PipemanRadio Interviews Strate Jacket at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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1:08 And I'm here with Jackson Rumors. I'm Fabian Angel, I'm Nate Mangled, and we are straight jacket nice. I think of your name, and even though it's spelled differently, all I can think of is high school. And I'll tell you why. In La it was very in the eighties. It was like a very common thing that if your parents can't control you, or you smoked pot, that you got locked up in the mental hospital and put in a straight jacket. And I always thought it was like my best friend of life man, he was in straight jacket and for smoking pot. And I'm like, are you serious that that's like that doesn't even match in the least. Yet there's people out there that commit heinous crimes and they don't even got a slap on the wrist. Yeah, geez, you know our name. Nate came up with our name, and it wasn't originally spelled differently, but I think we decided to change it because we needed a legal company name and that one was taken. I think it's better that way anyway, you know, because then you leave a little mystery. Like people if you spelled it the same way, it would be like, oh, we know exactly what this is about, and I think the mystery is a little better.

2:28 Usually people are wrong when they guess what your band name's about. Anyway, that's how it is. You want to say a little bit about our name, man, Well, well I just picked it out of like a bunch of names that I wrote down, and that one just sounded the least dumb out of all of them. So they're all say, and I never asked a question of how you got your band name, but that is the best answer ever. Just sounded the least dumb, And that was the only one I pitched, And they were like, yeah, sure, why not. There you go. That's you know, a lot of times. That's really how it happens. It's not like like Pete. Other journalists they'll ask how do you get your band name? Like there's some big, major thing about it, and usually you're just sitting there, Especially if you start a band as a teenager, you're usually high as fuck and you're going, hey, this would be a cool band name. Pretty much pretty much, there you go. Is that a car shirt that you're wearing? It is a car shirt? So you know what, this is the coolest shirt I owned.

3:24 So I brought it to the coolest festival. It is cool, and so what's funny about it is so when I was in high school, I people used to make fun of me saying that I look like Rick Okasik that too? Do you really? So see that's what's tall and he's got like long hair. I used to have long hair. About a week ago I cut it, so, oh well look at that. Are you like trying to be like Metallica? Now where you cut your hair? I don't. I mean no, I love Ittallica, but I don't. I don't think that's what I was going. I know I had to bust your chop. So I've heard it out to my waist. Guys, I've cut it a few times, grown it back. I had during COVID. I did that too, Like during COVID, I was like, fuck it, I can't go get the blue done, so I'm just gonna grow my hair out.

4:14 Yah looks great. Yeah see there you go. So tell our listeners a little bit about your music, you know, not from a genre standpoint, but how you as artists describe it. Well, you know the thing about our music is like we so we all have the same but also different influences, you know, and so when we write a song, we it's freeing. You know, it's very much it's like this energy that's just not really too controlled. It's something that we all like are really happy with. And then we recently released our first EP, and so I'm sure like when people check that out they can like notice like the different like forms of energy we can offer, because every song is very different, you know, like it's very much to us. But you know, some are very chill, Like we have this one song called Torch that is very chill, very relaxed, and then we have this other song called bad Star, which was our first single drop and that one's like a little bit more quicker, definitely like a chantier song. And you know, like I think when people listen to our music, it's definitely gonna be like nostalgic, you know, nostalgic, but like not too nostalgic, where it's like, oh, like this is like kind of old school, it's like nostalgic, but like, oh like this is this could be like the next turning point to like what could be my favorite genre and my favorite band and stuff. I love that. Not to hide myself up too much, there you go, but no, it's cool that you see. I think it's cool they have different music within the same EP, you know it. And that's why I said before, like don't tell me a genre, because like artists should be artists. You should just

5:46 experiment, play whatever music you want. Shouldn't have to be in this box. Yeah, you know agree. You know, Like the funny thing was like those I think there's we got five songs in our EP, and they were all kind of written during different stages of our our just our creative journey. Yeah, I mean our torch was written about seven years ago, and like our most recent song was written like three or two or three years ago, that was on the EP. So you get a lot of growth even in like the same collection of songs that's cool, different places and where they come from and stuff. So you know, we explore folk a little bit.

6:27 I would say, we kind of go into even a classic rock thing, and there's some new wave and obviously we got the punk thing going, so where I wouldn't consider us punk necessarily, I would more say we're like alternative rock, but we try to keep the energy up off that makes sense. Oh, I love that. And you know what's cool about is like you talk about new wave and punk, and back in the day, you couldn't mix all the different things. You couldn't even go to other shows, you know, Like I was along there. I couldn't go to punk shows because I was a long hair. Oh man, was that really that gate? Kef? Oh? Totally worse man, Like you got your ass beat if you were a long hair and you showed up to a punk show, or you were punk and showed up to a long air show, you got your ass beat. The new wave they were shunned by both of us, you know, even though new wave and punk, like new waves are part of punk. Punk hated new wave and metal had certainly hated new wave, you know. I oh, Man, Well, I'll tell you a story in that. And this is the second time ever I told this story on the air, and I'm telling a second time this this festival, which is weird. But basically, I was a total like thrash metal head and my best one of my best friends, he was too, but he had other music he listened to that I didn't know about, because it's how it had to kind of be then. And I was at his house one day and

8:00 I pull out this album and I was like, what the fuck is this? And it was Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier. Yeah, Kings of the Wild Frontier, and like he had to admit that he liked and stuff, and then he played it for me, and to this day it's one of my favorite albums. But I couldn't admit it back then. Now I can admit it. No, Adam Man is sick. I used to watch his videos on like the Totally Eighties channel on VH one, and that shit got me into music pretty much. So see, that's pretty cool. Okay, So have you ever heard the album Dirk Wear's White Socks.

