Bioshock, wait that's not right, Bioshock. This was one of the games that I played growing up that genuinely terrified me. In the original game, to end the intro, you write that elevator, you get to the very bottom of it and you're greeted by a man who is getting absolutely gutted alive by one of those splicer things. Now I can tell you with roughly 1000% accuracy that Pre-Pubescent Conroy was shitting himself when that happened dude. And even worse, when that thing started to try and claw into the elevator and get in there, dude, my heart sank. I was so terrified. And in my 22 years of life, not once did I think that you would ever be able to play Bioshock in VR. But I was more surprised than the Academy this week when Will Smith thought it would be hilarious to roleplay as Rick James. Now that I think about it, that honestly may have been more surprising. I know that you guys are through listening to my green screen shenanigans. We can get into the video. You aren't going to believe what happened while I was playing this mod, dude. The first time you run into a door that is locked in Rapture, it has a 4 digit code to which I instantly responded with 6969, here's your 4 digit code, bud. I have never played this mod before. I have never watched anybody play this mod for a half-life ally.  But believe it or not, the 4 digit code to that door actually ended up being 6969. Maybe I'm just psychic or some sh**. This was probably the highlight of my time playing this mod. Not only did I discover that I could see the future while playing this mod, but I also realized that life isn't all unicorns and rainbows. Just soon after this shenanigan played out, I stumbled upon a couple of corpses that were hanging by their necks from the ceiling in an underground sewer. Oh god, how does somebody even do that? How do you even get like that, miss? Like you're taking a nap on your chest using your chest as a pillow? What the f**k? Stop. Stop it. All jokes aside, I love what the creators of this mod have done. There are so many unique game assets in this mod. The health syringe has a completely new model, which I think looks freaking sick. Why does this guy sound like the hormone monster? There are also new guns, which just so happens to be my favorite aspect of every game that I play. In this mod, we got an amazing Rapture Tommy Dunn model.  As well as a couple randomly encountered weapons that you can't permanently equip, they include a pump action shotgun and a revolver pistol. But even though I said that the weapons are my favorite part of this mod, that is only partly true. What I really appreciate above all else is the humor that has sprinkled into this mod through your indirect interactions with NPCs that are sparking up conversation about the Splicer, and especially this hilariously unhelpful fortune teller whose only superpower seems to be pessimism. Did you just say in a past life I did something terrible to somebody? That's all you had to say. I've said this before, and I'm going to say it again, half life Alex is a masterpiece. But when I bought the game, not for one second did I think I would be getting access to BioShock in VR. I just want to congratulate the creators of this beautiful mod. When I say that this mod makes me weak at the knees, I am not joking around. The amount of detail in this mod is extremely shocking to me. There are so many new and unique 3D assets that were created for this mod, and they fit perfectly within the environment and aesthetic of BioShock. And my favorite model that I found when I was playing through Rapture is actually, it's already in Half Life Alex, just the OG game, but dude I never found it, I don't know how, it's a rat. I wish I could put this on my shoulder and have him as like a parrot, you know what I'm saying?  Let's go pal. The mouse is nice and all, but one little detail that I just couldn't get enough of when I first started playing this mod is the blood pooling that leaks from your enemies bodies just after you've done them down. I'm pretty damn sure this effect was not present in Half Life Alex because I feel like I definitely would have taken note of that. This small detail adds so much to this mod, it makes you feel like you are that much closer to actually being in the underwater city of Rapture. And if I'm being honest, the blood pooling in this mod looks a whole hell of a lot better than any other attempts I've seen in VR games that I've played so far. Oh, good, look at that blood, yes.  I bet this lady got mopped, real good, didn't you ma'am? No, big daddy, what did you do? The last thing that I have to note about this mod is how cool the plasmids are. I only found two of them while playing through this mod, the two that I did find were absolutely amazing. One of them was good old fire and the other was Killer Bee, both of which I had an absolute blast using. I ran into Jack Frost during my playthrough too, so that leads me to believe that maybe there's an ice plasmid of some kind, don't quote me on that. The creators of this mod boast that it has about 15 hours of gameplay. I only played this mod for about 4 hours this week, you guys will definitely see much more than what I've been able to show you in this video. That's like mostly in the d**k, why, why you gotta do my guy like that, who's laughing at you backstabbing bastard, oh wow okay, this is a crime of passion. Thank you for watching this video, there's some bloopers afterwards if you want to stick around and watch those, but other than that I hope you're having an amazing day wherever you are, I really hope I got you to smile or giggle during this video because that is really the reason why I make these. If you enjoyed the video consider liking it and if you want to subscribe to my channel, I post a video every week, enjoy your weekend and I will see you guys on the next video, baah! Oh, what's wrong, what's wrong, it's something wrong, okay, nice, I'm gonna smithin' this bush, it's all wiggling everything, almost some milk chocolate, I love milk chocolate dude. Come on, 24 large bars, come on, dammit, literally, ha, ha, ha, all I saw when I read that was a wax. I'm gonna get my mind out of the gutter, holy schnikes.


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I met Tim Hardaway. It's all a mellow boy I saw the USA team vs. Australia to shout out to you guys and hope you enjoy the video Crazy stuff definitely never been or played in anything like this. So It's be a fun night for sure $50,000 it's gonna be a movie I Got my ticket. I was gonna wear a jersey man, but can I show mine real quick? No, keep the mellow jerseys Hello, Melo So I made it it's absolutely past It's meant to be around 65,000 people, but at the moment I reckon there's probably 40,000 and it's only six o'clock and it starts at 730, so It's gonna be crazy crazy Understand what you're saying, you know Kimmel walk, you know Kimmel walk or Resemble my game how he plays I cross people over how he gets to the round Makes plays was teammates and he gives teammates a chance to win each and every night He's an exciting ball player at his size and he pranks a lot of confidence And he's not afraid to go out there and play against Giants So Kimmel walker and then you know kind of re-urban and Steph Curry and it goes on and on I'd like to watch Kimmel walk Who's the hottest player you've had again? Ah What's the name? Raj Strickland cradles the basketball finish it with the left hand behind Play you have to play up again Think I'd meet Tim Hardaway and Alan Houston. That's crazy So the USA teams up by two points. It's a good game so far Get themselves some easy baskets off that we're talking about straight Australia playing a little bit of zone that time You know it's time to play a little bit of his own case 13 on their list And they've lost it Jalen Brown.  It's a 16 point


You know, when the separation seemed to happen, a solution so magnificent, a solution so splendid, a solution so spectacular had to be enacted, not of course in reality in heaven because there's no separation, but in terms of the belief in separation and that splendid, spectacular solution is the atonement. It's the only solution the ego is incapable of hijacking. The ego can hijack anything of this world for its own purposes. It's like the Borg. It just assimilates anything of the cosmos as like a sort of defense to protect itself. But that's what makes the atonement so splendid, so amazing, so spectacular as it can't be hijacked. It's incapable. You might say that's our divine life insurance policy. While you believe in separation, you have a divine life insurance policy that will not fail because it's the remembrance of life, life itself. And this movie, Defending Your Life, well, if you're going to have to have a defense, the atonement is the best. Just remember that. You get a chance to choose. And who will you use to defend yourself? I'll take the atonement. It's safe.


