And here we are, what's going on on the metal voice live with Chris Holmes once again, Alan Dixon. What are you doing, Alan? What's going on? Man, I don't know, but ever since we have Chris on, everything just exploded. We've got the views and views and people can't get enough of you, Chris. They want to know more and more and more. Yeah. Yeah, I've been hiding out in France. So we said, you know, we'll take the time to talk to Chris properly and I guess all subjects are good here. I guess, you know what it was, Alan, last time we were talking about Eddie Van Halen, so we couldn't really get into Chris's life and what he's doing, right, Chris? Right, right. We have to respect Eddie Van Halen. So yeah, we're going to devote ourselves to Chris Holmes. There you go. Chris, how you doing? How you doing?  Good for you. Good. Yeah, strong for you. First things first, Chris, and you probably know about this as well, of course, the Canadian tour dates for 2021. You were supposed to come to Canada in 2020 and now we've had to postpone everything due to COVID-19.  So in April 22 and 2021, Quebec City, then Montreal on the 23rd of April, then Ottawa on the 24th, then London on the 29th, Toronto on the 30th, Calgary on May 8th, Vancouver May 14th and Victoria May 15th. Chris, these are the 2021, I just want to tell everybody this is 2021. It's not too far away. They are tentative. We don't know 100% if this is going to happen. Chris, you care to comment on this? It depends on how the COVID is doing and how, you know, if the virus is down or up or whatever.  I just, if I'm not vaccinated, then that means I can't meet people backstage or talk to them. But if they'll hopefully get vaccinated by then, if they have a vaccine come out, you know, in a few months or who knows, that's what I've heard that, you know, watching all the media stuff, God knows what, you know, if they got, if there's even a vaccine, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't know anybody's been vaccinated. Well, the vaccine can take some time. Hopefully Canada, is it, they still, is the virus still going there? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Alan, how's the virus coming along in Canada? What's the virus update? They said here in Quebec, per capita, we're worse off than the United States. Oh man, that's not good. Deaths and cases. So yeah, per capita, it's not a good sign. And you've got two tour dates here, so. Well, if not, then they'll just have to postpone it till the year after, you know. Like a lot of bands, exactly. Yeah. I don't think any bands are going to tour until they get the vaccine.  People aren't going to go to the shows, you know, hopefully it might start vaccinating people, like, you know, just December, maybe depends on how fast they can get it out to who they give it to, to, you know, I'm in France, I don't know where I'd get vaccinated here. Wow, you're in the hospital, the local hospital, I'm sure. Chris, a lot of people are commenting right now and saying, you look great. You look good, man. You look healthy. You look good.  A lot of good comments. A lot of positivity there. Yeah. Yeah, I've been on a special diet. All right, cool. You know, vegan or just, just what kind of diet? No, it's, it's a special Chris Holmes diet. It's all like chicken wings and I don't know. No, no, no. I saw myself in a live video of about two years ago and I go, man, I'm getting a little bit of big stomach. So I just made myself a pack that I only eat breakfast, which is for me. So I don't wake, I have to wake my wife up. I make a peanut butter jelly sandwich, right? And I eat lunch and dinner. That's it. I have nothing in between. No ice cream. No, nothing. No, nothing at night. No, nothing in between.  I cut out everything. That's good. And have I been feeling better? Yeah, I probably dropped. Probably I don't have a scale here. Probably 20 pounds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I feel a lot.  Hey, Chris, I was rereading a leader fours book yesterday. She said, you're quite the cook.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to love the barbecue. And then I used to I used to like a pressure cooker.  Yeah. And the meat comes off the bones. And yeah, I'm I used to like I used to like to make the chili so hot. No one would eat it that way. I'd be staying in the fridge for about a week. I mean, I'd make it. I'd put another bit peppers, chili peppers and that, you know, the yellow ones, the jalapenos. Oh, yeah, tons of those. Can't do that anymore. I can't do that.  No, no, no. It's all good. So far, we're on a good things are looking good. You're looking good so far. Everything's great. Chris, that's rare. No, no, no. Did my my ex say anything bad in the book? No, I said you were a gentleman and and no, just that things didn't work out there. She had some, you know, some deaths in the family that didn't help and she's called you a Viking the first time she saw you on stage in the book. She says are like watching a Viking. Well, that's good, you know. Hey, but how would you rate Lita as a guitar player, Chris? The scale of 1 to 10, let's say. As a female, just as a guitar player. I don't want to rate anybody say who's better than who. She's good. Yeah, she's good. She's a good songwriter. You know, she's not too many, not too many females sing and play lead guitar and everything at once. I mean, there's some girls that play lead guitar, but they don't sing. You know, but she does the whole the whole thing together. Probably the best one of the best there is, you know. She's been doing for a while. She's still doing it. Still doing a good job. Oh, yeah. Tell us about playing with fire. We got a couple of stuff to talk about playing with fire, this new single you released. You have a Steve Grimmett who's singing on it. Tell us about the guests on this song and what is about? Why'd you record it? It's if you listen to the lyrics, it's about COVID. Okay. And it's about the government lying to you about the about the virus. They're saying that it's not. It's, you know, it's doing what they're saying. That's it's not very contagious.   That's what it's about.  Who do you blame?  And the singer and mean man saying the first verse and the part of the first chorus. The second one was Steve from Grim Reaper. Yeah, Steve Grimmett. The third one is Tommy Bolin, guitar player from Doro. Warlock. Yeah, yeah. He's a good friend of mine in LA. He's and he's saying on it. He screams on it. He asked me, Chris, you mind that? I go, Hey, I'd rather have you do what you want to do. And then the fourth one is the guy that's going to play with me in, um, in, um, in Canada from Phoenix is burning. Oh, okay. So, okay. Oh yeah. Okay. So the band that you had like you had a backing band in Canada, right? And the singer is the guy who actually singing on it as well. I can look at him. I hope his name. I don't know his name offhand. I got you. I, I forgot his name. I don't want to say a name. No, no, I'll find it. That's what me and Alan are here for research. Yeah. All right. He said his voice is killer on that's the fourth one. Okay. And, um, so is this so you have a new album coming out? Is this song going to be part of that album or not? Or is it just a single? I don't, I didn't, I didn't plan on it. No, I don't really know. No, it's coming. I got to finish the record first. Okay. All right. I've gotten all the songs written and the ideas. I just need to record them. You know, that's why I got an Indigo thing coming out. Yeah. So we got the Indigo goal. Yeah. This is okay. Alan, we're going to back up here a little bit.  The whole world has turned upside down. Artists can't tour. They can't make money. Album sales just don't do it, right? So no, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. You just artists are frustrated. So you've done this Indigo goal to raise funds and you could tell us the rest. Well, the way how I was doing the record before is I'd play live and I'd take all the money that I make, which isn't which is whatever and put it into the recording. That's how I got the the EP done, you know, because it's cost money to record, you know, whatever the studio and the people and the mixing it and stuff. And from the tour, I was that I missed out this year. I was going to take that money and finish the record. But since I didn't get the tour, I don't make it. I haven't made any money. You know, a lot of people think I made money from wasp. I have I've never gotten my royalties or you know, are my even my songwriting. They'll correct the stuff that I wrote. I've never gotten paid one penny. Oh my God, one penny.  It's my fault for not knowing the business. How it is. I trusted somebody and after every album behind my back, not with the record company because your name goes on the label at the record company. I'm talking about when albums done, how they split up the publishing with the publishing contracts, the publishing companies. That's where the money comes from. Yeah, I was never told about when that meeting was because the other guys in the band never wrote Randy never did Riley didn't rod. Nobody I was the only one. So I'm the only one that they have to screw over to get all the public to get all the publishing. So I was never told. Then when I dug into it in about 2006 or seven, I went into the sanctuary music had a lawyer go in to find out where my publishing is and I was written in as a session player on into all the records. Oh boy, if you don't know about it and not told and don't see, you don't know. So I trusted Blackie Lawless about that. And when I found out it really kind of yanked me wrong. It yanks me wrong. Makes me feel he was sticking a knife in my back from the first day from the first album and not telling me and being my best friend. And if it wasn't for me, he wouldn't be where he's at. I guarantee you that.  We'll go look up circus circus. That was wasp before I got in the band and I got in the band, you know, he wouldn't be where he's at and then he screws me like that on the publishing. It's all right. It's been a it's been a long time. It's something that I will never, never get over. I'll take that to the grave with me. Okay. You can see how pissed I'm pissed thinking about it. But anyway, that's the kind of person he is and everybody thinks, wow, he's got the greatest. Yeah, he's got an outrageous voice. Black year, but he turns his back on his band members real bad and screws him. I'm the only guy in the band that ever came back to get screwed twice, which I did.   