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Paying Tribute To RANDY RHOADS Down Under With KELLY GARNI From QUIET RIOT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi everybody. I'm Kelly Garney. I am a founding member
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  Speaker 1: with along with Randy Rhodes. Quiet right.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Thanks for joining us today, Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy to be here, very happy.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason why I hateed I am mate is for
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  Speaker 3: a very very very big story in that you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be bringing a tribute to Randy Roads. This the
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  Speaker 3: story in music behind the Legend to Australia. But three
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  Speaker 3: special shows only in December, and know I it's still
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  Speaker 3: a long way off, mate, But the excitement levels over
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  Speaker 3: here are pretty bloody high already.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'm glad to hear their bloody high because that's
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  Speaker 1: just better than yeah, there's a high, except you excitement
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  Speaker 1: level around here, and bloody high, I mean around here
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  Speaker 1: that means like wow, that's like really high exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The name of the tour is pretty self explanatory. But
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  Speaker 3: can you go into the idea for us in a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more detail.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for several years I've been doing and I don't
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  Speaker 1: pursue these things. That's the thing is people come to
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  Speaker 1: me and they asked me to do them, and they
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  Speaker 1: there's a you know, there's a very very large fan
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  Speaker 1: base for Randy Rhodes and pretty much I'm last man standing.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I don't have Kevin, who I sure do miss,
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  Speaker 1: although if you read my book you wouldn't believe that
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  Speaker 1: in a million years, But boy do I miss him.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great, great guide for me and I
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  Speaker 1: learned a real lot from Kevin. But anyways, I've been
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  Speaker 1: approached several times. I've been all around the country over
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, here in America and now Japan.
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  Speaker 1: Twice I've been over to Japan where and people want
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  Speaker 1: anything left of Randy, and I guess I'm what you get.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's an honor to represent my
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  Speaker 1: best friend. Of course you would anybody would do that
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  Speaker 1: for their best friend if they're any kind of a friend.
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  Speaker 1: And so since these people are so excited to hear
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  Speaker 1: that music again, I happily oblige and go and do
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  Speaker 1: these shows.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, mate.
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  Speaker 3: Like I know you said he'd done these things a
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  Speaker 3: few times before around the world, but these three shows,
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  Speaker 3: like they're pretty much the idea of Tim McCain smith
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  Speaker 3: for X Music. Here you approached in and ask you
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  Speaker 3: to put these ones together for Australia. So what were
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  Speaker 3: your initial thoughts when when he contacted you and said,
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  Speaker 3: come to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say something about this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I met Scuba Steve of Whiskey in Japan. He
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  Speaker 1: came to my show over there, and we just came okay,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys say, because I'm learning. We became best
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  Speaker 1: mates right off the bat and talked at the bar
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  Speaker 1: for pretty long, and he said, oh, you know, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you come to Australia. And I said, sure, do it,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't think anything would happen, and then boom,
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  Speaker 1: within like two months, he was like, Okay, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're putting it together. And I'm like, wait what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to Australia And so here I come. And
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  Speaker 1: this time is a lot different than the other times
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to go out there and honor Randy.
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  Speaker 3: Being able to fit the legacy of Randy Rhodes into
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  Speaker 3: one show would have to be almost impossible, Mate, say,
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  Speaker 3: how do you decide what bits need to be in
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  Speaker 3: the show and what you can skip over?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I really lucked out with this being in Australia
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  Speaker 1: because there are several well too, probably two of the
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  Speaker 1: most important people in Randy's development and who he became
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  Speaker 1: that live in Australia, and I was able to get
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  Speaker 1: them involved.
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  Speaker 3: And look, you mentioned the fact that he was your
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  Speaker 3: best friend, and he obviously means a lot to your Randy.
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  Speaker 2: But is it more challenging.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that the fact he was so close to
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  Speaker 3: want to do his life justice in a performance on this,
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  Speaker 3: like it'd.
