Sept. 13, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews Small Town Sindrome at Rocklahoma 2023
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Small Town Sindrome at Rocklahoma. Pipeman and the band share their love and respect for Kurt Cobain and the influence he has on their sound and aesthetic. The band shares...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Small Town Sindrome at Rocklahoma. Pipeman and the band share their love and respect for Kurt Cobain and the influence he has on their sound and aesthetic. The band shares hilarious stories from touring over the years and reminisces on the chaos that ensued. The band discusses the beauty of blending genres and taking inspiration from multiple genres to make their own sound. You can find the band at smalltownsindrome.com or any of their social media platforms. Check out the band’s latest release “Matches to Ashes” on all streaming platforms everywhere!
The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
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Hey you listening two six sure,
I'm for see why you wake up America.
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It's time for the adventure. So
Pipe Man on W four CWY dot
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Internet radio station. Here's your host,
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the White Man one night, never
Stop It doing down a bull be matches
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Look get me down, I taking y'all,
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Race Bates. This is the Pipe
Man here on the Adventures The Pipe
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Man W four c Why Radio.
And I'm here with small Town Syndrome.
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Nice. There's a lot of sin
drums out there nowadays. You're my favorite.
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Well, we appreciate that we actually
had to go with the SI in
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version of syndrome. Oh, I
know, right, it's so hard to
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come up with band names nowadays that
you have they either changed its spelling,
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put a symbol in it, put
the letter upside down. I've seen you
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know. Yeah, we spent a
few nights trying to figure out what the
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hell our band name was going to
be when we got together, and we
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actually came up some really good ones
and only to find out that, oh
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they're already taken. So the town
syndrome it is there, it is Well,
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I dig it, and here you
are in prior playing at Rock Oklahoma.
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That's a small town syndrome. I
think that you should be like the
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headliners just because of your band name, right, Yeah, there's some weight
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there for sure. You know.
It's one thing I noticed that I did
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love though, is you quote Kurt
Cobain on your website. Yeah, Like
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that's because you know, I think
more than an artist, his words and
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his thoughts, like when you watch
them talking interviews and just things he said.
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Man, he's what it's all about. Like, you know, he
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is to me the ultimate punk rocker
because of that, you know, because
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punk rock is about the attitude,
about the mindset and the freedom. Yeah
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you know, and that's really what
Kurt was trying to get to was about
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the freedom to be you. Yeah. Right so, and that's really I
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mean, that's what we embody all
the way, that spirit. We could
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use that a lot of that today
because it seems like America has become the
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freedom to not be you. You
know, it's like you either have to
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pick a side and you can only
like these people. You can't like these
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people. You can only watch this, you can't watch that. It's a
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bunch of fucking bullshit. Yes it
is, and that's that comes through.
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I think in our music that we
just do what we want to do,
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you know, because we are free
to do that, and that's the way
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it should be. Like to me, that's what being an artist is is
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doing what comes to you naturally,
not like you know, here this is
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how you have to do this music, or here, this is the genre
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you need to be boxed into.
Like, I hate that crap, the
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genre stuff. I come from the
time where we had the gatekeepers and you
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know, like I was in the
Sunset Strip in the eighties and most of
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the band's playing here today, I
was not allowed to, like because I
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was into thrash metal instead, you
know, And it's like how stupid,
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Like just like what you like,
bands play what you play because that's the
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only way the music is good and
authentic. Like if you try to play
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somebody else's music somebody else right for
somebody else's thoughts, it's always going to
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come across wrong. Yeah, So
what's the craziest story you guys have on
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this h musical journey? I know
Dead Biker last year and I don't know.
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I mean, well, we were
headed from one show to another,
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right, after someone stole half of
your ship, right, yeah, sorry,
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someone stole like half of Brian's stuff. And then we're on our way
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to our next show and we roll
up on a biker who had got an
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accident. We tried to do what
we could to help and all that until
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other people came, but he was
gone, and it's like, well,
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now I wanted to the show and
go play music in front of people.
