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INTERVIEW: Earth, Wind & Fire Talks 'Sing A Song All Night' Tour, Maurice White, Music Legacy, Longevity + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Click your ass up the
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Speaker 1: breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all done morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy, just hilarious, Charlamagne to God. We
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Speaker 1: are the breakfast Club. Lalla Roast is here as well.
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Speaker 1: We got some special guests in the bill Man.
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Speaker 3: We got we say legends sometime and they don't really
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Speaker 3: be legends, not any time of legendary award winning icon
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Speaker 3: Man eight number one hits, sold more than one hundred
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Speaker 3: million albums worldwide, twenty three albums, and those albums went
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Speaker 3: double platinum and hit the top ten.
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Speaker 1: God damn and the soundtrack to a lot of Our
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Speaker 1: Lives and Our Mama Lives, Man, ladies and gentlemen, Earth
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Speaker 1: Wind and Fire.
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Speaker 2: We're feeling good.
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Speaker 4: We're feeling good. We're out touring and having a good time.
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Speaker 4: Just sold out Madison Square Garden with Lionel night before last,
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Speaker 4: and just you know, living life, living life and having
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Speaker 4: a good time. Couldn't imagine that when we started this
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Speaker 4: in our twenties that we'd be seventy five and still
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Speaker 4: doing it, you know, on the level.
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Speaker 1: What makes you still enjoy it after all this year?
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Speaker 1: I still love going on tours.
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Speaker 4: Always say I would have played music for free. Fortunately
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Speaker 4: I get paid for it, yep. But yeah, it's a
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Speaker 4: you know, it's a passion and it's wonderful that it
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Speaker 4: makes a lot of other people happy and bring so
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Speaker 4: much joy to to so many people, like you say,
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Speaker 4: our music has become part of the soundtrack of so
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Speaker 4: many people's lives now, and we wouldn't have been able
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Speaker 4: to even imagine that, you know, starting out. But we
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Speaker 4: just wanted to be in the best band in the.
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Speaker 2: World, whole world. And Billboard just.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Billboard came out and said that Fires their greatest
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Speaker 5: band of all time.
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Speaker 2: You know, you got a point. It took us a
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Speaker 2: little longer.
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Speaker 3: Just catch it up and rest in peace to May's white. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I got to say that when you're on stage, now,
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Speaker 3: do you feel him on stage with y'all?
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Speaker 4: Every note, every stick, every beat, every because you know,
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Speaker 4: it's like part of it. You know, it's DNA, it's heart.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, we can't. You can't play Earth when he
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Speaker 4: Fire music without Maurice being there.
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Speaker 6: And you know you're feeling, you know, on stage, particularly
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Speaker 6: when you do those great songs, and that's the way
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Speaker 6: the world, all those wonderful songs that people grew up on.
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Speaker 6: And so as Philip said, you know, we feel him
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Speaker 6: every night.
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Speaker 3: I always heard Brother Maurice talk about music is something spiritual,
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Speaker 3: like you think people underestimate how intentional he was about
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Speaker 3: healing people through music, and how intentional y'all are as
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Speaker 3: a group about healing people through music.
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Speaker 4: Where you know, as he evolved in his you know,
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Speaker 4: evolution of spiritual enlightenment, he just really came to understand
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Speaker 4: what a high art that the music music is and
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Speaker 4: its ability to transform to heal, to heal, you know,
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Speaker 4: And so that was what, uh we went about making
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Speaker 4: sure that our intentions was in the music in that
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Speaker 4: way that it would make a positive difference in those
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Speaker 4: who heard it.
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Speaker 6: He wanted to and also the chime in he wanted
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Speaker 6: to render a service to humanity, you know. And uh
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Speaker 6: and as we're seeing now where people remember where they
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Speaker 6: were when those songs came on, how they feel about things.
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Speaker 7: So uh uh, he was, he was on a high plane.
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Speaker 7: It's definitely on a mission, on a mission.
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Speaker 8: But I think that's why all these years later, people
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Speaker 8: still really live like generations live with your music very differently.
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Speaker 8: Y'all can sell out wherever you guys go, because it's
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Speaker 8: a service to people, and a lot of artists don't
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Speaker 8: understand that their art can be of service.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the music was for a higher purpose. No real,
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Speaker 2: maybe y'all.
