May 19, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Seven Hours After Violet at Welcome To Rockville 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Seven Hours After Violet at Welcome To Rockville 2025
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PipemanRadio Interviews Seven Hours After Violet at Welcome To Rockville 2025 at the Daytona International Speedway.

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Hi, you love done too?

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Yes, that's true. Woe Wow Crazy.

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You Welcome to Rockville, North America's largest rock festival is

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finally here. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures

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pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with.

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More Goth Alejandro Taylor, Josh Johnson from Seven Hours After Violet.

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Nice, You're welcome to Rockville. Did you just ride the speedway?

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Oh?

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We were going fast and we were going left nice.

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Did they come chasing you?

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Yes? I'm scared. Yeah, I was pretty scared for my

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life and went down Pitt Lane. I thought that we

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were gonna die, we were going so fast, but the

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golf cart lady saved us.

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Nice. She was a great driver.

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She won Daytona, so that's good for her.

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That's why I want to see like golf cart races

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out there. That would be that I'm gonna I'm gonna

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tell them next year that's what they should do as

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like an added bonus to the festival, like a super vip.

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You get to watch the golf cart races on the speedway.

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I love that. Yeah.

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So have any of you played at Rockville before in

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your other projects?

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At all?

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Friday?

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You played on Friday I.

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Played, Yeah, I'm in that other band left to suffer.

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Yeah.

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I did one o'clock on Friday, same stage that we're

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playing today, So it's cool. It's good to come back.

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So you're used to it, right, Yeah.

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I came back and all the security was just like,

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what's up, man, You're playing again. I was like, again,

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I'm gonna do it again, but at like later date,

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which is cool.

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So how wild is it as hot as it was

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on Friday? The crowd that you had out there.

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It was insanity. I was like so nervous because we

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played like early, but people just showed out and it

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was incredible and we had a great set and a

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lot of energy, a lot of crowds ever a lot

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of mashing, which is crazy because I was like, man,

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you wouldn't catch me dead camping and coming out like, bro,

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I'm such a prematona. I was like, I can't do this.

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This is but people are out there shirtless, like throwing

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elbows at people at literally eleven o'clock in the morning.

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Half the time rinting in through the gates. I was like, man,

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these guys are savages, dude, It's crazy.

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I know. I have much honor for them. Because I

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love demache.

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But when it's like a hundred degrees out I have

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made for I'm like, yeah, I'll wait for later.

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Yeah, I don't bag for it, dude. I was just

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waiting for someone to drop our entire sec. I'm so

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hot on stage even out because it was at noon

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and I was like the sun was beaming at that point.

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It was like nineteen eight degrees ninety nine degrees when

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we were playing Wow. And you know, I'm from the South,

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so I'm used to the humidity, but it's still. I

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moved to LA, so I got like, like decommissioned from it.

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I know.

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Now I come back and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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how did I live? How did I live in this?

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Dude?

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This is miserable.

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It's funny because I used to live in LA and

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I live in South Florida. Now this is normal weather

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in me, and I still can't handle it.

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It's rough. But now I go back to LA and like,

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I thought it was warm here.

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No, I like, I remember it being warm yeah before

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I got to Florida.

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Absolutely.

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And then my friends are all like, man, it's human today.

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I'm like, what are you talking about?

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You don't know what humidity is no doubt from the South.

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It's different.

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So that's cool. And I have my hat's off to

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you guys even playing this shit. Man, I don't even

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know how you do it.

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Thanks, bro, We're happy.

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That's what's definitely cool.

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And let's talk about the band and your message because

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that's really important, I think, and what you talk about

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in your songs and your mental health awareness and anxiety

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because it's so rampant nowadays and I think people need

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help and music to me is the best therapy.

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Yeah, for sure. That was something when Yeah, we were

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just making the album. Honestly, it almost was like an

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unspoken thing. We just would work on lyrics and just

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fall into like ideas of that. I think it's one

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of those things that's so common now you don't even

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really have to think about it so much because everyone

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has some sort of issue. Yeah, everyone has some sort

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of mental health issues, so talking to it and music

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is a good therapy because it's like a release for it.

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Yeah, totally, I've said all along, Like, first of all,

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that two year lockdown, I think that's what made people

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even more anxiety, more pissed, more mental health problems and

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stuff because they had no outlet, like we're talking about

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the pit. For me, I go in the pit to

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get all my shit out so I'm not beating the

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shit out of somebody or worse, and you get out

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in the pit.

