June 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Meet 17-year-old Eddie Dolak of the LA-based rock group Standby. Their debut album "All For Nothing" is available now. The future is bright for this young man, and who better to give him career advice than the Axl Rose...in an In N Out Burger. Hear Eddie's story of passion for music and a chance encounter with Guns N' Roses' frontman.
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You know what this is Appetite forDistortion. Welcome to the podcast Appetite for
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Distortion, Episode number four hundred andfifty nine. My name is Brando.
Doing a bit of an Appetite forDiscovery theme episode. Rather than just going
a bunch of songs together, wethink our fun. We're going over it
with a fine tooth comment, justworking on everything to try absolut very appetite
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for discovery. You're gonna be reallysick of my puns, Eddie by the
end of this this episode, butwe're here to so yeah, I appetite
for the stortion. Name of thepodcast Appetite for Discoveries. When we meet
artists or bands that you may notknow but we want to learn about that
have something maybe to do with gunsand roses, and I like, if
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you're a fan of this podcast,you may look familiar to you, but
we don't learn all about. Yes, we'll get to at Axel Rose in
in and out Burger, we'll getto that, but I kind of want
to get to meet you just alittle bit first, Eddie, because we're
meeting you and your bands is standby. So what's going on? How are
you? How are you doing buddy, Yeah, we're great. My name
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is Eddie Dolac. I'm the frontmenof Standby. We spit out a record
in February. I'm seventeen, myBassis Tray seventeen. Michael our drummer,
he's nineteen, and Jackson's eighteen,so we're pretty young. So we're just
trying to make some rock music toheal the world. To heal the world.
I love that one of my favoriteMichael Jackson songs, by the way,
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and I love Before we got onthe air, I always try to
take I know that this might soundawkward, but check the temperature of my
guests because some are nervous, someare not. Some are worried about I
know not in this case, butI'm worried about clickbait stuff. And You're
like, I'm okay, I've donethis before. So before I even get
to ask any of your ages,you rattling them off right away because I'm
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yeah, that's you're going to beasked that, because look at this,
the one day this is going tobe you. As I stroke my beard,
I don't know have you can youeven grow on yet? Not nearly
there yet, but I love it. So where are you located, if
you don't mind me asking. Yeah, so we're in just Ventura County,
California, right on vent area.Very cool. It's great. You know,
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I was listening to you guys onbecause you're on Spotify and you're,
you know, all like the usualplaces you're on social media, and I'm
glad I got to speak with youbecause I don't know if you've maybe you
have heard this comparison before, butyou sound it sounds like a young early
Silverchair. Oh my goodness, dude, every single person ever says that Silvercheck.
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It's great. It's I love silverCheck. It's it's it's a great
comparison, you know, as Isaid, like, oh, I don't
know if you've heard this before,and yes, that's all you've heard.
I think it's just something with yourvoice that's like Daniel John's. But while
it's like and I love silverle Chairas well. While it's like that,
it's definitely more modern than that.It's different. It's heavier than that.
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So it's I enjoy all the riffseverything that's uh. This is it's cool
because when I was going to reachout to you guys, I'm like,
I don't know if They're terrible ifI'm going to like them. And you
know what, the word rock meansso many different things, So this is
kind of like a throwback a littlebit to my you know, early nineties
kind of rock style, and youknow, kind of maybe talk about your
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your you know, your influences andyou know who had inspired you to start
this band. Yeah, so,I mean my biggest influence of all time,
it's got to be Pearl Jam.I love Pearl Jam. You know,
I've been raised on Pearl Jam.So I mean, obviously, like
all the grunge stuff is huge forme on my basis, and then what
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really kicked it off for me kindof though, was like some of the
pop punk stuff. I was reallyinto Green Day and some Linklin eighty two
at the start, around like youknow, age eleven twelve, and then
around fourteen fifteen, I discovered grungeand I've been in love ever since.
But at the same time along theway, I've also grown to appreciate,
you know, people like Guns andRoses. They were one of my first
concerts. I saw them at Thinkingback in twenty twenty one and twenty two
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at the Bank of California Stadium,which is now BMO Stadium. And I
also saw them at Bottle Rock inNapa with Dave Grohl singing Paradise City and
they cut the power on them.That was that was crazy. I was
up up by the and stuff.I can still hear it fine, but
everyone else was pissed, you know. But I what really inspireed, sorry,
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what really inspires me is just thethings in life that I've come across
at the age of seventeen, youknow, whether that be surfing or meeting
people at shows and stuff. Wehave a really good local scene out here
in Vincerra County, just lots ofgreat bands coming up and stuff, and
there's always room for more, so, you know, just that's what inspires
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me. Just seeing all the growthof the scene. That makes me happy
to hear. And I can't believe. I don't know because you said you're
seventeen. I'm gonna be forty onelater this year, and I don't know
when I once I hit forty.I've never felt old before, but now
I guess talking to me now Ifeel old. But it's you want to
make sure that and as I havemy son who's won, thank you just
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to know that the next generation becauseeveryone it's like, oh, rock is
dead. You hear that all thetime, and it's like, no,
it's it's not. One of mybrothers even try to make fun of me.
Rock is dead. Name this band, this band. No, there's
always whether it's the most popular ornot. I don't think it is relevant.
There's always a fan base. Andto see someone like you not just
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embracing bands of my youth, becauseI love Green Day, I love a
Blink. I saw them back inthe day together with Saves the Day Opening,
which was a great show at JonesBeach all Long Island, and you
know, just to see that kindof combined again with all my youth,
and just because again you see alot of the kerrang and magazines and Rolling
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Stone, and when I see thebands they're promoting that are supposedly rock,
they're not really rock, which isfine, but they're not the rock I
kind of I enjoyed that sound andto know that sound isn't going away.
And then I'm not some old manshaking his fist at the cloud. And
my Grandpa Simpson is very cool.So with that, I gotta ask and
I'll give a shout out to yourdad. Because, like I said,
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thanks to Eddie's dad, because Iwas talking to him on Instagram setting this
up. My dad got me startedon the rock path, you know,
listening to the radio and loving Zeppelinand the Doors. Was it the same
with yours? Who did you lookto to kind of, you know,
help shape you. Yeah, it'sexactly the same. I looked at my
dad. You know, I justgrew up on just everything rock and grunge
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and even the classic stuff. Imean, I'm a Zeppelin sucker. I
love the Beatles and you know everyonedeep purple, but really just growing up
on Pearl jam that was like,yeah, it was always played in the
house, always in the drive toschool, or was like I was in
the car and stuff with my parents. It was always just rock music,
you know, always always something onthe radio. And I think due to
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that, my soul was drawn torock music and I've loved doing it ever
since. I mean I picked upthe guitar at age ten. I was
gifted a little i mean starter guitarfor Christmas one year and I'm like whatever,
I let it sit in a cornercollecting dust for six or seven months,
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and then I took a few lessonsstop doing lessons. I'm just self
taught and stuff. So I playall the instruments and stuff, and there's
just no there's no feeling that comparesto being on stage, and especially in
more recent shows, the shows thatwe're playing now, I look out and
like people are singing the worst thesongs that I wrote, and it's insane,
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Like that is the biggest trip tome. It's nuts, you know,
it's so funny. And again,if I could step outside my little
head over here, because I'm theoldest of four, right, so I've
just seen my brothers. We're allfour years apart, so I've seen them
in all different facets of life,so I can't help. But sometimes if
I come off like an older brother, times I apologize. But you know,
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when I was seventeen, I thinkI was still definitely definitely afraid of
talking to girls, let alone goingon stage, like I have that fantasy.
