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Welcome one and all to episode 394 of Signals from Mars. I'm your host Victor

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and for this episode and we have a lot of people on the show we have a few that

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didn't appear on air or in the video version of this but this is the Metal

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Bands Unite episode featuring a bunch of bands from the Northeast we'll get into

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it next.

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So sometime over the summer Chris Keys of Engineered Society Project contacts me

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to let me know that he's working with another band called Dirt they're working

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on something called Metal Bands Unite and there's gonna be a show up in

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Connecticut that that is gonna center around this whole thing and we kept

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going back and forth because I was in the States on vacation and I couldn't do

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anything up until like a few days before the the show took place. What we're gonna

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get into the the audio version of this the the video version if you're not

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aware is already up on YouTube and Facebook and a bunch of other social

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media platforms. The video versions always come out a week before and I

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released that it was on Friday the 6th and the show took place on the 7th and

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from all intents and purposes it looks like it it was a success it looks really

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cool there's Chris tagged me in a bunch of different things and also there's

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images of him and other people that played the show so it looks like it came

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out really really really neat. With that said

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these types of interviews are a challenge because with so many people

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there's people connecting dropping out you want to get to everyone who's there

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that isn't always possible you also want to make it interesting for the people

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that are joining the show from an audience standpoint so it's always a

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challenge with you know the max is 10 I think we got up to seven people eight

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people something like that at one point I got to most of the people but I think

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the conversation ended up being really really neat really really interesting and

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I hope that you guys enjoy it this is the the first episode that I've recorded

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in months because for those that are not keeping score or those that actually

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different things that I had laid out and the feedback that I've gotten back has

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been really cool and much like that I've got other shows that are already in the

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can per se and things that are that are going to be recorded this week that are

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got all that great stuff going on there and that's pretty much it I do want to

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thank you guys for joining me and listening to this episode man it is it

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is technically right now we are embarking on year number 16 of this

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podcast so I thank you guys for for continuously listening to the show and

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for those that have jumped on later on thank you as well hope you enjoy this

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episode you share with your friends and check out the bands that were involved

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during the interview here we go

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welcome one and all to the latest edition of signals from Mars as usual

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I'm your host Victor and we are joined this week by a plethora of guests we can

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thank mr. Chris keys from ESP organizing this whole get-together here

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oh yeah thanks brother all right so it took us a while to get everyone together

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here with sound issues and everything to all be here now the the get-together

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here is for something called metal bands unite which is happening this weekend

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and I think the concept is really great Chris you kind of explained it to me

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via via messenger but I wanted you to explain and some of the other guys here

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what metal bands unite is all about thank you very much big for metal bands

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unite is about a Congress engineers ID project and called dirt and it was such

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a great conversation that we started talking about you know what really want

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to say we get in front of people and we have is and we care about being

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especially you know that we're doing I'm coming from Texas back east I think the

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name speaks off I think long that a project is gonna do a dirt and actually

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every face you see up on this this woody cop we probably want them to be a part

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of it some really how we're gonna make art if is there's a documentary that's

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being talked about right now that's gonna bust all metal bands unite so I

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really believe it doesn't need much much explanation but Ralph you feel a little

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bit more than that but I think the name is there yeah so the documentary is

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gonna be titled metal bands unite and it's really gonna be just very

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detailed look at you know all the struggles and all the and all the also

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glory of being in an original metal band and we're focusing on this New Haven

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kind of you know scene here in Connecticut you know we're gonna want to

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get a lot of the bands involved I see some people on the on the podcast right

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now that I know we're in bands that you know we want to be interviewing and

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involved in this whole thing there's a lot of things that people don't know a

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lot of the struggles and how hard it is to be able to stay in an original band

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for a long enough time to really gain any traction in today's day and age but

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you know not getting paid like musicians used to when they put their music out is

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difficult and you know club owners you know aren't able to pay original bands a

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lot because many of the original bands you know don't have a big draw because

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they're not playing songs that people know yet and everything everybody on

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this call I'm sure realizes that you know it's us original bands that cover

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bands get to draw from someday if we ever made it to that level so I mean the

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importance of an original band is huge and we just want to get people out there

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to support the scene so that you know so that we can build on new original music

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people you know say you know our genre of music rock and metal you know really

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there's not been a big culture shift I mean the last time we really had anything

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serious was in the 90s with Nirvana and the grunge you know movement you know

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it's been quiet since then and and you know the only way to start something

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back up is to really be able to build a scene and you know we're slowly doing

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that I saw some footage from a show last week at the space ballroom eyes of they

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did a great job you know getting some draw there it looked like there was a

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pretty damn big crowd our tickets for metal bands unite this you know on

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Saturday night the tickets are selling very well so I think you're gonna see

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another big crowd so there's potential there and that's what we want to talk

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about the documentary sorry it was so long-winded but that's what it's gonna

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be about we think it's gonna be real interesting and something that people

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will be you know really be able to get behind so so the idea is to focus on you

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mentioned bands from Connecticut it's being somebody that's from New Jersey

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originally there's always talk because it's kind of like in the sense that

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it's an extension of New York to an extent but it's always been kind of its

