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Ron Keel has been a rock and metal icon for more than four decades and is known as the “Metal Cowboy.” He is best known as the frontman of the bands Steeler and Keel and has sold millions of albums around the world with hits like The Right to Rock and Because the Night. His work with legendary KISS bassist Gene Simmons as a producer helped to propel Keel to international success in the 80s. Ron has also dabbled in country music and has mixed genres to create his own unique style. From arena tours with Bon Jovi and Van Halen to rocking stages at festivals and cruises, Ron Keel is still a trailblazing force in the world of rock and metal.
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in the new episode of the enemy letter podcast we have a legend uh vocalist from USA uh Mr Ron Kil from Ron Kil band
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from Kill and from Steeler Uh for for me very huge uh influence when I was in my
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teenage years in the '9s and uh and early 2000s Wow that means a lot to me
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Thank you so much for the invitation to speak with you and your audience today
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Thank you Thank you Ron Uh first I wanted to to start asking you about the
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new album uh Killworld Kill World is like a is like a compilation album of a
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lot of your your bands right well yes Uh Kel World Every album every album is a
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compilation right you got you compile a bunch of songs Yeah On this new album I
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created all new music It's all new brand new music from my primary projects and
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bands Stealer Keel Ron Keiel Band solo material the Black Sabbath tribute
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Emerald Sabbath and some uh some surprises as well I'm very proud of this
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new album Thank you for mentioning it Yeah of course because you're promoting that uh that album right now uh released
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uh so it's released on RFK media or that's correct that's my label RFK media
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we represent Ron Keel and all of my projects as well as some other great
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bands like Cold Sweat the Fifth Crashing Wayward and we've just signed a couple
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of new bands to the roster that I can't announce just yet but you'll hear about
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it first We've got some great new music coming in 2025 from RFK Media Oh awesome
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It's a it's a it's a roster like only releasing music or you are also tour tour managers of of the bands No no no
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no no They I leave the touring to them But we are the record company distribution promotion and
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uh just basically trying to share some of this great music with the audience and the fans and also in
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addition to the music CDs vinyl albums we also are branching into other
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multimedia any type of entertainment whether it's movies comic books uh all
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sorts of entertainment adventure ventures Wow You So you're all around Is
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Is the Is your radio show also on RFK Media or No
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RFK Media also owns and operates krfkradio.com which is an online
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streaming platform uh an online station if you will And we have a a great roster
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of shows on the station including D Snider Eddie Trunk Joe Elliot from Jeff
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Leopard My Show Charlie Kindle's Metal Shop and a lot of great programs and
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25,000 great rock and metal songs in constant rotation at krfkradio.com
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That's D Snider with his house of hair radio right
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excuse me It's D Snider with his house of hair uh program Yes Yes it's the D Snider House of Hair program on
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Thursdays on KRSK radio That's a great show I I I listen to that Yeah A lot
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That is our most popular program I mean we've got Eddie Trunk and Charlie Kendall's Metal Shop but D Snider always
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brings the brings the fire and the energy and the numbers Uh of course I'm a a longtime friend of De's and the
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Twisted Sister Camp I saw your interview with JJ French which was awesome I love
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JJ and the guys We've we've done a lot of stuff together through the years and played some shows together D Snider and
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I co-hosted Headbangers Ball back in the 80s together Uh D is has has remained a
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strong supporter of me and our music and our platform and we're really proud to have him on KRFK radio Yeah I think I
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saw him with uh with some kill t-shirts back in the 80s Yeah On Yeah On some on
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some of the MTV shows Yeah Yeah That's pretty cool Uh uh tell me something
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about the about the new record Did you record uh all of the bands all of the the tracks in the same studio or No the
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the album was created through a a team effort from all of the musicians in all
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the different bands many studios across the US and in in Europe in the UK as
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well And it was a long process 3 years in the making to create the songs First
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of all you've got to have a strong foundation of really good songs Yeah And
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when we realized that Give Me Guitars or Give Me Death man that that sounds like
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a Steeler song right and Moving Target the new Keel song Mark Ferrari sent me
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the music and I loved it immediately put the vocals and lyrics to that piece So
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we've got a new Steeler song We've got a new Keel song We already had a bunch of new Rod Keel band songs I wanted to
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include the Black Sabbath tribute which also features a couple of other ex-members of Sabbath Bobby Randelli on
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drums and Neil Murray on bass So you've got uh several guys that that were in