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And then that's then that night we
get to the show and the dude who
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booked us never told us they don't
have their going PA ninety five at night,
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and they're like, we don't have
a PA, and so we called
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Guitar Center. Guitar Center rented us
a PA, and one of the dudes
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was like what seventeen eighteen some shit
like that. He came and ran sound
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for us, and then we let
him play a couple of songs on bass
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with us, because like, oh
yeah, it's just such a shit show
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up a weekend and like, in
just one day, that's rock and roll
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right there. But hey, we
made it, happened and we played a
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show and when we killed it,
so all that to me is like that's
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punk rock too, Yeah, definitely, yeah, is that a crew tattoo?
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It almost looks like it, like
the anonymous similar it's from. Yeah
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it is that too. Yeah that
that too, see And I was thinking,
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like, but you might you said
it. I thought of it,
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but at first I was like Famini
Opera or something crap like that. Those
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marks, Oh there you go.
Yeah, see that's more Famine the opera.
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Yeah, there's they're talking about crazy
crazy moments. Uh. There was
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one time that we were in well, Minneapolis, Yeah, we're in Minneapolis.
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These guys didn't see it. But
the place we're playing at was like
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a little bar and like the stage
is just a little but the windows,
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like we're right behind the drums,
so like there's these big windows right behind
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the drums and the like Downtown minnieapp
Saint Paul's like right there and we're playing
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and I kept looking out the windows, just watching people, you know,
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stop and go, and and these
guys were facing out and they didn't see
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anything but this. I look over
and there's like I think what I assumed
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was a homeless man and he dude, he's just like flicking me off and
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he's just pissed off at me,
and he's like throwing up cross symbols and
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he's flicking me off and he's like
balls eyes and I'm like, what the
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hell is going on? I'm playing
and I'm taunting him on like yeah,
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motherfucker, and like these guys don't
see it, and they're up there playing
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and then like I look over like
two minutes later and he's gone, and
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like, I was like, did
you guys see that guy? They're like,
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what guy? I was like,
dude, this guy hated us or
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just me? And I was like
I looked over and he was just flicking
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me off double finger. It was
funny. They're probably thinking too, like
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what kind of drugs did he take
before the show? Because you're like hallucinating.
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Well, so we didn't see him, right, so we just go
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We kind of just go with that
story, right, Adam, there was
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a guy there. Man, he
was gonna say and he's gonna kill you
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totally. We look back though,
and you're just laughing and we're like what
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was that about. When we got
down on the set, he's like the
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guy who's saying he was gonna kill
me he laughing. So yeah, there's
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weird stuff, but oh man,
but see that's why I like hearing in
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these stories because that's rock and rock
and roll right there it is. You
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know, man, it's kind of
like the Sunset Strip. They you know,
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I lived on the Sunset Strip in
the eighties and listen, if you
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remember the Sunset Strip, you weren't
there. Yeah, right, that's right.
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Oh man. So what you got
going on after this? Well,
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we're actually this is the last festival
we're doing in twenty three, and we've
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got a lot of stuff lined up
for twenty four, but we're gonna take
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this fall. We've got a lot
of new music. We want to get
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back in the studio. So October
that's kind of our goals. Get back
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in the studio, get working on
our new stuff. And what do you
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foresee for your new stuff? How
how will it evolve from your current music?
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Uh? The short answer is no
clue. I like, yeah,
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answer that means it's gonna be really
honestly, we really don't know. You
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know, it's funny. One of
our most popular songs is a violent films
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cover Blister in the Sun. I
love that song. John. Actually,
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whatever reason came up with it to
do it one night, just didn't you
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know? It is? It covers
throwing it in our set wherever we go,
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that song gets a huge response.
We decided to record it. We
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recorded it earlier this year with full
permission from the films of course, and
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uh, you know, we threw
that in there, and so really that's
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just kind of it. We just
kind of go with what our gut feeling
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is, and like we talked about
before, it's freedom and you know,
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maybe a little bit of alternative,
maybe a little rock, maybe a little
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pop punk, straightforward punk. We're
kind of a little mix of everything.
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See, I like that too.
That's what's great about today is blending genres
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instead of gatekeepers exactly. You know. I come from the time of gatekeepers,
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you know, and I thought it
was stupid, like who cares?
