Progressive Metal Guitarist MARTIN GONZALEZ About Solo Debut Suspiro

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I'm very excited about our next guest
because I just love love musicianship,

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and that's something that you don't know. We's see nowadays and the way music

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has become. I think sometimes we've
lost some musicianship, but then there's also

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a comeback of artists like this next
one and a lot of others that are

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bringing that back. So let's welcome
to the show the amazing progressive metal guitarist

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and Martin Gonzalez. How are you
yo? What's up? Man? And

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thanks for those kind of words.
I'm good man, how are you?

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Oh? I'm great? And my
pleasure because it's true, you know,

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like listen, nothing takes the place
of good musicianship. You can push buttons

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all you want, you can use
AI all you want, and that's all

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good for enhancing in my opinion,
but not as a replacement, right,

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I can't agree, man, especially
with that AI stopped going on as a

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lately scary man. It was scary
way back when, Like in the eighties,

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I remember telling people like, I
don't like this. The machines are

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going to take over, you know, and here we are it's like reality

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now. But yeah, but there
are a lot of artists like you that

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are bringing back what things were I
say, more like in the seventies and

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the eighties and the sixties, where
it was all about musicianship and you know,

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especially talking about guitars, Like songs
nowadays are written without guitar solos because

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of the attention span of people out
there, but also because I don't know.

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I think some of these musicians nowadays
they're not even learning how played guitar.

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They're learning enough to get by and
then they use all the you know,

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technology to do the rest. Right
right now, now, I feel

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like people could consider their laptops as
instruments, which yes, it's nothing against

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that is incredible what you can do
with a lot to But now I feel

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you my passion is guitar late left
to be secondary. Have you ever seen

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the there's a meme out there that
shows a picture of the rock star in

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the eighties and the rock star now
have you ever seen this meme? Right

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right? Yeah, that is like
people partying and like drinking beer and then

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just like a nerd sitting in front
of his computer. Totally. Oh that

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it's so funny, you know,
because it is pretty true. And I

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mean there's a positive side to that
too, because a lot of musicians down

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nowadays they are more professional and serious
about it and they're you know, straight

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edge a lot of them, whereas
back in the eighties that was true.

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It was you know, massive amounts
of partying. But I think that also

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holds to what's benefit nowadays of artists
like you being able to get out there

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and make your own music opposed to
record labels telling you what to do,

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because I think well happened in the
eighties. It's record labels through so much

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money at these young kids and basically
told them what to do that and they

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set them up with the party,
and they wanted them party and they wanted

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them you know, doing all that, so they could you know, to

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be blunt scrow them over right right. It's definitely part of their image too,

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yeah, which is so funny.
Let's say like one of my like

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one band that I admire a lot
that kind of has that like rock and

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roll energy still is probably Polifia.
They still like they're I assume they're definitely

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like nerds because of the music they
do, but at the same time,

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they have that like rock and roll
energy that is like, what the fuck

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are you've been doing right exactly?
So a lot of your fans know you

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best as a composer, and what
I think is really cool about it.

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Okay, so you're the composer for
poppy around my franchise Rooster Teeth and r

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W B Y Rooster Teeth, And
uh, what's interesting I find about that

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is so I saw this band back
in the eighties when I was a freshman

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in high school. In the beginning
of the eighties, I saw this band.

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They played in my gym in high
school. And now the singer for

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that band is one of the biggest
composers for like everything ever like Batman and

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The Simpsons, and that's Danny Elfman
from Oingo Boingo and Oingo Boingo played in

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my gym. So immediately I saw
that that's who I thought of. So

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that's pretty cool. Tell us a
little bit about that. Man. Yeah,

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so that the company who makes the
anime is Rooster Teeth and then the

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anime is called Ruby, and say
I said it wrong. It's it's been

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a cool geeg man. It's like
like the first time I got to do

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something for like a TV show,
And to be honest, the TV show

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is as good as it can get
at the moment. It's been like a

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TV show that started kind of like
as a YouTube thing from like kids that

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didn't know what they were doing,
and now until there where they have like

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a budget where they have like real
animators and real things, and it became

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so popular. I was surprised to
how popular it became. But the cool

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thing is I'm doing like metal music
for it. I'm doing like Prague and

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I'm doing also like orchestral stuff.
So I was getting paid for doing the

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music. I really love, man, I love it. I love it.

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I feel like sometimes for composers,
it's like you take the gig that

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you have to take right. Sometimes
you're like hired to do I don't know

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music for in the style of blah
blah blah blah blah blah. But in

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this case, I was literally hired
to do music the style of music that

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I really like to do. So
I was like creatively, very free.

