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Releasing The Inner Child With SEBASTIAN BACH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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This is Sebastian Bach, the original voice of skid Row, and I have
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a new record out on tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow, dude. It's called
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Child Within the Man and it's produced by Elvis Basquet mastered by Robert Ludwig.
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The first single, what Do I Got to Lose is already over one million,
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two hundred views on YouTube, so people really are responding to that song,
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for sure. And we got another video ill called Everybody Bleeds, and
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we're about to release one for hold On to the Dream. And this is
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a heavy metal, hard rock, melodic album where I use all the sounds
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of my voice, the ballad sounds, the rough screaming sounds, the clean,
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soaring tones. That's my I'm very proud of the vocals and the songs
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on this record, for sure. Sure, Mom, I can tell you
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I had to listen to it last night and again this morning, and and
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you haven't lost any of your vical Rangebro. Everything year is ill. You
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yell at my children and my voice cracks, but you took on going unbrother.
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Oh well, I warm up all the time and do these scales that
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I've been doing since the year nineteen eighty eight. Believe it or not,
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and so I just keep it going. But it's not easy, and uh,
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you know, you got to know how to do it or you will
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lose it, use it or lose it. So I got a friend who's
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a singer in the band and Eastwey's Boys, Starns Gingerbee like he drinks and
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he calls it nick oil. But he'll drink that strip when I drink beer.
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I feel like I'm renting it because I'm always going to take a piss
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what I'm drinking. Yes feeling. I know that the press release Cole's chart
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within the band your voice unapologetic and undeniable offering. Yet it's a big Cobra.
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He's had some bright albums, but you agree, well, I think
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this album is different because it's the first solo record I have where I've got
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a full team of people helping me. So they're keeping me really really busy
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doing interviews and yesterday I spent all day autographing album flats that you're going to
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be able to get in records store, hopefully in Australia. I don't know.
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But I have like a whole international team of people that are helping me,
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so I think that makes it undeniable. The fact that they got me
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back in the radio here in America is insane to me because I didn't think.
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I didn't know that that was still possible. I always hoped it was.
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But you always get labeled the eighties or hair band, and you think
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that a programmer won't play somebody with that label. But I am happy to
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say that that does not apply to me, Thank you very much. It
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should, Buddy, neither, it should. Just it's just, really,
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it feels incredible to have a song playing on the radio in twenty twenty four.
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It feels astonishing. So that's really good gratulation. Man. As we
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said, you've released at the albums in Koreina. Why now do you have
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a set retain or process for each new album or do you approach to everyone
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differently? I just my routine is, I'm always jotting down ideas for lyrics.
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I'm always coming up with like titles. I always oh, that'll be
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a good title for a song, and I always put it in my file
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on my phone or write it down or keep track of it somehow. And
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then my friend, I have a lot of guitar player friends and I collect
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riffs. All I need is a riff, like the beginning of Everybody Bleeds.
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As soon as I heard Dad Dad about a da da, I go,
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there you go. There's a riff. And once I have like twelve
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demos or ten or even eight, it's time to start think about making an
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album. You know. That's it. It's pretty simple. But it takes
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a long time for me to get to the point where I love it enough
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that I want to put my name on it and do interviews about it and
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put it out in public like that. Takes a long time to get to
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that point. Yeah. Speaking of the song Everybody Bleads, it opens the
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album like a lot. It might just be me here, I don't I
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but but I started listening to like it starts. Initially, it sounds really
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soft flockish, and I'm sitting there thinking, fuck, don't tell me Sebastian's
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gone down this ride as well. Bang, all of a sudden, the
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drums and GITARKI and it's like, why did I have a fucking doubt him?
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Like this? What it was? Something like that? I think you're
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thinking of the song hold On to the Dream. Sorry, Yeah, that's
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the one that starts off soft. That song is a tribute to the classic
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metal of the seventies, like that, all the songs that start out soft
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and then hit you over the head like with a club. I'm talking about
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like Children of the Sea, Sign of the Southern Cross, Beyond the Realms
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of Death. Those songs all have these beautiful, sweet intros and then fucking
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bang, man fuck he and you don't see it coming. You're like,
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you're like, oh man, this is gonna be and this is like air
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supply. But I gotta tell you, though, I do like singing in
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that ballad style. I've always liked that, like I remember you and eighteen
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in life, and so when I hear that that ballad sound, I do
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like it. But but I always loved a song that starts out sweet and
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then turns totally evil, like I like that. That's and that's probably my
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favorite song on this record. And yeah, yeah, I'm gonna tell you
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bright like because I review a lot of albums as well, and I call
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them the chike in ballad. On albums, FA fants have got to have
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a chaike one, and I usually bringe it's like, fuck, I don't
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want to hear another one. But when your album's coming out, I actually
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look forward to hearing the ballad before Wow so much Wow, thank you for
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saying that. Thank you. The song to Live Again is the last song
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on the record, and that's the big, huge ballad that I wrote with
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Miles Kennedy, who I also wrote the first single with, so and I.
