Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Sully of Sullvn at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest

Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky

World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.

The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.

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Hey, you love done too.

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Yes, that's true. Wow for you 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.

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Here with Sully Nice.

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You're a bourbon and beyond.

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Could be better. Man, What a great place to say.

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I know it's a coolie, so.

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Good and not just the artists here, but the whole

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Danny Wimmer just does an unbelievable job out here and

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it's insanity in terms of the organization he puts through here,

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and it was just so friction free.

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As an artist it was.

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That's why why I hear how the artists are treated

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by Danny Wimmer.

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Yeah, I'm the best I've ever seen in all the

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years I've been doing this, and I'll tell you he's

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got it figured out. And as you can see it,

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there isn't a single speed bump out there and they're

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not getting in their own way, which is the best part.

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Even down to the yellow jackets outside, everybody's just fantastic.

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It's such a good, good event.

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Yeah.

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I love hearing that because if you're a band performing

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at a festival, you're not using your own sound crew.

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You're not using your own crew for most anything and

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you want to be as stress free as possible, which

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normally is not the case.

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Well, yeahah, they also want to put on the best

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show you can for the people. I mean, let's think said,

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we're San Diego band, come from California. For us to

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come out here and see people singing our words back

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to us is I think we owe them the best

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show we can give them.

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And you're right.

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When it's friction free and we come out here, it's fantastic.

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And I'll tell you the whole city of Louisville, the fans,

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Danny himself, the bourbon beyond staff, just even the backstage guys,

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even the road dogs. Unbelievable, so good stuff, Like I

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couldn't give it a higher mark.

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Listen.

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I knew it was going to be great because we've

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never played here before, but I had no idea it

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was going to be. Like I was a fan here.

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I was almost got a Marguerite and sat in the

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front while I was singing because it was.

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Just so cool.

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Oh that's so cool.

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And then is it blow your mind when you're playing

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that early festival, in the beginning festival and there's that

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many people.

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Yeah, it was good.

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You know, we knew, you know, we're I started writing

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music many many years ago, but I kind of started

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going commercial when I started writing with Rome Sublime with

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Rome last year and we released a number of songs.

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A few of them got pretty good views in terms

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of Apple Music and Spotify and Sutch got a little

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radio play and such like that. But then got together

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with John Feldman from from Goldfinger and alvl Lavine fame

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and started writing with him. And next thing, you know,

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we have a pile of people every day watching.

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And listening to what we're doing. And you come out here.

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It's like, wait a second, We're twenty five hundred miles

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away from home.

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What are we doing here? I mean we surfed yesterday morning.

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I love that John a surfer.

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Yeah, And it's completely I just come that. We come

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out here and the people may be different, you guys

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drive slower, but other than that, it was the love

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of the same. Music was just was It was infectious

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for us. On stage, it was so good. I got

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into it almost immediately.

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See, that makes the experience.

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It's that much better because if the band's game into it,

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then you get just so much more into Well.

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I look down at the set list and I realized, Shit,

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we're seven songs in. We only got two to go.

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I didn't realize. I looked, we wived up here for

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five minutes.

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It wasn't the case. I realized it was love that

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can't wait to come back here. If we get invite

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it back, we're definitely here.

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All right. I love it, And so let's talk about

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you just dropped. Well.

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I got the impression that you just dropped that cool

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ship that song.

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And I listened to.

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It, and I was like, fucking a, that's good, and

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it's hard to say that way.

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Cover.

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Well, listen, we knew we had to do a cover.

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I spent many years in talk radio in southern California

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and number one guy in Afternoon Drive and my rejoiner music,

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my bumper music was was Mighty Mighty Bostones.

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Impressed that I got.

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And there's a couple there's a couple of places you

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can hit the post ride the faders are coming in

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and when the when I was with the label talking

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about and I said, we got to do impression that

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I got, But I said we can make it our

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own because I got the same growl that he's got,

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that Dicky Bear's got. But we'll make it our own.

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We make it sound like a party, which we did.

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And then the best part of it was, as we're

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doing this, we're talking about shooting a video.

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I said to them, what about the very end of

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the video? You saw a set of hands.