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Black Sabbath on the new track Children of the Grave covering the Black Sabbath Classic Now Bobby Rondaelli and Neil
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Murray never recorded together with Sabbath They both toured with Sabbath but they never recorded a Black Sabbath
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song together until Kel World I think that's pretty cool Wow that's awesome That's uh that's great And I wanted to
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to clarify for some of our viewers uh that some know you some uh don't know
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you Uh you you had you had your little stint with Black Seven back in the 80s right a very short moment in history
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that will live forever Apparently it's always going to get talked about and
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asked about and I'm very proud just to have been a very small moment in that
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epic history of the greatest metal band of all time So I was very proud of that experience and getting to know Tony Iomi
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and Geyser Butler at at that time And I didn't mention it in interviews for the
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longest time I because I never recorded an album with them and I never toured with them So I didn't mention it until
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the books started coming out and people in the fans started talking about it with the internet You know 20 years ago
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I started getting questions about it in interviews So I had to address it in the book interviews and um in the media and
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then about six years ago I began to work with a project called Emerald Sabbath
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which is produced by a guy Mike Sulain who is the ultimate Black Sabbath fan and he brought all of these exmembers
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together to re-record some of the Sabbath classics Myself Benny Apey uh
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did drums on Die Young which I got to sing the lead vocal for So I got to sing three songs on that first Emerald
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Sabbath album Die Young So I covered a Dio song Trashed an Ian Gillan song from
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Born Again and Azy's Hole in the Sky So I got to cover all three vocalists on
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that original Sabbath tribute And Michael came back to me says he wanted
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to do a sequel a new Emerald Sabbath album And he asked me to sing Children of the Grave And I said I would love to
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do it I'll do it for free if you let me put it on my new album Gil World And he
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was very cool and let me do that So I'm glad to have that part of my history represented on the new album Kil World
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Wow Love it Who who are the musicians there or is it the whole band Emerald Sabbath it's a collection of all
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the different Sabbath members of the Black Sabbath and and Aussie family Like I said Rudy Sarzo did the bass on on D
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Young and Biddy Aussy did the drums I did the vocals My guitar player from Ron Keiel Band Dave Cawthorne played the
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lead guitars on that So it's basically a collection of Sabbath family members
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coming together to recreate some of that classic music Awesome Awesome I I I
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while we mentioned the Ronkill band I wanted to ask you about of course we all know Kill from the 80s and the logo So
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Ron Kill logo and the Kill logo is pretty much very similar or the same right
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it's the same We just added the word Ron Yeah What's the What's the connection between the two bands i mean of course
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you but the other members and uh and uh how how did it progress from Kil into
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Ron Ke or is it just a solo solo uh like a
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solo effort well Ron Keel is my chance to I mean my name is Keel Yeah Yeah Yeah
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I know My show every show that I do always includes all the Keel classics
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Yeah The Right to Rock Because of the Night Tears of Fire Somebody's Waiting and and many more So the Ron Keel band
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allows me to do all the Keel music plus the Black Sabbath music and the Iron
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Horse music and my solo material For the last 10 years Ron Keiel Band has created
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and released some music that I'm very proud of And I enjoy the opportunity to
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share all of this music with the fans that come to see us live or the fans
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that enjoy what we do online Would you would you say that it's a like a like a
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solo project of yours or or no or like a band well it's not a project It's a band
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These guys have been with me for 10 years It's a family Yeah it's a family Uh it does We use my name Yeah But I
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didn't want to call it Keel because of my loyalty to the original Keel members
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Mark Ferrari Brian Jay and Dwayne Miller If it weren't for my friendship and love for those guys uh I would have just
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called it Keel because it's my name Yeah Don Dawkins does it I mean uh Dawkins
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and many other singers The name the band is named after them and they just rotate musicians They can have anybody around
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them Yeah Yeah But for me Keel was a special brotherhood and a family and I didn't want to mess with that So I call
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it Ron Keel Yeah Do you do you still do something with the original members of
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course of Keel you know Well like I said there's a brand new Ke song the song Moving Target on this record Yeah Yeah
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Uh do you plan on maybe getting together and tour or something or with with with
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Kill not with Ron Kill no Not with Keel No No Uh because uh your new album is out You
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plan on uh doing a tour special tour of the album maybe collecting uh some other
