June 25, 2026

Castrator Set One of Pipeman's Favorite at Milwaukee Metal Fest

Castrator Set One of Pipeman's Favorite at Milwaukee Metal Fest

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Hi, you live, don too censure? Wow, crazy Young.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm excited about

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our next guest because we tried to connect at Milwaukee

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Metal Fest. She played there, but she was also doing

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like quadruple duty, like every job in the house there.

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I don't even know how she played, but their band

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killed it, like one of my favorite sets of the

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whole festival. So let's welcome to the show, Robin from Castrainer,

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How are you hello?

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How are you?

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I'm good doing this.

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I know it's great, and I have to like, there's

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one thing I rarely talk about as band names, but

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I do think it's kind of funny that you started

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off as an all girl band and you named it

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cast Trader, And it makes me a little scared right now.

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It's a great name, right, It is a totally great name.

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And I mean, so let's go back to the beginning.

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What was it that was really your driving force to

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start this band?

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Well, I mean, I played another band, and I was

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friends with Carolina the drummer. We did a show with

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my other band, Jarkada and her other band Hypoxia in

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New York and then we just kind of stayed friends.

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And then we were on barge to Hell together and

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she was talking about like starting another band of just

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you know, girls or whatever, and I was like, that's cool,

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and we kind of just started there.

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Nice.

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We are like thirteen fourteen years later.

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It's wild.

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And you know, I have to say, as somebody that

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came from like the eighties metal and punk scene, yeah,

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I always saw it was bullshit, the whole gatekeeping, especially

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with women, because especially now, I think some of the

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most badass women in metal and punk, I mean badass

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artists and metal and punk are women.

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Like yeah, I mean I never thought of it as

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like a gatekeeping thing. I just feel like metals, probably

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even punk, is the only genre that is like, oh

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they're girls. Like you don't have that with country, you

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don't have that with rap, you don't have that with pop,

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nothing else except for.

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It's weird to your side.

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It's like all of a sudden, it's like, oh, there's girls.

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It's like okay, you know, and we know girls can

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play music. That's been proven in every genre throughout.

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You know exactly ever, and there's the passion that women have,

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you know, and the emotion that women have. That to

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me directly fits with metal or punk because they're both

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very emotional, passionate genres.

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Yeah, girls are definitely more emotional than than boys.

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Yeah, I always I think it shows that the lyrics,

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and it shows on stage, you know. And I'm actually

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there's sometimes too, Like I'm so in awe of certain artists,

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Like you take Courtney Laplunk, Like when she sings, I

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just sit there looking at her mouth because she's got that.

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She's got that, like, you know, total technique that you

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don't really see often, and you can totally tell like

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somebody trained her how to do her.

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Voice without losing it the way she does because.

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I sang Thrash Meow in the eighties and I trashed

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my throat because I didn't know what I was doing.

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Yeah, you know, so you need the technique, but it does,

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you know, and it even amazes me.

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Like I love when I play bands to other dudes

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and then I tell them that the lead singer is

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a female before after they listen to it because they

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don't even like sometimes they can't even conceive of that

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brutalness coming from a female. But I think you do

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it so well. You know your whole journey, you know,

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anybody that's in metal or punk that does that. And

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but your band, man, oh my god, Like I would

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say probably top one of the top five sets of

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the whole Milwaukee Metal Fest for sure.

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Wow, okay, I mean I didn't see any bands.

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Yeah, you were a little busy.

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I take that back. I saw Obituary, which, like I've

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seen Abituary a million times, but and I think part

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of Monstrosity and that was like the extent of my

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Milwaukee Metal Festival. But to say we're the top five,

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that's hard to believe, you know, with all the good

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bands that were playing.

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Yeah, it's just the energy that you brought forth and

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just that and that passion. Like I never saw your

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band before that, and I was like, oh, they're pretty good,

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you know. And you know, I'll tell you the company

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you're in, like you're in the company of Violence, who

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was one of my favorites too, because they're one of

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my favorites from way back.

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But yeah, their show was sick. Okay.

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Like I texted my daughter a video of it and

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there were all kinds of stage divers and she goes, oh,

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is that how you knocked your all your teeth out

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back in the day. I'm like, yeah, except I did worse,

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but yeah. And then oh my god, Green Jello and

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like they're really Green Jelly. They're supposed to be Green

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Joey because of stupid jell O company. And I'll say it,

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like you can have a pedo represent you, but not

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some great band. Just saying but their show was the

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funniest gig I've ever seen ever in mind? Was it?

