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We got dense rocks here live from a rooftop in
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a distant land. Andy, There we go, beautiful Skyline. I've
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listened to the new song it's called This Land, and
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I just got sent the trailer for Borderlands for tell
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me how cool it feels to be a rock star
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that's also now involved in a video game.
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You know, it's really cool because I just love the
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collaborations between different forms of art. And when you're making
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a song, you have such a specific idea of exactly
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where it's going to live, and to have that idea
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so radically altered it is always so exciting creatively. You know,
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I did not envision a bunch of people on a
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farm planet shooting each other up to this song, So
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it was definitely really cool to see come to life.
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Yeah, you said in a quote about the song that
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they were describing exactly where my heart lies rock and roll.
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That's loud, unfiltered, built for a foreign landscape. The song
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has that unhinged, wild energy, the one I felt when
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I first picked up a guitar. It's real, it's rowdy,
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just like the music I worshiped growing up. So my
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question for you is, what was the first riff when
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you came up with or what was the first idea
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of the song when they asked you to make it.
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It was actually the bridge of the song, and originally
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I had the bridge as the intro, but then they
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were kind of telling me that they had really been
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inspired by some of these more like spaghetti Western vibes.
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So the only I don't really take a lot of notes,
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to be honest, but that was a really interesting one
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because it kind of forced me on my comfort zone
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and I incorporated this whole western intro that really kicked
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the song off in a different and unique way. So
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that was really fun to do.
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Yeah, it was. When I first heard it, I was like,
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is this am I? Like? Do I need some spurs
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on my feet? Like what's going on? How'd you get
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yourself in the mindset to make something like that?
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Well, it's so fun because I'm so not a Westerner
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in any way, and I'm such a New Yorker that
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I'm just totally faking it, you know what I mean,
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Like I'm totally cose playing this other thing. And in
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a way, like case playing is just like it's exciting,
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you know. If you think about like British rockers in
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the sixties. They're all case playing American rockers in the
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South and the fifties, you know what I mean. And
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actually that form of imitation leads to some really interesting art.
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Yeah, absolutely, I mean some of the most iconic rock
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and roll of all time is that. And this is
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a really cool and interesting song in a very unique
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and very twenty twenty five way of music to be
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and released. You know, I'm sure you're an old vinyl
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head and like the physical media type of thing and
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to be able to reach people through the video game sphere.
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Ha.
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Just got to have you seen any new interactions?
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Oh for sure, for sure. Absolutely. I've had a lot
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of people hitting me up if you could just sit
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down the song. So it's really easy to find today.
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And you know, I'm always about breaking out of the
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bubble of rock and roll. You know, I don't want
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to only appeal to people who define themselves by rock
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and roll. I want to appeal to everybody, you know
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what I mean. I want to be like Queen and
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Wembley in the eighties and the Backseat not these are
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just people that love rock and roll. They're just people
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who want a good show and hear good music and
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to not define myself by genre and anything I can
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do to further that mission is so important.
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Absolutely. But speaking of live music, are we going to
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see out on the road? Are you on a tour soon?
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Oh? Yeah, for sure. We've got a lot in the
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works for twenty twenty six, A really fun show that
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I've actually working on all morning, and it's going to
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be really exciting and pretty pretty insane.
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Hey, you're the press release as you're aiming for an
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early twenty twenty six release of the album. What kind
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of influences I mean, we can't obviously talk about release date, title,
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things like that, but what kind of influences can we
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talk about out that went into this record?
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You know, Deka, I'm really influenced by everything musical and
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non musical, Like, for example, New York City is like
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a huge influence, like the electricity of the city. And
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you know, I really see myself as standing on the
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shoulders of giants. I love Queen, I love the heart
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of Bruce Springsteen. I love big, big, shamelessly big rock
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and roll that's meant to appeal to everybody. So the
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influences are those on paper, but at the same time,
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there's just a lifetime of personal experiences that pour out
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into every song.
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That's very that's very awesome. I'm excited for it. I've
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had the chance to see you play acoustically, which is
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one of the cooler things because it still feels like
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a rock show, and so I'm excited to see what
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it's like all plugged in.
