Mixed out the teleport!  How's it going everybody? Dot and I hear back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters right matches. This time ladies suggest a team of Gojira, Vegeta and Gotanks. Or at least I'm playing as much of that suggested team as I actually can right now. They mentioned they wanted Super Saiyan 4 Gojira, but that character isn't exactly out yet. I'm looking forward to what he is though. In fact we're getting more information on the sixth about him. So relatively soon March 6th that is. So we'll definitely be covering that on the channel when he gets there. But until then I guess we're just going to have to stay with good old Gojira Blue. Let me see if I can't get this power up screen real quick.  He skipped it at the last second dude! We waited all that time and I watched your intro. Ah and I dropped it. Huge drop. Man I'm just sad now. Let me see if I can't give him a- Oh and I got punched. I think I'm just going to DP a bit over the- Oh didn't get the input.   Now he's just really going after Gojira. And you know what he kind of right- I kind of feel like switching out. He's definitely scared me. Okay you know what I got to stay in. I got to be brave. Alright he left now. Alright then I'm leaving too. Woo! Vegeta already doing a little better. Got an extra hit on UI Goku. Do we get corner off of it though Vegeta? Go ahead and let him know that we are getting corner. Toss him back! What does he do on wake up though? Shields up! Oh slam him to the ground! No running! Stagger making sure he keeps all his options in check. Alright Gojira get back in here. Now can we do the DP?  I'll take it. Get him out of here.  Great answer! To my beam! I'll definitely take that. We went right through that assist. Right through the assist. Back into the court. Oh he dropped it actually. Vegeta cover me up! Oh nice!  That time though we just crossed up into the corner and landed there. It was pretty graceful. I do gotta give Gojira bonus points for being graceful about it. Oh wait hold on we gotta focus. Does he switch out here? With that much blue life I'm gonna go ahead and say yes. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna go 6M. Nice. Alright 6M means that we definitely get this kill. Do a drop! Oh it's fine we picked it up. I think that was either the lag or I really let myself down. It's fine. We ended up getting it though. I was born in 90 frames of course so no excuse. She yields up. Alright then C-Assist. What's that C-Assist? I'm just so much more confident. Is this enough to get corner though? I actually think it is. Honestly Vegeta throws them really far. Staggered no need. Go ahead and let it rock. Bit of spirit sword. Why not just use a bar? I think this is gonna take two bars at maximum. Get some ghost out here. Some ghost. Okie. Not even the Okie bar. We just used it to kill. Now though we are up against Android 21 with limit break. Full health and sparking. So I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit scared. But I think we'll be fine. I'm going to just go ahead and say scared now. Never mind. I think we'll be okay. Reflect. Get that off me. Command grab. I don't want to see it. I'm jumping. Nice. Huge pick up from go tanks. Get back in the corner. I'm just going to pretend like I know Ghost Okie. Maybe the fear factor will get him. Nope. Just vanished out of it. Nice. I agree.  I'm not going to let it though. I'm not going to let you just pull me into the corner again. What do we do now? Six time again. No. The old classic. It never fails. The time it works 100% of the time. How much health do we have? Oh, it's all blue life. We're gaining it back. And you know what? I actually play volleyball professionally. Oh. I was joking. I would never play volleyball professionally. I'm just not talented enough.  Oh, I thought about throwing another volleyball out. And you know what? I think I will. Just for the knockdown. Why not? Piccolo's not here. Nobody to play with but myself. So I'm serving and hitting. Oh, I'm thinking about getting an ace. I think that's tennis to him. Dude, he was too busy thinking about it. That was tennis or volleyball. That was classic. All right. Great game from Goten. Go ahead. I'll help you up, cameraman. There you go. Get my good side. Pose on them. All right. Unfortunately, we didn't get our intro. But after that, everything went pretty well.  But you know, for the fusion team, honestly, not too bad. Besides, we got a new Gojita on the way anyway. Reflect. I still think, honestly, let me know down below in the comments who your favorite reflect pose is. Gojita's got to be up there, though.  Look at this. Well, at least the reflect pose, we got to see it. Oh, man. For some reason, I cannot. Maybe I shouldn't have. Yeah, I should not have started with Gojita. My point, Gojita just struggles. Nice pickup in the corner sliding. Three bars doesn't use them. I'd be grateful for that switch. Oh, this guy's air two inches are to die for. I would know my character. See, that was a read and a half. Wow. All right. We are getting red. I'm just a book on the bookshelf right now. Dude, stop. This is insane. There we go. All right. Finally something wasn't even that great of a pickup, but dragon rush, maybe no guard cancel right away. Oh, I'm a mash on that. I got a mash every day. You know what? All right. We're going to have a pace going.  I didn't think that would drop. Oh, that was so risky. I'm thinking of just using a raw level five. Oh, never mind. The delayed 2M is going to be more than enough. See, assist. Help me out here. Stop and distracts. Level three might do it. If not, we'll go for a level five. I'm just going to hope the level three doesn't though. Yes. Nice pickup. Okay. Good. I'm glad we didn't have to spend all the bar. I really didn't want to. I did the level three. I was like, if that doesn't kill, I am going to feel very reluctant to spend the rest of this bar. I would rather just save. All right. No assist to help me. So we just got to go with the normal corner route. If we can get there. Oh, just barely. I'm going to hit him with another level three. I got to hit you with another go G to level three. We are spamming this move. The blues are here to play. And go tanks is helping. Regrets. Nice reflect. I'll give it up. Roll level three. How much does it do? We might actually live this. Then you know, I got it. You know, I got it. You know, I got it. Blocked all of them. What about the fourth one though? The fourth one was always my calling card. We pick it up to you with a C assist if that connects. No, I didn't connect. We got some. Wow. We are very lucky. That was a medium DP. So we were fully punishable. I did it because I was hoping with the invincibility frames, I'd go through the two H, but I'll, I'm more than happy just living. See assist. See if we can't get a random hit. No. No random hit. Oh, please pick that up. Nice. No random hit. I'll definitely take that. See if we can't get the conversion with that. Ah, timed it wrong. Oh, you got to hold that. You got to block that if that hits. Nice. Go G to no way. Go G is flying right now. I'm going to stay in. Why not? Oh, that was the fake go Gina. That was sick. That was sick. The after image. Oh, no. I mean, we still died, but that was still so cool. The fake go Gina. Oh, they can't give that move to Super Saiyan 4 go Gina. It's that. That's now go Gina blues move. Level one probably won't kill. No, I didn't read. Oh, so close. Don't jump. Don't jump. I'm going to read it. Oh. No, okay. Patient. That's still going to be just enough. Super Dash hates Vegeta. We'll do more than that. The damage. That was a fun one. That was really good. Give him a thumbs up, but I'm actually just pointing. In me. All right. Great games to that opponent. I'm looking forward to the next one, dude. I'm really enjoying this team so far. Okay. We are back and it's actually a go Gina. Mearmatch. Six M the classic. Dude. If you could start any match off with 6 M or Dragon rush. It just really sets the pace for the rest of the game. for the rest of the game. Do I go for a good ol' Gojina ma- Oh, that almost- If that would have worked, I would have been very happy. Try to keep this combo alive as long as I can. You know what, let me do- No, wrong super. That was not, oh no, what a collapse. That was not the correct super. All right, we'll probably just be sitting in this quarter for a little while. Nice use of the baby V-Assist. Add on a bit of damage. How do I get out of here, dude? Oh, come here, grab. Ooh, nice use of the DP. Hold on, I see you. Okay, I was gonna go to the command group. That wouldn't have worked either. The DP would have gone through that as well. Dragon rush, yup. Damage, yup. Damage checklist is looking good. Luckily, it's mostly giving us blue life. So after this super, I mean, obviously it's, I would do the same, it gets him out, but we're just gonna- Ooh, oh heal, heal blue life, go. Nice, I wasn't worried. I was a little worried. Nice. Do I go for his blue life now though? Ah, I think we just have to let it go. I think we just have to let it go. I'm sad. I don't wanna let it go. All right, at least we got a spark. I need to get out of here though. I need to protect Gojita. I have a plan for Gojita.  