April 9, 2026

Vinny Appice + Who On Earth + Ravenmocker - Pipeman in the Pit Interviews

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Transcript

Season 20, Episode 37 of The Adventures of Pipeman.

Chapter 1: Vinny Appice

HEAVEN & HELL
BREAKING OUT OF HEAVEN 2007-2009
RETROSPECTIVE CELEBRATES DIO’S THIRD ACT WITH MEMBERS OF BLACK SABBATH ON 4CD/BLU-RAY AND 7LP BOXED SETS
AVAILABLE MARCH 27
INCLUDES THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, LIVE FROM RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, AND NEON KNIGHTS: 30 YEARS OF HEAVEN & HELL - LIVE AT WACKEN

Breaking Out Of Heaven 2007–2009 will be available March 27 as 7LP and 4CD/Blu-ray boxed sets. Both editions include an illustrated book with new liner notes by Hugh Gilmour, along with a replica tour book and poster. Order Now.

The collection marks the first time the complete Live From Radio City Music Hall performance appears on vinyl, and features eight tracks making their vinyl debut, including studio recordings from The Dio Years and select live performances. The Blu-ray expands the set with video from Live From Radio City Music Hall and Neon Nights: 30 Years Of Heaven & Hell - Live at Wacken, plus band interviews.

An HD-upscaled video of “Bible Black” is out today. Watch Here. The set follows the band’s reunion run, beginning with their triumphant 2007 New York performance, Live From Radio City Music Hall, followed by the Top 10 studio album The Devil You Know in 2009, and the live album Neon Nights: 30 Years Of Heaven & Hell - Live at Wacken, recorded later that year on tour in Germany.

Chapter 2: Coosh (vocals) and Pete Rizzi (bass).

New Jersey’s red hot heavy rock/metal band WHO ON EARTH who will be releasing their new album, It Takes The Village, on May 8th

Current Singles: Vigilance For Fans Of: Iron Maiden, Dio, Queensryche, Ozzy, Ghost, Clutch

About: Who On Earth cut its teeth through relentless gigging across the New York tri-state area, with founding members Coosh and Pete previously tearing up stages as MadHaus. During 2020, the longtime collaborators shifted focus from covers to original material, quickly writing ten songs and entering Sonic Stomp Studio with producer Mike Orlando (Category 7, Adrenaline Mob). Joined by drummer Joe D’Aqui, the group crafted a heavy, story-driven sound rooted in influences like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Alice in Chains, and Tool. Despite pandemic delays, the sessions yielded their debut full-length album Blame’, released in October 2022.

Following the addition of guitarists Bruce Gatewood and Johnny James Barone, the band gained traction with a heavier reimagining of Toto’s “Hold the Line,” now their most-streamed track. Lineup changes continued with drummer Howie Fallon joining in 2024, bringing renewed chemistry and power, though tragedy struck later that year with the passing of Gatewood. In late 2024, Jimmy Kocha joined, filling the role of co-lead guitarist, solidifying the lineup that is currently in full force today. Honoring his legacy, the band pushed forward, releasing the Smoke & Mirrors EP in March 2025—a sharp, socially reflective six-song release. The group is currently at work on a new full-length album, slated for release in early 2026.

Chapter 3: Pipeman interviews Southern California’s newest force in melodic death metal, Ravenmocker, and their second single / music video “Where The Raven Flies” to follow their debut track "Infallible."

The new single continues building the band’s identity: soaring melody, cultural storytelling, and a modern take on the melodic death metal spirit once championed by acts like Children of Bodom, Insomnium, and Kalmah.

"Where The Raven Flies" is an anthemic, cinematic track that tells the origin story of the Raven Mocker, a cryptid from Adirondack and Cherokee lore. Known as a harbinger of death, the Raven Mocker feeds on the sick and dying, stealing the remaining years of its victims’ lives. The single paints vivid imagery of the creature soaring over forests and villages, acting as both reaper and omen.

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Hi, you have done to your censure? Wow for you your's.

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Who are you? Who are men?

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And I'm very excited about this episode because we have

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one of the most legendary drummers there is and some

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exciting news.

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So let's welcome to show VIDI a pissy. How are you?

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I'm good? How are you good? Good to be here? Legendary?

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Oh my god.

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Well, listen, you've played with just pretty much everybody. I

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couldn't even we wouldn't even have time for me to

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list off all the people you've played with for sure.

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Sorry, I'm sorry. I won't play with that many people

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from now on anyway.

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to play.

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Drums for like nine years when I was a kid,

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and I kind of sucked. So my hat's off to

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you for being such a great drummer, because it takes

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a lot of people.

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I don't think realize that.

