Oct. 8, 2024

Pipeman Interviews Project Mishram at Louder Than Life 2024

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Pipeman Interviews Project Mishram at Louder Than Life 2024.

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band Project Mishram Nice here at Louder than Life. Is

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this your guys, first time at a Danny Wimmer festival? Yeah? Wow?

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How's it feel like? I always hear great things about

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how Danny Wimmer treats artists, so I want to hear

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from you guys since it's your first time.

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Well, we kind of applied for this festival like four

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five years ago on our own, but it was a

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cold call and we didn't expect this to happen. Like

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five years later and we're still like digesting that the

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stream is coming true, especially with bands that we watched

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growing up and you know, sharing a festival with them,

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it's absolutely fucking insane.

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Nice, You're still digesting it. So is there a band

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that you want to see today?

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Oh, there are so many bands we want to see.

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Today's lineup is like Ginger, Polaris, Gojira. I mean, these

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are bands we've taken so much inspiration from as we've

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written over the last ten years. And it's just undreai,

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like Shiva said, to be able to share the state

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with them, a festival with them, incredible crowds, like larger

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than Life is Louder than Life is probably the largest

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festival we have ever played at, which is awesome.

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So yeah, we're very excited. Yeah, you were almost right,

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it could be louder than Life is larger than.

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Absolutely, I guess the slip of tongue was yeah right.

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How do you compare playing over here in the US

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compared to other countries, especially your home We.

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Haven't actually played a festival in our home country. Really,

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we've played We've played a lot of shows.

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All the way over here.

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Well, we've played a couple of festivals in the UK,

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but this is definitely the festival with the largest proportions,

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and it's just it's life affirming. Really, the whole experience

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has been really life affirming. Now just six were impeccably

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managed for us. We've been taking care of really well.

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And that's the key thing that I hear a lot

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with artists doing this festival for years and all the

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DAMILY member festival is that they really treat the artists

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like they make it so stress free for you.

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Yeah. Absolutely, and in fact the other DWP festivals as well,

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I think after Shock, right, So these are all like

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we applied to these like many years ago, but we'll

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see someday. We've also played in the UK as well,

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which one festivals? So we played UK tech festky So,

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a prog metal festival, and then our Tangent in twenty

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twenty three. All right, cool, Yeah, this is absolutely huge,

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So there's.

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A nerd thing, okay, So, like, how do you compare festivals?

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They are more like tech progressive type of festivals compared

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to the rock metal type of festivals.

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As a band, sure, I think tech prog festivals people

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come in there expecting to see prog music. Yeah, and

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you have a much more focused audience, like who know

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what they want. The cool thing about playing at a

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festival like Louder than Life or a rock and metal

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festiv in general is people don't know what to expect,

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and the reception has been incredible. Right, I don't want

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toot our own horn, but we are like kind of

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different from most of the other bands that play here

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in terms of how we approach music, and it's just

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been incredibly warm and open to listening to different types

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of music. We have a very different sound. We're you know,

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mixing Indian elements in our music, which dates back thousands

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of years in itself. So if to get to do

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this to such an open and accepting audience has been

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absolutely incredible.

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I love hearing that. And you know, to your point

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of your music is and I'm a metalhead, but you're

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a But I also like Prague. Your music is way

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more musicianship and musical and like composed the post it

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just heavy and loud and fast.

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Yeah, no for sure. Well, just before I say anything else,

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I'm conscious we didn't. We're just changing voices at this point.

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But that was so much the money speaking before. He's

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our lead guitarist. My name is ram I play bass.

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Nice.

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As for the songs, yes, we have a lot of influences.

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Tessa Act, for example, is a big influence of the

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entire band, who are similar in terms of a very

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high level of technicality, Yeah, but a really keen sense

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of rhythm. And we all we're seven members in the band,

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so we have a lot of perspectives coming together converging

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to create a song. So we have a bunch of

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appreciations for technicality, and more recently, i'd say we've also

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been leaning towards a lot of songs with really catchy

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chord progressions and really big sounding choruses. So I'd like

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to think that we want to reflect our name as

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much as possible. Our name Micham means mixture in the

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language Sanskrit. I love it, so we want to represent

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that as much as possible in our songwriting. So yeah,

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I feel like we're always evolving.

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What's cool about that is Okay, I've talked about this.

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What I come from a time where you could play

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this music or this music, and I prefer like what

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you just said, like nowadays you have bands that have

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different influences and multiple genre influences that you can make

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this mixed sound that makes you unique instead of everybody

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sound in like a robot exactly the same. Yeah, that's right.

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I think it's also a testament to the evolution of

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how people listen, like to music itself. I think people

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are a lot more accepting of hearing unconventional sounds and

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ideas more and more in mainstream music, which is nice.

