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Bringing The Poison Down Under With SCOTT IAN From ANTHRAX · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Scott from Anthrax and we are coming back to
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  Speaker 1: one of our favorite places in the world called Australia,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be there at the end of this month,
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  Speaker 1: March twenty twenty six, and you can find all the
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  Speaker 1: dates online and I hope to see you at the shows.
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  Speaker 2: Benasty Scott, thanks for joining us that I'm.
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  Speaker 3: At Oh thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure so as you say, andres return to Astralia
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  Speaker 2: later this month for four shows, starting in Brisbane on
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  Speaker 2: March of twenty third, before hitting Adelaide and Melbourne, finishing
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  Speaker 2: in Sydney on March of twenty eighth. But sunny a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks away, bro, you've packed and ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know what.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, we we just got home from a We just
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  Speaker 1: got home from a three week tour with Megadeath and Exodus.
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  Speaker 1: We were in Canada and so I'm still doing my
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  Speaker 1: laundry from that and then I'll repack it and get
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  Speaker 1: on the plane next week to get to Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: Sch it's your first visit is since you played Soundwaight
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. So what's changed with Anthrax in those
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  Speaker 2: six years?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit grayer? Look, well, I mean The main
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  Speaker 1: thing is we made a record. We finished an album.
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  Speaker 1: It's done, it's coming out soon. There will be an
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  Speaker 1: announcement soon. That's all the information that I have or
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  Speaker 1: that I can give, and we're very, very very excited
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  Speaker 1: about it and maybe uh people in Australia will get
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  Speaker 1: to hear a little bit of it when we're down
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  Speaker 1: there at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of albums, bright like Anpects have released eleven albums
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  Speaker 2: over your career, with plenty of standout songs, mate, So
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  Speaker 2: is it getting more and more difficult to come up
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  Speaker 2: with the set list that appeases everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can never come up with a set list
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  Speaker 1: that appeases everybody. Sure that it's impossible, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's always someone who you didn't play the song they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hear. And I know how it works because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of many bands, and I see many
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  Speaker 1: bands in concert, and I talk to many bands who
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  Speaker 1: I am friends with, and I will ask them, how
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  Speaker 1: come you didn't play this song off this record and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, cause you're the only one who'll know it,
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  Speaker 1: And everyone else will go out and have a piss
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  Speaker 1: or get a beer while we're playing that one, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand how it works. So you can never please everybody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even we've done those things.
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  Speaker 3: We've done tours where we put you know.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty sixty or even the whole catalog you know, up
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  Speaker 1: on the website and we tell people vote, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone votes for what the set list is in their city,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll pick whatever the top twenty songs or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is for the set, and the top twenty songs
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  Speaker 1: and the top twenty songs are the same fucking songs
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  Speaker 1: that you would expect them to be.
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  Speaker 3: There's no deep tracks, so you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, but we get bored, so we you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we try, We try and play stuff that we haven't
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  Speaker 1: just been playing over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Granted, look, some songs are always going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the set. It's just the way it is. Why would
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  Speaker 1: I play an Anthrax set without Catton Amash in it,
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  Speaker 1: or without Indians, I'd be I'd be doing a disservice
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  Speaker 1: to myself and the fans if I didn't play those
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  Speaker 1: songs in a live situation every fucking time I had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to, you know what I mean. There are
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  Speaker 1: other songs that can come in and out of a
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  Speaker 1: set and that's what we try and do.
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  Speaker 3: We try and placed off.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, we haven't been to Australia in seven
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  Speaker 1: years and that was a festival show we have. From
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  Speaker 1: what I just heard in another interview, we haven't headlined
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  Speaker 1: there since two thousand and five or something, so we
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  Speaker 1: could pretty much it doesn't matter what we do. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: seen it in a really long time. So but I
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  Speaker 1: I I think people will be very happy with the
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  Speaker 1: headline show. It's a it's a best of all worlds situations.
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  Speaker 2: You've obviously played all over the world with Anthrax smites,
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  Speaker 2: Like do you find of these see parts of the
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  Speaker 2: world where certain songs go dout better than others?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's specific songs you know more
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  Speaker 1: than they're just they're just crowds that are better than
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  Speaker 1: others you know, around the planet. I wouldn't say, like
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  Speaker 1: when we play Chile or Argentina, it's a specific song
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  Speaker 1: that goes over better. It's just it's the It's the audience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's the passion, it's the insanity, the aggression.
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  Speaker 3: The love, it's all of that wrapped up. You know.
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  Speaker 1: They're just certain places you go that have a level
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  Speaker 1: of energy that is higher than other places. We were
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  Speaker 1: just across Canada, and you know, you go through Canada
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  Speaker 1: and man Edmonton and Calgary, you think those people will
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  Speaker 1: be too cold to have hot blood running through their
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  Speaker 1: veins in a mospit, but I guess it's the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: They're still cold. They got to get in the moshpit
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  Speaker 3: to warm up.
