PipemanRadio Interviews Imperial Tide at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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This is pipe Man here on the
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I'm here with land In from Imperial
Side. Nice and you just played here

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at Welcome to Rockville. Yes,
sir, so we were talking before you.

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Your band must have extreme luck because
we're here in Florida. We're as

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hot as frickin' hell to play.
The sun beats down on you. You

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want to die, and there's never
a breeze unless there's a hurricane. That's

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what I hear. You know,
we're Vegas boys, so one hundred and

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twenty degrees in the summer is nothing
new to us. But you know,

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and it's a little moist tires.
It's right. I was feeling good,

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you know, So this is this
is beautiful. We played Rockville in twenty

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twenty one, but that was the
post pandemic here where they brought it back

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and I believe it was in the
fall. Yeah, yeah, you know

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it was beautiful. I mean I
had to wear in November, which nomber

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perfect time in Florida. Yeah,
I have never I don't. I've know.

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This is the furthest I've come.
I've told I told them last time,

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Like Daytona's the furthest I've been from
Las Vegas in my life, you

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know. So like to see this
and come out this far and like it's

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just beautiful. I'm happy to be
here. I got to see some anites.

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It's like everything that I could ask
for. There you go, And

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I'm gonna be in your neck of
the woods in two weeks for punk Rock

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Bowling. Yes, that's our legendary
events thrown every year. You know,

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headliners this year are crazy. I
think it's descendants Madness Divo, Yeah,

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Divo sick right. Yes, A
couple of the guys are going to be

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out there and enjoying themselves. The
rest of us gotta head around. So

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you know what's cool is as a
long term metal head since the early eighties,

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well seven late seventies, but it
started going to shows in the in

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the in nineteen eighty. We weren't
allowed to like a band like Divo then

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right, you know, like if
you your friends would give you so much

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shit. So I'm so pumped to
be able to go see Devo and not

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be embarrassed about it. And I've
been noticing and that we like if you

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look at the festivals and the way
that the the genres are blending on these

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things. You know, like we
have jelly Roll, we have right Limp

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Biscuit, we have ICP, we
have Tech nine, we have Carrie King.

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Yeah, you know, so the
way that this all is going across

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and then they're championing these young heavy
bands too that are like carrying that energy

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of like hardcore and like heavy metal
through I think it's a great space for

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us. All the BEAUTI oh,
I love that we do combine. And

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I think it makes for better music
too, because you know, it was

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getting to a point where metal specifically, it was getting like an algebraic equation

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like every I remember being in the
eighties and my parents or other parents would

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say, oh, that music all
sounds the same, and I used to

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argue with them, no, it
doesn't, because it didn't. You know,

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a Slayer in a Metallica and Megadeth
all possessed. They all sound different,

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right, you know, and but
nowadays I feel like I'm talking like

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my parents, like, oh,
these bands sound same. Except when you

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have the bands that the members all
have different influences from different genres, then

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you create something unique and new.
And I think that's freaking metal. I

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think that's our strongest trait as a
band, the group of us, all

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five of us collectively, we have
very few bands that well that we all

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agree on. And then from the
most part, all of us have separate

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influences nice you know, like Keen
loves big like European metal, like Till

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and people like that, and then
Russell and I are big limp biscuit corn

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fans. Tanner is deep into the
hardcore like underground bands that he loves Kobla

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Khan loves, Gideon loves these like
speed bands like that. So we we

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kind of all bring that flavor.
And then we just love metal, you

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know, We love we love the
energy we get to do, we get

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to have at these festivals. So
it all somehow gets channeled through a level

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of aggression that brings us to our
our our space and metal, you know.

