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Mike Falzarano has played countless shows and been a part of a handful of great bands over the years including Hot Tuna<\/strong><\/a>, New Riders of the Purple Sage<\/a>, and now Live Dead and The Riders ’69<\/strong>. He took some time out before his return to D.C. and talked about where he’s been and all that he’s been a part of musically so far….<\/p>\n

Karin McLaughlin: So we are going to talk about quite a variety of things but I want to start out with \u2013 you\u2019ve been in the music business for some time, worked with a whole lot of artists \u2013 what year or age, maybe just when would you say your official music career began?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Falzarano performs with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

Mike Falzarano: <\/strong>Yeah that\u2019s a good question (laughs). Most people would think the go-to answer would be just pick the first, biggest thing you ever did and that will be where it all began. With anything that happens in life, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that leads up to it, so I started playing music at a pretty young age. I was probably 16 or 17 when I got my first band together and they were pretty successful right off the bat, on a local level, playing the local gigs that we could play at 16 or 17 and sneaking into the bars to play (with phony I.D.) and weddings and that kind of stuff. One thing lead to another, one band lead to the next. Towards the mid \u201870s, things were sort-of getting a little stagnant around Long Island, we had gone around the circle and played all the great places, there\u2019s only so much you can do. I wanted to expand, so we started playing in the city and other places. Then in the mid to late \u201870s, I moved to San Francisco with my girlfriend at the time, my wife now for 40 years, she was already living there and upon arriving in San Francisco, things started happening pretty quickly. It was a time when a lot of things were happening \u2013 clubs were everywhere and there were lots of shows. I immediately formed a band called The Phantoms<\/strong> and started playing around the San Francisco Bay Area and then shortly thereafter, within a little bit of time, because my wife had already known Jorma (Kaukonen)<\/strong> and Jack (Casady)<\/strong>, and I got introduced to them and then shortly after that, Jorma and I started just hanging out together and playing music at his place and then we started doing some shows around the Bay Area, like The Keystone Berkley, Keystone Palo Alto, the Keystone in San Francisco, and we played a bunch of other places up and down the coast. So that sort of got the ball rolling and while I\u2019m doing that, I\u2019m also meeting a lot of people in the Grateful Dead<\/strong> world \u2013 a lot of guys in the crew, the band, and meeting a lot of people through my connection and my association with Jorma. I\u2019m meeting a lot of people and we aren\u2019t necessarily forming any alliances but you know, somewhere down the line, you might get a phone call or I might call them, you know, that\u2019s sort of how it works. So at some point, a couple years into this, maybe late seventies, early eighties, Hot Tuna<\/strong> had broken up in \u201977 and Jorma and Jack went their separate ways to do their own thing for a while and then in \u201983, Hot Tuna was getting back together and Jorma and Jack asked me to join the band. We went out on the road for about a year as Hot Tuna, the famous reunion tour, which was sort of the catalyst and the engine that started that whole Hot Tuna thing back up. We did that for a little bit and then they went back to doing their duet thing for awhile. Then in the 90\u2019s we put a full band together and  traveled all over the world as Hot Tuna. That band was Jorma, Jack, Pete Sears<\/strong>, Harvey Sorgen and myself. We also did the Jorma Kaukonen Trio<\/strong>, which was Pete Sears and I. We probably played about 1,000 shows over the course of the 90\u2019s from about \u201990 to 2003. For a change, Jorma and Jack went back to doing the duet thing again and I went out and started playing around the New York area with a lot of different people. I went on the road for a little bit with Garth Hudson<\/strong> from