March 21, 2026

The Future is Now with Voivod’s Away & Chewy - Hell’s Heroes VIII 2026 Interview

The Future is Now with Voivod’s Away & Chewy - Hell’s Heroes VIII 2026 Interview
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Voivod guitarist Chewy and drummer Away join The Pipeman live at Hell’s Heroes Festival VIII 2026 on W4CY Radio. The prog metal pioneers discuss their 44-year legacy, paying tribute to Piggy 21 years after his passing, and keeping the fun alive on stage while welcoming a new generation of metalheads to the fold.

They also talk about new releases including a symphony orchestra live album, survival in the streaming era and the important of merch, including a Voivod children's book. They also dive into influences from Krautrock to thrash, and sci-fi warnings that feel more relevant than ever these days. Highlights include crowd-surfing moments, Ozzy tour stories, and a nerve-racking experience that became a magic moment opening for Rush, plus a Voivod video game!

Featured topics: Voivod interview, Hell’s Heroes Festival VIII 2026, Piggy tribute, new Voivod album, Voivod video game, prog metal history, symphony orchestra show, Chewy Voivod, Away Voivod, Ozzy, Rush, young metal fans.

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Hi, you love Done to be sens shirt and.

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W for see Why Were You Young?

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man, W four see Why Radio and I'm here with.

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Away from and Jewey from Loivod.

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Oh my god, I just have to say that.

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The first thing I have to say is I had

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my warm Pain shirt out today to wear it, and

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then I thought about for a second, because I have

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this rule at festivals. I'm like, I won't wear a

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band unless they're like, you know, Ozzie, I won't wear

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a band shirt that while I'm doing interviews because I

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don't want the other bands to like, why you wear

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my shirt? So I'm interviewing Sanctuary later, so I was like, yeah,

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maybe I shouldn't wear that shirt today.

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I'll wear it tomorrow.

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But I tell you, one thing I really loved about

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your set here at Hell's Heroes is how much fun

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you were having. Like to be doing this for forty

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four years and still have that much fun and smiling

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the whole time.

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That's what it's all about.

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Yeah, It's just it's fun to play music and I

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can't stop personally, and I just love it's really contagious

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as well. So people smile back at us and it's

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a big party. It's really cool.

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Yeah, and you know what, I have to hats off

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to you too, Like forty four years playing the drums

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and still being able to have that energy.

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I don't know if I could do it. I have

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a lot of energy, but I.

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Think it's one of the most underrated things of how

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much you have to put into it. I mean, like,

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even look at Neil Pierre, you know, I mean like

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he couldn't really do it towards the end.

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Yeah, it's luckily I don't have any anything going wrong

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with my wrists and I'm being careful. And also I

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pretty much stopped partying more than twenty five years ago

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because I wanted to keep going. I saw a long

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time ago Tommy Aldridge with White Snake, and I thought,

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if I want to be that guy, I better you know,

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take care of myself, eat well and all that so

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I can still go for I still have a few

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years left.

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I think I love it. I love it. I saw

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Tommy with Ozzy. That was cool.

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I saw Randy with that was super cool. I even

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saw Pat Travers play guitar for Ozzy. Because after Randy

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died that year. I saw three guitarists of Ozzie, Randy,

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Brad Gillis and Pat Travers. I think Pat Travers played

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like one show.

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Wow.

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I didn't know that.

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Wow.

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Irish was playing Pat Travers at first in the seventies.

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Wow, look at that.

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So how about you, how does it feel to be

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doing this all these years?

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Man?

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A bit it's a bit of the context is that,

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you know, I was a fan of the band when

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I was eleven and twelve years old.

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I'm a bit younger.

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I was listening to Piggy and the band and the composition,

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and I've been a fan since then. And I bought

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a guitar after that, and I wanted to, you know,

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start a band myself.

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And you know, tragically Piggy.

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Passed away in two thousand and five, and or for everybody,

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I think, even the guys in the band, the band

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was over, you know, like yeah, and this opportunity of

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playing a festival and there was an offer and they

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sneaking away thought about it, and we kind of met

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a few times before that, and it was supposed to

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be only one show in two thousand and eight, you know,

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to pay tribute to tribute to Piggy and like say

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hi to the crowd, and we never stopped since then.