Mix ups, he tried to mix me. I see you. Cooking up a little bit of a mix up. I'm allergic though. Can't have that. I forgot that move comes back. Super baby two, all the key blasts come back. Super baby two really was just key blasts the sequel dude. Oh no, please tell me Gojita doesn't get hit by that. I don't think he does, but okay, it looks like it's just Gojita. The animation is only showing Gojita. If Gojita dies, this is non-canon. This is non-canon. All right, Gojita's fine. I'm gonna wake up level three as well. Please tell me that's not safe. Please tell me that's not safe. Safe jumps. Safe jumps, you gotta respect them. Oh, but we're alive. Go, Gojita, help, Gojita. Oh no, Gojita's a lot cooler down. All right, that's fine. You know what? I said I was gonna leave it to Gojita and I meant that. Gojita's not staying into fight. Get out of there.  One of them is tagging Gojita in. A few other regrets I won't get into now. Little personal. Let's go. Spin to win. All right, keep him, keep him at bay. He just knows all the right times. I didn't know what to do there. I didn't want to do it down heavy. Gojita says no, still not enough lockdown. I'm just getting jabbed out from a good distance. All right, all right, we could work with this. If I get five bars. Okay, I could definitely work with this.  I know fakes around me, dude.  Let's go. Level five, nobody's ever said that. Level five is not the best look at level five in the game. Is that true? I think that is true. Go tanks. I think that happened last time too. Super dash. Still not timed well enough. There we go. I was looking for that. We have been getting hit by that jab too much. Please kill. Beautiful. All right, I don't know how we're supposed to build up five bars. Dragon ball check. That was mostly for him. He has seven bars, he needs three. And I think we're dead in three auto combos. So Shenron's off the table for him. He could kill us right now, depending on how much he wants to spend. I would spend it. He's probably gonna agree with that as well. Only needs two as well. And we're nowhere near five bars. We're gonna be at a steady two. A steady two bars. I needed five for the raw level five. In case that wasn't obvious. Db, db, db, db. Just in case he drops it, he didn't. Oh, that punch hit different. That punch was aggressive. All right, all right, I like it. Good game. That was game one, right? That was only game one. I think that was just game one. Ooh, good game one. All right, we gotta come at this from a different angle. We gotta watch out for the mash. Sewer baby's jab does reach pretty far. Dragon rush there. Good, let's start implementing some more dragon rush just so we can start making that stagger game a little stronger.  Whoa, overhead. Not intentional, but still worked out. One, two, three. Three bars won't kill here. I'll stay out. Ooh, I tried to stagger, but DP is invincible. That move is gonna beat that strategy. Ooh, I'll get some mashing in myself. I was worried. I was so worried. I'm glad that we, nice beam. I'm glad that we didn't get to commit through that. I was more worried about getting db'ed at the end of that. One, two, three. Again, not sliding, can't throw on a super. And we get that guard cancel. And an accidental reset. All drop commas are opportunities. Down. All right, nice. Whoa, he doesn't wanna block the full jumping medium. One of Gojira's best moves. You gotta block all of it. There is no ifs. Go. What? How did that drop? Oh no. I thought that was safe. Maybe I did it too late. I might've been too slow. Damn, that was huge. What a huge error. Overhead. Nice. I'll take, I'll take an overhead. I'll take a 6M starter. I'm not above it. One, two, three. Sea assist to slow him down. Gotta remember that drops too much hit scale. Gotta go for just a drag run. Knee. Let's go. Jump over him. I think we'll be throwing a level three on top of this dish. Just to accentuate the spices. Let's go. The fact that Vegeta was off screen was very funny to me. Yeah, that camera angle got messed up. Key Blast. Oh, that was sick. All right, Key Blast, love to see it. Don't jump, because I got a spirit sword. Never mind. It kind of worked, but you know, you blocked it. All right, vanish to extend. I can agree. Wanna keep that corner as well? Oh, nice. Okay, I'm just gonna... Yeah, just some normal method. Reflect? No reflect, huh? But you gotta respect the Vegeta kicks. That's a, a lot of people make that mistake. You gotta respect Vegeta. He will just mash at you. Vegeta is not having it, dude. Super Dash. Every Key Blast's biggest weakness. Unfortunately, we can't kill here, but if he tries to reflect, we're gonna EX punch. No, he had it. He got the reflect. I was, I didn't think he'd reflect the first one. I was gonna try to make him reflect the second. Darkness, oh, please, revenge ball. Tag? Oh, raw tag's not an option. I'm sorry, GoTanks. I'm sorry, GoTanks. You didn't deserve that. That was on me. Am I bad? I'll get you back for that, though. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll avenge you, GoTanks. I can't even speak. How am I supposed to avenge anybody? With a beam, that's how. Damn, Vegeta's vanish pose is pretty cool too. Good game too. Overall, felt like we made most of the adjustments we needed. That's the kind of game too you love to see. You like taking mental notes and then actually making use of them. Ooh, I don't like how fast he readied up. The cop, that spells confidence to me. Why is he confident? He's about to make an adjustment. Oh, he's making adjustments. He is making those adjustments we were talking about. He tried a dragon rush. That was a big first start, pretty early on too. What, why did I jump there? A huge error. Oh, why? Pain, pain, pain, ouch. Help art draining. UI Goku extension, love to see it. Does he get sliding off this? I was gonna say. No way. Come here. No, huge drops. I'm so sad. It's fine, we could still make the most out of it obviously. It's not over, I'm still glad we got it, but it could have been beautiful is all. Could have been beautiful, but honestly, I'll take this dude. Well worked the spark. We get a kill. Super baby two is a little bit low on blue life. Not gonna six M this time. I'll refrain. Not gonna do it this time either. He was looking for it. I'm holding back. I didn't have Super Dash. I think I used it already. Oh, that was, I thought that was my assist. Oh, beautiful punch. All right, I'll be in the corner. Optimal, optimal combos. Oh, we're seeing optimal, light, light. Oh, non-optimal, okay. Got a bit lucky there. And then a bit unlucky there, I got punched. Maybe this time we'll see it. One, two. Oh no, still went with medium. This is gonna drop. I guess he shortened it. All right, that works. That also works. Good answer. Oh, I'm dead. I might be dead anyway. I don't know how I'm gonna block this. He might even go for command grab. If we see that, we mash. I mashed anyway. I mashed anyway. I am taking risk out here. There it is again, dude. Okay, he's way more willing to do that now. EX flip, it's too good. That was a great choice. Poor Gotegs, man. I've just been getting Gotegs killed out here. Two M, oh, don't run. Full screen, two M, you know I had that. Key Blast comes back, but I'm not too worried about it. Full screen, practically. Let me talk to you. All right, at this point, I feel like we're at a good stage, dude. I'm just starting to swing. Dragon rush, land, uh-uh. Let me shoot this guy. Couple of Key Blast, never hurt nobody. I wanna land the full, let me land that level too. Stardust Breaker would actually be a lot of fun to land. Nice, nice hit.  I was confident until I saw it was UI Goku with a decent amount of health and sparking. Now my confidence is wavering just a bit though. I still have it. I still have the confidence. How do I block? Okay, last time I mashed, this time was reflected. Oh man, oh man. Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.  Please hit, please hit. I miss that every time. I don't think you can do that.  I keep doing that. I'm sorry, forgive me. Ah, no forgiveness. Oh, we're like two combos away from death. Maybe even just one 2M starter. A 2M starter actually does kill us here, I think. Oh, okay, maybe. I think I passed out. When he backed dashed, I thought that 2H was coming. All right, I still have vanished right? No, I didn't. I used it. If you make any sudden movements, I will final, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Second chance. I'm gonna final coming out. Don't, I'm sorry, hit a button. Please hit a button, I'm sorry. Hit a button. Don't hit a button now. I was joking. