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JD DeServio Was Living A Double Life On Tour (2009) · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, it's Yuri from Textures and you're watching CMS TV.
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  From the brand new band Cycle of Pain that is a tune called 14
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  Devils and uh you
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  may recognize this guy maybe not if you've seen Cycle of Pain
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  but certainly if
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  you've seen the Black Label Society it's JD from Black Label JD
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  how you doing man?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's up baby how you doing brother?
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  Good dude well dude you are a busy cat aren't you two albums
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  two tour one tour two
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  SPEAKER_02: two shows a night?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I also throw in the meet and greets we do every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I got this clinic running I do as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do a bunch of clinics on the tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been going great, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, hey, it beats digging ditches, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I tell the guys when they're driving into Tahoe.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, dude, obviously, man, you're...
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  SPEAKER_02: Your best known work is with Black Label Society,
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  SPEAKER_02: but you have a brand new band of your own called Cycle of Pain.
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  SPEAKER_02: I guess maybe a good place to start with that is,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: what made you decide to stray away from Zack to do your own thing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, me and the guys have always been friends, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: The guys in Cycle of Pain,
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: for like 25 years now,
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  SPEAKER_00: so it was just a cool opportunity that arose,
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  SPEAKER_00: and,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: it just gives me,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  some freedom to do what I want to do so it's totally awesome
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  man and that's the
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  interesting thing about this record is it certainly is not
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  unfamiliar territory to
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  what people know of you as a musician but at the same time you
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  take some risks that
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  you probably would never hear within Black Label I mean having
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  Sendog on your
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  record as an example I very much doubt Zach's going to be
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  working with any rappers
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  ever yeah yeah you know we like all kinds of music we like a
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  lot of punk and soul
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  SPEAKER_00: and jazz and
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  and rock and metal and everything so and Sen's a good buddy of
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  mine so it was
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  totally cool man it was a lot of fun well dude doing a project
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  like this basically
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  at the same time that Black Label Society is in session and
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  touring you know is
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  SPEAKER_02: that easy or hard for you as far as
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  not necessarily the playing because I'm sure you're like every
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  other musician that
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  you can't ever play enough but is it difficult to kind of focus
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  on playing black
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  label shows and at the same time promoting a brand new band and
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  getting out there
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  it's a lot of work man but it's a lot of fun too I'm getting
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  this opportunity I'll
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  SPEAKER_00: sleep when I'm dead it might be tomorrow let's hope not man
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  SPEAKER_00: How is this working out there on the tour, man?
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  SPEAKER_02: What are you doing,
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  playing a half hour or so and then taking a break for a half
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  hour and then coming
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  SPEAKER_02: back?
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, I'll give you the rundown, the Jade Dizzle rundown of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right,
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  SPEAKER_00: get up around whatever noon,
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  SPEAKER_00: go inside the club,
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  SPEAKER_00: make sure all the Cycle of Pain gear is inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, wait around for a little bit, do a Black Label meet and greet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I get off that and then go do a Cycle of Pain soundcheck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then about an hour later,
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  SPEAKER_00: I do a Cycle of Pain show,
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  SPEAKER_00: go out to the merch booth,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then come back and get ready to do a Black Label show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's insane.
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  and then play that and then all the festivities that come after
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  the show.
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  SPEAKER_02: Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  And then you don't go to bed until four or five and then you
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  wake up and do it all over again.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: Only in rock and roll, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got to be, baby.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: dude,
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  SPEAKER_02: obviously,
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  SPEAKER_02: man,
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  SPEAKER_02: anybody that has ever spent,
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know,
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  an hour backstage at a black label show understands that it's
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  not like any other
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  SPEAKER_02: show.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a real throwback to the old
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  SPEAKER_02: to the old days of what it used to be like to be around rock stars.
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  SPEAKER_02: That being said,
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  SPEAKER_02: man,
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  SPEAKER_02: the rumors have it that Zach is really kind of chilling out these days,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: maybe getting his health a little bit in order.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is there truth to that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's been hitting hard for a long time,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he should,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: try to get his health in order because that's the most important thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we need our health.
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  You know,
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  it's fun to party and everything,
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  but,
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  man,
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  you've got to be here,
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  you know,
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  so...
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  getting out together is very important now man working with
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  working with Zach as
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  much as you have I mean does anybody at all even understand the
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  talent that this
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  guy has I mean certainly everybody understands that the guy
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  could play guitar like
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  you know like all like nobody but the top two or three that
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  have ever played it but
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  I don't think most people understand just how creative he is
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  and how good of a
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  SPEAKER_02: songwriter he is or any of that do you think people get it
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  I think he's very underrated in that area and he plays piano
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  awesome you know when
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  he sings like you know piano ballads it sounds really really
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  really great I mean
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  I've told him our whole lives I'm like man I think that's his
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  forte is singing and
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  playing piano rather than even playing guitar which he's like a
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  legend you know so
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  he's totally talented and yeah I think he's underrated in that
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  area for sure
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  SPEAKER_02: Now,
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  SPEAKER_02: JD,
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  obviously there's a brand new CD-DVD greatest hit set out there
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  for Black Label
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  SPEAKER_02: called Skolich.
