time and time over
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  Speaker 1: and over again on radio, and it seems like it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter the streams or the global success. It's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of they're kind of stuck in their way. So
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  Speaker 1: even then, I mean I felt that way, and hence
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  Speaker 1: while I came up with the song Outlaws and Outsiders,
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  Speaker 1: or at least the title and idea. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to be like a little different, little
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  Speaker 1: outside the box. And again, I come from that that
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  Speaker 1: background of real country music from Haggard to to that
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  Speaker 1: hard rock like Ozzy Osbourne and Brian Adams, and I've
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  Speaker 1: always just kind of wanted to be a mix of
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  Speaker 1: those artists. But ultimately, when you when when you start
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  Speaker 1: working with a guy like Kevin Cherco, you know he's
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  Speaker 1: a producer that could take a good song and make
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  Speaker 1: it great and even better. And I know that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what he's done with anything we put out together, and
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  Speaker 1: especially a song like Outlaws and Outsiders.
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  Speaker 3: That's nearly ten years you've been gone, now, Bro, say
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  Speaker 3: what have you learned about yourself and your music in
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  Speaker 3: that period.
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  Speaker 1: I've known that I you know, I've learned that I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm a lot more patient than I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I am. You know, I think I've also learned that
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  Speaker 1: you know more and more now than ever that you
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  Speaker 1: know that. Uh, I think the important thing is is
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  Speaker 1: not to just you know, create something for what you
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  Speaker 1: think is going to fit the industry or you know,
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  Speaker 1: again I'll talk about that box, but but do it
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  Speaker 1: for you and and and the fans, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to write your own story and and and you
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  Speaker 1: know if you have to pave your own lane, and
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  Speaker 1: it's and doing that, it's going to be a lot harder,
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, to try to try to chart and
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  Speaker 1: try to get you know, accepted, so to speak. And
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be You're going to be alone for
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  Speaker 1: a little while until you know, you started a wave
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  Speaker 1: that they just can't stop. And I'm hoping that I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to continue that and do that, do just that
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  Speaker 1: with this with this record Story for Nothing and and
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  Speaker 1: the singles that are on there. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a long road. And it's one thing I've learned
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  Speaker 1: that it's not you know, there's no really overnight success
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  Speaker 1: unless it's paid for you you win some fancy competition,
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  Speaker 1: sou But you know, for me, it's all about longevity
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  Speaker 1: and hoping I can have you know that career, for
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  Speaker 1: this career and even more and much much bigger, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for for years to come.
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  Speaker 2: Have that love stize is bribly. What do you got
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  Speaker 2: coming up?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we just announced European tour, so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: looking like about a dozen shows at this point between Germany, Netherlands, Paris,
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  Speaker 1: the UK and now Scotland being added and you know,
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  Speaker 1: still booking. We just announced a tour, a mini tour
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  Speaker 1: of Quebec, Canada, which is a great province up here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there's going to be shows being announced.
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  Speaker 1: We're working on a few US tours as well. But
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  Speaker 1: it's been a bucket list of mine since twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: to make my way down Under and and play for
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  Speaker 1: everybody in Australia. So I'm really hoping that twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five is going to be the year, especially the way
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  Speaker 1: you know, radio has been treating me down there and
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  Speaker 1: the media has just been it's just been incredible, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for the support and the fans and
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  Speaker 1: everybody down in Australia. So I really hope that twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five is the year that I that I come
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  Speaker 1: down to come down Under Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Cardia before I let you got my We've got
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  Speaker 2: a new segment we've started called fighter Bomb, which basically
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  Speaker 2: means that I'm short three social.
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  Speaker 3: Media and I've come up with some fighters that I
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  Speaker 3: want to know a bit more about.
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  Speaker 2: All right, said this one h.
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  Speaker 1: Feelix sand is going to pop up for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: That one, Brian, I one of my here's idea was
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  Speaker 3: it to put you on a page in black jeans
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  Speaker 3: and a black folk and I still working for you.
