Aug. 14, 2025

Ethan Henry of ASHES OF THE SUN Reveals GODS WITH MACHINES

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Ethan Henry is here to promote my new solo project ASHES OF THE SUN. The new album titled GODS WITH MACHINES is coming out august 1. I wrote, recorded and performed all instruments on AOTS.

Ethan Henry has been in the band FREYA with KARL BEUCHNER/ERICK EDWARDS/IAN BULLDOG EDWARDS of EARTH CRISIS from 2004-2008 ( victory records) and 2017-current( upstate records) . More recently i have been performing with the band VOID EMEPROR. I plan to do some touring with AOTS late this year of early next year. I am currently filming a pilot for a television show so my time is consumed with production stuff.

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I'm here with our next guest. At is a killer

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musician with some great new music. So let's welcome to

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the show, Ethan Henry of the Ashes of the Sun.

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How are you, man?

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Oh man, I'm just totally freaking impressed when somebody can

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make amazing music and do every part well.

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I appreciate that.

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Man.

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Yeah, I I didn't.

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I write so much stuff and I record so much

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stuff from my bands that I've been involved over the years,

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and I'm just sick of sitting on this stuff. And

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I was like, man, I know it's it's I do hardcore,

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I do metal, I do like some froggy metal stuff.

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I'm in a doom band and I and I have this.

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Collection of songs that are like hard rock, and at

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least to my mind, it's hard rock. And I was like,

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you know what, I'm just gonna I'm gonna record it

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and I'm gonna send it and see.

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Where it lands.

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There you go and you know, I think that's cool too,

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that you can play in multiple bands that are all

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basically different genres. You know, they're within the same major

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genre pretty much, but you know, very different. So it's

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it's kind of like switching hats all the time.

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Yeah, I mean that's how That's how my playlist is.

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I mean, I have a really I own a tattoo shop,

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and at work some of my work lists, people are like.

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What do you listening to?

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I'm like, well, I mean that's Prince or oh that's

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Dylan Dricks skape Plan or that Slayer. I mean, you know,

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I have a crazy, crazy playlist, so it influences me sometimes,

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you know, it inspires me and uh, you know, I don't.

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I just you know, doing the Frey thing. It's hardcore

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kind of metal. You know.

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I'm in this band called Boyd Emperor doing that. It's

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like doom metal. I mean, I play bass in a

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funk band. It's a metal funk band. It's kind of

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like Frizzle Fry Primus and uh yeah, I just kind

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of jump all over the place.

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See I love that because there's so many people, especially

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nowadays out there that they kind of plugging this formula

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and that's all they stick to. And to me, what

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you're doing is true musicians because you know, listen, if

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you're a true musician, you're gonna want to learn everything

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you can.

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Yeah, I'm inspired by so much.

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I mean as an artist, it's kind of like when

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you're a tattoo artist is doing one thing, you know,

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any anything like I the production company that I have

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Injurant Tourist Productions.

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That was kind of the concept. You know.

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There was a one of my friends had we found

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a photo of his dad and he was like standing

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next to us some sacred, some private like statue that

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nobody should go up to, and then the back said

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Ignorant Tourists and I was like, that's funny.

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I was like, we.

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Should call our production company that, because you know, I

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make movies and stuff. I did a movie last year

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called Severn's Mountain. It's a horror movie.

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I don't do.

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Horror movies, but I did it. I usually like action

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or sci fi or weird stuff like that, or comedy.

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So I wanted to be able to do whatever I

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wanted to, and in releasing this album, I did it

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through Ignorant Tourist Productions, which is growing right now. So

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it's the first time in a long time that I

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haven't been on a record label, so I don't have

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that support I didn't didn't have. You know, I'm kind

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of going, I'm making it up as I go, but

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it's part of the whole thing. I'm totally supporting, you know,

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local art, indie art, local film, indie film, local music,

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indie indie music. People that are just getting into it.

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You know, sky's the limit. You know, we should all try, you.

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Know what I mean? And I in this Ashes of

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the Sun. Is that for me?

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It's like, you know, my friends are gonna poke at

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me me because I'm doing like hardcore, you know, and

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I'm doing this raw, screaming heavy stuff. And I'm like,

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I got this like rock album. I'm like, you know

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what I'm sending it. I think it's cool. I think

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it's kind of it's a it's like a really heavy

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hard rock grunge album that has a metal kind of

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influence kind of over top.

