Sept. 13, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews Dead West at Rocklahoma 2023
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Dead West at Rocklahoma. The band discuss their passion for pure rock and roll and honing in the energy of the genre to create their own authentic sound. The band speaks on...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Dead West at Rocklahoma. The band discuss their passion for pure rock and roll and honing in the energy of the genre to create their own authentic sound. The band speaks on the importance of camaraderie in the band and how having no drama makes touring that much easier. Pipeman and the band share stories from the 80s and 90s and how the rock scene has changed over the years. You can find Dead West at DeadWestRocks.com and Dead West Rocks on all their social media platforms. You can find their latest release “Lover” is on all streaming platform!
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The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.
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with Vinny Sky, dead West,
Jay Weldy, Tommy Ray guitar, Chris
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Storm bass guitar, Johnny Smoke lead
guitar. Nice. First, I just
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want to say right off the bat, you guys look fucking badass and people
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need to buy your merch. Just
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yeah, that's the one that we
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have to go check it out on
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talking about, because you can't explain
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go to the store. You could
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be shipped to you in a couple
of days. Nice. So tell them
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our listeners who have never heard you, guys, what is dead West all
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about? Well, dead West is
five guys committed to rock and roll.
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I mean real rock and roll.
I mean we got considered as at one
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point, uh Ted Nugit meets Jackal
you know, so that's pretty cool.
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Yeah, that was the recent comment. You know. So we thought that
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was really cool because we opened up
for Jackal and that was awesome. We
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had a great time with them.
Talk about a loud show, Jackal's one
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loud show. Nice. And I
like that you said real rock and roll
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because there's a lot of not real
rock and roll nowadays. Oh my god.
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And I talked about this all the
time, like these some of these
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bands they just they put in like
some algebraic equation to make their music,
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and that's not what rock and roll
is about. Man. Yeah, we're
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just pure rock and roll, pure
energy. You know, even when going
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to studio live, we don't we
don't really do a lot of let's add
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this, let's add that we straight
out balls out rock and roll, you
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know, I mean it makes it
a lot easier. Were right, That's
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the way we write. We you
know, everybody in this band just just
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figures everything out, you know,
and we just play it raw. And
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we give a shout out to Mike
Ballenbeck over at full Well and he did
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our last album, which is Die
Like a Rebel, and it just came
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out awesome. And you know what, See, I love that you say
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that because I do my show the
same way because if, first of all,
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if you overproduce it, or if
you have scripts or whatever, it's
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not authentic. If you're if you're
gonna be in this industry, you need
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to be authentic. It is my
opinion that comes from doing what you just
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said, just just playing it.
Don't need to over emphasize anything in the
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studio like sometimes those flaws or what
come out to be the best shit ever.
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You know. Yeah, yeah,
it's actually really cool the way we
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are. The chemistry in this band
is just kind of one of those things.
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It's jels. You know, everybody
kind of knows what the next person's
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thinking and they add their own little
thing into it and it just evolves,
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you know, into something really cool, just rock and roll, you know,
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it's just raw, like adding more
stuff that you don't need. It
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just we just like that in your
face, every every groove that you hear
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in our songs, it's just like
thumb, thumb, thumb, you know
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you want to bang your head or
sing along. I mean that's what's missing.
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You know a lot of music today. I mean you can listen to
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a lot of good stuff, but
maybe just not as catchy as some of
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the you know, raw rock and
roll well because there's not enough in there.
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It's just like I said, the
formula, but what about the musicianship,
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what about the you know, just
letting it fly man and what happens
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happens, Yeah, letting it go. I mean that's the one thing.
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It's like when we get up on
stage, everything's just pure raw and the
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energies raw. We put on a
show. I mean, we just don't
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go out there and say, hey, we know these five songs you know,
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or it's just six songs. I
mean we go out there and we
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play our heart out and we don't
play any cover songs. We play all
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original music, and we definitely play
our hearts out. When you come to
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a Dead West show, you're sitting
going wow, this is so cool.
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It was like you're just transported back
in classic rock or nineties I mean early
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nineties or eighties type, you know, just like you're there to be entertained,
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and that's what we kind of do. We want to entertain people.
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If you can't get the crowd into
it, you know, it's why are
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you doing it? You know,
let's have fum. It's funny you should
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say that because making an album and
performing on stage sometimes there are two different
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things. The performing on stage is
what you're talking about. The entertaining the
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performing, that's why they call it
performing. Yes, and there's actually I
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will mention which one, but there's
one band playing this weekend that I would
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just watch them on YouTube because they
look exactly the same live as they do
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on YouTube. And to me,
the live show is what it's all about.
