PipemanRadio Interviews Wicked About Upcoming Show with Raven at Pipers Pub in South Florida

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Man. M just don't give up. It's the pipe Man here on the

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Radio. And I'm here with our next

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guest because I'm very excited because I
have to travel all around the world to

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do radio coverage for festivals and rarely
do I get the chance to do something

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cool at home. And so this
band is going to be playing funny enough

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as it may seem, at this
cool pub that I'm very well familiar with

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that shares my last name, called
Piper's Pub in Pompino Beach, Florida,

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and it is going to be cool. So let's welcome to show Dan from

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Wicked. How are you? What's
going on? Awesome to be here,

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excited to talk about everything we got
going on. Yeah, you got a

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lot of cool shit going on.
And it was funny when I when I

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was sent the email about doing interviews. The minute I saw it was at

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Piper's Pub, I'm like, oh
damn, I'll have to be at that

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show. And then like Raven is
also another one of my favorite bands from

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way back that I've been listening to
that since the early eighties. And so

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I was going to be a killer
show that you're gonna have right here locally

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near our studio. Actually I'm in
Costa Rica right now, but that's where

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our studio is and where I live
in Florida. But I'm talking to you

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from Coasta Beautiful. Well, lucky
you. I'm in rainy New York.

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So yeah, see that. I
don't miss that at all. Like I'm

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originally from New York in New Jersey, and I don't miss this time of

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year at all. I used to
when I was younger. I used to

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think, oh, I need to
I remember when I first moved Florida.

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I'm like, oh, I hate
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I want snow in that. And
now I'm like, what the hell was

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I thinking? That's a nice say
all the time? Man, We're ready

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to get on the road and get
some nice weather and see our fans out

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there and just rock and roll.
We're done with the New York weather.

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I don't blame you. And well, you'll have some good weather in May

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in Florida. That's like a good
time to be in Florida. You're not

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in the hurricane season yet and you're
not in the super hot and sweltering heat.

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But that Piper's Pub, I don't
know if you've ever been there.

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It's a pretty cool place. Like
a lot of people love that place,

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so it should be a packed house. And you're not just saying it because

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you're the spokesperson, as as I
wish I was the owner of it.

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You kidding me, Like, that's
a pretty good venue and some of a

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lot of venues in South Florida I'm
not a fan of, which is why

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I leave now. We're, like
you said, the Raven guys are.

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They're super cool. Those guys are
lunatics and just an incredible metal rock band.

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Fan fans of theirs for years,
and we're super excited to get the

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opportunity to go out on the road
with them for this North American tour,

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including Piper's Pub. It's it's the
perfect match of you know, our high

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energy rock and roll and and you
know their antics. You know some front

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to back The stage show is going
to be pretty crazy. Nice see.

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I love hearing that and see,
I love going to club shows because it's

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a whole different experience, Like your
show is gonna be my like my warm

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up for doing Welcome to Rockville because
that's the next festival on my tour and

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it just like I remember, so
I moved from Jersey to LA in nineteen

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eighty on time to move to La
right, And I remember the first club

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show I went to on the Sunset
Strip was Motley Crue before they had an

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album, before they were glam,
when they were like horror punk. That's

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sick and the show was sick because
I was like, I went to this

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thing and I was like, I'm
never going to a real concert ever again.

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It's just so intimate to play like
and be in a club show and

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a club environment and it's just so
much fun. It's so true. The

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intimate club shows are my favorite as
well to play as well to attend.

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I remember going to see Michael Monroe
at the Chance and that was super cool,

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like just seeing that energy and like
you said, it's you know,

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you get to interact with the band
and it just you know, it's a

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whole different thing than being in a
big crowd, which is fun. Too,

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but you know, there's there's that
transfer of energy that is like direct

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in intimate club show. So no
doubt, no doubt. And I think

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I kind of feel like you guys
as the artists get to really go all

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out at a club show, because
it's like at a big venue or festival,

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like you're under the guys first of
all, the headliner more so,

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and then it's like you kind of
have to do things differently, whereas a

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club you can just let it all
hang out and just be as crazy as

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you want. That's right. I
mean, it's you know, it's balls

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of the walls and uh, you
know even better, like like I said,

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being with the Raven guys, we've
got this funny, little like weird

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connection. Uh our drummer Gunner,
his father used to roady for them way

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back in the day. And I
don't know if John John Gallagher knows this,

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but there's a picture of him holding
Gunner when he was a little baby.