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  SPEAKER_02: How's that doing?
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  SPEAKER_02: For you,
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  is it cool to have that out there right now where people can
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  get a feel of more or
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  SPEAKER_02: less the history of Black Label?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's totally important.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been 10 years now that the band's been around.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's totally important.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a good tribute to the fans, too, so they can
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  go back and check out all the earlier stuff and then there's a
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  DVD on there as well
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  so it's really cool now at what point do you sit down privately
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  with Zach and say
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  you know what we need a Pride and Glory reunion tour a lot of
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  people are asking for
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  that I don't know if that's going to happen Black Label is so
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  busy and I'm busy
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  with my stuff that would be a lot of work and a lot of time
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  away from Black Label
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure, it would actually require a vacation of sorts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like we ever get that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no kidding, dude.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: dude,
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  SPEAKER_02: obviously,
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  SPEAKER_02: this is a question I had for you,
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  SPEAKER_02: too,
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  is with you doing Cycle of Pain and then with Nick doing his
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  projects as well
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  SPEAKER_02: outside of BLS,
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  SPEAKER_02: does that mean that even though you guys are busy,
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  SPEAKER_02: it's not enough for anybody or what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't think you could ever have enough music, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're a musician, that's what I want to do 24-7 and
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  Will there be time for you with Cycle of Pain to actually I
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  mean obviously going
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  out in front of a sold out room every night with Black Label is
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  cool but you know
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  for a new band I mean at some point you probably have to get
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  out there and you know
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  play some solo gigs yourselves is there going to be time for
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  that anytime soon or
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  SPEAKER_02: is that just not in the cards right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  I'm going to have about a month and a half to do Cycle without
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  Black Label,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I'm going to have to keep this machine rolling.
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  SPEAKER_00: The album just came out and the people are digging it,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I'm going to have to set something up and keep working with it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, how has it been as far as metal radio and whatnot?
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  SPEAKER_02: Has it been picked up in fairly good numbers?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's charted, man.
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  It charted on metal radio the first week,
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  and it came in at 37,
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  and now it's down to 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess people are adding it and spinning it, so I'm pretty psyched, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: No kidding, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: What did you expect going in?
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  SPEAKER_02: Did you have any kind of expectation at all,
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  SPEAKER_02: or were you just kind of like,
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  SPEAKER_02: whatever happens,
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  SPEAKER_02: happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, totally.
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  SPEAKER_00: No expectations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we have some really good music and great,
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  SPEAKER_00: great musicians,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I was hoping that the people would catch on to it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's been really good so far,
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  SPEAKER_00: man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Alright, let's play hypothetical for a second.
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  SPEAKER_02: Say Cycle of Pain explodes,
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  SPEAKER_02: becomes Radio Metal's number one album and whatnot,
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  SPEAKER_02: and then you get faced with the question of,
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  SPEAKER_02: do I leave Black Label or not?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll never leave.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is all, baby.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like a gang.
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  SPEAKER_02: You just don't leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll hunt me down and fire me.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll get to me.
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  Sure I guess it would kind of be like with Zach with Ozzy he
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  just can't quite get
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  away Yeah I tried to hide from Zach my whole life Right I hear
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  you dude Well JD
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  obviously men you have two projects on the table there's a new
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  black label CD DVD
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  called Scolage there's a new Cycle of Pain album as well which
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  is your own band
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  outside of black labels so before I let you go what am I
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  missing that you want fans
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  SPEAKER_02: to know and where can people find out more about Cycle of Pain
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  or you can go down to the MySpace you know MySpace.com
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  backslash or whatever
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  CycleThePain we have a website CycleThePain.net and there's all
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  kinds of bulletins
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  on the black label stuff as well on black label sites and all
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  that so that's where
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  you can check it out or come see a show with us man that's the
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  best thing man and
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  then you know call up radio and request it if you dig it
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  because then more people
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  will play it man and that's it and then we can have a career in
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  this bullshit
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  SPEAKER_02: No doubt, dude.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well,
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  SPEAKER_02: dude,
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  SPEAKER_02: before I let you go,
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  I have to ask you what's known as the traditional classic metal
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  show question.
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  SPEAKER_02: We ask everybody this one, and I'm sure you'll have an answer for this.
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  SPEAKER_02: How has Lemmy from Motorhead influenced your career?
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  SPEAKER_00: Lemmy?
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  SPEAKER_00: He's influenced all metal, I would imagine, just by his attitude.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he lived at the Rainbow, basically, so that's pretty awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Perfect, dude.
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  well man as a tradition on the show we always let the artist
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  pick a closing track
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  so what would you like us to end the interview with and maybe
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  tell us a quick story
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  about it Dead Man Walking and why that one that one I actually
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  wrote that one I
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  actually wrote that with Black Label in mind and I was going to
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  write it and give
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  it to Zach and see if he would like to use it on a Black Label
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  record which never
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  happened so I'm kind of psyched because I really loved it soon
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  and now it's mine
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  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, let's check it out.
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