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some other musicians and do a whole tour or no oh I'm ready to go man I I I'm a full-time musician entertainer I can
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tour tomorrow I'll go wherever it takes Last year we did four countries We did
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North America Canada the US and South America last year We'll see where the
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road takes us next Yeah I would love I would love to to see you in Europe man Uh I would I would love to to see your
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show I I never I never saw Kill or Ron Kill Uh I would love to come back to
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Europe I would like to continue to do this while I'm still doing a a show that I'm proud of I'm uh still able to
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perform and sing to my satisfaction and hopefully to the satisfaction of the
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audience as well This doesn't last forever and I would like to come back to
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Europe before it's too late Yeah I saw I saw from from u from the media that you
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you're doing great on the charts with the new album
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Yeah the response has been really strong I'm very proud of that and very pleased with that Um I create music for myself
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you know I want to be happy and satisfied and proud of what I do Yes And these you know this this is very special
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to me Now the fact that I sold 3 million albums means that billions of people
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don't like me or don't want what I do And I'm cool with that I just make music for myself And I don't need the applause
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or the approval I love the audience and the fans And I do whatever I can to entertain them That's my mission in life
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to create and to entertain The rest is up to you and and the media and the fans
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and whoever enjoys what we do Yes By the way uh I I wanted to ask you at the
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beginning at the very beginning how how were you with your with your arm you you you had a you had an injury It hurts man
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It hurts What happened i'm looking forward What happened oh I was shooting a movie and I was up the scene was where
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I had to fall off a building and I was up seven stories and I fell off the
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building and they moved the the pad so I hit the street No I'm kidding You know
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I'm kidding I I I I know you I know you released a
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movie but I thought okay maybe he's doing something else you know No it was I slipped on the ice working outside
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There was ice and snow and I slipped on the ice and landed on my my hand and
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broke two bones in my wrist But the cast is coming off tomorrow that I get rid of this tomorrow It still hurts but don't
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tell the doctor I tell the doctor "Oh it's fine It's great Take Can you Can you please Can you please i cannot
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play." No it's killing me man It's killing me I can't wait to get the cast off and get the guitar back in my hands
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I have some shows this summer that I'm excited to get back on stage And you know I play with the band and I do a lot
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of solo acoustic shows as well So the solo acoustic gig it's all this man You
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know it's it's uh very important that I get my full capabilities back and I'm
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able to use my hand again for for the shows So I'm I'm optimistic and very hopeful that it's going to be okay Yeah
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Awesome man I wish you very speedy recovery I mean very speedy uh recovery in the the terms of playing you know Uh
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thank you Uh tell me about your uh I see that you have a Patreon a Patreon
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experience Uh I I want to put all the links of everything you do Thank you So
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uh so tell me more about the Patreon experience Patreon is my home online for
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me and my VIP kilaholics And I share everything on
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Patreon I don't do a whole lot of YouTube or Facebook Live or
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This is very much like the Kiss Army was back in the day It's my army It's my family and everything goes The fans at
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patreon.com/ronkele get everything all the behind the scenes the music personal
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connections and interactions discounts on all the merchandise VIP access at the
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shows and a real experience that uh you can't get
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anywhere else And I I'm very glad that the fans have embraced that It's my way
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of working from home if you will Uh it started when my wife had cancer in
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2017 and all of a sudden that changes everything when you get that diagnosis
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that your wife has cancer I had to stay home for that year and take care of her
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as she went through surgeries radiation chemotherapy and I had to continue to
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express myself and entertain the fans and interact with my audience online
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This is long before CO This is three years before CO Yeah So I built the
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platform on Patreon to do that and share the videos exclusive audios You can
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download album free album downloads of my music and uh just everything I can give those people I give them everything
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And then a couple of years later in 2020 all of a sudden this co
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and we had to stay home for most of the year I think we did 25 shows in 2020 still even
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during the pandemic We did some shows We did the motorcycle rallies We do a lot of biker events and motorcycle rallies
