Aug. 1, 2025

PipemanRadio Wants to Know Why The Midnight Devils Will Shock The World

PipemanRadio Wants to Know Why The Midnight Devils Will Shock The World
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PipemanRadio talks with Sam Spade, the lead singer and manager for The Midnight Devils.  The Midnight Devils are an international touring glam slam party rock n roll band based out of Omaha, NE and New Orleans, LA.  We discussed their third album, So Hard It Hurts and their brand new single and video.  The Midnight Devils are very excited to release Shock the World, the 2nd video and single from So Hard It hurts. 

https://youtu.be/MY_JbSos3tg?si=-msNFLj0RYrTuRie

Since the last time Pipeman and Sam talked, The Midnight Devils finished 4 tours across the USA and will be headed back to Australia in November of 2025. 

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Hey, you have done to censure.

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Wow, crazy young.

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Robbing, robbing, straight as a jam, robbed every corner on

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that breeze street. Dust Gail Days always don't grow get

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the tops with out probil.

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They were a probatad.

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Yo.

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It's pipe Man here and I'm very excited about our

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next guest because what a killer artist and with some

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killer new music. So let's welcome to the show, Sam

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for the Midnight Devils. Are you?

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What's going on? Pipe Man?

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It is great to be back here, and man, it's

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good to see you. How's everything going with you?

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Oh it's good. I just got back from LA And

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before that I was in prison at Shawshank Prison for

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an incarceration festival.

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Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

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What cool place to have a music festival, but a haunted,

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closed down prison where the Shawshank Redemption was filmed.

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I saw a ton of videos and it looks like

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maybe the coolest festival in the United States.

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I know, right. So the first time I ever did

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that festival years ago, I was outside taking a picture

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of this prison some other dudes taking a picture, and

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he was in one of the bands playing and he goes, hey,

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can you take my picture? And I'll take your picture,

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and he goes, look at us. We're fanboying out on

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Shawshank Prison. Pretty cool though, Yeah, totally cool. And then

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I'm going next week to UK for Bloodstock Festival, which

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is another cool festival.

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Dude, that's gonna be huge. Who's the who's the headline

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on that?

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You know? Who are you? I fucking forget who the

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headliner is because I've been to like, I've been on

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tour doing festivals since like February. It all swirls around

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my head. But I am totally looking forward to Lacuna

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Coil because I love them, and they are playing at Bloodstock.

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A bunch of killer bands, and I can't play favorites

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because I got a shitload of interviews, so I love it.

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I have to say I love them all.

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You be working, working, working, working, but that's good. That's

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a good thing.

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And you've been working too because you got some killer

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new music, so let's talk about that, dude.

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Yes, we've been traveling. Uh, we've been.

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We released our third record called So Hard It Hurts

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on July fourth or July fifth of twenty twenty four,

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and basically since then we've been touring our asses off

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we've been going hard. We did Australia, we did Japan

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for the first time. We did the UK, we did Norway,

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We did all these great places. Then we came back

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to the USA in January. We kicked off four We

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did four legs of a USA tour from January to July.

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So it kind of brought it around all.

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The way to about a year since we released this

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record and right it about a year we released a

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second single which is called Shock the World brand new

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music video out on YouTube right now. The tour just

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was incredible and everywhere we went in the first time

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we've been in the USA in two years that we

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played shows in the USA. Wow, Like from January to July,

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we we just went out and partied for that four

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or five months.

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Nice. Where was your favorite place to play in the US.

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It's hard to say, man Like, it's just so cool

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being back.

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Like we did Florida, we did Myrtle Beach, we did

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New Orleans, we did Nashville twice, we did upstate New York.

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We did Phoenix, you know, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City,

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like all these cool places, and so it's like anywhere

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that the weed is legal, I think is our favorite place.

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I love it. You know, it's kind of cool about

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that nowadays. Is you know, in the old days when

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you go on tour, if you were getting on planes,

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you were kind of screwed.

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Yep.

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Now it's just you get on a plane, you go somewhere,

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you stop at the dispensary on the way to the gig.

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It's it's perfect.

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And I think in Nebraska, which is where The Midnight

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Devil Sniper and Isaac's Hard Player and I are located.

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Here in Nebraska is still a holdout, and so weed

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is still illegal here, but basically anywhere else we go

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it's legal.

