PipemanRadio Interviews Lena Scissorhands of Infected Rain About TIME

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a badass. So let's welcome to
show Infected Rain. How are you?

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Hello, Hello everybody, Thank you
for having me, Thank you for that

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nice introduction. Oh my pleasure.
And you know, not only do I

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love your music and all your videos
and stuff like that, but man,

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I love your guest appearances and live
stuff and like it. And now you

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have this new album coming out here
that I mean, this is probably your

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best music yet, I think it. And I love the idea that you're

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experimental with music because the thing that
bothers me as an old school, long

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term metal head is there's so many
metal bands out there that are just doing

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the same thing, almost like they're
just plugging in a formula. And you

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know, there's so many any bands
out there that you have to do something

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to stick out, and that's exactly
what you do. Well, thank you.

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We've we've tried to set this so
called no rule policy when it comes

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to composing since the beginning, because
it's just so difficult to follow a specific

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recipe when you like so many things. Right like, if you like music,

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you don't just like one genre.
You like music. Music is something

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that makes you feel. Music is
something that speaks to you, and it

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can be in different genre. And
growing up that's what I did. I

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listened to different music. Yes,
eventually, when I was, you know,

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a teenager, I started so called
rebelling and listening to specifically alternative music

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mainly. But I've learned again once
again, and I've remembered once again how

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amazing all the music really is.
Slowly, like in closer to my twenties

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and after, you know, like
up until now, I love music,

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and it would be so such a
pity to just not create with what you

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like or how the way you like
it to sound, just because you're trying

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to fit some sort of criteria.
And I know not every metal had agrees

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with me and you when it comes
to that, because you know, it's

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all about this being like distincting people
from one another, like the differences.

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I don't understand why this is necessary
in life, in culture, in why

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is that necessary to be so?
Like I am like this, and you

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know, no step to the left
or to the right. This is what

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I am. You know if it
works for you and for your art or

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for your job or for your life
in general, because we are now talking

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in general, just in general the
rules that humans invent for themselves to restrain

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themselves without even realizing that. And
we live in society like this. Look

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at what we are surrounded by.
There's oh, you can't love this person

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because it's your same Uh, it's
because it's your same gender. Or you

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can't dress that way because you're a
boy, or you can't dress that way

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because you're a girl, or you
can't sing in a metal band and add

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some electronic and some pop or some
wrap. Why not, like, let's

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have fun, you know what I
mean? You write, just do it

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with positivity. As long as you
don't hurting and want like anybody, and

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as long as you're a gen you
in and true to yourself, have fun.

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And that's what we're doing totally.
And my biggest line is just be

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you like it doesn't. You don't
have to be what somebody thinks you should

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be, especially as an artist,
because how can you really be a true

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artist unless you're being totally true yourself
and just letting. It's just like me

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on the radio, whatever floats in
my head sometimes on my show will just

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come out. There's no filter,
there's no ooh, maybe I shouldn't be

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this, maybe I should fit into
this box. And there's nothing wrong with

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that because we're not perfect, and
we often make mistakes and noticing something we

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said or did was out of line
or maybe not appropriate, it's actually the

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first step to recognition is the first
step to becoming better. So there's nothing

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wrong with realizing. Like let's say
tomorrow you watch this and you're like,

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ah, I wish I said this
different. That's totally fine. We need

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to perfect what we're doing, no
matter if it's for fun or if it's

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for money, or that's our career
or that's just something we do in the

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house. We should at least strike
for perfection, right, So it's certainly

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fine if we do mistakes. We're
human beings and like something a year ago,

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maybe I will be better this year, hopefully, because I try to

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at least notice these things. But
of course we don't even notice a lot

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of things that we do so colled
wrong. You know. It's the same

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with shows and music and everything.
I'm often rewatching certain things. I'm like,

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ah, I should do this differently
next time, or whatever, you

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know, like just because I we
don't see ourselves in the moment. We

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don't see ourselves. We don't like
watch. We are not the watcher.

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We are the protagonist. We are
the one talking, and often we get

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carried away with emotions and it's okay, just right, you know, I'm

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sure you do it. I all
the time, Like I'll watch and listen

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to my interviews after the fact and
critique it as the person watching it or

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listening to it that I didn't even
notice because I'm in the zone while I'm

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doing the interview. But I'm also
my own worst critic, as I'm sure

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you are and every artist is,
because everybody else will say, wow,

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that was great, and I'm sitting
or going, well, actually, blah

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blah blah blah blah in my head. Yeah yeah, and I don't know.

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I often do think about it and
what is the right way to react

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there, like, for example,
we recently had a show that I am

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very unsatisfied with for many reasons.
Some reasons were not connected to me,

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some reasons we're not connected to my
band. It was like local reason,

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technical problems, certain things that were
done different, and we trusted, you

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know, and then so thinks I
didn't do up to my standards, and

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I have an explanation why, But
I don't want to be that person that

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is like finding excuses, you know. And people kept telling us how awesome

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the show was, and I kept
having the urge to say thank you,

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but you know, I know it
wasn't. We had so many difficulties.

