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This is back to the eighties Radio
Show with disconnelin Chang. Today, we've

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got a very special episode because we've
got guests that are going to be performing

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live at the Troubadour this coming Thursday, the nineteenth in West Hollywood. You

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don't want to miss that, Chang. I know you are an old acquaintance

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of the Troubadour and many other locations
on the Hollywood Strip. When you bring

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up the Troubadour, it takes me
back into the grade eighties when hair bands

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were destroyed metal and everybody was out
there just having a good time man filling

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the music, the vibration la rock
and Roll was born and alive. I

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remember going to the Troubadour and meeting
of the guys from RAT. I hung

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out with Diamond Dave at the bar. I see Sam Kinniston there, Cheech

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and Chong there the Troubadour. So
many great memories along with of Hollywood of

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the eighties. Oh my god,
the rock stars that I wanted to beat

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down to Askanno. The list is
well, if you've listened to Toscano and

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Chang here you know some of those
rock stars. So that is a story

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for a different day. I want
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to the decade of Decadents, Ratio, start Back to the Eighties, Welcome

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back. This is the one and
only Back to the Eighties radio show.

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As we promise before the break,
we have Gina DiFranco with us as a

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special guest. She's an executive producer
of concerts, but not only that,

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she's produced artists like Earth Wind and
Fire, You Be Forty, Bob Marley,

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Son, Kamani, and she's the
gal that makes the scene by turning

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concerts and events into spectaculars. And
she used to be known, of course

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as Gina D the party Diva on
radio in New York City with j Loo's

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sister back in the eighties with that
famous guy Rick DS in Los Angeles.

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And of course she's been on E
Entertainment. She's here today as a friend

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to great rock music, reporting on
a show that of course is opening at

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the Troubadour in Hollywood Thursday, May
nineteenth, and other cities in California.

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So, Gina, thanks for being
on the show. Oh, it's great

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to be on that. You know, you do such a fun job and

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I know you've got so many people
across the nation, even in Europe,

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listening to the eighties. Yeah,
it's surprising in twenty twenty two you've got

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so many people that love the eighties. I do want to let our eighties

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fans know that Gina, of course, is an executive producer of BWA r

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OC, which is of course The
Better World Awards. Can you explain a

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little bit more about that, because
I know it's a humanitarian rock concert that

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is going to be two Yeah,
that's the tenth year we've done the show

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called The Better World Awards, and
it's rock roc reach out and change for

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humanity. We raise funds and every
year we've done it in New York City,

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we've done it in Los Angeles during
the Academy Awards, We've done it

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all around the world. We're going
to be televised for the first time and

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everyone can just remember this. Check
the website out. We're building on a

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lot of celebrities, so humanitarian celebrities
and artists and figures who've been humanitarians.

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We raise money for hunger, for
the environment, for equality. And you

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get to go to the Pompano Amphitheater
in Florida next March eleventh, twenty twenty

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three. It's really major. Okay, it's a global show that goes online.

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I'm here to give you the undergrounds
on my picks for next week on

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where to go. Okay, well
you know, twenty seven musical adventure.

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All right? Now, this is
so outrageous for me because I was in

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Las Vegas and I asked the hotel
concierge. I asked people, what show

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have you seen? You know,
you're sitting around having cocktails? What show

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should I see? No matter what, while I'm in Vegas, I only

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have three nights. They said,
see this twenty seven a musical adventure.

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Okay, and that show is going
to open at the Troubadour on Thursday night

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in West Hollywood, May nineteenth.
Did you ever hear the story about the

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thread of the sixth artists that all
passed away at twenty seven? Rock legends,

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like amazing artists, they all passed
away. They were all rock legends

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at twenty seven. Who is it? Now? We can probably guess one

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of the ladies. It was very
long ago. We of her, her

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makeup, her whole, vein her
whole. She's more jazz and the other

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guys and more rock. It's Amy, she passed away at twenty seven.

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Yeah, this show ties together the
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twenty seven, and it's done in
such a brilliant way. And I gotta

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tell you, I was really a
skeptic. You think Jim Morrison is on

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stage and anyone that likes the sixty
seventies, eighties or ninety youth Because Kurt

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Cobain is in there too. We've
got an intro. He got a little

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rock history voice over at the beginning. I'm not going to say who does

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it. It's a very famous voice, and I'm telling you Jimmy Hendrix.

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He does do the star spangled banner
and let me say it's badass. It

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so people have so much fun.
You should see the reaction when they come

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out of the show. I really
resisted going, having produced the real artists

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and I at an eight, you
mentioned the artist that passed away twenty seven.

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You did mention Kurt Cobain, Jimi
Hendrix. You also mentioned Amy Winehouse.

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I believed Janis Joplin and the forgotten
hero of music that never got recognition,

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Robert Johnson as well. Right,
Robert Johnson, Now this isn't very

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cool The Rolling Stones claimed he was
the father rock and roll, possibly the

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greatest guitarist ever. He was born
in nineteen eleven, okay, so he's

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not quite up there with those guys
that we think of in the sixties that

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you passed on. But this man, and it's kind of poignant and it's

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a real twist. His birthday.
They couldn't find the birthday and it was

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confirmed May nineteenth, the day the
show opened. So he's an African American

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man that was really in the forefront, going traveling around with his guitar.

