PipemanRadio Interviews Marble Ghosts

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Hi, you have unto censure.
Wow for you young wake up of America.

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It's time for the Adventures of Pipe
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the pipe Man. This is the
pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man

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W four C Y Radio. And
we're going way north from where I am.

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For you listeners, you know that
I'm down co Rika, and now

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we're going up to Canada because I
love so many bands in Canada and I

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do love We were just talking about
this before the interview. I love the

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publicists who set this up because he's
one of the best publicists out there.

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So shout out to John. And
we have with us today Paul from Marble

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Ghosts. What a badass band and
what a great story I'm going to talk

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about on this interview. So Paul, welcome to the show. Thanks for

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having me. Oh my pleasure.
I want to start off right off the

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bat by talking about something we were
talking about before the interview that I think

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is so cool. Your band is
a multi generational band, Okay, which

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in twenty twenty four that almost seems
like unfathomable because of all the idiotic stuff

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going on in the world where everybody's
against each other and it's like, oh,

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Jen, see this gen x,
that boom er, this uh millennial,

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that older millennial, younger millennial,
blah blah blah, and like it's

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we're so separate and divide. So
it puts a huge smile on my face

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that you have a band that has
multiple generations. You're the oldest of the

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band, which hey shout out to
the whoever's gen z in the band that

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they wanted you in the band.
And not only that, I think by

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having those multi generational you can create
some music as ultra unique and ultra special.

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Absolutely, it's it's it's it's been, it's been great so far.

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And yeah, going back to what
you're saying about being a multi generational band,

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it it seems to work for us. We have Adam the guitar player,

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youngest member, and he's he's very
much into modern metal, metal core,

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Dylan very much a fan of early
nineties grunge. Dylan, sorry,

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Jar the drummer more like me more
into traditional metal, death metal, that

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kind of stuff. And I grew
up listening to eighties Glamor. I mean

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the first album I ever bought was
Shout at the Devil Monty Cruz nineteen eighty

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three, The first tip I ever
bought. You want some trivia there by

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the way. Do you know that
Too Fast for Love was not their first

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music. Shout at the Devil was
their first music. I saw them in

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nine. It was either eighty eighty
one at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip.

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It was the first club show I
ever went to in my life,

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and I was like, oh my
god, I'm never going to a real

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concert ever again. And all the
songs were off a Shout at the Devil.

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They had a couple of the Too
Fast for Love, but it was

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mostly Shouted at the Devil. That's
awesome, right, great? Yeah,

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So another thing I want to talk
about is Okay, so your single old

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school, Yeah, Okay. What
I like about what you guys are writing

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about, yeah, is against all
the I'm going to be blunt the bullshit

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going on in the world, especially
in twenty twenty four. And see it's

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funny because I can put multiple meanings
to that name of that song. But

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the point is is we really need
to get rid of all this hate in

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the world, no matter what the
hate is, whether it's against the LGBTQ

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community, or whether it's against metal
heads that don't play the same metal as

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other metal heads, like, because
that's what I grew up with in the

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eighties. It's like good to be
the gatekeeper. I remember, you know,

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I saw a Slayer's first show and
Metallica's first show ever, and after

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that, my friends were like,
Okay, you gotta burn all your Montley

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Cruise shit because you can't listen as
Slayer and listen to Monthly Crue. And

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you know, it was just stupid. Like I also interviewed Josie Cotton a

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few times. We've become friends,
and first time I interviewed her, I'm

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like, you know, I couldn't
listen to you in the eighties. I

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wasn't allowed, you know, because
you were new wave, and god forbid

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I should listen to new wave,
you know. And that is something I

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love about today in twenty twenty four, is like those gatekeepers are very far

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and few in between, and you
know, we have bands like you that

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are spreading love and togetherness and unity, and that's what I love about your

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music most of all. So tell
us from your perspective more about the single

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Old school Dylan wrote the lyrics.
Actually, he wrote the lyrics to all

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the songs. He's very intelligent and
he seems to have a good grasp on,

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you know, all things, all
the social political issues that's going on

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in the world, from human basic
human rights, women's rights and lg B

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DQ what you what you had mentioned
before, and it's just, uh,

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it's it's and in this single,
it's mostly like basically we're talking about,

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uh, you know, how you
have religious values today are not are said

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the old school religious values don't don't
really relate to today's. And we're not

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an anti religious band, but we're
just we're just saying, you know,

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you know, with the rise of
secularism, you know, it's just it's

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just important to know that we we
just can't continue being uh divided or or

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or imposed on these old world values
that just do not apply today. And

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it's it's it's horrible. Sometimes I'll
tell you something interesting you probably don't know.

