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Speaker 1: AM on iHeartRadio. Burl. How did you get interested in

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Speaker 1: the paranormal end of this? Well, my father was a

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Speaker 1: pilot and he had the gliderport at Lake Elsin or

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Speaker 1: south of Los Angeles if you know where that is,

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Speaker 1: in the fifties, and he taught me to fly a

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Speaker 1: Piper cub when I was only fourteen, and I later

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Speaker 1: soloed in a Sweitzer one twenty six glider. So I

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Speaker 1: was always interested in aviation. And I can remember asking

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Speaker 1: my dad if he thought, you know, there was life

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Speaker 1: out there in space, and he said, oh, yeah, there

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Speaker 1: has to be. And then, as a young guy, not

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Speaker 1: even barely a teenager, just then I started reading every

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Speaker 1: book I could find on UFOs, and I read Project

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Speaker 1: Blue Book, and I was always looking at the skies,

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Speaker 1: you know, trying to see a UFO, but I never did,

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Speaker 1: and I've been interested in it all these years. Has

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Speaker 1: that influenced your music, the belief in the interest in UFOs, Well,

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Speaker 1: it really didn't. That I know of George. Up until

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, I had moved from Woodland Hills, a

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Speaker 1: suburb of LA where I had been living in the

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Speaker 1: music business since nineteen sixty eight, and I found this

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Speaker 1: book called The Lost Continent of Move by Colonel James Churchward,

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Speaker 1: and I ended up calling the band that we had

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Speaker 1: at the time Move, and we had a couple of

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Speaker 1: albums out, and in nineteen seventy three we told our

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Speaker 1: record label and our promoters and agents we were moving

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Speaker 1: to Hawaii because Hawaii was supposedly the mountain peaks of

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Speaker 1: the Lost Continent of Move. And so we packed up

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Speaker 1: our instruments and everything and flew off to Mallie and

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Speaker 1: rented a house on Mallie and we decided to go

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Speaker 1: up to the time of hollyochl a crater and watched

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Speaker 1: the sunset. It was a popular thing to do, and

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Speaker 1: they have an observatory up there, and so we went

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Speaker 1: up and we were standing there on the top of

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Speaker 1: the crater, and quite a few tourists were there, and

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Speaker 1: there was an older gentleman that was in the Navy

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Speaker 1: in the Second World War standing next to me. And

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Speaker 1: the sun went down and we were looking at all

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Speaker 1: of the stars, and all of a sudden, this blue

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Speaker 1: pulsating light came over the crater and it didn't make

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Speaker 1: a sound, and the guy standing next to me said, man,

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Speaker 1: he said, I was in the Navy, and he said,

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Speaker 1: I never saw anything like this, and it's not making

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Speaker 1: any sound, so it can't be a helicopter. And right

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Speaker 1: as he said that, two other lights came out of

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Speaker 1: it and went up on each side and they started

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Speaker 1: shining a beam from one to the next that formed

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Speaker 1: a tetrahedron, an inverted pyramid, and we were all just spellbound.

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Speaker 1: And this thing must have lasted for about four minutes,

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Speaker 1: and then all of the little lights went back into

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Speaker 1: the big one and it shot straight up and disappeared,

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Speaker 1: and I went, okay, I've finally seen a UFO. It

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Speaker 1: took all of this time, and then we drove down

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Speaker 1: back down the mountain to our house in Haiku, Maui,

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Speaker 1: and I immediately turned on the real, the real tape

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Speaker 1: recorder that I had. I remember those, and I picked

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Speaker 1: up my guitar and the song just came out, and

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Speaker 1: I recorded it and wrote the lyrics in the core

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Speaker 1: words down and that is the first song that I

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Speaker 1: can honestly say I was inspired by what I saw

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Speaker 1: to write that song. And I've written several songs since that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel have been inspired by UFOs or something.

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Speaker 1: I can't really say actually that they're transmitting it to

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Speaker 1: me like some people do. That it comes from somewhere,

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Speaker 1: and it comes so fast, and you got to get

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Speaker 1: it down real quick. And I once met John Lennon

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Speaker 1: in the second Oh did You How Cool? At my

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Speaker 1: friend Harry Nelson's house in Hollywood at a party, and

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Speaker 1: I got to talk to him for about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: George Yes, and Harry put me on the spot. I'd

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Speaker 1: just flown over from Malie. He said, this is my

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Speaker 1: friend Merle and he's gonna play a song for us,

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Speaker 1: and I'd never gotten nervous in my life. When I

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Speaker 1: saw John sitting there, my lips started twitch. So I

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Speaker 1: played this song I wrote called Honor Way to Hannah,

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Speaker 1: and it was talking about seeing two silver saucers while

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Speaker 1: driving this beautiful road out in the jungle with cascading

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Speaker 1: waterfalls on one side in the ocean on the other.

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Speaker 1: And as soon as I finished the song, John said,

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Speaker 1: that is very interesting. What inspired that? And then the

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Speaker 1: ice was kind of broken and we took a break

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Speaker 1: and I got to talk to him for about fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 1: and he brought up the fact that he said, isn't

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Speaker 1: songwriting odd? You don't know where the inspiration is going

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Speaker 1: to I'm from, and you've got to get it down

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Speaker 1: real quick some way, either record it or write it down,

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Speaker 1: or it'll go away, which is very true, and it

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Speaker 1: was interesting. He called it automatic writing. He was ahead

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Speaker 1: of his time. Yeah, And so songs that I had

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Speaker 1: written before I had that UFO siting. A lot of

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Speaker 1: songs I had written that way, and I always found

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Speaker 1: the best songs came out. You hear it all in

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Speaker 1: your head, the music, and if it's lyrics, you hear

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Speaker 1: the lyrics, and then you got to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to play it on the guitar or a piano and

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Speaker 1: you know, transcribe it somehow or something. Can you know,

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Speaker 1: the radio could come on or something and it would

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Speaker 1: like be erased from your mind. And so those songs

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Speaker 1: that I wrote before that, as I started out an

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Speaker 1: instrumental surf, they were inspired. I felt by the ocean

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Speaker 1: and different things. Something always inspired him. But that one

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Speaker 1: song Calling from a Star, which is on this new

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Speaker 1: Eclectia album, I really feel was inspired by a UFO.

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Speaker 1: How many people realize when they listen to your music

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Speaker 1: that it was inspired by these paranormal events? Oh so many, George.

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Speaker 1: When I was on Coast to Coast I think it

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Speaker 1: was twenty thirteen with John b. Well, that's right, that's

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Speaker 1: about six I'm going I'm almost six years ago. Geez. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I got eight hundred and sixty emails after that, and

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Speaker 1: they were all about people asking me about UFOs and

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Speaker 1: sightings and telling me about their sightings. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of them were musicians, and you know, they get the vibe,

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Speaker 1: they know there's something going on. Listen to more Coast

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