PipemanRadio Interviews Bullets and Octane

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Radio. And I'm here with our next

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guest man. They have some killer
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that you're going to have to check
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but that's just the album cover.
The video's bad ass. So let's

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welcome to the show. Gene from
Bullets and Octane, How are you?

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Hey, Hey, Here we are
Man, Here we are. And you

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know, we were just having a
conversation before going on the interview about my

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days in LA and your days arriving
to LA. And you know, there's

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a lot of stories I wish I
could share with you from the eighties Sunset

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strip, but I don't remember any
of them that you don't want to You

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don't want to go to jail either, right, So I pretty much showed

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up like right when you were nursing
your decade of hangover, right, totally

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Billy. Have you ever seen the
meme? Okay, there's this meme of

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the eighties rock star and the rock
star today. Have you ever seen that

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meme? Hold on, gosh lost, ye We're back, Okay, okay,

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no, I have not seen that, so okay. So it's it's

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so funny because it shows the eighties
rock star and the eighties rock star is

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lying on the ground guitar in hand, passed out and Jack Daniels in the

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other hand, the ball of Jack
Daniels in the other hand, and today's

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rock star is sitting at a table
with the guitar on his lap and typing

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into a computer. Yeah that sounds
about right, yeah, right, yeah,

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yeah, I mean it's funny you
talked about, you know, we

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were talking a little bit about,
you know, the Motley Cruzeys and stuff

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like that. I remember, right
before Bullets kind of had a little bit

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of a break, somewhat in the
middle two thousands, I was working at

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a Domino's pizza, you know,
being a driver in the daytime, and

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all the things just kind of started
happening, and I remember, I don't

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know how they found me, but
people started calling the restaurant. So I

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remember it was just be me and
some kid manager, of course, and

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that's that's the way it always a
seventeen year old manager running, you know,

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the musician guy in his twenties or
something, and he'd be like,

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hey, man, phone and it
would be record labels and different things.

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And one time, I remember,
I'm wearing the outfit, I'm folding boxes,

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the apron and everything. Dude,
it was just so humbling. Let's

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just use that word. And I
remember, like, you got a phone

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call, man, I'm like,
okay, who is it? Nicky six

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is on the phone, and I'm
like, what is going? How well,

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how did that even come to be? So I'm like huh, And

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you know, he was like,
hey man, I heard your song Pirates.

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It's really great. I'd like to
maybe possibly use it for brides of

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Destruction or something. It was something
along those lines. And it just all

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these things started happening, and it
was it was happening really really fast and

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really really strange. And I remember, anyway, long story, I went

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to West Hollywood and was going up
an escalator standing next to him to have

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a meeting, and he looked at
me with all my tattoos and he's like,

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man, what are you gonna do
if this doesn't work? And I

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remember, I mean literally the way
I put that is like this, man,

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It's like it's like a kid tucking
in his baby blanket into his shirt

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standing on the edge of a building
next to Superman and Superman's like you ready

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to jump? And then he looks
at you and goes, what if the

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cape doesn't open? You know,
are you what are you gonna do?

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And so to me, it's like, what are you talking about? Like

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this is partially your fault, the
reason why I'm all tattooed and I moved

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out here. We're gonna ride.
Aren't we gonna ride Harley's and go to

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the strip club together? Aren't we
going to girls? Girls? Girls?

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The shit out of this? Come
on, man, And so just really

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eye opening moments along the way of
like, fuck, this is kind of

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this is kind of real. And
when you're when you're heroes if you will,

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or whatever you want to call it, are kind of telling you,

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like, you know, this might
not happen. I'm thinking like, man,

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I don't know, Like I've watched
so many headbanger's ball things that it

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has to happen, right, I
mean, this is what happens because you

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never hear the story of the people
who don't make it. Why would you,

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you know? So, nah,
you wouldn't. And there are a

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lot of bands from my time at
the Sunset Strip that I love that who

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knows. There's one band in particular
it's so funny that I was really close

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friends with. I'd road eat their
stuff and all that, and I even

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knocked my teeth out at their show
and they were gone for like ever.

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And then I get this email like
several months ago about this band releasing their

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first album in like thirty some odd
years and can you interview them? And

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it was that band, and I
was like wow, and then he got

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on with me. I'm like,
I don't know if you'll remember me,

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because you know, it's kind of
hard from those days to remember people,

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you know. But I'm the one
that knocked my teeth out at your show.

