1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 Welcome one and all to a special edition of signals from Mars. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:12,000 I'm your host Victor and for this episode we start a new trend which is ask the host 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,240 but with a little twist. 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:22,600 It's ask the host with one of my patrons this time around Jeremy Weltman asking me a few 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,600 questions and it's a good one. 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:31,680 You guys will enjoy this one next. 7 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,760 So if you guys are on Patreon you already know this. 8 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:08,200 I will be away this summer working on various different things from basketball tournaments, 9 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:14,120 basketball camps to visiting family and friends in New Jersey. 10 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,560 Long time coming on the last part there. 11 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,600 Anyway, so what I've done in the meantime is that I've recorded a bunch of content that's 12 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,160 going to come out throughout the summer. 13 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,200 This is one of those episodes. 14 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,480 It is the first of the series and I've kind of changed the order up to try to make it 15 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:38,440 so that you have different co-hosts or in this case different hosts. 16 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,640 Doesn't always work out that way but I think the order that I've selected will work the 17 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,960 best to fill things out. 18 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:53,680 I'm going to try to do three episodes a month for July and August and going back to doing 19 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,880 the live shows in September. 20 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:02,900 In the meantime if I can add more content to those last two weeks then I'll do that. 21 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:09,160 But for now I'm happy with giving you guys three weeks of content out of four. 22 00:02:09,160 --> 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buy me a pizza and a few 46 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,640 other things that you can do. 47 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,720 You can do Patreon for as little as two bucks a month and finally you can pick up merch 48 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:06,200 with some pretty cool t-shirts and sweatshirts as well as caps and other things. 49 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,200 Just go to Mars. 50 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,720 Yeah, go to Mars Tech. 51 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,600 Go to signals from Mars.com. 52 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,220 So used to saying the other. 53 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:20,680 Go to signals from Mars.com to find out more and follow support through all that great 54 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 stuff. 55 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Do want to send a shout out to my patrons. 56 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,360 If you want to be a cohost in the future, it's easy. 57 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,800 Two bucks a month gets you there. 58 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,720 Just like Jeremy, who does a lot of different things with me on the show. 59 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:35,960 Hope you guys enjoy this. 60 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,040 There's another one similar to this coming in a few weeks and maybe a few others down 61 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,040 the road. 62 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,040 We'll see. 63 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,040 We'll see how it all works out. 64 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,760 In any event, I do want to thank you for listening to this episode. 65 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,240 A lot of big time shows are saying this, but I've been saying this for a long time. 66 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:53,680 I do want to say thank you. 67 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,680 I do want to say I love you. 68 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,280 And at the same time, I do know that you could be listening to or watching a million other 69 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:05,280 things, but to choose to be here on signals from Mars. 70 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,400 And I thank you for that. 71 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:30,800 In any event, let's get on with the show. 72 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:38,160 Welcome one and all to this episode of signals from Mars. 73 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,160 I'm your host, Victor. 74 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,440 Well, I'm not the host today. 75 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:49,200 Today the host is the person next to me over there. 76 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,760 Mr. Jeremy Wellman came up with this interesting idea. 77 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,640 He said, let's do ask the host. 78 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:58,880 Let me be the host. 79 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,640 So we're handing the reins over to Mr. Wellman tonight. 80 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,920 He's got a bunch of questions for me. 81 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:17,880 I don't know any of the questions, but we shall see what he has prepared for us. 82 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:28,160 Without further ado, let's give Mr. Wellman a round of applause. 83 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:29,160 Enough of that. 84 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,400 Let's get on with the show here. 85 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:31,400 All right, Jeremy. 86 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:32,400 Okay. 87 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:33,400 Thanks, Victor. 88 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,360 Yeah, it's very unusual to be in the hot seat and asking you the questions this time. 89 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,840 But here we go. 90 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:43,320 There may be a little bit of overlap as well with one or two that we've had in the past, 91 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,560 but I think it's been quite a while since we've had one of these shows. 92 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,040 So we can go over some of that old ground again, because it'd be interesting for not 93 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:57,320 only for me, but for all the patrons and other people listening in. 94 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,280 So I'm really asking questions on their behalf. 95 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:05,720 So first of all, just tell me a little bit about when and why you started Signals from 96 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,920 Mars and how long has it been actually going now? 97 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:11,520 Okay. 98 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:22,200 So back in 2009, I was on the Talking Metal forums and I started becoming active on the 99 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:23,320 forums. 100 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:32,160 For the longest time, I was there kind of sort of lurking, but didn't really participate 101 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:41,280 just because I just had a kind of a dumb attitude and thought, oh, what do these guys know about 102 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:42,280 music? 103 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,600 You know, what do they know better than this person or that person? 104 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,240 They're trying to be like Eddie Trunk or, you know, whatever. 105 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,000 It was just stupid on my behalf. 106 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,840 And like a few months later, I realized I'm like, hey, you know, this is pretty cool. 107 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:05,020 This is somebody else doing their spin on classic music discussions and interviews and 108 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:06,720 stuff like that. 109 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,520 You know, I love this stuff. 110 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,920 Why did I shy away from it at first? 111 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,560 And I started getting more involved on their forums. 112 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:24,760 And there was an episode where I was remember this, they started naming the Red Hot Chili 113 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:32,120 Peppers and their guitars and they named the order of the guitars when they were in the 114 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,040 band out of order. 115 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:46,800 So me being the music nerd that I am and sometimes the anal retentive music fan and the music 116 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,440 nerd, very Larry Davidish at times. 117 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,080 No, well, it's not that order. 118 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,680 It is this. 119 00:08:54,680 --> 00:09:01,920 So I fired off an email to Mark Striegel and I said, no, you've got that wrong because 120 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:08,520 Dave Navarro came between this guitarist and that guitarist and this and that. 121 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,160 And One Hot Minute is my favorite album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 122 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,640 And Dave Navarro has a lot to do with that because I like Jane's Addiction a lot and 123 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,080 blah, blah, blah. 124 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:23,640 And so Mark responded with you seem to know what you're talking about. 