Sept. 25, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews JVK at Louder Than Life 2023

On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest JVK at Louder Than Life. The band from Berkeley College of Music discusses the route they took to end up performing at Louder Than Life. The band shares stories from...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest JVK at Louder Than Life. The band from Berkeley College of Music discusses the route they took to end up performing at Louder Than Life. The band shares stories from performing around Berkeley and the sense of community they receive from their classmates and professors. The band just released a new EP “Who is JVK?” on all streaming platforms on September 15th. You can find more information about the band’s upcoming tour dates, merch, and latest releases at JVKtheBand.com.
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j v K. Nice. Yeah, you're a louder than life. How
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avile the hell does that feel?
To be at Louder than Life? It
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is surreal, beyond surreal, absolutely
insane. It's actually our first huge festival
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ever. So is our festival debut, and we can't wait for all the
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other ones that are gonna come after
this. It's truly like an incredible experience
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just seeing everything and seeing all the
bands on the stages. It's just like
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getting ready for it five thirty tonight. It's gonna be amazing. See Now,
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that's why I love about the Danny
Wimmer festivals because bands like you are
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always featured at these festivals. Yes, you know, at a band earlier
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it's their first gig ever. I
know it's not incredible, Like that's wild,
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you know, And what a what
a difference between like playing a club
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show or backyard show and then playing
a festival and incredible. You're playing,
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Oh my god, this place will
be freaking huge, packed, packed,
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packed. So what did what went
across your guy's mind when this opportunity came
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about? Like how much did you
freak? It was one of those things
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where it's like we got the call
and it was like it was like,
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you're playing loud of the life.
Here's what you need to know. So
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there wasn't like that moment of like
pause of like oh my god. It
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was like just taking all the information, staying as professional as possible, and
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then you know, we all hung
up and then gone a call with each
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other and just started screaming and lose
our just literally losing it. It was
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so surreal. And there's been so
much build up to this moment. We've
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had, like, you know,
thirty rehearsals alone, just getting our set
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perfect as perfect can be, you
know, rehearsing it, showing it to
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other people, getting everyone's feedback.
It's been a wild experience just getting ready
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for it, getting prepared. See
that that part I really love because I
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don't think people realize on the other
end, the people attending what it takes
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to play that's one set at festival. The kind of think, oh,
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they're just playing a set, change
your life. If you really put the
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work in and you really know can
take an incredible setting, you really change
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things for you. That's why we
were like, this will not be our
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last festival. I can say that
right now. That's why I love about
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festivals. Like I've found bands that
I went never known I loved, Like
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one of my favorite bands the first
time I ever saw once, I have
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a festival. Bring me to Horizon, right right, slip Knot, same
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thing right, that's like my I
have a hoodie in there. I'll have
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to show you after an interview.
Cool ass slip Knot hoodie Like I saw
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them at Third Stage Odds Fest nineteen
ninety nine and mud Vain. I've seen
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a performance on YouTube. I watched
right time and like, holy shit.
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And I have not missed a show
since because there's no show like a Slipknot
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show. Being in the crowd exactly
like you don't stand back and go,
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you know, And I'm sure that's
what it's gonna be out there tonight for
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you guys. Yeah, we're really
good people moving. It's like even like
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we were watching yesterday at the Roadhound
stage, at the stage that we're on
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five thirty tonight, and we were
watching all the other bands and the crowd
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interaction. It gave me so many
more ideas that I already had about just
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getting people in and getting people involved
and moving their bodies. It's gonna be
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sick. And then as you know, as performers, there's gonna become that
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moment when you're on stage that just
something happens that you do like that wasn't
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even planned because you feed off adrenaline. You're in the moment. Yeah,
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you're in the zone. You're feeding
off the audience. And that's why I
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love about live music is it's it
can be a different experience every single time,
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exactly exactly. So what tell us
a story of what led up to
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this phone call that got you here
to Louder than Life. So the funny
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thing about it is that we're here
through Brickley College of Music and there's a
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program called Brickley Popular Music Institute.
They choose seven to eight different artists for
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festivals all over the country. We
played our first show a year and a
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half ago and it was out of
this dive bar in Boston and I look
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at my phone and they were like, we're looking at you for a rock
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festival or this are institute everything,
And me personally, I went to the
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band and I was like, oh, look at this, and they were
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like, no, that's a huge
deal. And I didn't realize what the
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magnitude of what it was. And
so we got We had a previous call
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before and it was for a different
festival at the time, and they were
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like, you know, like let's
choose it. We're gonna choose another Bamba.
