PipemanRadio Interviews Amber Wild at Aftershock 2023

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Amber wild Nice here at Aftershock sir. Oh my god, how psyched are

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you about this festival? Oh?
This is our first festival we've ever played,

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so this is really wild for us. Yeah, we got together and

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was it January? So everything's kind
of new for us. But to get

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to play one of these early on
is pretty pretty crazy, especially two reasons.

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One, this one of all the
DWP festivals is the one I love

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most. Oh the lineups fucking insane. And look at this back here,

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the hangout back here, you know, like artists don't even go back there.

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They stay here because we've got a
chef cooking food, open bar,

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drip bar. Oh, we'll be
here all day there you go. See

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that's most of the artists are.
You know. It's just a cool vibe,

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you know. Sure. And one
thing about Danny Wimmer festivals. I'm

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sure you've experienced already. Like,
he knows how to take care of the

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artists number one. Number one,
he knows how to do a festival.

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I like I do all the festivals
in the United States. I do some

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UK and European ones. By far, there's way better than any other festival

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in the United States. He just
knows what he's doing, knows how to

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organize it, to take care of
everybody, and to do it the right

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way one thousand percent. And they
got a reputation for that. I mean,

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I've been lucky. I've grown up
going through a lot of festivals on

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the artist's side, and like as
soon as you show up in a DWP

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festival, everyone's so much happier everyone, right. I remember even my dad

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when we rolled into Aftershock last year, He's like, Danny puts on the

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best festivals. They're so great,
They're well organized, the lineups, like

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everyone at every level seems to rave
about him. Yeah, So you know,

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we couldn't be more stoked to be
here, I know, right,

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And you'll have a huge crowd here
after Shock. No matter what time you

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play, there's like bands at play
like we were shot at nine in the

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morning. We were the first band, so we're like, yeah, we're

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gonna play to like our friends.
That's that showed up. And when we

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get on stage, like shit,
there are a bunch of people here and

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they're into it. Dude. As
I was walking into me a tent,

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there were people running up to the
Uh. These artists, they always got

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intervene in interviews. Well, he's
in the band, so it makes sense.

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Holy shit, how did I not
know that? Ye Oh my god,

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that's so cool. I love it. See that now even feel better

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interviewing you guys. I know somebody
I thought it was because I have that

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appen all the time. Are is
like, hey, well don't just come

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up and middle interview. Hey,
what's going on? That's so cool.

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So yeah, I saw people running
up to the rail and like gates just

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open. Oh yeah, you don't
see that. At the other festival,

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Shirtless Guy, we were line checking
at like eleven fifty three and people were

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running to the rails. It's like
all right, cool, right, we

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are here for it. There you
go. So you also did shows the

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final end of the road for Kiss. Yeah. So after this we got

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a week of rehearsals in La and
then we head to Cincinnati. So October

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nineteenth, we got our first two
singles coming out Break Guys Silver, and

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we got our first arena show.
So that's fucking wild. Wow. So

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how would you describe your music Cuz
I'm sure like, as Paul's kid,

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you're probably like, well, I
want to play something different, But then

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there's other kids are like I want
to play something similar. You know,

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I think both those approaches are wrong. I think you got to just do

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what you love and do it to
the best of your ability. And when

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I got this together, I met
the guys and we all kind of fell

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in real quick, and it was
like, let's just be the best real

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live rock band that we can be. And you know, I think something

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that's really really cool about playing together
in a band is that chemistry between guys

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when you play live. And that's
that's why we don't use tracks like I

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miss seeing more of that, you
know, like warts and all, because

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then you also get extra magic that
you can't get when you're locked into something.

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And that was kind of that was
kind of the whole thing when we

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got together. It's like, let's
write the best songs we can and just

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have a shit ton of fun playing
them. Well, you know what,

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the key to a band lasting is
the first thing you said, writing good

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songs, because those stand the testa
time. Well, thank god. I

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remember when I first met Tommy because
we met through a mutual friend and I'd

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seen him play before and I knew
he was just like a badass drummer.

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But the first night we hung out, we always seem to end up in

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one of our cars just cranking tunes, and I forget what we listened to

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first. You know, some heavy
no, but it was some heavy shit

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first, and You're like you like
Gordon was like yeah, And then we

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started listening to Gordon Lightfoot and I'm
like, all right, this guy's sick

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like nice. It's it's funny because
you know, if you ask Evan if

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he wants to sound like Paul or
not, Evan wants to sound like what

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inspired Evan, Like, we're taking
a lot of stuff from what we grew

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up on and what inspired us to
play in the first place. And it's

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like I could I mean, hey, I wouldn't be drumming right now if

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it wasn't for Kiss, that's for
sure. And it's just there's a lot

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of bands, whether it's I think
that's just about anybody walking the plane.

