Aug. 2, 2026

The Other at Wacken Festival: Merging Punk, Metal, and Goth

The Other at Wacken Festival: Merging Punk, Metal, and Goth

In this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman on W4CY Radio, Pipeman sits down with Phantom and Rod Usher of The Other at Wacken festival. The conversation dives into The Other's journey to the festival stage, the significance of their band name, horror punk influences, iconic live show memories, upcoming music, and the interplay between punk and metal subcultures. Expect personal stories, some music history trivia, and passionate discussions about legendary bands like The Misfits, Iron Maiden, and Mötley Crüe.Main Topics Covered

  • The story behind The Other’s band name and merch challenges
  • Getting to play Wacken and what the festival means
  • Phantom’s motivation for joining the band
  • Upcoming shows, Halloween events, and new releases
  • Deep roots and influences: The Misfits, Danzig, Iron Maiden, KISS, and more
  • Punk vs. metal: bridging genres and scenes
  • Memorable concert stories from the LA Sunset Strip and beyond
  • Notable trivia and music history moments
Key Discussions & StoriesBand Name & Merch
  • Rod Usher shares that the name "The Other" is conversation-starting and sometimes confusing for new listeners 00:28.
  • The band’s merch can be bought at Wacken or online at theother.de, but shipping to the US is currently tricky due to high costs 01:31.
Playing Wacken
  • Rod Usher recounts how they landed their first Wacken show by directly emailing the event founder 02:12.
  • Phantom says joining The Other was partially motivated by a wish to play Wacken: "This has been on my wish list" 03:21.
Band’s Upcoming Plans
  • Annual Halloween show is their highlight 04:15.
  • Planning a double headliner tour in Europe with a former Misfits musician; new album coming soon 04:23.
  • Compilation album "Other Dimensions" releasing October 30th, featuring originals and covers 09:57.
  • Plans for a new album with hopes for a Halloween release next year, plus top 10 album chart success 24:05.
Horror Punk & Iconic Influence
  • Rod Usher and Phantom reflect on how The Misfits, Danzig, Typo Negative, The Damned, AFI, and others shaped their style 04:50, 24:45.
  • Discussion of The Misfits’ impact on both music and the punk/metal crossover 06:25.
  • Favorite Misfits songs: "Skulls" (Rod Usher), "Dig Up Her Bones" (Phantom), and "TV Casualty" (Pipe Man) 07:58-08:27.
Punk & Metal Crossover
  • Panel discusses how punk and metal scenes used to clash, only to blend later — with stories from LA and legendary bands like Metallica, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, DRI, and Possessed 11:04-14:14.
  • Rod Usher: “Our second show ever was supporting DRI.” 12:29
Memorable Live Shows & Early Influences
  • Pipeman recounts seeing Mötley Crüe as a horror punk band before their glam transformation, hanging out with Mick Mars and Lemmy at 13, and his first ever concert (Beatlemania at Madison Square Garden) 16:06-18:15.
  • Phantom shares his first live show: an Iron Maiden tribute featuring Helloween’s drummer 18:57.
  • KISS influence: first album owned by Pipeman, tattoos by Rod Usher 21:05.
Notable Quotes
  • Rod Usher: “Once you’re part of the Wacken family, it is an awesome community.” 02:45
  • Phantom: “One of the reasons why I joined is I wanted to play Wacken. It’s always been on my wish list.” 03:21
  • Pipeman: “If they don’t buy your merch, they can’t listen to my show.” 01:11
  • Rod Usher on beginnings: “We started as a Misfits cover band for fun… then we just slipped our originals in, and people didn’t notice — they thought it was a Misfits song.” 09:13
  • Pipeman on punk/metal unity: “Band together, morons, instead of fighting each other.” 11:30
  • Rod Usher: “If you like The Misfits, Danzig, Typo, AFI… you’ll probably like us.” 24:45
Resources & Links Mentioned
  • The Other Merch & Band Info: theother.de
  • Upcoming album: "Other Dimensions," releasing October 30th
  • Socials and general band connections found via official website


Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support.

Click Here to Subscribe for PERKS, BONUS Content & FREE GIVEWAYS!

