May 14, 2026

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Hi, you have done to censure.

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Wow for you young.

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Listen, it's the pipe Man here on the Adventure of

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Pipe Man W four C Y Radio and I'm here

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with Jesse from ten years Yes, you're at Welcome to Rockville, yes, sir,

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or welcome to Code Yellow.

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Welcome to Rainville. I know, right, yeah, yeah, it's Florida.

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Though it happens, it's what it's to be expected. Like,

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especially this time of year, at three four o'clock, you

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can guarantee there's going to be a thunderstorm no matter what.

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Absolutely.

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I use it as my alarm clock during the day.

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Uh huh. See.

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We did a tour with way back in the day

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called Project Revolution with Lincoln Park and Chris Cornell and

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our slot time was five o'clock and they called us

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the rain band because it just it just happened all

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over the country that way.

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Wow.

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Yeah, so you're the reason where code Yes, it's all

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our faults. Yes, rain dance, we need to stop that.

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I know, we need to go ahead and play and

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get it over with and that that way it all

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goes away.

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Well, maybe what you should do is like play a

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rain song, the rain song. The Yeah there I was

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thinking that too right after I said it, and we

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did just have Jason Bonham doing the led Zeppelink experience.

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The awesome right, that's crazy.

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Yeah, the singer he sounds so much like Plant too, dude.

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The ability for people to to mimic and pull off

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and just the the level of skill that musicians are

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at now is insane.

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It's insane.

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I think we're making a comeback with musicianship because a

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few years back I was like, man, we need real

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musicians again, and leads and you know, jamming and all that.

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I do think that it you know, fashion and culture

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and music and everything. It goes in waves. But yes,

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if something has substance and authenticity, it will last.

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It might come up and down, but it will always

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come back around.

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You know what I think too, Okay, I look at

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bands like that I've ever viewed like a Leonard skinnerd

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or anybody like that, and icons are always these nicest

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people that have no clue to a rock star. And

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I think that's the key, because to really be a

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true musician, you don't give a shit about becoming a

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rock star. You just want to play music.

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You couldn't say it better.

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I mean, the main focus should always be the love

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and the passion of the creativity of it and let

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the chips fall where they may. If you're a rock

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star on stage and when you see somebody play live

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and you're, oh, my god, that's a rock star, and

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then they get off stage and they're like Michael Jackson

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with a high pitched voice, it's like, but when he's

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on stage, he's a killer. And it's just that's I

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think that people talk to everybody that's ever met me

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or knows me, they're like, you're so normal. I'm like,

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because the character I'm on stage, I'm an entertainer. At

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that point, I love that you just said that. Yeah,

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I'm a character on stage because my job live is

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to be an entertainer, and then to write and create

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is what I do personally with myself, and that's that's where.

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I fall in love with it.

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And then I learn how to display it and entertain

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it to the masses in a way that hopefully portrays

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the song.

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Yeah, and listen, as somebody that would be in the audience,

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I can totally tell if somebody's dialing it in, if

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they're having fun. Yeah, you know, and like part of

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fun to live music is. It isn't perfect, that's absolutely it.

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And like for us, we can travel ten hours to

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play for thirty minutes to an hour, so when we're

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on stage for that time, that's when you really get

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lost the moment. And people like I interviewed earlier today,

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like what advice do you give, and I'm like, get

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lost in the moment when the music is happening. Don't

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pick your I mean, you can video it and get

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your phone out, but like really get lost in the moment,

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you know, and enjoy that you are here and you're

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not watching this at home on a YouTube.

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It's funny because I was just talking about this with

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my son the other day and then he made a

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comment like being funny, like you do that. I'm like, yeah,

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when I'm doing the media, it's for like thirty seconds.

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Because I said, it annoys me when people were out

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there recording the whole video, watching the whole set with

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their phone and they'll never look at that video ever again.

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Yeah, when I have them right front row and center

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doing that and their phones up the whole time, I'll

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just come over and mess with them. I'll just pull

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their phone down about where their chest is, like keep

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you gotta care if you keep your phone up. Just

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look out of your own eye holes. Yeah, the perspective's

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a lot nicer than looking through a little screen. So

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I don't know, it's it's maybe because we're a little

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old school and we're probably that weird trend, that transition

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of being alive before the Internet and then being alive

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while the internet's so present now.

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So we get it from being lost in the moment totally.

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And like back in the day when I was a teenager, like,

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we didn't have phones, we didn't have internet, and you

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didn't think about all that. I think about that every

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time I jump into a pit and I ham somebody

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in my phone. I'm like, I didn't have to do

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that when I was a teenager.

