Feb. 5, 2026

Rock Legend JOHN CORABI Shares New Single "When I Was Young" + Visualizer

Rock Legend JOHN CORABI Shares New Single "When I Was Young" + Visualizer
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Season 20

Today, rock icon JOHN CORABI is pleased to share his new single "When I Was Young," taken from his upcoming debut full-length solo album 'New Day,' due out on April 24, 2026 via Frontiers Music Srl. "When I Was Young" arrives alongside an official visualizer, available below.

‘New Day’ marks JOHN CORABI’s first full-length solo album of original material. Recorded in Nashville during the summer of 2025 and produced by multi-platinum songwriter and producer Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Buckcherry), the album fuses classic ’70s rock, soul, and blues influences into a sound that feels both timeless and deeply personal.

The record features the previously released singles “Così Bella (So Beautiful)” (2021) and “Your Own Worst Enemy” (2022), now presented as part of a rich collection of tracks that spotlight his commanding vocals, heartfelt lyrics, and masterful songwriting. Throughout the album, CORABI is joined by Marti Frederiksen, who adds backing vocals, guitars, piano, and percussion; Evan Frederiksen on drums, bass, B3 organ, electric guitar, mandolin, and programming; Richard Fortus (Guns N’ Roses) on lead guitar; Paul Taylor (Winger, Steve Perry) contributing piano, organ, and clavinet, as well as Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke) offering guitar solos. Together, they create an organic, instrument-driven sound built on real performances, melodic interplay, and soulful energy.

With a European tour planned for February/March 2026 and additional shows running through late spring and summer, CORABI is poised to bring this new music directly to fans, delivering both powerful live energy and genuine emotional resonance. More than just a solo debut, ‘New Day’ serves as CORABI’s personal testament to rock’s enduring spirit—an exploration of melody, soul, and authenticity, played with passion and conviction at every turn.

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Hey, you have done to censure. Wow for you young, looking.

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Back at the d's gone back, I m as and

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wonder why all the things I could have done me.

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Now was young.

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This is the pipe man here on me Adventures Pipe

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NW four C Y Radio, And oh my god, I

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came in the studio today and there's no heat and

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we're in South Florida. And who knew I'd ever have

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to worry about heat in my studio in South Florida.

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But that's why I'm all bundled up here on this interview.

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And the person we have with us.

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I mean, he's in Tennessee, so they had it a

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lot worse than us, I'm sure.

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So let's welcome to the show. John Carabbie, how are you.

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I'm good, buddy. Actually we're both. We both got the

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email dress appropriately.

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So right. I'm like I was thinking myself too when

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I got in here.

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I'm like, oh, I'm getting look pretty stupid, all bundled up.

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Well, you know what, It's fine, I finally have power

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after I don't know Nashville unfortunately. I was just telling

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you we had a snowstorm. Then it stopped snowing, it rained,

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but the temperature dropped like twenty degrees overnight. So last Friday,

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whenever it snowed, it was either Friday or Saturday. Power

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went out about five o'clock in the morning because all

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the trees in Nashville, they were covered in ice and

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the weight, wow, they were just falling and pulling the

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power lines down and electric poles, and and then the

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other oddity that I didn't realize could happen as I

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was also just saying, I had three huge trees in

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my backyard, and I was sitting outside having.

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A cup of coffee, and literally like three trees.

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In my backyard just exploded and fell into my yard,

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and I was like, what the hell?

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You know it was?

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It was weird, but they were eventually, you know, the

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news was saying on our phones, because that's all we

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had for a few days, right, was the SAP was

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freezing and expanding and just blowing the trees out. It

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was literally sitting in my neighborhood, you could just hear

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them popping, like it was like gunshots just going off

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around the neighborhood. So we finally, I think a majority

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of Nashvillians have power now.

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But it took them almost ten days and it was cold.

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My neighbor or a friend of mine just had their

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power going on last night and she took a photo

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of her thermostat in her house and it was thirty

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three degrees in her house. Oh man, Yeah, so it's

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been it's been interesting, to say the least.

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Well, you know, it's funny too, because in line with

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your new single, when I was young, when I was

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young in the Northeast, it would have been no big deal.

