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Finish Line From OG8 Roars Through A Live Crowd Scoring The White Line · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: you two rock stars?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, hello.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear us okay?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. Isn't that weird how modern day technology is?
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  Speaker 1: We used to use strings and cans at one time,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody's going to believe that we do this.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Strings and cans.
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  Speaker 1: This has got to be like an early morning thing
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  Speaker 1: for you to be up this early at 157 Carolina time.
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  Speaker 1: What is it like where you guys are?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's four in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: That's how much we care.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, you guys have got a sound about you.
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  Speaker 1: That is so attractive. And yet there's a side of
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  Speaker 1: me that goes, do I want this kind of music
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  Speaker 1: to be on the everyday radio station again? Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I also want to say, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is mine. This is my kind of music.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Love it.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: To be in that element of music nowadays, because you
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  Speaker 1: know it's going to crack very soon, where all the
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  Speaker 1: rock is going to come forward all at once. How
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  Speaker 1: are you preparing yourself for that? Because we are screaming
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  Speaker 1: for a rock movement.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie? Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more. We need to bring back rock
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  Speaker 3: and roll. And we're excited.
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  Speaker 5: We can't wait to get out there and start playing
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  Speaker 5: this new album and the new music and just get
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  Speaker 5: it out to the masses and celebrate with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Rock and roll forever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, speaking of that brand new album, how do
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  Speaker 1: you know how to pieces part it throughout a live show?
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  Speaker 1: Is it by gut feeling? Are you talking to somebody
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  Speaker 1: offstage going, okay, this would be a good time to
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  Speaker 1: have this song. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's more of the flow of the energy
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  Speaker 2: of the song where it ends and where the other
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  Speaker 2: one picks up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When putting together a show, um, at least for me,
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  Speaker 5: I really trying to focus on like what kind of
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  Speaker 5: makes sense with, you know, the song we're coming into
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  Speaker 5: and going from and, and yes, like there has to
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  Speaker 5: be a flow to it, but also, you know, kind
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  Speaker 5: of a storyline because we're explaining what these songs are and,
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  Speaker 5: and it needs to flow and feel natural, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I swear to God, that's how I always knew
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  Speaker 1: I was going to get into radio because I would
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  Speaker 1: have all that information taped to the floor. And then
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  Speaker 1: I would turn to my right and look at Tony
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  Speaker 1: and say, we're not doing that next song. I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel it. It's not happening. And then they would get
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  Speaker 1: upset with me because they were used to doing the
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  Speaker 1: same old songs over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, gotcha.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice to have that freedom to kind of change
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  Speaker 5: it up when you're feeling it.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of freedom, you guys had some freedom with Recognize
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  Speaker 1: this album. My God, you guys have. Is that your
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  Speaker 1: mantra to make sure that you make a connection with
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  Speaker 1: every single song that you put out there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Short answer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of music that you
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  Speaker 1: can jam out to whether you're in the house or
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  Speaker 1: in the car or you're at work. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those where you can pull it out at
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  Speaker 1: any time and get exactly what you need from it.
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  Speaker 1: Any mood, any lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: That's really cool. You said something earlier about live music
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  Speaker 2: and rock coming back. Mm-hmm. And I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that for me and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: my friends, it's live instruments. Yes. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: live instruments and the emotion that goes with it is
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  Speaker 2: why people go to a concert. And that's how they can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, receive something from the music.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with you on that a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why, I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 1: have cruised through the Carolinas lately, but in all honesty,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here, grocery stores now feature live music
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday nights. And so when you say they want
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  Speaker 1: to see the instruments, yes, they do. They do enjoy
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  Speaker 1: watching the musician, but they also like listening to real
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  Speaker 1: lyrics of songs and they're going to try to sing along.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Jamie writes all the lyrics and it comes
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  Speaker 2: from her heart, obviously. But they also flow with the song.
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  Speaker 2: The song is written around both. It's kind of unique.
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  Speaker 2: The song is written around the music, and the music
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  Speaker 2: is written around the lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you a personal question then, Jamie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does Troy just send you a riff and says,
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  Speaker 1: come up with something? Because that's what they did with me.
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  Speaker 1: And it'd be like, I would come up with an idea,
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  Speaker 1: and then Jim or Alan would go, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not what I was feeling when I came up with it.
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  Speaker 1: What are you feeling, Jamie?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Totally.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. So similar process.
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  Speaker 5: Troy usually comes up with with some guitar ideas and
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  Speaker 5: a foundation of a song.
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  Speaker 3: And sends it my way.
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  Speaker 5: And sometimes we'll discuss, you know, what we kind of
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  Speaker 5: are feeling for the idea of the song.
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  Speaker 3: Um, for example, finish line, our first single that's out now.
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  Speaker 5: Um, you know, we had talked, uh, previously and said, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: we want to kind of write a sports anthem for
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  Speaker 5: this one.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're feeling into.
