PipemanRadio Interviews Kissing Candice at Louder Than Life 2023

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I'm here with Aunt Donna, a dreamer

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of kissing Candice Nice here at Louder
than Life. Very stoked to be here.

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Oh it's cool as hell this festival, isn't it? Yeah? Absolutely?

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Wait and way bigger than I thought. Really, So what was your

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vision before coming here of what Louder
in Life would be. I mean,

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we knew it was like a big
festival, but the scope of it is

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way bigger than I thought. So
super awesome, we know, DWP.

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I mean they're you know, top
tier. I mean we did Mayhem Fest

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in twenty fifteen, you know,
which was great. But you know,

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you know, you see photos of
the past years, but when you're really

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here and you see the crowds,
you know, god smack last night Olympics

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get we watched that, you know, just just everybody so so great,

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so positive. Everybody's like one big
family. It's it's great here. It

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really is great energy. Nice.
So what was that moment in life where

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you decided this is what you needed
to do? Oh my god, I

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was like four. My father's a
drummer, so it's in the family.

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I'm a big Frank Zappa fan.
I know that doesn't fit in here,

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but that was kind of my upbringing
and I had as a kid. I

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knew I had to do it.
And then I heard Iron Maiden one.

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I was in seventh grade, and
I knew that that twin guitars hooked me

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nice. And see that all makes
sense because even us, all us metal

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adds we like Frank Zappa and stuff
like that. That's where it started,

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you know, like we come from
that and then we evolved to made it

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exactly and everything else, same insane
energy. So I grew up in a

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house that, you know, was
listening to oldies and stuff like that,

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like the Stones, the Beatles.
My dad was a huge fan. But

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I never was really like down the
musician past. But in high school I

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was just always like the center of
attention, like a goofball, Like I

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knew I wanted to be like some
sort of entertainer. And then uh,

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I saw a bootleg video VHS tape
A showing my HVS a VSA VHS tape

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of Slipknot Detroit nineteen ninety nine,
and I'm like, what is what is

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going on? And I was like, this is music, this is mahaman,

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this is stage show. And then
that was it. I was just

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in local bands and just you know, I wanted to get to where I

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am now, and it just like
it all made sense to where this exact

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moment, you know, I love
it, and that slip Knot. The

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story makes sense because I saw both
slip Knot and mud Veine third stage oz

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Fest ninety nine and I'm like,
oh my fucking god. And my first

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show ever a concert was Halloween Night, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City,

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two thousand, slip Knot headlining direct
support by Hate Bread and mud Veine opening

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up. Wow. I saw that
live and I knew from then I wanted

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to do something theatrical. Yes,
the masks came later on, but like

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I just knew I wanted to do
something all in that ball of blacks.

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Interject here because I'm from Jersey with
big Jersey exit, I'm from I'm from

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Door, Jersey. I'm from Lil
Falls, Montclair, roseland originally I live

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in Morris Sound. My father's from
Paterson, told Away area. So all

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right, nice Jersey boys. Hey, what is vis I mean? Yeah,

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I'm not growing up. I always
had older friends. Has been all

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friends. But in nineteen ninety six
when they reformed, Michael Graves gets a

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lot of ship. But I went
to that Resurrection tour at Vernon Valley and

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again that changed the thing. It
was like the blending of horror movies with

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a you know, I've been into
the earlier mismiss stuff, but to see

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Alive and more like more metallic really
hit home with it. So and I

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was big into wrestling, so those
two things at the same time we're hitting.

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So here's interesting for me. Is
my first concert ever, although I

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don't consider the concert because of what
it was. It was Beatlemania Madison Square

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Garden. Wow. Yeah. But
then my dad moved me to California in

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nineteen eighty Okay, so as you
can imagine, I lived on the Sunset

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Strip during that eighties. Ship you
got to feel the rock and roll man.

