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Bright Lights, Big City With JAKE DAVIES From OF LIMBO · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  And how's it going everybody? This is Jake Davies from of Limbo and uh,
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  we're talking to Heavy mag today and our new single it was California Demon.
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  It's got a lot of fire, a lot of demonic visuals, right,
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  all dig it? So yeah, enjoy it? Thanks, okay man,
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  thanks for joining us today. Yeah, buddy, I like the what
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  you did there with the play on words toom be totally up the mark.
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  But California Deamon and California Dreaming it's very very similar. Yeah, that's uh,
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  I think you're pretty spot on with that one. Yeah. Nothing flew
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  over your head on that one nicely. Very did you say, man,
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  you recently released that song California dam and say, how's the only reception been
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  for it? Yeah? Doing good, dude. God. We even had
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  the Alison s Chane singer Willem Duvall gave us some praise for it, so
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  we were pretty pumped on that. It was like when those kind of things
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  come in, it's like makes it all worthwhile, you know. But yeah,
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  a lot of our a lot of our peeps have liked it a lot.
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  I think it's angered a few people that maybe took it the wrong way.
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  A few Christian conspiracy people maybe took it a little bit too seriously and
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  thought that we might have actually sold our souls to Satan. But one of
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  those few people, it's it's been received pretty well. Nice people. Just
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  need to get light, mate, That's all I need to do with it.
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  Love. Yeah, something that tells me more about the song from the
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  musical point of view, bro, when what you've gone forward it? Uh,
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  yeah, it really. It's definitely hits a lot of Alison Chainsy notes,
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  a lot of sort of Marilyn Mancy kind of vibe Mansony kind of vibe.
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  But you know, the most important or most impressive part of the song
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  to me is the ending section. We had this idea of making a rift
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  solo. So instead of your regular solo, which is just I guess defined
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  by constantly changing melodic leads on the guitar, this is like, okay,
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  what do we actually just make a rift that's changing every time? And the
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  idea kind of built from there. At one point we have this full like
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  thrash section that it went into, but it was a little bit too long
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  at that point, so kind it down to a modest three and a half
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  minutes, and yeah, I really love that section where we lit loot guitar
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  and fire for the video. Yeah, pretty proud of that, and talking
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  about the video mentioned an absolutely banging the music video that comes with it.
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  It's like, did you run us through that? And what's happening? Yeah.
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  We went out to a studio here in Long Beach and we made it
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  look like all of the worst parts of California combined, sort of ally would
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  Hell Escape with all the hobo tent city stuff and like random bikes. We
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  actually paid a hobo that lives out front of our house to steal us a
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  steal us a shopping cart. He said that he stole it from another bomb,
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  which I don't feel too good about now they're here. I thought I
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  was just going to go to the Safeways and steal it from there, but
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  now he jacked from another bumb We just got a whole bunch of bells and
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  whistles and built this set within within the studio and then had Luke and me
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  walking out as much as we could. But then we couldn't do any of
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  the flames in that studio. We had to go to another friend's studio that
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  was out in Santa Anna. He's a cool South African guy and he's just
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  like, gave us the keys. Oh yeah, Jake, you do whatever
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  you want. So yeah, we got the gasoline, the lighter fluid and
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  just kept lighting his guitar on fire over and over again until we had enough
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  takes. And then the final time he's like asking for more and more the
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  lighter fluid to he poured onto it. I'm like getting this. It's getting
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  pretty sketchy out here, Luke. And uh that last time he had some
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  much on it that has started traveling up his jacket and almost caught his hair
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  on fire to run in with the wet blanket. It's pretty hectic. A
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  lot of times. California Day been a standalone single mite or is it part
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  of a big album or repay picture? Yeah, well, right now it's
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  just in the standalone single phase. We recorded another five songs with the same
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  dude, Mike Pepe, so we're hoping to get those pushed out early next
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  year, so as they come out, we might sort of do what's called
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  a waterfall release and sort of just compile them one after another. That's the
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  only good thing about this singles game that you can do is Spotify These days
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  is you can just sort of stack them on top of each other until the
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  full album is built. And rather than giving everybody an album at once,
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  where people with their twenty twenty three attention spans being so small, don't have
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  to lose songs on it by them not having enough attention to listen to a
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  whole album, we just give it to them one by one and then eventually
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  they can listen to the whole album if they do have the patience, right.
