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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
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