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I like wrote that stuff, obviously
with direction from like the directors and so

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on, but I was just man. I was just happy playing guitar and

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being like paid for playing it.
I love it, and it's so cool

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that it kind of blows my mind
as somebody it's been metal head since like

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the late seventies, Okay, that
you can compose metal music for a TV

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show in twenty twenty four, it's
like totally cool to me, you know.

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And it's funny when you said about
it, because you know, The

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Simpsons, which is like the longest
running TV show ever, started as like

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a little clip on this show called
the Tracy Omens Show. It wasn't its

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own show. It was like a
little clip, and it's just become this

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phenomenon right right, And I feel
like Danny Elkman right now, he's even

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playing at like metal festivals. Yeah
yeah, yeah. So I go on

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tour and I do coverage of festivals
throughout US, the UK, Europe,

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and he's on a couple festivals that
I'm looking at that I might do press

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for, and it kind of blows
my mind because he hasn't really done that

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that I've seen in a long time, Like I'm sure he has, but

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not unlike major festivals like that.
So it's kind of wild going back to

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his roots kind of right, right, I feel like especially now that that

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particular world of like composers and like
actual metal musicians, like they're starting to

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merge. I know of a couple
other people that are like in bands and

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like doing metal music that are actually
writing music for video games and TV shows

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and film and stuff like that.
So some somewhat like metal hits are taking

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you know where that stuff as well. It's pretty cool. And look and

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look at what happened with stranger things
too, Like that's even wild. Yeah,

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And what's interesting too, if you
travel the world, you don't realize

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how metal has a place and places
you won't even think of. Like currently

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right now, I'm in Costa Rica
and I had no clue, but there's

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like a huge underground metal thing going
on here and it just it's really cool.

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Blows my mind though, because I
would have never thought of that because

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there's like one major festival here and
it's not metal and so and I'd been

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talking about like yeah, i'd like
to. I'd like to start my own

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festival in Costa Rica. And then
I came down this year. I came

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down. I come down every year, and I was talking to somebody that

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actually does different festivals and bensing It's
like, oh no, we do a

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lot of metal stuff. It's all
kind of underground type of thing and that

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that reminds me of the good old
days too. Man, that's awesome.

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I honestly, if you have recommendations
for like metal musicians or bands that I

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should listen to from Costa Rica,
I'll take them in. I'll have to

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find them. There is one that
I'm forgetting the name of the band,

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but I was in Bali last year
for two months, and there's this band

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there that they're they're kind of like
maybe pop punk combined with metal and punk,

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and they have a song called Kuda
rock City. I'm trying to remember

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the name of the band right now, I'm losing, but like, they're

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really popular there and I listened to
them, like, man, they're really

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really good. Again. Never expected
that in Bali for sure, you know.

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And it's just really cool. And
then I was just in Mexico a

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couple of months ago, and I
saw metal stuff going on there and I'm

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like, man, that's just really
speaking of which, have you ever seen

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that band that does the metri riachi
metal maybe maybe do you know the name?

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Yeah, like like being senile today, I like, right, but

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it's really I know it and it's
like really good. I like that's pretty

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cool. Yeah. There's this Mexican
artist called the Josse Makario. Okay.

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He like he's like one of those
musicians that like play a bunch of different

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genres from like literally like Mexican popular
music to like Mexican gent. Like it's

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super weird, man. But he
came up with this album that blew my

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mind as recently, I think,
like a new album that released like a

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week ago or two weeks ago.
Uh, And the band is called Ladni's.

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It's like the Thieves, and it
is the weirdest fusion of music I've

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heard in a while. It's like
imagine like Mariacchi singers with like hip hop

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influence like stuff, but also with
gent in the background, with like actual

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machuga going back in the background,
and like what I mean. I liked

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it though, but but he's really
weird music. One that is coming up

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from Mexico especially, I think,
you know, would be kind of cool

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if you had like and I'm saying
this because it's funny. I just took

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a lesson and I noticed and it
wasn't because him, but like because I'm

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in Costa Rica. But uh,
I know it's Jose from Serious Exam.

