PipemanRadio Interviews Kix at Rocklahoma 2023
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Kix at Rocklahoma. The band discusses their origins in the glam rock scene and being one of the pioneers of the genre. Pipeman and the band discuss the differences between LA...
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Hey, you love them too, that's sure. I'm for se Wow, Wake up of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on w forcy dot com. West pom Peaks is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. How do you ever say? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w f C Y Radio. And I'm here with Steve Hyman, Mark Schenker, Bob Perry, Ryan Damaged forsythe Kicks of Kicks here at Rock Oklahoma. I love it man, great weather, we're having I know it's high as hell to be performing. Are you kidding me? But hey, you're probably used to that. We're used to it. So have you been? Yeah? Two thousand and eight, Right, is the last time you've been here? Right? First? Oh, so that was the first time you were the first time. That was the first time we left our little comfort zone and on the DC Baltimore area. And Solomon Big, who became our agents, said I can book you guys nationwide. You give me a chance, And I laughed at him. I thought he's os mine. I didn't think of me, gave a shit about us at that point in our careers. And he proved us all wrong. And our first gig was Rockklahoma. And here you are, fifty million years later, I'm still here rocking. It's still the same weather. Well that's true. At least there's not a tornado. There's no tornado. There's no tornado. Okay, ban Ni interview later. They were here the year of the tornado and it was fun. I would say, no, were you here for the tornado too? Wow? Tell us a story about on about two hours late and it was still pouring down right, I mean pouring down rain. And we went out into it, like twenty thousand people out there ready to rock, and its like flew us away. Wow. I remember sitting in the band trailer. They were over there, over there by that wooden building to the right of that building at the time, and it felt like the trailer was like lifting up and going down and lifting up and going down. We were like, this is like fucking Wizard of Oz. Here, We're gonna be right. It's fun up into the air, but it was. It was serious there for a minute. I think one of the stage collapse and like, the worst thing to happen is somebody broken up. Oh yeah, both of them did. But I think the worst injury was somebody busted their arm or something, which was good because you know it's been bad if there was some serious injuries. You just confirmed the conversation earlier. Christine and I were talking about that and like, she goes, didn't a stage collapse that time? And you just confirmed it. Yeah, both of them. I remember one because episode one you could see what right when you came out. But Brian's right, there was two stage claps and they the main stage. They just rolled the doors down and stood there with their arms crossed the way. WHOA, we don't have to worry about that. You know, it's like a big old garage tore on the front of that thing. And you just answered another question for Christine because she's like, I wonder if they have something that rolls down in the front, and you know, that thing down so fast it was astonishing. So wow, that's wild. You know, I had somebody that lives in Florida. I deal with that crap all the time. Oh yeah, and I do. Welcome to Rockville every year we're evacuated. Like, why are you playing a festival in hurricane season? Right? Right? Hey? You know it's a roll of the dice. I'm sure, I'm telling you, but it makes it interesting and fun, like that's kind of rock and roll, Like you know, you're you're killing it, and then the storm comes in you'll shoot trying our kid, I know, right, it's all it's all fun and games till somebody gets hurt, right, that's right. So I had an interview that was coming in that I can't they were we were a little late, so I bumped them for you guys because you're on a tight schedule. And one of them, who's sitting behind me, I think I didn't look back, but he's like, he's like, let me sit in on the interview, like I'll do anything. So you got bands here that are fan boyling out on you guys. What does that feel like after all these years, like other bands fan boying out on you guys. Well, Steve mentioned it earlier. You know, wherever we play, when we do these festivals with multiple bands, all the other bands line up side stage to watch it, right, you know, looking around, and There'd Snyder standing there. Tom Keeper is always side stage whenever he feels like it. Uh, you know, winger boys sometimes are up there hanging around. So so we see yeah, extreme. Yeah, those guys are big kicks fans, so new Nos always around when we're playing, and uh, Pat's a pretty decent friend of