125 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,500 Why don't you do your own show? 126 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:28,680 And I responded back. 127 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:38,560 I said, are you saying this as you know, leave us alone, just do your own thing and leave 128 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:39,560 us alone? 129 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,280 Or yeah, I think you'd really be good at this. 130 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,280 Do it. 131 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:50,640 And it was the latter of the two where he responded and said, no, no, you seem to know 132 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,000 a lot of music trivia. 133 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,360 You seem to know a lot of cool stuff. 134 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,320 You should try this. 135 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,400 And he's you know, I will always credit him as giving me the proverbial kick in the ass 136 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:11,400 to try podcasting out, you know, Talking Metal and Mark Striegel specifically. 137 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,400 Right. 138 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:18,040 Yeah, and maybe we'll just mention what Mark's doing now or who Mark actually is. 139 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:23,320 I mean, you were saying he did Talking Metal and he's now on the radio, is that right? 140 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:24,320 Yeah. 141 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:31,960 So Mark, for those that don't know, I came across him on Talking Metal. 142 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:39,560 They had a show on a network in the US called Fuse. 143 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,760 They also appeared on Headbanger's Ball, him and John Astronomy. 144 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:54,640 And Mark has done a lot of music related things over the years and just things within the 145 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,440 entertainment industry. 146 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:04,340 So Mark was, and I'm not sure if he still does this or not, we're not as close as we 147 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:07,920 once were. 148 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:13,600 He would produce commercials for different networks. 149 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,760 And he's got reels and different things up there on the net for people to check out of 150 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:20,960 commercials that he's worked on or different things. 151 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:26,880 So he's worked a lot in the entertainment industry, behind the scenes. 152 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:37,480 He had been looking to work with XM, which is satellite radio, Sirius XM. 153 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:45,080 For some time, and for a few years before he actually got that gig, Mark and I have 154 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,840 worked together for a long time behind the scenes. 155 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,840 Talking Metal was him and John Astronomy. 156 00:11:54,840 --> 00:12:00,680 John stepped away for a little bit and it was around the time that Mark's first son 157 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,680 was born, if I'm not mistaken. 158 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:10,640 He wasn't sure if he was going to continue podcasting or not. 159 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:18,320 And it was an opportunity for me where we started doing a Friday night show live where 160 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,400 I was up at 2 a.m. 161 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:28,560 I would do a leading show at 12 midnight, 12 to 1, or from 1 to 2, I forget. 162 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,520 And then Talking Metal would come on. 163 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,560 And we would interview people or we would just talk about music. 164 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:40,480 And it was like that for a year and a half. 165 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:46,600 And there were other circumstances that took place that kind of took Mark away from wanting 166 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,040 to do it that way. 167 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,840 Mark and I have worked several times over the years. 168 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:59,160 A lot of what I've done is behind the scenes. 169 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,400 I'm not the same person that I was when I was working with him, so I know that there 170 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:07,080 was a lot of bitterness on my end with how certain things worked out. 171 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:15,960 I think in 2024, looking back, I was very lucky to work with him. 172 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:21,280 Just given who he is and what he's done. 173 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:26,120 And there's quite a few people that I know from the podcasting world or that I've interviewed 174 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:38,000 from bands where I have no business knowing who they are or having their numbers or whatnot. 175 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,560 So yeah, even though that at the time, maybe there were things that didn't work out and 176 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:46,880 that I was bothered by certain things, I think now I'm in a different place and I see things 177 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,480 differently. 178 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:56,080 Mark and I worked, like I said, he had two different online radio stations that... 179 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,360 I helped program. 180 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:03,360 He had a website called... 181 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,480 It wasn't Talking Rock. 182 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,040 It was something else. 183 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,720 Talking Rock was another show. 184 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,720 I don't remember. 185 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:11,720 I could look it up. 186 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:17,960 But anyway, I ran that site for him for the years that that was going on. 187 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:25,160 I did reviews for him and what we ended up doing, me and you with the new releases. 188 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:31,760 I did a new releases post every Friday for him. 189 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:39,320 And then he started on Patreon and we started doing a show, which was the Mark Striegel 190 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,560 show and it was the two of us. 191 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:49,800 And then he asked me to do the recap show, which is essentially me recapping the last 192 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:55,720 month of Talking Metal and just pulling out interesting points and throwing in my opinion 193 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,280 on them. 194 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,560 And those were exclusive to his Patreon. 195 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,500 They were cool. 196 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:05,640 When he wanted to cut back on his Patreon, when he didn't like the direction that I was 197 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,680 taking his Patreon in, I started my own. 198 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:17,760 Mostly because I believe in spreading the word of new music, newer bands, older bands 199 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:18,760 releasing stuff. 200 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:24,560 Everything that me and you do on a monthly basis and what I do on Patreon all the time. 201 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,440 There are so many bands that just don't get exposure in different places. 202 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,680 And I think that over the years, there have been a few households where I've caused issues 203 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:42,040 with people forking over money for new vinyl or CDs or whatnot because they've discovered 204 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,800 stuff that I've posted. 205 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:53,200 So yeah, so I mean, all of it is kind of come from what I did with Mark. 206 00:15:53,200 --> 00:16:03,600 And at the end of that gig with what I was doing with him on Patreon, he finally got 207 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:10,200 the green light that SiriusXM wanted him as an online DJ. 208 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:17,080 And he was working two full-time jobs at the same time, SiriusXM and another gig. 209 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:23,080 And then I honestly, again, I don't talk to him as much as I would like to. 210 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,960 The time difference probably has a lot to do with that. 211 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:34,640 But yeah, I mean, talking metal and Mark have just the name, just the magnitude of what 212 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:35,640 that carries. 213 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,820 It's helped open a lot of doors over the years. 214 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:41,120 He's always wanted that job at SiriusXM. 215 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:46,760 So I'm happy that he's happy with that, that he's in a good place now and that it's opened 216 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,760 up a ton of doors for him as well. 217 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:59,640 So yeah, so for those that don't know, he is a DJ on several satellite radio stations 218 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,640 in the US. 219 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:10,360 It's like there's in the UK, is it called TDT as well or is that just what it's called 220 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:11,360 here? 221 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:15,320 The digital satellite TV? 222 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:16,320 Not really. 223 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,040 No, we wouldn't describe it like that. 224 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:27,080 So just like you would subscribe to whatever TV provider you have in the US, you can do 225 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,080 that with radio. 