PipemanRadio Interviews Strate Jacket at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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John Moore, She said, I
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is the pipe Man here on the
Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio.

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And I'm here with Jackson Rumors.
I'm Fabian Angel, I'm Nate Mangled,

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and we are straight jacket nice.
I think of your name, and

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even though it's spelled differently, all
I can think of is high school.

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And I'll tell you why. In
La it was very in the eighties.

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It was like a very common thing
that if your parents can't control you,

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or you smoked pot, that you
got locked up in the mental hospital and

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put in a straight jacket. And
I always thought it was like my best

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friend of life man, he was
in straight jacket and for smoking pot.

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And I'm like, are you serious
that that's like that doesn't even match in

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the least. Yet there's people out
there that commit heinous crimes and they don't

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even got a slap on the wrist. Yeah, geez, you know our

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name. Nate came up with our
name, and it wasn't originally spelled differently,

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but I think we decided to change
it because we needed a legal company

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name and that one was taken.
I think it's better that way anyway,

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you know, because then you leave
a little mystery. Like people if you

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spelled it the same way, it
would be like, oh, we know

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exactly what this is about, and
I think the mystery is a little better.

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Usually people are wrong when they guess
what your band name's about. Anyway,

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that's how it is. You want
to say a little bit about our

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name, man, Well, well
I just picked it out of like a

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bunch of names that I wrote down, and that one just sounded the least

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dumb out of all of them.
So they're all say, and I never

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asked a question of how you got
your band name, but that is the

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best answer ever. Just sounded the
least dumb, And that was the only

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one I pitched, And they were
like, yeah, sure, why not.

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There you go. That's you know, a lot of times. That's

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really how it happens. It's not
like like Pete. Other journalists they'll ask

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how do you get your band name? Like there's some big, major thing

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about it, and usually you're just
sitting there, Especially if you start a

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band as a teenager, you're usually
high as fuck and you're going, hey,

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this would be a cool band name. Pretty much pretty much, there

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you go. Is that a car
shirt that you're wearing? It is a

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car shirt? So you know what, this is the coolest shirt I owned.

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So I brought it to the coolest
festival. It is cool, and

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so what's funny about it is so
when I was in high school, I

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people used to make fun of me
saying that I look like Rick Okasik that

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too? Do you really? So
see that's what's tall and he's got like

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long hair. I used to have
long hair. About a week ago I

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cut it, so, oh well
look at that. Are you like trying

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to be like Metallica? Now where
you cut your hair? I don't.

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I mean no, I love Ittallica, but I don't. I don't think

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that's what I was going. I
know I had to bust your chop.

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So I've heard it out to my
waist. Guys, I've cut it a

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few times, grown it back.
I had during COVID. I did that

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too, Like during COVID, I
was like, fuck it, I can't

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go get the blue done, so
I'm just gonna grow my hair out.

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Yah looks great. Yeah see there
you go. So tell our listeners a

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little bit about your music, you
know, not from a genre standpoint,

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but how you as artists describe it. Well, you know the thing about

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our music is like we so we
all have the same but also different influences,

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you know, and so when we
write a song, we it's freeing.

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You know, it's very much it's
like this energy that's just not really

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too controlled. It's something that we
all like are really happy with. And

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then we recently released our first EP, and so I'm sure like when people

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check that out they can like notice
like the different like forms of energy we

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can offer, because every song is
very different, you know, like it's

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very much to us. But you
know, some are very chill, Like

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we have this one song called Torch
that is very chill, very relaxed,

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and then we have this other song
called bad Star, which was our first

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single drop and that one's like a
little bit more quicker, definitely like a

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chantier song. And you know,
like I think when people listen to our

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music, it's definitely gonna be like
nostalgic, you know, nostalgic, but

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like not too nostalgic, where it's
like, oh, like this is like

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kind of old school, it's like
nostalgic, but like, oh like this

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is this could be like the next
turning point to like what could be my

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favorite genre and my favorite band and
stuff. I love that. Not to

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hide myself up too much, there
you go, but no, it's cool

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that you see. I think it's
cool they have different music within the same

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EP, you know it. And
that's why I said before, like don't

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tell me a genre, because like
artists should be artists. You should just

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experiment, play whatever music you want. Shouldn't have to be in this box.