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Yeah, definitely not going to concerts. All that sucked and

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it definitely took a harder toll on some people than others.

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But yeah, it's not like we're trying to be the

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flag bears for like guys were aware of mental health.

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It's like we're just writing songs that felt cool to us.

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That's what's important.

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If it's good for you guys and cool to you guys,

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then you're going to attract your people. So nowadays, I think,

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here's my idea. We should have a music festival that

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the whole world is required to attend one mass festival

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so that we can all be united and get therapy

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at the same time.

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And I think that's how we'll solve the world's problems.

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That's great. That lineup would be crazy.

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It's almost like how hell Fest was after COVID, Because

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I did that hell Fest three hundred and sixty bands wow,

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in seven days that I don't know how I survived.

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It was like one hundred and four. There too, I was.

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Doing interviews where literally the sweat was dripping down all

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of our faces. My eyes were burning, I couldn't even

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see who I was interviewing, and like it was wild.

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So who would be your in terms of this worldwide fest?

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Who would be the headliner?

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That's a good question if it were my choice. Yeah,

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I'll give you my radio answer and then my me answer. Okay,

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my radio answers you guys.

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Oh, cray, it's not going to bring world peace.

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I don't know if my answer would bring world priests,

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but it would be Slayer.

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That's crazy. Yeah, this is my battle vest from the eighties.

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Wow, I was at Slayer's first show ever, Metallica's first

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show ever.

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That's why I have this.

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Yeah.

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I got exploited on there, discharged somewhere, I got deafen susil,

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I got the Battalion of Saints exciter what exodus?

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Yup?

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And you know it's back in the day where you

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didn't buy a vest, you bought the denim. I did

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all this shit like dark Angel and then here's the

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history of what happened to me in the pit on

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this side. Oh and that thing Slayer in the back.

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They didn't have Slayer Patrick yet, so I just put

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that on there.

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People thought I was a gang banger in La and

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that was my gang name.

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Because that's sick Slayer no posers, because we were in

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that gatekeeper time.

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You know that's actually sick, right.

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I got dri on here, like I have a bunch

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of bands on here that I wasn't allowed to go

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to their shows then because I had long hair and

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you got your ass beat.

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It was stupid. Wow.

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Yeah, so I see a lot of crossover thrash bands.

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Are you from La La?

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So was there like still in this time period when

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you made this vest like a big gap between metal

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and punk or was this like yeah, a lot more

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that's what it was starting to be more united. Here's

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the thing, because you have like SD you have a

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lot of like yeah, jasonson.

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Metal heads love like the thrash metow ads. I was

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a toll thrash metal head. We love punk, but we

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couldn't go to punk shows. Even Suicidal Okay, Suicidal was

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punk before they crossed over.

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Yeah, if you were a long hair went to.

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A Sue Boy show, because that's when they were the

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suiy Boy, they would have switchblades in the pit and

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they will shank you if you're a long hair And

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it was same opposite too. The first I went to

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the first crossover show ever and it was at this place,

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the Sun Valley's Sportsman's Lodge. It was like an Elks

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lodge and there was no security, and it was the

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first time punks and metal heads were as show together.

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On the punk side it was Coc pre Pepper, which

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I think I have them on here somewhere. It was

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Suicidal pre Crossover and it was the Descendants. On the

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metal side, it was Possessed Dark Angel and the Span

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Savage Grace, who was a big thrash band then, and

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it was absolute fucking mayhem, Like I don't think I've

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ever in a bit a more brutal show. There was

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no place to hide. I have a vision in my

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head of just people flying through the air because they

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were all diving off to rafters, cris crossing. It was insane.

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And when I interviewed COC twice, one time with Mike

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and one time with Woody. You may not remember this show,

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but and I just started to say one thing. They

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both did the same thing. It was at like an

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Elk's Lodge right, Oh my god, that was the most

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epic show ever. And that's what really started us being

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able to go to shows together and stuff and where

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we could come mingle.

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Okay, that's awesome.

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Yeah, I figured since you were there and you had

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all the different things, I'm just curious.

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Yeah, back then there was some you couldn't do anything.

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I went to get my spikes at posers in on Melrose.