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So let's say it's fine and it's it's wild when

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it's your own hometown. Well, here in Florida, medical is legal,

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but not wreck. But the ridiculous thing about medical is

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you could go in and say I dub my toe

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and they'll give you the prescription.

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Yeah, it's just all it's all bureaucrats and politics and

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it just hey, we just want to get high. Everybody,

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Well it go stop, We'll stop all the nonsense. But

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you know, there's money to be made, and at the

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end of the day, that's what it's all about.

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Yeah, I mean I was just talking about that recently,

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that like it was better when you had to street

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drug deal. We're selling weed because now that the government's

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taken over, like the ship has all kinds of man

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made stuff in it and they're collecting all kinds of

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taxes and they're making shitloads of money, and if they

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do something good with that money, that'll be great.

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Here's the deal, here's what we've traded. I think I

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figured this out. So now we pay higher taxes for

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our weed because we go to dispenser and buy it.

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Back in the old days, you had to go to

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your buddy's house and go down into a smelly basement

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and play video games with him and chit chat with

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him for an hour and a half to get the

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same amount of weed. So that was the tax. So

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we got rid of that hanging out with your buddy

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or the weird on the street corner. Now we just

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have to pay the high taxes to go to dispensary.

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It's a give and take relationship.

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Well, it's so funny you should say that because the

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last person that I did that with is so true.

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I was at his house for like two hours, and

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I like to get out of there. I just wanted

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to do what I need to do. Leave, or it

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was drive my dad, you said. When I was a teenager,

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my dad used to have me drive into East La. Okay,

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And I was like, listen, I have no business being

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in East La. But okay. I drove into East La

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and you pull up to this street corner and you

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just yell out the window, Malta, Monta, Monta, and like

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every Mexican drug dealer in East La swarms your car.

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And I'm thinking of myself now looking back on that,

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like I didn't even think about it then, I'm looking like, wow,

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that that was kind of stupid.

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Taking some liberties.

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But you know, and that's that's the cool thing is

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that we're coming around now to see the benefits of

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all of this, and it's cool.

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It's all good though, yeah, you know what. The fact

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that the matter is, why should all these uh you know,

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opioids be legal because big Pharma doles it out and

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weed not that's mine, right, I.

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Know he's going to jail over weed, and and that's

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just fine. And it seems to make everything better. And

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we've been such big proponents of it, you know, anywhere

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we go that it's it's it's it's a really cool thing.

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Us.

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We're all recovering alcoholics.

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All three of the see it's better right.

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Recovering alcoholics fifteen years, you know.

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And so we've kind of especially you know me personally,

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where it was like I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't

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do I couldn't do anything, and I couldn't take drugs

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because I've given that up, you know.

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So so we kind of became this thing that that

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helped help my mind, I guess, ease my mind.

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Well, you know what, as somebody who rarely drinks and

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was had a father who was an alcoholic and two

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xys is alcoholics, I see no reason why alcohol should

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be legal and marijuana not legal. I mean, listen, fucking

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debauchery that comes from alcohol. Yep, Like you get stone.

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You're too lazy to do anything stupid, You're too lazy

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to get into a fight with somebody. Like how many

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times do you hear of like have you ever heard

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of like an Amsterdam in one of the coffee houses

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of a fight?

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No, I went there.

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I'll tell you this, plight man. We went there and

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I got stories of Amsterdam. We went there with enough

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enough night.

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Oh boy, that that was enough.

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Took us to Amsterdam with Jimmy Masser, drummer who lived

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there for like a he lived there for a few years.

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But Chip took us to Amsterdam and we walk into

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the coffee shop and his pictures on the wall like wow,

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celebrity walk. And so they cleared out of the place.

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The spot on the place is completely packed and clear

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out of table and they sit us down like royalty

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there he chips enough in Amsterdam.

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It was one of the coolest things we've ever done.

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That that's so funny. Like, okay, so every professional stoner

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that I know like get gets stupid in Amsterdam, like

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they could totally have high tolerance here, you know, Like

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I have a friend, she's the most professional stoner I know.

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From the morning a minute she wakes up to a

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minute she goes to bed, and it's like the strongest

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shit there is. She faced planked in Amsterdam the first

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time she went me. Okay, So I was married for

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twelve years and my wife never knew if I smoked

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or not, because like you know, I just turned into

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a normal person instead of like ten million miles per hour.

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And so we go to Amsterdam. We get off the

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Red Eye. It was like twenty eight years ago, and like,

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she wants to go to the hotel because we just

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got off the red Eye. I'm like, you have your mind.