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You know this this ballad. My wife and a couple other interviewers said
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it reminded me like a Broadway song, and I wasn't trying to do that,
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but I was on Broadway, so maybe that was an influence. But
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to me, it sounds like a football European football rugby rugby chant, like
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those oh yeah, those kind of football chants for rugby. Yeah, that's
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what it reminds me of. Rugby meets Broadway. Mate. There's there's your
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rugby, Rugby Rugby, there's the there's the title of your articles Rugby meets
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Broadway excellent. And you've been listened to some pretty awesome guest musicians as well.
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Mate. You've got John five who returns for the third time. There's
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Stave Stevens and Orianthe Mate, like it's contribute to a different song. So
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you tell us a bit about each of those songs and what they actually bring
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to it. Well, I suppose we should start with Orianthi because she's from
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Australia, so there's an interest right there. This is a collaboration of Orianthi
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and myself. I've Lost You. That's got to be the song because there's
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something about that chorus that won't leave my head. Dude. I walk around
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the house and I'm constantly humming it, and when that happens, it tells
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me that's a good song to put out. Yeah, and I love Orientthe's
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lead guitar solo in that song, and the lead part is so cool.
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Every time I hear it. That fucking rocks my world. And I really
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want to do a video for that as a tribute to the women of the
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world and have her star the video. So hopefully I can make that happen.
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And then John five, as you said, it's our third album in
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a row, and the song we did Freedom on this album is kind of
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a tribute to the cow bell, my favorite instrument. That's my favorite instrument.
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I love the album. And then Steve Stevens comes along for a song
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called f U and to me, that song sounds like deep Purple on steroids
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this day, and just picture it. I'd like to say. It's nice
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song on the album called in the Man, right, which suggests that the
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title's going to be a bit more significant to you. Well, that's a
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line from the song Everybody Bleeds, which is the first song on the album,
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And there's a video out that you can watch for that. And I'm
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a dad. I don't know about you, Chris, I got two Beautiful
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night and nine. Well there you go, congratulations. And as a dad,
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I'm constantly haunted by what is this planet going to be like for our
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kids to live on after we're gone on seventy five years from now. What
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are we leaving behind to our kids? And I always think about that always,
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always I'm like, are they gonna have to live underground? Are they
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gonna go to the moon? Are they gonna? I mean, I don't
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have any idea then, So so that line child within the Man in the
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video, the video is about me watching the news and it's me losing my
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home in Hurricane Irene. And that's actual real footage of my house underwater.
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And I know you guys in Australia have had horrendous blooding and fires and I
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see it on the news. It's fucking terrible what you guys are going through,
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And how can you not think about that? How can you not write
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about that? I mean, I have to write about things that means to
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me, and uh, my kids mean everything to me. And that video
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also is like me watching the news and I get so disgusted with all the
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misery that I just turn it off and I pick up my album and put
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it on and start rocking out and fuck the News. There's a new T
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shirt, brother, Fuck the News. Yeah, that would be a good
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T shirt. I want to ask you about the album artwork, too,
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bro, which is actually made up of two paintings from your late father,
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Like it must be a massive source surpride for you and your family to honor
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its memory by. But I know you've done it with a couple of albums
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in the past, but every time it must just let's just get you there.
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It's really an album cover from heaven, like literally because my dad did
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it and he's not alive, and staring at your background, it looks incredible,
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Like I'm looking at your fucking screen with you. You're right in the
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middle of the cross of Jesus. The cars like behind you, and I'm
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running beside. It looks incredible. It looks like in America, like in
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southern California. There's a tradition among Latin Americans when somebody dies, they make
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these graffiti murals, like on the side of a road, fence or a
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wall. And somebody said, that's what that reminds me of, like when
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they paint like the tribute to people that are no longer with us. But
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but yeah, man, it was my project to see if I could make
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a record that felt like it came out in the seventies, because that's what
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I like to collect, like Rose Tattoo, AC DC, Aerosmith, Rush,
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you know, all those era bands. And I tried to make the
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music sound like that. And the album cover is from seventy eight, when
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I was ten years old, so I couldn't have couldn't have. Did tried
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harder to make something that came from that era. So did did you actually
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write the album with that painting in mind or was it sort of more of
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a subconscious thing. No, I did not. I live. I live
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in Las Vegas, where it gets extremely hot like Australia does in the summertime,
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and I knew I had my dad's original sub human race painting in my
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storage, and I knew I had to get it out of there and preserve
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it because it's too hot in Vegas. So so I went and got these
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painting out of storage. I unrolled it in my living room and underneath the
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subhuman race painting was this painting that my dad did in seventy eight and I
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had forgotten about it. And he also did a painting of me from Circus
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magazine in eighty nine of me on stage with skid Row on stage and Giant
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Stadium, and that was on the wall while I unrolled the child painting,
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and I realized child within the man, there it is, and that's the
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line from the song. And I was like from heaven. It was like
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a lightning bolt came through the ceiling that said, here's your album cover,
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dude, And so I put them two together, like peanut butter and chocolate.
