The 1980s - Rock Sugar Band & More

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The ladies and gentlemen. Boys and
girls, welcome to another rendition of Back

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to the Eighties hosted by yours Truli
Tusconwin Chang Chang here And of course neither

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one of us could do the show
solo. Why because solo fun is not

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as fun as a duet. I
bring you the greatest Italian out of Santa

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Fece Springs, the only Italian that
I have ever respected more than Chef Boyard,

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the man of many faces, voice
yes and yes, ask kissing.

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I give you Tuskey Tuscano. How
are you this evening, my good friend,

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I am wide awake and working.
It's great to be behind the mic

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here on the greatest eighties radio show
in the world. And of course we

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have to think no other our eighties
fans. We really appreciate you taking the

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time to listen to the Back to
the Eighties Radio Show every single Friday.

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We have some great things coming up. First of all, at the end

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of this month, the Friday before
Halloween, we are going to be having

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our Halloween Show, So make sure
you tune in because we are going to

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be talking about the scariest movies,
the scariest music, and frankly the scariest

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experiences we've ever had from the nineteen
eighties. You don't want to miss that

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show. A reminder to everybody listening
through any platform, we just want to

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ask you guys to leave us a
review wherever you listen to us. We

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appreciate it as much as I appreciate
Chang's hand gestures through the camera. Right

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now, A big shout out,
of course, as we always do to

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everybody listening here in the United States, every country that listens to us,

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whether you're in Mexico, Canada,
Central South America, Europe, the Middle

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East, to all those people in
the war over there in Ukraine. We

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have a guest that is a fellow
rock and roller as myself, a fellow

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sexy long hair as myself, a
fellow rocker who probably would agree with me

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in saying that most of your songs
suck. Wow. Okay, well,

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the hate starts early. Ladies and
gentlemen, Chuck Durand, the lead guitarist

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and co founder of the mashup band
Sensation Rock Sugar. Put all your plans

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to the side, because there's going
to be a lot of Toscano and Chang

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banter, a lot of back to
the eighties banter and a lot of rock

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sugar. So stay tune. We're
gonna be right back here on the one

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and only Back to the Eighties Radio
show. It certainly is a big bun.

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HiT's a very big fun, Big
Jeffy. It's a very big,

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fluffy fun. Why's the beef?
Some hamburger places give you a lot less

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beef and a lot of bun where's
the beef bat Wendy's. We have a

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hamburger we modestly call the single,
and Wendy's single has more beef than the

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Whopper or Big Mack, Like Wendy'd
you get more beel and less bun?

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Hey, I don't think you want
something better. Your Wendy is kind of

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people, ladies and gentlemen. I'm
Shadow Stevens and you must listen to Back

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to the Eighties Radio. It's the
low shock, your too blame, you

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give little a bad name. Trust
is on a mendician fay trove around and

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chuck it over, shoveling it out. I want to side you not.

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I might not be a man over. I just want to use shocking up

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to. I want to use shovel
to. I ain't come in a place,

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not some time, to wait,
to win, to travel, You're

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not to anything, staying, not
to keep in mind, to cover.

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I just want you should love to
I don't want to lose your love to

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your looney who There's no way to
run. No one can't save me in

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the dammage, shot the heart,
your to name. You can't love a

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bad name. My plan a day. You can't love a bad name when

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you shot the horse and your to
blame. You can't love a bad name

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and blame your games a bad names
on a bad a bad name. I

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want to say a bad name.
I just want to use to show to

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lose your love son shot, want
to lose your love Tonight From the album

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Readventure that was Rock Sugar and the
amazing mashup You Give your Love a Bad

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Name. Our special guest today is
the lead guitarist and co founder of this

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sensational band, Rock Sugar, and
is recognized as the LAS and now Florida's

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most sought after voiceover producer and director, the one and only Chuck Duran.

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Chuck, I want us to get
right into this, so let's go back

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to a magical time that started off
somewhere in the eighties for you. I

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don't know where, where were you? And how did this all come to

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me? Just to go back,
really back. So when I was thirteen

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years old, I moved from Florida
to Los Angeles. My sister had gotten

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married and she's much older than I
am. She had a couple of kids.