The Band<\/strong>, with Professor Louie and The Crowmatix<\/strong>, playing a lot of the music from The Band and during that particular period of time, I also played with Buddy Cage<\/strong> who had been the pedal steel player for New Riders of the Purple Sage <\/strong>throughout most of their glory years. So we get to like 2004, I\u2019m playing around New York, not much is happening, my daughter got asked to play for Soccer for Team America in Amsterdam so we went there. The day I got back the phone was ringing when I walked in the door- strange, I know, seems like I\u2019m making it up but I walked in the door and the phone was ringing and it was Buddy Cage and he said, \u201cHey man, we\u2019re putting New Riders back together \u2013 do you want to be in it?\u201d I said, \u201cSure!\u201d Growing up in Long Island, I played all their music, I played the New Riders, played the music of Hot Tuna and I played the music of the Grateful Dead in bars and concerts and theaters as a youngster, so it was like second nature to me, I said, \u201cSure, I\u2019m in!\u201d So the plan for the New Riders was to do five shows which we did, and they all sold out and it was really great and we had fun so I said to the guys, \u201cI have an agent, do you want me to ask him if he\u2019d be willing to take us on?\u201d They all said yes. The agent was thrilled, he loved the New Riders, it was Blue Mountain Artists<\/strong> \u2013 they took us on and we ended up playing approximately 100 shows a year for about 12 or 13 years from 2005 to 2016 when David Nelson <\/strong>fell broke his shoulder so we had to put the band on hiatus for awhile. So to go all the way back to your original question (laughs), there is really no defining moment to say, \u2018this is when it all began\u2019 but I would say the notoriety began upon joining Hot Tuna, because that was a very high profile tour. They hadn\u2019t played in seven years, we had sold out the National Coliseum<\/strong>, we sold out Philadelphia Spectrum<\/strong>, we sold out Shea\u2019s in <\/strong>Buffalo you know, a lot of giant venues. Bobby and the Midnites <\/strong>(Bob Weir\u2019s<\/strong> band) were on most of the shows with us. Some of the shows, Dickey Betts and Great Southern Band <\/strong>were on with us and that was a great, great tour and all the subsequent tours after that with Hot Tuna were great. Same with the New Riders \u2013 we played all over the country. Hot Tuna was a little bit more international, we toured as far away as Japan and every state in the United States, except Alaska. With the New Riders, we pretty much stayed in the United States and Canada but it was quite an interesting journey. Which leads us back to the thing we\u2019re doing now Live Dead & Rider 69 at The Hamilton<\/strong> in Washington, D.C in the first week of August. Live Dead and Riders \u201969<\/strong> came right at the right moment for me because The New Riders were on hiatus Once again, the phone rang, (laughs) and it was the manager, Michael Gaiman<\/strong>, saying, \u201cI\u2019m putting this thing together called The Airplane Family<\/strong> and Live Dead \u201969<\/strong>, do you want to be part of it.\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, sure, let\u2019s do it\u201d and that lead to the Live Dead and Riders thing. Michael Gaiman and I had discussed it and we thought, ‘Why don’t we add the New Rider element to the Live Dead show and maybe what we could do was try to recreate the feeling of what we used to do in the old days at The Fillmore<\/strong> or Winterland where the Riders would open for the Grateful Dead?\u2019 So I come out and do like an hour of New Riders stuff with the boys, and then I leave and TC (Tom Constanten)<\/strong> comes out and joins them and does the Grateful Dead thing. We\u2019re not trying to do a note for note thing, just trying to recreate something that happened back in the day where the New Riders opened for the Grateful Dead, it\u2019s just a concept, sort of how it felt \u2013 you\u2019ve got this crazy country rock band that comes out, then the Dead come out and do their thing. We\u2019ve done a bunch of shows now and the crowds seems to really dig it so we\u2019re going to continue on with it until the wheels fall off as they say (laughs).<\/p>\n