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And now it's like, screw this, I don't want this

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crap anymore.

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Well, you know, it's funny you start.

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I love I do love the Southern hospitality. For the

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most part, I do love there's something to be said

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about Southern hospitality, the friendly, usual, friendly nature of people.

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But when it snows, you know, I don't, I don't.

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I you know, you're in southern Florida, so I imagine

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it doesn't snow there often. But when it snows here

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in Nashville, they are not prepared. It's like you might

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as well just have a zombie apocalypse because it's it's

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about the same, you know whatever.

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Well, let me tell you what they did here for

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safety reasons. A bunch of the venues near our studio

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that had live music this weekend canceled the gigs because

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of cold weather like that that would never happen, and

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it was a trip on Saturday. During the day it

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was I was like, I kept getting these nullifications on

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my phone.

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I'm like, what are they talking about.

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It's nice outside, like it was like in the seventies,

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and then all of a sudden, these like forty five

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mile per hour winds kicked up when the sun went

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down and we went down to like my phone said,

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thirty four feels like twelve.

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Yeah, that's for Florida, right, That's.

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Like, that's like living in Greenland.

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So maybe that's what it is.

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Because you know, the guy that wants Greenland, he's right

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by our studios. So maybe he's just try to get

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people comfortable with the idea.

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Who knows.

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I you know what we're let's one subject I wish

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to avoid altogether.

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Oh yeah, politics.

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I'm just laughing at you made the Greenland comment. Where

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I am right now, But I'm all about the music

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because I tell you what, I have this idea that

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if we had like one major music festival that everybody

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had to go to throughout the whole world, we would

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end all the bullshit that's going on around the world,

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and we could all unite because it's the best therapy

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and the best uniter And you got some new music

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that's really badass.

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Thank you.

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So, just out of curiosity, were you able to hear

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the whole record or just the tracts that are.

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Out right now?

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I just got part I didn't get the whole thing yet,

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but I liked the parts that I heard.

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Okay.

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Yeah, they normally send out some sort of a link

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where you can't really download it, but you can click

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on it anytime and just.

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Listen to it.

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And everybody that's gotten the link and heard the whole

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record is it?

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You know?

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Honestly, the the response and the feedback that I'm getting

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has been incredibly overwhelmingly positive. So I'm very happy about that.

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And you know, life is awesome in John Ker Robbieville.

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So how you know, how does it feel to like

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be doing this for all these years and then put

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something out like this that it's just you being totally you,

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and how exactly how you want it to be?

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You know what?

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I got to be honest, if you like I see

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it's it's it's funny how a lot of these.

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YouTube videos will just grab a comment for a thumbnail,

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you know. And I remember I was doing a conversation

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maybe about a year ago, and and I made a

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comment like, yeah, sometimes I wonder why my bank account

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doesn't look like you know, Nikky six is or Steven Tyler.

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So they ran with that made me look like a

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complete idiot.

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But it's funny, man, I've I've kind of I had,

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I had an odd path in my musical career, and

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I've had some ups and I've had some downs, and

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and you know, it's just made me reevaluate some of

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the things or the things that are important, and so

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I tend to look at the little things, you know,

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like I don't know, health, the fact that we wake

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up at our age, the fact that we even woke

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up and were able to start a new day.

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You know, no pun intended is a blessing.

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And if you would have asked sixteen year old John

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Krabbie if he'd still be doing this at sixty six

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or sixty seven, I probably would have said no. So I,

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you know, honestly, again, I just did my you know,

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this is my nineteenth record of new material. I still

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get to travel I'm getting ready to go on tour

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with the guys, start in Europe and the UK.

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And you know, life is good, man.

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I'm again, I'm still able to make music and do interviews.

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People still have some interest in talking to me as

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we're doing right now.

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So I just feel blessed, you know what I mean,

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I don't, you know, long.

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Story short, I just feel every day very blessed that

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I'm able to do something I enjoyed doing and I

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still make, you know, a reasonably good living at it.

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So life is awesome.

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It's also awesome too because as somebody myself who was

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my dad moved me from New Jersey to in nineteen

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eighty to LA where I hung out on the Sunset

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Strip and all over there during my teenage years. And

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the fact that we even made it to this level

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of life and got out of.