Of course.  It's about him. Is that on the new album? Or it's on shooting bricks. Oh, yes. Okay. Last one. Yes. And I got one on the new album. It's called you can't handle it. It's called the truth. It's called better. It's a says you can't handle a truth. That's on my new one. I'm going to write a song about him on every album. You know, is there any sort of if you got a lawyer and I know lawyers are expensive and sometimes you just want to leave the past as the past. But did you ever say, you know what, I'm just going to go after what is mine or is it just a done deal? The contract is a contract and that's that. Well, you'd have to go into court. If it if it wasn't when it was settled when the albums were done, it's done.  Sure. I'd love to play a wasp if he pays me my publishing. If he doesn't, then he can play have a reunion with Randy Piper and Johnny Rod and Riley. You know, everybody else. I'm not going to play. It's not worth it. It's not, you know, I came back to wasp in 95. I got screwed again.  You're not going to screw me for the third time. Okay. You know, so that's just the way, you know, I'll do it. It's been six years. I got my thing going and I love doing it. I love being around the people I'm around. You know, I love traveling with them. I don't have to put up with that.  My wife called me a narcissist. You have to ask my wife. I have to ask my wife.  Real bad. If you don't believe me, look at the second and third album and then look at this. Look at the inside. What's that other one? He did the last where he's on the cover on the cross. This one here. You're talking about the crimson idol. No. No. Okay. Oh, gogatha. Gogatha. Yeah. Crimson idol. You're second idol. Crimson idol. Crimson idol. That one, that's him on the cross. Yeah. Yeah, that's Blackie. That's him. If that, if that isn't a narcissist, I don't know what is a malignant narcissist. That was the whole band. That was the band. Look, second album. And the next one. Then the narcissist comes out. Then the third one. Then the narcissist comes out. But I, you know, and if you can't, it's really, really hard to work with somebody like that because they, they keep you down so they can be up. It's exactly what Donald Trump does. Malignant narcissist.  I just, it's not worth it. So let's look at, let's look at the positive. I know we could. Oh, that is positive. That's a positive. He's restraining himself.  You need people to help out or the fans to help out with this album, right? The goal, the, what's it called? The, not the goal. Indiegogo. Indiegogo. Indiegogo. Indiegogo campaign. Indiegogo. So tell us about that and, and how you need the funds because it's the only way to survive. Well, it's the only way I can finish this record coming up. If not, then it's probably, probably won't be able to record it until after I go out and tour. And I'll be able to come back and pay for the recording and all that stuff, you know? It's, that's just a reality of the thing. I could try to get a record label, but there's no more labels anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there isn't, and they don't sign, nobody's going to sign and give you money to record with anymore. You know, I do, I do have a documentary coming out called Mean Man. Yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah.  It's called Mean Man, the story of Chris Holmes. That comes out January 19th of 2021, which pretty soon. And how's that going to be released, Chris? Like on DVD or Blu-ray? From what I heard, that's kind of like they're not there yet, right? It's sort of like it's done, right? It's in the whole, the whole documentary is done, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I saw it. I saw it. It's pretty cool. I saw it. I kind of liked it. It shows, it shows what I've been doing touring and stuff and a lot of interviews from people in the past. You know, it looks very like, like I saw the commercial and it looks like very good quality. It doesn't look like some sort of cheap made documentary. It looks like a really good quality documentary. No, no, the guy followed me around with the camera and stuff for a long time. And yeah, shot is, yeah, a French guy and then he it's going to be out on Cleopatra. You know, the other ones that are putting it out. If it's as a Blu-ray, I don't know. Just somebody will bite and it'll go right on YouTube. So the normal. All right. So, so new album. All right. So tell us about the musical direction on the new album. How's that? Musical direction. What are you, what is it going to sound like? Is it going to sound like a little bit of this? Is it going to sound a little bit like this? Where are you going with this? Are you going to do the vocals? Are you going to get? Well, I got, I got the EP of the album already out called under the influence. Yes. And it's got, um, devil made me do it. Um, I am what I am. Um, do, do, do, do, do the other song. Okay. Don't worry. No big deal. Uh, it's going to sound like that. Somebody just straightforward rock and roll. Straightforward rock music. I'm going to sing on most on all of it. You know, and some people don't like my voice. Hey, don't buy it. It's that simple. You know, some people like it. Some people don't. This is the way it is. Yeah. But how did you, how do you get Steve Grimman involved? Uh, and what you just released, the single. I played a festival about a year and a half ago in Portugal. Oh, okay. And they, Grim Reaper played and I'm just met him there. And had a, I've met him, I met him years ago at concerts here and there, but madam there and talk to him. And it's really, really cool person, man. It's really cool person. I like him. We just called him up to see if he'd sing on. He said, yeah, I'd love to. And he still has the voice. I mean, we were, we were lucky. Yeah.  Oh, yeah. It's cool. He just, he, uh, he had, he had some problems with his leg and had, had to cut it off above the knee, but he's still got, he's got a, the titanium thing. He gets up on stage and whales with that, you know? Yeah. It's quite the, it's quite, you know, he's, he's just quite the guy.  It's Steve's a great guy. Yeah. Well, it's a good thing they didn't cut his middle leg off. You know what I mean? He may sing higher. He's, he's, he's got a heart of gold, man. The guy, Steve. All right, so I'll let you on.  Now, now, unfortunately, a lot of people and I've been reading up as our interviews with Blackie and I read the Lita's book. If we go back to the decline of the metal, the decline of Western civilization, the metal years of that famous pool scene. Was that really a joke? Like you knew Penelope Sphereus before the film? You knew, you knew her? So you were, I went to high school with a guy named John Neff, who was her boyfriend.  It wasn't filmed as good, you know, and then she called me up and asked me to do that. And was it real alcohol? Yeah, it was real alcohol in there. People tell me it wasn't, but why would I fake something? Yeah. You know, Chris, you were putting up, you were putting on a show, Chris, and giving her what you thought she wanted or you were really acting like that because you're under the influence, as we say.  I want to cut this off, but I want to get to like people are writing messages and messages and I'm sort of like ignoring it. And I think a lot of people want to say something to you. Well, first, first of all, a lot of people are saying I want to be the first in line to see this documentary on Chris Holmes awaiting the third album. January 19th is my birthday. That'd be a great birthday present. Chris is the last of the dying breed of free spirit in in a truest sense. Headless children rules. Ask Chris about the white explorer Eddie played that is his. Did we talk about that last time? Yeah, we spoke about that in the last year. Yeah, it's all in the doc. There's a doc. If you look up my name, you'll see a story about the guitar thing with Eddie and stuff. There's some guy, the guy that did the documentary did a little three, four minute clip of all the people in the movie that knew ever from Pasadena. He has them. He has a guy, this guy Doug that has my guitar. That's has a Van Halen museum. He holds that he explains the guitar in there. Yeah, I actually came across that video the other night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He explained it very well. It's actually clips out of the documentary. You know. Yeah, yeah. And here's some more. Does Chris know the guys from sword? The band sword from Montreal? No. No, I haven't been to Montreal in a long time. When's the last time you've been here? Do you remember?  I was there for an interviews. I don't think we toured there. All right. Tell me about. I remember. I remember when I when I flew there, I flew from Japan to Toronto and a member of the the comet called Halebop. Okay. You remember that? No, don't remember that. There's a comet called Halebop. It was in the air. I remember looking out the plane at it. Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember that Halebop comet. It was it. It was member of Heaven's Gate. Those guys killed themselves when the comet came by. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And all those. Yeah, that comet. Snickers or something. And you actually saw the last time I was in Canada because I can remember flying from Japan. I was looking out the window at it for a few hours. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yes. Yes. Here's a question and they're and it's coming to this album here Spencer proffer. What was it like working with him as a producer? Was he was a tough? No, tough. No, he was great. Okay. He was great. He was great. Want to hear a funny story? Sure. So, so like I always record. I'd never record too much where the cabinet is and the isolation booths when you look through the windows. I always sit in the studio where the mixing board is and run a guitar court out to the amp. It's easier that way. You can hear things better. Instead of use the headphones and I'm sitting on the side and Spencer, Spencer, he's in this big huge of lounge, not a lounge chair, but a captain's chair and he's leaning back and I'm waiting to record and he's talking on the phone.  