KM: Funny, when I talked to Slick, he kind of said the same thing, you know, ride it til the wheels fall off (laughs).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mike Falzarano (R) performing alongside Slick Aguilar with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Yeah you know, it\u2019s very hard with bands \u2013 you just never know what\u2019s gonna happen. For instance, you can put a band together and have a lot of great musicians in the band and for whatever reason, it just doesn\u2019t take flight, doesn\u2019t get off the ground. This particular project got off the ground pretty easily. I have another project called The Englishtown Project<\/strong> \u2013 Englishtown was the biggest show the Grateful Dead ever played \u2013 so I had this concept of \u2018Let\u2019s just do that, let\u2019s just play the music the bands played at Englishtown concert, Grateful Dead, Marshall Tucker<\/strong> and the New Riders\u2019 and it took off. So, I\u2019m doing that on the side too, but you never know what\u2019s gonna take off. When something is rolling like it is now with Live Dead and Riders \u201969, you just ride the wave, ride it until it crashes on the shore \u2013 and it doesn’t always, sometimes it never does crash on the shore, sometimes, it keeps going. I\u2019m sure that if you asked Jorma when he started Hot Tuna, or started with Jefferson Airplane<\/strong>, or even the Grateful Dead for that matter, they never thought that 50 years later they\u2019d still be doing something related to that. So that\u2019s where we\u2019re at with this and it\u2019s really great. I\u2019ve known most of the guys in Live Dead Rider 69 for a really long time. I\u2019ve known Slick for awhile, I\u2019ve known Mark Karan<\/strong> for probably the longest, since the early \u201890s, I just met Robin Sylvester<\/strong>, the bass player, great player, I\u2019ve known TC for forever and so we just go do what we do. It seems to me, when we\u2019re doing it, that it\u2019s just effortless because it\u2019s something that we all have done. It\u2019s not like I gotta learn all the music by the band Queen <\/strong>(which I love) <\/strong>which is very complex. That\u2019s not this. This is really comfortable.<\/p>\n

KM: That\u2019s why you\u2019re still riding the wave right?!  And it hasn\u2019t crashed on the shore yet. (laughs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  (laughs) I guess, yeah, it\u2019s one of the reasons for certain!<\/p>\n

KM: You also mentioned, on the musical journey, in your own life, San Francisco, during a certain time period.   Everyone knows about Haight-Ashbury and the Dead and Janis Joplin and the influences and what was going on there during that time period \u2013 how did that shape your life musically, but just in general as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Falzarano performing with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong> I can\u2019t even emphasize how much it\u2019s shaped my world. What happened was I came to San Francisco, and if you weren\u2019t there in 1967-69 for the explosion then the second biggest time, in the music world, was the late \u201870s when a lot of things were happening \u2013 the whole jam band world was still bubbling up and exploding, punk rock was happening, new wave was happening, corporate rock was happening and it was all kind of happening in San Francisco because it\u2019s such a great music town. So when I got there \u2013 I\u2019ve always been open to any kind of music, world beat, punk rock, new wave, I don\u2019t care, jam band, I just love it all. So when I got there, I started this R&B, sort of, rock and roll band called The Phantoms <\/strong>and we played around. New wave was starting to happen. So I hooked up with some younger guys, we started playing  all over the bay area, I was also just starting to hang out and play music with Jorma. So all this stuff began to really shape everything that I do and that I\u2019ve done since I left there in \u201987. Since I\u2019ve left there, it\u2019s all been shaped by what I did and who I met in San Francisco because it was just so explosive at the time. Everybody was doing something, you know? Jorma was doing his Jorma thing, and was also doing some sort of new wave kinda crazy thing, he dyed his hair pink and was doing some sort of punk thing at one point. Jack was in SVT (and the Yanks)<\/strong> \u2013 there was a lot of music exploding everywhere. It was very open. You could have a show with your crazy new wave band and then Jorma Kaukonen playing an acoustic solo, it was that kind of thing. Over time, it\u2019s gotten a lot more consolidated, this band plays with this band \u2013 but it was a great time and there was a million places to play. Now by the early 80\u2019s, like everywhere else, a lot of the clubs had started to close down, I even started putting on some shows in warehouses just to have some place for my friends and I to play, those were successful and we had fun doing it. Then slowly, it all sort of settled and died down a bit. So then my wife and I decided \u2018You know what, all our family is getting older \u2013 let\u2019s just go back to the east coast for a little bit\u2019 just to be with them, so that\u2019s what we did. The funny thing, is that the year we did that, every single one of our aunts, uncles, cousins, her parents and my parents all packed up and moved to Florida (laughs). So now we\u2019re back on the east coast, living in New York, scratching our heads going, \u2018What did we come back here for?\u2019 (laughs)<\/p>\n