Really, I still even though Ihave a microphone in front of me
now and I talked to rock stars. It's great, But to doing what
you do has always kind of beenlike that middle school me is stuck in
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me little bit. So here,you know you're doing that at seventeen.
Were you ever nervous? You know, did you were you ever or was
it just naturally like that? Youknow, does your dad play at all?
Do any of your your your familymembers play that kind of helped you
or you you're naturally just you know, you just like sharing your music and
you don't think too much of it. So like nervous. Wise, everyone's
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nervous at first, like no matterwhat they say, of course they are.
And I think during the early days, you know, I started the
band in twenty eighteen, so Dan, that was like I was, I
was around eleven or twelve starting itoff, just like we were through this
music school and stuff, and itwas me and my best friend Trey who's
my bassis, and our good friendTrevor Quinn, our former drummer, and
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so yeah, we played like somerandom like fluke shows, Like our first
ever show was the Roxy on theSunset Strip, just through our music school.
But I like to say it eventhough it doesn't really count, you
know, I think just playing moreand more shows, I think we got
a lot of the the jitters outearly and that gave us room for like
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when we actually started taking it seriously. A couple of years ago and writing
some music and playing more and moreshows and also getting tighter and tighter as
a band, and it just becamethe environment that I was kind of used
to. So the nerves really kindof went away two or three years ago.
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And don't get me wrong, ifI if I were to get on
stage in front of you know,twenty thirty thousand people, they'd probably come
back to me, you know,because it's way different than what we're playing
too. But you know, Imean that's kind of how I felt.
I I went on stage with GreenDay a couple of years back at Inaccessible
in Arizona and just to sing asong and I get up on that stage
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and there's like thirty five or fortythousand people, and the adrenaline rush was
insane. Like I can kind ofsee how like the nerves wouldn't hit me
too hard there. But I thinkit all depends on the environment. Like
you could be playing to like athousand people and be fine, but if
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there's like one person that you knowis judging you in that crowd, then
all of a sudden, the pressureis on, you know. So nerves
kind of left me a couple ofyears back, and I'm super thankful for
that because I think as a frontman, you know, being nervous is not
the best thing for you and yoursituation because you got to kind of carry
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the show and whatnot. But yeah, so that's that for you know,
nervousness. And my family doesn't reallyplay. You know, my parents took
piano lessons and stuff when they're young, but no one in my family was
really musical, unless you count likegreat great grandparents and whatnot. So I'm
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kind of an odd one out.And my brother, due to me,
picked up the bass, hence thetwo bases on my wall. Okay,
you know, so it's just meand my brother pretty much. I traded
my two year old brother right nowto play drums, so hopefully we'll have
a little family band. Choken up, man, you are the kid I
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hoped I would be, like ifyou look back before, you know,
I'm serious middle school. The samehaircut too, Man, I don't know,
like, is this like a Rickand Morty timeline where I'm talking to
like a successful me in another timeline? Anyways, brilliance, Like, I
would be remiss if you can talkabout your favorite band a little bit,
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not just my favorite band. ButPearl Jam because I don't I don't talk
about them enough on here, becausethere's plenty of connections. I'm lucky enough
to I've had a Stone Gossard onyou know. Awesome, awesome, dude,
What is it? What is itabout Pearl Jam? And I'm so
glad they're still around because it's just, without going too deep, so many
bands in that era are not withus anymore. And the fact that they're
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putting out new stuff and I remember, you know, seeing Jeremy for the
first time on MTV and just beingblown away that whole record ten and the
fact that they're still doing it,so you know, you coming into their
their timeline and at a different point, you know, what is it about
Pearl Jam? And lyrics and justthe sound that you know you love so
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much. You know, Pearl Jamkind of did the thing that no other
band could really do, and thatis lived through it all. It's crazy
just to see their history, howthey formed, and also just looking at
the interesting periods of them their timeas a band. You know, their
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writing styles have definitely changed and stuff. I mean, the early stuff is
obviously heavily influenced by Stone and Jeff'sstuff because they came from you know,
Mother Love Vone and the Green Riverstuff, and they had chemistry there.
They were known musicians, but youknow, Eddie was outsurfing in San Diego
and he played with a couple ofbands and stuff, but he wasn't too
experienced with it, so he leta lot of the writing up to them.
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And you know, so that thatwhole ten record and stuff was all
pretty much Stone, Jeff and Mike, you know, and Dave Cruising.
So I think watching the styles changeas more and more of them got comfortable
in the atmosphere, starting to givetheir own ideas and stuff. I mean,
you can look vitology Eddie Veddershine andit was insane like that's where all
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of Eddie songs came out at first, and there were some on verses and
stuff. But they have always heldjust such a special place in my heart.
And Eddie Vedder is my biggest inspirationas a front man. You know,
he's insane, great voice, greatstage presence, and he's just like
an interesting dude. Yeah, youknow, I love his festival ed he
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puts on in Data Point. It'scalled Ohana Festival. So my dream to
play there one day and so yeah, I saw them. I saw them
with both Vegas shows this year andboth LA shows. And I'm going to
London to see them on the twentyninth, So I'm going on a like
I'm going for a wedding, soI'll be there right when they are,
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and so managed to score ticket andnice. Another thing for me, I
guess about Prologam is just their diversityin songs. A lot of bands,
you know, like they yeah they'rea rock band, but at the same
time, all they do is playthe exact same song almost just in a
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different like version of it, ifthat makes sense, Like they stick to
one one speed, one intensity.I think about Pearl Jam. The thing
I'm trying to replicate as well isyeah, you have the hard stuff,
Yeah, you have the slower stuff, you have the medium stuff, you
have everything in between. You know. It's just it's so diverse. And
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I think that diversity is the craziestthing when it comes to building a fan
base. If you go to aPearl Jam show, like there are some
people in the audience who don't knowany of the heavy stuff, but they
know all the all the slow stuff. I mean, all the ten clubs
insane and stuff. They they're nuts. So it is my dream to uh,
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you know, maybe one day openfor them, maybe uh play a'hana
fest and stuff, just be inthe same room as those guys and just
you know, let them know howmuch of an inspiration, uh they are
to not only me, but lotsof teens in America. And I think
a lot of a lot of theseyou know, rock musicians don't really realize
that there's still teenagers and stuff andkids even that look up to them.
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And you know, they might think, oh, our fan base is all
just an older generation. They're older, so we'll grow old with them.
But their music is immortalized, youknow, forever. It's it's nuts just
to see all I have friends eventhat are just now discovering Nirvana and Soundgarden
and I'm like, what took youso long? Man? Like so that
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you know, the the fans arethere, whether they be young or old.
And I think that's just the beautyof rock music. You go to
a rap concert and it's it's notit doesn't have the same vibe, you
know, not the same energy.You know. There was a good example
of that recently, wasn't a RedMan and metha man, they did it
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some show in New York with alot of younger artists and they're like,
we're never playing there again, likenobody knew who we were. And I
kind of I agree with a lotof what you said, because these the
this is the kind of of movementsand bands and music that can be discovered
and no matter how whether it's througha parent, whether it's through TikTok or
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whatever, you know, it's speakingto generations and it's again it's a trip,
and which I'm sure it was forwhen I, you know, I
did. I've done classic rock radioand I was always would be the youngest
person on the air, and peoplewho would see who saw led Zeppelin in
the doors live? And I'm like, oh, my dad got me into
them, And so now I'm hearing, uh, you know, you have
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friends that discovered these bands that Ijust remember coming up and saying who's this?