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is bad, we're dead. Unless he drops it. And it doesn't look like he is going to. I panicked, oh no. The final coming out. I thought he hit a button. Wait, you wanna go, can we talk about this? Erased me from the universe. Yup, I think that was game two, right? I think that was. That's game three, the confidence showed through. I would eat that rematch button. I knew we had something up his sleeve. Great games, man, what a fun one. All right, well, we'll definitely be running this fusion team back again when Gojita drops. We'll be able to do the fusion, the full fusion actually, with just fusion dance characters. But in the meantime, I hope you were still able to enjoy this video. 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My name is Sonali and today I'm going to be showing you guys a fall makeup look 99% of this video is my makeup routine for the fall The only thing that I don't do on a regular basis is the eyeshadow Usually I just put you know like a very neutral color and call it a day But today I went all out with the fall color So if you guys want to know how to get this look then keep on watching first We're gonna start off with moisturizer and I actually just picked this one up Yesterday at Sephora and it is the Clinique moisture surge intense skin fortifying hydrator So I've actually been having my eye on this for a while now because whenever I go to Sephora I try to test it out on my hand and it is Insane how moisturizing it is like I feel like I leave the store like 20 minutes later and it still is very moisturized So I finally purchased it because I ran out of my old moisturizer and this is what we're going to be using today So I feel like I've definitely tried a lot of gel based moisturizers and for me that's not enough But it has the feeling of a gel moisturizer But it's like way more intense like it's kind of like a mix between a heavy cream and a gel moisturizer If you guys have super dry skin, I think this is a product that you should definitely look into So before foundation I actually went back to an old foundation that I used like last year I think and it is the Fenty Beauty foundation. I'm in the color 370 But I'm gonna be honest. I think it is a little bit orange and right now I'm kind of pale in the face, but I feel like my body is Tanner than my face. So overall it matches in the end. So I'd definitely rather be a little bit tanner in the face I honestly don't know why I stopped using this foundation. It's super matte I mean, it might not be the best for these upcoming winter months because my skin is gonna be already so dry But in the summer, I'm definitely gonna repurchase this in my color during the summer The next thing I'm gonna do is fill in my brows and actually I fill in my brows first usually But I kind of forgot that I do that first and I just got so excited about my moisturizer foundation I guess I'm trying to do more natural brows But I also like to clean them up with concealer later So I'm going to do that today. So first you want to wind the arch Then fill in the tail Then go to the bottom and just start making hair strokes and then start to fill in the front So this is my filled-in brow and this is my not filled-in brow The best brow trick is to clean up your brows with concealer or your foundation So I'm gonna go in with this Fenty foundation and take it on a really really small brush It kind of has like a dome-like shape. So it's easy to Go in that little arch. I also like doing this in the middle of my eyebrows because It helps it to be precise and then just the tops of them a little bit So this step is actually necessary if you're wearing, you know a little bit too orange of makeup Like I am today because you obviously don't want your real skin color showing through So this is definitely an important step. So that brush was kind of streaky So you definitely want to beauty blender everything out. So this is my brows once they are cleaned up So next we can move into concealer and I bet everyone can guess what I'm gonna be using It's the Tarte Shape Tape and I am in the color tan sands. I Feel like I have a really specific way of blending out my concealer So I start in the middle. I kind of like tap it a bit and then bring it down Bring it up bring it down and then start bringing it out if that makes sense and Then I'm just gonna add the excess to my nose So we got to work fast the next step is powder and I'm using the peach perfect powder And I've actually been using this for a while and just recently re-bought the derma blend Translucent powder, but now that I have both of them side by side I kind of like this better just because I feel like the derma blend Translucent powder like it's very hard to like wipe off your face, but I feel like this is way easier So we're gonna use this today. So I'm gonna put it right under the eyes Pretty much wherever we put our concealer I'm gonna drag it down on the sides of the nose I'm gonna put it on my eyelids and this is so important Especially if you have oily eyelids and you don't want your eye shadow to crease throughout the day This will really help it Stay for longer.  It's definitely My best palette in my collection I feel like I've never really spent this much on an eyeshadow palette and honestly it is so worth the money So I really want to go for a fall look today and so I'm gonna take this color right here It's like an orange color and I'm gonna be placing that all over my lids first The pigment is unreal I normally just use one brush to blend all the eyeshadows out So sometimes I just like to knock it off on the palette. Next I'm gonna go in with this color It is the most perfect blending shade ever So I'm gonna start in the crease and bring it up as I blend out So I did decide to get another brush just because I'm gonna be doing lower lash stuff And I wanted like a more precise brush So I'm gonna be taking this really pretty burgundy color just right next to that orange that we used earlier So I will say that this palette does have a little bit of fallout But it is honestly so worth it and this is why I like to keep my powder on while I do my eye makeup So I can just wipe it off with my powder So next I want to add a little bit of eyeliner not like a super Straight line, but I want it to be like kind of smudged out just because I'm not wearing fake lashes And since this is a more dramatic look I feel like it would look like there would be something missing if I didn't put eyeliner So this isn't liquid just a pencil, but I'm just gonna smudge it out a tad So the eyes are pretty much done I just have to add mascara and then we can get into the face So I actually forgot to add this product It is the brow though conditioning primer from Benefit and basically it just holds your eyebrows really well So I'm just gonna comb this product through my brows So for mascara I use quite a bit of different mascaras So today I'm gonna be using the bad gal bang from Benefit as well I honestly think I'm running a little bit low on this product So I think I might have to make a new Purchase because I really really enjoyed this mascara. It just made my lashes look Incredibly long so another mascara from Benefit that I love is the roller lash I've probably gotten like three of these my whole life. I always rebuy this mascara I love it if I were to choose between the bad gal and the roller lash I would definitely pick the roller lash just because I'm not a super big fan of Flimsy mascara wands and I feel like the bad gal is a little bit flimsier than the roller lash The roller lash just has like a more firm stick So I feel like it's just easier to control and this one's also really good at separating lashes Then I'm just doing the bottom lashes So now it's finally time to brush off all the powder So for contour, I'm gonna be using my self-made little make-up forever palette This shade is just a more cool toned contour So I really like to just carve out my cheekbones with this I get the forehead and The jaw area too. So sometimes when I need a little bit more color I'll go in with the Milani bronzer in Soleil and it is a big bronzer. So it just has a little bit of Shimmer to it, which doesn't bother me. I just put it in the hollows of my cheek, but nowhere else like not my forehead or anything I also contour my nose with this cool toned contour color This is honestly the best brush to use when contouring your nose because it literally just Fits in perfectly. It's literally just the brush you get in the Milani bronzer packaging I feel like contouring my nose makes such a difference So I like to layer my bronzers and I like to layer my blushes So I'm going to be using this blush that is in the make-up forever self-made palette and Just gonna be putting that on so it is a lighter pink and Especially for the fall I like to darken it up with ofras raisin and this is just a beautiful fall color I know last year I was obsessed with this and then I lost it for a while And then I found it again. So perfect timing because