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And I think we're able to do that because there

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has been that precedence building over the last few years

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exactly like you said, Like the music that I grew

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up listening to was like the seventies, eighties thrash, right,

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like I grew up in Palica and made in and whatnot.

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And yeah, so it's an evolution of the bands, it's

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an evolution of the audience perspectives itself, which is awesome.

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So what I want to though, is seven people in

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the band, how do you agree?

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That's a wonderful question. We try to follow the principle

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of democracy. I mean, here's a side note. When we

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go on road, we do this thing called democracy where

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everyone plays a song like in sequence. It's like our

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think mission sting and that's been spreading my Wi Fi

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with our friend circles. And so that's coming back to

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the topic. Yes, it's more of a democratic kind of

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a thing what the majority wants, but sometimes there are

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ideas that might not you know, actually fit the song,

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and if someone feels strongly, then we.

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Talk a lot and then we yeah.

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So it's mostly democratic.

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And I still think it's incredible because to get seven

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people to agree on stuff, it's hard work, you know,

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and especially if everybody's different, and like even too, that

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you can come out with such a great sound with

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seven people, seven different musicians. You know, sometimes it's hard

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enough with three or four musicians for them to be

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in time together and be on the same page to

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where it sounds good. And so it's very impressive that

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you can make seven and make that happen. No, thank you.

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We try to be as meticulous as possible about how

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we execute our songs as well. When so a month

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and Shiva here worked really hard with our sound engineer

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to create well the tracks that we played to during

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rehearsals and during stage performances that just enable to enable

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us to execute to the highest level possible so that

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we're all on time.

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Nice.

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I just want to add a comment to your question.

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I think you said seven people. I think of it

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as like seven different perspectives, seven different egos potentially. Yeah,

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but I think we started out. The cool thing is

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we started out we grew up in Bangalore in India,

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and we started out playing from the same college. We

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went to college together and we met and we became

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friends first before we start playing music together.

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So I think it's.

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Implicitly expected that the music and the song comes above

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our own perspectives, and we're always trying to strive for that.

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There has been songs that we made that some people

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in the band did not even like at first, but

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we stuck through it because that's what we wanted to

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do and we came out the other side loving it

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much more than we, you know, started out disliking it.

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So you're right too, starting off as friends first, that's

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key because it's hard enough to stay friends as a

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band as it is. That I think you need that foundation. Yeah.

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Absolutely, it's been ten years now, and the fact that

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we've stuck through despite being in different parts of the world.

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Four of us are in the USA, he sumonth is

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in San Francisco, three of us are in Boston, Ram

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is in the UK and Milton Keynes, and then we

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have another guitarist who couldn't make it here unfortunately, who's

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in the Netherlands, and the Flouts is from is in Bangalore, India,

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So we stuck together and making this happen was a

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magnanium a big task.

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Yeah, sorry, you had it right, magnanimous. Yeah, yeah, it's

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a hard word for us to say.

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Too, especially after a performance that right, Jerry Brain firts.

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Does it blow your mind that you're here at this

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festival that you haven't been to before, playing early last day,

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everybody's partying on Saturday night and there's a massive crowd

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out there.

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Yeah, for sure. We try to live in the moment

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a lot, and we really enjoy spending time with each other,

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so we don't often just sit and reflect on how

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far we've come, but today we did. Just before going

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on stage, we had a band huddle and we were

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all taking tons and talking about how far we've come.

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Where we started in the small rehearsal room in our university, Yeah,

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and where we are right now. It's honestly beyond what

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we could have prempted at the time.

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And it's great that you have that synergy together because

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going back to that, you know, if you're on tour

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and you gotta be around people all the time, you

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better like them, you know, or else you might have

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something happen that happened recently on TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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On that note, like, we'd like to definitely thank PPMI

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Berkeley Popular Music Institute as well for making this an

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absolute reality because, as I said, we applied five years ago,

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but it became a reality only because, like you know,

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we got auditioned.

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And yeah, so thank you BPMI. That's great. So do

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you have anything you want to tell the listeners that

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we haven't touched on yet that either about you or

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that's coming up.

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We make music very slowly and carefully, but we are

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very very active. We've got a whole bunch of tracks

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in the pipeline, potentially an EP sometime maybe next year.

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But yeah, please check out our entire catalog. We've got

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very diverse set of music. We've got a jazz track,

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We've gotten like this DM dubstep, grime wrap track. It's

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all over the place. I would really encourage you to

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we've got a whole bunch of much phone cases and

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T shirts and hoodies and whatnot.

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But yeah, nice, Well, glad to see you here at

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Louder than Life. I want to see you at some

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more dining wimmer festivals. Fingers crossed. There you go. I'm

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putting it out there so Danny can listen to this later.

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Thank you, no.

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Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure speaking to you,

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and it's just a pleasure being here in Gender Well.

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Thank you for being here, and thanks for being on

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the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man

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on w for CUI Radio.

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