PipemanRadio Interviews Elias Soriano of Nonpoint at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure. See Wow, pray young wyke up America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four C why dot Com. Weis pomp Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. But the lash and the meat jobs sos mean godstime got the rop turning. But I'm excited enough. I'm a badass god after bathom before that will need to turn out and turn outst This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with Elia's from the band Non Point Baby Nice. Yes, I was just talking about you know, last night I was at the Motley Cruise set and I was telling what other media people I was with. I was like, there's a line in the song of a place I used to hang out all the time. That's gone. Now you tell him what it is?

1:34 You know what I believe. It's the Dollhouse. That's it, right there, that's it, sample road. I do recall the Dollhouse, right, yes, I do? I do. Remember. Can you imagine the house seeing Fort Latta Dale? Can you imagine all the people listening at Motley cru song have no idea what that means? Yeah, yeah, And and he talked about the sunset strip. Yep, we had our own son set strips in South Florida. So did we claimed that one too, even though it wasn't out. You know, it's funny about the dollhouse. That's example, first time I ever came to Fort Laurdeale, my dad was living down there. First place he takes me to with Solid Gold. That's my introduction to Fort Lawydell, Florida. That's funny. Solid Gold. Uh. The owner of Solid Gold was actually a huge Kno Point fan, and whenever we played Revolution, he would always send a car to the venue to pick up anybody that wanted to come back to Solid Gold and nice party for a little while for we had a bus call. It was it was fun, man, it was good good people. I love it. And remember like Bootleggers with Sunday Bikini contout the South about what the candy store? Candy store?

2:51 Yeah right, yeah, South Florida was a plethora of exotica. Well that's a lot of a lot of do you remember, Oh my god, do you remember the topless doughnut shop and the dude car topless car wash? Yes, that's how you were. You beat me to it. Oh my god, Fort Lawyer and you beat me to it. No diddy, no diddy, you beat me, no Diddy. Oh so you're now we're here at Welcome Rockville. Yes, like this is as close to home as it gets. If you're this is this is like mecca for me. My dad was a huge NASCAR fan. I got all his Harley shirts when he passed.

3:32 And he was a huge arn Art fan and we used to watch the Daytona Racist all the time. He used to go to Homestead. So, you know, being somewhere like this and plan somewhere, I just I think about my dad watching me. Wow. For sure, he definitely was was helping me through today's set. He's way proud. Oh man, it was it was. I definitely felt love you, Bill, I love you. I miss you, no doubt, yes real, Oh my god, he was definitely with you here for sure. You could feel it. I'm sure indeed you know. So you were also just that sick New world. Yes. Now I haven't done that festival yet. How was that festival and how was your experience? It was beautiful, it was a great day. We were first, we're number one, number one. We were first, and the crowd was outstanding for us. Everybody funneled right to us, so it was it was fun. But the weather was perfect. Wow, it was a breezy, like seventy eight degrees right, it was almost cold on stage, but the crowd was phenomenal. We hope we get invited back. I love it so being a Floridian, How do you think you're more used to playing and as hot in the humidity than some of these other bands or never get used to it? Oh no, I've I've been used to it since I used to lifeguard back in South Florida, so I grew up in That's why half my arm hairs are bleached for years of being in the sun. But I mind the heat. I feel like I'm built for it. So you know, it's funny, is I was just in Costa Rica for three months

5:05 and I came back to Florida. I'm like, Wow, it's kind of cool in Florida. Yeah. Yeah, you get you get used to it, right, you know, And everybody who's complaining esterday, I'm like, it's actually kind of cool for Florida. It is. It actually has cooled down, nice breeze and all that. Yes, so now what now? Now how the top Sick New World and welcome the Rockville. What's next for Nominal Sonic Temple? Yeah and Louder than Life. We have we have lots of really great festivals that we're going to get a chance to play and shout out to the Danny Wimmer Productions people and inviting us back out. And we've we've we've had nothing but a great experience at all these festivals. The crew, the accommodations, everything is has just been stellar. Spill And I love hearing that because I've been talking about Danny Wimmer like the whole weekend with artists and every festival I do, I've never heard in our say a bad thing about Danny Waasy. It's super easy. He makes it easy every time, and he knows what it takes to put on a show like this and how to treat an artist. Yeah, you know, like how many festivals or shows you show up that you know they it becomes a ship show for you as the band, and then you're stressed out going on stage. And all I ever hear at Danny Wimmer festival is man, it's the most stressful, free experience ever it's great. The staff is always great. A lot of familiar faces. So these people that you know, are seasoned, know you, and it's it's it's great experience every time Sonic Temple, that's gonna be