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He just took a lesson too,
likes Toya of his comfort zone. Toya

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mine on like sosa and marengue,
And I'm thinking, how cool would it

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be to have a mosh pit that
was combined with salsa and marengue and brachata,

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you know, and you're doing that
in the pit. That would be

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so funny and funny. I'd be
in the pit right there, dancing and

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hitting people right right. That would
be so cool. And then there's this

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other thing. I don't know if
you know this or not, but there's

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a big thing going on with yoga
to metal, which I love that because

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everybody associates yoga with mellow and you
have this mellow like spiritual music in the

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background, and me, I sit
there, even though I do it,

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I'm like getting bored after a while. If you were playing like Slayer while

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I'm doing my yoga. I would
do yoga all day, damn dude,

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Honestly, if I find it funny
how some people really find like that type

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of stuff relaxing. Like I feel
like I don't, dude with Slayer,

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I would like no relaxing. Oh, Slayer, I would find relaxing.

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I don't find the mellow relaxing to
me. It's weird for me. It's

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like I get antsy, you know. But if you give me a Slayer,

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I'd be totally into it, and
I'd be It's funny because I'm also

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a motivational speaker, and when I
go and do seminars, I will crank

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up stuff like Slayer and Slipknot to
get myself pumped up to do a seminar.

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Dude, that's so funny. That's
awesome though, right right, you

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know. And that's the power of
music. And that's why I love musicianship

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too, because it just takes you
somewhere else and away from all the bull

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crap that's in the world. And
I love that. You know, a

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couple of singles on your new record, they're both different, okay, so

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oh yeah, And what I like
about that is who does want to listen

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to the same song over and over
again, even if it's your favorite band.

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I like to hear variety, Like
everybody throws shade up, bring me

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the horizon for doing different things.
I'm like, more power to them because

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I like hearing the different things.
But also for the artists. I feel

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good for the artists because it must
be boring as could be if you're just

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doing the same songs over and over
again with the aim chords and the same

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riffs, and you know, I'm
sure as a musician you'd rather just experiment.

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Honestly, Yeah, dude, I
feel like, uh, well,

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that's That's the cool thing about being
independent too, is just nobody tells you

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what you can do or what you
should be doing, and it's just cool

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to like not depend on anyone else's
opinions or like things that they think they

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should be doing for them. I
just do it for myself, to be

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honest. And every song has a
different purpose or like background of where I'm

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coming from, which this record is
really personal to me. It's like every

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song has a has a meaning.
It's just not God damn it. And

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we're sing like a thousand texts and
I don't know how to put my computer

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inside. That might be the that
might be the record company saying, because

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like, what are you saying?
You're gonna get fired? But you imagine

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just like I was saying. So, Yeah, every song has a particular

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meaning to me. For example,
the first song, it's like a song

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about self sabotage. It's like about
like, really, how I'm responsible for

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my own type of outcome I have
in life. And so I decided to

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do something very like heavy and aggressive, or as aggressive and heavy as I

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can get. I've never done a
song like that before. And then I

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had my wife sing on it,
and she's like, she's a freaking talented

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man. Now music is subjective,
but I think she's a really sick singer.

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Nice. I hope so, because
otherwise you're in big trouble. Not

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because she's my wife by any means, but because I just think she's a

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great, great singer. And yeah, that song in particular was just like

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a song that I was like,
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something like this, and it has
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my guitar playing as a whole versus
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Henschel from Haking it's more of the
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like just looking forward to like waking
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of purpose or some well the song
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meaning, something that excites you to
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happy. So two very different concepts
right when. It's like, oh,

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I hate myself, and the other
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you're gonna find see. I love
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don't admit it. We have,
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of us, have all those sides, you know, right, you know

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that we're not so narrow like,
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of those songs on you know.
And that's the thing too. When you're

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a speaker, motivational speaker, people
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that positive all time. I'm like, no, nobody is that positive all

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the time. It's how much you
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long. You know, we're humans. Shit happens to us. We're humans,

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and we have emotions, and we
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then we have tools that can help. And to me, music is one

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of the greatest tools and one of
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is true. I'm glad. I'm
glad like you can you can see it

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also that way lots of people think
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music as like they go listening to
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the way they want it, and
then when they don't, they're like,

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oh, what if the start is
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honest about how they feel or whatever
they're doing, and that's why you don't

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like it, right, And that's
my WIYH. A be a good artist

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is to just be yourself. If
you're trying to do things for what other

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people want, you're not gonna be
as good. You know, forget the

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fact that somebody's being fake, just
the fact of how can you be good

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at your craft when you are faking
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being yourself, it's easy. It's
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or like you know, like we
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I don't script it, I don't
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little bit of preparing obviously, but
I don't sit there like, oh I

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got practice, But I just get
on and be myself because that's what people

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can relate to. I'm glad,
dude, same can here absolutely unprepared.

