PipemanRadio Interviews Velvet Chains About Suspicious Minds & More

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and their only returned guests if their
music is badass those otherwise they can't

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come back. So you know that
you're gonna want to listen to this because

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man taking this first, We're going
to talk about this great tune that's been

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around forever and this killer band making
it their own. So let's welcome to

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the show. Velvet Chains. How
are you? Hey, Hey, that's

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a great compliment. Thank you so
much. We're super excited to be here.

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I'm super excited to be here.
I'm Nil's the bass player and founder

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of the band and not doing great. Thank you for having me. You

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know well, I love hearing there. How often do you hear that the

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bassis is the founder of the band. I love that. Yeah, No,

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it's the only way to be heard
and listened in the band if you're

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the bass player, right unless you
that's right. Well, yeah, it's

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quite unique, I suppose. Okay, so I have a trivia question for

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you before we even get arted.
Okay, yeah, So why is Paul

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McCartney a bass player? That's that's
a great question. Can I put my

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own twist in it? Or I
don't know to say whatever you want.

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It's your world of just living in
it right now. Yeah, all I

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know is that Rolling Stone magazine put
him in the list of best guitar players

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ever. So I'm not even sure
he's a bass player anymore. But no,

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I don't know what the answer is, so please go ahead. So

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there, there's that's part of it
right there. Because he was a guitar

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player. He never played bass,
and when the Beatles got together there was

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George and John, they didn't they
didn't need another guitarist, they needed a

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bassis. So he changed to bass. And that's also they say why he's

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ranked as one of the top bass
players ever, because he plays it more

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like a guitar. I love that. I love that. I did not

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know that. I love that,
and I actually I didn't know it either

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like till like a year ago.
I mean, I was like, wow,

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that's such good information. I actually
relate because I sometimes feel like I

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play my bass a little boy like
like I would a guitar. But I

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love it. That's so cool.
I have a lot of comment with Paul

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McCartney. See, and I love
that too, Okay. I love bassis

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that like are out there and you
know, really taking full advantage of the

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instrument instead of just what people think
it's meant to be. Just like see,

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to me, music is experimentation anyway. There are no rules. I

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believe in that one hundred percent.
And I agree. I'm all about,

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Hey, that's I do what I
want with my bass and whatever works,

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and there's no limits to to if
I may do something wrong, I may

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do some right, but if I
feel like it works, then let's go

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with that. So that's so cool. And see, that's what makes you

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or any other musician unique is when
they have their own way of playing their

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instrument. Yeah. I really dig
that too. I'm very unapologetic about how

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I play my bass and how I
live my life in general. And I

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could see that, and that's a
little bit more uniqueness to each musician.

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So that's so cool. Yeah,
I love it. So speaking of uniqueness,

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okay, so you have this well
known song that totally I found was

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unique without changing it so drastically that
it's not the same song. See that's

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one thing too. I think if
you're going to cover a song and record

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it, it should have your own
sound, but still have the original sound.

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And what you did with Suspicious and
Suspicious Minds from Elvis is exactly that.

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Yeah, thank you for that,
and I agree with that that it

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keeps the song relatable and it keeps
it like, oh cool, and it

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doesn't go too far away from the
original version. But we wanted to add

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a lot of rock and roll to
it. And to be honest, I

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have to credit Jim Kaufman, who
was our producer on that song. And

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we went to him and we said, hey, man, we want to

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do a cover. We want to
do something that we're from Vegas. We

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want something to honor our city.
And he's a huge Elvis fan, and

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he said, how about this,
and he gave us a little bit of

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the idea that he had. He
shared, he grabbed a guitar and shared

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a little bit and we're like this
is sick. So yeah, we went

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all in with that. But huge
credit to him. He's amazing. Well,

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that is amazing, and that's always
a key ingredient. A lot of

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people don't realize there's so many ingredients
to the recipe of making a song.

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It's not just a musician, it's
not just a songwriter. There's so much

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that goes into it. Yeah,
and it's never an exact science, right.

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Something may come completely stem from us. Another song may completely stem from

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a songwriter that we work with.
It may come from the producer. It

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may be a mix of three,
four or five different things. And we

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try to keep our creativity and our
process kind of like that where we're not

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just boxed into one thing and it's
worked out. It's worked out at least

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for the time being. Yeah.
Well, yeah, and it's cool to

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have different people's viewpoints come into it
that maybe you don't notice or you know

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anything, like a different perspective,
because there are going to be different perspectives

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out there. Funny story, I
wrote a song once that I was collaborating

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with my friends who were a duo. And I'm a book writer, okay,

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like I'm an author, So I
wrote this song and I brought it

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to my bro like, here,
what do you think of this? It's

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like, what is this a fucking
book? But then he turned it into

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a song, you know, like
I thought it was a song, but

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it was it really he was right, it was a book and he but

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you know, it's hard too when
you're like the songwriter or the musician to

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like eliminate anything. So sometimes you
need some of the outside point of view

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to make changes, eliminations, additions, because you're like he like, he

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even said to me, what can
we take guy here? And my answer

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was nothing. And I'm like,
you might as well just take whatever you're

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gonna take out of there, because
I'm not going to be able to pick.

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And I love that because for us, it's we got no ego in

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this right. So I may write
something that I'm like, oh my god,

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this is the best song ever and
this is gonna be huge, and

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then somebody else in the band or
a producer or a friend or a family

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member or whomever. An author could
be like you could come and say,

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hey, man, what if we
change this, what if we kill that?