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And then I switched to guitar, and the first song

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I learned on guitar was not Smoke Underwater, it was

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Evan and hell.

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There you go. It was meant to be some sort

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of connection.

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There, I know, right right, And so here we are.

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We have some great news about you know, kind of

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giving me like flashbacks and resurrecting the heaven had held

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a final you know, Sabbath version before do O left

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this earth, but left us here with a lot of

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great memories.

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Yeah, and what's good about this package that's coming out is,

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you know, we were scheduled to go on tour again

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in twenty ten with Ronnie, and then he got ill,

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and then he got worse, and then he got really

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sick and he couldn't do it, and the tour wasn't

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going to happen. So it was not a happy ending.

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years later and then putting this great package together. It's

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a beautiful package this, you know, the albums that are

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in it, and there's a posters and tour books and

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photo album. It's beautiful. And at least this is kind

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of some closure to that era of Black Sabbath, you

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know and Ronnie, So it's more of a celebration now

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than just the sad way that the band ended, you

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know exactly.

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some things on this here that have never been on

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vinyl before, so that's really cool. Yeah, and you know

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all the Radio City live performances that are on there.

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pay tribute and to all the greatness of that version

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of Black Sabbath.

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it's it's a beautiful package and I just got it

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in the mail last week and I was blown away.

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clear and colorful, and oh it's just great. So it's

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a nice collective's item for who who whoever's having a

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hell fan Black Sabbath fan, Ronnie, this is a great package.

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it was a full sensory experience, which is what you're

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having here. You know, like pictures, reading the lyrics, all

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the things that came with an album that I think

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we're having somewhat of a resurgence because my grandkids asked

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me for the holidays that order birthdays.

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a lot of kids were missing, is that full experience.

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it was only vinyl, and you used to go buy

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the record when it came out, and then you had

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it towards the back. The back of the album usually

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had all the details of recording, and sometimes it listed

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the microphone and the amplifiers, the drums, and that was

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really cool. Wow, use Ludwig drums on this and the

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these microphones and amplifiers, because it was a great cool thing.

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going through all this information. So it was a very

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cool thing. So now, yeah, CDs, it's hard to see

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on the it's only that big. And then download you

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don't get anything. Yeah, unless you download the they bring

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the artwork forward. I don't know, but it's great on

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the album on the full.

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I was even teenager, just for the clues of that

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nineteen sixty nine radio show where they were saying Paul

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was dead. It was such a fun experience to go

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get these albums, look for these clues and do things

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that you wouldn't be able to do today with downloads.

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package that it made it more exciting. You know, you're

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listening to the rep while you listen to the record,

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you know, Yeah, and then you know Paul is dead,

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I remember that?

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ever experiences at concert, which there's been thousands of concerts

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I've been to. I remember when I was at the

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mob Rules tour.

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could have I could have sworn when Dio started talking

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that it was God talking way.

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It came over, well were you smoking?

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and camp out to get your tickets. So I got

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there like early. I was sleeping my sleeping bag to

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get the tickets. And some dude goes to me, he goes, hey,

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can you buy my tickets for me? I'll smoke you

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out at the concert. Sure you know you're a teenager.

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Like that's good enough for me, And then yes he did.

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He did smoke me out right, before you guys came

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on and it was it was a trip though, coming

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over to loud speaker, I was like, whoa, this is

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the best experience ever. And I still remember it to

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this day like that way. So that's the impact right there. Yeah,

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And so I'm glad that, you know, we're keeping this alive.

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And you know, Ronnie was such a influence to so

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many people and such a great person that he just

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you know, I did, like I do press coverage at

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the Bowl for Ronnie and it's like amazing how every

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year just people so much support. And I've never heard

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anybody ever say anything bad about Ronnie, and that's unheard

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of in this industry.

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of the greatest singers in rock, if not the he

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was such a nice person and he loved his music

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and he loved his fans. His fans were really important

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to him, and he took time to sign autographs, take pictures.

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He never really brushed anybody off. You know, when I

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first joined Sabbath in nineteen eighty, we played some arena

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and I'm the new guy in the block back then.

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The show, you know, concert's over and we hung out

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a bit, and then we left the arena and got

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in a limo, me and Ronnie and go up the

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hill get out of the arena and it was January,

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like upstate New York, I think we were. And we

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pull out and get to the gate. They were going

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to open the gate and we go back to the hotel,

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but there were a whole bunch of fans at the gate.

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Ronnie said stop the car, stop the car, and I'm like, wow,

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the driver stopped the car. Ronnie got out, started saying autographs,

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some taking pictures because it was cold. Yeah, you know,

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they waited, you know, they deserved something. And so I

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got out too, and you know, did that as well.