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Good. I love it because the
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But when artists or pr people are
like, can you send me to

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questions, You're gonna ask them like
no, because the interview takes a life

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of its own. And like,
if you have asked me before this interview,

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if we were talking about some of
the things we've already talked about,

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I would have said no, because
I didn't even think about it. Like

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the key to anything in life is
laying life happen and then taking those life

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events and that makes the conversation.
I agree, dude, I totally agreed.

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So how do people connect to you
on socials on the web? How

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can I get your new album?
Merche anything? Right? So I always

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go like at Martin Gonzales music and
that's on I think Twitter, YouTube,

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No, that's on Instagram, on
YouTube, and then on Twitter or now

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x for whatever, I go buy
Martin Yo Nar. Then I'm like it

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should be super easy to get to
like how to buy the album or how

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to get to my Spotify or everything
from there. Just look it up.

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It's Martin Gonzales in band camp,
in Spotify and basically every streaming service you

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can think of. And in band
camp, I'm currently running a pre order

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and then as I'm releasing the singles, you can download the full quality version

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of the singles as in like the
full audio quality version of the singles as

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you as your preorder. And the
album is coming out on March twenty second,

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and the next single is coming out
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WOA And that's another song with vocals
too, So I'm pretty pretty excited

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about this one. This one in
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of like connect with me and you'll
be informed of when this drops out.

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Very cool, And so tell us
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twenty second if you were to say, what really means to you and like

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what made you come up with the
name for not not because what does the

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name mean, but more of what
it means to you, right right right,

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So this record is basically a way
of me trying to like breathe out

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all the shit that I've been living
for the past couple of years. I

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had like a year or two where
I was just like confused to what I

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was going on with my life and
just kind of like maybe doing music that

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I wasn't passionate about. And this
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reinvent myself, to feel good about
myself and to write music for me because

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I low it, right So this
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like why I'm doing this and why
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why I will never stop doing it. So that's what the record personally means

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to me. The name of the
record is Hospito, which means like cy

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It's like a heavy like so that's
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just a way of like expressing myself
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is like as good as I am
in right now. There's a lot of

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room to grow, and I hope
that the next music I do is always

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going to be better. But this
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this is me right now, this
or my abilities, this is what I

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love to do. This type of
music is the one that resonates with me

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personally the most, and I decided
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Like, as I told you,
my wife is on it, which means

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a lot. Then I have another
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a friend I met at Berkeley College
of Music and he's now living in England,

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so we're really far away, but
he was always like an important due

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to me. And then I also
collaborated with sex Singer, who is a

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super sick wind like all types of
wind instrument player. He's playing auto sacks

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in one of my songs. And
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from Haygen, which is like a
dream come true because I used to listen

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to Haygen since like an early teenager. So having the record also mean a

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lot to me. And it's just
a way of like bringing people that I

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think are both talented and that I
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it's just very fulfilling man. So
that's basically what the record is to me.

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As I said before, it's a
way of like letting my negative energy

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go and keep pursuing music with all
I got. It's good that that's my

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first record as a solo artist too. I think it has a great meaning.

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So for whoever listens to it,
I just hope they can get to

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meet me better as a person,
not just as a guitar player, because

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right everyone can play it nowadays,
but maybe they'll meet me as a person

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just by listening. And as always, music is subjective, so whatever the

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music does to anyone who listens to
it is super welcome, and I'm super

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interested to know how it touches people
and whoever cares about it to I love

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it, and that's why I asked
that, because you know, one thing

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you said to me like really hit
home, like you had that rough couple

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of years, and then like making
this album is like a big sigh from

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that rough couple of years, which
goes, you know, to the point

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of what I said of it's the
best therapy, not just for us as

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a listener, but us the artist. So this expressing on this album is

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getting out all that negativity and things
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And I think that that's way healthier
than any of the big pharma drugs

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that people give. I agreed,
man, I agreed, love it well,

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thanks a lot for giving us great
music and being a great musician,

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and thanks for being on the Adventures
of Pipe Man. Dude, thank you

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so much for having me. There
was a pretty dope chat. Hope he's

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not the last one we have to
it won't be. And I love hearing

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that feedback too, because sometimes for
artists, doing press is not the fun

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part of the job, and that's
why I'd rather make it fun. So

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all right, Well, it's Harrely
a Pendon man, but you're you're a

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cool guy, so I look forward
to talk to you again some time.

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Dida, absolutely thank you for listening
to the Adventures of Pipe Man. I'm

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w for CUI Radio.