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because those people don't give a [ __ ] man They're going to party either way and we're going to be there to sing for them So we uh I I was able to utilize my
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Patreon platform We've been online now for six years on Patreon and it is
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really my home online where the fans get everything that I can give them So COVID
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hit and all the musicians started doing that But you you were already ready about it you know
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Yeah I was uh yeah we already after my wife fought cancer We already had a way
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to work from home We already had the masks We had a cabinet full of masks and we're used to keeping everything
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sanitary because of you know her immune system after going through cancer So
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when CO hit it was just like okay well get the mask out get you know get on the laptop and entertain some people So I
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keep doing it I I'm involved with my Patreon audience every day and we try
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and uh share as much as we can with the fans that are paying It's a monthly subscription Yeah Yeah Yeah It's uh
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$6.99 US per month So $7 a month US for everything All access Yeah for for I
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mean the hardcore fans are there of course Yeah Yeah they are And it's uh
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it's it's great to have them be It's it's very much like a family It's a brother a brother and sisterhood It's a
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tribe Yeah And it's not only about me now They're all friends with each other and they're all it's a community of
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people that that enjoy the same stuff and they've all become friends because of us joining together on Patreon So I
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really think that's that's awesome Yeah I know I I know what you're talking about because I'm a I'm a huge Twisted
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Sister fan like a SMF you know So I'm with the SMFs like that you know Exactly
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Yeah It's the same thing The Kilahholics that's my SMF Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Yeah Uh uh tell me you you ride because you mentioned uh you you mentioned going
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on biker shows a lot You you you you ride the bikes I do Yes I do I have a
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Harley in the garage I don't ride right now but u hopefully this will come off
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and I'll be back behind the handlebars within a couple of months Oh man of course Uh tell me about your podcast Uh
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you you still doing that right well I have a radio show which is now on hiatus
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I'm coming back live on the radio on KRK sometimes and the podcast contains the
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exclusive interviews from the radio show Okay So for the radio broadcast we cut
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the interviews down to maybe 13 minutes Okay Cuz you got to keep the music going Yeah But on the podcast you get all of
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the content from the the time the phone rings until the time we hang up the entire conversation with the interviews
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that I do with my heroes and rock stars and authors and actors and celebrities And now I'm launching a new podcast this
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week It's called Talking Singing It's me interviewing other singers about the voice where me and the other Tony
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Harnell and gosh uh Grant Bonnet and so many other of my favorite singers me and
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Dave Mcketi from YT just talking about the voice and how we warm up how you it
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it's it's very fun entertaining and and um informative to find out how each
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singer operates so differently with all these great voices So it's called Talking Singing You'll be able to find
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that starting next week at ronkey.com Wow that would be awesome It's a video
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podcast right it will No it's no video I'm I'm all audio It's all audio It's
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all So you could listen in the truck or when you're driving around or when you're at the gym or whatever U the the
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interviews that I do are all just audio Audio Yeah Because how many people How
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many people are going to sit and watch me talk to you no I'm kidding Hope that everybody's watching and enjoying this I
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think it's great The video podcasts and and interviews are great but you have to sit and watch It's It's tough for people
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tough for me to sit and watch a video interview I did watch your interviews preparing for this Like I said I thought
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the JJ French interview was fantastic Oh thank you man Yeah Yeah that's great Yeah it was a it was a great great talk
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uh with JJ Uh but but we are also doing a great talk right now uh with you Tell
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me uh what what do you think about the music industry now and back in the day i asked JJ also this one you know if you
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if he approves of Spotify and stuff like this or no you know uh what do you think about that whole mess mess the industry
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is fine The industry is fine It's the consumers I don't The fans are what keeps us in business So I don't want to
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throw the fans under the bus but Spotify doesn't prohibit you from buying
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CDs I mean you can buy this if you want it Yeah Does just because it's on
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Spotify doesn't mean you can't buy it Yeah Um I remember
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1985 86 87 where we had a streaming
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television service It was called MTV right And we would spend
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$150,000 a day or more The right to rock video was
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$150,000 It was three times the album budget We would spend a quarter of a million
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dollars in a day just hoping that this free streaming platform that didn't pay
