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new music and we've talked to them
before and we're here again to punintended fly

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with Pistols at dawn. How are
you? Thank my brother? Thanks so

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much for having us back. Hey, my pleasure. You like how I

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did that? There, we're gonna
We're gonna fly away with Pistols at Dawn.

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There I do, I do,
and we are flying. So it's

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an honor. So tell our listeners
a little bit about the new song and

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uh, you know how it's the
same as previous music, but how it's

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different. What's kind of you know
what it means to you? Yeah?

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Man, Well, you know,
when we started as a band, we

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had a certain sound and it definitely
was the Pistols at Dawn sound. And

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then I guess you know, as
we went into our first DP, we

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evolved, and then as we came
into this album Ascension, we definitely evolved

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and wanted to give the full breath
what we could do on an album.

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You know it every way, So
every track on the current album is different

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than the other. And when it
came to Fly, this was one of

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those songs when you hear other bands
just say how it kind of wrote itself.

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We started playing it and it was
a riff that our former guitarist Devin

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had and he started playing it and
you know, I'd say within fifteen minutes

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the song was written. It was
just one of those special songs. And

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you know, it's just just a
good, solid rock and mid tempo song

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that has builds and a beautiful chorus
and harmony. And you know, when

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we did it on the album,
we screwed. We had a lot of

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screaming on it and made it really
passionate. It's a love song. And

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when we ultimately put it out to
radio, we decided to make it a

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little bit more melodic and radio friendly
and we're just so happy how it came

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out, and we just appreciate,
you know, people like you playing it

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so much. Yeah, I mean
it is pretty badass, and I love

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that what you said also about having
pretty much every song different, I think

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that's kind of cool, because why
do I want to listen to the same

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song over and over again? More
importantly, why that's an artist want to

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write the same song over and over
again? Yeah, I think. I

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think so many bands put out albums
with fluff on it, and I think,

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and I mean fluff as in songs
that just aren't gonna they're either just

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repetitious or they're going to they're not
going to hit the way that you hope

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they do, right. And you
know, we were really honest with ourselves

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from the beginning that we wanted to
limit the album to eight tracks, so

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each of the eight tracks would leave
a different stamp on the listener and give

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them the full experience. At that
time when we wrote Ascension, that was

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like two years ago actually, and
now coming into twenty four, we've written

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the new album and we're probably seventy
five percent of the way there, and

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all of the music is written and
many many of the vocals are written,

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and I can genuinely tell you,
you know, we've got ten new tracks

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already and every one of them are
different, like I'm playing them and you

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know, you know some bands say
get kind of bored with, you know,

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playing the same old song over and
over and over because it sounds like

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the old songs or the repetition songs. And I swear to God on the

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new album, like every time we
rehearse, I'm so excited because when we

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play the ten tracks, they're all
different, they're all unique. They're unique

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from Ascension, they're unique from Nocturnal
Youth, and they're unique from our original

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singles. And I'm so excited for
you to hear what we're evolving into after

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this. But for now, Fly
just hit thirty six at Billboard yesterday and

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we're we're just on top of the
moon, you know, finishing the year

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strong. I love it. And
you know, evolve, I love that

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word because, as you know,
you got the gatekeepers and the non gatekeepers.

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I used to be, well as
young the gatekeeper because I came from

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that time and now I can't stand
that. I couldn't stand it then,

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but you know, you were part
of it. But that that gatekeeping stops

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artists from evolving. And I think
if you're an artist and you're perfecting your

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craft, or you're experimenting with your
craft or anything like that. You're going

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to evolve, and you're going to
evolve as life changes, you like,

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you know, we we have the
same core, but there are different influences

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that happen in our life that kind
of change certain parts of that, and

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I think the music should reflect that
as well, one hundred percent. And

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you know, when we put out
it's like, for example, we put

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out our EP, and even as
we were writing O our LP Ascension,

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you know, we were in the
hardest part to the pandemic, and so

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we were writing from a place that
was a bit darker, a bit heavier,

