00:00I don't think rock and roll will ever die, but maybe the, it's not the same vibe anymore, I will
00:09say it that way.
00:11And again, the digital age has changed that, you know, and you know, you go back to my day, and
00:17I always say this, the 60s, 60s musicians who started in the 60s like myself, we're a dying breed because
00:24we learned our craft through working.
00:30Five sets a night was not abnormal.
00:33Five sets a night, 45 on, 15 off.
00:37Talk about learning your craft.
00:39And then when we all got successful, like in the 70s, there's lots of us.
00:43Well, we knew what we were doing, you know, and I don't think those kind of gigs are around anymore,
00:49first of all.
00:50And you've got AI sticking its nose in, teaching people how to write or writing a song for them.
00:55You've got auto-tune for your voice.
00:59What?
01:00You've got a lot of groups I know of, and I'm not going to name names, who use tapes on
01:06stage.
01:06I go, what?
01:09If I ever have to use a tape on one of my live shows, I'm finished.
01:15You get me.
01:17You get the real me.
01:19Always.
01:20A lot of people do it, though.
01:22But now, auto-tune.
01:24How can you auto-tune somebody?
01:26They can either sing or they can't.
01:28You know?
01:29It's crazy.
01:30It's crazy.
01:44It's crazy.
01:46There's an Australian artist called Cyril who's remixed one of your songs.
01:51Yeah, he's a friend of mine.
01:52He's a friend of mine.
01:53I didn't meet him until after it was done, but he flew from Cairns to Perth on my last
02:00tour to meet me because he wanted to meet me.
02:04I heard about it.
02:05Somebody told me about it, isn't it?
02:06I went, wow.
02:06And then when I met him, he told me the story, and he said he tried and tried and tried
02:11and
02:11tried and tried to get, I think it was Sony, to let him remix the track.
02:17And they were so long, so long forthcoming that he went out and did it himself anyway.
02:22He was covered legally and everything, but he went out and did it himself.
02:25But I thought it was great because it brought my song to a whole new generation of people.
02:31I do it on stage now.
02:32Well, I do it on stage always since I've had the hit with that.
02:34I had a million seller all over the world, one of my biggest hits.
02:38And I play a teeny little 10-second snippet of his on stage.
02:43And I say, and now, now the real one, here we are.
02:46And he's like, I said, I even brought him on stage at my gig, you know.
02:50So, yeah, we have emails and all that.
02:52Maybe we'll do something together.
02:53Who knows?
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