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And I was always remember that how Ronnie was just

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totally such a gentleman and loved the fans, you know.

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that house in Tarzana and we got like invited over

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and we were we were hanging out with him and

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Vivian at the house. I don't know if I was

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aim more than sixteen at the time. Oh, it was

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me a couple of my friends, and again, like who

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does that? Like it was it was just like you

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would never experience that from anybody usually, and he was

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just so gracious and so you know, he realized what

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it was all about and what he did it again.

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later when we did Holy Dive a tour. We were

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in England and playing London, and you know, we finished

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the show upstairs and Ronnie relaxed. He doesn't leave right away,

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like to hang out and have a beer or two,

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and they we were getting ready to leave. Somebody said, well,

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the cars are downstairs, we can go soon. And then

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they came up and said, well, there's a bunch of punters,

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they call him Punters. The fans are out down waiting

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for autographs and stuff, and it's kind of cold out.

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So Ronnie said, bring him in. So they brought him

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into the Hammersmith Odeon, such a famous place, and they

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were about probably forty forty kids fans and sat him

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in the front rows and then we came down and

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we all signed autographs. And that's what Ronnie Diddy, that's

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the kind of guy he was.

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I love it.

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No VIPs, no VIP stuff back.

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Then, Yeah, no meet and greets or no now what's

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your favorite memory of the Heaven and Hell days.

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highlights and this and that. It was just nice to

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get when they got back together and we called it

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Heaven and Hell. That we're playing big places again, you know,

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big festivals in Europe. And I don't know if we

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played the Garden, I'm from New York. We played Radio

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City Music Hall. So there's just a lot of highlights

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for me, you know, and playing with them, and just

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playing with Tony Gays and Ronnie again was just doesn't

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get much better than that, you know, I know, right,

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pretty amazing.

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And how was their chemistry altogether with Ronnie you know,

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you know at.

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That point, we're all a little older at that point,

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and it was it was a really good vibe in

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the band during Heaven and Hell, and we would have

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fun musically. It was fantastic, and it was talk of

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you know, let's do another album and then let's do

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another tour, let's keep going for a while, you know,

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and it was great, whereas years before that there was

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always it lasted like two years, a year and a half,

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and then there was problems and it didn't work out.

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So at the end it was great. It's just a

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shame what happened, you know, how Ronnie got ill.

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So yeah, big shame, you know. And and I think

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everybody needs to reach out and uh, you know, contribute

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to the foundation. Uh you know that so other people

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can get the help that you know through through this

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because cancer it's a bitch.

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Yeah, I mean, it's an awful thing. And people, you know,

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it's pretty popular right now, let's put it that way.

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Probably all the junk in the air and the food

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and the water and all that stuff. So who knows.

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Yeah, I'm with you there. You know.

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It's funny when we were younger, like you didn't think

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about that stuff, and now we get to this stage

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and it's like, oh, look at the poison they've been

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putting in our bodies.

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Yeah. The latest thing is like, I don't know, I'm

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in California and some days you look up at the

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sky and it's like across uh plane, tic tac toe

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with the chemtrails.

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Oh, that's so funny you're saying that, because I just

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got back from LA and I was saying we were

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around walked on saying, my friend, like, I've never seen

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this many chemtrails.

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Like that everywhere.

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They're everywhere. I spoke to a friend in North Carolina

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because you had to hear too, and a friend in England,

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same thing there. So I don't know what they're trying

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to do, but nobody's saying anything like why are you

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doing this?

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And what is it for exactly?

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You know, it used to be like trying to make

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it rain and stuff, but I don't think it hasn't

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rained here, never rained, right, Who knows?

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So what else would you like to let people know

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about the release of the these packages for Heaven and

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Hell and and anything else you have coming up that

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you want to talk about.

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Yeah, well the package is great, like I said, it's

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just a fantastic package. The pictures, photos, everything is amazing.

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But it only works if you play it.

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Really loud when you get there right.

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Then it works. Yeah, and I'm doing I started something.

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It just kind of a fluke, uh. I started doing

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a band call put together a band called Sabbath Nights.

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And this started a couple of years before where somebody

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invited me to go play you know, we're gonna play

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all Sabbath stuff and blah blah blah. I said, Okay,

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and uh, I did it and it was a lot

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of fun. Then I noticed how the audience was eating

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it up.

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You know.

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We played a lot of Dio sabbaths, some Azzie sabbath,

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some Dio songs, and the audience loved it. So so

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I put something together. I got to kill a band.

