PipemanRadio Interviews Imperial Tide at Aftershock 2023

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here with landon Hill from Imperial Side Nice

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here at after Shot. Yes,
sir, I hear too, like Little

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Birdie told me. There's little ties
to DWP festivals with you guys. Yes,

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yes, Actually it started twenty twenty
one. We did a little twitch

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contest when we were first coming together
as a band, and we won a

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little competition to play Rockville in twenty
twenty one. Nice. And after that

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they saw the quality of work that
we put out, the content, the

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photos, the social media, and
they brought on two of us, myself

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and my guitarists. Will we do
content and media for DWP as well?

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Yeah? And that's so cool because
to me, I think being a music

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artist, it's not just being a
music artists. I think all music artists

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are. It's all art. So
it's all like one big thing. So

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the stuff you do for DWP,
I think goes hand in hand with what

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you would do with the band as
well. Yeah, I think the lines

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are blurred, especially in the you
know, current state of music. You

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can't just be a musician if you're
not like branding yourself and putting out the

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best product at all times, whether
it's on social media or on your website

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or in every form and aspect.
So that's what we try to do,

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is just keep a caliber of product, you know that just as speaks for

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itself. Nice. So tell our
listeners a little bit about your music,

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how you would describe it as an
artist, not not like some stupid genre

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label the box you in. I
always like to hear what the artist has

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to say about their music. Yeah, I mean we are driven by aggression.

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The state of our band was created
during the pandemic, so it came

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from a time where we were all
isolated together and kind of put into put

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into a box, right, We
were all told how to feel, what

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to do, and we rebelled against
that by coming together for a month and

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wrote a EP that we ended up
getting put out and on a record label.

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And then that just kind of stemmed
from there. So our genre,

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I don't, you know, we
never really put ourselves in a box like

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that. It's just heavy. We
are heavy. The aggression stands, you

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know, it speaks for itself.
We don't really If you listen to one

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record, you're gonna say, oh, this sounds this way, and if

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you listen to another one, it's
gonna say, oh it sounds this way.

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You can't. I love I love
that, yeah, because nowadays I

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say this a lot. I come
from like the old days, a metal

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you know where even like as a
thrash mellow head all four to Big four

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did not sound like they were in
the same genre right at all, you

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know, And nowadays you have bands
that it's almost like they're using algebraic equation

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to make music and they all have
this sound that is like I I could

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always tell a band apart, and
I can't tell some of them apart.

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I think it's more important to be
unique, like you guys are. Yeah,

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I think you're right. There's very
much a system, and I think

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it's come down to the way our
music is sold now, right, Like

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there's only so many avenues for our
music to be heard. Like you're saying

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the Big Four, we were on
MTV, we were on major radio,

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we were being pushed. Right now, we have a very small window of

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how we can be discovered. Yeah, and I think people are scared to

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get outside of that box and they
think, I have to have catchy chorus,

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heavy hooks, breakdown, catchy chorus, and then they bring it back

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and it does become like almost systematic
that you know, you could copy and

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paste. I said this my whole
time, our band. You can't put

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anybody in my place or anybody else
in this band's place and it would sound

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the same. We are a group
of five individuals that every single one of

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us brings something to the table that
makes us sound the way we sounded.

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I think that's what's gonna make you
last. Because going through all the decades

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of music, what are the bands
that didn't survive, the ones that before

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the record labels put in this box
and hear do it this way only yeah,

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and they disappear. But the ones
that did it their way, they're

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still around. I definitely I would
love to see. I wish I could

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see into the future and see what
metal has in store. Something that I'm

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so passionate about is being involved in
metal for this long. You know,

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we've been doing this as musicians since
I was like thirteen years old. Nice

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so to be lived more than half
my life as somebody who appreciates metal and

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rock music and then now to work
for arguably the biggest rock and metal festival

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company in the world. I want
to be here to push forth metal into

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the you know, the future.
We talk about it all the time,

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how the headliners are x x amount
of you know age that you how long

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do they want to play? I
heard Dave yesterday talking about I heard the

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singer Godsmack talking about it, how
they've been doing it for so long and

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that it's not what it was and
they like are talking like that, and

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not that I have that opinion about
them. I think that there's fucking rock,

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you know, more so than a
lot of the other guys that are

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still putting shit out right. But
like, we want to see the genre

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go to the next level and see
where it goes. And bands like Code

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Orange and Knock Loose and these other
avenues of where we're going falling in reverse.