Who's Nirvana? Like whoa what isthis? And it's a lot of
that ties into Guns N' Roses.Is that diversity as well, because there
are hard I love hard rock,but Guns and Roses has that diversity.
If everything was maybe appetite for destructionI don't know if they didn't have the
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November Rain and the Estranged and comasin their line up in Arsenal and grow
as a band and have the acousticsside of them as well, would I
be as big of a fan.So that's what that's what I decided to
do. You know, maybe oneday you'll do a Pearl Jam podcast,
but that's why I decided to doa gn R one, So that that's
cool. Who did you go with? Did you go with friends to the
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CGNR those few times? Including Ijust went with my parents and my younger
brother and stuff, So there weregreat shows and stuff. It was definitely
cool to see the muscle place someVelvet Revolver. Yeah, they played Slither
sometimes, so I saw that twice. And I also saw Duff saying that
iggy pop song, Sugia song,I Want to Beat Your Dog. Yeah,
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So that was rad just to kindof go there and seem like,
hey, like you know, theseguys kind of came to play. They
put on a good live show.It was really cool to see them.
I definitely see them again. Itwas right on it and and rad.
That word has been a theme withall my West Coast guests. I used
to have, I get to bringit back. I used to have like
a button bar of like brain fromguns and Roses saying rat all the time
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I made him self conscious by accident, because it's probably how I'm New Yorker,
and I say, you know allthe time, we all have our
things, but you could not havehad a better seat or booth or however
you want to say it. Solet's kind of go into part of the
reason why you're here. And I'mglad to meet you and to talk about
stand by awesome music and like Isaid, I'm sorry about the silver chair.
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That could be worse things you couldbe compared to it's it's great,
we love it, and it's notlike and I will say how we told
me. We talking about younger bandslike Greter Van Fleet. I respect the
hell out of them, but Ican't listen to them without like immediately thinking
of that you. I'm like,oh, I get that that you know
that taste of it, but Ican totally tell you something different. So
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we'll get into all the places thatyou can follow at the end of follow
you guys at the end. So, as I mentioned, I'm East Coast
furthest West I've ever been, whichis pathetic for a guy who does a
podcast about jininr Is, Arizona.I never had In and Out Burger.
I know, and I know ifyou can't judge by my prepre besting girl
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frame. I used to eat aton of fast food like McDonald's, Wendy's,
Checkers. I loved it all.But ever since I turned forty,
that stuff turned I get like sick, like physically ill. That's just much
tmis I probably want to hear,but I would try In and Out.
So let's just say I went toCalifornia and went to In and Out and
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I run into Axl Rose. Youmade that a possibility, So can you,
I guess talk us through that becauseyou when you look at the picture
as you were one of your bandmatesand Axels in the middle, you actually
kind of got him to smirk andsmile a little bit. Most pictures with
guys, I'm telling you, lookat it. He's just I don't want
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to smile. He's just got meatmugging, but he's kind of geting a
little smirk like I like these kids. So this happened about about a month
ago May tenth. Yeah, Wow, exactly a month ago. Look at
that, Ok, one month anniversaryyou wrote so sick meeting guns and Roses
legend, Axel Rose last night suchan awesome experience and genuine dude without hesitation.
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He took that time out of hisnight to visit with Jackson and I
Eddie. Thanks for the great advice, Axel, don't forget to come see
us. Well, too late forthis show. I'm sorry. Tomorrow night
and Daddy's Diamond Lounge in Hollywood atnine pm. So how was the show?
That's the most that's what a cool? Cool? So how did that
night go? You got in andOut a lot, take us through the
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whole evening. Yeah, So,as a teenager living in California, In
and Out is a regular hangout amongstall of us. Whether you like it
or not, it's just people gothere and you go, you sit down,
you get burger fries, milkshake,and you hang out. You know,
you sit there for hours just visitingwith friends. So that's exactly what
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I was doing. I was hangingout with a group of friends and we
wound up at In and Out aroundnine at ten at night. I'm not
gonna specify which location or anything.But it was like we're just we're hanging
out. I'm there with my guitaristJackson, and Axl just walks to the
door and I look up and I'mlike Jackson, oh my gosh. He's
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like what. I'm like, that'sAxel Rose. He's like, are you
sure. I'm like I'm sure.He goes pull up a picture like okay,
man, So I pulled a picture, goes, dude, that's Axl
Rose. Let's go talk to him. So we go up. We talked
to Axel. We's kind of Iwalk up. I'm like, hey,
excuse me, are you Axel Rose? And he's like yeah. I'm like,
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he's super nice to meet you.I'm Eddie. This is my guitarist
Jackson. We play in a bandhere locally and stuff. He's like,
oh, that's awesome guys. Andyou know, his assistant offered to take
our picture, so we got apicture and that was your ad. And
then I have a family friend whohad met Axel a few times. They
had kind of known each other justyears and years ago, so I kind
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of told him about that family friendand stuff, and he remembered and so
we were talking about the band.I guess for a little bit, and
he just gave us some advice andstuff, told us to kind of stay
out of trouble and there's a lotof shadiness going on in the industry,
so just keep your eyes out.So it was overall a positive experience.
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He to me, he kind ofseemed as like the the Stern, but
like funny uncle, you know,like he and just seeing guns and roses,
Like he tells the coolest stories,like they're so random, but they're
cool, you know. So thatwas kind of just like my moment in
real life with Axel Rose, justkind of talking to him about my band
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and stuff, and I had toget going. I was I think I
was going to my friend's house orsomething. So I was getting going.
I said bye to him and stuff, and he wished me luck and my
band and stuff. That was prettymuch it. It was just a little
running with Axl Rose in and outand you had to get going. It
wasn't even like, Okay, Axel'sgotta get going. He was still in
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there. Okay, I had somefriends to stay there, and like,
oh yeah, he was there fora while. Okay, so we'll get
to that. So let's let's breakit down if we can, because this
is how desperate we are as Gunsand Roses fans for for news entertainment,
because we don't get a lot.And I appreciate you yet just like with
the location, don't give out anythingthat's personal privy. Now what I'm here
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for here to like this is justlike awesome experience that you had to highlight
your band. So the fact thatagain you you recognized Axel right away and
you of course had seen him inconcert. Now many people who haven't seen
Axl Rose in years just think he'swalking in with a kilt and a bandanna,
and like, okay, that's AxelRose. He comes in with a
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black death Note anime T shirt andred I forgive me, I don't know
that the name brand, but Isaw through the thread that people thought they
were painters pants, but they turnedout to be very expensive pants. They
meant to look like painters, crazyexpensive sweatpants. I saw, right,
So okay, good for him.So you there was no question right away
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that you that's Axel Rose. Therewas like you know, okay, of
course, and he was just hewas there, mind his business, having
a chill night. And I meeta lot of you know, musicians,
and so I kind of know whatto stay away from. So I'm not
trying to like scare them and makethem uncomfortable or anything. You know,
you just gotta be respectful, mindthe privacy and stuff and don't make a
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big deal about it. You know. Yeah, I'm at Dave Grohl and
that's kind of what I did.He was great, super nice to meet
Dave and stuff. So you know, that's just kind of my experience with
with that. You just gotta youjust gotta be genuine. Don't storm up
and ask them like, hey,oh my gosh, like take a picture
with me. Like if you're agenuine dude and actually like want to have
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a conversation and talk with somebody likethat, just do it. Because half
the time the worst they can sayis no, right, I agree with
you, you know. So that'skind of my mindset when I go to
that. So with Axel, youknow, he was nice. He he
didn't seem annoyed at all or anyin any way. And I think,
I don't know, personally, Ifeel like if I was in his shoes,
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having somebody my age come up andlike hey, like a big fan,
be kind of refreshing because you know, as you age, especially in
your sorry, your occupation, whetherthat be music or acting or something,
sometimes the younger audience doesn't know asmuch about you. And I think,
unfortunately today that's the case. Andso if I was in actual shoes,
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I think that would be kind ofa breath refresh air. Yeah, I
totally get your perspective. It wouldbe different. You know, if someone
like me or some rock or dadwould be like, I love you act
so I thought you're back in eightyseven, not you will. It's different
like, hey, did you beLike what did you order? Did you
ask like maybe the compare and contrast? Did you recommend anything? Even though
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I'm sure he's an in and outpro, he did not. He was
just sitting there with some friends andwhatnot, just having a burger and some
fries, and you know, hewas just having a nice night out as
any normal person would in and outverb that's what it is, the normal
dude anything you were because I findit interesting and very cool and protective of
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him to be. Look out,there's a lot of nefarious I forget the
word you use, but like scarystuff in the music industry. I mean,
we see documentaries about tickeloading in aboutit. I mean, it's it's
it is scary no matter what age, especially if you're younger, because people
think they can take advantage for avariety of ways. Anything about the advice
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that you're able to other than thatyou're able to elaborate on or not.
