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and and a great story is that one day I
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I was um I think what I was 26 I think I
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was 26 and I was uh having dinner with
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my parents and uh and my dad goes to me
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so what are you do doing with your life
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you know that heavy Croatian accent and
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um and I said you know Friday I'm going
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to Hollywood to become a star that's
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what I said to him and he goes do it
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so so Friday I jumped on a plane I went
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there I met a couple of people no one
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really nothing really happened I mean I
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knocked on every door so to speak but I
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manager uh this producer and this
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manager was staying with him because
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they were working on a project and um so
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then uh the produ he came up the stairs
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from the pool and he goes uh hey you
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really need to listen to this music to
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this to Millie's music and uh and Stan
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goes no no no I have no time for this I
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got too many bands I'm sure you're great
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you look great I I I can't I just can't
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do it and he goes you really need to
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listen to the music and he finally gave
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in he said all right I'll tell you what
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here's my address to the New York uh my
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uh office in New York send it to me I'll
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have a listen and we'll see what we can
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do well when I left when I left the uh
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the the apartment there I went right to
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FedEx and I sent it FedEx overnight so
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when he came to his office in the
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morning the next day it was on his desk
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so you had to listen to it and it was
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because um you know back in the day I'm
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calling my answering machine see if
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anybody called and he's and he left me a
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message I could hear angeliz on the
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background only at the first chorus and
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he goes you [ __ ] prick it is that
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immediately so yeah serious true story
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true story so I gave him a call um I
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came back uh on I believe Wednesday I
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call him he goes you got to come into
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the office let's come into the office I
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came to the office Thursday with the
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band three of us came in Thursday said I
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love the band I love the project I want
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to sign it I want to make sure that
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we're working together verbal agreement
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I said great let's do it Friday
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afternoon he calls me he goes 5:00
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Friday goes you're going to be on
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universal records have a good weekend
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boom overnight that's how fast you know
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things happen when you're connected with
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the right people I guess you know so wow
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w w fun stuff yeah but but when did you
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when did you when did you put the steart
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name on it was it the yeah so we were
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called red alert for a while but what
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happened is that there's a band called
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called DJ Red Alert okay I mean a a DJ
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called DJ red alert and he owned the
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trademark uhhuh so when we found out
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they own the trademark we had to change
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the name so we were making the record
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here in Los Angeles and we were at
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bary's Beanery all having lunch to uh my
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manager the record company the band and
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we're all trying to come up with names
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and everybody's just um throwing out
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things and and somebody um I don't know
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I somebody said steel I said heart I was
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like that's it Steel Heart there it is
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and it came together like over lunch