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  Waterfall effect, Yeah, waterfall release, I believe is what it's called
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  for those here in Australia not familiar with oblim By, mate, tell us
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  a bit about the band and any music. So me and my little brother
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  actually grew up in Melbourne, Australia. I know you wouldn't hear that from
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  the accent, but yeah, I moved it out here when I think it
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  was twenty three, and uh Luke was about maybe eighteen when he moved out
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  of here out here after high school and he started going to Berkeley College of
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  Music, which is a real like hoity toity prestigious music school out here,
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  and he's doing jazz guitar there. But he came to stay with me one
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  summer and it's the drinking started and the playing guitar started, and we just
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  never looked back. Dude. We're like, okay, you got to drop
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  out of school, Luke, this is this is too much fun. We
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  got to just keep doing this, dude. We started living that. I
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  don't know if you've ever seen the Pantera Vulgar videos, but when I was
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  a kid, that was just like our inspiration. We'd watched those all the
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  time. And then yeah, we finally when he was of age and we're
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  partying together little beat Shack. It was just like living the Pantera Vulgar videos
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  dream and we had to just keep it going, dude. Yeah, And
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  how different did you find the music scene ever there or what you had back
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  on me in Melbourne? Well, I'll be honest, dude, I didn't
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  really get to that many shows back when I lived in Melbourne. Like,
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  we used to go a little bit of hip hop stuff every now and then,
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  and there was a there was a bar called the Tote in Melbourne that
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  some of our friends played in and wrote local rock bands blah blah blah.
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  And I think I saw Jet years ago at uh it was called the Something.
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  Lord Duke of windsor Duke of Windsor right next to where I went to
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  college. But I feel like Australia, even though now it's it's had a
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  real big resurgence to ross music, which is great. I feel like at
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  the time rock wasn't too in vogue over there. So I'm glad that me
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  and Luke dropped across the pond to start this out because I think it's been
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  a better situation for us. Rock has got a very large audience, especially
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  in the middle of the country still in America, so you can jump from
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  show to show, our hour to hour and it goes pretty well. Have
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  a decent, decent crowd out there. When you first started music over there,
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  road, do you think the fact that you were from Australia helped or
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  hinted or or it didn't really matter. I think because I've got the American
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  accent because our mom's American. Even though Luke was born and raised in Australia,
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  he's got an American accent too, I can actually put on a pretty
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  decent Australian accent, but I won't. I won't bore you with it.
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  Yeah, we came out here here and I just want one thing led to
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  another and uh yeah digging it? Yeah cool? Reading through you press release,
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  bro, it refers to your unique take on rock and roll? Can
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  you elaborate on that? What's what's what are unique about it? What's unique
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  to our take on rock and roll? Well, I guess it's not that
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  unique because another band that we very much aspired to is Faith No More and
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  that they really make every song its own complete vibe. There's no like two
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  songs that sound alike. It's not like your average metalcore album where you hear
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  your little soft intro and then bang, everything's in, and then it starts
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  streaming in the verse, and then bang there's some clean vocals in the chorus.
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  We try and paint a different color with every single song that we put
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  out. I guess that would be one of the things that really separates us.
