PipemanRadio Interviews Dragged Under from Louder Than Life 2023

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Hey, you love them too,
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Here's your host, the pipe mans
Child said, I want your toma size

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matters. That's who's the pipe man
here on the Adventures. Pipe Man w

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for c Y Radio And I'm here
with Tony from track under Nice here at

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Louder than Life, and I want
to talk about first your shirt, Oh

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countrys ship at a metal festival.
Yeah, well, I figured when in

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Lowville, it's it's country out here, right, so like you could be

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in the city, but I'm from
the country. I live in eastern Washington.

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It's rodeo town. So I figured
I just wanted to represent for the

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country, not necessarily country music,
but country attitude, country vibe. That's

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it. Yeah, I think listen
Kentucky country attitude. Yep, I think

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it fits perfectly. Yeah country,
because some people have made that comment.

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But country is more than just a
music, right, It's an attitude.

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So so tell our listeners about your
band from your perspective, not what people

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want to label you or put you
in a box. But us artists,

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I dragged Unders a you know,
a punkish metal band, and so we

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have like big breakdowns and fast parts
and stuff and big courses, sing songy

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courses somewhere between like Comeback Kid and
Green Day is dragged Under. So if

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you like punk, you like metal, you like fast, you like sing

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song, you like big moe on, we got all that. See.

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I love bands like yours that combine
both punk and metal because I come from

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a time where a long air couldn't
go to a punk show, upon you

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could go a meal show. Was
stupid because the music is so similar,

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why not combine forces. That's it
still happens a little bit today. Like

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you'll see like punk kids go to
like hardcore shows, right, which is

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the same music. It's the same
shit once it's a little bit louder,

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heavier, right, But they should
all be you know, enjoying the enjoying

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the music. But that's an The
unfortunate nature of kind of where we're at

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is it's not always about like the
band on the stage. It's unfortunate,

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like ideologies come into play when you
go into music shows and it's like we're

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all here for that same band.
Like those same four guys. Let's just

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rally around for these ten minutes if
he'll cease fire, have a truce,

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and then afterwards in the parking lot, we can do whatever. But we're

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in this room to all share our
love for this one artist, so have

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a good time. I love that
attitude because fuck the gatekeepers. Oh yeah,

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and I was around a live them
while a kid, and it was

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like, you had to if they
didn't like your music, you had to

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burn all your shit. God forbid, you should like this like you like

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this? I mean we had you
know, we all got parents, the

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original gate keepers. We don't need
any more gatekeepers in the scene. That's

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hard enough to get into, like
this type of music as it is,

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because it's not a social acceptable necessarily. I mean, obviously this is a

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massive fest. We're having a good
time and there's a bunch of people here,

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but you know, they're not really
playing the shit on the radio.

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Yeah, you know, you've got
to. There's a couple of channels that

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are holding it down for metal and
punk and hard rock, but most of

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the radio stations are not that.
And that's why a place like Ladder in

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Life is so great because I don't
like do you have to be a chance

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to experience it. But you see, that's one inclusive, big, happy

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family, no matter what walk of
life you're from. Yeah, and we're

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so privileged to be here. And
we you know, we drove all the

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way from Seattle for this one show
and we're turned around and going back home.

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You've got nothing else going on.
We came here just for this because

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of the nature of what you know, Dannie Wimmer's bill and how massive,

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but at the same time professional and
well run structured this festival has been.

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See. I love hearing that from
an arts because I do a lot of

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festivals and sometimes it's a ship show
for arts. Yeah, it's ships over.

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Yeah, you guys included right like
press, it's you guys are just

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an extension of the artist. And
it's just kind of the same with you

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guys. You have set times,
you have schedules, you have to adhere

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to. You need a place to
do your thing, and this is like

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a very professional environment where sometimes you
go in these tents and it's a million

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degrees and it's loud and noisy,
and you can tell nobody really wants to

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be there, and it's just like
it's depressing. Yeah, it's depressed.

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Look it back here, like the
artists want to hang out back here.

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Yeah, this is just like you
can't see obviously, but there's you know,

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they got a giant red bull bar. Everything's free. That's an unique

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one too, because we just we
did uh Slam Dunk in the UK and

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it was a great festival. They
it's very well run, but you know

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things cost stuff like oh, you
don't have your ticket, you don't have

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this here, you've got this cool
little wristband. You tap it on something

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and they go cool, here's your
food, here's your drink or in this

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case, everything's free. Yeah,
so you know it can't be understated,

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like getting bands to want to play
your fest. It's like the most important

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thing for the fest because the fans
it's like they'll have a good time if

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there's good bands, and good bands
only come when there's a good fest.