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That alive, that's a blessing in and of itself.

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Yeah, I again, without being political, I find it. You

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rists that a lot of my friends that I knew

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back in the day on the Sunset Strip, you know,

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for whatever, to each his own, but you know, some

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of them were like, you know, having a hissy fit

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about the masks and.

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The COVID shots and all this other kind of stuff,

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and I just laughed.

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I'm like, bro, the last time I saw you, you

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were snorting cocaine off a toilet seat at the Rainbow.

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Seriously, this is this is this is what's driving you

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crazy right now.

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No doubt, like some of this stuff that went on

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back then, Oh my god, that that you would even

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worry about anything now blows my mind.

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Yeah, dude, it's like I remember, you know, I don't

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know how old you are, but again, I'm going to

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be sixty seven in April, and it's like, dude, I

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drank water out of spickett lead spicketts in the sixties,

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you know, straight out of the thing, you know, fire hydrants.

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We would turn fire Hide song in the summer, you know,

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painted in lead paint, and you know. And I'm like, okay, whatever,

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you know, eating a little sugar isn't gonna kill.

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Me, right, Yeah, I'm fifty nine.

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So yeah, like you weren't even allowed to come home

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if you if you were thirsty and you knocked on

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the door and said I'm thirsty, your parents told you

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to go drink out of the spickett, Like yeah.

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Yeah, it was like you know what was kool aid

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made of Back then? It was like you know, magic

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marker juice, right, know what I mean, it was like whatever.

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But you know, like like things have changed a bit,

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you know.

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So that's why I'm just like I just laugh at

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you know, actually both sides of the fence, you know,

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things that people get upset about, and I just laugh

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and I, oh, you know what, this is me just

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driving in my lane. Man, I'm just keeping my mouth shut,

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doing my thing. And you know, to each.

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His own exactly.

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Man.

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My viewpoint is like if you really don't focus on

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certain things, they don't really affect your life in that

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grade of a way, if at all, you know, So like,

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just enjoy and enjoy and be you.

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That's my thing.

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And that's why I think it's great for people like

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you to be able to still keep creating music. Like

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and I'm in awe of it, to be honest, because

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I'm sitting here thinking, like, after all these years in

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the business, how do you still keep up coming up

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with new material?

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You know, it's obviously you don't want to repeat yourself.

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Right now, so but you know what, honestly, like.

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You know, there's a few songs on this record. You know,

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I've had people ask me, like, you know, like what

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made you write the lyrics to New Day or what's

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the you know when I was young, and you know,

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if you're just kind of look around you and you know,

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and again we're inundated twenty four to seven news cycles

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of you know, goofy stuff every day. There's plenty of

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sh I t to write about, you know what I mean.

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You know, so I just I just.

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Look at life, put pen to paper, you know, try

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and come up with a melody that I haven't used

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before in the past. And and you know, but if

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you just look around you, there's plenty.

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Of stuff to write about. Oh yeah, you know, trust me.

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So you know, maybe next year I'll write a song

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called Exploding Trees.

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I don't right, you know, that would actually be a

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pretty cool song. I can see that as a cool song.

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But it is, you know, it is amazing. There is

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always things to write about, isn't there. You know, Like

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I think there's a lot of things to write about

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in the eighties that you know, are similar things you

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could write about today.

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You know, honestly, doing this record the only thing, the

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only plan that I had doing this record when I

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sat down with Marty Marty Frederickson, for those who don't know,

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very good friend of mine.

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He's playing guitar with me and in the band.

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But he's an incredible producer, songwriter, and I've had the

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pleasure of doing several records with Marty. And but he's like, so,

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what do you want to do crab you know? And

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I said, you know, when I was growing up, and

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I think this is something you could probably relate to.

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We just listened to music, and it wasn't.

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Unusual for a kid like me to go see you know,

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Sabbath or Zeppelin on a Monday, and then go see

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Cat Stevens or Jim Crotchey the next day, and then

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go see a prog rock band like Yes or jeth Rotol.

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You know what I mean. We just went We just

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loved music.

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I loved My mom had a massive record collection, so

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in my house we were listening to everything from.