And it gave me gas. He was leaning back talking to somebody on and Dwayne Barrett was in the studio. He's leaning back talking to somebody. I'm mad now. I've been waiting for 20 minutes. He's still on the phone.   He got this and got up and split for about two hours. Spencer was a nice guy to me. You know, he always treated me great recording and he was fun to be with. He's fun to record with. I liked him. Okay, good. I don't know if it's full.  You know, they're sort of like didn't have a good time recording with him. Was it kickaxe to Allen that vices was Spencer? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's that sound that wall of sound that he had they're on pasture. So yeah. Yeah. Would add a posture. Yeah, posture recording studios. That's a quiet riot came in and sang on a song. One of the songs on our album. You can tell they're singing on it. Oh God. I think it's a title track to the last command the song the last command. You have sex drive and running wild in the streets. That's long running wild in the streets. Was it Kevin Dubro? Oh, they sing where it goes and where it sings all the way all the way. You can hear quiet riot in there Carlos and Kevin singing. Okay, cool. Chris, do you have any someone's Oscar saying how much musical theory do you know, Chris? I mean, have you used? I know you've you had a guitar teacher back when, right? But yeah, but they don't take teacher with tabs the teacher bluesbox skills. I don't have any musical theory at all.  Other than that, most of stuff I play by ear by what I feel I play most everything by what I feel. Okay.  Why nobody ever promoted Chris? Why wasn't he a bigger one? You know, guitar mags came out of top top top guitars.  You know what I mean? It goes back to working with somebody. It's a narcissist. Okay. That's what I did my suspicion. Yeah. Well, if they don't, they that's all hell broke loose when I did that thing with Penelope because I did it. I didn't even tell anybody wasp. I was doing it. Um, you know, the deal we're stars. Yeah, yes, we're in that. Yeah, you were in that. I know Jimmy very well before he died. I see him with North Hollywood all the time. He's going to his house know him very well. He said personally, he called up and asked if Chris could do a guitar solo on there and they said that I couldn't that I didn't have enough time, which I did have enough time. The guys and I are made and did they were on the same man. They're on the same label. Yeah. Yeah. But so somebody in the wasp camp said I couldn't.  Do you think that's not fair? Do you think he but I don't know if I if I don't hear the I'm not on the phone, you know, they didn't call me and ask me if they had to ask me personally. I had went down and played. But the reason why I got to do the decline is because Penelope's fear Penelope's fears. She called me personally. You know, she didn't go through the management. That's why you did it. Okay. Yeah. The sea still owes me 300 bucks. That's not me. She never paid you. She never paid you. She owes me 300 bucks. Really? Nothing. Did you get anything for that? Nothing. Not even nothing zero. No, no. Well, she she paid 300 bucks, but it went to the management. Oh, okay. Yeah. So the deal is she called me personally. She can pay me personally.  She can pay me personally. Not the management. You know, so she owes me 300 bucks. They she called me up and wanted me to do an interview for the box set that's coming out. I told her if you want to pay me my 300 bucks and I'll think about it. And she didn't pay me my 300 bucks. So I didn't think about it. But if she would have, if she would have, I just said, Hey, I thought about it. No, I don't want to do it. I just want to tell everybody in the chat of YouTube, I'm putting in the link to the pledge and I'm also putting the link to the song playing with fire. So I've been putting it and that's why my head's been kind of going down because I'm doing this. So right now I'm going to put in the link the indigo go for for the album. If you guys want to take a look at that. Oops. Maybe that's the wrong one. And let me just put it here. Maybe I put the wrong one. There we go.  Well, I, um, Randio from Odin used to live with me and I know him real well and she paid him $2,500. You know, paid him personally. She never paid me. She never paid me probably went in the blackies pocket anyway. You know, who knows? And the leader in her book, she was there while you were filming. She says, you know, watching you and that at that time and saying in the movie and Penelope, she thought you were putting on an act for Penelope. She's like, this, this could be career suicide.  So, well, I, she, I think she's got it wrong as if she was there when I was filming it, wouldn't she be in the video, said to my mom, think about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Think about that. Wouldn't she be in it? Yeah. You'd want her in it for sure. Right. She would have been in it. So apparently she wasn't there when I was filming it. She was at the, when Penelope came up and showed me the script and the part of the, what they were going to put in the movie before they did to give me an okay. And I said, I don't really care what you put in it. You know, nothing's going to bother me. You know, I run around naked.  All right. So I found the link for the Indigo. Here we go. Hey, have you, have you seen the new pool scene I did in 2017? Yes. Yes. I redid it. Yeah. Yeah. I go, that's a better one. It goes, Hey, I'm still here. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great start. Hey, Chris, Chris, let me ask you this. Here's an offbie question that, that I kept hearing a lot of over the years and you probably weren't even the band in Wasp. Blackie kept canceling shows and canceling shows a lot of the times. When I was in a band, when you, when you were in a band, did that happen too? Did he cancel shows? No. No. Okay. There was one, there was only one that I know of two shows in the whole time that I played in Wasp that were canceled once was, we got a BLT that had bad band aids and Blackie ate half and I ate the other half and we got, what do you call that when you get disentery? Yeah. Yeah.  And so we canceled one show then that was with on the Metallica tour.  He got a cold and he couldn't sing. He almost lost his voice. So that was canceled. The other night, the other night there was never another one canceled. The only other cancellations motor had got up and split off the floor. Okay. I found, I found the end of going and again, I'm just telling everybody that I'm putting the link. I was putting the wrong link at the beginning, but now I'm putting the right link. So just take a look at that link and for the funding of the album, you know, the past couple of weeks, I've been looking on YouTube, some old interviews with you and Blackie, you know, and you were always there beside him. And you know, I say, hey, these are the dynamic duos. These guys are a team, but very rarely let me talk. No, you wouldn't. You anybody who watches this Chris is not allowed to talk, you know, but he wouldn't let me talk. It seems that way. Just they asked me a question. He'd always butt in and give the give the answer to people didn't want to hear, you know. And again, we got nothing against Blackie. We would love to interview him. We've never had the chance, but it just, you know, just look at this coldly. You say, Hey, looks like Chris is not allowed to talk almost watching some of these old and it's not just one. There's three or four of them over the years, you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. How about here? Here's from Carolus Whisper says, please ask him his thoughts on Inside the Electric Circus, especially the deeper cuts. And you did participate a lot on this album, right? What do you think about it? I haven't heard it since I didn't even hear the mix of it. I remember recording it and that was it. I played the songs live other than that. I don't listen to the WASP music. It's because of what's happened with my publishing. I don't want to hear the guy's voice until it just yanks me wrong. It's a cool album though. It's got, I think it's got a little too much reverb on it. Okay. On Inside the Electric Circus. And then, you know, when somebody makes a decision, it's going to be me on the cover. Yeah, you just not a band at that point. So I didn't like it. Okay. I like the Headless Children. I got to play all the guitars on it except a few little riffs here and there that I didn't. I was supposed to come back and play and I wouldn't. That's the album that I'm proud of. Okay. Here's one. Here's one for you, Chris. Here's another one. I like this one here. Thomas asked, what does WASP stand for? Was it White Anglo-Saxon Protestant? Which I know it wasn't. But you know, W-A-S-P. What does it stand for? What was the meaning behind all this? I know that Rick Fox, you know, back in the day when the band first was before it was WASP, you know, he said, he claims to say that he named the band WASP or that was the idea where it came from. Well, he was with Blackie somewhere and a bee landed on him and he goes, fuck, I almost got stung by a WASP. And then that's the idea of where the band come from. Rick was in the band in the beginning, but where does a band still, where do you consider where a band starts? Is it where they get together or their first show? Okay. Is that their first album? Or their first album, yeah. All right. So you're saying, so what did the name become?  It wasn't nothing more than that. It was White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Wow. Okay. Yeah. It says that on a song. Shono Mercy. It goes White Anglo Saxon, a violent reaction on Shono Mercy, White Blackie sings White Anglo Saxon, a violent reaction, something, something, something right on Wasteland, right under the Badlands, but I don't know Shono Mercy ever made it on an album. It's probably on a B side somewhere. Okay. Tommy, Tommy says, please thank Chris and his wife, Sarah, for mailing me an autographed copy of Shitting Bricks and a personalized guitar pick of his. I am forever grateful Tommy D. So some love from the fans. A lot of fans. Yeah. A lot of fans, my friend. A lot of fans. You got a like, I could keep going on questions. Alan, unless you have a question as I look for more questions. No, no.  