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Why Is Nikki Sixx Comparing Motley Crue to Queen? · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, this is Niels from Velvet Chains.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are watching CMS TV.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rock on!
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's get back to some other stories here because we got plenty of them.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: You probably didn't see it.
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  SPEAKER_03: The audience is seeing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is why I have the elderly people playing a purple guitar walking up the aisle
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  SPEAKER_03: as our backdrop on the videos tonight because I had
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  SPEAKER_03: so many old people stories tonight.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's a bunch of old bands doing music.
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  SPEAKER_03: I guess none of the young bands are doing it, so let's just have old bands get out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: Another old band that we talk about on occasion is Asia.
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  SPEAKER_03: Asia has a new single.
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  SPEAKER_00: What passes as Asia?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, speaking of bands with a long laundry list of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So basically Asia is like Foghat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got one member and then they got a revolving door of members.
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  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm going to be honest, this song to me does not sound like Asia very much at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, why would it?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's only got one guy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's true.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today, legendary English rock supergroup Asia.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: When they were formed, they were a rock supergroup.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because they had members of other notable bands.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now it's Jeff Downs and Company.
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  SPEAKER_03: These guys ain't a supergroup anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can graduate out of being a supergroup, can't you?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're no longer got numerous,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, participating musicians from other projects, notable projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: And nobody's heard of these guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what makes up a supergroup.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: The drummer is a superstar, Virgil Donati.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, he's a major drummer, if you pay attention to, like, the prog world and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: Virgil's a major, major drummer.
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  SPEAKER_03: And again, I'm not saying any of these guys are bad.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm just saying this ain't a super group.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's Jeff Downs, Virgil Donati, John Mitchell, and Harry Whitley.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am looking at the stars to see if I can see this band.
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  SPEAKER_03: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have a new single called Edge of You, Echo of You.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have a new video for it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is the second, this is, I think, the second video from this.
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  SPEAKER_03: The album doesn't come out until November 6th.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why are they releasing videos now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we gotta, you know, gotta keep it in the public eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep people interested, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe you get a couple people that buy tickets and then pass away.
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  SPEAKER_03: Get to keep their money.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean...
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, November 6th is a long way away still.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not as far away as you think it is.
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  SPEAKER_03: September, October, November.
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  SPEAKER_03: Three fucking months.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: November 6th is the beginning of November.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today's only the 15th or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you're only looking at eight weeks.
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  SPEAKER_03: No.
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  SPEAKER_03: You have all of September and all of October.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's eight weeks, a ninth week in November, and two more weeks now, 11 weeks.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they're on the second single.
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  SPEAKER_03: This ain't the first one.
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  SPEAKER_03: There was another one two or three weeks ago that we played on the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just the way that you have to release music these days.
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  SPEAKER_03: I guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to dole out these singles as a lead up to the official release of the record.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's buying records these days.
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  SPEAKER_03: Boy, to go back a little bit to the plush record versus this,
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  SPEAKER_03: this scab version of Asia,
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  SPEAKER_03: this video came out three days ago and they've got 61,000 views.
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  SPEAKER_03: That doesn't play well for plush at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oof.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, well, let's check it out.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is Echo of You.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's brand new Asia.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is this just footage they had?
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  SPEAKER_03: Alright, real quick.
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  SPEAKER_03: You saw that in the video about the people?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you really believe somebody came up and was like, holy shit, it's Asia?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I'm out on the road with Doggin, there are fans that know when they're coming in somehow.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're there at the airport waiting.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're an Asia fan and you know that they're coming into town or whatever,
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  SPEAKER_00: they may be waiting on you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've traveled with them enough over the years that we land at an airport
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  SPEAKER_00: and we're walking out and there's half a dozen fans hanging out there with stuff
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  SPEAKER_00: to be signed.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I guess that's probably true.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm just looking at these guys and I'm like,
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  SPEAKER_03: If they were literally in my living room,
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  SPEAKER_03: I wouldn't know that they were the
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  SPEAKER_00: guys from Asia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you're not a fan, though.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I am a fan.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, you're not a fan of this particular.