hello fall kind of focus it where my bronzer is And not really on the apples of my cheeks I feel like I always put a lot of blush on because I know it's just gonna fade off So if I look a little crazy right now, just just just you wait So I don't really wear a highlighter anymore just because I feel like I'm kind of over it But I definitely want to like kind of get back into it and like try out some products that I have in my collection Because they're kind of just sitting there. But for now, I like the Laura Mercier candle glow sheer perfecting powder And I'm in the color four And this is just like a very very very slight highlight. It kind of gives you like that glow from within I know this is kind of an old product in my collection, but I love this stuff. It is so beautiful Sometimes I like to hit over the brow as well And a little bit on my nose So for lips, I'm gonna be using the NYX plush gel lipstick and it is in the color break up slash rupture And I love this color. I talked about it in my October favorites But this is actually the most perfect like pink slash brown and I love the formula because it's not super drying and Like it's kind of sheer as well. So it's not something too overpowering I know it doesn't look super sheer right now, but I literally went from like pale Foundation lips to you know something on my lips. So that's probably why it's like such a big change But literally you can just dab it on really quick and rub your lips together And it gives the most beautiful color on top of it I'm going to add the Fenty lip gloss as you can already tell it's kind of has a gloss finish not a gloss finish, but not matte, but I Like the Fenty lip gloss. So I'm just gonna add it over top So I love a glossy lip So guys, this is the complete look This is my fall makeup and I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys want to see more makeup and Beauty skincare all that stuff go follow me on Instagram because I post a lot on my Instagram stories and kind of talk with you Sometimes I do hauls there too So if you guys are interested in that then definitely go ahead and scan this barcode and follow me on Instagram So I will see y'all in my next video. Bye


is that too loud jimmy should i turn it down or no i think you're good i think you're good you're coming in loud and clear all right i think we are good live on the metal voice first time we've had uh steve whiteman from kicks you even said on the show is there a wrong way to say it whiteman i get that a lot steve whiteman isn't it yes it is whiteman steve whiteman exactly i can read i can read those people can't all right oh actually you know what let me just record this just in case everything goes south all right good recording in progress there we go all right today on the metal voice you're welcome which was released on july the second steve whiteman's first solo album ever you know what that's kind of not true because i had a band called funny money that i did most of the writing the first the first couple albums were all my stuff but i did want to call it the steve whiteman band i wanted to be a band so we called it funny money but basically that you know they were my they were my records as well but this is the first album under my name yeah yeah so i guess the big question is you have kicks you have your solo album music i don't know did you feel that it was a more of a solo album or a kicks album and steve jump in like what's the difference i don't know where that line is well i was writing this stuff you know in hopes that uh the boys and kicks would like some of the of the songs i don't expect every song that you write to be you know accepted by the band but um i don't think the band was in a position to want to record a new album at this point so uh cova just came along and gave me an opportunity to get together jimmy jimmy shalfon actually suggested it because him him and brad divins were getting together and just doing cover songs and putting them up on facebook and jimmy said to brad and steve's sitting on a pile of songs won't we get him over here and record a couple of originals and that just kind of kicked off the whole thing and sat down with brad and jimmy we i played him like 12 tracks and just looked at me said let's do them all so i thought well we're making a steve whiteman album aren't we he said i think so and it just kept you know it it was a lot of fun it gave us something to do during covet and um it it actually turned out really really well yeah i think so too alan i mean usually we try to be ahead of the curve or promote the album before they come out but you know what we'll do i mean we'll get a second win going here and try to try to whip up some more interest into the album here just i like that i like it second coming going back to the day we joke about this all the time you know back in the day in the 80s we had enough money maybe to buy one album and we wanted to get 30 and for myself i apologize ahead of time steve kicks fell through the cracks for me it was hard to find their albums here in montreal and uh but going back listening to the solo album we've been doing some of the kick stuff from the 80s i i kind of regret that because it sounds like something that was right up my alley well you're not alone believe me a lot of people didn't know about us and and in fact the the current touring that we've been doing i think we've reached more people in the past eight years than we had in the in the whole 18 years that we were together and releasing albums on atlantic records so you're not alone there you know what i remember like hit parade magic with everybody that had a little kid yeah same here look that's what i pulled out to what the record company didn't back up guys or not hardly at all they didn't do anything they didn't do anything until blow my fuse until that record started to take off in areas outside of our little comfort zone when when it took off in in kansas and it took off in other areas that's when the record company bought okay i i think i think this band ready to pop but until that point yeah we did all of our we paid for all of our own touring we paid for that that stupid little advertisement and hit parade or we paid for everything and we were just relentless we were i mean most people would have said fuck this and quit but we we were too stupid to do that and we believed in what we were doing steve that's it going reading reading a promo you know your first album came out in 81 and and i i revisited all my old hit paraders a couple of months ago and i'm like kicks kicks was there at 83 82 you know i was very surprised because in my head it was that album that came out in the late 80s 88 and i was just blown away how early you guys were around so well we were lucky enough to have fans on the east coast that that really supported us and kept us alive and we would sell just enough records to get re-up for another album so but atlantic never really pushed the first three at all and it was you know it was hard it was disappointing but like i say we believed in ourselves and our fans believed in us and we were still having a pretty damn good time i just have you ever played in canada did you ever tour in canada we played toronto one time and we got we got stopped at the border for about three hours and they searched our bus and it was uh i was i think i was jack daniel's drunk and i pissed him off and it was it was not a it was not a good it was not a good night so we never really had the desire to go back and we would never really uh invite it back so it's just a canadian hospitality yeah i mean we're known for being really mean they're notorious for stopping tour buses and and making you get out in the middle of the night and it's freezing as cold and it was not a pleasant experience actually just want to go back to this article like this this not the article the ad okay this this like this is and so me and al and grew up in montreal canada and twitch kicks never toured you know we never had radio airplay but we kept seeing that ad over and over again just give me some background on this ad like there was a kicks ad and they go who's kicks who's kicks to the point where if you watch them tv or much music up here in canada you would eventually see a kicks video and i even remember being in north carolina and seeing kicks play in a bar like you know sort of the mat the marquis yeah and and it just but we've never had the chance so just tell me a little background on this ad a little more on this if you don't mind well it was just our attempt at getting the word out that we're a band we're on atlantic records which is you know should be a very powerful label and should be doing this we shouldn't have to do it and we just thought it's the only way to get to let people know that we're out here and little by little people would bite and they will go okay i'll i'll get that album that was for the midnight dynamite album our third album uh up until