Nov. 2, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews Kurt Deimer About Doom
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Kurt Deimer released his brand new single "Doom" to all major platforms along with the official music video on...
Stream/ Download "Doom"
https://linktr.ee/kurt.deimer
WATCH "Doom" Official Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PphihTfLIs
Kurt Deimer released his brand new single "Doom" to all major platforms along with the official music video on August 11, 2023. Kurt has also announced that he will be heading out on tour with Skid Row and Buckcherry in September and Mushroomhead in October. Tour dates are listed below.
“'Doom' is a song I wrote for my movie coming soon called Hellbilly Hollow. It’s a feature film and part of a franchise that I created a couple years ago. 'Doom' will be featured as a big single from the movie and soundtrack and I thought it was very appropriate to write 'Doom' for the movie because it exposes the dark side of the horror, and the dark side of heroin addiction, and the problem that it has become in our society. Heroin is just one of the many drug issues we face. By incorporating its dark connotations and themes of what addiction like that can bring and capture the description of that with words and other visual aspects that you might see in a horror film, I felt was very compelling. Blending the darkness of addiction and the darkness of horror, into one song I feel makes it powerful and explosive. I want to touch people in many ways not only in the vehicle of horror movies as a lead track, but also expose people to think about what we can do to help those or help with the issue of heroin addiction. That my friends is 'Doom,''' says Kurt Deimer.
MUSHROOMHEAD 30th ANNIVERSARY TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS HELLZAPOOPIN CIRUS SIDESHOW, KURT DEIMER AND FLEISCHKRIEG
In a world that seems to be spiraling out of control, Kurt Deimer is a man with a very clear mission: Work Hard, Rock Hard, Play hard and Spread positivity. In fact, his mantra could be summed up: “Take the high road, do the right thing, encourage others.” It sounds like a tall order these days in a world full of warring factions. And it’s an unusual mission for a singer/songwriter vocalist whose music could be described as hard rock, even heavy metal – genres that are not always synonymous with positivity.
Deimer, for his part, describes his work as good old fashioned rock and roll. “And it’s as good a vehicle as any for spreading good vibes” he says. “I’m here to encourage others to treat people with respect, dignity and kindness,” he says. “I’ve been through a lot of things in my life and I try to share that with others and be a beacon of hope for my listeners.”
That positivity and perseverance has paid off for the native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He’s not only launched a movie franchise, Hellbilly Hollow, by filming and starring in a feature length horror film of the same name. He’s also recorded more than two dozen songs with legendary producer Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, James Brown and the Rolling Stones), his management team includes Brian Wheat, manager of TESLA who discovered him while opening for TESLA.
Chris Lord-Alge says he was drawn to Kurt’s originality as an artist. “I saw something completely different in Kurt, and that was the lure for me. He isn’t a typical rock or country artist – I love hearing him talk and narrating a story, and I was drawn to taking those stories and helping turn them into music. He’s a personality, he’s someone you want to talk to.”
Things have not always been positive in Deimer’s world. At age 20, as a young rock vocalist, he found himself in the grips of drug addiction. He later discovered he was using substances to medicate an underlying anxiety condition. At that young age, he quit drugs, got help for his anxiety and never looked...
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has a killer new tune and some
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So let's welcome to a show.
Kurt Diimer, how are you good?
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How are you doing? Brother?
Thank you for having me. Oh my
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pleasure. I'm doing great, and
especially after hearing your new song Doom.
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It's a badass song for sure.
Well, thank you so much. Man.
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I'm hoping it continues to, you
know, gain traction all over the
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place, and with folks like you
help and push it, hopefully the folks
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at radio will continue to play and
we'll see where it goes all over the
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world. Yeah, and you just
did a couple of tours, one with
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mushroom Head, one with skid Row
and basically I'm sure you played the new
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song on tour. How was the
audience like and digging it? Yeah,
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we actually out with you know Buck
Jerry skid Row in September, and like
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you said, mushroom Head in October, we closed every set with Doom and
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I let all the fans know.