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No, No, I mean at this point, we kind of

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are cyborgs. You know, we are always on.

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We were always living in the entertaining, just constantly entertaining

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around the clock. But that's what I'm saying. When you've

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come and you've paid tickets or you're like us, you're performing, like,

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get lost in the moment while you're here. Rock Field

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is happening right now, be here, be present.

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I think Drew of the artists too, you know. Yeah,

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and funny you mentioned about what you do, did you

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see it was because it went everywhere several years ago.

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What Corey Taylor did one time, I don't know.

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I mean we were blessed enough to tour with him

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with Stone Sour and he would go out after shows.

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This was on Family Values tour many many years ago,

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and he would go out with an acoustic guitar, out

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in the crowd, unexpected, into the parking lot and play.

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And he did this fifteen twenty years now.

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That's so cool and it's just like wow, that is

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someone that loves the moment, loves the act of playing music,

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and it's not about how famous you are, it's about

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enjoying actually doing it.

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Yeah, And there was one gig that somebody was on

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the phone but was like Ryan's face and kind of

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moving away is like you know, and he made a

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comment like put your fucking phone down, you know, as

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Corey would say, put your mother fucking phone down, and

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you will. You're like, oh, exactly, exactly. You know. So

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what do you going on after Welcome to Rockville that

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the listeners need to know about.

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Well, we are currently in the middle of working on

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new music where we're deep into hopefully having some stuff

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released late summer this year. We are going to Europe

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in September, in October Europe, UK.

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Well, we're trying to squeeze in before we go over

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in like July August.

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We're trying to work out some headlining stuff here in

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the States before going international. And then just when the

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music comes out, you just that's when the.

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You hit the road there it is, yeah, And how

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does it feel to you as an artist plane in

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the States, opposed to planning Europe, opposed to UK, opposed

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to South America.

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You know, I would like to say it's it's all

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the same, and the energy is just the energy, but

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it is different.

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It's absolutely different.

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And I think that in the beginning back in the day,

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like we played rock and Ring, Rock and Park and

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a lot of big European festivals, and America has now

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modeled after that, and we figured out how to do

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the same thing and it feels like that same crazy energy.

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But like we did a big one in Japan and

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they are pin drop quiet between songs and then if

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you say make some noise, it's all at the same

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time and they hang on every word you say, so,

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it's it's a different energy because over here we're just

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constantly just wide open and screaming.

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Over there, they're so just hanging on every little thing

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you say to do. So it's a different experience.

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That's second time I've heard that. So it gives it

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like a thing of the different cultures and how they act.

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And now, do you know how it happened that the

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US festivals have become more like the European festivals? I do.

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I'll just throw it out there. I'm just given just

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from touring and seeing it.

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It's obviously Europe was they had something they were doing

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it right that we just didn't really quite have over

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here yet. And I know that we were trying to

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model it after them. I don't know the the logistics

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in the business part of it.

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Whimber. He went to hell Fest, Okay, And that's what

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I was told, went to hell Fest and used that

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as a model, which is a great model to use.

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His name alone is absolutely on the very tip top

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for throwing this grandiose of a festival.

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So yes, in the States, he's the man.

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So yeah, like I've been doing his festival since the beginning,

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and just how he has transformed the industry for festivals

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here in the US, where it used to be more

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of like a carnival than a festival. Yeah, we did,

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and now it's an experience.

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Yeah, we've done all that stuff where it's a traveling

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thing that's like half a dozen bands, like we've done

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Family Values, Project Revolution, Carnival of Madness, like all these things.

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And then you got like o Osfests, Warped Tour, all

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that stuff, and it's cool. But like this level of

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just four days in the same place and it's just

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wide open, is this is totally He's pulled it off

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because this is europe vibes all day.

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And here's the thing too, because you already said how

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he is. In all these years me doing Wimmer festivals,

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I always ask artists how he treats you. Nobody's ever

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said a bad word ever.

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We've never had any issues. We've We've always to run something.

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This large as skill, there has to be a level

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of professionalism, which he obviously knows how to do, in

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the right infrastructure to put underneath it to make it happen.

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But when we show up, it happens. The only thing

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we have to do is dodge the weather. That's that's it.

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But other than that, it's it goes off without a hitch.

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Well, you know what's great too, As an artist, this

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is like the most stressful thing you could probably do.