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Oh my god, I could imagine because like I have

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video of their set, like they handed out water noodles

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to everybody.

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And like, picture picture the stage set.

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Oh my god, that's insane.

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And it was like I couldn't stop laughing because like

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the mosh pit was all water noodles and it was

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like just so much fun. And then were they at

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the meet and greet also chanting Green Jello because they

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had everybody.

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Just basically they just they basically just extended their show.

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I love it. I love it.

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So those are people that you're in company with that

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are my favorite sets of that festival. So and how

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does it feel playing at festival across the street from

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the Damer Killing.

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I don't look at it like that. I'm forget about it.

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Honestly, I didn't even I didn't even think about it.

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I didn't put two and two together until I was

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doing an interview and I had the Ambassador Hotel as

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a backdrop, and when the band started talking about it,

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I'm like, oh, I didn't even put that. I didn't

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even put too and two together. Like it was funny,

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but yeah, like what what a great festival. And you know,

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I watched you too run that meet and that meet

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and greet, and you ran it like a clock because

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that's a lot of.

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Work, you know, it was.

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It was a lot. It was fun and I had

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a good team of people with me, so that helped.

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The fans were you know, good as well, so that

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was also helpful. And the fans were you know, accommodating

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with me, so it all worked nice.

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So what what do you want to share with the

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listeners about your experience at Milwaukee Metal Fest, especially your performance?

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So I don't even know if I have anything to share.

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I didn't have like an experience really. I spent what

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four days, you know, in the same spot, right, you know,

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except when I.

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Went to go play, yeah, exactly, So that was a

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nice break right there.

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Yeah, I mean it was like kind of stressful, yeah,

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you know. And even Nick that was with me, he

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played also because he plays with you know, Jamie, so

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he did those jams, so he had to go run too.

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And then both me and him did the Slayer day, right,

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so we left for we both left for that, So

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that was a lot of fun.

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Yeah, And I imagine it would be stressful to play

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a set when you're that busy too, because he kind

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of want to have a little chill out time before

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you go on stage.

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And there was no chill out time, right. He went

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straight and straight and green and then straight back.

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I ran right back as soon as I was just

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like put my bass in a case and just ran

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back to.

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The meet and greet so and speaking bass.

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So what made you originally pick bass as what you

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wanted to play as an instrument?

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Basically, I used to play guitar. I played guitar forever,

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and I usually tell the story because my first guitar

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was like electric guitar was a Kreamer striker for Eddie

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van Halen, nice and I still have it. And the

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color was the blue like Steve Harris's bass. Very cool,

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and I just I'm not really good with like playing

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with the pick. It's not my favorite thing in the world.

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And somebody was like, why don't you just play bass?

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And I'm like, huh, that sounds like a plan. And

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I went to the music store and I happen to

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find a fifty dollars bass at the music store. Still

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have that, and nice here I am. But I still

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play guitar along.

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With that for a very long time, you know, And

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I have to think there are basses at play with

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a pick. It's gotta be so much harder to play

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a bass with the pick with those strings, you know,

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Like it just seems so much easier with your fingers.

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I enjoy it more like I enjoy playing bass more,

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I think than guitar. It's just so different, you know. Yeah,

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Like guitar is fun, but I like I find bass

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more relaxing. I always say, I'm a frequency. You don't

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notice me until I'm not there.

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Nice. I love it, you know. I have a trivia

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question for you.

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Oh no, okay, Yeah, who is one of the most

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famous bassis of all time that was original guitarist And

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the only reason he played bass is because they were

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all guitarists, So somebody had to draw it the short straw.

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Oh boy, is this an easy one?

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I don't know, and maybe maybe not.

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Sometimes it's hard anybody that's a basis that used to

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be a guitarist. I asked this trivia question too, and

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some have known, some have not. You know, but let's

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just put this way once I tell you if you

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don't know, you'll be like, oh, that makes sense, and

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I will say it's not in metal.

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I was gonna say, I don't know if it's in metal.

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No, it's it's not in metal, and they're not a

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band anymore. But the person who I'm talking about is

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one of only two people left on this earth from

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that band. And that is unless than nineteen sixty nine

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radio show is true and he's actually dead. And that's

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an impost. There's a really good hint.

