Aug. 2, 2026

H-Blockz at Wacken: Henning Talks Crowd Energy, Career Passion, and Equestrian Life

H-Blockz at Wacken: Henning Talks Crowd Energy, Career Passion, and Equestrian Life

In this energetic and wide-ranging interview, Pipeman chats with Henning from H-Blockz at the legendary Wacken Open Air festival. The conversation dives into the band’s first ever Wacken performance, the evolution of H-Blockz’s sound, parallels between the music and equestrian worlds, and stories from both rock and horse riding arenas. The episode is punctuated with humor, music industry insight, and personal stories, highlighting the importance of passion in any pursuit.Main Topics Covered

  • H-Blockz’s debut performance at Wacken Open Air (01:04)
  • The impact and influence of Rage Against the Machine (02:53)
  • H-Blockz’s genre-blending style and their approach to making music (03:54)
  • The role of fun and passion in music and life (04:45, 05:52)
  • Henning’s parallel life training show jumping horses (05:55)
  • Parallels between the equestrian and music industries (06:20)
  • Musical and equestrian connections spanning Germany, the US, and Wellington, FL (07:20)
  • Notable celebrities in the equestrian scene (Bruce Springsteen, Bill Gates) (09:44)
  • The philosophy and community spirit behind Wacken Open Air (14:25)
  • How to find and connect with H-Blockz’s music and merch (15:38)
Key Discussions & Stories
  • Wacken Festival Experience:
    Henning shares the surreal moment of performing for up to 50,000 people at their first Wacken appearance, describing the transformation from a handful of fans to a massive crowd:“It was like we were headliners. That was 60 minutes of rock and roll feeling. I mean, rock star feeling.” (01:29)
  • Genre Fusion and Band Identity:
    The conversation explores H-Blockz’s influences and how their first album was a surprise hit. Henning discusses their varied musical background and the struggle to find their band’s DNA before embracing what felt natural in the studio.
  • Music and Passion:
    Both speakers emphasize the necessity of loving what you do—whether in music, horse riding, or life—underlining that audiences can always sense authenticity:“When the people feel that you mean it, what you do, then they love you.” (02:11)
  • Equestrian Connections:
    Henning details his life breeding and training show jumping horses, drawing parallels to being a musician. The two share stories about Wellington, FL, its equestrian culture, and the tight-knit nature of both communities, with shared references to high-profile personalities.
  • Celebrity Horse Riders:
    Fun trivia and stories about Bruce Springsteen’s and Bill Gates’s involvement in equestrian sports are included, with Henning sharing about connections through horse chiropractors and trainers.
  • Wacken’s Unique Community:
    The grassroots growth of Wacken, its farming village origins, and the genuine community spirit are discussed as key reasons for its continued success.
Notable Quotes
“It’s all about the love of the game, you know, that’s, that’s it.” — Henning (02:33)
"If you suck, they wouldn’t be there..." — Pipeman (01:54)
"You have to love it for the audience to love it. Like, how are you gonna love it if you don't?" — Pipeman (05:15)
“You can’t fake having money and you can’t fake the love for... the sport.” — Henning (12:55)
“And for us, Now, after more than 30 years of existence, we committed ourselves to if we don't have fun, we don't go out there.” — Henning (06:55)Resources & Links Mentioned


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and I'm here.

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With handing from h Box. Niceks for having me. Man,

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I mean like you're on the howay ground, like even

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we I'm from America and this is like like all

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my media friends are jealous that I'm here.

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you do that you can brag about all over the world.

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Everybody knows VA.

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I mean everybody who's into uh guitar music pretty much

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a metal And this was pretty much the only festival

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that we haven't played yet, at least in Germany.

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And this is pretty much mostly the only festival I

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haven't done US coverage yet.

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This was the first time for me too. We're at

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virgin No No. Well, yeah, I got devirginated, so to say.

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But we had a blast of a time because I

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always like, you know, playing all these odd slots and

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we got on stage at like one forty five in

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the afternoon. It was like boiling on stage and like

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when we arrived at the stage, there was only a

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couple of hundred people in front of the stage, and

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I was going, Okay, this is going to be like

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in the early days. You know, you got to work

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the crowd and we'll do the best of it. But

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then yeah, it was showtime and there was I don't know,

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maybe fifty thousand people. It was like we were headliners.