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own stronghold somewhere somewhere between you know New York and Boston

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what makes that area so special that keeps all you guys going and continuing

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to want to put on shows like this and want to work with one another because

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that's another thing that Chris talked about that's kind of when I moved to

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Europe was kind of a typical for bands to understand that you kind of have to

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support one another they kind of get a movement going yeah you know that's one

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of the big issues that I notice I try to watch a lot of footage of live shows and

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you know sometimes I'll see an empty club and the the the roster will have

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six even seven bands on it and I always wonder if there are six bands and an

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average band just for math four people in a band you know six times four is 24

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people why aren't there 24 people standing in the front of the stage and

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making it look like there's something going on so that your average you know

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that someone who's not in a band is gonna go wow that looks fun I want to go

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to the next one it always boggles my mind that the bands don't stand up there

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and support each other and that's not all bands we played at the Jameson with

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Devil's Hop Yard a couple weeks ago and those guys were front and center throwing

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their you know metal horns in the air and you know again the footage I saw

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last week at the at the Space Ballroom I think I saw Pete who's the singer from

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Isaiah standing front and center you know his show and you know probably the

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star of the show being the singer in the in the band that's featured and he's out

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in the middle so there are people that do it but when I see a lot of you know

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big shows and and I don't see people my concern isn't that they didn't draw it's

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more that the bands didn't support each other to your point and we need to be

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out there standing in front of the stage supporting the other bands throwing the

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fist in the air because perception is reality and people need to see

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something going on to want to be a part of it and when they see an empty club

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you know they put on the TV instead so we really got to create that perception

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and you know I think a lot of people on this call right now are the people who

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are really gonna start the movement hmm okay and and to your point with the

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documentary as well it's also another way of getting kind of getting that

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message out there as well I mean this isn't something that's specific to you guys I

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mean it's like I said it's something that's kind of worldwide where there are

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pockets where there are rock and metal bands that are still trying to make

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things happen and personally from what I've seen where I am currently you just

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know you don't have that camaraderie you don't have that brotherhood and I think

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with any kind of remotely big movement that we've seen you've seen that with

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bands coming together and helping one another in that fashion that that you're

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saying yeah well Chris Keys is a lot farther on than me and my band mates in

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dirt and he was so open and welcoming and and and even pushing us to the

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forefront of this whole thing we were talking about it and it made me feel a

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little different because I thought wow you know that's the kind of support we

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we should be showing each other and I want to make sure that I show that that

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same kind of support that Chris shows me to other bands around here as well so

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it's gonna take a lot of you know attitude adjustment and and

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understanding that it's not a competition it's not about you know

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who's the best because just like the grunge scene was in the 90s and then you

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know Hollywood in the 80s there was a built-in scene because all the bands

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played together and there were lots of great bands and if we could create that

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then we go we can go play the space ballroom and know it's going to be

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packed we could go to the cellar and know it's not going to be empty because

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we're all supporting each other and and we're making a scene that people want to

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be a part of and I mean it's going to be the only way that this is going to

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happen right okay the collaboration from a music standpoint of you guys wanting

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to get together and write music together and as you're saying you want to include

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pretty much everyone that's here was that something that you know initially

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was hard to like kind of digest and figure out you know how's this gonna

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work how or was there like a clean-cut plan already all right this is what I

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want to do this is what I'm gonna propose this is who I want to speak to

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how did you you know go about doing that?

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Chris I mean I don't know if you want to jump in here but I'll you know for my

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part when Chris and I and Ray you know started talking and then I talked to the

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guys in my band I see Scott on who's the shredder in my band and like when once

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we just started talking about it because it's you know like-minded musicians it

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flowed real easy am I right Chris? Yeah the big thing is we first started this

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up our this is like the bridge bunch I'm gonna point left corner my man was

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talking about why don't you tell him that story you're talking about right

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before we started because I've been in this scene forever man I've been

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reaching out to people to unite since I started why don't you just tell the

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people that story to just show that I've been out there on the street man

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well I mean you know Chris you know back in the day you know right with with his

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bands Blind Justice and Gargantua Soul you know just hard working and and and

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you know putting flyers on telephone poles and you know talking to everybody

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they could talk to and you know one of the most impressive things from back

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then is you know Blind Justice being able they couldn't play Toad's Place one

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night because they sold it out so quick that they needed a second night and sold

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that one out too so you're talking about a local band selling out a legendary

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club two nights in a row just from tenacious hard work and I'm gonna tell

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you too the scene around here there are bands that have good music it's it's

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not it's not a lot of crap I mean it's you know there's either good we're gonna

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be able to make people happy when they come out and see us I mean I crank

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deception you know Chris is single right now in my car like you know to the top I

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think I'm not gonna be able to hear by the time Saturday night gets here but

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that's okay and and you know there's just there's just a lot of good stuff

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you know and and we really just need to band together and and make sure people

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you know demand that people pay attention and listen and this documentary

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is gonna help us a lot too because you know that kind of fell into place as

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well and and I think there's just a lot of stuff people need to understand so

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they so they know how much support we need and they lift us up and we can have