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  Speaker 5: Um, but yes, usually he sends me some, some musical
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  Speaker 5: ideas and then I kind of sit with it and
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  Speaker 5: flow with it.
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  Speaker 3: And we go back and forth and, And just start
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  Speaker 3: building it from there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to tell you something. Some Billy
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  Speaker 1: Gibbons from ZZ Top was flowing through my imagination when
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  Speaker 1: I jammed out for the first time with Finish Line.
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  Speaker 1: Because Billy told me, I write songs that sound like
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  Speaker 1: the roar of an engine. And I swear to God,
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  Speaker 1: Finish Line does the same thing. When I started listening
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  Speaker 1: to it, I went, oh my God, that's the engine
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  Speaker 1: that Billy is always talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Love that. That's awesome. Love Billy Gibbons and I love
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  Speaker 2: that story.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is that I heard the
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  Speaker 1: song without even seeing the video. I didn't see the
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  Speaker 1: video later on. So I never even tied the two
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  Speaker 1: together into what you guys did on the video because
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  Speaker 1: I always want to go for the interpretation of the imagination.
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  Speaker 3: Love that. Perfect. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Can we bottle you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would cost a lot of sushi money. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can handle it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of those songs. Like I was talking about, we're,
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  Speaker 1: we're screaming for this kind of music. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: that anthem right now for this generation. And finish line
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  Speaker 1: is one of those songs where I can totally see
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  Speaker 1: people tapping that dashboard or tapping something and just getting
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  Speaker 1: that hand involved, whether it be on the air guitar
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  Speaker 1: or the air drums.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Air guitar.
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  Speaker 3: We're all about that.
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  Speaker 2: Everything. Even air sack.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, didn't you guys, didn't you feel yourself doing
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  Speaker 1: that while you were in the studio? Because I mean
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  Speaker 1: that when you go in there and you sit with
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  Speaker 1: the engineer and you've got the, I know with me,
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  Speaker 1: we were all in there as individuals. And the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: is that, and you're just sitting there jamming out as
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  Speaker 1: if you're right there in that ice cold room as
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  Speaker 1: it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. It's super stainless.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's so for us that I heard the song, um,
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  Speaker 2: The song came to me as an idea really fast,
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  Speaker 2: like three minutes. And so I went down and we
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  Speaker 2: recorded the bones of it, an intro, a lyric, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe a chorus. And we recorded it. And then I
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  Speaker 2: sent it to Jamie and she goes, oh, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So if you put this here, move this to add
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  Speaker 2: this here. And then she did that. And then we
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  Speaker 2: went back through. And then once the song seems to
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  Speaker 2: sit right. Then she'll like drop the lyrics on. And
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  Speaker 2: we talked about like a sports anthem and racing. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you're really, really busting your ass and
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  Speaker 2: trying to do something, you want to make it to
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  Speaker 2: the finish line and have a goal.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jamie took that and the white line and
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  Speaker 2: the goal and finish line and winnings to heart. And
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  Speaker 2: it came out like that. And after I heard the
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  Speaker 2: song the first time I knew, um, But it was great.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if you guys are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to be signing off on some special
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  Speaker 1: papers because there's going to be some businesses that are
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  Speaker 1: going to be using this as their motivational, the year-end
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  Speaker 1: motivational or their mid-season motivational speeches. Because this is the
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  Speaker 1: type of song that says it and they can sit
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  Speaker 1: there and they can put their little lecture up there
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden go right into this
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  Speaker 1: song and people are going to go... that's it. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Oh, they just said it. And, and that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, but we never credit the musician for,
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  Speaker 1: for adding this to us because those PowerPoints are powerful.
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  Speaker 1: But if we aren't crediting you guys, how powerful can
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  Speaker 1: that be? That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And in the world of corporate music.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. We'll be right back with Jamie and
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  Speaker 1: Troy from OG eight coming up next. O-G-8. The album
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  Speaker 1: is called Recognize. The song we're pushing, Finish Line. We
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  Speaker 1: are back with Jamie and Troy. When you put together
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  Speaker 1: Beat Farm Music, which by the way, I'm so damn
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  Speaker 1: proud of you for doing that because this shows that
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  Speaker 1: it takes me all the way back to the early
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  Speaker 1: stages of music when it was raw and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: so overtaken by big businesses. So I love where we
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  Speaker 1: are with music. Musicians don't always agree with me, but
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  Speaker 1: I love it here because that means you guys are
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  Speaker 1: totally in control.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent. I remember we
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  Speaker 2: used to play and when I was really young, we
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  Speaker 2: used to play in San Francisco. And when we would
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  Speaker 2: meet a band and we'd become friends, then we'd just
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  Speaker 2: go and play together. And that has changed. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: really a serious business as far as the booking and
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  Speaker 2: everything that comes with it. So, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to break down your business day? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the same thing as like when I left
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  Speaker 1: terrestrial radio and took on podcasting, all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: I was doing everybody else's job and it's like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God. But then you have to really start developing
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  Speaker 1: that style of, okay, this part of my day is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the business side. Okay, then we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play side, creative side, and you start breaking things up.