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  Speaker 1: And but like Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, fucking London, Ontario, holy shit,
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  Speaker 1: what to show?
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  Speaker 3: That was Quebec City.
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne for us in Australia has always been I like
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  Speaker 1: playing everyone in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd in Melbourne always seems to just they just
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  Speaker 1: got There's just a certain attitude and a certain energy
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  Speaker 1: there that I don't feel anywhere else in Glasgow, Scotland,
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in Spain. They're fucking crazy, Helsinki, Finland. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's just certain cities that really stand out.
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  Speaker 3: Indonesia.
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  Speaker 1: We played a festival there in December and that was
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  Speaker 1: fucking insanity.
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  Speaker 3: And probably also because they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Get a lot of shows, so you know, it's still so.
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  Speaker 1: I just think there's certain places where there's an energy. Look,
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  Speaker 1: there's nowhere we play that a crowd is boring. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the type of music we played, it's always going to
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  Speaker 1: be great, it's always going to be fun. There's just
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  Speaker 1: places that will double down on that, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And just I mean, you notice, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a metal fan, every metal band talks about South America.
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  Speaker 3: It's just you know, every metal band.
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  Speaker 1: Will tell you that you go to Chile and Argentina,
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  Speaker 1: and like, that's that's the bar. The bar is always
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  Speaker 1: set by those places. It's just like you know, some.
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  Speaker 3: Things, it's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way it has been in the world
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  Speaker 1: of metal audiences for a long time. At Chile and Argentina.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever have a chance to go see a show,
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  Speaker 1: go see your favorite band in one of those places.
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  Speaker 2: The band has been going for forty five years. You see,
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  Speaker 2: you might say, how does Funny hold up these days? Liked?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have to be conscious of that when you
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  Speaker 2: go out there, say you don't do your service?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, this is the first time I've everady to answer
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  Speaker 1: that question this way. I injured my back. We were
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  Speaker 1: on the seventy thousand tons of Metal Cruise at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of January and it was a freak.
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  Speaker 1: There was freak weather down off of the coast of
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  Speaker 1: South Florida and out in the Bahamas where that boat
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  Speaker 1: goes usually, so it couldn't cruise down to the Bahamas
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  Speaker 1: because there was a bad storm. So we just kind
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  Speaker 1: of stayed off the coast of Florida, like twenty thirty
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  Speaker 1: miles off shore, and there was a freak cold weather
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  Speaker 1: shit that happened because you know, Miami, Florida is that
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  Speaker 1: time of year should be seventy seventy five degrees fahrenheit,
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  Speaker 1: and it was in the thirties, like it was like
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  Speaker 1: snowing weather. And we're out on this ocean and the
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  Speaker 1: winds are blowing forty miles per hour, and the I
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  Speaker 1: can show we do on the boat on the Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: you do it about on the big pool deck. So
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  Speaker 1: there's three thousand people out outside on the boat and
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  Speaker 1: you're playing outdoors and it was literally freezing fucking cold.
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  Speaker 1: And we tried to get them to change the schedule
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  Speaker 1: so we could play in the theater again, but they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't move all the schedule around, and we didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to play in the freezing cold because it obviously makes
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  Speaker 1: it very difficult and for the fans. But all the
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  Speaker 1: fans are out there, so we're like, well they're out there.
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  Speaker 1: We were not going to cancel.
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  Speaker 3: So we played. And we're very physical performers.
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  Speaker 1: I move around quite a bit on stage, jumping, stomping,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all over the place. And it was no way
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  Speaker 1: for my muscles. Even though I warmed up, my muscles
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  Speaker 1: never warmed up. And by the end of the next day,
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  Speaker 1: after playing that show in the cold, my back went
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  Speaker 1: out and I could I could barely walk for a
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  Speaker 1: week probably, and then you know, I couldn't tie my shoes.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't fucking put pants on. I mean, it was fuck, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I never had pain like that, backspasms like this. It
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  Speaker 1: was insane. And I finally got home because I had
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  Speaker 1: to go down to South America after that and finished
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  Speaker 1: these Mister Bungle shows and I was flying these ten
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  Speaker 1: hour flights and I.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't even move, dude, I couldn't I couldn't move. It
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  Speaker 3: was agony.
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  Speaker 1: It's been five weeks now, just did this whole run
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  Speaker 1: through Canada every night on the tour, seeing massage therapists,
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  Speaker 1: seeing fucking osteopaths, anything to get me through the show.
