No Doubt History Tour in Orange County - Gwen Stefani Band House / Music Video Locations & MORE
A bike ride around Anaheim and Orange California to check out the history of No Doubt . Locations used in music videos as well as a few other spots .
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welcome everyone add in the whoo here
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today's adventure brings us to Orange
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County California now I'll be covering
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some ground on my bicycle
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I have ventured down to the starting
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point at Disneyland where a music group
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that you might have currently it is the
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gates are closed but a while back during
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the peak of their commercial success the
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mayor gave the key to the city to them
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in the park itself and that is not the
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only tie in to this place that that band
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has in fact maybe you've heard of an
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album that refers to said establishments
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they all got their starting point and
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began and continued and thrived you know
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but a lot of there the beginning all was
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in this neck of the woods just a few
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blocks away a few miles away all in this
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vicinity of Anaheim gonna gonna begin
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here and then end up at the orange
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circle another little city over so let's
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do I'm inviting you to join me shall you
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looking from this angle which might be
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familiar to Annual Pass holders
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here in SoCal can it be going right over
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the top of those buildings just over the
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top a few feet first location I should
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preface this by saying these will be in
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no particular order and I'm just going
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off what I've learned over the years
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what I've heard and what I've researched
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so take it with a grain of salt
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the ban was started by three people when
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but her brother Eric really was the
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forefront and the one that wanted to
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create it along with John Spence who
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worked with Gwen at a local dairy queen
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John unfortunately passed away and Gwen
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took over on vocals
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well more technically took over on lead
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vocals she was doing backup and John
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Spence was the one responsible for the
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name his favorite saying well one of his
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favorite sayings was no doubt just
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casually you know some of us have
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certain things that we like to say his
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was no doubt
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that's how the band got his name fast
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forward just a little bit to this
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neighborhood of Beacon Avenue
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very close to these cross streets is a
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home that might be etched in your
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pop-culture consciousness right over
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there on the right there it is the
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Beacon Street house or the band house
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whatever you'd like to refer to it as a
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lot of the songs were pinned the lyrics
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and the thoughts from Gwen's mind and
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stuff that she was going through right
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inside that gray homestead the music
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video trapped in a box the how the whole
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band stood up on top of the roof and
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filmed everyone was up there and that
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wrecked car the far car on the Left
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would have been a wrecked vehicle that
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Gwen stood in front of angling towards
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the neighbor's house for the music video
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for just a girl he spent many years here
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while her and her brother was the
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family's home and if you watch the video
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for trapped in a box camera is angled
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down to that light pole behind the house
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could be prevalently scene and the
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angles of the roof you know all still
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the same it's been reshingled but the
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house across the road used to have a
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basketball board
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right there it's been removed but looks
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like it's been removed very recently
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used to be a basketball hoop that you
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could see very well from that crane shot
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looking down across the road it's also
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interesting to note that they didn't
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call it Avenue they called it Street the
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Beacon Street that's where they have
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their sessions and where the home was
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well having it
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they used to practice in that very
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garage
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it had the door open to get some fresh
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air and the sounds would seep out into
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the neighborhood
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a little bit later on from that time
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frame the guitar player started booking
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sho ska and punk and acoustic shows at a
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venue that was located right around this
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corner next to the post office what is
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now a hotel
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four or five storey hotel used to be
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Cattlemen's Wharf with the former
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residence of his band members just
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across and to that section the fire
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cracker lounge was right here it was
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inside that Cattlemen's Wirth restaurant
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right in this section
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in fact there's an album by Bradley from
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sublime available it's kind of rare for
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a performance that he did right here at
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this spot they were friends
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sublime was friends with no doubt all of
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them they were all buddies just to show
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the proximity that venue was there on
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the left and off in the distance very
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short distance is the Disneyland Resort
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parking structure see it over there so
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close just a short commute over this
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bridge happens to
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look over the freeway
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about a quarter of a mile a little more
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than a quarter of a while couple roads
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over was when and Eric's grandparents
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house
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so close in fact I would imagine they
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walked over here pretty often not far at
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all
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obviously it has been resold and there
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are new residents don't want to disturb
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them by going under the property but you
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can see the garage there the far left
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tucked away where the video was shot and
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when walked right down that driveway
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just talked to the owner he was out in
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the front yard it was very nice to give
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me some details I'm not going to go in
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the backyard but he was saying that she
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put her signature in the concrete around
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back and everything inside it was also
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filmed inside looks exactly the same the