It's actually the song that's featured in my
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feature film that's coming out in twenty
twenty four, Hell Billy Hollow. It's
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the final scene song. Which is
why I even wrote it in the first
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place. Was I knew I needed
something for that movie. And you know,
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it also talks about the doom,
you know, in a horror type
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movie, but it's the doom of
life, you know, about addiction and
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what can happen to one and how
dreadful that can become. And people received
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it so well, and once they
hear and we start ripping into it,
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the whole crowd starts moving and we
really got really great response for it.
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So I love it, and let's
talk a little bit about the movie.
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So I people like you your creatives, and I think a lot of people
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don't realize that just because you're a
musician doesn't mean you don't have creativity and
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all kinds of other areas, whether
it be other forms of art like painting
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or a movie or what have you. So what was it. Let's start
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with what started with your passion for
making a horror movie and a horror franchise.
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Well, it all goes, you
know. I did music till I
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was like twenty before I you know, had to buckle down. I finished
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school and had a family and whatnot, and I suppressed my artistic creative side
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as far as music goes. I
never knew I'd be an actor. Ever,
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that was never I was always full
of anxiety when I was young and
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didn't really had to figure that out
in my life first, but so that
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was never an option. In twenty
seventeen, I guess you could say my
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creativity I took to the business world
because I started my own oil brand,
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Starfire, and built those companies and
they still run themselves today. And that
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took a lot of creativity on the
business side. But in twenty seventeen I
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went to do a cameo because my
oil brand was in a movie called Trading
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Paint about dirt track racing with John
Travolta and Shania Twain and Michael Matt Mattson
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and a lot of big actors,
and I went down to do this cameo
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and they offered me a speaking role
because they liked my look and they needed
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a track announcer. So I ended
up getting in this movie and shooting this
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scene within an hour or two of
not ever thinking I would be an actor.
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And then I'm shooting this with John
Travolta and I'm like, Okay,
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well that was a sign. And
I really loved that and it didn't bother
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me at all. And I'm in
the movie and made the cut and all
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that stuff. And two months later, I get offered a role in Halloween,
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the reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis of
the official one from the seventies,
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the official sequel, and I get
to we want a few people killed by
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the Michael Myers and John Carpon was
Halloween. And while I'm sitting there in
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this gas station with James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers, were just
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sitting there talking and I got this
shit all over my head, all this
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prosthetics it took like three hours to
put on to make me look, you
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know, Goraly killed, And I'm
thinking, you know, I could do
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my own horror franchise. Just like
Halloween did in seventy eight. Now they're
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doing this reboot which I'm sure is
going to be huge, and it ended
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up being huge, and I go, why can't I do the same thing,
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And that's what spawned me wanting to
do hell Billy hollow And this year
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in March, I just shot a
movie called Scared to Death out in LA
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that stars me alongside Lynn Shay from
the Insidious franchise and Bill Moseley from the
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Rob Zombie movies. And Bill Mosley
was one of my idols that I kind
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of modeled my character Bull around for
hell Billy Hollows. So not only did
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I do that, but then here
I am in March of this year shooting
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a movie with Bill and becoming great
friends with him. And now we're working
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on another movie that we're going to
probably shoot here in the next year that
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I'm writing right now. So that's
how it all came to Fruition, and
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the music just kind of happened in
the middle of it all. Wow.
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Yeah, I mean for somebody that
never imagined being an actor and involved with
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movies, you've been quite busy.
Yeah, it's crazy, man. Well
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I never thought I could do it. I mean, when you have anxiety
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and panic disorder and you don't know
how to treat it, you're mortified to
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getting up in front of let people
in a concert, let alone be in
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front of a movie camera, you
know. And once I figured all that
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out, when I was like at
my early thirties, and my whole life
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changed, and now I can do
whatever. I'd love being in front of
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people. I love watching them have
a great time and seeing that they're listening
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to my lyrics, applying maybe some
of those lyrics to their life, and
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just watching the joy they have,
you know. And then the same thing
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with the movie. I mean,
I'll love to go to the theater when
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it's scared the death comes out and
just watch people's reaction to this really great
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movie that we're about to put out. So it's very very blessed to be
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able to do this, and we
only give one light, and you got
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to live it to the fullest man, one hundred percent. I always say
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that it's like my mantra, I
live life to falls every single day because
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you just never know, you know. And my viewpoint is is if if
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I were not to wake up tomorrow, well I wouldn't feel like unfulfilled because
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I have always lived life to fullest, so you know, I've had those
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experiences. Some people don't. Some
people in their whole life, they go
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without doing anything or scared of everything. And you know, it's great that
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you found these outlets because I mean, it's true for me. Tell me
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if it's true for you. But
when you get up on that stage or
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you get in front of that camera, or you get on the mic,
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there's like this switch in your brain
that turns on and the way you would
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actually be off stage or off the
mic, as far as the fear and
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everything else goes away because you're like
in a zone. Yeah, it's yeah,
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all day. You know, you're
on the road. We're on the
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tour bus. We're getting to the
town. We're worried about or we're going
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to get a shower, We're worried
about where we're going to get some kind
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of food, and it's a big
pain in the ass. And I'm a
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very chill, laid back guy.