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  SPEAKER_03: Of this particular version, Mach 30 or whatever this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, this looks like this is in, you know, Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Japan or somewhere, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or Europe or something.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, let me get back to heat of the moment,
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  SPEAKER_03: or whatever this is, because it's not heat of the moment.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think of all the things we did,
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  SPEAKER_02: I think of all the great,
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  SPEAKER_02: the good, the magical, the endless nights, the timeless love.
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  SPEAKER_02: I wish that I could turn the tide.
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  SPEAKER_02: I wish you were still at my side, but now you're far away.
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  SPEAKER_03: This really is just random footage that they have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just all, you know, B-roll shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody's filming on their iPhone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just throwing the song underneath it and just throwing it together.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're a working band out on tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at us walking through the airports.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: How about syncing up the music a little?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, there's one part where just the keyboard's playing, they show the drummer drumming.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_03: Don't show the drummer drumming in that part.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's not drumming.
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, here we go.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_02: A different place, it's day for night.
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  SPEAKER_02: A man that relives, a man that relives.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's the echo of you, running round my head, every street I walk, every word I've said.
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  SPEAKER_02: I could try to move on, I could try to renew, but the rhythm of my heart still echoes for you.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's the echo of you, running round my head, every street I walk, every word I've said.
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  SPEAKER_02: I could try to move on, I could try to renew, but the echoes remind me of me.
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  SPEAKER_03: If I blinked, I would have thought it was only time will tell.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sounds nothing like Asia.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you think this sounds at all like Asia?
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody told me this was Asia, I would have never guessed.
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  SPEAKER_03: And if somebody just played it for you and asked you what it was, you would have had no idea.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just some fucking band.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, just some fucking band.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll play a little more and we'll get out of this one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's things I wish I'd never done,
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  SPEAKER_02: untruths that I wish were all gone,
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  SPEAKER_02: but now it's you that's flowing the nest of love we made for us.
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  SPEAKER_02: You think that I don't care, that's wrong.
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  SPEAKER_02: You think I wish I wasn't there, but here we are, still sad and broken like a missing
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  SPEAKER_02: link.
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  SPEAKER_02: The memory lives,
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  memory lives,
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  memory lives,
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  memory lives,
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  memory lives,
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  memory lives,
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  SPEAKER_02: I had no idea that band guys talk to each other when they're in a van moving to
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  SPEAKER_02: a gig.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey metalheads.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm still trying to figure out if this is Korea or Japan.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never was good at reading the Korean.
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  SPEAKER_01: I could speak it, but I couldn't really read it very well.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of this looks like it might be Korea.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like a lot of it looks familiar to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: And again, I haven't been there fucking since 1989.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: So it's been a minute, but all right.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's enough of this.
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  SPEAKER_03: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: More than enough.
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  SPEAKER_03: More than enough.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Let me kill that one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let me see if I have one more short one before.
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  SPEAKER_03: I got one more short one,
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  SPEAKER_03: and then we'll talk about Glenn Hughes and get the fuck out of here, all right?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: This one, again, I'm going back to the AI train.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: Another Dockin' AI song has popped up.
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  SPEAKER_03: These guys have got Dockin' down.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: They've got Don Dockin' down.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know about musically, but they have got Don's voice all the way down.
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  SPEAKER_03: And of course, now it ain't showing.
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  SPEAKER_03: What the bloody fuck?
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Well, maybe I'm not showing you that because it doesn't look like I'm getting it.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_03: What the hell?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: Come on, you fuckwad.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: No, I guess they deleted it.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_03: It looks like they deleted the song.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: We'll just go with Glenn Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_03: We'll wrap up with Glenn Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got a short story here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it good?
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then let's do Glenn Hughes first and we'll end on a positive because this is a negative.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to end on a negative.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: I got a positive.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll make this quick because there's not much to talk about with this really.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is five minutes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Glenn Hughes,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: the rock god vocalist, Dunzo,
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  SPEAKER_03: completely done, announced his retirement from live shows due to heart surgery.
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  SPEAKER_03: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Glenn Hughes has announced his retirement
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  SPEAKER_03: from touring and live performances.
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  SPEAKER_03: Upon his doctor's advice,
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  SPEAKER_03: Glenn will have to undergo heart surgery and has made the difficult decision
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  SPEAKER_03: to step back from live performances for the foreseeable future.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the man is, what, 78 years old or whatever?