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  Speaker 2: Have to be a bit more pressure on you than
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  Speaker 2: just someone off the street doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I I played with Randy longer than anybody. I
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  Speaker 1: played with him nine years. Anybody else could say, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well I played with him for two years or you know,
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  Speaker 1: something like that. But I spent nine years with him,
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  Speaker 1: and I spent nine years growing up with him, because
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  Speaker 1: we met when I was eleven years old, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we went through all the boyhood things and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everything that happens to two best friends. This is starting
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  Speaker 1: when I'm eleven years old. We went to our first
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  Speaker 1: concert together, which was Alice Cooper, which became a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge influence on what we wanted to do. When we
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  Speaker 1: saw Alice Cooper, we said, we're going to be rock stars,
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  Speaker 1: whether anybody likes it or not. And you know, in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, he did but I never really did, and
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  Speaker 1: I never really wanted to. And that's okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because things that changed years to where you know, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be in the music business anymore. But
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  Speaker 1: because of my association with Randy, I find myself very
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  Speaker 1: heavily involved with the music business. And I got to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a really good time doing it. And to
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  Speaker 1: see and meet all the fans who come to these
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  Speaker 1: shows is really really something that makes you feel good
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  Speaker 1: in your heart and your soul.
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  Speaker 2: Bet it does, mane, I bet it does that.
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  Speaker 3: There's two sessions to the show, like live Music's fun
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  Speaker 3: part and the Q and A sessions the other. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll start on the live music side of things. What
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  Speaker 3: musicians have you put together to represent the musical side
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  Speaker 3: of Oath Korea.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have to be honest, I don't know exact
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  Speaker 1: details on that yet. I know I have people from
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  Speaker 1: Snake Bite Whiskey that are going to be playing a scuba.
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  Speaker 1: Steve's going to be playing with me from Snake Bite,
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  Speaker 1: And we also have a band van Hagar, which I
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  Speaker 1: am told is a really, really good and I've actually
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  Speaker 1: heard of them, a really good Van Halen tribute band
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting to think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have some guys from there, from a van Halen
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  Speaker 1: tribute band who are going to be there to honor Randy.
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  Speaker 1: Because back in the days when we were growing up
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  Speaker 1: and coming up in the clubs in Hollywood and on
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  Speaker 1: the Sunset Strip, you know, Ben Halen they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy, and although we did do a show
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  Speaker 1: with them, but they were Everybody was like, well, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be Ben Halen or Quiet Riot? And it
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  Speaker 1: was an ongoing debate that went on in that whole
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  Speaker 1: seventies Hollywood scene.
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  Speaker 3: That's true, and you gotta be replicating everything like down
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  Speaker 3: with the stage attire and then the style of the
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  Speaker 3: time and the meat he came in, or is it
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  Speaker 3: gonna have more of a modern child?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, let me address that very directly. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be wearing no damn sailor suit like
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  Speaker 1: they made me doing Quiet Right. That's not happening, folks. No,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is really an uptick in what we
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  Speaker 1: did in Quiet Riot. All the musicians involved, I've advised
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  Speaker 1: them to you know, this music we're talking about is
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  Speaker 1: recorded in like, you know, seventy six, seventy seven seventy eight.
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  Speaker 1: You know those years. You know, that's a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: and so the songs are dated. So what I've done
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  Speaker 1: is I've modernized the song. And my advice to the
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  Speaker 1: guitar players is, you know, play what Randy played, but
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  Speaker 1: play it like Dinbag would play it or Zach would
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  Speaker 1: play it. That's what I want to hear, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what people want to hear.
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  Speaker 3: That's beautiful. You've also got Randy's first out of guitar tea.
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  Speaker 3: Just got Shelley on board for the Q and A session.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a great way of approachings because he'd know
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  Speaker 3: things musically about Randy and his guitar fi and that
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  Speaker 3: a few other people in the world would.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely because you know, over the years there's been a
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  Speaker 1: ton of magazine articles and certainly the fans are aware
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  Speaker 1: of who Scott Shelley is because everybody's like, oh, Randy
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  Speaker 1: Rosie's so great. You know, well, where did he learn? Well,
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  Speaker 1: his guitar teacher was this guy, Scott Shelley, so very
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  Speaker 1: much revered as being an integral part of Randy's learning
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  Speaker 1: process and sort of third party. So was I because
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  Speaker 1: what Randy would learn from Scott he would come home
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  Speaker 1: and teach me. So I was kind of learning from
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  Speaker 1: Scott as well. So to have him a part of
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  Speaker 1: this is a huge, huge thing. Apart from a few
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  Speaker 1: magazine interviews that he's done, people just have never really
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  Speaker 1: seen him or he's never really tried to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of Randy's legacy. Not that he needed to be.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't need to be, you know, it was enough
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  Speaker 1: to say Scott taught him. And so Scott's a very
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  Speaker 1: very very important element in this whole show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And during both potsteph Les, I'm gonna have the live
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  Speaker 3: show and then the Q and A.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to integrate if you get out throughout
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  Speaker 2: the night?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I got to say, in all honesty, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: exactly sure that the order of things and how they'll go.