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Of it, you know what I mean.

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Yeah, totally. And you know what, I think any true

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artists too. They don't want to play the same shit

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over and over and over again, you know, So it's

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kind of cool to be able to diversify. I think

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that's why a lot of people do solo projects like

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you're doing, so you can kind of experiment out of

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your norm Yeah, some of.

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Those songs I wrote for past bands, I said, I

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in my mind, I was gonna write this song, and

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then I was done. I'm like, I don't know, man,

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sounds kind of like soft, you know, and that's weak

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for what we're doing. And I actually had someone recently

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tell me that said, oh, what do you Your band

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kind of sounds like Velvet Revolver.

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I'm like, Velvet Revolver. I'm like, I don't.

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Even listen to those guys. I heard like one or

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two songs, and I'm not knocking them or anything like that.

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I like the songs that I heard, but I don't

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listen to them. And it's funny that with no influence,

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you know what I mean, it kind of sounds like that.

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I've heard people say some you know, Allison Chains. I

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listened to Alison Chains. I love Allison Chains. That makes sense,

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you know what I mean? Megadeth, that makes sense. Velvet

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Revolver or Stone Typle Pilots or some of that stuff.

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I'm kind of like, somehow I accidentally sing people and

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play kind of like I noticed my solos. I'm like,

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is that sound like a slash song? And I was

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kind of laughing at myself. I'm like, I had no idea.

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I thought I was playing like Kirk Have It or something,

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you know, old per Kid. But it's funny where those

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things fall, you know, at the end of it all,

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and how people perceive it, and then you know what

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I'm doing. So this this album, I had no expectations

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other than I'm sick of recording music and doing nothing

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with it. I'm sick of having this pile of songs

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and I'm like, nobody's ever gonna hear them, at least

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if I release an album, I'll sing it all the same.

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I'm like, I'm not gonna scream on it because I

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want this to be different than what I normally do.

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So I sang it, and you know, I said, I'm

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not gonna play and I'm not gonna try to play

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some really crazy soul.

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I'm not gonna put crazy breakdowns. I just you know,

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one of my friends would say, oh, it's half baked.

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I'm like, ah, or it's like pop metal. I'm like

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it's kind of straight to the point.

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It's easy listening for the you know, those people that

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don't want all the crazy or all the all the

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all the heavy vocals. You know, this is something that

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like someone who might listen to like Guns n' Roses,

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or someone that might listen to Advented sever and Fold,

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they might actually say, oh, this is actually pretty cool,

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you know. Or if Ive Finger death Watch kind of

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it doesn't sound like them necessarily, but it's not a

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stretch if you decide to pop it in your playlist,

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you know.

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What I mean, Oh, no doubt. And you know, it's

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funny because people generally want you to stick to what

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they know, but sometimes it's cool to just do something

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totally different then perceptions everything. So now you gain all

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these other people that like what you're doing. Now they

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may like the other stuff too, so you know, yeah,

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just expanding near horizon, so to speak.

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It is.

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I mean, that's I mean, I've discovered a lot of

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bands like, oh, do you know this guy's in this

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fandomic no kidd you know, And I mean I found

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a few bands like that, or I'll hear something that

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sounds like you know him or her, and then I'll

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look it up and I'm like, it is, oh, this

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is a band, it's a supergroup or some side project.

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The day before, I mean, I just you know, I've

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been listening to Rainbow lately. You know, you know, when

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you think Deal, you don't think Rainbow. But lately I've

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been in nineteen seventies I don't kick About two weeks

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before Ozzie had passed, I just was at work and

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I'm just sick listening to the same old ship and

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I was like, I'm playing.

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I looked up seventies metal, I hit on random and

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in Rainbow kept popping up.

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I'm like, man, this is deal, you know what I mean?

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This is right and badass.

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Yeah, dude, I'm just I'm just like, that's like a band,

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and you know, diehards will know, but the general.

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Public they don't know. They they they buried no deal,

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you know what I mean.

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you find these bands and just are so cool, kick

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ass that you just don't don't get the shine and

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uh yeah. So to me, Ash of the Sun is

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like it's my it's my kind of it's in the shadows, it's.

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This thing I did. I didn't look for a label.

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I didn't ask anybody.