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Man, Even if I don't like
a band, like there's certain bands
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that maybe aren't that great musically,
but the show is incredible. Now,
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if you can combine the two music
being musically talented and the show, then
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you have dead West. Yeah,
you have Dead West. I'm gonna let
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some of these guys have a chit
chat with you two as well. So
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feel free to ask. I feel
like, you know, I am a
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singer, but yeah, yeah,
but you know, I'm still not tired.
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We got another show coming up tomorrow. We're playing bad Ass for Names
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tomorrow, So I mean, we're
gonna have a good time. But I'm
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gonna let these guys have some fun
with you too. So here we go.
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Let's do that, because you know, the singers always like to take
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over monopolize the mic. The singer
always does that, right, I'm gonna
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ask a question that will require everyone
of you to answer because you may have
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a different answer. What's the craziest
shit that's happen to you in this musical
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journey? Oh? I do?
I do want to know? Should we
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talk about it? Should we talk
about navajo apples? You don't need,
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you don't want to know. I
do want to know this trip. Let's
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talk you about this trip? Okay, So I think I'll handle the mic
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to our bass player Troy and because
he could probably first person experience, uh
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dog runs. Yeah, here we
go. I'm just gonna say it was
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it was a long trip to get
to rock Lahoma. I'm happy to be
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here. I hope it goes a
lot smoother going home way to leave him
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hanging right. We need to expand
on that. You know, I've known
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Troy for like thirty years, so
I'm m bust his balls because why not.
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This is what we do, dude. You know I can ralph or
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night command. Seriously, he can
hurl command. Because man, I was
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feeling a little I was feeling a
little green, so I went over to
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the dog run. Yeah. I
took care of it. It's so much
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better now. So anybody walking your
dog, just be careful dog runs because
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Troy might have Troy might have been
there. But we stopped. We stopped
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in on the way up, stopped
through page and he got these apples and
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it's a novel. Whole apple,
that's what we call it. We think
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maybe it had a little bit of
something something on it that that upset his
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stomach, so like psilocybin or something. You never know. I don't know
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he was he was seeing something.
So that's a second interview today. That's
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somebody like saw ship that the rest
of the Abandon's say, well, you
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know, it's funny you should talk
about ralphing because I haven't had that one
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before. But one of the questions
I sometimes asked is one story good or
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bad? When you're like eighty yet
you're gonna tell what will it be?
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I can tell you four times I
have had the answer ship my pants on
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stage? Oh yeah, no,
No, there's no as there's been on
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stage ralphing because maybe like you could
do like a guar thing well grow,
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that's a whole different story. Yeah, you could do a guarth except it's
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throw up instead of blood and come, yeah, let's do that, like
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everybody does an enem on stage,
and you could like do a song with
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Marilyn Manson. Opt out on that
one? Can you really opt out?
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So what band are you most excited
to see besides yourself at Rock Oklahoma?
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Yeah, I think that might be
the That might be the key of the
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day. Yeah. Even their newest
music is so badass. Like sometimes when
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you're a band that long, your
newest music is like okay, But their
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new music, I'm like, holy
shit, that's even better than the old
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ship, you know. And that's
the test of true musicianship. If you
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can write new music over and over
and over again, that dead's better than
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before, you know. Would you
say you guys are like that? Yes?
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I think every I think everything we
do just keeps keeps growing and getting
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better, which is what what?
What is what we wanted? Yeah,
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like the new the new record,
the Die Like a Rebel, the uh,
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the songs on it, they're just
you hear them and you're like,
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yeah, I get it, I
feel it. It's got that. It
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hits your soul. Yeah yeah,
yeah, and you know that's important.
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The drums kick your ass. The
guitar riffs are just one point right and
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left separations on point and then Vinnie's
vocals. Man, it's just it's so
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cool, sounds great, great writing. Uh. It takes you back to
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when music was fun, nice and
that is key, you know, like
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listen if you're not having fun in
this industry. Oh I love that we
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have a motorcycle in the background for
this interview, right, because you guys
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look like you could be a biker
club when you walked into this press.
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There might there might be a couple
of us with them, right exactly.
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That's say it. You know,
one of us is an accountant, but
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but you could still be a biker, Like how many of those Weekend Warriors
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accountants lawyers? That's why I live
in Florida. I got rid of my
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bike as as I moved to Florida
because there's a bunch of those Yahoo's on
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the road that might kill me.