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Yeah, you can't deny it.
It's just like all these instance from all

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these different genres. It's really interesting
because they all you know, what we're

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all drawn to. There's one common
ground, and that is real live music.

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We don't play tracks, we don't
use clicks. We're just trying to

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live that rock and roll live.
It's a conversational thing too. It's just

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like it's all us in the moment. You're gonna get different things different nights.

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It's not the same, it's not
pre planned. It's just the best

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of what we got for you.
And the thing about that too is like

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like Tommy said, we all grew
up. There's a lot of common ground

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on our influences, but there's a
lot of diversity too, And I think

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you get an interesting sound by bringing
little bits from outside genres into what you

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do. You know, like,
I don't want to listen to a rock

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band that only listened to Zeppelin because
they're gonna sound like a bad version of

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Zeppelin. I'd much sounds familiar.
I could have no, I could have

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said, I I'm not trying to
throw shade. I could have thrown how

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let's put it this way. I
want to listen to anyone playing live instruments

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and having a blast. Agree.
I will also and I will always love.

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I could have said ac DC,
I could have said kiss, I

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could have said any band. But
you didn't, well because because I was

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listening to Zeppelin for five hours driving
up here. I love Zepplin. I'm

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a Zeppelin freak. You want to
listen to my I want to see my

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cue? No. But the thing
is, it's like I love Zeppelin,

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I'm a Jimmy Page freak. He's
my favorite guitar player. That guy is

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ridiculous, But there's so many other
players I love. And by incorporating bits

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of Brian May, bits of Peter
Green, bits of Rory Gallagher, bits

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of you know, magic Sam,
then you end up not sounding exactly like

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any one of them. The idea
is to do that both as an individual

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player, as a writer, and
as a band. You got you gotta

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pull little bits from everywhere, and
then hopefully you end up with something at

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least somewhat unique. Absolutely, and
I here's an interesting story for your first

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album I ever had in my life. I won at Seaside heights on the

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boardwalk. There was this really cool
album up there, this cool picture on

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it. I'm like, that's the
one I want. It just came out.

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It was a brand new album,
Kiss, which one first? The

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first one? Tommy's the resident kiss
expert. It's like, people ask me

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kiss questions. I've asked. He
I don't know, like he's the Oh

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yeah, I was a kiss freak
my whole childhood, I know, right.

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I mean when I grew up,
I picked up a lot of all

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my dad's music. And you know, I'm the youngest in the band depending

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on who you ask, and uh, it's all you know. My dad

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introduced me to all this rock and
metal, and my mom got me into

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all this eighties new wave and alternative
dance. And Marshall got me into Judas

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Priest. Is that right? Huh
that's damn right. Kk he shout out

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kk Downer. I love kk too, like I talked to him now.

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I love kk Kk's priest man.
Oh he's just the coolest dude ever.

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Yep, my favorite. He's my
hero. Watching Priests US Festival nineteen eighty

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three. Up there, I was
there, that you were there, I

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was there, Oh way, I
was there, dude, was it like

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fifth from the stage when they were
playing No Way Man? Watching that full

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set? You know, when I
was a kid growing up, I was

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like, I want to be that
guy because you know, I'm blonde and

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he plays a flying V. I
got a flying V because he plays a

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flying V and that's what I wanted
to do. I'd sat at home and

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learn British steel riffs all day,
you know, I love it. That's

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all my favorite stuff. Yeah,
tell everybody how they can reach out to

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you guys on socials, on the
web, by your merch check out all

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your stuff. Yea. The easiest
way to find us is Instagram. Amber

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Wild Band. You type an Amber
Wild Band virtually anywhere will pop up.

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It's the big aw with a line
through it and all our pretty faces.

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But we got stuff coming out October
nineteenth. So if you go on Spotify,

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Apple Music, Title, Amazon,
whatever else you might use, pre

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save that helps us out a ton
and hopefully we'll be coming to a city

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near you next month. Love it, Love you guys. I think you're

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gonna be like my next favorites because
just your attitude. Interview, just the

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add tode of the interview alone is
good for me. I'll send you a

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private stream you can check these songs
out and then hopefully we lock you.

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You'll lock me. Definitely do that, and thanks for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Man. So appreciate you
having us. Thanks Man, Thank you

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for listening to the Adventures of pipe
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