PipemanRadio Interviews Kill The Robot at Welcome to Rockville 2024

WEBVTT

1
00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:12.439
Hey, you have one to censure. I'm for see Wow, Pray Young,

2
00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:24.120
Why Become America. It's time for
the Adventures of White Man on W

3
00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:28.239
four C why dot Com West pomp
Beats is number one Internet radio station.

4
00:00:28.679 --> 00:01:07.319
Here's your host, the white Man. This is the Pipe Man here on

5
00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.159
the Adventures pipe Man W four C
Y Radio, and I'm here with Steve

6
00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.359
Gibb Gordon Myers. We're from Kill
the Robot. Nice here at Welcome to

7
00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:22.200
Rockville. So you're from Florida?
Have you ever played Welcome to Rockville?

8
00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.640
First time playing Welcome to Rockville?
You know? What the good news is

9
00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.920
is that they moved it from Jacksonville
Daytona. So what's South Floridians can get

10
00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:37.400
here quicker? Exactly. We're super
excited to be here. What's it like

11
00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.560
being on the Daytona Speedway playing a
festival? Is that like wild? What's

12
00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.359
sort of like a childhood dream come
true? You know I've been here for

13
00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.519
races before, right, and I've
been here a couple of times as a

14
00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.799
punter, as a you know,
spectator. Last year was here got to

15
00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:55.319
see Pantera, which was epic.
Nice and those are all my boys.

16
00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.079
I love those guys, they're out
there doing They're doing God's work out there.

17
00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.159
Amazing and and this is my first
time playing Rockville, and you know,

18
00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.400
it's like a spiritual experience. I'll
never forget where I was, you

19
00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:08.680
know, in my mind this day, this, you know, it was

20
00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:13.000
like it's a special day. May
twelfth will always be a good day for

21
00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.840
me. Go down in infony.
And you're Floridian, so you'll or not.

22
00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:21.680
I won't call you Florian, but
you're from Florida, so we should

23
00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.719
just call me Florida man, Florida
man. There. So I have a

24
00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.400
trivia question for you. I've asked
almost every band and I've interviewed, but

25
00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:36.800
you guys might get it right easily. Let's hope. Why are the chairs

26
00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:43.000
multiple colors in the stands? Because
it's a great American race? No,

27
00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:49.039
but good answer. You know what, I know the answer to this question.

28
00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.639
And I'm I can't believe, I'm
I can't believe, I'm I love

29
00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:57.120
it blank on this Wait. I
thought it was no, no, no,

30
00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.520
no, no. I think it
has something to do with when they're

31
00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:07.280
moving at a certain speed so they
can see certain Nope, what is it

32
00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.400
tell me? For TV? So
it looks like the standards, right,

33
00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:15.960
I already and I knew that,
and I was like, that was my

34
00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.520
first that, No, that can't
be it. That's too obvious. I

35
00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.919
didn't think of what you said the
pandemic because there was nobody here. Yeah,

36
00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.560
they were filming it, and when
it was it looks like there's people

37
00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.639
here. Yeah. So when you
answered that you are partially right, then

38
00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.800
I take that back. I was
wrong because that makes sense. But did

39
00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:42.800
they do painty or get different colors
for the pandemic or before we got No,

40
00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.039
it was before because I was here
for races and they were colored well

41
00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.280
colors ten years ago. Well,
you know what it is, all the

42
00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.439
football teams or whoever was playing during
that time, I think they were following

43
00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:58.039
the model of this too. You
know, it makes sense, that would

44
00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.439
make sense. So tell our listeners
a little bit about your music, not

45
00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.800
from a genre standpoint, because I
hate that shit, and you guys are

46
00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:09.400
a blend of a bunch of genres
anyway, which I love. We're just

47
00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.800
talking about in the last interview.
You know, the gatekeeping days of bullshit

48
00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.279
that went on that what I grew
up with, you know, and I

49
00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.079
just love you can have a band
like you guys that can mix all my

50
00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:28.120
loves in one music. Yeah.
Well, the thing is is like we're

51
00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.800
all, you know, not to
age ourselves or anything, but we all

52
00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.800
grew up in the eighties in the
nineties musically, that's where a lot of

53
00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:39.720
our DNA is. So you know, we grew up on the van Halens

54
00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.959
and the Zeppelins and all that stuff. But we also are big MTV kids,

55
00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.000
So we love tears for Fears,
We love but you know, killing

56
00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.639
joke. We just you know,
all that everything that was great about the

57
00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.279
eighties and nineties, Like, why
can't we bring that vibe back into the

58
00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:02.959
heavy genre again, where there's songs, these musicians, resitionship and really a

59
00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:10.360
desire to create something different from us? And how about attitude? Like attitude

60
00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:15.800
is everything I look at like punk
bands now specifically, and they don't necessarily

61
00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.839
have the attitude that punk was started
on. You know, you had to

