An Interview with SteelHeart - Miljenko Matijević

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Welcome to Back to the Eighties Radio, the show where we talk about the

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good, the bad, and the
ugly, yes the ugly of the greatest

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decade for a lot of us.
Thanks for being with us on another incredible

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time has come because with us,
as he is always is a man who

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has had more hair treatments than jose
A. Bear and Paul Mitchell. He

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is a man that has attended more
concerts in Hollywood than the bands that actually

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played there. Here add back to
the Eighties radio. We just call him

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the Chang, Oh, ladies and
gentlemen, boys and girls. And it

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is so ever beautiful and great of
my comrade to mention the good, the

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bad, and yes, this is
Chang, the ugly part of Back to

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the Eighties. Welcome to another rendition
of our version of that great, great

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decade, the eighties. I've been
away from my microphone a few days,

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Yes you have. Let's dig deep
into our show, you know. By

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the way, Chang, welcome back
from the bottom of our hearts here,

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you know, we missed you.
A little note to say thank you to

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a few awesome people, you know. Last night, Chang was the tribute

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concert of the sixth greatest performers who
passed away at age twenty seven. The

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show at the Troubadour last night was
called twenty seven. The show, the

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ultimate tribute concert, played to a
packed house. Man at the Troubadour a

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lot smaller than I had envisioned it
with a humongous stage was tinier in the

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eighties. Yeah, yeah, that's
what I hear. That's what I hear.

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They portrayed Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison,

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Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
I gotta tell you, man, it

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was amazing, great performers. The
show we'll be playing coming up at Vacaville

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Performing Arts Center on June sixteenth,
at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose on

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the seventeenth end at the Montgomery Theater
in Fresno on June twenty fourth. Maybe

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you, my friend Chang can be
in Fresno on the twenty fourth of June.

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Big thanks to all of our fans
who were able to attend, because

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I know there were many who were
there. The show was great, the

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performers were awesome, great voices,
great talent, and I can't stop here.

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I have to give a huge thank
you to Gina DiFranco, the executive

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producer of BWA r OC dot org. The Humanitarian Rock Concert, which will

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be held in Florida on April first, twenty twenty three. More information about

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that. It's going to be at
the Pompano Beach Amphitheater. If you missed

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Live AID eighty five, now it's
your chance. Big thank you to Eric

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Himmel, the co producer, musical
director and guitarist of the twenty seven show,

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Audi Argilazzi, who sings a Janis
Joplin, and Gabe Mascot who plays

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as Kurt Cobain. You guys rocked
it last night. Stay tuned because coming

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up next only here on Back to
the Eighties Radio. We have a huge

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rock star talking with us about the
eighties music and a lot more eighties ladies.

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That's right, Get that awkward had
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speakers, because we've got one sexy
eighties rock star. You are lucky loaded

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back to the eighties eighty Some of
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Scotto and Chay. This is back
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joined us, you've come at a
great time because we've got a fantastic extended

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segment with a hard rocker who started
in the eighties. He's a singer songwriter,

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went on tours singing with the Doors
in twenty ten, from albums to

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movies, concerts, but he is
best known as the lead vocalist Mister Steelheart

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himself Milienko Matdievic. Now, did
I say that right? You did perfect?

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You were in the two thousand and
one the movie rock Star singing the

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voice for Mark Wahlberg's character Chris Izzy
Cole. Correct, Yes, that was

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the voice and the song We All
Die Young I contributed was That was one

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of my songs. That was on
my third album, The Wait Record.

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We recorded it for that movie.
The Notes that You Reach are just phenomenal

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song. Yeah, I love it. I like that you like it?

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If I'm not mistaken. The van
came out Steelheart in nineteen eighty nine.

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Was that the release of Steelheart?
Correct? No, it was originally it

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was called Red Alert, but we
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a DJ Red Alert in New York. So then we scrambled this funny to

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last minute the album was doing everything's
done, was sitting a scram coming up

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with a new name, and we
came up with Steeheart right at Barney's Beanery

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here in Los Angeles. Actually,
yeah, that was the birth of Steeheart

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nineteen eighty nine, and that first
album, steelhearn't sold over a million copies.

