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I mean, really innovative and amazing.
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You know the movie Almost Famous?
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Saw that movie, great movie. It's just
a feel-good movie. You're smilin;

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With all the music
and the good feelings in that movie...

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I realized I still
wanted to be a rock star...

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but I wanted to be
a rock star in 1972.

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Like, I'd never want to be
a rock star now, you know?

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So, like, I get to do music, live off it,
not have to cut fish for a living.

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And at the same time...
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not have all the attendant pratfalls
of being a musician in today's age.

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Okay. That gentleman's name
is Napoleon Murphy-Brock.

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I got ahold of him
last night. I talked to him.

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And I said, "If you could
tell the kids one thing"...

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At some point, I'm gonna bring him here,
and he's gonna talk to you kids.

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'Cause maybe you'll listen to him.
You know what I'm sayin'?

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'Cause he only played, you know,
in the Zappa band and... is awesome.

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And he said this.
I swear to God. Verbatim.

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When he performs, he realizes
that those people out in the audience...

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could have sat home
and watched TV that night.

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But they came to see you,
and they deserve a show.

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And not a plaid-shirt-
and-baseball-hat-and-jeans...

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we're-just-three-guys-playing-
three-chords-up-here show.

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'Cause that shit sucks.
And it has no staying power.

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Okay? But a real show.
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He said the best way to have
the audience love what you do...

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is you love it and let it show.
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And I'm not tellin' you this.
Napoleon Murphy-Brock's tellin' you this.

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You went to see Zappa
back in the day, he's gonna...

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You buy your ticket, he's goin' out
and gonna put on three hours...

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and you're not gonna be bored
for one second.

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That's what I'm tryin'
to teach you guys to do.

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I'm tryin' to teach you guys to be way
above any of that stuff that's there now.


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