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She moved to LA and I convinced
my parents to let me move to

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LA with her if she would have
me and help her out and stuff,

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because that's where rock and roll was, right. All the magazines that I

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used to read back then said,
man, if you're not in LA,

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forget about it. So I convinced
her to let me come to Los Angeles

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and live there. And I was
thirteen years old and I remember that and

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that's all I did. So there
was no voiceover then. I didn't even

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know what voiceover was, right,
So it was just all about music.

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I was thirteen and I wanted to
be a rock star. That's all I

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knew. And so, you know, I started, you know, forming

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a band, you know, and
and talking to some people that I met

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in school. And I was really
shy, so this was painful for me.

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I'm not shy anymore, but I
was yely shy, and so I

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would ask people, hey, man, you do you know like a rock

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singer, you know, somebody like
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know, and somebody like that.
You know, do you know you know,

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there's gotta be a couple of them, you know. And and and

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believe it or not, I met
this one guy in school who said,

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yeah, I actually do I know
this one guy who's exactly like Robert Plant.

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He's amazing. And then the very
next day when I went to school,

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I saw this long haired dude running
after this dude to tell me he

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knew the h this Robert Plant guy
putting whoop cream all over him and stuff.

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And they were like, you know, horsing around and having a good

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time. And then he comes over
to me. He goes, hey,

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Chuck, this is my friend Jess, who sounds like Robert Plant. And

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then they take off again. I'm
like what um? And eventually so this

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is Jess and Jess is Jess Harnell, right, who is huge in the

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voiceover world now in an animation and
all that stuff. Well, Jess and

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I, from a very young age
became really great friends, and you know,

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we started our first band ever back
in the eighties, and this was

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like just before like van Halen came
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eighty two eighty three, you know
what, dude, I don't even know

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the exact year, but I know
that it was just before van Halen came

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out. And I don't know if
you can remember back then, but when

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van Halen one came out that record, it was like the world was flipped

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upside down. You know, everything
that you knew about rock and roll had

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changed forever. And I remember the
first time I heard van Halen on the

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radio. No, no, no, no, that's not how it happened.

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So my drummer at the time,
I came to a rehearsal and he

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says, dude, sit down,
and I sat down. He goes,

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you got to hear this, and
he puts on a record and he puts

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on Eruption by Eddie van Halen because
he had gotten the record. I didn't

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know anything about van Halen until this
point, and then he puts it on

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and I listened to it, and
I go like, what the hell is

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that? I literally my brain exploded, right So then I went out and

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bought that record right away, and
not so so my memory of the eighties

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is nothing but like great music,
fun times, happy times. We were

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in a really, really weird situation
because my only responsibility was school, right

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because I was so young, and
then everything else. If you got everything

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done in school, then you could
just do whatever you want. You know,

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those were different times. You know, people weren't trying to kill you

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when you left your house. You
know, card weren't trying to run you

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over. You know, this was
back in the day when you can stick

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your finger out and hitchhike and some
nice person, somebody'll pick you up.

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Yeah, yeah, where are you
going. I'm going three miles down the

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road to blah blah. Sure,
come on in, I'll take you,

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you know. And it was and
it was cool, it was fine,

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nothing could happen, um and uh. But man, that's my first recollection

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of like when I was like,
oh my god, this is the eighties,

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because right after that I got so
into you know, you know metal

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and all those you know, uh
eighties metal bands, and and all of

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a sudden, one after the other
just started coming out and I was just

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like, whoa, whoa, what's
happening here? Um and uh. And

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so that's my first recollection of like
eighties, the eighties in a nutshell was

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the soundtrack of our life. If
we grew up then, and music was

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just such a big part of all
of our lives. We grew up with

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it, and it's so ingrained in
our soul. It's music that I believe

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that we're still ahead of its own
time. Not only that, Mario,

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I mean when you think about it, and you know, I know that,

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you know, maybe other people say
this about genres a daylike, but

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you know, I like all genres
of music. Now you know, we're

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older, so we've learned to appreciate
a little bit of everything, right,

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I mean, you know, rap, R and B metal, you know

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rock punk, you know, jazz, blues, whatever it's like, if

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it's good, we learned to recognize
it. But one thing that I that

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I can say, and I know
that you that you would say this too,

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is that the bands from our era, you know, those those seventies

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and eighties, right, Um,
they had a signature about them, you

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know what I mean. Nobody's like, nobody sounded like Zeppelin, right except