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anything MT you didn't get paid for MTV You're just hoping to get your video on
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MTV so the fans can see it and get to know you and hopefully buy your records
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Yeah So MTV we didn't get paid for that We spent like I said a quarter of a
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million dollars to just for the chance to hopefully MTV will play your
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video And that was a streaming service on television The Spotify is no
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different Spotify cost me $12 a month And I'm a subscriber I'm a I'm a fan I I
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listen to it all the time when I'm traveling or when I'm working at home I listen to and I find lots of great new
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music that I would never have heard of before And if I like it I'll buy it Just
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because it's on Spotify doesn't mean you can't buy it So the state of the industry is fine And my company RFK
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Media our record I wouldn't have a record company or a radio station if they weren't viable and profitable
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products This is not my hobby This is my business I'm in the music industry full
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time and it does work Now you're not getting the sales that you used to get
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for a lot of reasons Spotify is not one of those reasons Spotify doesn't keep
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you Amazon Music YouTube none of these platforms You're still allowed to buy
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music You You want the CD buy the damn CD Just Oh no I I heard it on Spotify
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I'm not going to buy it That's [ __ ] I mean yeah Uh just and yeah no we're
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not getting a whole lot of money royalties artist payments from Spotify
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but I guarantee you every day people that are listening to my Spotify are
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buying my records and buying my merchandise You can buy the merchandise right on my Spotify page You go to
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Spotify and you scroll down and there's all the merch I'm selling CDs and shirts and all the other kind of cool stuff
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because of Spotify Yeah that uh yeah I'm I'm not one that buys into that hate I
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think every way that we can expose people to new music or good music even
24:54
if it's old music who cares music is back in the day we would have to
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you'd have to go to the news stand They had these places where they had rock magazines like Circus and Cream and Hip
25:08
Raider You have to leave your house and you have to go to the news stand and
25:14
either walk or drive and you buy circus magazine or hit parade or magazine and you buy the mag You have to pay for the
25:20
magazine right and then you open the magazine you see this this new band Kiss or Rush or whoever and you get
25:28
interested in that artist or that band and then you have to get in your car or
25:37
walk to the record store and you have to go to the record store and you have to go through the bids Oh there's the Kiss
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album that I read about in Circus Magazine And then you buy it You got to spend $10 to buy the album Then you got
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to go all the way home and you got to put it on your turntable and you got to put the needle down Now it's so easy You
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hear something and just click a button You click a mouse Uh that's what's
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changed the the accessibility of people to have music
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and entertainment and movies and everything at their fingertips right here It's all right here So that's
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changed The industry is still the same You got to do you got to have a great product You got to work hard and you got
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to reach people that might want to buy that product The problem is now nobody's buying it because they can get it for
26:26
free or cheap somewhere else Yeah There is only one problem with uh with the youth today because they're so much into
26:32
scrolling you know They like scroll the songs like not listening the full songs you know Exactly Yeah So and that is
26:41
that's the world we live in man You can't change that You got to roll with it Everything changes Nothing stays the
26:47
same You're gonna go from s I went I've been six decades now from the 60s I mean
26:54
I I fell in love with music before heavy metal was born Yeah You know I was into
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the Beatles and the Stones you know uh just like JJ French you know some of
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these other guys that are my age Yeah Does does that does that uh you like a
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fan of maybe Patty Smith or or Bruce Springsteen wanted to to cover that uh
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hit Because the night no I I was not a fan of Patty Smith or Bruce Springsteen Oh no So why you covered it's a great
27:27
[ __ ] song man Your your your cover your cover is better than than theirs for me you know this is a great song
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Yeah It's just a great I I heard it It's like an idea you know i heard I was in the car and the song came on the radio
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and I'm driving through Hollywood and I heard it I said and I heard a rock
27:46
version of that song in my head Yeah And I thought man this is perfect This is a
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just a great song that would be perfect for us to keize it Yeah So I went home in my home studio And I did a demo of
27:58
the song and just a a basic demo of you
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know with the drums and my guitars and my voice and I played it for Jean Simmons our producer and Jean said "Yes
28:12
we're going to cut this." I mean I it was one of many songs that we had for the Final Frontier And Jean thought it
28:18
was a great idea I thought our version was great It's still a big big part of my life and a big part of every show
28:23
that I do I man it's it's I don't know what to say It's the
28:30
best version of of that song for me Uh uh tell me I mean I I want to tell you
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about when I started playing early 2000s drums uh with my band We used to listen
28:41
to your Steeler stuff a lot with my guitar player and we loved the uh we
28:47
loved the stuff with when Malmstein joined with the album you know uh
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uh Undercover Animal No which album was uh the blue
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the blue one the blue one We we listen to that CD all the time