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I was so nauseous, and it
was on a cruise. I never I

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never performed on a cruise, And
so many excuses, right, And I

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stop myself often and think people don't
even need these excuses. They are so

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excited they tell you about their emotions
and even if they are exaggerating a little

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bit, because they are such big
fans, and they maybe they even know

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that you can be better because they've
seen your life before or something, you

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know, some people did, or
maybe that was their first time, and

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I don't know. I often think
do we have to tell them everything that

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is behind the scene from one side. You want them to know because then,

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you know, it's good when the
listeners and the fans they do realize

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how much more is involved in a
show, just like your show right now,

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how much is involved in like I
never even used this platform for example,

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you know, like and stuff like
that, like this background you chose

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with the album. I'm sure you
put so much work in it. It

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looks fantastic. Thank you so much, but thank you, you know,

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and things like that that people don't
know how you did it, and what

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are the little maybe obstacles that you
might find every day because we depend on

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technology, we depend on programs,
we depend on other people, we depend

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on gadgets, We depend on the
ship moving. In that moment, I

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was depending on that. Apparently I'm
way more motion you know, sensitive than

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I thought, even even though I
took precaution I did just in case I

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guess I don't know. You know, I was going to ask you about

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that too, because I saw in
your socials being on seventy thousand tons of

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metal, and most of what I
saw was all the fun you were having,

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which was so cool. But then
I'm thinking myself as an artist,

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man, it must be really difficult
like to perform, especially if the boat

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sway. And for get getting sick
for a second, because that's one whole

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problem. Yeah, but even like
I've been standing on a boat and just

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standing there and the boat moved me. So if you're performing on a first

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performance, we had two shows.
On the first show, I fell on

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my butt. I had like a
big bruise in my butt cheek because I

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actually on the third or fourth song. It was already late evening. It

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was when the cruise moved. We
played the first day and I didn't realize

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that that's what happened, but my
floor all of a sudden went away from

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under my beat and I was jumping
like normal. I didn't think that I

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had to move a little bit different, maybe on a moving vessel. But

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you know, I guess you live
and learn. There you go, Thank

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you. We tried to show you
know, some awesome moments from the cruise,

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but there was a lot of challenges
for all the musicians. We we

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got to talk with a lot of
bands, and a lot of bands,

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like one band even canceled their performance. They had the same situation as ours,

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there was some like gear that was
lost and at least not delivering time.

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Let's say that because it was never
fully lost, they found they found

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it when we didn't need it anymore. Right, And that happens even on

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tour, right, that happens.
That happens all the time on tour.

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People don't. I was at one
of the festivals in uh Europe. I

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think it was Hell Yeah, it
was, I think it was hell Fest,

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and one of the bands they their
stuff did not get there, and

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so another band let them use their
instruments, which was way cool that everybody,

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you know, helped each other.
But then even so it's like you're

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used to your own kay, thank
you. That's one thing people don't realize

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because often people that are not musicians, actual performing musicians, people that are

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a part of crew. Even that's
what they tried to tell us, you

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know, they're like, we will
find you instruments, you know, we

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will find you instruments. But we
were like, okay, every band has

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unique instruments. My guitar player plays
half of the show on seven string guitars

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and another half on eight. Now, not many people even have a seven

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string guitar because the most common one
is six right then the bass bass player,

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even though it's four string, is
specific tuning, and it's you have

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to untune and tune a different instrument
for someone. The weight of the instrument

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is different. Everything is so different, the strings are different. Like my

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bass player did not have her bass. We did have amazing musicians stepping up

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and trying to help us. I
want to say thank you by the way

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so much, Oh my god.
We had three or four different bands trying

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their best to help us during this
moment. And finally she borrowed an instrument,

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but she hurt her fingers so much
because she was not used to the

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quirks that were specifically put on this
instrument. And there are so many ups

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and downs. And then the same
happened with the drummer. The drummer didn't

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have his own snare, which is
also tuned in a certain way. And

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also, you know, it's a
certain sound that we are all kind of

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used to, and everything sounded different. Everything, And let's not forget about

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the stress we up until ten minutes
before the showtime, we thought we were

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not going to play. That's how
stressful that was. And you know,

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what are you going to say?
You don't play because you don't have instruments,

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you have the right to do that. That's what the other band did,

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you know, I believe it Equilibrium
had the same situation as us,

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and they didn't even play. And
I don't blame them. You know,

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we took the hit and we decided
to play no matter that what, And

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I mean, of course we did
our best. Of course, people were

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happy to see us because there were
a lot of people there for us,

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and it was so cool that they
were. They stopped letting people like in

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this like little area where we were
performing. But at the same time,

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you want, especially big events like
festivals to be as perfect as possible for

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a band, because festivals are out
there for exposure mainly unless you're the headliner

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of the main guest, and then
that's not for exposure. That's you know,

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a little bit different. You are
bringing people. We're talking about every

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other band that plays at festivals.
There was sixty bands on this cruise.