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And he passed away at twenty seven. So he got the Doors, which

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is always fun, right, So
those those six Oh did you mentioned Janice?

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Yeah, Janis Chaplin. Yeah.
The girl that plays Janis has the

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moves and it's subtle and it's right
on. I mean, we see a

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lot of Amy's all the time,
you know often, and this girl hits

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it on the on the dot,
so you cannot miss like in this show.

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And then there's an ensembo they all
get together at the end. It's

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it's just outrageous. It starts early, like seven thirty, Doors open at

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seven. I know you mentioned something
we were talking before the show and you

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had mentioned something about Janice Chaplin having
passed after visiting the Troubadour. Is that

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right? Yeah, we got all
these threads going on with the Troubador opening,

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so it's kind of pretty gonna It's
gonna be an epic night, Okay.

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Janice partied at the Troupe. We
used to call it the Troupe when

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she partied at the Troubadour the night
before she passed away. And Glenn and

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Don Henley met at the Troubadour in
nighteen seventy and decided to inform the group.

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I'm really pro on this twenty seven
and then it's doing a lot of

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Northern California, Middle California, and
they're also going to be in Vacaville.

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That's on June sixteenth, starting at
seven pm. Vacaville is located in Solano

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County in northern California, about thirty
five miles away from Sacramento and about fifty

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five miles away from San Francisco,
so it's within the Sacramento Valley, but

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some consider it to be part of
San Francisco as well. I think everyone

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that goes there it's going to be
really a soulful spiritual, not to be

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corny, but it's going to be
a magical mystery. Thank you so much,

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because if there's one person that is
like a bookie with one arm and

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three phones, it's you. See, you're so busy, and thank you

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for taking the time, and you
can't wait to see everybody. You're going

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to go to the show. Yeah, I'm going to the show. Yes,

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definitely, I can't wait, especially
because you know what this were such

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a broad range of musical genius throughout
the different eras. And oh, if

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we ever need some great music,
it's today. Thank you for joining us,

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Gina, this is thank you.
This is the one and only Back

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before the break we mentioned to you
we have a very special guest co producer,

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musical director and guitarist of the twenty
seven show, which is going to

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be at the Troubadour in West Hollywood
on the nineteenth of May. Doors open

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up at seven. Eric Himmel,
Welcome to Back to the eighties. Well,

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thank you, Marios, thank you
for having me. I'm really supposed

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to be here. Thank you so
much. How did this whole twenty seven

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show come about? Okay, well, I will try to give you the

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cliff notes version of the twenty seven
show. Sure, four to twenty seven

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show. We have to rewind just
a little bit because I had a Monday

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night residency at the will Simous Piper
Room in Los Angeles for six years and

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it was a variety show. I
featured twenty thirty forty of the top touring

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musicians, a list vocalists, I
had anybody that was anybody in music comes

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through a performing my night. It
was a very eclectic night, completely unrehearsed,

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and that was kind of my home
base in Los Angeles for the last

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six years. And you know,
I would go out and tour as a

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as a side artist and participate in
some of those things. And the reason

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I bring that up is because I
was doing this show for quite some time

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and the Kurt Cobain gave mascas who
you will be featuring on the show.

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Yeah, he was performing at the
night and he actually was performing at FUW

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Nirvana songs with some other tour musicians
and Jean was in the crowd by name

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of Rainy l Pa Trolley and Rainy
is a student of Adnance to Shogie the

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richest man in the world, So
Rayny was his right hand man and businessman.

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But RAINI actually for ten years I
always wanted to get into the entertainment

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business and with the writer out of
San Francisco, James Alsandro, they both

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had this idea to throw on an
event, movie, any type of project

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that was related to the twenty seventh
Clubs. So I actually had no involvement

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with the initial concept of it.
But Rainy was in attendance at my night

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and saw Gabe performing a few Nato
songs and it sparked his memory of law,

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I've always wanted to do this project. And Rainy is a big student

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of the Napoleon Hill book Thinking Grow
Rich, and he saw that as a

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moment of opportunity to revive this project. And we were put in touch myself

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and Ramie, and within two weeks
we created the entire live show, developed

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it, tastic, produced it,
and directed the entire thing, and did

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the debut performance. Actually March tenth, twenty twenty, this day before the

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World shut down was the last performance
of the Tributor Club and that is actually

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the real backstory of how twenty seven
came to be. We did one performance

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with two weeks notice, sold out
the Tributor in LA and then the world

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shut up. Actually the genesis of
this project. You pulled this off within

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two weeks with the group that you're
involved with before right before the world shut

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down, and today, I mean, you guys have come so far.

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Talk to us a little bit about
what happened next. Right, So during

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sound check, it was it was
quite interesting because you know, our drummer

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at the time, he was getting
text messages and you know, we finished

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the song in the sound check and
he goes, I just had my weekend

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shows cancel, and the bass player
looked at the song he goes, yeah,

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I just had tour cancel. So
as we were getting ready to do

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this massive show, everybody's just world
was falling apart, and somehow that night

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it was. It was just a
magic, a magic moment special show.

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And we filmed it with five cameras. We took the audio, mixed the

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audio, and we did a multi
camera presentation of the of the show.