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  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's it.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's not going to come back.
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  SPEAKER_03: He may come back and do one show if he survives the heart surgery
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  SPEAKER_03: and Gets back healthy, and I hope he does.
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  SPEAKER_03: Honestly, I certainly don't hope any bad things.
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  SPEAKER_03: What a sad end to his career, no?
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the early excesses may have caught up with him.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just sucks that his last gig wasn't his Glenn Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was his
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  SPEAKER_03: fucking dead daisies.
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  SPEAKER_03: That stinks.
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  SPEAKER_03: That stinks.
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  SPEAKER_03: That stinks that he doesn't get to go out on his terms even a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I just hate that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't bring this to the show last week,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I'm really barely bringing it to the show this week
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  SPEAKER_03: because there's really not much to say other than he definitely had a great career.
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  SPEAKER_03: But this is short of dying on stage Dimebag style.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is about as awful a way to go out as you can.
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  SPEAKER_03: Isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_03: Just got a phone call.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm not allowed to play anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm out.
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  SPEAKER_03: See ya.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that, you know, Walter Perezator from Chicago, he had to retire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly like that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Back in 2015 because of heart-related issues.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, so he left the band in 2015 and then obviously passed away a few weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, I guess you leave the band, but you enjoy the little bit of time you got left, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Glenn has always been super,
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  SPEAKER_03: super nice every time I've encountered him in person, in interviews.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's one of the nicest guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: let's hope that the heart surgery goes well and him and his chick can go off
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  SPEAKER_03: and have 10 or 15 good years of just hanging out and He can sing in his garden
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  SPEAKER_03: or something.
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  SPEAKER_03: But a sad end to a guy that really has had a pretty
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  SPEAKER_00: big career, don't you think?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's had a long career.
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  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm, long career, and most of it has been positive.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, 50 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there's really not a whole lot of,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, doldrum years for him where he just wasn't popular or heard or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_03: He went into that weird phase in the 90s where he was doing all that funk stuff,
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  SPEAKER_03: but man, you can't really argue the Deep Purple stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can't argue Black Sabbath stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can't argue his solo stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's all been really good.
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  SPEAKER_03: Working with Iommi, you know, the depth sessions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the Iommi Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Iommi Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, I mean, he's had a good run, so.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm sad to see this one just because I like Glenn, but, you know.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like everything else going on in this world today, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: We said it 10, 15 years ago, you and I on this show, that you better see them while you can.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because that window is closing.
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  SPEAKER_03: And believe me, I am thrilled that I saw them in, I think it was 2020.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_03: It was a few weeks before COVID started.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw them two years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right down the road here.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad that I did get the chance to...
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  SPEAKER_03: To check him out one more time before he checks out.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's hope that's not for a while.
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  SPEAKER_03: But as far as performing, he's done.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's that.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's all I really got to say on Glenn Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we were concentrating on AI this evening and the music and so on and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The legendary Queen guitarist,
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  SPEAKER_00: Sir Brian May,
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  SPEAKER_00: has declared that humanity has no need for artificial intelligence,
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  SPEAKER_00: warning that the cost of its development is far too steep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I got news for you here, Brian.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's here.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's here, Pops.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: What are you going to do now?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll bet he made that comment, too, on his cell phone, which he also didn't want to see.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was much more happy with a rotary phone, I'm sure.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: In an Instagram post published on Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: the 79-year-old musician raised alarm about the physical infrastructure required
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  SPEAKER_00: to power AI systems urging the data centers must be blocked from being constructed
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  SPEAKER_00: across Britain.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so tired of this fucking argument.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think has been powering websites for the last 30 fucking years?
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Data centers.