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Please keep playing shows. Keep like
at the time we played like two
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shows. We played thirty shows in
a full summer, traveling all over the
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place, just getting like grind and
getting our set down, getting more music
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down, getting everything down. We
just kept going and we just I just
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didn't want to stop, you know. And then we met back up again.
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We were a lot tighter, had
a lot of works and it was
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like, well, how many shows
do you played so far? It went
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from two to like forty, you
know, and just a short amount of
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time and that experience, you know, we were playing shows to no one,
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like going out to upstate New York, playing to no one quite literally,
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and you know, playing to all
these like random places, people's houses,
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sleeping on floors, sleeping in basements, you know, and it got
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us here. I fully think that
experience, just playing so many shows just
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got us here. Yeah. Yeah. And then so I love what Berkeley
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does, and like, what is
the vibe from your classmates so to speak
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of, you know, because you're
all doing the same thing, they're kind
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of and I feel it's probably like
a supportive environment. Oh my god.
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Yeah. I mean the second we
got like this festival and we could announce
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it, I had people in my
classes saying, oh my god, Alex,
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like you're in JVK right, you
play bass? Right? And I
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was like, yeah, I do. And they're like, we know,
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we know what you're doing. We're
so stoked for you. So it's like
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I think people look at Berkeley and
think it's a really like intimidating, like
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kind of like I don't know,
competitive environment, but everyone is so so
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supportive, like genuinely, like even
professors get like super excited. Like it's
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honestly hearing that because it could easily
be a very competitive environment. And that
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shows how great the program is that
your friends or even not friends would be
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so excited for you for getting the
opportunity at maybe they want like most of
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these people too are like complete strangers
to me or like we have like one
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like mutual friend and we've like said
hi to each other, and it's just
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like, I don't know. It's
so supportive because you know, word gets
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around really fast, like in a
really small school, and people are so
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sweet. I love it. I
had like the same thing happened. I
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will pull up to my class and
people will be like, oh, I
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saw you at this in this d
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the professors are really supportive. I'm
like, hey, just so you know,
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I won't be in class and they're
like, go go go do your
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gig. I love that too,
because there are out there, not at
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Berkeley, but out there there are
professors. I probably wish they were getting
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the opportunities of their students that their
students are gaining, and there could be
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some jealousy there or maybe not the
support or make it maybe make it harder
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to prove a point because it was
hard for them. You know, it's
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like, oh, I had to
go through all this, so you're gonna
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have to go through it too.
But it sounds more like the professors at
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Berkeley are like, Hey, I
had to go through all that stuff and
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it made it really difficult. I'm
gonna make it easier on you, so
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you don't have to go through that
crap. Yeah, there's definitely still some
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tough love, but sometimes it's needed
that is true to get to the next
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level, I guess, especially in
this industry because it's a pretty heartless industry
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sometimes and we've definitely encountered that level
of just like jealousy and very you know,
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toxic environment and it's like hard to
like, especially when you're seeing someone
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that's on the same level as you
get different opportunities, you know, like
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it's obviously a normal reaction for it
to be there, And like I catch
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myself and it sometimes when I see
other people, but I almost like I
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kind of use as an opportunity to
gain a connection to that. It's like,
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Okay, I'm feeling jealous, why
don't I talk to them and see
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what they did and see how I
can implement it in my career, and
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like using that it kind of like
almost like taking that mindset and just changing
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it for the better to get myself
to the better. I love that attitude
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because I teach that in business too. It's like, if you want what
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other people have, you gotta ask
you guys, you talk to them and
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gravitate them. You don't be jealous
of them. There's like people in business
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are like, oh, screw them, they're blah blah blah blah blah.
