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Music & Intimacy With BURTON C BELL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't know me by now, I'm Burton
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  Speaker 1: Cebell Dry long vocal martyr and currently a solo artist.
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  Speaker 1: I've been part of Fear Factory. I've been part of
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  Speaker 1: j z R. I've been part of City of Fire,
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  Speaker 1: I've been part of Ministry and many other many other
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  Speaker 1: cameos and other bands projects over the years. I'm like
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  Speaker 1: the Troy McClure of heavy metal. Roll Night.
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  Speaker 2: You certainly keep meself busy. Brother, Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure as well. So we're here for the big
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  Speaker 2: news that you have just announced the run of intimate
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  Speaker 2: Australian shows in June, studying during the eleventh in Brisbane,
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  Speaker 2: then stopping at Newcastle and Sydney over consecutive days and
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  Speaker 2: finishing in Melbourne on during the fourteenth. I know the
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  Speaker 2: news has made a lot of people happy on this
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  Speaker 2: side of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, Well, I certainly hope so doing this tour is
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  Speaker 1: making me very happy. This is something I've been pretty
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  Speaker 1: much striving for for quite some time, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the first actual tour that's going to launch pretty much
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  Speaker 1: launch my next chapter of my career. And I hope
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  Speaker 1: people are happy. I hope people are gonna come and
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  Speaker 1: see it. I'm doing intimate shows on purpose so it
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  Speaker 1: looks good and people come and enjoy it, because this
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  Speaker 1: is you know, the first time I came to Australia
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  Speaker 1: was intimate shows to begin with. So let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say intimate shows. It doesn't mean you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be sitting there and instead of pajamas reading fairy styles,
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  Speaker 2: does it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm over the age of ten, so I
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  Speaker 1: did not wear pajamas in public. So no, it's intimate
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  Speaker 1: meaning it's a small venue and I'll be up close
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  Speaker 1: and personal in your face.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very nice. Now, if my research is correct, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be your first time obe here since
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  Speaker 2: I run a DJ shows in twenty twenty one. So
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  Speaker 2: what's changed in your life since?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just what's changed is that I've been working
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  Speaker 1: on new music. I was in Australia for DJ gig
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  Speaker 1: because my wife was down there working on a film.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to go down like during the pandemic
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  Speaker 1: and spent a few months down there. And while I
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  Speaker 1: was down there, I got to you know, I've already
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  Speaker 1: was comfortable with the people of Frankie's Old Frankies, and
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  Speaker 1: so they made it happen. But ever since then, I've
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  Speaker 1: been just working on new music and as I keep saying,
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  Speaker 1: but the next chapter of my career, and I just
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  Speaker 1: got a new band. I'm very happy about them, and
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  Speaker 1: that's changed and we've put out some new music. By
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  Speaker 1: the time I get to Australia in June, I'll have
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  Speaker 1: released two new singles for people to hear and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: get excited to come see live at the shows in Brisbane, Newcastle,
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  Speaker 1: Sydney and Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of Frankie's, I actually did an interview with
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  Speaker 2: Jordan only a couple of nights ago. He's finally got
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  Speaker 2: himself a new music venture happening in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that does not surprise me that as one adventurous man,
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  Speaker 1: and uh I look up to that dude. He's fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse my language, but.
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  Speaker 2: I swear as much as you like, especially when when
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  Speaker 2: describing him, because he is fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan is fucking awesome, and uh, you know, I I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to seeing him again as well as you, my.
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  Speaker 2: Friend sweet as my friend. So what exactly can we
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  Speaker 2: expect from these shows, mate, Like, are you going to
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  Speaker 2: focus on certain periods of your musical history or are
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  Speaker 2: you going to do a widespread.