Ed, you know, I saw the way he'd treat people and he was in him, you know, back when I was before I ever made it before when he did, I was like, well, it's cool man to be that way.  Do you listen to current music? Is anything to stand out to you? Any new bands or? No, I did, I did figure a way to tape all the songs off YouTube that I wanted to hear. I got, I did my record collection on every, every band I ever wanted. I spent probably two months doing it off YouTube. I recorded off the headphone jack. You know, on a, on a, on a recorder. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah.  I got, I got 980 songs, all Zeppelin Beatles. The who? The who? I recorded every black Sabbath song there was. Everyone, everyone, I spent and you have to do it in real time, you know? Yes, you have to write it, you have to write it. I spent hours, man. It's like a turntable. Wow.  They, they know you're doing it.   I'll record them all wave files. So on one of them, I got 900 songs. The other one, I got 500. I got every, everything I ever wanted. I did Motown. Nice, nice, nice. All the Motown songs, Smokey Robinson. Mr. Brewer asks, did Chris meet Randy Rhodes? And then I know somebody else asks, you've auditioned for Ozzy. When you auditioned for Ozzy, right? This is before Randy Rhodes was selected as a guitarist, correct? Yeah. Did I meet Randy Rhodes? What do you mean meet him? I lived in the same town. You lived in Burbank? I think you lived in Washington. There's, there's a place called Lock and Yacht. It's in between Burbank and Pasadena. It's in the mountains. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Pasadena, Burbank kind of, there's Glendale in between, but there's a place called Lock and Yacht. That's where NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory is. And the town's built for all the scientists there. I lived in that town. So meet him. Yeah, sure, man.  Dana Strum called me to do an audition for Ozzy. It said I couldn't play any black Sabbath songs. I was like, that's odd. I went into studio Laurel Canyon with my amp and guitar and I just played with no band played for about an hour, not an hour, about 20 minutes. And he was with Smokes and Hash with one of my friends. And then that night, that was a Friday night. Quiet Riot was playing the whiskey of Gogo. And the after the eye audition, the day it was Dana Strum from Bad Axe, the bass player. He plays with Ben Steele. He was driving Ozzy around looking for guitar players. And I probably my height could have scared him. Chris, how tall are you? Like 6'3", 6'4"? I'm 6'6". 6'6", that's what I thought, yeah. Yeah. You're way past Ozzy, yeah. Being at tall is okay for certain things, but it's bad for a lot of things because a lot of musicians don't want to stand next to you on stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blackie's 6'5", so we, you know. It kind of worked out, yeah, yeah. The last guitar player I had in France, he was 6'6", tall guy. Yeah, I'm only 5'8", so you're probably like a jolly green giant to me. Allen's tall, Allen's tall. Allen's a tall guy, so he's all good. You know what I'd say to somebody that's shorter?  I'm going to go blame my mom right after. Trenetics. Yeah, call her up, cuss her out. How about Molly Crue? Chris, how about Molly, go ahead, sorry.  She was on the phone, she was nagging me about doing something.  She didn't bother me anymore about it. This is all your fault. Yeah, this is a mistake you made 50 something years ago. All right, I'm going to, again, I'm going to post the link to the Indiegogo and again, I keep screwing it up but I think I got it right here. Boom, if you guys want, if you want to support Chris Holmes, please. You know, we want some new music and we want some great music and yeah, it's definitely, definitely. And again, I will say this again, the Canadian tour that was postponed is now 2021 starting in April in Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, London, Toronto, Calgary, keep our fingers crossed. So what about Half Moon Bay? You mean Thunder Bay? Thunder Bay, that's what it is. Thunder Bay, yeah. Well, you know what, I think it's tentative. There's a lot of tentative stuff going on. They're not a hundred percent sure yet, but I want to give a shout out to Kevin Michaud and Kevin, he's done such a spectacular job at, you know, being the promoter, organizing this, this, this sort of tour for you that didn't happen but got postponed. So big shout out to Kevin, Kevin works so hard.  You know, bringing artists like you to Canada from France, you know, that's not easy to do, man, that's not easy to do. No, no. All right, another question. Alan, if the virus is down and they let people come in and out of the country, I'll be definitely playing. But if it's not, then I'll have to, I'll have to postpone it's back further, you know. So what's your touring band from Canada? You're going to be doing a lot of the singing or you mentioned you had a singer already lined up. I sing the songs that I wrote on my project and then the bass player, you are keeping to find his name. I think his name is Kevin. Kevin, Kevin. He plays in a band, a band called Phoenix of Phoenix Burning or inflame Phoenix is burning. Check it out. Everybody Google that. Phoenix in flames. Oh, Phoenix in flames. Don't check out the first one. Check it. Phoenix. I'm going to look it up right now, Chris. Okay. I just I should have a written down somewhere, but I have it downstairs in my basement. It's all good. Okay. So anyway, go ahead. The new album will sound like under the in this EP under the influence. And the new album is going to be called unbearable influence. Okay. Yeah, because I'm an unbearable influence. Is his name Cornelius Black? Is that his name? No, I can't. No. Well, you want me to find his name out? That's a stage name. Yeah, I think you're looking at Harry Potter sites, Jimmy. Phoenix, Rise of the Phoenix, Serious Black. You got them all confused. Geez. I don't know. Anyway, Sarah, there we go. Yeah, Sarah. No, just probably watching. Yeah, there she is. What's the name of the guy's place in the Phoenix in Flames? Oh, Charles Andre Lambert. What's his name? Charles Charles Chuck Chuck to his friends. Okay. Well, Kevin Michele's tongue Charles Andre Lambert. Charles. Yes. He is Cornelius Black with it. See, you know, you know why I couldn't remember it because I can't pronounce that. Lambert Charles Andre Lambert Charles. Anyways, by the way, his nickname is Cornelius Black. There you go. So I stand corrected. I stand corrected Cornelius Black. That's what it's. All right. He's gonna be called Chuck. Chuck. You know what? I'm gonna call him Chuck. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. That's a good one. Chuck for sure. Yeah. Okay. Here are those. Molly Crue question. You're ready for Molly Crue. Do you remember the back in the day? Molly Crue, did you see the band? Did you see them rise? Yeah. What do you mean? I thought you were there. You were there, man. You were there. Yeah. Yeah, but they were cool. You know, they were, they were, they were more of a glam thing. I, some people used to call them chicks with dicks. You know, cause they look like chicks. They were almost like poison in the beginning. And then they changed their image a little, you know, through the times got harder, heavier. Yes. You know, make, but mix the cool guy. Nikki's always been nice to me. Good. I met him when I met him when I was 19 at that Theodore's restaurant around from Starwood. I had quit sister and I was in there after, I think a Van Halen show or whatever at the restaurant and he introduced himself blah, blah, and he just came in from, um, um, Idaho.  And I just quit sister and he's asking me why I quit and I, I know why now, but I didn't know then. I just said, I wasn't happy in the situation. He couldn't believe that I'd quit. You know, and then him and black, he hooked up and made London. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. That's right. That's right. Could he, could he play Nikki six back the day? They didn't, could he really like, like, I mean, a lot of talk of Nikki six couldn't really play as a basis or a guitars.  Well, I did in that kind of music. What do you call playing?  No, no, yeah. You know, but as for what the song's called for and the songwriting and stuff, he's great. An open E, an open E. That's what he's good for. And if that's what the song calls for, that's good.    Always had a heart of gold towards me every time I met, I've been around him. Yeah, he had a falling out. Oh, okay. That was at the time of London or? No, no, it was way after it was up. It was after I remember talking to Blackie about he says he didn't want to talk to Nikki because he was doing drugs and this and that.  Yeah. I mean, I've done him all my life not and I'm talking about narcotics, not smoking weed. I've done him all my life since I was 13 really 12 LSD. So I there's a time and place for everything. You know, if you got to know the fine line is on whatever. So and then Blackie said he didn't want to any of the drug addicts being around his life. So he blew off his friendship with Nikki.  I'm really enjoy. I'm really enjoying six a.m. His post the Motley Crue band. I mean, some of those songs and the musicianship I think it's better than even Motley Crue in their heyday. So it's something I really enjoy. Well, the musicians in that band are a little bit different, you know, then. I'm not saying Mick Mars is bad. Mick, you know, Mick's a good. He's got a great killer sound. Yeah, he does. Yeah, you know why he's got a killer sound? Because he learned it from you. No, because his roadie was Eddie Van Halen's roadie. Okay, okay. Ah, yeah, Rudy Lahren. Oh, yeah, there you go. Oh, yeah. Chris did all those back Van Halen. Here's a question from Brew Brewer. Mr. Brewer, did Chris get into a fight with Robin Crosby at the LA Forum? It wasn't a fight. It was a scuffle. Okay.   