May 1, 2026

Carmine Appice - Cactus New Blues Rock Album, Temple Of Blues II - PipemanRadio Interview

Carmine Appice - Cactus New Blues Rock Album, Temple Of Blues II - PipemanRadio Interview
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Carmine Appice and his reformed Cactus on behalf of the new blues rock album, Temple Of Blues II, that’s due out April 3 via Cleopatra Records.

Now the Temple opens again, this time for an all-star aggregation that recalls Ted Nugent, Billy Sheehan, Bumblefoot, Dee Snider and Pat Travers from volume one, alongside an all-new wave of heavy hitters including Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns), Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple), Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot), Alex Skolnick (Testament), and a whole lot more!

And Temple Of Blues II takes us back to their birth. That summer, Cactus were among the main attractions at the Isle of Wight Festival in England, and the new album’s “Purple Haze” reunites them with both another of that bill’s audience favorites, Melanie, and its overall headliner, Jimi Hendrix.

Elsewhere on this thunderous sequel, Pat Travers returns for the mighty “Moanin’ At Midnight,” Joe Lynn Turner joins Morse, Carmine’s Guitar Zeus bandmate Tony Franklin and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) for “Bad Stuff,” Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) and Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns) lead the way for “The Little Red Rooster,” and Ted Nugent and Bob Daisley (Rainbow) join forces for an astonishing “Spoonful.”

Track List:
1. Back Door Man Pt. 1 & 2 feat. Eric Gales & Billy Sheehan
2. 300 Pounds Of Joy feat. Ty Tabor
3. Moanin’ At Midnight feat. Pat Travers
4. Down In The Bottom feat. Dug Pinnick
5. Token Chokin’ feat. Bumblefoot
6. Bad Stuff feat. Steve Morse, Joe Lynn Turner, Derek Sherinian
& Tony Franklin
7. Tail Dragger feat. Rudy Sarzo & Alex Skolnick
8. The Little Red Rooster feat. Dee Snider, Tracii Guns, Jimmy Haslip
9. Purple Haze feat. Melanie
10. Spoonful feat. Ted Nugent & Bob Daisley


BONUS TRACK [CD ONLY]
11. Feel So Good feat. Billy Sheehan & Britt Lightning


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Young Roy.

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Coming all around, Hello, Bungle and my photo.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with

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a legendary drummer from some amazing bands, and we got

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some great news that we're going to talk about.

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So let's welcome to the show. Carmina Piece.

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Hello.

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I'm very excited because last time we talked, we were

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talking about, you know, the return of Cactus and Temple

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of Blues one, and now we have Temple Blue too,

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so that's pretty cool.

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It is cool. It took a long time to do it,

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like six about I took about eight eight months to

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put it together. I mean it was ready in December,

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but we waited until April Theiry because we were putting

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together as live Cactus show, you know, for charities, and

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that was April Theiry. We did the shows that I

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released it April third, which is less than a month ago,

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you know, a month ago. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody seems to

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love it.

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Oh, I was listening to it. I think it's it's incredible.

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I love that version. I loved the version of every song.

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But I really loved a lot Purple Haze. That was

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pretty cool.

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That's pretty wild, right, I like that there one. You know,

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I got to understand Number one, nobody on this record

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or the last record, was ever in the same room together.

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Wow.

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This was all done individually and everybody's studios starting with

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the drums, including Purple Haze. So Purple Hayes happened by

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Cleopatra Records owned the rights to her vocals after she passed,

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so they called me and said, look, we'd like to

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do Melanie and Cactus together. This was before we were

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doing this album. And I said really. Melanie says yeah.

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We got a version of Melanie's singing Purple Hayes, which

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is awesome. So I said, well, let me hear it.

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So they sent it to me, just the vocal, right,

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and I said, wow, that's Melanie. It's killer. I mean

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some of the screams she has like Jannie Chaplin, you know.

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And I said, yeah, we can do this. So the

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way we would do it is we got the tempo

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like whatever it was, and then we take her voice

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and we stretch it along the tempo to make sure

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it's in tempo on a click. That's the only way

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you could do these things studio to studio in people's houses.

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So once we did that, then I did drums to

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it right, and where the solos were going to be,

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we had to cut the cut the vocal, leave room

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for the solos and continue the vocal. So we had

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to edit and according to the drum arrangement that I

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put together, okay, And then we got my guitar player

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to play the guitar on it, and he put some

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bass on it too to make it a full demo.

