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Converting Children To Metal With Alex And James From METAL MOUSE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Alex Spells, and I own to manage a
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  Speaker 1: couple of real popular cover bands in the San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area. Been working for about twenty twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: and mainly just working regionally and putting on good fun shows.
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  Speaker 2: Fantasty and me.
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  Speaker 3: My name is James Durbin. I'm a fifteen year music
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  Speaker 3: business veteran, grizzled young veteran of the music industry, and
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  Speaker 3: I was on Season ten of American Idol, finished fourth place,
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch of records out, a bunch of hits,
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of misses.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 3: Another hit right here with Metal Mouse, and I be
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  Speaker 3: sure not to miss it. So I thank you for
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  Speaker 3: a living and yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Jessey Jentimer, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: No rise it.
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  Speaker 4: Also, we're here today to talk about what could possibly
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  Speaker 4: be the most important and revolutionary brainwashing concept for young
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  Speaker 4: children everywhere, brought to you by the new rock parody
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  Speaker 4: band called Metal Mouse.
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  Speaker 2: Gentlemen, thanks for joining me to talk about it today.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, thank you for having us.
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  Speaker 2: You like that one alsewashing?
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  Speaker 4: Blame cleansing is a lot better true true, But I
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  Speaker 4: guess the cold Metal Mouse of rock parody band.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually under selling the concept.
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  Speaker 4: Which is in fact a hard rock, heavy metal band
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  Speaker 4: that reimagines Disney classics in full glam metal style.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a better way to put it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, I like that version better.
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  Speaker 4: I was sort of coming from from the viewpoint of
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  Speaker 4: being a father myself with a couple of young girls,
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  Speaker 4: and I just can't get to like heavy metals.
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  Speaker 2: So your brainwashing is actually a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to make him go to sleep listening to it,
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  Speaker 4: and hopefully you won't have to ground them as much
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  Speaker 4: in the future.
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  Speaker 5: It's the same lyrics she has.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I put it on for her yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I put the outlet it go on for a while
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  Speaker 4: I was doing to be researching there is actually pricked
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  Speaker 4: up and she came and watched it, which is already amazing.
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  Speaker 6: James mission accomplished. You can put it to bed now,
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  Speaker 6: you know what.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing to hear because that's our goal. We were
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  Speaker 1: trying to make the connection between heavy and Disney. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to do because James and I both
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  Speaker 1: love metal, We're both involved in tons of other kinds
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  Speaker 1: of music. But we realized that the Disney songs. In
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  Speaker 1: addition to just being excellently written by great songwriters, the
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  Speaker 1: themes and the chord progressions and everything else just lend
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  Speaker 1: themselves to a heavy architecture.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those ideas that's so so smacky between
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  Speaker 4: the eyes. Obviously, the people are saying, like, why didn't
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  Speaker 4: I think of that bit? I guess you guys are
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  Speaker 4: more men of action and ones you just talk a
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  Speaker 4: lot and act a little, so go on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we definitely talk a lot, but it's we
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  Speaker 3: talk a lot and we are quite in action kind
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  Speaker 3: of all the time.
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  Speaker 5: I already this.
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  Speaker 3: I sing in three of the bands that Alex manages,
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  Speaker 3: and that's goes into account of eight for me, eight
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  Speaker 3: total bands and projects that I lend my voice to.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I've been doing a lot of heavy metal
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  Speaker 3: in the last five to six well even longer than that,
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  Speaker 3: eight years. I sang for Quiet Riot for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, have put out a couple of heavy metal
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  Speaker 3: albums in the last few years with different projects through
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  Speaker 3: Frontiers Records based in Italy, and so metal has been
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  Speaker 3: seeping through my system. And it's difficult because sometimes there
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  Speaker 3: can be such thing as too much metal a metal overload,
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  Speaker 3: and metal isn't so much widely accepted by everybody, but
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  Speaker 3: here's a perfect way to make it accessible to people.
