PipemanRadio Interviews Flat Black at Aftershock 2023

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the white Man, Cracy, little
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when you stole them out there.
This is the pipe Man here on the

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Adventures pipe Man W four c Y
Radio. And I'm here with Jason Hook

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Rob here, Nick Delton, Rex
Shorton like thanks, Dick flat Black here

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at aftershock Man. You guys were
to talk back here when you guys were

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out there, like you guys kick
ass? Okay, tell us about that

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a lot of people were just talking
about how great you guys were and that

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it was really badass. How did
you see the crowd out there? How

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do you see the crowd out there
where they they loved it? Right,

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We're converting people every single day.
We're converting people. Uh, you know

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you were on first. We got
added to these festivals way after the lineup

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had been decided on, So this
was sort of like a chuck them on

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there as a favor, right.
So our job is to like basically open

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the festival, which is fine,
right, but it's a bit of a

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challenge, right because you know people
are still kind of like rolling out of

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bed right to the flat black show, right, including us. Right.

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But it's been fine, it's been
great. It's funy. You should bring

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that up because I think of artists
that when they got played early in the

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day, like, that's kind of
weird when you're like, if you're on

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tour, not doing a festival,
you're playing at night, so it's kind

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of a weird trip in your head
when you got to play early, like

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kind of you're not used to it. It doesn't matter to us. I

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mean, we're here to, like
I said, to convert people. We

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want people to figure it out,
and we, like I said, the

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alternative was that we would be in
a hotel room rotting. So we're right,

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we'll take it there. You go. Absolutely, Yeah, I think

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like the sun is a whole another
factor once that's involved. Yeah, but

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especially today, the cool thing is
is normally you can't see that many people,

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but you can see everyone's faces for
quite some distance. So it's sort

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of nice because you get to see
their faces and how they're reacting. Especially

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with us, we're brand new you
know, they you know, they don't

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know a lot of the material we're
playing, so it's a sort of imperative

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that we deliver on the on the
wake up, I think, but they

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woke up, so it was a
good one, I think. On that

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note, it's like a breath of
fresh air too, to us the listeners,

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because there's a lot of stuff out
there that isn't fresh. So when

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a band like you comes out,
it's like, oh, that's a breath

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of fresh air and has some kick
ass music and it's not like everybody else.

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Rob have to say. Well,
Rob says this, No, it's

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great because you know, we made
a concerted effort to try to stand out

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a little bit and not do what
everybody else is doing, like genre wise.

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Yeah, and we have like some
hints of that in our album that's

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going to be coming out soon.
But you know, at our core,

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we're a four piece band and we
play live and we're just trying to bring

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the ruckus. Four people on stage, old school, We got guitar solos,

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Old Rexers over here sing his nuts
off, you know, and it's

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like nick and sing like everybody sings. We play and yeah, so it

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is a little different, but we're
really glad everybody's digging it. I think

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different is good, okay, because
I find nowadays there's a lot of bands

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that they like just use this formula
and in this genre whatever you want to

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call it, because I hate those
labels. I mean, there shouldn't be

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a formula. It should just be
you as artists, expressing yourself the way

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you want to express yourself. Yeah, no, I agree. I think

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you know, it's it's so much
more about not trying to sell something.

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It's more just about us, the
four of us, making the music we

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want to make that's natural. And
luckily we all really love old school rock

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and roll like Van Halen and Kiss
and Motley Crue, and we want to

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kind of take it back to that
vibe where it was literally just the guys

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up there having a good time playing
their instruments, you know, and putting

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on a rock show, you know. And it's just that's what it's about.

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The core of it. The solid
the solid songs and the solid musicianship,

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you know. Everything else on top
is just it's just the sprinkles totally.