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And he's like, oh my god, I always wondered what happened to

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you, and like I felt so
bad, and like you're You're like it

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was great too, because you tell
your kids stuff and they don't believe you,

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like, and so I've told my
kids a bunch of stories from back

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then. And it's like they're probably
thinking their head, Yeah right, dad,

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And I told them I'm like an
legend in La Medal because I ended

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this band's show by knocking my teeth
off diving off a Marshall stack. And

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he says literally in the interview without
it being prompt and he's like, yeah,

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man, you're like the most tragic
thing that ever happened to La Medal

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ever. And I was like,
thanks. Now, I complain this for

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my kids and they know I'm not
full of shit, not on everything anyway,

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right exactly. Imagine being proud of
the fact that you're a legend for

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knocking your teeth out, for being
an idiot, Yeah, dude, I

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mean I can't even imagine what you
experienced, man, because you know,

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I have my own little weird memories
of you know, like we'd go up

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there when we first moved here and
there was that Steel Panther obviously, but

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they were called Metal Shop and they
were playing at the Viper Room every Monday

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night, and that was you know, like I said, we arrived a

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little late to the party, as
I said earlier to you, and I

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just remember like all these things like
Chad Smith from It Hot chili peppers would

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like get up there. You know, probably had some drinks and he threw

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the snare drum and they were freaking
out at the end of the ship when

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the curtains closed the viper room,
you know, they always had the curtains

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closing. And I hear the band
like, why'd you let him throw the

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snare? I didn't let him,
man, he just threw the you know,

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it was always something. And just
sitting on that little wall ledge outside

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the liquor store next door, right
and I'm just, you know, scared

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and young, and you know,
everything's just fucking insane, and all of

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a sudden, there's this gas guy
and glasses at night. It's midnight,

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it's black as shit out. It's
got glasses on his hair and we're just

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talking. And you know, I've
never been good at a poker face in

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rock and roll. I've always just
been a nerdy kind of like, yeah,

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what's up, you know, hey, let's talk about our feelings and

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yeah. And I remember this dude
and he was I'm like, you playing

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a band too, and he's like, yeah, my name is Tamey Man.

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I got this band, you know, Faster Pussycat or something. And

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I'm just like, what are you
talking about? How's this? What do

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you why are you sitting right here? So out there. It's just like

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random stuff. You just like walk
around and all of a sudden, there's

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Slim Jim Phantom, he's got the
cat club at the time across the way,

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you know, and it's like,
holy shit, it's a fucking straight

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cat. There's a stray cat,
a little stray crat right here. Like

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so it's just so mind blowing the
different things that can happen that are just

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everyday stuff that we only dreamed about
back in Missouri. Like it was just

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stuff of legends. We didn't have. You couldn't watch it on your computer.

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So it's like every Saturday, I'd
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cable, and we would sit there
and watch Headbanger's Ball and Saturday Night Live

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and just just lose ourselves into the
TV and just you wouldn't even blink because

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you could you can't rewind it.
So you really had to soak it in,

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man, And you know, so
to hear that, you got to

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actually be around most of the stuff
that we only got to wonder about.

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You know, it's really so cool. Oh yeah, there's I have so

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many stories of stuff like, okay, check this out. I was at

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a Slayer show and Striper open for
Slayer, if you can imagine, okay,

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and so I'm right up at the
stage and I'm a total Slayer van

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okay, and hated Straper, you
know, because it got you know.

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That was the shitty part about La
back then is you had so many gatekeepers

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and like you could, like when
I started listening to Slayer Metallic and stuff,

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my friends were like, we need
to burn your Motley Cruise. Shit,

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you can't be having that right,
you know. And it was just

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stupid, but it is what it
is. So yeah, it was funny.

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I was at the stage and the
guitarist for Striper he bends over and

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his cross is hanging down in my
face, and so I grabbed it and

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I flipped it upside down. King
would be so proud. RIGHTHI though,

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right, Oh my god, it
was funny. Yeah, I was.

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Here's a good story. You're ready
for this this You're gonna shit on this

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one. I've said this one a
lot of times because it's just such a

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great story. I was seeing this
band, they were playing their first gig

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ever, like first like real gig
ever, and they were really freaking good

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and there were like twenty five of
us to see them. And the guitarists

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of the band comes down after the
gig, because this is what happened in

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La. After the band played,
they'd come interact with you. You'd walk

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with them up to the rainbow,
like I go to a rainbow now,

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I'm like, how the hell did
I get in there at fifteen years old?