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And as we were saying before,
you got super lucky today because there

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was a nice breeze while you were
playing. The sun didn't even come over

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to stage yet. Dude, like
paradise and we seem to be pretty lucky

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every festival that we played. We
played Dallas, Texas, middle of the

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summer, and it was in a
baseball stadium, and the shadow of the

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stadium happened to fall on us.
When we played after Shock, we got

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to play at night. When we
played here, it was you know,

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perfect. I was. I was
genuinely worried because you know, everybody we

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get told make sure you drink water, make sure you're hydrated, You're gonna

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sweat, and like I already sweat. I'm already dehydrated. What do you

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mean? So it was great.
I'm happy that we got a great day.

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It looks like we're gonna have a
great weekend, and I'm happy to

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be here to enjoy the day.
Today. I get to set's done early,

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so I get to get start drinking
and enjoying myself a little early.

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There you go, you got the
whole day ahead of yet party. Last

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show we played after Shock, we
had a ten thirty set after Corn finished,

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so it was a long, sober
day, just waiting for the performance

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to get through. And so what
other DWP festivals have you played besides after

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Shock and Rockville. So as of
now, just after Shock and Rockville that

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are done. We've played twenty twenty
one rock but we did twenty twenty three

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after Shock and now twenty four Rockville
again this year. We're in the conversation

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to hop our way onto a couple
more. We just have a great working

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relationship with the booking and talent team
at DWP. There's some of the greatest

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people. They are championing us as
a young man. We owe our discovery,

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our record contract to a media thing
that DWP used to do during the

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pandemic called Spacy. He's a twitch
show and we were discovered on that.

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We competed on that. It's how
we got Rockville, It's how our record

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label hurt us and everything we've built
as a band has come through the lens

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of DWP putting us on a pedestal. So we are very appreciative to all

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of that. You know, Danny
Wimmer is pretty good at that, because

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that's like a that's a that's a
story that goes around a lot with a

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lot of bands. Is like just
how he discovers them and just nurtures them

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like they're his children. He's one
of the best dudes on this planet.

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He is. It treats me like
when he's like, dude, this fucking

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sucks or this is great, or
he tells you as it is. And

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that is so appreciated in a world
full of fluff. And I owe it

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to a lot of people in the
backbone of DWP, you know, the

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talent team, believing in us,
Dell and Kyle and people that are all

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throughout. I mean, you know, like their marketing team is a is

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a great group of people. Everybody
seems to be appreciative of what we do

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because we try to show them the
same amount of appreciation. So yeah,

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and like I do festivals all over
the US, UK, Europe, and

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I could say, hands down the
one I like working and doing press coverage.

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The best are all at DWP festivals
because it's just so organized, so

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professional, and it just it's the
way it should be run. Yes,

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it's it's so nice in a world
full of craziness, you know, madness.

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We've participated in other shows and other
festivals where you're like, I'm getting

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out of here. As soon as
we're done because there's nothing to do.

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It's like, no, you know, no amount of support to you after

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you're there, and it's like,
Okay, this is a great show.

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But also it's the same thing as
if we played a ballroom or anything like

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that, and it's when you're on
the road, any level of like care

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shown to you is always appreciated.
So especially when you get somewhere like this

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and I'm inside Daytona Speedway right now, I know how rad that's that?

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Dude? Raise hell, praised dale, you know what I mean? And

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this is like my I brought my
parents out to come here because I used

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I watch NASCAR with my dad,
you know, and to be here and

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do and see these things as something
that I just won't take for granted.

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You know, what's trippy is like
when you see it on TV, it's

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one thing, But when you're on
that speedway in real life and that wall,

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it's so it's like, how are
they driving on there? It's my

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ankles just trying to like stand on
it, let alone, trying to if

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I could imagine doing one thirty through
the corner, you know, I know,

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right, And I have my skateboard
with me last year. I asked

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Christine, I'm like, you think
I'll lose my media pass if I Sunday

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skateboard on the thing, and like, yeah, I know, I'll break

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my arm or something, but it'll
be worth it, exactly. We all

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have insurance for a reason. Now
I just do it Sunday after the day's

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done, and then that's time.
Somebody was telling me on the Artist Transport

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was telling me about somebody who had
done that and then got kicked out.