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So now we got her voice, drums, bass, and guitar right.

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And then our normal bass player, James Computer, was out

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of town. He couldn't do it. So we got Tony

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Franklin to play on it. Because Tony played with Cactus

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a bunch of times playing Venezuela, played in Europe, played

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in America, you know, so he's like a secondary Cactus

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bass player. And then he played on it, and then

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we gave it to my engineer, Pat Reagan, co producer

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of this album, and he mixed it and it came

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out fantastic, you know. And when I talk about this,

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I said, man, this track is a long way from

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the roller Skates song. Right when she streams a couple

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of times. It's awesome. I said, Wow, you know, we knew,

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we knew, Uh, Johanna Chaplain in the old days, you know,

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and you know what she kind of sounds like. And

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when she did those screams, those couple of screams, I said, man,

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this sounds like Janice Chaplin. Doesn't sound like Melanie, you know.

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So it came out fantastic. And Ardie Gillen is our

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guitar player and uh a cactus and he's been with

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us a few years now and he's a monster. He's

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just a monster player. And he did the solos on that,

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and then we after the soul, we cut and we

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went to this, uh just a voice and all kinds

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of effects, you know, you know I'm talking about, yeah totally,

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and then it comes back in then it ends with her.

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I go a psychedelic you know, love it. Jimmy would

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have loved it.

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And I want to know too, what was it like

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to be around people like Janice Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix like

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that that.

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You know, back in those days, it wasn't a business yet,

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you know, yeah, it really wasn't. Led Zeppelin Vanilla Fash

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left Zeppelin four fifty cents, Come on, that's ridiculous. But

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it was, you know, like it was just hang out.

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There's just people, musicians hanging out talking about stuff and

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hanging out playing blues. And you know, Hendry, I knew

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Hendrix before he was Jimmy Hendrix. It was Jimmy James

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and played clubs together in New York Nice. We would

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play sets like thirty minutes eation midnight. They would play

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records and we'd have an hour and we go up

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to in the city who played the West Side in

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those days if you have a sort of movie panic

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and Needle Park, you know, and then that area which

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is now very exclusive, high end. My wife had an apartment.

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It we just sold. It was a fortune to sell it,

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you know. And in those days was it was junk.

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It was people junk on you know, junk junkies. It

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was hookers, it was it was pimps, all that stuff.

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And we went over in the middle of the show,

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we had an hour off. We went up to some

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Black Prosecutes apartment, smoking some pot. Jimmy would say, Oh man,

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I gotta make it. I want to make it out

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of here. I want to make it for me. I

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didn't care if I made it. I was making I

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want to make a living like my drum teacher out

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and I said, you know, a little house in Brooklyn,

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we had a drum room, we had a Cadillac. I said,

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that's living, you know, right, And we played it get

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together a lot, you know. I think that gig we

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played was either two weeks or a month long. So

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I got to know him, and then we started making

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this vanilla fudge. I started seeing this guy in the

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press playing with his teeth and I said it was

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hair like that. I said, speak Tommas Games and called

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Jimmy Hendricks. And next time I saw him was in

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London and we we reminded him of that day of

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smoking pot talking about it, and he said, oh yeah,

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I remember that, because what are you doing here? I said,

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I play with him all the funds and I love

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the fudge. So it was like immediate, you know. We

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got backed together and we did a lot of gigs

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with him, and it was very timid, kind of so spoken,

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kind of like Prince right, you know, very introverted, you know,

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until he gets on stage, you know.

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But he was that's a lot of people, right, a

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lot of musicians, you know, people like them. Yeah, they

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think they're the most extroverted people out there, but they're

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only like that on stage.

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Yes, I could talk to Jeff Back's same thing. Introverted.

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You know. Tom Sacks was not so introverted, but he

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was in between. You know, he was like a normal guy,

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you know it. Jim McCarty was a normal guy. You know,

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guitar players, but you know it was it was great,

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you know. And the one one jam with Channis Chapman.

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We had Miami Pop Vessel Vanelophage headlined it and we

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were jamming with Johnny Winner. We're playing the blues with

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Johnny Winter and her singing, and after she's singing, Johnny's

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playing guitar and the solo. She come up to me

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and said, hey, drummer boys, have some of his. She

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stuck his bottle of my face, kicked it up and went, whoa,

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you know, the Southern comfort. You know, I almost fell

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off the drum stool. You know, she's drinking it like

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he's you know, we did a lot of gigs with

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her big brother and Vanelo Fudge. You know, there were

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no it wasn't a business yet, you know, just having

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everybody having a good time.