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I just arrived at Amsterdam. I'm not going to a

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hotel yet. The first place I'm going as a coffee house. Now,

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remember then there was nowhere that was legal in the US,

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so that was the place to go. So we went

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during the Cannabis Cup, so I know, right, we go

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it to the Grasshopper, which is now just basically a

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restaurant now, but then it was the place to go,

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and you had like the downstairs and the upstairs. The

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upstairs was for alcohol, downstairs was for pot. And it

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was like going to a restaurant. You sat a table,

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they brought you menu, and your server like he wasn't

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a bud tender, he was a server like he was

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he gave you all day and taking your order like

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you're ordering a meal, you know. And so anyway, I'm like, okay,

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when we first get there, I'm like, what do you

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have that's mellow? Give that to me and he's like, okay,

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here you go. That was That was the pregaming so

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he gave me some Jamaican or whatever. And then I said, okay,

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now give me the best ship you have, the stuff

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that won the cup. And see that there was a

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bomb over there that was like taller than me. Like

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see that bong? I want that? So I take one

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hit off that bog. The ship was called white Weirdo. Okay.

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We go out to eat that restaurant Chinese restaurant. I'll

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never forget it, and I'm looking at the venue. I

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look up at my wife and I'm like, yeah, I

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can't do this. She's like, what are you talking about?

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Like she never she had no clue why, But I'm like,

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I just can't do this, Like please, God, I am

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so high. I just want to come down, please, And no,

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I can't order anything off this menu, like I'm over it.

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Do you guys have Manzarella Chinese restaurant because that's what

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I need right now?

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I know, right exactly. Do you have some brownie Ala

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mode for me? Please? What about those Amsterdam pastries? You know?

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But it was like, oh, I just couldn't believe it.

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How I have other stories too, like other places like

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have you been to Christiana?

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No? Not yet? Oh okay I know what you're talking about,

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but we have not been there yet.

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So it's pretty cool because in Denmark it's illegal. People

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think it's legal because of Christianity. Christiana is just this

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old hippie commune that like his grandfathered in that they

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don't have to follow the laws of Denmark. They're like

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a self sustaining community. And so you go in and

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there's like a gateway to walk in and you literally

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just walked into the sixties.

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Man.

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Wow. And there's painting. There's paint art. You know, murals everywhere,

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but there's murals that have like cameras, like pick a

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picture of a camera and painting of a camera. Don't

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take pictures. That's why you don't see it anywhere on

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the internet. Like, oh, you walk in and nobody wants

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to take picture, you to take pictures and you buy

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your weed from the police station.

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Wows right, all right, all right?

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So there's all kinds of cool places in the world

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like that, like Bali. Have you been to Bali?

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I've not been to Bali, but we went to uh

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where we're headed to Australia, and that's been like a

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weird one for us. Uxtable's out of there, but it's

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still illegal in Australia except for in like the capital

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city I believe it's called Canberra.

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Right, so you can grow it there I think.

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And in Indonesia it's very illegal, like very much. They

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will catch you, they will bring you out to a

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beach and shoot your ass like just like that. But

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then you have the Gilly Islands, which are right off

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of Bali and they are like Christian they're part of Indonesia,

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but Indonesia gut does not govern them at all. They

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have no police on the island. And you go and

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you go on the island, there's no vehicles and there's

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like makeshift shacks along the beach whether you want to

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buy pot or mushrooms, whoa, And there's no problem with it,

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but don't bring it back to the mainland.

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Absolutely.

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There's like there's so many weird, weird shit like that

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in the world. It's kind of cool that America has

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finally come around too, like you know, let people feel better,

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it is.

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And you know what the weird thing is that as

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an American rock band, we will tour all over the world, right,

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and we go to these places Australia, Sydney, like and

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they go, Okay, what do you guys want on your writer?

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You know what?

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Do you drink it tonight? It's all on the house.

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And we're like, we don't drink. They're like, you don't look.

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Like we're aliens.

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You don't drink. I know, right, a rock.

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Band that doesn't drink. I go, yeah, it's it's weird,

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like we had to stop drinking. It's weird that there's

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not more rock bands that have had to stop drinking.

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Like we can't be the only ones that overdid it

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in our younger days.

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Right, Well, look at who we just lost recently, and

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did he overdo it?

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Boy? He wrote the book on overdoing it.

