Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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I've done hundreds of interviews with individual artists over the years. It's relatively easy.

All you have to do is get this one person in a room, turn on the recording devices, and you're

set. When it comes to interviewing

a band, a little more tricky. You're lucky to get two members in the same place at the same time.

But getting every member of a band in the same place at the same time for an interview is next to

when possible. I've only managed to be so lucky a couple of times. You two, Kings of

Leon, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Blink 182, and that's about it. And let me tell you something. Each of

these interviews required extraordinary efforts under extraordinary circumstances. Such circumstances

miraculously presented themselves with Billy Talent. All four guys

were on the same table in the same studio at the same time. The purpose? To get them to tell the

story of Billy Talent in their own words. And this is part two of our conversation.

This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

Why? Rusted for me.

Billy Talent with Rusted for the Rain, one of the singles from their 2009 album, Billy Talent 3.

Hello again, I'm Ellen Cross, and I'm back with all four guys from the band to recount their career in their own words.

Part one was all deep background.

And now we're ready to talk about the group's major label career, which began in the fall of 2003.

You got in just under the wire.

Yeah, because this is 99, 2000, 2001.

You're absolutely correct. Just after Napster explodes. Yeah. And just as CD sales peak. Yeah.

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