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Yeah, I imagine there was probably a lot more camaraderie

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back then than now, maybe because you didn't have the

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interferre rants to get people like not a community.

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Well, there is a lot, but we I try and

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with these albums we try and create that. Yeah, and

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we did the gig. I just did an interview with

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the guy that was at the gig and he noticed,

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He said, it was such great camaraderie with all of everybody.

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You know. We had Billy she and Tony Franklin, Eric Gales,

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Pat Travis Bumblefoot, I sing from the Rod Show, Uh,

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Doug Pinnick all on stage. Nice and it was really fun.

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Everybody had a great time. Everybody when we listed, let

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us know if you.

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Want to do it again, you know, I love that.

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I love fantastic. And we filmed it and we recorded it,

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so maybe we'll end up releasing it and giving it

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to a chat. We did this charity here. We gave

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thousands of dollars to all these different charities, you know,

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like Tunnel to Towers and Music Cares, Music Will, uh,

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Saint Jute Hospital. You know, it was great doing giving

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money to them, you know. And now we videoed if

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we get it out, whatever we make, and I was

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just give it to them, you know. It's it's a

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great feeling to help people like that, absolutely, and and

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everybody felt that. I mean, we sat around. We did

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it at this uh uh Arcadia Theater in Saint Charles.

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Everybody's played there and the owner, Ron was a friend

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of mine. When me and Vinnie were doing Hanging and

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Banging podcast we had eighty five episodes during COVID. Ron

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was another host as the three of us, so we

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became really close and all. So, you know, we played

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his venue many times. He's always done great with it.

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So he had a big dinner for everybody, was like

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I don't know how many people. There was like a

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lot of people and I sat with Billy Sheen and uh,

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Doug Pinnic next to me. I was here and and

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uh it was over there was Eric As over here

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and his wife shows like all five of us, and

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we had some amazing talking. That's great, but everybody's when

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they grew up and what they did and how they

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did it, and it was amazing. And then everybody on

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the whole table was talking like that and it was

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just great. There was no attitudes, no problems. Was fantastic.

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That's the way it should be.

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Yeah, he said, hey, Ic, we don't need you. You

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go hold on for a minute. Okay, he goes sit

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and sit down. You know, it wasn't a why what

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do you mean? You know what I'm saying, no attitude?

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Huh beautiful, they're beautiful.

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And when you first started, we had.

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Three bass players and I said, Bill, you play Tony know,

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you laid back on this, and James you laid back.

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You know. Then Tony you played. Bill, you laid back,

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you know, no attitudes. It's great.

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That's the way it should be.

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And when you first started Cactus, could you ever imagine

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that you would be putting out out a new album

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in twenty twenty six.

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I didn't even imagine I'd be around at you twenty six. Right,

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I'm living my eighties year right now.

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It's amazing. Right.

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I never thought either. You know, I'm from the eighties,

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so I thought we were gonna just all blow up.

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And I wasn't even gonna make it past twelve.

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In the sixties were worse than the eighties. I mean

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it was everybody was doing drugs, LSD and uppers and

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Downers and well, was.

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It true that Jimmy used to have LSD and it's

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uh headband when he performed on stage.

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Jimmy Hendrix, Yeah.

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I never know that. I never heard about.

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That was That's something I've read before.

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I'm like, said, somebody created by these these writers exactly.

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Like somebody just said, uh so that's something that said.

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Jimmy Pate said. It wasn't led Zeppelin with the mud Shock.

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It was led Zeppelin's uh tour manager and carminer piece.

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It wasn't me, you know, it was led Zeppelin, John Bonham.

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It was our roady, one of our roadies, John Bonham,

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Richie Cole, one of our roadies. And that's it. You know.

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Well, you know now it was my room.

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It was my room. I had to leave. It was

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so disgusting, you know. But anyway, that's what I'm seeing.

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These writers write things and they didn't even know what

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they're talking about.

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Well, nowadays nobody even checks either, Like, right, you could

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post anything you want on social media and people take

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the ball and run without even check.

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Social media is such bullshit. All my people say posting

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up social media, you got a new album, post I

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got wine. Nobody gives a fucking social media And my

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proof is I do things specifically, like I put my grandson.