A DNA sequencing reaction includes 4 main ingredients, template DNA, copied by the E. coli, freebases, the building blocks of DNA that come in 4 types, short pieces of DNA called primers, and DNA polymerase, the enzyme that copies DNA. The chemical reaction that makes DNA in a test tube is similar to what happens in a living cell. Both rely on DNA polymerase, and in both cases DNA strands have a head end, which is called the 5 prime end, and a tail end, which is called the 3 prime end. A DNA strand can grow only from its 3 prime end. Making DNA in cells and sequencing DNA in test tubes both depend on complementary base pairing. The building blocks on opposite strands of DNA pair specifically. A C always pairs with a G, and an A always pairs with a T. The primer sequence binds to its complementary sequence on the template DNA. Freebases that match the template sequence can attach to the new strands growing 3 prime end. Among the freebases in the solution are a few that have a fluorescent dye attached to them. When a dye-bearing base attaches to the growing strand, it stops the new DNA strand from growing any further. A different colored dye is attached to each of the 4 kinds of bases.


Hey there friends! How's it going? My name is Kevin and today we're playing Prison Architect on the new DLC Island Bound which is now available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. This video is sponsored by Paradox as well. So thank you very much for the sponsor. I love this game so I'm delighted to be playing it. There'll be a link in the description if you want to check it out, which I highly encourage you to do so. It is a very, very fun game. Let's get started. I have already secured an island. God, I really have reached peak villain status. I've secured an island. I've got my warden here ready to go. I've got to choose my pet dog, which I will pick this dog. He's very nice. And I've set up a few different situations here like events, weather and temperature, you know, just to make it a bit tougher on me because I'm not going to struggle at all. So let's jump in and play. This is the proud nation of Ireland. We've now become a prison. We've got some workers arriving by boat and they're going to start building our proud prison system. It actually does kind of look like Ireland, just by chance, kind of. I mean, it's just kind of a blob, but that's kind of what Ireland is anyway. There are your supplies, men. Let's get started. All right, the prison is going to be in Dublin up here. All right, what do we got here? Do we got a grant or something so that I can get some more money to build this? I haven't qualified. I'm not really surprised, given that I've only built a bit of foundation. All right, go building my first holding cell as well. Really getting off to a good start. You know, I don't think I'm even going to build walls because like we've got this island. What are they going to do? Swim. Actually, they probably could swim. Oh, God, I've trapped workers inside. Oh, Jesus Christ. OK, it's the equivalent of building a treehouse without a door. All right, guys, you have to build a door to free our people. There you go. You are liberated. And you know, it's a good prison when even the workers building it can't escape. There we go. I put the water pump right behind the toilets because if I've learned anything from prison break, it's a horrible game. I'm dying. I'm dying. Help me. And behind the toilets is a weak spot. So we're going defending that. I think the workers are like, do you think we're the prisoners? I know it's arrived yet. All right, let's hook up these showers before someone else dies. You left something stuck in the way of the door. And also instead of removing the fence, they just left it there. So now instead of a wall looking into the showers, there's a chain link fence, which is kind of comfortable, even the yard is right next to it. I don't think giving them direct access to the sea is a good idea. So I'm actually going to cut this off a little bit. And try and secure it. OK, I think I've ruined this this entire area, actually. This entire area is ruined. They really shouldn't be giving me these grants because I'm just not capable of putting them to good use. Like I am wasting so much money here by changing my mind. Oh, my God, what is going on in here? Rorobori Allison. One debt today. That's not too bad. Jesus Christ. Stop booing me. I'm trying my best. What are all those noises? One of my guards is gravely injured and I have no medical support on this island. Oh, my God, the showers are flooding. This fog of war is going to screw me over. I don't know what's going on, but I don't think it's anything good. It's just like food or brain and more prisoners. Subsidence of the land is destroyed a section. Oh, come on. As if I wasn't struggling enough. We didn't need this. Oh, my God, the holding cells getting a bit full. This is a little bit worrying. But let's worry about the finances for now because that's already a serious issue. We're here to make money and not reform people. Oh, wait, I said the quiet part out loud, didn't I? Some of the prisoners are just left outside looking at the nice sea views. You know, I think we might need to build like a helipad for emergency situations because I feel like it's only a matter of time. All right, helipad. Should I put it right in the air? No, that's probably a bad idea. We'll smush some prisoners, even though honestly it might be a better solution than starving them all to death. I need to hire an accountant, but I need to unlock it first. Right now it's just these five, even though a psychiatrist might be a good call, not even for the prisoners. For me, there's obviously something wrong with me if I think this is okay. Ah, supply helicopters are coming in now. That is awesome. I mean, I'd prefer medical supplies, but it's fine. Okay, here we go. Accountant, there you go. You got an office and everything. Do I get the grant now? I did it. Just ignore my failures. Focus on my victories. Crack down on drugs. Yeah, sure, that should be an easy one. They're all in the same place, so a shakedown should be easy. Shakedown, order an immediate search of all cells.  Yeah, go for it. You've got two guards to shakedown all these people. Oh my God, they're crowding the door. We only found one drug. God damn it, why do my criminals have to be straight edges? Look at them, they only have screwdrivers. They're probably using it to craft little bits and bobs and give them to charity or something. They're all angels, a lot of them. Those bastards.  Because I need my money. Okay, I should probably do the cell block one because I think they deserve cells of their own.  Like, it's getting pretty dangerous. I've built my prison in the most horrible way. Like, you can't get to the top of the island.  It is a true representation of Ireland. You're not allowed to go up north. That's where the border is. Why are you fighting? Oh my God, the showers. I never fixed them. Oh my God, it's just unconscious.  All right, I know what they need. They need a nice outdoor lake. Hell yeah. Why are all those prisoners hanging around the helicopter? That doesn't seem safe. You know what might be a good idea? Some more carrots. We had two carrots managing all of this chaos. Like, as I said, I'm here to make money and you don't make money by spending money as the saying goes. Oh my God, this one's criminally insane.  He's just sitting on the toilet bleeding. All right, we're gonna have to build a dock or something and get away around here. This is bad. This is really bad. Create pathways allowing prisoners and staff to cross water out of pallets. Perfect. That's a good reasonable way of extending everything, right? Oh, time for the afternoon fight club.  Oh my God, so many drugs. I only need to find two more narcotics. We've been finding loads of them. They've been driven to drugs and I don't really blame them. Don't worry guys, I'm building enough cells to house some of you. They probably love solitary confinement at this point.  Guys, I know everyone's on edge and now is not the best time but I'm gonna give a shakedown because I really need to find more drugs on you guys. This guy's gotta blow a casket. All right, find some drugs folks, you can do it. Get stuck in, you can do it if you work together. Yes, good job everyone. Great use of drugs. God, it's bad when one of my goals is feed all prisoners and I've yet to do it. 44% and honestly, I think the only reason it's going up is because a lot of them are dying. Oh my God, these guys must be so happy that they actually got locked up in their own cell. They get a little bit of peace finally. Sure, they've no running water but it's still kind of a plus overall. Riot, no, no, stop it. I thought we had a good thing going. Take your drugs back, you can have them. Oh my God, the showers are flooding. They're all fighting and we're still making cells over here that don't even have corridors. It's all just outside. Okay, we've kind of run out of room here. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna landscape. I'm gonna put some dirt down on top of this water and we're gonna build a wall around the outskirts. It's just one wide. Okay, everything's going fine. They're all celebrating, you hear that? Yep, it's celebrating and all the ketchup all over the kitchen, lots of condiments here. He's dead tired of all the ketchup squirting it to do. All right, ignore this pattern on the bottom. Security procedure certification. That might be a good grant to do. I think I could use some more guards. I only have three now and I had like five a while ago. Jesus Christ, this might be the worst prison ever made by man. Then we've destroyed luscious Ireland to do it too. I really need to fix that leak at some point if I can. It's just not super high on my priority list right now. You know what might cheer everyone up a little bit? Just a tiny bit is some lights. They're in complete darkness.  