And don't get me wrong, I love
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the road, but yeah, it's
like I'm a calm, chill, mellow
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dude in real life. If you
hung out with me and we go have
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a drink or whatever. So once
I hear that intro, and I know
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it's my time, and we're always
on time when we go on stage because
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we're very professional and courteous to the
bands we're touring with. And once I
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hear that intro, it's game over. I'm like a totally different dude,
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and I just go crazy. It's
like a thirty forty five minute aerobic workout
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and I'm just going nuts, and
I'd do it all on the fly.
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I'm not worried about anything. I
might I might have lost my sister and
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my dad in the last decade,
and they're both with me when I performed,
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because they were the two singers in
the family for the most part,
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and she was the thespian in the
family, and so they're with me,
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and then my grandma. I just
tell it. Don't let me forget any
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of the lyrics. She lived to
be one hundred and six and was my
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rock in my life. I don't
worry about shit. I go out there,
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kill it and people have a great
time, and I just love it.
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Now, well, I love everything
you said there in one hundred and
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six. Wow, that's amazing.
Yeah, she lived to be one hundred
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and six. The only reason she
died at one hundred and six is because
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it was during the year of COVID
and nobody could go visit her in the
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nursing home, and she just said
fuck it, you know, and eventually
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she just got tired of human interaction. And that's unfortunately a lot of the
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unknown collateral damage that many people have
I've not suffered during that year where a
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lot of us lost our grandparents that
were probably elderly because we weren't allowed to
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go see them. You know.
It's sad. Yeah, no, I
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and I'm totally with you. That
was a rough time for everybody, and
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especially like it's weird for somebody like
yourself who's a musician and you're used to
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being out there with the public and
on tour and stuff like that, and
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that two years of doing nothing and
being isolated, Like it's bad enough when
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you get home from tour and you
go into that that almost for lack of
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a better way of playing a depressive
come down mood, you know, and
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then to have that for two years. So I can imagine somebody like your
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grandmother or anybody you know, at
that stage, like it is like,
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well, what's the point if I'm
just sitting here, you know, doing
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nothing by myself, you know,
nobody, get no interaction with anybody.
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So it's horrible, exactly exactly except
the nurse, you know, in the
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same nurse or whatever, and you
can only do so many little activities and
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you're one hundred and six. Imagine
what's going on in her brain. And
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the week before she passed, I
had gone out on a tour during COVID.
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I was just getting started. I
wasn't even going under Kurt Dimer.
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I started out under bald Man.
That's how I got to LA and I
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caught the week before, I was
in Vegas doing a show during COVID.
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I was able to do a show
in Vegas during COVID, but I wasn't
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able to go see my grandmother.
Go figure, that's ridiculous. I call
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her and she we had our last
good conversation, and I said, you
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know what I'm doing, Grandma.
I'm out singing about positivity and things that
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I write that I'm getting out of
my brain over life of My grandpa was
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a motivational speaker. Her husband,
I said, I'm doing what Grandpa did.
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I'm just doing in rock music and
she was so proud and we had
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such a good call and then a
week later our lost her. So that
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was it's tough, man, But
she's with me everywhere I go. There
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you go and sorry about that,
and you know, it's it's pretty wild
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because before you talked about your grandpa, I was going to say about you
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know, with me and talking about
the stage thing like I'm also I'm a
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motivational speaker. I was going to
say that, array but it's pretty wild
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that your grandpa was one too,
And it's funny and you probably feel the
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same way like I was saying that, because before I get up on stage,
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like all these things are round my
head. You know, you worry
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about screwing up, blah blah blah
blah blah, make sure to remember do
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this, do that. But the
minute I step on that stage, it's
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like all that just goes away and
I'm in a zone and I do what
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I do. That's it. You
can't work, you can't worry about it.
