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Joel O'Keeffe

Joel O'Keeffe

Guitarist

Sep 17, 2026

3:48
And we wanted to get it right.
3:50
We wanted to get it right.
3:51
And, you know, we went over, bloody hell, went and saw Ozzy Osbourne's last show.
3:56
Man.
3:57
And there's a song on this record, Send Me to Rock and Roll Heaven.
3:59
And we went back in the studio to finish the last line of that song and because of what we'd seen and heard and the vibes that we felt over there.
4:07
So we saluted at the end of that song.

8 MINS LATER

12:09
What do you think it was that Lenny understood about Airborne that maybe even you guys didn't fully understand yourselves when he told you that?
3:48
And we wanted to get it right.
3:50
We wanted to get it right.
3:51
And, you know, we went over, bloody hell, went and saw Ozzy Osbourne's last show.
3:56
Man.
3:57
And there's a song on this record, Send Me to Rock and Roll Heaven.
3:59
And we went back in the studio to finish the last line of that song and because of what we'd seen and heard and the vibes that we felt over there.
4:07
So we saluted at the end of that song.

8 MINS LATER

12:09
What do you think it was that Lenny understood about Airborne that maybe even you guys didn't fully understand yourselves when he told you that?
12:47
When you start throwing names around like Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams.
12:54
It, look, it, it, it's, it's...
12:56
Look, when it came through like that, so, uh, Dante Bonuto at the record label reached out to Bryan and said, "You know, I've got this band Airborne, have you heard of them?" He said, "Yeah, I've heard of them." And then said, you know, "Would you like to do, you know, maybe write some songs with them?" He said, "Yeah, I'd be up for that.
13:09
Tell them to send me some stuff." So we sent it over, and then he got s- straight back to us and he just said, "You know what, boys? We got s- we got some stuff here, let's get to work on this.
13:16
I think I wanna get my good friend Mutt Lange involved."

9 MINS LATER

22:45
I wish I wrote that song"?
22:47
For me, it's Thunderstruck.
22:48
I think it's the greatest song that's ever been written.
11:22
Let's talk about that.
11:23
We do, mate.
11:24
It's coming soon.
11:25
Yeah, it's coming soon.
11:26
It's September the 4th, I think it comes out.
11:30
But look, mate, we put everything into it.
11:33
It took a long time to write the songs.

13 MINS LATER

24:38
What was that like? Wow,
speaker_1HOST
2:53
Well done.
2:54
Oh, thanks, mate.
2:55
It was a good, you know, long time doing it.
2:59
But Brian Howes, the producer who we've worked with before, he comes from the school of, it's a Canadian thing.
3:09
So it was called the Little Mountain Sound.
3:12
And he was the last student of it.
3:15
which that is guys like, you know, like Bob Rock.
speaker_1HOST
6:42
And I like hearing a kick drum sound like... mutt lang kick drum and there's a big big kick on this album which was really great and like you said like you had zach savini who worked on literally the latest evanescence album that came out today and he's done stuff with young blood so like he's no slouch and you mix that with with your production and engineering team you've literally reinvented a rock sound for 2026.

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