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03/08/2023
GUEST:  ANDREW FREEMAN (LAST IN LINE)

3:30 ANDREW FREEMAN JOINS THE SHOW
5:00 DISCUSSES THE PROCESS OF THE 3RD ALBUM AND THE
DYNAMICS OF WRITING AND RECORDING
DURING A PANDEMIC NOT LIVING IN THE SAME CITIES.  THE BAND PRIMARILY LIKES TO “WRITE AS A UNIT”
VS. OVER EMAILING TRACKS.
Half of the album “JERICHO” was done in 2020 and the rest in June of 2022.

6:00 ANDREW DISCUSSES CHANGING FROM FRONTIERS TO earMUSIC STATING
THAT “VIVIAN MADE THE DECISION TO CHANGE AND WOULD NOT ALLOW CHANGES TO THE
ORIGINAL CONTRACT”.

ALL NEW TEAM, LABEL, MANAGEMENT AND WILL “HOPEFULLY WILL
BE BETTER”.

6:45 RECORD RELEASE PARTY DETAILS HARD ROCK CAFÉ
LAS VEGAS STRIP, LAS VEGAS, NV APRIL 1ST, 2023 CALLING IT A “DESTINATION
SHOW”

8:00 FINDING THE BALANCE OF LAST IN LINE AND THE CONFLICTS OF
DEF LEPPARD’S (VIVIAN CAMPBELL) TOUR SCHEDULE.

ANDREW GIGS A LOT DOING LOCAL SHOWS IN VEGAS.  “YOU GOTTA FIND A WAY” AS (LAST IN LINE) “IS A SIDE BAND TO DEF
LEPPARD.  WAITING AROUND FOR (SCHEDULES
TO OPEN UP) CAN BE FRUSTRATING”.

10:00 WHAT ANGST COMES FROM HAVING LAST IN
LINE BEING HAVING TO PAUSE MOMENTUM DUE TO THE DEF LEPPARD SCHEDULE

“YOU’RE KIND OF A PAWN IN THEIR MASTER PLAN”.

“IT’S
FRUSTRATING”.  “IT’S THE NATURE OF THE
BEAST, WHEN YOU ATTACH YOURSELF TO THEIR FAME, YOU’RE JUST A PAWN IN THEIR MASTER
PLAN”

VIVIAN WON’T STOP WHAT HES DOING FOR THIS, YOU’RE EITHER
GONNA DO IT OR NOT (IT’S BLACK OR WHITE)

“VIVIAN IS COMMITTED IN A SENSE; MANY GIGS HAVE BEEN
CANCELLED. HE *(VIV) DOESN’T EVEN KNOW THE SCHEDULE”.

12:00 “IT IS A SIDE PROJECT, IT IS A SERIOUS PROJECT, IT’LL
EXIST UNTIL VIV DOESN’T WANT TO DO IT ANYMORE”

13:00 ANDREW CLARIFIES “THIS WAS NEVER A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY TO ANYBODY”
THOSE GUYS “NEVER
REALLY GOT ALONG (WITH RONNIE JAMES DIO)”, THEY “WANTED TO PLAY THE MUSIC THEY
WROTE”, “EVERYTHING IS DUBBED A TRIBUTE NOW”.


14:30 REGARDING THE ALBUMS VIVIAN/VINNY/JIMMY BAIN- “THEY
WANTED TO PLAY SOME OF THEIR OWN (DIO) SONGS, BUT WE WON’T PLAY ANYTHING OFF OF
THE 3RD ALBUM” OR ANY SONGS WRITTEN PRIMARILY BY RONNIE”.

16:30  WE
TALK ABOUT ANDREW’S APPROACH FOR FILLING IN OR REPLACING AN ORIGINAL SINGER OF
OTHER BANDS
“I DON’T THINK OF IT AS A “SHOE FILLING” THING, I’M A GOOD IMITATOR”
“I WANT TO AUDIENCE TO FEEL THAT THEY’RE GETTING SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S JUST AS
GOOD, OR BETTER OR COMPARIBLE”.  “I DON’T WANT TO WEAR FRILLY
OUTFITS THAT RONNIE WORE, THAT COMES OFF FAKE”

18:30 “WHEN I FILLED IN FOR CJ (SNARE OF FIREHOUSE), HE WAS NOT
SUPER HAPPY ABOUT IT, I SANG THE SONGS AS ME, THE BEST I COULD, MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN CJ DID,
NOT SAYING IT’S BETTER, BUT I JUST DID IT MY WAY”
“I FIND A CERTAIN ELEMENT (TO THE SINGER) AND EXPLOIT THAT”

19:00     REGARDING
GREAT WHITE:        “THEY’RE
LIKE A BLUES BAND, I WAS
NEVER A BIG FAN OF GREAT WHITE”.

“I LOVED THEIR FIRST ALBUM BUT I WASN’T A FAN OF CERTAIN
ELEMENTS”, “I WANTED TO BRING OUT THE BLUES ELEMENT OUT BY WHAT INSPIRED THAT
MUSIC (NAMES HUMBLE PIE).

“RONNIE
JAMES DIO WAS A BLUES SINGER” EVEN THOUGH HE’S “THE METAL GOD, THE GOD OF
METAL”.

21:30 FOLLOWING UP ON FIREHOUSE (CJ SNARE NOT BEING HAPPY)
AND HOW ANDREW HANDLES SEEING THE ORIGINAL SINGERS OUT ON THE ROAD. 

“IF I SEE SOMEBODY GETTING
WEIRD, I CONFRONT IT IMMEDIATELY-I DON’T TAKE SHIT FROM PEOPLE”.  “IF SOMEBODY HAS A PROBLEM WITH ME (FOR FILLING
IN/REPLACING), I CONFRONT IT FIRST”.

HE RECALLED A MEETING W/ MARQ TORIEN (BULLETBOYS) WHERE HE WENT
UP TO MARQ AND STATED, “HEY MAN, YOU AND I SHOULD BE FRIENDS”, “THIS IS
ALL NONSENSE”, “EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO MAKE MONEY AND STAY OFF THE CONSTRUCTION
SITE; OR GET A REAL JOB”.

24:00  “I GET IT THOUGH”, BUT “WE’RE NOT SAVING
PEOPLES LIVES” “WHEN YOU TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY, YOU’RE GONNA LOSE YOUR
MARBLES”

25:00  NAME BANDS YOU