PipemanRadio Interviews Eva Under Fire at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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Radio. And I'm here with Eva from

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Eva under Fire. I like how
you sang it. That. That's why

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I always have the artists do their
name, because they always do something cool,

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whereas I might just butcher the name
like yours is hard to butcher.

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But yeah, I bet you people
do, don't they. Well, there

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was the epic conversation of is it
Eva or is it Eva for like I

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don't know the last million years,
and it's like whatever, you know,

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call me, hey you over there. Usually it was me with the rainbow

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hair, and now I died my
hair, so no one knows who I

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am, right, but we still
have fun. And it is Eva from

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Eva Underfire, So yeah, thank
you for having me. Well, you

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know, it's funny because you talk
about the hair. Yeah, And I

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had gotten rid of blue for a
while and everybody kept talking to me.

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You need to bring the blue back. Even my hair stylist, he's like,

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dude, you're a fucking rock star. You need the blue hair.

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I was going to say, you're
the peacock this time, right, normal

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people here going on? Right?
And did I have blue hair when we

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talked? I don't even. I
don't think so, because I had blue

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hair for years and then I was
like, I need a change. And

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I've had every color there is,
but blue became like my trademark every time

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I tried to change to a different
car. Now you got to do blue.

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And it's like an artist do it
all the time, and that it's

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great for this because I just tell
the publicist that I don't know, or

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the tour manager I don't know,
just look for the dude with the blue

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hair, blue and black hair,
and you got it. That's what it

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is, Yes, exactly identifiable when
you're supposed to stick out exactly. And

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I think, going back to what
you were saying about your name, maybe

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you should write a song now is
it eva or is it eva? And

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write a song about it? Right? That would be fun. That would

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be cool as hell, and like
it could be like, you know,

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a slight against all those people that
screwed up your name, but then nobody

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will know that's what you're really doing. See. I can't go that hard

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at people, though, man,
and people from Detroit are way harder than

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You've already done it, right em
And I've already got slim shady and m

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and then you know what I mean, he's already got the personality thing down,

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so I can't throw shade like that. But I'm just excited that anybody

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knows our name anyway. See you
know what that makes you so cool that

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you wouldn't throw shade because I think
to myself, I could never date Taylor

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Swift in a million years because I
will end up in a song. Yeah

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yeah, I mean I think it's
important what you say and how you say

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it, and then sometimes it's really
important when you just don't even acknowledge it

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and say nothing. I think sometimes
that's the most important because it bugs people

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out, it does it does?
People are like, oh, do you

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hear so? And so I was
like, no, what about it?

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They're like, oh, well,
they said this or that and about this

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or that person. I'm like,
who right, totally unbothered. Just keep

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walking, you know, and I
might know who it is. I'm not

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gonna take you know, I'm not
giving energy to that, no, no

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doubt, Like, and I love
that you're like that because I can't stand

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the negative energy nowadays that everybody has
to throw at everybody else, Like,

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no, do you think you feel
better being that way? Like why can't

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we just all love each other?
Accept each other? You do you,

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I'll do me. So many people
spend so much time talking to shit about

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other people that doesn't affect their life
in any way, shape or form.

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No, totally. I mean,
the internet is so divisive. I feel

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like that's all people have their time
to do it. And I'm like,

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you know what, if you put
half of that energy into doing anything for

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yourself that was like good, right, nice, right, maybe you wouldn't

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be such a jerk, and then
the rest of us wouldn't have to you

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know, we could actually like hang
out instead. I have to like deal

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with you, you know. Yeah, but that's that's what I've seen,

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just you know, because I'm I'm
the person in the band that does a

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lot of the social media stuff,
and you know, so I see the

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trolls and whatever. You know,
Chris would say that he is one of

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them occasionally he's the one that'll get
in there with them, you know,

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because he's but he's just he only
does so when he feels like it's like

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worth his time to do so.
Like one of the only Internet anythings we

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got involved with was there was somebody
who was throwing shade at a venue owner

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that we know personally, and it
just so happened to be International Women's Day

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and I got online and was like, wow, at the International Women's Day,

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I'm about to rip you a new
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who owns it as women owned venue. Lots of people that work there are

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also like women are huge presence at
this venue. So it was it was

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just kind of like also the perfect
moment to not screw with us totally.