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Uh, you know, Johnny.

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Cash, Frank Sinatra, Trinny Lopez to led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Kiss whatever.

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So my biggest thing doing this record. Didn't know what

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I was going to write about. All I told Marty

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is I want to go back.

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To the day when the bands.

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And again you'll understand this, but the bands that I

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grew up listening to did have rules.

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Yeah they didn't.

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They were allowed to be creative, regardless of what it meant.

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There was no boxes nowadays.

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You know, you work in radio, you work.

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In in in the music industry at all. As soon

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as you come up with a song or an album, everybody,

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the suits, i'll call them, the people in charge, immediately

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try to figure out, Okay, what box does what box does.

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This record go in? It? Is it heavy rock? Is

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it classic rock?

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Is it you know, Americana country, blah blahahah. And they're

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just trying to put things in a box.

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And I don't. I didn't want that.

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And you know, even somebody heard the record and they

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were like, oh, you're living in Nashville now, so I

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can kind of hear like a in some of the songs,

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a bit of a country reinfluence, and I go, not really,

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it's got nothing to do with Nashville at all. And

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then I kind of proceeded to Tom. I said, listen, man,

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like to me, music started with really American music started.

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With the blues.

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Yeah, that was the root.

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And then all these little offshoots started coming off, whether

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it be country or rockabilly or or you know, rock whatever,

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it all came off of that that tree trunk, you

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know what I mean?

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And I said, if you go back and.

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Look at the early Beatles, the Beatles covered Bucko and

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Zach naturally, Yes, that's a buckowing song. And then if

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you listen to bands like the Rolling Stones, you have

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songs like honky Tonk woman, I'm just waiting on a friend,

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dead Flowers. They in this day and age, they could

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be considered country socks.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And then even a band like led Zeppelin on you

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know I think it was was it in through the

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Outdoor They wrote a song called hot Dog, which is

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kind of a rockabilly.

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It's it is, it's kind of Americana type.

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Yes, so, but that's what I loved about all those

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early early bands.

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I love bands like ac DC and Priest and Iron

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Maiden that do what they do and they do it well.

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But I was more inclined to listen to the bands.

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When you went track the track, you had no idea

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what was coming.

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Next, do you know what I mean?

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Oh totally, And.

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I just wanted to get back to that the Credence,

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Clearwater Revivals, the Bob Seekers, and you know some of

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these other bands that I just mentioned, Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones,

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you know, so I just want that was my only rule.

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Doing this record.

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No boxes were just gonna write and if we like it,

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it's going on the record.

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I love that because think about it, the Beatles and

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Zeppelin both, I mean almost every album was a different

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type of genre if you labeled it by today's standards.

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Yes, and that was the brilliance, you know.

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And I'm a bit of a even though I've been

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doing this for one hundred and seventy years, I love

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like music trivia. I'm a bit of a nerd. My

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wife laughs all the time because I'll tell her. She's

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a bit younger than me, so I'll sit there and

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tell her stories about you know.

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Ah, the Beatles sold out Shea stadium in.

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Six weeks, but Grand Funk Railroad did it in seventy

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two hours.

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And you know all this weird stuff.

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And you know the fact that Zeppelin locked themselves away on.

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Zeppelin three and did.

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What a lot of people considered was their acoustic record, uh,

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you know, and they got slack for it. They got

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a lot of shit for that, you know what I mean.

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So I just loved the brazenness and the creativity of

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some of those old bands, you know. And then it

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was funny. I just it was funny. After Zeppelin three,

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they locked themselves in the studio, they said all right,

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you know, and they get together and they did what

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is considered their masterpiece.

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Zeppelin four.

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Right, you know.

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But then they said, well, you know what, We're not

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going to put our name on the record. There's no

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nothing on the cover or the back that even remotely

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says led Zeppelin. They're like, nope, the label was it's like, you.

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Can't do that.

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I remember that too, Yeah, you.

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Cannot do that.

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And guess what, folks, that record went on to sell

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twenty six million copies.

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Well and look at it like it happened when a

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lot of bands look at Metallica's Black album.

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Yeah, you know, and it's it's just I love bands

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that are not afraid to go against the grain, you know,

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and and just do what's in their heart, you know,

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do what's in.