KM: Whoops, bad timing (laughs).<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Yeah, but it was time and things were starting to happen here in New York and I put a band together named The Memphis Pilgrims<\/strong> and we started playing around. Jorma moved to the east coast and was living up in Woodstock and we started playing again together and in 1990 Hot Tuna got a record deal with Epic Records<\/strong> and we got together.  I wrote five or six songs for the album and then Jack flew in and we hired drummer Harvey Sorgen and we toured throughout the \u201890s, all over the world, in multiple configurations. Either they did the duet or we did a trio with Jorma, Jack and I or with Jorma, me and Pete Sears \u2013 sometimes we added drums, sometimes it was a five piece with keyboard and drums, it was a really exciting time in the \u201890s, a lot of things were happening.<\/p>\n

KM: Kinda like a snowball effect<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Falzarano (Center) performing with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

MF<\/strong>:  Yeah, a little bit. There\u2019s no real straight line, kinda going back to the original question about the catalyst moment \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of little moments where one thing leads to another. Sometimes when they\u2019re happening, you don\u2019t even know they\u2019re happening. Like playing one night, with the great blues man Hubert Sumlin at B.B. Kings<\/strong> It\u2019s all these little steps, which I hate to say, because they\u2019re really giant leaps sometimes, but it\u2019s not haphazard, but to some degree it is haphazard. It\u2019s like a pinball machine, you never really know where the ball is going to go. You rattle the cage a little bit and you hope it goes in one of those pockets. Being a musician, something I tell all the young guys too, is you can\u2019t be easily discouraged because if you\u2019re easily discouraged, it\u2019s not gonna happen. Perseverance is key. You gotta stay in it, sometimes it\u2019s hard and I get it but ya gotta stay with it. I\u2019ve been very fortunate with the caliber of players that I\u2019ve been able to play with over the years and the notoriety that I\u2019ve received while doing it. And that\u2019s kind of what lead me into this thing now, this Live Dead and the Riders thing, one thing lead to another, it wasn\u2019t one big thing, it was a whole series of actions that set it in up this way.<\/p>\n