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The Steeler uh record You're probably talking about Julie John Rothste No no no no no no Steeler only had one album
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and had the four of us on the cover Very much like Van Halen Well that one Yes Yes Yeah 1983 The Steeler album It was
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Was it Was it Was it a blue cover right no it's got four pictures of the the
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band members Very much like the first Van Halen album Me Rick Rock Mark Edwards We we we used to learn to play
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from from that stuff you know We that's what I wanted to tell tell you I haven't listened to it in years but we used to
29:41
learn to play from that record and and from some other some great drums on that record too man Mark Mark Edwards
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fantastic drummer and a dear friend of mine and you know he is uh still a very good friend I talk to him every day and
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we are very busy writing and recording the new Steeler album Oh so you're
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preparing a new album with with Steeler yes Oh man Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Yes the three guys from that
30:06
same album Myself Rick Fox on bass Mark Edwards on drums and Mitch Perry on
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league guitar Mitch replaced Dingvey in the summer of 1983 So he's been in the band for 20 42 years now So so he's on
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the new video I'm sure you've seen the new video Give Me Guitars or Give Me Death Yeah I'm very proud of that And
30:26
that that's Stealer man And we are you know that process of putting that new
30:32
song on the new album Kill World Yeah and shooting the video really brought us back together and got us very excited
30:40
about the the possibilities of new music So we've written three new songs now for
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the new Steeler album And we're enjoying being creative and working together and
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I don't know when it's going to come out Probably next year Probably 2026 Yeah on
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on your label maybe Yeah probably Oh I sure hope so
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Unless we get a better offer Uh besides uh besides that album like a
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future plan what are your other other future plans uh in my man I don't really plan you know I don't I think we're all
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on a one-day contract Tomorrow is not guaranteed for anyone My plan is to
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enjoy every moment of every day every song every discussion like this every
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kiss every everything that I do I want to live my life and enjoy every moment
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Uh I really don't have a plan until the Steeler album is going to consume
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probably the next year that we have a lot of shows coming up this year as well with the Ron Keil
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band U we've got a lot of traveling and some some big
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shows on the calendar already and more to come And from a creative standpoint
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I'm always going to create and write songs you know figure out once you you stay creative and then you figure out
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what to do with it I didn't set out to make an album called Keel World Yeah And this wasn't a plan This this happened
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for so many reasons Uh the Rod Keel band was writing and recording and and
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working on new music and I went to dinner with a friend of mine We went to
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restaurant for dinner and his father was there and he said "Hey Ron." Shook my
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hand Said "What's going on in Keel World?" I Whoa Keel World That's the
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name of my new album It's sitting there That's when the idea came I'm going to make an album and it's going to have all
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my bands I'll have KE We'll get get the Keel guys on board Get the Steeler guys We'll do a new Steelers song You How
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about Black Sabbath and you know do some country music as well So that's how the idea I wasn't planning this This just
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happened and it happened for all the right reasons That's incredible that that guy that reminded you of of that
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you know Yeah It was one of those moments man when when an idea strikes me
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whether it's a song idea you know I'll pull the I'll pull the car over and I'll write the song right then and there Uh
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when I get something it's like a magnet uh music and entertainment and stories
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and songs and you know it it takes you you don't I don't plan I don't plan it
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It it's like a river It carries me where it wants me to go Wow man I I I hope it
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will take you to Europe I want to see uh I hope so too man I would love to I would love to In the last couple of
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years I've been to places I've never been before I went to Australia for my first tour of Australia Last year I did
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South America for the first time ever I have been to Europe many times but it's
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been a long time Too long Yeah And I don't know I mean it's going to take uh somebody over there a promoter or
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somebody who says "Yeah we want Ron Keel." If they if if they want me I want
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I want to come there and play for the fans Okay man Thank Thank you for for
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talking with me on on this uh few important topics in in Kill World Uh
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thank you for this interview and uh hope to see you uh very soon It's my pleasure
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Thank you for all that you do to keep the music alive my friend You're doing a great job and I'm glad for this
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discussion with you Thank you man Hello to all of your audience your listeners your fans I love you You're my people
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and I'm your fearless frontman Ron It means a lot to me from coming from Kil
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Thank you Thank you Bye
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