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PipemanRadio Interviews Chris from Grave Digger About Bone Collector and European Tour 45 years later

Bone Collector - 1/17/25 - RPM-ROAR, First album without keyboard passages. Pipeman talks about owning Heavy Metal Breakdown.

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our next guest, I am an old fan of from

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way back, and we have some new music forty five

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years from the beginning. So let's welcome to the show.

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Chris from Gravedigger. How are you.

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I'm very fine, Thank you very much. It's a pleasure

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for me to be in your show.

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Oh well, pleasure to have you. And you know, it

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seems like the trend is going on in this past

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couple of years. A lot of the old school great

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German metal bands are all like being visible now in

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the US. For sure, you know, they were probably still

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visible in in Europe. But you know, it's just amazing

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that this great music is coming back. And I'm always

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in awe of somebody like yourself that after doing this

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for forty five years, you can still create new music.

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It just blows my mind. How does that even happen?

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Like how you still have these creative ideas.

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I think the most important thing is that you love

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what you do, you know, And I'm gifted because I

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can do what I want. I can do my creativity.

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I can record albums, I can play live, and that

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is the greatest gift as a musician. And yeah, I

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can feed my family from that, and that give me

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the power and energy to carry on with the band

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and to create new records.

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There you go. And you know, it's funny because I do,

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like you mentioned records. I'm still intero vinyl as you

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as we all should be. And like right in front

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of me is my vinyl collection and in there is

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heavy metal breakdown.

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That's nice, man.

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Uh.

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Ten days ago ahead, it was my birthday, I know,

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sixty three years old birthday. Thank you. I made myself

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a present. I bought a record player again, you know,

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after all, and then I started listening to all my

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old records on vinyl, and I discovered all this stuff

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more or less again, I listened to April Wine, you know,

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the band, Yes, great stuff and to a point of

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Entry from Judis Priest and yeah, I'm a young guy

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again with all this vinyl stuff, you know, and it's

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all right. I listen not so to the new Gravity

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Go on vinyl and that sounds also amazing.

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Yeah, well how can it not? But and you know,

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like it's amazing too. Even in my vinyl collection and

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case collection that I still have, there are bands that

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I have and albums I have that you can't even

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get anymore, not even on Spotify or Apple Music or

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anywhere else. And that's the beauty of vinyl is you

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just have it forever. It's a keepsake forever. Nobody can

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just hit a button then drop it off.

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Yeah, but this is music culture, you know, Yeah, you

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have his music culture. The other thing what you told

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me now is on Spotify it's music fast food. You know.

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That's a I've never heard it described that way. That's

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the perfect way to describe it. Absolutely. I don't even

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know how anybody nowadays even those songs, because they don't

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even listen to whole songs anymore. Like people always when

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they're riding in the car with me, They're like, how

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do you know the lyrics to every single song? Well,

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it's because I sat there with my headphones on, spent

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my hard earned teenage money on an album, and listen

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to it like fifty million times over and over again

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while I read the lyrics that came in the album.

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Yeah, when I am in my car and I drive

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most of the time with my boy and bring him

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to the studio. Is also a musician, so he doing

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me some kind of disco while I'm driving, and he

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doing all the stuff with Spotify. And then I told him, hey, son,

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can you do the song until the end and not

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skip it after one and one and a half minute.

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I want to listen to the song till the end.

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But this is the music culture of the young people,

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you know, and you are forced to write songs, so

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thirty seconds until the chorus is coming. But I don't

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follow that. I do my old stuff, heavy metal, and

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I'm an old fashioned guy in this case, and I'd

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love to do it this way.

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I love it because you know, I talk about this

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all the time, and you know, I was doing an

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interview a while back and we were talking about how

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they have, and you just mentioned it, how they've actually

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changed how songwriting is to accommodate the people that have

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zero attention span nowadays. And I think these people nowadays

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are missing so much of what music is. It's not

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just a song. It's an experience. It's a journey, it's

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a feeling. It's artwork. It has meaning, and it's not

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a formula like you're saying. Old school metal is not

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a formula. It's just creativity. And it's interesting to me.

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I said this just the other day that some of

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my favorite songs, people today would never even hear the

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whole song because it could be like thirty to sixty

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seconds of an intro that doesn't sound anything like the song.

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Yeah, for sure, I see that. That is the reason

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why I told you that music nowadays is fast food.

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You know, the bands like Sabaton or Beast in Black,

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all these oil pop bands, they start or less with

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the chorus. You know, Yeah, people notice directly, oh wow,

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you know, and we start with you know, we start

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with a riff.