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Oh yeah, it's still there, right, and but at that time,

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so I brought my punk friends with me because you

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weren't allowed to go there if you were a metal head.

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So I'm like, I feuar, okay, if I go with

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my punk friends. They were friends with the owners. It's cool.

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We walk in. Thirty seconds later, my bros. We need

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to get out and I'm like why, and he's like,

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I'll tell you when we get outside, and he pulls

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us out. Yeah, the owners gave some respect because they

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know us, and they gave us thirty seconds to get

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you at the store before they were going to kick

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the shit out of you.

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Crazy times.

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It's wild, right, Like we were the ones the metal

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heads were getting kicked and the shit kicked out of

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us by the jocks, the punks were getting the shit

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kicked out of them a job. Why didn't we band together?

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I don't get it.

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Well, figured it out eventually with all this crossover.

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Something no doubt, no doubt. I think Venom was a

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big part of it. Of course, Motorhead Slayer because Lombardo

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and Jeff were punks and Carrie and Tom were the

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metal heads. Tom wasn't even a metal head like.

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The band's like nost Front, Croaton, Mags. I love fun stuff.

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I love all them too, Hazard Like we should be

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able to listen to whatever the fuck we want now.

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All the best stuff is a blend of that.

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That's what I love.

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Like yesterday I interviewed one band that they were Thrashed

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that bring in hardcore and the other band Hardcore that

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brought in thrash, and I love that.

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Yep. Today, I think.

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It's most important to blend, and because everybody sounds the

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same with this algebraic equation sometimes like these songs are

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written so if you have a blend of different influences

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of the band members, you come up with something unique.

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And I think that's what you guys have.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, yeah, I think Nowaday is it's been like a

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long time since then. Punk metal and hardcore just like

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constantly are an interlapping thing that you can see that

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today there's tons of bands that are from hardcore with

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it sound metal, and yeah, we have like hardcore parts

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we have, we all have, we have metal parts. We

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purposefully tried to blend that stuff.

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So tell us how this all started.

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Yeah, so me and Chavo started writing songs together. Just

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as I'm a songwriter and producer for a lot of

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different bands and artists. I was just like, hey, let's

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try writing some songs together and see if we have

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anything I could pitch to any artists I'm producing. And

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we started writing it, and I was like, this doesn't

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really sound like anything. I couldn't pitch it to anyone.

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It's like system of a down but more like modern heavy.

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I was like, let's just make a solo project for

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you and do something a little heavier on the heavier side,

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also a melodic too, but right a little further than

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you would have probably gone naturally otherwise. So then we

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started doing that, and the first idea was to like

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get a bunch of different guest vocalist and come up

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with some cool epic album of all these features kind

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of like cal to metal vibe. But as we were

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making the music, all the people around us and like

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his management team and all that was like, Yo, this

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is coming out great. You should just start a band

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like this because you can tour and all that. So

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we were writing music, but then found a singer like

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what direction to go in? And I started producing Taylor's

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band's album, Leap of Death I Have to Suffers, And

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in the process of producing that, Ali Hondro here did

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guest vocals on it two songs, and me and Taylor

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were huge fans of him. I've known him since he

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used to come to hardcore shows and Pomona back in.

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The day where he's from Nice.

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But then we all saw him on TV and an

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American idol and all super big fans of his music.

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I was like, this pairing of vocalists would be sick

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in the band. So brought the idea to Chavo and

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he loved both of them, and Josh and him are

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in a band called wins A Play Together, so I

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brought him along to start like jamming pretty early when

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we were writing songs to give the songs the real

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have like a player on it. Yeah, we write the

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songs that program drums and then bring it to him

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and he'd play the drums.

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Nice. Yeah.

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So basically just kind of like that. That's kind of

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the rough view, you know. It was just like started

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one way and in another way.

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What were you thinking when he came to you with this?

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Initially I was just like writing music with him and

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there was like no, it wasn't like, hey, this is

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a band, this is going to be for someone else.

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But then it was like then I started hanging out

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with Shava and writing with them together, and then it

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was just one time Shaw was on the phone, He's like, yeah,

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Josh is playing drums.

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So I was like sick.

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But I was never like initially a talk about me

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playing drums. But I'm glad I worked out because like,

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we all get along very well too, So it's so

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c it's almost like it was meant to be, and

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we all vibe. We all vibe, and I'm digging, like,

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especially when it comes to our music. Our music really

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shows the vibe of everyone. So it's it's a cool

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little all star lineup.