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Their head, whatever sounds they're hearing. You know.

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I know a lot of people give Metallica a grief

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over the same Anger album, but.

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I actually liked the album. And I was at their

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first show ever in LA and I like the album.

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Yeah, It's like they did what they wanted to do.

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And yet and my thing was the only thing that

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I wanted to do on this record was just write

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some really great Class six sixty seventy sound in record,

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you know, songs. And I did not want to be

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pigeonholed and put into any.

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Box, as you shouldn't be.

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Like you were bringing up the suits before, I believe

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the suits have their place, but their place should not

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be in the creativity. Leave the creativity to the artists

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and the business end to the suits. That's my viewpoint,

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because if you're the artist, you know what creativity is

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flowing out. It's it's not a formula. It's just something

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that comes from inside.

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Yeah, and it's you know, everybody's got their thing, you know.

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And and I agree with you. I agree like a

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band should formulate their sound, put their album together, and

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then turn it in and it's up to the manager

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and the record label to sell it, you know. And

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but like you said, the creative part has to lie

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with the band. I mean, you know, I've never been

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a guy to I'm just not one to just go

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through the motions of you know and do something for

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the buck.

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I just can't do it. So to me, you know,

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I've had you know, all throughout my.

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Whole career, people were like, well, you know this record,

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you know what, what were you guys thinking when you

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did this record?

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Or you know, were you guys, you know, were you

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guys trying to write you know that, you know whatever.

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This song for radio or da da dada. And I'm like, no,

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I've never been that guy. Especially in the screen that

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very first band that I had, I learned a very

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valuable lesson. We were up to be on him with

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the Man in the Moon video and we got bumped.

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I think it was two weeks or three weeks in

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a row. We were scheduled to have our video release

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on you know, MTV was going to put it out,

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and then all of a sudden, I don't know if

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you remember this or not, but Bart Simmons they did

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a thing called the Bart Man.

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I think I remember that.

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Yeah, it was a.

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Video and they released it and it it bumped us

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two weeks in a row.

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So at that point I went, you know, what all

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I can do is the best I can do in

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the studio and writing the songs and after that, I

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have no power over that.

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If that's what you know, the you know, the suits

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want to put on, then you know have at it.

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So it is what it is.

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Well, my hat's off to you for saying true to

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being an artist, especially from those times, because there's so

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many that didn't and then you know later they wanted

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to go back to it. But once you stray, it's

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kind of hard to go back to being who you

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are and people wanting it.

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Yeah, and that's the thing, like again, you write songs

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to me, if if if I wrote songs that I

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thought would work with other people and not stay true

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to myself first, then I'm I'm gonna be sitting on

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stage playing songs that I'm I'm I'm miserable about exactly

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you know what I mean, And it's like I'm just

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doing it for.

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The cash and people can tell I can tell.

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Yes, the audience can see that.

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So my thing is, you know, if if it if,

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if the song is kicking me in the ass, I'm good,

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put it on the record and and then let the

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chips fall where they may. So you know what, those

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so far, so good, We released two singles from this thing,

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and the response has been great. I'm getting, like I said, great,

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great reviews, positive feedback from the fans. That's all you

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can ask for.

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And what I heard from it, too is going back

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to what you were talking about, even because I say

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it a lot these days, is like going back to

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that those times of actual musicianship, you know, instead of

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just having a formula.

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It's it's just it's real music.

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It's real, yeah, And that's I mean for me to

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each his own again, like I've been asked, especially with

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you know, because I was in the band for a minute.

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You know once Mick and Motley were doing their thing

455
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:55.759
back and forth, and there was all this talk about

456
00:26:55.880 --> 00:27:00.440
you know, uh, lip syncing and tapes and you know,

457
00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:05.359
all these people ask me, you know, how I feel

458
00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.039
about it, and I'm like, it's irrelevant how I feel.

459
00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:14.480
It doesn't matter, you know. And I know there's there's

460
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.880
plenty of bands I I can't remember that.

461
00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:24.559
Oh god, they were huge there for a minute.