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My vocalist is Jim Queen who's from Buffalo, New York,

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and he could sing Ronnie. He loves Ronnie. He could

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sing this stuff without tuning down. It's just amazing. So

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we got to kill a band, and we just we're

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doing gigs, like not a lot of touring, but we're

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doing as many gigs as we can. We got some

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coming up the Akata Theater in May in Chicago, and

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then we go to Ohio Picktown Palooza, it's like a

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little festival, and then we do upstate New York Buffalo

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area and nice. That's a lot of fun. You know,

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people love it. What playing get to his Sign of

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the Southern Cross and Neon Knights all that shit, and

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then we play some Ozzie song, a couple sabatoons, war

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Pigs and Ozzie song. I don't know. We do that

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and then some Dio stuff. So it's a great show,

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you know. So it's a lot of fun. We're not

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trying to break the band, you know, it's just a

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lot of fun and people enjoying it.

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That's the key. It's fun.

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You know, Like what why be in this industry if

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you're not having fun.

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When we made Holy Diver, we were having a ball,

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a new band and we're all youngsters and and uh

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went to Sound City Studio. There was like a club

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hanging out every night. We destroyed that place, just crazy

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stuff that went on, and we were having fun. And

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fun makes good.

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Music, it does absolute music.

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And then we did Holy Diver. We did the whole album,

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wrote the whole album.

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So I love it. I see.

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I love hearing stuff like that from musicians have been

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musicians for a long time, you know, because there's a

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lot of complaining that goes on. So I love the

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freshness of hearing how much fun things are.

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Yeah, you know, and we're having fun, we're doing this

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and then you don't realize how it affects people. And

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you know, then you go on the road and you

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meet somebody goes, man, I was going through a really

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bad time, and then you guys came out with that

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album and that song whatever, Rainbow in the Dark or whatever.

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It really helped me get through life. And you know,

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it got me through the whole thing. And you know,

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we don't write songs to try to purposely get people

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feeling better. Obviously we don't know what's going on with

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them anyway. But when you hear those stories, you go, wow,

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we're just doing an odd job, right, you know, stuff

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we love to do. It's inside of us. And then

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you meet people who are so affected by it you

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don't realize that. You know, it's a great feeling, right, Yeah,

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it's fantastic.

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Well, it's fantastic that you've given us a great feeling

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for all these decades. Here, thank you, and again, hats

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off to you for being such a legendary drummer, because

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it's a lot harder than people think.

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You're right, and right now, the traveling is harder than anything. Then. Yeah,

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if you got to fly and stuff, oh god, what.

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A pain I know.

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Right, Yeah, Well, thanks for keep giving us great music.

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Everybody needs to go and check out all your new

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stuff that's going on.

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Yeah, go to my website. Yeah, and Sabbath Nights with

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a K like nights neon nights dot com. There's some

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stuff up there and then heaven in hell and keep

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it up, keep it going.

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Yeah, funny, funny.

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I interviewed Jack Black at one of the bowl for

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Ronnie's Yeah, and he started singing neon Nights in the

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interview and he was handing me to Mike try and

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get me to sing, and I'm like, nope, it's your job.

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I can't.

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He gat School of Rock movie movie. It was on

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the other night and I watched the whole thing. I

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love that movie.

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Yeah, totally.

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And he's he's just he's so versatile, like he was

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singing it like right off the cuff, like and just

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having a good time.

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Again. That's the key here.

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We all just need to have a good time and

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music is the best way to escape all the other bullshit.

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That's right, exactly. Well, music, you know, that's it. Heals it.

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It does a lot of things. When you listen to music.

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If you're not feeling up, you're not feeling great, you know,

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you put on your favorite album or song and feel better,

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you know a little bit better.

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One best therapy there is.

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Yeah.

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Well, thanks a lot for your time, and thanks you

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for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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All right, thank you pipe Man, and see you guys

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on the road somewhere.

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Looka do it?

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Hey.

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Hy, you have done to censure? Wow for you young.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c y Radio. And I'm excited about

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our next guest because I'm a Jersey boy and they're

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a Jersey band, so they automactly get on my show.

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Yes, But who on earth are you anyway?

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There?

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There it is like that. I think that's a brilliant

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band name.

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Like I never talked about band names, but that's a

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brilliant band name because it just gets people talking.

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It's kind of like the guess who you know? Everybody

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was always like or to who is who?

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Who?

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Yeah? The who?

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Now we just need to write a song like that.

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But who are fitting the song?

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Right?

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There you go?

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And you know like you could, you could do like

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who are you? Version? But who on earth? Who on

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earth are you?

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So?

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What part of Jersey are each of you from? What exit?

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All right?

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I'm Exit eight A off the turnpike. Okay, dead Central Jersey,

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not far from East Brunswick Old Bridge.

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