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It's not usually necessarily your gear, you know, and you

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got a loan in and if you have stress for loaning,

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that's no good.

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Yeah for the show yep.

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And I've never heard artists feel stressful being at a

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Wimmer festival.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I think the most stressful far is whenever

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you're just trying to get the lay of the land

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and you're walking around and you feel like you're in

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a scene from Spinal.

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Tap where you're always lost. But that's just that's not

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his fault. That's just the size of the place.

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you know, try and find catering.

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like where where's our dressing, where's catering? And it's it's

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just because you you have to just get in it.

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I have all the Wimmer festivals that you've done, which

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one's your favorite.

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Man Louder than Life is incredible.

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It's amazing. I know the name is probably good, but

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we did was it the very last rock on the Range?

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It was epic. It was huge. I mean, the roster

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was you know, I had a bunch of bands. I

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loved on it and everything.

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the Life, this last one recently, and it's it's just

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a well oiled machine.

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Like it's just awesome that you can fit this much

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And it's cool that each festival has a different theme

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to it. It's like in Europe you have all these

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different festivals and they're different, and it seems like he's

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copying that too, but the same person running all of them.

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a target to aim at, you can you can kind

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of model it all around that, Like even down to

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the part of the country you have it in. If

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you're gonna be out west, it's gonna be a drier climate,

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it's gonna be in it, so you just you give

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it a different vibe. It even down to slightly tweaking

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the genre of music, you know. I mean it's he's

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done a great job totally, and you.

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used to be at a terrible venue. Yeah yeah, and

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what do he do? He made the switch real quick.

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He didn't try keep forcing the issue. Now the new

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venue is amazing.

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He truly is.

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You know, we could talk about this forever, but like

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he's done it right. And we've done Matt very ambitious festivals.

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We did a Blue Ridge Rock Fest a.

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Couple of times, and where you at the last one,

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because I was we luckily we the last.

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we do the pre show on the Thursday or the

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Wednesday the day before and come in. And we did

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it when it was just Scott staffed by himself and

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like got in and got out, like staying in there

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and getting trapped in there.

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That's if you really want to see how to do

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it wrong, tell you that one.

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oh yeah, or you.

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See the documentary like Fire.

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because like all the houses men of them had ever

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been cleaned y'or overflowing people were like flipping over golf

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cart things.

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if it starts coming unglued and the tension starts happening,

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you've got mutiny. Man like, then there's no way you

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can contain that that many people. So you got to

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keep them happy.

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It gets uncontained with that many people. And we were

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just at I came back, I had to do coverage.

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There's a pop up show today for a day to remember.

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I was over there.

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I snucker, you were over there, Okay, So I was

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over there and I'm thinking myself, like, this is gonna

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be wild to see what happens with the crowdsurfing for this,

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and it was totally under control and perfect.

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Well there's there's ways to handle that there. You can

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have if you have overzealous security guards.

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That are like throwing people on the ground and like

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being an agro, you don't want them at the end

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catching the people crowdsurfing.

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You want the energy to stay happy.

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So it's like, if they're going to CrowdSurf, catch them,

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get a line to get them right back out. They're

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gonna do it again. Don't try to police that and

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tell them no. You tell a crowd no, guess what

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are they gonna do?

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Good luck with that?

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Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Is there anything else you want to talk about about?

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What anything you got coming out, anything going on that

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we haven't talked about yet.

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Mainly, just keep an eye out for new music. We we've.

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Like always musicians always say it, we love what we're doing.

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We're very grateful to still be doing this for this

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many years. But like we'll really got our nose to

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the grindstone on creating some new stuff. So hopefully just

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keep an eye out for it should be out soon.

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I think the music will end up probably being your

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best because I think as you evolve as a musician,

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learn your craft, that's when you really can get created.

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Yeah you and kind of leaning into your identity. I

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think sometimes identity crisis can happen where you try to

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be you did this, You try to be something so

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drastically different that it it almost is contradictory to what

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you are, and it's like own your identity.

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No, no, what people like. If you're the best cheeseburger,

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hut around, Mike, cheeseburgers. Don't try to make sushi, I know.

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Right, yeah, you know, like like with Eminem's now their

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every company's making em and ms, but it ain't liking

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Eminem exactly. So there you go. So there's nothing like

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ten years.

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Got to keep it real and.

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Hopefully we have avoided the codes and it'll be a

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great rest of today for you and all the rest

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of us.

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We're going to do a sun dance, not a rain dance.

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Do it. Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man,

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Thanks for having us.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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