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John Brewster-The Angels - It's Really Just A Sad Song. · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Lisa, Am I ever going to see your face again?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 1: How do you respond?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty years that song's been around.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it. To celebrate fifty years of the
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  Speaker 2: iconic Ossie anthem, the Angels are bringing there. Am I
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  Speaker 2: ever going to see your face again? Fifty years? On
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  Speaker 2: tour to Frio Social this Friday and the Rosemount Hotel
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. Tickets. I think you can still get some
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  Speaker 2: for the Friday show via the Angels dot com dot you.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise it's a waiting list for Saturday night, because that's
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  Speaker 2: how huge this monumental anniversary is as it should be.
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  Speaker 2: John Brewster, guitarist for The Angels, is with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hello John, John, let us go Russell. How you going, John?
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  Speaker 2: Not too many you know bands get to have a
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  Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary for a song. That's how important this song
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  Speaker 2: is to us.
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  Speaker 3: You can't believe it. I can't believe it, or that
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  Speaker 3: we released that song produced by the legendary Vander and
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  Speaker 3: Young in nineteen seventy six, and here we are twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six and the song's become huge over the years,
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  Speaker 3: and I wonder why.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we all know why.
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  Speaker 1: The audience tells me that.
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  Speaker 2: But we love a good story behind a song, John,
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  Speaker 2: what's the story behind Am I ever going to see
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  Speaker 2: your face again?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the story behind the song itself is actually quite
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  Speaker 3: a sad lyric because it's written about a fatal car
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  Speaker 3: accident somebody that Dot knew, and so it's really quite
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  Speaker 3: a sad song. But I think it's I just think
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  Speaker 3: it's wonderful that the song. I mean, it's an upbeat song.
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  Speaker 3: You know ri Rix's guitar solo, which you know, the
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  Speaker 3: outro of you were just playing then you know that's
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  Speaker 3: the ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, You'll never hear it the same again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it makes it sound like a European ambulance.
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  Speaker 3: It's an international ambulance. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: The song's taken on certainly has taken on a life
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  Speaker 2: of its own. Note one of the greatest pub tracks
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  Speaker 2: of all time.
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  Speaker 1: When did you know John, that it wasn't just it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just a hit, but it had become like iconic.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was, in fact, wasn't a hit when we
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  Speaker 3: released it, and so you know, when we had released
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  Speaker 3: a face to face album and then subsequently no Exit
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  Speaker 3: and then Dark trilogy of albums just took the band
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  Speaker 3: through the roof. It took the band through the US
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  Speaker 3: and Europe, etc. So we started touring internationally based on
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  Speaker 3: those three albums. Basically we kind of left it behind
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  Speaker 3: because not that we didn't like it, but it wasn't successful,
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  Speaker 3: and we thought, oh, we've moved on from that a bit.
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  Speaker 3: And we were playing out Ezer and nineteen eighty three
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  Speaker 3: and through the three thousand people in the town hall,
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  Speaker 3: and they wouldn't let us go. They kept hiring for
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  Speaker 3: encorese and so somebody said, oh, let's play Face again.
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  Speaker 3: We hadn't played it for a couple for two or
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  Speaker 3: three years, and so we did the song, and the
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  Speaker 3: three thousand people chanted that famous chant where.
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  Speaker 2: You asked a question and they responded.
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  Speaker 1: A mining town and enjoying a bit of a drink.
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  Speaker 1: They would have been primed for.
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  Speaker 2: It happened in Mountainer Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Of course things that they started, but I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's true. I mean just that that's the first time
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  Speaker 3: we heard it, and so we put the song in
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  Speaker 3: the show from there on, and now, of course we can't.
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  Speaker 1: And the rest is history.
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  Speaker 2: The rest is now fifty years on tour. You know,
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  Speaker 2: many artists have had to go at covering it. June Rats, Metallica,
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  Speaker 2: Keith Urban and just recently Jelly Roll on his Australian tour.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite cover of the song?
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  Speaker 3: Well, June, that's by a Mile I think, I think,
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  Speaker 3: And then in fact Rick and I played played that
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  Speaker 3: with them. It was a trifle day like a version.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's also a Baby Shakes and they're called in New
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  Speaker 3: York City they were called to it's an all girl band. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: they did a pretty good job of.
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  Speaker 2: It, all right, you know, I reckon we'll do a
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  Speaker 2: good job of it. Miley Cyrus because that girl and
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  Speaker 2: sing rock song. I'd love to hear Miley sing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know we're playing great. We're absolutely rocking
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  Speaker 3: out there. So Perth Course is one of the favorite
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  Speaker 3: places for us to go. It's always been fantastic for
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  Speaker 3: us and continues.
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  Speaker 1: To be all through the you know, the late seventies
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  Speaker 1: and into the eighties when the pub rock scene was
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  Speaker 1: so strong. You guys know, what a what a place
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  Speaker 1: to come and play.
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  Speaker 2: Before we let you go, I must say the memorative video,
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  Speaker 2: it's fantastic. It actually brought a tear to my eye. John,
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  Speaker 2: It's just fantastic. It's been released on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got a YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, thanks for bringing that up because my brother
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  Speaker 3: did that, Rick, he put that video together. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's absolutely brilliant. Shows the history of the band just that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's a great tribute.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great tribute to the evolution of the band,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be included in the
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  Speaker 2: shows on the weekend of around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's not about guitar or style then, by the way, Brothers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about the rhythm, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, not not the showy stuff, but you know the
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  Speaker 1: the you know the stuff that keeps.
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  Speaker 2: Really looking forward to celebrating this with you on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to be epic Friday night at Frio Social,
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night at the Rosemount. We'll see you there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're excited because we love playing Purse, so we
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  Speaker 3: love having you here.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you back and happy happy fiftieth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John,