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  Speaker 1: Every night, and you know, at my best on this
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  Speaker 1: Canadian run, I was maybe forty percent, you know, couldn't
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  Speaker 1: couldn't jump, couldn't stomp my feet, if anything. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe my playing was better because I you know, I
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  Speaker 1: head banged harder because it didn't hurt for me to
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  Speaker 1: head bang. And right now, like I at home and
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  Speaker 1: I've been seeing a physical therapist and I've still got
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  Speaker 1: I leave in a week to fly to Australia, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely better than I was a week ago, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping another week will go by, and so by
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  Speaker 1: the time I get on stays in Brisbane, I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: I will be, you know, somewhere in the seventy seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent of what I should feel like range. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I don't want to re injure myself obviously, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And dude, I take care of myself. I work out regularly,
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  Speaker 1: have for years, all because I want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to perform at the level I want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to perform at. I know what I can do, and
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  Speaker 1: I know the show I want to give to a crowd.
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  Speaker 1: D Snyder just you know you probably saw it. D
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  Speaker 1: Snyder from Twist's sister announced a few weeks ago he
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  Speaker 1: was retiring because he feels like physically he can't put
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  Speaker 1: on the show he wants to put on for an audience.
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  Speaker 1: And I totally understand that it was so hard some
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  Speaker 1: nights in Canada as great. The audience doesn't know I'm
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  Speaker 1: up there with fucking spasms running down my leg in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the show. They don't know because I'm
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  Speaker 1: just up there headbanging, and if I'm making a face,
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  Speaker 1: they just think it's because I'm metal, not because I'm
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  Speaker 1: in pain, and they don't know, and I'm up there
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  Speaker 1: doing my best, but I know, and I know, like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I want to fucking and I would try and do
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  Speaker 1: something and I would get a spasm and it'd be like, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: can't do that, and it's really frustrating, So you know it, Definitely,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hyper aware of having to take care of myself.
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  Speaker 3: We all are. We all are.
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  Speaker 1: Joey takes such good care of his throat, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why you got a guy who was in his early
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  Speaker 1: sixties who still hits every note. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: drop our tunings. The guy is in that rare air
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  Speaker 1: of dudes of that age who could still sing like that,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not just because of fucking magic. It's because
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  Speaker 1: he takes care of himself. And that's what you have
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  Speaker 1: to do, Rae.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, after the Astralian runs, finish Man and you
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  Speaker 2: head back Hime later on, you're gonna be hitting the
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  Speaker 2: rug with Iron Maid and Mega Death. But that is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a sensational run the shows.
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  Speaker 1: We were a little bit jealous, I have to say,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw Mega Death announced on the dates with
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  Speaker 1: Maiden in Australia, but the same thing I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we get to go down there now and
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  Speaker 1: do headline shows which we haven't done in forever. And
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  Speaker 1: what I'm hoping is, of course we get to come
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  Speaker 1: back sooner than later because the new album will be
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  Speaker 1: out and then we could maybe come down again, which
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  Speaker 1: would be fucking great if you know, we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to wait six years to come back to Australia. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that doesn't mean don't come to these shows
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  Speaker 1: because I have zero control over any of that.
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  Speaker 3: That's just my fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that speaking by Bridlock, I don't be contract
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  Speaker 2: too much about it yet to the stood out, but
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  Speaker 2: I saw I made a beating ambition Jeff yesterday obvious
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  Speaker 2: you get ready for the interview and it's a fantastic film.
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  Speaker 2: Brow did you appear? And I caught a few.
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  Speaker 3: Times, Oh you saw the documentary or.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I got gone by the interview, bright slider,
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  Speaker 2: this weight. So they gave me a private screening so
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  Speaker 2: I could get in it. It bring me away. What
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic film.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot. I did that interview so long ago. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot that that was even a thing. And then I
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  Speaker 1: saw the announcement last week or whenever, and I said, wait, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I do an interview. I think I did an interview
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  Speaker 3: for that. It was so long ago. I did that interview.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad. I'm good. I'm glad they used stuff I
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  Speaker 3: had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you haven't seen the unfinal at it yet.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is. I got the most spectacular documentaries I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. It is so well put together, awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I got that big book they put out a few
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  Speaker 1: months ago. It's the fifty years that's got. That book
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  Speaker 1: is amazing. Steve Harris. Steve Harris has every single fucking
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  Speaker 1: thing from day one of Iron Maiden, like his Diaries
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  Speaker 1: where like made made five pounds tonight, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every every ticket, every everything. It's incredible and
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  Speaker 1: they've got pictures of everything in this book.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's mind blowing.
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  Speaker 2: Straight. Will let you go and enjoy your David Andres
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  Speaker 2: in Australia for March twenty three, starting Brisbane tickets through
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  Speaker 2: Live Nation. I'll be at the Brisbane Shame my friends, so.
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  Speaker 3: Right on today, see you there. Spread the word