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The Absence Of Light With EDDIE BERG From IMMINENCE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So my name is Eddie. I sing him play violin
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  Speaker 1: in the Swedish metal cor band called Imminence, and we're
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  Speaker 1: heading down to Australia for the first time ever to
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  Speaker 1: play Good Things Festival. We're super excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: It am Menie.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, brother, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 3: No, as you mentioned, Eminence will make your way to
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  Speaker 3: Australia for the first time ever in December to play
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  Speaker 3: a Good Things Festival in Melbourne on December sixth, Sydney
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  Speaker 3: on the seventh, and Brintain on the eighth.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, like, well, I've been neglectless for so long. This
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  Speaker 2: is your first trip.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's always about getting that formal limitation you're waiting for, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, true, true.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to be invited before you're supposed to be invited,
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  Speaker 4: before you go something. Good Things also features corn Some
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  Speaker 4: forty one, Electric Corboy, Mastadon, Kerry King Hates more Man.
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  Speaker 2: So is there any bands on that bill that you
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  Speaker 2: haven't played with before?
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  Speaker 1: Probably played with every single one of them. On festivals.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of festivals of here in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: We're a bit spoiled that way, So you've got to
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of great bands that we're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah's true, And.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be a huge on for you guys
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  Speaker 3: to be invited to a festival like this without actually
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  Speaker 3: playing in Australia before and then like you know what,
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  Speaker 3: people came for you, So it's massive honor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And so being your first time coming to a new country, mate, like,
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  Speaker 3: do you talk to other bands and ask them what
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  Speaker 3: to expect or would you rather come in cold and
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  Speaker 3: just sort of see how things happen.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're coming cold. I mean, we already have
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  Speaker 1: some people down there that we're friends with or through
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  Speaker 1: the internet, so it's gonna be great to finally see them.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that we should just go in there
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  Speaker 1: with an open mind and see how it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah's true. What are you actually expecting from Australian crowds?
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  Speaker 3: Like you expect it to be rowdy, expecting us to
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  Speaker 3: be tom sort of things going on?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. You never know. When we were in
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  Speaker 1: the States this year, it could be so different from
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  Speaker 1: night to night as well, So like some some cities
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  Speaker 1: we had really rowdy crowds and in some cities it
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  Speaker 1: was more like people just standing there and experiencing the music,
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  Speaker 1: so we we're not expecting or hoping that a crowd
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  Speaker 1: goes a certain way.
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  Speaker 3: As far as the flip side of that, BRO is
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  Speaker 3: that Isralian audience is tarted, not what to expect from
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  Speaker 3: Ego as honors so run a strough a typical eminence
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  Speaker 3: love ship.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, good question. I think that we have come to
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  Speaker 1: a point as a band where we like to have
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  Speaker 1: quite a diverse live show. And it's not just about
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  Speaker 1: creating much pits or having the most wild show. It's about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what we are as a band and the
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  Speaker 1: diversity of our music and presenting that on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: So people.
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  Speaker 3: The thing with festivals, BRO, is like there's so many
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  Speaker 3: bands on there that people haven't seen before and having experience,
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  Speaker 3: which is a great thing, but the people are not
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  Speaker 3: familiar with imminent scound of good things.
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  Speaker 2: Give us three songs of yours that they should listen
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  Speaker 2: to you get to know the band.
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  Speaker 1: A very good song. I think it's the Black from
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  Speaker 1: our latest album, the title track. I would say I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick from different albums. Then I'm gonna say Infectious
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  Speaker 1: from Turn the Light On and Temptation from Heaven and
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  Speaker 1: Hiding you can get a pretty good picture of Eminence
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  Speaker 1: with those songs.
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  Speaker 2: So we got back in history a little bit bro
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  Speaker 2: like imin.
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  Speaker 3: It started with yourself and guitarist Harold Woice or something
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  Speaker 3: in high school, man, So how similar was your music
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  Speaker 3: back then to how it's become now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we started out like the first idea of Eminence
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  Speaker 1: was that we wanted to play melodic death metal. We
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  Speaker 1: were huge in Flames fans. We basically wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: a band that sounded like in Flames. We ended up
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  Speaker 1: going a little bit of a different way. But it's actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, since we released our debut album ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we've kind of gone a little bit
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  Speaker 1: full circle. As this latest album, The Black, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: the closest one musically to that first album, and we've
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  Speaker 1: been on quite a journey in between.