mine and so so yeah, it's really uh it's it's flattering. And then you go, man, I wish I was playing better. Yeah, when you see all those other rock stars looking at you go, no, I really gotta turn. I that the pressure is really on there, right. I think it's so cool though, that after all these years, all you bands can be friendly like that. You know, like I grew up in Jersey, but I moved to Yeah, I know, right, I moved, but I moved to LA in nineteen eighty so I experienced that whole Sunset strip scene. And so it's so cool to me because like everybody was friends, but not really back then, you know, toldoid comparitive and you know how it was the record labels pitted everybody against each other and all that stuff. So when I look here stories like this, I'm like, that's so cool. After what forty years, you know that you can have that camaraderie today. And I also find a lot of bands like you and any of the other bands. I almost wish it everybody was like that back then, because I think the record labels like created this frenzy that now everybody you know that there was all these misconceptions about how the bands were and stuff, and now you're seeing how they really are now. Yeah, well the proof's in the pudding. Yeah, and the longevity is a testament to keeping your shit together exactly. And those that didn't didn't stick around, and that's bottom line. Oh yeah, back in it was competitive, and now everybody's kind of found their niche, you know. So thirty forty years later, everybody has a you know what direction, you know what you're going to go. See, back then, I think we were still trying to figure it all out. So but everybody knows exactly what they're about, and people know what they're about. So the competitions, it's gone. We're getting fucking paid about time, about time, and say getting fuck lot money, you know. Like I remember I was friends with a lot of those bands back then, and they were all just getting fucked without ky jolly, you know. And but it's true what you're saying though. It's the musicianship, the discipline, and you know, well a lot of people don't realize, especially the ones that want to, you know, hear all the original stuff or the original fans is like you as musicians, musicians, over the years, you have learned your craft, which back then maybe not so much. You had to get the experience and really learn your craft. So your music now is more you know, musicianship than back then in my opinion. Yeah, yeah, over and over again. You're you're either going to get good at it or you're gonna just have to hang it up, you know. So there you go. So, what's the craziest story in all these years. Let's see, there's a I'm sure there is. That's why it's a hard question, right. I think for me, one thing that always makes me laugh. And this didn't happen in front of us, And I'm sure he's embarrassed about it because his mom actually saw it. But we were leading up to Monsters Rock Cruise and we're good friends with Danny Nordahl from Faster Pussycat. He's an old DC guy, and there was a video floating around about he was on stage and he just just tipped over like someone pushed the stature, and you know, and we saw him a couple days later and he was like, yeah, my mom saw that I gotta cut back a little bit, and of course he hasn't cut back, and he's one of the funniest guys in all of this scene that we're playing right now. So for me, that was just a funny story and to know Danny and how he felt about it. You know, it didn't have it in front of us, but it still sticks in my mind. It's hilarious, you know. And speaking of funny, did you notice that Guar came in to eat you guys? Do what Guar came in to eat? You? Guys? The bad they're they're here to eat all the other bands? What would you guys say? I have no idea, there's there's too many. I mean, I could do all the all the sexual shit we did, but nobody wants to hear about that. Not nine twenty twenty three. I'll get canceled, I know, right. A couple of medium stripts on fire Yeah, we all we would play in North Carolina a lot and you could get fireworks and Bron's a pyromaniac nice and I like them already. We would we would always pull over and take a piss about every ten miles because we were always getting hammered in the van and Brian got some bottle rockets and we took a Heineken bottle and set it in the medium, put a bottle rocket in there. Brian lit up, the bottle, fell over and it went right into the meeting, just dry grass. It went up in flat. We go, let's get the hell out of here. Oh my god, that's amazing. Yeah, I'm sure, Like there's plenty of stories you don't even remember that are so crazy, like exactly you know we say in Sunset Strip. Nowadays, it's like, if you can remember the Sunset Strip, you weren't there. Good point so true too, Like I go back to a rainbow now and I'm like, how the fuck did I get in there? I was like