PipemanRadio Interviews Flat Black at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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with Rex and Nick flat Black here at

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Welcome to Rockville. How are you
good man? How are you? Oh?

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I'm good and I'm excited and bummed
at the same time, because we'll

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not excite, but I'm happy and
bum. I try to always get out

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the sets I really want to go
to if I can get out of this

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press area. Yeah, and I
really wanted to go to your set,

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but I couldn't get out of here. And one of the reasons I wanted

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to go your say is I wanted
to see if there was going to be

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a surprise because there's this other band
playing here on Sunday, and I thought

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maybe the song there might be a
surprise, and so I sent my photographer

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Oute to make and to catch your
set. Well, she went on her

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own, but I said, let
me know what happens, cause I can't

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act like an idiot in the interview
would not know if something happened that they're

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set. Yeah, the stars may
align someday, but you didn't miss out

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this time. That's the part why
I was happy. I was bummed because

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I miss your set, but I
was happy because that didn't happen. So

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we may yet get the chance.
You never know. Oh yeah, So

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how long are you stick around at
Welcome to Rockville this time? Like?

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Are you jetting right eye? Here? Are you staying till Sunday? I

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think I would love to stay.
There's a ton of bands that I like

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that are that are here. But
you know, these these fly we're not

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on tour right now, and these
fly days. You know, we have

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to catch flights and all this stuff. This is the big bummer with this

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stuff is I could hypothetically see Limp
Biscuit for the fifty fifth time today,

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right, I don't. I don't
think I'm gonna make it to this one

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just because you know, we have
all the traveling and stuff, but ideally,

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you know, I would be here
the whole time. Man, I

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love this. I love this venue. This format like nice. It's just

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you know, I don't know if
it's three stages or but it's really nice

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to Actually there's four Okay, wow, wait is there more? Now there's

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five? Now there used to be
four, Now there's five. I find

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this well staggered though I don't see
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there's not too much overlap, you
know, and that's a lot. You

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know, it takes a lot of
organization. Of course, there's gonna be

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a little bit, but you know, as a fan, you get to

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see ninety percent of what you want
to see, you know. Yeah.

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And because we have five now and
they changed it around and changed the names,

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I actually you're gonna laugh. I
almost missed a set last night that

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I really wanted to go to because
I was in the in where the pit

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would be at the wrong stage.
Oh yeah, yeah, you gotta book

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it over right, mere scenario.
Oh yeah. I was like I was

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there and then the lead singer in
the band that was playing came out,

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I'm like, oh, wrong band, wrong stage, I'm out of here.

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Yeah. So yeah, but it
is cool how they lay it out

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here because it's like pretty like simple
and you know for simple, very comfortable

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and kind of just laid back man, Like, I really like the vibe.

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Sometimes you get to places and it's
very kind of like aggressive and you

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know, uh, you know you
can't do that here, You can't.

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You gotta go over here do that. Everyone here has been so nice and

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so accommodating, and even the crowd
and everything is super low key, you

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know, like kind of got to
walk through after our set and kind of

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walk on the lawn and it's just
everyone's hanging out, they're relaxing. You

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know, everyone's in good spirits.
It's just a really really nice overall vibe

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here, which is always so it's
so important for an artists like Danny Wimmer

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really knows how to take care of
artists at a festival, right because no

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doubt, you know, it sucks
when you show up to a festival and

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you're treated like whatever and then happens
all the time exactly And I've never heard

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a bad word from an artist about
playing And Danny Wimmer first reason why he's

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at the top, you know what
I mean, it's you and it really

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does show. And it's great because
I think, you know, it's just

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great to see that over here.
I've been to Europe a handful of times

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and I feel like they really kind
of set them are for like how to

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treat artists and how to take care
of people and everything, and it's great

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to see that happening here as well. You know, it's funny you should

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say that, because the better you
treat your artists, the bigger artists you

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get. So that's you know,
and they keep coming back and they're talking

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good about you, so other artists
want to go because it's a small world

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you guys all live in. Now, I gotta tell you. You mentioned

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the European festivals, which I covered
the European UK festivals, and I've been

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saying it all along, like Danny
Wimmer took the template for what works over

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there and brought it to the United
States. Otherwise, most of the festivals

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are like going to the county fair. Exactly, yeah, exactly, you

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know, it's exactly right. Yeah. So I'm going to tell you something

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since since he's not at the table
right now, that have never said on

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the radio, ever before you you
see my hair? Sure, do you

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know where I got the idea for
this hair? I can guess yes,

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say now you know, could could
it be the the the Jason hook Man.

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Yeah, so here's what happened.
I used to have a hawk and

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used to color the top and then
one time I was at one of his

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shows and I'm looking up. I'm
like, now that's fucking cool. Yep,

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I'm doing that, but in blue, not red, and it stuck

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and it's been come like my trademark. It's on my logo and everything.

