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00:00welcome to detroit not your first time here obviously but uh haven't been there for a while

00:04but uh yeah fond memories of detroit were you aware i mean even as an australian band where

00:10you're like we're playing detroit this this is this matters musically this matters yeah we're

00:15yeah we're all pretty much into the history of music so you know most places we play we always

00:19you know always had a chat you know about you know famous bands from and famous venues at

00:28so it's always a big part of what we did i've um with listen like thieves congrats on their on

00:34the remaster the 40th anniversary here in detroit one of the bands the mc5 famous an amazing live

00:40band but it never felt like it translated to the studio there there was always that you know they

00:44were great live and they were good in the studio you guys were great in the studio and great live

00:49as well were you aware of that sound how to how to keep it tight in both places do you see what i'm

00:56getting at we to be honest it took us a while um it took it it really took until this album until

01:01listen like thieves with chris thomas to to get make that transition properly because chris

01:06had remarked that it was it was like those two different nxs bands because it was the band that

01:11played live that was really powerful and and really gelled in the band in the studio that took

01:16sort of more risks and played you know sort of studio stuff so and that was always to do with the

01:21producers the original the first producers really like separating things as a lot of producers did

01:26in those days then chris thomas came along and just said okay get all your demos we'll pick the

01:31songs then go on a studio and rehearse them so we because you want he he wanted us to play live in the

01:36studio uh with what you need the intro to that song that kind of where it sounds like somebody's

01:41tripping over over an amp or something and where did that come from um what you need was was a whirlwind

01:47because chris thomas we finished we thought we'd finished the record and chris thomas goes now we

01:51still need a hit and boy was he right so uh andrew and michael went off in the corner and they had a

01:57demo that that we'd sort of hadn't you know taken all the way and tim's like what about that song of

02:04andrew's so he called funk something or other and then we we put that together really quickly they

02:09wrote it in the corner and then we we recorded it in an afternoon so there's a lot of open mic stuff

02:17which is yeah like john's intro is just something that happened on that take um and you know all

02:23the the banner and the guitar playing the the sort of fooling around is just what happened during

02:29the that take so part of this collection is the 1986 show royal albert hall and and i've i've seen

02:36this a couple places mick jaggers in the crowd were you told mick was there or did you find out

02:41afterwards uh we knew i mean okay i mean most most people yeah famous people that go to see other

02:48other bands try to see them before the show right because afterwards you know it's always a bit of a

02:54bit of a you know bit of a circus so they they usually say hello and then disappear like keith would

02:59be the same and you know he'd he'd disappear before all the you know the party started um or we'd meet

03:06them privately somewhere else you know like just to have a private get together but uh no mick mick

03:11saw us quite a quite a lot he was um and he was he was it's quite amazing i see mick jagger sort of

03:17he'd come early to shows and sit and have have dinner with the crew like he's a real nice bloke

03:23you know like and no no security like you know like everyone seems to have these days especially but

03:28yeah he's just uh he just turn up you know have us out for take us out for dinner a really nice guy

03:34that's all the time mick jagger just i mean it's just you know give me somebody to chew on here

03:39gary that's happens all the time here in detroit i'm like you know mick jagger's here well with

03:43giles martin remastering a lot of this what baselines did you hear or did he did maybe i

03:49wouldn't say amplify is the right word that that jumped out at you i mean some of the work you do

03:53is amazing on this entire project but were there ones that you went damn that's pretty good uh well

03:58obviously what you need yeah which is a huge baseline anyway with a possessive actually a keyboard

04:03bass line that i used um but listen like thieves i mean that to me that's always one of my favorite

04:09bass tracks because it it's the one of the only songs that i actually play with a thumb you know

04:14like slap bass i don't do that very well at all but on that for that song i just seemed to sound

04:20better so i sat in a dark room and um to get it live with the drums i actually had to sit in a in a

04:27in a little tiny box in between room live rooms in the dark sitting on my amp so that's why it uh

04:35and it just sounds great sounds huge and then it but the remastering really makes makes the bass pop

04:41a lot more and kiss the dirt as well i mean i can really hear the bass a lot more now there has to be

04:46an emotional component to the scary i mean when you hear that are you taken back to some of the sessions

04:50so where where does your mind where does your mind's eye go when you when you listen to these

04:54back again well listen to the songs as well as listening to the demos and you know um it really

05:02does take you back i mean it's funny because i'm not really wanting to look back too much you know but

05:06this this particular remastering is the is you can't avoid it i mean it's it's when we really

05:12as i said before kind of um got it right in the studio and and it coincided with the fact that

05:19people were really catching on top five hit with what you need um great respect around the world

05:25from for that record so for us it was it you know it was a real turning point um and and and rightly

05:33so after all the hard work we'd already been doing you know around the world so um looking back it it

05:38it really brings back great memories of the fact that you know it was really when the band was

05:43really discovering its power and really enjoying its it's it's you know what its role in the music

05:48history you know what i mean so you run into somebody and they they know the band but they've

05:52never heard a song they've never heard a song what's the first one you play for them you go here i want

05:57you to listen to this this is in excess well obviously um people even people who don't think

06:04they know any excess know need you tonight and and never starts apart but um with this album i mean

06:09yeah what you need and surprisingly um for me because i wrote i wrote the music for listen like thieves

06:16and then andrew and michael you know worked their magic with me on it and made it what it is but

06:20um this is like thieves the song is actually one of the most played songs on the radio which is i

06:25surprised me um but it's it is funny you say that because people say i've never heard of an excess and

06:32it's like i show my tat and it's like and then i go oh yeah i'll bet you 10 bucks a song that you know

06:3810 songs and they they always do but i don't i don't take their money but

06:42you know it is something that that's the beauty of it is having our songs that it's kind of ingrained

06:47in history and um it stands the test of time i mean the songs sound as fresh now as they did back

06:54in 85 i was in the u.s naval submarine school when this came out and i bought it on cassette

06:59and i would listen to it because i would study all day it's what we did for a year and a half of our

07:04life you got me through submarine school this this is what i use i would put it on and tune out all

07:09the more tape and bullshit and focus on the music and what i was studying and in excess from shaboo

07:15shabba to definitely this album listen like thieves it was a large part and it still is part part of

07:21my world gary yeah that is a beautiful thing about you know look about our part in history because

07:28is is the part we the role we played in people's lives as well yeah obviously as well as our own i mean

07:34it's you know i've been with the guys and in the band you know since high school so and you know

07:42as basically as as as youths or however you say it as young men um so it's great to see that the role

07:50it's played in people's lives and how it you know it still affects them because the songs as i said the

07:55songs the songs are timeless you know and i think in many ways uh hit home harder now than they did then

08:02in in some ways you know like i think people are always looking for for you know not so much the

08:08good old days but just something that makes them feel good because there's a lot that makes you feel

08:11bad right now going on so um i think our our re-release of listen like thieves to me is is really timely

08:18in in in helping people get through like like it probably did back then you did you did i can

08:25testify that firsthand ggb it's always great talking to you in excess we love you guys here in the

08:29motor city and around the world congrats on the project rhino records it's out now i would encourage

08:33anyone as a fan to go get this you've got to have this in your collection thank you so much for the

08:37time all the best and hope talk soon thanks man all the best thank you

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