Really, I mean that was prettymuch okay it. I just kind of
asked him as I was heading nowif he had any advice for an up
and coming musician, and he justtold me to kind of keep my eye
out so you'll keep it. Itwas. It was a cool moment,
you know, right, He's verygenuine, he's really down to earth and
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stuff, and he's just a niceguy. And I think that you know,
you know, Axel has obviously likebeen hurt in the past, but
you know, whether it be badmade labeled people, so he's seen it
all, so he really knows what'sthe lookout for. You know. I
had rewatched the less significant interview thathe did in twenty sixteen at the China
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Exchange, and I never really satdown. And I did this recently because
my wife and baby are away forthe week, so I actually had time
to sit down that's why we coulddo this right now, You're like,
I'm available all day. I'm like, okay, whenever you want. I
don't have to hold anyone to justto know he's a normal dude, just
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to be able to be like that. But I'm sorry, I wanted to
get back and ask about this becauseI forgot to ask earlier. You're still
in school, right or no?Yeah, I'm going into my senior year
of high school. Okay. Sowhen you went in the next day and
you're because you post that, allmy all gn R sites or rock sides
are posting it, did people askyou about it? We kind of feel
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yeah, there are some people thatI was surprised even knew who Axel Rose
was asking about it. Just peoplewho were like massive, like you know,
I guess, like hip hop fansand stuff that I've never really seen
delv into the rock stuff. Hada few parents come out to me and
some teachers and stuff and they're like, oh my gosh, Lake and you
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know. So the next day definitelygot it son some of that reaction,
and I had lots of people reachingout through my Instagram, dms and stuff,
like friends I haven't heard from inthe years, and like it was.
It was kind of cool. That'sa trip now. I still have
Daddy brain even though he's not here. So I caught up. Yeah,
the China exchange. He was talkingabout somebody repreferred to like how he was
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isolated or just not available for manyyears and just you couldn't really see him
out and about which you're seeing himnow in and out being one of the
cases. And he said, oh, no, I was still out,
but I knew where the hide to, where the paparazzi wouldn't be. I
took that as he is so smart. He knows as a potential for people
to recognize him in and out.He knows that, and I just think
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that just says a lot about him. He knows that, he knows he's
going to be seen. It's sucha regular place to go to meet someone
like you, to have just anice conversation with you. It's just another
story that takes away from this negativelayer that was placed upon him for so
many years about who he is.I think we're finding out now. Maybe
it's a maturity now, I'm surethat's some of it, But who he
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is now is just it's like thesame answer across the Bard no matter who
I interview. He's a nice,genuine guy exactly, And I really didn't
want him to be bothered. Thatnight, as I was leaving in and
out, there's this couple sitting outsideand they're like, hey, excuse me,
Like who's that in there? AndI'm like, oh, he's just
like an old musician stuff. Andyou know, because I don't really want
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to out him or expose him oranything. He's just having a night out
and I'm sure he doesn't want tobe bothered. So if they don't know
who he is, then they're nota big enough fan in the first place,
even, you know, Yeah,yeah, no, because then they
would just be taking a picture andannoying him. Just yeah, very very
wise beyond your years, Eddie.I told you at seventeen, definitely afraid
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of talking to girls. I definitelydon't have this mature mindset that you have.
I was younger than seventeen for thisquick story. And I don't know
if you would know this basketball playerif you're sports at all, but he's
His name was Jason Williams. Heused to play for He used to play
for the Nets. He's since then, he's become infamous because he accidentally shot
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his butler and his or his driverand his limo. That's a whole other
story. So anyway, he wasan all star player. He was a
good player at the time. I'minn with a travel We were traveling this
day for school. We went toKat's Delhi. It's a very famous Delhi.
Have you ever ever ever seen whenHarry met Sally? Okay, you
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know that big scene which she's fakingan orgasm, that's the big scene there.
She's like, He's like, you'venever faked it. But Billy Crystal
says to make Ryan and she's fakingan orgasm in the middle of Kad's Deli,
and they cut to another older womanwho ends up being Billy Crystal.
I'll have what she's having. Okay. It's a very famous scene. Point
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being, that's where I met JasonWilliams and I recognized him right away,
and I went up to him rightaway, and I got an autograph on
a napkin because what are you goingto get signed? And then then all
my friends who are nervous, decidedlike, okay, let's he was nice,
he didn't shoot anybody, And Iguess the big punchline of this is
that my friend got his wrapped salamisandwich to go because it's like a meet
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and deli kind of place. Signedby Jason Williams. Of course, all
right, nice story was not nearlyas good as yours. I focused on
yours, Eddie, Thank you forjust sharing that. And I mean this
allows me to have another band tolisten to and to and and like.
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So stand By official is Instagram?Are you? Because I know stand by
could be confusing? Uh is italways? Is it official for each one?
And I say that confusing because it'sjust I should say simple. There
could be a lot of things thatcome up with say press when you type
in stand by, So what elsecome? What should we put in?
We kind of we used to beofficial stand By band, but now we're
just we got to stand by officialhandle on Instagram. So Spotify is just
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stand by. You can check outour album all for Nothing. You know,
we have TikTok. We're just standBy band on there. And then
YouTube is just also stand by.You can look up some of our live
sets and whatnot and listen to ourscenes and stuff. We really appreciate it.
Stand By. There's more stuff forit. Yeah, is that where
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it comes from? Is there adeeper meaning? No. Actually, if
you look on most like two bampsor like amp heads if you're guitar player,
there is a standby mode which likekind of keeps it warm, I
guess, so when you when youturn it on, it's just ready to
go, because sometimes aams have to, you know, warm up. So
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that's I kind of looked at thenap and it said stand by, and
like, hey it is. Ilike it. You're gonna have to come
back, Eddie someday, whether you'reopening up for pearl jam or guns or
roses, you'll have to come back, of course. All right, awesome,
thank you man. So that doesit for this episode of Appetite for
Distortion. When will you see thenext one? In the words of Axl
Rose concerning Chinese democracy, I don'tknow as soon as the word, but
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you'll see it thanks to the lameass security. I'm going home.
