Oct. 1, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Black Veil Brides at Louder Than Life 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Black Veil Brides at Louder Than Life 2025

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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans

Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com

Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.

Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.

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Hi, you lnto. Here's sure.

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Fee Wow crazy young.

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It's the pipe Man here on the Avengers Pipe Man

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W four c Y Radio and I'm.

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Here with Andy Beersakam from blackvel Brides.

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Nice here at Louder than Life.

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Yeah.

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Now you've played this festival, but.

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No our first time. Wow surprising. We've played every other

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Danny Wimmer festival many times for whatever reason, this one

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has just never worked out schedule wise. So we're really honored.

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And I heard just now that this is now officially

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the largest music festival and attendance in the United States

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and the history of the United States.

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Correct.

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Pretty cool.

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And you came at the right time.

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They had to put two new stages because you're here,

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because you're bringing such a big crowd, and so that

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are seven stages at this festival.

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And as you saw, it's massive.

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Yeah, and it even includes did you see it moves

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includes the amusement park.

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I did. I saw the ferris wheel on the way in.

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Oh well, you got to see a picture of the

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ferris wheel from last week. I've pulling up while we're talking.

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It's badass. It wasn't bad ass at the time, I

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can tell you though, but oh wow, that was last

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week and that's a crazy photo, right wow, Because Danny

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does another festival called Burban Beyond. Yeah, but they switched

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a whole venue, Like, I think it's way better now

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it's on this side and it's so much bigger crowds.

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I couldn't believe Thursday the first day, you don't expect much.

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Yeah, it was like pack. My manager plays bas for

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Rob Zombie. Oh so he told me it was just

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absolutely insane here.

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Yeah, it was totally.

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And I go all over the world doing festivals, and

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I think this is getting comparable to Hellfest at this.

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Point from what I've heard first time though, very excited.

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I love it. So what keeps you going in this

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music industry?

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I don't really know anything else. I started the band

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when I was sixteen. I'm thirty four now. It's been

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my entire life. I'm a high school dropout who started

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touring and what's how I make a living. It's my

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creative expression. My wife is also an artist, so my

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life just revolves around music and touring and making records

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and it's just it is everything to me.

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And I love that you have this energy like you

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totally love it because there's two types. Yeah, and you

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should love it because everything else If you don't love music,

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everything else in this industry is.

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Not one hundred percent.

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Yeah, i'd see your Batman sure got a couple. Yeah.

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So yeah, my show or my persona, Yeah, is patterned

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after Dark Knight. Yeah, like, I'm totally it's my favorite superhero.

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Same well obviously.

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Yeah.

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I got the logo and blazoned on my skin. I

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got this when I was about probably seventeen years old.

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It's a pretty crappy tattoo, but I've had it ever since. Well,

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it's still cool one now, thank you, thank you.

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You know what I love about him is he's not

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an alien, he doesn't have superpowers.

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Just a badass. Yeah.

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That went through a lot of crap. Yeah, it became

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a badass, right. Can you relate to that as a musician?

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Well, I think that is one of the main reasons

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that I connected so much with the character as a kid,

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especially was I grew up not far away from here.

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I grew up about two hours away from here in Cincinnati.

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Wow.

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And there wasn't really a scene for the kind of

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music I wanted to do at the time, and I

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didn't really have a lot of there wasn't really like

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a group of people that were interested in this kind

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of thing, and so I pictured myself as this lone

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dark knight, kind of creating this version of myself that

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I wanted to be, and going on stage was almost

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like putting on the batsuit, you know, it's a different

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version of me. And yeah, I think even on just

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a personal level, connecting to the character. And then my

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dad is a big fan of the character, and he

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and I connected on that and we've always read comics

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together and seen the movies together and everything, and we're

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really close. So it's just a big part of my life.

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I'm glad you brought up about when you go on stage,

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because Samon's me in radio. It's like as soon as

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a mic and there's that alter ego character.

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Sure.

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Yeah, people don't realize there's multiple facets of everybody's personality

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and they look at you up on stage and they

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think that's who you are all the time, right right,

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So speaking of that music isn't part of the answer.

