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Hitman Talks to Mike Mushok STAIND Saint Asonia · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Hey, what's going on? It is hit Man with you and I have
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  on the phone right now. Mike Muschak from Stained Saint Asnia Newstead. Hey,
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  dude, how's it going good man? How are you? I'm doing
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  good. Where are you at right now? I hear you're on the road.
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  Well, I'm I'm at home basically, but yeah, I'm going to
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  driving to see my daughter. Ah. Well that's good, that's good.
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  How are the kids doing today? They're doing well. I mean summertime right,
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  everybody's home, daughters doing or the horse shows every day and wow,
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  oh oh yeah, yeah, I hear that you own a couple of horses.
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  Man, I just bought the third literally today. Wow. That's crazy.
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  Well, of course Stained is back for the first time in what about
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  twelve years. The new album, Confessions of the Fallen. It's coming out
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  in September. The new single Lowest in Me is out now. It's actually
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  in the top five and media base right now. So congratulations on that and
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  thank you. Yeah, and you guys are going out. You did a
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  couple of shows. What you've on some shows with Godsmack. You might be
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  going out maybe a little bit later on, maybe in the fall, right
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  yeah, we have the Gods that they've starting in about a month or so,
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  and uh yeah, we went have some dates later in the year figuring
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  it out, you know, staying busy. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
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  it's crazy how you know. It's it's twelve year hiatus since the last album,
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  but it's it's your eighth album right now and it's doing great. But
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  in between those that those twelve years, you did some great stuff with a
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  new Stead and Saint Asnia, which, by the way, Saint Asnia is
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  actually coming with Skillet and and Theory of a Dead Man here to Corpus Christie
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  later they are later on this year, so looking forward to that. But
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  of course you have the Staying tour that's going on right So yeah, so
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  Troud this use of the art of dying with scale, it's selling in for
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  me because they did dated a tour with Theory and Skillet earlier this year.
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  I was unable to do as well. So he's doing a great job and
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  those guys are out there just killing it. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's
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  actually I got to see Godsmack recently last year in Vegas and they did they
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  did a show there in Vegas, like it was just a one off show
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  and they just killed it that night. The great yeah so and and of
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  course the thing that Sully. You know, we got a chance to talk
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  to Sully too, and of course he has two things on his goal right
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  now. One is he's trying to get nine number one singles off the new
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  album, which I think is kind of cool. But he also says that
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  this is actually the last album. They're still going to tour, but this
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  is the last studio album they're doing. What's going on with Stained? Is
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  this is this gonna be maybe the last album? Or are you guys gonna
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  do another US or what's going on with that? No, I don't know.
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  I mean I kind of to take it out of a club right now.
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  It's okay, we're going to be playing the rest of this year and
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  we're looking at from shows next year, and I'm really happy with the record.
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  Um listen, So you know, I mean that's the severy mean.
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  Did you see? He's super talented. He's a great writer. And I
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  know he says that, but I mean, I'm listened. I could be
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  wrong, and there's he's never said this to me. Well, I guess
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  he's gonna gonna write most songs. I want to put him out right.
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  I know he says that though, but I mean because like for me,
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  like I don't want to say this is the last Danger record. I love
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  doing this, I love White Thick, and I love putting it out.
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  So I mean that's you know, a side of part of the process.
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  And I get really excited for you know, like I was the new record.
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  I mean, I'm just I'm so about it. I mean, you
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  know, when it gets done, I still listen to it and I'm real
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  proud of it. Can't wait for people to hear it. So yea,
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  yeah, So I don't know, I mean I kind of listen. I
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  didn't know it was gonna be twelve years, and I'm just happy that we
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  haven't come it out, so we'll have some kind of just you know,
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  see how it goes. Yeah, that's great, was it? I asked
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  the fans on Facebook to ask if there was any questions they wanted to ask
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  you, and one of the guys one of the one of the questions we
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  got asked was with the new album that came out, we know that you
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  know, Aaron writes some great songs, write some great ones and you do
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  the music for you know, all of them, and you're actually, to
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  me personally, a genius on this man. You guys, you do some
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  great je do some great work. What's your favorite track on the new album?