Look at them all funneling in through this little one narrow hallway without any light. It must be terrifying. I'm just putting lights on the floor. I'm sure no one will interfere with them.  Just trying to get some peace. Okay, why is there blood all over the ice? That was probably because all the workers are injured. Like they've got their hard hats on. I don't see how that's possible. All right, calling some paramedics. We actually badly need some healing. Please go help people. Just do whatever you can, please.  I really thought it would do the trick. I love how I put these stepping stones around the boat dock. I'm gonna cause the next Titanic over here. I love how I'm shipping in ice to do this as well. I'm creating a perimeter now.  Okay, we might be shorthand cells again. Like maybe we should just stop taking prisoners for a while, we clearly can't handle this. We're a small proud nation, but we gotta know our limits. I'm gonna make a patrol inside the cell with them. I'm gonna make another patrol out here. Then another patrol can go up there, around there. There you go, and I get my grant. Now we feel safe. Maybe except this guy in here wherever he is. Good luck. They're all sleeping, but they're all kind of just hovering around the place. If we played music, could we just classify it as a mosh pit and then say it's okay? On the bright side, we're making lots of money. Cash flow is up. Ignore the danger signs. Cell Block B, take that grant. We need to expand this place. Think what we need is more holding cells, just up north, somewhere out of the way where we won't really even notice they're there. What's this symbol? I think the door might have broken on solitary. Someone's out there where they shouldn't be. What are these symbols? What is going on? We might need a patrol in the showers. Yeah, just have someone walking around in circles constantly. So at least I'll be able to tell what's going on in there. Got to be a bit uncomfortable for the showers, but you know what? That fits the theme of the rest of the prison. Only two deaths today. From natural causes too. It was weird, they just stalled age. It's weird. Like the holding cell capacity is only like eight. How many are in here? I don't think I want to know. I'm going to make them a chapel so that they can actually like pray this away. You know what this prison really needs? Some nice flooring. That might cheer everyone up. What if we get a lovely checkered floor? There we go, we're getting nice new tiles everywhere. This is going to look horrible. It's done, isn't it? It's going to be way too overwhelming. I really think the workers have more important things to be doing, but that's the job I've given them now. Jesus Christ, I have 176 prisoners. My capacity is supposed to be 18.  Ignore that. Keep terraforming Ireland. We're going to get such a beautiful country. You're going to love it. As soon as they see the coast off the Wild Atlantic way, they'll be so overwhelmed they'll stop. Jesus Christ, how did five people escape? Where are you escaping to? There's no way off the island. Except for that boat that keeps coming in regularly. That's probably a way out. Do you not appreciate the new tiles I've put down?   I fought mud crabs fiercer than you. Okay, I'm just going to keep making cells and really trying to make this the best prison it can be. I'm just optimizing the space now because I haven't been, but I think I need to. The music is even scaring me. This is just going back in horrible. To be honest with you, every guard is dead. Okay, well, I'll just hire more. Come on, please. Oh my God, look at them. As soon as they spawn in, they just start dying. Okay, hold on, emergency, emergency. We need backup. Elite ops team, please. A helicopter, please leave. Get out of here. We need someone who can control the situation and it sure as hell isn't me. Oh, at least someone's enjoying the lake that I put down. Stop bleeding in the lake. Oh God, I just realized I sent away the paramedics helicopter and I stranded them on the island, but that doesn't matter. I have lost control of my prison. I can't do anything. Oh, the proud nation of Ireland deserve better than me. And look at it. I even destroyed the fecking coastline. It's all man made now. Wait, the warden's dead. Okay. I don't think a helicopter with sirens is going to solve this issue. Could you please come down on the ground? Where will I drop the guards? I need to drop them behind enemy lines here. Come on, go, go, go, go, go and force. They only have you outnumbered four to one now. Okay, it's under control and everything is fine. And look at all the food we've stocked up meanwhile. This is good. Oh, good luck, good. I can't even lie about this. There's been 35 deaths today. You know what this place needs? A fecking janitor. That would just be fantastic. Oh, no, it's the warden. Our previous warden's dead. All right, we're going to convert the showers into a chapel, I think. It'll solve the flooding issue and also you can just pray the smell away. They're eating a lot, but I don't know what they're eating. I don't know if they're eating each other or what the situation is. We have 233 prisoners, 36 capacity. All right, since my prison is going to shit, I've got an idea. We can get a grant, tool cleanup. Yeah, we'll find lots of, you know, a contraband and whatnot because there's bound to be loads and we'll do a shakedown. Well, would you look at that? It seems like they got a lot of contraband here. Oh my God, we're only feeding about 10% of prisoners. Honestly, cannibalism might be the answer. All right, back to building that chapel.  That guy's still patrolling in there. I'm just going to leave the showers. All right, there we go. Now you can shower and worship at the same time. 131, wait, oh God, 146 require medical attention. Can I just delete all? I'm searching for tunnels, even though I'm not sure how they will tunnel out of the islands. They'd want to be digging real deep for that one. Let's hire back a warden. Just going to drop him into this situation. It's like, all right, fix it. Offer, fix it. Shit, it's kicking off once again. You know what? This is not working. I am not doing a very good job here. I think my warden is dead again. What might be a good idea and hear me out on this is deleting all the walls. This has been done before. Like, didn't they send all prisoners to like Australia or New Zealand? This is New New Zealand. We set out to make Ireland and we made New New Zealand. The music's quite intense. That's just nation building music. That's what happens when you build a new country. All right, well, you know what? That's a success in my book. We're going to end it there. I hope you enjoyed my prison. I'm not sure anyone else did, but this was a really fun experience. I got to say, I really love Prison Architect. I've played it a few times on the channel before. Really liked the idea of the new DLC, even though mine went a bit south, but I guess I just wasn't meant to live on an island. Please, someone get me out of Ireland now. But yeah, I will thank Prison Architect again for the sponsor. As I said, the DLC, Island Bound, is out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One now. If you want to get it, it seems really fun. I encourage you to do so if you like the look of it. I really enjoy the game, but there'll be a link in the description if you want to click on that. And that's about it. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed. I appreciate you watching as always, and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


Hey, I want you to know that other people's opinions have and carry other people's energies. I say that because I think when we hear someone express an opinion to us, especially if it's a negative, cynical, judgmental opinion, I think we get confused as to why that bothers us so much when the actual opinion itself in terms of word and content wasn't that different to perhaps what we've heard from people before. What makes it different is that it came with a certain energy attached to it and it was the energy, the emotional energy invested in the opinion that troubles us because every opinion that people express to us, especially if it's negative and critical and cynical and meant to offend and hurt us or stop us in our tracks or have a negative controlling effect on us. It comes with an energy attached to it and often the opinion can fade but the energy lasts longer than the opinion. The opinion can be forgotten, can fade from the mind, but the energy that the opinion came with lives way beyond what was said and you finish up weeks, months later, not struggling with the opinion which you think it is that you're struggling with, but you're struggling with the energy that deposited itself in your soul and it's like a sediment of a drink that's finished, but the dregs in the bottom of the glass are still there and it's those dregs of negative energy that came with those people's opinion that continues to upset you in your soul and bother you in your mind because people's opinions come with people's energy so stay away from opinionated people.