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Speaker 7: Can as from me.
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Speaker 3: I always wondered where could I go to learn more
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Speaker 3: about Maurice White's philosophy on life. Did he ever get
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Speaker 3: an opportunity to explain that anywhere?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, you just I mean just listening to
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Speaker 4: all of the music, and not just the stuff that's
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Speaker 4: on the main line, but you know, the the other
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Speaker 4: cuts and stuff, you know. I mean, Maurice was very
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Speaker 4: open about the fact that he was a student of
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Speaker 4: life and one that was just allowing, you know, the
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Speaker 4: power of the creativity to come through him, you know,
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Speaker 4: And so he stayed very open to you know, that
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Speaker 4: inspiration at all times and taught us to do the
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Speaker 4: you know, the same and taught us by by example
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Speaker 4: really you know.
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Speaker 2: And he had quite a library too.
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Speaker 5: He was a tremendous reader of books, you know, and
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Speaker 5: certainly some books that he turned me on to Napoleon Hill,
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Speaker 5: you know, thinking Master Keeter Rich's Law's success.
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Speaker 6: And you know the thing about it is he had
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Speaker 6: traveled the world before he was in Earth in the Fire,
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Speaker 6: before he started Earth on the Fire. So we were
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Speaker 6: learning and so we sort of grew up on the road,
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Speaker 6: you know, and uh and watching.
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Speaker 7: Him do what he did. Uh.
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Speaker 6: And of course, you know, pulling from the great Miles Davis,
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Speaker 6: all those wonderful artists that he pulled from too. So
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Speaker 6: we were very fortunate to learn from a great teacher.
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Speaker 3: What was something that he taught you that had nothing
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Speaker 3: to do with music but everything to do with life?
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Speaker 4: This you know, like you have to keep your hands
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Speaker 4: and hearts open, right, you know they'll do this you
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Speaker 4: nothing comes in, nothing goes out right, you know, but
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Speaker 4: you know you have you know, you have to give
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Speaker 4: and you have to keep your hands open. So you
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Speaker 4: you know, and and it's reciprocal. It comes back to you.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask in nineteen sixty nine when this
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Speaker 1: band was created, you know this, it was first originally
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Speaker 1: the Salty Peppers.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the Salty Oh yeah, right.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever think that it would come this far
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Speaker 1: to the lives that you change the love you put
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Speaker 1: in people's hearts?
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Speaker 7: Did you?
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Speaker 1: Was that always the goal and the key.
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Speaker 5: When you're first getting into this thing. You don't know
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Speaker 5: where it's going to go. You just hope that the
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Speaker 5: outcome is a very positive outcome. But coming into a band,
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Speaker 5: you don't know what's going to happen, you know, and
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Speaker 5: you don't know what kind of success, if any, that
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Speaker 5: you will have.
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Speaker 2: You just have to believe in what you're doing time.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, right, yeah, right absolutely.
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Speaker 6: I think the first time we ever heard one of
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Speaker 6: our tunes, I think it was Mighty Mighty, and we
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Speaker 6: were in the car and we jumped out the car
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Speaker 6: because you know, when you hear your work and you
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Speaker 6: hear it and then you hear it back at you,
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Speaker 6: you know, it's just uh, it's very powerful and it's
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Speaker 6: uh uh And those songs live on today, man.
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Speaker 1: Now, from Salty Peppers to Earth went in Fire. How
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Speaker 1: did that name change happen?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: From seasonings the elements?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, well you know uh uh Reese's uh he
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Speaker 9: made Earth on the fire from his astrological chart because
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Speaker 9: he had no water, no water in the charter and
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Speaker 9: it's chartered was earth air and fired him.
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Speaker 6: But he changed the air to wind and uh, and
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Speaker 6: it was Salty Peppers would have been a little corny
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Speaker 6: by now, but the Earth on the fire was definitely
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Speaker 6: all the elements that we every day, the moon, the sky,
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Speaker 6: you know, and and he wrote songs to head to
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Speaker 6: the sky, things like that, and so yeah, so it went,
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Speaker 6: It went a long way, and we didn't even know,
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Speaker 6: you know, we didn't know.