Follow @pipemanradio on all socials & Pipeman Radio Requests & Info at www.linktr.ee/pipemanradio

Stream The Adventures of Pipeman daily & live Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays at 1PM ET on W4CY Radio & Talk 4 TV.

Download, Rate & Review the Podcast at The Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & All Podcast Apps.
WEBVTT

1
00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:06.559
Hi, you dont here?

2
00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:07.320
Sure?

3
00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:20.280
Fore wow forra you your This is the pipe Main

4
00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.000
here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio,

5
00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:23.719
and I'm here.

6
00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:27.879
With Ventum from the other rud Usher from the other.

7
00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.600
I wonder how many people listening are saying to themselves,

8
00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:37.359
especially in the States, because they could kind of be

9
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.799
like this the other what but that's what's great about

10
00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.719
your band name? Like it does cause people to start

11
00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.679
a conversation. Do you find that.

12
00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.159
Strange that you say that because the first time somebody

13
00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.320
said that, But that's good. We got to think about

14
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.359
this and come up with an answer that we can

15
00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.000
just answer every time somebody says that.

16
00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.479
Kind of like when we were ellying each other. Right,

17
00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.079
and okay, I'm big about merch. I love your shirt,

18
00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.719
okay very much. It's so freaking cool. And I have

19
00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.200
to tell people. I'm going to say right off the bat,

20
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.480
if they don't buy your merch, they can't listen to

21
00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:18.879
my show. So let's start there and tell them how

22
00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.959
they buy your merch, because otherwise you don't get to

23
00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.400
the next gig. I don't think people really realize that.

24
00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.359
Well here at fucking obviously our shirts are at the

25
00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:32.120
merchandise stalls, so that's probably the best bet. But otherwise,

26
00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.799
of course we saw them online in our store. Shipping

27
00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:37.599
to the States is a problem right now.

28
00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:38.680
I imagine.

29
00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:40.799
So we get a lot of requests and everybody's like,

30
00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:44.840
way too expensive due to the texts and customs and

31
00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:46.799
all kinds of stuff. It used to be a much

32
00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.359
easier so but yeah, it's the other. You'll find it

33
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:51.040
on our website.

34
00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.239
The other. There's links everywhere.

35
00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:58.519
Nice. So what was the road you took to get

36
00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:04.280
the VAK in and out? Mean the road you drove on? Well,

37
00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:08.719
this is our fourth time that we're playing Bucking. That's cool.

38
00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.080
This is my first time, but I'm not playing.

39
00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.319
First time was in twenty ten and that was That's

40
00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:18.080
a story that I've been telling a lot in the

41
00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.479
last couple of days when I was drunk, because yeah,

42
00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.840
I just sent an email back then to Holgahutna, the founder,

43
00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:28.199
one of the two founders, and I said, hey, we're

44
00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.520
this and now we just signed to steam Hammer SPV.

45
00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.400
And I told him who we are and he just

46
00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.199
answers like, okay, yeah, you're wrong, and this is the

47
00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.080
fee you're getting. I'm like, that fee doesn't even cover

48
00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.599
our gas costs. And he said take it or leave it,

49
00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.919
and I answered, take take, take right.

50
00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:47.360
But the good thing is once you're.

51
00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:49.319
Part of the family here, of the fucking family, and

52
00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.400
it is an awesome community. You know, you always get

53
00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:56.039
invited back, and we can always come as guests too,

54
00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.800
and we love to hang out every year and party here.

55
00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:03.120
See I love that, and of course party on at Vadkan,

56
00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:04.280
party on totally.

57
00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:06.000
It's uh then's first time.

58
00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.960
Actually, oh yeah, I'm a virgin too.

59
00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:09.400
Yeah.

60
00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.199
So I joined the band two years ago, two kind

61
00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:16.960
of two years ago. And one of the things, or

62
00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.439
one of the reasons, uh why I did, is I

63
00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.280
wanted to play Vackan. This has been on my list.

64
00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.080
You know, I've been living as a musician. I'm not

65
00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:33.520
saying the word professional because that's but yeah, for for

66
00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:37.039
years and that's it's always been on my my wish

67
00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.639
list to play vaking And so yeah, it's it's a

68
00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:43.240
great pleasure to be here. It's awesome already and it

69
00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:44.479
hasn't even started yet.