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  Speaker 5: There right cool back then, man, like well, other teams
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  Speaker 5: are out chasing girls and getting drunk, like you guys
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  Speaker 5: both knuckle down and focused on making music in Korea.
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  Speaker 2: So what sorts of things did you do actually make
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  Speaker 2: that happen?
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  Speaker 1: It was always about reaching for the next goal, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how small that was. And you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: started the band, the first goal was to get on
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  Speaker 1: a stage, any stage, play a show, and now we
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  Speaker 1: did that. We next goal was to go into the
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  Speaker 1: studio record some songs, and as the time grew, we
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  Speaker 1: set higher and higher goals, but still you know, achievable
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  Speaker 1: goals that we could maybe could do in a year's
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  Speaker 1: time or something like that. And that's always been our
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  Speaker 1: philosophy and approach to do the music. It's just like,
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  Speaker 1: how do we how do we get from this point
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  Speaker 1: and just take the next step.
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  Speaker 3: Your music itself like it blends the rightiousness of Scandinavian
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  Speaker 3: metal with classic string elements, right, so what did that?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you come from? It's sort up the type
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  Speaker 3: of thing that that everyone does.
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  Speaker 1: I started playing violin when I was five years old,
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  Speaker 1: and it was always there, you know, with me, But
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  Speaker 1: at first it wasn't like something that we really incorporated
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  Speaker 1: that much. On our first album, we had string arrangements
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  Speaker 1: on the songs and some of the songs, and actually
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  Speaker 1: on the second album we kind of let that go.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't until our third album where we experimented
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  Speaker 1: a little bit with bringing in the violins as a
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  Speaker 1: lead instrument apart from my vocals. It was something that
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  Speaker 1: we really felt clicked and connected and the the From
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  Speaker 1: that point we've just been been doing that.
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  Speaker 3: How hard is it to combine the violin with the
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  Speaker 3: metal elements?
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  Speaker 2: I guess to make them work so well together? Is
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  Speaker 2: it a difficult process?
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say too difficult. I mean violin in metal
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  Speaker 1: is it's kind of like it's a really good marriage,
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  Speaker 1: I would say. And it's been there for a long
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  Speaker 1: time with other bands as well. It's I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just that it's not so common in this scene and
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  Speaker 1: the and the style of music that we're playing that
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  Speaker 1: you have someone actually doing that live. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: more with you know, symphonic bands or folk metal bands,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Has has always brought that to the stage,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's not so common with modern bands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And in the in the writing and development process,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, like how do you how do you engage
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we've gone too far with one song.
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  Speaker 2: Or not far enough with another.
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  Speaker 1: In which way, like with the violin, like.
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  Speaker 2: Like can you listen to a song and say like
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  Speaker 2: there's too much violin in there for metal or that
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  Speaker 2: needs more? Like how do you sort of how do
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  Speaker 2: you work that out?
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  Speaker 1: We always we always write the song for the song itself,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. So I'm not afraid to pull
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  Speaker 1: back on the violin. I don't want it to have
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  Speaker 1: to be in there. It should always be in the
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  Speaker 1: best interest of the song and what the song needs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool.
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  Speaker 3: We'll started a new thing up that I'm just showing
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  Speaker 3: bands the fight over there that I grabbed off. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from the Internet. I'm just gonna ask you to
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  Speaker 3: explain the story behind it. So is it okay if
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  Speaker 3: I show yours? What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Just a fighter that I pulled off the Internet from
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  Speaker 2: you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I've got this one.
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  Speaker 2: What was actually going on there?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Were they trying to hand you something or they trying
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  Speaker 2: to give you a high five?
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is more of a high five. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I know which venue that is leaving. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Viper Room in Vienna. If I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: This should be on our tour in twenty sixteen, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: if not fifteen or sixteen. But yeah, it's it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a throwback.
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  Speaker 3: If you ever had any bad experience when someone reaches
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  Speaker 3: out to you about that, like you haven't had any
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  Speaker 3: bad experience with like grabby and trying.
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  Speaker 2: To pull you in or No.
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  Speaker 1: I never really felt that. Actually, we've been touring for
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  Speaker 1: a long time, but I never felt like we had
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  Speaker 1: those type of fans. I feel like there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of respect from our fans and from us to them
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  Speaker 1: as well that I never really experienced something bad in
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  Speaker 1: that way.