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I mean, my first you know
I have I've only been touring two
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years now in a big way,
but so it really it started in a
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big way because I went out on
tour with my first big tour was with
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Jeff Tate, so it was a
good tour to start with. You know,
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I learned a lot on that tour, and I used to worre.
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I used to think through my lyrics
all day on the bus and just kind
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of practice through it in my head. And I don't do any of that
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anymore because I know it's just there's
nothing to worry about. Just go out
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there and be you and let it
loose and let it fly and make each
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show its own individual masterpiece. That's
the way I look at it. Oh,
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I can agree more. And I
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like if you're not being you up
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my band wanted me to dress in
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do this. And I finally just
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what's missing in my show is I'm
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and I'm not being me. And
you know it's like now I can go
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out every night and it's like I'm
a painter, but what I'm doing is
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I'm putting on a show, and
each show is different, and each show
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hasn't son. I want to say
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on currently in the work, you
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Maybe before I, like I do, did hero which is one of our
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big songs about our heroes in the
world, in the military and all that.
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you know, the last couple times,
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after that motherfucker up in Maine went
and shot all those innocent people,
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I called him out to the crowd
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and everything in honor of those deceased
because of him, and we talked,
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we sung about heroes. So every
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the way I look at it,
and that will leave that mark in that
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human beings had fan that was in
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work of art every night. See, I love artists like you that do
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that, because you know, I've
seen a million concerts in my lifetime,
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and I go on tour and I
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of festivals. As you know,
they'll have the same bands plans. I'll
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see like a certain band like ten
times in a year. And yes,
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some of those bands, Like just
recently, I think I was Aftershock and
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a band was performing. The person
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saying the words not even the song, but the words between the songs that
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the lead singer was going to say
before he said them, and she and
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then he would say him and and
she'd She was looking at me. He's
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like, how did you know?
It was goods? You know, and
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to me, you know, not
to throw shade, but you know,
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it gets me bored. And even
the bands I love, it's like,
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oh, you know, I'll be
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you're gonna catch her set. Yeah, I've seen them about six times
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this year. I think I'm done
this year. And yeah, it's not
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not liking them, it's more of
the fact of, like, I want
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to see somebody do like you do, and like I'm gonna get surprised every
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single set, and that makes it
just so much more fun. Yeah,
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you got to be spontaneous. You
don't want to make a photo copy of
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your show and photo copy and just
hand out the flyer every night. You
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want an original work of art.
And that's what I can write. And
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you know, I don't want to
be cookie cutter. I think that's boring
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as fuck, and I don't want
to copy myself, So I just wanted
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to come out naturally. And then
you feel it, and you know,
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as a fan, ow, this
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tonight in this moment, and that's
how I do it so exactly, And
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you know, it makes you more
relatable and connectable by the audience because now
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they realize you're just being a person
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just playing a role and rehearsing their
script and getting out there and doing their
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script exactly exactly. That's not what
it is. They know your songs.
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You can hear the same song over
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stream music. You know, as
we continue to grow, you can hear
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that if you want to hear it. But when we come out and perform,
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you're going to hear that song the
way we're feeling it that night,
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and we're going to rock it out. And I'm going to say what I
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want to say when I want to
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in the room, and you know, the vibe and all that and once
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I decided to be myself and not
listen to all the noises around me,
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our fan base is growing. People
are coming up to me, going,
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you're the best man we've never heard. I can't wait till these festival promoters
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like Danny Wimmer and everybody get,
you know, notice us. And I
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don't care if we play it two
in the afternoon. Once we break that,
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we're just gonna blow up, because
I can see it in the fans'
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faces, like this is a band
that doesn't sound like everybody else and they
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rock the fuck out, and that's
rare nowadays. Like if we went back
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to seventies and eighties, you know, bands were unique. Nowadays, it
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seems like a lot of them sound
the same. So I love that what
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you just said, because I think
that's what makes bands stand out nowadays,
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especially you know, you have a
lot of bands that have access to things
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that people didn't have years ago,
so they're almost able to produce it to
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make it sound the same as something
else. And I'd rather have you be
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unique and stand out above the crowd. Yeah, that's my biggest thing right
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now with these the people who control
the radio is I don't think they know
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what to do with me yet,
you know, because I don't sound like
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what's big on Octane, you know, right, I've got my own unique
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sound, but you know, I
refuse to try to make it sound.