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Speaker 3: Can you tell me about the night of September twenty first?
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Speaker 3: Like why why why September twenty first?
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Speaker 4: You're gonna hear You're gonna hear a whole bunch of
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Speaker 4: stuff about that one.
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Speaker 2: Somebody said, well was it?
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Speaker 4: It was Cabron's do they as long as I've known reason,
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Speaker 4: he never said anything, you know, but at anyway, he
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Speaker 4: you know, he said it sounded.
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Speaker 2: Good, It sounded good, it was working, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: body say.
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Speaker 7: Do you remember and it was a filler?
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Speaker 6: Uh? What it was a filler in the middle of
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Speaker 6: the greatest hits record that it was used to. It
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Speaker 6: was not really on an album album and uh, and
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Speaker 6: it's been a hit.
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Speaker 2: Five times. That's crazy as a filling.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 6: If matter of fact, I was checking your show out,
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Speaker 6: uh when uh Taylor Swift did her version of it,
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Speaker 6: and you went off, You said, how couldn't you, you know,
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Speaker 6: change the lyrics and change the sound of it.
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Speaker 7: You know that, and man, people went nuts. You know
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Speaker 7: you if you go.
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Speaker 5: Ahead, Dean, I was gonna say, if you come into
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Speaker 5: our show and you here September, you're late.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, because.
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Speaker 3: It's the last song we do, right, and it's globally
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Speaker 3: recognized as the UN's International Day of Piece.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that.
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Speaker 7: Was what came first.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that. Yeah, didn't know that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's recognized that.
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Speaker 7: Look that up, Lauren.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that.
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it's looked at the UN's International Day
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Speaker 3: of Piece. So I was wondering that was just some
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Speaker 3: type of correlation. But I don't know what came first.
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Speaker 6: People just picked the song. You hear it, you know,
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Speaker 6: because they relate to it in a lot of different
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Speaker 6: kind of ways. And now you know, we got kids
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Speaker 6: five years old that know the songs and don't know
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Speaker 6: who we are.
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Speaker 8: That's what I mean by generationally like it's serving people
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Speaker 8: because like you play that out like a family cookout,
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Speaker 8: family gathering, whatever. Like the kids know it because they're
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Speaker 8: growing up on it. It's being passed down through generations,
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Speaker 8: which is also insane too, because it's music. It's not tangible,
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Speaker 8: but it is I guess, like, you know, what.
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Speaker 3: Do you think it is about your music that just
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Speaker 3: refuses the age?
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Speaker 4: Or were first true confession about September because we used
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Speaker 4: to listen to all the music once we got finished
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Speaker 4: doing you know, our projects and stuff, and so we're
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Speaker 4: listening to the project that September was on. We got
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Speaker 4: to September, we played it, I was like.
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Speaker 1: I don't know or you didn't know that first?
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Speaker 2: Just yeah, I don't know, guys, I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: was wrong. Yes, did you ask like what that was
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Speaker 2: a body?
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Speaker 7: Yet?
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Speaker 2: Now you know? I sang it. It was me and
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Speaker 2: Reese doing.
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Speaker 4: All the voices, so so, but but I didn't ask that.
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Speaker 4: But I just didn't. I didn't think. I thought it
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Speaker 4: was so simple because all the other songs had so
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Speaker 4: many you know, changes and all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 4: you know, and so it was. It was great then
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Speaker 4: and it's great now.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't know it classic.
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Speaker 1: We're doing music now, right, Do you ever look back?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Songs used to be seven minutes long, right long? Right,
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Speaker 1: nine minutes long, and you caught every piece of it.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Now songs are two minutes long, that's right.
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Speaker 2: Could you do a song da age and two minutes long. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: of course, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, you just have to cut out all the extras,
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Speaker 4: you know, because yeah, y'all, y'all don't listen to stuff
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Speaker 4: for long.
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Speaker 2: Nowadays. It's like give it to me, dude and get
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Speaker 2: over it.
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Speaker 8: Y'all was talking and through it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like that's some of the best parts
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Speaker 1: of the songs.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, where you could do long sack solos, guitar solos,
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Speaker 6: sun Goddess you know, got it's like thirteen minutes long exactly.