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you know we can have the forefront again I mean there's a lot of great music

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coming out today but it's just not in our genre and we need to get back up in

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front like we used to be if you were talking about you know justice you know

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years ago and one thing about blind justice that was kind of groundbreaking

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for me was number one they were extremely ahead of their time very much

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ahead of their time I mean there was first of all there was nobody that

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sounded like it and the the the entire production of the live show was

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insurmountable I mean you couldn't even touch it I mean you had Chris obviously

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you know you had the pain but it was just the introduction to the band it was

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the it was the dancers you had a age it was all of the theatrics that made it a

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big show and so with that kind of you know entertainment value really I mean

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you had not only was the music solid but entertaining why there wasn't a person

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in there that wasn't entertained you know what I mean it was great Chris

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Keys is still ahead of his time today so I mean it's worth coming out to make

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sure you see ESP because he hasn't lost his edge even with his very old age

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sorry Chris yes but he has not lost his edge one bit and he's still the guy

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knows how to put on a fantastic show and people need to see and I remember so

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like going then fast forward to gargantuan soul and then Empire and you

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know like doing shows with all those bands was always just it was a really

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really good time but I think that the crowd themselves were just kind of

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captivated by the entertainment value of the whole thing which was huge you know

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and Chris you know not you know I'm not trying to earn points but I'm known

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forever the your friend of mine yeah fucking amazing voice I mean just a

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great singer inherently just a great singer not a screamer and doesn't need

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to be just always been a great singer and just an exceptional frontman you

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know so matter of fact I'll show you guys something real funny real quick so

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buddy actually put together a he drew a collage for me about six or seven days

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and he's like you know put you know give me a list of all your favorite singers

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so I said all right no that's cool I'll give you a list of my favorite singers

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and I didn't know he was gonna draw this for me and I'll show you guys this

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picture really quick you can see it so a lot of great you know metal singers

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crooners but you see this guy

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right there from back in the G soul days and I was you know I said well Chris was

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one of my favorite singers and you know as a matter of fact Chris is the one that

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got live music first time I saw him was at Boppers and Waterbury I didn't know

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what the fuck was going on yeah I'm standing there and I'm like what's going

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on here I got a guy in pajamas DJing I'm like what you know and all these guys

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and Pete and all these guys like paint I'm like what the hell and then I hear

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the singing and I'm like where's the singer and I turn around and like

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shit Chris is doing a full split between two tables we're in the cat in the hat

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the bathrobe the tiger tooth thing and I'm like what the actual fuck am I

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watching right now besides amazing I was drawn it immediately and that's

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actually what that's actually what got me into live music that was the show

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right there back in 1992 I think somewhere around there Wow so yeah it's

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awesome good stuff man but you know I'm too well I don't I unfortunately I got a

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jump in a couple minutes but just one thing I want to say so I'm in it I'm

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actually in a tribute band right now and I did original music for a long long

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time and we've got a Rage Against the Machine tribute band and we probably

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you know we play with a lot of other tribute bands and all that stuff but one

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thing that we really like to do is I always encourage you know getting local

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original bands on the bill with us so that we know that they're gonna have a

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captive audience to help them with the exposure like I'm a huge advocate for

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that and I don't care how heavy they are you know whatever if they're rock if

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they're hardcore metal whatever it might be it's like you know what are they

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local yeah are they good bring them on we want to have them with us you know

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what I mean we've got a captive audience let's get them some exposure as best as

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we can help that's our way of kind of giving back because we've all done it

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we've all we've all done the grind and it's it's tough man I get it I remember

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our first show like everybody was like yeah we got a show for you guys yeah

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it's a Wednesday night and you guys go on at 430 and you have to bring at least

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40 people so yeah we love supporting the originals because we've all done it

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touring and all that so it's like you know what we're gonna keep running with

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it and it's like well they're not another tribute band like we don't give

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a shit you know they're friends of ours they're good guys the music is solid

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they deserve an audience yeah but those Wednesday night shows are always awesome

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yeah not anymore though not anymore we don't do Wednesday night shows anymore

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so yeah Tim are there ever any stories that come up about Chris while you guys

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are out playing that surprise you at this point in time no not at this point

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in time we love having Chris he's he's he's just got the energy that keeps us

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all going you know we play all the way and I met I met Chris keys in Manhattan

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Fitness I was probably like I don't know 1617 I've known Chris Chris keys and

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Opus for ever since I was a kid so that was that was your first run in with with

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the two of them or that just is one of the many it was it was my first run in

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with Chris keys and he was handing me gargantuan soul at Toad's Place tickets

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he's like you got to come check this out I went there I was sold ever since I

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was like wow this is incredible yeah were they working out in the place or

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were they just hanging out in the front of the place at Toad's Place no no Chris

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was Chris was giving me Chris Chris was giving me Toad's Place tickets at

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Manhattan Fitness when I when I had first met him right he's like you got to

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come check this band out he's like my band gargantuan soul and like I said I

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went to Toad's and I like I said I was sold ever since and great guy great Opus

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is great I've known like I said I've known him forever and they're my

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brothers mm-hmm right on cool Brian how do you tie into all of this with metal