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Yeah, what's your passion now.

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Well, I've always been very passionate about sports. I've been

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lucky to get to I did it for a number

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of years, I hosted the pregame show in Cincinnati on

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the radio station in Cincinnati for the Bengals. That was

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three hours every Sunday pregame. But that's a big part

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of my life. I grew up playing sports, so I've

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always been into that. I like collecting. I collect a

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lot of toys and stuff like that. So I guess

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you could say, like little kid hobbies. I'm just you know,

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I'm an adult with disposable income, so I can afford

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to have a little kid hobbies.

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Right right? Why not?

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You know, like my kids will always say me, Oh,

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you're just a big kid.

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Yeah, that's the way it should.

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I think that's the way to be.

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That's where life is fun.

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So how do you like being on that side of

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the mic when you were announcing doing all that?

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Oh?

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I really loved it. Yeah, I And again, kind of

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I had a little bit of pedigree. My dad was

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did radio when I was a kid, who had a

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show in a country music station in Dayton, Ohio and

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nice he did sports radio as well, and so I

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kind of followed in the footsteps in that way. I've

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just always enjoyed hearing the sound of my own voice.

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So it was the perfect mystery.

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People don't either, right, They're like, oh, I hate how

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I sound, but no, not me.

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You sound fine, But I love that you love your

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own voice. That sends a lot.

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Right then, well, I'm a lead singer, so we got

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we got a little bit of an ego issue.

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Ye help you? Right?

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And so Danny Wimmer, Yeah, you've done You've done festivals

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all over the world.

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Yeah. How do you like how Danny Wimmer treats the artist?

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It's changed the game. Really, we've played before these Wimmor

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festivals really took off to the degree that they now have.

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The US didn't have this thing. We would play in

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festivals in Europe and around the world, and it was

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a different vibe. And now the fact that I would

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say the US has surpassed a lot of these European markets,

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and that is entirely due to Danny putting on these

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festivals and the way that they've grown year over year.

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And it's also incredibly crucial to maintain and grow rock

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as a thing. Yes, we don't get a lot of

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mainstream moments in the hard rock genre, right and so,

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but the attendance at this and the number of people

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that come to all the different Wimmor festivals is evidence

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that there's an audience for it. They just need to

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be given a moment.

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Nobody knew how to do it right till Wimmer is

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right point. I think part is how you treat the

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artists one hundred percent know and like in sixteen years

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of doing this festivals, I've never heard or say a

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bad thing about Wimmen.

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No, there's nothing to say. But it's a great experience.

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The shows are huge, the crowds are great, and we

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have there's excellent amenities for the artists.

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There.

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You go one story, good or bad in your whole

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musical career, what really sticks out in your mind?

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Wow, there's a lot.

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That's why. That's always the hard question.

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That's a tough question, isn't it. Well, I'll tell you

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what's sticking out right now. I jumped off a stage

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in twenty eleven about thirty feet down to the ground

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and landed on a marble pillar and broke all my ribs.

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And when sometimes now at thirty four, that is very

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present in my mind as I feel the pain of

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those broken ribs. So I woke up this morning with

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a little bit of a I guess you could call

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it a souvenir of my past.

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Right, a souvenir of boy I was an idiot?

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Yes, yeah, I was. I was not particularly smart in

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those days.

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This is my souvenir of being an idiot. Okay, this

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is my battle the battle vest.

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That's a classic.

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I climbed up on Marshall Stack as show and did

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a stage dive full swan midair. The crowd moved and

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the blood is on this vest. Wow, knocked out my

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whole front teeth.

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That's a real battle vest.

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Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah.

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So anything else you want to share with the listeners

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that you have coming up, everything going on that we

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haven't covered Array.

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We just finished a new record. It'll be out next year.

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We have one song out right now called Hallelujah from

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the record, and we'll have another song out by the

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end of this year and then touring all next year.

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We're very excited about him.

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All right, Well man, you guys rock.

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I'm glad you're here at Lard and like you and

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thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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Appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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Pipemin on w for c U. I radio