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Speaker 1: It's Richard Clapton. Hello, Richard, Hello.

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Speaker 2: What about you?

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Speaker 1: We're coming back to your new show State Theater. I

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Speaker 1: love when you perform at the State Theater. Tell us

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Speaker 1: what you're up for.

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Speaker 3: This year six to September, and this will be the

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Speaker 3: third year in a row. Mahalia Barnes is going to

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Speaker 3: sing yep and maybe yeah, maybe a special guest as well.

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Speaker 2: The last time you perform, they got me to present

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Speaker 2: some trophy to you up on stage. And I was

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Speaker 2: very mindful of it because they said do it at

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Speaker 2: this time, And I said, well, wouldn't we do it

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Speaker 2: before he goes off stage at halftime.

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Speaker 1: Because you have the time for his oranges.

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Speaker 2: Half time for the oranges and a rub down with

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Speaker 2: some liniment. They get no, no, no, Richard will be

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Speaker 2: into this. And then and I said, and you know what,

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Speaker 2: I never rely on musicians to give me direction with stuff.

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Speaker 1: Because who said that to you? The dudes?

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Speaker 2: They go no, no, he knows that the band knows

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 1: When were you told to go up though?

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Speaker 2: It's told to go out just before he played another song,

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Speaker 2: and you gave me this look and I.

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Speaker 3: Went, what what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: That was much gold record drop some acid and I

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Speaker 2: just appeared. So I'm sorry about that.

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Speaker 3: I was let us straight at what happened. We were

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Speaker 3: all acid.

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Speaker 1: It's for your ant acid for your read.

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Speaker 2: But everything's okay. I didn't freak you out that night

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Speaker 2: because I was so worried. It was a big unwielding.

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Speaker 1: I think it probably takes more than that to freak

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Speaker 1: Richard out.

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Speaker 3: It certainly does. The first compare ever was Michael Chug

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Speaker 3: who I recall going, yeah, I give him the best

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Speaker 3: years my ef.

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Speaker 1: He likes to swear. Yeah, what's the weirdest thing that's happened?

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Speaker 1: When you've been up on stage? Have you looked out

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Speaker 1: and seen pets or have you seen lights fall off?

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Speaker 1: What's happened?

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it's getting a bit cliche. The Nearly Young

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Speaker 3: story about when he was standing behind me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the story.

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Speaker 3: Well, I did this Neil Young tour in the late

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Speaker 3: eighties with six week tours, absolutely phenomenal, you know, a

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Speaker 3: highlight of my life. But anyway, I got on really

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Speaker 3: well with Crazy Horse his band, and we were having

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Speaker 3: a lot of late late nights in the hotels and

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Speaker 3: I hadn't yet met Neil. And we got to Sydney

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Speaker 3: Entertainment Center and I went to run off stage and

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Speaker 3: he sort of grabbed me and he said, do an

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Speaker 3: encore a man, do a note of song. So I

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Speaker 3: did another song and then it went over well and

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Speaker 3: I went to walk off and Neil grabbed me. He

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Speaker 3: had that you know, the big buffalo bill jacket with it,

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Speaker 3: you know, fringing and fringing and stuff, and he sort

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Speaker 3: of grabbed me and he goes, so you're a Ralph,

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Speaker 3: You're a bad boy. When are you going to let

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Speaker 3: my band go to bed? And then expleted expletive and

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Speaker 3: he threw his head back and he said, I decided

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Speaker 3: to rename my who are up?

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Speaker 1: Ralph never Asleeps?

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Speaker 2: And this is what you're going to see when you

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Speaker 2: Richard Clapton for the fifty years since your debut album

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Speaker 2: Prussian Blue. Feels like that thing came out yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Oh it does. It's like fifty. I was fifty then