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But I'd rather talk to those people
that are where I want to be exactly
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because they're going to give me the
roadmap I don't have, yeah, exactly,
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and they're gonna show give you an
insight on what you could not be
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seeing. You know. It's like
when you're in love with your project and
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your love with what you're doing,
you're not going to see the flaws of
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it. And that's only like hearing
that and taking that personally and kind of
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you know, it only elevates you
further. A great way to build a
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community, right, Yeah, it's
all helping each other out, absolutely,
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that's and this community should be like
that more than any other, absolutely,
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you know, because together we also
are helping people around the world with all
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their mental illness and crap that's going
on around the world. Like we can
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disappear out there in the crowd and
forget all that crap, and that's a
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big thing. That's a big message
of our music. I'm I'm the main
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lyricist of the band, and I
tend to write a lot just about you
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know, like the hardships are just
like you know, being a woman,
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and like also just like some of
like the abuse and some like the criticism
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that you can endure just solely based
off that, and also just like in
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a more like general stance, just
like the chaos of the world and like
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dealing with it and like trying to
talk about the things that aren't always said
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and just really putting light to it. It's just so I know, I
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could personally know that like someone's listening
and being like, yes, like this
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is how I feel, and this
is how I want to exercise. I
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want to scream, I want to
do this, I want to do that,
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and I want to kick something,
I want to you know whatever.
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Not encouraging violence, but you know, but but yeah, no, it's
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like those things are just so incredibly
important. What would you say is one
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of the best complimented any of your
professors have ever given. I mean,
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like I've had like some really awesome
like bass like professors over at Berkeley,
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and I don't know, they just
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without freaking out too much about it, because when I started at Berkeley,
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there. I was terrified, Like
I was like shaking, and I was
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like, guys, like I'm gonna
mess up so bad. I'm gonna f
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up, Like this is gonna be
terrible. And like my professor like at
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the end of like one of the
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talking about that, Like you're just
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Life. Yeah, the EPP we need
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to talk about BP. So actually
I'll make this announcement here for the first
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time so exclusive content. So we
just released an EP called who is JVK?
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and you know, we basically my
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band, there's gonna be people that
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Who's JVK? And you know,
it kind of like encapsulates the feelings
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of like all of the hardships are
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makes you feel. It almost feels
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this, someone's gonna ask who you
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they're going to invite them to that
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JVK? Came out last Friday.
It's been out for about a week now,
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and next Friday we're announcing the deluxe
edition of who Is JVK with one
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new song which is very very exciting, and so it's all brand new,
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never before seeing, never before heard
before. Oh love it, love it,
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and I love the name because I
was thinking of all the press people
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that that will ask you in your
careers, how did you get your band
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name? And you're gonna hate that
question, So you answered it with an
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EP exactly exactly now later, like
ten years from now, when they're asking
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you that you could, let go
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You'll find out who we are there
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each one of you has had in
this musical. I mean, I got
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lots of stories. I don't even
know where to start. Cheez. I
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mean, we played shows where it's
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fish man. You know, everyone's
shoulder to shoulder, crowd Swayne this way,
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crowd Swayne in that way. You
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sure someone's got a better story.
Sounds like ladder than life. So there
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was We play a show we were
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of our friends go to school that
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who is JVK EP there. We
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It was it was like it was
it was like this house in the middle
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of nowhere, and I booked it
and I was like, you know,
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it's a punk house. Why not. It was like seventy eighty people in
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this one living room and not a
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just like the floor was caving in. Everyone's throwing bodies, going insane,
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yeah, so the best part is
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lo and behold in the corner is
a potato wine set up and a bitcoin
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mining operation. Where else do you
see that out of the Murphysborough, Tennessee.
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encountered some cool, funny people too. Like there was one time we played
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at this like dive bar in Boston
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probably like in her forties, and
she's she's on the ground on her knees,
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bowing up and down to us while
we're performing. And I love you
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guys. Just you know why I
am laughing because I see that crap all
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time. That's pretty common for forty
something. You're older there, gigs get
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some feeling something. Yeah, see, so you can remember when when you're
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forty something, I'm gonna be doing
the same thing there. So tell everybody
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how they can connect you with you
on socials on the web by your merch
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our website Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, It's all under JVK the Band and
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our EP. Who is JVK just
came out Now We're on all streaming services
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you name it, Spotify, Album
Music, Deezer, Pandora, Amazon Music,
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you name it. We're all on
it and the best way to contact
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us for merch and tell thinking about
that all our informations on our website,
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JVK the Band dot com. Nice
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what's really what's your favorite? What's
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like I use like the social I
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use like the Instagram, and the
website is like a more professional I kind
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of use like the TikTok's like a
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on. You know, that's in
the hotel of me writing a song,
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always stupid. It's never anything you
know, well, but that's what people
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want to know exactly. Yeah,
people want to stupid shit exactly. So
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exactly everybody needs to go check you
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man, so excited you're here at
Ladder than Life and thanks for being on
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j v K. Nice. Yeah, you're a louder than life. How
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avile the hell does that feel?
