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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wait, can't tariff from picks one O six. It's Jeff
(00:02):
Plate of TSO on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning, Jeff, good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We're good TSO in town one show only November twentieth.
Are you guys ready or in the process of getting ready?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We are in the process. A rehearsal start and another
two weeks or so, so we'll get at it really soon.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What are the rehearsals like? What is that?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And what are we looking at there? Well, it's actually
very interesting. We have an arena where So for people
that don't know, Transfer Great Orchestra tours with two different
touring groups during the good during the winter tour East
Coast and West Coast, so we have an arena where
both groups actually set up at the same time. Both
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bands are there at the same time. We take turns
back and forth rehearsing on the main stage. But one
end of the arena is TSO East and on the
other end of the arena's TSO West. So it is
quite the It is quite the spectacle. There's a lot
of people that there's a lot of things going on,
but it's really cool because it gives each band a
chance to actually sit and watch the show. You know,
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it's like the TSL West is the closest thing to
tso E. So I get to sit there and watch
what they do, and it really gives me a good
idea of what's going on the stage in front of
me and what it all looks like to the audience.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So are the shows so, you know, so well organized
that you know you could just you could so you
could go out west and play that that tour if
you want to do right.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I mean there are some subtle differences, but it's
it's all the stames that list. It's the same production,
the same flow to the show. Each band obviously has
a little bit of a different personality, but really you
could do that.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Well, it take one hundred people to create that set
in the stage that you got. It can kind of
be a ton of people. It's so big.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I think our crew, I think our crew is
close to seventy people. And then we and then we
pick up local crew breach each arena that we go
to each city. So yeah, it's quite the army that
we travel around with.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Jeff played original member of TSO right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Jeff absolutely original.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, you have a unique relationship with Paul O'Neil you
can probably get into but just tell me what it's like.
So you're you're in New York, right, you live in
New York, yep, So do you are you like resting up,
spending more time with the wife and dogs because you
know you're going to be gone for the next two months.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, you nailed it. There's there's always a to
do list, so how put that out of the way,
take care of everything and get ready to take off
for a few months.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Because when you're gone, you're gone. It's how you come
home at all.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Right, Yeah, I'm gone for basically two and a half months.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That's crazy. Good lord, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So I mean the family, I mean, that's what do
they do.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They love it, they're happy for you, they come visit
you or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. Well here again, I've been doing this from the beginning,
so everybody is drill but right right, you know, TSO
and management does a very good job of up letting
us bring our family members out to see us during
the holidays and stuff. So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's like that those episodes on Survivor and then Clyde
the family out always so emotional. Jem TSO November twentieth,
MVP Arena. So before TSO, if I got this right,
Paul o'neo, founder of TSO, he had you and your
band Sabotage put a Christmas song on that album, which
you've thought strange at the time. Do I have that
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story right?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah? Basically so. So the band Sabotage was formed around
nineteen eighty four, I believe eighty three. Paul O'Neil began
producing the band and managing the band in eighty six,
and I joined them in ninety four. But the first
studio record that we did that I did with the
band was called Dead Winter Dead, concept record about the
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war that was going on in Bosnia at the time.
And this Christmas song was something that Paul insisted on,
you know, inserting into the story and being part of
the album. And lo and behold and the album was released,
that song just took off in a completely different direction.
And here we are thirty years later.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So is that the birth of TSL.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
More or less? I mean, if you look at listen
to see some of the videos that Paul created with Sabotage,
you can see some hints of TSO in this. You know, Paul.
Paul's the New York City guy. He loved theater, he
loved Broadway, he loved big rock shows, he loved production.
TSO was something he had in his mind for many,
many years before I ever met him, and then this
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song became the catalyst for him to create TSL.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's a great story, great the visionary, and man was
just such a friendly guy too. We wish a lot
of luck with the tour, Jeff, thank you so much. Yeah,
we'll see in Albany. November twentieth, Rocked
Speaker 2 (04:43):
On Route Jeff played TSO