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So it's been eighteen years or so.

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I'm in the band and I enjoy it, and every

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time we go out and we tour, it's like just

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intribute to Piggy every night, and you know, and composing

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and putting our albums and the energy is there and

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the fun like like we said earlier, like we have fun.

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So yeah, it's hard to stop when you when you

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have fun.

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Otherwise, what's it used to be in the music business

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if you're not having fun because the rest of it sucks.

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ups and downs, and now it's of course with streaming

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it's difficult. But thankfully we are the type of bands

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that we sell a lot of merch and that's it's

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really handy on the road. And also we one of

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the bands on Sony that's sell a lot of physical

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like CITs vinyls. So I think that the old school

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bands are still selling merch and CDs and vinyls. Otherwise,

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for a younger bands, it must be pretty tough. They

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have all the tools Internet and all that, but there

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are like thousands and thousands of bands, and you really

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have to find your own signature.

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So people to be noticed, you know.

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And yeah, I always talk about on my interviews. I

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tell my listeners, like, if they don't buy the band's

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merch they can't listen to my show because it's the

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only way you guys make money. Nowadays, Spotify is fucking

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everybody over, you know. And it's like even in my

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business with streaming, I own streaming radio stations, un licensed,

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pay royalties, do the reporting, and some of my you know,

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I would say colleagues, but they're not really colleagues. They're like, well,

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they should just be happy I played their music. I'm like,

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do you work for free?

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Exactly. Yeah.

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My philosophy about streaming is that I will never blame

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people for using the service because it's amazing how it works,

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you know.

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Yeah, it's not their fault.

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It's not their fault.

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So it's I think it's the whole system behind it

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and the way the money is distributed.

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But I'm talking about like the people, not the listeners,

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but like the other streaming radio stations that they don't

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get askabs, CE, SACS, Sound Exchange, BMI, you know, so

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so can and all those licensing and actually like pay

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the artists, you know, that's I think.

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That's what you should do.

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And I want to get back to Emerch because there

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was something really cool I saw at your merch table.

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But I do want to take a second to talk

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about Piggy because I was so impressed and like felt

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so cool when I was at your website and you

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have a page just dedicated to him, Like to me,

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that says everything I need to know about the band.

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Yeah, biggie, I mean, he was our mentor and we

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were always a step behind trying to catch up with him.

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And you know, he started very young, and he was

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when we met him, he was already super good and

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we uh basically on the first three four albums, I

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was still learning how to to play, but he was

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already up there, you know, and many people's hero and

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very influential. So he will always be known as the innovator.

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But unfortunately he was pretty young when he passed. Yeah,

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it's unfortunately.

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And one thing about him too that I really like,

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being an old school metal head from back then. It's

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like band nowadays and metal. A lot of new bands

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I always say they felt like this algebraic equation, like

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it's a formula to make metal, and metal in the

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beginning was about experimentation. That's exactly what Piggy was all about.

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Yeah, he was not only listening to metal. I mean,

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he was really into Anville and raising and thank and

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but he liked the crowd rock, modern composer like classical music,

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and also avant garde music, and so he was interested

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in everything. He absorbed everything. He was a bit less

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into punk rock than Snake and I, but we were

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there to bring the punk rock limit.

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And that's the thrash element right there, exactly.

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Yeah, and let's go back to the merch. So I

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was looking at the stuff and I know about your book.

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That's super cool. But then I saw the kids book.

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Yeah, your merch guy didn't even know about it till

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he started working with you guys.

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I'm like, wow, that's really cool. And it's all French,

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so it's.

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Like totally cool. Yeah, who came up with that idea.

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It's a guy from Quebec and he just it's actually

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a publisher that they do on the kids book, and

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so he came up with this trash meddle book explained

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to kids and so it's just we're very bad with

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really cool drawings, and we love it.

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We love it.

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It's selling very well actually.

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And nobody else does that. I know all the bands

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are doing beer whiskey. You guys are doing a kids book.

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I love it.

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We do have beers and hot sauce and all that,

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but this is like the item that everybody loves.

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I'm also very excited about this year.

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And you could correct me if I'm wrong, but I

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saw that not only are you going to do a

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new album, not only are you going to do a

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live album, but you're going to do.

