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And we have a great band who
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the band is with us. Dark
Rain is here. Hello, good morning,

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Hello, Hello, welcome everybody actually
here. We'll start with you if

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you can tell us who you are, what you do in the band,

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we'll kind of go around and then
well and then we'll hear you play.

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My name is Kelly. Everybody calls
me gh while I'm on stage, and

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I am the biggest diva out of
the four of us at the moment.

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It's yeah, why do they call
you g h? It's the way I

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spell my name, Kelly. It's
k E L L E I g H.

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So they just call me for sure. I gotcha, Okay, okay,

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And you, sir, Yeah,
I'm Dudley. I play guitar and

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I'm the other singer in the band. I'll do a lot of the business

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end of stuff. Founding member.
Yeah, very good, very good,

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good stuff. And you, sir, and Brian. I play rhythm guitar,

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all right, and a little bit
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Very good, very good. And
uh. And we also have are you

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the manager? Are you the Yeah? I do their road managing. My

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name is Echo. I go by
Echo Ray, the Rock and Redhead.

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I do their stage managing and I
also do merch sales and promotion, booking,

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that sort of stuff. Excellent,
excellent. How long have you worked

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with Dark Ray Dark Rain. I've
been working with for just a few months

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now. We've we've been friends for
half a lifetime. Oh, very good,

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Yeah, very good, very good. We should mention too. That

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track that we played playing with fire
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full disclosure, part of why I
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so it's good for the changeover when
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It's a good, so good long
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I heard you say that was your
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one of your favorite. I like
that too. I like all the tracks,

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all the studio tracks you sent me. But yeah, that one,

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that that is a that is great. That is really really good. It

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punches in the face. Yeah,
really good stuff. But we're dying to

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hear you play live if you want
to. Oh, we should mention too.

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So you're missing somebody right base.
Our bass players home sick. We

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figured we wouldn't bring the disease down
from me and appreciate it, well,

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appreciate I appreciate it. He's recuperating
for the show next week, gotcha go

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true? Yeah, we have an
amazing show next week, so we want

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him to be up and ready to
go up, ready for that one.

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Where are you playing? We're playing
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It is a fundraiser that Echo has
put on a letter tell you a little

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bit more about it, But we
just wanted to do something for the survivors

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of that Lewiston mouse shooting. Yeah. We have a couple of friends in

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the music field with us that have
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way to hey, we're here for
you. We got you six you know.

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Okay, So very cool, very
very cool. All right, Well,

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we're dying to hear you play.
I'll kind of ride the faders as

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we go, all but we'll do
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CD, the American Dream, which
is we're currently promoting. This is a

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one sopho more acoustically, it's called
the Shades of August. All right,

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dark Rain live in studio. She
left it with no choice. She gave

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all her time. The boys,
what did they was going on swee know

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he did nothing wrong. When you're
left down on your own, I have

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no place to call your No,
Mom's not on your phone. Message is

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from the unknown chi loggage of argain. We're till on level with a time

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nehver had. It's hid. Love's
a slight shreds of again. Ship didn't

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hurt so bad. She now knows
what she's lost. Now that she knows

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she's paid a cost, we know
she can't come back again. Boy,

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Remember every now and there were all
left down on your own. I always

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to call you no more missed on
your phone. Remember it's from video loon

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s long as she's some orgy.
We'll time at time. My never s

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sh Longer's a slight spets of orgy
should get in so bad. We know

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that along the road and then the
lasting a brolliver listens. It's from the

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un It's like Chi long sheds of
ogy winter time on time, it's a

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shed long. It's just like shades
of Arck. We shoot. It's all

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day, very nice, dark rain
live in studio with us, the two

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of you singing again there too is
really good. There's there's just something really

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uh you just you sound really good. Yeah, you guys really do.

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I mean that's the first thing that
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beautiful. Oh, thank you so
much. Almost sound like one voice.

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It'll be a new song that makes
it, if that makes sense. Do

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you do that on a lot of
songs where you off on the vocals.

