Sept. 20, 2024

PipemanRadio Interviews Dr Dog About Riotfest & More

PipemanRadio Interviews Eric Slick of Dr. Dog about Riotfest and more.

Have a vinyl label, Least Records

On March 20, 2024, the band released the single "Still Can't Believe" on streaming services.[39][40]On April 24 they released the single "Talk...

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PipemanRadio Interviews Eric Slick of Dr. Dog about Riotfest and more.

Have a vinyl label, Least Records

On March 20, 2024, the band released the single "Still Can't Believe" on streaming services.[39][40]On April 24 they released the single "Talk Is Cheap," as well as announcing their self titled album to be released July 19.[41] On May 15, the band released the single "Tell Your Friends" on streaming services.[42] On July 19, 2024, they released their self-titled, eleventh studio album.

Talk is cheap playing watermelon in video is pretty cool.


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It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four

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internet radio station. Here's your host, the Pipe Man. We've

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got to night.

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We've got it.

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here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio.

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And I'm excited about our next guest because he and

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his band is going to be performing at riot Fest

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this weekend on Sunday. That's totally I can't wait for that.

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So let's welcome to the show. Eric Slick from Doctor Dog.

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How are you?

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I'm so great. How are you doing?

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I'm doing amazing. Actually, I'm probably doing better than you

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because we were talking before we started the interview that

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you know, you're like me, deep in in above ground pool,

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slop up it that way.

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Yeah yeah, I mean my shoes are currently soaked and

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I'm just breaking down the intex pool that we had

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up all summer and it's now covered in algae. So

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I'm trying to throw it away.

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Oh my god, Like, listen, I was in that business

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for ten years on the work side that I had

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to do that crap all the time, and I have trauma.

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You just talking about it.

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I'm sure, I'm sure. Yeah, I say the word algae

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and your spine tingles a little bit.

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No doubt. And I love talking about this because you know,

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so many listeners they think of musicians of like, oh man,

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they're living a dream life. All they get to do

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is play all the time, and here you are, you know,

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dealing with above ground pool mess.

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Yeah, not sue. I get an hour and a half

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a day of absolute glory and then the rest of

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the day just stuff like this. When I'm on stage,

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I'm like, ah, no problems. I can run away from anything.

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And then I come back home and I'm like, crap,

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the pool's covered in algae, you know, right.

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So like it's just so people know that, like, Okay, yeah,

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you do have a real life.

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Yeah, musicians are people. Musicians are humans too, exactly. Sometimes

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I'll be at the grocery store and maybe somebody recognizes

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me from Doctor Dogg and they're like, oh my god,

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you're at Kroger. I'm like, yeah, I mean that's where

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I get my groceries.

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They expect you to get that stuff makes me laugh

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and you know what else, maybe laughed. I really dug

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in your well of your newest videos, talk is Cheap

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playing the watermelon in the video, Yeah, it's funny as hell.

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I loved it.

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I mean, we like to have fun, doctor Dog. I

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think all of our press photos before this record will

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lead you to believe that we're like the most awkward

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people ever, But we're just bad at photos. Like right, well,

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we're I think we're an incredibly fun group of people

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to be around, and we try to make everybody feel welcome,

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and we're a bunch of goofballs. You know. Hopefully that

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shines through at some point, but yeah, we're totally goofballs.

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I think it shines through in your music. And you know,

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because I'm somebody that you know, I look at bands,

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and you look at and people see this when you

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perform at riot Fest, Like they they look at you play,

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they can tell if you're, you know, just going through

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the steps or if you're just really having fun up there.

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And the only band I want to see is the

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one that's really having fun up there.

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Man. I agree, and Actually, I think in the last

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couple of years, especially since COVID and everything, the kind

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of shows I want to see are joyous shows. I

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don't really I don't have much interest in like watching somebody,

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you know, sort of barrow through their emotional knots. You know.

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It's like I just want you know, it's funny. I

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saw earth Wind and Fire at the end of twenty

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twenty three and it's like's like fourteen people on stage

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all doing high kicks in their seventies, you know, and

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it's like, I love it. It's incredible. It's like that's

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the kind of show. I mean, I'm paying money to

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go see a show like I want to see.

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Like we go to escape life, you know, and I

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think musicians it is the perfect opportunity for them to

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escape life too, absolutely, and it's the best therapy there is.

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I do have a great earth Wind and Fire story,

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actually I have two. It's so funny how earth Wind

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and always comes up because like years ago, I was

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interviewing Jacoby Shaddocks and we were talking about he was

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he was performing at a festival in Europe. It's like, yeah,

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the greatest things about performing Europe is here. I am performing,

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and then and then later on I'm standing on stage

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watching Earth Wind and Fire. Yes, you know, at the

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same festival.

