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Speaker 1: Thursday. Mark's new album, Celebration, is out on Friday. The

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Speaker 1: band's also kicking off its national tour in Perth We're

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Speaker 1: So Spoiled next month with shows at the Sterling Arms,

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Speaker 1: The Childs, The Jick George, the North Shore Tavern, the

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Speaker 1: Railway Hotel, as well as gigs in Ravenswood and Bumberry.

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Speaker 1: Tickets are through Ticketmaster and Moshtics and ray this alth Way.

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Speaker 1: It is joining us now. Hello, Hello guys, very well. Now,

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Speaker 1: I love the concept of this album. Tell us what

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Speaker 1: you've done.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've called the album Celebration and the tour of

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Speaker 2: the same name. It's a celebration of Aussie music. Of course,

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Speaker 2: I actually didn't write any music on this. It's actually

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Speaker 2: just all Australian classics and some deep cuts as well.

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Speaker 2: And it's also a celebration of the fact that gigs

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Speaker 2: are back on stages and bands can come in fronds

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Speaker 2: and thongs to show us.

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Speaker 1: But you've given the songs a real thirsty merk feel.

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Speaker 1: And here's a couple of the songs on it. Who

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Speaker 1: listens to the radio? The nips are getting bigger, come

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Speaker 1: back again, Georgie Girl. Are these all personal favorites? How

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Speaker 1: did the how did the How was the process of

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Speaker 1: picking the songs?

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Speaker 2: It was a little bit of you know, getting together

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Speaker 2: in a studio. Basically what happened was mid pandemic. There

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Speaker 2: was a border closer obviously you might have heard of it, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Victoria and when that opened up, we went down with

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Speaker 2: our old producer from Sydney to Melbourne, got in a studio,

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Speaker 2: sat around trying to lift the morale, plug some instruments

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Speaker 2: in and do what we do for the first time

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Speaker 2: in a lot lot of months, and then thought, you

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Speaker 2: know what, let's pay tribute to the Aussie music that's

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Speaker 2: come before. Let's do some some big hits, but let's

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Speaker 2: also go deep. You know, there's Black Feathers, Seasons of

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Speaker 2: Change on there, a Rene tune, and of course Georgia

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Speaker 2: Girl was one of my mum's favorites. But yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know there's a who listens to the radio the sports

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Speaker 2: That sort of came out a conversation with the producer

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Speaker 2: and the nips are getting bigger. Our guitarist thought let's

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Speaker 2: do a mental mental track.

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Speaker 1: It was just sort of.

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Speaker 2: I always thought that was going to work with a

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Speaker 2: hip hop beats quintessentially yeah, it is quite essentially. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of it's been a really cool thing actually, because

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Speaker 2: you know, as a singer, you've got to sort of

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Speaker 2: get into the headspace of what kind of the singer

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Speaker 2: was trying to do storytelling wise, I guess, and it's

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Speaker 2: so easy when you're doing your own tunes, but when

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Speaker 2: you're doing other songs, you sort of got to think,

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Speaker 2: how do I interpret this? And it's sort of you know,

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Speaker 2: people like Sinatra were masters at it. They can make

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Speaker 2: a call it was written by someone else sound like

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Speaker 2: they'd written it themselves. But you know, it was a

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Speaker 2: bit of a newer concept for me doing that. But

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Speaker 2: it was a great challenge and really rewarding. It's come out.

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Speaker 3: Have you got so many bad habits?

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Speaker 2: Make?

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Speaker 3: Because Billy Field's Habits is on there? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: I know, I've got it. I've got to actually throw

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Speaker 2: that over to my dad. He actually used.

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Speaker 3: To play like.

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Speaker 2: The Bad Habits sitting out on the guitar when we

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Speaker 2: were kids, and so that's sort of how that one

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Speaker 2: ended on there. But I sort of thought, if we

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Speaker 2: can make this a bit more like a you know,

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Speaker 2: the murder Ballad kind of thing and actually throw some dark.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is called bad moody it up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: So you're going old school with a Mammoth twenty three

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Speaker 1: date tour and starting right here in Wa. So have

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Speaker 1: you been able to do much live stuff since those

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Speaker 1: borders were lifted or is this going to be the

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Speaker 1: real get back to it?