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And it only gets better from there
when you have that solid of a

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foundation. So it's funny too with
the shirts. I was gonna say something,

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but now you mentioned Kiss and Motley
Crue. Those two bands are the

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bands that are why I'm sitting here
today. Absolutely, my first album I

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ever had my life I won at
Seaside Heights and Jersey at the Jersey Shore

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and it was the original Kiss album
when it first came out, and that

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was what started my whole music journey. The first club show I ever went

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to on the Sunset Strip at the
Roxy was Crewe before they had an album,

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and I know right, And let
me tell you, I was like

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after that show, I was like, oh my god, I'm never going

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to a real concert again. And
that started me going to all the club

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shows like all the time, and
I got addicted. And that's what brought

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us here today. What do you
think was the moment for you guys that

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brought you to where we are today
that you just knew music was your life,

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our life basically? Well, jeez, we're all lifers, you know,

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as they say, and there really
is no better existence. Like being

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in a band is fucking cool,
it is fun, and it's is rewarding.

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There really is no better life.
I mean, I was I was

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off the grid for about three years. I mean we're pretty much all paralyzed

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from the pandemic, and me specifically
because I had no band or anything,

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you know, But to be back, it just feels like, ah,

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this is what, this is why
we do it, you know, And

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don't you feel like refreshed now?
Even though that really sucked that period of

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time, But it's like you were
on this hamster wheel for years that you

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couldn't jump off of and you finally
got a chance to jump off and evaluate

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how you wanted to go for the
rest of your music career. That's the

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way I think about it. Yeah, there was a lot of time to

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think and refine too. I think
it was a good time for musicians because

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you know, we got a practice
to stay good, right There's tons of

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free time for that. And you
know, it was like the couldn't been

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any better for you, for you
to figure out, for Jason to figure

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out like what he wanted to do
with this whole project, which you know,

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glued this whole thing together. So
yeah, it was it was a

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good time for get it better and
preparing what we're unleashing right now. I

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love it, and I love something
you said in an interview you called like

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the tour bus like a rolling submarine, isn't it though? It is like

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that. I read that and I'm
like, holy shit, that is the

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best description you could ever give because
it's so true and I love that.

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I can see it even between you
guys that you know, you spend all

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that time with people you either want
to kill them or you love them to

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death. And you, guys,
that's why you're making great music, because

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you guys just mesh together and can
have fun on the road in that rolling

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submarine. Look, it just it's
way better when your friends. Yeah,

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it's way better. I've been in
a lot of bands and I've seen the

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gamut of how it can look.
So when it came to putting this band

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together, it just was really important
to me that we could all gel as

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people like. I didn't rush into
anything. I just want to spend time

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with these guys and see how are
we on a personal level. And because

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it does get dense and you are
confined, you know, for very long

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periods of time. So if that's
not if that's not worked out beforehand,

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you could have problems. And I
didn't want problems, you know, Yeah,

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it should be a drama free life. There's enough drama with everything else

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in life, but not when you're
on that bus with a bunch of people

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that you got to be with all
the time. Right. The cool thing

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about this band is like, if
we didn't play together, we would probably

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still hang out since I love this, which is rare. But you know,

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so what would you do, Like, what hobbies would you guys do

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together besides music? Well, he
likes girls. Yeah, obviously that's true.

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But we all are interested in like
health and fitness and things like that,

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so it's pretty easy. You know. The first thing we we do

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when we wake up is try to
figure out where the gym is nice,

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and you know, we all do
it together, so it's motivatd and like

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you're watching here, especially like the
bass player. You can't see him right

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now, but he's uh, he's
significantly changed recently. Yeah he's uh,

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everybody else but we're we all love
that. That's cool. And I like

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the healthy part because you know,
back in the days I was talking about,

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there was none of that, and
uh it shows yeah, yeah,

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lots of partying and yeah, looking
off for sure all these years later for

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live shows. But I think it's
cool that nowadays Bann like you guys like

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choose like the healthy rock star lifestyle. Well I saw they had the they

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have like the aftershock, the sober
shock, things like yeah yeah yeah yeah

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there yeah, And there's like a
whole in the artist area. There's this

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whole like uh, there's like a
bar and there's a non alcoholic mixer like

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Bar two. So you know there's
options now you don't have to do that

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anymore to have a good time,
you know, we we can all attest

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to that. Even the chef over
here is making vegan pizzas. Yeah yeah,

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and it's good. So if you
if it might be even better than

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catering, you might want to try
his food. Catering has been pretty spectacular

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on this story. Yeah, well, Danny Wimmer knows how to treat the

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artists right. Good on Danny,
Dude, he's you know, he really

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came to bat for Flat Black and
it goes without saying, we are truly

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grateful. So I don't know if
you're gonna ever hear this, Danny,

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but thank you very much, he
will. We'll make sure of it.

