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Speaker 1: Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Mark's new album, Celebration is out now and there's still

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Speaker 2: a couple of dates left to catch them here in Perth,

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Speaker 2: Friday night at the North Shore Tavern in Hillary's and

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Speaker 2: Saturday night at the Railway Hotel in North Fremantle. And

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Speaker 2: he's a man of his word. He's promised to come

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Speaker 2: and visitors here. He is rath this Elthwaite. You've also

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Speaker 2: got a road trip ahead of those two shows down

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Speaker 2: to Bumbrie, Yes, the Prince of Wales Hotel. Yepday that

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Speaker 2: Bumbrie would welcome you with open arms.

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Speaker 3: It's always a fun place to play. Yeah, it's an

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Speaker 3: absolute institution, the old Prince down there.

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Speaker 4: Ye, and they'd love a celebration mate, And why not

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Speaker 4: take the album called Celebration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're down down there. And then yep, Hillary's and Frio.

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Speaker 2: Is always great exact Frios Freer were when we last

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Speaker 2: spoke to you not too long ago.

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Speaker 1: You were just about to release Celebration. How's the reception

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Speaker 1: been It's been good.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Yeah, just yeah, I just got it out there.

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Speaker 3: We thought we'd go with Darryl Braithwaite cover As the

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Speaker 3: Days Go By as the first single. I guess after

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Speaker 3: listening to For people that don't know, the album is

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Speaker 3: actually celebration of Ossie music, so covers of songs, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and some some sort of well known stuff, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of sort of some deep cuts on there as well,

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Speaker 3: and the other part of the celebration titles about celebrating

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Speaker 3: gigs that have come back after a few crazy years.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Was there a seekers song on it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some classic it's actually a really eclectic mix

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's Renee Gayer, there's the sports who listens to

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Speaker 3: the radio John Williamson thing.

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Speaker 1: Of course it's from Mental one in as well.

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Speaker 2: Bigger. The title is we're talking about shots like thirty mills.

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Speaker 2: They started at fifteen mills and they got bigger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And Greedy Smith well truly from This's a big sweet Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, as we're saying, it's an album of classic

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Speaker 2: Australian tracks. If you could have any Australian artists cover

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Speaker 2: in the summertime, who would you love to hear do it?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is something I've never been asked.

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Speaker 3: Could be I thought I'd been asked all the questions

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Speaker 3: about that song.

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Speaker 1: It could be someone passed as well, so, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do you know who I'd like to hear singing it? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Renee Gaya. Oh I think you know we're talking like

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Speaker 3: maybe with the you know, when Renee was doing that

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Speaker 3: stuff with the sort of the Stevie Wonder rhythm section. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think it was around nine eighty she was over

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Speaker 3: there in Los Angeles working with these incredible rhythm sections,

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Speaker 3: great musics, although Harry Bruce was on base for a

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Speaker 3: lot of that stuff as well with her, and I

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Speaker 3: just fell in love with her voice a few things

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Speaker 3: on cassette, and I just she I thought she was

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Speaker 3: the underrated female sole vocalist. Yeah, from Australia and.

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Speaker 1: A great powerhouse. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, had be cool to

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Speaker 1: hear it in summertime, funky.

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Speaker 2: Soul Sobrano doing a jazz version.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she could do that.

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Speaker 3: She sometimes gets on the socials and says, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: She's complimentary about various that shed a jaz version of Mestrapart. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: she did get that.

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Speaker 4: And of course these days you're rubbing shoulders with the

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Speaker 4: likes of Joe Satriani, you know, yeah virtuoso.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Well, I haven't actually done a gig with him yet,

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Speaker 3: But I've had that many text message threads and been

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Speaker 3: in videos and yeah, and but yeah, all the touring

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Speaker 3: got moved till starting in this September, right, and I'm

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Speaker 3: really looking forward to that run.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be great, brilliant. It's hard to.

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Speaker 2: Believe that this is twenty years since, you know, the

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Speaker 2: start of Thirsty Merk. Did you have every intention in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and two, I've still been on the road

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Speaker 2: doing this in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Ah, I did. I mean, I'm one of those people

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Speaker 3: that likes bands that have that stick ability. My dad

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Speaker 3: used that term early on and he said, look, that's

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Speaker 3: the Yeah, I think they even formed in the sixties

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Speaker 3: Central Coast and the newcast the Plubs. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 3: So he was sort of talking about that. You know,

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Speaker 3: long after they started. But I sort of learned from

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Speaker 3: you want to think of it as a as a

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Speaker 3: forever thing. There's no reason to sort of end a

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Speaker 3: great relationship with great people.