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Is there a more precise number,
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that worldwide sway over two million,
and probably could have been even more.

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But we came in a tail end
of you know, the whole rock era

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and then grunch took over kind of
thing. So I think that we came

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in like the nineteen eighty six or
something. I feel it would be pretty

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pretty intense. But you know what
was beautiful is that there's so many people

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rediscovering the band now and actually doing
cover songs of my songs now that are

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people are twenty twenty one years old. Who knows, maybe there's a whole

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new beginning here. You know what's
really cool is that you've got to do

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a lot of things between movies in
your own projects. Really interesting. Now.

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First of all, I don't know
if you guys know, I was

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also the Finger for the Doors for
a while with Raymonds, Eric and Robbie

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Krieger. Ye, John didn't,
but I did two major tours, A

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transcending the late Jim Morrison, and
well, Jim passed away to twenty seven

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as well, you know, and
close birthdays in November thirtieth, and I

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think he passed was it December or
something, or third or fourth or something

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like that. So I mean,
ironically, I escaped the death of twenty

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seven. Somehow they spared me because
in nineteen ninety two, after my second

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album, we were on the road, my manager said, hey, you

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want to do We were on a
forty ninth show and he said, hey,

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you want to do another show and
we'll make a fifty and then we'll

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go home and relax for a minute
before we go back out. And so,

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yeah, great, let's do it. Went to Denver Arena and we're

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performing Halloween night. They had these
lighting cross to standing app on both sides

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of the stage, but they then
secure the ceiling. You know, I'm

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rocking out and I just barely touched
one man and its just I fell at

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wobbling and I try to get out
of the way and as I'm running trying

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to get out of the way,
jumping over the monitors, it hit me

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directly in the back of the head
and I hit the stage face first,

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broke my nose, my cheekbone,
twisted my back, my knee. It

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was awful. Without a doubt,
I should have been dead. And you

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can watch it actually on YouTube.
You can watch accident. You were performing

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dancing in the fire. If I'm
not mistaken from the Tangled and Rains album

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that's right dancing in the fire,
and the fire definitely burned me. It

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was, so you know, it's
kind of interesting. It's like I kind

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of almost went into that, you
know, that whole energy space for some

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reason. And uh, but you
know, they didn't take me, rightn't

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take me. And I was Jeff
turned twenty eight, I believe literally just

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turned twenty eight, was twenty seven. So maybe that's why I didn't count

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because it didn't I mean, I
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spared. And then steel Hart had
a new lineup, released the album Weight

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in ninety six, and then the
album Good to Be Alive in two thousand

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and eight. Yeah, yeah,
it was. It was. It was

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an insane recovery. I don't even
know how I made the Weight record,

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honestly. It was weird because it's
just the accident was it's just so prolonged

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that I lost memory and then I
became fuzzy, and then I was in

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and out and I was here,
I was there. It was just never

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present, you know, and taken
years, years to really recover and kind

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of put the electrods back together,
you know, And right now I feel

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good when you did the movie how
how was the performing and because that must

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have been a busy schedule as well, you know when you're doing anything for

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movies that they gotta be grueling for
you. It's uh, yeah, it

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was intense. I mean the whole
the whole project was pretty intense. But

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it was amazing. You know,
we had a great time doing it.

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The band was amazing. It was
great rehearsing with the guys. It was

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me, Zach Wilde, Jason Bonham, and Jeff Pilson. I mean,

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what a band. You know.
We had a great time doing it.

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It was a you know, a
lot of ups and downs, drama,

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normal normal movie making and you know, rock stars. It was great.

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That's all I can say. It
was a lot of fun and we I

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feel we created an amazing album.
And everyone hasn't heard all the songs that

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I sang on that record, because
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album. Yeah, but I did
sing seven and they are pretty damn good.