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for Zeppelin. Yeah, you know, nobody sounded like van Halen except for

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Van Halen or Aerosmith or ACDC,
you know what I mean. It's like

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it's it was amazing how every single
band had its own sound and identity and

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and and style. And nowadays,
you know, I don't feel I feel

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that we're kind of lacking that,
you know, because there's good music out

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there. But every time that a
new band comes out, whether it's rock

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or you know, indie or whatever, I'm always thinking, Man, it's

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good and the song is good,
and the music's good and the performances are

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good. But anybody could do that
song. That's something very important, the

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identity of these bands back then.
That you can hear a band. For

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example, you can hear the intro
to You Two's where the streets have no

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name or with or without you,
you knew that was You two. If

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you heard the intro to Jump,
Oh my goodness, those synths come on

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you started, you go, that's
Van Halen exactly. For us in the

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eighties, it was all the first
time we were hearing this stuff. It

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was new. It was new for
the people in the eighties. It was

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new for the people that grew up
in the seventies, sixties and fifties.

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Our music was brand new. There
wasn't anything like it. What we have

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today is no longer new. No, it's old. There's a confusion today.

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Now you need eleven to twelve riders
to write one paragraph or one one

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line of a song. Oh,
back then it was just so so different.

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Let's do this. Let's take a
quick break. When we come back,

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We've got the awesome Chuck Duran,
who's going to tell us a lot

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more so stay tune. Oh do
you remember the first time you tried these

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games? Space fuck? Let's practice, Captain y'alexee. And when you first

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try and coke and you said no, thank you, But let's try and

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coke again, because once you got
that new wave of taste, do you

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want to try it again again and
again? No practice? Catch the wave,

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coca. Now back to good,
wholesome, politically correct entertainment. Oops,

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rog station No, Back to the
eighties with Tscano and che you're listening

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to Back to the eighties radio.
We are back with Chuck Duran from Vo

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Buzz Weekly Demos at Rock and the
amazing rock band Rock Sugar. Chuck,

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you told me you wanted to be
a rock star in the eighties? How

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far did that go? Let's say, transition to the nineties. Well listen,

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it went, you know, as
far as we could possibly take it.

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We made a few albums, mostly
released overseas. We did some recordings

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in the United States, you know, with with some big record companies.

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In fact, we were recording demos
when record companies were looking at us,

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they were thinking of signing us,
when Motley Crue was like next door recording

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you know, one of their records. So it was really that era where

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it's like if you were in a
recording studio one of the main ones,

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man, you were like some of
the main bands were in their recording all

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the time. But we never made
it really freaking big, you know,

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we never made it too. We
never became like rock stars, you know

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what I mean, until years later, like ten years ago. So my

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buddy Jess Harnell and I were literally
on vacation on an island with an acoustic

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guitar and we were doing like acoustic
sets during the day. The island gave

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us everything for free, you know
what I mean. We could stay there

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for free, we could eat for
free, we could go scuba diving for

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free. And during this time,
you know, we were talking and stuff

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and we said, hey, man, what would happen if like these rock

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and roll dudes got stuck. We're
stranded in the middle of a deserted island

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with nothing but a thirteen year old
girls CD pop collection, right, like

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these metal dudes are stranded with nothing
but pop records. And so we had

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this idea of creating something that mashed
eighties pop with eighties metal, and we

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got them drunk. And so that
was the beginning of a band called rock

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Sugar. And if anybody out there
hasn't heard of rock Sugar, I encouraged

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them to go to YouTube and just
hit rock Sugar and you will see tons

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of songs, tons of videos that
band. So we made a record of

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this stuff and we put one of
the videos on YouTube and it went viral

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like instantly. And so a week
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they said, hey, you know, are you guys signed with anybody?

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And we said no. And by
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were doing this for fun, right, And we were like no, no,

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no, no. They go,
well, we'd like to fly you

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out and we'd like to meet you
and we're like, oh, okay.