Hi there, I'm Ben. I'm president of the Purdue Engineering Student Council, or PESC for short. My name is Caroline Bodner and I'm the internal development committee head of the Purdue Engineering Student Council. PESC does a lot of things in the community for engineering students, namely we operate career fairs on campus, industrial roundtable and expo, which you might know us for, but we also provide a lot of resources to build the community here on campus. PESC works to serve students, the campus, and community. Just a few ways that we do this is by pop-ups for our students to promote well-being. We're funding the scholarships for people that are pursuing their passions through the College of Engineering. I love PESC for all the people that I get to meet and interact with. It's really cool to see Purdue students in their environment, in their labs, you know, in their classrooms, really making positive change for Purdue and for the world. My favorite thing about PESC is the family that offers me within such a large school and a large College of Engineering.


So you're in your door like I am now and you want to spice up one of your instruments by making it sound wider and you've heard of this technique called doubling here which you can use on vocals guitar or anything you can think of and it's easy right you just take that instrument you make a duplicate you pan one copy to the left and one copy to the right job done well let's try that I'm in my door cakewalk at the moment but it doesn't matter which door you're using the principles are all the same and I've got this electric guitar which sounds like this currently okay so let's take that electric guitar I'm gonna right click here in cakewalk and go down to duplicate track okay done that and I'm just gonna make sure that I include events for the duplicate so that is the actual sound itself click on okay and that's done I've got my duplicate track now I'm gonna take one of those guitars and pan it to the left and the other one and pan it to the right job done right wrong hi folks I'm Mike and I hope you will now some of you may have already have guessed that I actually just made that guitar sound louder not wider so it currently sounds like this when what I really want is for it to sound like this now the more experienced viewers amongst you will know exactly what I did wrong but stay tuned because there's still a couple of tips in this video which I think are going to be really helpful to you now let's talk about the three T's of doubling with the first one being timing so let me put you out of your misery what I actually should have done with that guitar part was record a separate performance if I'd recorded a separate performance then there will be slight differences in the timing between the two I'm not talking about musical mistakes but just human differences and when we hear those timing differences panned left and right things begin to sound much wider to us let me demonstrate here with this piano part okay I'm using this piano part because it's a MIDI instrument which means I can make the timing perfect between two performances by quantizing the first version which is here in the blue we've got the left and right channels okay this is quantized so the timing is perfect the second version in green here I didn't quantize it so there's slight differences in the timing I'm going to switch between the two so that you can hear the difference quite easily let's have a listen now with the first one as I say if we double click here and go into the piano roll if you look at the notes they're perfectly on the grid yeah exactly on the grid if we go to the second one which I didn't quantize here in the green if you look very closely some of these notes are either before or after the grid now with each performance there will be slight variations in that as well and it's that which really begins to help us with making our instruments sound wider now the downside for this piano in particular is there's no difference in pitch or my second T which is tuning so something that people have noticed when they're doing doubling is that if you do too much pitch correction on something like a vocal it's difficult to make it sound as wide so for the sake of the acronym I'm not talking about pitch but tuning okay now I've got a demonstration here you can see three tracks in pink here this is a vocal part and you can see three tracks in sort of yellowy green now the top three brings me to sort of a another little tip here when I'm doing vocals especially and I do doubling I actually keep my original and I keep that right in the middle then I do a duplicate performance for the left and a duplicate performance for the right okay so that's where you can see three rather than two and it doesn't just apply to vocals it could be other things now the first three that we can see here have no pitch correction on them okay so it's just the natural vocal the second three in yellow have fairly heavy pitch correction on them what you may call auto tuning now it's important to remember that these two are from the same performance from the vocal okay we've still got the timing differences so there's a little bit of width but listen to the difference between the two again starting off with the first one no pitch correction and then in yellow the second one pitch correction have a listen it almost sounded as if the life was sucked out of the vocals here for the one in yellow the one with the pitch correction if you couldn't really hear it very clearly with the music there let's just highlight these and solo all of those tracks so we'll just listen to the vocal by itself no music you should be able to hear it quite clearly now so it's important to remember when you're doing heavy pitch correction on vocals that it's possible that you may lose some width and that's because again our ears can hear the slight difference in that pitch and it makes it sound wider now it's not just for vocals it'll happen with things like guitars you know not because your guitars out of tune but there are slight tuning differences every time you play different pressures on the string for example will have you know a difference a slight difference in pitch now as I say this is a little bit more difficult when you're using MIDI or virtual instruments where the pitch is always absolutely perfect something to be aware of now the last thing that we're going to talk about the third T is tone so we're back to my original guitar demo and I've implemented all the things we've talked about and it's sounding like this now as I say I've got three guitars actually they're one for the center and one for the left and one for the right and of course they're all separate performances so we've got natural timing and tuning or pitch differences now the other thing I've done with the left and right channels is make some adjustments to the tone using EQ so if we look at the first guitar over here this is the left hand guitar I'll open up it's EQ here now it doesn't matter of course which EQ you use I happen to be using fab filter here but you can use whatever one you like I'll pin that one and I'll move it over to the left side here so that we can see it's the left hand EQ and then I'll open up the EQ for the right guitar over here you can see they're sort of similar on the face of it but there's some major differences the one on the left over here I've done a little bit of a reduction here and around about one and a half K okay it's a 3 dB reduction and I've done a boost around about 5k a really big boost actually in this case 6 dB now it doesn't matter what you do in terms of which frequencies or kind of how much that's up to you it's up to your personal taste now on the right hand side I've made adjustments at the same frequencies but where I've done a boost I do a cut and when when I've done a cut on this side I do a boost so in other words at one and a half K also a little bit higher actually in this one I've done a 3 dB boost where I did a cut over here and then around about 5k or a little less than 5k I've done a pretty big reduction 6 dB there whereas I did a boost of 6 dB over here again our ears can hear those differences and it makes things sound just a little bit wider it's a little bit more subtle in this case but it definitely works and that's how we're getting that nice wide guitar sound now you don't actually have to go to the trouble a lot of the time of recording a separate performance for your doubling because normally let's face it during the process of recording you create lots of takes now if you're mindful of this and keep some of those takes as long as there's not any terrible mistakes in them then they're often very useful for creating your tracks for doubling now one of the things we do in the recording process which creates natural duplicate performance is vocal comping or any kind of comping in fact now if you're a cakewalk user and you're interested in doing some comping I have made a video about that and you can watch that right here it's an awesome way to get the best part of all of your performances and blend them in together for a perfect take