that point i don't know if we did that ad before that or not but um it was just our way of trying to get out there trying to let people know that we exist how much did it cost you must have cost a pretty penny back then um i don't think so it was it was i don't know maybe i honestly don't know i i would make four or five hundred dollars for each each time we did it it was every month yeah it goes back to what you were saying there's no way you guys should have been doing that that was a record exactly but you know we felt like they're not doing anything so we've got to do it at the same when it came to touring um they were for midnight dynamite we we put out a song called cold shower made a video for it and got very little mtv airplay and the record company was done with the record after after one song one single and it was done and we thought fuck this so we just took all of our money that we would make from the east coast from boston to new york to philadelphia to baltimore and dc and north carolina we'd bank our money then we would take it out to wherever people didn't know who the hell we were like cleveland cincinati chicago texas and then we finally made our way to la and had the boys from from poison hook us up with a couple of shows so it was just our relentless attitude that you know it's never say die attitude and we would use up all of our money go back home make another pile then go back out and do it again you know what amazes me about this album i go this is the probably one of the better kicks albums like a really good album like your solo album that is it's really good i'm and that's how i want to come across like this should have been a kicks album and and i find that in the early years in the first few albums you're underutilized after hearing this album you should have been i mean was what was that all about like i mean why did it seems like you could really write a great tune and and your voice sounds better than ever i mean jeez that's nice um well we we've had a pretty damn good songwriter and donnie pernell and unfortunately he ran to band with an iron fist so it was hard to um it was hard to contribute because he was so intimidating and getting his music done first and i would bring a song in here and there and it was almost like a i'd go ahead and record your song i'll give you a day in the studio then we would spend two and three weeks on one of his songs so it wasn't very enjoyable to bring songs into that band because most of them got shot down and you always felt like you were inferior so and trying to contribute on his stuff was like impossible because he just he had such an insight on how he wanted his music to be presented so um but i mean not to take anything away from him as a songwriter because he was a great songwriter and we really believed in the music that he wrote all right well i'm just in this solo album i'm listening to it it sounds so familiar but like new at the same time i've never had that experience with another album but that's night not the compliments yeah it's a couple you want to say it's kind of like aero spritz and you got a lot of harmonica on it and yeah but it's nothing they sound it could be bass and rollers at the same time it's not that popular you know it's funny about all the harmonica stuff because i'm not a very good lead guitar player so just so i don't have to listen to chords playing over a lead section i just threw a harmonica on it because i can play a harmonica and when we went to record the record i'm like okay we've got to get some leads in place of all this harmonica and everybody goes no man the harp's great leave it alone don't don't don't go over that stuff with with just licks and you know they're very well thought out solos and so i said okay i'm i'm game yeah you know you know what i gotta say kid dynamite is um probably the best when i listen to that song yeah it's got the meaning behind it is of course you know uh with ronnie right but that song sort of like i got transported into i don't know another time is that it's got that sort of what i think it's the melody it's because there's it's just so it's sort of the it's so contagious the melody or it's so uh you could really hum it like it's a great written song i just a great melody could be a commercial for like i don't know a tv commercialist song or you know i don't know where i'm going with this but if you just i just feel like it doesn't fit in today's world it just fits sort of like in the path somewhere well i don't you know i don't write in any kind of genre or any kind of direction i just i just sit around and bang on my acoustic guitar and something starts to come to me and the arrangement will come into place and i'm not i'm not really ever trying to like copy another song and and use that as a as a recipe for a new song i just i just kind of banged stuff out and if it when it's done i record it and people like it great they don't it just sits around i've got a bunch of stuff sitting around have you ever met bond scott because i'm hearing those acd c bond scott era riffs especially off of easy and talking about love there is there is acd there's the bond scott absolutely right absolutely yeah but we were i mean kicks was heavily influenced by acdc and bond scott was one of my favorites of all time yeah yeah um did you ever meet bond i never did no we got to meet a acdc i think on the for those about the rock tour they were they were come to town they're on atlantic records and our record exec took us to see him and meet him backstage but no never had the pleasure of meeting bond i just i just love that feel that you have and your voice man you know when they they they're talking about replacing brian when he was gone i think you would have probably been the best replacement am i am i wrong about the salad do you hear it i had done it because you could do brian and bond because you could do brian and bond that's why yeah but you know what i thought axl did a hell of a job when he went out and tore with him he did a he did an amazing job so hats off to that because that that's just hard to do that's hard to say yeah absolutely absolutely no and again the going back to jimmy's earlier points you know you listen to first kicks album and then you listen to second one and they're they're they're quite different you know and then you listen to third one and that's different so this this wouldn't be outside of the kicks wheelhouse doing an album that's this poppy if you want to say or this different i think you've always done something yes the main grooves maybe acdc sound is but the overall feel of an album change from from album to album yeah our first albums our first two albums were were definitely written in the bars and during sound checks and um it was definitely lighter and poppier and uh and i think we took a new direction when donnie started writing with outside writers for the midnight dynamite album and it got obviously heavier and everybody seemed to like that direction more than than the older way that we were approaching our album so we kind of stuck with that for for the next one and then blow my fuse and then hot wire so yeah we got we definitely got heavier after the third album and i was asking me before were you part of the the sound was very la at the time i guess 83-84-85 but were you part of that scene or you were strictly staying on the east coast at the time never we never we never wanted to conform to that we wanted to be an east coast band that's you know we were proud to be from the east coast and not having to travel to los angeles and put flyers on cars and eat ramen noodles and go through all that bullshit because we were we were doing really well on the east coast and although we never really financially made a whole lot of money individually but we made a lot of money as a band but we just reinvested it back into the band so um never made any real money in that band never never got a royalty check in my life so it was just for the love of music that yeah that kept us going at atlantic all these years that you've sold you know i i'm sure you've passed the million mark all these years they just what they they gave you advances and that was that and then yeah and you can't pay the advances back on on the on the shitty record deal that you signed when you when you first signed with them and unless you have a hit record you know you're at their mercy you can't go in and go well we we sold 80 000 records so we want to redo our record deal they're just laugh at you so it's impossible to pay back those advances of like 80 000 100 000 and they think you know they send you to new york city to make a record where we could have made a perfectly good record in baltimore and have the budget but that's how they get you that's how they nail you down and get you under their thumb is uh get you a massive debt so um you can't ever get out of it and they never have to pay you yeah yeah it's like the pizza guy the delivery