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Great Things With MATT BRANDYBERRY Of FROM ASHES TO NEW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: All right, what's up everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Matt be with from Ashes to New You're listening to
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  Speaker 2: Heavy and we're gonna be playing Good Things in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: That you are my friend. Thanks for joining us today, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So from Ashes you are headed to Australia very soon
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  Speaker 4: as part of Good Things twenty four Mat, So are
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  Speaker 4: you packed and ready to go?
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  Speaker 3: Are you more of a last minute sort of a guy?
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  Speaker 2: I'm the last minute guy. I don't think I'm bringing much.
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  Speaker 2: I think that I'm gonna pack more. I'm gonna pack gear.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna pack like like sound gear, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: posters and stuff like in my luggage. I'm gonna bring
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  Speaker 2: like just enough for the two weeks, like less than
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  Speaker 2: two weeks we're down there, and everything else is just
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  Speaker 2: gonna be trying to not pay too much to ship
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  Speaker 2: some stuff over there for us to play.
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  Speaker 4: Sure did I read correctly that this is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: your first evateur of Australia?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, never been.
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  Speaker 2: Never been is a bucket list destination for me, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been saying it for over a decade. Australia is
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  Speaker 2: where I want to go and we're finally making it happen.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose a big question there, mate, is why have
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  Speaker 4: you neglected us for cylong van Broads?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not it's not entirely up to me. So
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  Speaker 2: if it was up to me, i'd have been there sooner.
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  Speaker 2: But it's up to uh, you know, it's up to
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  Speaker 2: management agents, whoever's putting on the festivals and booking the shows,
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  Speaker 2: and ultimately the bank account to make sure that we
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  Speaker 2: don't go broke trying to get over there to play.
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  Speaker 4: We can live with up mate, So what are you
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  Speaker 4: actually expecting from Australian Crabs? Might have you been sort
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  Speaker 4: of brought up to speed?
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  Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what to expect, And of course,
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  Speaker 2: like the things that you see is like uh, Parkway drive,
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  Speaker 2: lighting everything on fire and floating above the crowd, so
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  Speaker 2: you don't see you know, like you know, like a
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  Speaker 2: new band like us that's going to be coming over
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  Speaker 2: there and stripping it down. We're not going to have
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  Speaker 2: all the crazy production and stuff like that. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: just going to be like an old school throwdown style show.
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  Speaker 2: So I have no idea what to expect, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I really like to enter it like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I like to. It's kind of like going to
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  Speaker 1: see a movie.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you hear someone say that a movie
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  Speaker 2: is like really awesome where it's really bad. That kind
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  Speaker 2: of sets your expectations and it sets the bar. So
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  Speaker 2: if you go into it blind, then you have no expectations.
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  Speaker 1: You have no bar.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of the times, usually ninety nine percent
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  Speaker 2: of the time, I leave, you know, very very satisfied
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  Speaker 2: with the way the shows go.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm looking forward to do when I
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  Speaker 1: get to Australia.
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  Speaker 3: On the frift side of that toin Mike, but you
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  Speaker 3: never been here before? Is we got no idea? What
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  Speaker 3: do we expect from you?
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  Speaker 2: Are this?
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  Speaker 3: I run it through a typical from matches in live show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, we've been able to come
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  Speaker 2: up through the ranks here in the United States and
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  Speaker 2: we've started adding all sorts of stuff into our show.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like I said, I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 2: bringing any of that stuff. We won't be bringing anything
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  Speaker 2: with us. It's just going to be us the band,
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  Speaker 2: whatever lights the house has given us, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: a very stripped back crew. So you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: seeing us do something that we haven't done in you know,
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  Speaker 2: half a decade or more here, and I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: You know this one says like a throwdown style show,
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  Speaker 2: Like we're just gonna get up there. It's gonna be us,
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  Speaker 2: our instruments, our music, and the crowd, and there's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a bunch of fancy video walls to look at.