So how does everybody reach out to you
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guys on socials on the web by
your merch We've mentioned it a little in
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the beginning, but let's cover it
all. Well. We are Facebook,
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dead West Rocks, Instagram, dead
West Rocks, Reverb Nation, dead West
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Band, Twitter, dead West Band. Uh, we're on Spotify. It's
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called Oh yeah, what the fuck
is that? I can't even feel Twitter?
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Sorry, I can't. I can't
understand me. All right, if
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you want to read tweet something,
call me so. Uh but uh yeah,
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so, Deadwest dot Rocks is our
website. You can catch our music
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on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, any streaming device you can. You
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got, We're on it. Yeah. You can download all our music,
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purchase our music from our website,
nice, all of it. Yeah,
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you can just go to our website, Deadwest dot Rocks. That's what they
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should do to direct your website,
so, you know, yeah, because
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we actually make a little bit more
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part, you know, right,
that's ridiculous they did, But you know,
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I wish people would learn a little
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trying to get everything for free.
I mean, we appreciate all the fans
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that support us and take the time
to you know, buy our merch buyers
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records, you know, even download
it. I mean, we still appreciate
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it. We just make more money
if you buy it personally from us than
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a streaming device. And that's why
I always ask about merch because that's the
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only way band survived nowadays. And
like you said, edge people they think
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because you have like millions of streams
that you're like a millionaire rock star,
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that shit don't exist no more,
man, you know, yeah, I
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mean I made a whole twenty cents
in one month for all the streaming,
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you know what I mean? Yeah? Come on, does even by Brahmin
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noodles anymore? Right? Yeah?
You know, Sorry, guys, we're
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gonna have to split this canatuna I
know right right? What was her name?
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Oh? Man, I didn't quite
get it. I love it.
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We got comedians in this band,
I'll tell you. So here's the most
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important question. Based on what you
just said, does dead West Rock?
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Was that? Does Dead West Rock? Oh? Yes, yeah, we
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do. I mean we put on
some pretty good shows. We played with
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some really, really good national acts. We've been on tour with Jack Russell's
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Great White Nice, which was awesome. Jack is just a stellar guy all
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the way around. He is the
rest of the guys. They always every
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time we open up for him.
They watched our you know, set,
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and they watched this warm up and
I think it's great. And we've opened
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for Slaughter La Guns, uh,
Tom Keefer, Kingdom Come. My first
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show with the band, was it
the Whiskey Go Go opening for Autograph and
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Hurricane Nice, two bands that you
know I watched on MTV growing up,
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right, and I'm talking about a
trial by fire. It was awesome.
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Wow, that's awesome. So do
you guys have that Maybe it's different for
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all of you. A favorite band
that you you played with? Do we
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have a favorite band that we played
with? Honestly, I could say that
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almost every band we played with was
really cool. Uh. The funnest band
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we played with was Steel Panther.
Oh yeah, well, Uh, Michael
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Starr was off to the side and
he was headbanging a whole time we were
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up on stage, and he was
like pointing at it. I mean,
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he's such a great guy. They're
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fun. The most recent show that
we did was with Lynch Mob George Lynch,
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Gabriel the new singer He is Stellar, Jared playing the bass. I
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mean, they were all really nice
guys. I mean, and Jimmy.
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We got to do that at the
Whiskey a Go Go and we were direct
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support and it was an awesome show. I mean, we had a great
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time. They were really nice.
I mean, so you want to talk
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about down to earth people, they
were really down to earth. So we've
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had some really good experience with musicians
over the years, even you know,
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as this band. You know,
I started back in twenty fourteen. It
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took me until twenty seventeen to kind
of get the lineup, and we've gone
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through a few changes here and there. But each time we go out there,
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I mean, we lay it on
the line like it's our last show.
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And you guys look like you have
the recipe now, Like you look
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like you should be a band,
meaning you know, I don't see any
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drama. You can tell like,
yeah, I can tell why I do
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interviews and look at people in their
eyes, I'm like, oh, they
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don't find it's funny you say that
because I mean when it comes down to
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drama, I mean, for this
tour, it's actually been really good.
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And with this lineup, this has
been the best lineup of this of Dead
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West recent you know, members.
I mean, there was so much drama.
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You know, Don't invite your ex
wife in front of your new wife.