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  Speaker 3: Songs they already know, mix in you know, modern, not modern,
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  Speaker 3: but classic eighties hair and pop of its day, and
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  Speaker 3: mixed in with this beautiful, just phenomenal arranged music mostly
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  Speaker 3: by Alan Mankman is A is just a it's a blessing,
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  Speaker 3: It's it's it's right there, and we're.
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  Speaker 5: Just it is love.
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  Speaker 4: We saying such an easy concept, but the idea had
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  Speaker 4: to come from somewhere to say where with the scenes
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  Speaker 4: for metal Mouse first signed with you guys.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take that one.
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  Speaker 1: James, we were just we were at a rehearsal for
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  Speaker 1: for our just straight ahead eighties hair metal group thing
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  Speaker 1: that we had, and James and I just started humming
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  Speaker 1: some music like hey, and it always seemed to me
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  Speaker 1: like the theme from Mulan would be like a good
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  Speaker 1: heavy sounding thing, and we we literally I remember, James,
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  Speaker 1: you were slapping on your knee and you were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I had this idea that.
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  Speaker 6: Jungle Book went along perfectly with the Trooper.
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  Speaker 1: And so it just came out of improvising that way.
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  Speaker 4: Really, the metal pairs everywhere they get to love you
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  Speaker 4: guys like a Friday Night baby shit on it's.
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  Speaker 6: Not real.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then the payoff is James can can sing anything,
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  Speaker 1: so anything you throw at him, he puts his stamp
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  Speaker 1: on it. But also, uh, pay pays respect to the original,
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  Speaker 1: like in such a great balance.
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  Speaker 6: So I knew. I'm just so excited James.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing you listen list off your all your stuff you've done,
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  Speaker 1: It's just like reminds me how lucky we are to
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  Speaker 1: have you.
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  Speaker 6: In our orbit and how possible this concept is.
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  Speaker 1: Because you do need you need someone who really gets
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  Speaker 1: it and someone who can really fill out those vocal
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  Speaker 1: tracks because they're there's a lot of different stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Going on in the Disney stuff.
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  Speaker 5: It is not easy.
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  Speaker 3: It is very very difficult, even for me, even with
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  Speaker 3: my range. Uh it's hard stuff you know you think
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  Speaker 3: of like uh uh, I want to call her Adele
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  Speaker 3: de Zim like John Travolta did Dina Manzell, the voice
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  Speaker 3: of Elsa from Frozen. I mean she is a monster,
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  Speaker 3: powerhouse singer. If you put some heavy guitars just under
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  Speaker 3: what she does and let it go, there's a song
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  Speaker 3: right there. So me having to then recreate that and
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  Speaker 3: then other things like putting uh, the Little Mermaid mixed
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  Speaker 3: in with like iron made. It is is it seems
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  Speaker 3: easy and concept, but it's not. If you're singing it
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  Speaker 3: like Bruce Dickinson. You know, it's which is the fun
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  Speaker 3: of it. It's really fun to like mix in and
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  Speaker 3: be like Okay, I'm gonna sing this like Rob Halford
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  Speaker 3: or I'm gonna sing this liked O or you know,
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  Speaker 3: and but all like Durban.
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  Speaker 6: You really you really blew me away with all that.
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  Speaker 1: And then when when you came in with the chorus
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  Speaker 1: voices on the Mulan song, there's three other characters who
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  Speaker 1: come in in sequence in quick sequence, so you basically
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  Speaker 1: have to come up with three characters on the fly
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  Speaker 1: just sing those three different voices. And I think Nathan
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  Speaker 1: Lane is one of them, and they're they're like classic
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  Speaker 1: styles that were used to not no I'm thinking of
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  Speaker 1: a Little Murmaid.
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  Speaker 6: But anyway, that.