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a bit meaner. You know,
people were unhappy, people were uncertain

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about the world. As we write
this new album, you know, we

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had to make some lineup changes after
our last couple of tours and and just

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kind of kind of regroup so we
could go to the elite, you know,

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the most elite levels which we're headed, which we feel like we're headed

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to. You know, when we
did that, it was just like a

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big boost of fresh air into our
music, so much so that I think

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when you hear the new album,
you're going to get it all. But

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it's going to be even more fresh
and more positive and more just just forward

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thinking. I love it and you
know, getting to new levels. You

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know, I think a lot of
people don't realize that when you do have

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lineup changes, a lot of times
it is for the better and maybe takes

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the band to a whole nother level. I mean, you took it.

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You take examples like ac DC,
Iron Maiden. You know, there's multiple

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ones I could throw out there.
Nirvana, Yeah, there you go.

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I mean that. I mean,
think about think about if Nirvana had done

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Nevermind with their old drummer, would
it? Would it have been Nirvan Nirvana

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right right exactly? You know,
And it's like you did going back to

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the gatekeeper thing. You got the
people that are like hardcore, Oh no,

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I want the original, But if
the original was meant to be,

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it would have made it. But
what brought it to other level? Hold

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on their level, just like you
point out with Nirvana is like you wouldn't

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have the influences that come in to
make that music that make the band basically

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unforgettable and leave their legacy one hundred
percent. And when we came out of

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our most recent touring, you know, we had to make some changes due

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to a multitude of reasons, and
but most importantly to go to the most

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elite levels as you know, as
a unit, as a real defined unit.

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And and after we made those changes, I can genuinely tell you,

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I mean, like the direction of
the band is just so face towards the

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moon. You know, nothing is
holding us back. Now. The writing

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is so youthful and exuberant and fun, and and I think people are just

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going to be blown away by the
advances that we've taken. Not to say

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that the previous lineups weren't just as
good or even better, It's just that

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I think to get where we're where
we need to go, the changes had

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to be made for longevity and for
and for musicality. Yeah. Well,

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sometimes it's just chemistry and sometimes it's
it could be alive. Those type of

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things, like the behind the scenes
type of things that make the difference.

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Because listen, you're on the road
with this band, you better be best

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friends or else you're gonna kill each
other. People people have no idea.

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Let me tell you, I mean, I've I've toured, I've toured with

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a with a bunch of different guys
now and and uh, pistols are down,

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and I can tell you that that
cohesiveness within the band, and mental

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health issues and personal dramas, alcoholism, the whole gamut of experiences comes out

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when you're that close to somebody,
I mean, the plane. The funniest

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thing is that I can genuinely look
back at our last two tours and even

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the radio too before, and the
playing was perfection, you know what I

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mean, Like every night, no
matter what happened during the day, the

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other twenty three hours when we went
on stage, no matter what happened,

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you had one of the what we
feel is one of the best new bands

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in the world, no matter what. But I can genuinely tell you those

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other twenty three and a half hours
each day we're one of the most challenging

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experiences of my existence. And and
just for a multitude of reasons, you

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know. And I can tell you
that now we're such a unit and we're

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so clicking. We just click.
It's like that perfect relationship, you know.

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That's so key, that's so key. We we just we love spending

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time together. I think that's the
most important part. When you figure it

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out, like you did, you
know that, yeah, you could be

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great musicians and on stage you could
be great, but without the off stage

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being great, there's always going to
be something missing, something that's harder,

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and something that's going to hold you
back from those levels you need to be

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at a million percent or are you
know, like most bands, you break

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up. Yeah, I mean,
you know, and I think I think

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Pistols had done, had we continued
with the former lineup. As good as

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it was, it was the type
of thing where changes had to be made.

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And uh, you know, I
value the work performed by the previous

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previous members that were in the band
and in the previous members before them,

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and I think any elite band would
tell you you just have to evolve them.