To be at Louder than Life? It
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is surreal, beyond surreal, absolutely
insane. It's actually our first huge festival
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ever. So is our festival debut, and we can't wait for all the
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other ones that are gonna come after
this. It's truly like an incredible experience
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just seeing everything and seeing all the
bands on the stages. It's just like
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getting ready for it five thirty tonight. It's gonna be amazing. See Now,
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that's why I love about the Danny
Wimmer festivals because bands like you are
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always featured at these festivals. Yes, you know, at a band earlier
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it's their first gig ever. I
know it's not incredible, Like that's wild,
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you know, And what a what
a difference between like playing a club
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show or backyard show and then playing
a festival and incredible. You're playing,
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Oh my god, this place will
be freaking huge, packed, packed,
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packed. So what did what went
across your guy's mind when this opportunity came
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about? Like how much did you
freak? It was one of those things
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where it's like we got the call
and it was like it was like,
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you're playing loud of the life.
Here's what you need to know. So
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there wasn't like that moment of like
pause of like oh my god. It
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was like just taking all the information, staying as professional as possible, and
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then you know, we all hung
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other and just started screaming and lose
our just literally losing it. It was
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so surreal. And there's been so
much build up to this moment. We've
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had, like, you know,
thirty rehearsals alone, just getting our set
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perfect as perfect can be, you
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other people, getting everyone's feedback.
It's been a wild experience just getting ready
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for it, getting prepared. See
that that part I really love because I
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don't think people realize on the other
end, the people attending what it takes
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to play that's one set at festival. The kind of think, oh,
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they're just playing a set, change
your life. If you really put the
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work in and you really know can
take an incredible setting, you really change
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things for you. That's why we
were like, this will not be our
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last festival. I can say that
right now. That's why I love about
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festivals. Like I've found bands that
I went never known I loved, Like
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one of my favorite bands the first
time I ever saw once, I have
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a festival. Bring me to Horizon, right right, slip Knot, same
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thing right, that's like my I
have a hoodie in there. I'll have
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to show you after an interview.
Cool ass slip Knot hoodie Like I saw
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them at Third Stage Odds Fest nineteen
ninety nine and mud Vain. I've seen
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a performance on YouTube. I watched
right time and like, holy shit.
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since because there's no show like a Slipknot
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show. Being in the crowd exactly
like you don't stand back and go,
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you know, And I'm sure that's
what it's gonna be out there tonight for
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you guys. Yeah, we're really
good people moving. It's like even like
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we were watching yesterday at the Roadhound
stage, at the stage that we're on
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five thirty tonight, and we were
watching all the other bands and the crowd
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interaction. It gave me so many
more ideas that I already had about just
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getting people in and getting people involved
and moving their bodies. It's gonna be
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sick. And then as you know, as performers, there's gonna become that
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moment when you're on stage that just
something happens that you do like that wasn't
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even planned because you feed off adrenaline. You're in the moment. Yeah,
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you're in the zone. You're feeding
off the audience. And that's why I
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love about live music is it's it
can be a different experience every single time,
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exactly exactly. So what tell us
a story of what led up to
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this phone call that got you here
to Louder than Life. So the funny
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thing about it is that we're here
through Brickley College of Music and there's a
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program called Brickley Popular Music Institute.
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festivals all over the country. We
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half ago and it was out of
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at my phone and they were like, we're looking at you for a rock
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festival or this are institute everything,
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band and I was like, oh, look at this, and they were
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like, no, that's a huge
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magnitude of what it was. And
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before and it was for a different
festival at the time, and they were
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like, you know, like let's
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Please keep playing shows. Keep like
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shows. We played thirty shows in
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place, just getting like grind and
getting our set down, getting more music
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down, getting everything down. We
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didn't want to stop, you know. And then we met back up again.