KM: So now that we\u2019re back to that this event, let\u2019s talk specifically about this event.  Most people who are fans know your relationship with The Grateful Dead and know the relationship and why we call it the days between \u2013 Jerry was born on this day in August and died on this day in August, so there was \u2018The Days Between\u2019.  Can you talk about your relationship with Jerry and the music and how it\u2019s had an impact on you specifically and influenced you?-<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Yeah, here\u2019s the thing \u2013 I have a lot of friends who will say, \u201cOh well I\u2019ve been to 300 Grateful Dead shows or I\u2019ve been to 500\u201d and, to be honest, I haven\u2019t been to that many because I was always working (laughs). I have played and jammed with Bob Weir many times and I\u2019ve played with Phil (Lesh) one time. I never got to play with Jerry, but I did meet him one time and it was a wonderful meeting, we had a long conversation. But when he passed he left a void – there\u2019s no question about that \u2013 that has been filled, to some degree by the music that was left behind. In my mind \u2013 there\u2019s so many bands that play this kind of music now that, it\u2019s become a genre unto itself. It\u2019s kind of like, there\u2019s blues, jazz, rock, Grateful Dead, rhythm and blues, country western \u2013 it\u2019s a genre, almost it\u2019s on style. It\u2019s not just the music of the Grateful Dead, it\u2019s a style of playing, it\u2019s the way it\u2019s played. This particular week \u2013 the days between \u2013 I\u2019ve worked now probably since he\u2019s passed away, but with the New Riders, we always played somewhere on his birthday and most of those days. This particular tour starts on the 1st<\/sup> and runs through the 5th<\/sup> , it\u2019s poignant. It\u2019s both a tribute to what he\u2019s left behind but it\u2019s also sad because we know how it ended up. Musically, both bands, the Grateful Dead and the New Riders, were both started by Jerry Garcia. If we go back even further to the very beginning where it was just Jerry and a bunch of guys hanging out the South Bay in the south of San Francisco playing before there was a scene, before there was Grateful Dead or the New Riders. David Nelson<\/strong> from the Riders was there, Robert Hunter<\/strong> was there, Jerry Garcia was there and they had bands and they were playing bluegrass and folk music. That is the catalyst and the little steps that eventually lead to the Grateful Dead which lead to John Dawson<\/strong> coming into the picture with these great songs just as Jerry was starting to play the pedal steel. They put this thing together which became The New Riders of the Purple Sage. The first couple of gigs were not even gigs like we know them really, they were not jobs. Most of the guys that were in the Dead were in the New Riders at that point. I think Phil was playing bass and Mickey (Hart)<\/strong> was playing drums and Bobby would come out and play with them Jerry was playing pedal steel. So what we do with Live Dead Riders is similar to that. When the New Riders started to take off, it made sense to bring them out on tour with the Grateful Dead so Jerry could continue to play with both bands. The Riders opened many, many shows for the Grateful Dead and then eventually, they got their own footing and then wound up selling 5 million albums and at the time, Grateful Dead weren\u2019t selling those kind of numbers (laughs). It worked out for everybody. Then as time marched on, things changed and the Riders went out on their own and the Dead went back to touring just as the Grateful Dead. When Jerry Garcia could no longer fulfill the pedal steel seat, he suggested they use Buddy Cage and Buddy came in to the picture and played on all the classic albums, with the exception of the first album, which is Jerry, David Nelson, John Dawson, Dave Torbert <\/strong>and Spencer Dryden<\/strong> on the drums. That lineup stayed together for multiple albums, all the big ones: Powerglide, Adventures of Panama Red, Home, Home on the Road<\/em>, there were lots of them that followed. I think, in the end, including the two albums that the newer version of The New Riders put out, there had to be 15 or 17 of them. Who knows how many Grateful Dead albums there are (laughs)? Too many to count. Getting to play during \u201cthe days between, is always an honor, the crowds are always great. We\u2019ll be doing the Hamilton and a handful of other shows. You can find all the dates on our Facebook page Live Dead 69.<\/p>\n

KM: We talked about this a little bit about this before the interview, but you\u2019re very familiar with D.C. and the area, the venues.  Do you have any opinion or observation about the crowd and scene here as a music city?  No one obviously thinks of this as a music town, it\u2019s a political town but you mentioned you\u2019ve played at State Theater and The Birchmere so you\u2019ve been around.  I\u2019m interested to hear your take on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Falzarano performing with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong> Yeah, We\u2019re looking forward to playing the Hamilton again. I\u2019<\/strong>ve played a bunch of places in D.C. I think that there\u2019s a thriving music scene in Washington, D.C. for the fans. The fans always come out, when New Riders have played Gypsy Sally\u2019s <\/strong>before, it always sells out, did really well at State Theater<\/strong>, did great at The Birchmere<\/strong> \u2013 Hot Tuna sells out The Birchmere all the time. So there\u2019s a lot of people that love to go see music. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a music scene, per se, because I\u2019m not from there so I don\u2019t know if there are a lot of great bands actually from there, there might be, I don\u2019t know. I do know that the little area that Jorma and Jack came from there are some really amazing players that came out of there. It\u2019s always great to play in D.C. though. I think we did the grand opening of the Hamilton, with NRPS that was fantastic. Hamilton is a great venue, Gypsy Sally’s is also a great venue. You guys have a lot of great venues in that town and you can\u2019t have a lot of great venues if people don\u2019t go to the shows because they wouldn’t sustain and stay open. So I don\u2019t know much about the music scene, but I know there are some die hard music fans in Washington.<\/p>\n