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  Another thing that's been horribly calmon these days is bands are playing more and
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  more backing track stuff, which I think is pretty weird for a rock and
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  roll band. But what makes us truly unique? I can't say that we
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  are truly unique. We definitely pull a lot of influence from a lot of
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  different people. So maybe whoever wrote that press release, I should edit that
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  somehow. Speaking of influences, might like you saw your influences bands like Allison
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  Change, Sam Godden, Ride Against Machine and Fight Night all but your music's
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  still to sound like your Ryan mate, so like, and in the writing
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  stage of music, like how fun a line is there between imitation and inspiration
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  and where do you draw that line? Well, I think something that does
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  happen every now and then is me or Luke will show each other a riff
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  and the other one will be like, yeah, that's pretty cool, but
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  a little bit too close to this one, and oh damn, that is
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  a bit close to that old pearl damn riff or something, so that one
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  always has to get thrown away. But yeah, we just we have a
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  vault of so many riffs and so many sort of basic structures for songs to
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  draw up on that I don't think we're ever going to have to get too
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  close to being considered a rip off. Although the other day is someone commented
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  on the Instagram it was like an ad for that California demon that when he's
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  doing the solo or the riff solo thing on the lot of the guitars on
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  fire, And somebody commented well, this is a deaf Tones rip off.
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  It's like deaf Tones rip off. How does this sound like deaf Tones?
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  I'm thinking, oh, you know what, maybe he thinks it sounds like
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  my own Summer, that bah Bad album him now, And I'm like,
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  so, dude, it's a descending riff. Uh that's about the only thing
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  that's similar. But even that's not similar because Luke's got Lammy going on in
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  there. He's got us sending descending whatever sending, you know. And uh.
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  Then other people in the chat were like, oh, this sounds a
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  lot like Black Sabbath. Oh, this sounds a lot like was at the
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  Gates. And I'm like, listen, dude. If people are saying everything
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  from at the Gates the Black Sabbath to Allison Chane's, then clearly those bands
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  that predated Deftones are not ripping off death tuns. We're probably safe on We're
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  probably safe on the Summer ripoff too, I gotta say. And another quote
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  I love you the press releaser is that you guys pride yourselves on making every
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  show a party. Like that's pretty much about as Astralian as you can get.
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  Yeah, it's definitely our strine wroots. We do love to party.
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  We've got this one song. I don't know if I'm a lowed to swear,
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  but I won't swear anyway. There's this one song called LGFU, which
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  is an acrona for Let's get fed up, and it's definitely our party anthem.
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  For live shows, we usually put it at the very last last song
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  of the set. It always just sells a hell of a lot of booze
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  and get people into it. And if there's a headliner band that plays after
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  us, very many times they have pointed out that song in particular because it
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  gets the crowd hyved and going, and they always go and by they rush
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  to the bar at the end of the set and get get some more shots
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  in them so that when the big boys after us come on, they're nicely
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  primed with shots in them and ready to rock out for them. So yeah,
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  we always want to make it feel like people are involved. You know.
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  If that means jumping out in the crowd and singing into people's faces,
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  if they're acting a little bit of zombies, that we'll do that. If
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  that means like pouring the beer into Luke's mouth while he's doing a solo do
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  that. But I mean the worst thing ever is when you're when you're playing
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  like a high energy rock and roll show and you see the crowds just standing
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  there, or even worse than that actually is when the crowd wants to have
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  that fun night out, that big party rock and roll experience, and then
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  you just got these guys sort of morosely standing there, just going through the
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  motions. Like if you're not having fun doing it, the crowd's not going
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  to have fun doing it, you know. Actually yeah, I mean speaking
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  of love shows, you have you got any coming up that you want to
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  sell a smith? Yeah. We're actually touring all across the country with a
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  band from late eighties early nineties fame called Faster Pussycat. I think they were
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  big in that whole Motley Crue era. So we're going out on tour with
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  them for all of November, which is super great. We haven't been out
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  since I think last year, so it's great. We've got a little bit
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  of a lineup change in the band. New friend willis playing bass with us,
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  so we've been practicing a lot with him, getting the chops already,
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  and they super psyched to just get back in the van and go play twenty
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  seven shows in thirty days from a friend bons band I'm from, Uh from
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  the US and mid Light Devils just did to run the shows and they said
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  they had a great job. Oh that's epic. That's a great name,
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  Midnight Devil. I have to check them out. Very glad rocky sort of
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  stuff, but fucking wholesome band. Very cool. Well I just saw today
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  speaking of Australia. Uh, our good friends Candle Blocks, who we went
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  out with, like I think it was a year and a half ago.
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  Uh. They are just announced their Australian tour, so they're doing one in
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  just about every city. I think. I don't know where you are?