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like, well, how many shows
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from two to like forty, you
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time and that experience, you know, we were playing shows to no one,
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like going out to upstate New York, playing to no one quite literally,
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sleeping on floors, sleeping in basements, you know, and it got
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us here. I fully think that
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got us here. Yeah. Yeah. And then so I love what Berkeley
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does, and like, what is
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classes saying, oh my god, Alex,
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like you're in JVK right, you
play bass? Right? And I
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was like, yeah, I do. And they're like, we know,
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we know what you're doing. We're
so stoked for you. So it's like
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think it's a really like intimidating, like
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kind of like I don't know,
competitive environment, but everyone is so so
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supportive, like genuinely, like even
professors get like super excited. Like it's
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honestly hearing that because it could easily
be a very competitive environment. And that
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shows how great the program is that
your friends or even not friends would be
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so excited for you for getting the
opportunity at maybe they want like most of
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these people too are like complete strangers
to me or like we have like one
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like mutual friend and we've like said
hi to each other, and it's just
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like, I don't know. It's
so supportive because you know, word gets
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around really fast, like in a
really small school, and people are so
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sweet. I love it. I
had like the same thing happened. I
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will pull up to my class and
people will be like, oh, I
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the professors are really supportive. I'm
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I won't be in class and they're
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gig. I love that too,
because there are out there, not at
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Berkeley, but out there there are
professors. I probably wish they were getting
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the opportunities of their students that their
students are gaining, and there could be
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some jealousy there or maybe not the
support or make it maybe make it harder
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to prove a point because it was
hard for them. You know, it's
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like, oh, I had to
go through all this, so you're gonna
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have to go through it too.
But it sounds more like the professors at
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Berkeley are like, Hey, I
had to go through all that stuff and
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it made it really difficult. I'm
gonna make it easier on you, so
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you don't have to go through that
crap. Yeah, there's definitely still some
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tough love, but sometimes it's needed
that is true to get to the next
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level, I guess, especially in
this industry because it's a pretty heartless industry
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sometimes and we've definitely encountered that level
of just like jealousy and very you know,
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toxic environment and it's like hard to
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get different opportunities, you know, like
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it's obviously a normal reaction for it
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myself and it sometimes when I see
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kind of use as an opportunity to
gain a connection to that. It's like,
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Okay, I'm feeling jealous, why
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what they did and see how I
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like using that it kind of like
almost like taking that mindset and just changing
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it for the better to get myself
to the better. I love that attitude
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because I teach that in business too. It's like, if you want what
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other people have, you gotta ask
you guys, you talk to them and
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gravitate them. You don't be jealous
of them. There's like people in business
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are like, oh, screw them, they're blah blah blah blah blah.
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that are where I want to be exactly
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because they're going to give me the
roadmap I don't have, yeah, exactly,
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and they're gonna show give you an
insight on what you could not be
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seeing. You know. It's like
when you're in love with your project and
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your love with what you're doing,
you're not going to see the flaws of
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it. And that's only like hearing
that and taking that personally and kind of
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you know, it only elevates you
further. A great way to build a
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community, right, Yeah, it's
all helping each other out, absolutely,
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that's and this community should be like
that more than any other, absolutely,
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you know, because together we also
are helping people around the world with all
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their mental illness and crap that's going
on around the world. Like we can
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disappear out there in the crowd and
forget all that crap, and that's a
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big thing. That's a big message
of our music. I'm I'm the main
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lyricist of the band, and I
tend to write a lot just about you
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know, like the hardships are just
like you know, being a woman,
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and like also just like some of
like the abuse and some like the criticism
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that you can endure just solely based
off that, and also just like in
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a more like general stance, just
like the chaos of the world and like
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dealing with it and like trying to
talk about the things that aren't always said
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and just really putting light to it. It's just so I know, I
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could personally know that like someone's listening
and being like, yes, like this
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is how I feel, and this
is how I want to exercise. I
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want to scream, I want to
do this, I want to do that,
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and I want to kick something,
I want to you know whatever.
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Not encouraging violence, but you know, but but yeah, no, it's
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like those things are just so incredibly
important. What would you say is one
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of the best complimented any of your
professors have ever given. I mean,
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like I've had like some really awesome
like bass like professors over at Berkeley,
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and I don't know, they just
like keeping encouraging me to, like you
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know, be way more confident and
like you know, actually express myself creatively
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without freaking out too much about it, because when I started at Berkeley,
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I was too scared to like really
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there. I was terrified, Like
I was like shaking, and I was
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like, guys, like I'm gonna
mess up so bad. I'm gonna f
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up, Like this is gonna be
terrible. And like my professor like at
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the end of like one of the
semesters, wh was like Alex, like
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you've grown so much, like obviously
as a musician, but like I'm not
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talking about that, Like you're just
like so much more confident now and that's
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awesome and I like carry that with
me a lot. I love it.