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And nowadays I think it's even more
important than ever because so many bands sound
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exactly the same because they're using this
formula, right, And it kind of
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blows my mind because a lot of
the you know, genres that have these
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formulas were came about because you shouldn't
have formula, right, yeah, you
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know, And so when you blend
genres and you have different influences from different
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band members, then you become unique
exactly. That's why I like it.
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You know and you stand out.
Yeah, yeah, so and man,
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yeah, I would assume they do
dig that song because it doesn't matter who
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you talk to, where you go, what bar you're at. People love
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that song exactly. It's it never
gets hold, never gets old playing it.
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No, you know, it's always
so fine to play. And so
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yeah, I'm so glad we did
it. But you know, it's just
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to show you the jump one of
our new songs that are coming out.
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It's already in the can that we're
actually a release later this fall. It's
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called any Other Way and it's totally
different than anything we've ever done. And
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we actually of a female singer from
the UK Wow guested on it to do
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the female vocals with us. So
we're excited to get that out of there
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at there as well. So you
never know what's going to come from small
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town center like to keep it that
way. Oh, that's could be really
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cool. I just got back from
the UK for covering Bloodstock and Download and
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there are a lot of badass females
doods on our buck list. Oh there
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you go. Yeah, so you
know what happened at Download? Metallica had
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this new sound thing they designed where
no Mare where you are in the festival,
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you could hear Metallica as if you
were up at the front. So
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what happened was it worked so well
that people fifteen miles away we're filing complaints
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that Metallica was too loud. Wow. Can you imagine being fifteen miles away
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and hearing Metallica clear as day?
That's crazy. So there you go.
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So that's what you have to look
forward to. Well, well, we'll
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have to get you onload because that
is a cool, fastial download. That's
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that's so if anybody's out there listening, what's this little band from Minnesota,
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we'll be there there it is.
Small Town Syndrome Invades the UK. You
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could do you could make that when
you do do download, you can make
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that your live album. And that's
the name of the live album. Sweet
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see. There you go. So
how people reach you guys on socials,
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on the web, and most importantly
by your merch because that's the only way
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you guys survive. Yeah, small
Town Syndrome si in So we're on everything.
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find us wherever streaming. Yeah,
website Smalltown Syndrome dot com. Find us
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on Spotify, Apple and all the
others. Nice, we're out there.
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the drummer, yeah, he looks
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people flipping them off. And girl,
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your day. You got a point. Uh you pissed them off sometime
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in like a past life or something. Well cool. I love you guys,
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and uh, I love that you're
here at Oklahoma. Hey, my
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pleasure. Thank you for being on
the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you
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for listening to the Adventures of Pipe
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I'm for see why you wake up America.
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It's time for the adventure. So
Pipe Man on W four CWY dot
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the White Man one night, never
Stop It doing down a bull be matches
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Look get me down, I taking y'all,
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Man here on the Adventures The Pipe
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And I'm here with small Town Syndrome.
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Nice. There's a lot of sin
drums out there nowadays. You're my favorite.
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Well, we appreciate that we actually
had to go with the SI in
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version of syndrome. Oh, I
know, right, it's so hard to
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come up with band names nowadays that
you have they either changed its spelling,
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put a symbol in it, put
the letter upside down. I've seen you
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know. Yeah, we spent a
few nights trying to figure out what the
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hell our band name was going to
be when we got together, and we
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actually came up some really good ones
and only to find out that, oh
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they're already taken. So the town
syndrome it is there, it is Well,
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I dig it, and here you
are in prior playing at Rock Oklahoma.
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That's a small town syndrome. I
think that you should be like the
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headliners just because of your band name, right, Yeah, there's some weight
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there for sure. You know.
It's one thing I noticed that I did
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love though, is you quote Kurt
Cobain on your website. Yeah, Like
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that's because you know, I think
more than an artist, his words and
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his thoughts, like when you watch
them talking interviews and just things he said.
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Man, he's what it's all about. Like, you know, he
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is to me the ultimate punk rocker
because of that, you know, because
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punk rock is about the attitude,
about the mindset and the freedom. Yeah
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you know, and that's really what
Kurt was trying to get to was about
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the freedom to be you. Yeah. Right so, and that's really I
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mean, that's what we embody all
the way, that spirit. We could
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use that a lot of that today
because it seems like America has become the
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freedom to not be you. You
know, it's like you either have to
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pick a side and you can only
like these people. You can't like these
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people. You can only watch this, you can't watch that. It's a
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bunch of fucking bullshit. Yes it
is, and that's that comes through.