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Uh, don't, don't get naked
and run through the fucking van,
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you know, and thinking you're cool. Don't start fights and don't break down,
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you know, hotel room doors because
your your girlfriend locked you out because
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she was out cold from drinking too
much. You know. So for the
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first time, I mean, as
this group right here, I mean,
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we've had a great time from the
from when we started heading out from Phoenix.
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There's no drama. We all have
a eight time. We pull out
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the whiskey and the scotch and have
a good time and just relax. And
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these guys are on it. I
appreciate Jay, you know, Tommy guitar,
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Tommy over there, Troy and John. I mean, these guys,
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they they helped me out one percent
and I couldn't do it without him.
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So I love that. And you
know what, when you were saying that,
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you know what, I was thinking, like, your previous lineup was
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the eighties version of your band,
and this lineups the twenty twenty three version
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of your band. Well, because
the eighties was a lot of drama.
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I was. I was there on
the Sunset I don't remember much of the
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eighties. Well then you were there, No, yes, I was.
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Oh, yes, I'm because I'm
a lot older than I looked there because
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if you were, if you remember
the eighties on the Sunset Strip, you
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weren't there. Yeah, oh yeah, Well, I mean I wasn't in
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on that the West coast when in
the eighties I was on the East Coast,
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and I mean drinking two fifts to
jack a day and being on tour
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waiting one hundred and twenty pounds and
don't remember what city you were in.
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Yeah, that was kind of forgetful. I mean I remember some places.
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I don't remember all the girls.
How could you? Back then? It
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was an endless list, right,
Like I hung on Sunset Strip end.
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I used to just get the overflow. I was fifteen, sixteen years old,
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like hanging out at the Motley Crew
parties and the ones they weren't banging,
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I got to bang. Yeah,
you got the leftovers, and it
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was even the seconds because they didn't
get them. Yeah, they were to
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turn they were turned down. But
you know, you're a sixteen year old.
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You don't give a fuck exactly,
you know. And that is one
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thing I've noticed too. And and
to your point what you were saying about
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the bands, Most of these bands
you were mentioning, I hung out with
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in the eighties and they were dicks
then and they're the coolest people now.
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Like they definitely evolved the record companies
or who ruined them, but now they
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are just cool as shit because they
don't have that record label drama that they
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did then that caught the record labels
used to cause the controversy between the bands,
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like what the fuck? One of
my favorite things Ozzie said was be
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cool to the people on the way
up, because you meet the same fuckers
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on the way down. Yuh.
You just kind of gotta live like that,
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Like we're all brothers. We may
not be in the same band,
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but we were doing the same job. And you want to bring your thunder
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and for me, it's whiskey.
I know most of the band's scotch,
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but bring you, bring your whiskey, bring your guitar, bring a damn
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good guitar and just rip it,
just rip it. I was born in
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Hollywood. On Halloween Day, people
were wearing costumes from my birth. Uh
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that's great. Well, depending on
which girl you saw, it might have
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been yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And you know I lived there when
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I was older too, playing guitar
in Hollywood, so I know the places
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you're talking about really well. I
lived on Franklin Lebrea. Even if I
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was drunk, I could still make
it home walking right. You know,
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I was four minutes from the Seventh
Veil. May or not have been there
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quite a few times, cannot confirm, nor deny, and too many other
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strip clubs to even remember. Back
then, with all the guys, I
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was jamming and playing with man,
be healthy, that's right, Strong,
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and carry a jacket. I thought
you're just gonna say carry jack whatever works,
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right. Any final words all you
guys want to give us. I
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want to talk about commitment, the
things that the people do and the things
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that brotherhood that takes to make a
unit work. It starts with it starts
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with Vinny. I mean he he
books the gigs, he helps with the
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promotion. Uh, he takes care
of anything. He's our social media director
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or artwork guy. You know,
he took care of everything. He's like,
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hey, I got us, I
got us lined up on the tour,
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and this is he tells us where
to be and how to be and
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where to be there and and it's
not telling, it's hey, this is
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what we're doing. And you guys
on board, and we're like, fuck,
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we don't even have to make that
decision. That's awesome, it's so
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cool. But but when you have
somebody that does that, you want to
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help and you want to you want
to be a part of it, and
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you want to try to take the
load off for him so he doesn't have
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to work so hard. Uh.
You know, we we make commitments,
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we make sacrifices. I'm gonna I'm
gonna go out on him. Yes,
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we we're all married. Sorry ladies. Uh you know wenk wenk wrink.
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I mean we are out of our
zip code, but still talk about commitment.