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On a good note, the other
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possibly Steel Dragon may actually do some
shows in the near future. Now,

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that is something I would definitely like
to hear more about. Now, jumping

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over to twenty ten when you got
together with The Doors, you know,

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Raymond Derek and Robbie Krieger. How
was that experience for you on a personal

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level, being that every rocker on
earth knows Jim Morrison and and how was

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that to be a part of that? Well, you know, that's that's

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it's interesting. I'll tell you.
The quick story is that I was looking

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for a new manager and then I
had lunch with the manager Tom and we're

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talking and he goes, you know, I managed this band. It's uh,

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you know, it's pretty famous.
They sold over eighty million records,

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and uh, we're looking for a
new singer, and I think you may

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be a good candidate. Would you
be interested in in auditioning? And I

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was like, well, who's the
band? And he said The Doors And

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I was like, wow, okay, uh sure, why not. I'll

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give it a shot. Well,
sure enough, I came in. I

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sang once on two songs, three
songs rare. He's like, can you

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sing another one? Another? We
didn't know? Can you sing another one?

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We didn't. I learned like ten
there coming in there. You know,

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I want to make sure I was
read. I didn't leave, it

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was done. I didn't even leave
the place. It's like, you know,

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would you like to do the tour
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know, I got to tell you
it was in situations like that, like

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the movie, like uh, you
know, joining a famous, super famous

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band, legendary band. It's not
just a famous band. It's you know,

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it's a lot deeper than that.
It's you need to be invited into

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a space like that. You know, there's so many other elements that are

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involved, not just money or or
things. You gotta it's got to be

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the right time. It's got to
be the right energy. And then the

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God's got to go, Okay,
come on in, yeah we're talking.

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This is the planets have to align
in perfect order. And and just have

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picked you. This is not not
coincidence. It's it's beyond. It's a

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right. It's and then and then
you accept, you know. I mean

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I had Jim come to me many
times, many times when when I first

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when I first was going to even
before I even went out to La Too

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to do an audition. I mean, I had amazing moments with Jim.

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It was very real. Whether I
made it up in my head or or

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you know, there's another level of
connection. But I'll tell you. One

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night, we're playing Prague in its
amazing theater. It was massive theater,

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and I remember going up to the
microphone and something that speaking to me and

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say stop, you know, don't
don't stop, don't say anything, don't

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do anything. Just stay here,
stay with me, sick and just close

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your eyes held the music. None'll
just stop wait wait wait, you know,

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and Ray's looking at me. I
know he's watching me every night.

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He's facing me way to the way
he set, you know. And then

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it was one moment it was just
okay, now staying and then it was

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random music. So it was just
it's just magic, and I know everyone

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felt that. Everyone felt m That
was one of if you read some of

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the reviews, that was one of
the most powerful. How would I say,

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tours that I've done right? It
was really sense. It was beautiful,

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beautiful, thank you, because there
was there was something more. There

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was a spiritual aspect to it.
One of the things that we talk a

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lot about. We do recognize music
today. We do recognize that there are

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a lot of wonderful musicians. However, we also do recognize that music when

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it started, whether you're talking about
the doors to the Rolling Stones, to

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any bands in the eighties, because
it was a first of their kind for

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us back then. It left a
certain mark and a footprint in our in

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our soul, and that's something that
I just you know, it's like one

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of those athletes that comes around once
every twenty to thirty years, and the

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same thing with music. We had
it so good back then. I agree

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with you what I think is,
at first of all, I don't think

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there's enough of people teaching the younger
generation of them, you know, or

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directing them, let's say that guiding
them. That's the word back in the

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day, and still today, that's
the way I write. I write from

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life experiences. You know. Bands, bands like all those bands in those

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days, they couldn't make a record
because they make they didn't live enough.

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You got to live in order to
make certain style of songs, you know,

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to touch the hearts of millions and
millions, you got to live it

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on the one band that I feel
has been gifted beyond I don't know how

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many gods or spirits were around.
These characters were the Beatles, you know,

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because they were able to write things
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I mean it's like so simple,
so well said. You know where

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it would connect with all everybody today
There it's a lot of confusion, you

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know, the kids and everyone.
There's this it's a it's a crazy world.

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I mean, everything's a free download. Let me get this free and

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let me do this, let me
grab this. Where is the life experience?