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So we flew out to Nashville and
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me an acoustic guitar when we got
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and they go, you know that
song you guys have on YouTube right now

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and we go, yeah, he
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on YouTube. He goes, that's
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Jesse and I were doing the harmonies
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and so we did it. And
by the way, that song is a

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mashup between Don't Stop Believing and Enter
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Sandman. Played that they loved it. They signed us on the spot,

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and our first show with that band
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we opened up for Lincoln Park,
and then we opened up for a CDC

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and then we opened up for def
Leopard and it was nothing but opening up

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for these gigantic, freaking naga bands
from the eighties, you know what I

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mean. And so at that point
we were like, oh my god,

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like, this is it like what
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We're actually getting now and we're on
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people, you know, playing all
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everybody loves. So I remember the
first time that we went to England to

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play over there in front of like
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nobody, how is anybody gonna know
who Rock Sugar is like? And Buddy,

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when we got there, the freaking
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you know, we opened up with
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and the crowd's going crazy. So
basically, Rock Sugar became the ultimate,

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the ultimate opening act for all these
metal bands. In fact, I remember

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there was an interview that I read
with Vince Neil from Motley Crue because we

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did a show with him, and
they asked Vince, hey, what's your

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new favorite band? And Vince Neil
says, my new favorite band is Rock

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Sugar. Nice. How did that
make you feel? When you hear?

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But it was amazing because you know
now it's like, you know, listen,

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we didn't write any of the stuff, but we did. We did

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crafted, like when you hear this
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of these songs mashed in and out, and some songs are like three songs

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or four songs mashed together. We
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the nothing is lifted off a record
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Jesse is so good mimicking singers that
we got well, one of the singers

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tried to sue us. I'm not
gonna say who it was, but they

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tried to sue us because they said, hey, you guys are using my

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voice on that song. And we
were like, actually, no, we're

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not. That's our singer. Jesse's
really good man, and he's like,

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no, I don't believe that that's
my voice. I know my voice anywhere,

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and that's my voice. So we
had to send them forensic recording files

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of just singing that the song,
and finally they were like, oh my

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god, it sounds exactly like me. And so they got really mad at

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us, but he was the only
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bands were like, awesome, this
is so great, we love it man.

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So that was rock stardom to a
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more rock star than that, right, And then after that that's when And

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by the way, this was when
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But see my life and Jess's life
has always been like very interactive,

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you know, like we've always done
We've gone through all the good and all

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the bad together from little kids,
you know, thirteen fourteen year old kids

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to like now, uh, you
were like the like the real Bill and

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Ted's excellent, dude, that's exactly
what it is, right, Yeah,

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it's Bill and Ted, you know. Um and uh and so back then,

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I remember when he you know,
when he started doing voiceover. This

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is way before Rock Sugar. He
started doing voiceover and he got he got

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this huge gig, like the voice
of Roger Rabbit, right, um,

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for Disney, and uh, the
the people Disney said, hey, okay,

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great, you're now the new voice
of Roger Rabbit. But we can't

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pay you unless you have an agent, So go get an agent. Pick

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one of these three. They're in
the top three and ten. And he

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met with all three, and you
know, he went with one of them,

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and his agent said, you need
an animation demo, man, right,

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And he said, okay, great, can you give me like three

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or four animation demos that you feel
are really stellar? So I know what

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I need to bring you. And
they said sure, and they gave them,

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you know, some demos they thought
were like, you know, top

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ten, And he brought them to
me and he goes, you need to

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make me an animation demo, right, because I had all the gear,

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I got all the microphones, everything. So I listened to the stuff he

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brought me and I was like,
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Right, yeah, like I thought
these demos were like horrendous because we're making

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records, you know, these demos
are being produced and like, you know,

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a little real to real machine with
nothing else. And so we produced

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this animation demo and his agent when
he got it, he literally said,

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this is the best animation demo I
have ever heard. Who produced this?

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And he said, well, that
was Chuck Duran. He's my buddy and

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he's the best. And so now
I have agencies calling me saying, hey,

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can you produce a demo for you
know, kind of like their top

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tier clients, right, can you
produce a demo for this guy and a

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demo for that guy and a demo
for this guy in all different genres?