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And that show was a It was
a two and a half hour show and

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not one person left. We played
the full versions of every song. We

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did three or four songs for artists, and we really did a The show

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was a little was quite different from
the show that we're going to do with

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The True Word next week on the
nineteen nineteen, and it's quite different from

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the Vegas show that we did.
So to get you to where we are

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now, and we're sitting around and
you know, the world is chatalley of

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this video and you know, by
June it's ready to go and we're just

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viewing party and watched it. I
was like, were we going to do

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this? And we sought we started
to see that Las Vegas was getting a

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little of looser, you know,
they realize that they had to open up

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and find a way to do some
business. And I'm like, Okay,

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this wouldn't be a good idea.
So around, I'd say November twenty twenty,

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we we just started cloth around and
Raymy, the producer of the show,

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he's a had a really long stint
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weekend for two or three years.
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helped get us to the right people
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that Raby was bringing a million dollars
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has a bad Yeah. Raymie and
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so it just made sense. And
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we were negotiating and all of a
sudden things would shut down again un there

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would be more restriction, so we
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paper until April thirtieth, twenty twenty
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twenty twenty one. It was the
fastest anybody that ever put in a residency

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show together within two weeks, once
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was created, light design was done, set design was done, performers were

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rehearsed, and we were in Las
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Virgin Hotel. Wow. So I
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the universe was basically blessing you guys
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and something that was going to bring
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lacking that knowledge of how music used
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it's quite interesting that even myself,
for a moment, I'm like,

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I'll think this is impossible to put
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put it together, and for a
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no way. But then when you
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and you see the end product and
you're determined enough, it does fall into

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place. And this show, for
whatever reason, has we've had hiccups along

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the way, but when it comes
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period of time, we've found a
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deliver it and it's it's world class, And you know, we had a

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lot of great reviews in Las Vegas. But in your second point is you're

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right. I mean, this is
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in attendance that maybe are from this
current generation or one before, never had

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the opportunity to see some of these
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as authentic as possible. We studied
articulous photographs and videos of their albums.

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I mean, we really did our
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in nineteen, you know, late
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Hendrix, and you know, we
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peop Because yeah, you're right.
I mean I certainly never got to experience

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any but any one house, so
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then you have, of course the
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believe is mister Johnson. Is that
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the original blues legend, So I
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dealta blues. He was the creative
Delta Blues. But he wrote cross

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Roads, he wrote saw Me and
the Devil Blues. He also wrote Sweet

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Home Chicago, which you know every
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played that Starra Classon is a really
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the beginning of the show and really
tired of it together because he's famous in

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the and the movie Crossroads with Steve
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Steve Why there are you? Yeah, So his legacy is not really well

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known by the people that listen to
any Winehouse, but all the other five

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artists in the show have a deep
history with the Blues and they all it

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all ties really back to Robert Johnson. And the show is you're taking on

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this journey and it's narrated by John
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how Kurt Cobain how his influence has
come from Robert Johnson in any winehouse and

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so, but Robert, you're right, Robert Johnson's overlooked, but he's the

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center point because the I is that
he sold his soul with the devil for

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his insane talent that he has.
Yeah, and if you're just joining us,

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and you guys do get the chance
to have a day off on Thursday,

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the nineteenth of May, I cannot
stress how cool how amazing and important

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it is musically for your soul,
for my soul that you attend at the

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Troubadour. What time, Eric,
do the doors open? I believe seven

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pm? Seven pm? Yeah,
in a show at seven thirty, you

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can somehow get your butt over there. I guarantee you're going to have the

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best time ever. We do have
some tickets still available, but Los Anderson

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is a very week up town,
so it's best too at this point.

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Jump on them as quickly as possible
when you hear this if you're interested in

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attending, because they will go at
this point, they will go much faster

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and we will be we will be
sold out. Don't go away, We're

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gonna be right back it back to
the eighties. I love the show,

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highly recommended. All the acts were
amazing. What was your favorite, Amy

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Winehouse? Of course, I felt
like we had ghosts from the past,

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like singing to us was loud,
it was boisterous, it was real,

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rattled you right off, rattled you
write up. It was awesome. All

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of them look exactly like who they
were representing and sounded even better. The

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show was ten out of ten.
Cobain was my favorite by far, honestly,

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it was the best I've ever heard. I thought that Hindricks. It

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looked like hindis greatest musical icons in
our history who were gone at such a

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young age. It's it's an amazing
tribute, really really good. The whole

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show, top to bottom of this
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I were here such a great night. I come down trick out twenty seven.

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You're gonna love it. Hey,
if you listen to rock and roll

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radio in the eighties, then listen
to this to Scotto and Chang, they

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will transport you in time back to
the eighties. This is the one and

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only back to the eighties radio show. We are talking with co producer,

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musical director and guitarist Eric Himmel,
And something that I really want to know

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is why you chose the artist that
you chose, from from Hendrix to Winehouse

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to Cobain, Why did you choose
the group that you have? Yeah,

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well, the you know, the
show being twenty seven. I mean,

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we tattle. There's this twenty seventh
club, this mystery big amongst all these

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extremely talented musicians that they all died
at twenty seven, an conspiracy theory about

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it, and we you know,
when we created this shows it's really a

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musical journey because you have you have
rock, you have R and B,

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you have Run, you have you
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you really go on a musical journey. And the interesting thing about shows,

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if you don't like one artist,
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So you know, it's really appeals
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we chose these these six specifically because
of the twenty seven death day, and

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and there's a few others that,
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We would love to have had Brian
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seven in the show. We don't
feature Brian Jones. We really wanted to

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focus on the famous vocalists that has
such a huge impact in society that the

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counterculture movement, you know, Janis
Choplin, Jim Morris and Jimmy Hendrix wise

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three. I mean, they have
such a such a huge influence in the

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world. And also all five of
the artists hig into the sixth one Robert

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Johnson where he he essentially influenced them
all indirectly with his original Delta Blues.