Welcome to the Metal Voice, are they on the show? Let everybody guess. Lips from Anvil, always a pleasure. The one website, the Metal Voice that always promotes Anvil on every show. We try to always slip Anvil in no matter what we do. Lips, we do like a product placement. Like Alan will put a little Anvil you know in the corner somewhere. We interview somebody and all of a sudden like an album will pop by you. All right man, pretty exciting stuff. You know what, I don't want to call it a tour because you didn't call it a tour. It's a regional tour, we'll call it, right Lips? Yeah, that's it, it's regional. It's just like you're going back to the late 70s. It's Ontario and Quebec. Like what was in the late 70s, no different. Yeah, that's what it seems like. Not much has changed. Except the mustache is no longer there. The mustache is gone. Yeah, and so is the electric circle. So what the hell? The gas works is gone, right? Yeah. I'm sure you played there many times back in the day. Yeah, probably too many times. Did you, did you, I think once you said you saw Rush play there with John Retzi, the original drummer, is that true? No. It was someone else. Yeah, it wasn't me. I did never saw Rush at the gas works. I saw Rush at my high school. Oh, oh, maybe I did. I mean, it was John Retzi. I think in 74 maybe, 75, maybe, no, earlier. No, it has to be like 72 maybe. So I mean, John Retzi was a drummer, right? Yeah, yeah. The original drummer, right? Yeah, that's when they'd open their set with the thing from Superman. Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane. And then, you know, that song. Yeah, oh yeah, that's finding my way, right? That's finding my way, yeah. Yeah, that must have been pretty cool. I mean, back then when you saw Rush, I'm just curious, like, did you think, man, this band is gonna be who they are today? I wouldn't have thought they were as gonna be as big as they got, but certainly it was the best that you might see in your high school, you know what I mean? Like, and you knew it, like it was really heavy. And at that day and age, you didn't see stuff like that. I mean, there were other bands in, you know, but not like that, not like that, man. You know, not really, really loud. It wasn't metal yet. It was still, it was still hard rock, you know? So it was, you know, what did you see in the bar in the schools at that time? Brutus, right? Carol Pope, Rough Trip. Oh, Carol Pope, yeah, yeah. I'm just thinking about other bands that you saw around here. No, that came later. That came way later than me, they came after Rush, at least in my view, it was probably didn't, yeah, they definitely came after Rush. How old were you? How old were you when you saw Rush, do you remember? It would have been grade 11 or 12. So I was already 16, 17, at least. Yeah, well, they were only 40 years older than me, so it's, they're young guys. They were young guys at that point in time. They played what was called the Victory Burlesque House. I went to see them there. And it was, that was a great show because they had Blood Rock open for them. I don't know Blood Rock. Yeah, I know, well, I wouldn't expect you to, you're not old enough. I don't know Blood Rock. Did they get any traction Blood Rock? Here in Canada, probably not. That doesn't mean that they weren't, they were a significant band. They were produced by the same, by Terry Knight, the same guy that produced Grand Funk. Okay, very good. They're a hard rock band. I really like them, like I do. I don't know about, you know what I mean? Like I'm a fan of Blood Rock. I enjoy them. Very old. That's one for people who start googling. Yeah, they make and look it up and it's an old 70s rock band. Were they a Canadian band? Oh no, they're American. Obviously, Terry Knight's managing them. Yeah, that's what I was figuring, yeah. That's pretty cool. So your high school, I mean, was there any inspiration? You see Rush playing and go, you know what, I wanna do what they're doing. I wanna do Rush. No, no, I already was doing it. Long, for a long time already. No, Rush has not been an inspiration to me. Sorry. Okay, all right. Frank Marino, much more. Yeah, yeah, that's Frank. But not Frank, you know what I mean? It's not that, I like English bands.  You know what I mean? Like listening to their versions of what I was listening to. I'd rather listen to what I was listening to, right? Right, right. And I don't mean to be offensive, I mean, it's not, it's not, it's just, they're okay. I mean, I thought they were pretty good. Yeah, I like April, I always liked April Wine more. Yep, think about April Wines. First concert I ever saw was April Wines. April Wine has been more of an influence to me and great up to today. You know what I mean? I look at April Wine more special. I know that the rest of the world doesn't, but I do. And Frank Marino, did he come by your high school back then? No, no, I never, I didn't, the only time I ever saw Frank Marino was when I opened for him. That was when, when was that? In Montreal in 1983. Wow, wow, that's pretty cool. That must have been the juggernaut era. That's exactly what it was. It was great. What have you got? Good guitars for sure. Yeah, I really, that was really, that was really cool to see that in its day. But that was pretty much it, you know? Didn't really go on, continue up much further than that, did it? So, yeah. No, that was, see, we've interviewed Frank, he said that was pretty much the end. He was sick with the corporate world and that was pretty much the end for him after the juggernaut, so. Yeah, yeah. Strange dreams was playing everywhere that summer. All the radio was playing. You couldn't have frustrated Frank more. You know what I mean? They pick out of all those albums and all those songs, they pick a song that's got no guitar solo. No guitar solo. That's what he mentioned, yeah. He said the same thing you said, but you know, they basically made these albums, I guess they front him the money for sure to make those albums, but there was no money after that. There was no money, just like the same way, you know, you guys kind of, when you're first three albums, maybe there wasn't. Oh, hey, hey, listen, there's money, there's lots of money, but none that goes to the band. Nobody's making the money. Come on, that's the nature of the music business, that's the way, it's like loan sharking, right? Hell, money for your album and you're gonna pay 10 to one back. That's what it works like, right? I don't think that most people really come to understand how the business actually works. When a record company gives you an advance, let's just use numbers, okay? That are not relevant to Anvil or necessarily anybody. Let's say they give you 10 grand, okay? Well, you're gonna pay that $10,000 off by selling 10,000 CDs because they give the band a dollar towards the red line for every CD. So that's what your cut is. One dollar, so while the band is paying off the red line at a dollar per sale, right? The record company's making $19, right? So where's all the money going?  And they always say they're magicians that math the accountants, right? They just kind of, well, you didn't really pay it off yet. Well, you know. Oh, you're very seldom do royalty advances actually get cleared. And they never want them to either because as soon as they do, then they start owing in money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they make the numbers dance on the page and all records and CDs going to mom and pops shops they're not tallied. So you're never going to get paid for them. And didn't you have an instance where Attic sent out all these promotional copies that they charged against you when they were giving them away as well? Well, that's another way, right? How about Attic Records doing a backdoor deal with a company in France who pressed a million copies? How about that?  