I remember going up home and going, look at this, it is time. It hit me in the face, like a comment, right in my eyes. You can sing pop, you can sing a ballad, and that crowd will go with you. I want my voice to be the leader, I want my sense of imagination to be limitless, and I want to put rock music at the forefront of my Brand in my idea because what I've grown up with the moment that you're in is so rare It probably I know you know it's rare, but you don't realize how rare it is Dom, thank you for being on my show. Let me start here. It's rather me. I'm so excited to be a man. Oh long overdue, I think But let me start here. That could probably be me. Of course. I'm so excited to be here, man. Oh, no, but you're offing. But let me start here. Okay. I hate doing interviews over Zoom. So I've only done two. Hold on, hold on. I've only done two. One was Sam, more of the great Sam and Dave Soul group because he was 89 years old. You know, couldn't get on a plane. And you, because I can't pin you down,

because you're moving like a comet across the sky at the moment.

It's wild, man.

Honestly, I really appreciate it,

because I weren't, I mean, Detroit at a minute,

and I was literally just like,

ah, I've got to do this.

I've got to do this with Billy, man.

Please, let's just like try and to do her mouth. So I appreciate it. So

Normally, I don't know if you've seen my interviews. I like to do like a deeper dive like

Everything from childhood family everything. So I feel like this isn't the right way to do it But oh, what I do is what what I would call like a heat check because you're at a very interesting moment of your musical and personal life So let's more like a drop in like let's just kind of see where you are and the idea here would be if we look at this in 20 years

We'll see which one of us was more right about where you end up. I know. It's been so funny with you because I almost see you as like Gandalf for me because you've made comments about where I'm at and then it kind of like happens. I'm like, I'm going to second like Gandalf or Yoda, you know, I mean, I like Gandalf better. I'm not fat deal. Okay. So we'll just jig it, jig and jog around nothing too serious today. We'll save that for another time. But um, uh, so you got idols out, you're out into or on the idols world tour, which by the way, very unique name, idols album, idols world tour. Yeah. Yeah, wild. That's one of those ones like nobody sat and thought like, Idols World Tour. Yeah, it's been such a strange, I don't know, it's almost been like a manifestation to what has happened within this album and this tour. I think like I made an album really about reclaiming oneself and really doing what I wanted, you know, I think I think I really worked. I really like it's working. And it works. Yeah, and it worked. Honestly, I think it's so great. It was so, it was so serendipitous that we're doing this because I really remember feeling quite acrossroads in my life when I hit 27 and I really idols was an album that I've been envisioning since I was 22 years old, you know. And I really remember seeing you say something about me on the Ali Hargondorf podcast. I remember you talking about my voice. And honestly, you were such a massive part of that turning point because I think when you, I don't know, I think when you like look at your idols like someone like you to me, I think kind of when you know them on a personal level and when they talk about you, you have kind of

Before that you have no point of reference or you have is yourself your friends your record company the people around you But when you hear someone you look up to and an idol you look up to go like I think it's time for him to sing and I think it's time for him to do a rock album I think it's time for him to lean in to really what he wants to do because I see this thing, but it's not quite linked up here. I literally was like, oh, Finally, I feel like I can really lean into why I didn't know that so I'm very touched that that what 100% I remember going up home and going look at this it is time it hit me in the face like a comet right in my right in my In between my eyes because I think what's been interesting is I've been doing this since I was 18 And you never expect to For people to even care at the start you love it you believe it And then the whole world suddenly gets involved and has has an opinion and for so long people have been Telling me to twist the idea of rock music instead of just really just go for it in its purest form that I fell in love with it with. And then good old Billy Corden goes, I wish you'd just sting that. And then I'm like, and then, and then, and then I was like, ah, okay, let's, let's go. And I think this whole journey really, really,

has been so beautiful because I've settled

into the first iteration of what I believe

I will be doing for the rest of my life.

That musical, the journeys I'll be taking

for the rest of my life, you know?

Yeah.

Well, that's what we call in the band

a musician's timing, you see.

So it's the right quote on the right day, you know?

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