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And Robert Johnson only had I think
like twenty recorded songs, ever, when

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they were all acoustic with his local
and him, So we chow of those

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are specifically for that reason, because
while it's how they all tied into Robert

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Johnson and the story behind at the
story of the counterculture, of the story

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of how all these amazing artists influenced
each other in influenced society. Yeah,

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you know, it's interesting that some
of the members of the Rolling Stones even

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mentioned that Johnson was probably the greatest
guitarists of all time. So it's interesting

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that you bring that performers art to
the stage again. And it's so awesome

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that we get to enjoy that because
you know, as I mentioned a little

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while ago, we are so needy, we're so musically needy nowadays because we

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tend to just you know, we
live in a fast world. Everything's digital,

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everything is just convenience. Everything is
fast paced, and sometimes we forget.

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You know, there was a time
when you remember the times we used

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to go and shot for albums and
we used to spend hours looking through albums

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and covers, and music was more
like an experience for us for many of

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us, and now we have we've
lost that. And when I saw that

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you guys have this uh, this
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slowed me down and I'm going like, wow, what a great thing to

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bring the new generation something that they
can come and they can actually sit down

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and go, oh oh, this
is how it all started. This is

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how it all began, and and
and they all performed at a time where

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technology was different, how humans interact
with each other was different. So we

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tried to really transport people for the
you know minutes show, We really try

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to center them to what it would
be like to be witnessing these artists at

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that time. I mean, we
really we really want people to be lost

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in the music instead of just lost
in their phones and lost in this other

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distractions. I mean, we we've
created a very heavy visual show as projection,

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and so we it's very immersive to
the point of you know, we

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and we saw a great results of
our thing, and so you know,

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we tweaked the show over time,
and we really saw that people were very

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engaged to it. And you know, a lot of the older generation it

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brings them back to a time when
they were experiencing with music as children,

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and you know, we really see
and our goal is to is to have

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that be a total experience. Well, that's awesome that the reception has been

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proven that it's that it shows.
And a real cool thing that I think

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eric is when people are attending,
hey phones away, you can't skip through

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this playlist. You got to sit
from beginning to end and just enjoy the

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heck out of it. Yeah,
you are the guitarists. Now are you

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the guitarist for every set, for
every performer? Yeah? Yes. So

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the way it works is we have
a backing band which includes myself as middle

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director and guitarists, and we have
two guitars, keyboard, bass, and

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drums, and we stay up the
entire time and back up all these different

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vocalists and we're all, you know, everybody in the backing band. It's

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got you know, very very qualified
and a long list of credits that they've

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worked with major artists. So it's
you really you get the benefit of seeing

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some of the best musicians that Los
Angeles has to offer backing up some of

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the greatest singers and performers. So
that's how that's that part of the show

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work. And you guys are going
to be playing at one of the most

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legendary locations in the entire world as
well to Troubadour in West Hollywood this coming

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Thursday, May nineteenth. Get your
tickets now. You can go ahead and

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get in contact through us at Back
to the Eighties Radio. You can go

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through our Facebook, you can go
through our social media, go through wherever

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you can. But get in to
see twenty seven to show the ultimate tribute

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show. You're not going to regret
it. You're gonna love it. Mister

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Eric Himmel, thank you for being
on Back to the Eighties. Thank you,

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appreciate it. Thank you. We'll
see We'll see at the show.

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Yeah, we'll see you at the
show. It's gonna be great. Tear

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down this wall. If it's popular, we do it. Totally awesome.

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And now back to the eighties with
Toscato and Chay. Thanks for joining us.

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I'm back to the eighties. We
have a d now, Adi,

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can you help me with the pronunciation
of your last name? Is it ur

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Guelassie? Damn? You nailed it. Oh good. I was a little

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worried. You know, he's half
Italian, right, yeah, but I

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got but I got her first name
wrong. I said, it's a d

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I. It's either Addie or Adi
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It's Ad, which is even even
prettier. So you are one of

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the stars to twenty seven, the
ultimate concert that's gonna be live at the

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Troubadour Thursday, the nineteenth of May. We're telling everybody to show up.

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You cover one of the greatest performers
of all time, who happened to pass

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away at the age of twenty seven. By such an honor to see.

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Always been my idol, So you
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her. Now, Ad, what
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You and that you perform for the
audience big time, cry Baby, Oh

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no, that's a beautiful song.
Cry Baby, just such a such a

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heartbreaking song. Um. She's thinking
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happens for her, that she always
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almost did it, almost got it, but then it never happened. And

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it's just and also she's talking there
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with the audience, and a lot
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and I try notify. So I'll
bet that song and Summertime, Yeah,

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Summertime is amazing. Um. I
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it's it's incredible. During your time
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songs do you get to actually perform
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the show is nineteen minutes and I
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segment is around fifteen minutes. Songs. We do a little bit of a

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channing with the audience, some jokes
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and jokes. Who could pass up
a good joke? Jannis who was such

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a jokester and people think he was
so serious and so like, oh,

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I'm so saddle. The number two
doctus just all about the partying, so

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just making some of her chilliness that
she was doing on stage and interviews what

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got you into the whole impersonation and
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to be Janius, okay, And
I just was watching a lot of videos

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of her interviews and live performance and
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sounds a Jen Night that Eric Himmel
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lot of Jennis songs and that's kind
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it. And yeah, yes,
my dad was a guitar player and singer,

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so he was always playing with Jannis
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Floyd and all the good stuff.
Right onto your dad, that's the way

404
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:30.720
to go. What is it about
Janis in particular, aside from singing?

