PipemanRadio Interviews DL of Bad Wolves at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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Tuesday? Tell me why I'm my
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one I'll try. I'm not letting
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this is? The pipe Man here
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Radio, and I am here with
DL from Bad Wolves. How you doing

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pipe Man? Oh man, Hey, it's great to interview and you in

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person here at Welcome to Rockville.
We did a phoner together, but I

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like this so much better, so
much more intimate, isn't it? Absolutely?

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And listen, we even have a
breeze here in Florida for you to

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play like otherwise forget where you're standing. Honestly, I'm sure it's a record

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breaker today. I always like,
how many times have you played in Florida?

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More than I can count? And
is it always like kind of not

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because of Florida, but the weather
torture? Like what's it like to be

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up there on stage? Giving everything
you have when it's one hundred percent humidity

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and like ninety degrees. Okay,
if you asked me this twenty years ago

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in my other band, when I
was playing guitar, I would have said

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that I hate it. Right,
it's a lot more strenuous. But now

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as a singer, with the humidity
and all that, it actually helps me

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a lot helps your vocal cords.
Right. I've usually am a guy that

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finds refuge in air conditioning and all, but like being a singer now,

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I stay the funk away from artificial
air all that. Like, I'm very

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conscious of these things that can ruin
your voice. So yeah, honestly,

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playing Florida now as a singer is
a godsend. Now I imagine playing as

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a guitarist, I'm thinking myself,
your fingers start getting sweaty, and then

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it's like hard to like really hit
the right notes. You know what used

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to happen to me when my fingers
would get like that and you would do

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like a slide on a I had
big strings, and then they would cut

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your skin and it would be the
worst because then you'd have those cuts for

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the whole tour. They're never gonna
go heel until you go home. So

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exactly, I don't. I don't
envy the guitar players anymore. Let's just

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say that. So what do you
think about playing at the Daytona Speedway?

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How badass? Is that? Very
cool? This is our second time.

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Actually we played two years ago when
there was really bad weather that was canceling.

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Oh yeah, yeah, we were
on one of the days that luckily

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made it through. But unfortunately last
time it was a flying day for us.

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We weren't on tour and when we
showed up are all of our technicals,

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our gear, our computers, everything
was broken. So we showed up

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opening our cases, waiting to play, ready to play the show in ten

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minutes whatever we were setting up and
realizing that none of our stuff were so

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we had to go up there,
punk rock, nice plug in and kind

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of ham and egg it And it
was really fun. Man. It was

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as nerve wracking and crazy anxiety of
a moment as it was. It's something

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I'll never forget and it actually was
fucking awesome. But that's a pro too.

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Once you that mic turns on,
you kind of go into this zone,

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don't you like, It's like before
that happens and you're freaking out.

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Yeah, but the minute that happens
real, the minute the mic turns on,

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like that all goes away and you're
just in the zone. Yes,

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sir, tunnel vision totally. And
did you get the drive on the speedway?

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Yes? Yeah, Actually to go
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dressing room and our boss and stuff, we have to take the golf carts.

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So yeah, they rip up and
down the track. How badass is

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that? And did you see the
wall? It's like you don't see it

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on TV, but it's like straight
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than you think it is. It's
pretty nuts. I was just saying in

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last interview last year, and I
have it with me this year too.

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I brought my skateboard and I was
like, I went up to Christia.

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I'm like, well, I lose
my media pass if I start skateboarding in

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the raceway on those walls. Do
it right? Therefore exactly, I told

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my friends before coming here, I'm
like, I might do it this year.

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I'll probably break my arm, but
it'll be worth it. There you

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go. It's a good story.
That's very metal. Okay, right there,

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So what do you guys got and
what are you going to be doing

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the rest of the year coming out
of Rockville. What's exciting? I know

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you have something very exciting happening tomorrow. Yeah, we actually have a brain

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new song, well not brand new, it's new to us and it's new

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to our record. It was on
Die About It originally, and we had

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our friend Chris Daughtry do a guest
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elevated the track and kind of brought
it to a new level. As a

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guest spot, does you know you
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vibes and yeah, he crushed it. And the song is called Henry for

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Life and it comes out tomorrow.
You know. One of the things I

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love about Daughtry just seeing him around
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Is he such a rocker, like
down to earth rocker, like he

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would love to do a guest spot
probably on every band. Oh, he's

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a sweetheart and extremely talented. And
the fact that he took time out of

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his busy schedule to hang with us
and do the song with us and stuff.

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I mean, we're forever grateful.
Man. I'm humbled by all these

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opportunities that Bad Wolves gets to take
part in and yeah, I'm really excited

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for everybody here. It came out
incredible, honestly, and it's the fact

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that it's like not even a single
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of shows that it's just love it. It's a passion, man. And

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so like the whole thing of the
evolution of Bad Wolves, the vibe,

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i'mb gang. You tell me if
I'm wrong. It's like you've gone to

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a whole other level now. It's
almost like something was holding the band back.

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And I don't mean that specific towards
anyone or anything. Sure, it's

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change in and of itself. Sometimes
change and you know, like uprooting and

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stuff is what it takes to really
get to the next level. Do you

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feel the same? Absolutely? I
think we agree. Like what's a simple

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way that I could put this for
people to understand. It's like who wants

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to eat? Who wants to eat
apple jacks? Every day? Like you

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got to switch it up, you
got to try new things, you got

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to explore new avenues. And because
of the eclectic taste in the band,

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Like I don't think there's a couple
bands that each guy in the band,

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we can like agree on and we
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kind of come from different places musically, so like when that comes together,

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something special really happens. And that
was something that the didn't have before.

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And now you know, with the
new lineup, we have aj from issues.