Yeah. Well, there's about a million of metal on metal and hard and heavy that are out there that were sold at a fraction of the price of a regular release, right? Like everybody's getting black vinyl and they're paying 12 bucks for the album. But if you buy the picture disk by Anvil, they're $5. Well, that's what happened. I remember seeing that. That really happened. And the really, there's no point in talking about it. There's no point in talking about it. What's going to change by talking about it? Nothing. There's no more music in there. I never got paid. I still never going to get paid.  It's just, and I know I'm not the only one. There's lots of bands that never get paid. I set it in my movie. 90% of bands never get paid. So then you fast forward to today and everybody's saying, well, we're not getting paid. We're not getting paid for our albums, but no one ever really got paid. No. You've got to sell millions. A black Sabbath didn't get paid. Oz, he didn't make money until Sharon and him put together the Blizzard of Oz. That's the first time he saw money in all those years. Yeah, but is it talked about? Does anybody know? Did they realize these things? No, man, it cost money to make somebody a rock star. A lot of money. And to the rock star himself, to the point where they're living in a poor house.  You know what I mean? They're not really making money. And then of course what that turned into and what it is now, it's all about the merchandise. It's all about t-shirts.  I make all my money from merchandising and playing live. That's how you do it. It's the only way to do it. It's the way all the bands do it, including the biggest bands in the world. Why do you think Metallica have pop-up shops before they go play? And what's a pop-up shop? That's so that they can sell their merchandise before the show. Because at the show it's double the price because they have to split all the take to the promoter. Oh boy. Now when let's say they're hiring Metallica for the night, it costs the promoter a million bucks.  So yeah, no kidding. It costs a lot of money, right? Live nation, right? They just announced that. That's the way it works. So what happens is like or with ACDC, they manufacture the horns, you know what I mean? And they sell them for 15, 20 bucks and they cost 50 cents. Yeah, yeah. And that's how ACDC, everybody pretty much who walks into that show buys a pair of those horns and they make all the money from the merchandise. That's their own pocket money. So they'll walk out with a few hundred thousand dollars each. Insurance policies that these guys have to pay just to put a show on. Yeah, no cancellations. I mean, it's not about cancellations, but about if something happens to anybody in that crowd for any reason, the band can become responsible. So the band has to pay a fortune in insurance to just go play the show. So that's why I'm saying, you know, they get a million bucks, but it just costs them $40,000 to ensure the show, right?  Well, there's, there you go. Yeah. Everybody's got their fingers in the pie.  Meanwhile, Venom used to, you know, use explosives in 82 and 83 that there was. So did we. Come on, man. But that's, you know, like think about all the clubs we played and that we were using pyrotechniques that were completely illegal through the whole thing.  Wow, you know, nevermind setting the place on fire, but somebody getting blown up or injured from the explosion or anything like that, man. You know, our roadie got blown up, but he didn't sue us. He blew himself up. It was his own fault. Did easier travel like this tour, you know, you're starting October 2nd, 12th, going to the November 18th, you're doing, like you said, Quebec, Ontario, and we almost call it the station wagon tour. Is that easier than the old days or? I don't know, the thing is we're in between because this is, we just, I just got back from Germany. I just finished recording the 20th album and that went really well. And I can tell you this, that I can honestly say that it's bookended our career in a certain sense. The way we started up out is the way we're ending up. It's actually quite interesting. A complete circle. So heavy and hard. What do I mean by that? What I just recorded is probably going to be as accessible, if not more accessible than metal on metal. And saying this is the end of Anvil, right? That's not what you're saying. Pardon me? When you say bookended, you're not saying it's the end. Well, I don't know, maybe there's another album or two, but what I generally mean, the way we were, I mean, metal on metal was my second album, right?  I got heart, I got heart problems. I don't know how much longer I got. You know what I mean? Life has a beginning, middle and end. That's the way it works for everybody. No one gets out alive. No exception. You know, speaking back then, Fortune Fire released in 83. You didn't do any of these 50th anniversary or 40th anniversary tours. I should say like a lot of bands, would they just play a lot of songs off of that album? No, because Anvil stayed relevant and we put out albums every couple of years for 45 years. Why am I celebrating something that happened in 83 when I've got to promote what I'm doing now? Doesn't make sense. It makes no sense to me. Can we expect new songs at this time?  That's true. I've seen that at the last concert here in Montreal and that's what it was, a lot of younger people. All young people, man. What do they know? They know what we've done recently in recent years. Since the movie, it's actually, it's remarkable. It's unique to Anvil. It's not like that for everybody because not everybody had a documentary that did that well. It's just the way that it played itself out. I think it speaks to your work ethic too. You guys are like clocks, right? Every two years, you've got interesting lyrics that tell the story. But this is the thing, Anvil is not a pop band. You know what I mean? We're not cold play. You know what I mean? For sure. You know, and what do I mean by that? We don't, we're not radio friendly. Never really have been, okay? So if you're not radio friendly, that means you've got to put out albums every year, okay?  Not if you don't. How do you stay relevant, man? You've got to keep pumping your name out there. And the only way to do that is to put an album out and then you've got promotion, right? Now you're out there. No promotion, no album.  No one knows you're even there. You've got to be on the metal voice. Park, man. So Light Motorhead, which is with a very, very similar, similar history. Saxon? Yeah, Saxon. Yeah. How many albums? Saxon also, 20 albums or whatever and put out albums and they're not gonna sit, you know, I just don't see, and I don't think really Motorhead ever did it.  Years ago. No, they didn't, no, they're right. No, no, no. Why would they do that? They're gonna be promoting their newest album that they just put out, right? So speaking of that lips. They're putting out albums every year and a half. Yeah, yeah. Which is no different than what I've been doing. It's what you do if you're a, you know, an artist musician. I guess a non-commercial, non-commercial or non-radial play metal band, that's what you do. You have to prove yourself worthy every year or two with a new album. That's the way you do it. So saying that on this tour that's coming up, can we expect any of the new songs being played? Of course. Great. Well, not from the newest album. No. That's what he meant. You can't do that. No, you can't do that.  You know what I mean? I really don't wanna release new songs by somebody videotaping me with their phone at a gig. I'd rather put the real recording out there. You know what I mean? So how was the recording now? How long did it take? Actually, I was so well prepared this time. I finished everything within probably two weeks. Wow. Yeah. I think the third week was the final. I pretty much finished.  Because I finished way earlier. We booked five weeks and I was done in three. So I don't know. Just the way it goes, right? But I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that that's just the way it went. I went in really prepared. You know, it only took about two or three days to put all the bed tracks down. 14 songs. Okay, that's a 14. And then for seven days straight, I did all the singing. And lead guitar playing. So half the day I played, well, the way it worked is I went in, sing on the first, at the first I sang two songs. And then the next day I go in in the morning, play my two, the two solos on the songs that have the singing on, then go and sing in the afternoon to make the two next songs so that I can play the solos in the morning. So I got the 14 songs done in seven days. Normally, I never did things like that. I just never did things like that. And never that prepared. But honestly, this time I completely pre-wrote the album and had it completely sorted out so that all I had to do was just perform it. That was it. There was no creativity. It's actually, it's completely mechanical. You just got to do the job, right? Get it done.   