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Where's the moment of Where's that moment
when you know, back in the

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day, you hear a song,
the song helped you through your day,

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helped you if you were like suicidal, helped you if you were on drugs,

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helped you if you're you know,
an alcoholic, or helped you just

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give you love. When you were
with your first girlfriend the backseat of a

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car. It was just moments of
music that were just I guess I would

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say it was a deeper level of
connection. You know. Now a lot

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of the music I'm not saying today. There's some wonderful, amazing artists today

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as well. A lot of it's
just made a little too quickly. You

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know, let's bang it out,
let's say this is what happens. Put

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a little bit of this, let's
put it that's little bit of this?

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All right? There is ah how
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for today? And is it for
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that we've lost, and we talked
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experience, the experience of it all, because we all remember what it was

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when you heard for the very first
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with and then we had to go
to the record shop or or our nearest

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music store and look for it.
And when we you know, you're there

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searching and when you found it,
it was like gold and you looked at

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the back at the covers and you
purchased it. And it was listening from

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song one to song thirteen, fourteen
or fifteen or whatever amount of songs,

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and it became an experience we done. Yeah, And unfortunately today we have

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a lot of you know, you
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playlist and then you don't go outside
of that, and you miss out on

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the entire heart of the performer,
the artist, which is the reason why

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he recorded that to begin with exactly. Not only that, it's also the

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artwork. There's there's so much involved, you know, but first of all

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writing the song and then the experience
of leaving where you live, you know,

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if you're in let's say in New
York, a lot of people would

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elect, including myself. I wouldn't
want to make a record there. I

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would leave. I'll go to Los
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you know, and go to different
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of the energy of clarity, and
then you create. When you're finished with

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a record, then you make the
album cover all the art is. That

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is also important because it represents the
journey. It represents that, you know

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that why you wrote those songs,
what came to you during those songs.

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I mean, being an artist is
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and I really, I really see
it clear, and I would love nothing

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more than to you know, maybe
down the road that's that's my future.

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I don't know about grab all the
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know, the true artist as a
messenger, as a channel and information.

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But now there's so many it's just
ludicrous, seventy thousand uploads a day to

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Spotify. A little while ago,
I was talking with a broadcaster and I

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was talking to just flat out,
I go, you know what pisses me

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off? And this just happened recently
when I investigated like bottom line, what

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do the artist what do they get
from the streaming services? Because I had

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a young, a young fellow say
well, this is no. This is

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so much better than the eighties when
bands had it back then, because now

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you get the artist producing from their
own home, etc. Etc. So

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I started investigating and I came to
find out exactly. I came to find

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out that there was this this young
lady in Austria. I believe she's a

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violinist, and she has every single
month, faithfully, six hundred thousand downloads.

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And they're artists, didn't have a
lot more, but this young lady

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has six hundred thousand downloads faithfully every
single month. She it's made by Spotify

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twelve euros a month. Yeah,
if anyone knows this game better than I

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do. And I'm saying what I'm
saying, it's become like a dam scam.

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Okay, YouTube, please make a
video. Of course, what do

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they care? The more videos you
put up there, the more commercials that

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come out. And if you want
your video to be seen, well,

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I'll tell you what, you better
hit some Google ads. And if you

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hit Google ads, it's all about
the big ones are making the money to

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spotifyes the pandoras, the YouTube,
and this is what I'm talking about.

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This is where the true artists.
First of all, there's so many people

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in the way are making music,
and I respect everybody to make music.

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Please, you should be making music. But you know, when you have

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true artists that are struggling to be
heard or to be seen, we're actually

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almost jipping ourselves in a way because
we're losing out on serious beauty information songs,

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you know what everyone ever you wanted
can describe it. But there's just

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too much shit in a way.
I guess let me just say that,

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all right. I mean I've been
doing US thirty years. I've traveled the

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world extensively. I've been on stages, Olympic Stadium to two bars, and

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I got to tell you, my
heart is such I got so much firing

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me to keep going. But I've
never worked harder in my life. Yeah,

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and I am pretty well known a
lot of places, and I gotta

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tell you it's it's it's a lot
of work to break through just the fog

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of people. There's that there's just
so much, so much material and videos

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and that, and then there's these
you know, you've got so many people

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that are great on social media.
I mean it's at times I get sickened