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He brings in a new vocal.
He has this wild, like hardcore

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scream that we're using now and we
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Knife, which was just released I
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there's just a lot of things that
we get to experiment and play with and

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it always keeps it fresh. Yeah, I mean it's so cool because like

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I think that your music is better
than ever, think your live show is

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better than ever, And it's just
I think it's a testament of adding differences

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to the band, and like you
said, when you have influences, I

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look at it this way nowadays,
like there's so many bands that followed this

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algebraic equation. I call it to
make music that I think when you have

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a band like yours as varied interest, that eliminates that and enables experimentation,

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which is what makes great, long
lasting music. Absolutely, and I think

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that you know, moving forward,
it's probably for or we're gonna get more

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experimental, just because that's the nature
of how we write. Like you,

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we don't want to just keep putting
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So it's if it's if it's exciting
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as well well. And the other
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you're growing as an artist, I
would think, yeah, why would you

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want to do the same stuff over
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industry, no matter what you do, why do you want to do the

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same thing when you were a rookie
or a few years in, like ten

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years later or what you want to
keep growing? Yeah, you're never gonna

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be happy or fulfilled as an artist
because really, the guys in this band

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are true artists. Like we're pretty
like introverted and there's no like really big

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loudmouths like we We just we love
music and that's why we're here. We're

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not here for the cloud or for
the all the other stuff is just fluff.

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Yeah, we love to write,
We love to write together, and

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we never really feel fulfilled unless we're
doing what we're What we're getting out of

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our heads is putting it down.
So we're just gonna continue what we do

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and then hopefully, you know,
everybody comes along with us. And I

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overheard something in the last air of
View about you know, you never thought

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you'd be in a band again.
I did not. What was it that

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made you think, Yep, I'm
gonna do it. I think the biggest

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reason coming into this equation was the
fact that I was friends with these guys

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beforehand, and I had toured with
Doc, and we had we had a

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history already without even being in a
band yet. So it just felt felt

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right. Man. You know,
it had to be the right situation at

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the right time, and it was, well, I take that back,

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It's never the right time right,
Like I was just like life, right,

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I was just I was just mentioning
to someone else that I wish I

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wish we actually could have like pumped
the brakes a little bit and taken the

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first year to prepare a little bit
more, But because of the situation the

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band was in, we had to
just hit the ground running. Yeah,

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So the first year it was kind
of just like me learning how to be

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a singer in a band. I
could sing, and I know that,

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but there's so much. That's one
fiftieth of everything else. It's like the

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live and you don't have a guitar
in your head anymore. So there's these

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things that I had to kind of
like learn on the job playing shows that

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are way too big that I shouldn't
have been playing yet. So the first

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year year and a half, we
almost wish that we could like scrub that

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because it feels like this is the
beginning of what the band was supposed to

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be. Then now I love it, and you know, it's funny because

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habits. We have habits, Like, so you're playing guitar for years,

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it is kind of people don't realize
it is kind of hard to switch gears

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because it's just like second nature no
matter what you did. Oh dude,

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it's like if they change a road
that you've driven down a million times,

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like you don't know what to do. Dude. If you're it's like if

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you're a fucking linebacker for twenty years
and then somebody's like, you know what,

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kid's got an arm, let's put
him in at quarterback, right,

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Like you're probably gonna fucking blow at
first, but there you know the game

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though, right, So how did
the singing come about I sang my whole

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life. Man. I grew up. I went to Catholic school, so

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like church was a big part of
it, and there was singing classes to

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be able to sing out of the
hymnals and stuff. So yeah, it

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was not religious or anything, but
I was brought up in a religious environment,

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so there was a lot of singing
and church stuff. So yeah,

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see I love hearing that too,
because there's this misconception about rock and metal,

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and you know, it almost makes
me laugh at times. It always

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made me laugh as a teenager,
Like I would hang out with Slayer outside

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the club as a teenager and we'd
all laugh about that. People thought they

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were actually devil worship right right right, you know, and it's so the

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opposite actually, and this community is
all love, man, yeah, one

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hundred percent. And you know,
we're a big family. But a lot

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of artists when I talk, when
we talk off to there, like yeah,

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let's let's not let everybody know.
Let them keep thinking, were these

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angry evil people? Sure, sure, if that's the thing you have to

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put out there, I understand,
right, we don't even really have like

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a thing that right we put out
there is just that's why you're a true

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artist, because when you're a true
artist, you don't need a thing.

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No gimmicks here, baby, no
way. Tell everybody, your guys socials

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what they should look out for purchasing
new music, merch tour date, it's

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all that. Absolutely. You can
catch us anywhere on any socials, TikTok,

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Instagram, they're all going to be
under close or at least close to

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a Bad Wolve's official and you can
check up anything that we're doing, merch

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tour or otherwise on our website,
badwolvesnation dot com. Nice. Any final

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words you want to leave our listeners
with that we haven't covered yet, Just

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thanks for being here with us,
Thanks for sticking by us through all the

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craziness and the member changes and the
style changes, and we're just we're here.

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We're here to stay, and this
version of the band feels the best

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it ever has and let's go,
let's let's have a great year, and

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we're looking forward to doing another album
with our new guitar player, and we're

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just excited to be out here and
stay out here. Well, I'm convinced

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Bad Wolves is the best they've ever
been and I'm so stoked you're here at

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Welcome to Rockville and man you guys
kick guys. Thanks for being on the

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adventures. Cheers brother, Thank you
so much for having me my pleasure.

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Awesome. Tell me hey, what's
up. This is d L from Bad

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Wolves and you're listening to the Pipe
Man on W four c Y. Thank

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you for listening to the Adventures of
Pipe Man. I'm W for c u

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