226 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:34,160 And you can subscribe on a monthly basis and have satellite radio, which I think it's like 227 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,560 200 channels with different things. 228 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:42,680 And Mark is on several of those stations and now he's even able to interview people. 229 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,120 Okay, okay. 230 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:50,560 Well coming back to your stuff, your signals from Mars, I mean, you've interviewed, as 231 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:56,480 you kind of pointed to them, many sort of up and coming rockers, some established acts. 232 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:01,380 You've introduced us to a lot of music, as you clearly mentioned just then. 233 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:05,080 Can you recall maybe one or two of your favorite interviews, you know, the really fun ones 234 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,920 that you've done over the years? 235 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,760 There's, okay, so there's a few. 236 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,360 Instantly, I mean, patrons have heard my very first interview ever with Dee Snider, which 237 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:20,760 was when I was 19 and at college radio. 238 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,600 And I sound a lot more like Mickey Mouse than anything else. 239 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,040 And he was in Twisted Sister at the time, was he? 240 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,400 No, he was starting out with Widowmaker. 241 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:31,400 Oh, right. 242 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:32,400 Okay. 243 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:33,400 Okay. 244 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:40,520 And the way that I finagled my way into that interview was that the usual interviewer of 245 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,560 the station was not there that day. 246 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,520 She was out sick. 247 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,920 So someone else was going to interview him. 248 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:59,960 And I said, well, how much Twisted Sister stuff do you actually know to ask him? 249 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,120 And they said, oh, well, I don't know that much, but you know, I've interviewed a few 250 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:05,120 people. 251 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,900 I said, well, I think you really want to have somebody who really knows the band, likes 252 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:15,520 the band, you know, because it gives an extra kind of, you know, it takes the interview 253 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,320 to another level. 254 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,440 And I said, did you know that they played, you know, in New Jersey before that they were 255 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,440 big? 256 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,440 And did you know this? 257 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,440 And did you know that? 258 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,400 And, oh, no, obviously, you should do this interview. 259 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:38,000 And I lied with a lot of the stuff because I just wanted the opportunity. 260 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,380 I wasn't the hugest Twisted Sister fan, but I knew the magnitude of what it was to speak 261 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:44,380 to a Dee Snider. 262 00:19:44,380 --> 00:19:46,120 There's still a magnitude behind it. 263 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,680 I've never interviewed him again. 264 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,800 I'd love to do it again. 265 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,760 But and it was funny because when we were done with the interview, Dee Snider says to 266 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,880 me, do you have a do you have a show on the station? 267 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:10,720 I said, no, I just sort albums and put them back on the on the shelves for now. 268 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,040 And he says, you will now. 269 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,560 And the next day I was given my own show. 270 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,080 So obviously, that's memorable signals from Mars. 271 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,840 I didn't answer your previous question. 272 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,480 I've been doing this. 273 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:31,760 It started out as Mars attacks in September of 2009. 274 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:38,440 And favorite interviews, John Bush is beyond the great. 275 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,560 He's probably my favorite person to talk to. 276 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:46,040 Joe Rivera from Armored Saint as well, a close second. 277 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,120 Bob now banding was always great to me, always had great stories. 278 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:55,520 Sadly, he's passed away. 279 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:00,240 Eric Kluber has always been a great interview is him and John Bush have been the two people 280 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:09,200 that I've interviewed the most over the years. 281 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,600 Trying to think of others that, you know, being able to speak to Charlie Bonante was 282 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,720 great for me. 283 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaking to Gene Hoagland from six hours was beyond ridiculously good. 284 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaking to Blitz from overkill. 285 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,360 There's a lot. 286 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:39,480 There's others where people, I mean, they're not as big names, but I mentioned Eric, for 287 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,320 example, a drew Fortier is another one. 288 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:48,040 Dan Lorenzo is another one where they're not the biggest names in the world, but there's 289 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,160 a certain vibe. 290 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:56,080 There's a certain rapport that I have with them that I can I can I can make chicken 291 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,320 salad out of chicken shit with them. 292 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:04,520 And they're they're good conversationalist as is. 293 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:10,960 Or even if I go into the interview without any questions whatsoever, I'll get a decent 294 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,160 conversation out of them. 295 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,520 And you know, I'll hope for 20 minutes maybe. 296 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,000 And most of them are closer to 50 than they are 20. 297 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,360 So and I love speaking to you guys. 298 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:30,440 I love speaking to the patrons because it's one of the appeals of doing it. 299 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,800 And it's funny because I haven't interviewed anyone this year this year. 300 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,120 And we're almost at the halfway point of 2024. 301 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:45,200 I can't even remember the last person I interviewed, but I don't feel the need to do it. 302 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,600 I want to do it, but it isn't one of these things where like, damn, I need to do it. 303 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,840 No, because a lot of times I speak to you guys. 304 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,320 And to me, it's therapeutic. 305 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,680 It's speaking to friends. 306 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,320 It's talking about things that are on our mind about music. 307 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:05,040 And it's one of one of the most important parts of listening to music is sharing it 308 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:11,600 with other people, sharing what works, what doesn't work, what band is clearly out of 309 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:19,120 their mind and saying that, you know, this album is by far our best because it sold the 310 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:24,640 most when you're saying, for God sakes, there's no way the only person I could think 311 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,280 that is the person that co-wrote that album and not the people that were in the band before 312 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,280 you joined the band. 313 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,800 I'm sure you know who I'm leading to. 314 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,480 Yeah, I mean, that kind of leads into my next question, really. 315 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,320 I mean, I sort of wanted to know a little bit more about what have been the nightmare 316 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,400 interviews, the really worst ones that you've done. 317 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,400 Yeah. 318 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:48,400 OK. 319 00:23:48,400 --> 00:24:01,120 I've had a few Robert Fleishman, former lead singer of Journey and Vinnie Vincent Invasion, 320 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:10,320 interviewed him the first person that I knew of at the time in kind of the circles of between 321 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:16,360 Decibel Geek and other shows that I was familiar or friendly with at the time that had convinced 322 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:21,400 Robert to do an interview. 323 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,080 And I had 13 questions ready. 324 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,000 Seven were Vinnie Vincent Invasion questions. 