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Right? And so I had to
learn the ropes of the voiceover world really

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really fast. I was like submerged
into it by accident. And then eventually

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I was like, I really loved
this man, and I said to myself,

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Okay, if I'm going to be
doing this in the voice of a

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world, I don't want to be
like, you know, one of the

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good guys. I want to be
like the guy exactly. And I know

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that that's bold, but you know, I didn't want to be mediocre or

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I didn't want to be doing something. I'm yeah, I'm just kind of

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doing it for money. I'm like, the heck with that. If I'm

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gonna be doing it, I want
to be the guy. I want people

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to know who I am worldwide,
and I want to work with big,

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giant talent, and that's what I
want to do. I want to go

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bigger, go home. And so
that's what happened, so so so producing

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demos and really really really and by
the way, this is something that I

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just have to say. During this
time, I was and maybe a lot

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of people out there will be able
to relate with this, but during this

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time I was battling a little bit
because here's the musician, creative side of

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me saying, oh man, you
know, music is my love and and

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and and producing it and writing it
and you know, I had been doing

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you know, music for like you
know, TV shows and movies and commercials

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and things like that, and then
that took a turn because the money you

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used to be really great there and
then all of a sudden it just went

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away. Like remember you remember back
then, everything kind of jingle. Well,

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nothing has a jingle now. Yeah, you know what. That's funny

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because when we play the commercials on
Back to the Eighties radio or on our

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k Hits radio, every commercial that
we played from the eighties, I go

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a second, that's different. There's
a jingle for everything. Yeah, there

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was a jingle for everything, and
so there was a lot of money in

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that and I was doing that right, and then all of a sudden,

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man, that started going away,
and I was like, damn, so

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then I'm doing then. That's when
I flip flopped into the whole you know,

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producing voiceover and all that. But
I was still battling myself because I

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still wanted to be a rock star. I still wanted to be you know,

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to be a musician and oh what
are you. I'm a musician,

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I'm a music producer, I'm a
writer, you know, and just be

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that until until that one day came
when I heard I read this little poem

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and not even a poem. It
was just a little saying as somebody had

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on a frame and it said,
wherever you're planted, bloom right. And

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for me, that hit me really
really hard because that's when I kind of

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like divided what I wanted to do
with where I was at the time,

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and I just said, and that's
when I said, okay, great,

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Well, if I'm doing this and
this is what I'm supposed to do,

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then I'm going to bloom. I'm
not going to be like one of the

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guys. I want to be like
the guy. And so I set out

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to do that and I did,
you know, I and I loved it

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because you know, through this whole
thing, so much happiness has come my

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way. And then when I wasn't
looking for becoming a rock star, right,

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then it happened. Wow, right, rock sugar. And isn't that

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the way things happened with? You
know Murphy's law? Right when you want

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something so bad and you do everything
you can, and sometimes man thinks is

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getting your way and it doesn't happen. And when you say, you know

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what, whatever, and you put
your attention somewhere else, all of a

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sudden, the other thing comes knocking
at your door and says, hey,

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well what about me, Yeah,
yeah, I'll do this for you.

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I'll do this. I'm over here, I'll give you this. If you

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know, it's sort of like you
were in years in preparation to do this

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by being in music, and it
gave you a out of the skills.

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But most of it, of course, it's natural talent that you have because

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look, I know a lot of
people who claim they can do, you

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know, demos, whether it be
music and or voiceover, specifically voiceover,

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but you have something that's very rare, so and it is just incredible and

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amazing talent to know what is because
everything you do is custom for the artist,

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and then you know exactly what they
need in that you direct them in

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a certain way, and then when
that demo comes out, when you have

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that finished product, it is literally
five diamond it wows people. Thank you

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man, well, I appreciate that. And by the way, that is

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by design, so that's not an
accident, right, I really wanted to

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do that. I remember asking myself, so as a demo producer, what

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is my job? And then my
job became okay, my job is to

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help people make their voiceover dream come
true. I know it sounds cheesy,

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but that's exactly what my job description
was to me. Um, I need

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to help these people in any way
that I can. I need to help

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them reach their goals, get a
new agent, get to that, you

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know, level up their voiceover business, whatever it is, right. Um,

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So I went all out. And
because I helped so many thousands of

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people do that, I got to
the point where I didn't have to advertise,

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Like I don't have to go to
voiceover seminars to advertise my business.

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I don't have to you know,
run ads here or there or you know,

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because it's all word of mouth.
I have every agent in town referring

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me to people. I have people
that I've worked with that I've you know,

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helped, you know, gain you
know, refer me to people that

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they meet. Um and and and
so you get to the point where it's

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just like you know that you're doing
things for the right reasons, you know.