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We were there mainly like ninety percent
of these bands were they're for exposure.

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That means doing your best, to
sound your best, to look your best

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so people can come back, hopefully
and see you. When you tour you

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know, and that is the disappointed
the disappointing part, because if we are

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not happy with our own performance,
I mean, yeah, of course it

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matters how much people say they liked
the performance. Absolutely, of course.

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However, we are not satisfied with
ourselves and with everything that happened. And

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I mean we did our best.
Of course, we know we did our

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best, and we had our best
crew that did their best, and the

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local crew did their best, but
it's just circumstances of the things all kind

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of went together and it led to
that, you know, which, again,

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it was an experience. We tried
to learn from our experiences, and

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yeah, hopefully people do understand how
stressful it is for a band to play

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in those conditions. I hope they
really do, because and you're mentioning festivals.

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I think it's way more stress for
a band at a festival because sometimes

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it's not your sound people. Sometimes
this happened. There was I think it

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was a couple of years ago.
Nine Inch Nails was playing Welcome to Rockville

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and it's so freaking humid in Florida
that something went haywire and Trent's vocals you

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couldn't hear and he had to stop
like three times. Yeah, and like

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if I was in that position,
which I've been in that position too,

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It's like people don't realize how much
stress that is or how bad you feel,

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because of course, you know this
is maybe there's somebody there only seeing

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you for the first time and they
think that's what you're all about. Yeah,

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thank you. And then of course
you don't want people to, you

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know, have this memory and especially
share this memory with other friends and be

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like, ah, they are okay
life. You know, you want to

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be the band that they want to
see life, of course, because light

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shows is where everything is at,
you know, the emotion and the adrenaline

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and everything a musician feels on stage
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stress and discomfort on tour. It's
for this one hour on stage. If

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we're lucky, sometimes it's less forty
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minutes. You know. So it
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and depends on the tour, and
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festivals are unpredictable. You don't have
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headliner. And when I say maybe, I mean if there is time if

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they fly in time with no delays, because sometimes there is time, but

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you have delays. On the other
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can in impact a band's performance that
like a couple of pages now being off

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both sides for me to fill out
how many things influence how you sound,

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how you look, how you feel
on stage. For example, my second

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performance on the same cruise, I
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With this device is what gives me
sound for myself. My inner monitors were

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attached to this wireless little body pack. Let's say that was malfunctioning. It

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was just turning off. On song
number one after the very first few two

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words, I said, it turned
fully off. Now I cannot stop the

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song. As the first song,
I take it off, give it to

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the crew, and I continue singing
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what the audience hears, and the
quality of what audience hears is not even

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close to what we hear on stage. And in order for us to perform

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well, we have to hear as
good as possible, as asome as possible,

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as close as possible to what we
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a sudden, I don't hear myself, I don't hear the musicians. I

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don't even know if I'm in a
right part of the song. Granted,

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it's a song that we played many
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memory, but that's not fun.
Not fun to by memory and hope that

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everything's fine. You know. The
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and it was a heavier, more
difficult song where I don't really have time

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to stop and breathe and check what's
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the stress about it, that feeling
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this with the entire show also influences
my mood. Right My mood in a

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way or another is reflected through my
voice, and I really despise that very

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much. That's something that has so
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my instrument being my own body,
because if I'm very emotional about out what's

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going on or about the song,
people will feel it. And often it's

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the good emotion that I do want
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If the sound is good and I
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on and I continue with that,
and I can deliver as good as I

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can that day at my let's say, at my best that day, right,

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because we all feel different different days. But if I have extra problems

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so many at the same time,
it's quite difficult for me to filter this

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emotions and not think about them and
not have anxiety about that, like straight

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up anxiety that you went such a
long way to be here, and now

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who knows whose fold this is?
The person that gave me that body pack

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didn't even know what happened. He
comes to me, So what happened with

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it? I was like, I
don't know. You tell me it's your

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equipment, right, not mine?
So you tell me. I didn't even

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jump once I said two words and
it turned off. So again, I

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don't want to that's stressful too,
exactly. I don't want to speak badly

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about any crew. We are very
grateful for local crew, our crew.