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kitchen and that's who fight in the
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backyard I might have forgot to mention
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that the song was Sunday morning and
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also used was I've heard the grandfather
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who owned the house also had a store the
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store still there and I don't know if
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this is a hundred percent confirmed but
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in the music video the gentleman behind
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the counter there's a rumor a heavy
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rumor that that is Gwen and Eric's
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grandfather don't quote me on that but
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the store is right in this vicinity as
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well
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actually it's back this way
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oh dang it is way closer than I expected
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just right here on the on the right-hand
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side
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it's now called five points market but I
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believe was called mmm grocers or M&M
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market at that time this is looking back
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to different angle railroad tracks are
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still there that she stepped over
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everything pretty much looks the same on
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the corner of citron Street and Santa
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Ana Street in Anaheim well put my mask
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on I can't have it on now that's why my
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mouth sounds a little muffled we'll go
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in and see what it looks like inside and
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maybe get myself an orange juice no win
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in Rome
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there you go tasty edit remove my mouth
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to drink it obviously and one of the
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owners was in there and she clarified
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that grandfather did not own the store
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they did he just showed up for the
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taping of the video and their family for
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years according to her
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Wow I was expecting this next location
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to be a little further but it was just
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around the corner on Harbor Boulevard
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Tony the bass player when he was young
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this was his family's residence and has
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said that they had a few no doubt
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practices in this building as well his
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family lived in the back and they had a
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storefront right here in this little
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section that protrudes outward
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for many years him and Gwen dated you up
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until around the time of tragic kingdom'
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were right around that for the release
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and a lot of the songs on that album
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were written about Tony and the breakup
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and her feelings practices were too
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difficult because they were all
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basically in the same neighborhood not
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far off brisk walk from all locations
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the office here at Melrose Abbey is
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closed due to these times and
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circumstances cannot ask any information
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on where John Spence
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laid to rest can find much information
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other than this is these are the grounds
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not to take anything away from the
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talented members that continued on the
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band after his passing but I thought a
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little nod and some acknowledgement to
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some that might not even realize that he
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was the original singer they carried on
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riding parallel to me is Jean when is
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now gene autry way and up here over the
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hill kind of down below the road is an
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old rehearsal space that used to exist
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yep the buildings are still down there
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is one of these six or seven structures
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either on the left or the right where
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the stompbox was the name of the
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rehearsal space where a few different
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bands were practice constantly honing
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their craft table Dumont which went on
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to become the guitar player I've no
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doubt was in a metal band by the name of
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rising they were in the same rehearsal
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space that's how he met him and
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eventually joined the band the rest is
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history
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as stated I can't really pinpoint which
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one of these was the spot it was one of
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them
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got to cross over into orange now but
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not first by looking at the Honda Center
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which used to be called the arrowhead
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pond it was there in the 97 around 97
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they recorded and did a video special
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called live at the tragic kingdom' by
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the way look how much just in a couple
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days this riverbed has dried up not
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completely dry but getting there back
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towards the old town Orange
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yep I think this is it right here he's
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looking at the insert of the album for a
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tragic kingdom' there is a multitude of
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photographs at one of them in the band
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when I was in the shopping cart the
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drummer's in a shopping cart the other
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ones had their instruments the sidewalk
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looked very familiar I thought that's
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the orange circle that is this pattern I
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just had to match up a few things to
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figure out exactly where it was I have
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pinpointed it to this precise spot based
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on these little drainage grates here and
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the the bricks here the little placards
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everything matches up exact from the
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pattern and the coloration to the number
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of each of these when was doing a little
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bit of a jump holding onto the back of
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the shopping cart her brother Eric right
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back here carrying his keyboard she was
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very persistent on having her brother in
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the promotional photos even though he
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had left the band by that point he was
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such an integral part of their existence
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pretty cool right that's gonna do it for
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today whoa
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some classic cars I was on a bike
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however up to the truck look at this a
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few of them
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Wow
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and I love the orange circle
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this is almost a daily occurrence
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now I do not hit each and every spot
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pertaining to the subject matter of the
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beginnings the incarnation the
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continuing career of no doubt but I hit
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quite a few that are all in closed
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prided going first to the Disneyland
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Resort area hello
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and then venturing around there and then
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going all the way back up and ending
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here at the orange circle I got a heck
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of a workout there back and then all the
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other little nooks and crannies
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