405
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.160
Is there something that attracts you so
much to her personality? Yes? Um,

406
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.160
I can really connect with her,
like how she grew up. I

407
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:44.119
was always the odd odd person out, like I like to be super loud,

408
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:45.839
and I wanted everyone to look at
me. But I wasn't really like

409
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:51.799
the most the prettiest of them all, or like the brightest of them all.

410
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.599
And I was always trying to I
was trying so hard, and I

411
00:33:54.680 --> 00:34:00.079
said I was like the best.
You know, it's hard to believe if

412
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.960
you weren't the prettiest of them all. Because, folks, I gotta tell

413
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:06.039
you, if you're back to the
eighties, Fand's got the look. So

414
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.199
there's no worries there, thank you? What did you say? Say it

415
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:15.239
again? Sorry? Hey, just
gotta would be like that eighties song the

416
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.800
Look of Love. She's got the
look, She's got, the look,

417
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:24.800
look oh Love. Tell us about
the show twenty seven, the Ultimate Concert?

418
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.400
What are what are people going to
expect by by going especially at the

419
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.719
Troubador such an important location, Truba
Door, That's where we started the show.

420
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.559
That was the first time the show
happens. Um, this show is

421
00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:45.719
about the artist musicians who died at
twenty seven. He starts with Robert Johnson

422
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:50.920
the rock and then Dennis Chaplin shows
up and Jimmie Hendrix and then um,

423
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:53.000
you know, it takes you to
the journey of all these artists of all

424
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:58.519
different timing, um, different errors. And he ends with Amy Winehouse and

425
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.440
all their tragedy and how they died
and telling of the story and highlights of

426
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:08.079
musics and the jokes and the heartbreaks
and the rock and roll and you thence,

427
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:12.960
you cry, you laugh, you
know, you use it's a journey

428
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.840
for your emotions. Basically, it's
such a good time. It's almost like

429
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:22.559
you are creating a visual musical encyclopedia
back in time of all these great artists

430
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:29.639
and their tragedies of twenty seven Would
you not say you said it yeah,

431
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:34.079
sorry, yeah, better than I
did, you know. I I think

432
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:40.400
it's fantastic what you guys are doing
because it introduces a different music genius,

433
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:45.440
a different mind of what music was
throughout generations, and it introduces it to

434
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:51.159
the newer generation. Do you find
that you guys have a younger crowd?

435
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:53.360
And I know that sometimes you play
in locations where only it's it's over twenty

436
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.760
one, But do you find that
you get a younger crowd going as well?

437
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.480
So I tell you why. At
the beginning, it's not with older

438
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.480
people. When we did the show
in Vegas, and then when it was

439
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.159
like people started talking about the show
and they heard that we have any wine

440
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:15.239
house in Kirkbaine, younger and young
gans people showed up in La is different

441
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.360
because La they know so much about
music and they're all about rock and roll,

442
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.719
so they really know about all these
musicians. But mostly the younger crowd

443
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.599
will show up for any wine house
in kirk Cobain. So yeah, sorry,

444
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.079
Sycamics. We want to thank you
for your time to be here on

445
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.079
Back to the Eighties Radio and on
k Hits ninety two point five. Let

446
00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:39.880
us know where exactly and when can
they find you? There at the Troupadore.

447
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.920
You know, who do you come
after? And at what time should

448
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:51.679
they be there at the show?
All right, So the show is happening

449
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:59.719
May nineteen, Thursday at the Troupadore
in West Hollywood. I think there's opening

450
00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:05.639
US seven pm, showtime seven thirty. You really want to get tickets before

451
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.920
because I heard the all the seats
are already sold out, maybe now extending,

452
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:14.039
but you really want to get your
ticket in advance because you don't want

453
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.039
to go there and then oh no, it's sold out. You know.

454
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:20.400
I forgot to ask you now,
are you guys available after the show or

455
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:24.000
before the show or at some part
or never to give autographs? We usually

456
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.000
do meet and greet after the show. I'm not sure what's going to happen

457
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.159
at this time, but probably will. Well you heard it, folks,

458
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:36.920
I mean d you are going to
be representing the spirit and soul of music

459
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.480
in the form of Janis Joplin that
night, and we want everybody who is

460
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.199
listening right now to head on over
to the Troubadour next Thursday, the nineteenth,

461
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:49.440
get there before seven o'clock, find
a scalp, or find somebody to

462
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.519
get a ticket. If not climb
on somebody's shoulder, look through the windows,

463
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.360
and if you can't do that,
at least put your ear to the

464
00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.880
door, because Jannis Chaplin, the
whole twenty seven of an Ultimate concert is