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I just had a new grandson, you know that, comments,

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thousand comments. Okay, then I'll put on, uh, cactus playing here,

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blah blah blah, two comments, and then I'll put on

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and I'll put on I'm thinking of changing my image

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my photo. You know what do you think? Eight nine

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hundred uh huh, fifty eight thousand people viewed it. And

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then I'll put on Yeah, we're playing so and so

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so or it album's out to comments. I said, that's

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all that's it's all about, is bullshit.

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You know, yeah, you're not You're not wrong about.

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What you're doing in your career. They want to see

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what kind of bullshit you put up.

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You're not wrong all the time too.

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I'm dying. I stop dying my hair from black and

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purple to what it looks like. Now, what do you think?

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Tongus of comments whenever you say what do you think?

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Yeah, your thought?

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Tons of comments.

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Well that's like that's like with me.

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I had up until last year, for a while, my

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trademark was my hair was blue, and everybody would show

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up on social media every time I was getting my

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hair done to see what color it would be next.

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That was the most important thing they were looking for.

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Let me see, there's not much hair there though.

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Now it's blonde.

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Oh, oh, it is blond. Oh that's why he's blond.

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Yeah, I'm getting a weird Yeah, that's because of they

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That's because I have that cool background behind me, exactly.

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But it's like it's going weird colors blond and blues

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on top of your head. Yeah, really weird. I can't

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tell where your hair your head is almost right.

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And see it's funny.

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At one point my hair was the color of the

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vinyl on your album there right.

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See. I had black and purple hair for years, you know,

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black and purple, black man. And finally, you know, like

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four years ago, my wife said, don't you get sick

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and tired of of dyeing it because it's work. Then

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you had to then you had to dye it blonde,

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and then you had to put the color and it

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takes six seven hours every time. I said, you know

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what I am tired of, So why don't you just

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let it go? So my hairdresser let it go. From

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the top down, you had she had purple in there.

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Purple purple got bigger and bigger, but this purple easily

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washes out, so by the time it cover my whole head,

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we just washed it out.

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Yeah, and I was silver.

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And then my wife said, well my hairstyle and I had,

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so you look like maud. I said great, thank you.

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So she said, comb it back. So I come to

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back and I said, I don't like the fact it's

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all silver. So we started putting black streaks in it.

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So now I got the silver black streets. I'm going

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sad day to put some black streaks back because you

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can see from here back it's grown that long, that much,

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you know.

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Yeah, well, I love my hair.

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Now people love my hair. I say, ow, your hair

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is wonderful, it's beautiful. I love the style. You look great.

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Oh you look younger. I said, wow, great. So I

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don't mind. It's easy to take care of me. I

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was just coming back.

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It's a lot of work the other way, right, like

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the I used to go on tour and I have

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to bring my own pillowcase and my own my own

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towel because I want to ruin.

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Any based crap towels right, totally, totally.

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And then like, it's funny you said about the purple

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because last year I was doing I'm going to Welcome

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the Rockville in a few days to cover that festival,

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and last year at that festival, I met this hairstyles

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she does like all the rock bands at the festival.

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So I had her do my hair while we were

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while I was doing an interview of the band she

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was there with and hair, Well, no, my hair is

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naturally like well, it's naturally all really gray, but it's

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naturally it used to be naturally dark. So yes, I

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have to go, like this color is more my color,

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you know. So I have to go and I have

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to get it bleached and then put the blue and

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blue on and get into it the whole process just

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like you describe. So she did it, and I said,

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do whatever you want to even care. I wasn't even

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paying attention. I was doing the interview and she did black, blue,

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pink and purple.

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Oh my god. Yeah. I mean the other day I

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saw a young girl we were talking about for my

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rod show. You know, we're still figuring out the merch

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because there's a lot more women. The only the only

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shirts we have for men, there's the sex police shirts

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and hats that rogers. We used to run around with

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that and somebody had a women would go up to

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the hallways sex police for the second one, you know,

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and like, you know when you heard that coming, if

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you had a woman, you tell be quiet and you

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don't want them to bust your room up, you know.

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But I'm trying to figure out what what colors, you know,

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for women, So I said, yeah, maybe we should get

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a pink, uh, pink hoodie with the Rod logo on there.

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That might look cool. So my merch girl says, yeah,

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talking to the service station, there's a young girl wearing

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a pink hoodie streaks of pink and her hair and

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blonde and blue, and it looks so cool. I told her,

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I said, man, you look cool. She goes your hay

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it look cool because thank you so much, you know.