62
00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.720
be from that that era, right, I just don't know. Yeah,

63
00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:31.319
what punk was like fighting against?
Yes, what social situations brought that out

64
00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.600
of people? We're about to see
it again, though. I think the

65
00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:39.319
next phase of punk rock might be
very very interesting. What's interesting about that

66
00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.560
Okay, I might even piss off
some of my friends saying this, and

67
00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:49.720
that is that it's blowing my mind
that some of my old school punk band

68
00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:59.720
friends somehow became pro government, which
was always the antithesis of punk. Yes,

69
00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.279
I share your concern and confusion around
that. It is, without mentioning

70
00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:12.319
any names, freaking weird man are
sometimes in a different tax bracket now,

71
00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.759
so they're looking at life and society
a little differently. And yeah, you

72
00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:20.360
know which that brings me to another
point. I remember being younger and a

73
00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.720
friend of mine saying to me,
I'll never drive a BMW, and I'm

74
00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.399
like, when you have the money
for it, then let's talk. And

75
00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.839
that's exactly what you're saying. It's
like, it's easy when you you're broke,

76
00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:38.600
homeless, sleeping on some park bench, to say fuck this and I

77
00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.399
don't want money, you know,
And then you grow up exactly Well,

78
00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.759
everybody hates rich people, but everybody
wants money, right, and they become

79
00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.040
a rich person if they're lucky and
they realize it. It always cracked up

80
00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:57.680
to me, and I always talk
about people don't realize the boomers were the

81
00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:02.639
hippies, So the hippie became the
boomers, and the hippies were against the

82
00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.519
generation at whatever was considered boomer then. So it just it happens. It

83
00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.560
keeps happening. Well, you know
what's beautiful, man, Music is still

84
00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.920
the thing that unites everybody. Hundreds
or sadder, what side of anything you're

85
00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.759
on, everybody's here for the same
reasons. Yeah, And that's what's cool

86
00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:26.120
about Danny Wimmer Festival because you come
here, there's all different types of bands

87
00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.079
and there are no outsiders here.
Yeah, everybody's everybody's part of a family.

88
00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.199
Yeah, because this is bigger than
all the bullshit, and we're in

89
00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:41.519
mental health Awareness month. Music's the
best frickin therapy for you, the artists,

90
00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.279
and for me to listen, absolutely, and for those of you listening

91
00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:49.959
if you're not familiar with Music Cares, which is the uh the it's the

92
00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:57.000
Recording Academy, which is the Grammys, but it's their charitable arm and you

93
00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.879
know that what they basically do is
they help musicians and people in the industry,

94
00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.160
whether it be touring crew members or
people working in production or whatever.

95
00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.279
But if you are in the music
business and you were afflicted or affected by

96
00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.199
anything from addiction or you need or
you need some dental work or whatever.

97
00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.959
Music Cares is a charity that does
what it says it does, gives the

98
00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.079
money to the right people for the
right reasons. And so I don't just

99
00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.399
want to do my little spot there
for music. No. I love that

100
00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.720
because, especially the last part you
said, because I love to promote the

101
00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.200
type of charities where the money actually
goes to charity and not a bunch of

102
00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.960
Saint Judes of the world. You
know, there's a few out there that

103
00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.559
are oh yeah, legit exactly.
So yeah, so that that is very

104
00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.480
cool. I'm glad we're putting that
out there. Absolutely, And so what

105
00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.080
can we expect here at Welcome to
Rockville? Will we expect from you guys?

106
00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.720
As a kill? The Robot is
a new band. None of us

107
00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.879
are new to being in bands.
You know, I've got a history of

108
00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.159
I've been in bands like Black Label
Society, Crowbar, Kingdom of Sorrow,

109
00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:11.320
Josta, Saigon Kick. So I've
been at this. Now you're dating yourself

110
00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.480
now he Saigon Kick. Now you're
dating Yeah. Shout out to Jason,

111
00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.679
Shout out to Phil. Guys.
Yeah, those are my dudes. Yeah,

112
00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.840
and Gordon were Veterans' music. Veterans
veterans from South Florida. And you

113
00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.559
know, we're we're getting ready to
release our full length records soon. We've

114
00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.000
got about five songs on Spotify right
now. We're getting ready to release the

115
00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:37.159
full length and stream them, yes, stream the music. And it's gonna

116
00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.480
be a great year from for rock
and metal, especially if we have anything

117
00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.879
to do with it. That's JP
over there, JP coming over, Come

118
00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:50.039
on down. Boomy's here, Yeah, say hello to JP spirit Dusanto.

119
00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.639
He's the drummer. Hey, guys, what's up? Hey doing? Hey,

120
00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.600
how's it going? You're here on
the Adventures of Pipe Man Man.