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  Speaker 1: Well as you know, I have a thirty thirty plus
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  Speaker 1: year career of music, Huh you know, not just Fear Factory,
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  Speaker 1: but other bands. Uh you know, like I said before,
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  Speaker 1: Fear Factory, City of Fire essentially the Watchers, Uh Ministry
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  Speaker 1: geez r. So I am planning what I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the past shows. I've done three shows in the past
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  Speaker 1: few months, and I just I just pick the songs
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  Speaker 1: that fit my narrative of what I'm trying to achieve,
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  Speaker 1: which is heavy, groovy, dark and moody. And so songs
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  Speaker 1: from Fear Factory, song from jeez Are, songs from Essential
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  Speaker 1: to Watchers, songs from City of Fire, and new songs
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  Speaker 1: that I want to present to people. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: whole array of my entire career. It's not just one band.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of new songs, may like, in the last twelve months,
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  Speaker 2: you've released two solo singles with Anti Droid and Technical Exorcism,
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  Speaker 2: So how would I receive by fans? Why did they
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  Speaker 2: go over as you hoped?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't forget I did a version of Duhast as
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  Speaker 1: well that I did a version of which came out
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  Speaker 1: pretty fucking awesome. Yeah, I've had a great response the
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  Speaker 1: fans live. The fans really like it live. They really
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  Speaker 1: translate live very well. The and that I have gathered,
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  Speaker 1: or should I say curate, because it took me a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years to curate this band and grab these
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  Speaker 1: guys together. I've known for a few years, but finally
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  Speaker 1: I got this band together, and the music that we
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  Speaker 1: play is really translating into a new group that's really
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  Speaker 1: translating these songs in the heavy, groovy, dark and moody ways.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's amazing. So what you hear is going to
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  Speaker 1: be heavier live Wired.
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  Speaker 2: We're around the time of your release of first song,
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  Speaker 2: Antie Droid. You said in an interview that you're only
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  Speaker 2: working on one single at a time with a view
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  Speaker 2: to eventually release in the full album. Are you still
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  Speaker 2: sticking to that.
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  Speaker 1: I am, but I've been recording a lot more new songs,
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  Speaker 1: so releasing one thing at a time, but I am
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  Speaker 1: gonna I do plan to have an actual physical release,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully in the coming year. So we got band and
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  Speaker 1: I we have a few more songs that we're working
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  Speaker 1: on that we're gonna just start working on new stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're already working on new stuff. But the two new songs,
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  Speaker 1: the first song that you guys going to hear and
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  Speaker 1: probably in another month or so play another month is
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  Speaker 1: a fucking banger. Dude crushes, right, and that one after
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  Speaker 1: that crushes as well. And we're just going to continue
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  Speaker 1: with that mode, just crushing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, I don't see singles released so far, are
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  Speaker 2: they good sonny representation of what do you expect from
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  Speaker 2: the whole album? Or scratch your surface?
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  Speaker 1: I would say that come to see us live and
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  Speaker 1: that will be a great representation of what you'll expect
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  Speaker 1: from the album, because, like I said, what we do
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  Speaker 1: live is we translate these songs to what we are
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  Speaker 1: doing now, to our version. So even fear factory songs
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  Speaker 1: and GGR songs, they are much more full than when
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  Speaker 1: you come live. It's becoming more of an organic kind
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  Speaker 1: of feeling. It's just heavy. I have you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: me obviously. And then I have two guitar players. They
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  Speaker 1: both trade off doing uh, they both trade off doing
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  Speaker 1: rhythm and lead bass player and drums, and so the
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  Speaker 1: bass player and drummers are just like the to the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: the whole ling it down. So if you want to
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  Speaker 1: if you want to hear what the album is going
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  Speaker 1: to be like, come see what we do live and
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  Speaker 1: you'll understand and you will not be disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you touched on this before, but you've been writing
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  Speaker 2: and performing music for more than thirty six years now, mate,
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  Speaker 2: So how do you how do you keep how do
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  Speaker 2: you keep things fresh and exciting for yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've always considered myself a writer, even before I
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  Speaker 1: was in fear Factory, And what writers do is that
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  Speaker 1: they observe the world around them and I can I
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  Speaker 1: will always do that, and there is in this world,
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  Speaker 1: in this day and age, there's plenty to be inspired by.