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Thanks, it's very different the acoustic show, which I do
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not do often. So where did you see that? One?
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Was that in Vegas?
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That was in Vegas? Yeah?
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Okay, very cool. Yeah, see, I do so few of
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those that I can actually remember the one you were
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probably at.
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Yeah, it was a good time. One other thing that
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I wanted to hit on with your music that the
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stuff that you released last year. You did a collaboration
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with under Oath on the song in the Night? What
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was that? How did that come to be? And yeah,
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just tell me about that song.
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You know, I think a collaboration needs to further the
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song and further the artistic conversation of rock and roll.
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So I wanted to collaborate with someone very different from me,
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and we had a lot of mutual friends, and I
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feel like under Oath is one of those bands that
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has actually been around a lot longer than people think,
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because their music and their art is so real and
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it's so emotional. And I took a ballad of mine
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and they reimagined it, and it was such a cool
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thing to do because it's so untraditional, you know what
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I mean. I think if I asked you to make
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a list of one hundred people I should collaborate with,
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they would not even be one hundred and one, you know.
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And for me, that was just a really exciting flip
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on what I could do in the genre.
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Very cool, Well, Dez, I appreciate you taking some time
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to talk about the new song this Land It's in
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Borderlands for which is so cool and we look forward
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to seeing you out on their own suit.
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Thank you, dek. I really appreciate your time.
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We got dense rocks here live from a rooftop in
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a distant land. Andy, There we go, beautiful Skyline. I've
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listened to the new song it's called This Land, and
4
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I just got sent the trailer for Borderlands for tell
5
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me how cool it feels to be a rock star
6
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that's also now involved in a video game.
7
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You know, it's really cool because I just love the
8
00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.759
collaborations between different forms of art. And when you're making
9
00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.719
a song, you have such a specific idea of exactly
10
00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.320
where it's going to live, and to have that idea
11
00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.840
so radically altered it is always so exciting creatively. You know,
12
00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.200
I did not envision a bunch of people on a
13
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:48.079
farm planet shooting each other up to this song, So
14
00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.159
it was definitely really cool to see come to life.
15
00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:55.240
Yeah, you said in a quote about the song that
16
00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:59.159
they were describing exactly where my heart lies rock and roll.
17
00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.399
That's loud, unfiltered, built for a foreign landscape. The song
18
00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:06.920
has that unhinged, wild energy, the one I felt when
19
00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:09.959
I first picked up a guitar. It's real, it's rowdy,
20
00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.599
just like the music I worshiped growing up. So my
21
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question for you is, what was the first riff when
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you came up with or what was the first idea
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of the song when they asked you to make it.
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It was actually the bridge of the song, and originally
25
00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.680
I had the bridge as the intro, but then they
26
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were kind of telling me that they had really been
27
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inspired by some of these more like spaghetti Western vibes.
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So the only I don't really take a lot of notes,
29
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to be honest, but that was a really interesting one
30
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because it kind of forced me on my comfort zone
31
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and I incorporated this whole western intro that really kicked
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the song off in a different and unique way. So
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that was really fun to do.
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Yeah, it was. When I first heard it, I was like,
35
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is this am I? Like? Do I need some spurs
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on my feet? Like what's going on? How'd you get
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yourself in the mindset to make something like that?
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Well, it's so fun because I'm so not a Westerner
39
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in any way, and I'm such a New Yorker that
40
00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:07.200
I'm just totally faking it, you know what I mean,
41
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.560
Like I'm totally cose playing this other thing. And in
42
00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.120
a way, like case playing is just like it's exciting,
43
00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.039
you know. If you think about like British rockers in
44
00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.360
the sixties. They're all case playing American rockers in the
45
00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:21.400
South and the fifties, you know what I mean. And
46
00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.360
actually that form of imitation leads to some really interesting art.
47
00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.080
Yeah, absolutely, I mean some of the most iconic rock
48
00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.159
and roll of all time is that. And this is
49
00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:36.599
a really cool and interesting song in a very unique
50
00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.919
and very twenty twenty five way of music to be
51
00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.680
and released. You know, I'm sure you're an old vinyl
52
00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.879
head and like the physical media type of thing and
53
00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.360
to be able to reach people through the video game sphere.