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Why would I want to copy somebody
else They have their own art. I
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want to do my own art.
And then once people finally see that people
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love this music and it's growing,
then it'll take off. Kind of like
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ACDC. They were different. They're
one of my role models from the past
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Van Halen. They went out with
Black Sabbath. They sounded totally different than
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Black Sabbath, but they have their
own unique sound and style, and that's
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what I intend to do. So
I'm just going to stick to it until
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the day I die. And it
never takes off. It never takes off,
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but it is. It's just it's
not easy to make it and anything
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in life, and you just never
give up. And I'll just stay true
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to who I am and keep putting
out songs that I that I really dig
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and that I think the public will
and I think it'll eventually that one will
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hit and then everybody will know our
whole catalog. So there you go,
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and I think definitely everybody should check
you out because your music is badass and
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everything you do is great, and
so how do people connect with you on
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socials on the web? How they
check out the new song, your merch
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and everything. Okay, yeah,
yeah, everything mean of course Instagram is
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growing, so follow us on Instagram
at Kirkdimer, Facebook at Kirkdimer. There's
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also the kirk Dimer Fam Club on
Facebook to join, so I'd love it
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if you guys would do that.
And then on x we're on there and
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TikTok at Kirkdimer. And then the
website is kirk k u r t d
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e I Emason Mary e r dot
com. You can check out my ib
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page which would be awesome. You
can google my name and all kinds of
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stuff will pull up articles, interviews, and then Spotify Apple. Apple's growing
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every week now like crazy. Spotify
is growing at Kirkdimer and just follow us
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and share the music, can share
the love and check our videos and our
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channel on YouTube at kurt Dimer and
subscribe to that. Stay in the loop.
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And we've already got tour plans are
already going to be announced here soon
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starting in January, and got a
lot going on. Man, it's got
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to finish this album, I got
to go to shoot some stuff for my
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character the Grog from Scared to Death, so I'll be out in La doing
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that and there'll be more videos coming
out and whatnot. So it's drill simple,
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Kurt k u RT dimer d E
I M E R Google that follow
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us everywhere and be great man.
Well, I love it, and I
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hope they do check you out because
they'll be missing out if they don't.
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And thanks for being on the adventures
of pipe Man. It's always always pipe
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Man. Thank you so much Teine
for having me. And look forward to
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talking to you again. And let
all the folks that I heard or the
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festivals know about me, and hopefully
I'll see you soon and we can do
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an interview live. Absolutely, I
would love it. That'd be cool man.
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Yeah, And if you ever want
to go out out together and do
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motivational speaking. I love to help
people. I'm love to help people not
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be scared of this world. And
I'm a guy who's self made. Nobody's
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handing me anything in life, and
I got a lot to share with people,
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to go out and talk to people.
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Looking forward to it. Love it
we'll definitely talk again, all right,
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my brother. I'd be safe and
thank you for having me me anytime.
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Thank you for listening to the Adventures
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the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
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And I'm very exciting about our next guest
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has a killer new tune and some
other stuff for us to talk about.
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So let's welcome to a show.
Kurt Diimer, how are you good?
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How are you doing? Brother?
Thank you for having me. Oh my
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pleasure. I'm doing great, and
especially after hearing your new song Doom.
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It's a badass song for sure.
Well, thank you so much. Man.
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I'm hoping it continues to, you
know, gain traction all over the
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place, and with folks like you
help and push it, hopefully the folks
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at radio will continue to play and
we'll see where it goes all over the
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world. Yeah, and you just
did a couple of tours, one with
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mushroom Head, one with skid Row
and basically I'm sure you played the new
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song on tour. How was the
audience like and digging it? Yeah,
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we actually out with you know Buck
Jerry skid Row in September, and like
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you said, mushroom Head in October, we closed every set with Doom and
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I let all the fans know.