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Oh boy, I have no idea, Like, I don't know.

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I keep going with like Geddy Lee or something.

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Close. Paul McCartney.

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Oh okay, that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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See now now you listen to Beatles songs, you can

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hear he kind of plays the bass like a guitar.

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Yeah. A lot of people, do you know, like a

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lot of especially if you're playing with the pick a

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lot of people, you know, do the chords, they do this,

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you know, that's one thing, like you know, playing how

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I play. I don't plays standard like a guitar, right,

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I mean somewhat I do. It's weird, it depends. I

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follow mostly a lot of the kick drums.

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Which is usually what you do as a bassis.

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Right. Well, I play like more than I do technical.

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That's why you're so good because I like fast.

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Yeah I play.

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I played fast and and you know you've mentioned Steve

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Harris and it's like, man, that dude, what a bassis.

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You know, he plays that thing like a guitar.

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I used to fast and technical exactly like it's really good,

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like insane to me.

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That was that was why I liked made and that

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you know is his bass.

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And you know who else was at Milwaukee Metal Fast

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Who's an old friend of mine who I always saw

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in the beginning way back in the eighties that he

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played bass just like Steve Harris. And that's why I

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liked them and their band so much. Do you know

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who that there's another trivia question, but this is somebody

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at Milwaukee Metal Fest.

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Somebody at Milwaukee Metal they play.

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They played two sets one with the band Triger. Yep,

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all right, yep, yeah yeah, So like he always reminded

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me of Steve Harris, like and me and I've we've

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been friends since like the very beginning of Armon Saint,

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you know.

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Uh so, And I felt that's what Milwaukee Metal Fest

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was all about too. It was like a family reunion.

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I love what Jamie did because I do a lot

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of festivals and this just felt like an old school

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just like typical just everybody knows everybody type of festival.

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Yeah. I mean it was like I wish I had

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more time to chat with people and see people. Yeah,

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but it was a lot of fun and it's organized

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very well. I love the fact that it's in one building,

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it's not outside.

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Oh yeah, because the festival I did before that evacuated

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three days in a row out of four.

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Yeah. Like I just I like the fact that it's indoors.

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You know, there's plenty of bathrooms, there's food.

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Yeah. I couldn't believe how big that venue was too.

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I've never been to that venue. Oh really, and it's huge.

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It's like I didn't I never even imagine it.

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Now that I've been there, I'm like, oh, now, it

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makes sense that there's a festival and that's the whole thing.

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Too, like all this, like the stages are great as well,

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like anywhere you stand to see the bands, it's great.

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Like you know, there's not a bad venue.

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In there, exactly exactly, you know exactly. And it was

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kind of cool down where you were in the basement

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and because the merch down and was down there. Yeah,

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it was cool for me too for doing interviews because

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it was quiet down there.

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Yeah, you know, uh min it right.

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So anything else you want to share with the listeners

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that you got coming up with your band or yourself

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or any thing that you want to promote for Castraighter.

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We have a show in New York coming up raid

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Debarmaged Infest. It's a like a smaller festival in New

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York that should be fun. And then we have a

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possible tour announcement coming up.

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Nice.

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You know, we're just looking to play more shows. We're

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writing new music right now, so hopefully a new album

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next year.

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Very cool as I feel write in new music after

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all these years, I always am in awe of artists

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being able to continue to come up with new ideas.

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It's sometimes it takes me a while to like be motivated. Yeah,

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Like Carolyna and I can only get together, you know, periodically,

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and like sometimes we'll get together and lock ourselves in

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a jam room for like two days, you know, for

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eight hours a day and just you know, write whatever,

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like really raw stuff. Right now, I'm at home writing

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stuff and sending her videos and everything, and she's writing

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stuff and sending videos. So we're in just like the

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pre production phase, and I'm getting ready to leave on

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tour for work. So I'm like, for some reason, this week,

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I feel more highly motivated than normal. Like I think

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I sent her four different lyric things and three different

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like full song videos. So sometimes I'm not motivated at all,

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and I'm like, eh, we'll see. You know, takes me

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a month, and I'm like, oh, maybe I should jam

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or something.

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I I you know, I get that feeling because I'm

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also a published author. In my first book, the first

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half of it took me six months to write and

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the second half took me a day.

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Yeah, it's just how you feel at that point, like

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all of a suddenly, Oh, all of a sudden, it's

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just like, yeah, I feel great.

