PipemanRadio Interviews Soil about Back To The 2000s Tour

0:04 Hey, you have unto censure? Wow, crazy young Why become America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four c HY dot com. West Poon Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. I'm dreaging about long and give it. It's a pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very excited about our next guest who is going on tour. It's to be really fricking cool. Well, let's welcome to the show, Tim from Soil.

1:04 How are you, hey, buddy? How you doing? I'm doing great? Man. Oh. This has been in the works with you guys in the Union Underground for a while, hasn't it. Yeah, a long long time. This is the brainchild of me and Brian Scott, vocalist for Union Underground, and we've been talking about putting this together forever. So we finally survived COVID, survived all this other crap that's going on, and here we are putting it back to the two thousands tour together. I can't believe it's like, through all of that time to finally get here like that must be frustrating for you guys too, Like you're all lamped up, ready to do this, and then the world happens. Yeah, I mean, luckily for Soil, we didn't have anything completely booked when COVID hit. So since we didn't even thing booked and nothing to reschedule, we just decided to you know, close the door for a hot minute and just waited out. And it was the best decision we made because so many tours got canceled, their dates were getting dropped off, or you know, people were scared to go out, so we just waited out the whole pandemic. During the time, we put out a couple of specialty pieces, a covers record and a re record of our you know, biggest songs and stuff to kind of bring them up to you know, fresh twenty twenty three perspective and all that to it.

2:31 But yeah, we just reinvigorated the band touring wise. Last year went to Australia with Static X and did some did some festivals and stuff. But yeah, this year we've got a lot going on, starting with the back to two thousands tour with Underground, Soil, Flaw and raw Man. Now and here's the thing, maybe you could explain to the listeners how this is why we're doing this concept of going back to two thousands, because I think music was a little different then that it and than it is now, and I love that you're trying to revive that. Yeah, I mean it's kind of a little bit of a combination of things. I mean, first and foremost, you know, Union Underground and Soil toured together back in two thousand and one, which was when Scars was just coming out and an Education for Rebellion they were finishing their album cycles, so we did our first tour of Scars with Union Underground. They did their last tour for Education with Soil.

3:30 So for us to come and do a tour together back, you know, almost twenty something years later, was kind of iconic. Plus, with this resurgence of new metal going on, me and Brian were like, hey, why don't we embrace this and let's play songs off of our hit records, our biggest records at the time, and let's bring a couple other bands with that also had records out that were staples back in that time. So I have actually flaw on my label, Pavement Entertainment, so they were a no brainer. And then we started contacting people in Raw was really interested and they're a great band. They had an album out, they were kind of the two thousand and two era, but we kind of pulled them back into the two thousand and in one part with us and it just all fit perfectly.

4:18 So, you know, I was always joking, I'm like, yeah, it's hopping the Dolorean and go back to you know, instead of nineteen eighty four, let's go back, Let's go back to you know, two thousand and one. So between that concept and Brian Scott taking the idea of it making it like a post apocalyptic Dolorean with all of our bands, it kind of turned out really cool. So you know, we're just looking exactly for this tour just go right back to those days of like oz Fest and where it was kind of like, you know, we were getting out a grunge with all the people being depressed and we're in flannels and the Woe is Me to kind of people being rock stars again and have right on and almost you know, kind of a tipping the hat to the eighties, you know a little bit in those in those eras. So that's what we wanted to bring back. You know, everybody's been through so much with the pandemic and with the economy, and you know, all kinds of crazy things going on in the world, you know, through Ukraine and just terrible things. We wanted to bring back a time where you know, you got four bands back from your youth, or maybe something that your parents listened to, or maybe bands that you just rediscovered bit to where you can just go for a few hours, forget about all this crap that's going on, have some drinks, have some fun with your friends, here some songs that are familiar, and just have an all out good time and forget about all the crap. Leave it at the door, come on in, have a great time, and worry about it when you get out of the show. You know, no doubt.