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Yeah, you know agree. You
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like those I think there's we got
five songs in our EP, and they

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were all kind of written during different
stages of our our just our creative journey.

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Yeah, I mean our torch was
written about seven years ago, and

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like our most recent song was written
like three or two or three years ago,

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that was on the EP. So
you get a lot of growth even

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in like the same collection of songs
that's cool, different places and where they

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come from and stuff. So you
know, we explore folk a little bit.

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I would say, we kind of
go into even a classic rock thing,

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and there's some new wave and obviously
we got the punk thing going,

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so where I wouldn't consider us punk
necessarily, I would more say we're like

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alternative rock, but we try to
keep the energy up off that makes sense.

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Oh, I love that. And
you know what's cool about is like

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you talk about new wave and punk, and back in the day, you

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couldn't mix all the different things.
You couldn't even go to other shows,

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you know, Like I was along
there. I couldn't go to punk shows

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because I was a long hair.
Oh man, was that really that gate?

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Kef? Oh? Totally worse man, Like you got your ass beat

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if you were a long hair and
you showed up to a punk show,

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or you were punk and showed up
to a long air show, you got

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your ass beat. The new wave
they were shunned by both of us,

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you know, even though new wave
and punk, like new waves are part

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of punk. Punk hated new wave
and metal had certainly hated new wave,

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you know. I oh, Man, Well, I'll tell you a story

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in that. And this is the
second time ever I told this story on

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the air, and I'm telling a
second time this this festival, which is

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weird. But basically, I was
a total like thrash metal head and my

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best one of my best friends,
he was too, but he had other

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music he listened to that I didn't
know about, because it's how it had

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to kind of be then. And
I was at his house one day and

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I pull out this album and I
was like, what the fuck is this?

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And it was Adam and the Ants
Kings of the Wild Frontier. Yeah,

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Kings of the Wild Frontier, and
like he had to admit that he

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liked and stuff, and then he
played it for me, and to this

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day it's one of my favorite albums. But I couldn't admit it back then.

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Now I can admit it. No, Adam Man is sick. I

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used to watch his videos on like
the Totally Eighties channel on VH one,

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and that shit got me into music
pretty much. So see, that's pretty

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cool. Okay, So have you
ever heard the album Dirk Wear's White Socks.

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I have not you gotta check that
out. Check it out again.

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That's the first album that nobody really
knows about. Like that's before kings At

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the Wild Frontier. That's when they
were more punk. But you could see

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where it was going. There's even
songs on there that I think on Kingsley

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Wild Frontier, but they're done differently. Oh I see you. No,

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Now, I definitely need to check
it out and you tap into that old

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stuff. Yeah, see that.
And because I haven't even heard the record

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that you were talking about. Oh
that's how that's how far out I am.

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I'm like on Spotify right now checking
it up. There it is,

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there, it is. I apologize
see that. Yeah, you know locked

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in man. There's even like I
interviewed. I don't know if you know

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this artist. Her name's Josie Cotton. I interviewed her a couple of times.

