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All right, welcome to another episode of Metal Tales from the Road here with the Chicago Brodol himself.

Brodell Royalty, Brad Blazick, back on the show to talk about Chicago. Welcome to the show, Brad.

Hey, Clint. It's good to be here. So you live in Paris, Tennessee, but you have deep ties to Chicago, right?

Yes. I grew up in the suburbs, but I'd always go hang out down there. And I had family that lived there, so it's in the blood.

And Soldier Field, that's an important venue, right?

You've seen many a show there?

Never any shows, but I've seen the Bears play there a few times.

So Pearl Jam just does Rigley. They've never done Soldier. Well, they've done Soldier Field,

but you haven't seen them there. Right. Yeah, I was, I had this thing when I was younger about,

like, if I see a band, I'm done, I'm good. I check them off the list. I never would,

it would never occur to me to go to like multiple shows.

So I saw them at Summerfest in Milwaukee and then the next night or two nights later they played at Soldier Field. And I, at that point in my life, I just, I didn't even think to go see them again.

And that show has become like one of the greatest live performances of Pearl Jam's life.

And I hate myself for not going.

Well, once they heard that you had your rule about only sing to ban once and they did

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