121
00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.399
We're having such a great time.
What a cool festival? And oh right,

122
00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.279
isn't it just all around everybody else? All the workers have been so

123
00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:09.879
sweet and nice? And should we
ask him the trivia question? Okay,

124
00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.120
we're asking a trivia question. I've
asked pretty much all the bands and since

125
00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.559
And you're from Florida too, right, we're raising Miami there you go,

126
00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.360
so you have an obligation to get
it right because you're from Florida. Okay,

127
00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:31.399
why are the chairs different colors in
the stands here at the Daytona International

128
00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.720
Speedlay. Honestly, I thought there
were people when I first arrived. That's

129
00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:41.000
the reason too. It's so when
it's televised, it looks like the stadium's

130
00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:48.399
fall. How about that bada boom
bouta bing ba boom. I think you

131
00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.919
guys should also do like a side
show here at Daytona because you're from Florida,

132
00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:58.879
where you drive around the track and
play. That'd be great. Would

133
00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.799
that be cool? Is that?
Maybe we can do this next year Rockville?

134
00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.519
Yeah? Bring it up to Danny
that you'll be the the Rolling Speedway

135
00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:13.799
band on the rolling stage. That
would be a cool idea, like a

136
00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.399
rolling stage, kill the robot going
in circles and you could have a robot

137
00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:26.320
driving it that I know, right? Is it funny? When we grew

138
00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.240
up, I was like, man, the machines are going to take over,

139
00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.480
and now we're living it. Yeah, I thought they would take over

140
00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:37.720
more, you know, dangerous things
like manufacturing and agriculture. But instead they're

141
00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:43.120
just messing with art music, right, which is like, really, I

142
00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:48.240
don't even get the idea of using
AI to make music because music's creativity,

143
00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.360
so like I think you need the
human element. Yeah, but Not everybody

144
00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.679
cares about the same things for the
same reasons. Not everybody even listens to

145
00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.799
music for the same reasons anymore.
H You know, somebody would tell me

146
00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.320
it's true. They've actually changed how
you write songs now to appeal to today's

147
00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:16.679
ad d squirrel Yeah mentality. Well, I have it on pretty good authority

148
00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.480
that there are a lot of records
being made with AI right now. Chat

149
00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.879
ept's writing a lot of lyrics for
people. I believe it. Hence that's

150
00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.759
why we're called kill the Robot.
I love it. I love it.

151
00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:35.120
See everything was written by humans,
played by humans, and but enjoyed by

152
00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.000
humans. You know, I thought
it was bad enough in the eighties where

153
00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.720
you had bands coming out that nobody
played instruments and they were just playing the

154
00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.759
synthesizers and pushing pushing buttons. But
now we're in a whole other world.

155
00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:50.039
Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm hoping
that comes back, Like, yeah,

156
00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.159
you know, it would be nice, you know, just like you know

157
00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.639
how like you know there are certain
certain people get paid more than certain other

158
00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.919
people in the world for weird reasons. Yeah, how about we start giving

159
00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.279
some of that money that the DJ's
in their USB sticks, Like and I

160
00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.159
mean all due respect the DJ's there's
some badasses out there, But those those

161
00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.519
guys, they make a lot of
money for plugging a USB stick into a

162
00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.279
computer. Come on back to the
real music people. We're here, We're

163
00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.320
ready for you. I'll get to
like in what you're talking about. Like,

164
00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.559
how do these people think they're going
to a concert, going to see

165
00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.000
a DJ? Like, if I
want to go see DJ, I'm going

166
00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.799
to South Beach. I'm not going
to a music festival in Okachobee to watch

167
00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.360
some It just blows my mind.
I see all these people like they think

168
00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:41.080
they're a real concert. Yeah,
it's amazing, right, they really are.

169
00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.639
So what else do you guys got
going on after Rockville or any nudes?

170
00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.200
You want to give people things you
want to know? Yet, we

171
00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.279
got our record coming out here this
summer, and yeah we're gonna be hitting

172
00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.559
the road in the fall and those
all that will be announced on our Instagram

173
00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:03.440
TikTok. It's Killed the Robot Band
at Kill the Robot Band and Spotify.

174
00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:09.360
We are Killed the Robot and we're
yeah, we're we're all about it and

175
00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:11.840
we're coming to see you. So
I love it. Keep an eye in

176
00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.799
an ear out for us. All
right, well you you guys are badass

177
00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.639
and you're homeboys for me, so
that makes it even better. And I

178
00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.720
thank you for being here, Welcome
to Rockville and making it the best festival

179
00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:30.799
ever just because you're here. Thank
you, Pipemin for inviting us to come

180
00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.879
have a chat with you. This
has been you know, a data remember

181
00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:37.840
forever. So thank you for everything. Brother. I love that. I

182
00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.720
love that pun too right there.
Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man.

183
00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.039
Thank you so much. Thank you
for listening to the Adventures of Pipe

184
00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.279
Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.