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also I wanted to to ask you about how
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did you become drummer for Taiko?
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that was few years ago right?
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Yeah I think it's my third year now.
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Was um Yeah. was uh well late 22 they
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announced that they were going to be uh
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uh Michael Arbini would uh retire from
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the road after their final gig on the
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Monsters of Rock cruise in early 23. So
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they announced it 3 years ago, but
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really I I've only been playing in the
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band for two. But still, a lot of stuff
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has happened since then.
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And the way that I got into the band was
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for that reason that Michael um wanted
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to retire from the road. And you know,
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so Danny, I think, figured like, okay,
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well, I guess that's the end of the band
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cuz Michael was the, you know, the
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original guy and he was there from day
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one even when Danny was gone for one
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album or for a few years, you know. So
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he uh Danny assumed that the band would
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be finished, but Michael was like, "No,
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dude. You have to you have to keep
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going, you know? you got to continue
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keep all this work that we did, you
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know, you can't just let that die, you
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know. So when he had his blessing, I
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he said, "Well, I know who to call."
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And you know, it kind of brought us full
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circle again because we've always kind
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of remained friendly and and family. We
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started together. So, it's like
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unbelievable that uh I got the
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opportunity to to reconnect with Danny
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and uh and to be in this band. You know,
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we also got a new guitar player at the
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same time. So, Harry Scott Elliot joined
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yeah, it's just been great.
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How is your how is your schedule going
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between them and Doro? you know, it's
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Yeah, it's been going working out quite
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well. I I only missed a few gigs uh
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like, you know, maybe like three or four
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Doro shows um to do the Taiketto stuff,
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you know, which maybe it was like booked
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first and then Doro got a festival offer
2:39
like very late and I said, you know,
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really sorry, I can't do it. but she's
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been super cool about it and she also,
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you know, a couple of us in the Doro
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band have obviously other things going
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on and uh sometimes it just, you know,
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things don't, you know, it's you can't
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be in two places at the same time, but
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um luckily it's worked quite well, you
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know, so I'm I'm real grateful for that
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and that's been going really
