PipemanRadio Interviews Fame On Fire at Aftershock 2023

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Hey, you have done to censure? Why crazy you? Whycoume of America.

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It's time for the Adventures of White
Man on w four c Y dot

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internet radio station. Here's your host,

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the white Man Man. What this
is the pipe Man here on the Adventures

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pipe Man w por C Y Radio. And I'm here with fam on Fire.

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And I gotta tell you, I
had no interviews, so I was

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able to go up and watch on
the screen like for like ten minutes your

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set. Fuck. I felt bad
for you. Yeah, Oh my god,

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was it hot? Yeah? We're
some Florida boys, and today was

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the hottest show we've ever played.
You know what it's like to be a

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Florida person and come somewhere else and
think it's too hot. It's weird,

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right, Yeah, I live in
Florida. I'm here. I'm like,

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fuck this. I want to go
back to Florida and cool off. Yeah

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that was ridiculous, right, it
was. Yeah. I always I've been

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asking a lot artists, and you
know, I always wonder how the fuck

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do you do it? Like,
how do you get up there and do

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a show in this heat? Like
you probably wait till afterwards to die.

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We didn't even think about it,
to be completely honest, there are some

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songs where I'm like, looking at
ourselves, I'm like, fuck, we

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don't stop. We have thirty minutes
to like make an impression, right,

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so we just song at their song, at their song, at the song,

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and so we don't stop. And
I'm like, looking at the Sound'm

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like, when can I breathe?
Right? Yeah, And like we're sitting

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there like sweat stripping everywhere in your
eyes and shit, And I'm like,

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I'll sit up there saying or no. I'm like, don't pass out,

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don't pass out? Right, you're
probably thinking the same thing. Literally,

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I thought I was gonna puke three
songs in h I could see that too.

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And the eyes thing I've experienced that
you know in prestents, it gets

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really hot. I was talking with
John Skillett yesterday. We had an interview

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at Hellfest. It was one hundred
and four degrees outside the press dent was

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black, and literally the whole interview, both of us are dripping down,

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but my eyes were burning. I
couldn't even see him anymore. Like,

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and I'm thinking, you up on
stage, you guys up on stage,

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and like is in that condition called
hellest. It is Hellfest and it is

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hell yeah. It sounds like fucking
hell yeah. That's uh. It's in

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France. It was last year,
three hundred and sixty bands. Can you

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imagine seven days? That's so.
I feel so bad for the people that

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a play like in one hundred and
forty degree weather. I don't even know

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how you would do that, Like, I mean, so I'm thinking about

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that, like if you're if your
eyes are burning like behind we're how the

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hell are you performing up there?
Because that's not going away. I'm doing

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a ten to fifteen min interview.
Yeah, well, you know, we

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show up to impress people. We
want to we want to press that crowd,

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so we're gonna do whatever we can. Really, well, you've obviously

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done that because you guys have grown
pretty quick, and that you've been taken

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under the wing to do these DWP
festivals. That says a lot. Yeah,

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Danny like cultivates bands and he's not
putting you on festivals unless you're fucking

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good. Yeah, and we really
appreciate him. Honestly, I've never met

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him before, but I would love
to everything all the arts have told me,

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like just the way he treats artists
well. Also, I'm not knocking

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anybody at all, but these are
the best, most artist friendly festivals,

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right, exactly exactly, And I
do all the festivals, and I agree

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with that. Even as press,
you know treated better. You know,

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you got your own tent, I
know, right. Yeah, I've had

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times where I had to sit down
on the grass and interview bands, you

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know, like I just did in
Orlando punkin Drublic. It's basically you can't

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do a backstage interviews there is no
press tent. Figure it out. Yeah

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that's rough, right, Yeah,
So tell our listeners who haven't heard you

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guys yet, what you're all about. How you describe your music, not

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from like oh let's put this band
in this genre and lock them there.

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More what the artist things, you
know what. I'm gonna give this one

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a blake, all right, Yeah, I mean, great question. So

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we were about the same age,
roughly on average, thirty years old,

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right, So we grew up with
that nineties rock when you know, metal

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and rock was really big, moving
into when pop became like the number one

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I'm talking about, so like the
early two thousand, So we grew up

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kind of always all of us listening
to heavy music, and then also pop

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music and rap. So I think
it's a little bit ingrained in us.

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And then we did start out as
a cover band, right. We took

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songs that were top forty hits,
anything from at Cheerin to a Deell to

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litl Uzi, you know, rap
stuff, and we made it our own.

