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Will they be joining you on the tour         allows us to do something different. It    off of the top of my head. So, how does
you are on now?                              seems like a no-brainer. We get to do      all of this make you feel as a musician
                                             something different for the fans. We       to see these legends leave us?
  I think so. My wife is at home, taking     don’t like sitting at home and doing
  care of a lot of work of her own. So,      nothing, so we figured we’d fill in          Yeah, and Scott Weiland. We’re losing
  it just depends on where she winds         the gaps of our regular touring with         some real legends here, ya know. Scott,
  up and how long it takes her to finish     acoustic runs so we, ourselves, could        I think, had a few more years in him,
  what she needs to do.                      keep our chops up together as much as        and Bowie had a few more years, I
                                             possible, and to more importantly, let       thought, in him. Bowie’s been around
Awesome. Well, I know you have done          the fans see the band in a different way.    for a long time, and he’s lived a very
acoustic shows in the past. What made                                                     good life. I would consider myself
you roll out this acoustic run with Star-  Well, I for one am looking forward to          lucky if I had that same run. But, I
set? What was your motivation to do a      coming out and seeing you on the tour.         think with Scott, he went a little too
full acoustic tour?                        And I know others are as well. Now,            soon, so that’s very tragic. Nobody
                                           let’s switch gears for a second. This year     likes death; nobody wishes that upon
  We have a lot of full-band, regular      seems to be defined by the passing of a        anyone. It’s sad, and it happens, but we
  touring that we are rolling out coming   lot of legends in the industry – David         take the pain from it and hopefully do
  up, and so we just wanted to put an      Bowie and Glenn Frey come to mind              something constructive and positive
  acoustic run in between our regular                                                     with it.
  electric cycle to fill in the gaps. It
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