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Rick - How do you mentally pre-
pare yourself before a show? Do you
have a regular warm up or exercise
routine?
Ian - Oh yeah! Usually it starts an
hour and a half to 2 hours before the
show. I mean takes a while now at my
age just to get my fingers moving and
certainly to get my throat stretched
and comfy, clear out the vocal chords
and stretch the muscles and all that
stuff sort of helps me get into the
mindset. If your sort of stretching
and then you’re taking the tempos
up and taking the pitch up with your
voice and doing that kind of thing.
Then if you feel like taking a little
breather and go check
on the boys how you
guys doing blah blah
blah, everyone is telling
jokes and in a good
mood and then you
come back to what you
were doing and make it
a little bit quicker and
sing a little bit higher. If
you have the time to do
so. It sucks when you
don't cause it's kind of
like oh man...if you're
going for some of these
notes and you're like I
don't know if it's going
to be there or if I've got
a lay a quick run coming
in a solo, I'm like I don't
know if my fingers are
going to choke up.
Rick - I know, it all
happens to us playing
live, I guess it’s part of
the game and learn to deal with it.
Ian it was a pleasure t