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EDM Mix Master Ashley Paul Shakes Clubs And Dance Floors With Finding Rhythm · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How's everybody doing.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's great? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: you because you're coming in here at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where it is in the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the world, but here in Charlotte, we are starting to
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  Speaker 1: get a lot more of the clubs with the DJs.
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  Speaker 1: They're bringing vinyl, and all of a sudden, here you come, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna, of course she's coming. She's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one of these masterful leaders here.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. I am privileged. I'm surely privileged. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: having me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got this amazing way of building up your songs,
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  Speaker 1: and I would love to find out if there's a
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  Speaker 1: formula or is it something that you're feeling inside your
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  Speaker 1: soul because you allow a song to build and then boom,
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  Speaker 1: here it comes. I mean, all of a sudden, your
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  Speaker 1: body just takes that hit and you and you and
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  Speaker 1: it forces you to move.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Well, I think it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the way I tell the story. And it's because it's
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  Speaker 2: just coming from my heart and my soul. It's starting
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  Speaker 2: out kind of a little bit quiet, just starting to share,
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  Speaker 2: and then like who I am as a person When
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  Speaker 2: I tell a story, you move and you groove and
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  Speaker 2: you get to the to the apex and then you're
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're blowing it up, you know. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's just that way, you know, like I
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  Speaker 2: feel like so passionate about I guess I feel so
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  Speaker 2: passionate about getting to the hook because the hook is really,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the inspiration, the whole song.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that we carry with us. We could
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  Speaker 1: be coming home from a club, we could be going
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  Speaker 1: to the club and what are we singing? Your hook?
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly where we.
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  Speaker 2: Are, right That's that's it, that's the inspiration, that's the
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  Speaker 2: passion that's coming from the soul, and the rest is
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  Speaker 2: also authentically part of the story, but it's initially it's
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  Speaker 2: the hook that starts the song for me. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's the answer you trur question I gave. I gave
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  Speaker 2: the answer in a roundabout way. But yeah, like like
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm going to just digress a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Hearts Up, which is one of my favorites that I
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  Speaker 2: wrote a year or two a year ago with Lucas Marks. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's like a dance ballad. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: dance ballad. And what started that song for me was
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  Speaker 2: I was on a plane taking off and I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about leaving my son, and I was I was
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  Speaker 2: a little sad, and I thought, hearts will protect me,
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  Speaker 2: because the universe will protect me. And I saw like
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  Speaker 2: little hearts in the air, and I went hearts up,
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  Speaker 2: hearts up in the air, and I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god. And I haven't even got I haven't even
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  Speaker 2: gotten to his studio yet. I was still in the
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  Speaker 2: air coming from Miami to LA And when I got there,
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  Speaker 2: I was like so excited. I'm like, this is what
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna write. This is what we're gonna write and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so then that became the hook and that's the song
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  Speaker 2: cards out. So that's kind of how they go.
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  Speaker 1: See, this is every bit the reason why I created
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  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio channel. Creativity is the addiction, because Ashley, you
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  Speaker 1: know what it's like when that idea hits you, you
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  Speaker 1: have to act upon it right now, like an addiction,
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  Speaker 1: You've got to get on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god. Absolutely. Like I have a song
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  Speaker 2: called Golden Tickets. Yes, it has a slow version. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that song comes from Will Walk the Time. So
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  Speaker 2: it's about it's about the golden ticket. Right. We all
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  Speaker 2: are two steps away from our golden ticket. Whatever that
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  Speaker 2: means to you. It means different things to everybody. But
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  Speaker 2: but it's about never giving up, right, And so I
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  Speaker 2: remember that movie. It was so you know, inherent and
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  Speaker 2: of me growing up, the faith and the manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: the character of Charlie. You know that that brought him
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  Speaker 2: to where he entered, right, And so that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the story I was telling. But Golden Tickets, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you'll win it, you know, keep it going, and you'll
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  Speaker 2: never leave it. You know. That's kind of what the
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  Speaker 2: song's about, don't give up.
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask you a question, though, Ashley in
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  Speaker 1: the way that because I love the continuation of a storyline.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got the story that became the movie, which
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  Speaker 1: became the song that you put out. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about when people interpret your music? We feel
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  Speaker 1: something with finding rhythm and all of a sudden as
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  Speaker 1: let's just say that I'm going to be on Dancing
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars and I use your song and I
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  Speaker 1: get my own interpretation. How does that feel inside your
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  Speaker 1: creative journey when you're making music like that that you
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  Speaker 1: know other people will interpret differently.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's such a privilege to me, Like, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: for somebody to take a piece of what I put
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  Speaker 2: out and use it for their own interpretation, it's a
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna cry because it's such a privilege, But it
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  Speaker 2: means so much to me, Like it really does, Like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm contributing something to their life, to
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  Speaker 2: their art. You know, we all are here to contribute
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  Speaker 2: and collectively be here for each other, right and at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, that's what life's really about,
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  Speaker 2: holding each other's hands and figuring out what we want
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  Speaker 2: to do, but being next to each other to care
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  Speaker 2: for one another, and so that is really what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And so when my music is used for someone else,
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  Speaker 2: that means everything. That means I've accomplished my goal. I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing my job basically.