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I think, like, I don't even know how he lasted

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to seventy six. Man, he's on my shirt here, He's

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in the background there somewhere.

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Man.

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But I hear the stories so and I just what

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boggles my mind is that I hear the stories about

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how messed up he was and how he'd be held

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up in hotels and stuff and just the worst possible

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shape ever. But he's Ozzy Osbourne. He's still out there

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like creating these amazing albums and right on tour and

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do it, and like, how is he getting this stuff

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done while being at the lowest point in his life.

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I don't understand. That's a testament to how I guess

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how great he was.

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Testament to him and Sharon too. Yes, if it weren't

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for her, oh you know, it's yeah, I mean, like

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it is kind of wild. They just had his funeral

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procession and yeah, and it was kind of cool. Like

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you know how much I love that the king of

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the Prince of Darkness is so beloved and considered such

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a great human being throughout the world. Because when I

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was in high school, I remember I was wearing an

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Ozzie Diary of Madman's shirt. You know, I saw Randy

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live and when I went to school the next day,

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like this girl, I knew, She's like, oh, you're a

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devil worshiper, Like you weren't a bad person because you

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listen to Ozzy, okay, and look at what he has done,

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So you wouldn't be playing today if it weren't for Ozzie.

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Probably every artist the same.

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Story who doesn't have that same story where it's like, man,

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when we were kids, if you had an Azzie album

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or you listen to Azzi the parents, the teachers, everybody

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would come down on you thinking you were a devil worship,

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that you were going to hell, or that you were

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doing something sacrilegious, and that was always it. And at

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the end, all that did was make me more into

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the music and make me more into it, and I

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had to find out more and I had to, but

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that that's what dropped, That's what drew me in. So

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it was like had the opposite.

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Effect, no doubt. Listen, it's funny you mentioned teachers could

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have had a history to class in high school that

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the history teacher, I don't know, left or whatever, so

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they had to put somebody in quick. They put in

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the music teacher. Yeah, yeah, okay, and so he he

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was like one one assignment for the whole semester. And

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that's your whole grade. Other than that, I don't give

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a fuck what you do, and you could do it

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on any subject. You got to do an oral presentation

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on any subject, doesn't matter what it is. And I

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did mine and I got an a in the class.

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Ozzy Osbourne Satanism in his music love that, I love

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it right right, and I brought it props like I

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brought in shirts and all my my schwag, and I

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brought in Diary of a Madman and start playing it

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and start playing mister Crowley and they room, you know,

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and yeah, like I mean, it's just amazing. He was everywhere.

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It's so cool and he was such an influence on me.

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And I got it like I work at a bar

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so on a strip club DJ, right, and my time

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when we're not touring is what is what I do

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is we work at a strip club every night of

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the week. The day he died, I walk into the

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strip club and there's people there like waiting for me

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to roll into. All I wanted to do was talk

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about Ozzy, right, And I think that's such a cool

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thing because in a strip club you don't play a

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whole lot of Ozzy. Now I do, but normal strip

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clubs that's not a thing. And people just wanted to

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talk about Ozzy and and there were guys there waiting

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I go, you know, for me, Ozzy was like it

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was before the Osbourne's came out. Yeah, he was still

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he was still this guy, this kind of this this

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enigma that you listened to him and you felt like

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he understood it, that he got it, and that by

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listening to him, I he understood what the plight that

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I was going through, and it helped me get through it,

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you know, and all these things like Ozzy was one

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of us and we got all that.

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And and the parents didn't understand.

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But people that listened to Ozzy in that time, they

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got it and they understood it. And now after the

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Osbourne's came out and he kind of became this household name,

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it felt a little different than it did the day

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when he wasn't such a national or an internationally known figure,

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you know, like.

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A real Eastar right right.

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But for that he was like our metal like leader almost.

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He was like a Ronnie James Deo is the.

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Scene, you know, oh one hundred percent. And you know,

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it's funny because he did that other show with Jack

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where they went on the road.

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That was good.

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I love that show. But what was amazing about that,

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after decades of thinking that he was banned from the Alamo,

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he found out he was so fucking drunk that it

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never happened.

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I loved it. I loved the story. The thing was great.

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I couldn't stop watching.

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It, right, you know. And it's funny because here where

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I am in West Palm Beach, Florida. Another radio personality

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I'm friends with that used to be here years ago,

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but the station doesn't exist anymore. I just saw him

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at incarceration because he's up in that area, and we

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were talking about It's weird because we were talking about

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I remember when he gave Ozzie a key to the city.