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  Speaker 1: Just just when you did that just live, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is meant to do this stuff and you
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is you have the knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: Disney stuff too, and it's like that we have the climate.
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  Speaker 5: I have shelves full of toys. You know, I love,
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  Speaker 5: I love.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just a big kid, and I have kids, and
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  Speaker 3: my kids love Disney and uh and I do too,
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  Speaker 3: and and hopefully this is a way to get some
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  Speaker 3: cheaper tickets to go to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 4: That's a serious professional music, shouldn't you, James? Like when
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  Speaker 4: you first just how to put yourself into it? Like
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  Speaker 4: how do I have put this?
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  Speaker 2: Like did it sort of feel beneath you? A little bit?
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  Speaker 2: I guess, like singing someone else's songs.
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  Speaker 4: For children, like when you're actually a professional musician somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the way that I look at it is Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I've been singing other people's music since day one. I
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  Speaker 3: started off playing singing karaoke and hosting karaoke and uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then I went to American Idol and I sang
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  Speaker 3: other people's songs, and then I sang for Quiet Riot.
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  Speaker 3: For a couple of years, I was singing other people's songs.
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  Speaker 3: I was singing Kevin Deburrow's songs and Slade and and
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  Speaker 3: then you know, these days, I play in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of cover and tribute bands, and I sing other people's songs.
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  Speaker 3: I sing the hell out of other people's songs and
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  Speaker 3: they enjoy it. And people know those songs because they're
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  Speaker 3: songs that people know and love. And I make a
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  Speaker 3: living singing other people's songs. And I bought a house
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  Speaker 3: singing other people's songs. And this is just the next
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  Speaker 3: step singing. You know, it's it's it's it's eighties, it's nineties,
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  Speaker 3: it's Disney movies. And the thing is like, for for
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  Speaker 3: me and for Alex, I grew up on all these
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  Speaker 3: Disney songs. A big chunk of our audience also grew
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  Speaker 3: up on these Disney songs and now their parents and
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  Speaker 3: they're showing these movies to their kids. But we're not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily like a kid's band.
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  Speaker 5: We can be.
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  Speaker 3: Up until now, we've played in bars and nightclubs and
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  Speaker 3: and you know, conventions and that sort of thing, like
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  Speaker 3: to the direct to the consumer. You know, you're out
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  Speaker 3: having a bunch of beers with friends, You're having a
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  Speaker 3: great night out. You get there early, you see the
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  Speaker 3: opening band, Boom Metal Mouse. You know, you didn't know
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  Speaker 3: what hit you, and all of a sudden you're singing
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  Speaker 3: along to Let It Go with a margarita in your
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  Speaker 3: cocktail dress, you know, holding your shoes so it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a perfect mix. You go back, you tell your kids,
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  Speaker 3: you show them the videos. Boom, we got a whole
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  Speaker 3: new pack of fans.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know you guys at all, but from
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  Speaker 4: answer you just got me then Mite, I can already
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  Speaker 4: tell you he's going to be successful because that was
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful answer and from the hot man, that was
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  Speaker 4: really cool.
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  Speaker 5: Thanke it?
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  Speaker 4: So have you prepared yourself to the inevitable Daeta It's
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  Speaker 4: gonna come when a six year old tries to storm
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  Speaker 4: you out to get the words wrong, to let it go?
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  Speaker 3: Uh no, no, And that's completely fine.
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  Speaker 5: It's we make them up on the fly.
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  Speaker 3: The fun thing about forgetting words is all the greatest
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  Speaker 3: singers forget their words. And if you are so so,
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  Speaker 3: so so great and you've got all the songs, you
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  Speaker 3: have a teleprompter, which we're not at yet. We're not
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  Speaker 3: at yet, we're not that yet, so it's it's good
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  Speaker 3: to know the words.
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  Speaker 5: Let it go.