How'd you do it? Well, I don't have a problem doing that. I'm not hurting. I quit smoking years ago. I don't know. My fingers hurt more than my throat. I'm serious, man. Your fingers hurt more than I suffered more from playing lead guitar than I did from singing because it's much more intense because you're attacking to play lead guitar, you're really attacking the neck. It's not the same as, it's really hard to explain. You're physically pushing your fingers to get those what you want to get done, right? And you're doing like my approach, I don't pre-plan my solos. I create them in the studio. So what the engineer does is he runs the section where the lead guitar is and I just keep playing the solo over and over again. And eventually I get a completed written piece from doing it over and over again and then it's captured. That's it. So it's just that you're not playing it once, you're playing it 30 times, right?  Yeah, for 14 days, yeah.  They were already there. So it's been, the only thing I had to do was listen to the set again and sort of clear my head of the newest work because all your faculties are zeroed in on what you just did not on what you used to do. You know what I mean? So you have to re, I don't know, re- Re-program. Yeah, reprogram your brain. Reset. Yeah, you gotta start playing metal on metal again. You remember the words? Let me hear it once.  Yeah. You already told me, Jimmy, we got the next album, or maybe it was Rob, we got the next album written already and it's even better than this one. Yeah. That's how prepared you were. Well, that's right because of the COVID thing we started, we really buckled down. I did the writing of three albums in the time that I would do one.  Like, it's nuts. It just, to me, it's fucking, yeah. I've never, in my career, I've never written salt been in the writing mode for such a long period of time. It's ridiculous. You think about it, over 30 songs got written, you know? You know. It's a lot of work, man. A lot of homework. So what can we expect on this tour? Okay, what? Well, it's not really...  Man, I don't know, maybe there would be a couple, I don't know whether I'm, what I played in Montreal the last time, someone will have to remind me. Then maybe I can change up a couple of things, but generally nothing's changed because we haven't had a lot of time and haven't put out the new album yet. Although I think we, I don't know if we played Forge and Fire. Did we play Forge and Fire in Montreal last time? I can't remember, I'd have to look it up.  Yeah. You played the time before, if I remember correctly, I think you played for us. I think we did, this is 13, I don't know. And the other question, did we do Ooh Baby or did we do School of? I don't know, I don't remember. So yeah, there's always little, small little nuances, usually with the old stuff that you've got to swap it out if you've been there too many times, right? Is this tour like a preparation for something maybe bigger down the road or is it? I don't know what you mean, what was it? It's like, you know, this is a smaller run just like you said, Ontario, Quebec, but is this like kind of working your way up to maybe something happening in the future, a larger tour? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not doing anything until the new album comes out and that could be not until next summer. Next summer, okay. Yeah, and between November and I guess May or June, I'm gonna be getting a procedure done to my heart, which is, I've got this, I've got atrial fibrillation, which is not a good thing. It's, they gotta put a wire into a vein and then up into my heart and burn some nerve endings that are making my heart beat irregularly. And that's how they fix it. It's not open surgery or anything, it's like a, two hours out, you're out. But the thing is, it's a huge backlog in patients for, because this is really, really common. And of course, I'm a baby boomer and the hospital is packed with us. Yeah, that's a whole other discussion. So, yeah, so in any case, that's what I'm gonna be doing and probably in November and December and I'm gonna be getting a procedure done that I'm doing and probably in November and December. And then after that's done, I'm gonna probably begin writing for the next album. Well, the next album, the next album. The next album, yeah, for 21, yeah, for the album 21. And by the time that we go out on tour for the newest album that I just finished, I will have the new, like the last time, I'll have another new album already written. Amazing bottle. It's a cycle. Yeah, yeah. You know, I was watching yesterday as just, I always try to watch some other interviews or older interviews. And I watched it all with you and Sasha and Rob. You know what? I don't think people understand the depth of the sort of the beginnings of how you guys met Sasha at 13 or 14 or 15 years old. I don't know if there's a question here, but I don't think people understand the depth of- Well, the thing is everybody goes, oh, man, you know, the typical attitude of jealous. And I'm gonna use the word jealous musicians. That could have happened to any band. No, no, that's not the way it works. That's like saying every band can make it. Any band can make it and they all will. No, no, one in a million. And that's what it is. That's exactly what it was. And that's why no one has surpassed the anvil, the story is anvil in documentaries and they won't.  That movie took over 35 years to cultivate. And I use the word cultivate. You need a history. You need 12 albums that didn't go big. Not two albums, not 10 albums, 12. The misconception, you guys, you've never gone anywhere. Well, I would have to disagree. When we did the movie, we had 12 albums out. We were recording our 13th record. But lips, there's even more to it. That's not a failure.   But there's more to this. And this is what I realized yesterday was Sacha was on the verge of going bankrupt. And you guys gave it all. It was basically a do or die situation for everyone if this movie flopped. Yeah, but in my view, not possible. No, no, no, I get that. I get that. I still insist that I, well, I did.  When I met up with Sasha after not seeing him for 25 or more years. And he said, after he sat me down at his uncle's place and he goes, I'm gonna make a movie about you. I broke into tears. Because I knew my ship just came in. I knew what it was. I recognized it immediately. Because let's face it, Sasha was worked for Steven Spielberg.  Like me. We're talking, we're talking about somebody who's working in Hollywood.   A Hollywood guy made a movie about Anvil.  It's completely different. So from my perspective, I could see that. And then to me, I'm going, well, wait a minute.  Yeah, yeah. Underdog story. Everybody loves the underdog. Like you're not gonna surpass it. Then the other, a very important aspect, who's got, who's articulate enough? Who's got the balls, right?   They don't never tell the truth. They show gigs that are all packed. And if they make a video or whatever, everybody's paid to be there.  If it's real and it's true. The other thing is, another important aspect about the Anvil movie, it was written in real time. It was done in real time, okay? But it wasn't like it was planned and it wasn't like it's, and it was about what's happening now, this moment. Not what happened 30 years ago. The first 10 minutes of the Anvil movie talk about the band's past. The rest is all about what we were doing at the moment. And that is way more intriguing and way more captivating than watching somebody talk about something in retrospect. How many years did they follow you? Three years. Wow, I just love the part. I just love the part I was listening to Sasha talk about his whole experience. It was just mind blowing.  