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And so that was really the only
but like you said, you know,

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if it's few and far between,
then it's more powerful and in defense of

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somebody that's really helped us out in
our career. So that was the only

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time where we've ever had any issues. That's a good reason though, because

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you know what, but fuck all
these people, because women are like such

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badasses in the music industry in general. I say it before, way more

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than men. Okay, like can. I mean, because you guys have

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emotion and passion and that goes hand
in hand with music. Yeah, simple,

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I really I think it's women are
not maybe afraid like to be as

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flashy, right, so we'll just
embody it and like I love the presence

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that Lady Gaga has and that Pink
has. And then I see a lot

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of other women on stage, even
here at Rockville, like one of my

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you know, the homies and Plush, I was like, hey, what's

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up. You know, I haven't
seen those girls since, but we keep

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showing up on these festivals together,
and it's like it's just a wonderful environment

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for everybody to come. And you
know, one of the other guys in

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the bands told my bass player,
he's like, hey, you know,

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it's great to meet you guys.
I'm sure we'll see you around campus because

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it does feel very much like a
campus thing. Yeah, you know,

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every every time we we link up
at one of these these events. So

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I think that, you know,
if there's anything that I could say to

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other people would be, you know, pay less attention to what's on the

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internet and actually get out there because
people are a lot kind in their life

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in real life and like there's moments
that are built here in person that you

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just you don't you don't see on
the internet. The Internet is such a

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different like, yeah, you can
get a lot of information, but sometimes

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you have to watch where that comes
from, you know. And then if

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you're there and you see it and
you witness it and you're part of it,

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you don't need somebody else online to
tell you what happened. It's just

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like, Okay, So the people
that come to these festivals and they spend

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the whole time filming it on their
phone, Yeah, why don't you experience

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it? Like I don't care if
somebody wants to take a little clip or

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whatever share, but why are you
sitting watching it through your phone? Yeah

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you're there, Yeah, and you're
never gonna look at that video ever again

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more than like lets people don't yeah, right, A lot of people are

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just yeah. I mean, it's
like, okay, delete dely because you

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can only have so many of them, right, And if you're like in

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two hours, you're three hours are
days of content? You know, Like,

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I don't know, I agree,
I think you know. I hope

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I hope people will take that into
account the next time they go to a

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show. You know, at least
take a few minutes and just watch right

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now and feel and be part of
it. Like we're in mental health Awareness

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month. Music is the best therapy. There is not going to get that

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therapy if you're just watching through a
phone, like, be in it,

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get emotional, feel it. It's
not just filming it, watching it.

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It's being there and being present and
experiencing it. I think it's so foreign

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to people though now you know,
it's like people don't that's that's their method

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of plugging in. And you're like, no, no, no, there's

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a different, cooler, better way
here. Let me show you what I'm

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talking about, and you take your
phone right now, look at the band

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I know, right, but oh
I didn't know they look like that.

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Yeah yeah right, like and just
look around and you know, but I

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can't fault people for you know,
I exist in a weird generation where like,

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half of my life we didn't have
any of this, and half of

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my life we had everything right,
And so I can't imagine those people who

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have just never been without it,
right, that's how they learn to relate

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and see the world literally through that
sactly. But it's it's amazing when you

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just look at it through your ice, you know, just look at it

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from your own perspective, and I
think it'll be, you know, a

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really cool experience. Yeah. So
I was telling my youngest daughter one day,

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I'm like, some days I just
want to drive down the road and

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take my laptop, my phone,
and my iPod and throw it out the

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window. And she's like, Dad, who you kidding? You're just as

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addicted as everywhere else. I'm like, you're right, Yeah, but I

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also lived in time when I didn't
have it and it was better. Yeah.

