July 3, 2026

Who The F%@K Is Billy Morrison? - A PipemanRadio Who's Who

Who The F%@K Is Billy Morrison? - A PipemanRadio Who's Who

BILLY MORRISON TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO HIS PSYCHE WITH HIS JUST-RELEASED SINGLE “HOLLOW,” THE TITLE TRACK OF HIS UPCOMING ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME DUE OUT AUGUST 7 VIA TLG | ZOID DISTRIBUTED BY VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP BILLY MORRISON PREMIERES NEW SHORT FILM...

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BILLY MORRISON TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO HIS PSYCHE WITH HIS JUST-RELEASED SINGLE “HOLLOW,”

THE TITLE TRACK OF HIS UPCOMING ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME DUE OUT AUGUST 7 VIA TLG | ZOID
DISTRIBUTED BY VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP

BILLY MORRISON PREMIERES NEW SHORT FILM “WHO THE F%@K IS BILLY MORRISON?”

NEW SINGLE “BECOMING” (FEAT. SULLY ERNA & NUNO BETTENCOURT) TAKING FLIGHT

After dubbing him “a bionic riff machine,” it’s Al Jourgensen of Ministry who puts it best, “There’s a lot more to unwrap in the BILLY MORRISON box than you would think, but mainly he’s just a top shelf human being, so what could possibly go wrong?”

The upcoming HOLLOW will follow the success of 2024’s THE MORRISON PROJECT format with 12 songs, half sung by Morrison and half sung by a handful of MORRISON’s friends. Guests include Dexter Holland, Marilyn Manson, Chuck D, B Real, Duff McKagan, Steve Stevens, DMC, and the above-mentioned Sully Erna and Nuno Bettencourt, among others. “Forgive Me,” “The Tailor,” “No Suspects,” “Another Day,” “Leave No Trace,” and “Becoming” are among the song titles.

Get ready for HOLLOW. No one will forget who the F%@K BILLY MORRISON is after this…

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Hey, you learnt here censure.

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Wow for you your This is the pipe Man here

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on the Adventures of Pipe Man W four c Y Radio.

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I'm very excited about our next guest because man, he's

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got a lot going on. But that's nothing unusual. Uh,

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But I gotta say, I gotta start it off by

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I have a very important question, Who the fuck is

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Billy Morrison?

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You know what's great is that I can now answer

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that by saying, just go to my Vivo page on

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YouTube and it'll tell you who the listen. That idea

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came from our PR company and they were right. I

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I've got a more than thirty year career in the

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music business and a lot of credits, and I still

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feel like I hear, who the fuck is Billy Morrison?

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My PR company said you should make a little mini documentary,

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and you know, be careful what you suggest to me,

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because I'll just go out and do it. And that's

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what we did.

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And I watched it and I loved it. Everybody else

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to check it out. My favorite part I think of

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the whole thing was when Al Jorgensen says you're a

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great human being. He doesn't say that about many people, you.

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Know, first of first of all, he doesn't. But what

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the greatest thing is the look he says, what could

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go wrong? And then gives that knowing look that he

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knows me quite well.

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You know.

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So listen, I love al, I love daff, I love

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be Real all the gut Barry point are all the

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guys that were involved in that, they just say yes, unconditional,

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you know. And you know, I'm like calling Nuno, going

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I need you to just say something like and everyone

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just goes, yeah, sure buddy, no problem. I My love

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goes out to all of those people involved in that

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little It was fun to make and hopefully it does

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explain a little bit about who I am and why

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you hear my name, but also with a little tongue

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in cheek. I mean, I don't take myself that seriously.

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I'm not trying to. I'm not I'm not trying to

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have a Taylor Swift solo.

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You know.

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It's only rock and.

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Roll exactly, And you know what, I do love about

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it too. It was a brilliant idea to name the

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documentary that because every pretty much every rock star probably

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knows who the fuck Billy Morrison is, right, so it's

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kind of funny when like the Gerald public would say,

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who the fuck is Billy Morrison?

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Look, it's it's a you could that this has many

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levels to it if you want to go a little

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bit deeper. My label and I talk about it all

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the time. I had a number one hit with the

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Aussie song. I've had three top twenty active rock hits

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in a row. It's interesting that the general and actually

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quite sad. Not for me, I don't I'm doing all right,

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I'm good, but in general for music, it's quite sad

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that someone who is successful. I guess, you know, success

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is relative, but most kids who are aspiring to be

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guitar players and musicians and rock stars, they would call

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what I do success, right, So it's kind of sad

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that someone who's having that kind of success is unknown.