And then they threw me out.  Wasn't he? Yeah, he was six, about six, six. Oh, wow. Another big guy. Yeah, I saw him about two, about three weeks before he passed. You know, was he was, he was, he was, it was, it was AIDS because of what needles. Is that what it was? Like, I don't remember. I remember you had to do in heroin, being around the wrong kind of people picked it up, you know, share needles with somebody. Yeah. And then he died of an infection in his, a staff infection in his spine. Actually, you know, great songwriter. Last, last time I saw him, I went by to say hi to I was getting ready to go to Japan. I went by to say hi to my drummer, this guy, Robert Klays, Matt, good friend of mine. He's a drummer where Robin was living and went by to tell him I'd be back in two weeks and Robin answered the door. Hey, he goes, what, what are you doing, Chris? I go, I'm getting ready to go to Japan. And he was weird. He goes, he goes, can I ask you a personal question? I go, well, how personal? He goes, he goes, can I ask you how much you get paid? I go, whoa, I go, yeah, I go right now. I make a grand a week and he goes, wow, grand a week. And I go, Robin, before that, I only made 500 up to the headless children. That's it.  And he goes, he kind of looked at me. He went, he goes, what, he goes, he kind of, kind of, he's got a smile on his face and laugh. He goes, what am I complaining about? He goes, man, I had two, three, four million dollars and a playboy wife and everything. He goes, man, I blew it all on drugs.  He started, he started laughing about it. He was totally cool about it, you know? Chris, whose idea was for the raw meat and wasp? Whose idea was this? Like, today, I think in today's day and age, you could not throw raw meat in the crowd, right? Why not?  And I don't know, it's more politically correct. The girl on the rack might, might create more.  But what was it? Like a roast?  I mean, back then it was pretty edgy. We had a box, we had a box made and it was painted red on the inside, black on the outside, said raw meat on it. Then we'd get just a raw steak and then we'd get the stage blood and pour that.  And then the meat was like in chunks, you know, chunks of steak and it's when it's dipped in the blood, it gets really gory. When sitting in a band sister, black, he used to eat worms, you know, to flip people out. He wanted to outdo Alice Cooper or whatever. So he's like these pants on fire and then he gave it to the Nikki six. He gave up and left. Here, you can start burning yourself.  Well, that's because all the acts that were in sister, he got didn't want to do anymore.  Right. All right. Iron maiden stories. Michael wants to know. Do you have any iron maiden stories? Yeah, good or bad. Well, good. Let's stick with good. They would go bad. I'm good for now. Good. Well, I used to travel on Iron Maiden's bus, Steve and Bruce. They had a bus and then with Nicko and then David Adrian had an own bus and our traveling Steve's bus and they love me because my personality, you know, the way I am, you know, California, they'd have all the alcohol in the bus.  There's one time they had to hide me on my bus because I forgot my passport tour manager had it on the Duas bus. Okay. And I had to hide in the bunks going through the customs and they didn't come on and check. Could they not find you? Yeah. Huh? You were so big. How could they not find you? Like, how can they not find me? I went ahead back in one of the bunks. They were just like, stay here in case they come on the bus, but they never did, you know, and so anyway, there was a few times on that tour where I didn't fly.  That's a day and a half drive. So everybody would fly. Since I went on the bus, it would, I had, I didn't, the airlines, the money for that would pay for the better hotels. I'd stay in Iron Maiden's hotel and travel with them because at that point, if you're on the wash bus, you have to do what Blackie wants where he wants to go do his thing. So, and on the Irene bus, they let me be me, you know? And so anyway, they don't soundcheck their roadie soundcheck for them. They have it down to where they don't need to soundcheck. The wasp would have to soundcheck and their tour manager, Rangi, he would, you know, come to my room, go Chris, I got to get you to the show by force so you can soundcheck and he'd take me down every day. Anyway, he got, he didn't, the very last show, the night before in Rome, he'd beat up somebody that was taking pictures of Iron Maiden because after the third song, nobody's allowed to take pictures because you're sweaty and all that stuff. Rod, manager wouldn't like it anymore. But the promoter's son was in a barrier at the Encore taking pictures and the guy, Rangi, that took me, you know, there's like four guys that were in charge of just taking care of the band guys. Well, Rangi would take me every day to soundcheck, you know, in a cab from the hotel. But anyway, he could beat this guy up in a, in a down in a barrier and it was a promoter's son and they, they told the band, you better, you better fly him out of here because he's going to be killed tomorrow. He's a mafia thing. We're in Italy. So anyway, the next night's, the next day or the day after is Naples and Rangi's not there and their other tour manager guy, Warren Knox on the door and he chose Chris. Rangi's not here.  So they flew him out, he's back in London. Warren takes me down, puts me in a cab, right? And he spoke some Italian to this cab driver. He, Warren spoke Italian. He spoke a few languages. He goes, Chris, you'll be okay. And I'll see you later on as a gig. So close the door and the cab takes off and it's just a cab driver and me. And this guy, I asked him something. He turned back. He didn't know his English.  And we're going down these little dinky roads, man, in Naples.   So now I'm getting nervous. About 20 minutes go by and I'm going, fuck, this guy could be taking me the opposite way to show. I could be getting screwed and all of a sudden I see a heavy metal jacket, you know, in Europe they have the kids with the patches on them. Yeah, they all they all look the same. I started feeling like a cool man. I'm going to harvest your organs. I might just know. Anyway, so this cab driver guy, he doesn't take me to the backstage. He drives me right up front to venue. And it was a general admission venue. So there's all the people there waiting to get in and I'm like telling the guy, no, go to the backstage. This cab driver doesn't know. So I kick the door open, right? And I grab my bag and I start running and all these kids are chasing me. And I can remember I just bought a stiletto about two or three days before that because they're legal there. You know, the kind of night for those click click out. I had that in my jacket and I go running up these police. There's I just saw some cops like running up to him and I go to pull my pass out and was around my neck. I go to pull out of the stilettos on the ground. And I look, I look at him. I just grabbed it, put it back in my pocket. I didn't know if it's illegal or not. You know, and go backstage and all of a sudden I heard somebody speak English. It was somebody from the military. Some kid that was in the army goes, Chris, I know in the backstage is like, great. Can you help me out? He knocked a few kids off when he drugged me on show them in the backstage doors. I'm looking forward to the documentary. That's all I'm going to say after that. I'm looking forward to the documentary. You know, you're supposed to have, was it homes? Homes with homes? Is that what it was? Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Yeah. You and Sarah were supposed to do a documentary, sir. Like I guess the Osborns, but in France, right? Like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to do that. But we never, we never got, it never got further to have anybody put any money into it, you know, to where they could film it and stuff. It takes a little bit of time of the film crew to be around and stuff. That would have been cool. Yeah, yeah. So another time, the PRMC, which was organized by Tipper Gore, you know, and there was a song by a wasp. I'm trying to remember which one was it? And animal. Yeah, it's fairly obvious, Jim, which one it would have been. Animal. But so I'm just reading Wikipedia here. Were there threats? Were there death threats against bomb threats and stuff like that after the PRMC kind of was on the rise at the cons at concerts and so we would get us a few threats in Ireland. Okay. You know, because White Angle Saxon Protestant. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. We've got a few death threats there. One time we were playing and they they Molotov one of the buses in the backstage area. Wow. It was a crew bus, though. Okay. And some of it burned, but I don't think anything was lost on the inside.  It's a hotel and stuff like that. Blackie get them on the road here and there by religious people, you know? Okay. Me, I don't need somebody to give me a death threat. You can come and kill me. Try, try to. You better have a big gun and make sure that the safety is off because you're going to eat it after I get a hold of it. The Undertaker. Chris, have you ever met the Undertaker? Please ask. Yeah. All right. Yeah. We played a show called the rock and roll and wrestling in the Undertaker. A whole bunch of people were there and I was in the bathroom getting ready to do the show after we signed all the autographs or whatever for the day. It's just an all day gig all day and we're supposed to play. I'm in the bathroom, put on my makeup and Undertaker comes walking in and I jump back. I go stand back.  He started, he started laughing. He goes leave me alone. But he was cool. He was cool. You know, you know who I did meet at that show is a guy called the Giants. Yeah. That motherfucker. Huh? He was from France. John Faddee. The Giant? The Andre the. Not Andre the Giant, not Andre the Giant. This guy's, he's like just 180. He's huge. He's fight 580 pounds. He's he's muscle and I reuse standard backstage and I put my guitar on him. You know, say I wanted a picture. I put it on him and I laughed and I remember he grabbed me by the back of my neck in his hand when I'm all my whole neck and he goes that ain't funny. What are you laughing at? And I go, dude, I go, I go every guitar I put on, it looks like a tinker toy. I go, I'm not making funny. I'm just, you know, this and he was a cool guy. There's a picture somewhere.  