325 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:38,040 I'm a huge fan of those first few Vinnie albums. 326 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:47,920 And it turns out that as I'm asking the questions, he says, I asked one and he says something 327 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,640 to the extent of. 328 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:56,280 Yeah, I had a great experience and that's all I'm going to talk to you about Vinnie 329 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,440 Vincent Invasion. 330 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:04,960 I'm like, 10 minutes in, there's really nothing else to talk about with you. 331 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:09,040 He had a new band that really never took off. 332 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:17,480 It was a cool band, but it kind of never didn't go anywhere. 333 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:23,480 And as we're wrapping things up, he says, well, I wrote the the end theme song to SpongeBob 334 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:24,480 SquarePants. 335 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,960 It's really not metal, but it's brought me a lot of money. 336 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:31,200 Like, oh, wow, that's pretty cool. 337 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,240 Every time that I watch out with my kids now, I can say, hey, I interviewed the guy that 338 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,640 wrote this. 339 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:40,640 So yeah. 340 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,380 And then like a month later, Chris from Despogeek interviews him and he was completely pissed 341 00:25:45,380 --> 00:25:49,920 off at Vinnie and it was a 180. 342 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:56,600 He gave them everything that I would have loved to have. 343 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,600 Who else? 344 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:10,720 I mentioned some of these rich ward from Stuck Mojo and Fozzie spent twelve dollars, twelve 345 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:23,360 euros, which is closer to thirteen, fourteen dollars, leaving him voice messages and having 346 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:31,640 the PR person at his label who was pretty much the person in charge of a magazine that 347 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,160 I was writing for at the time. 348 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:42,280 Essentially said, oh, it's your fault for not leaving him messages. 349 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:47,640 And I said, I've called him eight times. 350 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,760 I've left messages six times. 351 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,960 If he's not picking up by now, nothing I'm doing. 352 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,440 Oh, well, you're going to have to keep calling. 353 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:01,680 I said, no, I'm not going to keep calling because proper business etiquette. 354 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:08,120 If you're screening your calls or whatever, you know, somebody's scheduled to call, call 355 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,320 the person back, send them a message, do whatever. 356 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,000 But no, never ended up happening. 357 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Spoke to Mark Tramonte. 358 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,680 Recording software did not work. 359 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,160 Wolf Hoffman, same thing. 360 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:29,240 Mark Tramonte was was even worse because there was somebody from the label listening in on 361 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:36,640 the conversation, which sometimes happens with bigger name artists. 362 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,880 And the entire time I kept hearing, this is Maria from Roadrunner. 363 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,860 Are you ready for your interview with Mark? 364 00:27:42,860 --> 00:27:45,280 He's going to be calling you in 10 minutes. 365 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,840 Hi, this is Maria from Roadrunner. 366 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,920 And I kept telling him, like, Mark, there's some lady called Maria that keeps coming in, 367 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,040 keeps cutting in and out. 368 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,000 He's like, man, I wish there were somebody here, but there's nobody here. 369 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 This is boring as shit. 370 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000 You know, whatever. 371 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,640 And I had a really cool I had a cool conversation with him and with Wolf. 372 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,800 It just didn't work. 373 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,560 Michael upon from Symphony X. 374 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,960 My computer crashed. 375 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,520 And it was an older computer, so it took forever to reboot. 376 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:29,560 I called him with a few minutes left in our interview schedule. 377 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,960 And I told him, I said, look, I this is what happened. 378 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:33,960 I'm sorry. 379 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,320 I'm calling you late because of this. 380 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,320 Can we reschedule? 381 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,400 No, let's just do the interview. 382 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,440 I'm like, I have five minutes left. 383 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,440 Yeah, no problem. 384 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,440 Let's just do it in five minutes. 385 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,440 Are you serious? 386 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:53,760 Okay, let's see what we can do. 387 00:28:53,760 --> 00:29:01,880 Richard Christie, best known now for the Howard Stern show, calling him at two a.m. 388 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:09,760 That was one a.m. 389 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,920 He picks up ten minutes late because he was doing another another interview. 390 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:14,920 Ten minutes in. 391 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,720 He says, oh, I got to go. 392 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,640 I got somebody calling me from the UK. 393 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:19,640 It's important. 394 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,600 I said, dude, I'm calling you from Spain. 395 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:29,000 I'm an hour ahead of the UK, so I'm six hours ahead of you. 396 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,840 It is whatever one a.m. or whatever time it was. 397 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,600 Yeah, no, I got to go. 398 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,560 Like Stephen Pierce. 399 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,800 He was a nightmare. 400 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:45,800 Was he a rat? 401 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,240 Yes, Stephen Pierce, a rat. 402 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,240 Was he a rat? 403 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:57,520 Well, I finally got him to do the interview, but I had to call him like four times. 404 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:03,840 He was on pain medication. 405 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,400 And then Rex Brown. 406 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,240 Both Stephen and Rex are known for being dicks to people. 407 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,400 And I found out firsthand. 408 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:18,240 Those are those are the more nightmarish ones, you know, where people are just jerks. 409 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,240 It sucks. 410 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,320 Most people aren't most. 411 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,360 Most people are cordial and nice. 412 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,440 But the technical issues suck. 413 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,480 You know, when you've got something ready and then it doesn't record right. 414 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,900 I've done a few over the years where again, where it doesn't record right or the video 415 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:36,900 doesn't record. 416 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:42,000 I can only can only do audio and now when I'm used to doing both, it sucks and you don't 417 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,240 have the video component. 418 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,240 So anyway. 419 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,000 Yeah, yeah, you can understand that. 420 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:53,160 I mean, if if everybody was cordial and nice and you could interview absolutely anyone 421 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,400 in the world of rock and metal, who would it be? 422 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,000 I mean, one or two. 423 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,760 Yeah, Lars Ulrich. 424 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,320 And I'll tell you why. 425 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:10,120 Because it's a recurring dream and it isn't and it isn't because, you know, he's my absolute 426 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,120 favorite. 427 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,840 I have to you know, I have to absolutely talk to him. 428 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:23,800 No, I'm a few years back every every now and then I have an interview where I'm sitting 429 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:31,600 in a bar in a park in a car just talking to Lars Ulrich about music. 430 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,640 Because if we were old friends, just yeah, man, did you check out the new album by so 431 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,920 and so and you know, stuff like that. 432 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,480 So it would have to be Lars. 433 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,720 I mean, that's my number one. 434 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:44,720 Are there other people? 