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Yeah, yeah, it's pretty much
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it, like the sweet and the
melancholy. My voice is done a natural

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singing with Kelly's got this beautiful,
awesome, powerful voice, but I think

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they blend well. Yeah, yeah, there's a contrast there that there really

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works. How long has Dark Rain
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a band? That's question. So
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it's it's kind of where we we
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Strictly Business. We morphed into Dark
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us, and we it was myself, Kelly, a drummer, front of

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ours, guitarist and a bass player
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a couple of years. In ninety
nine two thousand, did a lot of

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shows, got pretty busy and we
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record deals on the table, and
then Kelly got pregnant, you know,

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had a baby. Yeah, so
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and we're getting back. Then we
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I decided to kind of put the band

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back together, so to speak,
and all the original members came back except

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for the bass player, and we
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much consistent since then. Brian came
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had been an original member, he'd
been over overseas for a while and he'd

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come back and he had joined up
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that's when Brian came back to us. And we we've been pretty much continuing

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on since. We put out two
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ones out of print, but the
two newer ones are there, and we're

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working on an acoustic album to be
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our next big follow up. Yeah, and just keep pushing or playing your

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eye out for the thirteenth step.
Yeah, that's okay, that's that's gonna

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be the name event. Okay,
I'm horrible. I always steal the naming

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game, and I told Kelly she
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the thirteenth step for a while,
so yeah, like everything has a twelve

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step program, and I like to
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the thirteenth step kind of fit for
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I like it. Now, that's
not Thattex. Now these studio tracks?

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Are these from a current album that
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They center from the American Dream.
It's our current CD. Okay, okay,

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yeah, the newest one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I really

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like uh, I really like these. Where where did you record home?

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Yeah? In the last last two
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There is a great guy up in
Tops and me and Jerry Paron owns music

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store and he owns music studio.
We recorded with him and it sounded great.

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It's just I really have been working
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recording and put myself together a studio
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Studios. Now we record other artists
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uh, we've been slowly building that
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to finish, except for the mastering
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have a fresh set of ears on
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happy with the result. I thought
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at home. Yeah, it's amazing. You know, the stuff they used

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to do back fifty years ago with
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do it at your home studio now. So yeah, yeah, that's something

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that comes up a lot on the
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we've got all these different options as
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you know, and there's there's still
a ton of studios out there that you

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can go to, or you can
learn to do it yourself, or you

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can learn to do it yourself at
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them. Do have you recorded a
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I've got a few and I'm still
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to school again too, so getting
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and I've taken a few in recently. I'm hoping to get more to come

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in once we get to study.
We're doing some remodel on the studio too.

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So yeah, make it a little
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and uh, all right, so
how did echo how did you come

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into this in terms of working with
the band? Oh, I'm sorry,

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I'm having an issue with your mike. Okay, here we go. I

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think I got you. I was
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I've been really good friends with these
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years I think now, and just
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this past year, I decided that
I was going to take the leap and

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work professionally with musicians because nothing I
love more than pushing local music. And

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yeah, you know, we wouldn't
have national bands if they didn't start somewhere.

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So I go around and I scout
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they need help selling their merch or
if they need help pushing their their name

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around or whatever, and then I'll
step in and do whatever. Girl.

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Yeah, yeah, girl, Yeah. So Dudley messaged me up like we've

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got a bunch of gigs and we
could really help use somebody to help us

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with merch and I don't think I've
missed a gig since August. She's always

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ready to go. I'm like,
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if you're ready to go by seven
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like, sure, I work nights. I don't get out of work until

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almost two o'clock in the morning.
For seven am is not my jam.

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Yeah, well, I do you
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to hear another live song if you're
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with us live in studio and they're
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this one's off the American Dream as
well. It's called It's kind of weird

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because we mostly a rock band.
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a country slash, let's say,
hip hop flavor of Brian's guitar line.

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It's called stay with Me tonight.
All right on the person you I was

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never got enough, all lost them, all of your time waiting you all

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and a way to make you win
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the dancers and naked by the moon
line, hope you and my telling is

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all right, Just stay with me
for a while, Just stay with me

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to night. You're dreading a blocking
plea. How's them read your mind?

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Tistens seem I'm gonna sell your mind? Gold until time. You're stealing me

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to welcome the sins and naked d
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be a sorry just staying me.
Just stay away to my nancies and think

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about the day only in my sell
me a all right, you stay,

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just stay with day, Just stay
away me, Tony, Oh, that's

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awesome. Dark Rain is with us
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could play another studio track you had
mentioned. Well, the name of the

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album is American Dream, and of
course this title track is is really great

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too. I was thinking maybe we
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come back and talk some more.
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right? Check this out. This
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About my dear said the tame way
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be the past the last for an
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against the time. So the America. Oh that's good. That is American

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Dream and the band is a Dark
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with us. Now, when when
did the album come out? Has it

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been out for a while or digitally
it dropped? Did I want to say

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digitally and physically dropped different times?
But so like about a year now we've

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been behind it. Yeah, and
we just started. We'd like, we

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just started releasing videos, like there's
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that you just heard on YouTube,
Playing with Fire for Playing with No official

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videos we have the one for American
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Hockey Sticks Part two and uh you
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song called the All three of those
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on the other new one. It's
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music videos. So oh cool.
Creative wise, do you do those?

