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Well, it's vastly different to how it was when I was here sitting last year. I'll tell you that. When did it feel real?
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Walking in and actually seeing our stage there and the finished building, it was quite a moment.
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That's when it really got real.
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I think this might be, in a good way, your biggest challenge yet because it's your biggest environment and you are at the smallest space you've been.
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In the end, this is about trying to make a connection with our audience.
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That's what this is about, trying to make the worst seat in the house the best seat in the house.
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Whether it was jumping into the crowd, where it was climbing speaker stacks, whether it was early forays into video, you know, this was all just an attempt to get closer to our audience and this is it.
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And Atomic City, the the tune I sent you down your phone, it's just an invitation to our audience. It's like a commoglio.
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Do you know what commoglio is? No.
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It's an Irish word for like uh a commoglio is like uh a song that invites everybody in.
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Dude, as I said on text today, this song is a crush.
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It's like there's there's energy and there's there's a real sense of purpose.
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Las Vegas was known as Atomic City because they had atomic bomb tourism here in the '50s. about.
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But they would reason to come to come and watch come and watch the mushroom cloud. Yeah. Yeah.
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In fact, the atomic explosions were as big a draw as the gambling back in those days. Crazy. But now Wow.
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all the fear and dread Mhm.
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of splitting the atom and using it as a weapon of mass destruction, there may be clues for how we get out of the climate crisis through fusion rather than fission.
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Though even fission, which is you know, regular nuclear energy is getting safer and smarter.
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And we've campaigned against nuclear energy and we've kind of turned around a little bit on that one.
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And so the lyric, Atomic Sun for everyone, that's that reference.
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So we're using it as a comic in the comic sense, Atomic City, but actually the idea that by not splitting the atom, by fusing the atom, you have unlimited energy.
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It's just a beautiful I'm glad you idea to plop in the middle of a '70s swing stomp.
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Yeah, it's definitely got a stomp to it. Yeah, cozy power.
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I like how the rhythm section is really like Live and direct, yeah.
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kicking the door in on that, right? In a big way.
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And it's great hearing the unmistakable playing of of Adam and Larry and hearing Larry on the song and we touched a little bit about that because by when we caught up at the beginning of the year, everybody knew he wasn't going to be match fit for this particular run of shows, but he's on the song. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, he It's so great.
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It's really tricky to for him and he he came in the night before we we recorded it in Sound City.
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Is it where I I was wanted to record it? before.
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No, this is the first time I've ever done it. my teen spirit today. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I mean it's so So so so many stories in that studio and Ange wanted us to go there.
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And Larry went the night before to just make sure he could he was he didn't know if he could he could play for for an hour or he didn't know if he could play for 15 minutes. And he just played.
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He just he he played up a storm.
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John Bonham saying his tech that he loved the sound of the room so much he ended up playing for like 3 hours.
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Yeah, because it's not just that drum sound is what I mean that's why Dave loved it.
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He ended up getting the the desk in there just cuz the drum sound.
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That's why you hear that on Smells Like Teen Spirit. That's just the room. Yeah. Yeah.
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It was the right place for us and you know, it took it took its toll on Larry. He he's minding me.
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We're doing the video and he's like, "Ow."
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But he's got he's he's going to get back to fitness.
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And being here as well and seeing this with his own eyes, knowing that you will be preparing it. How was that for him?
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It's a heartbreak for Larry to be here Yeah.
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and to see this and know that Bram is standing in for him.
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And by the way, Bram Yeah. is a superstar. He's amazing.
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He was a fan of Larry's and a student of Larry's.
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And now he'll be here playing instead of Larry and that's that's got to hurt as much as some of the injuries, but he gave it all on the song anyway.
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I could never ever put myself in anyone's shoes on either side of that, but there's something beautiful within the manifestation of it if you can if you can get there.
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The idea of a student, someone who was mentored ultimately into their instrument, into their passion through someone like Larry who's done that for countless drummers who've gone on to make music their life.
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Well, drummers are born, not made.
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They speak their own language.
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They are they're a breed apart and we're nothing now.
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That's that's where the rock and roll comes from in our band.