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My first club show ever Motley Crew
before they had an album. Then

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they were horror punk at the roxy
on the Sunset Stress. They put on

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such a show. They tried to
burn down the rocks. He bring in

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satan In and shit, I'm like, I'm never going to a real concert

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again. Yeah, you know yeah, And like bands don't do that.

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You can't do that. It's like, we want to do stuff, but

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it's like you gotta play it safety
these days. Back then the gloves were

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off, it was it was whole
chaining and and we we want to bring

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that energy back that, you know, the mysteriousness of being in a band

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and the entertainment. Anybody could watch
five guys on stage in jeans and a

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T shirt, which is great,
but it's like, bring it back,

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make this normal, make I agree, burning down the venue, make it

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normal, you know, like let's
let's rock and fucking roll. You always

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thrive on the fact that you may
not like us musically, but if you

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come away, let's say you have
a girl from wood from whatever, watch

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all I don't like metal, you
still watch us. At least it was

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entertaining. So I feel like there's
an aspect that that has been missing a

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lot of music, and we definitely
try to cater to that. I agree,

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whole hardly. And like there's bands
I started liking because I saw their

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live show. I didn't like that
till I saw it their live show,

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I'm like, oh my god.
And then there's the others to your point

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that I really like. I'm like, oh, they're playing at this festival.

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Yeah, I'll stay back here.
Yeah, Like you could. You

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could sound great, you could have
you know, a great production on stage,

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which is all great, but it's
like if you're not from front to

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back giving your one hundred percent and
doing something a little over the top,

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it's like, okay, great,
I could stay home, listen to the

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record. Right. Live shows are
supposed to be just that. It's that

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extra step because art is art,
so you have to combine all the art,

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not just the music part of that
art. And I think music is

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that it's it's all art, it's
not just the music, and it's supposed

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to be a snapshot in time that
you'll never that someone else won't have that

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same experience. So we try to
do no, if five people today remember

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walk away from this festival and talk
about us, that's five more people than

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you know before, then we're talking
about it. And that's how it starts.

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That's how it starts. So how
do people connect to you guys on

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the socials on the web by your
merge all that great ship? Right,

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it's it's the usual suspects with the
social media. Yeah, kissing candas dot

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com. Uh, that'll that'll link
you to our Facebook, our Instagram,

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kissing Underscore Candice, Yeah, merch
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, all

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of that kissing candas can't go wrong. Ci n D. I see a

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lot of people at ci n D
A C no no, no, uh

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yeah, but we're all over social
media. So and you know, I

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love about your band name and don't
love so. One of the first girls

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ever that like I was like madly
in love with but probably wasn't gonna get

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her name was Candice. She's the
one that got me into punk music and

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Sabbath and UFO and shit. But
she was like, you know, she

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was going for the I was in
high school. You know, she was

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going for the older guys. You
know, But to this day it's still

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implanned in my brain. So like
I hear your name, it gives me

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heartbreak and good ship. And that's
the reason why we're standing here Because in

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high school I was after a girl
named Candace. I only got to kiss

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her once and that was it.
So she's the reason why I exist right

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now in this mask and we're doing
what we do. So yeah, so

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now which socials how we are now? Has she tried to reach out thinking

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maybe that's about her? She?
I found her years ago on Facebook when

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it first started blowing up, and
she was she was the perfect family,

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you know, two dogs, two
kids, a picket fence. Yeah.

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Yeah, she took a different path
in life, and then a couple of

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years ago I tried to relok her
up, to reach out, let her

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know what I was doing, and
she went off the grid. So yeah,

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one day though, when we're huge, I'm gonna show up with a

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care package for her and be like, thank you very much for high school

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days. Yeah yeah, right,
there you go. Yeah, good stuff.

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What's the craziest story on your music
journey so far? Craziest story on

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your music journey so far? Just
spend two minutes with our bass player and

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that'll kind of sum it up,
right. Our bass player is he just

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keeps us going, He keeps us
on his toes. He's amazing, but

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he is the most It just does
a lot of wacky shit. Yeah,

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it always ends us up in some
weird situation or talking to somebody, so

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I can give you isolated examples,
but hopefully he shows up here later or

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whatever. But he's always keeping us
on our toes as far as again putting

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us in bizarre situations, meeting weird
people from crackheads to you name it.

