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welcome to the show. Seth from
a Doll's House. How are you?

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Hey, I'm good. How you
doing that? I'm doing phenomenal. One

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of the things right off the bat
I'm going to talk about is you give

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people like me hope, because like
I'm in my fifties and in my teen

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years I sang thrash metal and was
very involved in the Sunset strips scene.

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And then by time nineteen hit,
I was like, yeah, I'm going

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in a different direction because you know, of all the obvious reasons that you've

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experienced, I'm sure yourself. And
then I got in my fifties, I'm

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like, you know, I see
all these bands nowadays and people that I've

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met, and I'm like, you
know what I could just put a mask

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on start a band and nobody would
know. I'm fifty something years old,

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right right exactly. So I am
inspired though, because like you were doing

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this way long ago, also in
la and now you know, doing stuff

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again at this stage. I just
think it's cool as hell, and I

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think probably it makes you a better
musician than when you were younger. Well,

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I think that's definitely, definitely true. I mean, we've had a

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long time to get a lot better
at you know, playing in terms of

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just our individual instruments in the band, and certainly our songwriting I think has

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gotten much better over the years,
as you would expect. And you know,

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we were in the same age you're
talking about, you know, teenagers

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into our early twenties and you know, really just learning how to play and

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how to write songs, and you
know, at the earliest stages of that,

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and so yeah, certainly we're much
better players. And I think you

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know, obviously there's some degree not
a whole lot, but some degree of

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maturity that has taken hold over the
years as well that that certainly helps the

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process. And you know, to
your point, the one of the things

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I think that's been really interesting about
you know, trying to do this at

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you know, in our fifties.
Is I also think though, I think

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in large part because technology that I
think people are much more open to hearing

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music kind of from anywhere. And
I've been really encouraged that, you know,

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people much younger than I think we
thought would have interest in our music

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seem to have been taking some interest. And I think, you know,

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I have we have kids in the
band. Everybody's got kids. We've got

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kids ranging from you know, fourteen
to their mid twenties. And I know,

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for example, you know, my
older son who's twenty is he is

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really well versed in music from any
decade, you know, when we're talking

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about the rock or pop genres,
you know sort of largely writ and I

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include everything in that from you know, heavy metal thrash to you know,

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mainstream in the alternative rock, and
he just knows a lot about music from

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from every decade. And I think
because you know, of the ability to

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access music from anywhere and from all
the streaming platforms, there's just a lot

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more openness to hearing new music and
not being put off by the fact that,

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oh, you know, this band
is from you know, a country,

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a world away from us or these
guys are in their fifties, and

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that that alone has been really really
refreshing insight. That's been part of this

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whole thing. Yeah, that is
pretty cool when don't things I think is

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cool nowadays and somebody that also has
kids and grandkids. I mean, I

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can share my music with my kids
and my grandkids. That didn't happen when

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we were younger. It's like my
dad was listening to stuff like Frank Sinatra.

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It wasn't even like he was even
listening to Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.

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You know, it was it was
like it was so far apart from

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each other, like interestal sound like
noise. And nowadays parents and kids go

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to shows together because the music has
become like a commonality. Absolutely, and

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it is. And I think,
man, think you're exactly right because it's

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that shift. And I think we're
particularly people probably in our age range,

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and you know, give or take
a little on either side. You know,

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it's really because we're at the right
age where a lot of our parents

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were listening to music really before what
we really think of as modern rock and

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roll got started, and you taught
a safe Sinatra of things like that,

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you know, it's before the British
the first British invasion and all that,

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so that now the stuff you know
that we listen to and our kids look

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at us, it's just cool because
it is rock and it's been part of

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that sort of post rock revolution,
so that you know, people it is.