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It is, but I also see the linkered.

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Way that our radio and our media portrays us.

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You know, well you know, and it's kind of good

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in a way. Like I'm thinking, like an artist, it's like, well,

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not being known also means you have a life in

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a way.

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I gotta say, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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I'm happy, and I mean that for me personally, I

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am super happy. I get my ego stroked by going

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out on tour with Billy Idol for the last eighteen

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nineteen years. Yeah, like I'm playing Madison Square Gardens and

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the Staples Center and Red Rocks and Wembley. Right, I'm

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doing that. My ego is covered. My creativity is more

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than covered. With solo albums, collaborate. I get to work

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with all these great people collaborations. I get to work

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by myself with my art. And when I'm right in

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the solo albums, so all bases and guess what, I

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get to go to Pavilions with my gorgeous girlfriend and

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go shopping. All my bases are covered. What I when

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I said what I said, I mean in a general

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rate business term, because for me, like I said, I'm great,

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I'm good. I'm very grateful. But it is sad that

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I would have to not have to. I chose to

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have a laugh and make who the fuck is Billy Morrison.

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Yeah, it's brilliant.

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It was fun. It was I don't know about brilliant,

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but it was a lot of fun.

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Oh. I well, I think it was brilliant and that's

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the key. You're a true artist too, And you said

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the word fun, Like, if you're not having fun creating art,

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you're doing the wrong thing.

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Okay, there's plenty of careers available where you're not having fun. Right,

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go work in a bank from nine to five. You

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want to have fun, You'll learn some money, you'll pay

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your mortgage. But you wanna have fun if you if

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you want to like fun, remember why you're doing this.

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You know what I mean. I can go and work

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in Target any day of.

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The week, exactly.

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Be grateful for the for the fun that you get

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to have as a creative.

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And the people speaking of good human beings because in

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my example, like I was a big part of the

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Sunset Strip scene in the eighties, but then I left

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and I was like in the financial business, so I

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was I became a suit and I wasn't having fun,

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Like I was making money and there was some fun

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because there was some debauchery, just like there was at

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the Sunset Strip, but there were a bunch of assholes

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that you worked with and worked for. And so now

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coming back to music and doing radio and podcasting and

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going on tour and doing festival coverage and stuff like that,

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it's like I'm having fun. It's like I got at

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these festivals. Sometimes I'll bring my youngest daughter and halfway

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through the first day of a four day festival, she's

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like that, I don't know how you do this. Every

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weekend I'm already done and I'm like, I get home

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and I'm kind of like I need to get back

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out there.

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But it's it's horses for courses. It's each to their own.

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And you know, I do believe you know, you've seen

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both sides of that of the coin, and I think

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financial stability is something that drives a lot of people.

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And that's fine, that is understandable, especially in this day

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and age. And if you want financial stability above all else,

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then you you do not need to be in the

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creative entertainment business in any shape or form, because there's

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no exactly but I pick. I've been fortunate enough to

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earn a little bit of money in entertainment. But when

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I decided to be in the entertainment business, it was

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a choice not made from a need for financial stability,

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because it's ridiculous. It was a choice made from a

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need to be creative. Number One. If I'm fortunate enough

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to even earn one dollar, that's a bonus. Yeah, so

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it's it's it's what you're making your decision based on.

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Don't make the decision based on I'm going to I'm

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gonna make my fame and fortune in the music business.

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That's fucking terrible. If you decide that you cannot live

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with the restrictions of a nine to five world and

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you need you have shit inside you to say that

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you need to get out and don't worry about what

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other people think, then choose the entertainment business. It will

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be kind to you. If you're lucky, you might earn

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a dollar.

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Well, that last thing you said is key, because most

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any other industry you do have to care what other

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people think, and it's not healthy. I think you should

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just be you.

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But even in our industry, even in the radio industry,

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depending on where you're working, there will be people that

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will tell you you have to cater to a certain thing.

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I am not enough that I do not have to,

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but not everyone is in my position. If you are

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twenty one and just signed a big record deal, don't

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think for one moment those people who just wrote you

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a three million dollar check are not going to tell

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you exactly how your record's going to sound.

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That's why I left, by the way, because I sat

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backstage with friends of mine I was a teenager and

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watching these record labels telling them how to drazz, how

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how do play their music, and then look at what

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that happened after that? Is it kind of killed it

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by people not being able to be authentic and be themselves.

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Yes, but here's the good news. The thing the business

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has changed.

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Yes.