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Today's Tommy's anniversary. Yeah he play
in Oklahoma instead of being with his
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wife on his anniversary. Appy anniversary, And you got the most amazing wife
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that that's the thing. You know, We've got a great support system all
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around with friends and family and then
the brotherhood that we have. So life
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is good, man, Just fucking
play rock and roll and have a good
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time and enjoy every moment because you
never know when it's gonna go away.
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Like that, live life to fast
every freaking day. You know, you
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could plan for tomorrow that never comes. Yeah, plan for today. I
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love it you guys, Rock.
I'm so glad you're here at Rock,
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Oklahoma. And thanks for being on
the Adventures of play Man. We're glad
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to be here. You take care
of them. Thank you for listening to
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the Adventures of plate Man on W
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Beats is number one Internet radio station.
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Here's your host, the pipe Man. Wow. This is the pipe Man
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here on the Adventures pipe Man W
four c Y Radio. And I'm here
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with Vinny Sky, dead West,
Jay Weldy, Tommy Ray guitar, Chris
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Storm bass guitar, Johnny Smoke lead
guitar. Nice. First, I just
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want to say right off the bat, you guys look fucking badass and people
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need to buy your merch. Just
saying come on out to our merch smooth
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man. I mean, we got
a whole bunch. We even got some
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bikinis over there for the girls.
Oh and that logo on that shirt would
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look great on bikini. It is
on the bikini there. You go say,
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yeah, that's the one that we
need to do. And you know
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the flowers right where it needs to
be on all locations. And now people
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have to go check it out on
your websites and stuff to know what you're
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talking about, because you can't explain
to them Dead West dot rocks. Just
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go to the store. You could
buy any of our merch and it will
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be shipped to you in a couple
of days. Nice. So tell them
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our listeners who have never heard you, guys, what is dead West all
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about? Well, dead West is
five guys committed to rock and roll.
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I mean real rock and roll.
I mean we got considered as at one
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point, uh Ted Nugit meets Jackal
you know, so that's pretty cool.
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Yeah, that was the recent comment. You know. So we thought that
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was really cool because we opened up
for Jackal and that was awesome. We
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had a great time with them.
Talk about a loud show, Jackal's one
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loud show. Nice. And I
like that you said real rock and roll
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because there's a lot of not real
rock and roll nowadays. Oh my god.
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And I talked about this all the
time, like these some of these
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bands they just they put in like
some algebraic equation to make their music,
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and that's not what rock and roll
is about. Man. Yeah, we're
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just pure rock and roll, pure
energy. You know, even when going
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to studio live, we don't we
don't really do a lot of let's add
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this, let's add that we straight
out balls out rock and roll, you
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know, I mean it makes it
a lot easier. Were right, That's
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the way we write. We you
know, everybody in this band just just
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figures everything out, you know,
and we just play it raw. And
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we give a shout out to Mike
Ballenbeck over at full Well and he did
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our last album, which is Die
Like a Rebel, and it just came
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out awesome. And you know what, See, I love that you say
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that because I do my show the
same way because if, first of all,
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if you overproduce it, or if
you have scripts or whatever, it's
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not authentic. If you're if you're
gonna be in this industry, you need
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to be authentic. It is my
opinion that comes from doing what you just
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said, just just playing it.
Don't need to over emphasize anything in the
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studio like sometimes those flaws or what
come out to be the best shit ever.
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You know. Yeah, yeah,
it's actually really cool the way we
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are. The chemistry in this band
is just kind of one of those things.
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It's jels. You know, everybody
kind of knows what the next person's
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thinking and they add their own little
thing into it and it just evolves,
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you know, into something really cool, just rock and roll, you know,
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it's just raw, like adding more
stuff that you don't need. It
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just we just like that in your
face, every every groove that you hear
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in our songs, it's just like
thumb, thumb, thumb, you know
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you want to bang your head or
sing along. I mean that's what's missing.
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You know a lot of music today. I mean you can listen to
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a lot of good stuff, but
maybe just not as catchy as some of
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the you know, raw rock and
roll well because there's not enough in there.
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It's just like I said, the
formula, but what about the musicianship,
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what about the you know, just
letting it fly man and what happens
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happens, Yeah, letting it go. I mean that's the one thing.
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energies raw. We put on a
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go out there and say, hey, we know these five songs you know,
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or it's just six songs. I
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play our heart out and we don't
play any cover songs. We play all
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original music, and we definitely play
our hearts out. When you come to
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a Dead West show, you're sitting
going wow, this is so cool.