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bands unite how how they get you involved with this well it's funny

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because we always wanted to be a part of that scene but the group that I was

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playing with didn't want to so you know we started playing how I was in my first

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band when I was like 13 yeah I always looked up I went saw Chris play and this

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huge field and you know downtown New Haven the place was completely packed

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completely packed and he was he was out there crowd-surfing I was like I want to

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be like yeah yeah just climbing on cars and climbing on rafters of the place it

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was just incredible right out of control I was like that's fucking awesome you

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know and then nowadays the group that we're playing with now the guys that I

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got that are backing me up are insane and incredible all at the same time and

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all get along with everyone so it's a big happy family at this point and

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absolutely I couldn't be happier with this whole you know band unite you know

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because same here don't do it no one else is gonna you know we've all played

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the shows where we're playing for just the band it sucks but you don't give

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up those bands the best show that you got and hopefully they become fans I'm

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fans with all you guys you know I mean I watch what you guys all do I'm super

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stoked to even be a part of anything man it's pretty wild especially with this

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scene right now you know I mean I you guys know we've we played shows for for

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just each other and then we've had shows where you're like you know holy shit

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look at all the people you know and that's what we all strive for and then

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you're just shocked you're just blown away when you actually see that because

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you're not used to that. But with uniting you know we bring our fans you

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guys bring your fans and and guess what they're all the same fans they all go to

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all of our shows it's just a matter of getting them all together at the same

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time which is which is why you know metal bands unite is is is doing that

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quite well. Metal bands unite. What you know guys one thing I noticed is

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especially Connecticut the scene has always I think in the 90s this thing

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this thing was probably the strongest you know you had the Connecticut hardcore

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scene and it was really really strong and then it started to kind of fizzle out

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a little bit and now as we travel more whether we're in you know Massachusetts

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New York New Jersey Virginia Delaware wherever we're traveling to there's a

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huge demand for local original music and we did a show at a brewery in Mass was

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right over the line in Massachusetts and there's a bunch of young guys young

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young like high school guys they just didn't even have the high school

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graduation yet they were like rounding third this was like their graduation

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thing was a big send-off for them being called theater of Malam and these kids

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were fucking amazing and these kids were only 16 17 years old and they're doing

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their sound check their sound checking with seek and destroy I mean there's

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sound checking with like stuff that you don't think a lot of these younger guys

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would be dialed into and people coming in droves we were like the only there

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was like like six bands on the belt only two of them were tribute bands

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everyone else was all originals packed then we go to Albany and we're playing

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the Empire in Albany and we had two or three openers and they were all

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originals packed everyone they had a ton of people coming to see them so I think

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demographics has a lot to do with it too that's one thing I've just noticed it

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just seems like as soon as we cross state lines the support for original

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music seems to just enhance I don't know what it is but it's just what I've seen

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question about you guys but actually this is the reason we're doing this you

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know eyes of Tia devil's hop yard the reason I I reached out to everybody to

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start this because I get it back and Raphael is how um you know in this

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documentary we're gonna start with Connecticut but actually we want to

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reach out to the world because I right now unity has always been my message

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some some people here talked about blind justice karmically Tony and I have been

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you know brothers since a long time ago and literally unity is a universal word

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we want to reach out beyond Connecticut I want to get back to be selling out

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Toad's Place with all our bands together and then I want to reach out

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and in the documentary I want to reach out to bands beyond Connecticut and

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metal bands unite is a universal world global message hmm yeah that's great

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is there a young guys is there is there a social media page dedicated to this

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maybe I didn't catch it the bands unite page or anything like that if not

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there's definitely should be cuz that that's not what it actually social

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media is kind of like the way to do most promo for everything you know it's not

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mean the days of stapling flyers the telephone poles long gone you gotta

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gotta make this a movement for sure bro I love stapling the telephone pole

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me too that's the old school way I love it

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oh yeah go out and actually hand people flyers yeah yeah but yeah I mean we can

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reach a lot of people online with social media you know it's yeah 100% you know

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so if there's a page getting started I'm happy to jump in and help out and you

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know help spread it and just it's like listen you don't have to be an original

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band you don't have to be in a cup I mean obviously we're looking for a

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certain genre or a vein of music but at the same time at the other day we're

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all a bunch of local musicians trying to really enjoy this and make the most out

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of it and get people to hear us right exactly yeah I think the biggest issue

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with social media that you guys would have is the message that you guys are

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trying to push is very positive you guys want to help one another you guys want

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to help better the scene and the first thing you come across with social media

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is somebody that will want to do the opposite by either you know slagging a

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band maybe talk their own band up or whatever but what you guys are doing is

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a lot more difficult and I think it means a lot more than just from Yahoo

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typing on social media whether you know listen to my music or do this or do that

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now you guys are actually with this concert just that on its own you guys

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are trying to pull this together and trying to spark something that a lot of

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people have a lot of people are talking about but not a lot of people trying to

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make things happen so I think that is really important and something that you

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know I think you guys really you know it's it's a big step and you if you guys

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do start something up on social media you got to make sure that no one comes

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along and tries to shit on it they're gonna do it but yeah you know just try