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  Speaker 1: I having done this before, it kind of goes all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. So whatever I get told to do
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  Speaker 1: when I get there, I'm up for it. You know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you want to do the Q and A? Now? Great? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I might add there might be and I say might
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  Speaker 1: with a capital limb, there might be another special guests
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  Speaker 1: for the Q and A's who happens to live in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I just won't know that for a couple more months.
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  Speaker 1: And if he joins this, you're going to have the
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  Speaker 1: trifecta of Randy's development. You're going to have the guy
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  Speaker 1: who taught Randy, the guy who Randy did something with
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  Speaker 1: what he was all taught, and then the guy who
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  Speaker 1: ultimately showed Randy what he needed to do to show
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  Speaker 1: the world how talented he was.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to push you any further on that
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  Speaker 3: because I let people draw their iron their iron lines there.
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  Speaker 2: But that sounds fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: It's right now, it's up in the air. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: due to some health concerns and those are unpredictable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Who, So with the Q and I is it going
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  Speaker 3: to be anything? Goes with the questions? Can people ask
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  Speaker 3: whatever they want within raison?
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  Speaker 1: I guess with it? Reason is is is a good
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  Speaker 1: way to put it. Yeah, don't ask me about you know,
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  Speaker 1: Randy's death and why did the plane crash? And what's
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  Speaker 1: up with the pilot? Why did he even get on
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  Speaker 1: the plane. It's it's been done to death. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: been there's shows about it out there. There's one coming
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  Speaker 1: up on Hulu. Do you. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: guys have. It's a streaming station and I recently filmed
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  Speaker 1: a segment for that and it kind of delves into that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's not what's important here. It's not about Randy dying.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what he accomplished while he was alive. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people more than anything. Because Randy did so few interviews
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  Speaker 1: when he was with Ozzy, and then all the ones
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  Speaker 1: we did in Quiet Riot were mainly for Japanese magazines,
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  Speaker 1: which somehow haven't really made the translation into the mainstream.
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  Speaker 1: People don't know a lot about him. People are curious
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  Speaker 1: about what was he like because he was such an
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  Speaker 1: interesting looking character. I mean, he he just didn't look
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  Speaker 1: like anybody else. He didn't act like anybody else, except
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  Speaker 1: what little you see on him is he's very humble
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't want to talk a lot. So people are
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  Speaker 1: always asking what was he like? What was he like
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  Speaker 1: to hang out with, what was he like to go
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  Speaker 1: places with? What was he like to be on stage?
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  Speaker 1: Those kind of questions are great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a couple of questions in my mind
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  Speaker 3: before we got him, Like you started, who I arrived
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  Speaker 3: with Randy in about age seventy three, So well, he's
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  Speaker 3: both on the same page musically with what you wanted
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  Speaker 3: from quite right from the start.
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  Speaker 1: Once we heard Alice Cooper, we sure were because that
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  Speaker 1: made that made such a huge impact on us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're like, you know, twelve, twelve, thirteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: not even that, and we go to this Cooper concert.