And then you go, I think, was it the Keynes Film Festival? I can't remember, it was the Sundance, or I don't remember, he told you, I'm gonna submit this to Sundance. And you go, okay, but you didn't realize it was like 20,000 other submissions. Yeah, it wasn't just that, I thought it was a shoe in. I didn't know it had to be submitted. And then they had to sit on a fucking, on a board of directors, what? Yeah. I thought it was a shoe in, I thought you would do the movie, hand it in, and away you go, oh no. They have to like the movie. And then they schedule it into the festival. But they liked the movie so much, it became, it was the year's favorite movie at the festival. So all the workers throughout the whole festival, they had an Anvil Knight. We were the only movie to do that. I mean, there were a lot of things that, listen, man, it's magical, it's a one-time deal, that it's not gonna happen again. So when you said you do that your ship had come in, while you're filming, all the things that happened that you mentioned, you about the painting that's falling, and it's the same painting that you see when you go over to record the CDs, plays, all the things with your father and stuff, did that reinforce that guys, you don't understand what we're dealing with. This is, none of my ship come in, but this is gonna happen, it's gonna happen big. Did it reinforce you, all these little things you were noticing along the way? Well, the thing is there's a lot of weird, weird things that happen that you're going, something's guiding this. I was, and I'm not religious, and I wouldn't, I don't know that it's a God.  Like you're going, why, how, what the fuck? During the recording, there were of course times where the cameras weren't around and stuff, right?  Anyway, I got this, we got this friend, Mike, who's just a, just a regular headbanger friend that we've known for quite some time, and he offers to take my amp down the stairs. So, he gets up on the stage, he picks up one of my fender twins and drops it. Well, not a good thing, right? At least not at that moment, that's for sure. And I fucking, I lost it.  Anyway, as it turns out, he paid for all the damage and everything, but as it turns out, he went to Japan because he's friends with the loudness, with loudness and stuff like that. So, he went and go and visit Japan and he went to see loudness and the promoters that put it on, he's Creative Man Promotion Company in Japan, and he makes friends with the guy from the promotion company, and he goes, why don't you get Anvil here? And the guy goes, Anvil? He goes, yeah, man. He says, they're available. And he goes, okay, meanwhile, meanwhile, Osh was going, we need a show to have at the end of the movie of you guys playing in Japan. And we need that show to happen in some time in the middle of October. And I'm thinking, how the fuck, what are you thinking, man? Yeah, right, let me conjure it up. Yeah, right.  And why would they just put it on in the middle of October?  And the guy goes, hi, I'm from Japan. I've worked for Creative Man Promotion Company. We'd like to bring you to Japan for October 15th. Pretty amazing, yeah. Like, how do you explain that?  That's the thing.  Not going, oh, great, all this, but how many people are gonna be here? We're like a second band on or something like that? Fuck, I'm flipping out, right? Well, as it turns out, and we'll hadn't been there in 25 or plus years, everybody wanted to see it.   Which you need that scene for the film.  Wow. And that's why we were put on the first thing in the morning. So there was that respect, there was that honoring your history that also played into that first slot? That's right, but they don't tell you we were putting you on early so that we can get an audience in here. They're not gonna tell you that. And I don't know whether I would have agreed to it or not, it's hard to say. Ha, ha, ha, ha. These kind of things, you can't, there's no, it's beyond explanation. Really? And it's their magical aspects of how the movie got made. We're gonna leave you with this lips and to everyone out there, it's Ajax, October the 12th, Peterborough, Kingston, Pembroke, Quebec City, Tuarevier, Montréal, all the way back in Tuantere, all the way to Toronto, November 18th. So the tour dates are up. You guys are coming through. It's nice to see you guys come back again to Quebec, Ontario, which is basically where you started from. That's right. Like I said, we've been completing the cycle. Ha, ha, ha. What's the website? Where do you want people to go and check? It's always been a bit of a- Oh, Jesus.  I don't know. Check Facebook, check Instagram. I'm not running a website, no point. Facebook comes to work. So does Instagram. So do all the social medias. You know, even the YouTube gets sponsored when they put out an album. So there's almost no point in having a website. So find the Anvil Facebook page, find Lips Anvil on Instagram or Rob Reiner or, ha, ha. Yeah, so it's all there. It's all there. Just taping Lips and- Yeah, just to take a look. See all the, and stuff's always being posted by the clubs as well, so. Yeah, it's good stuff. Lips, we're looking forward to see you guys again. On the 22nd, yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. I love Montreal. It's one of, of course, it's one of my favorites and man, have I got memories. Well, hopefully we'll see you there. Hopefully we can hook up and then, you know, wish you a great tour in advance. Yeah, only this time if we're gonna go have dinner, maybe ought to make reservations. Yes. All it was in there last time and we didn't have reservations. We were just standing outside of St. Hubert Restaurant. Didn't we end up going to McDonald's? Well, maybe that was the time of, I don't know. The time before we were able to have a meal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, man, thanks. Thanks for everything. All the best. Thanks for your time. I know Robin Chris for us. Okay, man. Have a good afternoon.


Wellington have all on notice they are a huge contender in this campaign like no other as the finals near. Western Sydney's aim is to just get there the margin between success and failure now down to finite measurement. Speaking of developed Rubica Cache who's gone on leaps and bounds again this season starts that movement for the Knicks that goes through Hooper and Davila back to Devlin. And we've seen already in the games that Wellington have played since the assumption that that you know they really haven't missed a beat they've been in great nick the wonders you couldn't say the same for them on Monday I thought they were pretty sluggish. What a touch from Hooper to bring in the Mexican Marvel, Davila top of the box and Ball is gonna have a go with his left foot and it looked like it just crossed the line and spun back out lines when wasn't interested assistant referee didn't want to know about it Prendergast was diving for lonely when you've refereed at a World Cup which Ali Reza has and Smithy hasn't he's been relegated to the bunk beds but I'll come here for a night of comfort watching the football and he's getting serially battered in Dolby. Surround sound. But Smithy wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Take us through Smithy. Hang on wait here for Mitchell Duke who is using his pace to get him behind here real opportunity Simon Cox what can he come up with a little cross the bees there but so is Duke and Marunovic down smartly. Great chance. Unfortunate for Mitch Duke. Falls down again for Wellington I just haven't got that fluency in the final third with breaks here for Daniel Georgeewski. Mitch Duke making an intelligent run through the middle of the pitch a powerful run he gets past Luke the beer who fouls him and puts himself in the book. Moody's from downstairs from Robby Slater that was just an accumulation of advice unsolicited advice and Kwame Yaboa getting around the outside of Luke the beer there and cards out that's his second yellow and Luke the beer is done with for the evening. I say credit the referee. Two banks of four and just David Ball up front so that's how they've readjusted after the send-off of the beer. Yaboa with his head not for the first time this season has given the wanderers the lead. It was a deflection and it really put Kwame Yaboa in the box seat he finished it nice it's a good header angled to the far post Marunovic can do nothing. Piscopo can he drop it on a dime this one's better great header from Kwame Yaboa and the goal scorer will clear the ball and win the game for Western Sydney wanderers they do it the hard way again but they keep alive their chances of making the top six with a big win over the next