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So right here where I live, Ozzy was given a

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key to the city.

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And you know what the crazy thing is.

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I don't even know if this is if we talked

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about this or not, but we recorded our album right

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there in West Palm Beach, basically Boydon Beach.

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Oh wow, See, I don't remember if we talked about that,

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but yeah, that's not far. I don't know.

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So January of twenty twenty four, we were there recording

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the record with Rick Browdy, who's the producer, Cher Ross

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from Vixen and Bam Ross. They all live right there,

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and Rick Browdy did the Poison record and the ten

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Nugent record, ten New He did the first boy record

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in Tennusian Double Ave Gonzo And they all live right there,

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like within, you know, a block of each other in

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Boyton Beach, and and we flew in and did the

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record right there in January.

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Nice. So see you should get key to the city.

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I would love that. We actually love it down there.

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We think it's really cool, Like there's a little you know,

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the little Cuban coffee places and all that.

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Like just love it there.

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See. Now, somebody like me that lives here is originally

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from New York and New Jersey and then lived in

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the eighties starting nineteen eighty in La. Yeah, I wish

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I could say the same to you about Nebraska.

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Field, Nebraska. You know when Nebraska's so weird and it's

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so but it's like it's it's mine. And that's how

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I feel. Like nobody else. Everybody talks so much, so

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much crap about it, but like a week ago, and

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I'll tell you this, like this has nothing to do

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with anything except for that everybody talks about Nebraska, but

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I love it. We went to a weed field in

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the middle of Nebraska, and I'm not just it was

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the coolest thing I have ever seen. Like you're out

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in the it's just like God just saying hello, I'm here.

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So here's what I'm imagining. Do you guys like sit there?

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And of course I have to make it funny. But

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do you guys sit there after you're in the weed field?

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Yeah?

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Do you then walk across the street and because you

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have the munchies to the corn field and eat the corner.

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We just shoot the cow right there on the other

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field and cook them and start frying them up.

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Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Oh man, So tell us

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more about your music for listeners that don't know who

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you are. Yeah, and especially the live show, Explain what

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kind of experience that would be, because that I love

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the video and to me it shows how fun it

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is to be at one of your live shows.

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Yeah. Absolutely.

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The Night Devils are an international touring glam slam, party

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rock and roll band. I think that's the best way

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to completely describe what we do.

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We are. We are it's just party rock and roll.

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People ask what it is, it's it's it's going out

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there having a good time doing what you love, regardless

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of any what what what anybody else says. I grew

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up listening to Kiss. Our guitar player loves Van Halen

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and and his name's Chris Heinleines Sniper and our drummer

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Jimmy Mess loves the Ramones. So you can imagine all

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three of those bands mixed together and you slap it

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put it on the road.

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Uh.

458
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But it's it's loud, guitar driven party rock and roll.

459
00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:41.599
That's what it is about having a good time and really.

460
00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.480
Nothing but no doubt. And you know, it brings us

461
00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:47.640
back to times when it was just fun and not

462
00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:50.319
all the bullshit we have to deal with now. And

463
00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:52.480
that's why I love about That's what music should do.

464
00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:57.039
It should take you to good times, fun times, and

465
00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:01.319
just have those euphoric feelings just from the music, right.

466
00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.440
And we completely agree. I think there's so many bands

467
00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:08.920
that take it so seriously and and it's it's very.

468
00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:11.039
You know, there's not a lot of bands that have fun.

469
00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:13.079
And I think that's kind of the thing that we've

470
00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.559
we've always been about that it's not just us that

471
00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:18.160
it's having a good time on stage. Because let me

472
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:20.680
tell you, we're having a blast out there. We've been touring,

473
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:24.119
touring now for almost ten years. Come up in two years,

474
00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:26.880
we're celebrating a decade of the Midnight Devils. I don't

475
00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.680
even know if you can believe that. Like, we started

476
00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:32.480
this in the basement in Nebraska and now we're headed

477
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:35.279
to uh you know, Brisbane, Australia in.

478
00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:37.920
November that that those are really cool things for me.

479
00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:41.839
But really it's all because we have so much fun

480
00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:46.200
as a band as a live show that travels around.

481
00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:49.000
Like we love touring, we love putting out records, we

482
00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:50.200
love doing all this stuff.

483
00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:53.200
It's just this this.

