PipemanRadio Interviews DJ Kilmore of Incubus at Aftershock 2023

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Radio And I'm here with d J
Kilmore from INKYB. Yeah, call me

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kill though. I love that.
And you know what's funny about that is

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people that aren't really into you,
but like you may not know what that

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means. If I just said,
hey, you know, I'm doing an

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interview with Killing, I might be
like, who's that. They'll be like,

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who's that? Well, you know, nobody knows the DJ. I'm

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a guy like the silhouette they see, you know, just in front of

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the backstage lights. You know,
they're all looking at Brandon. You know,

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they're waiting for him to take a
shirt off. Right. But I

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don't think there would be an incubist
without you. You know, they wouldn't

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be an incubist without all five of
us. That's right. That's that's what

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makes it special, is like everybody
has their part and that it's like a

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recipe for baking a cake, right, yeah, exactly exactly. It's a

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crazy recipe that's been around for over
twenty five years and it's still bacon.

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You know. It's funny too,
as you know. I do all these

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festivals too, and you know there's
some bands you see so many times and

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you're like, they're playing okay,
But then there's other bands like you guys,

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like every time I gotta catch yourself. I won't schedule any interviews because

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you're just badass every time. I
appreciate that, and that's that's key,

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because a live show is important.
Yeah, oh absolutely, I mean that's

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a bread and butter. These days, you know, we're not selling vinyl

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or CDs or any physical copies like
we used to, or or forty five's

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like your shirt, Oh yeah,
no more for Oh my god, how

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baby. People wouldn't know what that
is. Most people don't know. The

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older generation knows, but the younger
generation has no clue. They're like,

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that looks cool. The struggle was
real real. Yeah, oh my god,

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I can't believe I was looking.
I'm like, that's so funny.

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Yeah, you know, us DJ's
we're subtle but we're real there. It

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is. What can we expect here
after shock? Today? This hot weather,

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Oh it's hot, You're gonna be
shocked for sure. I would just

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say a classic incubist festival set.
You know, we got we got a

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couple of little surprises, but for
the most part, we're just gonna hit

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you with the bangers. Do you
have a song that is your favorite to

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play that's the most fun for you
to play? Yeah, there's a whole

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bunch of them. You know,
we're in our catalog. We're well over

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one hundred and thirty songs now right. I think some of the most favorite

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and meaningful songs are the earlier ones, kind of when I was still a

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greenhorn trying to figure out what I
was doing in this band. So my

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most fun song to play is probably
the Warmth Nice. There's a lot of

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whales on there and some scratching and
some organ playing, and it's just just

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a cool vibe and the crowd seems
to really love it, and it's one

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of my favorites. See what I
love about Somebody Like You is it's true

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experimentation. To me, That's what
music creativity is is like experimenting with sounds

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and different things and how it can
fit in to a song. Yeah,

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and I think that's like that's a
skill for sure, It definitely is.

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You know, when I first got
in this band, the guys just looked

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at me with like open jaws,
being like, what's what are you doing?

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What are you doing? I'm like, just trust me, one of

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these things is gonna work. Like, Okay, if it's not frogs,

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these whales will work. If it's
not if it's not a bird, you

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know, this snake kissing will work. Well. I was. I was

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playing for them all kinds of weird
sounds when I when I got these guys

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way back in the day, and
I was playing things from like me recording

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bus screeching at a at a sidewalk
bench, you know, waiting for the

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bus which actually made the record that's
cool, to whales and things like that,

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and they were just kind of like, what are you doing? I'm

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like, these this is almost like
a way of sampling, you know,

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And that's the world I came from. I came from DJing and sampling and

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things like that. So I'm always
trying to fit weird things into weirder music.

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I love that because, like when
I was a kid and I was

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playing instruments, I kind of sucked, but I always like, I wanted

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to make these weird sounds with everything, and my dad would like give me

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shit, and he'd be like,
uh, I think you better stick to

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something else. And I'm like he
didn't get it, and some people don't

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get it. Yeah, yeah,
my family didn't get it either. My

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dad asked me when I had asked
him for two turntables, why I needed

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too? He said, why do
you need to? You don't You're not

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gonna listen to two songs at the
same time. Oh man, that's that's

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breef. You know. He didn't
get it, but I persevered and kept

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on and eventually he got it.
Well, Persevering is a pretty good word

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to use, because like, what
is it in this business? You have

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to persevere, Like overnight success takes
like twenty years? Yeah yeah, yeah,

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yeah, that one hit wonder song
took twenty years to get to that

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exactly. Now, one hundred and
thirty songs. I think of, like,

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man, how the hell do you
write that many songs and just keep

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doing it? Well, Like,
does it blow your mind? Think about

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that that there's that many songs.
Yeah, we we have a song list

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in our studio and I keep it
keeps growing and I'm like, oh my

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goodness, how are we gonna if
we go back to this one song.