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  Speaker 1: Well, your heart is in the right place, because right
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  Speaker 1: away you just took me back to an interview with
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  Speaker 1: Chubby Checker who said that he created the twist back
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties and sixties because he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring people together. Is that not what you just shared
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  Speaker 1: with me, ash is the way that you are wanting
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  Speaker 1: to bring people back together?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want. Yes, absolutely so important. That's what
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  Speaker 2: the music's about. To hold hands and raise each other up. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is. I mean what else? What else
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  Speaker 2: is there until we until we ultimately are not here anymore.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Ashley Paul coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. Her brand new single is called Finding Rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with EDMDJ. Ashley Paul. Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: get to hear from the other mixed masters around the
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  Speaker 1: world in the way that I have talked with people
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  Speaker 1: from Croatia, Ukraine, the UK that will use American beats
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  Speaker 1: inside their expression and I'm going, oh my god, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god. And and because because it's like it's a
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  Speaker 1: continuation of creativity, and it shows that we can all
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  Speaker 1: collaborate if we allow ourselves to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's wonderful. I mean, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: there's always creativity in the clouds, right and we pull
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  Speaker 2: from it, and sometimes we both pull on the same cloud,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it happens, right and we and we
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  Speaker 2: share and we influence each other and we inspire each other.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, writing with the people I write with,
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  Speaker 2: for example, you know, whether it's Jeff Branzell and Alex
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  Speaker 2: Forbes or Lucas Marx or you know somebody else. I
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  Speaker 2: learn from them and they inspire me to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be better, to think differently, and and a song
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  Speaker 2: comes out all the more incredible because I'm in a
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  Speaker 2: collective situation. If that makes any.
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  Speaker 1: Sense, it does, And right right and right away, you're
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  Speaker 1: giving me this vision. Now, as you travel from from
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  Speaker 1: club to club to club, how are you dealing with
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  Speaker 1: when you've got a great idea like finding rhythm and
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  Speaker 1: you know what that beat is supposed to sound like,
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  Speaker 1: but that club that you're going to play in it's
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  Speaker 1: got a different rhythm on the walls. How do you
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  Speaker 1: deal with that base? Be because it drives me insane?
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  Speaker 1: Ashley does it really? Yeah, because there's an echo and
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  Speaker 1: when I hear that echo, that's why those earphones are
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  Speaker 1: so important to the mix. But but the thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is when you take off the phones and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you've got that echo, It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Ashley would want me to have this
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  Speaker 1: echo in here.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, everybody, everybody's situation is different,
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  Speaker 2: and people interpret people interpret art. You know, art is
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  Speaker 2: in the eye of the beholder, right, and so which
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  Speaker 2: is true? Like beauty, it's all the same. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that you just have to sort of think about
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  Speaker 2: it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because I mean it's like Joe Perry
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  Speaker 1: of Aerosmith will go and play a room before they
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  Speaker 1: actually bring the band in to do the room. And
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  Speaker 1: I've often wondered if you do the same thing, because
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  Speaker 1: when I arrived there with all my DJ equipment and
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do for the night, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to know that room. Are you the
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  Speaker 1: same way?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a perfectionist, Yeah, I you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: definitely that way. However, I've learned that, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can't assume things are going to be the way you
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  Speaker 2: want them to be, and you have to adjust. You
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  Speaker 2: have to adjust, and you have to roll with the
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  Speaker 2: punches and go with the flow. I just try to
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  Speaker 2: do the best I can. You know, sometimes I'll go
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  Speaker 2: to a show or a festival and the sound system
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  Speaker 2: is terrible, and you know, I just have to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what I sound like, because for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's very important to know what I'm I sound like
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  Speaker 2: when I'm singing, so that I know I'm doing it
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  Speaker 2: sounds so crazy, so perfectly. I mean, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a classically trained singer. I can't help myself. And so
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  Speaker 2: if I can't hear myself because the music is louder,
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  Speaker 2: let's say, than the sound coming coming in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: that irks me. And I've learned. I've learned to say, Okay, gosh,
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  Speaker 2: you sound great, this is fine. You're making it work.
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  Speaker 2: People are dancing and smiling. They don't care. They're happy.
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  Speaker 2: They're listening to you, they're watching you. Your arms are
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  Speaker 2: in the air. At the end of the day, the
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  Speaker 2: music is about it's euphoric. It's meant to be euphoric,
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  Speaker 2: and it's meant to bring people up. And so if
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  Speaker 2: they're happy, then really you've done your job, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? Good?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. I love where your heart is. And
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  Speaker 1: when you said they are watching you, you are right.
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  Speaker 1: They are watching you. Now where can they find you?
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  Speaker 1: Where they can just go and really dig into your
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  Speaker 1: entire catalog. They need to know about you, Ash.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much. Okay, So you could
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  Speaker 2: go to my website, ashcollmusic dot com, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: Spotify has everything, even my songs from the nineties, you know,
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  Speaker 2: weaving it out of my life, color meos. Those are
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  Speaker 2: guys that are out the ball so to speak, that
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  Speaker 2: are still in the ball kind of and yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, if you go to YouTube, you
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  Speaker 2: can find a lot of stuff there too, like Don't
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  Speaker 2: take Back Your Love. Okay, Don't take Back Your Love
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  Speaker 2: is a song that that I I don't even remember,
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  Speaker 2: Like I think I recorded that on Somebody's boat, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: in the late in the late nineties. Okay, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I recredit on the boat. It was the same time
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  Speaker 2: I was recording I was somebody wanted me to do
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  Speaker 2: a cover of if You Want My Body Anything, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Sexy, yes, the Rod Stewart's all yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And I was recording the Boat on a Boat
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  Speaker 2: with Joel Diamond and one of his partners at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, that one. I don't think that ever
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  Speaker 2: came out, but don't take back your love. I found
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  Speaker 2: it like on Google, and now it's out because my
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  Speaker 2: other stuff's out. So like, if you just google Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Paul music, like all this stuff sometimes will come up
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  Speaker 2: that isn't even on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future. Ten minutes is never going to be
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  Speaker 1: enough with you, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. I would I would love
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  Speaker 2: to come back anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Just let me know you'd be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, oh, thank you so much. I will try