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Speaker 7: I mean, some of these records need to be show
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Speaker 7: because they're terrible. So I don't have a problem with that.
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Speaker 3: Now today's music industry, like and people saying they reward
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Speaker 3: speed right, Earth Wind and Fire, y'all built timeless records?
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Speaker 3: Can timeless music still exists and it's like streaming era,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 4: I always think that because music was so important in
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Speaker 4: our era, because there wasn't all the other intentibles. Now
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Speaker 4: you got nineteen hundred things to do on your phone
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Speaker 4: and you know, like it's it's you know, there's so much,
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Speaker 4: so many other things vying for your attention. I don't
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Speaker 4: I don't think music is ever going to be you
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Speaker 4: know that have that kind of space you know anymore,
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Speaker 4: but you know, you never know.
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Speaker 7: What the backup what Philip was saying, There's been other
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Speaker 7: things that.
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Speaker 6: Have occupied the space of music, you know, you know, sports, politics,
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Speaker 6: you know, it's been in the same space, you know,
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Speaker 6: and and they've used and they use music, so they
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Speaker 6: take up the space of using listening to our songs,
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Speaker 6: you know, for their commercials. And because our songs in
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Speaker 6: commercial commercials every day you hear it.
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Speaker 7: You can hear it in the story, you're gonna hear
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Speaker 7: it on television.
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Speaker 6: So you know, it's taken a lot of other things
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Speaker 6: have taken the space of music.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 1: Do you like when sometimes I know that the song's
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Speaker 1: go political, right, so political people have used the songs
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Speaker 1: for their campaign. Does that bother you? Do you cut
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Speaker 1: it or do you just say, hey, let the checks
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Speaker 1: come in.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, certain certain people use our stuff.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's like we're like, forget that, you know
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Speaker 4: that ain't that ain't us Yeah, but you you really
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Speaker 4: have no until you check them. There's there's really no
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Speaker 4: you know, recall to to you know, people using your music, do.
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Speaker 8: The seas and desist when you send them after that, like,
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Speaker 8: I know that happened with Trump. Does that actually like
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Speaker 8: make them like does that change? Does like when you
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Speaker 8: send the sas and desists, Like do people actually pay
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Speaker 8: attention and care about that or do they?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Most times, Yeah, because it becomes a legal issues,
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Speaker 5: you get that Ceason assists, you should probably to shut
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Speaker 5: it down.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, after all the you know, decades on the road,
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Speaker 1: what's one of the craziest stories you've seen on the road.
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Speaker 4: The craziest for me was back when we were touring
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Speaker 4: and we would uh rent out a floor. Yeah, and
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Speaker 4: we got back to the hotel and our drummer, Freddy
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Speaker 4: Maurice and Verdeine's brother. There in front of his room
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Speaker 4: was a buck naked lady.
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Speaker 7: And that was me.
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Speaker 2: I came, man, wait a minute, hold it.
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Speaker 5: I came up, got my room, was right by the elevator,
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Speaker 5: got off and there was a lady chanting buck naked
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Speaker 5: in front of my door, ring a kill number. I
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Speaker 5: was like, okay, I'll be right back. I backed back
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Speaker 5: on the elevator, went down and got security said do
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Speaker 5: something with this, you know, and people could go to
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Speaker 5: the front desk and tell them different things.
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Speaker 2: And they'd give you your key.
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Speaker 4: I was in in uh San Francisco one time and
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Speaker 4: came came home from the show and went to open
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Speaker 4: my door, and the and the and the double lock
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Speaker 4: was on there.
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Speaker 2: So I want to say, I look at my kids.
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Speaker 4: You know, look this is like so all right, go down,
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Speaker 4: asked them to unlock the door.
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Speaker 2: They said, well, you must have locked it some kind
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Speaker 2: of way. I go in.
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Speaker 4: This lady's in the bathtub, got candles and stuff.
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Speaker 2: She even told the people that she's my wife.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some crazy.
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Speaker 7: Just now we understand the special.
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Speaker 2: Dabody right now.
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Speaker 3: I was, you know, watching the documentary on HBO, When
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Speaker 3: did y'all finally get the business right? Because you know,
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Speaker 3: y'all y'all had some financial struggles, and I was I
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Speaker 3: was shocked to see that y'all would end tours in debt. Like,
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Speaker 3: when did y'all finally get that right?