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  Speaker 1: We've never been to a concert, and we see Black
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  Speaker 1: Oak Arkansas, who actually made a huge, huge impression of us,
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  Speaker 1: and we were like, well, it just Kenny can't get
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  Speaker 1: any better than that. Whoever this Alice guy is. And
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  Speaker 1: we went at the sorry to use an American word,
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  Speaker 1: at the behoost of his brother who got us interested
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  Speaker 1: in Alice Cooper, and we said, well, that looks cool,
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  Speaker 1: some guy named Alice. Yeah, sure we'll go see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's really weird looking. We like that. And right off
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  Speaker 1: the bat we were looking for something different, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we liked normal looking bands like Deep Purple
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  Speaker 1: and You're Rayah Heap and you know, many of the
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  Speaker 1: bands that were around then. But here comes Alice Cooper
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  Speaker 1: with a whole different stick. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: a strictly American word, it's yeah, Alice Cooper had a
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  Speaker 1: whole new deal. This was like something else, and we said, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this looks interesting. This is different because when
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  Speaker 1: you were trying to do something musically back in those days,
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  Speaker 1: the music scene was at a point where something different
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  Speaker 1: needed to happen. And this is why somebody like Kiss
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  Speaker 1: became so popular. I mean they were like, wow, look
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  Speaker 1: at these guys. And we were not Kiss fans because
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  Speaker 1: we just we actually didn't like their music. We thought
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  Speaker 1: it was too simple for us to play. It was
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  Speaker 1: basic to us, so it wasn't interesting. But when we
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  Speaker 1: saw Alice Cooper and saw his whole stage show and
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  Speaker 1: here's a guy getting electrocuted on stage and he's getting
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  Speaker 1: hung on stage and he's a total freak, we went,
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  Speaker 1: that's who we want to be. And that impression mixed
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  Speaker 1: with it Arkansas made on us. We those two things
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  Speaker 1: and we'll do our own thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's true. Now we all know what Randy went
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  Speaker 3: on to become. But let's say you know him since
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  Speaker 3: you're eleven years old. So was he always that confident
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  Speaker 3: in the short or did he sort of grow into
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  Speaker 3: that ball as he got older?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Randy was somebody that didn't know how good
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  Speaker 1: he was, And that was probably one of the most
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  Speaker 1: obvious things about him as a musician. He had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: It had nothing to do with how he came off
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  Speaker 1: to people in social settings or anything like that. But
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  Speaker 1: when he played, he didn't know how good he was.
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  Speaker 1: He never thought he was good enough. That was his
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost thought.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, despite you guys all telling him that he was brilliant,
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  Speaker 3: he still didn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Despite a bunch of fans standing on his side of
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  Speaker 1: the stage, he still didn't get it. Well, he knew
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  Speaker 1: he was a good looking rock and roll kind of
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: looking guy, you know, so he thought, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he got no shortage of female attention, so he just
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  Speaker 1: thought all these girls on his side of the stage,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just were like, oh, here's a cute guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he thought. It's not because I'm good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't you know, you from the stage, you
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  Speaker 1: really couldn't see behind all the girls and see all
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  Speaker 1: these guys going, Man, I think I'm going to start
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  Speaker 1: playing guitar tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, everyone's speaking of guitar. Everyone knights and loves
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  Speaker 3: Randy for his guitar playing. But he was also an
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  Speaker 3: accomplished songwriter.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he was. He was a very good songwriter.
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  Speaker 1: And he he leck talent in two areas musically, and
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  Speaker 1: that was he could not sing. Art management wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to sing because they liked the way that looked, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: so they said, well, you're going to sing, and so
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: we heard him. We all heard him, and we went,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is going to work out. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the bluntest way to say it is, he
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: was probably the worst singer you've ever heard in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm not that great great of a singer either,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but I am the bass player. Bass Players usually sing.
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  Speaker 1: So they said, well, that leaves you, so you're going
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  Speaker 1: to sing, and I went, ah, I don't sing. It
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You're gonna sing. And so I ended up
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  Speaker 1: being the backup singer.
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  Speaker 2: Well what's the second one? He said, there's two.
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  Speaker 1: Things, right, thank you. He couldn't write lyrics. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we could come up with song ideas and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but he just was at a loss for lyrics. And
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: point in fact, he was actually a good writer. He
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  Speaker 1: was while we didn't go to school and we're educated
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in other ways. Whenever he wrote you to a letter
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: or something like that. It was very very well versed.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But to come up with songs and what to sing,
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  Speaker 1: he just couldn't do it. And luckily we had Kevin
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  Speaker 1: who was I think quite good at it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now the other thing is what the pikatarre is as
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  Speaker 3: much of Potter Randy's legacies as playing.
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  Speaker 2: But how did that come from? Initially?
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  Speaker 3: Like was it a marketing ployt or did you plane?
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  Speaker 3: Let's dress him up and see how was that just
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  Speaker 3: his natural why dressing?