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I just kind of just kind of putting it out there,

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you know, doing some promotions of myself do stuff like this,

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and just uh seeing where it lands.

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Man.

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What's cool about that too, is because labels are gonna

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tell you what you need to do, and here you're

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just being your free artistic self.

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Yeah, it's it's uh. I mean it probably has its pros,

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and I mean has its person that's cons and there's

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probably things like you know, I read something or someone

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you know, they said, oh it sounds good, but you know,

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it's kind of like those in this threat. She doesn't

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really have a lot of this event. And I'm like, well,

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that's kind of the point. You know, maybe you know

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the metal crowd might look at it and say, that's

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pretty straightforward.

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It is.

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I wrote it that way on purpose. It was a

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rock in my mind. I'm thinking rock. I'm doing like

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a soft version of barreness. I'm doing a I'm doing

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like something that like those those hit rock song guys

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can can get behind, like a stonetup pilets or something

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like that, but it's a little heavier. Has my metal

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influence I played, you know, the way I play things.

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It's a little bit pushing the limits. But but like,

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I don't know if there's a place for I don't

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know where the place is. And a label would say, well,

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you should probably be thrash metal, you should probably be

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froggy metal, you should probably be.

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Rock, you know, pick one, and I'm like, I don't

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want to pick one. I'm just kind of throwing it

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together and making a brand new cake.

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Yeah. Yeah, they always want to box you in, and

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I don't think ours should be boxed in. Play whatever

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the hell you want.

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I mean, there's a lot of music in every genre

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right now, where like it's just having a hard time distinguishing.

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I'm like, I'm is that in some way? Who is this?

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that shit is some of the metal bands are coming

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out are really complicated, really talented guys. But you know,

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And maybe the same thing for what I'm doing now.

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you know, doing stuff with.

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Freya because I felt like we we sounded like the

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stuff we were doing, but we didn't fall into the

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classic hardcore box and we were just kind of playing

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heavy hardcore rop you know what I mean, metallic hardcore

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and and Ash to the Sun is no different for

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me when it comes to that stuff. It's kind of

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same idea, same mentality, keep it, you know, keep it

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simple to the point, and something my kid or some

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fifteen year old kid can like, I can do it

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just a drums if they liked it, you know, vocally,

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it's it's it's it's cool. I think it's it's it's

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easy to listen to. Maybe that kid's dad would be like,

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this is metal. I don't normally like metal, but I

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kind of get into this. Man, it's kind of heavy,

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you know. I imagine it's.

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For that crowd, you know what I mean, no doubt

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and uh, you know the fact that the matter is

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it's just badass musicianship. I can't believe, Like I'm always

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like in Awe of the Norris like you that can

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play every instrument that's on the album.

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Yeah, thanks man. It's uh. I don't know how, I

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don't know when, I don't know why. I just I

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just I.

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I I've always been a bass player, you know, I've

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been a drummer for sole On. Now it's kind of

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out weighing that, but I was I've always been a

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bass player, and.

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I was always doing primacy, proggy stuff.

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stuff was so proggy and I could sing, so I

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would sing and play bass. But some of the props

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that we were doing was so intense I couldn't sing

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and play it anymore. So then it got way off

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the rails, and then I was in I was in

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a metal band called The Last Season. I don't know

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if you're familiar with Data Johnson, he sank for Blood

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Runs Black and God Below, and so he started this

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band and we were just this this we used to

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play with. We went tour like can Diaria, Birt by

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the Sun, we went on the road with We played

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some shows masses On back in the day before they

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got real big, and that was the kind of music

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we were. We fit right into that that thing, and

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it fell apart, and then I joined Freya and I

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was playing bass. They were on Victory Records. It was

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a really cool gig. You know, it's just twenty years

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ago now, and we got to this point where we

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needed a drummer and they said, hey, do you play drums?

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I don't know if I want to. I'm not really

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a drummer. And then I ended up going to I

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ended up going to Europe with those guys.

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You were on tour with Walls of Jericho all Show

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Perish Fear of My Thoughts and all these kick ass bands.

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Back in two thousand and seven, I'm playing drums and

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I'm like, like, like I wasn't. I was a good drummer,

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but I wasn't like a drummer drummer, you know. I

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was like, I'm a bass player, dude. I'm a bass player, really,

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holy shit, why are you playing drums. I'm like, we

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needed a drummer. I just did what we had to do,

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and then I just stuck at drums. And that it's

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every Drummers are hard to come by, so as long

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as you can keep your temple be sild. I'm good

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at my changes. I usually I'm a touring experience. So

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now I'm a drummer. And so you know, but I

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can sing, I can play guitar, and I can't play

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bass too.