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Speaker 2: Yesterday?
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Speaker 7: Just did got it together right? We're back in the
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Speaker 7: back the money up.
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Speaker 4: No, but you know, you know the true Truthfully, no
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Speaker 4: one could have predicted when we are putting together this
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Speaker 4: band that okay, we're gonna sell out five nights at Whimley.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna sell five nights at the.
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Speaker 4: Forum, you know, and you know all these different things,
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Speaker 4: and when you don't you haven't been used to having
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Speaker 4: that kind of money and stuff. You don't know that
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Speaker 4: this stuff is gonna run out and stuff. So like
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Speaker 4: all of the things that we're trying to do that
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Speaker 4: Morris was trying to do with the production and all
16:31
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, and I bet you, I bet
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Speaker 4: you management probably took him to the bank too, you know,
16:37
Speaker 4: because you know, basically, you just move in and you
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Speaker 4: don't think the money's gonna dry up and all that
16:45
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. You don't have no history, so you
16:47
Speaker 4: got to get burnt pretty bad before you actually start
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Speaker 4: to you know, have some physical, i mean, some financial
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Speaker 4: sense about.
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Speaker 6: Yourself and in our And when all that was happening,
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Speaker 6: that was before the age of corporate sponsorship, you know,
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Speaker 6: before later on that's when all the other acts got
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Speaker 6: corporate sponsorship, you know, from car companies, different things, and
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Speaker 6: there was nothing. You were just paying as you go along.
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Speaker 6: That's all you can do the shows, you know, and.
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Speaker 3: They're a point where you were really making less than
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Speaker 3: the roadie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah for a long time. Yeah yeah, wow.
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Speaker 4: But we didn't know though, you know, like because we
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Speaker 4: were we we were just happy to be in the
17:30
Speaker 4: you know, when we come from we come from you know,
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Speaker 4: you know, families that don't have no money and all
17:35
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. So you know, when when when
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Speaker 4: your needs are met and stuff, you're like just es
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Speaker 4: basically at.
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Speaker 2: You know, twenty one years old. You know, you don't
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Speaker 2: know that you know, okay, the roadies making three times as.
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Speaker 6: Much as you and you don't know it's you don't
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Speaker 6: know it's a business until later, you know, and then
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Speaker 6: you find out, you know, it's not about the money.
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Speaker 7: It's about the money.
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Speaker 8: To find out what's the process been like making all
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Speaker 8: of that right? Now? What's the process or what was
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Speaker 8: the process like trying to make all of that right?
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Speaker 7: Like all of the money, getting getting.
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Speaker 4: Get good representation, you know, and people you know, teaching you,
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Speaker 4: you know, bringing you up to speed, you know, you know,
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Speaker 4: so that you know, it took some years unfortunately for us.
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Speaker 4: You know, we have we've been uh heading up the
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Speaker 4: band uh forty years now, you know, and the to
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Speaker 4: Reese's what.
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Speaker 5: Twenty yeah about twenty yeah, yeah, yeah, we've no I
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Speaker 5: was gonna say, we've been at this longer with our
18:48
Speaker 5: just the three of us than we were with with him.
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Speaker 6: Got you Yeah, and Reese didn't even do now you
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Speaker 6: know you do buses on the road. Reese didn't even
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Speaker 6: get into the bus era.
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Speaker 2: We didn't We didn't even take driving station. And we
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Speaker 2: had plane.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we want to R and B groups to start
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Speaker 4: flying and stuff.
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Speaker 3: How did y'all avoid not making I guess the financial
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Speaker 3: situation personal with with Maury?
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Speaker 2: You know, no, it got personal. Definitely got personal.
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Speaker 4: But but you know, the the transition or the evolution
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Speaker 4: of forgiving and uh understanding, you know, was something that
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Speaker 4: you know was a process.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, it.
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Speaker 5: Got personal and that's why some people never returned. That's
19:36
Speaker 5: how personal with God. They didn't want anything to do
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Speaker 5: with it moving forward and.
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Speaker 7: You learn how to forgive and keep it moving.
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Speaker 6: And as Ralph had mentioned, we've been doing it longer
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Speaker 6: without Reach than we were with Race.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: You know, when when there are things shifting, gives a bit.