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  Speaker 1: But well, uh, they did work for me that day.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, but that was actually on the video shoot
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  Speaker 1: for Sorry for Nothing in Long Island Lido Beach just
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  Speaker 1: outside of New York. And uh, you know that's that's
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the film team there that shot the music video for
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Sorry for Nothing and the Gentleman and the cutoff and
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  Speaker 1: the black hats, my tour manager and cinematographers. So this
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  Speaker 1: was one of those really cool key parts of we
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  Speaker 1: did a lot of It was a lot of cool
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  Speaker 1: shots that we got from from this beach. And it
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  Speaker 1: was actually quite beautiful, because you don't think there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a beach quite like that in New York, but there
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: certainly was, and it was a it was a cool spot.
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  Speaker 3: Attempting to weigh short sitation mane, you look like you're
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: gonna be pretty bloody hot.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it was? Actually it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was quite windy, and you know New
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: York has is fairly close to where I am in Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: Canada or Toronto, so uh, you know, I was just fine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm found this one as well. All right, so this
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  Speaker 5: is you've got this one now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, quite a lot of fighters have got you connected
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: with the crowds. I get is it ever going parshaped
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: and then someone sawed dragon ween or he got more.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I've definitely actually in this in this photo. I think
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  Speaker 1: there were some people that that tried to pull me,
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  Speaker 1: but I like to think, you know, my time in
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the gym kept me up on that stage. But this
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: was on tour with Five Finger, Death Punch and Brandtley Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: I believe this was Emily Arena in in in Florida
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  Speaker 1: where the Tampa Bay Lightning play. Although there was a
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: lot of these arenas, this packed in this full which
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is pretty awesome for you know, the opener like myself
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  Speaker 1: on this tour. But as you can see, there's that
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  Speaker 1: tribute to Rush on my on my tricep there one
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably I think this's my most recent tattoo, but
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: it's a tribute to Neil Peart. It's got the twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to twelve based drum like you had on this tour,
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  Speaker 1: and it says time stands still and you know, freeze
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  Speaker 1: this moment a little bit longer. And now looking at
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  Speaker 1: this picture, it's like, Wow, what I what I'd give
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  Speaker 1: to get back to playing arenas and being in front
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of people like this.
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  Speaker 5: Take out that security guy, but he would have been
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  Speaker 5: loving his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think he's just making sure. He's like,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: what's this guy up to? Because I end up running
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: back and forth a little bit crazy and uh, it
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: depends on the crowd and it depends on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: But you never know what I'm gonna do.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned you played Five Fingers like that that
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: a deocrat, except you did it go every way.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I think? Over I mean, here's a
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: perfect perfect shot of that. If they accepted me or not.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was they were loud every night, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: it was it was pretty pretty exceptional. I remember Ivan Moody,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the singer of Five Finger and and Brantley. They were
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: actually quite surprised by the amount of people every show.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And you know, some team members came to some of
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the shows. I think one was in Nashville, and they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: thought to themselves too. They told me after that, you know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: normally for a six thirty or seven o'clock start for
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the opener for these big bands, knowing they're not coming
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  Speaker 1: on till ten o'clock, you don't normally see the pit.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: The pit that full. And that's one thing I was
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: grateful for. The pit was was was, you know, very full,
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  Speaker 1: and so were the seats for the most part, and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and they just kept filling up once we started.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got this last spintal one might like anyone
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: that says you're not rock or meddle enough, mate, I
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: want him to check out this Fiday.
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  Speaker 5: That just proves it. Maybe you've got what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, dude, Thank you, Chris. That's uh. That is when
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I do that and I find cameras for me that
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: goes that just makes me think of Holy dim That's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: something Ronnie James Deal would do right there.
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  Speaker 5: It does.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, Bro Marbell, thanks very much for you, Tom Corey.
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  Speaker 3: It's been an absolute pleasure speaking with you. Run of
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the album Sorry for Nothing, News Now Now and it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a cracker of an album.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Might I really enjoyed listening to it so hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Chris. I appreciate your time. Glad
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: we were able to make this happen, and yes, I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I pray that twenty twenty five is the year that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Corey Mars comes down to Australia and plays live for everybody.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And Merry Christmas to you and your family. All the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: best in twenty twenty five and look forward to seeing
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you