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  Oh geez, I don't know. Um, you know, there's a
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  song on there that I really play. It's actually it's not it's not super
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  heavy. It's kind of this uh slower, but it's really came up pretty
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  cool from better days. I went that song a lot, um. You
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  know. The funny thing about it, And I got to tell you is
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  that, uh, when I come up with the music, I give them
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  they're very random titles. Yeah, so they have something to go by,
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  right, And it wasn't until very recently that they got the names of the
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  song. So I don't even know what some of the songs are called,
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  because like Lois and Me was called low harm and that's how I know that
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  song, you know what I mean, It's like, oh that's what.
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  So when I hear the real name of the song, I don't even know
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  what song it is. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, But I mean,
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  like I said, I mean, you guys, your guys songs,
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  I mean, they're very personal and I know it really relates to the audience.
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  So I mean, I think that's one reason for you guys successes,
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  because you guys actually write songs that people can relate to, which I think
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  is Yeah, listen, you know Aaron Aaron does I mean besides Aaron having
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  like one of the best voices ever, I mean, he just does a
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  great job. You know, all that stuff he's got very deep down inside,
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  they're able to get it out in a way, you know, musical,
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  and people relates him. So I think he doesn't fantastic job when you
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  don't yeah, putting that together. So when you're going out on tour,
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  what is the one song you never get tired of playing of that you love
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  to play every single time when you're out on tour. Oh jeez, I
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  don't know. I mean, listen, I will say, I don't think
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  there's been a show you know, we've played since our first record came out
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  that we haven't played much shovel at it, right, So I mean,
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  I probably you know, and I don't get I mean, people people react
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  to it, you know what I mean, They want to hear it.
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  Yeah, I'm just thankful that we have songs like that that people you know,
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  want to hear I get excited to here still, you know, so
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  see my my, my, my personal favorite that I that it never grows
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  old, it never burns on me, and I'm excited to see you guys
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  perform it live. Is mud Shovel. That song I swear I love Mudshovel.
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  That song is never grows old on me. Every time I hear it,
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  I turn it right up on the radio. Man. That to me
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  is a brilliant song. I love that song. So another question, another
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  question I want to ask you is, of course you've worked with a lot
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  of great people, and of course there's and I want to get your input
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  on this because I think it's it's kind of interesting. I've asked this to
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  a couple of other guys. Um, you know, there's a lot of
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  new bands that are coming out, like you know, bad Omens, I
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  Prevail, and many more. Is there a new upcoming band that you really
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  are you know, curious about and interested about, you know, see,
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  you know, seeing what how their life is going to go? No?
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  Sure, yeah, you know there's actually a band that I heard on the
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  radio per day. I thought it was a really big called Currents. Oh
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  really, and yeah, and there, and come to find out they're from
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  Charefield, Connecticut is where I'm driving to right now. And yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, And it was just really guitar player or whatever, I mean,
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  really cool guitar parts, and it was it was good, Betty and
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  I enjoyed a couple of songs. But I do need to check it out,
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  and I just haven't gotten further into it. Wow. Wow, well
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  I got I got one. Well here's another one more question, of course,
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  with the kids. Talking about your kids, you know, everybody of
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  course has been talking about how Wolfgang and his band Mammoth has been really doing
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  really really well now, and of course he's the same thing. Yeah,
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  he's the son of Eddie Van Helen. Has your kids had any you know,
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  thoughts of maybe following in your footsteps and getting into the rock music and
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  stuff like that. I'll tell you a funny story. You know, my
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  son's kind of doubt and they both took piano for years, but during the
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  pandemic that that kind of fell by the wayside. They never went back to
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  playing. You know, my daughters it was they were both actually pretty good
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  at it um but no design at fact, I'll say we went on tour
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  with four in twenty twenty one, and and my son used to listen to
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  like hip hop, and you know, I didn't even know what it was.
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  He I came home, he had half by guitars downing in his room
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  and was, you know, on YouTube and found all these established all these
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  songs and yeah, he plays, we got him electronics drum said, he
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  plays every day. Wow Linot. Yeah, it's you know, he comes
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  to shows. He'll probably be all of me the summer, a little gait'll
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  come out for a little bit, you know. So yeah, and he's
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  he's into it. Which is which is meat? That's that's that's really cool.