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Speaker 2: That usually have a backup plan.

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Speaker 3: When you're rockstar, Well, you don't think of a safety

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Speaker 3: net being a musician. You sort of just get in

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Speaker 3: there and see where it goes, you know. But I do,

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Speaker 3: I do pinch myself every now and then go, oh,

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Speaker 3: wait a minute. It's amazing that it is, you know,

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Speaker 3: something that we can still take on the road and

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Speaker 3: people you know it still come back to shows. That's

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Speaker 3: very sort of humbling, and it's a flattering sort of

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Speaker 3: thing to think about. The people have, you know, sung

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Speaker 3: along with the songs and listened to it on radio

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Speaker 3: and thanks to you guys for playing some of the tracks.

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Speaker 3: And it's all of those industries working together. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: people's love of live music that's kind of gluted all

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Speaker 4: And they remember the lyrics too, don't they right in

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Speaker 4: front of you down there in the crowd, remembering the

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Speaker 4: word yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so I was going to make a joke,

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Speaker 3: there's probably going to be remembering the lyrics when I

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Speaker 3: forget the lyrics when I need to tell a prompter.

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Speaker 1: But thankfully I don't need one of those.

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Speaker 2: You come in handy for a lot of people, even

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Speaker 2: if it's just a prompt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a bit of It's is going to

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Speaker 3: But I was doing a solo set. I got a

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Speaker 3: guitar in itsmith. Yeah, And I headed over there and

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Speaker 3: everybody that was cool. And then I met Alice Cooper's

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Speaker 5: Family affair the yeah, and I was like, this is

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Speaker 5: the that's so Alice Cooper, the guy who you know,

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Speaker 5: like from the Waynes World thing where you sort of

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Speaker 5: think this kind of you know, sort of dark sort

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, probably seeing the high harmony, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's so good. It's a business.

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Speaker 4: At least I was talking about the twenty year thing,

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Speaker 4: and we both at least put me onto a doco recently,

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Speaker 4: which was the Woodstock ninety nine, the disaster of that

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Speaker 4: gig and all those heavy rock acts with all those

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Speaker 4: But the one thing that one of the things that

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Speaker 4: that bizarre?

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Speaker 1: Things have changed so quickly. Would have been worse with

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, well, you know back then, I'm

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Speaker 3: probably still still holding up cigarette lights and the actual

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, the handing out candles. One group were handing out candles.

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Speaker 4: Think it was a good idea, and then everything started

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Speaker 4: getting burned. Didn't go well at all public liability special.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but things have changed a lot, and even just

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Speaker 3: I mean actually I was talking to someone about this

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Speaker 3: We were sort of one foot in the camp where

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Speaker 3: you were selling actual CDs, you know, the physical copies

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Speaker 3: of things, and then obviously the napsters and Lime wise

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Speaker 3: and started sort of monetizing file. Yeah, and it is interesting,

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Speaker 3: but you know the one there are sort of mainstays.

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Speaker 3: People still want to go to gigs. People still need entertainment.

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Speaker 3: People do this to get away from the worries in

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Speaker 3: their lives. You know, they've got it. They've had a

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Speaker 2: Nothing is ever going to replace that, Yeah a lot.

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Speaker 3: It will change sound, it will change the way that

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Speaker 3: we consume it, of course, but it is amazing to

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Speaker 3: watch it evolved to.

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Speaker 4: Get to a gig and not have to be being

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Speaker 4: entertained by some kind of device, whether it's a small

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: And that's why we're so thrilled that you have got

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Speaker 2: your guitar with you today and.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do for us?

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Speaker 3: Ray, Well, I can do whatever you guys want us

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Speaker 3: to do. But I thought, if you want to just

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Speaker 3: hear the probably the classic in the summertime, I would

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Speaker 3: love to play that that I tuned the guitar down

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Speaker 3: at e flatform.

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Speaker 4: We'll call Renege, give a call, get her on the

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Speaker 4: boat right. This Orthwaite from Thirsty Murk Live next on

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