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Dark Angel: Why We Never Sold Out | Gene Hoglan Metal Interview · Classic Metal Show

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  you guys' place in the underground has always maybe made you
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  guys cooler than a lot
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  SPEAKER_00: of other bands because you always had the respect from the hardcores,
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  SPEAKER_00: and yet you never had to sell out to make it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_01: It sure does, Chris, absolutely.
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  And that was a concerted effort because,
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  you know,
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  I mean,
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  there were times back in,
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  you know back in the early 90s when right around right before
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  the band sort of like
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  went on our extended hiatus where it had been postulated to to
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  me anyway of like
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  hey man you guys should write material like pantera or you guys
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  should write songs
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  like pantera how come you guys don't do that i'm like ah
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  because we're not pantera
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  SPEAKER_01: you know you know it's like they're great we love them but
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  know we are dark angel and i will always follow my path and and
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  you know if that if
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  that means um you know sacrificing some some i guess popularity
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  i'm fine with that
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  you know i'd rather be respected than you know popular you know
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  any day of the week
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  SPEAKER_01: so you know i'm i'm i grew up on underground music i
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  that's the music that resonated to me all the metal that was
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  the best metal to me
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  was the underground stuff you know there was a time when the
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  metallicas and slayers
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  and everybody else from that era were not well-known bands you
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  know so i mean
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  that's my kind of you know there was a time when iron maiden
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  nobody knew who iron
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  maiden was you know i was a huge iron maiden fan so there you
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  go so a lot of times
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  SPEAKER_01: these bands
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  SPEAKER_01: are able to navigate their way in,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  above ground a lot better than I was probably ever going to be
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  able to back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, um,
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  SPEAKER_01: But I was never going to soften our sound at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you this,
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  SPEAKER_00: Gene,
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  and then we'll veer away and then we'll come right back to the
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  new record.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for you and for anybody that knows anything about metal,
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  SPEAKER_00: they know your history where you've played on some huge records,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: for a lot of bands,
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  SPEAKER_00: not just Dark Angel,
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  SPEAKER_00: but,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: with various bands through the last 40 years.
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  in all that time especially when you were doing like testament
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  and stuff like that
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  that were that had more commercial success were you ever almost
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  jealous of the
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  success you were walking into or were you did you go into those
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  things trying to
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  figure something out that you might take back to dark angel or
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  where did you keep
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  them separate i guess well i i think keeping all that kind of
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  stuff separate like
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  SPEAKER_01: um
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  SPEAKER_01: You know,
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  SPEAKER_01: because no matter what levels of success that the general public may see,
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  SPEAKER_01: I see all the behind the scenes stuff,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know.
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  So it's like,
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  is there a lot of smoke and mirrors involved in this industry?
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  SPEAKER_01: Boy, I sure don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll never tell.
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  But yeah,
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  you know,
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  it's like,
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  you know,
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  it's not that much of a difference,
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  you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all try to take tour buses,
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  SPEAKER_01: we all try to stay in nice hotels and you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: you try to travel on reputable airlines and every band does that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: that's what I always tried to bring to no matter what the band was,
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  SPEAKER_01: was what was going to be the best,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: if I'm going to be one of the plugs getting plugged into the slot.
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  SPEAKER_01: how can I give you that best imaginable plug to plug in?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um,
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  like i'll i'll bring the skills like what do you want if you
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  want if you have a
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  grandiose vision of where you want to go i'm right there with
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  you and if you're
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  like oh man you know we like to kind of stick to what we know
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  we're cool with that
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  i got that for you too so that's what i always tried to bring i
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  always tried to
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  bring a pretty personable attitude towards towards everything
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  and some of the bands
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  i've been and part of could argue that but you know i always
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  just tried to you know
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  SPEAKER_01: bring a pretty good a good natured uh you know
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  SPEAKER_01: player to the game.