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Are you in charge of that?
Yeah? Pretty much most. We're going

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to get some pointers, yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's another that's another

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thing too. You know, we
were talking earlier about how we live in

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a time where you have all these
different options for and also for making music

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videos. You know, I mean
you can you know, you can use

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an iPhone and record, or you
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amazing. It's funny too because some
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people have this idea that the music
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MTV doesn't doesn't do it anymore,
and whatnot, and hasn't for decades actually

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now at this point or VH one. But but actually, really there's more

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music videos than ever because of YouTube. I mean, some major artists who

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have you know, like a gazillion
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remember Beyonce did that at one point, like maybe this might have been like

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ten years ago, but she released
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a video for every single song.
Oh yeah, it came out at

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the same time. It was like, wow, that must have been very

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expensive. But yeah, I mean, really there's more music videos than ever.

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It's it's uh, this is more
choices awhere to watch, just like

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with your viewing chiv choices, more
stuff out there. Yeah, more content

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than ever, but also yeah,
you're you're competing with more. Yeah,

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it's not called straight anywhere, right
right. I feel like with a video

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too, you can get more context
of where your artist is coming from.

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Like everybody takes a song differently as
to like how the original artist wrote it

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and then you read you watch the
video or like, oh crap, that's

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what they were really talking about,
but that's not how I related it to

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my life, right right, So
I mean it's kind of cool to do

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it that way. And that's kind
of why I like doing the videos to

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it gives them, gives me a
kind of a chance to add more to

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the interpretation of it. I'm good
with people taking a song we write and

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making their own and what it means
to them, you know, Like playing

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with Fire is a good example.
Like it's when we talk about a lot,

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it's you know, for us,
it's about you know, kind of

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like you get two really really good
friends, you know, did they take

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the step and cross the line to
make it more than just a friendship?

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And do you mess that up?
Do you play with because I can hurt

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you and you can hurt me too, But I'm kind of willing to take

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that chance with you because, right, I like playing with Fire. That's

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the song, like like I t
help people from stage playing taking the chance

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and playing with fires better than and
left out in the cold. Yeah,

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yes, yes, yeah. If
you don't take the step, you don't

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know, you can miss out on
something good or maybe you're not. I

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mean I don't know, right,
it could be crap. Only one way

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to find out, Yeah, one
way to got to take that stuff and

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just go with it, right,
right, do you want to play another

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live song for us, Sure,
we do something off the next CD.

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We do you. This is called
our public service announcement. You're talking about

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the harmonies, Yes, And this
is we always tell people to worry about

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the breast cancer. My mother had
breast cancer. I'm a very strong advocate

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for women making you know, get
get your exam, get checked. Men

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too as well, but very very
very adamant on you know, save the

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tatas. So that's my first and
foremost public service announcement announcement. And you

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mentioned men too. That's something Jenny
talks about a lot of encouraging men to.

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You know, I'm a breast cancer
survivor. Mothers to congratulations and and

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and we know someone who had Yeah, well actually a couple of people had

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a couple of friends that are men
who have had breast cancer. Yeah,

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I mean they want to make friends. Stage four right now, I get

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checked, get checked it. It
takes the pecks, boys, check the

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packs. I like that. Awesome. So that's our serious public service announcement

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obviously. Then so Kelly and I
have both like different recreational items. I

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personally like a good drink every once
in a while, so like alcohol.

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Yeah, and I like to smoke
because it's legal in our state, you

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know, not so legal here.
I guess so this is this is a

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little diddy about about about both of
those items. It's called forty outs.

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It's on the next we have coming
out. All right, very good.

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Dark Rain Live in studio with us. Run on the road with a phony

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in my head. You're kind of
heavy. You tell me where to go

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and cast on my ass. Send
up something in this bag, well the

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grass. Yeah, try to make
a somewhere wrong thing. I can make

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it have I love this forning,
I'm not breaking many years I went by.

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He he's that thy? Don't you
smiling? Here? Where are me?

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Yeah? Willa miss Lee? Never
even in my name? Yes,

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in a hurry you out of my
way? Really is? I went by?

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I guess that is the trend,
wasn't. Yeah, mors gave me

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a bonny ouser. They gave me
a bage agreed. Here I go again,

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Here I go again, playing the
same mon See who I love it?

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Dark Rain, Dark Rain Live in
study with us. So are you

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playing a lot of shows these days? Are you playing out a lot?