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Oh, that's right. And I
was walking in with Motley Crue,

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you know. And so they basically
this guy said, gives me his business

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cars, a business car, and
it said on it. Are you ready

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for this? Metallica power metal?
Dave Mustaine, No fucking way, dude.

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Yeah, there wasn't even a thrash
metal yet. So Metallica was power

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metal for like a minute. And
Dave is sitting here talking to me and

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handing me his business card. I
wish I had today. Everybody was gonna

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have it. I'm like, no, I didn't think it meant to.

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I was fucking fifteen years old or
probably somewhere around there, like I thought,

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what the fuck is this bullshit?
I probably threw it in the car

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yeah, you know, it's like, damn, I would want to have

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that. Oh man, that would
be amazing to have that today. Yeah,

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are you there? We got audio
here? Hello? Hello, hear

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me? Now we're back all right. My engineer will added that out.

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I don't know what happened there.
Yeah, yeah, it blew my mind

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because it's like, okay, a
cup of stage. I don't think anybody

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hands me a business card. I'm
like, what that was, I'm here

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for a show. And then,
like I think nowadays, i'd like to

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interview Dave and have that business card
and like just pull it out and hand

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it to them and say do you
remember giving me this? But I can't

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do that, you know, but
that would be a cool last thing,

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you know. Yeah. I mean
if you remember the details of it,

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maybe you can make a mock of
a mock one up, just just for

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sentimental reasons, to you know,
be like this is something like this.

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You know, Oh, he'll remember
for sure, because you know, it's

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funny what these dudes do. Remember, Like I was good friends with Armored

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Saint, like really good friends with
them. I was their first merch company,

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actually, me and my bro.
They didn't have shirts or pins,

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were like, can we make shirts
and pins and sell them at your show?

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We'll give you fifty percent. They're
like sure. We were like fifteen

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years old. So Joey the Basis
and I were talking like a couple of

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years ago about this, and he
even informed me of something I never knew.

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And he goes, yeah, you
know that picture of Lars with a

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guitar wearing an armored Saints shirt.
I'm like, yeah, he goes,

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that's your shirt and he still has
it, and he goes, he he

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still has it. I'm like,
really, I don't even have one anymore.

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He goes, neither do I.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot

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of that. I've never been good
at collecting all this stuff from all the

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years I moved so much and had
such a crazy life that I name,

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you know. It was just like
fuck it, I don't care, you

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know. And they're like, why
don't you should have that stuff to hang

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up their trophies And I'm like,
I remember all the shit. Man,

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it's all good. But I realized
that not for me, but for story

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purposes or later on down the line. It's like, there's no proof of

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it other than my mouth, you
know, like telling me random we were

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talking about that before the show.
It's like, we didn't have social media,

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we didn't have the Internet. There
was no roof of all the shenanigans

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that were going on, thank god
though, you know, right, yeah,

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but you know that's kind of the
sacrifice, isn't it. So you

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got away with things and stuff like
that, but at the same time you

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have zero to show for it.
Yeah right, I was going to tell

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you too, It's interesting how that
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problems with it to this day,
with writing songs and music and picking albums

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and stuff. Is that whole policing
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because even like back in when I
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Slayer covers at a church called Saint
Jude, And I remember I took my

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dad's two jazz drum kits and smashed
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set, you know what I mean. So it would it would it would

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be like Dave Lambardo and all that
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how much it goes. I mean, I'm from a small little town out

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of Saint Louis basically, and all
the metal kids would be We're sitting on

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the walls at the church when we
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even they were like someone played a
little Metallica riff and they were like,

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fuck Metallica, Megadeth, and it's
like, man, it traveled so far,

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even into a small town of like
that weird thing of if you liked

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you could like a bunch of the
right bands, but if you happen to

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like one of the wrong bands,
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You know, it had to be
Exodus and Anthrax and Slayer and like that

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whole thing. But if you like
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was two hair metal, Metallica cut
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fucking out. You know, like
all of these ridiculous rules that we had

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to follow, and I still kind
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battle within man of like, you
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a heavy band in the UK and
Sweden, and I tend to, as

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I get older, write a little
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why you see all these cats that
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of a sudden they had they're havingn
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and they're doing that whole alt rock
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like your testos throne changes. Possibly
maybe it's a little bit more into

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the psychosis of it, but you
just don't feel as pissed off, and

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I don't really feel like writing about
skulls and you know, like stupid shit