8:41 I have not you gotta check that out. Check it out again. That's the first album that nobody really knows about. Like that's before kings At the Wild Frontier. That's when they were more punk. But you could see where it was going. There's even songs on there that I think on Kingsley Wild Frontier, but they're done differently. Oh I see you. No, Now, I definitely need to check it out and you tap into that old stuff. Yeah, see that. And because I haven't even heard the record that you were talking about. Oh that's how that's how far out I am. I'm like on Spotify right now checking it up. There it is, there, it is. I apologize see that. Yeah, you know locked in man. There's even like I interviewed. I don't know if you know this artist. Her name's Josie Cotton. I interviewed her a couple of times.

9:31 I've become friendly with her. First interview I did with her, I'm like, you know, I have to tell you right now, I really love you. It's an orus and I was never allowed to admit that when I was a teenager. That's right. You can tell that to her yourself, that's right exactly. And she got it too. She knew, you know, because the gatekeeping was fucking bullshit, really bad. Then there were very little of us. You wouldn't have a festival like this for metal or punk, okay, because there weren't enough people that were into it. And the metal heads and the punks were the ones getting their asses kicked by the jocks in high school. Yeah, and so I always used to say, why are we beating the shit of each other? We should band together and stop these freaking bullies that are bullshit. See that's why I think music is like in a really good place, man, you know. I like nowadays you'll ask someone like what's who do you listen to? Or like what's your favorite genre? Like your favorite band? And you know when you ask them like what's their favorite genre, they'll be like, oh, I love everything, you know, Like that's the coolest thing, you know. I think everyone has their own thing, like, oh, like I like rock a little bit more, rap a little bit more. But everything's just so cohesive now, Like everything's so like in a way experimental, Like we all have our own genres, but we'll pull from like the eighties, you know, like a synth, or we'll pull from like a seventies, like classic rock, guitar riff and nice, you know what wild? What's wild is like there's more. There's also just more genres too, you know what I mean.

10:54 They're just yeah, it's become a melting pot of just things, you know, and you could either you could explore all these genres or you can get really into one and then that's your favorite genre. But you kind of I think it's smart what you were saying and about what you guys do of exploring different genres, because basically the difference between a band like yours and a band back then is you do have all these genres and all these bands to pull from. And on top of that, like we'll take metal as an example. There's so many metal bands nowadays that they have this formula that's so concise, so you have to play it just like this. And I remember being a teenager and like metal bands didn't all sound the same, you know, yeah, and now it's like you have to sound the same. So bands like you guys are a breath of fresh air because not only are you not the same from everybody else, but I can even listen to all the different vibes I'm into by listening to just one album. You know, I think there's like this really cool quote saying that I heard it's like it's hard to be a revolutionary when you're such a traditionalist. Nice and so when you mentioned like how the like there's these metal heads like following these formulas, Like, yeah, that's like immiately what I thought of. You know, it's the formula is a formula. But that doesn't mean that you have to just stick it to the bone, stick with it to the bone. You know, you can definitely add in some little things. Yeah, I'm a firm believer that the artist should be in control of the music and let the business

12:24 people be in control of the business people instead of them trying to tell you how to be creative. You know, No, very true, very true. I think it has to do with just the fact that it's like there's just so much to pull from, and it has a lot of it comes down to like what the music our parents showed us too, you know what I mean. So you get that kind of over arcing genre mix, you know, the classic rock and whatnot, the folk whatever, But then you come up today and this everyone's listening to all this stuff, and then you try and mix it all into one thing, you know what I mean, It's hard to do. So it's like we're just like, ah, let's just make everything we can and it makes you unique and stand out, and that's what's going to take you places for sure. And you're definitely going places after Welcome to Rockville. Tell everybody your socials, your web how they can check out everything you got. Oh, we're on Instagram at straight jacket c A no spaces spelled st r at jacket. We are on Spotify straight jacket spelled the same way. But we're also on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, to TikTok. You can find us anywhere. We make goofy content and we play our music. Man nice. What's the goofiest TikTok you have? Oh, oh my god, probably this Radiohead one that got it got like it got like six hundred thousand views. Then it got taken down for being like

13:54 against the community guideline. Oh my god, so that one, to be fair, it kind of made sense. It was not the best, but it was popular for a second and then it was just taken out. But well, you guys, rock so glad to have you here at Welcome to Rockville and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. The Adventures of Pipe Man, I can't speak anymore after five days, so we were so stoked to be on. Thank you so much, my pleasure. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Main on w for CUI Radio