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That's I love it.

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And your music is badass, man, I love about it.

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Is a lot of people may think, oh, it's going

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to sound like System or whatever. It doesn't sound like anybody,

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and that's why I love that it sounds like you guys.

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Yeah, we purposefully didn't want to run away from like

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Chavo's natural rift fighting abilities because of System is one

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of those bands they play three notes and you know

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it's them. There's like instant identity there, and granted, we

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didn't want to run away from that all the way.

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Like we're like, no, play what you naturally would write.

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If it sounds like something you maybe would do for System, fine,

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but when Taylor and Alejandro sing on it, it sounds different.

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They write vocals differently than and like approach that differently

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than obviously Surgeon Darren would you know. And then there's

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parts too that like System would never have, like some

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modern breakdowns and just things like that. We just write

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what we wanted to hear, and we just felt like

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there was a little bit of an open lane in

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terms of a lot of modern bands have done been

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super influenced by Lincoln Park, been super influenced by Slipknot.

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You know, there's lots of that out there, and like

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other bands too, but no one's really done the like

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modern heavier version. Yeah, no, one's really done that system

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thing where because they're such a weird band, but they're

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so sick it doesn't matter. So I was like, well,

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let's just do naturally what you would do and just

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blend our styles because me, Taylor and Josh come from

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like death, you know, and Alejandro is like a hardcore kid,

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but he comes from the more like shreddy acoustics singer

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songwriter world, and we're just like blend all that together

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to see what it makes.

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And how about you, what were you thinking when you

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were approached? I yeah, I didn't really think much, honestly.

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It's like a spur of the moment and it was awesome,

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like just to write music in general with these guys too.

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So I've been a fan of all their bands and

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everything that they've done, so me coming in, I just

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wanted to hear the melodies and see.

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Where you can go.

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And now we're here, it's nice.

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It's dope. It's really dope and what you want a

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to it.

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It was just the craziest thing to get asked to

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try out because right before we left, Morgoth played one

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of the songs that he was writing with Chavo, and

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I was just like hey, like jokingly, because I was like,

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no way, this dude's gonna want me to. I'm a

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death core vocalist. Dude doesn't want me in his fucking band.

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So I was just like, hey, if you ever need

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a vocalist, hit me up. And then I go home

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and then I get hit up and then I try

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out with I think it was feel and I sent

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it back and then Chavo ends up calling me and

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being like, bro, like this is incredible. I want you to.

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I want you to do another song. So I did

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Float and he was just like you're in bro, Like,

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I was just I love your voice to he was

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just like gassing me up. And it was just such

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a weird thing because I've been such a fan of

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System since I was like a child, but I'm twenty seven,

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so like I was a child when I first heard

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the Mean and it was just it was it's just overwhelming,

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and then it's even working with these guys bro, Like,

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I was a fan of everyone in the band, So

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it's cool to be able to respect and also like

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to collaborate with people that you've just been like, Wow,

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these guys are incredible, you know what I mean. It

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came so like naturally too. We all got to the studio.

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I tracked what it was like, sixteen songs in two

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weeks or something like that, and then he can me

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and Alejandro just clicked immediately. It was ridiculous, like we

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were working on my other end because he featured, like

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he said, on two of the songs on my other band,

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and I was like, man, I love this guy. And

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then I ended up joining this other band. And then

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he comes in and I'm like, dude, this is like

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the easiest person I've ever had to like work with,

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oh vocally on something. And now we're like inseparable like

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everything that we do. It's like, well, it's like someone

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works like, oh, I want Taylor, but we also want Alejandro,

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and it's just I'm like, I'm cool with that dude.

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I'm like, he's the end of my yang vocally, bro.

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And I just I couldn't ask for a better group

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of people to make music and play music live with.

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It's crazy, It's just insane.

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I love hearing that too between two vocals, because I

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always think it's kind of be really hard to sync

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with another vocalists and be able to do it unless

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you have that chemistry.

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Dude.