fifteen, sixteen years old. I'm oh, I was walking in with Lemmy, That's how, you know, And like it was just it's sad actually the Sunset Strip now, because it was such a cool. Yeah, it was fun. It's a shell of what it was. It was just like the coolest place on earth. I thought. We played Whiskey a lot the last couple of years, and you know, there's a lot of history there, you know, like we're I'm standing on stage, I'm like, man, Eddie van Halen stood here, right, you know, or Pete Townsend or you name it, and it's like right in this exact same spot, you know. And so it's really kind of neat to go into the Whiskey and do that. But you know, for for us, it's not neat to travel out there anymore. I know, right, I just thought, what a dumb blow blow thor of guard just flipped me off. Nice. Yeah, so yeah, we hear you about what the Sunset Strip is now. And when they tore down the House of Blues, that was a heartbreaker. Two because we got to play there one of the last couple of months. I think that's open and it was spectacular and Janey Lane came up on stage and did cold Blood with us. Wow, that's well he was still here. So yeah, it was pretty That was pretty cool. But we you know, we don't we don't really miss the the flight going to the Whiskey, which the Whiskey was in Baltimore. We right, I only had to drive there and not at dump. There's no parking, you know, we don't get catering. If you want to go get food, you can't get a parking spot. It's a right freaking nightmare, but it's still the whiskey. You can't you can't knock it for that see it bums me. The Roxy is now like techno and the first club show I ever the first club show I ever went to was at the Roxy Motley Crew before they had an album, and I was like, I'm never going to a real concert ever again. And from then on, I was on the Sunset Strip every Friday and Saturday night. That's all there was was Friday and Saturday night. There's no week days on the strip, no, because we were all kids that we had to be in school or ditching school. I remember, you know Tom Keeper and Eric from Cinderello, they're from our area and they played Mine was in a shitty cover band, and I remember warming up for whatever band Tom was in at the time. They'll probably remember the name. But those guys always smelled like lighter fluid because they did the flame thing right and you walk in it's like, what the fuck is that smell? And it was like that band always smelled like lighter fluid. Every time I see Tom. That's what I think of. That's so funny. Stick, what's it called head on a stick, Head on a stick. Head. Tom was just a guitar player. Tom was just a guitar player, right, yeah, yeah, do you remember head on a stick? Yeah, okay, love it with that, love like a match head. So, so is it true Rock Oklahoma is your second to last gig, third to last gig, third to last Well, right, it was something kids, right right. It wasn't Hollywood Kids that was that was him Himmel's band. It wasn't Backstreet Kids, no, no, huh. Yeah they were good though. Tom Tom was great back then. I'll never forget it. He was I was like man that and outstanding guitar players, so right, yeah, a lot of great musicians. That's why. That's why you're still around today. You know, if you weren't a great musician, like all the flash and everything, that's all well and good. But at the end of the day to be here today, you need to be musicians. Well there's you know, there's the opposite of that too. There was a particular band that plays in our area and I won't name them, but they were terrible. Every single time. They were just awful. They would stop songs and restart songs. Oh my god. And they took it to LA and made it really big, and we're always shaking our heads like, what the fuck happened there? I was there in that LA scene and I nudge, I understand how that happens. Bless you. So any final words you want to leave our listeners with that? Maybe the A final words you want to leave our listeners with that? Maybe we haven't covered yet. Well, since this is gonna be this is this is uh next to the next to the last show that we're going to be doing, we're calling it a career. So for all the people, for all the years, for all the support, for the fans it's been coming around and buying the records and coming to the shows, well, thank you for keeping us around for forty five years. And it's been great. It's been a hoot. But it's time for us to walk away and have some fun as some fun. But that's all, folks. That's that's perfect. Saying any more than that, I know you might drop. Yeah, you can't end after that. I mean, there's nothing else to say except thanks for being here at Rocklahoma and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Hi Everyboddy. We are kids and you're listening to the Pipe Man on W four c Y Radio. Boy, thank you for listening to the Adventures of pate Man on W four CUI Radio. MHM