The guy's huge, man. That's the way you death's later. Does anybody know why Chris doesn't play with Johnny Rod anymore? Well, because Johnny Rod's in America. That's a good start. There you go. And I'm here. Yeah, about two years ago, we were going to set up some shows where Johnny comes over and play and he just couldn't get out of America. You know, I think it's because he's had some problems with his immigration there. You know, once you get in trouble with the law, yeah, they don't like, they don't like to give you visas going into other countries. That's like candidate actually. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he's you're right. Yeah, we were setting it up and then he called. We were going to do something on Facebook and he calls up. Don't say anything yet. And then he called up and said he couldn't make it over. Okay. All right. Now what do you got as we sort of? No, just look you look. We got so much, you know, so much to do. We got the, we got the documentary. We got hopefully these tour dates. I mean, if there's anything else, we missed Chris. Now's a good time to promote. I know the fact. Anybody if you want to help me on my record, $10 was good, whatever you, whatever if you can, you can't, it'll help me. If I'm not going to make a threat to anybody, whatever, but if I don't get enough money to finish it, then I got to wait till I tour to make money to finish it. You know, not an ideal situation for reality. We got to get the record out before the tour. That's for sure. And at least, you know, when you're giving the money, you're giving it to Chris and he's going to use it to make an album, whereas in the olden days, you buy an album and went to the record company, right? And you don't even know if you get the artist would get royalties, right? At least you're getting the money to keep it going, keep that musical, you know, that cycle going, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's not like I play money and make a lot of money. It's like I make a lot of money, you know.   Yeah, but they're going to the crossroads and paying off the people that you work with, you know. Yeah. You ever heard of the crossroads? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So and then just trusting my main thing is I can ever tell anybody out there, out there. Where's the thing?  I did and it ruined, it didn't ruin my life, but it's, I've lost everything of all my, all my songwriting and stuff and lost, I lost it all because I trusted somebody, DTA, don't trust anybody. Make sure you look up on anything you sign, right? Get a lawyer, get a lawyer, right? Always get a lawyer. Fine. A lawyer can't wouldn't be able to help me. No. No, no, I'm just saying. If you sign anything, right? I had, I had a lawyer going and check it out. The guy, the big England guy and he just went, he went by the time, if you went to court and this and that and this, by the time you get paid anything, you'll be about probably 95. I estimate probably a hundred.  He'd never got paid, you know, and the company goes, Oh, you don't like it. We'll sue us. And you just can't sue a record company. Just, you know, you're seeing Frank Marino. Well, we've spoken to him. Sure. Yeah, we've spoken to him and I saw him live as well. Fuck. I saw him a few years back. He played the Canyon Club. And yeah, he's killer player, man. He's one of his big influence on me. You know what? Big influence on me, man. Land of a thousand nights. Ever heard that? Oh, yeah. What a crazy. Oh, amazing, amazing. Oh, yeah. Just juggernaut. I got that on my card. There you go. Did you see Frank in the 70s? No. No, no, no. I heard about him and listen to his records, but never got to, he never, never really played the West Coast. Okay. Yeah. You did a lot of festivals back in the day. You know, he, you know, he stopped and he stopped and like was it Alan in 84? He kind of goes, that's it. I'm done. Yeah. After his biggest selling album and he just, that's it. I'm out of here. He went out on top like he said. Great guitarist, man. This guy's, I call him iconic, iconic. That's the word, right? Well, he plays a certain style of Panatonix like Joe Balsam, Balsanama, whatever the guy's name is. Bonhamassa. Bonhamassa. Bonhamassa. I can't pronounce his name yet. Plays like that style really good. That's what Bonhamassa got his style from Frank Marino. Yeah, yeah. That's what it sounds like to me. You know, Frank Marino, Bonhamassa, whatever. That guy's killer, man. I've watched a few things and he can, yeah, he can play good. You have like Frank Marino and you have Uli-John Roth at the opposite ends, you know, sort of like a, you know, in the Atlantic Ocean and they're sort of similar in a way. They just some great sounds and great guitars just off the charts, off the charts. I saw Uli about two years ago. Yeah. In France. Oh, he's, he's, he's amazing. I saw him too. Oh, he's great. I got to talk to him for a while. He was great to talk to. Yeah, he's such a nice guy. Really cool. Yeah. Yeah, he's a really cool guy. Yeah, yeah. And, and Frank, I gotta tell you about Frank, man, you should, if he ever comes around your area, should go see him again.  He was supposed to go on tour and he couldn't go on tour because of this COVID thing just, you know, stopped everything. Nobody's, nobody's on tour. Yeah. They try to do the thing where you play together on the internet. I wouldn't be able to do that because my internet shuts off all the time. Yeah. I'm surprised it doesn't shut off now because I'm on the phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, so let's just do a recap here. Okay. Canadian tour postponed, but still 2021 dates starting in April to May from Quebec city all the way to Vancouver, Victoria. So and some more dates and it could, again, I just want to mention to everybody. These are tentative. They might change. It might be pushed to 2022, right? So it depends on the COVID, you know, what happens with that? Would you take the vaccine as, if they gave you the vaccine right now, would you take it? Or would you wait? Would you wait? I would take it if Dr. Fauci said it was good to take. I wouldn't take it if Donald Trump said it was good. Okay. What if Bill Gates said it was good? Yeah, if he didn't, yeah, I'd trust him. I'd trust Bill Gates. All right, okay. All right, fair enough. I'd trust him. I tried Dr. Fauci on trust, but you know, I just, you know, people that tend to lie will keep lying. All right, the state of the music industry. So playing with fire is the new single and I will take the link and I've been taking these links and I've been posting them in the text so people could check them out. I see that some people have donated already. That's not, it's not, playing with fire isn't really a single for the record. It was something Sarah wanted to put out. Yes. Because of the COVID. Yeah. Because of the COVID. So the song about the COVID. You know. So playing with fire, I just put the single so everybody can go check that out. Go ahead, Alan. Oh, yeah, yeah. Donations and we got the documentary coming out in January. So nothing but promising future for Chris Holmes. Chris, you know, if the virus goes down, if the virus goes down, it's spiking up right now. Oh, yeah. Here in Montreal, it's spiking up. Like we started this conversation. Alan was saying that in Quebec or Montreal, it's on the rise now. Who's getting it? We don't know. We don't know if it's a bunch of, you know, nine year olds were terminal with cancer. We don't know. But I do know that. I know somebody has got it. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, I knew someone to pass it away from it and it was very, very sad. Yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not a thing the Democrats made to take over this election from Trump. It's actually came from China. It's actually killed people. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, not to be taken lightly for sure. So no, it's not. Yeah.  They want to shake your hands. They want to hug you. They want to take pictures with you. It's tough being a musician, right? Even in these days, like, even if you did go on tour, you can't really touch the fans, right? And I mean it in a nice way. I don't mean it. Well, every, every time I would tour in the last five years, I'd come home and be sick. Yeah. I'd bring some kind of cold home or something to somebody, but you have to be with the fans. They all want to picture.  They touch the pins or whatever you're signing your two feet from everybody.  It wasn't a good idea before. And it's even the worst idea now. That's a good way to put it, Alan. Yeah, you get colds. I guess Plexiglas. You know, that's, that's how you take pictures like that. It's not worth it.  Yeah. Yeah, man.  You know, they're happy. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool.  Blackie hated it. He, he hated me even talking to him after shows, you know, but I always did because you get information from them and their fans, you know, they want to meet people. After every Iron Maiden show, the manager had made Iron Maiden. Well, this isn't the old days, but he'd make them go back after the backstage. Everybody had been standing there and signed everything until there was nobody there. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I paid off. All right. So documentary new album, everybody, you know, go to Indiegogo, you know, support Chris Holmes, you know, and we're saying that in the kindest of way. We're not forcing anybody and Chris. Yeah. Always a pleasure to have you on. It's always a treat. I love your honesty.  We'll talk again. Alan closing. No. Thanks again, Chris. It's always a pleasure. And like you said, always a fun time when we got Chris Holmes on the show. All right. Thanks a lot. All right, guys. All right. Mary. Thank you. Yeah, we'll talk every day. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. All right. Thanks. Bye. I'm shutting her down here.