It's actually the song that's featured in my
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feature film that's coming out in twenty
twenty four, Hell Billy Hollow. It's
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the final scene song. Which is
why I even wrote it in the first
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place. Was I knew I needed
something for that movie. And you know,
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it also talks about the doom,
you know, in a horror type
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movie, but it's the doom of
life, you know, about addiction and
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what can happen to one and how
dreadful that can become. And people received
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it so well, and once they
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the whole crowd starts moving and we
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So I love it, and let's
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So I people like you your creatives, and I think a lot of people
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don't realize that just because you're a
musician doesn't mean you don't have creativity and
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all kinds of other areas, whether
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or a movie or what have you. So what was it. Let's start
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with what started with your passion for
making a horror movie and a horror franchise.
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Well, it all goes, you
know. I did music till I
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was like twenty before I you know, had to buckle down. I finished
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school and had a family and whatnot, and I suppressed my artistic creative side
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as far as music goes. I
never knew I'd be an actor. Ever,
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that was never I was always full
of anxiety when I was young and
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didn't really had to figure that out
in my life first, but so that
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was never an option. In twenty
seventeen, I guess you could say my
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creativity I took to the business world
because I started my own oil brand,
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Starfire, and built those companies and
they still run themselves today. And that
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took a lot of creativity on the
business side. But in twenty seventeen I
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went to do a cameo because my
oil brand was in a movie called Trading
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Paint about dirt track racing with John
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and a lot of big actors,
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and they offered me a speaking role
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a track announcer. So I ended
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scene within an hour or two of
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And then I'm shooting this with John
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well that was a sign. And
I really loved that and it didn't bother
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me at all. And I'm in
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that stuff. And two months later, I get offered a role in Halloween,
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the reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis of
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the official sequel, and I get
to we want a few people killed by
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the Michael Myers and John Carpon was
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this gas station with James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers, were just
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sitting there talking and I got this
shit all over my head, all this
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prosthetics it took like three hours to
put on to make me look, you
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know, Goraly killed, And I'm
thinking, you know, I could do
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my own horror franchise. Just like
Halloween did in seventy eight. Now they're
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doing this reboot which I'm sure is
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up being huge, and I go, why can't I do the same thing,
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And that's what spawned me wanting to
do hell Billy hollow And this year
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in March, I just shot a
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that stars me alongside Lynn Shay from
the Insidious franchise and Bill Moseley from the
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Rob Zombie movies. And Bill Mosley
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of modeled my character Bull around for
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I do that, but then here
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a movie with Bill and becoming great
friends with him. And now we're working
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on another movie that we're going to
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I'm writing right now. So that's
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the music just kind of happened in
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movies, you've been quite busy.
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I never thought I could do it. I mean, when you have anxiety
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and panic disorder and you don't know
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getting up in front of let people
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front of a movie camera, you
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people. I love watching them have
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to my lyrics, applying maybe some
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just watching the joy they have,
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it's scared the death comes out and
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movie that we're about to put out. So it's very very blessed to be
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able to do this, and we
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to live it to the fullest man, one hundred percent. I always say
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that it's like my mantra, I
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you just never know, you know. And my viewpoint is is if if
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I have always lived life to fullest, so you know, I've had those
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experiences. Some people don't. Some
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without doing anything or scared of everything. And you know, it's great that
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you found these outlets because I mean, it's true for me. Tell me
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if it's true for you. But
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there's like this switch in your brain
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mic, as far as the fear and
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everything else goes away because you're like
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all day. You know, you're
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tour bus. We're getting to the
town. We're worried about or we're going
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to get a shower, We're worried
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of food, and it's a big
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very chill, laid back guy.
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the road, but yeah, it's
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dude in real life. If you
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a drink or whatever. So once
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it's my time, and we're always
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we're very professional and courteous to the
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hear that intro, it's game over. I'm like a totally different dude,
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and I just go crazy. It's
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and I'm just going nuts, and
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I'm not worried about anything. I
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my dad in the last decade,
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because they were the two singers in
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and she was the thespian in the
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and then my grandma. I just
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of the lyrics. She lived to
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rock in my life. I don't
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kill it and people have a great
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six. Wow, that's amazing.