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And that's what I love because now, like I said, you know,

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I'm happy I can divide my time. I know that I'm doing things

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for the right reason. I know
I'm gonna make money, but so money

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is no longer like like a factor, you know, like a thought.

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I was like, oh man,
I gotta make money, so I got

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to get a client. It's not
like that. So now my focus is

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just Okay, who am I helping
today and what can I do? We

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are talking with Chuck Duran, owner, head producer, director. Now are

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you still with World Digital Studios?
Is that your studio still? Well,

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yeah, it's my studio. That's
World Digital is kind of like my umbrella

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company. And then underneath that company
falls you know, Demos at Rock right,

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which is voice over demo company,
and then also vo Buzz Weekly,

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which is my podcast slash video show
like you called it like Jimmy Kimmel right,

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It's yeah, it's almost like it's
got that vibe and it's all about

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the voiceover industry and people like I
can't believe that some people don't even know

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about this thing, because we have
over four hundred video interviews on YouTube on

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our YouTube channel, vio Buzzweekly dot
com is our website as well, and

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we have interviewed literally the top of
the top in the voice of our industry,

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from producers to agents, to directors, to casting directors to talent like

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every talent and every genre that you
can think of, and the things that

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we ask them is are the things
that people out there in the voice of

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our world would want to know,
right I'm in order for them to have

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some success. But the common denominator, the common denominator is that they never

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quit. You can ask them all
these things that you know, some people

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had a hard time making it.
Man, they were living in their car,

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they had odd jobs and all kinds
of crazy stuff, and they wanted

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to quit so many times, but
they and then one day, bam,

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they made it big. And that
was and that was a thing, and

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that was the one thread that I
loved hearing about. It's like, Wow,

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never quit on your dream, you
know what I mean? Because if

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if it's really a dream, man, just keep breaking doing it and if

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you're great, then it's gonna work
out. You heard it here from check

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your End, vo Buzz Weekly and
Demos that Rock. If you want demo

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rocks, then you go to Demos
that Rock dot Com. Email me through

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there and then we'll get the conversation
started. I will say this prerequisite.

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I don't just do a demo for
just anybody. If you're thinking of getting

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into the voiceover industry. You should
be coaching first, you know, learn,

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learn. It's like, you know, imagine going to a skateboarding contest

413
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and you've never you know, wrote
a skateboard before. It's not going to

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go well. Well, same thing
here. Voiceover is not get rich quick,

415
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but if you treat it like a
business, it will pay you like

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no other business. Uh just finitly
a lot of money to be made.

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But you need to learn your skills, you know. And some people are

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like, well, I have this
really great voice, you know, wouldn't

419
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I be great for voiceover? Maybe
it's not about the voice anymore, you

420
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know. Now it's about being relatable, being real, being authentic, you

421
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know. And if you can be
in front of a microphone read copy.

422
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I'm going to rephrase the read copy, act copy because it's voiceover acting,

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not voiceover reading. Right, So
you need to be acting, which means

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you can't sound like you're reading.
But you need to display yourself. You

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need to be you. You need
to be genuine and that's really what's most

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important. And on top of that, if you have a great voice,

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then now that's icing on the cake. One thing, Chuck, that is

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going to stay with me is what
you just mentioned a little while ago about

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not giving up, because I think
that's the number one killer of most people's

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dreams. Check your and thank you
so much for spending time. I hope

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that the next time we want to
have you along with a couple of rockers

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on the show and uh and just
talk rock from from the eighties. Dude,

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that would be awesome. I mean, who gets sick of talking about

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eighties rock? I mean, come
on, first of all, I have

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to say something, Mario, thank
you for taking me back to the eighties.

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A little rock Sugar song here.
This is called Don't Stop the Sandman

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by Rock Sugar. Check it out. Oh you are shot a smart time.

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You don't need a lot of She
took a bi my trander with that

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shot to shit ut pull and raised
aside the chance and took aim in my

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train with you sitting in a smoke
cabom spill out and chamo cosponding to chanting

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myss on and at and aarted out
and say just waiting down the believe shot

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suchan she liked. He died just
to thought the best shining hiding some making

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mint to get everybody wants some time
somewhere somewhere some of the sites le movie

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goes on and strange ways without shine
suchanting. She liked keep just to finder

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by shining Si and Sue light to
share my thoughts. Ever never lived Don

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was shopping stream lights. Don't stop
staying Lighting to welcome. This is the

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one and only Back to the eighties
radio show. We are going to be

448
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kicking off a series of shows on
the history of eighties music. You know,

449
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the music started changing, people started
noticing all the changes. It was

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a time of definite change, technology, culture, world events. They all

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came together to form one of the
most innovative decades that has ever passed.