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Oh my god, it's one of the greatest things in

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the world. I mean, Doctor Dog's done that so many times,

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where you know, we get to see like nav Staples,

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you know, like people that you never dream of being

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able to catch, or Herbie Hancock, you know, like these

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legends of pillars of American music, and we are just

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so lucky to be playing festivals and getting to see

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living legends, and you have to go see them while

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you can, because it's a completely it's a completely lost art.

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I mean, my wife and I saw Shaka Khan last

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year and I was just like, she sounds just as

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good as she's always sounded, And you just need to

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pay your respects to these people who are, no doubt

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are the architects, you.

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Know, no doubt. Yeah, And speaking of respects for the

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other story, like, I've gone to a lot of shows,

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a lot of festivals, but one of the highlights of

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my life was standing on stage next to Kate from

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the B fifty two's Yeah, watching earth Wind and Fire.

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Oh my god, I mean, Kate Pearson, what a legend.

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I mean, the BC two's are another one where like

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I think they're so underrated as a band, like Rock.

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I mean, I obviously people know Rock Lobster and they

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know you know, Love Shock and everything, but like give

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Me Back My Man and all those songs Mesopotamia, like

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those mid eighties B fifty twos records are so incredible.

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Oh one hundred percent. So that's why, like I watch

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you guys on videos even and we're gonna see you

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at riot Fest, and I put you in the same

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league because one thing I've always found out, especially from

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the icons, they don't know their icons. They're just having fun,

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enjoying their life and doing what they do.

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Yeah. Well, with Doctor Dog, I think we do put

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emphasis on making the shows as fun as humanly possible

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for us because we don't want to be up there

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suffering and struggling through it. And I think that now

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more than ever, because we've had a break from touring

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and because we've had time apart. When we get on stage,

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it really is about just having gratitude that we're all

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still here and that we all still play the way

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we do. And one thing that I always say about

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Doctor Dog that I heard from a mutual friend was

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that she was watching us play and she was like,

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you know, the gimmick about Doctor Dog is that you

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guys are just good. And I was like, oh man,

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that's the best compliment we could have ever received. This.

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You know, we're not relying on like video walls or

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crazy lighting packages. Like the show is pretty simple and

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it's just reliant on our enthusiasm and like our abilities

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of are rather our competencies. You know, I don't I

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don't think that. I don't think that Doctor Dog. You know,

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I wouldn't say that we're like the most virtuosic band

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in the world, but like we we are competent and

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we have fun, and I mean that's that's pretty.

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Much it, and that's the way it should be. Listen.

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I say all the time, if you're a musician and

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you're not having fun, this is the wrong business. In

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twenty twenty four more than ever. Okay, yeah, because there's

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no other redeeming feature.

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You know what's funny. My friend Peter, who's a manager,

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we were talking during COVID and he's like, you know,

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all these sunny people who who think that the music

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business is just is just all you know, fun and games.

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It's like it's gonna this COVID thing's gonna weed all

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the people out.

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Yeah, there's like.

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You know, at the time, I thought that might have

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been a cynical take, but now I'm like, you know,

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the people who are still doing it and still trying

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to make it work. I have no other choice but

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to play music, and it's a form of expression. It's

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your art, it's how you survive, and it's how you

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exist in the world. So you know, he might have

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had a little bit more of a cynical take, but

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he wasn't wrong in his assessment that, like the people

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who are still doing in twenty twenty four, I mean,

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great example, I just saw Green Day a week and

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a half ago, and they were unbelievable. Like, you know,

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maybe I didn't think of them so much as a

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live band. I just know them for the records and

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the singles and ye man, they were so enthusiastic and

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so high energy, and I was just like, this is

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what I'm talking about, this.

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Is this is what I like to see, you know,

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And I love that that's still the case because they

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were the second show I went to cover when shows

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started in COVID yeah, and I was telling everybody, oh

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my god, they were unbelievable and unbelievable, and you never

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heard me say that about them before. I liked them,

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they were okay, but I'm also an old school punk rocker,

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so like the idea of pop punk kind of is

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weird to me.

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Oh of course. Yeah.

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But then I went to this show right after COVID,

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I'm like, oh my god, they're just amazing. And I

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probably couldn't say that about them if I saw them

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before COVID.