465
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:06.400
there live Adi. Thank you for
being on Back to the Eighties, Thank

466
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:12.199
you, thank you for having me. And again it's me John Agan floating

467
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.199
above your head. And I just
want to wish you the best of luck

468
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:19.000
on that evening, and I want
you to go out and remain to be

469
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.960
your soup and spread that vibe and
kick some royal button, have a good

470
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.119
time and remember to bring in the
rock and roll and penetrate everybody. So

471
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.400
all right, thank you so much. Now touch you a little bit of

472
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:35.440
trivia for some of our listeners out
there. Actually, October fourth, nineteen

473
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:39.840
seventy was the date that Janis Joplin
passed away. Now, oddly enough,

474
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:46.800
she had left the Troubadour day fun
fact or scared tech, I think it

475
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:52.760
was. I think it's a scary
scary fact, especially knowing that Janis Joplin

476
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:58.400
died of a heroine overdose that day. Anyway, this is the one and

477
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.880
only Back to the Eighties radio show
when we come back We've got another special

478
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:09.199
guest, another performer that passed away
at twenty seven only on Back to the

479
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:15.159
Eighties Radio. If they were a
laxative, they'd be so powerful you could

480
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:21.880
stand on your head and on the
ceiling that position will not only but also

481
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:32.079
and now back to the eighties with
Toscano and Chang. Welcome back to Back

482
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:37.800
to the Eighties, hosted by yours
truly, the ever so wondrous Chang.

483
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:43.360
And I could not ride this path
of greatness alone, No, alongside on

484
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:49.480
his trusty Palomino, as I ride
on my steed, my devastating Italian partner

485
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:57.360
who rides without asked his chaps backwards
on his stallion, The ever so beautiful

486
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:01.400
Tiscano esfentially when it's nice and call
old. Now, remember we've been talking

487
00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:07.000
about twenty seven, the ultimate concert, the ultimate tribute, and this rock

488
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:14.079
legend probably more famous now than he
ever was before. An artists portraying Kurt

489
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:19.159
Cobain by the name of Gabe Mascot. Gabe, Welcome to Back to the

490
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.960
Eighties. Thank you for having me. The world knows Kurt Cobain now that

491
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:30.519
we have you here. You basically
portray not only the physical appearance, but

492
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:35.280
you also put on his spirit and
soul when you're on stage. How did

493
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.800
you end up becoming Kurt Cobain on
stage? You know, it's interesting because

494
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:44.039
I remember the first time someone told
me I looked like Kurt. I didn't

495
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:46.079
even you know, I hadn't even
picked up a guitar yet. I just

496
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:50.239
remember being in a little kid I
was like nine years old or something like

497
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.800
that, and I had long hair. You know, this guy was like

498
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.920
he looked like Kurt Cobain, and
like part of me like already kind of

499
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.760
knew who he was, but like
in a subconscious way, because you know,

500
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.320
I was born in ninety two.
He was always on the radio,

501
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:04.679
you know, on their phone.
I was always playing as it was growing

502
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.280
up, and I just remember,
you know, when I finally actually discovered

503
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:12.199
you know, never Mind and all
that, you know, and I got

504
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.280
into his music and all that,
It's like, okay, this makes sense

505
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:16.760
to me, you know, and
then I fell in love with his music,

506
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.360
and I was like I wasn't trying
to look like him. I just

507
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:23.039
did, you know. I just
remember every day going to school, you

508
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:29.039
know, and in the school bus
just like blasting never Mind with my headphones,

509
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:30.719
and that just kind of became part
of who I am, you know.

510
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:36.360
So like when when Eric called me
to uh Chriticlebain on the show,

511
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:37.960
it was like, you know,
at first, you know, I thought,

512
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.639
because of what Kurt used to say, you know, I try to

513
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.280
be someone else, it's a ways
to who you are. I was like,

514
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:46.039
you know, maybe I don't want
to do it. But then it

515
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.840
was like, you know what,
that is part of who I am.

516
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.639
You know, I love Vana,
I love Kurt Colbain, and it's so

517
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.199
sad that he's gone, you know. And I was like, now that

518
00:41:55.440 --> 00:42:00.639
we also lost David Hawkins, a
very terrible said lost, you know,

519
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.519
very sad. You know, I
feel like that's even more important, you

520
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:07.480
know, to do what I do
for the show, you know, to

521
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.719
keep that spirit alive, because I
feel like that's something I can do than

522
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.440
I than I will, because I
love it. Now see that you portray

523
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:22.639
Kurt Cobain so deeply, and this
show that you're going to embark upon about

524
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:27.840
twenty seven and it brings out all
the great talents, but yet the tragedies

525
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:31.159
of everyone in this show, in
this realm of rock and roll, who

526
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:37.079
have passed away due to the dark
sides of drugs, whether it was harder

527
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:45.000
drugs or pharmaceutical drugs. It's kind
of been taboo that rock and roll and

528
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.639
drugs go hand in hand, and
so does Young Death. You yourself as

529
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:55.400
a performer, do you find yourself
ever wanting to show the newer audience listeners

530
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:02.039
that the woes and the whatnots of
drugs they should not embark upon, and

531
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:08.519
maybe possibly using times of tragedy in
a more positive way, such as music

532
00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:13.800
and other forms rather than drugs.
Me personally, I mean, I don't

533
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:17.880
really get into the topic too much
because that's a very personal thing for everyone