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I have never been able to work with somebody so

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like fluently other than him on vocals because it's usually

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like one person's trying to shine and yeah, person's trying

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to take the lead, and it's like he's just yo, dude,

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let's just make something cool. And I'm the same way,

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and whoever sounds best on this, let's just do that,

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you know what I mean. And then he writes stuff

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and I'm like that's incredible. And then I write stuff

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and he's like that's incredible. So it's never been like

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a I write something, He's like I could do better

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than that, you know what I mean. It's there's no

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ego involved, and I think that, Yeah. Still it's crazy

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with vocalists. It's hard, bro, there's a lot of ego,

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in no doubt. It's so it's hard to get to.

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I guess he's a tie to your vocalist. He's been.

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He came in sick. I'd a fucking American idol. I

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didn't know what to expect, but I just, like I said,

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it was just so fluent, like natural, And now I

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never want him to leave my side. It's awesome.

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And it's good to hear there's a good vocalist from American.

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I old because have you seen that? Shut the fuck up?

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Girl? Have you seen no? Okay, you gotta look it up.

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Oh Sovie Powers, Oh my god.

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I was like, that was the funniest shit I ever saw.

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She knew she wasn't getting on, but she's awesome. I'm

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like obsessed with it. Actually, She's like when she did that,

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I was looking at and I'm like I had to

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watch it like fifty fucking times because I was so obsessed.

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She's awesome.

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Yeah, No, what she does is that what's the trend?

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She stopped the trend? Now, her trend was to wear

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a band aid there that was her look. Okay, I'm

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gonna tell you guys something funny too.

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Okay.

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I came back here last night after Incubus to wait

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for Lincoln Park, and I met up with the hairstylists

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that's associated with you guys, because Mike introduced me. And

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I'm known for changing my hair up all the time

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and doing it for publicity, doing it on the air.

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My hair was blue just.

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A couple months ago, and nice, she's coming over here

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and she's gonna do my hair live and nice, and

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she wants to do it purple. I told her, you

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could do whatever the fuck you want in my hair

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now that my hair is short and not long out,

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give a fuck it grows back. Just do whatever the

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fuck you want. And it was funny because I was

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wearing yesterday a System shirt and I told her I

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specifically wore it yesterday because it would be fucking rude

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to wear it during the interview. Really, see, I think

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of that.

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Yeah, we get it, dude, we get it, we get it.

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It's so much that it's not even rude, dude, because

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like we're fans too, you know what I like, It

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is totally okay to us because we did signings of Mexico.

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Kids are coming out to see Chavo and be like, dude,

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he's a system of doubt. So it's never like, oh,

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I can't believe this guy's weren't a system shure around me,

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you know what I mean? Because I would can wear

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one too, you know what I mean.

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I just think, if I'm interviewing you, that's super really Yeah, it's.

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So funny because I've actually heard that from somebody before

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I did the podcast interview and they were like, oh,

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I changed out of my System shirt. I was like,

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I don't care. I was like, I'm a fan too, dude.

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I was like, it's sick that I'm in a band

467
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with somebody from System. I'm like, I don't at all.

468
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It's like almost a fanboy moment for a musician. Yeah,

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all right, tell everybody how they can reach out to

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you guys on socials on the web. Check out all

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your music, your merch because they can't listen to my

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show unless they buy your merch.

473
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That's awesome.

474
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Yeah, you can get everything at seven hours after Violet.

475
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That's on Instagram and everything too on Facebook.

476
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Right is that it?

477
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Yeah, just add seven hours after Violet you can find

478
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it's Instagram, TikTok. Yeah, we just found a new video

479
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for our song float and yeah, that's pretty pretty simple.

480
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Nice. I'm glad you're here. It Welcome to Rockville. It's badass.

481
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And do you have any other festivals coming up?

482
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Yeah, we have a lot.

483
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We're basically doing a run with Corn in Europe in

484
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a couple of weeks and playing Hell Fast Download.

485
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Festa at both of those clock there too.

486
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Yeah, Rock and Ring Rock and Park, Resurrection, some off shows.

487
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Yeah, I'm well.

488
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See I approved for Resurrection. You guys should play Bloodstock

489
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too in August.

490
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I've heard about Yeah, I don't know you were playing.

491
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I think we have an off We have some off

492
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shows with Corn too. I think one with the Ben Sevenfold,

493
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one with Corn and Spirit Box. So if you're in Europe,

494
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we're gonna be all over.

495
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That's bitch love it.

496
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Thanks a lot, and thanks for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Man.

498
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Thank you, sir.

499
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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man

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on w for c u I Radio.