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You know, it's it's it's so true. And they just

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had such excitement. I mean, it was kind of like

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seeing the Ramones or something like Yeah, you know, like

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seeing these like cartoon characters on stage, and they were

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there were no tracks, they were playing all their instruments

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like everything sounded immaculate, and they had so much stamina,

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and I was just like, man, this is like, this

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is the real deal. I feel like I'm watching like

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a legacy band at this point, like they are, They're

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they're legendary. It was amazing to watch and you never know,

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you know, you never know when you hear an artist

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first come on the scene whether or not they're going

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to have a career, or you know, maybe there are

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one hit wonder or whatever it is. But like the

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bands that have stood the test of time, it's because

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the songs are ironclad, you know, like Green Day songs

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like Welcome to Paradise and all those songs from Dookie,

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and then like you know, the tunes from American Idiots,

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like those songs are now canonized. They're part of the

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American songbook, you.

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Know, no doubt, no doubt. And I also was saying

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like if you're if you're going to pull one thing

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positive of COVID, it's the fact that you know, you

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guys as musician were on this hamster wheel that you

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couldn't get off of. And I think the God bless you,

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thank you, thank you. The I think the you know,

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creativity wasn't the same anymore because you didn't have time

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to be creative. It's like, go do a show, write it,

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write songs on the tour bus on the way of show,

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blah blah blah blah. And it allowed all the musicians

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to low nownvaluate where they want their music to be

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and really grow into their music and probably create some

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of the best music that we ever had.

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that way walking into the new Doctor Dog record too.

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You know, we had so much material backlog from six

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years of not recording together that when we did approach

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the material, it was like all of the hang ups

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of previous recordings were gone. Yeah, you know, it's like

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you can now assess material as if you were a

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beginner for most like that beginner's mind Zen mine kind

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of thing, Like we just approached it in this way

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of extreme love for playing together and that that mentality.

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It's like, I can't even really see making records any

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other way now. I'm like if I'm like, if you're

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having a hard time slogging through it, like you should

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abandoned the project.

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You know, like agreed.

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It's like because even if you have sad songs or

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angry songs on the record, you should still be having

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fun while mate it, because that's the thing plus the

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songs being good now that there's a formula to making

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great music. But it's like, I mean, I saw Weezer

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two nights ago and it's like they played the Blue

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Album in full and I was like, man, every single,

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every single one of these songs, like this is like Bach.

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You know, it's like these songs are just like these

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songs will just be. It's like they've existed forever, you know.

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So I think with this last Doctor Dog record, we

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kind of not only came out of our hiatus, but

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came out of covid era just with a renewed sense

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of appreciating each other. And like I mean, in the

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sessions that we did the record, it was a week.

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there were like twenty extra songs, so it was like

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so I mean, we were just burning through them every

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single day, it was, and it was so productive and

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so great, and we had so few distractions and just

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like barbecuing for each other laughing. It was. It was amazing. See.

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I love hearing that because I think in the need

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that as a band when you're a band for so long,

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because it starts geting, i don't know, tired, and then

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you have like the sit I call it the sibling rivalries.

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Oh totally, you know, and like you forget what it

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was like when you first started doing this stuff. You know, well,

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it's easy, it's what it is.

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It's easy to take it for granted. Yeah, it's easy

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to take anything for granted. I mean your relationships, your friendships,

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your day to day life. I mean, this is like

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why people get in a funk. You know, it's hard

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sometimes to see things from an aerial view. And I

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mean they say a distance makes the heart grow fonder.

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I don't always think that's true, but in some cases

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it is. And in some cases you do need to

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have a reset. I mean, if you were working the

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same desk job for twenty five years and clocking in

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and clocking out, you're not you know, maybe you're not

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as happy as you could be, and maybe if you

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had some time away from it, you might actually go

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to appreciate it. I mean, who knows, it's like these

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kinds of things. Not to say that I ever have

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the h attention or the wherewithal to have a dust job.

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So I played drums in a rock band, but I

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do think that, like I mean, even time away from

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my drum kit is valuable time. You know, it's it's

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a time that's spent living and then you get back

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to your instrument and then you have that life experience.

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You know, hopefully it's some kind of wisdom that you

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can impart into your instrument and vice versa.

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You know, one, I love it because you know, I

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would tend to think from all this plus the experience

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that your latest album, the self Towed eleventh studio album, Yeah,

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probably your best.

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we're I certainly felt that way going into it, and

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I feel that way. I mean, it's definitely our best

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in years, and I think a lot of it just

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has to do with this new found appreciation for each other.

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And I mean that we text every day now and

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that wasn't the before. COVID like it. It's just amazing

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what that time will do for a group of people

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that you know, love each other. We loved each other

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even you know, ten years ago, five years ago, but

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now it's just a whole nother level of that.

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I love hearing that because there are so many bands

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friends of the mine that I know that they're like, Yeah,

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when we get off tour, we're not recording, we don't

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even really talk. We just do our lives and then

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reconvene sometime later.

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And it's a bummer. It's a bumber.

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You are a family. That's why use a term sibling rivalry,

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because it's kind of what it's like in a band.