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Okay, But listen, I do
a lot of festivals and you've done a

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lot yourself. You've all you know
seen there's not many in the United States

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that there's none that can really compare
to the Danny Wimmer festival. You got

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it, that's true. And you
know, I always hear, which I

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love from the artists, is how
great he treats the artists. Like I

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listen, there's festivals. I've been
at one recently where that really isn't even

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close to the case, and I
think that's like bullshit. Like the artists,

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there is no festival without the art
that's my opinion. He's got it

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down. Oh yeah, thank you, Dandy, Thank you Danny. Thanks

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Danny. So how does everybody reach
out to you guys on socials? On

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the web? Checkout all your music
tour dates, buy your merch and all

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that good stuff. It's really simple. So on Instagram we are at flat

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black, so can't forget that.
And then just about everywhere else we are

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flat black music, including the dot
com flat black music. How'd you even

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get flat black on Instagram? Like
that? That was a luck of a

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draw right there? We Uh,
funny enough, somebody had it and had

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zero posts, zero followers, zero
activity. So I immediately went to work

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on you know, I put my
team on it and said, let's secure

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this. Get it from this person
before they catch on that there's a band

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coming behind it. You know,
right right? That was pretty good,

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worked that well. So craziest story
in your whole musical journey? What would

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it be? I fell off the
drum riser one time? Oh my,

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that's not fun mid song. Wow, embarrassing. I had to get up

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and finish the song. So well, see, there you go. Then

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you're a true rocker man. Horrible
nightmares about it? Still, well,

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you know, I'm never good at
this question for some reason, like I

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should have something prepared, but I
can think of a few. I remember

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opening for Lamb of God in Europe
and like getting booed off the you know,

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getting food, and it was very
uncomfortable. It was my fault,

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my shit, my rig at all
fucked up, and I was the new

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guy and blah blah blah blah.
Great story. Okay, here's nick.

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My first ever European tour, first
show out, I missed bus call and

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had to walk two miles to a
train station and take a train, pay

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for it with my own money to
get to the next gig. I walked

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through cobblestone streets with cowboy boots.
Wow, my feet were bleeding. That's

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the worst part, YEP. I
guess when I was filming a music video

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for a different band, the first
take of the music video sort of like

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okay, everyone's gonna start head banging
on like one, two, three go,

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and the first, very first take
of the day. It was a

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three day shoot. I pinched a
nerve in my like top left trap and

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it's it's still pitched to this day. It's very pleasant, but it was

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like the very first shot, very
first take, I just I heard it

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crack in my head, like big
inside my head. I though that was

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stuck. So I spent you know, hours icing it to get it up

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to a point where I could play. And I had to relearn how to

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head bang with my back instead of
like my neck. You know that that

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was That was a tough one for
sure. That's I don't really have anything

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too crazy, but that that was
wrong. I feel you though, because

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my neck is so screwed from head
bagging for me too. Fucking fifty years

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or forty years, you know.
Anyway, A final words you want to

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leave our listeners with that we haven't
talked about anything you want to tell them

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or got coming up. Well,
our record comes out the beginning of next

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year, and we're putting a song
out out on October eighteenth, and that

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song is called Justice, and it's
coming out very soon. Nice and Jason,

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Well, I was basically gonna say
say the same thing. I mean,

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we're playing our songs live and nobody
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songs on Spotify. So the record
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March, and there's a new song
being released on the eighteenth of October.

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Justice will be done. You're here
first, folks. Nice Well, love

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it, love that you're here at
after Chuck. I hope to see you

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guys a lot more. You're badass
and thanks for being on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man. What's up? This
is Jason Hook from Flat Black and you're

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listening to the Pipe Man on W
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listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
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