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I'm like, I don't even have
the same gear that I had back when

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we wrote that song. I don't
know how we play that one. But

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yeah, no, it's it's a
lot. And I think the way we

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keep going is that we hold ourselves
to a really high standard, and that

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standard gets higher and higher the more
we go out and tour and play the

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music for people. Then we start
to know, oh this works, this

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doesn't work. You know, this
is just a brain fart and we got

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lucky and it worked. It's not
going to work another time, you know

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what I mean. So we just
hold ourselves to a high standard. And

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I think if we if it makes
it past the five of us and we're

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all like, okay, let's put
our you know, seal of approval on

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it, then if it doesn't go
out to the world in the greatest way,

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at least we know that it's true
to our hearts and we like it.

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And that is key. That is
what creates the long and the longevity,

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because if you don't care about it
and you're not loving it, how

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can anybody else? Exactly exactly,
That's that's the truth. There's nothing more

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to say to that. How hard
is it to get five people that decide?

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Well, it's a lot harder now
than it used to be. Right,

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everybody's got families, come into rehearsal, start at one. Not everybody

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will show up till two, and
then at three point thirty the drum will

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be like, oh, I gotta
go, I gotta go pick up my

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daughter. And so you know,
we get a good hour and a half

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in before something something happens. But
yeah, to get five people to agree,

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it's it's really tough. And five
like opinionated, super talented people,

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right, yeah, at least four
of them are. I think that's very

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humble you. But you're definitely yeah, I appreciate that one of the better

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ones. Yeah, craziest story you
can remember in this long winding road journey

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of music. Oh man, there's
probably more that I forgot that I can

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remember, and then there's a lot
I probably cannot say. There's always that,

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there's always that we were in Australia
one time. I'll tell you this.

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Once we were in Australia one time
backstage. Backstage was locked off,

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no one could get back there,
and we had cubicle dressing rooms, and

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all of a sudden, this kid, all dress in white, comes knocking

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at our door and just opens up
the door and like takes a step into

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our dressing room. He was dressed
in white, but he was covered in

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soot. He looked like he had
come down a chimney like Santa Claus or

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something like that. And our bass
player at the time, he's like,

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did you just did you just climb
through the air conditioning vent? And he

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was in Australia. I'm gonna give
you my best Australian accident. He was

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like, oh, I did oh. He had crawled through the air conditioning

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vent and came out into the hallway
and then right into our dressing room.

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Wow. What people will do,
right Australians many they go hard down there.

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Well, you know, you remind
me of a story that happened here.

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I think it was that Louder than
Life or Carolina Rebellion, one of

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those where one of the media people
wanted to get an interview with Rob Zombie.

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Yeah, and walked backstage and without
knocking walked into his dressing room.

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That's ballsy, Like, who the
fuck's that? Yeah, you gotta have

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some caha like right, you know, I'm like, yeah, how do

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you do that? Do you get
the interview? Of course? Not well,

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I and I've had I've interviewed Rob
before and one time they were bringing

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me back on the golf car and
all the other media people are like,

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how do you get that interview?
On one of them It's like I emailed

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them twenty times. I'm like,
that's why you didn't get the interview exactly

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right, e mail them once.
They're already gained ten million emails. They

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don't they want it, they'll come
back. Yeah. Yeah, Well,

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if you know you're not gonna get
the interview, then it's worth the risk.

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Right. But if you got if
you got a chance to get the

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interview in the future or something like
that, that is not the work,

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no doubt, no doubt. Yeah. So anything else you want to share

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with the listeners we haven't covered yet
that you want to know. I mean,

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just keep you updated to us.
We're re recording our record morning View.

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We're gonna have some a little you
know, special guests on it,

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and then refine the songs a little
bit. That'll be coming out next year.

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Uh. Tomorrow will be at the
Hollywood Bowl and we're doing Morning of

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You front the back. So if
you are in Los Angeles and you can

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get tickets, it's gonna be a
special one. Nice. But yeah,

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we're just getting you know, we're
wrapping up this year, full year touring

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and gonna write some music, write
some new music as well, and head

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back out next year. I love
it. I love that you guys,

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just you're one of those bands.
It's like I have a lot of friends.

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I'm like, come on, let's
go see Incubus at a festival or

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something, and they're like, oh, no, really know there music And

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then all of a sudden, I
know every single song. Yeah you know.

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We're like we're like mold. We
just kind of slowly grow on you.

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Oh man. But it's a good
mold. Yeah. I love it.

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Yeah. Well, thanks for being
here at Aftershock and thanks for being

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on the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Yeah. Absolutely, it's been fun.

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Helpous up everybody. I'm DJ Kilmore
from the band Incubis and you're listening to

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the Pipe Man on W four C
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