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and six. The only reason she
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it was during the year of COVID
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nursing home, and she just said
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she just got tired of human interaction. And that's unfortunately a lot of the
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unknown collateral damage that many people have
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lot of us lost our grandparents that
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go see them. You know.
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and I'm totally with you. That
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especially like it's weird for somebody like
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being out there with the public and
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that two years of doing nothing and
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you get home from tour and you
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a better way of playing a depressive
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then to have that for two years. So I can imagine somebody like your
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grandmother or anybody you know, at
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well, what's the point if I'm
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nothing by myself, you know,
nobody, get no interaction with anybody.
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same nurse or whatever, and you
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you're one hundred and six. Imagine
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the week before she passed, I
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I was just getting started. I
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I started out under bald Man.
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caught the week before, I was
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able to go see my grandmother.
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her and she we had our last
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know what I'm doing, Grandma.
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I write that I'm getting out of
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a motivational speaker. Her husband,
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I'm just doing in rock music and
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such a good call and then a
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was it's tough, man, But
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you go and sorry about that,
and you know, it's it's pretty wild
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because before you talked about your grandpa, I was going to say about you
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know, with me and talking about
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motivational speaker. I was going to
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that your grandpa was one too,
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same way like I was saying that, because before I get up on stage,
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like all these things are round my
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about screwing up, blah blah blah
blah blah, make sure to remember do
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this, do that. But the
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like all that just goes away and
I'm in a zone and I do what
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I do. That's it. You
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years now in a big way,
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big way because I went out on
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Jeff Tate, so it was a
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of practice through it in my head. And I don't do any of that
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anymore because I know it's just there's
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there and be you and let it
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show its own individual masterpiece. That's
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I can agree more. And I
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know, just be you. That's
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like if you're not being you up
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my band wanted me to dress in
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do this. And I finally just
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what's missing in my show is I'm
listening to what everybody's telling me to do
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and I'm not being me. And
you know it's like now I can go
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out every night and it's like I'm
a painter, but what I'm doing is
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I'm putting on a show, and
each show is different, and each show
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hasn't son. I want to say
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on currently in the work, you
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big songs about our heroes in the
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You know, the other night,
you know, the last couple times,
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after that motherfucker up in Maine went
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I called him out to the crowd
and we raised all our phone lights up
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and everything in honor of those deceased
because of him, and we talked,
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we sung about heroes. So every
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the way I look at it,
and that will leave that mark in that
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human beings had fan that was in
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work of art every night. See, I love artists like you that do
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that, because you know, I've
seen a million concerts in my lifetime,
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and I go on tour and I
do radio coverage of festivals and a lot
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of festivals. As you know,
they'll have the same bands plans. I'll
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see like a certain band like ten
times in a year. And yes,
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some of those bands, Like just
recently, I think I was Aftershock and
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a band was performing. The person
I was hanging with, I was literally
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saying the words not even the song, but the words between the songs that
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the lead singer was going to say
before he said them, and she and
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then he would say him and and
she'd She was looking at me. He's
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like, how did you know?
It was goods? You know, and
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to me, you know, not
to throw shade, but you know,
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it gets me bored. And even
the bands I love, it's like,
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oh, you know, I'll be
at a festival. They're like, oh,
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you're gonna catch her set. Yeah, I've seen them about six times
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this year. I think I'm done
this year. And yeah, it's not
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not liking them, it's more of
the fact of, like, I want
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to see somebody do like you do, and like I'm gonna get surprised every
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single set, and that makes it
just so much more fun. Yeah,
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you got to be spontaneous. You
don't want to make a photo copy of
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your show and photo copy and just
hand out the flyer every night. You
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want an original work of art.
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you know, I don't want to
be cookie cutter. I think that's boring
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as fuck, and I don't want
to copy myself, So I just wanted
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to come out naturally. And then
you feel it, and you know,
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as a fan, ow, this
dude's real and this is what he's feeling
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tonight in this moment, and that's
how I do it so exactly, And
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you know, it makes you more
relatable and connectable by the audience because now
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they realize you're just being a person
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just playing a role and rehearsing their
script and getting out there and doing their
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script exactly exactly. That's not what
it is. They know your songs.