70
00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.599
So so you basically placed an ad that said, do

71
00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:49.879
you want to play Vakan join our band?

72
00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:55.199
Yeah, that's that's how when well, we have common friends

73
00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:59.479
and he he introduced us. But I'm a little afraid

74
00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.759
when he says that that's that's on his bucket list.

75
00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.319
I hope he doesn't quit the band after today.

76
00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.240
Now you have to come back every year and play

77
00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.199
or else he's not staying with the band.

78
00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.080
Right, Yeah, Well, we have other good things coming up,

79
00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:12.240
so I want to.

80
00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.919
Hear about those other good things. Tell us about those others.

81
00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.680
We play our annual Halloween show, of course, you know where.

82
00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:22.600
We're a scary band and Halloween is our biggest highlight

83
00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:23.040
of the year.

84
00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.040
But next year we're gonna hopefully do a tour with.

85
00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.879
An ex musician of the Misfits, and we do like

86
00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.800
a double headliner tour in Europe.

87
00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:36.959
Stuff like that. We have a new album coming out, and.

88
00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.040
Is it a secret? Is it a secret? Who it is?

89
00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.839
Like if I mentioned the initials, could you say yes

90
00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:43.839
or no?

91
00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:44.279
Please?

92
00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:44.879
Please do?

93
00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.240
But uh, it's not Glenn Danzig.

94
00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.800
I didn't think so, and I didn't want it to be.

95
00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:52.720
We did, however, open forensic ones and a lot of

96
00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.079
signs for the Misfits, the Jerry only Misfits.

97
00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.920
So yeah, so is it MG no, Okay?

98
00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:05.160
I interviewed him actually recently, but I'll tell you interesting.

99
00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.959
So I'm a Jersey boy, so I'm from where they're from. Yeah, okay,

100
00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:17.199
but where I lived in West Palm Beach, Florida before

101
00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.879
they went back to the original Misfits and they were

102
00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.800
just Jerry's band. They used to play this block party

103
00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:31.439
in downtown West Palm Beach every Halloween outside and every

104
00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.959
single time it was beautiful weather until they struck the

105
00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.480
first chord and it would start.

106
00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:38.279
Raining every time.

107
00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.199
Every time. Every time, it was like, yeah, it must

108
00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:47.920
be them awesome, but yeah, like man, they are like

109
00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.920
one of the legends. And I was so excited when

110
00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.759
they did the original Misfits and got that back together.

111
00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.800
You know, it's funny. I've interviewed Doyle and when you

112
00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.439
meet him in real life, it's not who you imagine.

113
00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.800
He's a very calm, low key, low voice person, and

114
00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.399
like I kept having to get him to speak up

115
00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.399
during the interview, but then he gets up on stage

116
00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.839
and he's like this monster. Yeah it's unbelievable, you know.

117
00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:17.399
Yeah it is.

118
00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.360
Uh. And I've seen the Misfits in the nineties a

119
00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:27.360
few times. Love that lineup before Michael Grace went totally crazy. Yeah,

120
00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.399
but we're of course we're very influenced by the Misfits

121
00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.279
and Samain and down Zig, So yeah.

122
00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.040
Yet to me, and not offense to him because you like,

123
00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:40.519
you know, I talked to him and he was a

124
00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:44.639
really nice guy. But to me, the Misfits were damn sick.

125
00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.279
Sure, like wish we would see the original lineup here,

126
00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:52.439
but they don't come over. I think I think their

127
00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:56.879
fee is so high. Probably you can only justify that

128
00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:02.199
by playing stadiums in the States. While up everybody knows

129
00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.839
the Misfits, but they will probably not fill a stadium

130
00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:06.480
over here.

131
00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.000
Yeah, that makes sense because like they play festivals over.

132
00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.079
There and Midfest. I wish I would have gone there.

133
00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.040
I was there. Wow, I was there. Oh my god,

134
00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.120
it was I was in their pit, like right up,

135
00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.680
I was like right in front Doyle in the pit, okay,

136
00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.199
and it was. It was. It was pretty freaking cool.

137
00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.439
Another fucking moment was Vendanzig played here the last time

138
00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.759
and Doyle joined him on stage and nice a few

139
00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.079
Misfits song that was like the the start up probably yeah,

140
00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.879
and that we saw that here and that was an

141
00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.680
incredible moment. Saw that here in that Telpfest and I

142
00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.279
had tears in my eyes when Doyle came up and

143
00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:47.399
they played the classics.