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Or Yeah? We played almost every
week every weekend. We've it's part of

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our part of our curse. We've
been we've had a really hard time finding

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a steady drummer because we'll we'll get
somebody on board. We've gone through.

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We had we had a study drummer
for years and years and years, Chris

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Williams, the guy that was originally
with us. It's great drummer, and

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uh, he eventually left, went
to another band, and we got another

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guy and he least a little while, and we get another guy he lasted

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for We won't go into that discussion, I guess, but we is that

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the show we got a plastic one
show I was talking about named but that

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sounds like a good story. It's
a lot of drama. But then we

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get another guy named Devin Mallard who
was really good and he actually did the

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American Dream City with us, and
he was good. He just he started

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having some some physical issues and stuff. That's why he's not playing with us

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now. But so a lot of
times we we actually use it little drummer.

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Oh it's a little weird, which
is really cool. Actually drummer.

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I'm like, well, this is
Scott Free He's our drummer. It's actual.

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It's not like a drum machine.
It's actual tracks that people have played

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and stuff and so and sometimes we
do like a different some shows we have

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live drummer. Totally depends what the
situation is. So we keep getting a

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drummer in, we'll work them.
We had a guy last timer we worked

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up three months, rehearsed, rehearse, rehearsed, and yeah, totally into

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this. I love to play every
week and I want to be out there.

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I want to be playing, you
know. Gave him a list of

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of upcoming shows and I can't do
that. There's too many. Oh really

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yeah, yeah, first he sitting
there going, oh wow, I'm like,

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we told you this from day one. It happens pretty regularly, so

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up front, like if you're not
one hundred percent and you don't want to

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do this, then don't waste our
time please because but so, we had

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a group of four of us that
play out. We have different drummers that

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sit in with us. Sonny Robinson
from Twisted Roots a yeah we got from

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He's going to be doing tracks on
the next CD for us as well.

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Yeah, and Christ's us pretty regularly
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times a year. Just yeah,
We have good friends to do it,

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but we would love to find a
perminent rummers is. Somebody has to be

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able to play all willing to play
all the time. Right. We travel

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all over New England. Yeah,
we've gone as far as New York,

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but like we're really like you know, Providence right now. We're a lot

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of shows in Rhode Island. We
were down there last week. We work

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with a guy named Justin mccott from
Voltage Voltage and he does he does a

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lot of the shows that used to
be the booker for and the Vault and

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stuff down in Bedford. He's got
us some good gets and we're playing down

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there and you know, playing Rhode
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we played with Seis up here a
little while ago. Excellent, yeah,

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excellent, love them Oh yeah too, yeah, absolutely absolutely, yeah drummers.

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That's been a time on the show
quite a bit. It seems like

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for one thing, every drummer is
in like ten bads. That's exactly.

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Yeah. And my theory, uh, you know people have heard me say

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this a million times, but my
theory about drummers is when you're a kid,

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when you're growing up and you first
start getting interested in playing an instrument,

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you got to have the talk with
your parents. I want to play

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drums. That's the first instrument they
were going to try to talk you out

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of because they don't want to want
all the boys, you know that?

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Or maybe the tuba would would they
would try to talk you out of that

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too. Probably I got his little
one playing the drums. Oh really yeah.

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Oh he's hooked on music. Yeah, good, good, like even

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the oldies too, like not just
like current music. Like kid likes Elvis,

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yeah, like Buck Cherry, he
likes Chuck Berry. Yeah, like

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all of them. He's he's got
an eclectic taste of music. He likes

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to sing kiss with us too.
Nice. We have a barbecue every year

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and he'll get up there and he
was singing, oh god, who's like

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two oh there singing kiss with Annie? You know. Oh that's awesome.

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Get the little one in there.
Yeah, yeah, very good. My

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favorite band yeah really yeah, it
was the Psycho Circuit Store with kiss Yeah,

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excellent, excellent. Well we should
we'll play another studio track. Actually,

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this song Poison Inside I think is
really good. Should we play that

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one? That's a good one too. That has to do with that situation

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we're talking about with the drummer and
the drama. Yes, yeah, is

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that the same drummer that didn't want
to play any shows or is that no,

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No, the drummer that be named
God. It was such a rough

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It was a rough period for us. I literally had to beg my best

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day, like, you are not
leaving music over this. This is like

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how bad that situation was. Made
me play a show, made him I

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dragged his butt. Oh, I
can say, asked well all the way

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down where we're in New Hampshire,
mask the Lazy Dog and did a podcast

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which freuds. Yeah, Dudley did
not want to. I'm like, dude,

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we're going down you bringing your guitar. I'm not letting you. We're

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gonna have a last And one day
we lost like half the band. So

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one of those situations and it was
a bad situation altogether personally. So yeah,

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we got a lot of songs out
of it, though, Well there

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you go, probably a whole album
that situation. Well that's good, you

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know, I always say, I
mean, if you can take bad things

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and create something positive out of them, yeah, come on the other side

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of it better. So yeah,
exactly, let's give this a listen,

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then cool. So this is this
is topical Poison inside and the band is

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a Dark Rain. Check this out, SI, I now love yet?