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And but the pink hoodie looked great. So now we

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just we're testing at the Chicago show. We're doing now

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next week we go to three hoodies and medium lodge

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and extra lodge and pink with the zippa you know,

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with Rod the show logo here, which is like a

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set of lips with a guy that looks like Roger

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with the Mike Holden like Rod would be. You know

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if you go to roddshow dot com. Here I'm talking

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about you know anyway, So it's pretty cool.

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That and that is cool.

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And so with this new album too, Temple Blues too,

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you brought back people that were in the first Temple Blues,

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but then you have some new additions too. I think

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it's cool a variety of people you have, because you

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have somebody like bumble Foot, somebody like Nugent, but then

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you have somebody like Alex Rolneck and.

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He was a surprise. Rudy was on the last one,

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but Alex was a surprised one because I had his

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number and I called him and I said, hey, dude,

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we're going to do this Cactus album. We did want

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to explain what it is. You know. I like you

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to be honest, because yeah, man, no problem, you know,

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and you know, when you're do an now like this,

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everybody has to get the same amount of money. Yeah,

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you can't have one guy get eight and one guy

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get three hundred, the other guy get two hundred. So

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everybody got the same money across the board, you know.

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And I say, you know, favorite nations of course, we

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got to get releases from everybody, and after we do it,

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he got to sign and release, no problem. So Alex was, yeah,

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let's go. And then when I heard what he did,

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I said, oh my gosh, this guy's a freaking monster.

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I mean I heard him with testing it, but you

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hear him playing your music, you get to see how

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great he is, you know, because he's not in his elements.

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Yeah, he's out.

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And that's what's what a great musician is. When you

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can play out of your element and still be great.

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That's that's a sign of a great musician.

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I think so too, because you know, it's easy when

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you're doing your own element because you're used to it.

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It's a habit. You don't even think about it. When

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you got to go do something different, you really got

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to dig deep.

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Yeah that's why you know, I do these sessions for Cleopatra.

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You know, I did the Hush by Deep Purple. They're

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doing a tribute to Hunt Purple. I did Hush, I

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did some other things. Now this week is did just

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send it? Today I'm going to do a track Crazy

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Train with er William Shatner. Wow, Captain Kirk is doing

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talking over it. Yeah.

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So Oh cool. I can't wait for that thing.

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I like doing different things. You know, I'm looking at

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my career if an elifuser, Cactus the BBA to Ted

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News' is a rock Stuart to Ozzie. You know, it's

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all different music, but I keep playing the same way.

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But I address myself to the music.

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That's what makes you a great musician.

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Yeah, and you know it's funny.

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I'm going to tell you something funny. I don't know

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if you know this or not.

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You know, because our studio was in Wellington, Florida for

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like eighteen years, and right across the street from our

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studio there was a place called the Gypsies Horse. It's

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now some it's some Indian place now.

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But.

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There used to be this tribute show there all the time,

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hot Rod and It. And it would be so funny

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because the women from Wellington would all show up there

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be packed, and he would act like he really was

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Rod Stewart, like they were fun and all over him.

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Well, we're playing the Book of Black Box my rot

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show June fourteenth. We're doing two shows there in one day.

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That show kills. That show kill, Like I said, look

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at the website, you know, I mean Rod. When I

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told Rod what we're doing, I said, everybody was calling

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it a tribute, and it's not a tribute with me

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and Catcher who played Robbed fourteen years. If you see

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a beautiful blonde chick on the sacks with Robbed, that

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was her, you know. And between her and me, we

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had twenty one years that we played with Rod, right,

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and differences. When I was with him was Rod Stewart group.

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We wrote songs, I produced stuff with the background vocal

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at percentages of the road. It was not Rod in

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the group, right, we were part of it. So I

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tell stories in the show. We have a background video.

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It starts with Rob what he is, How we started,

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how I ended up in his band, and then she

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was in his band, and then you got Rob Caddle

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plays Rod starring Rob Caddle. As you to it, you know,

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it's like a show, you know, and and it's all women.

441
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We played in the villages, you know the villages. Oh yeah,

442
00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:16.599
totally like a twelve hundred people when we do the show, and.

443
00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.680
Oh they're probably freaking out at the villages. They probably

444
00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:20.119
love love it.

445
00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.240
They love it, they love it, and we're going to

446
00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.279
video that show. I think on June fourteenth, and then

447
00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:30.480
we drive down here and we come at played the

448
00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.880
black Box two shows. There's three hundred. We do, like

449
00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:38.119
average over five hundred people everywhere we go. So we

450
00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:40.880
figured we can play two shows at the black Box.