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So we're gonna we're gonna be pulling
some pranks out on that one.

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Oh. I love it. And
I love that you said pregs because that's

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an earth Day about club shows.
Then pregs that go on it is like

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like some of the experiences I had
just as a like fan and roady and

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ship like that. It was just
like you can that that made me who

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I am with music today because it
was just so much fun beyond the music.

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Like the music's fun, the show's
fun. But then and then you

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as a band, like you get
to have fun instead of everything everything being

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stressed out. Yeah, it's the
camaraderie, man, I we're looking forward

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to it, you know, Like
I said, those guys are a rayah

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and our our group is funny because
you know, it's not like your typical

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twenty twenty four bands. We harken
back to the old school method of living

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together. And we've been doing it
for like seven years. So yeah,

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granted, my brothers the singer,
but the other guys were adopted into the

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family, the rock and roll family, and there's always something going on with

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the pranks, with the antics.
Luckily we get along to be able to

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sustain this many years and you know, many more. But it's it is

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a circus, which is funny because
we're gonna be filming a lot on the

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road. We kind of started this
little peak behind the veil where we're uploading

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these you know, twenty minute shows
to YouTube and it's called the Rock and

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Roll Circus Show, so our fans
could really see like what happens behind the

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scenes. So I love that.
And you know, some of those pranks

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you guys are doing would make great
tiktoks. The tiktoks that's that's a great

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place to get those pranks out playing
along with the new age of social media

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and there's so many methods to get
your content out there, and it's fun.

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We have a blast, like every
day. It's just a new experience

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hanging with the boys. And you
know, whether it's you know, doing

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stuff like goofy stuff on TikTok or
YouTube or putting out new music, it's

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we're lucky, that's for sure.
Nice. And so let's talk about the

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newest album, Sunburn, which is
pretty badass and one of the things I

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read about that I really love about
this album that goes along with something I've

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been saying for a while. If
you're going to pick one positive thing out

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of COVID and that lockdown, I
think what it did for musicians is give

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them a chance to go back to
old school where you're getting creative, Like

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I feel like musicians for years were
on this hamster wheel and it's like they

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couldn't even finish albums because they had
these deadlines, and it's like, okay,

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just let's just put it out,
put it out, put it out,

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instead of really like sitting there and
letting the creative juices flow and create

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what you wanted to be your end
product. It's so true, like COVID.

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If you're a glass half full kind
of mentality like we are, you

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know, it was like, you
know, hey, you could get a

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new head start if you want,
right, So that's what we did.

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We just we went into the studio
and we cut the last American rock band,

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our previous album release and you know, luckily enough in partnership with our

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good friend and producer Nacho Malino.
This guy he's crazy man. He's from

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Panama and he's got like ten grammy's
from working with like Reuben Blades and stuff,

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but nice and Tara fan metal head
at heart. He moved up here.

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He just moved in like three months
we were in the studio and then

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we extended to stay. We're like, you know, why don't you just

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get a house up here? Like
and during that time, that's when Sunburn

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came alive. It was like,
let's keep writing and recording and that that

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album was cool because you know,
I can't wait for people to hear it

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this Friday. It's it's a reflection
on you know, our you know,

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decade of being like a young band
trying to be rock stars, right,

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Like, you know, you don't
always make the right choices, but at

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the end of the day, I
wouldn't. I wouldn't trade any of the

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ups and downs or the mishaps their
memories, man and uh and and they're

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cool to reflect on. It's it's
experience that helps a good songwriter in my

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opinion. So oh, I think
so too. And it's funny. I

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was just talking about on my live
show earlier today. Think about all these

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rock stars from way back that like
we all talk about, Oh the craziness

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and the stupid shit you do when
you're in that genre and you're gonna die

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early because of it, blah blah
blah. And and you look at guys

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like Ozzy and Keith Richards who people
thought we're gonna die like fifty years ago,

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and they're still like icons. It's
wild, right, Like who would

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have imagined you know, I never
imagine Keith Richard's still like alive, and

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and Ozzie, I mean, he's
just a phenom, Like it's unbelievable.

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So it really is. I mean, hats off to those guys. Man.