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So yeah, yeah, we've met
some interesting people because of him. You

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know. There there's there's PG stories, there's R rated stories, but it's

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like it's all in good fun.
We did have a thing where we were

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touring for a while and for some
reason, I tell me it was in

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Florida, someone took a ship next
to our van every single show in Florida,

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every time we played this venue,
like hawkwork, it was a pile

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of shit. At some point,
I love Florida. That doesn't surprise man.

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We're trying to figure it out,
and it just became one of those

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things we knew we were playing around
there, it was gonna be a big

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human sized turret outside, and we
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after the show, and it seemed
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we'd come back and there was a
part of ship by the trailer,

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by the tire, by the front. Yeah, so maybe it was one

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of the other bands you're playing with, Like practical jokes. We were like,

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maybe it's a promoter, maybe it's
the sound guy, who the fuck

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knows, but whoever it was,
might it might as well be. But

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either way, good stories. It
was great. Yeah, but it's just

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random stuff like that that makes us
want to continue our journey to see where

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we end up. You know.
Yeah, there you go, and I

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hope you continue your journey because you
guys are badass. Thank you, and

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listen those stories you're talking about.
Your basis that that's what makes us fun

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too, right, because otherwise sometimes
it is monotonous being on the road.

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People don't realize you gotta break it
up with stupid shit. Oh yeah,

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yeah, and you know, well
we've been together, you know, playing

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the especially the three of us that
player, Dreamer and I for a while

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now, so it's like we we
know, you know exactly what his move,

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next move is gonna be, and
we just we crack up. It's

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like a really dysfunctional marriage. I'm
sure you've heard that. Every band kind

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of says that. But at the
same time, we always kind of pride

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ourselves on the fact that everybody's so
different outside of the band that it's almost

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allows us to accept everybody's idiosyncracy so
much more because it's so prevalent. Yeah,

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so all of us are into really
different stiff stuff. We dressed differently,

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we act differently. So when we
come together, you see a lot

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of these guys are brothers and other
bands. But if they're so similar that

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they'll fight, yeah, we see
like, oh, we know this guy's

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like this, this guy's like this. Are kind of giving them his space

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and it allows everybody to be weird
and also we never fight. I think

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it makes better music too, because
nowadays there's so many bands that it blows

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my mind that like they play like
a they put a formula to their music

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and they are all the same,
so all the music sounds the same nowadays,

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I think the blending of personalities what
is what makes a band unique?

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For sure, it has to be. It's like, you know, when

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we sit down to start spitball and
ideas, we all like different music.

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We all like the same heavy music. But it's like he gets his inspiration

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from somewhere completely different than me.
Yeah, you know, he's thinking about

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the guitar tones. I'm thinking about
what the stage lights are gonna be,

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and when we come together, it's
like a perfect storm. Yeah, I

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love it. So anything else we
want to let the listeners and know about

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that we haven't touched on already.
We're coming free in the new year.

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And I know a lot of bands
say that, but like we're We're we're

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coming full speed ahead. You know. Uh. People want to say stuff

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about the bands that do masks and
makeup and stuff, but it's like,

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we're not stopping no matter what.
Yeah, it's coming back. But you

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know you won't see you won't see
this, you know, I ever stopping.

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I like the mask thing because I
like the mystery part of it.

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Number one, the theatrics of it, and number three. Okay, Like

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I've hung out with War without their
masks several times and I've said to them

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like, keep the keep the costumes
on. We're going Oh yeah, we're

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rolling with it. Yeah. So
anyway, thanks for being here at Louder

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and thanks for being on the Adventures
of play Man. Appreciate you very much,

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Broth for happing, Thanks for having
us man, it's been a blast.

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