54
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Ha.
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Just got to have you seen any new interactions?
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Oh for sure, for sure. Absolutely. I've had a lot
57
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of people hitting me up if you could just sit
58
00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.639
down the song. So it's really easy to find today.
59
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And you know, I'm always about breaking out of the
60
00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.759
bubble of rock and roll. You know, I don't want
61
00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.919
to only appeal to people who define themselves by rock
62
00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:13.599
and roll. I want to appeal to everybody, you know
63
00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:15.520
what I mean. I want to be like Queen and
64
00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.599
Wembley in the eighties and the Backseat not these are
65
00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:20.479
just people that love rock and roll. They're just people
66
00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.560
who want a good show and hear good music and
67
00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.719
to not define myself by genre and anything I can
68
00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:29.120
do to further that mission is so important.
69
00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.680
Absolutely. But speaking of live music, are we going to
70
00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:35.800
see out on the road? Are you on a tour soon?
71
00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.080
Oh? Yeah, for sure. We've got a lot in the
72
00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.360
works for twenty twenty six, A really fun show that
73
00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.199
I've actually working on all morning, and it's going to
74
00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.759
be really exciting and pretty pretty insane.
75
00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.319
Hey, you're the press release as you're aiming for an
76
00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.639
early twenty twenty six release of the album. What kind
77
00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.120
of influences I mean, we can't obviously talk about release date, title,
78
00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.520
things like that, but what kind of influences can we
79
00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.439
talk about out that went into this record?
80
00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.599
You know, Deka, I'm really influenced by everything musical and
81
00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.080
non musical, Like, for example, New York City is like
82
00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.280
a huge influence, like the electricity of the city. And
83
00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.879
you know, I really see myself as standing on the
84
00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.399
shoulders of giants. I love Queen, I love the heart
85
00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:23.240
of Bruce Springsteen. I love big, big, shamelessly big rock
86
00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.160
and roll that's meant to appeal to everybody. So the
87
00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.720
influences are those on paper, but at the same time,
88
00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.720
there's just a lifetime of personal experiences that pour out
89
00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:33.560
into every song.
90
00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.000
That's very that's very awesome. I'm excited for it. I've
91
00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:40.800
had the chance to see you play acoustically, which is
92
00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.360
one of the cooler things because it still feels like
93
00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.439
a rock show, and so I'm excited to see what
94
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it's like all plugged in.
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Thanks, it's very different the acoustic show, which I do
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not do often. So where did you see that? One?
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Was that in Vegas?
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That was in Vegas? Yeah?
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Okay, very cool. Yeah, see, I do so few of
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those that I can actually remember the one you were
101
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probably at.
102
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Yeah, it was a good time. One other thing that
103
00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:05.959
I wanted to hit on with your music that the
104
00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.519
stuff that you released last year. You did a collaboration
105
00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.120
with under Oath on the song in the Night? What
106
00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.920
was that? How did that come to be? And yeah,
107
00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:17.160
just tell me about that song.
108
00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:22.759
You know, I think a collaboration needs to further the
109
00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.959
song and further the artistic conversation of rock and roll.
110
00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.480
So I wanted to collaborate with someone very different from me,
111
00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.680
and we had a lot of mutual friends, and I
112
00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.360
feel like under Oath is one of those bands that
113
00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:35.680
has actually been around a lot longer than people think,
114
00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.680
because their music and their art is so real and
115
00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.079
it's so emotional. And I took a ballad of mine
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and they reimagined it, and it was such a cool
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thing to do because it's so untraditional, you know what
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I mean. I think if I asked you to make
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a list of one hundred people I should collaborate with,
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they would not even be one hundred and one, you know.
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And for me, that was just a really exciting flip
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on what I could do in the genre.
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Very cool, Well, Dez, I appreciate you taking some time
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to talk about the new song this Land It's in
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Borderlands for which is so cool and we look forward
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to seeing you out on their own suit.
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Thank you, dek. I really appreciate your time.