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It is great music, and not
that things like Sinatra aren't, but

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it certainly has. There's certainly more
to have in common, I think,

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and and I know what you're talking
about when you see people at different you

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know, shows with with their kids
and everybody's enjoying it well. And you

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know what blows my mind too to
your point of what you said before,

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is so I was at the first
Metallica show ever and I was just at

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Metallica Download, and when I was
saying I just said this, you know,

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to somebody else too, because I
was doing radio. I do radio

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coverage at all the like major festivals. But when I was sitting there watching

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metallicat Download, and like they're a
few years older than me, you know,

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but we're pretty close in the same
age. And they had like I

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don't know, one hundred thousand people
there to see them. And when I

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saw them at you know, in
La it was like twenty five of us,

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and there certainly wasn't going to be
anybody that was older than you know,

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twenty maybe, you know, and
and it just kind of blows my

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mind. Nowadays, I'll be at
like a Misfit show, and I'll see

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kids at a Fit show digging it. But then of course the average Misfits

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fan is going to be our age, you know, and it's just so

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wild to me, Like I think
about now, I'm like, I don't

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remember anybody my age at all the
gigs I went to in the eighties,

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right right, And you know,
hopefully it's one of those things that that

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you know, helps everyone feel feel
young and good about themselves, both both

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the people going to the shows and
the bands themselves. You know, yeah,

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yeah, you know, age,
age really is just a number,

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and it doesn't mean, you know, you can't love the music anymore.

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And I think it's awesome that bands
like you know, the Misfits are still

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still doing it, and you know, and obviously people that are going and

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enjoying it, and obviously Metallica is
just you know, that's amazing that you

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were there, you know, lay
back then to see them, you know,

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with twenty other people or so much
credible, I know, right,

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And you know, I also think
about the fact that if Metallica was fifty

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something years old, then me and
my bros probably would not have been at

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that show, you know. But
now now these kids love all these bands

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like it's It just kind of blows
my mind. There's so many bands that

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are in our age group that just
have huge followings. So that's you know,

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that's why I wanted to bring that
up from the beginning, because I

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think the greatest part about twenty twenty
three is that there is no age discrimination

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when it comes to music at all. Yeah. Yeah, And I think

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you're right, and it's you know, it's very encouraging to us that,

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you know, band with I think
the median age in our band is probably

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fifty two or fifty three. And
you know, we we you know,

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it's a self financed album. Then
our first singles bout and you know,

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for a band, you know,
not that we're setting the world on fire,

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but for a band you know,
kind of coming out of nowhere.

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You know, we're we're getting some
airplay on radio in different places around the

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country and seem to be doing well
on the streaming platforms, and I think

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it just confirms what you're saying,
that there is that that openness and that

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hopefully if the music is good,
which you know, help people like it.

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That yeah, people are receptive to
it, and as I said before,

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there's so many ways to get it
that I think that helps break down

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some of those barriers too. Yeah, one hundred and then so I also

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think this is cool. Okay,
So I hate genre labels because they always

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box artists in and it's like,
it's kind of ridiculous nowadays how many genres

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there are. But I saw you
guys described as chill rock, and if

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I was going to pick to name
a genre, that is a great name

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for a genre, and you guys
totally are like the poster child for that

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name of chill rock. I get. Well, it's the first I completely

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agree with you about, you know, having that knee jerk reaction to genres

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because I just think, you know, nobody wants to be put put in

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that box as a you know,
put in the box as a person or

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as you know, any kind of
artist or whatever. But you know,

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they are useful to some extent,
and I think it's funny. So I'll

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tell you the chill rock thing is
best that I can recall. That came

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from our producer, who's Brian Wheet
from the band Tesla and a great band,

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and we were very fortunate to have
him produce and mix our first album,

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and he really kind of coined that
term is kind of saying, you

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know, I don't know how else
to describe it, because it's definitely rock,

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but it's not really soft rock,
but it's you know, it's not

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There is kind of a mellow vibe
to some of it, and and yeah,

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I think it's a great I love
the label, right, It's like,

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I'm so anti label, but I
saw that, Like, man,

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that's the perfect label. See,
labels like that are cool because what does

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it really say? Does it say
you can't experiment as an artist? Does

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it say you can't like just be
creative? Now, it's not like that

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specific. It just it's a vibe, that's it. Yeah. Yeah,

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And I think one of the things
I like about it too that I think

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can note and maybe this is what
part of what you're responding to too,

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is that there's an element of,
you know, this might be worth listening

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to more than just a song,
right, You might want to listen to

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the album or a set of songs
from the album, because it kind of

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is a mood and and I really
love that about music, And you know,

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I think that's one of the challenges
with all the the great things that

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come with the technology. I do
think one of the things that it started

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to get lost is the concept of
a really good album. It just seems

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like so much of new music is
coming at people as you know, a

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single or yeah, you kind of
know there's an album out there, but

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it doesn't seem to have the same
grab that at least you know, where

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I was growing up, you really
were looking forward to the whole album.