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Speaker 2: It's the real national run where we've actually got something

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Speaker 2: new out there on the socials and you know, we've

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Speaker 2: upgraded the website and we've actually got a release coming

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Speaker 2: out and all of that sort of stuff. Up until

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Speaker 2: this point, it was almost list to go and put

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Speaker 2: You know, we all experienced it, you know, whenever you

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Speaker 2: planned something, it all had to change and it just

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Speaker 3: And you know.

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Speaker 2: This is cool because it feels like we can actually

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Speaker 2: sort of at least plan for something and fingers crossed

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Speaker 2: people will all go.

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Speaker 4: I think we're going to be I think we're going

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Speaker 4: to be sweet mate. Madustralia really got introduced to a

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Speaker 4: freaky guitar player from New York cool with Joe Satriani

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Speaker 4: about thirty five years ago with Surfing with the Alien

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Speaker 4: and you played with Joe Satrianti, what's going on there?

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Speaker 3: Incredible?

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually got books for that run. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I haven't done a show with yet. Every tour we

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Speaker 2: had booked has been moved. So the first time I'm

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Speaker 2: actually going to go on the road with him is

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Speaker 2: in September this year. But he actually contacted me in

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Speaker 2: September of twenty nineteen and asked I like to be

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Speaker 2: part of the New World tour, and then, of course

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Speaker 2: so everything just went barey up and we had to

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Speaker 2: move things too into the future. But since then I've

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Speaker 2: been on a very animated text message thread with all

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Speaker 2: the guys in the band, Kenny Aronoff who plays drums

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Speaker 2: with John Foggin, and Bryan Miller who plays with The Aristocrats,

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Speaker 2: and Steve Vai and of course Joe himself, and so

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Speaker 2: we've sort of got to know each other remotely. And

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Speaker 2: in the midst of all those conversations, he's actually recorded

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Speaker 2: a new album called The Elephants of Mars, which is

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Speaker 2: out now, and I was lucky enough to play some

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Speaker 2: keyboards on that. And you know, I was touring around

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Speaker 2: during the pandemic pandemic in Tasmania in Perth, we were

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Speaker 2: sort of running away from some of the other major lockdowns. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and sort of made our way through from North Queensland

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Speaker 2: doing some shows over there, I was actually recording keyboards

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Speaker 2: on that very album remotely and sending him files over there,

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Speaker 2: and they were sort of putting him in ready to

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Speaker 2: be mixed. So that's all finished. Now it's up online.

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Speaker 2: Go check it out. Joe Satriani Elephants of Mars.

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Speaker 1: Two new albums. We've got to check out Celebration and

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Speaker 1: Elephants from Mars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I got to know, Ray, you look like you

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Speaker 4: may have a band shirt on today. We just haven't

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Speaker 4: look at you. What's the last band or T shirt

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Speaker 4: you wore?

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Speaker 1: Red?

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Speaker 2: Right, summer?

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 3: Summer, Johnny Stevens.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, Dragon, nice Dragon, Yeah, nice choice.

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Speaker 4: Just never wear your own mer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not right this morning.

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Speaker 3: It's still a hell of a voice, blowsers away every

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Speaker 3: time we do. Oh yeah, well, uh.

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Speaker 1: The the album Celebration is out on Friday, and then

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Speaker 1: you will be in Perth next month. We look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing you back on tour, Ray very much.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Yes, I hold you to that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll set you up with a challenge to do

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Speaker 4: a guitar jo with Steve Vai and Joe Satri.

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Speaker 2: It's funny. I'm actually going over to Vegas. They've booked

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Speaker 2: six shows and I've got to do a keyboard master class.

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Speaker 2: But it's a thing called the G four Guitar Camp.

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Speaker 2: The whole bunch of parists come and stay at a

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Speaker 2: resort at the Hilton over there and they have sort

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Speaker 2: of daily master classes and it's I think people like

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Speaker 2: Steve Vai. Satur Is definitely there, part of the band

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Speaker 2: doing performances there, so i might see some jeweling guitar, but.

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Speaker 3: I'm not thinking run from those places.

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Speaker 4: It's so quick that sounds okay, sos rock and roll, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: rock and roll lamping.

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Speaker 1: All right, right, great chat to you guys.

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Speaker 3: Raceway of course. From Thirsty Birk