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I think through doing so, we
literally took famous songs and set them

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on fire. And so at our
core we are a mix of you know,

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heavy music, something that taps into
the emotions of aggression to let it

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out, and then also with the
catchy melodies and something that gets stuck in

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your head. So that's exactly what
famal Fire is. I love it,

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you know, I love it because
now in twenty twenty three, it's cool

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to have all those different blends.
Like I come from a time where it's

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like, oh, got be the
gatekeeper, it must be pure, you

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know, it's bullshit, like we
all have more influences, you know,

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Well, how are you ever going
to push the needle if everyone's always like

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what we have right now is the
best? You know. So I think

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there's a lot of great stuff happening
in our scene, our genre over the

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last couple of years, and it's
exciting to see where it's going, and

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we're grateful that we're a part of
it. Yeah, I'm grateful you're a

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part of it too, because I've
seen you at multiple of the festivals,

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and I mean it's obvious why the
heat killed you, because you guys let

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it all out on stage. It's
hard not to. We're just so happy

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to be here. We love playing. It doesn't matter if it's two people,

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two hundred people, two thousand people. We give it all, leave

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it on the dance floor. So
how'd you guys all meet? Cause I

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don't think it was like grade school? Yeah, we actually just met outside

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the show about like an hour ago. Nice. Yeah, Actually, so

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three out of the four of us, so Brian, myself, and Alex.

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We all knew each other from grade
school. Middle school are where we

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lived a little community in South Florida. It was like my house and across

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the street was his Alex neighborhood.
Then across street was Brian's neighborhood. So

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US three for a long time,
and then probably what twenty fourteen, twenty

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fifteen ish is when Paul about because
Paul and Brian are audio engineers, so

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they started a studio together and the
rest is history. What is the craziest

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shit that's happened in your musical journey, music performance, No musical journey,

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crazy it's happened. I mean,
I'm not gonna give I'm not going to

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try and be like a pr guy
here or anything. But I was actually

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just talking about this with my girlfriend
right before we played that. You know,

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there's all these goals to accomplish and
achieve, right, like we're going

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to the next thing. We're always
looking at the next thing. But I

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feel like we don't do a good
enough job at stopping and looking at whether

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or not we're in our moment.
And I think just the fact that you

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know, we're currently on our first
headlining tour nice right, So last night

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with San Diego sold out super cool? Wow, and then today is a

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Danny Wimmer festival, Like that's freaking
awesome. Does it blow your mind that

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already somewhere nowhere near home you're selling
out? It's insane, right, absolutely

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insane, But you know what,
it makes it feel like a home away

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from home, especially because we're starting
to see some familiar faces and that's always

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a blast. I think a big
part of it too, is and I

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can tell by looking at you guys, like the camaraderie. Not all bands

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have that, and that makes it
rough and it's apparent on stage. That's

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the key. Yeah, yeah,
it's a I mean, we all try

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and hold each other accountable. We
love each other, we hate each other,

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we know how to get under each
other's skin. But at the same

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time, it's we're it's a relationship, right, Like you gotta exactly how

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you are with your partner, like
this is. These are our partners.

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So absolutely, we just gotta treat
each other nicely. And we've come this

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far. And how do people connect
to you guys on socials on the web

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by your merch all that cool shit. You can just google fame on fire

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band or just fame on fire I
think we're gonna pop up. Everything's on

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fameonfireband dot com though, so go
there. We couldn't get the normal fame

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on fire The guy I wanted too
much money for it, fuck him,

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So yeah, fuck that guy.
So famonfireband dot com. It is,

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uh, And then you can find
us on Instagram, famalfire, Twitter,

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fame a or ax, whatever the
fuck is called. It's I can't stand

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my X. Shit, man,
none of us know what that even it's

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stupid. Guys are sick. I
keep getting these notifications X formally Twitter,

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and that even annoys me more.
It's like, okay, like what are

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you doing and what you're supposed to
say? Now? You can't tweet on

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X. Whether it X marks the
spot, I don't know. Yeah,

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right, so anything else you want
the listeners to know that we haven't covered

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already. We got a third album
in the works right now, nice and

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we're really excited for it. But
other than that, no, just come

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to a show, come hang out. We're about to go out with Pop

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Evil, so one of those shows
that'd be fucking cool. This our headline

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s toward is pretty much over and
we have four more shows and they're almost

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all sold out, so hell yeah, love it. Well, you guys

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rock. You need to go cool
down, drink a lot of water and

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relax and have a good time the
rest of the day because you let it

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all out on stage and it's boiling
heat and you deserve it. So thank

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you for being here and thanks for
being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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Thank you for having us, thank
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