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  SPEAKER_03: What do you think powers every goddamn phone system in the world?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: Data centers.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not like there were no data centers and now all of a sudden there's a zillion data centers.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of it is—I mean, and again, I want to be clear.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: I understand how this is going,
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: and certainly it is an issue,
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: but it's the same issue as anything else when car companies—
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: First started manufacturing cars,
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm imagining there was people that were like,
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: we can't put all of our steel into these wagons that aren't going to be around,
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_03: right?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure they were putting the same horse shit out for that.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: And then the car industry just was like, fuck it, we're doing it.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: AI's here, man.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all better just get used to it.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Because you literally look like an old man yelling at the clouds if you don't accept
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: that it's here.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: It's here.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's going to be here.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: We're old enough to where it's probably not going to happen,
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: but the next generation is probably going to all be killed by robots from AI.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Just like the Terminator.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: Just like the Terminator.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: Skynet is active.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: It is.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: And it's learning.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_03: And we taught it tonight, things about rollercoaster.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: We taught them all about writing hit songs.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: So it's here.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's going to kill us all eventually.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: But go for the ride because guess what?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: You're already on the fucking train whether you like it or not.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: We must not allow these hideous data centers to be built in the UK.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: They will destroy our beautiful country like they are already destroying
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: the beautiful America, he wrote.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: Are they?
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: Where has he been exactly in America that he was like,
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: this place used to be gorgeous, but now there's just all these data centers around.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: Where's that happening?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: Do you go to Mount Rushmore and now there's a big data center
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: on fucking George Washington's head?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what is he talking about?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: He sees a goddamn clip on X of a data center that has the sound turned up to
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: a thousand so that it seems like it's this big noise pollution nonsense.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: And he's like, oh, see?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: See?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Stop it, old man.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: You sound like an idiot.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Brian Thunberg.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Sir Brian also directed a personal plea to the Prime Minister,
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: Andy Burnham, stating, Dear Andy, you must stop it now before it's too late.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: The sky is falling.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_03: Let's say for the sake of argument.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: Let's play along.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: So...
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: England, because Sir Brian May made a point, outlaws AI data centers.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: Do you really think that's going to stop the spread of AI?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the thing is,
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: is if Britain,
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: England does not have data centers, they will become a, you know, fall behind.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: They will be Zimbabwe.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they'll fall behind in commerce and they will no longer be a, Right.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_03: They'll be out with sticks trying to fish with a stab.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: You know, just stop it.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: You sound like an idiot.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: He insisted the price of this's inevitable technology shift was simply too great.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: The post was prompted by Sir Brian's experiment with Meta's AI tool,
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: which he asked to reproduce the artwork from Queen's 1980 record, The Game.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Sharing the results with his followers, he was far from impressed by the technology's output.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just had to share with you guys.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: I asked Meta AI to show me what the cover of the game album looked like.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is what they gave me.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Good job, huh?
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: He wrote sarcastically.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it was kind of an intelligence that will soon be ruling the world.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: The failed attempt at recreating the iconic album sleeve appeared
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: to crystallize his broader skepticism,
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: leading him to conclude,
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: well, great, maybe this is the time to realize we actually don't need AI.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: Because it couldn't recreate their...
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Their album cover.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: First of all, of all the image generators, he picked the absolute worst one.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_03: Not that I need to give him a tech lesson,
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: but Meta AI is dog shit when it comes to image creation.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: It is the worst.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: The best is ChatGPT of the free ones.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: ChatGPT is the best.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Grok is second.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Gemini is third.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: Look, I just did literally his test.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: Put it on the screen.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_03: I did his test.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: You tell me this doesn't look like, does that look like it?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: I would think that was it.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_03: I just literally said recreate it.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: There it is.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: But he did it with meta AI, which looks like shit.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see if I have meta AI on this thing.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_03: Cause if I do, I'll do it on meta AI too.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_03: So we can,
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_03: so we can play his game and I'll bet he's probably correct
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_03: with meta AI recreate Queens album cover for the game.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see what this does.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my God.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking log in this fucking shitty.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, while you're logging in, um,
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: Sir Brian's intervention comes amid a broader debate within the music industry
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: over AI's role in creative work.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Speaking at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards in May,
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: four non-blondes vocalist Linda Perry took a markedly different view,
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: encouraging fellow artists to welcome the technology rather than resist it.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: To me,
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: it's just another tool that has shown up to make people's life easier in some way,
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: she said,
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: comparing the panic around AI to early fears
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: about microwaves replacing home cooking.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: If we try to run from the future, then we're running from a solution, she added.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Dance music producer Nina Archives offered a third perspective at
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: the Mercury Prize launch in July,
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: expressing doubt about AI-generated music staying power.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if AI music will last, to be honest with you.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's quite like fleeting technology at the moment, she said.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sure.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: Fleeting technology.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: There's the meta AI one, of course.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's shit.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the same.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: The other one came out looking exactly like the cover.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_03: Use the right tool, you know, and it looks right.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Sir Brian's career with Queen produced an extraordinary catalog of hits with
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: the band, achieving six number one singles and 10 chart-topping albums in the UK.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Among their most celebrated track are Bohemian Rhapsody,
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Killer Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and We Are the Champions.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_03: Well, since he wrote a bunch of great songs, well,
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_03: then he is the arbiter of how artificial intelligence should be used around
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: the world.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: Because he wrote, you know, Fat Bottom Girls.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_03: That makes him an expert on everything.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: Shut up.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, since we're talking about Queen, this will wrap up the show.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: Nikki Sixx confirms Motley Crue are using backing tracks, but says it's fine because Queen R2.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, in that case, I got news for you, most of
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_03: them are.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Nikki Sixx has admitted that Motley Crue have embraced the use of backing tracks
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: during their shows, but promises they still play all their own instruments live.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: The glam metal veterans have faced numerous allegations of using tapes
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: during their gigs in the past.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: In the most serious instance, former guitarist Mick Mars once accused them of miming on stage.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Responding to a fan's question on X...