You know what this is Appetite forDistortion. Welcome to the podcast Appetite for
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Distortion, Episode number four hundred andfifty nine. My name is Brando.
Doing a bit of an Appetite forDiscovery theme episode. Rather than just going
a bunch of songs together, wethink our fun. We're going over it
with a fine tooth comment, justworking on everything to try absolut very appetite
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for discovery. You're gonna be reallysick of my puns, Eddie by the
end of this this episode, butwe're here to so yeah, I appetite
for the stortion. Name of thepodcast Appetite for Discoveries. When we meet
artists or bands that you may notknow but we want to learn about that
have something maybe to do with gunsand roses, and I like, if
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you're a fan of this podcast,you may look familiar to you, but
we don't learn all about. Yes, we'll get to at Axel Rose in
in and out Burger, we'll getto that, but I kind of want
to get to meet you just alittle bit first, Eddie, because we're
meeting you and your bands is standby. So what's going on? How are
you? How are you doing buddy, Yeah, we're great. My name
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is Eddie Dolac. I'm the frontmenof Standby. We spit out a record
in February. I'm seventeen, myBassis Tray seventeen. Michael our drummer,
he's nineteen, and Jackson's eighteen,so we're pretty young. So we're just
trying to make some rock music toheal the world. To heal the world.
I love that one of my favoriteMichael Jackson songs, by the way,
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and I love Before we got onthe air, I always try to
take I know that this might soundawkward, but check the temperature of my
guests because some are nervous, someare not. Some are worried about I
know not in this case, butI'm worried about clickbait stuff. And You're
like, I'm okay, I've donethis before. So before I even get
to ask any of your ages,you rattling them off right away because I'm
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yeah, that's you're going to beasked that, because look at this,
the one day this is going tobe you. As I stroke my beard,
I don't know have you can youeven grow on yet? Not nearly
there yet, but I love it. So where are you located, if
you don't mind me asking. Yeah, so we're in just Ventura County,
California, right on vent area.Very cool. It's great. You know,
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I was listening to you guys onbecause you're on Spotify and you're,
you know, all like the usualplaces you're on social media, and I'm
glad I got to speak with youbecause I don't know if you've maybe you
have heard this comparison before, butyou sound it sounds like a young early
Silverchair. Oh my goodness, dude, every single person ever says that Silvercheck.
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It's great. It's I love silverCheck. It's it's it's a great
comparison, you know, as Isaid, like, oh, I don't
know if you've heard this before,and yes, that's all you've heard.
I think it's just something with yourvoice that's like Daniel John's. But while
it's like and I love silverle Chairas well. While it's like that,
it's definitely more modern than that.It's different. It's heavier than that.
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So it's I enjoy all the riffseverything that's uh. This is it's cool
because when I was going to reachout to you guys, I'm like,
I don't know if They're terrible ifI'm going to like them. And you
know what, the word rock meansso many different things, So this is
kind of like a throwback a littlebit to my you know, early nineties
kind of rock style, and youknow, kind of maybe talk about your
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your you know, your influences andyou know who had inspired you to start
this band. Yeah, so,I mean my biggest influence of all time,
it's got to be Pearl Jam.I love Pearl Jam. You know,
I've been raised on Pearl Jam.So I mean, obviously, like
all the grunge stuff is huge forme on my basis, and then what
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really kicked it off for me kindof though, was like some of the
pop punk stuff. I was reallyinto Green Day and some Linklin eighty two
at the start, around like youknow, age eleven twelve, and then
around fourteen fifteen, I discovered grungeand I've been in love ever since.
But at the same time along theway, I've also grown to appreciate,
you know, people like Guns andRoses. They were one of my first
concerts. I saw them at Thinkingback in twenty twenty one and twenty two
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at the Bank of California Stadium,which is now BMO Stadium. And I
also saw them at Bottle Rock inNapa with Dave Grohl singing Paradise City and
they cut the power on them.That was that was crazy. I was
up up by the and stuff.I can still hear it fine, but
everyone else was pissed, you know. But I what really inspireed, sorry,
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what really inspires me is just thethings in life that I've come across
at the age of seventeen, youknow, whether that be surfing or meeting
people at shows and stuff. Wehave a really good local scene out here
in Vincerra County, just lots ofgreat bands coming up and stuff, and
there's always room for more, so, you know, just that's what inspires
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me. Just seeing all the growthof the scene. That makes me happy
to hear. And I can't believe. I don't know because you said you're
seventeen. I'm gonna be forty onelater this year, and I don't know
when I once I hit forty.I've never felt old before, but now
I guess talking to me now Ifeel old. But it's you want to
make sure that and as I havemy son who's won, thank you just
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to know that the next generation becauseeveryone it's like, oh, rock is
dead. You hear that all thetime, and it's like, no,
it's it's not. One of mybrothers even try to make fun of me.
Rock is dead. Name this band, this band. No, there's
always whether it's the most popular ornot. I don't think it is relevant.
There's always a fan base. Andto see someone like you not just
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embracing bands of my youth, becauseI love Green Day, I love a
Blink. I saw them back inthe day together with Saves the Day Opening,
which was a great show at JonesBeach all Long Island, and you
know, just to see that kindof combined again with all my youth,
and just because again you see alot of the kerrang and magazines and Rolling
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Stone, and when I see thebands they're promoting that are supposedly rock,
they're not really rock, which isfine, but they're not the rock I
kind of I enjoyed that sound andto know that sound isn't going away.
And then I'm not some old manshaking his fist at the cloud. And
my Grandpa Simpson is very cool.So with that, I gotta ask and
I'll give a shout out to yourdad. Because, like I said,
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thanks to Eddie's dad, because Iwas talking to him on Instagram setting this
up. My dad got me startedon the rock path, you know,
listening to the radio and loving Zeppelinand the Doors. Was it the same
with yours? Who did you lookto to kind of, you know,
help shape you. Yeah, it'sexactly the same. I looked at my
dad. You know, I justgrew up on just everything rock and grunge
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and even the classic stuff. Imean, I'm a Zeppelin sucker. I
love the Beatles and you know everyonedeep purple, but really just growing up
on Pearl jam that was like,yeah, it was always played in the
house, always in the drive toschool, or was like I was in
the car and stuff with my parents. It was always just rock music,
you know, always always something onthe radio. And I think due to
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that, my soul was drawn torock music and I've loved doing it ever
since. I mean I picked upthe guitar at age ten. I was
gifted a little i mean starter guitarfor Christmas one year and I'm like whatever,
I let it sit in a cornercollecting dust for six or seven months,
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and then I took a few lessonsstop doing lessons. I'm just self
taught and stuff. So I playall the instruments and stuff, and there's
just no there's no feeling that comparesto being on stage, and especially in
more recent shows, the shows thatwe're playing now, I look out and
like people are singing the worst thesongs that I wrote, and it's insane,
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Like that is the biggest trip tome. It's nuts, you know,
it's so funny. And again,if I could step outside my little
head over here, because I'm theoldest of four, right, so I've
just seen my brothers. We're allfour years apart, so I've seen them
in all different facets of life,so I can't help. But sometimes if
I come off like an older brother, times I apologize. But you know,
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when I was seventeen, I thinkI was still definitely definitely afraid of
talking to girls, let alone goingon stage, like I have that fantasy.
Really, I still even though Ihave a microphone in front of me
now and I talked to rock stars. It's great, But to doing what
you do has always kind of beenlike that middle school me is stuck in
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me little bit. So here,you know you're doing that at seventeen.