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Now Now you're here at Louder than
Life. Yeah, the EPP we need
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to talk about BP. So actually
I'll make this announcement here for the first
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time so exclusive content. So we
just released an EP called who is JVK?
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We released it last Friday, and
we did it for Louder than Life,
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and you know, we basically my
mindset was like, as a new
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band, there's gonna be people that
are looking at us, going who's JVK?
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Who's JVK? And you know,
it kind of like encapsulates the feelings
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of like all of the hardships are
going on in your world and how it
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makes you feel. It almost feels
like those universes are centered around you.
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About the end of the day,
when you're putting yourself in a profession like
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this, someone's gonna ask who you
are because they just don't know, and
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they're going to invite them to that
world. So we just released who Is
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JVK? Came out last Friday.
It's been out for about a week now,
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and next Friday we're announcing the deluxe
edition of who Is JVK with one
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new song which is very very exciting, and so it's all brand new,
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never before seeing, never before heard
before. Oh love it, love it,
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and I love the name because I
was thinking of all the press people
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that that will ask you in your
careers, how did you get your band
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name? And you're gonna hate that
question, So you answered it with an
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EP exactly exactly now later, like
ten years from now, when they're asking
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you that you could, let go
listen to the EP exactly. Go listen.
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You'll find out who we are there
is exactly and what's the craziest story
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each one of you has had in
this musical. I mean, I got
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lots of stories. I don't even
know where to start. Cheez. I
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mean, we played shows where it's
so crowded, it's like a barrel of
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fish man. You know, everyone's
shoulder to shoulder, crowd Swayne this way,
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crowd Swayne in that way. You
know, stuff like that. I'm
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sure someone's got a better story.
Sounds like ladder than life. So there
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was We play a show we were
recording at Blackbird Academy in Nashville and some
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of our friends go to school that
we were able to record some of the
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who is JVK EP there. We
played a show in Murphy'sboro, Tennessee.
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It was it was like it was
it was like this house in the middle
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of nowhere, and I booked it
and I was like, you know,
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it's a punk house. Why not. It was like seventy eighty people in
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this one living room and not a
single person was standing still if everyone was
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just like the floor was caving in. Everyone's throwing bodies, going insane,
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Like it was the coolest show I
had ever ever played. Oh wait,
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yeah, so the best part is
we're going to put our gear down and
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lo and behold in the corner is
a potato wine set up and a bitcoin
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mining operation. Where else do you
see that out of the Murphysborough, Tennessee.
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Wow? Yeah there, Yeah,
we have a few. We've We've
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encountered some cool, funny people too. Like there was one time we played
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at this like dive bar in Boston
and there was this lady. She was
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probably like in her forties, and
she's she's on the ground on her knees,
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bowing up and down to us while
we're performing. And I love you
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guys. Just you know why I
am laughing because I see that crap all
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time. That's pretty common for forty
something. You're older there, gigs get
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some feeling something. Yeah, see, so you can remember when when you're
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forty something, I'm gonna be doing
the same thing there. So tell everybody
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how they can connect you with you
on socials on the web by your merch
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our website Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, It's all under JVK the Band and
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our EP. Who is JVK just
came out Now We're on all streaming services
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you name it, Spotify, Album
Music, Deezer, Pandora, Amazon Music,
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you name it. We're all on
it and the best way to contact
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us for merch and tell thinking about
that all our informations on our website,
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JVK the Band dot com. Nice
your favorite TikTok of your your guys TikTok's
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what's really what's your favorite? What's
my favorite? I don't know. Oh
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yeah, yeah, I just like
I just like to just like spam it.
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I kind of use it. It's
like I use like the social I
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use like the Instagram, and the
website is like a more professional I kind
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of use like the TikTok's like a
behind the scenes like look at what's going
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on. You know, that's in
the hotel of me writing a song,
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Like you know you had to see
all that content there. Nice, that's
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always stupid. It's never anything you
know, well, but that's what people
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want to know exactly. Yeah,
people want to stupid shit exactly. So
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exactly everybody needs to go check you
guys out because you're badass. Thank you
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man, so excited you're here at
Ladder than Life and thanks for being on
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the Adventures to Plan. Thank you
so much. Thank you for listening to
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the Adventures of fight Man. I'm
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