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I hope one day that will be
in the same spot. There you

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go. We certainly push ourselves,
you know. Not only do we you

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know, do the the rock and
roll antics, but you know, we

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really are dedicated when it comes to
like our diets and our fitness and stuff

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like that. You know, being
some old school like hockey players and whatnot.

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It's it gets interesting in the house. See. And now I like

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even more because hockey is my favorite
sport and I played and coached and and

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I'm hearing Costa Rica surfing and like, it's funny you spoke my language,

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because it's like I eat healthy now
I do all this healthy stuff. You

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know, it's funny because I'm fifty
seven. I tell people I'm healthier than

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I ever was in my twenties.
Yeah, like I was a shit show

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probably in my twenties. Exactly right. We're trying to trying to learn early

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as well through as we go through
our journey. So it's it's always interesting

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surfing. Man, that's that's pretty
sick. We're dying to get get into

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that a little bit more, but
we got to get ourselves out of New

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York. Yeah right, you can't
really surf on the Hudson. So tell

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us how everybody can reach out to
you guys on socials on the web.

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Check out the tour days, check
out the new album, and get the

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new album, merch all that cool
shit. Yeah, absolutely all of our

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socials are Wicked end roll. You
can find us there all the platforms,

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or just hit our website up Wicked
rock and Rollofficial dot com. And yeah,

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we're we're super stoked. We're we're
dropping the Sunburn album this Friday,

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March first. It'll be available on
all your digital download and streaming services.

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And how like look again, like
with that theme of old school hard rock.

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We got CDs, we got vinyl. I'm talking like gatefull vinyl.

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We just got a five foot palette
in yesterday of this stuff. I was

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like, I remember making and all
the hard work we do everything di y

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like. But then I was like
looking at the package like in my hand

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physically, and I was like this
is so sick, Like you know,

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you don't see stuff like this anymore
from like you know, rock bands as

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frequently as you used to. I
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go and get a you know,
fifty dollars Chili Peppers record at your record

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store. But it's gonna be cool. We're super excited. You can find

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all that apparel and physical copies and
bundles on our website. Check it out.

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And and then of course we've got
to release Show this Saturday locally here

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Rochester, New York at Water Street
Music Hall. We're gonna blow the roof

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off this place. Man, I'm
talking playing the album front to back,

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and then we're hitting the tour with
Raven of North America and eventually getting down

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to Piper's Pub. We're super excited. Doesn't get much better than that.

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And I love you talking about the
vinyls and the whole experience, because man,

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I think kids are missing it out
nowadays. Man, you gotta get

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out from behind this thing, get
out from behind your phone screen, live

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life a little bit. I'm telling
you there's a lot out there and and

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and there's nothing I like more than
sitting down with some vinyl and uh,

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you know, going through all the
artwork and the notes, and it's inspiring

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for me as a musician when I
write. But it's just a good time

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man, like you know, sitting
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friends and there's vinyl spinning. That's
how we do it, no doubt.

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I remember saying on my balcony and
just like buying an album and you know,

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looking at every little detail. And
that was their thing too, because

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you weren't getting it like free on
Spotify. You were spending your hard earned

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money on this, like you had
to make every big use of it.

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And then sometimes there were like surprises
in there, Like I remember being in

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grammar school and gaining the Kiss Love
Gun album and we at the time it

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was popular those paper popper things and
so they had that inside the album,

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like that was the love Gun Man. And I mean that's so much better

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than just clicking on an app.
Absolutely, you miss so much when you

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don't have all that that stuff in
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no doubt. Well, a final
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Hey, just remember, like you
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That's like like we talked about earlier, intimate club shows, big shows,

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festivals, whatever you got to do. You know, our goal here is,

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you know, make music that we
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fans love it, that's good on
them, a bonus for us. But

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it's that community interaction and that's what
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about bringing people together, you know, and we love even more when you

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see, like, you know,
business suits standing next to punk rockers and

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then maybe there's a goth there and
everybody's just coming together. You know,

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one common theme, right, You're
escaping your daily life for a couple hours

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as a community to have a good
time and remember what it's like to enjoy

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life. So you get out there, you catch the tour Wicked with Raven

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in North America. We're having a
good time and we're just coming together over

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it. So I love it.
Love your music. Everybody who's check out

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the video for Sunburn the title track, because it's badass and you guys are

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badass. And thank you for being
on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Hey,

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thanks for having me. Thank you
for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin

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on w for CUI Radio.