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Things were in certain You'll remember people
were talking about war going on enter nineteen

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eighty. It was the advent of
synthesizers, drum programmed machines. They created

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a whole new sonic environment. It
was a decade of competitiveness in music.

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Everybody started going at each other's throat. You know, I remember rockers used

456
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to go at each other to see
who had the greatest riff. Yes,

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you and you also had rocker against
rocker during an era of metal, with

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the glad metal against the I would
like to say ass kicking metal where you

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had two types of different male machismo, testosterone floying, those who favor big

460
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hair, tight clothing, moose AquaNet
wearing clothes that look like women and makeup.

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And then you had the metal where
you had just regular long hair,

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sneakers, tornoplevis, leather jackets,
getting the pit I don't wear makeup,

463
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and no, I don't dance.
You know those types like me. Similar

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to decades before the genres of music
started getting more defined, there was a

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clear distinct line between genres between the
rock star, the pop star, and

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the R and B balladist. All
these different genres they coexisted at the intersection

467
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of music and they were rarely mixed. Unlike today where you don't even know

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what is what. You knew what
you were listening to when you you know,

469
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:17.280
when you went to an R and
B station, you knew what you

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were going to be listening to.
If you went to a metal all metal

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00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:23.920
station, you knew what you're going
to be listening to. There was a

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value in music, Oh man,
I mean the pop area could hit everybody.

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I mean, def Leppard was bitten
by the pop. Aerosmith kind of

474
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danced into the pop, you had
Madonna who was dancing all over the pop

475
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and Madonna the queen of her style
of music and the choreography and the sex

476
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appeal and the dancing pop music was
Phil Collins, who originally was with Genesis.

477
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Tiffany. Of course in the pop, I mean pop was everywhere well

478
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into Carlisle Left, the go Go
go pop, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston,

479
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all all from Even artists that were
really really popular in bands in the

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seventies, for example, then became
then became soloists, for example Lionel Ritchie,

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Diana Ross. You know these these
became huge, huge artists in the

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eighties after having been huge in the
seven Bruce springste incorrect stuff of that,

483
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right, Yeah. And David Bowie, who could forget the late great David

484
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:37.239
Bowie, who, David Bowie alone
could be held responsible for such great,

485
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fantastic fashion in the eighties. David
Bowie forever changed every style from every album.

486
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He was like a chameleon of rock
and roll. A lot of rockers

487
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can't pull that off. You don't
see the Rolling Stones pulling off something and

488
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making it a hit like David Bowie. You didn't see Queen sadly, you

489
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:06.800
know, we lost Freddie Mercury,
so they were not able to gravitate to

490
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any level of David Bowie. But
other bands, like we had Roxy Music,

491
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you never ever seen them climb to
the parallel of David Bowie. David

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Bowie kind of fed fashion and rock
and pop because Bowie back from the seventies,

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Like you just stated, such great
artis from the seventies was considered pop

494
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:34.039
back then, but rock. So
everything that David Bowie brought out to the

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table, how many people followed and
how many people copied? That that's pop

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goddess right there, Pop King Kinghood. To David Bowie, I would say,

497
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you know, these are these are
things that we're going to be talking

498
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about in the next series of shows. But we did want to dabble it

499
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a little bit in that we wanted
to get our feet wet, to get

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00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.760
you ready for what you guys are
going to be listening to. Hey Chang

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00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:01.760
one of the other artists that comes
to mind that originally opened up for the

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Rolling Stones. He is considered to
be a rocker. He was considered to

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be a pop artist and an R
and B in a way, And I'm

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00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:16.719
talking about none other than Prince.
Prince. It's excellent that you bring up

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Prince because I heard in an interview
somebody once asked Eric Clapton who he felt

506
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the greatest guitar player was alive to
this day, or in fact, who

507
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.360
the greatest guitar player that he thought, because everybody at one time said Eric

508
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:43.400
Clapton is God. And Eric Clapton
said, well, I performed with Stevie

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Ray, He's gone. He was
definitely one of the greatest, he said,

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00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:51.719
bb King gone, one of the
greatest. Jimmy Hendricks gone, one

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of the greatest, he said.
Then I would have to say Prince,

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because Prince is underrated as a guitar
player, he said, because Prince is

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00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:06.320
kind kind of taken some styles from
Bowie Hendrix and incorporated his own sex appeal.