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  Speaker 3: As a weird one I've got I'm high functioning autistic,
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  Speaker 3: so I've got this like weirdo brain that remembers lyrics,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes I'll just forget the lyrics that I know
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  Speaker 3: embedded into my skull at random times, and I'll be like,
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  Speaker 3: why did I forget that? I know that like the
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  Speaker 3: back of my hand. Hey, what's that?
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  Speaker 5: And so I welcome it. I welcome.
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  Speaker 3: My three year old almost four year old knows more
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  Speaker 3: of the words to let It Go than I do
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  Speaker 3: and can just drop them and she's just like, hada,
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  Speaker 3: But me, I'm you know, I've got to practice.
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  Speaker 5: I study at the at the foot of her learning tree.
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  Speaker 5: You bet.
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you there is no Hasha audience in
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  Speaker 4: the world that a bunch of sixty eight year olds
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  Speaker 4: you think you got this song wrong.
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  Speaker 5: They're moms.
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  Speaker 6: And we want them all to come. They all generations.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one thing we realized about this concept too
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  Speaker 1: when we started running it is it is so g rated,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's heavy, but it's g rated. It's like the you
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  Speaker 6: really could go play a kid's birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Party, you know, and it would be like totally appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing we've learned is that everyone loves heavy music.
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  Speaker 1: Every one love of heavy music, Like across the board,
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  Speaker 1: from the little kid up to grandma. You just gotta
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  Speaker 1: package it up right right.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of great heavy kids bands out there.
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  Speaker 3: One in particular that I think of it's called Heavysaurus.
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  Speaker 3: They're from Finland, I believe, and uh, they're just big
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  Speaker 3: walking dinosaurs and they play full on heavy metal in
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  Speaker 3: Finnish and and directly to kids, they're the Wiggles, but
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  Speaker 3: they're like monsters, monster dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 6: Need Steve, we need to reach.
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  Speaker 5: Out Heavosaurus Metal Mouse Collab.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you sort of touch on this a bit before, Guys,
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  Speaker 4: but White Shoes Disney. So there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 4: lot of great cutters with a lot of great musical
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  Speaker 4: soundtracks out there, So I specifically focus on Disney.
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  Speaker 3: There's not not as many as Disney.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, metal, come on, you go to theies, you.
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  Speaker 5: Go back to the fifties.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're not gonna touch some of the riskier material,
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  Speaker 3: but there's you know, we can go back as far
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  Speaker 3: as a zippity dudah, like if we're being real, I
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  Speaker 3: mean every Disney movie that there's been, and there's been
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  Speaker 3: one a year two years since you know, the sixties.
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  Speaker 5: We can pick anything. You know, that's just.
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  Speaker 3: Especially when you get especially when you get to the
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  Speaker 3: nineties and you've got Little Mermaid and Beauty and the
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  Speaker 3: Beast and Aladdin and and that's just like three of them.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got Hercules, and then you got tars In,
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  Speaker 3: you got Moulan. Like it just keeps going and going,
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  Speaker 3: and we're picking one song from each of them. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we could dip even further and do more and do more.
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  Speaker 1: And we've only scratched the surface, barely scratched the surface.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's also seeing what songs they you know,
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  Speaker 3: blend with what heavy metal songs we can pull in,
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  Speaker 3: what something that's catchy to the ear that people are
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  Speaker 3: going to hear and they're gonna be like, oh, are
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  Speaker 3: they playing Megadeth more?
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  Speaker 5: And then it launches.
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  Speaker 3: Into uh, you've got a friend in me from Toy Story,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like is that Megan?
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  Speaker 5: No, No, it's not.
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  Speaker 4: That's Picks true toy Story. So how have you seen
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  Speaker 4: you that one?
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  Speaker 3: Disney's Pixar. We're not we're not talking Brave. Brave was
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  Speaker 3: just Pixar.
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  Speaker 2: So you know you have you haven't actually like get
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  Speaker 2: permission from Gibsney to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Others we are operating under a thing called nominative fair use.