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nineties or eighties type, you know, just like you're there to be entertained,
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and that's what we kind of do. We want to entertain people.
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If you can't get the crowd into
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you doing it? You know,
let's have fum. It's funny you should
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say that because making an album and
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things. The performing on stage is
what you're talking about. The entertaining the
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performing, that's why they call it
performing. Yes, and there's actually I
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will mention which one, but there's
one band playing this weekend that I would
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just watch them on YouTube because they
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on YouTube. And to me,
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that maybe aren't that great musically,
but the show is incredible. Now,
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if you can combine the two music
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you have dead West. Yeah,
you have Dead West. I'm gonna let
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some of these guys have a chit
chat with you two as well. So
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feel free to ask. I feel
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singer, but yeah, yeah,
but you know, I'm still not tired.
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tomorrow, So I mean, we're
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gonna let these guys have some fun
with you too. So here we go.
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Let's do that, because you know, the singers always like to take
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over monopolize the mic. The singer
always does that, right, I'm gonna
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ask a question that will require everyone
of you to answer because you may have
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a different answer. What's the craziest
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journey? Oh? I do?
I do want to know? Should we
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talk about it? Should we talk
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you don't want to know. I
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talk you about this trip? Okay, So I think I'll handle the mic
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to our bass player Troy and because
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dog runs. Yeah, here we
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it was a long trip to get
to rock Lahoma. I'm happy to be
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here. I hope it goes a
lot smoother going home way to leave him
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hanging right. We need to expand
on that. You know, I've known
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Troy for like thirty years, so
I'm m bust his balls because why not.
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This is what we do, dude. You know I can ralph or
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night command. Seriously, he can
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feeling a little I was feeling a
little green, so I went over to
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the dog run. Yeah. I
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better now. So anybody walking your
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Troy might have Troy might have been
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in on the way up, stopped
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it's a novel. Whole apple,
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maybe it had a little bit of
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stomach, so like psilocybin or something. You never know. I don't know
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he was he was seeing something.
So that's a second interview today. That's
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somebody like saw ship that the rest
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know, it's funny you should talk
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before. But one of the questions
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bad? When you're like eighty yet
you're gonna tell what will it be?
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I can tell you four times I
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stage? Oh yeah, no,
No, there's no as there's been on
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stage ralphing because maybe like you could
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that's a whole different story. Yeah, you could do a guarth except it's
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throw up instead of blood and come, yeah, let's do that, like
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everybody does an enem on stage,
and you could like do a song with
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Marilyn Manson. Opt out on that
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So what band are you most excited
to see besides yourself at Rock Oklahoma?
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the That might be the key of the
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day. Yeah. Even their newest
music is so badass. Like sometimes when
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you're a band that long, your
newest music is like okay, But their
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new music, I'm like, holy
shit, that's even better than the old
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ship, you know. And that's
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can write new music over and over
and over again, that dead's better than
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before, you know. Would you
say you guys are like that? Yes?
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I think every I think everything we
do just keeps keeps growing and getting
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better, which is what what?
What is what we wanted? Yeah,
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like the new the new record,
the Die Like a Rebel, the uh,
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the songs on it, they're just
you hear them and you're like,
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yeah, I get it, I
feel it. It's got that. It
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hits your soul. Yeah yeah,
yeah, and you know that's important.
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The drums kick your ass. The
guitar riffs are just one point right and
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left separations on point and then Vinnie's
vocals. Man, it's just it's so
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cool, sounds great, great writing. Uh. It takes you back to
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when music was fun, nice and
that is key, you know, like
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listen if you're not having fun in
this industry. Oh I love that we
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have a motorcycle in the background for
this interview, right, because you guys
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look like you could be a biker
club when you walked into this press.
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There might there might be a couple
of us with them, right exactly.
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That's say it. You know,
one of us is an accountant, but
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but you could still be a biker, Like how many of those Weekend Warriors
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accountants lawyers? That's why I live
in Florida. I got rid of my
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bike as as I moved to Florida
because there's a bunch of those Yahoo's on
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the road that might kill me.
So how does everybody reach out to you
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guys on socials on the web by
your merch We've mentioned it a little in
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the beginning, but let's cover it
all. Well. We are Facebook,
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dead West Rocks, Instagram, dead
West Rocks, Reverb Nation, dead West
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Band, Twitter, dead West Band. Uh, we're on Spotify. It's
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called Oh yeah, what the fuck
is that? I can't even feel Twitter?