guy they they mark it up a little more right a coffee guy they mark up every little thing that they do they use as an expense towards your advance right we made our first album in new york made our second album in miami third album back in new york fourth album in los angeles and the fifth album in los angeles so you know they take us out to these expensive places to live and expensive studios and and then they expect you know we can't expect to pay back all that money with our our 10% and after the the record producer takes their percentage and the agents take their percentage and like there's nothing left yeah yeah so it's such a familiar story i mean we're right every week yeah you know it just keeps sending you invoices there's no way you can ever pay this you know and if you're happened to be the principal songwriter well that's the one they're gonna focus on because he's probably the one it's the best thing in fact correct it's such a familiar story and maybe those days are probably over maybe it's a good thing in certain ways they are so yeah record companies are about done which is you know i'm good with that and when i was uh when i was trying to put this record out i i didn't know how i had no clue of how to even how to get it out there so i had to get people to help me out and um it sold a couple thousand but it's not moving any you know i'm not flying up to charts and that was never my intention anyway i never really intended to make a solo album you just kind of fell into my lap and i had the music and brad and jimmy and bob perry were really excited about it and they helped me out and made a good record i'm trying to figure out the meaning behind uh prick teaser really i was i was kind of sitting on the next what does he mean by that that's the next buy for a jingle um for a prick teaser is a girl that that says come here come here no get away get away get away come here come here now get away get away that's that's a prick teaser so you know she comes off she flirts and when it when it comes time to get down she she goes that now no i kind of figured that much i'm just trying to make a little joke were you writing what about like are did this motivate you to think of you know what i want to write another solo album you know this this really this really went well i really dug the songs or maybe you want to use those songs for kicks um you know what i don't i don't look ahead like that right now um because of i'm so involved in kicks that that's my primary uh that's where all my attention goes to right now people are asking me if i was going to go out and do any do any shows with this new music and i'm like probably not because uh it kind of gets in the way with with kicks and people are going to expect me to do kick songs if i go out which is what i did in funny money which is why i had to let funny money go because everybody come out to hear the kick songs and then kicks was out playing too so it's like now i'm i'm kind of hurting the big project to do this little project so it didn't make any sense anymore yeah i hear you and we got questions here and i could read them out or alan could read them out go ahead jim who were steve's inspirations i mean i think you kind of touched on that but go ahead um i had a lot i mean i started i started with the Beatles of course tada yeah kill surprise they're um they're the reason and i'm and i've heard thousands of artists say this they're the reason that i do this because i'm old enough that i call i actually saw them the night on ed solid and i'm like i'm in that's what i want to do and i was i was into the Beatles then it was it was more like like pop pop band and even the monkeys the monkeys had great songs even though they didn't write them they had great songwriters they did and then i got into the bands like grand funk railroad alice cooper james gang um deep purple all those all the heavier bands so i kind of went away from the Beatles and got into the heavier stuff and then along come aerosmith and acdc led Zeppelin and that's what really got my attention that's that's the kind of direction i wanted to go in the song strip off of this album reminds me of that alice cooper feel especially when you come back with the strip song at the end reminiscent of the movie slob shot i don't know if you've ever seen that but that's kind of the same song that they use at the end of the film as well so yep yep yeah that one's that that song i've been sitting around for about eight years and i finally finished it up and i i always struggle with the with the verse to that song and then i finally hit me one day i was listening to ragdoll by aerosmith and i'm like oh they're changing the chords around i'm just staying on one chord i gotta change the chords around that's what it all clicked okay thank you sorry yeah here's a question from patty saying uh steve which song is your favorite song or your most preferred of all or i guess i guess i will how about this we'll take one from the solo album then we'll say one from the kicks i like the way prick teaser turned out just i like the acapella intro and i like the meaning of the song i like the arrangement i think that one turned out really well and do me i like a lot okay and as far as i don't know kick songs there there's so many and we've been doing them for 35 years so i don't i can't really pick one you know there's a bunch of them one of my favorites to do is off of the rock your face off album called wheels in motion that was a lot of fun to play live all right which which song do you hate performing a live out of the kicks well that's easy yeah yeah yeah i'm so tired of doing that song and doing that stupid rap that everybody knows what's coming but they gotta hear it and she threw up all over the floor that's oldest shit so we haven't been doing it lately i'm like i can't do that damn thing anymore all right 12 pack wants to know didn't kicks tour with rat back in the day yes yeah that was our first arena tour that was the first band that ever invited us to come out and join them in an arena tour it was it was rat britney fox and kicks britney fox yeah britney fox and they were it was a great tour it was it was great fun great guys we had a we had a lot of fun on that tour and got to know those guys really well and i still see steven once in a while because we we either open for him or he opens for us and you know we reminisce about that tour and just had a great time here's one joe peas saying any chance of a vinyl reissue other than blow my fuse which was already been done i recently played 150 bucks for a vinyl version of hot wires i think it's worth every penny so bottom line is the question is any chance of a vinyl reissue other than blow my fuse i think they're working on that i do believe they are working on that and this um this this solo record that i just put out is when it's out on vinyl now if anybody there you go there you go but you got it there's only there's only one source for it and it's called the head vinyl shop in haggers town maryland so anybody wants one just google the head vinyl shop in haggers town maryland and and rick parks will hook you up you brought up britney fox i'll throw out some band names from the 80s around the time when you were starting out just your thoughts if you remember them anything about the flake like heaven with alan fryer yeah i i mean i knew of them but i was i had a i had blinders on when when we were going through that i mean bands i grew up in the 70s and and the 60s and those are the bands that always influenced me so the newer bands didn't hit me as much i mean obviously bands like death leopard you'd listen to rat i'd listen to um white lion i got into but i didn't i didn't really check out all the bands that came out at that time because like i say i was i was going down my own path and so busy i i didn't really care and i love the old music that i grew up with the east coast guy what about riot out of new york city i knew of them but again wasn't on my radar okay you guys there's not many bands from maryland there were there weren't that many bands that broke out of there that at least that's sort of on the mainstream level that i right it was one band called crack the sky that that broke out of here before we did and another band called face dancer that that got a record deal and did a couple of albums but other than that you're right not too much has come out of here i mean yeah there was the thrash there was the speed metal but not really in sort of the hard rock vein you know sort of a lot of hard rock wrath child was another one wrath child was a usa remember them yeah not uk usa right there was two and fourth page warning coming out of connecticut the connecticut's not exactly a hotbed of uh of metal either a band's coming out of there but right well i mean bands like extreme come out of the northeast twisted sister come out of the northeast yeah i mean there were some what about the relationship