June 15, 2026

RXPTRS at Download XXIII Donington Park - PipemanRadio Interview

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PipemanRadio speaks with RXPTRS at Download XXIII Donington Park about their performance at the legendary music festival.

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Hey, you have learnt to true se Wow, crazy you.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Avengers Pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with Raptors.

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I'm Simon, I'm in Sam, and I'm Harley Nice. The

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full gang, the whole gang's here. You know what part

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from that?

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You know what makes it difficult for press these days?

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I actually knew, but yeah, you know, sometimes you have

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to think a little bit. There's so many bands out

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there that bands like you have to do creative ship

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to have a band name.

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You know, it's so true, it's so true. We make

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it kind of awkward for ourselves. But once you know

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it and the spelling, you'll you'll find it. You'll you'll

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you'll just keep coming back.

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Then.

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So my first question is how many press people have

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done interviews and say your name wrong or have no clue?

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You know what? The press has not been so bad.

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It's turning up at shows and everyone spelt it wrong

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like we've had We've had it in big lights before

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and it'd be like, there's no vowels in this, get

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that vowal out of here. It's uh so, I mean

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that it's more often than i'd care to get a comment.

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But it's a good topic of conversation, I think.

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Exactly exactly because people people. I like people's interpretations as well.

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It's kind of fun because people will be like raptures.

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Now we're We're much more simple than that. We just

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like dinosaurs.

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So I was gonna say, is it like because you

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like Jurassic poet?

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It is? Literally, we were literally when we were coming

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up with the name we had I had a full

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book and had written names, and we were rowing them

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all around, filled this book, and we were trying to

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be clever about it, and we were taking into consideration

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things that would influence us and poems and movies and

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all of this kind of stuff, and we got so

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sick of it. By the end we'd gotten ages and

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we were like, we're like dinosaurs, raptors.

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There it is, there, it is.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, let's let's not be clever about it.

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We just everyone loves on, I.

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Think, so I do ticket giveaways for a lot of festivals,

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So I think from now on that might be one

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of my contests that I do. If you can say

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their band name right, yeah, could win tickets to a festival.

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That yeah, that would be yeah. I think I think

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i'd be a good I'm sure there'll be many interpretations

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of it.

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Oh yeah, it would be. It would be so funny

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on my radio show to hear all the different interpretations.

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What do you think is the worst one you ever heard?

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Or the funniest one you ever heard?

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I know exact one is we eaten up in Edinburgh.

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We are playing in Edinburgh.

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And.

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Quite often it'll be like r X pt E r S,

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or they'll add an O or an A or something

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in there. But this one put an E in it

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at the front. So we were were e rex erex?

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Were they horny or something? Yeah?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's the after the watersheds the show. Yeah,

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so yeah, that one was particularly confused. We were like,

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that's new.

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Not even close.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, not even close.

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How do I think it's like an acronym? Like they

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think like they ask you, like, well, what does that

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stand for?

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Yeah? Yeah. Initially when we first came back, people did

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say that what does the stand for? I don't Yeah,

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I couldn't even zen them off was the X.

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But basically I just thought if somebody saw the name

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would be really easy to google and people would find.

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Us very quickly.

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That is true though, right just type if you just.

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Typed in raptors, you're gonna get a lot of picture

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of dinosaurs exactly. So you're typing x PTRs, you're only

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gonna find us.

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And the only times I ever do talk about band

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names and interviews is like this because there's funny ship

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that happen.

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It's okay on ourselves, It's okay.

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Hey listen whatever it takes nowadays to stand out above

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the crowd because there's so many bands out there, So

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if people are talking about it, they're gonna listen to

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your music, you know, for better or worse, exactly. So

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how does it feel to be here at download?

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It's insane. It's been absolutely incredible, and it's I mean

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it's only just beginnings and it's been insane. Playing our

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set to as many people that turned up was absolutely

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like life affirming. It was it's always anyone who's in

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a rock and metal band in the UK, this is

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the mac and this is the Holy Land. Yes, and so.

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I think throughout the world because I'm from the state exactly,

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and I do festivals all over the US, UK and Europe.

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This is probably one of my favorite festivals to do

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for many reasons. It's not just that's the granddaddy and

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all this stuff, but how they treat you here. Yeah,

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that's huge.