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knowing or not understanding what's going on
with your own equipment. You know,

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how can I solve it? So
because you get in a zone on stage,

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Hey, I again no finger pointing
here, but it's happen. That's

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what I've been through. Insanely stressful, and you get in a zone when

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you go on stage, so when
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out of the zone, which makes
it like so hard to get back in

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the zone because you can't prep your
head before you go on stage, and

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then the minute that mike turns on. I know it happens for me,

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there's like a switch in your head. And if you have technical issues I

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had happened recently because I'm currently in
Costa Rica. In the first interview I

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did in Costa Rica where I'm not
in my own studio, I had the

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wrong mic, like miked up,
but didn't know at first, and then

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I realized and then I'm in the
middle of the interview. I can't stop

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the interview. I can't like you
know, I just had to go with

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it. But the whole time I'm
thinking, oh, it's gonna sound like

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crap, and stopping after often stopping
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like me and you, we have
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have a different interview after same during
festivals, we have a specific time on

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stage. And if I would have
been like you know, I'm sorry for

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my friend. Fuck this solving problem
first, then I will continue. That

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might have meant minus couple of songs, maybe even more, because nobody even

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knew what the problem was. So
I decided to go you know, hardcore,

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took the give you know, the
device to people to look into continue

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the show, even though I was
actually hurting myself and I was mentally insanely

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anxious. Let's say that. Yeah, and it's not something you want to

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do. It's not especially again,
especially you know, when you are there

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for exposure and there's in a way
some sort of like I don't know,

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you you put those these expectations on
yourself in a way. You know,

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you're like, you need to like
show the best we can here, you

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know, because hey, we barely
we didn't even like have enough to pay

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off our trip. So that's what
I'm trying to say. Often ben's all

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that, you know, without even
receiving a dime or I mean, that's

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not what I'm trying to say.
Bens do receive their fees, but often

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these fees are not even enough to
cover your trip, but you still think

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it's worth it and you want to
go for it, and you want to

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do it, and it's often worth
it. But when you have all this

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going on, you were like,
was it even worth it? Really?

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You know, and you don't want
to have these kind of thoughts. As

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a musician, you don't want to
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thoughts. Well, as a fan, I think it's totally worth worth it

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from the fan side, because a
bad live show is better than no live

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show in my opinion. And you
guys are badass. Thank you. Tell

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everybody how you can, how everybody
can reach out to you, socials connect

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on socials, how they can get
the new album Time, which drops on

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February ninth, and check out your
tour dates, all that good stuff.

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Well, it's it's as easy as
find the official website of the band that

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you're interested in. Ours is just
infected dot com. All the information is

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there, all the news about the
upcoming material, upcoming tours available, merch

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available, meet and greet is all
there. We made it as accessible and

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as easy as possible for everybody to
understand. You can change the language,

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you can click and find everything there. Our album comes out indeed a February

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ninth. However, tomorrow is a
very special day. For us as well,

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because a new single from this album
drops as a small little gift Prayer

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Pray album drop, So I love
it. Don't forget to click that as

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well. I love it, and
I know you guys go So while,

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is there any final words you want
to leave the listeners with? Thank you

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so much for having me. Thank
you so much for your support, guys,

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even though I was quite complaining right
now, we had fun meeting a

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lot of people, and of course
we had fun hanging out with a lot

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of people and discovering many new things
for us. So just know that we

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are very strict with ourselves and we
are trying our best always to deliver what

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we can the best we can that
day. And I'm not only speaking about

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Infected Drain. It's a human factor. It's about every single band on this

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planet that plays life absolutely. And
you know, I'm glad you said all

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that stuff because I don't think.
I don't look at it as complaining.

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I look at it as simply informing
people what you go through every day so

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that they can understand, because everybody
has a good day that day. Thankfully,

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sorry, thankfully, that's very rare
occasions. The more experience do you

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get. Let's say, the more
shows you play, the more you understand

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what you need to in the future
to avoid certain things. And I believe,

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as I said, we also learned
many things of how to avoid like

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situations. So it's actually very rare
nowadays that we have situations like that,

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very rare, And that's why it
was so frustrating for us, because we're

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like, Okay, it's been a
while since stuff like that happened to us,

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you know what I mean. Like, we invest and we believe in

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our crew so much, and we
trust each other so much, and we

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try to grow so much together to
avoid that. We talk about our performance

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after we perform or after a tour, and we try to you know,

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perfect things and make things a little
bit better if possible. But it's it's

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unpredictable sometimes and thankfully it doesn't happen
often, but it does still happen to

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everybody. That's right. Do we
judge a band by one or two shows

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that you've seen, don't judge them. Immediately, give them extra tries,

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because trust me, it is often
even less than fifty percent depends on the

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band during a live show, even
less than fifty often, I think You're

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incredible musician, incredible artists and you
guys do rock live and your new music

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is insane. People are gonna love
it, so thanks for giving that to

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us, and thanks for being on
the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you

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for having me have a beautiful day. Bye. Thank you for listening to

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the Adventures of Pipemin on w for
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