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That was sixty minutes of rock and roll feeding, I

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mean rockstarff feeding was I.

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Think you attracted them, is what happened. They're like, oh, well,

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we fucking.

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Miss let's go check them out. We haven't seen them

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in a while. And you know, we've been around for before,

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over thirty years now, but we never expected anything.

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Like this for our first time, I know, right, And

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I mean obviously it's a testament to your talent because listen,

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if you sucked, they wouldn't be there.

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Even if it is fucking I.

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Hope it is so yeah, and basically what it is,

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I think the first ten seconds is what matters. Yes,

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when the people feel that you mean it what you do,

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then they love you. And yeah we managed that.

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Well.

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That's total key because like us, as the audience, we

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can look at you and we can tell if you're

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dialing it in or if you are really into it right.

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We want you to be really into it right, because

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how can we be into it if you're not?

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And that's what's cool about it. Yeah, it's all about

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the level of the game, you know, That's it.

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So they call you the Rage against the Machine of Germany.

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I don't know about that.

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How did that even happen? Like you did you have

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them as a major influencer? Is that just who you are?

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and we were huge Suicidal Tendencies fans and we had

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tickets for a show close to our hometown for Suicide

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of Tendencies and Rage Against the Machine were opening up

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for them, and I remember that we came home and

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said what the fuck was that? I mean, that was

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life changing, and up to this day, Rage Against the

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Machine is just just next level. It's a it's another

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dimension because that's what it's all about. I Mean, these

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guys developed one kind of energy that I always thrive for.

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But I would never ever compare any band with him.

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Well, and you know what's cool about it, and same

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for you is instead of just being on this, you

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blend genres that attracts everybody, not just a few groups

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of people.

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first album, which which was a surprise hit so to say,

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because it's sold like over a million times making copies

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in Germany and nobody expected that. But we come from

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so many different influences like pop, hip hop and metal

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and blues even that we couldn't really figure out which

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way to go. And we didn't have a DNA, a

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band DNA at all. And so after the first album,

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we thought, you know, we have to we have to

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hit a totally different track and try something out. So

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basically what we did was we tried out for thirty

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years and now after fourteen years without an album, we

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came up with an album where we thought, well, what that,

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of ourselves when we go into the studio, and that's

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what we did, and it's all fun and it's all

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for the love of the game.

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It's the only way it should be. Like this industry

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is not fun if you're not having fun.

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Exactly, and you forget that once you have financial success,

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commercial success, then you think you know, you owe the

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industry or you owe the audience. You have to come

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up with something that sells, just like the record before.

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But you have to find your core where you really

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do what you love. And it doesn't matter what you're job.

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Did you say you have to you love? You have

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to do like he says something very intelligent.

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Well, you you have to love it for the audience

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to love it. Yeah, like it that you don't, that's it,

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you know, and we can tell we can. I've seen

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bands that I actually like, but then I look at

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them on stage. I'm like, Oh, they don't look like

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they're having much fun up there. And why are you

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in this industry if you're not having fun? Because the

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making music and playing music are the fun parts. If

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you're not having fun part with that the industry, that's

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a shit job. And I don't care what your job is.

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If it's sweeping floors, you better wake up in the

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morning and love your job or else you're not going

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to be good at.

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It, Aimen, And that's with anything in life. And you know,

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I live on a farm. Uh. I have been living

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on a farm for for the past five years, and

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where we breed and train horses, nice jumping horse, show

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jumping horses.

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That's ironic.

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Everybody, everybody in the in the show jumping scene, they go, well,

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you know, weren't you the singer of this band h

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Blocks and everything? What are you doing with show jumping?

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And I said, well, it's basically the same. Why well,

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because you know, once you get in it, everybody surrounding you,

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your family, your friends, they go, well, you can't do that,

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you don't make any money out of it. And you

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spend insane hours on going to the stable or going

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to the rehearsal rooms because you do something that you

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love and you don't want to live without it. And

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that's basically ninety percent of the passion that I live

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for and that they live for it. And once you

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have this core and you have this well you know,

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you have this perspective of seeing life, that you want

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to do something twenty four hours a day that you love,

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that's all to it. And for us now after more

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than thirty years of existence, we come ourselves to if

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we don't have fun, we don't go out there.