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So but I'm kind of you know, I'm a drummer.

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I guess, Well, since you were a Bassis, you I'll

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give you a trivia question. Do you know who's one

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of the most famous Bassis in history that never wanted

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to be bass? They were a guitarist, but there were

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three guitarists, and so one of them had to pick

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the short straw?

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Was it Steve Harris my Maiden?

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he's a badass Bassis saying it sounds like he's playing

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guitar when he plays bass, think.

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Of it, But I think he can poses most of

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the stuff for he made at one point anyway. But no,

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I you know, I think I know this answer, but

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I but I but who is it?

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Paul McCartney?

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Oh, yeah, you know what. I think I did know that.

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Man. Now, if you listen to it, like after I

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knew that day, I started listening to Beall's songs in

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different perspective, I'm like, oh, yeah, holy shit, sounds like

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he's playing the guitar but on the bass.

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Yeah, he's uh, he's legendary. What can I say? You know, like,

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you know I played I played that for some people

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like it's okay, it's kind of boring. I'm like, don't

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put him into the mix now and think like you're

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gonna be shocked, you know.

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I mean, think about what he did for music and

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think about who he was. You know. There's so many

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bands that people just everybody's.

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So like they just they want now, they want you know,

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it's all just like competition. But man, that guy. We

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wouldn't be where we are if it wasn't for guys

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like him. You know.

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Well, think about you know, talking about Ozzie. I mean

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like there would be no Ausie without the Beatles because

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Ozzy was a Beatles freak, you know. And without Ozzy

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there wouldn't be any of the metal that we have today.

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Yeah, someone just tell me a story thing. I'm all

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the true. They said that the way Zach Wild. They

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wanted to go see Zach Wild. He's doing zaz Sabbath,

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he's doing a tour.

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see him.

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And and I said, yeah, I can't wait to go

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see him. And someone said, you know, he accidentally got

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discovered for Ozzie. I didn't here, I didn't know this story,

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but apparently some scouts were going out looking at someone

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else and they randomly stopped by a bar and Zach

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Wild's and they're playing, like, hey, you want to record

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a demo for us or something, and like they that's

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how they found him. I'm like, that's just I mean,

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the guy is amazing and what a what a what

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a lucky draw?

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And you know I heard at first Ozzie didn't want him.

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I don't know, man, how Wild is?

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That Guy's amazing?

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I mean he's filling in for Dining Bang right now

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doing the whole well. I think I don't know what

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the future of Panteran is. But I went and saw

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that tour and I love Charlie Banante. He's one of

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my inspirations as a drummers, and I love Anthrax, and uh.

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I went and saw it and I was I was stoked. Man,

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it was pretty cool.

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I mean, in the back of my mind knowing all

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the stories and the beef with filling Selmo in the

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in the in the you know, I have a brothers

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and stuff that I think, Uh, is this really cool?

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But I enjoyed it.

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I thought that first too, but then there's the other

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side of it, like Vinnie would have been toy cool

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with Charlie playing drums, and Dime would have been toy

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cool with Zach playing guitar. Like they were perfect matches

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for if you're gonna do that to have them there.

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And you know, sometimes you guys squashed the beef too,

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Like I'm friends with Nsemo and he's he's pretty cool,

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and like, you know what, when you're young, sometimes you

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do stupid shit.

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And that's it.

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That's where I ended up too, Like I love Panta,

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and I mean, I don't know what their beef was,

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but you know, when you're riding around, especially as big

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as they were at the time, at the age they were,

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I mean, if you've ever been on the road before,

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you know, man, okay, I mean there's been plenty of

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times where you know, some of my brothers on the

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road I wanted.

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To yeah, but you know, you come home, you really

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sometimes they were doing some grueling Tori, So I mean,

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you know, it's easy, it's easy to hate your family

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and on those long road trips.

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Yeah, no doubt, and listen, you are a family and

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even your own family. You wouldn't want to be on

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those road trips with like or anybody your favorite people

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in the world. Sometimes they'd get annoying to you or

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you know, it's so grueling that you're so tired and

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