6:38 killer. That's an iconic venue, festival venue right there. How excited are you about that? Oh, we're stoked. We're stoked. We've we've had an opportunity to play you know that that venue a few times. Yeah, we're excited to get back and louder in life. You're gonna be you know, sharing the grounds with the Immortal Slayer? Is that that? Did that blow your mind? Absolutely? Blew my mind? Really, my drummer, My drummer couldn't believe it. He was like shaking when he saw it, right, He was like, this is bucket list, this is my bucket list. My number one, of course, next to none point, but my number one favorite band all time, Slayer. I went to their first show ever. That's great man. Yeah, So here's a funny story.

7:25 Last night, I'm at icp Kerry King's next first performance ever, first perform, another first first show in five years for Carrie and I go to the stage, the next stage I go in where the pit's gonna be. I'm up front and center, lights come on and everything, and David Draymond walks out. I'm like, fuck, I'm at the wrong stage. But I did end up getting the carry king. But I like it was so funny because I'm I've never done that before. I was like, sit there, I did all this work to get through the crowd, and I'm like, fuck. But man, that's the one thing this Welcome to Rockville. Here's what I'm gonna say, is gonna happen. It's gonna be the highest attended US festival in history because last night alone, on a Thursday night, I could not walk through the place. Yeah, no matter where you were.

8:26 Yeah, the crowd's packed in there. Yeah that's great. So was non stop crowdsurfing during our sets. Well, there you go. I can't complain. I love that. So what else is going on new in twenty twenty four that you want to tell us? May twenty First, our song Underdog hits everywhere. Nice. We have the Kicking and Screaming tour coming up with Blackstone Cherry end of July August, and then we go overseas with Soil and with them Headpean Union Underground and then talks and whispers of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Wow. Yeah, what's your favorite place in the world, Well, not favorite place, but favorite memory in the world of where you've played, favorite memory of where you play, a place that you played, not you know, Australia has a special place in my heart, you know, doing sound Wave and doing that entire run, bouncing from city to city with other bands that are in you know, in our peer group and in our genre. Yeah, that was fun. It was really fun, you know, sharing planes and trains and automobiles and then stages with some of the you know, some of the my my favorite bands on the planet. That was that was that was quite an experience, very cool. And so if you were to give one of the coolest moments that ever happened in your musical career, what would it be? Oh, coolest moments, I would say,

10:03 you know, doing doing a song with David Draymond every night on the Disturbed erone was pretty pretty fun. We did Killing in the Name of and That's badass? Was it was cool? Do you know who played with them last night? No from Heart No Way? Wow? Wow? Is that wild? That's crazy? I was like, Wow, what a great mistake I made? Yeah, oh man, it was it was like somebody was sending me to the disturbed set. There you go, doesn't put you, puts you right where you're supposed to be exactly and tell everybody they should know. But tell everybody how to reach out to you guys on socials. How to get the new music went to our David Nonpoint bann On I g non Point Official on Facebook. If you type non Point you'll find us. I will be the first ones I pop up and all of our socials are up and running, man, So if wherever you like to be social, go give us a follow. May twenty first again, Underdog goes Live and love it. There's a pre sale right now with our first baseball jerseys, black and red. It's so fucking cool. WHOA, I think I might have to get one of them myself. It comes with a pennant, now Point Underdog pennant, and it's it's pretty cool. I love it. I love it. Anything else you want to share with the listeners that we haven't covered already, No, I'll see you at the next show, oh absolutely, And we'll have to like being the pit together for sleigh or at louder and

11:33 the light sounds good. Love it. Thanks again, thanks for being here, Welcome Rockville, and thanks for being on the Adventures Piper. Thanks, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patemn on w for CUI Radio