Were you ever nervous? You know, did you were you ever or was
it just naturally like that? Youknow, does your dad play at all?
Do any of your your your familymembers play that kind of helped you
or you you're naturally just you know, you just like sharing your music and
you don't think too much of it. So like nervous. Wise, everyone's
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nervous at first, like no matterwhat they say, of course they are.
And I think during the early days, you know, I started the
band in twenty eighteen, so Dan, that was like I was, I
was around eleven or twelve starting itoff, just like we were through this
music school and stuff, and itwas me and my best friend Trey who's
my bassis, and our good friendTrevor Quinn, our former drummer, and
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so yeah, we played like somerandom like fluke shows, Like our first
ever show was the Roxy on theSunset Strip, just through our music school.
But I like to say it eventhough it doesn't really count, you
know, I think just playing moreand more shows, I think we got
a lot of the the jitters outearly and that gave us room for like
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when we actually started taking it seriously. A couple of years ago and writing
some music and playing more and moreshows and also getting tighter and tighter as
a band, and it just becamethe environment that I was kind of used
to. So the nerves really kindof went away two or three years ago.
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And don't get me wrong, ifI if I were to get on
stage in front of you know,twenty thirty thousand people, they'd probably come
back to me, you know,because it's way different than what we're playing
too. But you know, Imean that's kind of how I felt.
I I went on stage with GreenDay a couple of years back at Inaccessible
in Arizona and just to sing asong and I get up on that stage
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and there's like thirty five or fortythousand people, and the adrenaline rush was
insane. Like I can kind ofsee how like the nerves wouldn't hit me
too hard there. But I thinkit all depends on the environment. Like
you could be playing to like athousand people and be fine, but if
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there's like one person that you knowis judging you in that crowd, then
all of a sudden, the pressureis on, you know. So nerves
kind of left me a couple ofyears back, and I'm super thankful for
that because I think as a frontman, you know, being nervous is not
the best thing for you and yoursituation because you got to kind of carry
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the show and whatnot. But yeah, so that's that for you know,
nervousness. And my family doesn't reallyplay. You know, my parents took
piano lessons and stuff when they're young, but no one in my family was
really musical, unless you count likegreat great grandparents and whatnot. So I'm
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kind of an odd one out.And my brother, due to me,
picked up the bass, hence thetwo bases on my wall. Okay,
you know, so it's just meand my brother pretty much. I traded
my two year old brother right nowto play drums, so hopefully we'll have
a little family band. Choken up, man, you are the kid I
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hoped I would be, like ifyou look back before, you know,
I'm serious middle school. The samehaircut too, Man, I don't know,
like, is this like a Rickand Morty timeline where I'm talking to
like a successful me in another timeline? Anyways, brilliance, Like, I
would be remiss if you can talkabout your favorite band a little bit,
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not just my favorite band. ButPearl Jam because I don't I don't talk
about them enough on here, becausethere's plenty of connections. I'm lucky enough
to I've had a Stone Gossard onyou know. Awesome, awesome, dude,
What is it? What is itabout Pearl Jam? And I'm so
glad they're still around because it's just, without going too deep, so many
bands in that era are not withus anymore. And the fact that they're
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putting out new stuff and I remember, you know, seeing Jeremy for the
first time on MTV and just beingblown away that whole record ten and the
fact that they're still doing it,so you know, you coming into their
their timeline and at a different point, you know, what is it about
Pearl Jam? And lyrics and justthe sound that you know you love so
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much. You know, Pearl Jamkind of did the thing that no other
band could really do, and thatis lived through it all. It's crazy
just to see their history, howthey formed, and also just looking at
the interesting periods of them their timeas a band. You know, their
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writing styles have definitely changed and stuff. I mean, the early stuff is
obviously heavily influenced by Stone and Jeff'sstuff because they came from you know,
Mother Love Vone and the Green Riverstuff, and they had chemistry there.
They were known musicians, but youknow, Eddie was outsurfing in San Diego
and he played with a couple ofbands and stuff, but he wasn't too
experienced with it, so he leta lot of the writing up to them.
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And you know, so that thatwhole ten record and stuff was all
pretty much Stone, Jeff and Mike, you know, and Dave Cruising.
So I think watching the styles changeas more and more of them got comfortable
in the atmosphere, starting to givetheir own ideas and stuff. I mean,
you can look vitology Eddie Veddershine andit was insane like that's where all
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of Eddie songs came out at first, and there were some on verses and
stuff. But they have always heldjust such a special place in my heart.
And Eddie Vedder is my biggest inspirationas a front man. You know,
he's insane, great voice, greatstage presence, and he's just like
an interesting dude. Yeah, youknow, I love his festival ed he
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puts on in Data Point. It'scalled Ohana Festival. So my dream to
play there one day and so yeah, I saw them. I saw them
with both Vegas shows this year andboth LA shows. And I'm going to
London to see them on the twentyninth, So I'm going on a like
I'm going for a wedding, soI'll be there right when they are,
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and so managed to score ticket andnice. Another thing for me, I
guess about Prologam is just their diversityin songs. A lot of bands,
you know, like they yeah they'rea rock band, but at the same
time, all they do is playthe exact same song almost just in a
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different like version of it, ifthat makes sense, Like they stick to
one one speed, one intensity.I think about Pearl Jam. The thing
I'm trying to replicate as well isyeah, you have the hard stuff,
Yeah, you have the slower stuff, you have the medium stuff, you
have everything in between. You know. It's just it's so diverse. And
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I think that diversity is the craziestthing when it comes to building a fan
base. If you go to aPearl Jam show, like there are some
people in the audience who don't knowany of the heavy stuff, but they
know all the all the slow stuff. I mean, all the ten clubs
insane and stuff. They they're nuts. So it is my dream to uh,
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you know, maybe one day openfor them, maybe uh play a'hana
fest and stuff, just be inthe same room as those guys and just
you know, let them know howmuch of an inspiration, uh they are
to not only me, but lotsof teens in America. And I think
a lot of a lot of theseyou know, rock musicians don't really realize
that there's still teenagers and stuff andkids even that look up to them.
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And you know, they might think, oh, our fan base is all
just an older generation. They're older, so we'll grow old with them.
But their music is immortalized, youknow, forever. It's it's nuts just
to see all I have friends eventhat are just now discovering Nirvana and Soundgarden
and I'm like, what took youso long? Man? Like so that
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you know, the the fans arethere, whether they be young or old.
And I think that's just the beautyof rock music. You go to
a rap concert and it's it's notit doesn't have the same vibe, you
know, not the same energy.You know. There was a good example
of that recently, wasn't a RedMan and metha man, they did it
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some show in New York with alot of younger artists and they're like,
we're never playing there again, likenobody knew who we were. And I
kind of I agree with a lotof what you said, because these the
this is the kind of of movementsand bands and music that can be discovered
and no matter how whether it's througha parent, whether it's through TikTok or
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whatever, you know, it's speakingto generations and it's again it's a trip,
and which I'm sure it was forwhen I, you know, I
did. I've done classic rock radioand I was always would be the youngest
person on the air, and peoplewho would see who saw led Zeppelin in
the doors live? And I'm like, oh, my dad got me into
them, And so now I'm hearing, uh, you know, you have
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friends that discovered these bands that Ijust remember coming up and saying who's this?
Who's Nirvana? Like whoa what isthis? And it's a lot of
that ties into Guns N' Roses.Is that diversity as well, because there
are hard I love hard rock,but Guns and Roses has that diversity.