5:45 And you know, it's funny because I kind of started my metal journey in the eighties, you know, and went to like the first Slayer show ever, first Metallica show ever, and then yes, you're right, grunge came along that was like, oh crap, and then bands like you guys and Union Underground and oz Fest in general too, just brought that feeling back like it was. It was always such an amazing feeling. So I love that, you you know, talked about, you know, giving back to going back to the eighties because it is kind of like there was this gap in the in the time, you know, continuum, and you guys close that gap, you know, and then so it's you know, it is funny because so I don't remember what year it was, but in the recent years when the first year mud Vein came back and I was at one of the Danny Wimmer festivals doing radio coverage and mud Vein and Slipknot were both headlining it, and I was like, Wow, the last time I saw these two bands at the same exact time was they were both on third stage of Ozfest. Wow, that's great. So it's kind of like the same type of thing like when you bring up oz Fest, I'm I'm thinking, yeah, those were the iconic festivals. That was even before I was like doing

7:18 it as a living and I was just going to the festival. And even when after I got divorced from my ex wife, this is what she said to me, Does this mean I can't go to Ozfest anymore? I mean made music fun again? It really? Yeah? Right, And you know it did give bands a chance, you know, like and get them noticed and really some of the bands like yourself and other bands nowadays wouldn't maybe be in existence if it weren't for oz Fest. I mean, we were out on we were out, were lucky enough to get a tour out of the gate with Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie and mud Vein and Soil. It's called the Mary Mayhem Tour. And we really bonded, you know, with all those camps, and you know, with Jack Osbourne, especially because he was out on that tour and him and Sharon between you know, Jack kind of befriending us and Sharon really liking the band. They invited us to oz Fest two thousand and two, and then you know we started being out with Ozzy, you know, catapulted the band right, and we just kind of wrapped it all up and just got even bigger when we went out on oz Fest.

8:35 And it just shows you the power of you know, throughout time. You know, Ozzie's notorious. Ozzie and Sharon are notorious for breaking bands. They broke Motley Crue, Metallica. I mean, the list just and we can go on forever talking about it. And then on oz Fest, you know, Slipknot I remember hanging with the guys that slipped with Slipknot. We played a club that Clown and I believe it was Clown and maybe we co owned. I know Clown definitely had a vested interest. It was called Scary Mary's in Des Moines, Iowa. I've heard of. And he's like, you know, we're going out on oz Fest. We have a new record coming out on road Runner. We don't know anybody in Chicago. You know, we'd love to have you guys come out as our guests and stuff.

9:16 And you know, we came out and we just saw a Slipnotch just go from zero to sixty from like nope, not anybody knowing them to them just dominating, right, And that's just the power of oz Fest. You know, so many bands have broken, you know, from going out on oz Fest. It's crazy, you know, from you know, Disturbed, you know oz Fest, you know, crack them wide open, and I think pod the list just keeps going on, you know, I think too, like thinking about it for myself, you know, somebody at my stage in life, somebody could ask, well, how are you so like in the know of all the bands? Like most of my friends from back in the eighties, I went to shows to go. They don't know. Most of the bands that I know nowadays is and I do credit it to oz Fest because going to oz Fest, like every year, I got introduced to new bands like all the time, and so yeah, I mean Ozzy and Sharon, they just they cared so much about the music that they bring the music to us to people, just like you was. Yeah. I mean, if it wasn't for them, you know, and then taking us under a wing, you know, like you said, I might not even be here sitting here talking to your soil, might not have as been as successful as it actually was, you know. I mean just so many bands more are even come into my head, you know, like Powerman, five thousand, Yeah, off Ass and crazy Town. I remember seeing them and that Butterfly song was released during oz Fest and they were ready to give up, and then that blew them up. I mean, you know, you just have

10:46 to credit the Osbourne camp so much for everything that they did. And they're very very good to us back in the early days and one of the main reasons we're still here now. See. And I love hearing that stuff too, because you know, throughout the years, there's people that would give shade shade to Ozzy because oh Prince of Darkness and in some of the other things that people like to talk about. So I love love when bands that have that actual experience with Ozzy find out what a great duty is. Oh fantastic. I mean the whole family, you know, I mean Sharon took us under a wing. Especially Jack Osbourne too. I mean he was really integral in those early days of you know, spreading the soil word. In fact, we were we were on the first season of the Osbourne's because it was recorded tour that we went on. So you know, we've got a couple of little guest cameos and you can see a sound check in behind where Ozzie's looking at the bubbles, you know, the famous bubble parties like I'm the Prince of Darkness? Why why is bubbles flying around here? And you see us in the back setting up our you know, setting up our gear and getting ready for sound check and stuff. So it is you know, stuff like that, you know, really catapulted us. You know, is those days were great and when me and Brian were talking about you know, doing this you know no ground soil tour, you know, that's what we really had in mind. Is bringing back that that bit of excitement, that bit of fun that mean you were just talking about, you know that you check, check all your problems at the door, come on in and have a great time because they'll be there when you walk out. But exactly take a

