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10cc Drummer Quits After 52 Years! · Classic Metal Show

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  All right,
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  well,
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  here's a little trivia for you,
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  being a 70s aficionado as you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you know the band 10CC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is their top hit?
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  SPEAKER_01: 10CC?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm going to be pissed that I'm going to not know it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know off the top of my head, and I'm not going to cheat.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not in love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know that song?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think Kim Wilde covered it or something at some point.
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  SPEAKER_01: It plays all the time on my yacht rock list, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I thought you would know it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do know the song.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just don't know who sings it.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you aware that they're still performing?
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  SPEAKER_00: 10cc?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't aware either.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a big announcement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: After 50 years...
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  drummer leaves iconic groundbreaking band is he doing starting
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  a new band after 50
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  years why don't they just say he's retiring right the band
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  whose members eventually
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  SPEAKER_00: uh brought the world the gizmotron
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  SPEAKER_00: is saying goodbye to its longtime drummer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that a keyboard or something?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Gizmotron?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what that is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a story full of shit I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you spell Gizmotron?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's G-I-Z-M-O-T-R-O-N.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Gizmotron, huh?
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  SPEAKER_01: Mechanical bowing device.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was there a photo of this thing?
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, I'm looking at it and I don't know what this is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what that is?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's something,
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  I'm imagining this is where your guitar strings connect and
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  this thing here does
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  SPEAKER_01: something.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: It looks like just where you'd plug in like a whammy bar, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Gizmotron 2.0.
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  SPEAKER_00: Looks like some kind of pickups or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  It's a patented mechanical bowing device that attaches to
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  electric guitar bass,
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  SPEAKER_01: enabling players to produce string sounds such as cello,
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  SPEAKER_01: viola,
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  SPEAKER_01: or violin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it just gives it a different sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a harmonizer or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 10cc brought the world the Gizmotron.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank God for that.
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  So if that ever comes up in a trivia question,
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  who invented the gizmotron?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what my answer will be?
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  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: 10 CC.
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  SPEAKER_00: I won't remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then people will be flabbergasted saying, how did you know that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I'll break out the song and they'll really be flabbergasted.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you know that song?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  Uh,
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  Paul Burgess made it known he would no longer play with the
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  iconic British group,
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  10 CC.
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  SPEAKER_01: Paul Burgess left.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's shocking news.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a big story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Following a three week United States tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know they were touring?
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know they were still a band.
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  SPEAKER_00: How old are these guys?
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  SPEAKER_00: They all gotta be 90.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe, maybe they're opening for our story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or the horn guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's that guy's name that's 90 and he's still out on tour?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Herb Alpert.
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  SPEAKER_01: Herb Alpert.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think they would be more of a compatible opening act for Al's story.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'd go out with the corpse of Frankie Valli.
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  Paul Burgess made it known that he would no longer play with
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  the iconic British
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  group 10CC following a three-week United States tour that ended
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  in Alexandria,
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  SPEAKER_00: Virginia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Having enjoyed many years with 10CC,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry to say for me,
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  SPEAKER_00: the rigors of the touring have become...
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  incur incur i can't even say this word in commensurate with age
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  and it's time to
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  put the excessive hours spent waiting at airports and sitting
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  on tour buses behind
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  they got tour buses sure it's not a school bus 10 cc brings in
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  enough money to have
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  SPEAKER_00: a tour bus wow
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  SPEAKER_01: They probably make a good amount of money to play a casino or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really?
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  SPEAKER_01: I would think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  I mean,
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  I see these kind of bands all the time announcing over at the
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  MGM.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ambrosia and Bread and all these fucking bands from the 60s and 70s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.