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There's places for us to live in
the you know, in the range

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of metal and rock and mainstream.
Yeah, and you know, two of

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the things you said in that area, one of them I was already relating

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to, and that was Dave.
Because I'm gonna tell you a story when

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you were taught and talk about one
thing and then you mentioned Dave. I'm

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like, yeah, I gotta talk
about it because I was sitting out there

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in the Megadeth pit yesterday in the
pit yeah, and I couldn't do it.

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Well. It's funny because I was
off to the side and I was

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hanging out with one of the bands
that's performing here at Aftershock, and we

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were just hanging out and then I
saw a pit open up and I ran

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and they told me afterwards when I
came back, They're like, we were

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like wondering where you way. We
looked up at like, oh shit,

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he's going in the pit. But
the thing is is I was talking to

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them about I can't you talk about
the future. I was at Metallica's first

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show ever, Wow, and Dave
Mustain came off the stage afterwards and came

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up to me and started talking to
me like, I'm fifteen it was probably

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I don't know, seventeen or nine, nineteen men something like that, and

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he hands me his business card.
Imagine this, Yeah, and it says

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Metallica power metal because they were power
metal for a man, because there was

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no thrash, right, And it
said Dave Mustain. And I was saying,

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I was like when I was sitting
there with those twenty four friends of

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mine in this little club watching his
band Metallica, I could have never conceived

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of sitting out there Aftershock and seeing
that sea of people for Megadeth, as

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I couldn't even see the end of
it. Unfathomable people are here watching these

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guys right now. And I cred
that number one to you know, bands

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like you and bands that came before
you that kept metal going, you know.

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And I credit Danny Wimmer because yes, these festivals we have here in

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the US, I mean every one
of them. Not only are they great

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festival as well organized, but Danny
cultivates these new metal bands. It's like

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you wouldn't never know of nothing more
without right Danny, you know. And

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then one of the bands that played
at Louder Silly Goose. Yes, I

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was there when they were playing in
the park, parking lit Yes, and

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Danny walked up to them. You
know, it's like he champions us.

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He really does. And you know, being in the I say, I'm

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in the boardroom sometimes with these guys, now, you know, so I

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have a peek behind the curtain and
he loves this shit, right and he

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looks at everybody and you know,
over the last we live in a space

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where we talk a lot about Taylor
Swift and the big dogs, and you

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know, we talk about what's going
on, and He's like, I don't

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want to fucking hear it nice.
I want to talk about big metal and

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I want everybody to be passionate about
it, and we are. And that's

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what you see through this is that
every one of us behind closed doors loves

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this, and everybody at DWP loves
it, and that's why we get the

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opportunity to do this. In our
creative room, we're listening to hardcore bands

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and Daniel'll hear someone will ask who
is this, or he'll say, oh

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this is and in point you know
a to b oh wow, I had

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them on the festest time or And
that's what we're really excited about is being

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a band that he's willing to champion. Right now. He sees us,

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he hears us, and he thinks
that if he puts us on these festivals,

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gets us heard that we can be
a band that plays for the next

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ten twenty years. And kudos to
him too, because being that you work

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for him, he's not just putting
you on the festival because you work with

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him, right, you know,
and anything, it's probably the opposite because

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further the band succeeds. I don't
know how much work I can get done

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right exactly or like how we would
look. Oh, he just puts bands

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that are his bands or whatever,
but that's not true. We're not on

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there. We're not on a label
that he's attached to. We're not on

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anything attached to them outside of He
cares about us and the music that we

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put out and he believes in it. And one thing I can say is

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every artist I've ever interviewed, which
is a lot, because I've been doing

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the every DWP festival for like,
I don't know, ten twelve years,

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Yes, I have yet to have
an artist ever say anything negative, exact

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opposite post to some of the other
festivals that I do that that's not the

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case. Yes, I'll tell you
what. The way we're treated here is

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something I've never experienced in my life. Right. I baffled as somebody who

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just like I said, I'm driving
walking around, I'm seeing posters I design,

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and I'm just excited about that.
And then I get to a trailer

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with my name on it that I
didn't make somebody else, did you know?