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  Speaker 2: And people loved it.
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  Speaker 1: This. We had a completely different idea of how we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to look Black o Arkansas and Alice Cooper thing.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to be a mashup of those two things.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at very very old pictures of
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  Speaker 1: me and Randy, we look a lot like that. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you can see a little bit Alice Cooper and
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  Speaker 1: you can see a little bit of black Oake Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: Black Coke Carkansas all had hair down to here, so
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: did we. And they wore really super tight nut crunching
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: jeans and with a bunch of patches on them and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: holes in them and things like that. We did that,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but then our tops were used we bought at thrift
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: shops and in the ladies section, and we would take
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: them home and we had learned how to sew, which
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: was kind of dangerous because we made concoctions out of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: them that we felt fit us. When it came to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Quiet Riot, we got we had our first manager who
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: me and Randy just adored and just loved it, but Kevin,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the singer Debro had a falling out with him, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: then it was on to new management. That management said, oh, oh, okay,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: well you guys you need a completely different makeover here.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: You need to have a whole different image. And they
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: had this idea that we should look like the Bay
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: City Rollers and we're like, well, we don't really sound
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: anything like them. And they said, well, look at these
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: other bands that you guys like, like The Suite and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: things like that. You know, they're wearing these enslaved they're
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: wearing these costume kind of things. You know, that's that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: what you guys need. So here's the deal. You're going
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to be a sailor. You're going to wear a bow tie,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and Kevin you're gonna have some stripes. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it just to me got out of hand because the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: next thing I knew, and luckily, back in those days,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: girls knew how to sew, so all of our girlfriends
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: would make our outfits. And the next thing, I know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I've got like seven sailor suits. I've got brown, I've
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: got green, I've got red, I've got black, and on
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and on it went. And Randy had a whole thing
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of bow ties. You know, who knows how many he had,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and so they were happy with that image. The thing
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: about it was is we were mesmerized by the money
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that this management sunk into us. So anything they said,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: if they would have said go on stage naked like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the rid how Chili Peppers did, we would have done it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they just said wear a sock on it,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: we would have done it. But you know, we had
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: an amazingly beautiful rehearsal space. We had equipment you know
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that you know, most musicians would would just you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: give their nuts for and and all that we had.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: When we had meetings, we went to these big offices
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that had floor to ceiling windows that overlooked all of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Beverly Hills. And you know, we were kids, We're like
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: sixteen now, and we see all this and we're like,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I guess those guys really know what they're doing, so
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: whatever they say, we'll do, and that's what we did,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: but it really wasn't true to our nature.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Yet.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: So many more questions I can ask you, but I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: gonna have to lead some for people to ask him
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and he come down yet. But the one thing I
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: do want to ask mat is what influences Randy Rhight's
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: had on your life and your legacy musically and personally.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes that's a difficult question for me to answer
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: because I left that band when I was twenty years old,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and I took a totally different path. And if you
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: would have told me back then, I would be doing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the things that I did that I am doing now,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I would have said, no, I don't think that's ever
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: going to happen. I mean, you have to remember I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: left that band three days later, I cut off all
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: my hair, I enrolled in a paramedic school, I became
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a paramedic, and I worked in the back of an
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: ambulance for the next ten years in LA. Now, being
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: in the you know, a rock star is the furthest
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: thing from a guy like that in his mind. But
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: here I am so I guess it's the best way
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to answer that is to say music never really leaves
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you when you grow up with it, as I did.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It's very much instilled in who you are as a person.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: So here I am back in the music business and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I owe it all to Randy who started it with
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: me in the first place.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: That's awesome, Kelly, thanks very much, be Tom and it's
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: been absolutely enjoyable set Bright, But you're going to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: bringing a tribute to Randy Riots, the stories and music
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: behind the Legend to Australia. This descend by go to
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: ex Music to get details and tickets and my friend,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I shall see you in December.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I can't wait for people to come and see what
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing to Australia. I mean, I'm so honored to
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: come all the way there, and I know that there's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a zillion fans there because Facebook and like that and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: all the emails I've gotten. I've got some very good
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: friends in Australia and I better see you there. It's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: really going to be an amazing, amazing thing. This is
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: going to be by far the best show I've ever
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: done as far as a tribute to Randy