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A video game.

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And I'm a gamer, so that was pretty cool. Yeah,

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and you tell me about the video games.

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It's a very talented guy, Nicole, and he did a

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video for US Target Earth, and he came up with

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the idea of doing like this end of eighties early

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nineties style of visuals for the video game. We can't

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wait until it comes out. We were Rocky is testing

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it right now. It says it's amazing nice. Yeah, and

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so yeah, it's why one of the crazy things that

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happens to us. And I also, I mean we lately

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we've been doing shows with the Symphony Orchestra. That's another trill.

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So we're going to release a live album in June

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with Quebec City Symphony Orchestra.

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Wow. Yeah, that's way cool.

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Yes, And so what haven't you done, like in all

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four years?

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Soundtrack?

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Yeah, that's what we want to do, science fiction movie soundtrack.

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I was gonna mention too, like, even better than that,

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a science sci fi movie about Voyvod.

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Yeah, I mean it'd be great to have an animated

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movie with the characters. Yeah, yeah, that'd be really great.

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I mean, the only being a rock and roll drummer

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on the road and in the studio all the time,

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it'd be hard for me to come up with an

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animated movie. But I've seem lately my drawings animated by

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AI and it's pretty impressive. So that could be something.

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Except that I'm torn because it's it's not really great

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for the environment, and so because of all the water

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it takes to a cool the electronics and all that.

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Yeah, besides, the machines are going to take over, like

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we've been saying since the eighties, nobody believed us. Then

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it's kin that it's it's gone right exactly, Sky ned

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his ear. So also, I want to say something I

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really loved about your set. Something you did. There's some

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kid that crowd served came over and he fought like

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ten like not really fighting, but the security guards ten

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of them are trying to stop him and he's like

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reaching out to get your guitar pick and you.

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Reach out and he got it.

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And I was like, that's bad ass, that dude. Well

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remember that forever.

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I mean the kids are so amazing, you know, like

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the mush bit and the screaming and the you know,

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chanting the band's name between songs, and they're young kids.

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You know, they were not there in the eighties, they

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were not there in the nineties, but.

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and they relive this era so to speak, you know,

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and we're still there playing the music and they know

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this stuff, you know, they know their metal.

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so when I was in LA in the eighties and

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going all into all the shows, and like I was

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at Metallica's.

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First show, Slayers first show.

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Never would there be somebody my age there And if

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they were, we probably wouldn't be there. You know, it

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was like my dad was linked, let's say in Frank Sinatra.

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He used to like turn a shit down your all

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bunch of Motley crew, you know.

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And now I've brought.

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My son into his first marsh pit, and I brought

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my grandkids into their first marsh pits, like and you

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you see that now, Like it's multi generational.

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It's funny because the trash medal is more popular than

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everyone and the kids are trying to look like us

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back then, and we like South America. They get crazy

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and all that. And we cross path with our friends

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from Testament Exo just all the time, sharing stages at festivals,

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and quite often we're wondering, how come we're still popular

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and even more popular than right, I think, well, we

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think that is because we talked about the destruction of

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this planet a lot, and so it's still relevant.

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That's what we think.

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Oh, I'm with you.

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Like, if you take the Metal and Pumpkins back then

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and their songs, all you would have to do is

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change a couple of names, and they're operate today, which blows.

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Like a recreating nightmare. We used to talk about Chernobyl

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and then Fukushima, and now it's like the zappar Ridge

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nuclear plant in the Ukraine getting bombarded and all that.

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All we talked about acid rain and nice global warming

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and so like you said, we could, we could change

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a couple of words, and it's still the same nightmare.

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The night mare continues, blows my mind. Like I remember

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me and my friends. We'd be like, it doesn't matter.

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The whole world's going to blow up in nineteen eighty four.

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What are people talking about now? The whole world blowing

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up again?

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Like it just oh yeah.

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about nuclear war and the drone I just were like,

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you're so ritual, and I said, no, man, the high

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tech weaponry is getting crazier by the day. And now

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you're talking about like drones flying by themselves and deciding

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who they're going to kill and all that by themselves.

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war is back to the front line, you know, and yeah.

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you going to do except we can only talk about

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it in our songs and.