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Though bass player Nikki Sixx has now admitted that, yes,
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: we do use backing tracks,
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: but they play their own parts live and they're comfortable with that.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: Since we saw Queen using some help during the song Bohemian Rhapsody live,
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: we understood that we could bring in elements that we could not do live, he writes.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like sing and play bass?
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think Tommy Lee's the only one playing up there.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm sure John 5 is playing.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's true too.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: These are extra instrumental layers such as orchestrations,
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: saxophones rather than guitars,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: he said,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: their ballad Home Sweet Home and the upbeat Rattlesnake Shake are examples of songs
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: that have those extra sprinkles.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: We sync them up with what we are playing and we do play 100% live.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: Six continues.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's better for the fans that we are enjoying playing.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: Being able to do what we did in the studio live.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's a win-win for us.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: The Music Radar reports crew have come under scrutiny before
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: a 2022 performance seemed to suggest that Tommy Lee wasn't playing his drum parts.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: Fans had noted discrepancies between his movements and what came out of the PA.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Backing tracks with live performances are a sensitive subject,
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: and many bands have been accused of faking their shows before now.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's often delicate balancing act for artists to tread.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Fans don't want to buy expensive tickets to see musicians miming,
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: but there are instances where those extra tracks are accepted.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: Wolfgang Van Halen may have called bands who heavily rely on extra tracks lame
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: as hell, but John Petrucci offered a more forgiving take.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: He says backing tracks are fine so long as the guitarist on
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: the stage is playing their asses off.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Then, of course, there's the whole other world of fake guitar playing in the online sphere.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's generated some fascinating conversations with our readers as to where the line is drawn.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Similar debates could be sparked about live performances.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: So as long as Queen is doing it, we can do it too because it's fine.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_03: Well, there you go.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_03: Now we know.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that's his justification.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: Queen's doing it.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: So can we.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_03: Glad he puts himself in the same boat as Queen.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: Because when I think of technical excellence, I think of Queen and Motley Crue.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_03: I think of them in one breath.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_03: Are you kidding?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: Queen?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Queen.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, as long as a highly respected band is getting away with it,
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: there's no reason why we can't too.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_03: Why can't we fuck the system?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: Fucking Nicky.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_03: Good for him.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_03: Wonderful.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that's going to wrap
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: up another show.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Quick.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: We may or may not give you a prerecorded segment next week.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: We'll do something.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Depends on how things shake out.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: You'll have to tune in to see.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: But something will be available for you one way or the other.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_03: Something's going to be streaming at nine o'clock next Saturday.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_03: Something.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_03: Something.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_03: Figure out what later.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're going to get out of here.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody have a safe and enjoyable week.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we will see you live in two weeks.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: And yada, yada, yada.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to leave you with some Alice in Chains tonight.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: From the facelift release.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: This one is requested by my nephew, James.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: He said he wants to hear, I know something about you.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to get out of here.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: So this is Neely along with my very good friend.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Akin.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: And we're gone.
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