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First of all, I want to go on record as

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saying I am very fortunate. My position is very fortunate,

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but even for people not in my position, the business

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has changed so that basically what I'm saying is you

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can make a record from your own home, righting records,

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so you do not need the three million dollar check

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from the enormodome people. Right, it's nice, but when you

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take that check, that means you are beholden to them

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ultimately on every decision. They're going to want three million

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dollars back.

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It's not a gift.

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We will find that out when we throw the TV

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out the window. And then and it's on the room

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service bill when you check out that your player. Oh shit. Okay,

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So you know the business has changed, and I am

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living proof that you can put out records good sounding

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records without major label corporate. But I will also say

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that my record label are one in a million in

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that they're a small label out of Chicago. Yes, we're

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distributed by Virgin, but lots of people are and Virgin

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have been great with us. But the guys behind my

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record label, they're hard to find. Those kind of guys

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when I say I want to do a record that's

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got a country song, a piano ballad, a metal song,

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and a hip hop song, and they go, they go, okay,

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I love it. Really hard to find. Let me tell you.

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That that's a needle in a haystack for sure.

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And I again, we're doing it for the second time.

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You know, I think too like you and I talked

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last year in February worry, and you know, some sad

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stuff has happened since then. But I fully believe with

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all this stuff you're doing now and what's going on

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right now, that you know you got Asie walking with you.

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Yeah, I choose to believe that. I mean, I've I've

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not to get all weird. I've dreamt about him. You know,

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I was close with the guy, and I know the

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family do as well. But I dreamt about him and

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he's he's definitely. Listen. The guy was a the biggest

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Billy Morrison flag waving supporter in the world.

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He was the guy that told me I can do anything.

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You can paint. He said, you can paint. Oh, look

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fucking hell, A gallery artist for fifteen years, hugely successful artist.

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So he supported me in life, and I know that

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he supports me now absolutely.

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And I'll tell you where I have the biggest respect

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for you is the fact that you had the heroin

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addiction and started very early and for a long time. Yeah,

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and you overcame it and here you are. Like, listen,

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my own personal experience, most of my friends from high

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school are dead from odeon on heroin, and even I

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had two years ago a grandson passed away from odeon

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on heroin at the same age as when you started heroin.

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Yep, that's fucking right. Look, it's not it's not really

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I know this's gonna sound hard to take in, but

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it's not really anything to do with me, because otherwise,

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why do some people live and some people die? True story,

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the good people die. I am fortunate enough that whatever. Look,

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it's certainly I'm not religious, but there's definitely some power

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that is bigger than me, because otherwise, when I'm in charge,

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when I'm in power, I get shot, I get stabbed,

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I do time, and I die. That's fact. I proved it.

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So whatever's bigger than me that stopped me from dying

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wanted me here for a certain reason. Now you know,

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did I see the big neon sign that that power

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put up there? Going dude, you need to stop. Yes,

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I saw it. I paid attention. I was granted a

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moment of clarity. I saw the sign. I'm like, yeah,

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I'm going to die and no one's going to give

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a fuck. But it doesn't mean that I did that.

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Otherwise all my friends that are dead would still be here. Yes,

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it's it's luck, and it's the ability to see that

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neon sign just for a second, because we all get it,

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and some of us aren't.

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Looking pay attention.

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A lot of my friends just didn't see the neon

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sign that was put up for them. So these days

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I'm very grateful, and obviously I don't live like that anymore.

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But I choose to think that it wasn't necessarily me

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that did that.

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Well that's a that's a pretty good perspective, aren't there

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And for sure. I think there was something bigger than you,

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because they wind people. Whatever it was, why people that

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know who the fuck Billy Morrison.

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Is a very good segue.

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I like that, right right, And here we have your

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upcoming the Hollow. Oh my god, like you have more

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incredible people joining you, like it seems like anybody who's

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anybody in rock and roll wants to join you on

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this mission.

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I don't know whether they want to join me or

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whether they just feel awkward when I are No I

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can I can say with certainty every person that I've

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worked with on both records now have been just beyond

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my my wildest expectations. They say yes immediately, they are

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enthusiastic they work with me. I mean, I'm a producer

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on on everything. So that's why it's That's why it's

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a bit. People are like, it's Billy Morrison's solo record,

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but you've got a bunch of friends. Yeah, But I

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wrote the songs, I play them all, you know. I

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produced the whole thing, and I have stories I don't

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I don't know whether I can go in from particularly,

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but I produce in the in the the biggest sense

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of the word. I mean, I'm sitting there with Manson

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when he's singing, And the talent of a produce is

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to be able to talk to the artists and suggest things,

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maybe do this, maybe do that. I'm doing that. I'm

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doing that with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members,

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I'm doing that with all the guests, and there is

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some kind of unspoken respect that we all have that

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they are just listening to me and they're working with me.