484
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.119
This creative freedom to be and do whatever you want,

485
00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:58.839
and I think that's kind of lost in this music.

486
00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:01.559
There's no there's nobody else doing it. There's nobody else

487
00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:04.240
putting on the lipstick, you know, spiking up the hair,

488
00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.720
playing a loud guitars. It's unapologetic and it's just it's

489
00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:10.559
what's needed in just such a kind of a crazy

490
00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:11.279
time right now.

491
00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.440
Oh, no doubt about it, because it is just fun.

492
00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.440
It's you know, and the fact is is, even though

493
00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.359
you're a musician, you're an entertainer. Two. So when you're

494
00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:24.319
playing on a live show, it's a performance.

495
00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:24.880
Yep.

496
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.160
You know. There's bands that I never really liked it

497
00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:31.720
i saw their live show, and then there's other bands

498
00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:35.480
that I love that when they're live shows, like eh Okay,

499
00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:38.440
because because it's a matter of whether they're playing on

500
00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:43.400
a show for us and for themselves. Or if they're

501
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.960
just getting up there and going through the motions yep.

502
00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:50.359
And for us, it's like I wonder sometimes I'm like, man,

503
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.480
do I really like the seventh.

504
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:53.640
Or eighth night in a row? I got to put

505
00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:55.960
my makeup on? Is it gonna? Like do I really

506
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:56.839
need to be doing this?

507
00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:58.759
And you get out there and it's like as soon

508
00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:00.960
as you just kind of step foot on that stage,

509
00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.279
you're like, it's all worth it. Let's go. I'm ready

510
00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.240
to party. We're gonna do this thing. We're gonna do

511
00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:06.559
it big. Even though it's the eighth night in the

512
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:08.880
row that I'm gonna do this, It's totally cool and

513
00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.799
I love everything about it. So it's just like for

514
00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:16.319
me especially, it's like how hard can we go? And

515
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:18.680
that's kind of almost a punder how hard can we go?

516
00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.000
And like so hard it hurts, really like we're just

517
00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.519
gonna keep pushing it. And we've been very blessed to

518
00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:27.279
have this this ten year long career, almost three albums

519
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.799
in and it just keeps going and it works because

520
00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.960
of the story, because of the images, because of we're

521
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.599
the only band that's out there having fun, and that's

522
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:39.640
really like that testament we went and saw Dave Lee

523
00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:42.400
Roth a few weeks back, you know that bit at.

524
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:44.960
M three he did the big comeback right right.

525
00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.559
It was the coolest thing ever. He killed it, and

526
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:50.039
I go, that's what that's exactly it. That's what we

527
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:53.319
need to do right there, right the blueprint has been written.

528
00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:56.160
Go out there and entertain the people. And the smiles

529
00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:59.319
on everybody's face is like, dude, it was next level.

530
00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:00.920
And I go, that's it. That's what we need to do,

531
00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:03.160
just every single night. Just continue to do that.

532
00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:06.599
Well. I don't know if I told you last time,

533
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:10.559
but did I tell you my story about David Lee

534
00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:13.920
Roth and Van Halen at the US Festival in nineteen

535
00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:14.519
eighty three.

536
00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:16.440
No, I would love to hear it though.

537
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:22.920
Okay, so I am definitely team Roth when it comes

538
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.799
to Van Halen one hundred and I liked Sammy Hagar

539
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:32.279
without Van Halen, sure, but to me, David Lee Roth

540
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.880
was Van Halen, you know, like the whole style, the

541
00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:40.240
party band that they were in LA And you know,

542
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.839
I went to the US Festival. It was the first

543
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:45.799
music festival I ever went to. I told I was sixteen,

544
00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.680
I drove, I told my dad.

545
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:50.440
Was this the one where I had to find him

546
00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.079
in the in the Amazon rainforest.

547
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.160
I don't know if they had to find them there,

548
00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:59.640
but it was. It was the one where they headlined, yeah.

549
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.759
And they like a million They're like some astronomical amount

550
00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:03.480
of money, right.