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to try to buy again metal bands uniting by being united by being a united front

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whether you have you know someone from the peanut gallery jumping in and

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saying some stupid shit there's gonna be enough people there and enough people

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that follow you guys that aren't gonna give a crap about what some idiot's

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saying yeah so not only could be a good a good venue or a good platform to

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promote the bands but it also could invoke a lot of conversation within the

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bands you know sharing ideas like somebody's selling gear somebody's

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looking for a new amp or somebody's looking to trade shows or looking for a

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venue for a certain night because they're gonna be in that area so there's

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that kind of organic growth you know that can happen even within a page like

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that with the bands that are a part of it yeah I think it's all gonna start you

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know like and and let's start at Saturday night I mean it I want to start

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seeing bands standing in front of the stage for other bands yeah I don't I

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hate floors when I see so many bands it's a simple stuff you know if I start

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seeing you know what it's gonna make me believe you know what bothers me that I

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see a lot too like when bands are on people are standing outside in the

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parking lot like really come on or the bands leaves the band that goes on first

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is gone before the band that goes on last even goes on that's another one or

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that you know we got a support everybody you know like get inside watch these

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bands play I mean what do you know you're not playing for their health you

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know they want to play for people you know there's two prongs there one I

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think bands around here are in competition with each other which needs

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to stop and then yeah the other thing is you know that selfishness you know what

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I'm not gonna go see that a lot further because I don't want to stand in front

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of the stage but we need to do it it needs to be something that we do right

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yeah absolutely you know this is a movement we were all supposed to be

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working together yeah I want to jump in here and just say one thing guys because

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you know fortunately for us we've played so many places everywhere and we see a

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lot of the things that you guys are talking about but one I want to make

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sure that everybody does for these still is to understand that we're selling a

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commodity that people need to want to see so many bands that get on stage and

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their weekend rock stars or whatever and they're really playing for themselves

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and so I think it's important that we connect out to the audience and have a

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product and this is something that Chris and I and all of us at ESP discuss

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make sure that you have something that people want to see and that you're

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cognizant of the fact that people did pay money to come see you and so they

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need to get their money's worth and I'm sure you guys will be great this weekend

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you know it's just I'm telling you about that we've seen and everything you've

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mentioned we've seen it in times worse you know we've seen times when the

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opening band was at home in bed by the time the third band was on and stuff so

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it's like oh wow sure that we're working together and you know we're getting on

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an airplane and come up there so we're not in a position to bring people from

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Houston there those guys that are it starts with if everybody could just

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bring a couple of people and you got 20 people in my each brain two or three

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next thing you know you got a hundred people there now you got a show and it's

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just one thing in all terms just really keep it you know in a small obtainable

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goal it's funny that's one of the things that I want to mention on the

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documentary because a couple things you just said one quality bands like the

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bands on this stage on this sorry on this cast I'm rushing to Saturday night

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on this podcast a lot of us you know I dirt I can tell you spends tens of

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thousands of dollars on recording on our product on our merchandise I mean

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everything we do we try to do other things so much so much money right next

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to Metallica you know that cost money ESP is flying from Texas if anybody on

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here thinks that they're gonna walk away from this making thousands of dollars

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they're wrong it's an investment and and that's where people really need to

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understand so that you know we could find that support from people so that

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they know like one another thing that bothers me a lot is like a lot of our

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shows you know we do sell pretty well but we'll have lots of people come and

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go I know the band you know I want to get in free when when somebody hands me

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something free I insist to pay for it just to support the band just that $25

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for the t-shirt and and you know we just you know people need to understand that

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you know quality costs money and you know we we really put huge investments

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with very little return and again that's why bands like like us who've been doing

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it for a long time you can rest assured there's a ton of passion going into it

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and it's very important and connecting with the crowd like you just said is a

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must because you know we want to keep doing what we love to do but we have to

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make sure that the crowd is in love with what we're doing really you know really

427
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,560
passionate about what we're doing as well so again it comes to that quality

428
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:22,760
of material and the quality of performance yeah hell yeah people come

429
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,440
to a little they want to see something they never seen before we got to

430
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,200
continue doing that great great go out there and give it your all man that's

431
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:39,320
that's it give it your everything we got half-hour our top give it your

432
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:44,640
everything yeah hey guys I actually have to jump I have an appointment I have to

433
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,800
get to I have a six o'clock but this was awesome man this was great sharing the

434
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,840
time with you guys and I'd be happy to tell you these any anything that I could

435
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,560
do to assist help out in any way you know let me know you know and if we want

436
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,960
to get a social media page going or anything like that anything to support

437
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,100
the cause and just keep it going and try to build this ending up to work with me

438
00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:12,080
I think that's a great idea all right I think to bring try to reach out if you're

439
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:16,640
local and kind of bring one or two people yeah let's make it a fun time and

440
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:21,120
and and I guarantee you if if you produce an atmosphere that's positive and

441
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,880
people are happy to be there and they feel cool about it you will have

442
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,960
something to work with and we see this all over I mean I love playing in

443
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,080
Hollywood so much because those people there they like to have a good time and