between kicks and bob halligan junior who's you know known for judas priest you got an uh some heads are gonna roll helix rock you and who else uh and i guess so many songs by kicks especially you know the songwriting or a co-songwriting yeah well that was that was donny pernell and and bob that those two we get together we really i mean we would see bob in passing but i never really got to know him or anything it was it was just a writing relationship between him and donny okay you never were you never were invited to those writing sessions or you never did that really bother you back then like it would bother me i don't know yes it did yes it did but you know it was what it was and i i i just i i accepted it okay uh allen what else we got no i mean i just some of the songs off the album i you know bad blood i think is my favorite off the album uh yeah that's my favorite too shock you got shocks and a little bit east coast twisted sister feel for me a little bit yeah okay i can see that and you shook shook me in my shoes i think that's a great closer yeah and now that's that's a silly little song here's another question steve what do you think of la guns i mean there is a little bit of la guns vibe sometimes in your songs or we could see the other way around right yeah la guns has a little bit of a kicks vibe i'm a big fan of la guns and we get to play with them every now and again so yeah i'm a big fan of those guys and you guys played with queen's rike too like in the later years right yeah yeah we still see them once in a while we all all the bands docket and and queen's rike and and steven piercy and god i'm the m3 guys yeah the m3 sir the m3 sort of circuit right yeah that 80s genre yeah yeah yeah i'm just looking at other questions you're a lot of people are writing stuff so i'm trying to keep up that's why i'm going this way so one of the things i had steve a question was listening to the lyrics on this album you know you're a certain age we're a certain age and it's it's like they're adolescent uh mostly you were you're targeting that to like guys our age that were trying to relive the 80s or just hey these are pop songs and that's what we sing about guys and girls it's very adolescent and that was on purpose and and i'm just a horny asshole so i'm like you heard it here first yeah well tell the truth but i always like music and lyrics that are funny and fun and have double entendres and and you know there's nothing nothing more fun than sex and and women and and so that's what i like to write about and even 90 of it's made up and bullshit but you know it sounds good steve steve did you draw the album cover or did you bring did you bring in some sort of artist to i will show the album cover great there it is was that like hooded did you bring somebody in for that or what's going on there this is the original the girl that was helping me out said what kind of an album cover concept you have and i'm like i only have one idea and and it's dumb as hell and if you don't like it i understand so i drew this and took a picture of it and she said we're done and it's like this took me like two minutes to do for 2000 copies yeah yeah but i like it it's cute it's cool i like it it's cool i like it too yeah that drawing you like you were saying it comes from maybe uh when you sign autographs everybody wanted to write something especially you just started designing this right i got i ran out things to say to people so i just started drawing a stick figure and saying it was me so and it stuck every ever now when people want my autograph they want the stick guy too all right so uh will there ever joe p saying will there ever be another kicks album i'm assuming yes and i never say never but you know in this in this age of of trying to make new music it's expensive to make and and it doesn't sell that that much so business wise it's not a good idea if we were a rich band that had a bank of money to go to go in and draw from we would more than definitely do it but it kind of comes out of our own pockets and if it doesn't reap much of a reward it's kind of hard to justify it at this point um and we don't have a record label and because they're kind of worthless anyway so like i say i never say never but at this point there's nothing in the pipeline okay do you find that is your strictly a touring band playing the songs people want to hear and that's kind of like where you've decided that that's where you're going to go and when when covid is over that is uh yeah i mean and well we're still playing i mean we got the monster the rock uh cruise coming up pretty soon so yeah that's a hoot and yeah i mean because we're playing all over the country and the people that do know if they want to hear those songs so those songs off of midnight dynamite off of hot wire they want to hear those so that's pretty much what we're what we're giving them and it seems to be working because we started this in 2008 i believe and it's going strong in 2022 so whatever we're doing it's working hey just a question we have uh michael suite is a friend of the show he's often on he was saying of some band just because of their reputation as a christian band won't tour with them so if michael calls you to more money said we want to kicks to open up for us on our our next tour what would the answer be hell yes we we played with suite several times there you go yeah mike's a great guy you know him well yeah and he's an east coaster now too so oh yeah yeah well he's a Boston area somewhere yeah okay right yeah clement clement math you know he is originally from the west coast um what about ronnie is he okay ronnie ronnie is um he was pretty much being supervised in a halfway house for about a year and and i believe he's finally got his freedom so we're just kind of waiting to see how he continues to recover because it was it got ugly there for a while and we want to make sure that he's got his his family life together his own life together before bringing him back into this you know this temptation that that is just around all the time so we're all pulling for him we all you know we we're in touch with him and um just it's a waiting game at this point just to make sure that unsupervised he's going to be able to keep it together well they say the first thing is when you try to get off any addiction in life it's to get away from what you used to do in your old habits and your old friends right yeah that's where it become and they at least a year of sobriety you need to sort of at least stay away from all those and you're supposed to actually not ever go back to that because those are the triggers right yeah that's that's what we're waiting to see i mean i know the fans would love to have him back and we would love to have him back but it it's got to make sense for everybody and right now we've got the guy that committed to help us out to replace Ronnie Bob Perry he's just been doing an amazing job and um i don't want to rock the boat you know at this point just to take a chance so we're to wait and see a game to see how how he continues to recover and can he continue with his sobriety and get his life back together Steve did you ever fall in those traps when you when you're like in the early days i've never been a druggy no i mean i like i like alcohol after a show like to have a couple beers a couple shots of jack but i've never really fallen into into the drug thing never never been my thing i don't like not being in control so in alcohol you can get to that point okay that's enough but yeah drugs you don't know what the hell you're doing yeah yeah no no it's fun the committee border guard is taking away that's enough yes all right what else can we say about your new salon that you'd like to talk about would you like to talk about your salon um pretty much i think i've said pretty much what i how i feel about it and how lucky i was to have the people around me to help me make it and how pleased i was when it was all finished and the great job that brad divins did when the recording it and producing it um i was i'm just really proud to be able to put something out at my age and and have the local fans appreciate it i had a lot of people locally who bought it and really like it a lot so that makes me feel good and it's almost like a bucket list for me so even though i never really set out to make a solo album but when the opportunity called and we and we pulled it off and did it well you know it's um i feel real good about it what else is on that bucket list anything else out of the rat you know out of the box right is there anything else out of the box you'd like to pursue i'm not a very adventurous guy i mean right now i'm pretty happy in life i've been doing what i love to do for all my life practically i've been playing music since i was 13 and i'm 65 and i've never done anything else but play music i've met the love of my life 38 years ago and i've just i've had a pretty pretty good life so no bucket list is