514
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.199
He says. But if you break
down the music and all the songs

515
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that he's written and all the guitar
work that he's put into his music,

516
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he goes, he's classified as the
greatest. So if you want to ask

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who the greatest guitar players, he
goes, I suggest you go talk to

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Prince. And when I saw that, anybod I thought, well that's that's

519
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.000
nailing it on the head because I've
been a huge fan of Prince and I've

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00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:34.920
listened to everything that he's done,
from his pop all the way to his

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rock to his kind of kind of
soul, kind of a little bit R

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and B Prince. I mean,
for sure, Prince is cut from the

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same cloth in a Michael Jackson and
a David Bowie and a Jimi Hendrix,

524
00:45:52.960 --> 00:46:00.239
but yet flavored with velvet rose petals, sugar and spice. I would say

525
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:07.000
the type of artists that Prince is, Prince I think was in a category

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00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.639
all by himself in the eighties.
I mean, he made the movies,

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the great albums, the tracks that
came with those, the sexual style that

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00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.519
he had, his sexuality, and
all the hot women that he slept with.

529
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But not only that, staying true
to the music, everybody that he

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00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:31.480
choreographed and had play with him was
a phenomenal instrumentalist. And that is because

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Prince himself was of that. From
the nineteen eighty four album soundtrack album by

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00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.400
Prince in the Revolution, This is
their sixth studio album with a song Purple

533
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:52.159
Rain that was Prince from the Purple
Rain album nineteen eighty four. It became

534
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:55.360
Prince's first album to reach number one
on the Billboard two hundred, and it

535
00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.320
spent twenty four consecutive weeks a top
of the Billboard to hundred for a total

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of one hundred twenty two weeks.
What a great album, Chang, what

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00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.840
a great song, what a great
artist. There's so much that we can

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00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:12.880
talk about the eighties, and so
much we still have yet to talk about

539
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.960
in the coming weeks in a four
or five part series on the history of

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eighties music. So you don't want
to miss a single show. I want

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00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.239
to keep reminding you guys to leave
those reviews and great comments that you have

542
00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:30.960
till now on whatever platform you listen
to, just takes a little moment,

543
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:36.199
just write us a positive review.
We would really appreciate that. Also,

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00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.800
we encourage you guys to go to
our merchandise page and get yourself a shirt,

545
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a hoodie, a phone case,
whatever you want. But that would

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really help us out here on the
show to continue everything. And you're going

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to have some pretty cool shirts and
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the Eighties Radio. In the meantime, don't forget October twenty eight, we

549
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:05.880
will be celebrating our Back to the
Eighties Halloween Show, so you don't want

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00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.559
to miss that. Lots in store
because come November, we are going to

551
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:15.079
be introducing two new shows under the
Back to the Eighties Radio banner, Banging

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00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:21.840
with the Chang every Saturday, that's
right, listening to the greatest music on

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00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:27.480
Earth, and another show on Mondays
with yours truly super Mario, So you

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00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.480
don't want to miss that as I
go through the greatest albums of all time.

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Then the meantime, thank you for
joining us. Keep tuning in to

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Back to the Eighties Radio. Once
again, This is Tiscano signing out.

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See you next week. This is
a chang before I release you, and

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we release you to another chang testic
week. Remember stay positive, stay lifted,

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00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:54.679
stay gifted. Remember You'll matter.
You have to stand tall because no

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00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:59.000
matter what you look like, where
you come from, what you believe in,

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00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.519
or what you are, you are
number one and you matter. So

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until next week, share the show. If there's anything that you want to

563
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.519
add to our show, hit us
on our social media. Hit us with

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something of your favorite song, your
favorite music, your favorite genre, or

565
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anything under the sun as it relates
to the Eighties. I bid you an

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adios, sayatana visa astelow ego,
and to all my homies from every bodio or