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  Speaker 1: And yes I got that from my lawyer because The
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  Speaker 1: first thing we had to do when we worked up
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  Speaker 1: four or five of these songs and started trying them
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  Speaker 1: out live, was like, okay, now, what are we going to.
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  Speaker 6: Get shut down? So we had to get a lawyer,
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  Speaker 6: and copyright.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyer in la Keia Camera his name, and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I look at his resume, he's like definitely a big
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  Speaker 1: shot guy. But spent exactly thirty minutes with me and
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  Speaker 1: just said, you guys are good.
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  Speaker 6: You're fine as long.
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  Speaker 1: As you don't use Disney in the name of the act,
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  Speaker 1: like the Disney Nuts or whatever. You can actually use
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  Speaker 1: Disney in the description, but not in the name, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, steering clear of really dead on like trade
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  Speaker 1: visual trademarks. So you know, if all the guys were
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  Speaker 1: dressed as the current Disney, the current Mickey Mouse, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his yellow gloves or James you can, I forget
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  Speaker 1: what the difference is, but so right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yellow boots.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, the guys are just vaguely characters from
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  Speaker 1: some Disney things, but also his you know, historical characters,
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  Speaker 1: so they're not ones that like Disney directly owns.
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  Speaker 6: So so yeah, they haven't tracked this down yet. But
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  Speaker 6: he also this lawyer guy else. You said, you get
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  Speaker 6: their attention, you're winning. You know.
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  Speaker 1: That means you're winning. So maybe don't worry about it
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  Speaker 1: too much, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So what the actual selection criteria for toughening out these
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  Speaker 4: Disney songs? Like I can picture a group of six
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  Speaker 4: eight year olds being locked in a room while being
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  Speaker 4: subjected to demos.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great idea, but somehow, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: would work in reality.
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  Speaker 3: We just take them out live. Yeah, we we we
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  Speaker 3: figure them out. We take hits, We take the biggest hits.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody knows the Disney hits. And then we pull in
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  Speaker 3: you know Van Halen's biggest hits, and we mix those in,
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  Speaker 3: or we pull in you know, Iron Maiden's biggest hits, we.
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  Speaker 5: Mix those in.
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  Speaker 3: Luckily, we have a really phenomenal band, especially our guitar player,
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  Speaker 3: Josh Is Josh kraft Is. He's he's a crafty one.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's in the name, but it's with a K,
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  Speaker 3: so it's his own. It's distinctly Joshy Kraft.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We were playing our let It Go Uh, mixed in
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  Speaker 3: with bon Jovi's Runaway and mixed in with Don't Stop
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  Speaker 3: Believing and he's also throwing in sweet chow to mine
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  Speaker 3: on the fly, just writing parts on the fly at
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  Speaker 3: a sold out show on our grand finale, and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's just it works so well because of the team
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  Speaker 3: that we have and the musicians that we have, and
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  Speaker 3: everybody is highly capable musicians. Our keyboard player Greg Goose
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  Speaker 3: is phenomenal again picking up parts on the fly, and
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  Speaker 3: and and and Dan a k a tug on the
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  Speaker 3: base and uh and and and and and Kirk on
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  Speaker 3: the drums, And it's just it's a it's a phenomenal
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  Speaker 3: just a phenomenal group.