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Like I actually got rivet for a
while and everybody was complaining and saying,

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you got to bring the blue back
my hair. The dude that does my

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hair, he's like, you got
to bring the blue back. Man,

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You're a fucking rock star. You
gotta have the blue. And I'm like,

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okay, so here we are back
with the blue again. But yeah,

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that's where I got the idea from. Man. Yeah, the hair

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is obviously a very important aspect of
you know, it's a brand defining thing,

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right, no doubt, no doubt. Absolutely, And so yeah,

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I don't know if I would have
said it while he's here, because I

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seem like, hey, I copied, dude, dude, but I did,

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and I'll give credits. Okay,
it wouldn't be the first time with

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him. I don't think I'm sure, right, So tell me about this

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song with Corey Taylor, because that's
bad as sorry. Tell me about the

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song with Cory right. Yeah,
before me and Nick here were I think

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even in the band, Jason was
desperately looking for a singer and couldn't find

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one for a long time until he
eventually landed on me. But Corey became

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a really good friend of his when
he parted ways with Death Punch, and

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Corey offered to help him write when
he was sort of struggling to find a

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singer. Yeah, they wrote like
five songs together, I think, And

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when we went to record, one
of those songs was selected for the record.

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And that's nothing to some and we
said, hey, you know,

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he told he this. This is
his version of it. But he says,

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I'm gonna I'm gonna be kicking myself
for the rest of my life if

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I don't ask you this. You
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way you want to be involved with
the song? Like feature on the song?

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He said, Hell, Yeah.
Nice, So that's pretty much.

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That's pretty much the story with it. And I went in and recorded my

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parts and then we piece it all
together and yeah, then you get the

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song. That's that's pretty much it. And it doesn't really change the sound

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because like you guys do have like
a similar voice, so it has the

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same it's not like you're hearing a
different band shown. I would be lying

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if that wasn't you know, a
pretty major influence on me. You know,

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I've been quite a big fan for
a while, so it's definitely a

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big deal for me as a as
a you know, vocalist doing metal for

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years, and it was definitely like
something to chuck off the list, you

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know, it was. It was
really great. Yeah, I love it.

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I love the story you just said
because it shows a true camaraderie of

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somebody like Corey Taylor. Yeah,
he's a great guy, you know,

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nothing but good things. Because not
every artist would be like that. But

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the fact that you know, he
went out of his leg didn't he doing

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help and he goes out did not
do that. Everybody did not have to

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do that at all. You know, he's like all over the place,

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and you know, even recently,
I got pissed off because you know,

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when he took that little break for
a little bit it, Yeah, and

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everybody was giving him fucking shade.
It's like, do you realize how hard

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this dude works. Man, you
get a vacation, why can't he?

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You know, And it's like his
his mental health or whatever he's going through

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worth you missing a show. You'll
get to see another show, And like,

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come on. And I think that's
what we need to learn in music.

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It's everybody needs to understand, especially
we're in mental health Awareness month.

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Okay, absolutely artists. People look
at you guys and like, oh,

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they're living the life because they see
one little aspect of it. You see

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one percent of it. What probably
less exactly. So, like, I

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think what he did, kudos to
him for doing for himself and his family,

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and kudos for being man enough to
get up and say it, you

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know, opposed to somebody a rep
making up some bullshit story. He was

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just straight up on us. I
think people should appreciate that. Yeah,

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definitely, I think too. You
know, the thing that people forget is

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so many people people are so obsessed
with the grind mindset, you know,

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and and a lot of people forget
that sometimes you have to rest, you

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know, you have to take time
for you and and that's kind of that's

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some people have an aversion to that, you know. I mean even Jason

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he's he's like a workaholic, and
I mean some you know, I I

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definitely appreciate you have to work your
ass off to to get where you're going,

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and having a great work ethic is
super important. And obviously like always

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being busy and stuff is super important. But I think if you don't take

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time to sometimes just be able to
recharge, you know, then you're you're

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never gonna make it. It's definitely. I think it's very important A for

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artists to be able to do that, and B for the fans to understand

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that they need to do that,
you know, and you're no good to

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fans if you're not reacharged exactly,
yeah, exactly. So well that's cool,

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And man, you guys fucking rocked
it here at Welcome to Rockville.

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Thank you, pun intended. We
had a fucking blast. Anything else you

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want to share with the listeners that
we haven't covered yet and give out the

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socials and how they buy merch and
all that stuff. Yeah, Flat black

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music dot com is the main website
that's got all the links and stuff on

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it and pretty much everywhere else.
We're just at flat black and pretty easy

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to find everything from there. You
know. We got some new singles rolling

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out pretty soon, a lot of
exciting stuff happening. We're going to be

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on the road, you know a
little bit later this year. Yeah.

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Man, we're just having a great
time, you know, onward and upward.

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Yeah. We have a new single
coming out in June, and that

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will be accompanying the announcement of the
album release date. So, and we

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were doing more shows with god Smack, and we are doing an additional week

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with another band that I'm a massive
fan of. That I'm really excited to

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do that too, but I can't
say that yet. But then there will

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be even more things. There'll be
headlining dates too, nice probably probably in

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starting in late July August, and
then the falls pretty busy too. We're

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trying to be very busy. We're
trying to deliver as many shows to as

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many places as we possibly can this
year. And we won't let you down

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on that one, that's for sure. I love it, especially because I

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love live music and I love you
guys live, so that's very cool.

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And thanks for giving us on such
great music and live performance and well,

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thank you man. We appreciate it
our pleasure, thank you, and thanks

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for being on the Adventures of Pipemin. Thank you, Love Joe Fucked.

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This is Rex from Flat Black and
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