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And one interesting interesting note is,
look at this week, you know

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slip Knot. Slipknot parted ways of
one of the best drummers in the history

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of metal music, you know,
Weinberg. Weinberg, I'd say there's probably

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what three four people on earth that
can play what Joey Jordison did and dants

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it and advanced the band right.
And Weinberg came in and actually did that.

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And he's such a technician, but
he's so banging. I don't even

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know how to put into words what
it felt like when I read that they

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were exiting him or I don't know
what happened with him, but I mean,

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you know what, Dell have a
new drummer, and Dell their music

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will be different because of it.
That's what they choose. Yeah, And

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you know, it's funny because you
mentioned that, because I think about like

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a band like them having two of
the best drummers I've ever existed in what

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one banned. And that's an example
what we're talking about too. People would

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have thought after Joey, oh,
slip knots done and they're saying it now

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too, But one hundred million percent, ninety nine point nine percent of everyone

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thought the band was done right because
no one could fill Joey's shoes. And

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then they find this guy who happens
to be just a maigmatic phenom, you

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know, who loved Slipknot, and
I you know, I just wonder how

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they're going to do that again.
But maybe maybe they just wanted to change

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their music, you know, maybe
they want to go in a completely different

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direction. For however many albums they
have less you never know, and listen,

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I mean, Corey's been doing a
lot of different stuff, So maybe

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he wants to have more influence of
putting different things into the mix, you

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know, put more into the funnel
instead of that just one straight sound,

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you know, because yes, I
mean the bottom line is, if you

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when you've been in the business a
long, do you really still want to

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play the same kind of stuff you
did twenty thirty years before? One hundred

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million percent. So speaking of playing
live, you guys you know, announced

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a UK tour with Fozzy in February. That's cool. Yeah, yeah,

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we need to go over to Europe
and plan our flag. We uh,

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we really feel our sound is perfect
in Europe as well and and in the

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UK. And and we went on
we went on a full US tour with

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Fazzi back in back this summer in
June, and we clicked with those guys

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so well. Loved those guys.
They're so talented, it's so awesome to

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be with. And uh, I
actually called their manager after the tour and

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I just said, hey, you
know, we had such a great time

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with them. We fit them so
well, you know, take us with

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you. And we worked out a
deal and and uh got it done nice.

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It's gonna be a hell of a
hell of a tour in the UK

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those I hope that the Brits are
prepared for what what what we're about to

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bring. I'm not sure they have
any idea of what's coming. Yeah,

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I don't think they're prepared, but
I think they're gonna love it, Yes

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sir, Yes, sir. And
you know, at the same time,

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you know, we're we've instructed our
booking agent. Uh soon we're probably gonna

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announce some new management. It's some
exciting new management news. And you know,

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we're gonna do this twenty four album
which we which will be the best

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pistols At album ever thus far.
And I know it like like I can

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just tell you it's it's one of
those things where we just feel it and

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you know, we want to shoot
it to the moon. You know,

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we felt like A Sinsion has been
great. We're ending with an incredible track

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with Fly, which will hopefully,
you know, stay on radio through the

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rest of the year, maybe the
beginning of the new year, and and

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and then you know, get ready
for twenty four and the new album and

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then hopefully we'll tour the entire world
next year. I love it, looking

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forward to it. Tell everybody how
they can connect to you guys on socials

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on the web, all that good
stuff. Yes, pistols at Dawn band

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on Facebook, pistols at Don official
on Instagram, and you can find every

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link updates, et cetera, et
cetera on our website, pistols at donband

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dot com and listen. We're just
so grateful for you have us today,

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for having me today, the entire
band since its thanks. Actually, the

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other three guys are actually in the
studio right now. We have a surprise,

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a surprise holiday track nice for those
who are listening that we're going to

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put out and a surprise check for
the holidays. So they're in the studio

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right now working on the new record
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for what's to come and we look
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twenty four album comes out after the
UK tour. Let's do It. I

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love it. Thanks for the great
music and thanks for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Man. Yes, sir, thank you, sir, appreciate it

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so much. Thank you for listening
to the Adventures of Pipe Man. I'm

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w for CUI Radio