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They're watching the video on an iPhone and it pans

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back and it's Dicky Barrett and he thumbs up, Well,

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he'd love to watch the video on Fine, if we

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got if we pull that off.

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Oh my god, that's so cool. And so what else

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you got going on? After Bourban Beyond?

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So we've got we head to Las Vegas to play

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with gold Finger, John Fellman's band Nice. We've got a

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song called Seasons that I wrote with Rome. It's dropping

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in about four weeks. It's gonna be in Tyler Perry's

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next Christmas movie, Wow comes out.

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That's cool.

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We kind of gear up. We got enough music to

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take us through twenty twenty six.

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We'll be dropping singles every month and playing about more

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and more.

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How does it feel to be on the other side

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of the mic?

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I was in media so long and being in a

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band was an avocation, and as you know better than anybody,

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you get to be a big fish a little pond,

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and everybody knows who you are, but you can't get

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arrested outside of that city. Sometimes that's what I'm with

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our band. I couldn't figure out if our band was

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good because I was popular on air, or if it

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was good because it was good. And as I said

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a number of times, big validation for us to come

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out here and see people singing songs back to us

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twenty five hundred miles away.

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Who never heard your radio show pro ever, no, ever.

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That has no idea that many of the people I

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say that to you have no ideas in media for

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a long time. So yeah, it's surreal. It's highly unimpressive

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what's going on backstage. When people look at what's going

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to the.

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Music business, it seems like it's so glamorous. Let me

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tell you the bust glamorous part of is what we

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do on stage.

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What you guys do watching uh the scenes, it's like

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working at Costco, which I did for twenty years as

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a kid.

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You see me laughing because, like listen, I lived the

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whole Sunset strip scene in the eighties. In the eighties,

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right way, where's a bunche of debauchery?

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Now?

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Like all my friends were like, hey, can you get

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me backstage? I'm like, it's.

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Boring, you know what to do? I would rather be

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out there.

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I was talking to Gabriel McNair, who's playing trombone on

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the number of my songs. He's, of course quin Stefani's

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horn player, and we're talking about the same thing out

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Just when you go watch a band backstage, don't because

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you can't hear that's the first time back it's everything

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you see in pictures that it's so funny because this

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whole starmaker machine thing is not as glamorous as it

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may seem. It's like everybody in this business, and I'm

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talking about the highest level celebrities I've met on both

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sides and microphone, are just people.

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And that's what you have to remember.

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Totally.

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Save the Taylor Swifts of.

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The world and maybe the Bontos of the world and

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Mick Jaggerson, all the rest of us are just like

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you guys.

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One hundred percent.

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And it's funny what you said about like being side stage.

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People tell me, I'm like, do you know where my

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band friends want me to go? When they want to

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go see a set, they want they say come on,

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let's go in front of the house like it's thesund

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Unless you just want to hear drums, that's exactly right.

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When you hear drums and a guy singing to a

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microphone without Benny background, you can.

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Do that exactly.

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Now, tell everybody how they can reach out to you,

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guys on socials on the web. Buy your merch most importantly,

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because that's how you get from gig to gig.

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That's true.

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So it's Sullivan Music on every single plot form, s

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U l v N. The reason they did that is

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because we had a different name prior and they wanted

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to have all of our socials match and the only

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way to do is to drop the I in the A,

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So it's s U l v N. But if you

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type in Sullivan Music and Google will take you there.

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And then we're on Instagram and Spotify, all major music

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finder stuff, and you can go to Celly Entertainment Group

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dot com also to find us, so we're pretty easy

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to find.

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Beautiful. A final words, you want to leave our listener.

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Yeah, invite us back next year. We want to be

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here next year. If you hear that, Danny, bring them back, Danny,

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get me back. Here next year I want to do

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I want to do a six week run here, just

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right here in this part of the country.

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And you gotta do all the other Danny Wimmer festivals

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for sure too. It will be the same experience. And

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we need a band.

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Like you there.

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Yeah, and you need to you need to get back

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to Sante's get in the water.

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That's right, So for you getting water. I live in

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South Florida, go to Costa Rico all the time. All right,

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you know, right on there, it is all right.

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Thanks a lot, bro, Thanks and thanks for being on

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the Adventures bipe Man.

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Thanks Bell, thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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