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Sorry, I can't. I can't
understand me. All right, if
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you want to read tweet something,
call me so. Uh but uh yeah,
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so, Deadwest dot Rocks is our
website. You can catch our music
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on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, any streaming device you can. You
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got, We're on it. Yeah. You can download all our music,
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purchase our music from our website,
nice, all of it. Yeah,
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you can just go to our website, Deadwest dot Rocks. That's what they
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should do to direct your website,
so, you know, yeah, because
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we actually make a little bit more
money that way. And for the streaming
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part, you know, right,
that's ridiculous they did, But you know,
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I wish people would learn a little
bit more about supporting bands instead of
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trying to get everything for free.
I mean, we appreciate all the fans
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that support us and take the time
to you know, buy our merch buyers
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records, you know, even download
it. I mean, we still appreciate
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it. We just make more money
if you buy it personally from us than
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a streaming device. And that's why
I always ask about merch because that's the
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only way band survived nowadays. And
like you said, edge people they think
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because you have like millions of streams
that you're like a millionaire rock star,
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that shit don't exist no more,
man, you know, yeah, I
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mean I made a whole twenty cents
in one month for all the streaming,
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you know what I mean? Yeah? Come on, does even by Brahmin
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noodles anymore? Right? Yeah?
You know, Sorry, guys, we're
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gonna have to split this canatuna I
know right right? What was her name?
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Oh? Man, I didn't quite
get it. I love it.
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We got comedians in this band,
I'll tell you. So here's the most
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important question. Based on what you
just said, does dead West Rock?
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Was that? Does Dead West Rock? Oh? Yes, yeah, we
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do. I mean we put on
some pretty good shows. We played with
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some really, really good national acts. We've been on tour with Jack Russell's
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Great White Nice, which was awesome. Jack is just a stellar guy all
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the way around. He is the
rest of the guys. They always every
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time we open up for him.
They watched our you know, set,
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and they watched this warm up and
I think it's great. And we've opened
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for Slaughter La Guns, uh,
Tom Keefer, Kingdom Come. My first
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show with the band, was it
the Whiskey Go Go opening for Autograph and
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Hurricane Nice, two bands that you
know I watched on MTV growing up,
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right, and I'm talking about a
trial by fire. It was awesome.
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Wow, that's awesome. So do
you guys have that Maybe it's different for
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all of you. A favorite band
that you you played with? Do we
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have a favorite band that we played
with? Honestly, I could say that
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almost every band we played with was
really cool. Uh. The funnest band
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we played with was Steel Panther.
Oh yeah, well, Uh, Michael
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Starr was off to the side and
he was headbanging a whole time we were
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up on stage, and he was
like pointing at it. I mean,
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he's such a great guy. They're
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fun. The most recent show that
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Gabriel the new singer He is Stellar, Jared playing the bass. I
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mean, they were all really nice
guys. I mean, and Jimmy.
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We got to do that at the
Whiskey a Go Go and we were direct
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support and it was an awesome show. I mean, we had a great
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time. They were really nice.
I mean, so you want to talk
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about down to earth people, they
were really down to earth. So we've
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had some really good experience with musicians
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as this band. You know,
I started back in twenty fourteen. It
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took me until twenty seventeen to kind
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through a few changes here and there. But each time we go out there,
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I mean, we lay it on
the line like it's our last show.
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And you guys look like you have
the recipe now, Like you look
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like you should be a band,
meaning you know, I don't see any
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drama. You can tell like,
yeah, I can tell why I do
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interviews and look at people in their
eyes, I'm like, oh, they
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don't find it's funny you say that
because I mean when it comes down to
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drama, I mean, for this
tour, it's actually been really good.
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And with this lineup, this has
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West recent you know, members.
I mean, there was so much drama.
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You know, Don't invite your ex
wife in front of your new wife.
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Uh, don't, don't get naked
and run through the fucking van,
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you know, and thinking you're cool. Don't start fights and don't break down,
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you know, hotel room doors because
your your girlfriend locked you out because
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she was out cold from drinking too
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first time, I mean, as
this group right here, I mean,
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we've had a great time from the
from when we started heading out from Phoenix.
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There's no drama. We all have
a eight time. We pull out
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the whiskey and the scotch and have
a good time and just relax. And
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these guys are on it. I
appreciate Jay, you know, Tommy guitar,
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Tommy over there, Troy and John. I mean, these guys,
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they they helped me out one percent
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So I love that. And you
know what, when you were saying that,
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you know what, I was thinking, like, your previous lineup was
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the eighties version of your band,
and this lineups the twenty twenty three version
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of your band. Well, because
the eighties was a lot of drama.