451
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.319
It's just a nice via house, really nice screen behind it.

452
00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.079
We'd be able to probably do two shows and either

453
00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.200
sell out or come close to selling boat out. That's

454
00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.000
why we decided to do it. I wanted to play

455
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.160
the Parker Playhouse but never happened yet. But I think

456
00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:59.200
if we do this and we do well down here,

457
00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:01.920
then we can the next time to the Parker Playhouse

458
00:25:02.039 --> 00:25:05.240
or something like that. My friend Vito, you know, Liberty

459
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:09.480
de Vito, plays there with his Billy Joel show. Okay,

460
00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:14.559
the show's okay, but my show is a show. You know.

461
00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:17.519
They just play the songs. My show's the show. We

462
00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:19.799
tell stories. When we do hot legs, fire comes up

463
00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:23.640
from my drums. You know. We got at the end,

464
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.920
we got everyone singing. Do you think I'm sexy? And

465
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.480
that singing, Maggie May, I mean I guy Rob Cardle

466
00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:32.920
gets everybody singing, just like Rod Stewart does.

467
00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:34.200
I love it.

468
00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.400
That's why I'm playing with him, I feel like I'm

469
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:38.960
back with Rod. So when I said Rob, the fact

470
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:42.400
that we're not calling it a tribute or anything, We're

471
00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:46.559
calling it Rob the show, a celebration of Rob, a

472
00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:49.920
celebration of music and legacy of Rod Stewart. So I

473
00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:52.519
sent that to him and he sent back an email.

474
00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.200
I said, I'm honored. Wow, I'm honored that you're on it.

475
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:57.279
You know, I'm nice.

476
00:25:57.599 --> 00:25:59.960
And then and then the promotion in the background video

477
00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.880
as it comes up, it says that Rod was honored

478
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.279
that we are doing the show, you know, so kind

479
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.720
of endorsed by Rod. So it's way beyond like a singer.

480
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:16.440
You knows every outfit Rod ever had sent. We send

481
00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:18.160
a picture to our said van, but do you think

482
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:20.000
he looks like you? He goes, man, he looks like me.

483
00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:23.559
He dresses like me, and he's got real hair. It's

484
00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:27.880
not a week, right, And then Catre said, and he

485
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:31.680
sings like you, And he does. He sings like Rod.

486
00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:35.799
Some people who we've video it's on the website, you know,

487
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:40.400
said I saw Rod, and I saw this show and

488
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:41.319
this show is better.

489
00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:44.599
Wow, everybody's got to go.

490
00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:49.039
Then, and you also have a show coming up here

491
00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:49.559
in May.

492
00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.599
Yeah, May sixteenth, we got Vanilla Fudge coming in Boca

493
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:59.039
black Box, and you know, and we just finished ten Days,

494
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.599
so this is like good Night's Two weeks later, we're

495
00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:05.559
playing the book at black Box. We're tight. And then

496
00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.440
I got a few couple of weeks off. I'm going

497
00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:10.240
to the Saint Martin with my wife, and so we

498
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:14.039
have a house down there she rents. So we got

499
00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.759
to go down there three four days, three four times

500
00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:20.680
a year. Yeah, and Peple go, oh, that's great vacation. Yeah,

501
00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:22.759
it's not vacation. We go down there and fix stuff.

502
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.240
And instead of here, I look out. I usually face

503
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:28.319
the other way with my computer, but I'm doing it

504
00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:31.200
this way, so I have a background instead of a television,

505
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:36.519
you know. Yeah. And basically I sit there and look

506
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.920
out at a canal in a lake down there. I

507
00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:41.240
do the same stuff looking out at an ocean. You know.

508
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:43.240
That's exactly. I mean, go out to.

509
00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.640
Eat and enjoy myself. And then once I come back

510
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:47.640
from that, and then we come back on the seventh

511
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:51.200
and we got the thirteenth. I go up to all

512
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.559
whereas the villages, and then the fourteen would come down

513
00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:56.839
play here. And I was going to do a clinic

514
00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.680
at Jeloopes, you know Jeloupes is. I was going to

515
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.079
do that, but I want to do it outside this

516
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:05.559
and I don't want to do that, so we'll do

517
00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:08.960
it next time. And then I got some time off.

518
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.519
I think we're going to do some cactus in July

519
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:16.039
and beginning August, and then then we start up again

520
00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.720
with the Rock Show in August and different things. I

521
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:24.279
got my I have a bucket list thing I'm doing.