551
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:08.359
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was three hundred thousand people there, right, okay,

552
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:11.880
and was in the desert in California, like in one

553
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.920
hundred and ten degrees. It was. I had multiple friends

554
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:18.720
pass out in the crowd, you know, they were doing

555
00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:21.160
the hoses. That was the beginning of hoses, you know

556
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:26.880
at festivals. So anyway, and Ozzie played too uh trip

557
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:31.440
while those arrows like way up front in the middle

558
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:34.480
of the sardine can and somebody like two people away

559
00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:39.240
from me got stabbed, and Ozzy came over to speakers

560
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.960
and he's telling people, you know, like Joe out, you know,

561
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:46.079
we're all here to have fun, blah blah blah blah blah,

562
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:47.960
you know, and said all this stuff. That was like,

563
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.839
here's the Prince of darkness coming out and telling you

564
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:55.440
to stop being evil. Okay, but basically okay, but then

565
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.799
so they and Van Helen comes on the headline Heavy

566
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.079
Metal Day, which is a trip to me in and

567
00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:07.880
of itself. If you think about heavy metal today, Van

568
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:12.000
Halen would be the headliner, like over Judas Priest, over

569
00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:16.680
you know, Azzie, you know, over all those people over

570
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:21.000
Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, they were the headliner. And so

571
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:26.200
they're playing, ain't talking about love, but Dave's not singing,

572
00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:31.640
and Eddie's looking over at him, and Mike lan Thing's

573
00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:34.319
looking over at him, and finally he just goes, this

574
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.559
is what makes him the greatest frontman ever next to you,

575
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:43.319
of course. But you know because instead of it being

576
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:48.279
a negative thing, he just yelled to the crowd, I

577
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.279
fucking forgot the words with a big smile on his face.

578
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:59.599
Three hundred thousand people roared like they just won the lottery. Man, Okay, words,

579
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.319
I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, I was

580
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.880
there for it. And then cool one dude heckled him

581
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:08.519
in the whole crowd and he just turned to him

582
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:12.039
typical David Lee Roth. They said, I am gonna fuck

583
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.400
your girlfriend. That is rock and roll.

584
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:20.440
My friends absolutely absolutely that.

585
00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.599
It's the attitude and that and I tell people that,

586
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:26.519
you know, if this is still the wild West out

587
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:28.880
here and being in a rock and roll band it's

588
00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.799
still a party. It's still whatever you want to do,

589
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.279
you know, anything that you want to do, day or night.

590
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.720
We're still kind of that uncharted territory out there, and

591
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.480
I think that's still a really cool thing. And talking

592
00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:42.920
to all of our friends and everybody that that are

593
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:45.759
out touring still and still loving it, you know, enough

594
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.200
enough and pretty Boy Floyd, all those great guys that

595
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.400
are still out there doing it.

596
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:51.559
Everybody's still so much fun.

597
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.039
No doubt. And listen, you know, I gotta give you

598
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.799
big props, but on that makeup all the time like that,

599
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.240
because that would be a pain in the app sent

600
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:02.960
a lot of work. But it just shows you're doing

601
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.799
willing to go to extra mile for the fans. That's

602
00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:06.599
what it does to me.

603
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:07.720
I love it.

604
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:10.880
And it's become it's become a trademark, and it's become

605
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.839
the thing that we're known for. And and really it's

606
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:19.119
like it's it's a I don't know how to explain it.

607
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.440
It's it's like almost the Three Musketeers or or whatever,

608
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.480
like we go up there and we're gonna do this,

609
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.519
and we're gonna we're gonna burn it down to the

610
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:28.960
fucking ground, no matter what like, if there's three people there,

611
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:31.559
that's cool too. I'm happy that there's three people. If

612
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.000
there's a thousand people there, that's even better because we're

613
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.039
gonna make this fire even fucking bigger. But with this band,

614
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.559
it's it's just like that that relentless attitude of like

615
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.880
we're coming no matter what.

616
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:46.599
I love it. I love it and you know, burn

617
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:49.279
it down the ground. I love that term too, because

618
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:51.640
that's what that's what got me here. It's like my

619
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.519
first club show ever in LA was The Roxy and

620
00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:57.680
it was Motley Crue before they had an album, and

621
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.200
they tried to burn the Roxy down. It brings say

622
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:03.680
and then like that's rock and roll, Like so you're

623
00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:05.359
right up there with all of them.

624
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:08.640
That it's and this is a really cool thing that

625
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:10.759
the Midnight Devils we have going for us. And we've

626
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:13.160
always been a big proponent of this. We don't use

627
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:16.160
tracks when nothing has tracked us all live and it's

628
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:19.920
all you know, whatever happens out there, like that is

629
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:21.400
the realness, and that's that's it.

630
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.400
That's what makes it rock and roll.