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And I was just talking about somebody
with this recently. You know,

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it's interesting in bringing up the religious
aspect because I'm a Jew, and even

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a lot of Jews don't realize this, but in the Jewish Bible before there

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was ever such thing as Muslim or
Christianity. There's no negative reference against anything

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LGBTQ. As a matter of fact, it does mention about there's a minimum

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of six genders. It talks about
Adam probably was intersex, and there's no

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reference of sin about anything having to
do with anybody that is gay or And

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actually the Old Testament is full of
gender fluid statements in it. It's it's

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and that was the one that if
you're going to believe in that came from

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God, Christianity and Muslim came from
prophets. If you're going to believe in

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that, and they're the ones preaching
that, it's immorl and it's an abomination,

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and it's like, where did they
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didn't get it from God. It
is my viewpoint, whether you believe in

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religion or not, Like I believe
God is a God of love and loves

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all of his creatures. And if
there is a God, why would God

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God hate anybody that they created.
I totally agree. And you know,

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you fast forward to the New Testament
and it's it's, it's, you know,

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difficult to understand what's what's written in
there. I've never read the whole

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thing through. But you have to
have like a bunch of men writing these

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rules for you, and that you
have to adhere to these rules, whether

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it be traditional or you know,
even misogynistic, and it's inequality. As

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for me, yeah, I'm just
I've never been a religious person. I

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consider myself an atheist with maybe agnostic
tendencies, I would say, you know,

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and I never really was. I
always appreciate people who's who believed in

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God. I just don't believe in
the fluff that surrounds that just exactly in

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like you say, a God of
love and right now, it's it's division

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right now, and it's it's it's
difficult, it's terrible, and it's like

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whether somebody believes doesn't believe, I
think it's also a human right too.

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Like I'm a Jew that also believes
in Buddhist philosophy, spirituality, New Age.

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I even have agnostic points of view
and in Judaism, that's quite all

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right. You're allowed to, like
like you're told not to believe, to

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study and learn, and you're told
to, you know, basically just be

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a good person and question everything because
that's the only way you learn. Not

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just oh just because I said so
type of thing, and so I'm so

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happy about band like you. That's
like spreading the same type of message.

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Because listen, I don't really get
why people care what other people do as

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long as they're not intentionally harming people, I say, you do you?

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You know it doesn't affect my life
in any way. Like these people that

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are against gay people, how does
it affect their life? I don't understand,

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Or are against trans how does it
affect their life? I don't understand.

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And we need music because music is
always the greatest message, and we

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need music like yours to spread a
message to maybe turn things around. I

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agree, and I mean, and
Dylan has multiple topics and any other songs

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talking about all other kinds of injustices
and basically and I agree with you.

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It's to me, it's like,
you know, to be a good person,

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you don't need a moral code to
be a good person. It's it's

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it's I don't know if I find
that's ridiculous. And who decided the moral

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code too? Like, like you
said, a bunch of men just really

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what the New Testament? There is
a bunch of men that wrote it,

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like they're the ones deciding exactly.
And I mean I I if I would

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belong to any church, who would
be the Church of common sense? I

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love that. But I don't speak
for for all the band members. But

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uh, we're we're pretty much you
know we we we love playing music and

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uh, and it's important to have
a message. It's important to have something

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you believe, and it's it's important
to to to to promote your convictions when

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you're in a band and I find
out without having that that that that that

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glue, that that that brings everything
together in a band, and it just

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maybe lacks a little bit of substance, but for us, it's it's important.

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I think it's important too. I
mean, like, you know,

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you see a lot of that going
on lately where there's people not band members,

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but people like yelling at bands like
just sing the song sup spraying blah

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blah blah blah. Hello, do
they even understand what music is about?

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Music is about talking about your convictions, talking about different things. And yes,

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if you have that pulpit that you
can spread your positive message to people

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from the stage, I'm one hundred
percent for it. So like if a

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band gets up there and gets everybody
to be united, Hey, that's the

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way it should be. And you
know what, the fact of the matter

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is, music is therapy and it's
not supposed to be having no meaning to

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it. It's supposed to have meaning
and it's supposed to be fun at the

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same time. Yeah, exactly,
exactly, and that's what makes people listen.

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You know, it's fun. It's
not like somebody's up there lecturing.

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But you know, somebody that's writing
music, singing music, what have you.

