SiriusXM\u2019s Trunk Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\nMike & Rik on Triumph\u2019s anniversary tour:<\/p>\n
Eddie Trunk: \u201cMike Levine, are you gonna be involved in this? Are you gonna be out there on the road? Are you gonna be doing these shows? What is your involvement in this?<\/p>\n
Mike Levine: \u201cI\u2019m gonna be, I suppose the best way to describe it is, I\u2019ll be there in person and, or visually, but I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eddie Trunk: \u201cSo Rik, jump in here and tell us this Triumph is now basically, if I have this right, and Mike is part of this, gone from a three piece to essentially a six piece, right? Because, because Brent Fitz, Todd Kerns, dear friends, as well as Phil X, also a good friend, are going to be a part of this on the road, right? So talk about the balance between what you guys do and what they do. You\u2019ve been very honest about the fact that they\u2019re there in a supporting capacity to fill out the sound and fill in where you guys can\u2019t at this point in your career. But talk about how that\u2019s gonna work and have you figured that all out yet as far as what they do versus what you guys do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rik Emmett: \u201cThat\u2019s an ongoing thing and, you know, every day I sit down with the script and I look at the tunes and I think about it. And the big thing is, first of all, they\u2019re incredibly skilled and talented and experienced musicians in their own right. And they deserve to end up feeling like they\u2019re as much a part of this as Gil and Mike and I are. I want them to feel that sense of sort of ownership and pride in what\u2019s going on. And this goes back to the songs again, and the way that we present them. Those songs have a life of their own. But, you know, I think this hunger that everybody is understanding is out there now for Triumph to come back and play these songs. I think that hunger will be sustained by those guys even if, you know, we get old and infirm and, you know, we can\u2019t necessarily do it. I think the songs are still gonna be there. And if those younger guys wanna, you know, start carrying a bigger workload, I think they could. In the short term, I\u2019m gonna tell you this, I know that they can all sing fantastic. And there was a moment in Edmonton when it actually made it on social media, where Gil and I and those three guys in the trailer, we were just singing \u2018Lay It On The Line,\u2019 background vocals to warm up. And I thought, \u2018Okay, this was a great moment.\u2019 It was one of my favorite moments in that experience out there. And I thought, \u2018That should be part of the show. We should have moments where like, the band should cut out and \u2018Lay It On The Line,\u2019 we should just sing the harmonies.\u2019 It should just be and we can do that in \u2018Fight the Good Fight.\u2019 We can do that in songs that we never did it originally because now we\u2019ve got this, it\u2019s like another arrow in my quiver, you know, it\u2019s another tool on the, I go, okay, like, there\u2019s things I wanna try and take advantage of, you know? So, and they\u2019re all incredibly skilled in the ideas of, you know, Fitzy can play keyboard parts and Todd is as good a guitar player as he is a bass player. Like, there\u2019s so many playing cards that are on the table now. I go, oh, you know, those people that are only listening on radio, I\u2019m rubbing my hands in glee. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Like, this is gonna be a really fun thing to get to play with over the next little while. And then those weeks that Gil was talking about those, dress rehearsals and stuff, man, I think there\u2019s gonna be an opportunity to build some things and never mind the brick production that Gil\u2019s talking about and where this whole thing started just musically, artistically, there\u2019s going to be something here that\u2019s gonna be quite something.\u201d<\/p>\n