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  Speaker 1: It's just very everyone gets the assignment. Yeah, and then
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: they bring things to the table. Yeah, without being asked.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: They provide I like you, Clay East of the way.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: It ended in as well when you forgot their names,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: he wrote Andy out a few times.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Well you were thinking to stole off. Very well done,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: very far.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I was confused on stage name, stage name or or
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: real name.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Call everybody by their their old stage names, which doesn't
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: compathetic to the.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: H I think you did like stage names, and so
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: we might have to it has been Yeah, just be clear.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: This is you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Mentioned six year olds as a test market. Our Our
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: dream demo is black a twenty eight year old woman.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: You're twenty eight to thirty year old, thirty two year old.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Woman, because they're the ones that make the live music
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: scene go, you know, like because they have to be
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: on board with the husband or the boyfriend, like I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: want to come see this band. They're like okay, and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: they got money, they got jobs, they get you know,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: old enough to have a little mone uh. And then
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: they get to the show and they're like, okay, I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: like hard rock music too, like my boyfriend does. And
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: he's rocking out. But then they hear the Disney part
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: come in and they're like what and they literally drop
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: their drinks. And I've seen it happen. I'm out in
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the crowd and all these shows, and I'm like, this
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: is the demo.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: This is the demo. Twenty to thirty five year old women,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: and they pay for the tickets.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: They just make everything happen in the in the club
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: music scene. So that's who we're going for. But we
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: will reach out to whoever.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: That's when you hit him with the mouse hears headband.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we have a whole seed of mice. Metal
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: metal mice.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Come up with a name for the groupie to the
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: fan club.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mouseketeers is copywritten, so I.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Think that's taken.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeahkakis, isn't that.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Miceketeers speaking alive?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Guys?
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: What what does a live show from Metal Mouse look
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: sound and feel like?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Hit them Blue?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Looks amazing and different than anything you've seen, but also
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: familiar to you.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Do you see some visual cues?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Sounds huge from the first note, feels like something fresh.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: You know that you're you're you're expecting, like I was
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: saying before, you expect one.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Thing, you get another thing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, okay, and then it's like just
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a beautiful thing wrapped in another thing that we're we're all.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Kind of used to.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: And yeah, looks sounds of feels that's what you said,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: right mhm?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: And you got a live show coming up this weekend.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I believe that people can come see themselves.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: We oh and actually we That one is now delayed
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: until the middle of June. June twenty first is the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: next show for this band, The Ace of Spade in Sacramento, California,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Right big.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Pop me to come, but an that's the world get
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: amongst it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It's interesting because it is a kind of known as
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a metal venue, right, James, Yeah.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've headlined there with Quiet Riot once upon a time,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and uh have played there a bunch with some of
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: our other bands, Mustache Harbor and Tainted Love. Yeah, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: it's it's one of my favorite venues in just that
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that market. I mean, that's where they have the world
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: famous Aftershock metal festival.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: I went and saw Judas Priest there this.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Summer and my old buddies and Priest and Priest and
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Iron Maiden headlining together separate stage is one after.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: The other, which is pretty amazing. And uh, I think
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: if they're.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Ready for that, then they're definitely ready to get hit
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: in the face with some mouse.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Elli.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, did you think you're ever gonna release these songs
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: as an album? Like it worked for the Chipmunks album
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: the Chipmunks back in the day, so there's no reason
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: why I couldn't work again.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got the album too.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Album.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: So, according to the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Recordings are a whole nother thing that you know, obviously
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you've gotta you know, pay for some rights and that
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: kind of thing, and so we're getting into some recording
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: stuff anytime soon.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: We're here to feel some seats nice And speaking of that,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: where can people find out more information about you guys
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: than what us are up to you?
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I want to take a chance.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be on our Instagram page at Metal mouse Band,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and the same goes for YouTube at Metal mouse Band.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Check us out there.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: We've got, as you saw, we're putting some super cuts
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: from footage from all of our shows.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: We film all of our shows.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Alex films all of our shows in the crowd and
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: multiicam and so we're getting those all edited up and
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: put up online on YouTube and on our Instagram page.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: So check it out there, ran Lasty guys. Well, thanks
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: very much for the chuch that I had. Very interesting
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: come set guys. Hopefully it makes it over to Australia
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: one day and I can by my kids. Is that
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: unique you see?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I think?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, absolutely, I've been I've been getting begged to go
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to Australia for fifteen years since the American IDOL and
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: haven't had a chance to do so yet.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: So