At a recent Teletown Hall, Senator Ron Johnson was asked by an attendee who's definitely straight, by the way, about the woke agenda for LGBTQ plus people in schools and how that has led to students using litter boxes in lieu of bathrooms. So it's the same conspiracy theory that just will not die. Now, rather than pushing back or even questioning that narrative, Ron Johnson decided to go along with it and claims that he is well aware of this phenomenon. Let's listen. Hi, Senator. Thank you so much for taking our calls. I have to admit that I was a Democrat until 2016 and I saw the light. I just want to say my niece goes to school in West Bend and she's been telling us stories like that other students have been forcing them to have like litter box to accommodate students who identify as cats. I was wondering if you heard about this and if you've seen what Ron DeSantis has done in Florida with his parental bill of rights. Is that something that you could see happening like on the federal level? Is that something you support? Thank you so much for everything you do. First of all, Jeff, thank you for your support. And yes, I'm well aware of this. I mean, I think one of the things that COVID did is parents were looking over their kids' shoulders and they became aware of the indoctrination of our children by radical leftists within our education system. It's just amazing. It's just amazing. I just heard on the radio talk show how England, for example, has come out. Their National Health Service has come out completely different recommendations in terms of transgenderism saying that this is a phase for children. Don't accommodate the phase. You'll work with them through it. Don't be putting gender blocking drugs in our children. You certainly don't deal with them with sex change operations to minors.  But yeah, I'm aware of the fact that we've got some teachers that are, you know, they're actually pushing this stuff on our kids.   Any parent knows that. This is exhausting. This is absolutely exhausting. I'll ask the same question that I asked last time when we talked about this. Why hasn't anyone who claims that there are litter boxes in schools provided us with a single shred of evidence? It is like a game of conspiracy theory telephone where one person says something. Another person repeats that and it just keeps on trickling all throughout society. I've played this video now probably like five times on this show. This is the origin of the entire litter box in school bathrooms phenomenon. One lady from Michigan claiming that she heard this with zero evidence. And since then, Libs of TikTok retweeted her video. And every time this is debunked, somebody else sees that video for the first time, I'm assuming. And then they repeat the claim and it just never dies. But this is where it began. It was addressed by a child a couple months ago that they are put in an environment where there are kids that are that identify as a furry, a cat or a dog, whatever. And so yesterday I heard that at least one of our schools in our town has, in one of the unisex bathrooms, a litter box for the kids that identify as cats. And I am really disturbed by that. And I will do some more investigation on that. I know it's going on nationwide. I know it is. It's part of the agenda that's being pushed. I don't even want to understand it. But I think that people need to be aware of it because I am really upset as a parent that my child is put in an environment like that. And, you know, I'm all for creativity and imagination. But when someone lives in a fantasy world and expects other people to go along with it, I have a problem with that. So I'm just putting that out there. I will investigate more. They just hear things and they're like, oh, that's definitely sufficient for me. Now there are other things that Ron Johnson said besides agreeing with that conspiracy theory and pretending as if he's well aware of this common occurring phenomenon in the United States. He cites England's NHS saying that gender dysphoria is probably a phase for children. So the NHS is calling for caution with this new guidance saying that gender dysphoria usually does not persist into puberty and that they're over it by then. But this goes against the medical consensus. This flies in the face of long term studies like this one reported on by the New York Times, which found that very few children changed their minds about their gender identity throughout the five years that they were observed with just 2.5% of the 317 children that they examined reverting back to their gender assigned at birth. Now not to mention the detransition rate in the UK is incredibly low. For example, one study tracked 3398 trans people for a year and out of those people just 16 expressed regret, which is less than half of a percent. And sure, some expressed regret because they don't like their decision that they made, but others expressed regret citing social factors, i.e. bigotry, meaning that it was difficult for them to live as a trans person because there's so much bigotry. So the detransition rate is incredibly low and overwhelmingly doctors in the UK and the United States are getting their gender dysphoria diagnoses correct. They're already very conservative. But because the NHS put out this guidance, it doesn't necessarily prove anything. It's like Canada saying, oh, well, some red states in the United States have been gender affirming care for minors. Therefore that's evidence that maybe we should do that as well. No, what you need to look at is the overwhelming majority of experts and what their opinion is. Sure, you'll find a couple of outliers here and there that claim different things, but the consensus is what you have to go by. And that is what doctors in the United States, the UK and Canada are all going by when they make these determinations and these diagnoses. So for Ron Johnson to use the new guidelines issued by the NHS as evidence that gender affirming care is bad is insufficient. But he also said something demonstrably untrue.  This is another myth and it's not happening. But one thing that is happening with regard to genital surgeries in the United States is circumcision.  Maybe you've heard of this and it's funny how the transphobes, they never bring this up. They talk about how trans children are getting these surgeries on their genitals. That's bad because it's irreversible and they're too young to consent. But yet they say nothing about circumcision, which is also irreversible. And it happens at infancy in many instances where young boys are not old enough to consent. So if you actually care about these surgeries and the consent of the patient, then why not bring up circumcision as well? It's because they don't actually care about anything. They just want to demonize trans people. Now people who fear monger about gender affirming care like Ron Johnson, they do so for political reasons. That's number one.  As LGBTQ nation explains, contrary to Johnson and other Republicans fear mongering, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and other major medical mental health organizations all support gender affirming care for young people when appropriate. This often involves affirming young children's gender identity via social transitioning, and in the case of older youths, the use of reversible puberty blockers to hold off the permanent changes of puberty so that young people have more time to understand their gender identities better. Puberty blockers have been shown to significantly reduce lifelong suicide risk among transgender people.  That's not happening. That is not happening. That's not the way that this works. And people who are proponents of trans rights like myself wouldn't want that to be the case because that would hurt the cause. If you push transitioning on children and they're not actually experiencing gender dysphoria, then that would lead to a higher D transition rate, which would delegitimize the existence of trans people, which we don't want. So nobody has an interest of pushing people into transgenderism, which is the word that he used there. It's just so preposterous. All we have to do is look at the medical consensus and you'll see what is and isn't appropriate. So Ron Johnson here is here mongering about a marginalized population, specifically because the GOP has chosen to make this one of their pet issues because this is how they galvanize support. See, Ron Johnson has very unpopular economic policies. He has previously advocated for moving social security to part of our discretionary budget, so that way you have to re-approve funding for it every single year and you can control how much money you issue out to recipients of social security. He has no economic agenda that Americans want. So this is why he's resorting to these issues, because since he can't actually win against his opponent, who's the Democrat Mandela Barnes in this election on a living wage, health care, what he has to do is fear a monger and punch down. That's what's happening here. And he's so desperate that he's even willing to legitimize dumbass hoaxes like the litter box myth that we've heard again and again from Republicans. And it's just embarrassing, but understand for people who feel depressed about this, this is only one moment in time. If we look back 10 years from now, things will change. That doesn't mean that transphobia will be erased from society, but we will see how preposterous the hysteria was when we all look back and laugh at the lengths that people went to demonize trans people, even suggesting that litter boxes were in schools to, I guess, appease cat-identified students. Like, this is something we're all gonna laugh at, but unfortunately right now these lies are hurting people and it's just sad. So just understand this is just a moment in history and it will pass. Up yours, up yours, up yours.  Whoop, moralists, moralists, moralists, moralists. I dreamed I saw my maternal grandmother. She was stroking herself absentmindedly. I let her have her way. The genital region was exposed. I let her have her way.


Internal Revenue Service IRS tax news, Security Summit, Identity Protection, PIN, PINs provide an important defense against tax-related identity theft. The Security Summit, like the new Justice League, except headed by Superman's son, who doesn't use his superpowers anymore, believe in the real power in the world to fight the big problems like global warming and tax-related identity theft, is by joining protesters with picket signs. Superman's son, mind you, who I presume could do just about anything to fix the problem with a picket sign.  I don't think so. I mean, honestly, you know what Superman would have done about the whole global warming thing? He would have just, like, gone to the North Pole and just blowing on some glaciers with a super cool breath, making more ice, problem solved. And then the protesters could go ahead and just burn those picket signs without any worries about it, eating up the earth or anything. Whatever. I got a little off track. First an attempt at a joke. They just keep hitting it. They just keep hitting the same line. It's the oil companies and Putin's price hike.  Bystanders asking, what are they doing to hit the ground with that stick over and over like that? What are you doing? Well, apparently they're beating a horse. AJ, I think you're beating a dead. Really? It just looks like a pile of dust. All we are is dust in the wind, dude. Well, it used to be a horse. It's like, well, how long have they been beating that horse? The poor thing must have died back in the time of Cain Abel and Young Biden. IR2022-140 July 19, 2022, Washington, the security summit partners today encourage tax professionals to increase their efforts to inform clients about the IRS identity protection PIN opt-in program to help protect people against tax-related identity theft. The IPPIN, otherwise known as the IPPIN, the IPPIN serves a critical defense against identity theft. So let me give you a quick recap on kind of a history as I understand it of the IPPIN. This was used basically before when people had their identity stolen. Someone filed a fraudulent tax return because they had the social security number and other information in order to do so. And then the IRS had to fix it. And what they would then do to stop future identity theft in filing fraudulent tax returns is issue an IPPIN, which you could think of as kind of like a second social security number, an identification number to stop people from being able to file a fraudulent tax return. They basically expanded that program. Now it's my understanding of it so that you can opt in to get an IPPIN before someone actually steals your identity. And you would think, given the fact that the social security numbers these days are never changed and we're in the world of the Internet, that it's quite likely that, you know, people's social security numbers could be compromised and so on. And so and now we have a situation where the lower income tax returns are more valuable to identity thieves because there's a lot of these kind of like welfare or benefit programs in them, meaning if you have a lower income, you can still get a refund through the refundable credits, things like child tax credit and earned income tax credits and so on. Making the demand for thieves to steal identity in order to file fraudulent returns go up. So now we're going to need to have more vigilant defense against that. And one of those ways is possibly to get an IPPIN, which is kind of like a second social security number just for your tax related stuff that would change, I believe, on a yearly basis, making it more difficult for people to steal, but a little bit more burdensome than just remembering the one social security number since the time we were two, and it never changes. And then we got to give it to everybody that we do business with and so on and so forth and hope that it doesn't get spread out on the Internet now that we have this kind of Internet viral thing, which is kind of a vain hope it seems to me for a lot of time. But in any case, the IRA state tax agencies in the nation's tax industry working together as the security summit, there's a link to that here. I need assistance from tax professionals to let their clients know that IPPINs are now available to anyone who can verify their identity. So that's what I'm doing here.  