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and overwhelmed by the amount of releases
that are out there by by everybody in

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there and their nephew who wants to
record, and a lot of these people

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they rather become famous than become an
actual artist, right exactly, because I

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will look as a true artist as
myself. Okay, I will tell you

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this. And I've been on the
floor several times during this journey, whether

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I like it or not, like
they just pull the rug on you all

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of a sudden, boom, everything
goes wrong, what happens all of a

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sudden, anything can happen, Okay, or you keep going because why,

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it doesn't matter if you're living in
a mansion or you're you're sleeping on the

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curve, You're still creating music because
it's what you do, it's who you

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are. That's when you're the most
happiest. And if you really are truly

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honest with yourself and you do what
you really like doing, you'll be happy

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and you'll be amazing at it and
life will never let you go or drop

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you. You may you may experience, you know, moments of pain,

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of growing pain, so to speak
what I call it, but they will

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never throw you to the curve if
you're honest. This is where it gets

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tricky. I just feel like,
you know, so many people who want

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they want to they want to be
rock stars. Not everybody's a rock star.

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You know, maybe you're a manager, Well then why don't you be

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a manager, be a damn good
one, you know, and help the

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rock stars who truly are because they
need they need you know, artists need,

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they need love, they need to
be understood, they need to be

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There's somebodies that are painting the ass. Let's let me say that too,

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you know, who are too cool
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But there's a lot of them there
that just just need to be that's

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what they do. They're like little
Buddhists. We got to treat them,

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you know, help them and help
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with us today we have steel Heart,

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Millienco Madievic. We were talking about
the music business in their very lightly and

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we talked a lot about what's going
on today. But now I want to

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talk to you about something that I
heard from Gina di Franco, otherwise known

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as Ginad the party Diva. She
mentioned this a little bit earlier, that

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you have a song coming out and
I believe it's related to peace. Yeah,

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I do. We did release it
already and it's growing. We're building

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it. It's growing very nicely.
I wrote a song called Trust and Love

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and it's two years into making.
When I started it was right at the

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pandemic and I wanted to make a
big course, like kind of like,

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you know, so the world can
sing it. And what I started.

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I originally wrote it for the unification
for the Peninsula of Korea. I do

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a lot of work in Korea,
and at that time, I believe it

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was always self fighting and I'm going
to drop this bomb and I'm going to

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do this and the human trafficking and
it's just like, oh man, you

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know, watching the news. And
I came by the piano and I and

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I sat down at the piano and
it was just like literally the first thing

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that came out, trust and love, trust in peace. I can't live

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untill I know I'm free. And
it was like, okay, well this

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is coming too fast, easy,
so let me just go with it.

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So I started writing it, and
I wrote in English, of course,

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and I put on my website.
I put the chorus up me singing it,

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and I reached out to all my
fans and said, hey, guys,

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please sing the chorus and send it
to me. I don't care if

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you're good bad, I don't care. Just give me your soul, give

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me your heart and sing it and
send it to me. And I got

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over like close to three hundred and
fifty people that sent me in their vocals.

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Some sounded great, something sounds so
good it didn't matter, you know,

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and some even sang into the phone
with it with a video. And

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sadly, one of the girls I
know, she came to my back stage

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so many times. She had cancer
and she passed away during that was the

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last thing she sunk, you know, my chorus, and I believe she

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died week or two after that.
So I did, I put everyone on

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the course, and the song it
just kept growing. We did. I

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sang it in Korean and it kept
building. And then I was like,

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wow, you know what, this
is even greater than just than what I'm

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thinking or what I'm doing. It's
just taking me somehow. It just took

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me to another level, you know. And then I said, well,

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why don't I singing in Croatian?
I was born in Croatia. So I

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sang it in Croatian. And then
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it'll leaves across the channel there.
I why do I do it in Italian?