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And that mayually be what makes the
song great. So I just we

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always try to keep an open mind
and again keep ego out of the way

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and really rely on people that have
perhaps more experience, perhaps greater success.

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Ultimately it'll be our decision. Yeah, we like to listen to others,

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and I think that's so important.
It's absolutely important, I think in anything,

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and you do that, you do
in life. The I think the

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most important question for you, though, is why Usher didn't have you guys

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come perform Suspicious Minds at the super
Bowl. You know, we were waiting

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for that call and we knew it
was going to happen. But the universe,

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I think his cell phone was broken
or he lost our number. It's

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got to be that. It's got
to be that, you know what,

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it might have been just somebody watching
out for you, because all you see

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on the internet with the trolls is
either talking negative crap about Taylor Swift or

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negative crap about Usher from this super
Bowl. And you know what, you

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were better off without that because you
guys are badass and you were You were

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just on tour in Brazil with Slash, So that's even cooler than the super

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Bowl in my opinion. Hey,
no, for sure, But they say

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there's no such thing as bad news. Right, So hey, as long

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as my name is out there,
I tell people, Hey, if you

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like our stuff, comment, If
you hate it, comment too. We

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want to know. So yeah,
we love the exposure. But yeah,

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we were just out with Slash and
Brasil and it was essentially mind blowing is

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probably the best way to describe it. And I don't I don't want a

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fanboy, but I mean Slash is
one of, if not our biggest influence,

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one of them at least, so
yeah, it was pretty epic.

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Yeah see there, you know,
at certain points, there's nothing wrong with

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fanboying out. Like going back to
Paul McCartney. I don't know if you

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watched that documentary where he was with
I think it was what Rick Rubin and

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they were listening to old Beatles songs
and Paul McCartney just sat there. At

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one point he's like, you know, back then, I was just playing

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with my bloke John, and now
I'm listening to I'm like, holy shit,

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I was playing with John Lennon and
he was fan boying out John Lennon

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from his own music. That's incredible. No, I missed that episode.

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I gotta go check it out.
But that's that's wow. That's a great

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way to say that. Yeah wow, yeah, so see, I see

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nothing wrong with that. Listen,
when you're out with somebody like Slash,

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I don't care who you are,
you could be anybody. I think you

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could be Axel Rose and still be
like, Wow, I'm playing the slack,

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you know. So there you go. And what was it like playing

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in Brazil? Because I've heard that
brazil are like the most serious rockers in

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the whole world. And I go
to festivals all over the world, but

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I haven't been to Rock and Rio
yet, and that's why I want to

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go to press coverage at Rock and
Rio. Yeah, Brazil is incredible,

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like most of South America is incredible
for rock and roll. And our band

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is kind of unusual because we have
Tucilan's at Brazilian and two Americans in the

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band born and raised. We all
live in Vegas, but born and rased

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in different countries, so we have
a little bit of understanding of how it

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works down there. But you can
never get enough of it. This is

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our second time going there. Last
year we went with Stone Temple, Pilots

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and the Winery Dogs and we played
a couple shows in Rio Soplo. We

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did Summer Breeze Festival, so we
kind of knew what we were going in

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for, but it's just once you're
on that stage and the energy of the

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fans just brings out that extra rock
and roll out of us and it's just

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so much fun. Yeah, no
doubt. So what do you got coming

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up next? Going forward? Yeah, we're looking at doing well. We

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are booked for a show here in
Vegas. It's a radio industry program radio

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programmers show. It's called Hat Happens, so sure you're familiar with it,

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and we'll be doing that end of
February, and then after that we're actively

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looking at what's happening. We are
trying to get out there again. We're

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trying to look at Europe see if
we're able to jump on something, either

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support or our own tour, but
definitely trying to get that Velvet Chain's name

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out there. And it's every time
that we do a show, it seems

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like we just grow by leaps and
bounce, but it's it's also a challenge

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to how do we get people to
listen to our stuff, So it's always

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an ongoing battle. But once we're
out there, it works. Well,

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there you go, Well, that
people definitely have to listen to your stuff,

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and they have to listen to suspicious
minds be cuz it's pretty killer.

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I just have to say, And
if they don't listen, they can't listen

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to my show. I'll support that. I'm with you there. You go

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tell everybody how they reach out to
you on the web, on the socials,

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merch all that good stuff. Yeah, we're super active on Instagram.

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We're a little guilty that we're not
too active on TikTok, but Instagram is

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the way I think we got Facebook
too. We will reply to every single

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message on Instagram, share your stories
whatever. Merch our website, velvet chains

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dot com. That's the way to
go. YouTube. We got a bunch

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of killer music videos in there.
Check them out. But yeah, we're

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very active on Instagram, very cool. I love it. Is there anything

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else you want the listeners to know
that we haven't covered yet? No,

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check out our Spotify, Apple Music, whatever you use. It helps us

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a ton if you follow us on
there and you check up the music videos.

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They're kind of unique. We got
all sorts of stuff going on in

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there, so hopefully you dig it. I'm sure they will. Thanks for

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continuing to make us great music.
And thanks for being on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man Hey, thank you so
much for having us again mean sometime,

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thank you. Thank you for listening
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