12:20 take a few hours to you know, go back in time with us, have a few drinks, have a few lass, you know, start a pit, do whatever you want to do right bang somebody in the bathroom. I don't know whatever your fancy is, but just come out and have a good time, you know. And music is the best therapy. So what better time with all the crap going on in the world to be able to escape at this tour, because like it is escape and you I mean, just like you said, leave your stuff at the door and just come let it all out and have a good time. And I think that's the ultimate uniter. I think a tour like this is exactly what this our country needs and our world needs to get a message of like hey, let's just all get together and have a good time and forget all the rest. Amen, brother, Amen, there you go, there you go. So what's a good feel like playing Scars? After? Like all these years, what does it even feel like it's going to be a trip, right, touring with Union Underground, like like it's two thousand and one. Well, it's so funny because we decided we called it, we're calling it the All Scars All Tour Tour, and it was supposed to like really start launching off in twenty twenty three and go through twenty twenty four, but we only got to do a handful of stuff in twenty twenty three. We did Australia and handful of dates in the States, so we're really going to get to test it out on this tour with Union Underground. Then we're going back to Europe for a

13:54 bunch of festivals and some headline dates, and then we're gonna we're announcing a UK tour in November coming up here nice, so we're gonna go do that, and then we're gonna, you know, fill up some more USA dates and we're definitely going to do a part two of this back to the two thousands who are now that we know that it's actually working. I mean, there's already a bunch of sold out dates a lot more close to it, so we didn't know kind of how people would react to it, and the reaction has been fantastic. So there's a lot of people complaining that we're not going into like Colorado and Wyoming and Utah and Phoenix. Are you know in Arizona and to the west coast and stuff, so and maybe you know, down south into like the Atlanta, Florida regions and stuff. So we're going to definitely definitely do a part two, maybe even if we have to a part three, to make sure we cover everywhere we can and bring this everywhere we can see. I'm glad you brought that up because I wasn't going to bring it up because our main studio is in South Florida, and so I was looking like, oh crap, they're not going to be in Florida, and so we'll just have to wait. We'll save the best for last well sure and well soil on our own. We are coming in. I don't know how south of Florida in Florida you actually are, but we are playing Earthday Birthday fest in Orlando, Florida. Oh that's cool. That's about the closest we're getting until we can announce some more dates. But we definitely need to come back down to like the Miami area, you know, hit Jacksonville, Tampa, you know, Gainesville, I'll Tallahassee, you know all the places. Soil did so well in Florida back in the day was like our

15:26 second home away from home. So there's so many places that we need to get back to. Even Fort Lauderdale. There is this place called the Culture Club. There we saw something I'm very familiar. We saw somebody break their leg and the mashpit with their bones sticking out getting hauled out playing And they never had air conditioning on in there, so not only we were dredging with spet sweat, but we've seen bones fly on people's legs and so Florida has been really cool to us. Yeah, I'm very familiar with that place. I've seen so many bands there and Clean the Misfits. I saw somebody to You would call it a stage dive, but it wasn't off of the stage. It was off the balcony, you know the balconies out there. There's something about that club that just like turns people into raving lem I know, right, I don't know what it is totally. Oh man, So is there anything else you want to let people know about what's going on with you guys with the tour or even with your label, so that uh, we cover everything and I don't miss anything. The only thing I need to tell you is please support the back to two thousands tour Union Underground, Soil, Raw and Flaw. If there's anything that's not coming to your area, we're definitely gonna be doing a Leg two, possibly a Leg three of it, so keep your eyes out for that. But if you are planning on going to the any of the shows on the tour and it's one of the smaller venues out there, I definitely urge you to get tickets because we've already had a few sellouts with a lot more getting close, and we don't want it.

16:56 We don't want anybody to be able to miss this if you really want to see it. So thank you a ton for the interview and all the support. Love the little Soil Scars icon in the background you got there, and thank you so much for everything. Appreciate it. Hey, my pleasure while you tell everybody to all your socials website how they can get tickets and all that too great. I mean, Soil has been around forever, so facebook go on there at Soil Music. You can go to soildband dot com. You can go to bands in town that has all the links up for all the tickets. I forget what our Instagram is. I think it's Soil Official. We're not a hard band to find. Just find us and click on the links because they're all over the place. Absolutely, I love it.

17:48 Well, this tour is going to be badass. You guys are badass, and I thank you for reviving this for us and all that's going to be coming in the future. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Absolutely, you can't wait to get down to Florida and into your neck of the woods and we can totally revive the early two thousands together. There you go. I love it. Hey, this is Tim from so You listen to the Pipe Man on W four cy. You better have that cranked to ten otherwise you suck. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on W for CUI Radio.