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Who knew? Who knew? Your Dad's something they having to be with.
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Let me right now, Mike go and that's my yeah, boy,
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Yeah, that's right. He's going look at my fucking album cover. All
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over the world. Nobody would nobody would have ever seen it, man,
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And that makes me so Proun Man like, wow, Wow, wow to
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turn to Turn, a painting from seventy eight that was rolled up in storage
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for decades and now it's in every record store around the world. It's your
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background on your laptop in Australia Like, right on, man, I don't
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know if you stay it for that, man, but you've given me goosebumps.
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So that's fucking amazing. That is a fucking amazing and I can't wait
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to make it my background on my zoom. But get stuck letting. I
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may not give you a few pointers. Thank you, dude. Are you
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currently on the road with you? What do I Got to Lose to?
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Which started on an eighties breez out of Florida on February twenty ninth, gonna
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take you through Brazil, Ria, Degnaro, in Mexico or Latin America and
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the US before winding up in Sandy Diego on June twenty eighth. Marte like,
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that's a hell of a lot of shows. How do you do it?
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How do I do it? Well, it's what I do. Yeah,
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still I have at on right, that's a lot of well, well,
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I come from a time in our first tour in the USA in nineteen
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eighty nine, we did thirty one shows in twenty nine days once and that's
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doing two shows a day a couple of days where we opened up for bon
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Jovi and then later that night we would headline a club in skid Row.
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So that was so much a trial by fire that that's that's what I know
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how to do, you know, And some of these kids that try to
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take my place life fall fall by the wayside. It's like, you know,
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there's things that you learn doing thirty one shows and twenty nine nights that
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you don't learn other than just by doing it, Like I mean, and
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you might think you can do it, but good luck, good good ONYA
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good ONYA go for it, don't have a crack, don't hurt yourself in
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How about Australia, We were in your saw its Light of this year.
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I phaps absolutely, you know, it's I have a very special relationship with
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Australia and I always have. And there was a period around twenty ten or
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two thousand and seven there was a time when I did like three tours in
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four years of Australia, Like it was amazing, Like I even played like
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Canbra and all these tiny little placed towns, and you know what my goal
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is in Australia. Like I remember one time I was over there on tour
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recently and I saw on the paper I saw. I thought I was doing
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a good tour, and then I saw Pink's tour. I saw, I
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saw her fucking tour. I go what the she did like two months like
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Bertie Cities. And I know for a fact that people know me in more
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than Melbourne, Sydney perse I know. I know they do because it's a
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fact. And I want to play Woolen Gong and all the other places like
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the out of the Way. I want to go everywhere that Pink goes.
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I don't want to fling myself around on the wires as I could just see
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you in a tutu in touch on their own. I think I'm too I
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think I'm too big. I'm too big a bloke, as you said.
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But uh, but I do think I could get I think I could do
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a very extensive tour of Australia, and I would love to do that.
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I've actually got someone in mind, a promider her in mind that might be
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interested in begging the Ivy brow. I'll give you the clol as soon as
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we finish on this. I know, after all my years in Australia,
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I know for a fact that they know me in all the cities, not
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just a handful of cities. Man, all right, Sebastian, Well,
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that's the time off that I'm able to spend absolutely pleasure talking to me.
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This child within the Man is out May the tenth, which will be tomorrow
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by the time this comes out, and it's everything you'd expect from Sebastian and
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more might say, congratulations, beautiful, thank you, Chris, Thank you
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Australia for thirty five years of Bach and Roll. Enjoy the new record.
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But should I should I say the first thirty five years? Yeah? You
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and you got another thirty five in you bright Like, I know you're three
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perman, but that's a bit of a big stread. Hey, man,
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if Jimmy Barnes from Cold Chisel and if Angry Anderson and Jimmy Barnes are still
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rocking, I'm just a little baby. I'm like I just got started.
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Compared to those guys. You got your baby teeth compared to them, right,
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that's right. I don't care what you do. I say. I'm
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a both head ready strike an you try no time for the compromise. Come,
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I kid it if you tell tonight, can't I gona shave you?
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No, I gotta hit you in the leado joy when the scene looking in
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the kiddy come a crook and want you wake up? It'll be took.
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What as I got to this? Why have I got to sides? Stand?
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So I'm saying why did I got to chase? Why don't I got
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to change? So somehow love me holding out some trashman day. You can
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get me take it for set, but you can't. He can wean my
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crowd. You can warm me to some mission by one of these you can
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give it a try. Awake up, came the counselors. What are the
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contacides? Stand? Name is a prison? Say what if I got to
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choose? Why don't I got to change? So I bobby enos a judgment.
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I saw the count's lit again that lived in a nie came down the
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door, right in the door and said, awake m caticide till there is
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no say so say I got to chase, got to church canticide? There
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is no day, So I say got to show why do I got to
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change snubbing. I'm wanting to denouncewer chutches cha Chat, denounce some judgment