Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Spin Doctors at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Hi, you love done too?

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Yes, that's true. See why for you young.

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This is the Pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio.

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And I'm here with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors.

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And Eric Shankman of the Spin Doctors.

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Nice here at Bourbon and beyond this, sir, and we

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have the triple play. This is the last day of

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your tour with Jim Blossoms and Blues Traveler and you're

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all playing here.

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That's right, yeah, all together, we're keeping the outfit together.

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How about that new cover song? Are you guys gonna

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play it together on stage, all three of you?

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Yes?

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Yeah, we've been doing Oasis is Don't Look Back in

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Anger and it's just killing man. What a great song,

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What a great band. We've been saying all summer long,

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like Oasis is winning this. I think we were close second.

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Close second.

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Yeah, No, it's good and everybody's we get somebody from

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each of the band's is going to come up.

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So I love it.

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I love it. That's why I love when bands are

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on tour and they all play the same day of

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a festival, because you just never know what you're going

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to expect.

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I don't think we've ever done that, have we?

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I was surprised, like it was surprising that this is

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happening in order. It's cool, It's really cool.

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It's easier on you guys too, right, Well, you know,

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we get to stick with the program, and we like

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to kind of.

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I like to do the same thing every day. I

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need structure because I'm a lead singer.

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And it's definitely easier to find the buses when they're

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all together because they all look the same.

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So I know, right I walk by, I'm like, you

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would never know whose buses who out?

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Yeah, all summer long, we've been like, our bus is

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the one with the trailer, but there's like, you know,

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fifty buses here with trailers.

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Right, Yeah, but the Jim Blessons have a red bus,

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so it stands out. I just look for the red bus.

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They had to be different than that, Yeah, they do. So,

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how has the tour been so far? Like through the

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whole tour, do you have any great stories from the tour.

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We've had a really great time. We ended with a

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bit of a ruckus because Poper John Popper, the Great

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John Popper of Blues Traveler, world famous, best harmonica player

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in the world, incredible singer. He got taken out with COVID,

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so it was like, how we gonna like make the

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gig happen. So I was like, I will sing, but anyway,

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hook and run around with you guys so we can

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make your show happen. And like I was like, I

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got this. And then I started listening to this stuff

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because I've heard I grew up with John Popper and

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went to high school with him. I've heard those songs

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a million times, but like from the side of the stage,

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can't quite hear all the lyrics. I started digging into

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it because I had to sing it in like four hours,

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you know, And I was like, what have I gotten

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myself into? But we kind of went out there and

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just reballed it. And so I did two gigs like that,

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thinking okay, well what else could possibly happen? And then

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the other day a little rock Arkansas, Aaron trips on

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the sidewalk and breaks his elbow. So we're finishing out

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the tour with our great friend Van Romaine, who's doing

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a great job filling in on Trump's But you know,

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it has been a little bit crazy, wouldn't you say.

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Eric, Yeah, it's been crazy. I can't believe that we've

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actually found somebody to fill in. So COVID busted elbow.

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Something else happened to at the beginning, What the hell

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else happened?

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There was some other thing that seems like a million

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years ago. Yeah, I think dinosaurs room the earth and

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a comet hit or something like that.

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And then you guys almost didn't play today because lightning

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hit the first wheel last night.

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Yeah, luckily it didn't hit anybody.

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Yeah, people get online and find the picture of the

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lightning hitting the ferreshel because it's incredible. I just heard.

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I heard though apparently that happens all the time here,

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Like can you imagine all the time lightning hitting the

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first Well, it might be time to take the first.

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Wheel back or like put up a lightning rod or something.

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You know, don't go up, just don't go up with

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a lightning storm.

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You know. If you hear lightning, if you hear thunder,

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get off the Ferris wheel. That's the spin doctor's advice

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to you ladies there.

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It is so I think it's so so cool what

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you were saying, because that's live music, okay, Like live

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music is full of fumbles, mistakes, things happening and I

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think that's what makes it great.

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Oh yeah, people love to see the fallibility of humans

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on stage, you know what I mean. Like, it's just

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something that people love to see. If it's too perfect, frankly,

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it's a bit boring to me.

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Me too. Like one of my favorite memories ever was

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the nineteen eighty three US festival, Van Hawin's headlining and

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they start to play. Eddie starts playing and talk about

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love and he's looking over at Dave because Dave's not

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doing anything. And then all of a sudden, Dave goes

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to three hundred thousand people, I fucking forgot the word.

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Yeah, man, and they all roared everybody else like.

