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Midnight Mysteries With PETE 9 And FERATU From WOLFSKULL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Zera Siera to the sound of the region boom Mands
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  Speaker 1: made up for Sierra Siera in the name.
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  Speaker 2: All right, this is Pete nine, singer for Wolfsgar. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and my name is Ferrato and I'm the guitarist of
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  Speaker 2: the band, one of the guitarists.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice guys. Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 3: My pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So, woll Scull release your second album, Midnight Masters on
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  Speaker 4: July the twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 3: So how you feeling about, guys? About not long now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the promo is really working well, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think we really looking forward to the day and
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  Speaker 2: we have on the same day we have a live
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  Speaker 2: show in our hometown and open air festival, and so
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  Speaker 2: I think this will be a great day and we
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  Speaker 2: have some ideas for the days before. We will have
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  Speaker 2: maybe a secret listening session, so some people are joining
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  Speaker 2: us and some people can can buy the stuff and
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  Speaker 2: we will present the new album. So it will be
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  Speaker 2: a cool time in the next week. Next week.
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  Speaker 4: I can tell us a bit more about the album
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  Speaker 4: from a musical point of view and what you were
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  Speaker 4: going for with it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think this time around we were more keen
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  Speaker 5: on having a dusty, rotten roll record with more up
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  Speaker 5: tempo songs than other Goddess, but there's still a hint
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  Speaker 5: of melancholy here and there, especially with DS Tina and
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  Speaker 5: one instrumental, but it's mostly a straight rotten roll record,
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  Speaker 5: I guess, rotten roll of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Today you've released the singles Jaguar Written and Holler in
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  Speaker 4: the Hollow, so they good sonic representation and what to expect.
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  Speaker 2: From the whole album definitely, yeah, Yeah. So last Friday
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  Speaker 2: we released the third single, Midnight Masters, the title track,
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  Speaker 2: and it's also in the vein of kind of hollow
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  Speaker 2: in the Hollow, straightforward, good melodies, a lot of hooks
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  Speaker 2: and catchy vocals.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, you're recording these songs nicely back in September
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  Speaker 4: last year. So but tom they come out, they'll be
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  Speaker 4: nearly twelve months old. So what's that period like for you?
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  Speaker 3: Guys?
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  Speaker 4: Do you listen back to it and thinking might have
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  Speaker 4: done this differently or you couldn't have that better?
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  Speaker 3: Order you put it to bed. Munster's finished and it
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  Speaker 3: is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were very happy. That is what I
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  Speaker 2: can remember.
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  Speaker 5: When we entered the studio and it was a very
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  Speaker 5: joyful recording session, and we really liked doing that at
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  Speaker 5: that time. And of course it takes a long while
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  Speaker 5: to do the mixing and the preparation for the promotion
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  Speaker 5: and all that. There's a bit of time and bit
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  Speaker 5: of waiting, but most of the time we were kind
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  Speaker 5: of joyful really, So it was a great time we
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  Speaker 5: had in the career of the band so far. Conceiving
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  Speaker 5: the songs and making the album. It was all very
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  Speaker 5: intense and yeah, joyful.
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  Speaker 2: I would say looking back to the last September and
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  Speaker 2: listening to the songs today, I for myself would say
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  Speaker 2: that I wouldn't change wouldn't change anything. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we did the best for the songs and we achieved
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  Speaker 2: a very very good recording and the final tunes are
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  Speaker 2: really worked out well for me, and yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the point for us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you sort of touched on this a little bit before,
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  Speaker 4: but how does this album give musically to your debut album?
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  Speaker 3: Have they got it? It came out in two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we wanted to to have more straightforward songs,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more rock songs that are not so
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  Speaker 2: and kind of mellow, but we wanted to to have
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  Speaker 2: more Yeah, more dust, more rock, more kick ass, and
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  Speaker 2: I think without losing the typical trademarks of Wolf Skull,
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  Speaker 2: and I think you can find them in any song.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that was the the direction we thought we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go, and I think we we find now
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  Speaker 2: a really yeah how do you say an album that
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  Speaker 2: is yeah, that is working each song with.
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  Speaker 5: An It seems that we found our formula maybe so
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  Speaker 5: to speak, you know, and this could be the path
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  Speaker 5: we would love to stay on and keep on doing that.
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  Speaker 5: But I still love the Other Goddess record because it
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  Speaker 5: was a very complex record and it had many different
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  Speaker 5: styles we combined there, and it was a time of Corona,
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  Speaker 5: a time of crisis, and.
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  Speaker 6: There was a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of creativity surrounding that kind of atmosphere, but it
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  Speaker 5: was more saddening for a few songs, and it was
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  Speaker 5: more of the moodiness of that record and the melancholy
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  Speaker 5: that we had there because of the crisis going on
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  Speaker 5: in the whole world. And this time around there was
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  Speaker 5: more It was more like, Okay, let's go and let's
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  Speaker 5: rock it because we're happy that we're together and we
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  Speaker 5: want to keep on doing that, you know. There was
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  Speaker 5: more happiness to to Midnight Masters, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: The artwork of the album, and they did strangely captivating
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  Speaker 4: god like, it's got a full in with a couple
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  Speaker 4: of floating naked women circling it, Like how does how
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  Speaker 4: does that tie in with the actual album?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this Pete was they had had the main idea
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  Speaker 2: for this cover artwork, and yeah, you can say, I
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  Speaker 2: think to have.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of women in their in their sexiness and their kinkiness.
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  Speaker 5: This has always been a big part of of rock.
