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with plush. Nice. All you
ladies introduce yourself. Hey, what's going

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on? My name is Bella Pron
and I play guitar in the band.

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Hello. I'm Mari Formika and I
played rhythm guitar and lead vocals. Nice.

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Hey, I'm Ashley Supa and I
play bass and sing backing vocals.

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Hi. I'm Faith Pal and I
played drums. Nice. So you're here

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at Welcome to Rockville. Have you
guys played Welcome to Rockville before? Yes?

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Actually we were here two years ago
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back. The last time here is
like one of my absolute favorite shows we've

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ever played. I'm so excited for
today. It's the coolest venue, isn't

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it. Like gosh, here you
are looking at the Daytona Speedway, you

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know, like one of the most
iconic speedways ever. Did you get to

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drive through the speedway? Yes?
We did. That was so cool,

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honestly, Like, aside from the
show and everything and getting see all set,

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it's like also just a highlight of
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our army on the speedway, right
go. One of those very surreal experiences.

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For sure. I know the feeling
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festivals and like I come to this
one and I'll like text everybody check it

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out. I'm driving on the Daytona
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It's pretty wild. Definitely the coolest
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no doubt. And you got a
lucky day here because it's Florida and

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it's actually kind of cool. So
it's it's rough to play in Florida.

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I mean there were people passing out
like the past few days, so really

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well because it gets so hot and
human then thank you, you guys up

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on stage when it's that hot and
humid and oh my, and the sun's

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beating down. So let's hope it
just stays like this all day. Fingers

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crossed for sure, and you will
be shocked from last time, because I

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think the crowd this year has been
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And I don't know if that's fact, but it seems that way to me.

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Like just no matter where you went, there were crowds, So you're

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gonna have a big crowd out there
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for sure. I feel like the
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it all over social media, you
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shows, and it just looks like
such an incredible time. We can't wait.

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Yeah, totally. So what can
we expect from you from a live

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show? For those listeners, I
have never tated a live show, and

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now we'll have to go to Sonic
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from a live show, what you
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packed set and just real raw,
straight up rock and roll. Just plug

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in and play nice. It'd be
a fun time. And so what for

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each of you, what really started
this musical journey and how did you all

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connect? Well? For me,
I kind of started out with I played

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guitar first at like six years old, and then I figured out that I

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liked to sing at like ten,
and then kind of just went around doing

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open mic nights and stuff like that, and then it kind of grew from

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there and here we are today.
Yeah. For me, I started playing

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guitar when I was five gran My
dad owned a music store, so I

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was just always around instruments and music
and so yeah about that age and decaying,

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you know, that's what I want
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just been guitar not stop ever since. Nice. I started playing, if

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you would call it that guitar when
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more so playing with a guitar,
I guess right. My dad was a

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guitar player. He still is.
He played in a band with Mike Star

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from Alison Chains. He would jam
with Ace Freley from Kiss. So I

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grew up watching him play and he
just inspired me so much and I knew

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that was what I wanted to do. So when I was around eleven years

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old, I started going to the
School of Rock and I ended up going

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from guitar to bass because they needed
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I guess there weren't enough for the
that year. So I was just like,

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okay, I think I have a
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that looks like. So we had
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up bass and then I couldn't put
it down ever since. So trivia question,

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do you know who's the most fa
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history? Who was actually a guitar
player And because the band Norriady had two

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guitars, he had to play bass. Who Paul McCartney. Oh yeah,

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okay, Like he was not a
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go listen to Beatles music and you
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Yeah, he sounds like guitar exactly. Well, that's why he's one of

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my favorite bass players of all time. See, I just think he's brilliant.

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See so you followed it his footsteps
and you didn't even know it.

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Well, thank you for me.
It started out as for my tenth birthday,

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I got a drum set and then
I'd love going to concerts too.

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My parents would take me and every
time I want to be like, oh

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wow, I wish I could do
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that stage. And just going to
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really motivated me to keep on going
and working hard. And I joined local

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bands when I was sixteen, just
playing around the area, and then after

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I graduated high school, I joined
Plush and now we're here Nice And that

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first time you were on stage from
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hit you while you're on stage or
after stage where you're like, oh my

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god, I got here. Yeah, Definitely on stage, it's like such

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a rewarding moment. Like looking back
at the times I was like, oh,

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just like wait five years and like
so much we'll be different. Just

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thinking back like that, we're like, you never know what the future could

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be like. So it's super cool
to see now that we're here playing Welcome

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to Rockville, and I'm super grateful
to be here. Nice. And so

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how did you all connect? So
we kind of connected through social media more

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or less. Ashley and I kind
of started out together and we were jamming

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and stuff, and then we put
out a PSA for a guitar player and

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then that's how we found Bela yeah, and then Faith the same way,

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very cood less social media. It's
kind of like during the lockdown, you

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know, and it was like what
else we're going to do? But thank

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god we will see there there's the
positive of the lockdown. There are positives.