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That was the best shit ever. Yep, except one dude.

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One dude heckled him and he arned to me, goes,

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I will fuck your girlfriend, And that's rock and roll.

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Well, you know, that's one way of handling things out

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here in the world of rock and roll. That's I

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know that guy. But we know a lot of examples

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of that dude right right, And you know what, he's

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probably it is probably not gonna work out for him,

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so hot.

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Yeah, that's usually what I call the I love you

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hate you guy.

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I do right, Yeah, yeah, and he's the and that's

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the guy who ends up like alone that night too.

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So I want to know what it is that's kept

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you coming back year after year all these years, Like,

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what is it that drives you to keep doing this?

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No fucking idea.

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I got two answers. I got two answers, like one

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the music to these guys. I don't know how these

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guys feel about me, but they're my best friends.

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Yeah.

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I mean we've been through and we it hasn't always

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been easy, and we've been through all kinds of all

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kinds of like ups and downs and difficulties, but here

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we are, thirty five years later. We've always worked it out.

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We know that. And I would say this young bands

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out there listening, like, if you find a group, there's

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plenty of amazing musicians out there that never find a

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great group to play with. So if you find people

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that you have an amazing musical rapport with that put

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your ego aside and like and work it out because

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it's worth it because you might be like the greatest

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player in the world, But if you don't have like

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a great group to play with, you're never gonna like

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reach the same kinds of heights that you could with

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people that you can really play with.

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You don't have to be perfect, you just have to

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be present nice.

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I love that.

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Yeah, man, I.

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Look at some of the icons throughout history. They weren't

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necessarily the best musician or the best singer, but they

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had the best group.

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Well you look at the Rolling Stones. I mean, those

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guys are like amazing players in a certain kind of way,

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but what they really have is just the synergy, the

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way Keith and Charlie Watts play together and a thing

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that happens when they start playing. I think we have

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that too. I think we have this incredible musical chemistry

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and we're really good friends.

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And that's important too. And as a listener, somebody out

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in the crowd while you're playing, you can tell whether

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the band is having that chemistry together and having a

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good time, and you can tell when they don't. And

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it's a much better show when you see that. You guys, yeah,

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are having fun.

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How I have fun? If you're not having when it's right,

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everybody knows.

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Man.

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You can't you can't see it, but you can feel it.

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What can you possibly accomplish after this? After all these years,

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Like what goals do you have now?

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Like I would like to get another bull terrier.

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Okay, and well you're gonna name them, probably like I

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don't know, probably a human name this time, Like you know,

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maybe Kevin.

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That would be funny.

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Kevin. Kevin's a great name for vulldok.

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Kevin the Cookie.

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And then maybe you could be brought on like Warp Tour.

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You just go Kevin Lyman and say hey, and named

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the dog after you so we could Warp Tour. Here

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you go.

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You just want to keep I mean, my goal is

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just to keep growing as a musician. I feel like

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I'm finally figuring out how to sing. I just like

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the goal is more just like to keep doing it better, tighter,

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and just to you know, to stay healthy and to

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stay in the moment rather than constantly being like I

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wish I had this, I wish I had that, I

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want this, I want that to be like just standing there.

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When I was six years old, I used to stand

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on the back of my couch and look out the

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bay window of my living room and like we lived

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on a little cul de sac. I would look out

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at the cul de sac and I would imagine it

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full of people and I would sing like home on

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the Range or something like that, and like, I look

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at it the people now and I'm doing that. That's

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what I'm doing. I'm still like that seven year old

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kid looking out the window singing to the cul de Sac,

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and I just want to keep that going.

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That is the coolest answer to that question. I love that.

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So you guys got to play. Yeah, which means kicking

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you out of this interview. Is there any final words

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you want to say before we leave?

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Come see the Spin doctors.

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If you don't see us today, come see us some

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other time, because we're presently on fire in our own opinion.

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Yeah. If you come out and you see a show

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you don't think it's a really great show, we'll give

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your money back. And one more thing. Two we got

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a new record out. It's called Face Full of Cake.

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It's our best record since our first record. It's on

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Capitol Records. That's a major label, and folks, that means

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it's good. There it is.

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It's definitely good because it's you guys, and I'm so

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looking forward to your set. And thanks for being on

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the Adventures pipe Man, thanks for having us.

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Brother. I need to play the Fucky tune.

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Hey, this is Chris Barren and Eric Schankman.

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We're the Spin Doctors and you're listening to the pipe

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bring a boom box. Thank you for listening to the

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