534
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.320
individually, you know. I just
think that people should talk to each other

535
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.039
more and check up on each other
a lot more often than they do,

536
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.880
because a lot of times you think
someone is doing totally fine and they're successful

537
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.199
or whatever, so they must be
hunt reality they're not, and you know,

538
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.159
now we end up losing these people
because nobody bothers them check up on

539
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:42.400
them. You know. I just
think that if anything, that's probably got

540
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.239
to say on the issue, you
know, because I guess that's the personal

541
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.960
thing for each of us individually,
and everyone goes through they're saying I hate

542
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.519
when people like you know, cast
out or marginalize people that you know,

543
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:55.960
do get a loaded or whatever they
do, you know, like doing drugs

544
00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.480
or whatever, just because they maybe
I want to work with them or whatever.

545
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:04.679
They don't want to you know,
Um, they don't. They don't

546
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.159
want to bother with it, you
know, And I think that's a mistake

547
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.760
because everyone you know has got a
lot of potential in them. Maybe they

548
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:15.639
just don't know yet, or maybe
they have and they realize that potential,

549
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:21.239
but they don't really feel like the
love back from from the community or whatever

550
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:27.559
it is, because of this uh
sort of like you know, it's it's

551
00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:30.920
just something that's looked. Look,
it's found upon nowadays more so than never.

552
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.679
It should just be talked more openly
about and accepted because you know,

553
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:37.280
a lot of people are dealing with
it and sometimes you don't even know,

554
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:42.199
you know, like I didn't know
Tayla Hawkins was sold doing that. You

555
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.159
know, so he was clean at
all, but you never know, you

556
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:52.920
know, in in that in the
world of entertainment where everything is so easily

557
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:58.000
attainable, it's uh, you know, some some people just find it harder

558
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:01.360
than others to you know, combat
certain temptations. You know other people have

559
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:07.880
different different temptations that they succumb to, and and you know, we should

560
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.920
all just take a moment to be
there for those that are quietly suffering,

561
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:17.159
because you know, those things sometimes
take a turn for the worst and we

562
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:21.920
all know what happens. But let's
go on to the lighter side. You

563
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:23.800
know what, man, when it
comes to show prep, you know so

564
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:28.719
many times it bothers me. Sometimes
when I'm cracking a line of blow and

565
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.559
smoking a couple of joints and have
about three or four shots when somebody tasped

566
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:34.840
me on the shoulder and says,
hey, man, get a hold of

567
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.400
yourself. What do you think you're
doing? And I have to turn around

568
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:39.440
and tell them, hey man,
it's called show prep. Yeah, I

569
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:45.239
am on a drug. It's called
and it's not available because if you try

570
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.719
it once you will die. Your
face will melt off and you trall them

571
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:52.719
all weep or your exploded body.
Too much. On that note, hey,

572
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:55.480
Jabe, talk to us a little
bit about twenty seven and what you

573
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:00.880
guys have in store. Talk to
us about your particular set and what your

574
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.159
main goal is, what you're going
to try to do at the Troubadour to

575
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:14.360
dry people crazy that night. You
know, as a fan, I would

576
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:17.000
love to have being able to see
that live with Kurt. You know,

577
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:21.639
I saw him play at cal Gym
two thousand and eighteen. I was actually

578
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.039
backstage hanging out with them up for
the show. Super nice people like Dave

579
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:29.480
was awesome, Chris was great,
you know, and uh, Anyways,

580
00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:35.360
I think that the main goal for
me is to create um maybe I don't

581
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.119
know if it's the right word,
but the illusion that you are there at

582
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:44.440
that time, that you're there watching
actually you know, Navana with Kurt Um

583
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:47.880
And because I would love to have
being able to see that, you know,

584
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:51.199
Like I said, I was born
in ninety two, so he died

585
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.000
a couple of years later. I
never had the chance to see that.

586
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:57.039
And it's just such a shame because
it's one of my top three bands for

587
00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.519
sure. It's Navana UM. So
yeah, I mean twenty seven. I'm

588
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:05.960
sure if the listeners are aware of
the concept now, but it's like a

589
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.159
variety of show. So you have
the same band and singer take turns and

590
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:14.400
I come up right after Jim Morrison
and then your line house. It's like

591
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:17.280
the closing like to act, you
know, and then we do another song

592
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:22.440
at Dan altogether. But yeah,
I think that's the goal of the of

593
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.199
the show, just like as a
whole, is to create that immersive kind

594
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:31.199
of like experience to where you kind
of feel like you're there at that point

595
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:36.000
in time. And it's, uh, I think it's a really cool concept

596
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.880
because I'm also a fan of all
the other artists, you know, Jane's

597
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:43.280
Jopling and you know hand rais from
all that, Robert Johnson, I mean,

598
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.400
come on, he started the whole
thing, you know, so it's

599
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.480
like it's really there would be a
part of that. I'm really proud to

600
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:53.519
like, you know, uh of
being able to keep that going somehow because

601
00:47:54.559 --> 00:48:00.519
especially nowadays, like a lot of
the bands and artists you see there along

602
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:02.360
Suit Track, you know, and
it's cool that we actually have a band

603
00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:06.519
and they're all killer players. You
know. It's like, yeah, cool

604
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:08.400
to have that backing me up too, and all the other artists, the