435 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:45,720 Yeah, of course. 436 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:53,240 But you end up I think you end up interviewing certain people. 437 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:59,040 Like I said, like a Stephen Piercey and you end up kind of doing the whole, you know, 438 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,160 careful what you wish for, don't talk to your heroes type thing, where I think that there 439 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:11,720 are some people that I would talk to and I think they'd end up being. 440 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,680 Other cretins and it would be like, you know, that's a letdown. 441 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,640 You know, that happens to me a lot. 442 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,960 A lot of times, not because the artists, but because, you know, some of my questions, I 443 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,840 realize some of my questions are long. 444 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,720 And I've had times where people have said, no, can you ask me that question again? 445 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,520 Can you rephrase it because they don't understand it? 446 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,620 And they'll say, oh, no, OK, so yeah, I still don't understand it, but whatever. 447 00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:47,600 So I've had that happen a few times. 448 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,600 Yeah. 449 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:56,000 Well, I suppose one of the artists you don't want to interview might be Michael Schenker 450 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,680 because you'll only ever ask him one question and then he'll talk for an exact hour. 451 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,840 All I have to say is, so how's your brother Rudolph? 452 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,480 And then done, we've got an hour's worth of material. 453 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:10,480 That's it. 454 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:11,480 That's it. 455 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,480 Yeah. 456 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,720 I mean, this sort of leads in a little bit to your favorite bands and solo artists. 457 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,520 I mean, obviously you mentioned Lars and I know you like Metallica, but can you just 458 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,600 sort of name a few of your real favorites, why you like them and what sort of got you 459 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:29,760 into them from the start? 460 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:35,680 I mean, my top five bands of all time, and this has fluctuated over the years, but I 461 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,640 mean, Kiss has steadily been up there. 462 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:44,280 First band that I listened to when I was four years old. 463 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,320 I have Creatures of the Night over my shoulder here. 464 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:53,560 Huge album for me because it came out. 465 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,520 I always talk to you guys about the emotional connections you have with music. 466 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:03,960 The album came out the same month that my grandfather passed away. 467 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:09,280 So it was the first time that I had to deal with death and my family. 468 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:14,600 My grandmother had to come live with us and she bought it for me for my birthday. 469 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,100 This was all in October of 82. 470 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,960 So Kiss has always been there for me. 471 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:29,160 Iron Maiden, if Kiss is my, I always say this, Kiss is my 1A, Iron Maiden is my 1B. 472 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:37,920 With the last few albums, we may be getting a clear number two now, but I love Maiden. 473 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:43,160 Maiden first came to me because of, I've referenced over the years a compilation called Masters 474 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,200 of Metal, which had Run to the Hills on it. 475 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:53,720 I remember coming overseas to Spain for one of the summers that I spent over here. 476 00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:59,280 And I got on a bus, was going off to a hiking trip. 477 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:07,000 And this kid came up to me and said, I love Iron Maiden. 478 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,320 My friend copied this live album for me. 479 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,860 Can you tell me what Bruce Dickinson is saying? 480 00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:17,440 And one of the things he says is this. 481 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,120 And the moral of this story is this is what not to do if your bird shits on you. 482 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:26,600 So I had to explain to him in Spanish exactly what he's saying or before Revelations where 483 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:33,120 he says, this is about washing a pair of curtains. 484 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,120 No it's not. 485 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,760 It's really Revelations this one. 486 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,000 Or whatever, I'm maybe butchering that. 487 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,760 What he's saying in the middle of running free, stuff like that. 488 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,400 He had live after death. 489 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:58,320 And the first thing that I did, we went on that hike the day after I got off the plane. 490 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:04,640 The day after I got off of that hike, I got on a train, went to the quote unquote city 491 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:13,760 and bought live after death in peace of mind and I've never looked back with Iron Maiden. 492 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:27,440 Number three, which is probably the latest edition in my top five, Anthrax. 493 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,600 Just love the band. 494 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,240 There are just so many things about it. 495 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:36,120 And I obviously I mentioned how much I enjoy speaking to John Bush. 496 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,960 Obviously the Bush years speak to me more than the Joe years, but I love the Joe years 497 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,300 as well. 498 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,720 My four and five are not metal bands. 499 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:56,160 My four is the Pesh Mode who I just recently got to see in concert for the first time. 500 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:03,640 And my five is the only one out of my top five that I've never seen before. 501 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:11,360 But also is a band much the way Queen used to be in my top five Ramones for a long time 502 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,200 were in my top five. 503 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:24,720 U2 is my five of five, but their last few albums have been utter crap. 504 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:34,040 I've lost a lot of faith in the band because they've decided to just put out pop shit. 505 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:42,960 Basically, they've for me after a certain point, they've kind of altered good album, 506 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,440 crap album, good album, crap album. 507 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,680 And now it's been a few consecutive crap albums. 508 00:37:48,680 --> 00:38:00,000 So anyway, that would be my five love Metallica love Megadeth love Black Sabbath love Ramones 509 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:10,600 Fear Factory Nine Inch Nails Judas Priest Ozzy I've Allison Chains behind me Life of 510 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:16,080 Agony is behind me. 511 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,480 What else Eddie Van Halen is there? 512 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:22,720 Van Halen I love a lot of thrash. 513 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:28,120 So there's a lot of stuff that isn't hard rock or metal that I'm into as well. 514 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:36,000 There's a lot of there's other stuff that kind of takes their cues from the Pesh mode 515 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,800 and Nine Inch Nails and stuff like that, that I'm really into as well. 516 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,640 There's stuff that I post on Patreon where I'm like, yeah, this sounds really cool, but 517 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,280 everyone's going to hate it. 518 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,960 So I still throw it out there just in case. 519 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:55,200 I mean, more generally, you know, there's quite a few sort of well established rock 520 00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:00,480 and metal scenes in the US, the UK and sort of other parts of Europe, Germany and Sweden 521 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,520 I'm thinking about. 522 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,340 But I'd be interested to know and I think everybody else really what Spain is like for 523 00:39:06,340 --> 00:39:11,600 metal music in sort of terms of the bands, the venues and the sort of perceived popularity 524 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,080 as you see it, you know, in the country. 525 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,960 We should just mention for anyone who's never tuned in that you are actually based in Spain. 526 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:26,620 Okay, so I can sum it up in two sounds. 527 00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:31,000 One is this. 528 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:40,640 Those are crickets. 529 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:47,440 Spain is not a rock based music country. 