empty so you're done we we uh we interviewed matt barlow recently in his project ashes of air reason it was a labor of love for him too he kept repeating how he made no money off of this he just wants the fan looking back like you said it's a bit of the same situation with your welcome here if you were to leave this as a kicks out do you think it would have done better i don't know i don't think any i don't know how many copies our our last record did rock your face off it may have done 18 000 which you know that's nothing that that's that's that's that's a that's a shitty amount but back in the day you know a failure kicks album would sell 70 80 000 copies and then one blow my fuse finally went platinum so records these days just don't sell and and there's just the money is is touring and merch that's that the only way you can really make money yeah and here's backstage guitar tech says what did you do when grunge came out where did you work well we we we put it down in 1995 we stopped playing we decided to just stop playing and um officially the band was broken up and i just started teaching vocals and guitar and anything i could do to keep the family fed and then eventually i got talked into starting funny money and so i was playing funny money on weekends and teaching through the week and that's what that's what kept me alive until um we a local promoter came to us and said he would love to do a kick show and we didn't even know if we could call it kicks because we didn't we don't know who actually had rights to the name and we called it four out of five members of kicks and we did we did a local show and it did amazing i mean like thousands of people showed up for it and it just kind of you know it made us lift our eyebrows a little bit and go maybe we can do this a couple times a year make you know make good chunk of change and leave it at that so that's what we did for about three or four years we just stayed in our little comfort zone in baltimore dc harrisburg and and did like maybe six shows a year and that was it and then i get this call from an agent sullivan big he was a huge kicks fan he's from boston and he said i can i can get this band out toward again if you'll give me the opportunity i said you're out of your mind nobody gives a shit about us anymore in fact they never really did and he told he had me on the phone for a long time and and he he finally i relented said go ahead you know go for it i don't know but i don't think anything's going to happen and he got us um rocklahoma was the first time we played out of our comfort zone and we played in front of like 20 000 people and they all went eight shit and we're like holy hell it's amazing isn't it how it just comes full circle isn't it yeah we had no idea that people knew or cared who we were or what we did and that just opened our eyes and that gave him the green light to start booking us and that we just get more and more jobs every year wow the metal community the fans there's no nobody more loyal than the metal community and there's right yeah you're right what about overseas like in europe japan asia do you find that there's also now people are starting to take notice um i don't know i mean back in the day we played japan we went over there we i think we played over there three times we played the uk a couple of times we played uh sweden rock but for the most part we've never really taken off in europe and other than the blow my fuse album i don't think i don't think the people in japan care anymore either oh yes you got to keep touring right with no record company backing it makes it all that much harder right make it really hard because you know we can't afford to go to japan it's so amazing you sign with atlantic records which is probably one of the big guns back then right and and you're kind of like and there's no support it's just it's mind-blowing well we we were also managed by dud prager who was also managing foreigner at the time he was on atlantic records so we had atlantic records foreigner's manager how can this not possibly work it's very possible it didn't work what do you think was do you think it was just timing do you think it was not promoting the right the band the right way you know what do you think it was the songs were there definitely were there but what do you think the on the marketing perspective i think being on atlantic records which were the huge label had so many acts i mean they would put out 12 14 albums a month and if it didn't stick you know they've just moved on so it was just being probably in too big of a label and they didn't know how to promote us i mean they didn't know if we were acdc or if we were the knack they they didn't know how to they didn't know how to promote us i like this 12 pack goes i'd like to hear steve hit a note please that's a note that's that's like that's all you get see that's all you get that's pretty much it alan oh great day i enjoyed the record hope for itself uh there's more copies for you and uh you know we these labor loves to be uh rewarded for for what you've done so that's that's a part of the show today and hopefully we've generated some interest to get a few more copies well hopefully i can i can steer people in right direction you can get it at it's it's called right rock and or you can just go to the kits dot com and just hit the merch button and it'll it'll take you there so you can get you can get the physical cd or if you want the vinyl like i said it's the head vinyl shop in haggard's town how hard have you been hit by uh covid for the band like i mean is the band just like oh we all got it yeah oh wow oh yeah we got we got vaxed and then we then we all got we got vaxed and jen or february and march and we all got covid in september and then we all got boosted and now we're just you know now amicron's here and boosters don't work against that so we'll probably get that too that's pretty much everybody's it's difficult but like you said during this period it enabled you to write this album right yeah that's what we're hearing from a lot of people we're interviewing and we can't tour there's the solo album codilatory was able to do with that with queens right he took that time and biff bifert and there's so many artists that benefited from that time yeah and you got to rest your voice on top of that i did i did and it was nice because it did make enough money that i could give everybody a little bit and then take everybody out to some nice dinners that's that's what we all enjoy you know just go out with the wives and everybody and don't care about how much it costs just pick up the tab go that was fun yes yes i agree i agree so thank you for being on my buddy everybody go pick up your welcome and uh you know catch kicks at m3 right yeah hopefully that'll still be going on i'm assuming that's going to be going on it didn't last year they'll probably do it again okay all right well that's pretty much it unless you have something else you want to say maybe you have some websites or um just that you can you can also get the the digital copy off of amazon apple music all that's all that good stuff but um you know anybody that that is a kicks fan i think will like this record and it's just a it's a fun playful record that um that i'm really proud of and i hope people will give it a chance i agree i agree it's a great melodic a great listen and i was i was very surprised i thought it was really good i thought it could should have been the next kicks album that's why i'll tell the guys that tell the guys that show them this video after all right even it was a real pleasure and i'm glad i'm glad i got to revisit the kicks catalog with you with you and put out another ad who knows put another ad you never know it's only a couple hundred bucks a month hey guys thanks for having me all right thanks


But at least now in this interview, now that Gronk might be trolling, just like he said, I don't watch any film. He might've been, you know, just saying, I could play with Joe Burrow out there. No indoor practice facility. He's just played in Tampa for a few years. His back was hurt. I don't know if that's actually a case or not, but this is what Joe Burrow and the Bangles have become. A potential destination place for big time stars. Gronk is not an Ohio guy by location or where he grew up, but I feel like his personality is an Ohio guy. So let's get into Gronk's background a little bit. Grew up in Buffalo, I believe. For whatever reason, I might know the story. I don't know if it's a public story or not. He was not able to graduate from his high school for one reason or not. I don't know if it was his decision or the school's decision. But then he came down to Western Pennsylvania, played at Woodland Hills High School, W-O-D-Y Woody High, same high school as my mother. They are a powerhouse. Then obviously he goes on to Arizona and does his thing. So he is a Rust Belt guy.


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