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I'm sorry for the loss for a freely man.
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Uh God God bless him. God bless him.
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Rest in peace. He was one of the best.
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How was working with him? And how did
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that whole combination of you of you two
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became uh you know about the about his
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>> Um well I'd known Ace for you know a
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long long time. in 2022, I believe it
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was, Tokyo Motorist, got invited to open
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up for Ace um at a couple East Coast
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shows. And then his fiance at the time,
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Lara Cove, who's a dear friend of mine,
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and she was the one who said, "Send me
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the ideas and I'll get them to Ace and
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you know, let's just try keep doing
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this." So, I just came in my studio and
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and as the biggest Kiss fan and Ace fan,
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I was like, "What would I want him to do
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now?" like what kind of songs would I
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want him to write and what would I want
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to hear as a fan? And I I sent him a
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couple ideas which were Walking on the
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Moon, Fighting for Life, Cherry
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Medicine, I'm a constantly cute uh
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couple other things. And I sent him I
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sent him these rough, you know, finished
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things. About three months later, I kid
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you not, dude. I'm getting out of the
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shower. I'm dripping wet and my phone
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rings and I see it and phone it says it
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says Paul Freely and you know it was
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really cool because we hadn't even
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gotten together but already there was a
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common connection and I could tell he
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was so excited. He goes, "When can you
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come over?" Because Ace is living in
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Jersey. I'm in New Jersey. He lives
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about 45 minutes away from me. So about
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5 days later, I went to his house and we
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finished writing the lyrics and the
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melodies for Walking on the Moon. And
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then later that night, after the first
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time we worked together, uh later that
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night, he went he went down in the
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studio. He was so excited he couldn't
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sleep that he went down to the studio
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and he wrote the bridge and recorded it