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  I got. I got a funny story my daughter when she was growing
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  up at the time, you know, when when I was doing rock radio
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  in another market and she started really getting into it to at the point where
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  I was kind of getting kind of worried because she was listening to nothing but
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  corn, Slipknot, you know, Morbid More, Lamb of God, Morbid
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  Angel, you know, something like that. And and but then all of
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  a sudden she found out about boys and next thing, you know, she's
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  a swiftie. She's listening to Taylor swift. Oh man, I was like
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  great, So yeah that tu get her slipnot record and give it to her
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  and say hey, yeah, you know what her highlight was. I actually
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  got she got a chance to meet Corey Taylor and that was a big influence
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  to her. Corey Taylor, I swear it is a great, great performer.
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  Man. It's yeah, he had a lot for where the kids so
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  talented, right, I mean he's a thing. He's putting out great music
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  no matter what what he does. I think, yeah, yeah, he's
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  he's an amazing, amazing guy for Shire. Yeah, well I got one
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  last question for you. So that way you can concentrate on the road.
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  I don't want you to crash or anything like that. Uh. You know,
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  there's there's a lot of that's funny, h was it? You know?
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  Corpus Christie is a huge rocktown and there's a lot of rock band There's
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  a lot of rock bands that are breaking out of here in Corpus Christi.
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  In fact, Marcus, who is originally from this area, is now the
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  new lead singer of Ill Nino and he's out also, yeah, he's on
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  tour. He's originally from here. So it and then of course I remember
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  the guys I actually saw the guys grow up from the Roal Grand Valley called
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  Sons of Texas. Those guys Mark Mark Morales and stuff like that that did
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  some stuff. Also with the guys from Lamb of God there, they have
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  a lot of you know, doing a lot of shows too. So do
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  you have any advice for some of the guys here in Corpus Christie there try
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  and take that next step to go into like touring and recording music and stuff
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  like that. You have any advice for him? Well, I mean,
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  listen, you know, you realize, I mean, like so for me,
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  and you'll learn the people that you love and you'll learn how to play
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  to get your shops down. But I mean, ultimately, you know,
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  the only place you're really going to get anywhere is writing, and you got
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  to find guys that you know, or if you're a wolf game you play
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  everything and saying it's amazing. I don't know, but but you need to
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  find guys, you know. Like like the day that I found Aaron,
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  I mean to this day and the vivoted yesterday when I heard him thinking for
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  the first time and I was like, this is what I've been looking for
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  you know what I mean. And you got to find that and and you
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  got to have the chemistry and and just write as many songs as you can
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  play anywhere and everywhere you can't cause you never know what it's going to lead
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  to. I mean, that's what I mean. That's kind of what ultimately
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  let to us from you know, Western Massachusetts getting a record deal was you
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  don't playing with all these you got an opportunity able to the biscuit because this
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  band that he used to go playing with off they called the day you want.
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  I don't know what happen if you needing kids, you know what I
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  mean. Yeah, I'd like to think we so would have made but who
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  loos. I mean that that definitely, you know, change things. And
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  so you gotta be cool to on the DAN and support each other and just
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  work on your craft and songwriting. That's really you know what I mean.
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  Uh, you gotta you gotta be all the right things that people are gonna
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  want to listen to your relates, but you have to you have to welcome
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  to first Wow. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys out on
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  tour again with God's Smack, and of course looking forward to hearing new music
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  from Santa Sonia very very soon. And uh and uh, you know,
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  be careful when you're going out on tour right now. Of course it's still
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  it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a crazy summer tour and trying to stay
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  cool. I know, it's it's like around here. The heat in deck
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  is one hundred and twenty one degrees. It's gonna be honest hell out there.
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  Yeah, so be careful out there, and you know, say he
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  loa to the kids for me, and you know, I have a great
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  summer, dude, enjoy it. Thanks man, I appreciate that. Thank
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  you for all and support and uh yeah, looking forward again the focus Christie
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  again. Sometimes ship