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So I sang it in Italian and
then I was like, okay,

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I could see what's going on here. And then before you know it,

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then I did Spanish I did Chinese, I did Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese,

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Korean, English, there's ten Russian
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Yeah, yeah, And we released
the English version and you could see the

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video if you want to see Trust
and Love English version or Trust and Love

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Korean version. The video is pretty
intense. We don't really see videos like

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this anymore. This is like back
in a day, we would make these

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incredible videos, things that are,
you know, just really cool videos that

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people would spend money on. Nobody
spend money on videos anymore, which I

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understand because it's all free and it's
kind of like crazy, But I don't

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know. I did it because I
wanted to do it. It's my gift

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to the world. It's my gift. We had to see if I could

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raise the vibration, you know,
because I feel I feel a new world

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this year. We all know something
new is right in front of us,

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and we have one person testing our
intelligence right now. There's a quote that

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I found that came from you.
That is where you say quote My heart

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tells me the time is now for
us to rise to a new vibration and

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find peace in ourselves, the respect
for each other and then the understanding will

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follow effortlessly and quote, and that
is ground shaking. You know, there

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have been very few songs throughout these
decades that can move mountains, and I

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think this is one of those.
Well, I appreciate, thank you.

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I really really hope it reaches the
hearts of millions. All right, this

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is steel hard, this is Malienko
with trust and love. I want you

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to think about it. Close your
eyes because this is an inspirational anthem in

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support a global peace. Ship to
singly, free, color mastory, this

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stream of in the hands of the
can me breathe sick SI, dream to

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race. It's a word coming just
for open your heart, dreamt to three,

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to the place you all content,
but you have to own your life,

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open your eyes and open sin cho
sings. I can't t try,

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I can't I old true, I
can't to yours. All I can say

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is wow. One of the slogans
or mottos for Back to the Eighties Radio

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is introducing the eighties to a homely
generation, and I think that spirit and

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the soul, the creativity, the
compassion for something different, for change is

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heard through the song. I can
find no better time as now to be

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playing and singing this song. Oh
perfect, yeah, thank you. I

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mean, it's uh. I'm happy
that it's um that you see it,

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and I truly hope that you know
it catches on and the world sees it

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because it's um. It's honest.
Maybe that's the best way to say.

408
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It's honest. It's not it was
I didn't write this with respect to all.

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You know, everyone's helping Ukraine and
I really respect that, but I

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didn't invite it to jump on a
bandwagon, so to speak. I wrote

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this two years ago. This was
two years into making, just to be

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released now and again, like I
said, it's something else driving me,

413
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something else doing this. It's not
just me creating this. You know,

414
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there's a lot of elements that I
don't even know how came together the video.

415
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There's over seven hundred people in this
video that created this video. Yeah.

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I had Robert Altman Bobby Altman as
my first DP, who is the

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00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:51.079
late Robert Altman's of son. I
mean, really powerful people came together on

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this and that's what it's about.
The song is about the unification of people,

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putting people together and rising to a
new vibration. At time is now,

420
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it is this is it times kicking
guys, it ticking needs to live.

421
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It feels like a prophetic calling to
the world through music. Yeah,

422
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absolutely absolutely, that's exactly what.
And again, like when I was invited

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into doing the movie, when I'm
invited into doing an album of my own,

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when I'm invited to do the Doors, this was the same thing.

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It's like if I'm invited to create
this and I created it, there's a

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there's a forty piece orchestra on there. I mean it was no, it's

427
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not like a Again, I'm gonna
say this, it wasn't premeditated. Yeah,

428
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it wasn't something. Let me do
this to be the big hot shot.

429
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This is my gift. This is
it. You know. You know

430
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what you just said that you didn't
planet like many people would would would think

431
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if you start thinking, oh,
well, I'm going to come up with

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this big, big, humongous hit
that's going to unite the world, or

433
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it doesn't end up happening. So
yeah, you're absolutely right. So things

434
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had to be their destiny had to
call on you, and you take the

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00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.000
calling for such a time as this, they say. The thing is,

436
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.320
you know, when you do have
something like this, it's again it's really

437
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.360
interesting. You have a you know, such a song that's so powerful,

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00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.400
and yet you know, you sit
back and you just don't know what's going

439
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.639
to happen. You know, you
can do the best you can promoting it.