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You know.

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That is the most important difference between those bands and

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Grave Dig or sexon and except exactly, I would never

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leave these paths because that is the music I love

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and I want to carry on. I know that the

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oilro pop metal bands, they have a huge attention outside

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you're playing in front of ten thousand people. But I'm

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happy if I can't play in front of five hundred

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people playing metal and they love it, you know, And

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that is much more important than me to play in

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front of ten people.

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That's sometimes more fun too as an artist, isn't it.

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I would think it's more fun like when you get

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big and not playing clubs anymore. I think artists like that,

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and I've talked to a few of them there, friends

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of mine. It's like they miss playing the clubs, you know.

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Yeah, to play in the club is the most direct

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way to get in touch with your fans, you know.

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And if we play this time this year, we play

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ten times of Invaking open air and there's the first

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row twenty meters. Yeah, and I be on stage with

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all glasses, I can see only the meat of the people,

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you know, right, and I can't see anybody in the

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face because we all glasses. And in the club shows,

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I have the people directly one meto wanted a half

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meter in front of me, and I can get in

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touch and react with them, you know, directly, so that

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is much more intense.

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You know. It's funny that you say that too, because

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like the interaction with the crowd back in the day

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was very different. Like I just saw a video recently

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of a punk band getting pissed off because people were

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getting up on stage at a club, and like, I

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grew up in a time that that's what you did

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at a punk show, you know, Yeah, it was exactly that.

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That is like totally anti punk to get people dragged

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off the stage. The artists the club would try to

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do that, but the artists never did. And now with

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the artist, it's just weird to me, you know. And

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like we were talking about the intros to songs, it's

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funny the one that sticks in my mind too, as

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fast as a shark. I remember me and my friends,

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we didn't even have to listen to the rest of

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the song. That intro just blew our Mind and then

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the song of course blew our Mind. But you know

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it's like and people today when never listened to that,

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they were just oh, what's this and skip.

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Yeah, that is why we start normally with a guitar riff.

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I always grow up with this kind of music, and

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for me, having metal is normally to start with a

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guitar riff, you know, yes, and with a chorus and

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some oil pop keyboards or something like that.

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And how how how can you have having metal without

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leads like solos and stuff like that, which seems to

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be eliminated nowadays too.

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Listen to Sabaton. They play with a five piece band

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and the main instrument is the keyboards, and they don't

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have a keyboard, you know.

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Wow.

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I don't know if they have guitar solos, but I

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think but anyway, I don't want to look to the

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right or to the left. I make grave digger music

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and I'm happy with that, and I hope that a

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lot of people enjoy grave digger music too. So it's

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not necessary to follow these new bands, you know.

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Well, And the key is that's my point is here

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you are forty five years later with the new album

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Bone Collector dropping on the seventeenth, and man, it's just

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as good, if not better, then it's always been. And

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that's impressive to me too, because listen after forty five

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years too, there's a lot of bands or artists that

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just go through the motions. And I can tell from

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this music that you put your heart and soul into it.

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Yeah, for sure, and we we try to build a bridge,

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you know, from Bone Collector to heavy metal breakdown and

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back to show the people again the signature sound of

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the band.

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Yeah.

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We started as a four piece band and nothing else

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is great to go we are. We had this phase

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this with Concept Cidies in the nineties. There's a huge

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success with them. But at the end, we are a

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band with a guitar, with a bass, with drums and

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vocals and nothing else, and that is what we use

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on stage and that is what we want to present

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the people absolutely.

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So do you have a favorite song on Bone Collector

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and why Ah?

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I like the Devil Serenade. It sounds like an eighty

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stadium rock track, and I like the attitude and the

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approach of the song. So this is for me one

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of the perfect songs of the new album.

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Nice and So you have a tour going on, so

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that's really cool. Tell me how it feels too forty

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five late years later to still be playing live music.

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It's it's amazing, right. It shows up that this tour

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will one of the most successful tours in the last

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two two years.

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Wow.

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And after all these years, it's it's amazing to be

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on stage and present your music to the people outside.

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Yeah, and I love hearing that. Guess that just tells

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me how much you love music, Okay, because you know

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it takes a certain person to love being on the

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road and doing live shows. And to me, that's a

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true musician.

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Yeah. Look, we have brothers in mind. I have a motive.

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Nice, Yeah, I love it. What a good What a

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good pick I made? Then?