631
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:25.920
Yeah, that's the way it should be. Just like what

632
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.960
I said with David Lee Roth, like nobody gave us ship,

633
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.319
they forgot the words no, you know, because it's then

634
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:37.319
you know it's real, Like because listen, there's no way

635
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.960
even being on the radio, Like there's times I fuck

636
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:43.079
up and I just pretend I didn't. You know, it's like,

637
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.000
you know, you just keep going and you just do

638
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.599
it because we're real people. I don't have a script

639
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.440
in front of me, I don't have notes in front

640
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.759
of me. You're just being real, and that, to me

641
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:56.559
is what makes rock and roll so great.

642
00:32:56.759 --> 00:32:59.240
You're one hundred percent right, And we've since day one,

643
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:02.440
have always felt that way and felt that if we're

644
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:04.599
gonna do this, we have to do this as real

645
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.359
as possible because the makeup and the and the and

646
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.799
the costumes and everything else is so over the top

647
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:13.359
that that when you strip all that down and take

648
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:17.039
away all of that, the music and the songs have

649
00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:18.720
to be good and they have to be the heart

650
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.240
of it. Yeah, So it has to be that realness

651
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:24.079
that these songs happen to us, and the lyrics and

652
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:26.720
the stories they're all real, like we've seen it, like

653
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:28.759
we were talking about the stuff that has actually happened

654
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.759
to us on the road, and take away the makeup

655
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.839
the shows and everything like that, and those songs have

656
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:35.359
to be good and they have to stand up and

657
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:38.559
they have to be what people latch onto and people

658
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.960
they they kind of they feel like they've been through

659
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:42.880
the same things that we have.

660
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.200
Yeah, exactly. So how do people reach out to you guys?

661
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:49.599
How do they check out your music, check out your

662
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.680
tour dates, merch all that good stuff?

663
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.880
Super easy, And we're very active on all of our

664
00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:59.160
social media platforms. So we're on Facebook, we're on Instagram,

665
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:02.200
we're on x on, you can stream us on Spotify,

666
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.079
on Amazon, but more importantly all of our website stuff.

667
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.840
The Midnight Devils dot Com has our where you can

668
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:11.800
pick up the music, you can buy the CDs, you

669
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:14.119
can buy the vinyl. We have a brand new vinyl

670
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.800
that's going to be released pretty soon, which is a

671
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.159
green and pink splattered seven inch vinyl because just because

672
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:21.400
I think seven inches are like the coolest thing ever,

673
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.840
you know, ner of vinyl collecting. That'll be the next

674
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.840
thing coming out in the next few if you like,

675
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.960
it's in a month or two, that'll come out, and

676
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:31.400
then we'll head over to Australia in November.

677
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:32.400
We're working on a.

678
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.320
Cassette right now, like a disco Merrbald cassette.

679
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:36.320
I love it.

680
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.519
Just stupid stuff that I think is really cool. That

681
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:41.320
Like if I was a kid, I would want my

682
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:43.320
favorite band. I would want Kiss to put this out.

683
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:44.960
Why would we not do it? Let's do it?

684
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:48.719
There it is. Well, I love it, and man, I'm jealous.

685
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:51.400
You're going to Australia. That's one I haven't gone to yet.

686
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:54.920
Ten days over there. I think it's ten shows in

687
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:56.760
ten days and this will be our third tour there,

688
00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:01.280
but starts in Brisbane on November two, twenty something, twenty

689
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.119
third or or so. And the first gig. The first

690
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.920
gig is a boat cruise through Sydney Harbor where the

691
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:10.880
Midnight Devils are playing with a bunch of other bands.

692
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:11.719
Is like a festival.

693
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:16.760
Honest, that's way cool. Yeah, that's way cool. I love it.

694
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:21.920
You guys rock for sure, and keep giving us great music.

695
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.960
And listen, you're almost there, because it takes like twenty

696
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:28.320
years to be an overnight success. So yeah, you're halfway there.

697
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:31.000
Go twelve more years ago, but we'll be all right.

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Thanks a lot. There it is, and you know what,

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you love it, and that's all that counts and that's

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what music should be all about. Absolutely, thanks for being

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on the Adventures pipe Man.

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Thanks bite Man. I appreciate it thing you have for

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always always taking care of us. I really do appreciate it.

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Anytime, brother, all right, kids later, dude, thank you for

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listening to the Adventures of Pip Man on w for

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CUI Radio.