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You know, I talk about at
all the time. We have more

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ways to communicate than ever in history, and our communication is the absolute worst

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in history. And then you know
things like that, it's like experiences that

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you miss and like some of my
greatest experience there's no record of it,

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but it is the record in my
brain. Yeah, memories, and because

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I experienced it. And then there's
the other things that you film and let

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like maybe you'll look at it like
a year later, like I don't even

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rememory. Yeah, where was that? What was that? You know?

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And it's like it just proves you
weren't present for it, you were just

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documenting it. Yeah, you know, and I really do appreciate big festivals

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like this because I feel like more
than any other single rock show, at

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festivals like this, people are more
present. Yeah, I see it.

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They're screaming with me. They are
literally just like I mean, I see

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it in tears. I see it
in you know, like people just singing

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along. I see people's they got
both hands in there, and nobody's got

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a phone. You know. It
is pretty fascinating a festival's experience. It's

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not a concert to me, okay, Like even coming to the venue and

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you see the sign that says concert
parking, I'm like, it's not a

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concert, it's a festival. Yep. Different, exactly one different. So

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how does it feel to be here
at Welcome to Rockville? I just think

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this is this is literally one of
our favorite things to do as a band

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is play live. So if you
can put us in front of a crazy

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Rockville crowd, I mean, you've
just created heaven on Earth. Friend,

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and then you even get to drive
on the daytime speedway to get to your

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game. Oh dude, check this
out. So our drummer, Dave,

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he is a massive racing fan and
he's never been here. So this is

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his first welcome Rockville with us,
and so our bass player was the guy

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that drove us in. But like
as soon as we went through the gate,

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he was like, hey, Dave, why don't you come up here

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and drive He was like the way
he drove the van onto the thing,

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and they made sure they were like
listen here, there's people that pop out

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of whatever, like the stands randomly
to like throw you off of the track

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if you are beyond those yellow lines. So you cannot do that, but

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you can drive it on the track. And he was like, I promise

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I won't do anything bad. Just
let me drive it on the track.

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Yes, it's funny because I have
my skateboard with me. And last year

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I was telling Christine. I was
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and on the wall with my skateboard, well I lose my credentials. She's

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like, yeah, I wouldn't do
that. Yeah, and so great idea.

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I was talking to the golf car
driver when I was going to cover

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one of the sets and I was
telling them about, oh, I want

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to ride the skateboard and he told
me about somebody last year drove on the

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speedway in the places you were just
talking about that. You can't permanent band

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for life event, folks, never
can step on the venue for life.

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Yeah, well I told you not
to keep skate. You're showing up here

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with your blue hair. I've got
weird people with me and they're probably like,

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we can't afford to give these people
any extra chances. All right,

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just one and done. You're done. You're done. So if I wasn't

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here for the interview, you might
have known what happened. Yeah, well

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you know, uh so see you
see you at a different show. You

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know at that point we'll have to
we won't see it next year, but

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we'll see at a different show.
So let's tell everybody your socials how they

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can check out all your new music, yes, wor dates, your merch

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all that stuff. So if you
just go to eva underfire dot com,

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we have all of the things listed. We are kicking off of the summer

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tour with Welcome to Rockville, so
we're going to be playing shows from now

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until September. So just randomly though, because we're writing you album too.

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Wow, So make sure that you
go on to Spotify and listen to all

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of Evonderfire's music and in the moment
once you're all caught up, I'll give

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you new things. I like how
you put that. Yes, I think

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you have to do it. I
think it's like movies. You can't watch

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the sequel until you've watched the previous. Oh totally yeah, And this new

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stuff is gonna be I just I
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some of our best stuff. I
know everybody says that, but like I'm

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so I am so serious. We
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really really cool, Like you know, just just you see check out Spotify,

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check out Instagram. We'll see you
guys real soon. Love it.

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the Rockville Thank you cheers Man.
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