444
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,120
I think you guys do a good job of delivering that each night that we're

445
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,680
there so we're looking forward to being in Connecticut this weekend and seeing

446
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:46,360
all you guys I know you're amazing musicians and so we're gonna have time

447
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:51,400
and you know Victor and everybody for taking time to have us I've got to hop

448
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:57,160
off too I've actually got a crew on my house I still got holes in my hurricane

449
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,120
let's have a great time guys and you know I look forward and Victor again

450
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:07,080
thank you for giving us your time and your platform to talk about what oh yeah

451
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:12,640
appreciate it appreciate a lot hopefully I'll see a bunch you guys on Saturday

452
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,280
night I'll be there that's for sure I'll be there I'll be there Saturday night

453
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:21,800
absolutely all right talk soon guys and like I said let's let's keep it going

454
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:32,560
let's keep the momentum going we could do this oh yeah absolutely oh Chris is

455
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,600
Chris you're talking but we can't hear you

456
00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:45,280
you can't hear him Marty you've been on here the entire time we haven't heard

457
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:53,080
from you how do you connect with with everything here well being the guitar

458
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:59,880
player from virtue and vices this is a first for me because this is gonna be a

459
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:07,560
show that I be playing at the cellar for the first time because I've never been

460
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:13,320
there so it's gonna be interesting now you'll love that place bro those guys

461
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,880
are all it's a great venue great venue well I mean I can't wait to see it and I

462
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:28,040
can't wait to see the bands and it's gonna be great yeah so should be a good

463
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:34,840
night but I I actually have to run as well unfortunately so I do apologize for

464
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,600
that but thank you for having me on here with you guys

465
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:46,720
I'll see you on Saturday see you Saturday guys take care of Victor

466
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:53,960
yeah can you hear me yeah now and now I can hear you are very cool and you know

467
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,960
so great two people that are very important are still up on the podcast

468
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:08,040
Devils Hopyard and eyes of tear I know all the way back from the AGC

469
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:16,560
posse you know agency posse was my in blind jump and my man here I's a tear

470
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:22,840
comes in during our peak of the tribe gargantua school I haven't changed

471
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,480
nothing about me fucking I'm here to start some shit I'm here to blow some

472
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,760
shit up and I give a shit about anything other than the music the music is my

473
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:38,040
life the music is my soul and that's what I'm for I bleed I'll die for this and

474
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:44,200
literally the message hasn't changed the AGC posse is still dope we are all part

475
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:49,720
of the same thing and I'm so happy to be coming home and re-establishing that I

476
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:54,820
want eyes of tea I want Devils Hopyard to be I want to sell out totes place with

477
00:42:54,820 --> 00:43:00,600
less bands basically the last show I just did at both place it was packed

478
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:06,400
because Opus the dopest from dead by Wednesday does the same yeah I do he

479
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:13,120
goes no hands how holds Bard and he goes out and he goes you got to come so

480
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:17,600
literally I look forward to it post place out again just like back in the

481
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:23,240
day with my my two people right here we dirt with the engineer society project

482
00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:27,960
with hand of the tribe which Scott Harrington is bringing to the table

483
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,520
virtues and vices basically making a scene that people believe in I started

484
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,800
a fire a long time ago and that fire has not stopped I'm coming home this is my

485
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:47,000
coming home show I want to see everybody yeah and it up yeah so the show is this

486
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:53,920
Saturday the 7th what time does the do doors open what time does the first band

487
00:43:53,920 --> 00:44:01,400
go on so so before I get on to that I'm really glad to be connected to you you

488
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,960
know you've taken engineer society project on you've given us props for all

489
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,920
the material release and you're definitely going to be part of our

490
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,440
documentary it's not really our documentary and that's the thing once

491
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,600
again I want to take the backseat I basically everybody knows I'm the prophet

492
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,080
of the fire I start a spark and I want to give it to other people you know I

493
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,920
want to do a song with eyes of tea I want to do a song with Devil's Hopyard I

494
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:32,280
want to put our harmonies together so yeah variance the unity so that's

495
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:38,440
another thing I'm doing a song with dirt called metal bands unite and we can talk

496
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:44,840
about it all day but it wants to get up there and sing you singing it is what

497
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:50,920
it's got that vibration and coming in and go oh yeah all right all around the

498
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:59,080
world metal bands unite it's 6 p.m. doors open on Saturday night in Hampton

499
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,880
Connecticut it's like six blocks from where I used to live I used to live right

500
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,400
in the East Rock neighborhood I'm really excited coming home the place is called

501
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,320
the seller on Treadwell they've been reaching out to me and I want to start

502
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:16,400
there and I want to slowly build up and connect with etiquette bands show our

503
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:21,160
unity in this documentary and then start making it a worldwide thing you know when

504
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,640
I want to have eyes of tea out in Texas I want to have Devil's Hopyard to do a

505
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,280
little run with us when we play North Carolina I want to make this a movie

506
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:34,160
maybe first I want to set fire to this country and then I want to go back to

507
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,720
Europe engineered society project just some great things in Europe with Lord

508
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:42,560
Bishop and I want to go back there and maybe we go back there as metal bands