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And I think there's something about that
that chill rock kind of vibe that lends

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itself to thinking a little bit more
about And we certainly approach recording our album

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as an album. We want people
to listen to it as an album,

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and we get not everybody will,
but that's certainly part of who we are

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as a band. You know,
you were saying all that stuff, and

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I was like so on point with
it, because I mean that is what

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the chill rock does kind of describe. It brings me back to sitting on

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my balcony and Marina del Rey headphones
on listening to an album looking at the

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album cover and like gain lost from
everything, and that that to me just

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describes chill rock is like just being
able to chill and get away from all

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the insanity of the world and go
on a journey, you know. And

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it's like your time music. It's
just like you couldn't just listen to one

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song on Dark Side of the Moon, like you got to listen to the

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whole album, right right exactly,
So how do people connect to you guys

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on socials on the web, check
out your music, anything you want them

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to know about you, and certainly
stream the new song hey wait, yes

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please? So you know, hey
wait, you'll find on all the streaming

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platforms Spotify, Apple, Pandora,
et cetera. There's a nice video for

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it on YouTube. You can get
to all that stuff from our website at

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dolfhousemusic dot com and find out more
information about the band. And really appreciate

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you talking with me today, and
I'm glad you're enjoying the song as well.

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Well, you know what, thanks
for giving us great music and also

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giving us great music at this stage
because again, like to me, that

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is the coolest thing. And I
think, you know, take a lot

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like that whole sunset strip days.
There's probably bands that I was friends with

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that we've been way more successful now
in their fifties than they were then,

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because then it was just kind of
a shit show a lot of the time,

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you know. Yeah, and that's
where yeah, and you may know,

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I mean that's where we were.
You know, we were on the

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on the strip and playing a lot
of those clubs. And you know what,

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I realized, I think your point's
exactly right. I think what was

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really missing for us back then was
we we just didn't have really an adult

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in the room with us, right, we didn't have somebody to say,

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Okay, here's what you here's what
you should actually be thinking about doing next,

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or you know, just just any
of that, right, any kind

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of guidance or management to think about
how do you sort of try to take

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this thing to the next level.
Whereas now, obviously, you know,

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with age hopefully comes a little bit
of wisdom, and you know, now

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we're actually working with people who know, you know, know what they're doing

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and all these different aspects of the
music business. And so it's really great,

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it's very enjoyable. We're learning a
ton and it's a great time to

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be trying to do it. You
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too, because I think back of
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in the eighties and the Sunset Strip
days, and you're so right. I

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was like fifteen sixteen, and the
adults were the eighteen year olds. That's

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who we thought the adults were,
right, right, right. I mean,

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it's the time in your life where
you think thirty is ancient, you

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know, right, yeah, yeah, but it's no, it's very,

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very, very true. And it's
interesting because since the singles come out and

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we've been talking with folks who've had
a lot of conversations about this, and

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I've talked to a lot of people
who've also said had similar experiences to what

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you're describing from your experience, but
also saying which I can relate to,

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is you know, I think it's
probably a good thing we didn't meet with

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much more success than because number one, I'm not sure how long it would

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have lasted, and number two,
I'm not sure how prepared. You know,

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a lot of people really are at
that point, and there's sort of

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squander opportunities or just you know,
screw up your life. I think there's

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a big reason for that whole twenty
seven thing, you know, where the

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artists, you know, diet twenty
seven, probably because of what you're saying,

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because like it is too much to
handle, you know, at such

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a young age, and especially during
those times where they were throwing women at

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you, drugs at you, and
money at you and taking everything else away

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from you, right right, So
yeah, it's very interesting. Yeah,

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totally. Well it's badass that you're
here now creating new music and that's also

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badass. And thanks for being on
the Adventures of pipe Man. I appreciate

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it. It's great talking to you. Thank you for listening to the Adventures

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of plate Man on w for CUI
Radio.