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who everybody knows who it is. But somebody was saying

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about how musicians should not be talking about this stuff.

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They should just entertain people.

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Like hello, hippies, punk rockers, metal heads. It's always even

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back in the times of like Elvis and the Beatles,

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it's always been something and why shouldn't you talk about

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it in your songs.

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what Voyevod has always been doing is using science fiction

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to talk about actual matters that you know, some stuff

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that's happening in the reality, but so indirectly, but it

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has it has its impact, the same impacts. But I

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think it true science fiction and and you know, imagery

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and stories and the music. It can bring more people

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together and we can see it in the crowd. You know,

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all sort of people are from from different as e

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I keep talking about I have this idea of how

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we solve all the world's problems. Have one big music

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festival that everybody is required to attend. It'll be a

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metal festival. It could even be part punk and part metal,

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and just get everybody in the marsh pit and we'll

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all just work out our problems in the pit.

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It's a much better way to go. It stopped me

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from beating people's asses and stuff like. You just take

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your ship out in the.

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Pit, pick people up, lug each other, and it's all over.

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If somebody falls down, you pick him up. And yeah,

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people see it as a scary thing, but everybody helps

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each other and it's you know, when I was a kid,

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I didn't know about nuclear's talk pals before I discovered

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crass conflict that Kennedy is. So some people have to

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talk about it, but like Sui said, our way to

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do it is like some true sci fi folk tale

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sort of, you know, but the message is still there.

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We don't name anybody. It's not that political, right. We

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tried to open the eyes of the kids, and I.

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Don't think you really have to name people. It's more

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about the things, you know, And look at what was

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sci fi when we were young is now real life.

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and I used to sit down and try to figure

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what was gonna happen in twenty years, and now you

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just have to talk about what's going on. What's going

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on now? And it's total science fiction. You know, it's

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actually impossible to predict what's going to happen in twenty

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years now.

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I know, right, And you mentioned the dead candy. So

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while we said that, I do want to put out

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positive vibes right now to Jello because you know, he

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suffered a stroke and positive vibes for him. One of

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my most memorable moments, which will be my next question

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for you guys, is being at Aftershock Festival back in

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the press area and he was back there. They weren't playing,

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and he wasn't playing. He was just back there and

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he just started having a forty five minute political conversation

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with me. And it didn't even matter what he said.

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I was like, oh my afterwards, I'm like, and I

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never fann boy out. I was like, oh my god,

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I just had a political discussion with Jello.

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Bioff Jenner is an old friend forty years now. Yeah,

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when he was having problems with the No with when

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he had the censorship Foundation, I had problems with the

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Franken Christ Bolster and all that it got sued and wrote.

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I wrote to him in eighty six to wish him

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good luck because it was going in court and all

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that and we stayed friends nice.

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So that brings me to my final question for both

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of you. One story, good or bad that you will remember.

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I have this whole forty five year run, forty four

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year run, what would it be?

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Oh my god?

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There were so many, so many bad ones and good ones.

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I think my favorite one was we were opening for

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Rush and I was. I had seen people opening for

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Rush getting booed off the stage and I was really

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really scared, especially when we played in Toronto with them,

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and this was in nineteen ninety and when we played

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astron to Me the Mind by a Pink Floyd, the

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crowd went louder than the music, joining it so much.

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So that's my probably my favorite moment as I. And

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another one is when I we were doing the touring

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with Uzzy. Jason you said was in Voevad and was

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also with Uzzy, So we were touring with Uzzy a lot.

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He was doing two shows a night, What a Warrior,

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And then I was I got lost in an arena

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and I found Uzzy was lost and I brought Ussy

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back to his backstage.

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That's a great story.

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But my highlight, maybe not a story highlight with the

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band is the Symphony Orchestra show in Montreal and in

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Quebec City. And can't wait too for the album to

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come out. It's it's pretty amazing.

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I can't wait either.

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Well, you guys killed it here at Hell's Heroes as usual.

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And I do have to say you're talking about the chanting.

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I was at the pre party and yesterday and tay

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so far I was the first band that I heard

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so much chanting for the band and the crowd cool right,

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so they were here for you. Nice and thanks for

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in on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank you very much for driving us to Nice. Hello,

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this is away from Voivod. You're listening to the Pipemin

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