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It's something else that now I have
a writer, you know, things

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that were never provided to us before
that are just in the little things.

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You know, we play. We
play clubs all around Vegas. We'll play

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the House of Blues, We'll play
in all of these venues, and there's

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no level of care. They don't
care if we sold two hundred and fifty

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tickets for them. They do not
appreciate us. But the fact that we're

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the last man on the bottom of
the thing and we're getting treated the exact

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same way as the guy who's headlining
the stage. Is even though we are

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playing last on our stage, because
we're playing the after party this time,

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which is crazy to think that we
play after corn. Well, I'm happy

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about that, you know why,
because I gotta sit in here and I

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normally, if you were on the
you know earlier, I wouldn't be able

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to catch your set. Oh I
love that. I love to hear that.

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We're really excited to get out and
play at night. You know,

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I know, it's like most of
the time, anytime we play fest anytime

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we do stuff, it's the you
know, we're in the beginning, we're

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in the first stages, and we're
never mad about it. But the fact

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that I get to play at night
and it's gonna be a little cooler.

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I my guys were telling me,
you might need to wear a sweater.

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I'm not a performing like that.
I don't know how to act like I

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know, right, but yeah,
that's another bonus, right because I always

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say to ours like, how the
hell do you perform in this crap?

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Man? We're a Vegas band,
so coming from Vegas. Yeah, we're

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born in bred for the heat.
So every time we come out to these

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festivals and it's hot, it's like
being back home. So we thrive in

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this environment. Same for me.
I live in Florida, and it's about

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as humid here as Florida, and
it normally isn't I don't know. Yeah,

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the wet, wet heat is something
that I don't understand, but you

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know, know that we're figuring it
out. Any other things you want to

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listeners who know about your band that
we haven't covered already. We dropped to

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EP, our very first EP that
we've put out, came out a couple

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months ago through Mascot Records. We're
very proud of it. It's definitely our

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foot on the ground. We're establishing
ourselves. We want people to listen to

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it, tell us what they love, tell us what they don't love.

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I love. I love reading comments
that are constructive or if they tell me

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I fucking suck that so far.
When we got announced right after Pantera was

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dropped, a lot of the comments
said who the fuck is this? And

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I thrive in that. I want
people to say, who the fuck is

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Imperial tized? It's better, it's
better, and then they go look and

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then if they like it, great, If not, I still got the

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number streams. You know. We
want. We want to just get people

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to hear us, to see us, come out to a show. We're

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gonna continue to keep playing and just
keep rocking for everybody. Well, you're

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gonna get people out there that do
that who the fuck is this? And

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they're just go in so they could
prove you suck, and then you win

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them over and they're like, oh
fuck, yup every time there it goes.

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I love it. Tell everybody how
I hate you guys up on socials

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on the web by your merch especially. I'm sure your merch is more badass

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than any other band playing at this
Fastida. Yeah, we are very proud

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of the product that we put out. We want anybody who wants to support

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us financially to get their bang for
their book. Imperialside dot Com, at

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Imperial Tide, everywhere we have socials
everywhere. You can find us, you

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know, standards things, but merch. You go to our website, there's

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a little merch tab. It's direct
to you. You don't have to worry

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about it not showing up. Nice. Yes, sir, I love it.

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I love that you're here at Aftershock. I love that you're part DWP

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because I mean, you're like the
complete package. So thanks for being on

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the Adventures of Payment. I appreciate
you for having us. Thank you for

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listening to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm dumb, you force u I Radio sh