605
00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:12.880
singers, you know. So I'm
really happy with it, like I'm looking

606
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:15.679
forward to it's kind of like a
full circle moment because we started at the

607
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Tuba Door and we went to Vegas
to the whole residen see there last year

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and yeah, now we're back.
So and there's gonna be more shows seeing

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the noun the very Senjorum starting mid
June. So yeah, we're taking the

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show on the road. Man.
Now let me ask, I'm gonna give

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you some Nirvana trivia for everybody listening
and maybe for you too, Gabe,

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I don't know. I'm sure you
probably know everything about Nirvana. No,

613
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no, no, no no,
this is for everybody listening. So did

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you guys know that Nirvana has a
live on air album? Okay, so

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for those of you who don't know
live on air from nineteen eighty seven when

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they were at k a o S
Radio the Evergreen State College in Olympia,

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Washington radio and they did an entire
jam session live on the radio. Did

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you guys know that? But you
didn't, now, Gabe did not know

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that? Yeah, there's see that. You always learned something new about Nirvana

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now it's and I only bring that
up because the album covered two that they

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made it into an album, believe
it or not, because they they gotta

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make money, right, So they
made the similar album two if I'm not

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mistaken, the one with the baby
the never Mind. Yes, now I

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00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.679
bring you back to that album because
you remember that baby, Remember that whole

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00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:50.880
issue where that baby now as an
adult assuming Nirvana, they have never Mind

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tattooed on his chest or something.
I think he just got upset because he

627
00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.400
never grew into the size of his
penis, so he had to make a

628
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big ordeal of it and try get
some cash. I just want to dear

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take on that that whole issue,
the never Mind and the poor guy,

630
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you know, because he may show
up at the event and may want to

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call you out on that. You
just never know. Some naked guy standing

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there with a small penis with the
scent of chlorine, that might be the

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guy from Nirvana. You just never
know. What is your most favorite song

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that tends to your heart, but
not only that, the best song that

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you sing that appeals to your heart
and appeals to the audience is hard.

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I have to say Lithium for sure, because I mean it's a very dynamic

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song, so you do have like
a very soft bird chorus. It's just,

638
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you know, it's the simplest lyrics
ever. It's just yeah, yeah,

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you know, And I get like
screen that out from the top of

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my lungs, you know, and
then yeah, when you think it's gone

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high enough on dynamics, it just
keeps going even harder on the the b

642
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section of that, like a little
bridge thing. I like it. And

643
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then you know, just bobbing their
heads and you know, yeah, it's

644
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just such a great song, and
like you know, it's one of that

645
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:09.360
you just want for me to sing, to be honest, although it's like

646
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:15.079
very intense song, and I like
being able to let lose and they'll have

647
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:16.800
to worry too much about, like, you know, the way I'm singing

648
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:21.960
it or whatever, because you know, then I can just get lost in

649
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the moment and I love doing that. So I would say that when you

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00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.280
guys are up on stage and you
create that vibe when you make you put

651
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.519
a song out there, especially a
song that is a copy. But it's

652
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:37.159
almost like surfing your skateboarding. You
catch that wave and you carry it and

653
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.320
you it carries you too. However, it's going to move and you're going

654
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:45.840
off the motion of the audience,
and you add your own creativity. It's

655
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:50.400
like a musical wave. Wouldn't you
say they already know the song too,

656
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:55.639
you know, gave Maska everybody he
will be joining you and I and everybody

657
00:51:55.679 --> 00:52:00.760
else who is at the Troubadour on
May nineteenth. Gabe, I wish you

658
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:04.159
all the best in the nineteenth.
Go out there, biccol and have a

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00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.360
kick ass show and remember take that
vibe of the music to everybody out there

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00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.800
a live Thanks for coming on the
show. We'll look forward to seeing your

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00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:15.519
Gabe on the nineteenth at the Troubadour
in West Hollywood. We'll be back.

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00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.400
This is the one and only Back
to the Eighties. Thanks a lot,

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00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:24.840
Gabe. Hey, this is Laurie
Miller from the first an Original Expose and

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00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:35.480
you're listening to you Back to the
Eighties Radio with Toscano and Chang. Hey,

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00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:38.760
Eighties rock musicians and bands lost track
of the Eighties wants your tunes.

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00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:43.480
If you have a great song recorded
in the eighties and you think it rocks,

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00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.519
send an MP three and photos to
me Mario Toscano here at Back to

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00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.199
the Eighties Radio. We'll listen to
every song scent and maybe you'll be the

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00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:54.079
lucky band to be chosen and featured
around the world on our show Back to

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00:52:54.159 --> 00:53:04.280
the Eighties Radio. Welcome back to
Back to the Eighties. Chang Here Toscano

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00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:08.719
and Chang and we are ending this
rendition. I want to wish you all

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00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:14.880
a peaceful night. Remember to keep
those smiles up, stay lifted and gifted,

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00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.280
don't let nothing get you down.
To everybody out there in Christis,

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00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.960
remember tomorrow is a better day and
we all matter. I bid you all

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00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:30.199
on audios ribasamanyana, asta leavista,
asta lawega saya nada. And to all

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00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:36.960
my homies in the old audio ohs
Toscano want thank you guys for joining us,

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00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:38.599
taking the time to be with us
on another Friday. We bid you

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a pleasant weekend. Take care fo
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