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Huh, this one is warm, It's it's awesome. I love

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Motorhead and I've wear that every day. So in summer time,

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such in my heart, I'm a heavy metal kid. You know.

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I met Rob Halford two years ago for the very

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first time, and he invited me to his beckstage area

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and then he told me, hey, you are Chris singer

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of Gravity and said, wow, you know all these years

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and I told him, hey, when when you when I

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was young, I was was in your first row so

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many times screaming hey Rob Ray Rob, and touch his

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boots and like like a crazy guy. You know, guys,

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which we hate now when we are on stage screaming

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the whole show and touching you, and I was one

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of them, and he left his ass out as after

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all these dream came true to to meet my own idols.

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is that most of the musicians in metal are metal

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fans first, and you know, like even doing press, like

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when I go on tour and I do uh, you know,

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coverage at festivals here in the US, UK, Europe, and

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and it's like, you know, I'm meeting people that I

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was probably in their mash pit. I was head banging

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to them. And then I see other press people that

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like don't even know the music, and I think to myself,

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to be doing press for metal, you should be a

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metal head because there's a certain passion that we share

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and things that we share that I don't think anybody

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else can. It's like we're all big family, and there's

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a lot of people that maybe don't understand our family.

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m hm. So when we were young, we some kind

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of rebellion. We are rebeging against our own parents and

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growing the hell long. And after all, this is insight,

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you know, it's just a statement against something again, establishment

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against politics, and that is that deep insight.

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kind of bothers me is that in twenty twenty five

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you can still write the same heavy metal songs that

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you did in nineteen eighty about things like nuclear or

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for example, or any of those topics that we talked

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about back then. It just blows my mind that we

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can still write about it today. Yeah, it's actual, and

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now I think that it is totally.

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And I think war we'll never stop to I have

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so many wars in the in the world, and you

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can in ten years. I hope that we can stop

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one day and all everybody live in peace and freedom.

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But things that is an illusion.

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So I think the only way that will happen is

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to have one major metal festival that were the whole world.

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Is that, because then they'll find out what it's like

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to be united and every bloody be an insider from

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different walks of life, different types of people, and where

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you could be somewhere where everybody can be friends but

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not be the same.

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And you know the name of this festival, go for

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World Stock.

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There you go. I love it. We need to start

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that then, you know, and yeah, so tell if you

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were to give me one story, good or bad in

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this whole forty five year journey you've had, what's the

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one that sticks out in your mind most of all?

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Ah, there are so many stories. But I think it

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was in the year twenty ten we made a mute

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show at the Bucking Open Maya with bagpipeers and all

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this stuff, and I met behind the stage. I met

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a ninety years old clans man. Huh, original klansman from Scotland.

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That was the really impressing. He was so nice and

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you told me stories about freedom walls and it was

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really impressing. That was one of my highlights in my career.

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Wow, that's pretty cool. I love it. How many times

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have you guys played Vucking because you're playing this year too, right? Yeah?

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How many times have you played Vaking? Yeah?

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We played ten times now there.

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Wow? Have you played Speaking and Motorhead? Have you played

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hell Fest?

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No?

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So you gotta go to hell Fest because they have

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this huge, larger than life statue of Lemmy it's made.

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I saw that.

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Yeah, Oh it's cool as hell, Like it's totally cool

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as hell. Uh, No pun intended.

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Of course, a way to play the one day.

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Yeah, let's make it happen, for sure, I'm surprised. We

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gotta make it happen now, well, let's make it for

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twenty twenty six. I'm putting it out there on the air.

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So how do people check you guys out? Get your

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new album? You have a lot of cool merge. Check

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out your merch all that good stuff.

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You can't go to the graft, your homepage, Grave Minus

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Digger dot E or to our store and you will

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find everything. We have a good shipping rates and what

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I think with the new album, you can find Grave

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Digga everywhere.

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I love it and I recommend everybody check out this

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new album cuz, man, it is definitely badass and true metal.

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And I'm so happy you guys are still rocking it

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all these years later. It's not only a testament to

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you guys, but it's a testament to metal itself. Because

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who would have ever thought when we were in the

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eighties that in twenty twenty five we would be talking

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about metal.

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And watch out the Adventures of the pipe Man.

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I love it well, you know what, thanks a lot

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for that, Thanks for being on the adventures of my

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pipe Man. I came to speak now and I look

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forward to a lot more from you guys.

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Thank you very much, my friend. Have a nice day

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you too.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.

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I'm w for CUI Radio.

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