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Yeah, of course, and like it's so funny, you said,

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what you did because my radio studio for twenty years

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has been in the winter equestrian capital.

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Of the world. I yeah, Miami, it's Wellington, Wellington. I

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know all of our riders they go there. Yeah, the

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worse of course. Yeah.

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Like I used to bry, we gotta we gotta exchange

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numbers man, because that's crazy.

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I used to for years broadcast equestrian shows. They're all

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the hunter jumper shots. I don't believe you massage, you.

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Know, because we have a horse that's starting at the

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at the World Cup, at the World Championships next month.

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Nice look at that.

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It was so wild when you were s because how

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how I don't believe connect from the United States to

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Germany to talk about hunter jumpers.

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Well, you got to come visit me because I have

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a podcast about where I interview people that that are

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really into horse riding, you know, professional horse riders, and

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it's not about the horse riding scene or whatever. It's

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basically it's about the h the way you look at

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your profession, what you do, and it's more of a

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mindset podcast than just anything.

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Yeah. I love that.

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Yeah, because Michael Mark Bullissimo and Michael Stone, I know,

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extremely well insane so you know those names, right, because.

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When I you know, when I heard that we were

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going to do the interview, I said, well, I definitely

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want to do this. And then Tom or Toe manager,

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he said, well, either it's going to be the best

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interview he had in a long time or it's the

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the worst piece of ship that you can imagine. And

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I mean it was true, he was he was right.

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This is this is fate bringing us together. I know,

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it's so wide I can roll in horse riding. I mean,

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how many people is there in the world that these

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things no?

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Right? You know?

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And it's wild too because there's nobody really else in

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Germany that I would ever meet that would know Wellington Florida.

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Fuck, it's that's that's really crazy. And yeah, I mean

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we have this this one horse that's uh that was

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starting in Miami as well the Global champions Tour and

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she's she's competing in the World Cup as well. So yeah,

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we we've just been to Paris in Hong Kong and

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saw the tournaments there.

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So I have a trivia question for you based on

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something you just said. Do you know what huge rock

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and roll person is always at those hunter jumper shows?

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How Springsteen. You got it.

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He lives right across the street from my studio, does

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he Yeah, my part of time because he lives in

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Jersey too.

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His daughter, his daughter is really big in CHOJN.

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Totally and I'm from Jersey and I lived near him

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in Jersey.

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And now actually Bruce Bruce's horses or his daughter's horses

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being treated by one of my really good friends. She's

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a chiropractect for horses, and she did Bill Gates's horses

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and Bruce's horses, and the guy that we that would

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collaborate with exclusively, he's selling horses to both of them

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as well.

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You know, it's funny because I remember when Bill Gates

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moved to Wellington first he wanted to test it out,

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so he rented a house for one hundred thousand a month.

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We're supposed to talk about a rock and roll man,

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I'm so jumping. This is crazy, Finte man.

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I love you know it's cool to combine both worlds.

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Yeah, and it's it's I mean, it's ninety percent the

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same thing. Seriously, when you say, kid, you can explain

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to nobody why you're into horse riding. Now can explain

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to nobody that you want to make a living out

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about being a musician.

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I've worked with musicians or whatever.

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Yeah, we used to have like all kinds of horse

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shows on our station because that's where we were. And

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you know, I have a funny story for you too,

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Like you know how there's love of the Argentinians in Wellington.

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So they had a show and they stood in my

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studio and one day they were they had some green

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stuff and they were doing something and then they said

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the word a word and I thought they said mota,

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which in Mexican's fetchion's marijuana, okay, But then I said

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you can't do that here and they laughed and they're

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like no, it's modee okay, yeah right yeaheah yeah, which

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obsessed with you know, they couldn't do their show without

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the made first I understand.

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You know they always have these fancy, these fancy cups

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where they have this this metal straw where they sit

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this mate all the time.

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You know that's so funny, you know, like because I

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know so many people in Wellington in that industry that

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the giusage, the polo, you know, all of it, you know,

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and it is amazing because, as you know, you have

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to be inside the club. That's why I had my

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studios where I did. I mean, I lived there. But

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there's two parts of Wellington. There's a question in Wellington, right,

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and then there's New Wellington. And if you're in New

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Wellington you're not in the club. It's like you have

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to be part of that club, which you know, you're

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part of the club. I'm part of the club. And

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this almost didn't happen because he might have thought it was.