19:52
Speaker 8: When are things out there like you guys were the
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Speaker 8: first African American actors sell out Madison Square Garden. Right
20:00
Speaker 8: during that time when you were doing it, did it
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Speaker 8: feel like how did it feel? Because now people look
20:04
Speaker 8: back at that and they're like, oh wow, like that's
20:06
Speaker 8: such a big thing. But it probably didn't feel so
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Speaker 8: glamorous when you guys were doing it.
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Speaker 4: No, they felt glamorous. Square Garden has always been glamorous
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Speaker 4: to any artist, you know, it's iconic. I was just
20:19
Speaker 4: telling some people that the other day when we were there,
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Speaker 4: you know, to look around and to you know, relish
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Speaker 4: the time there because it's very it's a very sacred place.
20:32
Speaker 6: I don't think any other band from our era it's
20:38
Speaker 6: playing madiscauat Garden. We're doing it twice. We did it
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Speaker 6: back in the day, we're doing it now. And the
20:44
Speaker 6: thing about it now, it's a multicultural audience. You know,
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Speaker 6: it's all ages, all races of people, and they're enjoying
20:53
Speaker 6: the same thing. And for the two hours that were
20:55
Speaker 6: out there together. They feel better when they leave them
21:00
Speaker 6: when they came, you know, because they don't know what
21:03
Speaker 6: to expect, you know.
21:04
Speaker 7: But the thing about it, they're.
21:05
Speaker 6: Very happy, and playing in New York Man is really
21:07
Speaker 6: I mean, when they love you, they love you. You know,
21:09
Speaker 6: they don't take no prisoners. But when they love you,
21:12
Speaker 6: they love you. And they gave us a lot of love.
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Speaker 6: The other night lineup.
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Speaker 1: You know, these brothers got to go.
21:17
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: You got a memoile though, right right, Yes, it came
21:22
Speaker 5: out in May eighth.
21:26
Speaker 2: It's called Rhythm and Fire.
21:27
Speaker 5: Life and Harmony with Earth went in fire.
21:29
Speaker 2: Uh.
21:30
Speaker 5: And after being in the group for fifty five years,
21:33
Speaker 5: I decided it was time to write a book, and
21:36
Speaker 5: so I did, and it's doing very well.
21:38
Speaker 3: You know, when people are celebrating the earth win, it fires.
21:41
Speaker 3: You know, legacy, right, fifty years from now to be
21:44
Speaker 3: like a hundred years, right, what do you what do
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Speaker 3: you hope they're saying about your legacy?
21:52
Speaker 4: You know, here's a band that did music and they're
21:57
Speaker 4: there their intention and was greater than themselves, you know
22:04
Speaker 4: it was it was it wasn't so much about them
22:07
Speaker 4: as much as it was about renting a service to
22:10
Speaker 4: the humanity.
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Speaker 2: And I hope lives on.
22:14
Speaker 5: I was going to say, I hope they realized we
22:16
Speaker 5: made a tremendous contribution to the artistic and cultural fabric
22:21
Speaker 5: of the globe.
22:25
Speaker 4: And fifty years from now when we come back again
22:26
Speaker 4: on the Breakfast Show, exactly, but wait, bake it up
22:35
Speaker 4: to you guys, because we're in rarefied atmosphere being with you, guys.
22:41
Speaker 2: It's an honor to be here.
22:43
Speaker 4: You guys are the culture and you know like you're
22:48
Speaker 4: you guys are so sharp. Guys and ladies, your whole,
22:52
Speaker 4: your whole operation, and so you know, thank you for
22:55
Speaker 4: inviting us, Thank you.
22:59
Speaker 2: Legends, Thank the Earth tomorrow. Want to come back some gifts?
23:05
Speaker 1: Oh yes, all right, all right, I don't want to
23:08
Speaker 1: say this. Everybody stop. That fit all of them, you
23:12
Speaker 1: you well, it's earth Winding Fire. It's the Breakfast Club.
23:15
Speaker 1: Good morning, every day a week.
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Speaker 7: Click your glass up, the Breakfast Club.
23:21
Speaker 2: Finished for y'all.
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Speaker 7: Done