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I was. I was there on
the Sunset I don't remember much of the
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eighties. Well then you were there, No, yes, I was.
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if you were, if you remember
the eighties on the Sunset Strip, you
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weren't there. Yeah, oh yeah, Well, I mean I wasn't in
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on that the West coast when in
the eighties I was on the East Coast,
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and I mean drinking two fifts to
jack a day and being on tour
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waiting one hundred and twenty pounds and
don't remember what city you were in.
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I don't remember all the girls.
How could you? Back then? It
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was an endless list, right,
Like I hung on Sunset Strip end.
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I used to just get the overflow. I was fifteen, sixteen years old,
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like hanging out at the Motley Crew
parties and the ones they weren't banging,
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I got to bang. Yeah,
you got the leftovers, and it
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was even the seconds because they didn't
get them. Yeah, they were to
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turn they were turned down. But
you know, you're a sixteen year old.
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You don't give a fuck exactly,
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thing I've noticed too. And and
to your point what you were saying about
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the bands, Most of these bands
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in the eighties and they were dicks
then and they're the coolest people now.
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Like they definitely evolved the record companies
or who ruined them, but now they
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are just cool as shit because they
don't have that record label drama that they
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did then that caught the record labels
used to cause the controversy between the bands,
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like what the fuck? One of
my favorite things Ozzie said was be
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cool to the people on the way
up, because you meet the same fuckers
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on the way down. Yuh.
You just kind of gotta live like that,
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Like we're all brothers. We may
not be in the same band,
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but we were doing the same job. And you want to bring your thunder
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and for me, it's whiskey.
I know most of the band's scotch,
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but bring you, bring your whiskey, bring your guitar, bring a damn
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good guitar and just rip it,
just rip it. I was born in
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Hollywood. On Halloween Day, people
were wearing costumes from my birth. Uh
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that's great. Well, depending on
which girl you saw, it might have
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been yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And you know I lived there when
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I was older too, playing guitar
in Hollywood, so I know the places
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you're talking about really well. I
lived on Franklin Lebrea. Even if I
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was drunk, I could still make
it home walking right. You know,
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I was four minutes from the Seventh
Veil. May or not have been there
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quite a few times, cannot confirm, nor deny, and too many other
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strip clubs to even remember. Back
then, with all the guys, I
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was jamming and playing with man,
be healthy, that's right, Strong,
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and carry a jacket. I thought
you're just gonna say carry jack whatever works,
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right. Any final words all you
guys want to give us. I
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want to talk about commitment, the
things that the people do and the things
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that brotherhood that takes to make a
unit work. It starts with it starts
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with Vinny. I mean he he
books the gigs, he helps with the
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promotion. Uh, he takes care
of anything. He's our social media director
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or artwork guy. You know,
he took care of everything. He's like,
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hey, I got us, I
got us lined up on the tour,
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and this is he tells us where
to be and how to be and
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where to be there and and it's
not telling, it's hey, this is
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what we're doing. And you guys
on board, and we're like, fuck,
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we don't even have to make that
decision. That's awesome, it's so
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cool. But but when you have
somebody that does that, you want to
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help and you want to you want
to be a part of it, and
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you want to try to take the
load off for him so he doesn't have
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to work so hard. Uh.
You know, we we make commitments,
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we make sacrifices. I'm gonna I'm
gonna go out on him. Yes,
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we we're all married. Sorry ladies. Uh you know wenk wenk wrink.
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I mean we are out of our
zip code, but still talk about commitment.
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Today's Tommy's anniversary. Yeah he play
in Oklahoma instead of being with his
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wife on his anniversary. Appy anniversary, And you got the most amazing wife
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that that's the thing. You know, We've got a great support system all
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around with friends and family and then
the brotherhood that we have. So life
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is good, man, Just fucking
play rock and roll and have a good
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time and enjoy every moment because you
never know when it's gonna go away.
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Like that, live life to fast
every freaking day. You know, you
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could plan for tomorrow that never comes. Yeah, plan for today. I
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love it you guys, Rock.
I'm so glad you're here at Rock,
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Oklahoma. And thanks for being on
the Adventures of play Man. We're glad
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to be here. You take care
of them. Thank you for listening to
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the Adventures of plate Man on W
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