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I think in our music that we
just do what we want to do,
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you know, because we are free
to do that, and that's the way
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it should be. Like to me, that's what being an artist is is
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doing what comes to you naturally,
not like you know, here this is
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how you have to do this music, or here, this is the genre
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you need to be boxed into.
Like, I hate that crap, the
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genre stuff. I come from the
time where we had the gatekeepers and you
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know, like I was in the
Sunset Strip in the eighties and most of
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the band's playing here today, I
was not allowed to, like because I
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was into thrash metal instead, you
know, And it's like how stupid,
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Like just like what you like,
bands play what you play because that's the
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only way the music is good and
authentic. Like if you try to play
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somebody else's music somebody else right for
somebody else's thoughts, it's always going to
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come across wrong. Yeah, So
what's the craziest story you guys have on
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this h musical journey? I know
Dead Biker last year and I don't know.
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I mean, well, we were
headed from one show to another,
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right, after someone stole half of
your ship, right, yeah, sorry,
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someone stole like half of Brian's stuff. And then we're on our way
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to our next show and we roll
up on a biker who had got an
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accident. We tried to do what
we could to help and all that until
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other people came, but he was
gone, and it's like, well,
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now I wanted to the show and
go play music in front of people.
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And then that's then that night we
get to the show and the dude who
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booked us never told us they don't
have their going PA ninety five at night,
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and they're like, we don't have
a PA, and so we called
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Guitar Center. Guitar Center rented us
a PA, and one of the dudes
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was like what seventeen eighteen some shit
like that. He came and ran sound
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for us, and then we let
him play a couple of songs on bass
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with us, because like, oh
yeah, it's just such a shit show
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up a weekend and like, in
just one day, that's rock and roll
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right there. But hey, we
made it, happened and we played a
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show and when we killed it,
so all that to me is like that's
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punk rock too, Yeah, definitely, yeah, is that a crew tattoo?
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It almost looks like it, like
the anonymous similar it's from. Yeah
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it is that too. Yeah that
that too, see And I was thinking,
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like, but you might you said
it. I thought of it,
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but at first I was like Famini
Opera or something crap like that. Those
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marks, Oh there you go.
Yeah, see that's more Famine the opera.
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Yeah, there's they're talking about crazy
crazy moments. Uh. There was
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one time that we were in well, Minneapolis, Yeah, we're in Minneapolis.
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These guys didn't see it. But
the place we're playing at was like
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a little bar and like the stage
is just a little but the windows,
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like we're right behind the drums,
so like there's these big windows right behind
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the drums and the like Downtown minnieapp
Saint Paul's like right there and we're playing
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and I kept looking out the windows, just watching people, you know,
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stop and go, and and these
guys were facing out and they didn't see
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anything but this. I look over
and there's like I think what I assumed
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was a homeless man and he dude, he's just like flicking me off and
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he's just pissed off at me,
and he's like throwing up cross symbols and
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he's flicking me off and he's like
balls eyes and I'm like, what the
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hell is going on? I'm playing
and I'm taunting him on like yeah,
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motherfucker, and like these guys don't
see it, and they're up there playing
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and then like I look over like
two minutes later and he's gone, and
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like, I was like, did
you guys see that guy? They're like,
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what guy? I was like,
dude, this guy hated us or
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just me? And I was like
I looked over and he was just flicking
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me off double finger. It was
funny. They're probably thinking too, like
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what kind of drugs did he take
before the show? Because you're like hallucinating.
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We kind of just go with that
story, right, Adam, there was
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a guy there. Man, he
was gonna say and he's gonna kill you
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totally. We look back though,
and you're just laughing and we're like what
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was that about. When we got
down on the set, he's like the
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guy who's saying he was gonna kill
me he laughing. So yeah, there's
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weird stuff, but oh man,
but see that's why I like hearing in
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these stories because that's rock and rock
and roll right there it is. You
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know, man, it's kind of
like the Sunset Strip. They you know,
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I lived on the Sunset Strip in
the eighties and listen, if you
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remember the Sunset Strip, you weren't
there. Yeah, right, that's right.