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It is the Yeah, it's a whole. But it's not

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just the lineup. Obviously, the lineup is always awesome. It's

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it's it's the top top bollocks. But it's the Yeah,

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it's everything that comes with it, and it is that.

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It's the community that comes with exactly everybody that comes

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to download every year, like it's it's wonderful, so accepting

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of everybody, and you know a lot of people came

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to see us that maybe wouldn't have thought to have

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come seen as before, but left hopefully with a smile

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on their face as well.

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I'm sure they did.

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So it's just to play to a download crowd as

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all has been the dream and because we are veterans ourselves,

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we come almost every year nice so to finally complete

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the dream.

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Is it weird to be on the other side of

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the stage.

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Absolutely absolutely, But it's, like Simon said, life affirming.

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You know, how did you guys get together?

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So we I mean we're all long term friends.

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That's important.

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Which is which is which is great? It was the

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one thing that we knew when we were beginning, that

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we knew the chemistry was already there, which is half

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the battle for a lot of bands. It's it's finding

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that that that niche that you have and and seeing

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everyone's again on the same way.

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You're together all the time, like that you better get along.

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What's fricking hell? When yes, I mean you fan or

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bus and like you gotta do all that time, like

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you could kill each other.

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Well yeah, yeah, I mean we we come close. And

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but that's part of it. Like when when the cliche

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thing of saying no it is a family, families are

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dysfunctional too. We are truly, like I.

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Call it, it's like siblings, yes you know, yeah yeah, yeah,

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I wouldn't play in a band with my siblings. I'd

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probably kill them.

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Yeah, but we we So essentially we were all friends

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and we'd all played in bands or jammed with each

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other in other iterations. So me and Ian had been

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in a band together for years beforehand. You guys had

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jammed together as well, briefly and basically with our band.

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We were got to a point where these guys were

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like like stepping in and we were like start a

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new a brand new project, and yeah it came together

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real quick nice, which yeah, it just it just felt right.

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And So for each one of you, who probably has

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a different answer, what was it that started your journey

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in not being even a musician, but in metal, in

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music to where you thought to yourself, this is what

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I need to do.

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I will go along the line because everyone will have

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a very different story. I mine was from stealing my

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older brothers records. Me too, Ah, yeah, honestly he had

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he had great taste when he was younger, and yeah,

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he's a family man now he's gone a little time

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because he when I was like six, I robbed Rage

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against the Machines, first album off him, and I was like,

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what's this I'm feeling. I was like, oh, it's a

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little bit of anger, It's a little bit of everything.

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And yeah, even as a young age, I just loved

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then performing and and yeah, for me, I was like,

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this is something I want to pursue as far as

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I can go.

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H So me, I think for me bands like I

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think it was a Venge Sevenfold that really switched me

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over at the time. It was like I think the

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Foot like my first couple of gigs that I ever

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went to. I was like obviously experimenting with like what

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do I like? What do I not like? My first

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ever gig I went to was like snow Patrol. But

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then the second gig I went to was Avenged, and

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I was like, oh, here I am, Yeah, this is it.

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Here I am and yeah. That was the real turning

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point for me when when I've realized that, yeah, this

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is this is my people.

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It's my people.

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So that was that's my answer, is Avenged.

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I think I used to get picked up every week

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when my dad's in and then he'd had a crank

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sy d in his pickup truck and it was just

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all of my favorite stuff. Now is stuff that he

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listened to nice I love And that's almost a little embarrassing,

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but I don't know, It's all good.

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It's it's normal nowadays.

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It's all dad rock.

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Now, it's normal. It's normal nowadays. I bring my kids

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and grandkids to metal festivals and put them in the pit,

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you know, so like that when I had and when

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I was a kid, no.

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For me, it was reading about Download Festival really and

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like Krang and Mount Hamma all the magazines two thousand

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and five Trivium. I saw a photo of that and

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was like, that's the coolest shit ever. And then yeah,

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my first big show was seeing Trivium and.

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Love it from my area?

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Is it?

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Yeah? I live in South Florida, that's where we're from.

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Yeah, yeah, it was Trivian for me. I was like, cool,

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guitar is my thing and just lock myself in the

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bedroom playing guitar and to Trivium and yeah, and here

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we are and and we get to see Trivium tomorrow.

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Nice. Well, you guys fucking rock And you know what,

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I'm so happy you were here. A download and thanks

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for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank you very much to thank you for listening to

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