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  Speaker 2: There's not gonna be any pyro or cry out going
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  Speaker 2: off any of that stuff. So so you get this,
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  Speaker 2: you get the strip back version, and from ashes to
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  Speaker 2: new and it's up to us to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: A we sound great and b we perform great and
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  Speaker 2: see everyone loves it. And I think that that's what
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  Speaker 2: I've got a really good feeling that that's what everyone's
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  Speaker 2: gonna leave saying that they love the.
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  Speaker 4: Show along those lives, mate, Like, you've been doing this
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  Speaker 4: for a long time now, but have you ever had
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  Speaker 4: a gig where you just weren't feeling it before you
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  Speaker 4: went on? Like and then in this so like, how
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  Speaker 4: did you turn that around and put on a good show?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that there's plenty of times where
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in a way, it's a lot like a job.
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  Speaker 2: It's the coolest job ever. But I mean when you
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  Speaker 2: do it a lot, it ends up. Sometimes you just
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  Speaker 2: want to take a break. You know, you get towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of.
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  Speaker 1: Tour, man, and you're like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, the last tour we were on, we
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  Speaker 2: were out for nine weeks. So you know, you get
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  Speaker 2: towards the end of a nine week tour and you're like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to go home. I want to lay
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  Speaker 2: in my own bed.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see my babies like I want to
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  Speaker 1: you know, want to do all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So so you can get jaded, I think the best
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  Speaker 2: way to turn it around is just get on stage,
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  Speaker 2: because every single time you get on, Like for me,
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  Speaker 2: especially when I get on stage, I don't ever think things.
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  Speaker 2: I just perform and I don't think about what's going
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  Speaker 2: on outside of stage. The whole world just kind of
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  Speaker 2: dissolves and it's just me, the microphone, the band, and
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. And if I'm not if I don't mess
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  Speaker 2: up too bad and have a bad performance, it's therapy man.
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  Speaker 2: So so you know, even though I might not look
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  Speaker 2: forward to going to therapy, once I'm there, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, this is the this is probably the better
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  Speaker 2: decision for the day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good things, bitch is a stack of good bands.
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  Speaker 3: Why you got torn?
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  Speaker 4: Some forty one mess it on, Electric Cowboy, Harry King
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  Speaker 4: times more. But and many bands on the building you
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  Speaker 4: haven't played with before.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that there's a few on there
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  Speaker 2: that we haven't played with we actually I mean no,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've played festivals with a lot of these bands.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that we've toured. I'd have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've.
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  Speaker 2: Toured with any of the bands that are on it.
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  Speaker 2: But I am looking forward to Electric Callboy. I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen them, I've never you know, toured with them, never
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  Speaker 2: played festivals with them, nothing so and I've always heard
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  Speaker 2: that the show is fun, so you know, I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing that.
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  Speaker 3: We actually raise a good point there.
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  Speaker 4: Bro Like the whole festival environment of backstage, like with
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  Speaker 4: a whole heap of different bands, is completely different to
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  Speaker 4: if you go on tour with a band. But do
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  Speaker 4: you often like create friendships and relationships with bands at
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  Speaker 4: a festival or is it sort of more of a
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  Speaker 4: no party getting get out try via backstage?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't really see anybody unless you unless you
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  Speaker 2: know people and you're like texting them to meet up
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  Speaker 2: and everything. Like, you don't really see or meet anybody
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  Speaker 2: at festivals. It really is just kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: passing thing. You know, you might see people in in
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  Speaker 2: catering or whatever, but you know, outside of like John
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  Speaker 2: Davis and the rest of the guys in corn I
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  Speaker 2: could walk past pretty much everybody there and not know
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  Speaker 2: who they are. So so I'm kind of oblivious when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to all that stuff. I'm really just out
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  Speaker 2: there doing my thing. Touring's a little different. But even
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  Speaker 2: sometimes with touring, like you you know, it depends on
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  Speaker 2: it depends on like the way the bands are or.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if they're hermits or whatever, you might not
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  Speaker 1: see them in all the entire tour.
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  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes people are a little bit more reclusive
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  Speaker 2: and you don't see them until the end of the
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  Speaker 2: tour and.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, great having you.