So sharing information about the IPPIN opt-in program is the first in a five part weekly summer series sponsored by the summit partners to highlight critical steps tax professionals can take to protect client data and their businesses. Next, we're going to go out with picket signs on the next one. Now just kidding. So the series is an effort to urge tax professionals to intensify efforts to secure their systems and protect client data during the summer and throughout the year. So protect yourself, people. That's what we're telling you. There's bad guys. These alerts will be issued each Tuesday for five weeks to coincide with the IRS National Tax Forum, which helps educate tax professionals on security and other important topics quote, these identity protection numbers provide an extra layer of safety to protect people against tax related fraud tied to using stolen personal information and quotes that IRS Commissioner Chuck Reddick quote, following work by the IRS. The IPPIN program is now available to anyone who can verify their identity. We urge tax professionals to encourage their clients to protect themselves through the IPPIN program. So if you're a tax professional, you might want to do that because that could of course be beneficial for you as well. The IRS is basically saying it looks to us it seems to me they're saying it looks to us like more people are vulnerable. There's more demand for stealing identity. Try to protect your clients. That's be good for tax professionals, of course, too, because you don't want to have to go through the pain of the process of dealing with someone who's had a fraudulent tax return filed and then you try to file it. And then, you know, it's a problem and problem. And so we tried to preemptively stop that. The Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee otherwise known as the ETAAC, which you would think would be like the extraterrestrial alcoholic anonymous committee or something by now. But no, it's the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, the ETAAC last month highlight the importance of the IPPIN to taxpayers and tax professionals quote, the IPPIN is the number one security tool currently available to taxpayers from the IRS in quote, the independent advisory group said in its annual report to Congress quote, this tool is the key to making it more difficult for criminals to file false tax returns and that's in the name of the taxpayer in our view, the benefits of increased IPPIN use are many in quote, the ETAAC that I just keep on picturing ET from that old movie, but he's drunk and an alcoholic, but that's not what it stands for. That's not what it stands for. The ETAAC also recommended the IRS continue to highlight and promote the IPPIN, the IPPIN through a public awareness effort. The IRS will be taking steps to do that, including building off awareness of special items, including publication 5367, that's the IPPIN opt in program for taxpayers. There's a link to that here. It's in English and Spanish so that tax professionals could print and share the IPPIN information with clients. So you got this kind of thing that you can send out in your newsletter about the IPPIN encouraging people to sign up for it possibly. There are also special posters available in English and Spanish. So they got posters. That's how we're going to get this. We're going to save the world with posters. So for security reasons, tax professionals cannot obtain an IPPIN on behalf of clients. So you can't do it yourself. They're going to say, why don't you get it for me that you could do it. That's fine. You can say no, because this is your thing. It's like your social security number. You have to do it, client. Okay, I'm sorry. This is one thing that you have to do yourself. Taxpayers must obtain their own IPPIN. Summit partners urge taxpayers and tax professionals to be careful and protect the IPPIN from identity thieves. Taxpayers should share their IPPIN only with their trusted tax provider. Tax professionals should never store clients IPPINs on computer systems. Also, the IRS will never call email or text either taxpayers or tax preparers to request the IPPIN. So it's kind of like a social security number. Don't give it away to everybody. Stop posting it on social media. Stop tweeting your social your social security number out. That's not a good idea or the IPPIN people. You know, that's just common sense. In any case, tax professionals who experience a data theft can assist clients by urging them to quickly obtain an IPPIN. Even if a theft already has filed a fraudulent return, the IPPIN would still offer protection for later years and prevent taxpayers from being repeat victims of tax related identity theft. So here are a few things taxpayers should know about the IPPIN. The IPPIN, it's a six digit number, known only to the taxpayer and the IRS. So it's like only a who's who knows knows kind of thing.  So the opt-in program is voluntary, meaning you got to you got to take the first step to get in the secret club between you and the IRS. The IPPIN should be entered into the electronic tax return when prompted by the software product or into a paper return next to the signature line. So when you file the tax return, you're going to have to put the IPPIN like a number like a second social security number because that's the point. You need that in order to file the tax return now. So the IPPIN is valid for one calendar year. Taxpayers must obtain a new IPPIN each year. So hopefully that is an easy process, but that would clearly heighten the level of security if you changed your IPPIN. So even if you posted tweets about what your IPPIN and put it on your face, on your face account, you face the book of faces, then even if even if that happened, then you can change it. So even that won't stop you from pushing forward. So only taxpayers who can verify their identities may obtain an IPPIN. So they got to know who you are, of course, to give you an IPPIN because it's an identity thing. So it like if they gave it to someone and they couldn't confirm the identity, you would think it'd be but indicate IPPIN users should never share their number with anyone. But the IRS and their trusted tax preparer provider, the IRS will never call email or text to request for the IPPIN. To obtain an IPPIN, the best option is to get an IPPIN. There's a link to that here. It's on the IRS online tool. Taxpayers must validate their identities through secure access authentication. So I don't think they're asking for your face identification anymore like they were to sign into an account because I think they were trying to rule the world for a while with like the facial recognition and then they're going to put cameras and the whole world and everybody's like, you know, they got the facial thing, but I don't think they're going that far anymore. So I think you could get authentication like normal ways like your bank does and stuff without that maniacal world control, you know, from the IRS thing. So to access the tool and their IPPIN, the IPPIN before attempting this rigorous process, see secure access, how to register for certain online self help tools. There's a link to that here. If taxpayers are unable to validate their identity online and if their income is below $73,000 for individuals or below $146,000 for married couples, they may file form 15227 application for an identity protection personal identification number. There's a link to that here. The IRS will call the telephone number provided on form 15227 to validate their identity. So if they do try to do that, they go to the facial recognition and you're like, wait a second, the IRS is trying to track everyone and follow, you know, do crazy weird stuff. Again, then maybe you maybe you go to the paper form here and try it that way where they're going to confirm with a phone number possibly if your income is below the threshold to be able to do so. However, for security reasons, the IRS will sign an IPPIN and IPPIN for the next filing season. The IPPIN cannot be used for the current filing season. Taxpayers who cannot validate their identities online or on the phone with the IRS employee after submitting a form 15227 or who are ineligible to file a form 15227 may call the IRS to make an appointment at a taxpayer assistance center. So step one, try to file online. Step two, see if you can file the form 15227 if you can't do it online. And you can try it that way. But if you can't do that or that that doesn't work for whatever reason, you can actually talk to an IRS agent. I know it's crazy. They you could they're real. I've never seen one in the last five years. But yeah, apparently, you might be able to actually locate one. And then they can check your identity with the old fashioned ID card, like you're going into a bar or something like that. Can't I just go to the local bouncer and they tell they've checked the identity. They're better at it than you guys are any case. So they will need to bring one picture identification document and another identification document to prove their identity. Once verified, the taxpayer will receive an IPPIN and IPPIN via US Postal Service within three weeks. The IPPIN IPPIN process for confirmed victims of identity theft remains unchanged.  But no, that means something someone stole your identity and filed a fraudulent tax return victimizing you from the identity theft thing. So it's not like the worst victimization you can have afflicting you but it could be problematic. And that and then you file for the IPPIN in that case, but you could do it preemptively. Now that's the new thing. So these victims will automatically receive an IPPIN. Additional resources, tax professionals also can get help with security recommendations by reviewing the recently revised IRS publication for 557 safeguarding taxpayer data. There's a link to that here and small business information security, the fundamentals. There's a link to that here by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the IRS identity theft central page. There's a link to that here for tax pros, individuals and businesses have important details as well. Publication 5293 data security resource guide for tax professionals. There's a link to that here provides a compilation of data theft information available on IRS.gov IRS.gov IRS.gov also tax payers should stay connected to the IRS through subscriptions to e news for tax professionals and social media. Make sure to follow the the IRS socials. You don't want to miss one single tweet. I don't I don't do I don't follow their tweets. But I do look at their news, which is right here. This is what I'm following right here. That's what I do. So for more information, you can go to IRS.gov IRS.gov and there's also links to all this stuff here and there'll be a link to this in the description.


To all the parts of Africa, inter-communal fighting in a camp for displaced people in the northern part of South Sudan has killed 13 people. The clash is between two ethnic communities living in the camp in open now states capital, Malakal, first erupted on Thursday when a man was stabbed to death. The UN Mission in South Sudan says at least three persons have been killed and more than 20 injured, with some of them receiving treatment at a missions hospital. In December, 166 people menly civilians were killed and more than 20,000 displaced in the region, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.