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It was a shit time, but
there are positives, you know,

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and that's one of them. I
think one of the other positives is is

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that artists like yourself were able to
sit and create without being bums rushed and

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to go here, go there,
and like, Okay, produce this,

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write this song in two seconds,
and don't check it over, don't change

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it because we need to put it
out right away. So COVID gave you

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a chance to be actually creative,
right right? Absolutely? Yeah. So

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what is if you're each one of
you one moment that is like the most

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memorable moment of your musical journey so
far, what would it be? Gosh,

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it's hard to pick just one.
I feel like there's so many pinch

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me moments, especially like Mari was
saying, like since COVID, all of

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us were fresh out of high school
and then the band just kind of has

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been on this you know, crazy, you know, NonStop role of like

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just tours and shows and gosh,
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for sure is playing you know,
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size and like something you know you
don't dream of as a kid, right

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And for me, it's been getting
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like my guitar heroes out closed and
like watch they're playing and just feel more

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and more inspired to like you know, still feeling like I'm a kid on

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the inside. Nice And so who
are your guitar heroes? For ones we've

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are like people we've met. It's
for like the when we opened for Slash

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that was like the coolest tour for
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know, a player I worship for
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like Steve I and Josatriani and Nu
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eighties and nineties shred guys. So
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you know, some of our favorite
bands live. It's definitely just kind of

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surreal for sure. See, and
I love who you pick because they're all

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like true musicians, Oh my gosh, you know, yeah, they're all

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so inspiring like that. There isn't
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maybe it's because of the times that
you know, you kind of take that

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stuff out of the songs. A
lot of bands have to take out the

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bridge, the solos and all that, so you don't really get to see

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the true talent like the names you
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today that's where you're getting your vibe
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I think that's definitely something we all
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live sets of like you know,
sometimes jam parts or added solos or whatnot,

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you might not you know, make
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having that energy live and that time
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that's something we love to do for
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excited to do that today as well. Very cool. What what other stories

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do we have here that are like
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over the for each one of you. I would say a big pinch me

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moment for me was when we got
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Wow. Because they are Lizzie and
Amy are literally two my biggest heroes,

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you know, huge, huge vocal
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total pinch me moment. Nice,
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I mean, I don't think there's
anybody out there except maybe you that Amy

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Lee has that has a better voice
than Amy Lee. Like she's unbela She's

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ridiculous. And what a role model
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I mean, both like huge role
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changing this industry because there's so many
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industry because of people like them,
right exactly. They really kind of opened

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it up. Yeah, allowed us
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I think is cool because I don't
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cool, cooler than the men because
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like that that should be in music, you know, absolutely, How about

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you? I agree women are way
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would say one of my pinch me
moments was probably the first show that we

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did on the Alis and Chains tour. I grew up listening to them all

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the time. They're my favorite band, and I remember getting ready for that

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show and getting onto the stage,
and then I just looked over to my

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right and I saw, you know, some of the bands that we were

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touring with standing to the right of
me, and I was like, oh

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my gosh, I better play the
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And I don't know if I did
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but that that whole tour in itself
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so many amazing people and the bands
and the crew. It just it couldn't

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have been a better time in my
life. I think those happiest time in

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my entire life. I love it. A big moment for me was when

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we were on the Disturbed tour playing
the talking stickers were Amphitheater. I would

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always see like my favorite bands play
there, like Slipknot, Food Fighters,

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and then then we got to play
it. I thought it was such a

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cool moment because I would just like
go to my friends wishing we was like,

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oh, I hope I can play
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knew if like it really happened.
So that was like super special moment for

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me too. And it being the
first hometown show with me and Plush.

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There you go, see, that's
a special moment too, Right, you

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played at hometown show and then all
the people you've known are like, whoa,

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she's up on stage. Yeah.
It was so cool, especially my

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family and all my friends being able
to come out. Yeah, it's great

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to have that support too. There
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that your family were like huge supporters
of this because that's so important. Yeah.

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Yeah, my family definitely was.
When sixteen, I couldn't drive yet,

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they would take me to every like
band rehearsal I had. They drive

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hours, like wait for the rehearsal, then drive me back. They did

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whatever they could to get me where
I'm at now. See that's so cool

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because nowadays that's the way it is. You know, there's a lot of

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parents out there that are super supportive
of creative talent. Like in my day,

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it was like, oh, you
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a real job, you know,
like stop playing around with that and get

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a real job. Or I would
sit there playing guitar and my dad would

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be like, you better figure out
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Because he didn't like metal, so
he's expected me to like play Frank Sinatra

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or something like that. So what
else you got going on. You have

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a new EP that dropped in January. Let's talk about that. Yes,

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we have a new EP that dropped
in January. It's called Find the Beautiful

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and we're actually on our very first
headline tour called the Find the Beautiful Tour.

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Nice. So that's super exciting.
And then we have today, which

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is awesome, and then we have
we're doing Sonic Temple as well, another

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iconic Danny Wimmer festival. Yes,
oh my gosh, we're so excited.

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Have you ever played there? You
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there. And it's this big stadium
like you'll be playing a stadium show.

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It's it's it's an iconic venue.
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done a stadium before, so this
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Very cool. I can't even picture
playing a stadium, right, that's pretty

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ridiculous. I'm so excited because Sonic
Temple is done. One of those dream

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festivals for me again since I was
you know, little kids like starting to

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play your time, I'm like,
oh my god, like I'd always hear

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Sonic Temple and it's like this sounds
like the coolest festival ever. And so

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we're still stoked to be a part
of Rockville and Sonic Temple both back to

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back, you know, two weekends
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iconic festivals. Like to me,
that's a pinch me moment too,

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right, absolutely, So I also
ask a lot of people this, well,

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let's get your social all your socials, your merch store, because that's

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important. You gotts support merch and
all that and anything else that we miss

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that you want the listeners know about. Yeah, so you could find us

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at plush rocks on Instagram and Twitter, and then we are plush official on

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Facebook and you can get merch and
see our tour dates and find our EP

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as well on plush rocks dot net
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guess, thank you so much for
the support and for listening, and thank

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you for having us, Oh my
pleasure. Thanks for being here at Welcome

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to Rockville, and thanks for being
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you so much for having us.
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