530 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:53,760 That's not to say that there aren't passionate fans here. 531 00:39:53,760 --> 00:40:03,200 It's just that the general public just doesn't listen to it. 532 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:12,240 There's so many shows that I've gone to in my area that are dead with like 10 people 533 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:20,080 where I'm watching a band and I'm thinking this band in any other country would be playing 534 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:30,280 to 200 people at least where the pub or small theater they're playing at should be packed 535 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,680 to the rafters. 536 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:40,160 But unfortunately, the products of their environment, they were born here in Spain. 537 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,160 They will die here in Spain. 538 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:54,760 And because of the audience or the lack of intelligent music listeners, no one knows 539 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,440 who they are. 540 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:06,800 Angelisa Petrata, for example, have registered a number one album in Spain, several top 10 541 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:13,680 albums, but that's few and far between. 542 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,880 Like I said, it's not a rock music country. 543 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:23,280 And you can see it with the Eurovision entries. 544 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:32,360 You see how many countries now are starting to incorporate more rock based acts where 545 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,640 we see it on Patreon, we're all post stuff. 546 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:41,480 And Anthony Mackie a lot of times will say, oh, this is a Eurovision band because they've 547 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:48,360 got a certain poppy type feel to them and they just don't get it here. 548 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:59,080 They just keep pumping out Eurovision songs that are of some flamenco guitar from type 549 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,440 of dancey beat. 550 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,640 And it ended up dead last last year. 551 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:10,720 It will continue to be dead last because they just don't fucking get it that out of this 552 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:16,960 country outside of this country, hardly anyone listens to that garbage. 553 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:24,120 And I like all types of music, but the shit they present to Eurovision is garbage. 554 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:33,280 And like I said, Bill Bow, for example, which is about 45 minutes away, it's a stronghold 555 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:39,480 for rock music, for metal music, all of the best country for the most part. 556 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,440 But we're 45 minutes away. 557 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:43,440 We're not. 558 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,440 We're definitely not. 559 00:42:44,440 --> 00:43:00,520 And bands like Soulfly and Sepultura and Brutal Truth and others of that ilk play here, Y&T 560 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,160 play here. 561 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:06,400 And the places will be nowhere near being full. 562 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,760 And you think, why is this happening? 563 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:10,880 They bring these bands here. 564 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,960 There's a lot of different things. 565 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,600 The culture isn't there. 566 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:20,960 The music related culture and the promoters just do a shit job of promoting a lot of these 567 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,040 shows. 568 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:29,480 It isn't field of dream just because you build it, it doesn't necessarily mean that they 569 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,400 will come. 570 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,000 So. 571 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,500 Okay. 572 00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:38,240 You mentioned just a minute ago about the videos that get posted up and obviously they 573 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:45,440 get shown in your Patreon group and you put up a few each week or each day or even for 574 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,440 us to watch. 575 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:52,200 So there seems to be a lot of new music out as we know, a lot from the older, more established 576 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,440 acts but also from all the newer bands as well. 577 00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:00,120 So I just really wanted to get a small impression from you really of what you think of the music 578 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:06,320 scene generally in our world, the rock and metal world now in comparison to when you 579 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,840 maybe started Signals from Mars, any sort of changes you've noticed over that time? 580 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:17,080 Yeah, I mean, there have been fads that have come and gone, some things that have become 581 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:23,800 more regular. 582 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,560 There are sites that have come and gone. 583 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:35,560 That's probably the biggest hit with regards to that. 584 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,120 There's a lot of stuff that's come back around as well, where I think there have always been 585 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:47,600 bands doing like retro thrash and retro heavy metal. 586 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:52,920 We've always had Scandinavian bands still doing 80s style hard rock. 587 00:44:52,920 --> 00:45:00,920 So there's always been certain styles that have always been there, even though things 588 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:09,720 have maybe shifted back and forth. 589 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:17,080 I think we're at a point now where a lot of things are more accepted than they were in 590 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,080 2009, where maybe there were things that were shown. 591 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:26,320 The new metal is one of those things where in 2009, people were still trying to get over 592 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:32,840 the beginning of turn of the century, so people wanted nothing to do with new metal at that 593 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,880 time. 594 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:43,400 15 years later, I think people have changed that outlook. 595 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:49,680 I think people are realizing that it's okay to like whatever you like. 596 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,760 That's how I look at it. 597 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:57,120 I'm taking my 11 year old to go see Limp Bizkit in a few weeks. 598 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,120 He likes it. 599 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,880 It's rock based music and I've got no problem with it. 600 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:02,880 Is it my favorite thing? 601 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:03,880 No. 602 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:04,880 Are there songs that I like? 603 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:05,880 Yeah, absolutely. 604 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:11,600 I turned him on to that band. 605 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,480 I think that would probably be the biggest thing. 606 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:18,720 I think we're at a point in time where are there sites and different people that talk 607 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,920 about being too cool for school at times? 608 00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:22,920 Yeah. 609 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:28,120 Is it as much as it was back in 2009? 610 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:40,680 I think there's probably less gatekeeping now than there was then. 611 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,720 Just finally, and I will get on to just a few quickfire questions as well at the end 612 00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:52,000 of May, but just finally I wanted to know what your plans are for Signals from Mars. 613 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,720 Do you visage interviews coming back a little bit because you mentioned you've not done 614 00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:02,840 any this year and where can everyone catch everything that you do? 615 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,600 We're obviously familiar with this now. 616 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:11,120 They're watching this or they're hearing it as you've posted it out, but anything 617 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:17,520 else, a website, other things that you might be doing? 618 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:18,520 Yeah. 619 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:19,520 Okay. 620 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:24,040 So the best place is signalsfrommars.com. 621 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:34,160 Unfortunately due to Meta's new changes, it's a royal pain in the ass to post videos to 622 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,360 Facebook now to have them go out live. 623 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:46,120 If you strictly want to just follow the videos, I would say go to YouTube or Twitch or even 624 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:55,600 Twitter or X because Facebook has all of a sudden become unfriendly with third party 625 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:56,600 apps. 626 00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:01,000 That's a whole other discussion, but if you go to signalsfrommars.com, you've got links 627 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,040 to everywhere where you can follow the show. 628 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:10,680 You've got links to merch similar to what Jeremy and I are wearing today. 