509
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,320
unite if this thing gets strong enough if we can get the message we start

510
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,880
traveling as a gang we start showing the world to see we can't change the world

511
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:56,160
I'm not a politician I can't change what's going on right now all I can do

512
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:01,720
is speak through and let people feel the vibration of the music that shows unity

513
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:05,800
and maybe that is an effect on some of the things that are going on around us

514
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,400
some of the things that are going around us I'm not going to get into politics

515
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:16,120
I'm not going to get into world crisis but I really want my music to be a

516
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:22,800
feeling that people have of unity while there is disunity surrounding us

517
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:34,240
absolutely fucking agree 100% bro oh yeah man 100% it all makes sense yeah

518
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:38,720
like I like I said before you need that spark you need that you know that

519
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:46,160
accommodation of like-mindedness and just try to move forward with it you know

520
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:56,520
the word Victor I am and forever shall be the motherfucking prophet of the fire

521
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:05,040
oh yeah finally and yeah Chris Keith yes on all of that we want to help in any

522
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:09,800
way we can and play all the plays absolutely brother yeah Devil's

523
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,680
Hopyard we're gonna be doing a song together and you know me and you Pete

524
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,760
are gonna be doing a song together just like this metal bands unite you guys

525
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,720
are in the documentary I want the documentary in your band room like

526
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:26,360
Raphael was talking about the struggle and Victor you know I want you you

527
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:31,160
support music I look at your website and what the energy you give us we want to

528
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:36,560
give it right back to you and have you be part of this movement with us man

529
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:50,040
we're in we're in absolutely all of us are in yeah absolutely fuck yeah yeah

530
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:57,440
so I you know the idea is awesome I'm so glad Chris that you threw this out idea

531
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,640
out there I'm glad we were able to get all these amazing people on the show

532
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:10,040
here today before we wrap things up here do you guys want to mention anything

533
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:15,920
that outside of the show that you want people to check out whether it's any

534
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:20,480
releases that you guys have out recently any any websites or anything on social

535
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:24,600
media that you yeah I want everybody to check out Isaiah's new album it's

536
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:30,960
badass make sure you guys so much brother definitely thank you thank you

537
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,840
yeah we just dropped an EP so it's it's going very well it's awesome it sounds

538
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:44,320
amazing cool thank you brother where can people pick it up um there's no hard

539
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:51,840
show original copies but I have these cards okay so on the back of it you

540
00:48:51,840 --> 00:49:00,160
just scan that bad boy and it brings you to all our socials and the EP okay cool

541
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,840
so yeah I mean it seems it seems to be more of the movement now that

542
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:09,720
everything's just streaming online now so that's how we that's how we're doing

543
00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:18,080
things I guess okay absolutely that was hot yeah what is it give us the scoop

544
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:25,560
what we are talking about vinyls so maybe okay because I see the vinyls are

545
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:36,040
coming back oh yeah absolutely vinyls awesome hell yeah that'd be sick Brian

546
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:41,320
how about your band well Devils Hop Yard has been doing some recording a lot of

547
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:49,000
it and I see that Brian it's oh yeah it's going very well it's a lot of work

548
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:55,560
I miss the days of just jamming in the band room and not having to follow a

549
00:49:55,560 --> 00:50:02,080
metronome and it's just a lot easier it's a lot of work but it's coming out

550
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,800
amazing you guys are gonna dig on it for sure

551
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:16,280
what yeah can't wait maybe middle of April of 2025 we're thinking okay you

552
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:21,040
know by the time everything gets all said and done and and mixed and mastered

553
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:27,120
and all that stuff it's it's a lot of work yeah another one of the struggles

554
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:33,720
is it's very expensive as we all know so absolutely you know the trials and

555
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:40,640
tribulations of being a local metal band that you know how much money do you make

556
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:45,680
it not really enough to even pay for gas at that point so sometimes sometimes

557
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:52,520
no yeah everything everything is out of pocket so you do what you can and our

558
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,120
bass player is hooking us up because he built a studio so we're doing most of

559
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:02,960
the recording there and speaking out of pocket yeah we just shot a music video

560
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:09,200
so and all that comes out of pocket too right we got a music video coming out

561
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,400
for everything in so be on the lookout for that as well that's though you shot

562
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:21,160
and directed by Opus his wife Jessica Spinelli so she's uh she shot all of our

563
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:25,920
music videos and I just want to give her a shout out so yeah that's awesome bro

564
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:31,800
that's awesome oh yeah how about that'll be coming out soon Chris when are you

565
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:40,120
coming home okay on the with um with engineer society project I'll be I'll be

566
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,280
coming Thursday probably Saturday morning or something and I'm right now

567
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,500
um the scoop with engineer society project we just signed with Paul

568
00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:53,680
Crosby management and we got a new music video coming out too and we're writing

569
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:58,680
some new stuff and uh but I'm really excited about metal bands unite I mean

570
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:03,960
that's the thing that puts the cream in my coffee it's literally the unity yeah

571
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:09,120
the movement literally I admire things that have happened in the history of

572
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:14,440
rock and roll and when I look at the movement of the 60s I mean the 60s