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like I just it's maybe it's just
a young tribal energy of just you know,

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being angry. But I have more
important shit to say, and sometimes

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playing heavy metal doesn't really fulfill my
personal thing. But then I realize there's

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people on the other side of the
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about like Rob Zombie, right,
that guy knows who he is. He

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does yoga, he eats his tofu. He's very focused from what I hear

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in that kind of way. So
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his patio with his tea in the
morning and sits there and goes, yeah,

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yeah, I'm a super beast.
Yeah. He just knows to he

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knows who, Like, that's his
product. He makes movies and horror films

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and shit, So he could put
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take it or leave it. The
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he's somebody else, And I think
that's a weird journey along the way,

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especially when you're at a level that
I'm at where I'm not a big

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band, I'm not a big artists, so I'm still at the proving I

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have to always prove myself. I
don't just walk on stage and no matter

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what, I fucking do shit into
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And so it's like I'm constantly still
doing that. I remember touring with

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bands like Cky and a lot of
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stuff like that, where those fans
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a full crowd and it's just me
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guys or whatever, and it would
be every day, I have to fight

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you. I have to fucking fight
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And so that meant the songs had
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louder. I couldn't have a break
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word in to get the crowd riled
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older, it's like I'm sick of
fighting for shit. Like that. It's

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like it should be a thing where
I could slip in different types of songs,

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different types of things at the age
that I'm at and have everybody kind

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of dig it. It keeps you
alive, that keeps you young. But

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there's just some times where you see
folded arms and you're like, all right,

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let me fucking win you over.
God damn, how long have I

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been doing this? You know?
Right? Right? Well? I love

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of all that you're saying there.
I think the listeners need to hear that

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because it's so true in so many
ways. First of all, the angst

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you have as a teenager, it's
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later stages and listen as a musician, like you want to evolve and get

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better at your craft. The reason
you start punk rock band is because you

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don't know how you're how to fucking
play the thing, you know, so

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once you learn, it's like even
Hetfield has said that he hates that.

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He said it's funny. He says
they play Seeking Destroy at the San Jose

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Sharks games, and he hates that
they played the old version because he said,

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I didn't even know how to sing, like he wants end to play

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the version where he actually knows how
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don't see the artist point of view. And then funny, I was interviewing

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Joe from the Vandals, and he
go, and we're kind of friends,

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so he knows I wouldn't asked this
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the interview because everybody asks, he
goes, and don't, hey, pipe

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man, don't ask me when the
Vandals are coming out with new songs,

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because nobody wants to hear fifty year
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you know, I get that,
man. There's a lot of bands that

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I see where I mean, Metallica
is a good example of that as well.

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It's like I've seen these things and
it's cool that they kind of get

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ahead of it, get in front
of it where they'll go, you guys

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want to hear something new, Hey, you want to hear something old,

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you know, And it's like do
we you know why why even at this

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point, I mean, unless it's
just completely merely and purely for yourself,

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you are making the next album at
this point. If you're any of those

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bands like fuck it man, go
out play Master of Puppets, give them

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the fucking ride the Lightning, give
them all that shit, Maybe not do

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the weird snare drum album right and
just get on with the show and say

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fuck it. You know, I
don't know, Oh yeah, no doubt,

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no doubt. Like me, I
went to their first show ever,

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so I'm gonna kill them all fan. And it's like when Black came out,

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I was like, fuck those posers. I'm never see them again,

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and I still love them to this
day. Like that, that was that

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young idiot saying, yeah, you
know, I completely get it. Man.

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I was in a weird spot,
bro. I was in like a

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very weird thing. My parents are
both like, you know, jazz musicians.

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So my dad was a big band
jazz guy. He taught Dave Weckel

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how to play drums, you know. From the early age. I was

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named Jane from gene Krupa Lewis from
Louie Belson, these you know, big

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band drummers, so I had that
element. Then the people next door listened

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to classic rock, and then my
friends listened to punk rock, and my

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brother was into butt rock. So
I had all these different elements and that's

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why when people ask me like the
most basic shit in interviews, about like

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what's your favorite album, what's your
favorite this, And I'm like, I

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don't really have that. I have. I do like top I do like

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top forty music, and I do
like catchy fucking songs, and I like

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it across the board, man,
I listened to everything, like I can't

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imagine what bullets would sound like if
I wasn't influenced by the early Brian Setzer

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orchestra stuff. Not not so much
as job whale shit, but it's like

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those elements come in. And when
I worked with Page Hamilton from Helmet that