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The worst interview.

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Yeah, but you know what I think is so genius

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about horse riding. There's two ways to get in there

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in the club, which is either you have shitloads of

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money or you have the passion for horses for the

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game exactly. You can't fake it. Now, both you can't

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fake having money, and you can't fake the love for

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the for the horses and for the sport. And that's crazy,

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and especially horse riding. Same as music, you know, it

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combines from the people of the lowest social standards up

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to the to the high flying billionaires people. But in

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this situation, when when you watch a horse, or you

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ride a horse, or you make music or you talk

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about music, it's all.

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The same, yeah, exactly. That's why I love it.

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And what's funny is my head engineer he passed away,

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but I'm sorry. Yeah, he was one of my best

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friends too, and he was a great engineer.

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Like he was like he used to go.

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that on the radio like thing. I'm like, no, he goes,

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we need to fix that. I'm like, okay, go ahead,

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you know, and so but he used to He's also

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a musician and he comes from a polo family. His

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father was a famous polo player. His brother in law's

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famous bolo player. But he would play around town. He

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would play barn parties. His gigs were barn party the equestrians.

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So we do combine the music and the horse sutally.

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And as I said, it's it's like ninety percent of

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the same thing, just have a different expression.

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Unbelievable, Like it's even this is a great surprise for

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me too, because as you can see, it got me excited.

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And look at Vuckin'. I mean, you know, this is a.

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Village of about two three thousand people, right, and it's

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basically it's farming, you know, and these farmers they're very

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practical orientated. They you know, they either they love something,

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they love an idea and can't be too crazy and

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it can't be crazy enough. And this is the only

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reason why Vucking is so successful, because it was built

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from the ground up and not something that's that's you know,

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rich investors bought. I mean, it's commercially very successful, no

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doubt about it. But you can still feel the love

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on and off stage. And I just love I've said

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it all day.

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I love the concept of the fact that people, these

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people started like this small little thing and built it

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to the biggest heavy metal festival in the world. I'm impressed.

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That's why it comes down.

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And it's the little things, you know, the catering or

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all these these pieces of art. I mean, you would

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never have that because it's too expensive to move them

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here and to move them back afterwards. Yeah, nobody would

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have would afford that because it's senseless. It doesn't make

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any money, right, That's what they underestimate is the feeding

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that makes the that makes the philosophy.

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Basically, well you probably get what I'm saying.

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Absolutely so anything else you want to tell the listeners

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about your music and how to connect with you, get

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your your latest album, get your merch all that good stuff.

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Well, I was talking earlier about the how we discoverage

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rage against the machine, and it's always about you know,

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I've I feel like I'm not open minded enough to

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new music, and I have this trend of money. He

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always plays me with all these these tunes and I go, well,

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how the fuck did not didn't didn't.

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I see that? And we Uh.

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The first time we came to the United States was

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in nineteen ninety nine for the Vands Walk Tour, and

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we played with then very very unknown bands like the

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Black Eyed Piece, like eminem Blink one eighty two, Jimmy World,

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and we had we had a crazy time and we

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did the walk in him for a stone called Steve Austin.

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So we had a small following of people, and I

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think there still are some people that know the band

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H Blocks.

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We just do more. Check us, right, just check us out.

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I mean, long before new metal was even around, we

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were there and thanks.

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For having us. We need just check it out. Just

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just listen to it. It's h Blox.

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Yeah, and I want to tell you one last thing.

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You got a fifteen minute more longer in you than

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Tom Morello.

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I interviewed Tom Morello.

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The tour manager said, you got a hard one minute,

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and I did it fifty nine seconds.

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I had that with at cheering ones. Nice.

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This manager gave us forty five minutes and we ended

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up five hours because I hosted a show as well.

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Nice, I love it.

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Well, we'll have to talk about that too, because I

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own the whole podcasting network I'm partnered with.

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iHeart you know and help me. Thanks Love for having me. Hey,

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thanks for being here for that for fifteen minutes I

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know right, and thanks for being on the adventure. We

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got to change exchange addresses.

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We absolutely will.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Plateland. I'm

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w for CUI Radio.