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stream music. You know, as
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that if you want to hear it. But when we come out and perform,
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you're going to hear that song the
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and we're going to rock it out. And I'm going to say what I
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want to say when I want to
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in the room, and you know, the vibe and all that and once
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I decided to be myself and not
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our fan base is growing. People
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you're the best man we've never heard. I can't wait till these festival promoters
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like Danny Wimmer and everybody get,
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don't care if we play it two
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we're just gonna blow up, because
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faces, like this is a band
that doesn't sound like everybody else and they
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rock the fuck out, and that's
rare nowadays. Like if we went back
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to seventies and eighties, you know, bands were unique. Nowadays, it
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seems like a lot of them sound
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you just said, because I think
that's what makes bands stand out nowadays,
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especially you know, you have a
lot of bands that have access to things
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that people didn't have years ago,
so they're almost able to produce it to
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make it sound the same as something
else. And I'd rather have you be
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unique and stand out above the crowd. Yeah, that's my biggest thing right
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now with these the people who control
the radio is I don't think they know
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what to do with me yet,
you know, because I don't sound like
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what's big on Octane, you know, right, I've got my own unique
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sound, but you know, I
refuse to try to make it sound.
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Why would I want to copy somebody
else They have their own art. I
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want to do my own art.
And then once people finally see that people
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love this music and it's growing,
then it'll take off. Kind of like
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ACDC. They were different. They're
one of my role models from the past
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Van Halen. They went out with
Black Sabbath. They sounded totally different than
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Black Sabbath, but they have their
own unique sound and style, and that's
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what I intend to do. So
I'm just going to stick to it until
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the day I die. And it
never takes off. It never takes off,
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but it is. It's just it's
not easy to make it and anything
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in life, and you just never
give up. And I'll just stay true
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to who I am and keep putting
out songs that I that I really dig
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and that I think the public will
and I think it'll eventually that one will
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hit and then everybody will know our
whole catalog. So there you go,
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and I think definitely everybody should check
you out because your music is badass and
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everything you do is great, and
so how do people connect with you on
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socials on the web? How they
check out the new song, your merch
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and everything. Okay, yeah,
yeah, everything mean of course Instagram is
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growing, so follow us on Instagram
at Kirkdimer, Facebook at Kirkdimer. There's
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also the kirk Dimer Fam Club on
Facebook to join, so I'd love it
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if you guys would do that.
And then on x we're on there and
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TikTok at Kirkdimer. And then the
website is kirk k u r t d
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e I Emason Mary e r dot
com. You can check out my ib
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page which would be awesome. You
can google my name and all kinds of
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stuff will pull up articles, interviews, and then Spotify Apple. Apple's growing
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every week now like crazy. Spotify
is growing at Kirkdimer and just follow us
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and share the music, can share
the love and check our videos and our
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channel on YouTube at kurt Dimer and
subscribe to that. Stay in the loop.
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And we've already got tour plans are
already going to be announced here soon
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starting in January, and got a
lot going on. Man, it's got
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to finish this album, I got
to go to shoot some stuff for my
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character the Grog from Scared to Death, so I'll be out in La doing
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that and there'll be more videos coming
out and whatnot. So it's drill simple,
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Kurt k u RT dimer d E
I M E R Google that follow
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us everywhere and be great man.
Well, I love it, and I
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hope they do check you out because
they'll be missing out if they don't.
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And thanks for being on the adventures
of pipe Man. It's always always pipe
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Man. Thank you so much Teine
for having me. And look forward to
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talking to you again. And let
all the folks that I heard or the
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festivals know about me, and hopefully
I'll see you soon and we can do
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an interview live. Absolutely, I
would love it. That'd be cool man.
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Yeah, And if you ever want
to go out out together and do
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motivational speaking. I love to help
people. I'm love to help people not
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be scared of this world. And
I'm a guy who's self made. Nobody's
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handing me anything in life, and
I got a lot to share with people,
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So let me know. I'd love
to go out and talk to people.
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Looking forward to it. Love it
we'll definitely talk again, all right,
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my brother. I'd be safe and
thank you for having me me anytime.
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Thank you for listening to the Adventures
of Tatement. I'm w for CUI Radio.