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  Speaker 2: It's like sick meeting you, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like and then that's the end of the tour. Like,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we do tours is is we like
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  Speaker 2: to you know, we like when we do a headlining
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  Speaker 2: tour something like that, we like to get, you know,
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  Speaker 2: interact with the bands early on and create friendships and
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  Speaker 2: in that way, the tour is not like the weird
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  Speaker 2: vibes or something like that, like it's a good tour.
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  Speaker 2: We had that experience with Skillet tour to a Skillet
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  Speaker 2: and they like called us in for like a meeting
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  Speaker 2: the first show, and we thought that they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: call us in like give us ground rules and like,
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever it was gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: But it was just like a hey, how you doing,
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  Speaker 1: Like happy.
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  Speaker 2: To have you on the tour if you need anything,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, everybody introducing themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It was like really cool and it made it a
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  Speaker 1: really cool day.
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  Speaker 2: Back tour, when that doesn't happen, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: you almost ask yourself, especially if you're not the headliner,
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  Speaker 2: you almost ask yourself like the way through the.
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  Speaker 1: Tour, like has that been, like do they hate us?
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  Speaker 1: You know, so you run into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But festival is like festival, you don't really read too
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  Speaker 2: much into it. It's so everything's so quick, like it's
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  Speaker 2: the very fast moving day. There's a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that you gotta do, a lot of stuff going on,
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  Speaker 2: so typically unless you know them, you don't hang Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, heavy.
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  Speaker 4: You should be doing backstage interviews on the day, mate,
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  Speaker 4: So everyone respeaks to you. I'll give them a name
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  Speaker 4: tag and sell them to wear it some where they
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  Speaker 4: walk past you. You know who it is gonna have to.
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  Speaker 2: Say their name and there I had to say Hi,
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  Speaker 2: I am such and such like I'm Matt Bee with
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  Speaker 2: for mashes to new like it's gonna have to say that.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of that, dude, I am. I'm oblivious, like completely oblivious.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, you've also got a couple of your own headlining
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  Speaker 4: shows too, in Melbourne on December the fourth and Sydney
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  Speaker 4: on December the tenth, mate, So are you gonna make
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  Speaker 4: those shows a little bit different so fans going to
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  Speaker 4: both of them get a different experience.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we'll be playing longer, so I mean you'll
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  Speaker 2: hear more songs, but there's not much opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm transparent, I'm an open book.
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  Speaker 2: It costs a lot of money to do this, to
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  Speaker 2: get down there, fly all your people down there, fly
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  Speaker 2: your gear down there. You know you have to fly,
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  Speaker 2: which I learned recently. You have to fly in between
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  Speaker 2: every show.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, up here we're used to driving or having
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  Speaker 2: a bus, so it costs a lot. So we're not
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  Speaker 2: we're not able to really bring we're not bringing anything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no production, so things aren't gonna be
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  Speaker 2: much different. I mean, it's gonna be smaller stages, so
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's sold out probably you know, both shows
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  Speaker 2: have probably sold out, and uh you know they're smaller rooms,
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  Speaker 2: so it's gonna be fun for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean the.
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  Speaker 2: Only thing that you're getting any different is probably you
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  Speaker 2: know a handful of uh different songs that we're playing
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  Speaker 2: on the festivals and you know, whatever lighting rig the
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  Speaker 2: house has.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just say someone said that a lot of good
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  Speaker 4: things Broan they haven't really heard much of from matches.
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  Speaker 4: You like, what three songs that you should they listen to?
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  Speaker 4: You get a gauge, what do you expect.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go panic, nightmare, and heartache.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you kind of get you get the heavy,
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  Speaker 1: you get the rap, you get the melodic, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Get you know, the the feels that we put in
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  Speaker 2: the songs.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're getting all of that with those songs.
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  Speaker 2: And and I'll tell you this, and I've seen this
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  Speaker 2: from our fan base and I know it just from
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  Speaker 2: the way that we perform. Those songs are full of
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  Speaker 2: energy for the most part, but they're not even close to.
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  Speaker 1: The energy that we bring live.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's it's a completely different ballgame live, Like we
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  Speaker 2: just we go off. It's kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hit that stage and it's just like an at
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  Speaker 2: them bomb.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it just goes off.