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You know, they're singing about things
because they have something to say,

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they have a perspective on it,
and you can agree or not agree,

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because I don't think most bands expect
that everybody's going to agree with what their

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song says. It's not for that, it's for you know, the canthirnism

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of getting our thoughts out in a
positive, fun way. Absolutely, and

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it's you know, and we might
get a little division, but we just

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we we stick to what we do
and that's all we can do. So

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tell us about so many other songs. You got this self titled EP coming

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out, tell us about some of
the other songs on there and maybe what

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they're about. You know, you
have this other song alone, Maybe talk

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about what that's about people. I
see the name of it, and I

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already have a feeling of like,
hey, I want to listen to this

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song. Sure, I'm not one
d familiar with with what uh Dylan's message

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in that song. I guess uh
he's talking about. I guess represents both

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imagine and real fear. Okay,
and you know how we we we create

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our own, uh scenarios that frighten
us. Yeah, so he's basically singing

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about, uh, you know,
just just for for example, just trying

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to get my thoughts here on that, you know, just just like,

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for example, a real a real
fear is being being attacked late at night,

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I get beaten up by a bunch
of people, and that's that's a

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real fear. And that's a real
scenario. And then I guess that scenario

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real or imagine, it could be
imagined, but then it becomes real.

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So I guess he's he's singing about, Yeah, are are real and imagined

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fears? You know which You're right, It is interchangeable. And even the

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example that you brought, uh,
you know, there have been scenarios like

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that, you know, and you
know, I think again it's cathartic because

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these are things when people are listening
to songs that they can relate to put

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their own meaning to it. And
that's the beauty of a great you know.

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I even think of like the title, and I think of myself and

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it was like, you know,
you think of like being all alone in

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the world, you know, because
people aren't on the same page as you

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or for whatever reason. There's many
definitions of being alone. It doesn't mean

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you could be listen, I go
and I do radio coverage at music festivals.

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I could be a music festival with
one hundred thousand people there and still

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feel alone. Yeah. Yeah,
So tell us when the EP is coming

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out, and tell us about your
upcoming shows and all that good stuff.

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Yeah. The EP is going live
March first, and it's going to be

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available on all platforms, and we're
really excited and we've got we just got

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per CDs in the mail today.
We had them pretty nice and so we

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got we got actual tangible products to
sell. I love it. So we're

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looking forward to that. And our
EP release show is on February twenty ninth

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at the twenty seventh Club in the
market here in Ottawa, and I think

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it's going to be a great,
great time. So we're opening for a

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great rock band, local band called
Team in Seri and a great Australian rock

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band called The Lazies, and I
think it's just going to be just a

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great party. It's going to be
lots of fun. We're looking forward to

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it. I love it. And
how do people connect to you guys on

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social media? YouTube, all that
good stuff? Yeah? Yeah, I

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mean we have our own Facebook page. We post occasionally, sometimes frequently,

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sometimes strategically, and we try and
get the message out there and get people

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reminded that we're out there and that
we're in new an upcoming band, and

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and we've got great little visualized visualizers
on on YouTube, Instagram. So that's

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that's all going great. And you
know, also word of mouth and that's

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you know, I'm old school with
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school right there. I love it. Is there anything else you want the

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listeners to know about Marble Ghosts that
we haven't covered already and that they should

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know? I I guess musically speaking, I just wanted to touch base on

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the fact that, Yeah, like
we were talking about multi generational band and

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what I think is is really great
is that we allly bring in our little

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eras of influences in the music,
and I think that's that's fantastic. We

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do we are, we do consider
self a modern rock band with maybe a

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hint of metal, and we just
we just we just get a great we

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The writing process has going great.
We've got five new songs for for another

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ePIE, so we're gonna be heading
back in the studio, are doing our

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parts in our little studios and getting
it all mixed in my friend's studio.

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So the next next two three months, we're we're gonna be releasing another epiece.

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So I think as far as as
musically, to me, it's it's

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interesting. I mean, I'm I'm
I'm I'm an eighties metals metal guy and

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uh I I've I've never really had
the opportunity to to play more modern rock

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or modern metal or anything like that. But uh, it's the songs are

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to me, are just are incredible
and uh and uh, I I just

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I just just love being in this
band. And we all get along great.

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We all, we all, we
all, we all, we all

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gel and we all get along.
We all uh have our own we we

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have our own opinions about what we
want to do, but we all come

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to an agreement and it works like
a collective and it's uh, it's actually

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one of the most easygoing bands I've
I've ever played it and that's that's to

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me. Is uh that says a
lot, great greatest thing, you know.

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I love it. I love you
guys. I hope everybody checks you

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guys out. Music is badass and
uh, hey, thanks for being on

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the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank
you appreciate it. Thank you for listening

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