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Oh man. So what you got
going on after this? Well,
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we're actually this is the last festival
we're doing in twenty three, and we've
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got a lot of stuff lined up
for twenty four, but we're gonna take
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this fall. We've got a lot
of new music. We want to get
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back in the studio. So October
that's kind of our goals. Get back
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in the studio, get working on
our new stuff. And what do you
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foresee for your new stuff? How
how will it evolve from your current music?
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Uh? The short answer is no
clue. I like, yeah,
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answer that means it's gonna be really
honestly, we really don't know. You
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know, it's funny. One of
our most popular songs is a violent films
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cover Blister in the Sun. I
love that song. John. Actually,
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whatever reason came up with it to
do it one night, just didn't you
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know? It is? It covers
throwing it in our set wherever we go,
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that song gets a huge response.
We decided to record it. We
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recorded it earlier this year with full
permission from the films of course, and
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uh, you know, we threw
that in there, and so really that's
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just kind of it. We just
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is, and like we talked about
before, it's freedom and you know,
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maybe a little bit of alternative,
maybe a little rock, maybe a little
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pop punk, straightforward punk. We're
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See, I like that too.
That's what's great about today is blending genres
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instead of gatekeepers exactly. You know. I come from the time of gatekeepers,
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you know, and I thought it
was stupid, like who cares?
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important than ever because so many bands sound
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exactly the same because they're using this
formula, right, And it kind of
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blows my mind because a lot of
the you know, genres that have these
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formulas were came about because you shouldn't
have formula, right, yeah, you
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know, And so when you blend
genres and you have different influences from different
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band members, then you become unique
exactly. That's why I like it.
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You know and you stand out.
Yeah, yeah, so and man,
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yeah, I would assume they do
dig that song because it doesn't matter who
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you talk to, where you go, what bar you're at. People love
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that song exactly. It's it never
gets hold, never gets old playing it.
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No, you know, it's always
so fine to play. And so
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yeah, I'm so glad we did
it. But you know, it's just
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to show you the jump one of
our new songs that are coming out.
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It's already in the can that we're
actually a release later this fall. It's
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called any Other Way and it's totally
different than anything we've ever done. And
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we actually of a female singer from
the UK Wow guested on it to do
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the female vocals with us. So
we're excited to get that out of there
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at there as well. So you
never know what's going to come from small
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town center like to keep it that
way. Oh, that's could be really
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cool. I just got back from
the UK for covering Bloodstock and Download and
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there are a lot of badass females
doods on our buck list. Oh there
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you go. Yeah, so you
know what happened at Download? Metallica had
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this new sound thing they designed where
no Mare where you are in the festival,
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you could hear Metallica as if you
were up at the front. So
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what happened was it worked so well
that people fifteen miles away we're filing complaints
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that Metallica was too loud. Wow. Can you imagine being fifteen miles away
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and hearing Metallica clear as day?
That's crazy. So there you go.
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So that's what you have to look
forward to. Well, well, we'll
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have to get you onload because that
is a cool, fastial download. That's
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that's so if anybody's out there listening, what's this little band from Minnesota,
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we'll be there there it is.
Small Town Syndrome Invades the UK. You
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could do you could make that when
you do do download, you can make
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that your live album. And that's
the name of the live album. Sweet
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see. There you go. So
how people reach you guys on socials,
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on the web, and most importantly
by your merch because that's the only way
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you guys survive. Yeah, small
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Hit us up, Facebook and Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, you can
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find us wherever streaming. Yeah,
website Smalltown Syndrome dot com. Find us
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on Spotify, Apple and all the
others. Nice, we're out there.
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And so since you like change the
spelling, do you play off of that
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and like do a lot sin should? Probably we really yeah, doubt when
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the drummer, yeah, he looks
like trouble. He definoy looks like trouble.
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Yeah, which is why he's seeing
people flipping them off. And girl,
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your day. You got a point. Uh you pissed them off sometime
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in like a past life or something. Well cool. I love you guys,
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and uh, I love that you're
here at Oklahoma. Hey, my
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pleasure. Thank you for being on
the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you
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for listening to the Adventures of Pipe
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