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  Speaker 4: Back in Junior released the album Blackout Deluxe, which measured
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  Speaker 4: Blackout's original twelve songs plus six extra tracks, including collaborations
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  Speaker 4: with Aaron from a Wison Man. There's Yellow Wolf, Prissy
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  Speaker 4: from Against the Cara, Maddie from Memphis Mayfire, a Sullivan
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  Speaker 4: King remix, and an acoustic version Mate. So did fans
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  Speaker 4: react to that the way you expected, Like it was
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  Speaker 4: a bit of a risk, sort of chuck and chucking
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  Speaker 4: something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think everyone loved it.
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  Speaker 2: This is our best performing album we've ever had, and
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  Speaker 2: the Deluxe has only helped that. So, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is the direction that we've wanted to take for years,
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  Speaker 2: and we're just going to keep that momentum going.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean I haven't seen anything negative.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, there's there's this, you know, a song
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  Speaker 2: in there that I'm singing, which is different. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that I think they just got
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  Speaker 2: to take risks in life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I uh.
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  Speaker 2: I use bad Omens as an example, Like I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know some people behind the scenes with bad Omens
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  Speaker 2: and producers and things like that, and I had heard
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  Speaker 2: that when they created a Death of Peace of Mind
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  Speaker 2: that they're like, this is something completely different for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's either going to be absolutely sick and everyone's gonna
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  Speaker 2: love it, or it's gonna tank and everyone's gonna hate it.
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  Speaker 2: But what they did was is they took a risk.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the example that I'm using, is they took
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  Speaker 2: a risk, they bet on themselves, they did something really cool,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're gigantic because of it.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, that's what we did.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we didn't share in the same amount of success
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  Speaker 2: as what bad Omens had with the Death of Peace
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  Speaker 2: of Mind, but it was a nice building block to
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  Speaker 2: the foundation of what we've been able to do.
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  Speaker 1: And the Deluxe is crushed for us.
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  Speaker 4: Then, looking back my life, how was the experience of
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  Speaker 4: working with other guests out It's like, at the time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I could be wrapped up in what you
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  Speaker 4: were doing and focusing on my in the song, but
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  Speaker 4: with a bit of reflection, like what does that experience
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  Speaker 4: that to bring you?
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  Speaker 3: I guess as a musician as a band, Well, it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you do work with them, I mean everything's
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  Speaker 2: remote right, Well except for Mattie Mollins. We did do
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  Speaker 2: the recording remote, but we shot a music video together
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  Speaker 2: when we were on tour. But outside that, everything's remote.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that it gives you the opportunity if
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  Speaker 2: you do work one on one with the other artist,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you the opportunity to build a relationship there. Not
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  Speaker 2: only that, it gives you the opportunity to see the
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  Speaker 2: way that people work produce music, the way that they write,
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  Speaker 2: the way that they sing, the way that they tick.
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  Speaker 2: So a couple of those artists, it was just a
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  Speaker 2: label reaching out. I never actually had contact with any
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  Speaker 2: of them, yellow Wolf and Sullivan King Like, I honestly
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  Speaker 2: didn't even know Sullivan was doing a song or one
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  Speaker 2: of our songs, and then they sent it and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is sick. I had no clue
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  Speaker 2: was even happening. And Yellow Like we didn't talk or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I would have loved to I love him as an artist,
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  Speaker 2: been a Yellow fan for a long time. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we created a great relationship with Matty Mullins outside of
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  Speaker 2: the relationship that our drummer Mattie had with the guys
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  Speaker 2: in Memphis Mayfire and Aaron. I've been a fan of
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  Speaker 2: Aaron's work for since he was in Jamies elsewhere, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that we finally got the opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And Christy was completely new, wasn't on our radar. The
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  Speaker 2: record label brought her to us when we said that
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  Speaker 2: we were looking for a female feature.