If everything was maybe appetite for destructionI don't know if they didn't have the
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November Rain and the Estranged and comasin their line up in Arsenal and grow
as a band and have the acousticsside of them as well, would I
be as big of a fan.So that's what that's what I decided to
do. You know, maybe oneday you'll do a Pearl Jam podcast,
but that's why I decided to doa gn R one, So that that's
cool. Who did you go with? Did you go with friends to the
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CGNR those few times? Including Ijust went with my parents and my younger
brother and stuff, So there weregreat shows and stuff. It was definitely
cool to see the muscle place someVelvet Revolver. Yeah, they played Slither
sometimes, so I saw that twice. And I also saw Duff saying that
iggy pop song, Sugia song,I Want to Beat Your Dog. Yeah,
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So that was rad just to kindof go there and seem like,
hey, like you know, theseguys kind of came to play. They
put on a good live show.It was really cool to see them.
I definitely see them again. Itwas right on it and and rad.
That word has been a theme withall my West Coast guests. I used
to have, I get to bringit back. I used to have like
a button bar of like brain fromguns and Roses saying rat all the time
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I made him self conscious by accident, because it's probably how I'm New Yorker,
and I say, you know allthe time, we all have our
things, but you could not havehad a better seat or booth or however
you want to say it. Solet's kind of go into part of the
reason why you're here. And I'mglad to meet you and to talk about
stand by awesome music and like Isaid, I'm sorry about the silver chair.
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That could be worse things you couldbe compared to it's it's great,
we love it, and it's notlike and I will say how we told
me. We talking about younger bandslike Greter Van Fleet. I respect the
hell out of them, but Ican't listen to them without like immediately thinking
of that you. I'm like,oh, I get that that you know
that taste of it, but Ican totally tell you something different. So
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we'll get into all the places thatyou can follow at the end of follow
you guys at the end. So, as I mentioned, I'm East Coast
furthest West I've ever been, whichis pathetic for a guy who does a
podcast about jininr Is, Arizona.I never had In and Out Burger.
I know, and I know ifyou can't judge by my prepre besting girl
(21:30):
frame. I used to eat aton of fast food like McDonald's, Wendy's,
Checkers. I loved it all.But ever since I turned forty,
that stuff turned I get like sick, like physically ill. That's just much
tmis I probably want to hear,but I would try In and Out.
So let's just say I went toCalifornia and went to In and Out and
(21:53):
I run into Axl Rose. Youmade that a possibility, So can you,
I guess talk us through that becauseyou when you look at the picture
as you were one of your bandmatesand Axels in the middle, you actually
kind of got him to smirk andsmile a little bit. Most pictures with
guys, I'm telling you, lookat it. He's just I don't want
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to smile. He's just got meatmugging, but he's kind of geting a
little smirk like I like these kids. So this happened about about a month
ago May tenth. Yeah, Wow, exactly a month ago. Look at
that, Ok, one month anniversaryyou wrote so sick meeting guns and Roses
legend, Axel Rose last night suchan awesome experience and genuine dude without hesitation.
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He took that time out of hisnight to visit with Jackson and I
Eddie. Thanks for the great advice, Axel, don't forget to come see
us. Well, too late forthis show. I'm sorry. Tomorrow night
and Daddy's Diamond Lounge in Hollywood atnine pm. So how was the show?
That's the most that's what a cool? Cool? So how did that
night go? You got in andOut a lot, take us through the
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whole evening. Yeah, So,as a teenager living in California, In
and Out is a regular hangout amongstall of us. Whether you like it
or not, it's just people gothere and you go, you sit down,
you get burger fries, milkshake,and you hang out. You know,
you sit there for hours just visitingwith friends. So that's exactly what
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I was doing. I was hangingout with a group of friends and we
wound up at In and Out aroundnine at ten at night. I'm not
gonna specify which location or anything.But it was like we're just we're hanging
out. I'm there with my guitaristJackson, and Axl just walks to the
door and I look up and I'mlike Jackson, oh my gosh. He's
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like what. I'm like, that'sAxel Rose. He's like, are you
sure. I'm like I'm sure.He goes pull up a picture like okay,
man, So I pulled a picture, goes, dude, that's Axl
Rose. Let's go talk to him. So we go up. We talked
to Axel. We's kind of Iwalk up. I'm like, hey,
excuse me, are you Axel Rose? And he's like yeah. I'm like,
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he's super nice to meet you.I'm Eddie. This is my guitarist
Jackson. We play in a bandhere locally and stuff. He's like,
oh, that's awesome guys. Andyou know, his assistant offered to take
our picture, so we got apicture and that was your ad. And
then I have a family friend whohad met Axel a few times. They
had kind of known each other justyears and years ago, so I kind
(24:30):
of told him about that family friendand stuff, and he remembered and so
we were talking about the band.I guess for a little bit, and
he just gave us some advice andstuff, told us to kind of stay
out of trouble and there's a lotof shadiness going on in the industry,
so just keep your eyes out.So it was overall a positive experience.
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He to me, he kind ofseemed as like the the Stern, but
like funny uncle, you know,like he and just seeing guns and roses,
Like he tells the coolest stories,like they're so random, but they're
cool, you know. So thatwas kind of just like my moment in
real life with Axel Rose, justkind of talking to him about my band
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and stuff, and I had toget going. I was I think I
was going to my friend's house orsomething. So I was getting going.
I said bye to him and stuff, and he wished me luck and my
band and stuff. That was prettymuch it. It was just a little
running with Axl Rose in and outand you had to get going. It
wasn't even like, Okay, Axel'sgotta get going. He was still in
(25:40):
there. Okay, I had somefriends to stay there, and like,
oh yeah, he was there fora while. Okay, so we'll get
to that. So let's let's breakit down if we can, because this
is how desperate we are as Gunsand Roses fans for for news entertainment,
because we don't get a lot.And I appreciate you yet just like with
the location, don't give out anythingthat's personal privy. Now what I'm here
(26:00):
for here to like this is justlike awesome experience that you had to highlight
your band. So the fact thatagain you you recognized Axel right away and
you of course had seen him inconcert. Now many people who haven't seen
Axl Rose in years just think he'swalking in with a kilt and a bandanna,
and like, okay, that's AxelRose. He comes in with a
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black death Note anime T shirt andred I forgive me, I don't know
that the name brand, but Isaw through the thread that people thought they
were painters pants, but they turnedout to be very expensive pants. They
meant to look like painters, crazyexpensive sweatpants. I saw, right,
So okay, good for him.So you there was no question right away
(26:44):
that you that's Axel Rose. Therewas like you know, okay, of
course, and he was just hewas there, mind his business, having
a chill night. And I meeta lot of you know, musicians,
and so I kind of know whatto stay away from. So I'm not
trying to like scare them and makethem uncomfortable or anything. You know,
you just gotta be respectful, mindthe privacy and stuff and don't make a
(27:07):
big deal about it. You know. Yeah, I'm at Dave Grohl and
that's kind of what I did.He was great, super nice to meet
Dave and stuff. So you know, that's just kind of my experience with
with that. You just gotta youjust gotta be genuine. Don't storm up
and ask them like, hey,oh my gosh, like take a picture
with me. Like if you're agenuine dude and actually like want to have
(27:32):
a conversation and talk with somebody likethat, just do it. Because half
the time the worst they can sayis no, right, I agree with
you, you know. So that'skind of my mindset when I go to
that. So with Axel, youknow, he was nice. He he
didn't seem annoyed at all or anyin any way. And I think,
I don't know, personally, Ifeel like if I was in his shoes,
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having somebody my age come up andlike hey, like a big fan,
be kind of refreshing because you know, as you age, especially in
your sorry, your occupation, whetherthat be music or acting or something,
sometimes the younger audience doesn't know asmuch about you. And I think,
unfortunately today that's the case. Andso if I was in actual shoes,
(28:18):
I think that would be kind ofa breath refresh air. Yeah, I
totally get your perspective. It wouldbe different. You know, if someone
like me or some rock or dadwould be like, I love you act
so I thought you're back in eightyseven, not you will. It's different
like, hey, did you beLike what did you order? Did you
ask like maybe the compare and contrast? Did you recommend anything? Even though
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I'm sure he's an in and outpro, he did not. He was
just sitting there with some friends andwhatnot, just having a burger and some
fries, and you know, hewas just having a nice night out as
any normal person would in and outverb that's what it is, the normal
dude anything you were because I findit interesting and very cool and protective of
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him to be. Look out,there's a lot of nefarious I forget the
word you use, but like scarystuff in the music industry. I mean,
we see documentaries about tickeloading in aboutit. I mean, it's it's
it is scary no matter what age, especially if you're younger, because people
think they can take advantage for avariety of ways. Anything about the advice
(29:26):
that you're able to other than thatyou're able to elaborate on or not.