K<\/strong>M: Well that might be better than having the musicians, right?! (laughs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  (laughs) Well, I don\u2019t doubt one bit that there are great musicians and bands in that town \u2013 they go hand in hand. \u2013<\/p>\n

KM: So, last question is my kind of for my curiosity, and to feel you out as a musician and a music fan\u2013 is there anything on the musical bucket list \u2013 playing with someone, getting to see or play at a certain venue \u2013 anything that you haven\u2019t done yet that is a must?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Actually, yeah that\u2019s an easy one for me (laughs). Bucket list? I\u2019d love to \u2013 I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s difficult but \u2013 I\u2019d love to do a show with Bob Dylan<\/strong> someday, I\u2019d love to sit and talk with Keith Richards<\/strong> someday. I\u2019d love to see The Rolling Stones<\/strong> one more time. I\u2019ve been seeing The Rolling Stones since the early days, the late \u201860s at the Madison Square Garden<\/strong> shows, so getting to speak with a guy like Keith Richards would be unbelievable to me. To play with him, that would be unworldly, but even just to get to hang and talk with him would be fun. Getting to play a song or two with Bob Dylan onstage \u2013 either it would be torturous or it would be great (laughs) – that\u2019s a tricky one. Other than that, I\u2019m pretty open minded. I\u2019ve seen almost everybody play that I\u2019ve wanted. Going forward, keeping the door open to whatever happens. Sometimes as a musician, we all get a little nervous \u2013 if you\u2019re working all the time, you kinda complain that you\u2019re working all the time, but then if you aren\u2019t working, you\u2019re nervous you\u2019re never gonna get a gig again. Just leave the door open to whatever comes down the pike next, because you never know where it’s gonna lead. For bucket list though, those are the couple of things that are on it. I\u2019ve been very fortunate to go from playing the music of Hot Tuna and The New Riders to playing in the band with the guys. That\u2019s stuff that would be on a bucket list if I hadn\u2019t already done it. It seemed like one night I was playing cover songs of the New Riders and Hot Tuna in a bar on Long Island and then the next night, I\u2019m playing at a festival, the same songs and singing it to 5,000 people. It\u2019s such a crazy thing.<\/p>\n

KM: You just thank the musical gods for the good karma, huh?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike Falzarano (Center) performing with Live Dead \u201969 (Photo Credit: J. Scott Shrader\/ Courtesy of Live Dead \u201869)<\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Yeah, I\u2019ve said this to a lot of people and I\u2019m saying it to you too, I\u2019m feel that I\u2019m very fortunate, I\u2019ve been very lucky that I\u2019ve been in the right place at the right time. A lot of it is preparation and opportunity, but I\u2019ve been very fortunate in that I\u2019ve been able to do what I\u2019ve done, play with who I\u2019ve played with and the train continues to roll today.<\/p>\n

KM: (laughs) Not too bad a gig!  Well, Mike, thanks so much for the time, I look very much forward to seeing you play at The Hamilton for the days between and getting to see this all come together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong>  Yeah, we\u2019ll see you there with Live Dead and Riders 69, thanks!<\/p>\n

Thursday, August 2<\/p>\n

Doors: 6:30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Show: 8:00PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hamilton<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thehamiltondc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

600 14th Street NW<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington, DC 20005<\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets: $20\/$30<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom Constanten will NOT<\/u><\/strong> be performing with Live Dead & Riders ’69 at this Days Between performance. Scott Guberman <\/strong>will be performing on keys during this performance.<\/p>\n

Related Articles & Interviews:<\/h5>\n

Read more about the Days Between event presented by The Hamilton<\/strong> and those associated with this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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