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And I think the more I put out, the more

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product like this that I put out, the more I'm

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proving to all of those people they can trust me.

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Key In Reel said.

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It in the movie Who the Fuck Is Billy Morrison?

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He talks about how I am invested in their performance.

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Do you have what you need? Do you want me

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to rewrite that verse? That's what true collaboration.

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Is, no doubt, and it's not often I find you know,

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That's why bands may begin to arguments because they can't

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have that, you know true.

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And also there's people skills here. Producers should have people

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skills work. Dealing with Duff McKagan is different to dealing

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with Marilyn Manson or Al Jergenson or Ozzie Osborne. You've

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got to understand who you're working with, what they like,

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what they want, how many hours? How many hours can

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they work in one go? Is this forty five minutes

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and then you're gonna have to stop and come back tomorrow?

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Or is this a guy that does nine hours until

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it's done?

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Right?

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You know, Al Jurgenson is going to stay there till

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it's done. I love that, Ozzie. You've got an hour

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and then he's going to leave, but it will come

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back tomorrow, you know what I mean? Different methods, And

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I think one of the producer's skills is to understand

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who you're dealing with and work in their way.

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That is brilliant. That is the way it should be,

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because otherwise are not going to listen or or you're

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gonna have a hard time, You're gonna be stressed out.

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If you understand who you're dealing with, then you're prepared.

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I also think writing a good song in the first

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place helps, and well I'm very good at that.

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That that might be a little important. But I want

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to know, forget who to fuck Billy Billy Morrison is

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I want to know how to fuck? Does he know

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how to write music, produce music, create ort and like,

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like so many creative outlets.

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If I knew the answer to that, I'd sell that

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answer and be very wealthy. Right, I don't know that's

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that's the whole point of being a creative is I mean, uh, not,

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not being fearful is one of them. I mean, I

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am not scared. When I picked up a paintbrush, I'd

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never You have to understand I I didn't doodle, I

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didn't go to art class. I've never had a lesson

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in my life. I just picked up a paintbrush, can

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I picked up an exact home knife. I picked up

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a canvas. I physically embraced art. Now, if you if

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anyone does anything every day for fifteen years, you're gonna

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get good at it. So it's not it's not, oh

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my god, you're so talented. No. I worked hard at

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understanding brush technique, color theory, all of it, you know,

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and and spent hours of research time and hours of practice.

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So I think not being fearful to just do it

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is important. And then there's also a certain amount I

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hate sounding like this, but there's a certain amount of Oh,

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I've got some talent, you know, because I write in

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a song, I've written some good songs, Clearly, I don't

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know where that comes from.

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You know, again, there is there's some universe there.

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Right, Or does it come from listening to thousands and

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thousands of hours of great songs? You know? The Sex

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Pistols album never Mind the Bollocks is twelve amazing pop songs.

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That's what it is. You know, they're played with anger

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and angst and rebellion, but they're pop songs. The craftsmanship

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in the verses and the choruses. Maybe just listening to

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fucking really good music my whole life helps you understand

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what a good song is. Having said that, there are

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many songwriters out there that have listened to the exact

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same music that I've listened to and can't write shit suck.

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So I don't know is the answer, but I'm super

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grateful that I get to do what I.

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Get to do well. Personally, I think a big part

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of it is, too, and going back to having all

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those career outlets, is you understand every part of the industry,

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from doing radio, doing production, doing rating, playing playing the

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instrument like everything, so you're on every side of it.

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That's a very astute point, and I think you're right.

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I think that the more you understand, I mean, yeah,

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I understand. I could break down the financials of a festival, right,

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I can do that. I can tell you what every

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crew member does, probably tell you roughly what a crew

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member gets paid per week. But I can also tell

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you how the Beach Boys harmonies were put together with

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a third above and a seventh above. Like I think

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the knowledge of every aspect of the business helps you

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craft create good, good quality.

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Products, no doubt, and you certainly do that. Man. All

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your newest music is great, your art is great. I

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think everybody needs to get ready for Hollow because no

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one will forget who to fuck. Billy Morrison is this

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and thank you once again for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Main.

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Thank you so much for having me and support in everything.

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Billy Morrison. Hey, this is Billy Morrison and you are

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listening to the Adventures of Pipeline on W four.

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C Y Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures

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of pipemin I'm w for CUI Radio.