629 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:18,680 Got the signals from Mars hoodie on and he's got the baseball cap. 630 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,720 Yeah. 631 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:25,200 Signals from Mars.com is the easiest place to stay connected and find out what's going 632 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,200 on. 633 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:27,200 Interviews. 634 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:28,200 I want to do more. 635 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,820 I keep saying this. 636 00:48:29,820 --> 00:48:31,320 This is a transitional year. 637 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:37,360 I'm trying to figure things out, but I feel like I've been doing that for two years now. 638 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:44,120 For those that follow me on Patreon know that basketball has become a big part of my life. 639 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:51,120 So trying to squeeze things in and trying to keep everyone happy is a priority. 640 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:55,000 It doesn't always work out the way that I want it to, unfortunately. 641 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,520 And I do thank everyone for their patience with regards to that. 642 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,560 I do want to do more interviews. 643 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:12,400 I will be in the States in a few weeks and I'm trying to line up some in-person interviews. 644 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,520 I'm trying to figure out what that's going to look like, how I'm going to record those. 645 00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:18,640 Will they just be audio? 646 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:23,880 Will they be audio and video? 647 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:33,640 I could be... it's possible that I might be getting a tattoo and interview the tattoo 648 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:42,920 artist as he's working on me with regards to music. 649 00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:43,920 So we'll see. 650 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,160 That's one of the ideas that's out there. 651 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:53,420 Kind of a happy coincidence is that I was speaking to a few different people about getting 652 00:49:53,420 --> 00:49:56,040 some work done. 653 00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:05,840 And one of the persons that I spoke to, Chris Vaglio, who I used to do Galaxy of Geeks with 654 00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:11,980 and other podcasts, he has a whole sleeve that's dedicated to Star Wars. 655 00:50:11,980 --> 00:50:21,640 So I asked him where he got it done and he said, oh, well, you should speak to John Cosco. 656 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:28,240 And he works out of Purink Tattoo Studios, which is close to where I'm going to be staying, 657 00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:30,480 where my folks live. 658 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:37,200 And so I asked again, Dan Lorenzo, who I've had on the show several times because he works... 659 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:44,060 he's not an artist, but he works in tattooing supplies. 660 00:50:44,060 --> 00:50:48,280 And I said, hey, who do you recommend in North Jersey? 661 00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,840 And he mentioned two places that are fairly close. 662 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,960 I said, oh, because my friend recommended John Cosco. 663 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:05,560 He goes, oh, you mean John Cosco, who's on the last two patriarchs of Black albums. 664 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:10,180 So that's a possibility that I'll be interviewing him and talking about. 665 00:51:10,180 --> 00:51:16,320 My idea there is to talk about tattoo culture and music, how the two tie together, because 666 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:24,080 I think that there's definitely an overlap there and would be neat to speak to someone 667 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:25,400 about it. 668 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:30,360 So we'll see. 669 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:36,280 And yeah, my intention is always to do more, but unfortunately, 24 hours a day, there's... 670 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,240 sometimes I get to the end of the day and say, shit, I wanted to do this and I just 671 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,040 didn't have the time to do it. 672 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:46,720 No, you're not the only one. 673 00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:47,720 We're first here, folks. 674 00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:48,720 So that's good. 675 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:53,960 Thanks a lot for letting me ask you questions tonight for the first time. 676 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,360 I really enjoyed it. 677 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,960 But before we go, I've just got a few quickfire questions so you can just answer them very, 678 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:01,240 very quickly. 679 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:04,640 Get the listeners to get to know you just a little bit more. 680 00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:05,640 Okay. 681 00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,240 First one, Anthrax or Metallica? 682 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:09,240 Anthrax. 683 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:13,280 Depeche Mode or Def Leppard? 684 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:18,800 2024 Depeche Mode. 685 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,360 Okay. 686 00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:28,720 Small gigs or festivals? 687 00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:35,680 They offer such different experiences. 688 00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:41,600 I've talked about this recently, Mark Ramon saw them at a small place, small theater, 689 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,360 was amazing. 690 00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,680 I'm going to be seeing Limp Bizkit at the Loserville Festival. 691 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,480 I want to see Limp Bizkit. 692 00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:56,840 I don't want to see the other three acts, but I'll see them. 693 00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,560 I've been to some amazing festivals. 694 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:00,760 I've been to some shit festivals. 695 00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,200 I've been to some shit gigs and some amazing small gigs. 696 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:12,240 Based on my last experience, I'll say small gigs this time around. 697 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:14,600 That could change though. 698 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:19,160 CDs or vinyl? 699 00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,160 Oh. 700 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:38,440 CD and vinyl. 701 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,160 Okay. 702 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,960 We'll accept it. 703 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,720 Why not? 704 00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:49,840 People collect both as you have there, so that's fine. 705 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:57,040 Guitar or drums? 706 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:58,960 I love both. 707 00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,960 I know that I'm a better drummer than I am a guitarist. 708 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:09,800 It's not even close. 709 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,560 They're still fun to play both. 710 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,360 They're both very relaxing. 711 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,040 They're both things that I need to do more of. 712 00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,000 Okay. 713 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:29,160 A souvenir ticket stub or a souvenir lanyard? 714 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:30,160 I've both. 715 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:34,000 This is a both again. 716 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,000 Yeah. 717 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:41,720 It's funny because where I work out, I have ticket stubs and I have lanyards from shows 718 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:46,520 that I've gone to interview people. 719 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:58,120 I don't have all the ticket stubs that I wish I had because I didn't become the dopey collector 720 00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,040 that I am until I moved away from home. 721 00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:05,040 Anyway, I'll go with lanyards because I have all my lanyards. 722 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,480 I don't have all my ticket stubs. 723 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:08,480 Okay. 724 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,320 New Jersey or New York? 725 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:22,320 I thought this would be an easy one. 726 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,320 No. 727 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,800 There's so many emotions involved with both. 728 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:34,080 My sports teams are all from New York. 729 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,600 I love New Jersey, man. 730 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:42,280 When people talk about an inferiority complex, I've never felt it. 731 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:46,320 I've never really cared. 732 00:55:46,320 --> 00:56:00,280 I don't know that I've spoken about this at length on the show, but I've gotten several 733 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,480 tattoos in the last few months. 734 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:08,320 One of them is a New Jersey based tattoo. 