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When did you like that? Child? I gather my fun next thing get

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next. Everything is dam the boy
the alright poison inside. The band is

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Dark Rain. They are here with
us live in studio. I's got a

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long fade out. I like it. That's kind of a lot start.

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You don't hear long fade outs as
much as you used to, but no,

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I dig it. Dark Rain a
live in studio with us. You'all

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want to play one more acoustic song
and then we'll and then we'll talk a

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little bit more, plug what you
got coming up, and then we'll we'll

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end with we have one more studio
track too that we'll play at the end.

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But so the song that we're actually
going to do acoustically goes hand in

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hand with the one that you want
to play that's recorded. So this is

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I am a domestic violence survivor,
as I was telling you on that little

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break, and I decided to write
a song about it and kind of make

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the story like like, don't keep
it hidden, you know, like it.

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The more that it's brought out there, the more people come forward and

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be like, this is not socially
acceptable. So this is my domestic violence

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story in a song. This is
never more all right. He came out

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of nowhere like an inchel before miyes. He was a mystery, but a

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trouble dingerous guys like me, like
a miestro. And I was locked inside

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my mind, perched like a rain
van. Never bobble, he be mind,

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never side of sack inside this many
mane change steve alive. I can

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see you right through you before the
lies rull out your mouth. Beware of

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casting stones when you live in a
glasshouse. Through all of your trauma,

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you blackened the tell tale heart.
I never felt so well day. I

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wish we could go back to the
snort, forget that never more side sick

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you side destry name by when snap
lie. If you haven't learned by then,

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this is point. I'm buddy.
You broke in, absolutely crawled out

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of that grave. I was stumbing
down then and the lo could not be

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saved. So I've patched up my
wings and I'm learning how to fly there

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like a grave band. I'm gonna
pluck up the horse guy forever mo Sad

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Sad Inside This d Man b Jeez
Alive and what should people know about?

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Where to find you online? People
want to follow everything that you're doing.

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Get your music at Sarah dark rainband
dot com. Okay, in dark Rain

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dot us. Oh, that's our
YouTube channel. You can find us on

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YouTube obviously, Spotify, Apple Music, Google, Amazon, Amazon Music.

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Yeah, yeah, pretty much anywhere, Shazam that stuff. Friend any of

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us we like people, Yeah,
excellent, excellent. Like the band page

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on Facebook. Yeah, Dark Rain, Echo Ray the Rock and Redhead on

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Facebook or just Echo Ray also on
Facebook. Okay, very good, very

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good. Well, thank you so
much. This has been wonderful. We're

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gonna play one more studio track to
close out the segment. This is another

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great song from Dark Rain. This
is called Skit and this this relates to

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the song you just played, right. It does, of course, literally

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talks about you know, I'm tired
of playing the games. This is not

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a role in my life that I
want to play with you. Yeah.

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It's almost like the precursor to the
other song, because this is when Kelly

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and I are both going through really
bad parts of bad situations and I don't

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want to do this, but I
don't want to do it anymore. I'm

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still here, you know, it's
stuck in that. How do I get

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out of it before it turns into
you know, the Nevermore songs? So

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okay, started out with skit and
then went into Nevermore, So it was

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like a precursor. Okay, okay, very cool. Oh and thank you

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for the CDs. By the way, I should mention, yeah, we're

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not on Facebook today, so I
can't hold them up for everybody, but

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The American dream and The Long Road
Home. This came out before The American

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Dreamer. Yeah, that's our last
CD. That's seventeen tracks, almost like

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a doll album. Yeah. Yeah, you can buy them digitally, like

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I said, you know any of
the digital retailers Apple Music Yeah yeah,

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oh very cool. Those are always
we always prefer that kind of stuff over

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Spotify. Spotify is great to get
known, but we actually make money off

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cause if they buy him somewhere right
or at a local show. Yeah yeah,

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support the local musicians. You know. Absolutely not as easy as everyone

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thinks it is. No, No, that's that's for sure. That's for

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sure. Dark Reign thank you all
again so much. This is for having

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us absolutely and this is called skit
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