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Well, you know, it's interesting because I've been seeing so

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many things pieces online lately about like is it the

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end of bands? And I'm like, no, not necessarily, not necessarily,

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I don't think so. I don't think it's the end

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of bands. I mean, I saw my Morning Jacket last night,

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and I saw Nathaniel Rate Left and the Nights. But

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those are bands, and these are bands that are playing

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huge venues. What I do think is true is that, yeah,

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it's getting harder for bands to have resources, It's getting

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harder for all artists to have resources. But like, I

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don't think anything can really come close to the chemistry

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and sort of spur of the moment in magic that

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a band can bring to the table, right. I mean,

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it's like the difference of seeing a show that has

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a lot of backing tracks and to a metronome versus

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like seeing a band play without a net, you know,

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And like I mean, think about all your favorite live

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recordings and just how frenetic those can be. And think

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about all the all your favorite live performances that you saw.

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I mean, my dad, like when I was growing up,

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he would talk about seeing the Kinks, and he's like,

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he's like, the Kinks were so amazing because they're so volatile,

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and maybe it's not the healthiest thing, but like you

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can't necessarily argue with the fact that like they have

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not I mean, that's a true sibling rivalry. But you know,

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Ray and Dave Davies. But I think, you know, there

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is just something inherently special about watching a bunch of

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people play music together on stage and the tension and

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release of that, and it's a magical thing. It's there's

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no words for it.

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It'll be very interesting to see Oasis speaking.

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Oh my god, Oh my god. I mean I hope that.

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I hope they can make it through one song. But

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I think, uh, you know, at a certain point, you

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do have to do what's right for each other. I mean,

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they're they're brothers. I only wish the best for them. Honestly.

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It's like I pine, in life, you just got to

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set crap aside. That's my viewpoint.

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Oh definitely. And there's things, there's life things that happen

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that kind of force you into that. You know, maybe

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losing a parent, losing a best friend. I mean, you

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really learn how to not sweat the small stuff when

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that happens. You know, I've been to I've been playing

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music with my sisters since I was eleven years old.

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She plays bass, and uh, you know, we've had to

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take time off from playing with each other, and we

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love each other and our best friends, and you know,

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we're fifteen months apart. So it's like you no matter

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how it's it's almost like the more you value your

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relationship and your friend and your friendship as siblings, like,

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the more you you do need to carve out that

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time to do your own thing. So, yes, I'm very

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curious about A Waysis as well. I hope all the

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shows go off without a hitch. I hope it's not

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a Jen's addiction situation. I hope it's not. I mean

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I was on tour this last weekend. I was doing

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some some solo shows and man, I mean, like everybody

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pointed their phone at me at one minute was like

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have you seen what just happened? And I'm just like, oh,

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you know, And at that point, I'm like, you know what,

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they should stop because because it's clearly not good for

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the health of the band, and like you need to

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assess and make sure that you're doing it for the

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right reasons and maybe they're just not ready.

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So I after dogs doing it for the right reasons.

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Well, hell yeah, I mean at this point, you know,

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I think I don't think we have a choice. I think,

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like we now see how it is to exist as

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a healthy band. So man, I mean now it's like

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the sky's the limits. Like I'm so curious to see

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where we go next. And you know how we can

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maintain this level of just joy with each other?

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For sure? Absolutely? Well, can't wait Sunday Riot. Yes, tell everybody.

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Also how they can connect to you guys on the

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web on socials? Get Yeah, we're check out. Also your

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vinyl label Least Records.

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Oh my god, it's not you know, it's funny. I

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don't have that label anymore. It's no Slick Records.

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Oh okay, well Slip Records, then Slick Records.

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I operate it through Thirty Tigers. So that's how I've

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been putting out all my solo music as of late.

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And they're phenomenal distributor out of Nashville. I love working

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with them.

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Nice. And then so how do we connect to doctor

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Doug on the web? Oh? Yeah, and all that.

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Yeah, it's all Doctor Dog Music, So Instagram, doctordog music,

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dot com, Twitter, doctor dog Music, it's all the same handle.

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It's all pretty organized in that way. So Doctor Dog Music.

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D R d o G not d O g G

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not like not like Snoop Dogg. Sometimes so people have

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gotten it wrong. So yeah, d R d O G.

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I bet you. There's some people even said doctor Doug.

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Doctor Doug. Why why not?

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But it's doctor Doug and you'll be Sunday at riot

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Fest killing it and everybody's got to check out the

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new album. Thanks for taking your time away from your

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pool funk.

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Yeah, I'm about to go drag it to the trash can.

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So uh, I wish wish me.

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Luck, I wish you luck. And thanks for being on

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the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Yeah, thanks pipe Man.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.

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