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  Are you Brisy? Yeah you sound like you're from Brisbane. Yeah, I
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  thought that was announced was Brisbane. I think it's their first show down there,
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  dude, So you gotta get out. Why don't you come with them?
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  Dude, I'd love to if they if they offered, believe me,
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  we'd be on the next plane. My guess is that they probably want to
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  uh take a lot of phenomenal Australian local bands along with them and give them
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  the chance to get more disposure to their fans. Et cetera. But hey,
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  if Kevin Kevin, if you hear me, mate, and you want
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  us to come, I'll book the flat today, dude, if you're speaking
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  of a mate telling them, I'll push the whole fucking noussy boys coming home
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  angle for you, mate, and we'll get a heap of people. Well,
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  you got to go out and see him, even if we're not put
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  on though, no, ra is it all my friend? Well before we
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  go, mate, I'm started three new Spotify playlists up so our listeners can
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  get acquainted with the bands of the interview. So use it your own songs.
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  You've already given me the first one, I'm pretty sure. But a
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  song for a playlist to get the party started? Second, let me move
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  this god getting bad signal? Give me a secon mate, all right,
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  I'll turn my video off for a second. That might help you. All
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  right, cool, I think we're good. Now give us a song for
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  a playlist to get the party started, one for a playlist to save your
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  marriage, and one for a playlist to potentially end your marriage. Are these
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  my songs? Are these other people's not your songs? Run my songs?
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  Okay? So party? Oh say again? What was the first one party
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  started, so that to be LGF party party started, I would say,
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  let's go, let's go as great high energy, even though another one LGFU
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  is good. That one's more like after the party's been going for a bit
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  and you want to kick it on to the next level, but just to
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  get the party going, party started, I'd say, either let's go to
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  get popping, or maybe if you want to get the girls involved, you
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  want the you want a little bit more uh, female attention. My kind
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  of girl would be a good one for that. Yeah, Now I want
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  to save your marriage. One to save the marriage. God, we got
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  a lot of sassy ones, dude. W The W you know is kind
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  of if. If the if the woman's willing to listen to reason, then
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  the lyrics of the W you know might might make sense. It's all about
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  a girl who's looking to the grass is always greener kind of scenario, like
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  pretending like she could do better than you, and when she realizes what's out
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  there is actually a hell of a lot worse than the devil she knows.
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  Yeah, beautiful, and now about once to potentially end the marriage. On
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  to end the marriage, uh and on of course, says, uh,
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  I can't love you on the inside, but the outside puts on a damn
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  good show. I'm with you because of what you look like, not what's
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  inside. But I won't never let you know. So that's a pretty mean
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  one. That was Yeah, that was and on that was for I was
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  written about one of my ex girlfriends. She didn't she didn't take too kindly
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  to that. That great inspiration. X skirl friends the best us everyone have
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  a lot of our songs are a lot of the concepts for the songs.
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  Had I knock one through, this, that and the other failed relationship.
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  Very good check card bro very very nice to speak with you, brother.
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  You in your single California game. But is that now? And she's a
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  Parlamedo. Look forward to hear new stuff as she comes out. Absolutely,
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  man, would you ever get to Brisbane? I'll definitely hit you up.
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  I'll even pick you up from the airport, my briend. I love that
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  dude. Bring the bring the stubbies, this girl, wash you no matter
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  y'all, wash you off. You've got the feathers and I've got to talk
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  your bags. Don't the bash and to make you a star under LUNs with
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  the Basha Poppy hard. The play streets are made a few I play your
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  Bard. That's the shop back Brig holl what Bover, calliphone and team Calliphone,
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  Dreaming, calliphone and team Jellphone. Welcome, Welcome, We gave you
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  what you was wat your fall this watch walk Ofphy, walk a plane five
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  point, Stow your sign. Don't the line you saw lest your play sat
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  up and throw it a fox so your head shot off for the chest.
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  Same call. It's the ark of the past, son mode. So calliphone
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  and Sam Gallophone, Dream and Sam Gelfonia. Welcome, California. W