462
00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:28.440
No, no, well, I mean even Millie Vanilli, like they

463
00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.559
were massive and then they're like, oh, the tape skipped

464
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:35.279
and they were lip syncing, and you know, but you

465
00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:39.519
know bands like you know, def Leppard. I think they're great,

466
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.160
one of my wife's favorite bands. You know, we go

467
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.680
see them anytime they're in Nashville. We go see them,

468
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.240
and it's obvious that there's some enhancements going on. Joe's singing,

469
00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:55.359
the band's playing, but there's some backing tracks going on.

470
00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:58.799
You know. Even in Motley when I was in.

471
00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:02.079
The band, we use some backing tracks to enhance the

472
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:08.880
backing vocals. And like we had a song called Misunderstood,

473
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.799
which had a sixty three piece orchestra, but Mick was playing,

474
00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.920
I was playing, Tommy was playing, Nicky was playing, and

475
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:17.960
we just used the orchestra part.

476
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:19.240
You know.

477
00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:22.720
So bands have been doing this forever and if that's

478
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:27.240
what they choose to do, awesome, great, have at it.

479
00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:30.880
I'm not going to judge somebody for trying to make

480
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.559
their show the best they can, you know, now, do

481
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:35.079
I do it?

482
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:41.720
No? Like I like personally, I like the Old.

483
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:47.839
Stones Aerosmith approach. You know, just a wall of amps.

484
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.960
Just go out there. If you have five part harmonies,

485
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:57.960
if you have five part harmonies, you know on the

486
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:02.480
studio album, then okay. So Mick and Keith are just

487
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.160
going to cover it now, you know what I mean.

488
00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:08.759
They find the best too, and that's what they say.

489
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.400
I think it's better that way anyway, like live music

490
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:16.759
should like some of my favorite experiences of live music

491
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:20.839
were screw ups, because then you knew it was real.

492
00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:23.319
Like I have talked about this before on my show.

493
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:25.880
You probably remember, like I was there at the s

494
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.160
Festival in nineteen eighty three when David Lee Roth forgot

495
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.880
the words to Ain't talking about Love and he.

496
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:34.119
Just said it to the crowd.

497
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.440
He said, I f and forgot the words, and the

498
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.759
whole place cheered. Three hundred thousand people cheered, and it

499
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:44.720
was I was cheered too. To this day, I think

500
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:46.240
it's one of the greatest moments.

501
00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.680
Yeah, but you know, for me, I was just more

502
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:55.599
like again if Airsmith. I've seen Aersmith like God fifty times,

503
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.680
and it was more about the power, the rawness. You know,

504
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:05.000
everything in the studio was polished, but live it was

505
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.160
just in your face, kick your ass and just go.

506
00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:14.039
And that's that's how I, you know, approach. There's nights

507
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:17.279
where I get on stage and I go, oh, I

508
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:19.759
don't know, I'm not not feeling it.

509
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.799
Don't know if I'm gonna be able to hit that note.

510
00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.680
So guess what.

511
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.039
I changed the melody a little bit so I just

512
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.000
get you know, so it's more about the rawness, the

513
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:33.880
live thing, just you know whatever. But again, yeah, to

514
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:36.680
each his own, man, I'm not I'm not here to

515
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:40.519
judge somebody for you know, what they're doing, how they're

516
00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:41.440
doing it whatever.

517
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:48.960
The true artists, you know, like, does what works for them,

518
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.559
you know, and it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks.

519
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:55.720
Yeah, I'm sure you know somebody saw a starry night

520
00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.160
by Van Go and went.

521
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:02.400
A lot of blue Buddy to a lot of blue right.

522
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:04.119
Back it down or not, you know what I mean.

523
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.759
But it's like, you know, it is, it is what

524
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:08.559
it is, man.

525
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:09.279
Whatever.

526
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:15.640
So how do people go and check out the new album?

527
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.759
How to connect with you on socials? Check out tour dates,

528
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:20.640
all that good stuff.

529
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:28.880
Well, there's John Karabbi dot com. There's John Krabbie Official Instagram,

530
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:35.799
John Krabbi Official Facebook. The new songs are all over YouTube,

531
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:40.720
They're on Spotify. Iheartread all the streaming sites. So if

532
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:43.319
you know how to spell my name, you can find it.