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So yeah, it's all fall trickles
down too or trickles up. I should

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say to the boss and to add
to your point as press. If it's

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not inviting for the artists come back
here, they won't come back for interviews.

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You have no idea. It's the
conversation I have with our manager all

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the time, And had I known
it would be like this, I would

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have been like, yeah, sure, I'll do some press. But we

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get into these moments. I'm like, dude, she names Joey. I'm

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like, Joey, I don't want
to do press, Like I don't want

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to go sit in the tent or
in the sun A lot of times during

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the fucking sun. I don't understand
that. Even like when I do all

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these festivals, I always picked to
be inside the ten. I see some

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of my you know, colleagues wanting
to do it outside. I'm like,

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I think it's a video thing,
like they want to be in the sun

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thing. Yeah, I don't want
to be outside because I don't want the

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RS to be outside. That enough, you gotta be up on stage.

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Yeah, sweating your fucking asshole.
And unfortunately, our stage was facing the

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sun and the sun was at the
right exact height to just pass noon.

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But before sundown, it just said
we're right in your face. You could

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feel the stage through your shoes.
Wow, it's hot. See that's insane

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too. I never thought of that
right there, Well, that's it's not

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I think this is the first time
I've ever felt that that was a hot

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stage, and we played some hot
stages, but the last time we played

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Blue Ridge last year, that was
probably the hottest stage I've ever played.

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You're lucky and play this year run
Well that's for good reason. But the

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stage was carpeted because ICP was playing
that night, so they brought a carpet

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because they didn't want to get the
stage all gross. Yeah, so luckily

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we couldn't feel the stage because the
carpet was there. But it's also a

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little bit weird running on carpet,
you know, you don't feel it,

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kind of doesn't have the same balance
set a stage has. You kind of

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feel sluggish, like you're falling over
and kind of weird too because I think

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about it. Okay, so what
happens when you run across carpet and you're

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having electronics? Luckily it's uh,
well if you're if you're bare foot,

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maybe, but we had the rubber
souls so we didn't have any electronics issues.

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But yeah, I mean that,
you know, it's just an It

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speaks to the how, and maybe
my expectations are a little bit low because

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of something like you know, the
last fest that shall not be named.

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Uh, but when you come here
and they're like, hey, how do

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we get to catering? And they're
like, uh, a shuttle will pick

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you up, or there's a there's
a golf cart right there. Just getting

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that and tell me want to go
to catering And you're there on the other

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side of the the complex in three
minutes in a golf cart and everyone's happy

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and stay three and they're all still
in good spirits. That's why Danny Wimmer

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runs these festivals, right, He's
a king, you know, I'm so

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I admire him so much. And
here you are have aftershock, Yes we

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will. Yeah, nice, I'll
have to catch you. You're coming sick.

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That's another great festival. Have you
been in the media area there?

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No, we actually this is our
first wimmer Fest we've ever played. But

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like I said, it's so impressed. I'll prep you for that. You

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will want to do Press area.
They have a nice, cool back stay

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in back press area that has the
bar like here, similar and all the

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artists hang out. It's just cool. We can't wait. It's not much

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closer to our home. So yeah, that's that's a little less right.

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Yeah, So tell everybody how to
hit you up on socials on the web

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by your merch all that. Yeah, you can just kind of go to

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dragonder dot com and uh, from
there you can find everything. It's a

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little easier that way. We've got
linked to all of our socials to a

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merg store booking all that stuff.
So yeah, that's the best way.

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Dragonoter dot com. We're on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Sometimes when I

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feel like getting shit talked, I
go on Twitter, right, but it's

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X now, Oh that's right,
Sorry, it's so stupid. Well,

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I was staying off it before it
was X. They can call whatever they

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want. I don't think I'll be
on there too. I never go on

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personally. I just have everything automatically. Tweet my ship from somewhere else.

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That's the move, right, don't
don't engage with it. A tweet like

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from Instagram and just say I'm not
not logging into that. This ship show,

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oh totally. I hate it.
But you know it'sn't necessary evil for

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us, right Unfortunately, you know
anything else you want to share with the

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listeners that we haven't covered already.
We just released a new a song called

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Mad Punks two weeks ago. Otherwise
we'll be going into the studio next year

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to write our third record, cool
exciting stuff. I'm very excited about it.

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I'm very excited you're here at Laden
in life and thanks for being on

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the Adventure Pure Thanks for having us. Hey, it's Tony from Dragon Under.

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