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  Speaker 1: Is that how pretty much you guys run it as well?
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  Speaker 1: It's that the businessman in your business can't come into
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  Speaker 1: that studio because we're screwing around in the studio right
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  Speaker 1: now and business guys don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: 100% correct. Yeah. Well, the business side of this is
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  Speaker 2: my wife. So as long as I'm doing the right thing,
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  Speaker 2: then I think I'm in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you guys put together W-O-M-A-N, you talk about
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  Speaker 1: anthem music. You guys are going to be that band,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you? Because this right here is an anthem.
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  Speaker 3: We'd love to be that band.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to be in that band.
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  Speaker 1: Because, I mean, isn't that what Def Leppard was always
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  Speaker 1: going for? They always wanted to have the arena rock.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, even Gene Simmons has said,
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  Speaker 1: if I don't get that arena rock song, how can
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  Speaker 1: I expect it for them to sing along?
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  Speaker 2: So true. There's a song by, who is it, C
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  Speaker 2: & C Dance Factory that everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody dance now.
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  Speaker 2: That one. I heard that in my head when I
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  Speaker 2: was doing the intro for Finish Line. And I was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: what would be cool? Kind of like they play Guns
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  Speaker 2: N' Roses at stadiums and football games. And everybody danced
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  Speaker 2: to basketball games and stuff. And I was thinking, what
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  Speaker 2: could we do that would be iconic and last? And
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking ACDC. Okay. You know, kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a combination of all of them.
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  Speaker 1: See, and I love that exploration as to where we are,
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  Speaker 1: because when I was a kid and I was picking
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  Speaker 1: up that guitar, rock music was still, oh, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we did in the 60s with the Beatles. We went
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  Speaker 1: into Led Zeppelin and then all of a sudden we
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  Speaker 1: now have Foreigner.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's only three different bands. Look at where the world
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  Speaker 1: is today, where you've got every genre right there at
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  Speaker 1: your fingertip, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. Absolutely. Totally.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's social media.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, see, now have we all made friends with social
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  Speaker 1: media yet? Because, I mean, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: we had to deal with in radio. People would steal
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  Speaker 1: our radio sounds, put it up on the Internet, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going, well, that was mine. What are you doing? Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: bring that back to me. I want it.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: It's a love-hate relationship, I think, with social media, at
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  Speaker 5: least for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely it's it's opened up a lot of opportunity,
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, platform wise.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also like a whole other side of the business.
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  Speaker 5: As you were talking about, where you have to make
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  Speaker 5: content and show up. And, you know, and so when
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  Speaker 5: you just want to make music, it's kind of I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, it can be it can be one of.
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  Speaker 3: Those things where it's like it's good and bad at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a side of you, Jamie, that's in fear
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  Speaker 1: of the way that Gemini and all these other AI
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  Speaker 1: technologies that people are going in there saying, I've got
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  Speaker 1: song lyrics, make this into a song, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden it comes out Jamie's voice?
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  Speaker 3: Um, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's strange, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: To think about, um, I wouldn't, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: I'm in fear of it. I, I'm very intrigued by
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  Speaker 5: AI and what's happening and, and, um, I think that
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  Speaker 5: it could be a useful tool. Um, but the thing is,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like Troy was saying earlier, you can't really
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  Speaker 5: replace live music, you know? Um, you, you go out
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  Speaker 5: and you sing live, you play live and you just
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  Speaker 5: can't replace that, you know?
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not in fear of being replaced or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, I feel the same way about being in
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  Speaker 1: the studio recording music, because I feel like it's back
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  Speaker 1: in the 1940s and 50s. And they only had so
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  Speaker 1: much time in that studio. Get it out. OK, well,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play the bass right. I don't care. Get
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  Speaker 1: it out. And all of a sudden, those songs become
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  Speaker 1: songs that have been playing for 70, 80 years. That
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  Speaker 1: bass beat is still a little bit up. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: They got it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: One take and it's always a finish and who's next.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys, when you're sitting in your own studio,
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  Speaker 1: are you perfectionist? Because I can be a big one.
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  Speaker 5: Me I mean if it were up to me we'd
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  Speaker 5: probably still be working on golf.
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  Speaker 4: At this point I get in my own way sometimes
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  Speaker 4: with that but yeah I can get very perfectionistic but
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  Speaker 4: because it matters you know it's very important to us
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  Speaker 4: and and we want to put out the best stuff
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  Speaker 4: we can obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's part of that's part of the exploration
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  Speaker 1: and getting to know each other even more, is it not?
