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on with the show. Hey everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 316 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast

for record collectors, music nerds. My name is Nate.

I'm a vinyl maniac. I produce this podcast, and I've been talking to my musical heroes now for

well over 300 episodes. We chat about vinyl, rare recordings, master tapes, their musical journey.

We talk anecdotes. We get road stories, and today is

very special. We have a member of one of my favorite bands giving an extraordinarily rare

interview. Greg Edwards of Failure joins us today, and my appreciation for the band failure

goes way, way into the early 90s. It started when I read an

article somewhere that Maynard James Keenan of Toole considered them a source of inspiration,

and me, being a tool nut then and now, that was enough to make me go out and seek the band

failure. I got a copy of Fantastic Planet, then only available on CD,

and I ended up playing it over and over and over again. I absolutely loved that album.

Then I went back to the Failure Catalog, got comfort and magnified, and I even saw what

turned out to be Failure's last appearance as a band in 1997. Then, fast forward about 12 years later, their album Fantastic Planet was released for the first

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