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hello welcome to easy english today

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i want to find out who the people of

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brighton think are the best

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british bands let's go

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tell me uh who is your favorite british

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band my

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favorite british band is pink floyd

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definitely i i suppose

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uh i'd want to say yeah led zeppelin

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who in your opinion is the best british

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band

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oh well um we'll say the stones

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well yeah i would really because it's my

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age the stage

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yeah yeah um little makes babies come on

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they uh they can't be

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they can't be anywhere else little mix

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there you go perfect i think catfish in

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the bottom

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oh really yeah nice who is your favorite

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british band or

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artist um

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so i've only just checked to make sure

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they are it's the architect

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yeah and funnily enough i've just been

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told they're from brighton which i

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didn't know

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oh really this is where we are yeah

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there you go perfect led zeppelin would

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probably be

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ah okay i'm thinking of like an obvious

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british band that

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that i love because i do love a lot of

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american music that's

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okay yeah probably led zeppelin who is

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your

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favorite british artist or band uh so as

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a

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50 year old uh i'm into dad rock

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probably

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uh so a band called thunder that are an

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underrated

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rock band they did all right in the 90s

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um

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were probably just about to break big

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and then grunge came along

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and basically ruined their chances

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because all of a sudden everyone wanted

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bands like nirvana rather than classic

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rock yeah you look are you looking for

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like a

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an academic examination of past and

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present across genres

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who's who's my favorite artist yeah

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essentially it's

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i don't need to i don't need to hear

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like the beatles or the rolling stones

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we all know the truth uh my favorite

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band of the stone roses

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um they just uh i mean i guess that

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everyone had the same experience with

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their favorite artists when they for me

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they

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they penetrate something so like

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deep in me yeah it feels when i'm

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listening i feel like

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i've written everything they're doing

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dave gilmore is my hero he's a guitarist

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um

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and he does like a lot of the vocals as

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well well did a lot of the vocals

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um especially on the later stuff um and

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he's just

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known as one of the best guitarists in

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the world i think he is the best

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guitarist in the world

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um and i'm a guitarist as well so he's

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my hero

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and everything he touches is gold so wow

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i suppose i'd want to say led zeppelin

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yeah

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um and i suppose the reasons for that

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is that jimmy page uh the great guitar

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is having a complete druggie as well

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which is a bit unfortunate

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because you had to get him on a good

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night or other times you wouldn't get

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him on a good night you know

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but uh he introduced a lot of acoustic

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guitar

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in into the zeppelin stuff yeah and uh

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before then i suppose i was maybe when

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was on a band when i was 14

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14 to 20 and then i thought i'm not

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making any money

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i'm gonna have to get a proper job

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but i hadn't played acoustic before then

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i just played electric guitars you know

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and he introduced uh acoustic guitar to

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me

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so that's probably why i thought they

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they they were the top band

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was it like a a choice of like g are you

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a beatles fan or

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is that kind of what it was well we like

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both didn't we but i thought i preferred

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the

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stones but i think she was more beatles

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as i've got older i've appreciated the

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rolling stones music

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more the more sort of guitar guitar

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music

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i see and then there's characters i

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think they are they're they're

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characters and they're long-lasting

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the beatles finished earlier whereas the

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rolling stones have kept going

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and they're still our age yeah yeah and

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they're still keep going and they've

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still got all that energy so you've got

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that interest

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still mainly because the music reminds

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me of a good time like seeing them

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live with my girlfriend kim over there

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you want to get her

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no just like i like the kind of indie

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music okay they're really good live

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and yeah a lot of their songs just

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remind me of good times

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why are they zeppelin um consistently

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just brilliant songwriters and

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performers

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and i'm a drummer and john bonham as if

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yeah as you probably probably might be

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aware is there's a bit of a

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there's a bit of a god in the uh it's a

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drama community

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things right in the drumming world right

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yeah styles of playing

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for sure for sure yeah definitely yeah

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very good

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um so yeah i would say probably

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that's a big question but probably let

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up

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and you like it because kind of of the

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drumming influence it had on you

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when you were becoming a drummer yeah

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yeah i am one of the first bands that i

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ever started playing in as

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um as when i was a bit younger

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was was playing a lot of led zeppelin as

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well so that was like a huge influence

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on me at the time kind of when i started

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gigging as well

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and what is it about the band that you

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like so much uh

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so originally i didn't like the singer's

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voice but it i got used to it and it

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grew on me

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um i suppose as with a lot of things

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the age that i got into them um

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i was getting into music they've sort of

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grown with me

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and their style of music has stayed

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fairly standard

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um so i suppose you just sort of it

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takes me back to my youth

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right ah there's like a reminiscent i

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think so yeah

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why why do they bring this out of you

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what is it about them which helps you

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it's a sound

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it's a sound they make which to me is

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religious

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it's it's like it's a it's a religious

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sound ian brown would love you

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but just in like in in in the coolest

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way possible

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and again that's another word which is

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like naf but it's perfect didn't it

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ian brown would love to hear that his

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music is like almost like a religious

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experience i like the idea that ian

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brown would like to hear what i'm saying

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it's like 70s 80s period that is somehow

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produced more british

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music it was real music wasn't it they

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wrote it they sang it

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they produced it played instruments they

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play their own instruments it was

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it's real some of the bands today seem

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artificially put together

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yeah true one night wonders you know

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with the x factor and all the rest of it

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there are stars whereas

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the other these groups have grafted

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they've gone all through yeah

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so the ranks and really made their name

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for themselves if

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you had to give someone a guided tour of

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catfish in the bottom men what song

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would you or album would you recommend

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they listen to you first

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jesus come back now i seem like a fan so

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i don't know what the albums

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i know there's a peacock on the album

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cover okay yeah um

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the big ones kathleen um

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all right i'm going black now see much

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pressure

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yeah uh

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oh god kathleen and an album with a

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peacock

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yeah yeah i've got the t-shirt and

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everything but

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there's a lot of different sounds in

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pink floyd i like the more mellow

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guitary stuff if you go early it's all

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weird and which is awesome as well but

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um

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i prefer like wish you were here

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comfortably normal that kind of stuff

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yeah

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it's just a beautiful sound it's just

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it's so clean and

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perfectly played i would say listen to

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the first two albums

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which i know isn't narrowing it down

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very much but the first two albums

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are just wall to wall incredible

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so do that you got you've got the time

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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for me the best british band has to be

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oasis

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i grew up in the 90s and they just

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dominated my life and made me want to

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pick up a guitar

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and also they combined elements of the

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beatles and

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the rolling stones in led zeppelin which

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is just the best combination

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you can have in a band but let me know

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who your favorite british band are in

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the comments below

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and we'll see you next week

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yeah yeah