Really, I mean that was prettymuch okay it. I just kind of
asked him as I was heading nowif he had any advice for an up
and coming musician, and he justtold me to kind of keep my eye
out so you'll keep it. Itwas. It was a cool moment,
you know, right, He's verygenuine, he's really down to earth and
(29:48):
stuff, and he's just a niceguy. And I think that you know,
you know, Axel has obviously likebeen hurt in the past, but
you know, whether it be badmade labeled people, so he's seen it
all, so he really knows what'sthe lookout for. You know. I
had rewatched the less significant interview thathe did in twenty sixteen at the China
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Exchange, and I never really satdown. And I did this recently because
my wife and baby are away forthe week, so I actually had time
to sit down that's why we coulddo this right now, You're like,
I'm available all day. I'm like, okay, whenever you want. I
don't have to hold anyone to justto know he's a normal dude, just
(30:32):
to be able to be like that. But I'm sorry, I wanted to
get back and ask about this becauseI forgot to ask earlier. You're still
in school, right or no?Yeah, I'm going into my senior year
of high school. Okay. Sowhen you went in the next day and
you're because you post that, allmy all gn R sites or rock sides
are posting it, did people askyou about it? We kind of feel
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yeah, there are some people thatI was surprised even knew who Axel Rose
was asking about it. Just peoplewho were like massive, like you know,
I guess, like hip hop fansand stuff that I've never really seen
delv into the rock stuff. Hada few parents come out to me and
some teachers and stuff and they're like, oh my gosh, Lake and you
(31:15):
know. So the next day definitelygot it son some of that reaction,
and I had lots of people reachingout through my Instagram, dms and stuff,
like friends I haven't heard from inthe years, and like it was.
It was kind of cool. That'sa trip now. I still have
Daddy brain even though he's not here. So I caught up. Yeah,
the China exchange. He was talkingabout somebody repreferred to like how he was
(31:41):
isolated or just not available for manyyears and just you couldn't really see him
out and about which you're seeing himnow in and out being one of the
cases. And he said, oh, no, I was still out,
but I knew where the hide to, where the paparazzi wouldn't be. I
took that as he is so smart. He knows as a potential for people
to recognize him in and out.He knows that, and I just think
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that just says a lot about him. He knows that, he knows he's
going to be seen. It's sucha regular place to go to meet someone
like you, to have just anice conversation with you. It's just another
story that takes away from this negativelayer that was placed upon him for so
many years about who he is.I think we're finding out now. Maybe
it's a maturity now, I'm surethat's some of it, But who he
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is now is just it's like thesame answer across the Bard no matter who
I interview. He's a nice,genuine guy exactly, And I really didn't
want him to be bothered. Thatnight, as I was leaving in and
out, there's this couple sitting outsideand they're like, hey, excuse me,
Like who's that in there? AndI'm like, oh, he's just
like an old musician stuff. Andyou know, because I don't really want
(32:52):
to out him or expose him oranything. He's just having a night out
and I'm sure he doesn't want tobe bothered. So if they don't know
who he is, then they're nota big enough fan in the first place,
even, you know, Yeah,yeah, no, because then they
would just be taking a picture andannoying him. Just yeah, very very
wise beyond your years, Eddie.I told you at seventeen, definitely afraid
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of talking to girls. I definitelydon't have this mature mindset that you have.
I was younger than seventeen for thisquick story. And I don't know
if you would know this basketball playerif you're sports at all, but he's
His name was Jason Williams. Heused to play for He used to play
for the Nets. He's since then, he's become infamous because he accidentally shot
(33:38):
his butler and his or his driverand his limo. That's a whole other
story. So anyway, he wasan all star player. He was a
good player at the time. I'minn with a travel We were traveling this
day for school. We went toKat's Delhi. It's a very famous Delhi.
Have you ever ever ever seen whenHarry met Sally? Okay, you
(34:00):
know that big scene which she's fakingan orgasm, that's the big scene there.
She's like, He's like, you'venever faked it. But Billy Crystal
says to make Ryan and she's fakingan orgasm in the middle of Kad's Deli,
and they cut to another older womanwho ends up being Billy Crystal.
I'll have what she's having. Okay. It's a very famous scene. Point
(34:21):
being, that's where I met JasonWilliams and I recognized him right away,
and I went up to him rightaway, and I got an autograph on
a napkin because what are you goingto get signed? And then then all
my friends who are nervous, decidedlike, okay, let's he was nice,
he didn't shoot anybody, And Iguess the big punchline of this is
that my friend got his wrapped salamisandwich to go because it's like a meet
(34:45):
and deli kind of place. Signedby Jason Williams. Of course, all
right, nice story was not nearlyas good as yours. I focused on
yours, Eddie, Thank you forjust sharing that. And I mean this
allows me to have another band tolisten to and to and and like.
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So stand By official is Instagram?Are you? Because I know stand by
could be confusing? Uh is italways? Is it official for each one?
And I say that confusing because it'sjust I should say simple. There
could be a lot of things thatcome up with say press when you type
in stand by, So what elsecome? What should we put in?
We kind of we used to beofficial stand By band, but now we're
just we got to stand by officialhandle on Instagram. So Spotify is just
(35:30):
stand by. You can check outour album all for Nothing. You know,
we have TikTok. We're just standBy band on there. And then
YouTube is just also stand by.You can look up some of our live
sets and whatnot and listen to ourscenes and stuff. We really appreciate it.
Stand By. There's more stuff forit. Yeah, is that where
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it comes from? Is there adeeper meaning? No. Actually, if
you look on most like two bampsor like amp heads if you're guitar player,
there is a standby mode which likekind of keeps it warm, I
guess, so when you when youturn it on, it's just ready to
go, because sometimes aams have to, you know, warm up. So
(36:14):
that's I kind of looked at thenap and it said stand by, and
like, hey it is. Ilike it. You're gonna have to come
back, Eddie someday, whether you'reopening up for pearl jam or guns or
roses, you'll have to come back, of course. All right, awesome,
thank you man. So that doesit for this episode of Appetite for
Distortion. When will you see thenext one? In the words of Axl
Rose concerning Chinese democracy, I don'tknow as soon as the word, but
(36:37):
you'll see it thanks to the lameass security. I'm going home.
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