735 00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,160 It has the year I was born. 736 00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:16,960 It has a varsity letter D to represent Dover, the town that I was born and grew up in. 737 00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,720 And under that, it has the zip code. 738 00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:24,200 I am so proud of the town that I grew up in. 739 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:29,360 I know that a lot of people look at it in negative ways. 740 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:34,560 I've grown up with that around me, but I'm very thankful that I grew up in an environment 741 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:40,600 which was Americana, a melting pot of different nations of different cultures. 742 00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:46,920 It's helped me become an accepting person, I think. 743 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:52,000 I'm so proud of the town. 744 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:59,120 If I have to go either one, I have to go with New Jersey because it's where I've spent much 745 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:00,120 more time. 746 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:01,120 Okay. 747 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:02,120 Last few. 748 00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:08,120 Basketball or soccer? 749 00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:12,760 Basketball in 2024. 750 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:18,160 Qatar World Cup ruined football for me. 751 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:28,920 Seeing how that World Cup was gifted to Leo Messi, to the owner of PSG to make sure that 752 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:35,560 Messi and Mbappe were both in the finals. 753 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:45,660 I said it for years that football or soccer is the most manipulated sport in the world. 754 00:57:45,660 --> 00:57:49,880 We used to talk about boxing being that way as a kid. 755 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:59,440 I think the World Cup last year made it so apparent that it's football or soccer, and 756 00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,480 it's ruined it for me. 757 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,840 Not to say that we can talk about our Mike Jones who's celebrating a birthday today on 758 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,080 the day that we're recording this. 759 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:19,600 He turned me on to a podcast that's about referees fixing basketball games. 760 00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:24,040 Messi screws up a lot of things, but at this point in time, because I work with basketball 761 00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:32,000 on such a basic and lower level, and I focus more on the local game than I do pro game, 762 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,160 I would say basketball. 763 00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:41,600 Penultimate one, death metal or black metal? 764 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:45,080 Black metal. 765 00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,080 There's black metal. 766 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,680 There are bands like Satiricon that I really like. 767 00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:55,980 There's some Cradle of Filth stuff that I really like as well. 768 00:58:55,980 --> 00:59:03,320 There are some death metal bands that I do enjoy, but a great Satiricon song gets stuck 769 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:08,800 in my head and it'll be in a playlist and being played continuously for a very long 770 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:09,800 time. 771 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:16,840 Okay, and finally, this one kind of explains all the others, and I'll give you just a few 772 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:23,000 seconds afterwards just to explain this last one yourself, because you'll know what I mean. 773 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:34,240 A burger or a pizza? 774 00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:38,440 One I can currently eat and one I can't. 775 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:46,800 Or is it a question where you don't have to choose? 776 00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:50,600 You flipped my theory on me. 777 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:59,640 Again, I'm at a place right now where I'm looking forward to my pending trip and I'm 778 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:05,280 looking at having some pizza for the first time in 14 years. 779 01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:11,080 So that's what came to mind. 780 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:19,720 As a big mouth podcast host has always said, why do you have to choose? 781 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:24,240 You can always have both. 782 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:25,960 You can like both equally. 783 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:27,920 So there you go. 784 01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,880 How many of my answers have been both anyway? 785 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,880 So I mean, look at that. 786 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:34,880 Absolutely. 787 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:35,880 Well, that's it. 788 01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,320 That's it for me. 789 01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:42,160 Oh, well, there's one that you missed. 790 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:43,520 Did I? 791 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:44,520 You did. 792 01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,200 And I'm going to throw it back at you. 793 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,240 Okay. 794 01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:54,480 It is currently, as we're recording this, this will be released later on, but we're 795 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,040 recording this on June 12, 2024. 796 01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,880 It is 1139 local time for me. 797 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:07,200 It is one hour less for Jeremy. 798 01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:15,360 Where is John Sykes? 799 01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,720 I couldn't ask the question because there's no answer. 800 01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:19,280 There's no answer. 801 01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:20,280 There you go. 802 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:21,280 No answer. 803 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:26,240 Is he omnipresent and he's everywhere? 804 01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:27,640 I think. 805 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,400 No, I don't think anything really. 806 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:34,960 I mean, we've tried to find out where he is. 807 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:36,680 We've tried to tease it out. 808 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:41,480 We'd love to know if somebody could just tell us, give us a little bit of information. 809 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:48,640 I think once I did ask Mark Stanway, former keyboardist with Magnum, because I'm actually 810 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:53,400 linked up with him on Facebook, and I'm sure I actually did ask him the question. 811 01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:58,440 And I think he answered back to say that he was doing some music, but he wasn't quite 812 01:01:58,440 --> 01:01:59,440 sure. 813 01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,440 Okay. 814 01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:05,520 And that was some time ago. 815 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:10,440 Who do we get new music from first, John Sykes or Vinnie Vinson? 816 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,440 Gosh. 817 01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:19,560 That's a really good question, isn't it? 818 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,240 I'd have to say Vinnie Vinson. 819 01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,960 I'm putting my money on that one. 820 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:30,240 Even if it's just a song, just a single song, I think we're going to get it from that side 821 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:31,240 rather than John. 822 01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:34,160 I think John did release a couple of songs, didn't he? 823 01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:35,920 And he was going to rerecord them or something. 824 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,080 And then it never came out. 825 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,080 That was pre-COVID. 826 01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:43,320 Yeah, we got some snippets and we never got anything else after. 827 01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:47,920 But I could have posed that different ways. 828 01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,720 Do we get new Oasis music before we get John Sykes? 829 01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:54,000 Do we get, you know, there's a few there. 830 01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:03,840 But anyway, Jeremy, I thoroughly appreciate you taking the time out of your day to do 831 01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:04,840 this. 832 01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:05,840 This was a lot of fun. 833 01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:11,840 I can talk for hours if those of you listening or watching don't know. 834 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,720 Jeremy's just made my job very easy. 835 01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:20,320 And if you want to do this type of show, this is something that I'm going to offer up to 836 01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:25,160 the patrons and hopefully this is kind of the catalyst for others to wanting to do a 837 01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,160 similar style show. 838 01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,800 So on that note, again, thank you, Jeremy. 839 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,760 And we're going to be calling it a night here. 840 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:39,560 Hopefully you guys enjoy this and you'll come back and watch other episodes of Signals from 841 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:40,560 Mars. 842 01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:44,160 On that note, we will see you next time. 843 01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:45,720 You're on Signals from Mars. 844 01:03:45,720 --> 01:04:10,840 See you folks.