522
00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:30.680
It's me playing with the Colorado Springs Symphony orchest Philharmonic Orchestra,

523
00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.839
playing four rock songs and telling some stories. I love

524
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.920
it and about that. That's like it. It be so cool.

525
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:39.559
We played with.

526
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:43.759
We did with my Rod Show. We did an orchestra

527
00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:48.400
in California, gig and my friend's son who's a musical

528
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.440
genius is and n Myyu doing all composing and all

529
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:54.559
that now And it was at sixteen. He wrote all

530
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.319
the charts for fifty piece Orchestra, all the Rod Stewart

531
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:02.920
songs that we did in the Palm Desert Symphony Orchestra

532
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.759
with the Rod Show. It was fantastic. But this one

533
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.200
was just me. That's my bucket list, just me, no band.

534
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.599
Let's make that happened.

535
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:19.640
That they got. My friend that was the guy that

536
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:25.559
funded the foundation that funded the Captive Show. He gave

537
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.079
money to the Symphony Orchestra. And I've been talking to

538
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:30.640
them about the Rock Show and they said, look we're

539
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:34.039
doing We're doing a show called The Knights Show, the

540
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:39.599
Knights meeting Paul McCartney, Nighty, Pulton, John Knighted, Rod Stewart Nighted,

541
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.640
and I think somebody else. And they got four singers

542
00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:46.799
from Broadway. I'm going to be singing it, so it's

543
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:51.440
going to be like a stiff up a. Look, I

544
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:53.039
can't play in the suit, you know.

545
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:56.440
But I can't imagine playing drums and suit.

546
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:58.359
But I used to do in the old day. If

547
00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:00.400
you look at the Sullivan show, I'm playing with a

548
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.559
red velvet jacket, you know.

549
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.799
Yeah, I can't even imagine that. It's tough enough with

550
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:07.000
any clothes on.

551
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:12.240
It is tough. But yeah, so a lot of good

552
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:12.920
things going on.

553
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:14.039
I love it.

554
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.720
And everybody's got to check out Temple of Blues two.

555
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.079
It's killer. I listened to the whole album and it

556
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.240
is killer. I love it. I can't.

557
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:26.759
I can't believe all these years later, you're still putting

558
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.839
out some great music and doing great shows. So I

559
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.000
thank you for giving me a lifetime of great music,

560
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:37.440
and everybody else too, thank you.

561
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.519
What I refuse to do crappy music. If I'm going

562
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:43.279
to do a record, it's going to be good. Any

563
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:46.000
record I do, whether it sells or not, it's gonna

564
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:47.880
be great. It's stuff you're probably even even heard of

565
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.559
because they label have a DNA say, I think call

566
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:55.079
up Piece, Prodomo Project. It's all instrumental with this guy,

567
00:30:55.160 --> 00:31:00.480
Fernando Pidomo, who's a really talented musician. He plays bass, guitar,

568
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.279
piano or drums. And we did this instrumental and we

569
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.000
got like Billy Shean on it and bumble Foot and

570
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:12.039
Derek Sherinian on it, and it's killer. We did two records.

571
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:13.880
You probably haven't heard of any of them.

572
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.359
I did it, and now I'm gonna have to look

573
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:16.720
for him.

574
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.160
Check out this one song is called drum City Piece

575
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.200
and Fernando and what it is. I did some paintings

576
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.519
with a friend of mine who is an artist. He

577
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:33.119
says he does like children looking on you know. So

578
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:35.759
I did a bunch of artwork with him and we

579
00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:38.000
renamed him. So one of them is called drum City,

580
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.640
where I drew a city out of drums while he

581
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:45.920
colorized all the beautiful colored pinks and purples and everything.

582
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:49.079
So when we did the song drum City, I named

583
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.119
the drum City and we did the video like you

584
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:57.039
got that background, The whole background was all all my paintings.

585
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.599
Wowdrum City.

586
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:06.039
We did like, uh, the leaning tower of drums, drum hinged.