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  Speaker 1: We were hoping for like Amy Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was like the top of our list,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that Chrissy ended up being the best
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  Speaker 2: fit for that song. So, you know, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't get amy Lee, maybe it never even landed
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  Speaker 2: on her radar, I don't know, but the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it didn't happen was a blessing because Chrissy crushed it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm all about like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all about like new artists and new art especially
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  Speaker 2: in rock and metal, like new artists getting an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I love seeing like a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: young bands and I'll use bad Rooms again as an example,
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  Speaker 2: explode and blow up and be able to do what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing, because that that just ensures the future of
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  Speaker 2: our genre of music. So so, chrisy great to work
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  Speaker 2: with and and and crushed for barely breathing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned in passing earlier on about heading into
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  Speaker 4: the studio yourself, surely, mate, So is that part of
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  Speaker 4: a new block of material from.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: From Ashes to New or just the personal stuff?
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: No, it's from Ashes to New. We're overdue, man, But
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: I mean we've been if we've been working our asses off,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: we've been torn like crazy. So it's been really hard
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: to you know, I just had a baby too, so
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: he's eight months old now. So it's been you know,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: with the personal life and the work life and touring.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: All the time, and just like it was so damn busy.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: So we haven't really had an opportunity to get super
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: serious with new music. And like, we want to be
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: really serious with new music, like we want to we
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: want to take the risks that we've taken before, continue
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: to take risks. But I mean, like we're, for lack
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: of better words, I've been using the word precious. I've
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: been very precious about what we're doing moving forward. Because
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: of the Blackout album being such a gigantic step up
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: for this band, we have to continue to grow on
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: that but also be genuine and authentic to who we are.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: So planning it out has taken more time, more studio time,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: more studio time in my studio, in other studios, and
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: just really making sure that we're honing in on creating
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: something that people are going to fall in love with
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: and keeping their libraries for decades.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Right before you late you game, mate, I've started a
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: new segment called photo Bomb, where basically, I'll troll your
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: social media before I chat with you, pick out a
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: couple of photos that I want to know more about,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: and throw them at you. So I've got two for you, mate,
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: and this is the first one. Tell us the story
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: behind this.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Oh man, we just rolled into your town. We're gonna
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: fuck shit up. That's what that is. Those are the
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: kids on the big wheels that you don't want to
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: mess with. That's that's what that is.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: So there's a there's a there's a venue and it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: an Amphitheater. And I can't remember the name of the Amphitheater.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Sorry if anyone's watching this that loves that place. It's
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: in Guildford, New Hampshire. We were on tour with Motionless
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: and White and then this moment and Fit for a
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: King and they have like all sorts of shit to
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: play with there.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: It's really cool.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, toys and like the way that it's set up.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: They've got like food for all the artists. They got
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: like vendors and like it's the best venue I've ever
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: been to because of the way that they set up.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: For the artists.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And they had big wheels as you can see, and
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: we were ripping them around and our photographers.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, let's get a photo of this.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: So so there we are fantastic. And the second one
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: on God is this one from the tool by some
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: guessing that's great fight.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh that's Danny's personality and the nutshell right there,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: he's a menace man.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And and Lances it's his personality as well, Like what
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the fuck? Uh uh?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: So, I mean you're just kind of seeing them in
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the roll right there, just goofing off, man, like that's
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: you know, we're it's a it's a it's a brotherhood.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Man, like we are we're all we're family. There's my dogs.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: They're chiming in, chomming in on the family pod.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: That's right, right, No, see the bitches must be home
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: so but yeah, no, so I mean they we're just family, man,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: you know, and that that's the you know that right,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: there's just two brothers hanging out.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Fantasy matter, all right, Bright, Well, thanks very much for
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: you talking pleasure as always from ash Sin. You will
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: be in Australia for all three Good Thing shows, a
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: couple of side shows in Melbourne and Sydney. We'll be
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: doing interviews in the Melbourne show, brother, So hopefully we get.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: To catch up and have a beer.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Hell yea, man, love it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: No beer on this end though, I'm a sober guy now,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: so no beer on this end.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I'll have a spot with you and I'll even have
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: a night. That's right, see me coming.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I don't mind being I don't mind being around. I'll
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: still cheers you.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: That sounds good to be my friend. I'll bring you
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: up in the nice, nice mineral water.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: That sounds good.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Man, all right, brother, to take camd we'll see it
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: a few weeks, yea, I'm target see it