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I've become friendly with her. First
interview I did with her, I'm

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like, you know, I have
to tell you right now, I really

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love you. It's an orus and
I was never allowed to admit that when

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I was a teenager. That's right. You can tell that to her yourself,

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that's right exactly. And she got
it too. She knew, you

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know, because the gatekeeping was fucking
bullshit, really bad. Then there were

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very little of us. You wouldn't
have a festival like this for metal or

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punk, okay, because there weren't
enough people that were into it. And

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the metal heads and the punks were
the ones getting their asses kicked by the

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jocks in high school. Yeah,
and so I always used to say,

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why are we beating the shit of
each other? We should band together and

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stop these freaking bullies that are bullshit. See that's why I think music is

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like in a really good place,
man, you know. I like nowadays

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you'll ask someone like what's who do
you listen to? Or like what's your

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favorite genre? Like your favorite band? And you know when you ask them

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like what's their favorite genre, they'll
be like, oh, I love everything,

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you know, Like that's the coolest
thing, you know. I think

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everyone has their own thing, like, oh, like I like rock a

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little bit more, rap a little
bit more. But everything's just so cohesive

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now, Like everything's so like in
a way experimental, Like we all have

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our own genres, but we'll pull
from like the eighties, you know,

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like a synth, or we'll pull
from like a seventies, like classic rock,

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guitar riff and nice, you know
what wild? What's wild is like

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there's more. There's also just more
genres too, you know what I mean.

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They're just yeah, it's become a
melting pot of just things, you

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know, and you could either you
could explore all these genres or you can

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get really into one and then that's
your favorite genre. But you kind of

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I think it's smart what you were
saying and about what you guys do of

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exploring different genres, because basically the
difference between a band like yours and a

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band back then is you do have
all these genres and all these bands to

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pull from. And on top of
that, like we'll take metal as an

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example. There's so many metal bands
nowadays that they have this formula that's so

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concise, so you have to play
it just like this. And I remember

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being a teenager and like metal bands
didn't all sound the same, you know,

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yeah, and now it's like you
have to sound the same. So

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bands like you guys are a breath
of fresh air because not only are you

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not the same from everybody else,
but I can even listen to all the

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different vibes I'm into by listening to
just one album. You know, I

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think there's like this really cool quote
saying that I heard it's like it's hard

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to be a revolutionary when you're such
a traditionalist. Nice and so when you

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mentioned like how the like there's these
metal heads like following these formulas, Like,

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yeah, that's like immiately what I
thought of. You know, it's

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the formula is a formula. But
that doesn't mean that you have to just

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stick it to the bone, stick
with it to the bone. You know,

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you can definitely add in some little
things. Yeah, I'm a firm

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believer that the artist should be in
control of the music and let the business

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people be in control of the business
people instead of them trying to tell you

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how to be creative. You know, No, very true, very true.

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I think it has to do with
just the fact that it's like there's

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just so much to pull from,
and it has a lot of it comes

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down to like what the music our
parents showed us too, you know what

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I mean. So you get that
kind of over arcing genre mix, you

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know, the classic rock and whatnot, the folk whatever, But then you

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come up today and this everyone's listening
to all this stuff, and then you

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try and mix it all into one
thing, you know what I mean,

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It's hard to do. So it's
like we're just like, ah, let's

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just make everything we can and it
makes you unique and stand out, and

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that's what's going to take you places
for sure. And you're definitely going places

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after Welcome to Rockville. Tell everybody
your socials, your web how they can

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check out everything you got. Oh, we're on Instagram at straight jacket c

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A no spaces spelled st r at
jacket. We are on Spotify straight jacket

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spelled the same way. But we're
also on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,

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to TikTok. You can find us
anywhere. We make goofy content and we

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play our music. Man nice.
What's the goofiest TikTok you have? Oh,

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oh my god, probably this Radiohead
one that got it got like it

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got like six hundred thousand views.
Then it got taken down for being like

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against the community guideline. Oh my
god, so that one, to be

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fair, it kind of made sense. It was not the best, but

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it was popular for a second and
then it was just taken out. But

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well, you guys, rock so
glad to have you here at Welcome to

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Rockville and thanks for being on the
Adventures of Pipe Man. The Adventures of

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Pipe Man, I can't speak anymore
after five days, so we were so

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stoked to be on. Thank you
so much, my pleasure. Thank you

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