587
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.599
You know, that's brilliant, the beautiful colors. And I've saw

588
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.400
some bunch. I saw some stuff in stores in New

589
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.319
York and everything. We did some of that, and one

590
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:18.880
thing called Drumhead, which is a floor town town with

591
00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:21.039
a head in it, you know, the eyes and the mustache,

592
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.200
you know, with old notes coming out of it. But

593
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:27.599
it's look it up coming a piece of and ed

594
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:32.799
Heck artwork, you know. So so we did the drum

595
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.680
City video with me and him, and we animated like

596
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.079
I had little cars and the thing. And when the

597
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.519
editor said I can animate the cars for another four

598
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:44.759
hundred dollars, I said, do it. So you got the

599
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:49.039
cars are animated. You got the like a drum city

600
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:53.799
Brooklyn and Manhattan, and you have a high hat is

601
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:58.799
the bridge and you got you know, my my partners

602
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.279
over there. I'm on a on top of the building

603
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.000
somewhere and my partner's walking across the bridge. The cause

604
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.680
of word movies.

605
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:12.839
But you're just you're amazing artists all around, musician, artist, everything.

606
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:19.119
Love it, you know, and you definitely have impacted many lives.

607
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:21.920
And I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you have new

608
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:23.799
music and thanks for being on the indenture.

609
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:27.839
Yeah, you met this girl that came to these gigs,

610
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.519
woman in Ja Can. She's got common a piece on

611
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:33.079
the menu.

612
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.960
If you can see that, you look at that, that's

613
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.400
pretty cool, right.

614
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:40.880
So you know, I said, please take a look at

615
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.960
my restaurant menu. You look at and drumming inspired my menu.

616
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.759
I turned your ears into flavors. So I mean it

617
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:51.559
said like heavy metal of me.

618
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:53.519
You know that's great.

619
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.880
And then you got the menu. You know, like this

620
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:03.359
here is a mustache nan It's like, must be like

621
00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:04.440
an Indian restaurant.

622
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:06.680
You know, that's wild.

623
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:10.119
And she came to the gig where guitar Zeus shirts

624
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.239
and has another one called this one called mustache hb

625
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:21.519
Man inspired from commin a piece. Wow, it's unbelievable. So

626
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.719
so she flew in from Japan to see two Vanilla

627
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.760
Fudge gigs. She did the VIP. First day, she comes

628
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:29.840
in with all this karma and stuff on. She has

629
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.639
a guitar zus, she has a Commine drum key, she

630
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.159
has commin and is comin now, you know, boy, you know,

631
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.480
I get no money for it, but it's on the internet.

632
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.960
And then the next day she comes with a fantastic

633
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:44.320
Carmine T shirt with all different pictures of me embroidered

634
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:48.320
in one picture, you know, and beautiful colors, and she

635
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:50.159
had all this other stuff and she has the menu.

636
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:54.519
I said, wow, she's crazy, you know, but that's what

637
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:56.400
they do in Japan like this. There was a club,

638
00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.800
a nightclub, like a drinking club, when I had bands

639
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.039
called BBA from my beck Bogean the piece it was

640
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.920
a BD eight and club I call it, you know, amazing.

641
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:10.079
Japan is amazing.

642
00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:13.519
But you know, they love their music over there, they.

643
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.559
Love their music over there. It's just she was a

644
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:18.000
beautiful girl. I thought she was twenty. She's like forty

645
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:18.719
four years old.

646
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:19.679
Wow.

647
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.480
And these women don't get they don't get married young

648
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:23.440
over there, you know.

649
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:27.000
And maybe that's why they stay looking young.

650
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:31.159
I have a Japanese wife for five years.

651
00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:33.199
Oh really beautiful, beautiful.

652
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:35.920
They know how to treat a man. Let's put it

653
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:36.280
that way.

654
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.360
Well, there you go, there you go.

655
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.519
But yeah, but I love you know, I love it.

656
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:43.599
I mean with the studio in there, I just walked through.

657
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.519
Turn on the computers, the drums there, they never move,

658
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:51.000
The emitties the same, the ac is the same, they

659
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.920
sound the same. I can record something today, go in

660
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.639
next week and fix it. Doesn't change sound. Engineer it

661
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.679
myself now, you know. And then they get the drums

662
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.639
man engineer Pat Reagan. He makes it sound fantastic. You know.

663
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:09.920
Well, the new album definitely sounds fantastic for sure. And

664
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.760
thank you and thanks a lot for being on the adventures.

665
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:15.920
And buy it so we can hit the shots again.

666
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:17.400
There it is shots.

667
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:20.039
Okay, they can't listen to my show unless they go

668
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:20.679
out and buy it.

669
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.559
That's right, I agree, cool man.

670
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:27.320
Thanks a lot, see M sixteen, come down, come down

671
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:28.880
to see the fuckfely.

672
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:33.679
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man.

673
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.760
I'm w for c u I Radio.