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But you know that guy got to
do That's a very few amount of people.

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I think Tony Hawk did that recently
and really yeah, I don't know

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if it was here or Vegas,
but it was like when they repaved one

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of the speedways. It showed like
him, like Kurt carving and dropping in

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nice the inner child and he wants
to do that. The thirty year old

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that knows that I will, what
I'll feel like tomorrow knows better. So

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yeah, I don't know better yet, Yeah I got that's enough times.

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I used to skate amateurly, I
won't say professionally, but it was like

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on Flow and did that. It
was really like, that's what I thought

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my life was going to be.
Before music was skateboarding, and those injuries

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still exist. I'm feeling it still. So yeah, they do they And

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so what what made the transformation into
music. The group of people that I

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have around me, The boys that
I'm in a band with right now,

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Imperial Tide, the three of us, Keen and Tanner and I were in

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a band together in high school.
We met through my space. We had

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just kind of all of the stars
aligned and happened to cross baths. Two

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other buddies that I was friends with, were like, we're we want to

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start a band. We're like,
all right, well, let's do it.

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We had a garage in the backyard
that mom didn't care how loud we

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were, and we played for years
and through that just camaraderie and getting into

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playing shows and getting into the local
scene of Vegas and growing with all the

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artists that were growing in Vegas at
the time. We just kind of felt

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the spark of all that, you
know, And that's and that runs true

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now. I caught the bug at
fourteen, and I never wanted to leave

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this business. You know, as
hard as it is, it's just so

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much fun, you know. It
truly is like something that I when it's

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like being a professional athlete, you
know, Like that's the only thing that

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I compare it to. Right now, I'm just our bands in you know,

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double A, triple A. We're
ready. We're ready to make it

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to the big leagues. And when
we get to come here, it's like

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getting called up to the big leagues
and getting that opportunity to show up and

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show out, and that's what we
are always happy to do. What a

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great way to put it, because
it's so true, and you know it

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is. I love that you said
as hard as it as hard as it

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is, because I bet you there's
people out there, and we know there's

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people out there that look at you
as a band and like, oh they're

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living the life because all they see
is the good part. Yeah, you

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know, they don't see I got
it all the time, even as a

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radio person going on tour and doing
these oh you live the life, Like

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you should see what I'm doing the
rest of the day exactly. You know.

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It's like, you know, before
my photographer here or she was going

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out, I'm like, yeah,
I gotta get some computer work done because

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I still have to do some stuff
for the interviews and the festival. Yeah,

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all that they don't know about the
forty emails I had to answer and

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go back and forth with to get
to the point of getting to this festival,

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right or you know, and like, how can I complain about emails?

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I know, right, And that's
why I don't. I'm just happy

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to do whatever it takes to get
here. If it's a six and a

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half hour flight, if it's our
luggage, our wireless luggage was lost on

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the flight here, and we had
to go back to Orlando Airport at nine

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point thirty this morning and get so
our guys showed up on We went on

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it twelve thirty. Our guys showed
up at twelve just through getting to the

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airport, getting our gear, doing
everything, you know, we got in

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yesterday. And it's just you know, by any means necessary, and that's

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just why we're here there, it
is. That's life. Tell everybody,

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I connect with you guys on socials, on the web, how to buy

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your merch most importantly, yeah,
check out everything else we love when you

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buy merch. We anywhere you find
Imperial Tide, it's just Imperial Tide Imperialtide

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dot com. We put out a
debut EP with mascot records called existence in

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crisis. We're just here to have
a good time, you know, and

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enjoy ourselves. So if you if
you ever catch us in your city or

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anything like that, we're here for
the rage. Nice. I love it,

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Love that you killed it here at
Rockville. Thank you, and I

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hope you enjoyed the rest of the
day. And I'll have to see you

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at Punk Rock Bowling maybe, yes, sir, all appreciate you, you

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guys, thanks for being on the
adventure spid Man. Thank you for listening

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