440
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It really needs to touch the hearts
and the most difficult thing is for

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it to actually be heard, to
be able to be judged or or you

442
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.719
know, accepted or not. You
know, and considering the amount of music

443
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.719
and things that are out there,
it's it's it's going to be very interesting

444
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to see how the song develops or
breakthrough on its own, because it's it's

445
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:59.719
in in life's hands. There's definitely
an ocean of different artifacts that are in

446
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:05.760
this social of music. Out of
these artifacts, there's always treasure that comes

447
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.960
and rises to the top. Let
me ask you this on a different note.

448
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If you have the opportunity, just
just one opportunity, one chance to

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do something over again back in the
eighties or when you were first beginning your

450
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:25.800
journey as an artist, what would
you do over? You know, you

451
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:29.519
know, I would like to do
many things over. The thing is this

452
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.199
saying what I would like to do
over? There's so many there's there's just

453
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.719
way too many other elements in place
to say that, because the first thing

454
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:39.920
that hit me right away is I
would like to I would like to do

455
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:44.519
my childhood over, okay, because
it sucked, you know what I mean.

456
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And and my my father was a
crazy man. It was always hammered,

457
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.719
you know. It was just it
was just like grew up walking on

458
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eggshelves all the time, you know. And I'm writing and I wasn't allowed

459
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to um because originally I started with
country music and Johnny Cash, which I

460
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:07.480
love, you know, But then
I heard Robert Plants scream and I was

461
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.800
like, Okay, this is a
home, this is me, you know.

462
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And when I went into that space
my father, it was just it

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was just a lot of work just
to be alive, you know, and

464
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:22.519
days and it was just like,
I would like to do that over and

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someone and to give me, you
know, give me support. When I

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see families and fathers and mothers and
they had their kids or whatever they in

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their music or they're doing art or
there, whether they're actors, whatever have

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00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.280
you, and they genuinely have given
them support to help guide them and grow.

469
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It's so beautiful. It's so powerful
because they build such a strong human

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being honestly, I don't know how
I came out the way I did because

471
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I should. I should have been
a crazy, drunk, alcoholic, you

472
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:58.599
know what I mean. But I'm
none of those. So I don't know.

473
00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.039
Maybe work backwards, but I will
say, Helde, I would love

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00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.599
to do that over again, but
not the way I did it. I

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00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:08.960
would like to have maybe I'd like
to have a father that was more loving

476
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:15.400
and help me, because I feel
I would have evolved and grew and penetrated

477
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.639
much quicker than what I did.
Yeah, it makes perfect sense. Did

478
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:22.280
you ever identify with the video with
Dee Snyder? Yeah, where the father

479
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.840
comes in and says, what do
you want to do with your life?

480
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.000
I want to rock? No,
I remember that. I remember that distinctly.

481
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.159
But you know, usually, you
know, especially in the eighties and

482
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:36.719
seventies, eighties, you know,
if you want to be a musician,

483
00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:40.039
immediately everyone thinks that that's it.
He's going to be on drugs, in

484
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:44.239
alcohol, and he's going to be
a loser, you know, And that's

485
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.440
what they're mostly afraid of, you
know. And it's the fear factor instead

486
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.559
of looking at the talent factor,
you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Steel heart Vilienko. It was a
pleasure having you on Back to the Eighties

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00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.760
Radio, and it was awesome to
get to meet you in person at the

489
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.039
Troubadour last night at the twenty seven
the Show, the Ultimate Tribute Concert.

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00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.119
I look forward to having you back
on the program to talk Eighties, to

491
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.599
talk music, to Talk Rock.
I appreciate you being here, all right,

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00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.239
thank you for having You're listening to
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is Steel Hard and their album Wait
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Now go out there and do something
good for society until next week, Chang

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here before release you to another changtastic
weekend and a chang arrific week I want

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you all to remember you matter,
you stay lifted, you stay gifted,

504
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:24.960
Go out there and stand up for
yourself, stand up for somebody else that

505
00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:30.280
can't stand for themselves, and always
stand up for something greater than yourself.

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I want to wish you all an
asta la vista, asta lawego, austa

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manyana, adios ariba sayanaa later Bros
Nio Thi, and to all my homies.

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And the laudio is all around orally
my hands already who before I can so