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he produced one of our albums,
we like hit it off instantly because I

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was looking at him like I remember
Helmet from the nineties, this is going

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to be great. I love that
shit. And he I didn't know he

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was a jazzer, you know,
so all of a sudden he heard my

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simple little rock songs that were pretty
shitty, but he heard these weird jazz

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changes that I didn't fucking know that
they were there, but he did,

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and he helped kind of pull that
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shit that I don't even realize.
I'll be in the dentist office, man,

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and whatever that music is they pipe
in at the in elevators and dentist

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office, that weird soft rock Chicago
and Steely Dan and like that weird thing

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whatever that is. That's the shit
that I subconsciously stole a lot from for

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Bullets. I'd be in there getting
drilled on, and all of a sudden,

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I'd hear like, you know,
okay, freaking we're not in love

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anymore, you know, And I'm
like hearing a bridge and I go,

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oh my god. On my heavy
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section for a lead guitar section,
right, So I love that about music.

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And you mentioned and earlier, like
we were talking about Slayer. I

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always use them as an example,
man, because with one thing that pisses

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me off about, like the art
thing. I get it, it's music

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business, second word business. I
get that argument. But I imagine music

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being like this art palette. You
have all these paints on your thing,

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but you're stuck in metal. Let's
say metal carry king metals red and yellow,

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and your whole life red and yellow, red and yellow, and one

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day you look down and you go, man, a hint of turquoise would

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really set this fucking painting off.
And I just kind of find it,

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like, why the fuck don't we
do that. I remember one of my

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guitar tech tech friends worked for Slayer
and Guns N' Roses, and I had

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to ask him. I'm like,
dude, so at soundcheck, does Slayer

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ever play fucking Sweet Home Alabama anything
other than metal? And He's like,

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now, dude, they just do
the metal thing. And I'm like,

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ah, fuck, I'd lose my
fucking shit if I was touring for decades

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and just having to go shit every
day and not just once in a while.

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Go hey, you guys want to
fucking rock a Sweet Caroline just for

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the shit of it, Let's just
do it? Come on, you know

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nice? See I love that.
That's why people need the listener shit,

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because I mean, that's it right
there. I think music should be unique

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and it should be like that's the
thing problem with metal nowadays, it's like

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they use this algebraic equation, this
is how metal has to sound. But

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I think the key to great music
is something that stands out, that's unique

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and that you can show different sides
of you. And it would be boring

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Ollie from bringing me to Rise and
they've been giving them so much shade lately

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for the different music, and he's
like, hey, I don't want to

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write the same song over and over
again, you know. And that's it

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right there. So tell everybody how
they can check out your new video space

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Lord Symphony. That's a badass,
and how they can connect to you guys

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on socials on the web all that
great shit. Thanks man. Yeah,

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we're Bullets and Octane. If you
go to our bulletsin Octane official YouTube,

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you could check it out. This
year alone, we've put out like a

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crazy amount, like ten videos,
ten singles, just pumping out as much

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stuff as possible. Some is great, some is a little off, painted,

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pale, strange, but it's everything. It's everything that matters to us.

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So go to Bullets and Octane official
YouTube. Go to Bolts and Otane

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official Instagram. I'm always posting silly
shit my day to day weird walks and

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vamps between you know, jogging and
weird shit and then straight up just music

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stuff, and you know, I
try to keep things honest. Go check

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it out space Lord Symphony, Bullets
and Octane. We got a bunch of

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new cool things I wish I could
talk about right now that I can't wait

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to talk to you, hopefully about
in another month or so. It's gonna

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be It's gonna be a really cool
year. Man. I'm very excited about

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it. I love it. Let's
do it. And I know you have

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an album coming out this year to
be determined, so that'll be cool.

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And man, I just gotta check
you guys out because I like, as

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soon as I saw this video,
I was like, man, that's badass.

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I got to interview these people.
And so everybody needs to listen to

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you. And do you have any
final words you want to leave the listeners

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with. Uh, keep an open
heart, keep an open mind, always

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be a fan of everything music.
And thanks for sticking around with you know,

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true artists and true people who struggle
and put stuff out no matter what

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it takes. Just thank you for
being a fan of all things music,

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all things rock and roll. Everybody, Uh no better words have zaid.

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Thanks for your great music, and
thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe

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Man. You got it. Thank
you so much, brother, Thank you

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for listening to the Adventures of Pipe
Main. I'm w for CUI Radio.