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  Speaker 1: Because when you're live on stage, you've already experienced it
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  Speaker 1: in that studio. You know what your eyes were doing
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  Speaker 1: to each other in there and how you had to say,
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  Speaker 1: bring it up, bring it up. Give me some more.
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  Speaker 1: Give me some more. There it is. Find it. Go.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's a wrap.
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  Speaker 1: So true. Now, where is, you know, where's your tour
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  Speaker 1: going to be taking you guys soon?
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: We're going to play in Wisconsin on the 9th of
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: October if you want to come.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just right up the highway. I'd have to
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: bring my Carolina Panthers with me somehow, someway. Do you
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: guys get a real life at all? I mean, even
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: with music being so important in your chapters?
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, we're family before the music, actually.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Jamie's got a beautiful little daughter and my wife and I,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: we have two kids that are grown. Our drummer does not,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: but he's like one of our kids. Keyboard bass, you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, really, it comes down to being able to
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: be friends. And if you want to go and do
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: this as a unit rather than as an individual, I
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: think that it really is important to be able to
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: get along with people. And be genuine.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because to me, that's the soul of music. If
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: you can be genuine in person, you can be genuine
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: on stage because when you look out over that crowd
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: and people that have never been up on that stage
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: don't understand this, I'll tell them, they'll go, so what
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: are you doing? Why are you here with all these people?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I have to be with them because I have to
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: know them And to know them is to do what
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: they do. And I feel like that's what I feel
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: up even with the song Finish Line. I feel like
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that you're one of me and you have been in
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: the same line, the same hot day, the same grocery
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: store as me. And this song got you up. So therefore,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: it's going to get me up.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Can we use that quote?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go for it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Awesome, man. That is cool.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: But it really does. It really does. I mean, you
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: can tell when an artist is really living your life
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and your style because it's in their lyrics and it's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: in the pace of that lyric. I just feel it
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: That's a song. Speaking of finish line, the song doesn't
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: let down. It just keeps moving through, but it's got
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: specific sections in it that really each section says something.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you can see that in the video, Jamie. You
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: look like you had a great time on that camera
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in the video.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: She was killing it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You see what she was doing?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Man, I'm telling you, it's like 200.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So did you guys shoot that video in one day?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: It was done in like half a day.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I was wondering, I was wondering, cause I was with
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Nigel Dick today who did all the videos for MTV and,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and he, and he was telling me today that if
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't get out of there in one hour, I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: know in one day, then I knew it wasn't going
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to be a good video. And I'm going, Holy God,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I never knew that it only took one day for
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: these videos. So that's why I had to ask you what,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: what was your plan on that thing?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Less is more on every, if you, you know, Also,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, the first take is usually the best, too.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I'm with you on that.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: If you've practiced it and you're kind of in the groove,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: that first recorded take is always the most energy.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and thank God for punch edit, because sometimes that's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: your savior.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: You cracked up a little bit here. Can you go
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: back in there and sing that line again? Okay, I'll
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: give it another shot here.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank God for technology, right?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It's nice to be able to do that, though, because
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: when you do have many takes, you can kind of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: zone in and focus on the one that you like best. Absolutely.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I think that was one of the biggest shockers is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: when Jim and Alan started getting auto-tune tools in there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: That shows you how old I am. And all of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a sudden, I had no idea what it was, but
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you sat there and you just listened to it going,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: You mean I don't have to do another take? No,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you're fine. Oh, I don't like that idea. No, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: want to do it again, man. No, you're supposed to say, yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: go back in there and do it again. Where can
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: people go to find out more about where you guys are,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: how they can follow you and really get involved with
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: what you're doing? And I always suggest to the listeners,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: buy the merch do it online, do it somehow, get
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the merch. We need you as listeners to move this
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: band forward.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, please get the merch. which we all designed, you know, ourselves. And,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: and I love that element of it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: But for anyone interested, we're all over social media and
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: streaming platforms, of course, but you can find us at og8music. com.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: That's our website, og8music. com. You can find everything there. All
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the new singles, the album dropping, press, tour, all links
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: to our social media platforms.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Most social media, we are og8official. com. or OG8 underscore original eight.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Just think, Troy, 10, 15 years ago, they didn't talk
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: like that as rock bands. I mean, my God, she
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: sold you big time, dude. She's a pro.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you. Yeah. I mean, in the presence of greatness.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: My God. You nailed that, Jamie. My God. Give me that.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: It's not my first time, Harold.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: We're dealing with a professional here.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Well, man, please come back to this show anytime in
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the future. The door is always going to be open
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: for the two of you, for the whole band, for everybody,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: so that everybody can know the band.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: That would be amazing.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You guys be brilliant today, okay?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: You too.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Have a wonderful day. Thank you so much for having us.