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  Speaker 1: And even the new songs are inspired that way, not
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  Speaker 1: just from personal experiences, but from experiences that we are
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  Speaker 1: seeing and living through in the current world. And I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keeping with my aesthetic of how I write
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  Speaker 1: that I've always written, I am continuing to do that
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  Speaker 1: social commentary of what I see around me in the
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  Speaker 1: world that's happening, and it's just there's a lot going
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  Speaker 1: on and there's a lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, along those lines, my life. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: it gets easier or harder to come up in new
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  Speaker 2: material the longer you're in the game and the more
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  Speaker 2: you write.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's always been hard trying to you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be pigeonholing and writing in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, not just about always writing about robots. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he's writing about It's like no, it's like it's about
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  Speaker 1: it's all about social commentary. And it just gotta keep writing.
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  Speaker 1: And with the with the band that I have now,
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  Speaker 1: fresh ears and fresh musicians that are really eager to
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  Speaker 1: write music for me. So we're all writing together, and
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  Speaker 1: we're writing these songs almost we're writing these songs in
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  Speaker 1: a live environment, which is one of the main focuses
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do, is create these songs live so
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  Speaker 1: that they translate live. So after thirty six years, it's
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  Speaker 1: just smooth anyway, it's this steady as she goes. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's everything. Nothing's way change. It's just like except nothing's
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  Speaker 1: way change, except I'm just older.
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  Speaker 2: I'd better looking, brother, ha.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, you're trying to flatter me. It's working.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier this year, you're inducted into the Metal Hall of Bame, like,
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  Speaker 2: was that unexpected or did you know beforehand that you
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  Speaker 2: really get it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was unexpected, but they got informed like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks beforehand, so I could, you know, purchase
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  Speaker 1: my travel make my travel plans. But uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: I never expected anything like that. I mean, Forrest and
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  Speaker 1: my rock star dreams. I always thought of some kind
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  Speaker 1: of accolades like that, but never expected to happen. And whoa,
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  Speaker 1: it happened and it was fucking cool, dude, it really was.
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  Speaker 1: I should be getting my award, so the trophy they
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  Speaker 1: had or the award they had, you know, like they
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  Speaker 1: have a ward for a Grammys or for an Oscar,
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  Speaker 1: so they only had one at the ceremonies that everyone
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  Speaker 1: shared to hold up. But I should be getting mine
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  Speaker 1: in the next couple hopefully the next week. But uh man,
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  Speaker 1: I never expected that. What a great honor. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just grateful to everyone who considered me
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  Speaker 1: and voted for me to make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: And does that sort of open any doors up for
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  Speaker 2: you in the future, like you get free KFC wherever
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  Speaker 2: you go or anything like that, or.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I hope only if I'm recognized by
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  Speaker 3: someone that's fucking bell mate.
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  Speaker 1: If I could get some free pies out of it,
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  Speaker 1: don't good.
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  Speaker 2: You're not coming out here till two in mate, So
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  Speaker 2: there's a few months between now and then. So what
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  Speaker 2: do you got planned in the interim?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm working on new music, writing some new words.
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  Speaker 1: My bands were writing new songs as we speak, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I got two singles that
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  Speaker 1: are going to be released before I get to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: so check the check them out once. One is called Savages,
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  Speaker 1: which I did play at my last show when we
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  Speaker 1: uh dore a direct support for God Forbid in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: but we we recorded it right after that. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's another song called Cold Lazarus that's gonna be another
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a heavy song. It's gonna be heavy.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Ben, Well, thanks very much for you might have
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  Speaker 2: been an absolute pleasure Speak video. I'll definitely come along
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  Speaker 2: to the Brisbane show. What's so I say?
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  Speaker 1: Said?
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  Speaker 2: I I'll bring you heavy.
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  Speaker 1: Shed along.
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  Speaker 2: Were I were large much ruddy. I'll bring you heavy,
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  Speaker 2: heavy shed along and you can go home and look
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  Speaker 2: in stylish as fuck and put your head on, put
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  Speaker 2: your head on, look in the Mirror and take Fight.
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  Speaker 1: I love and thank you Chris for this. This is
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  Speaker 1: amazing and uh, like I said, I'm super excited to
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  Speaker 1: get back down to Australia and performing again. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I missed being on stage and I'm gonna be in
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  Speaker 1: my element. I can't wait.