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  Speaker 2: And roll from a male perspective, so to say.
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  Speaker 5: And I think Wolfska will always be about strong female characters.
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  Speaker 5: Like Oar the Goddess was a very dark and spooky character.
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  Speaker 5: We wanted to have a little more lightness and that's
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  Speaker 5: what that's why we choose two girls kind of playing
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  Speaker 5: like a couple or like in a dancing mood, like
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  Speaker 5: in a in a female quality kind of ornament to
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  Speaker 5: stand the test of time, because I think the female
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  Speaker 5: quality will always be a great part of all songwriting
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  Speaker 5: in a way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's an homage.
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  Speaker 5: To to to to female female greatness. So that's why
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  Speaker 5: it came into my head to have that ornament.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I thought. It was to night, so
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  Speaker 3: well done.
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  Speaker 7: Perfect, Thank you now bent forward in Germany back in
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  Speaker 7: twenty eighteen, guys, we don't know too much about the
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  Speaker 7: German music scene here in Israel.
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  Speaker 4: So was the musical climate like over there in that
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  Speaker 4: time and that they birthed abandon Where did you sort
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  Speaker 4: of fit in?
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  Speaker 3: Initially?
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  Speaker 5: I think the city of Essen, where you grew up
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  Speaker 5: in was always a city of metal and punk and
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  Speaker 5: really hard music. That what I can say is someone
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  Speaker 5: who didn't live his whole life in Essen, but I
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  Speaker 5: grew up a few kilometers more in the north and
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  Speaker 5: we as young children, as metal kids or punk rockets,
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  Speaker 5: we always considered especially Essen where you grew up, as
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  Speaker 5: a typical kind of metal neighborhood, and I think it
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  Speaker 5: takes a great influence on people who grew up there
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  Speaker 5: like you too, to join that kind of scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we have the band's creator sodom Is living
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  Speaker 2: in Essen, and yes they were fresh metal bands. And
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  Speaker 2: we when I started playing music in the early nineties,
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  Speaker 2: there were punk rock and hardcore and after that we
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  Speaker 2: we Pete and I we joined we created the band
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  Speaker 2: The Spook, which was kind of a misfits flavor horror
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  Speaker 2: punk band, and we did it for more than ten years,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the vibes we had in the early
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  Speaker 2: days we always kept now with Wolfska, we we have
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  Speaker 2: a flavor that is that is just happening when we
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  Speaker 2: write music, and there's always a kind of yeah, creepy
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  Speaker 2: melan collegue, a little bit of of yeah, maybe horror
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  Speaker 2: stories and what Pete said about female characters. That's I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the main thing about growing up and developing
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  Speaker 2: one's own music style here.
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere in the world.
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  Speaker 4: But do you guys have any shows coming up to
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  Speaker 4: promote the album?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as I said, there's the record release show, which
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  Speaker 2: is called a not Open Air in German in essence here,
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  Speaker 2: which is a festival which takes place every year, and
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  Speaker 2: we have a show planned in November, which is sometime
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  Speaker 2: in the future, and we are working right now for
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  Speaker 2: some some more shows for the release, so that's there
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  Speaker 2: are no no dates fixed now, but we will post
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  Speaker 2: them online in the near future.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice.
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  Speaker 4: Before you guy, guys, I've got a new segment I've
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  Speaker 4: started called Fido Bombs. So basically I've trod through your
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  Speaker 4: social media before you got a chat and I found
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  Speaker 4: a few I just want to talk about a bit more.
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  Speaker 3: So I found this right, Guys, do you remember what
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  Speaker 3: venue this was in that looks like an.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yes, this was in Hamburg, which is called I
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  Speaker 2: think the fabric Fabric? Is it correct, Pete, I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: We played with the hamburging wrong with the transmission, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I didn't quite understand what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is it? This photo in the background is from
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  Speaker 2: the show we played with skid Roll and this is
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  Speaker 2: in Hamburg, and I think that the club is called
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  Speaker 2: Chabli Public. Yeah, yeah, February.
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  Speaker 3: To a Copia, Ye, a place like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is really Yeah, we we had the offer
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  Speaker 2: to play with skid Row. I think they told us
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  Speaker 2: four or five days ago before, and yeah, we joined
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  Speaker 2: them and had two shows with them, and each shows
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  Speaker 2: were were packed with I think maybe I eight hundred people.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we had a really good, good show, really
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  Speaker 2: good time playing.
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  Speaker 4: This fair another one that is a little bit different
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  Speaker 4: than that one.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on here? You look like you're about punching
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  Speaker 3: in the math.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, give, I didn't quite understand.
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  Speaker 3: So what's gon on? It looks like you're about to
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  Speaker 3: punch him straight in the mouth.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it could happen, could happen from time to time.
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  Speaker 5: But he is a trained boxer. Maybe I would be
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  Speaker 5: his victim, but I'm not sure. Perfect someday I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to punch him. It's only a matter of time, because
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  Speaker 5: this is what rout and rolls all about, isn't it
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  Speaker 5: making the first strike?
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  Speaker 3: Now he knows it's coming. Now you've given him morning.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's a lot. Whenever we get together.
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  Speaker 5: In the band, we were always having a lot of
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  Speaker 5: fun and having a great time, and there's no place
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  Speaker 5: for aggression. We're almost like friends, almost like family.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice, all right, gentlemen, Well thanks very much.
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  Speaker 4: You saw on the album Midnight Masters is out touly
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  Speaker 4: the twenty fifth and she's a bloody good oven.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, I could graduations and best of black with everything.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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