573
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:19,720
really was when and you see how it all sort of got I actually played Woodstock

574
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:27,480
and that was a complete and Woodstock 99 I saw that when you look at the

575
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:32,180
original Woodstock you see people doing what we're trying to do here we're

576
00:52:32,180 --> 00:52:38,640
trying to show our unity and this be everybody at our shows together and

577
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:43,760
everything Raphael everything Tim said even Tony I mean that's Tony

578
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:48,720
ranzoni he is from he was in a band called karmic justice I think his band

579
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:55,160
still is called karmic justice and literally he's like my brother from like

580
00:52:55,160 --> 00:53:02,040
a long time ago so literally I am coming home mama mama I'm coming I'm coming

581
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:06,740
home yeah I want to echo my family maybe even break some bread go to a

582
00:53:06,740 --> 00:53:12,560
restaurant or something and connect with people but I think beginning the

583
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:17,680
documentary so there's gonna be so many interviews and really in this light

584
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,520
lifetime that's real important thing that this this sort of these sort of

585
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:27,000
revolutionary ideas of unity get expressed so that's really my focus is

586
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:32,480
that if they do begin the documentary and they are filming I want eyes of tea

587
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:38,800
I want Devil's Hopyard I want all the different bands Joe Delaney I'm dead by

588
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:43,440
Wednesday all the bands that are blood sweat and tears dirt all of us about

589
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:48,320
the air like you just said Brian man we're putting our we're putting our

590
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:52,640
hard-earned blood into this literally I want that to be expressed in my life

591
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:57,800
time that's what I want to be documented I want to be that we're in the struggle

592
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,780
and we're out here pushing it man metal bands unite and when you're feeling the

593
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:05,320
way you're feeling right that another we all have your back and that's what

594
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:10,960
makes us stronger when everybody knows hey man yeah bro yeah all the way in

595
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,600
fucking Texas and he's got my back and we can open up those venue start getting

596
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,560
down the North Carolina thing I'm gonna have everybody like looking at in North

597
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:27,940
Carolina down in Florida there's all the vicious rumors basically I basically am

598
00:54:27,940 --> 00:54:32,960
networking out Raphael talked about it being focused on Connecticut but

599
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:38,520
Connecticut is where the spark is starting basically North Carolina

600
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:43,120
Florida no Tim was talking about Hollywood bands that are doing this in

601
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:48,640
Hollywood we are speed demon my boy speed demon Hollywood we are not alone

602
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:55,320
man we're metal bands are around the world wanting to unite our unity so

603
00:54:55,320 --> 00:55:02,040
absolutely yeah the Florida move out that bring us to Texas it's gonna be a

604
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:08,520
worldwide thing metal I would love to go that's that's the plan that's the plan

605
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:16,860
it's all in the talks so we'll see is get this you know I want to come back I

606
00:55:16,860 --> 00:55:20,760
want to see everybody break some bread get this thing started but then

607
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:25,200
eventually get back to Toast Place where we're selling that thing out and it's so

608
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,520
obvious that we now have to move on and we have to start expanding you know I

609
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:34,520
want it to be obvious when there's no room to move their elbows like wow this

610
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,720
is a worldwide thing and we have to start standing throughout the world man

611
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:43,760
I would love to sell out those plates I love I love playing toad's place man

612
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:49,600
love that club yeah back in legendary I used to sell Toast Place out two nights

613
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:56,720
in a row and for only like three opening bands Wow literally when we first Tony

614
00:55:56,720 --> 00:56:01,520
was talking I'd be I'd be going on top of people's cars you know I was out

615
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:06,280
there and I was saying listen you got to come you got to see this I had to like

616
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,200
prove it to people that I really had something to say and once again it's

617
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:17,240
still about you know about the AGC posse it's still about the transcendental

618
00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:22,000
Federation nation the tribe and gargantua soul I haven't changed man it's

619
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:26,200
just now that I'm reconnecting and I'm connecting to people that are about the

620
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:33,400
same thing and we're gonna talk through our music absolutely hell yeah excellent

621
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:40,560
I feel you there so we're gonna wrap things up here I do want to thank Chris

622
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:46,000
I want to thank Pete and Brian who are still here everyone else that yeah

623
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:55,760
during the show unfortunately Rick didn't get a chance to talk but yeah you

624
00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:01,160
guys have to let me know how the how the show goes anytime you any you guys want

625
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:06,000
to come back and promote your stuff you're more than welcome to do so thank

626
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:10,560
you very much I very much appreciate it and thank you guys absolutely guys

627
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:14,360
thank you so much I just want to say real quick that in ten years when they

628
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:18,320
say well where the fuck did it all start they're gonna come back to this video

629
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:22,480
and they're gonna watch us for talking about it exactly

630
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:31,480
yeah and it's gonna be a plus for me there you go awesome yeah I do you want

631
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:37,560
hell of a party on Saturday I can't wait oh yeah brother fuck yeah

632
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:42,600
awesome thanks again for joining me and thanks anyone who's watching or listening

633
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:56,480
to this we'll see you next time right here on signals from Mars see you folks

634
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,960
you