533
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.559
Just please ignore the FBI most wanted stuff.

534
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.680
I know, some things have to stay in the eighties.

535
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:57.559
Yes, all I know, as I can honestly say I

536
00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:59.079
was not on Epstein Island.

537
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:00.839
Well there you go.

538
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.480
And I can honestly say that I love the fact

539
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.160
that whatever happened at the Sunset Strip, there's no record

540
00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:10.759
of it.

541
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.519
That we know of, that we know of, that we

542
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:15.920
know of.

543
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:19.000
It's just talking about this the other day about like nowadays,

544
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:21.440
everybody takes their phone and records when they go to

545
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:25.079
a show, and I'm thinking, man, you didn't even think

546
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:27.559
about that. You just went to a show and enjoyed,

547
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:31.119
and you didn't even care about having pictures or anything

548
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:31.559
like that.

549
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.880
Nah, not at all, you know what I mean.

550
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:40.440
And even now, like I don't you know, I have

551
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:43.880
a bunch of fans ask me all the time like hey, dude,

552
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.400
are you cool with us like filming your show with

553
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:50.000
your my our phones or cameras or I'm like, yeah,

554
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.359
knock yourself out, you know, I mean the amount of

555
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.799
money you guys are paying.

556
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.279
For the freaking tickets, I know, right, yeah. And it's like,

557
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:03.599
you know, is everything always gonna sound stellar? No, but

558
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:05.680
this is a face that doesn't care.

559
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.160
Like there it is, there's not gonna be there's some

560
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:11.000
videos that are gonna be distorted.

561
00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:13.519
Sounds like I'm singing a little out of tune. But

562
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:15.319
I hope that the.

563
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:20.920
People that were there will stand up in my defense

564
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.359
and go, nah, it's just distorted. He wasn't singing out

565
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:25.359
of tune. It's all great.

566
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:25.720
Love it.

567
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:28.480
I love it. I love the attitude you have. I

568
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.799
love your new music, all of your music. But everybody

569
00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:34.440
definitely has to check it out. And uh, you know,

570
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.440
there's lots of stories we could talk about of when

571
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.279
I was young, for sure.

572
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:43.279
Absolutely, yeah, I'm sure there is.

573
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.400
And it's a new it's a new day for John

574
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.079
Krabbe than.

575
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:50.920
From your yes, from your mouth to God's ears, my friend.

576
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:55.039
Yes, well, thank you for still giving us great music

577
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.839
and artistry after all these years, and thanks for being

578
00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:59.119
on the adventures of pipe Man.

579
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:02.119
And you know what, thank you for the invite to

580
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:04.119
talk anytime.

581
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.759
Brother, anytime you need, you need any kind of talk

582
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:08.960
or promotion of your music.

583
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.280
I'm there for you, all.

584
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.079
Right, buddy, Stay warm, and uh, when you're walking under trees,

585
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.039
careful those falling iguanas.

586
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.880
I know I was taking a walk last night, and uh,

587
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.400
you know, it's like dodging bombs.

588
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:28.719
So just not not to sound weird. Are they just

589
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.239
like in like some sort of suspended animation.

590
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.599
Or yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no.

591
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:41.159
No there it's their protective thing too, uh, basically so

592
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:44.599
that they don't get sick or nothing happens to them.

593
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.960
They get in this catatonic state.

594
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:50.679
So it's kind of like the alligators with your nostrils out.

595
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.760
Of the water in the freezing totally.

596
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:58.280
Okay, yeah, that's that's that's pretty awesome, man.

597
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.320
It's it's pretty wild. I seen it.

598
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:02.639
I wish I could do that.

599
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:04.960
I would put myself to sleep and wake up like,

600
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.360
well no maybe never never mind, I might want.

601
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:12.320
I might want to go backwards.

602
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.800
Get that out.

603
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:15.880
If my way to go backwards, If I could figure

604
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.320
that one out, that would be stellar, right there, Yes, all.

605
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.239
Right, my friend, will stay warm, buddy.

606
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.119
YouTube, brother Kids, John Rockin

607
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:42.280
And Radio, thank you for listening to the Adventures of

608
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:47.000
Patemn on w for c u I Radio.