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About this exactly, and then like you just shelve it

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for a while in your head, and then it's like

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all of a sudden you're moved again. But then you

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might be at the point where you just like bang

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it all out at once. You have to be in

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that mood to bang it all out.

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I mean, I have a lot of friends that can

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just sit and noodle for hours and hours and hours.

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I just don't have that. I am not that person.

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I've never been that person. Unless I am like, oh,

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I really want to write this and then I'll take

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the time. I'm just or oh, I have a show,

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I have to jim, oh I want to learn this song.

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But to sit around and just like people do for

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hours and just no, I.

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It's not me either, Like that's probably why, Like I

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played guitar and sucked. I played drums and sucked, and

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I sucked because I never could sit down. Like I

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remember being like, oh, I want to be like Randy Rhodes,

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and then I found out he practiced eight hours a day.

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I'm like, yeah, yeah, I don't think I have and

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didn't mean to practice eight hours a day.

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Yeah, I'm like eight minutes right right.

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And I just wanted to play songs like I'm getting

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taught scales. I'm like, this is boring. I can't do

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this over and over again. I just want to play

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a song.

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I took, like guitar, Like I took guitar in high

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school and then I had lessons as well, and I

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remember going to my teacher and just being like, I

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want to play this, you know, and it's like probably

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like White Snake John Psykes, like you know, I want

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to play this, and he's like, well, before you could

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play that, you know, you got to start with this.

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And I'm like, why can't I just go show me

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this one? Show me that? Come on.

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It's the same with drums.

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When I played drums, had that practice pad forever and

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annoyed the hell.

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I mean, just give me a drum set. I don't

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want this stupid practice.

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Yeah, just like I don't know, like people find just

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noodling and stuff like that fun. I I'm not one

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of those people.

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Well, it's like when you take people like a Tommy Lee,

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no matter where he is, he's drumming like everywhere he is.

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You know, it's just kind of a habit, and you

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know that's not me. But but I do like what

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comes out of that I like the end result. So

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music is my passion, whether I'm I suck at playing it,

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so listening is my passion, and.

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I just want I just want to have fun and

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play and you know, if people like it, great, If

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they don't, okay, exactly, not everybody's going to like everything.

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Like you know, well, you definitely looked like you were

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having fun at Milwaukee Metal Fest.

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I think we did. I wish we played longer, right right,

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It seems it seemed way too quick.

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And I didn't even when you went, didn't put two

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and two together because i'd met you earlier in the

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day because I was doing an interview with Sean and

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and then I looked up, I'm like oh, and then

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like oh, I have an interview with her later and.

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Mean Unfortunately we couldn't do the interview that night because

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Green Jelly was actually took their thirty minute meet and

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greet and it was over an hour.

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Oh my god.

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It must have been entertaining. Though it was entertaining and

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frustrating at the same.

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Time, it wasn't. It was the last one of the night,

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and it was they were having fun. They you know,

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from a band that they were like kind of apprehensive

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about wanting to do it to full on, full scale show. Yeah,

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meet and greet. I mean they were so into it,

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like everything. They were doing their own selfies, they were

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doing like whatever.

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I was like, Okay, that's amazing. I love bands like that,

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you know.

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I kind of like took it over and I was

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just like, okay, there's whatever.

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And then when I did see you later, you were

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definitely you know, you even said look at me.

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I'm like, yeah, I know you can't do this interview.

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I don't think I could have at that point.

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And my voice was already fried. So here we are.

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This was better.

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And tell all the listeners how they connect to your

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merch store on band camp because you got some badass

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merch and speaking of merch and how they connect to

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you guys on socials and check out all you know,

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all that you have coming and coming up awesome.

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Yeah, I mean Castraighter spelled as you would think Castraighter

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band camp or Castraight or band. And you have to

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be careful sometimes googling because you'll get sometimes actual Castraighter

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band and like videos right like animal Castration.

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Yeah we don't want that.

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You don't want that, but yeah, like all regular social

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castrader band on, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, band camp, YouTube, all

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the socials nice.

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You know, well, everybody should check you out.

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Definitely band camp if you don't want a physical copy,

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check out our stuff.

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Absolutely because you guys are badass.

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I look forward to seeing more of you. And thanks

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for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank you for having me.

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Finally, yeah, thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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Pipelin on w for c u I Radio.