144
00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:48.319
That was really great.

145
00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.959
So here we'll ask you both the question your favorite

146
00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:53.040
Misfits song.

147
00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:56.399
Different for both of us.

148
00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:01.040
I guess I will always answer with skults. That's a

149
00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:01.560
great one.

150
00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.920
Dig Up her Bones probably that's a.

151
00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.319
Great one too. So fine, you said skulls. So I

152
00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:10.879
used to date this hardcore punk singer. She was a female,

153
00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.480
but she used to sing skulls and they're great. You'll

154
00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.560
never guess what my favorite one is. This will show

155
00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.120
you that I'm a true Misfits fan.

156
00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.720
And okay, I'll start in the doorway.

157
00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:28.879
No, you gotta guess Hella. No, maybe TV Casualty.

158
00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.240
Oh, that's an awesome song.

159
00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.960
But nobody would ever really guess that, you know, because

160
00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:39.120
people would think I die, my darling, dig up your bones, skulls,

161
00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.000
all that, but that one, like, I could play that

162
00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:43.000
over and over again.

163
00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.159
Well, that first album and sthetic age is my favorite,

164
00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.360
even though my favorite song isn't on it, but it's

165
00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.840
my favorite it is, so yeah, totally, So that's a

166
00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:54.399
great pick.

167
00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:59.399
There you go. So what was it in life that

168
00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.519
made you side? This is what you wanted to do,

169
00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.519
and you both have different answers to this.

170
00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.240
The band was founded actually as a fun side project

171
00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.840
of a death grindcore band I was in at the time,

172
00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.919
playing guitar, and everything was so serious, and we said,

173
00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.559
let's do a Misfits cover band, just for fun, and

174
00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.480
that that just took off, and then we said, okay,

175
00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.600
we'll write. We'll try it writing one of our original

176
00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:30.519
song and we just slipped it into the set right

177
00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:34.919
next to all the Misfits covers and either people didn't

178
00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.120
notice that and people thought it was a Misfit song,

179
00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.120
and we said, this works kind of well, and then

180
00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.000
we started just doing our own stuff and yeah, now

181
00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.559
we hear and releasing our tenth album in October.

182
00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:51.679
Amazing, what day on October? I'm asking for a reason

183
00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:54.159
because I'm on to find out it's on my birthday.

184
00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.600
It's the thirtieth, the day before Halloween.

185
00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:57.679
There you go.

186
00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:58.840
It's it's a compilation.

187
00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:03.039
It's three new original songs, a few cover songs by

188
00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.519
Brett Legend, the Damned German Band and stuff, and some

189
00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:08.039
love tracks.

190
00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:08.720
Yeah.

191
00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:11.080
We toured with them in two thousand and seven and

192
00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.080
I seized every opportunity to talk to Dave Vanian and

193
00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.720
just suck up all the info that he could give

194
00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.000
me about singing, and he told me tales about his

195
00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.960
time when he was about to join the Misfits. Well

196
00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.960
he was asked to join the Misfits. He did not, obviously,

197
00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.639
but that was it was. It was great.

198
00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:31.080
Wow.

199
00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:34.559
Yeah, And like I said, you know, I joined the

200
00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.159
band two years ago. I got introduced by a friend.

201
00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.559
I grew up as a guitar player with like you're

202
00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.519
wearing a Megadeth shirt right now. It's one of my

203
00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.879
favorite bands, and Iron Maiden and stuff like that.

204
00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:51.600
But I also grew up.

205
00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:56.720
On punk and skate punk goth as well, and this

206
00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:01.480
band is the perfect fusion to assemble all of these

207
00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.679
things like metal, guff and punk.

208
00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.840
See. I love that because I'm both a metal head

209
00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.799
and a punk, which I couldn't be in the eighties

210
00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.879
when I first got into the whole scene. Like I

211
00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:16.960
was a long hair If I went to a punk show,

212
00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.919
I got my ass kicked, and if a punk came

213
00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.200
to a metal show, they got their ass kick. That

214
00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.320
was just the stupid as shit. Ever, like we were

215
00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.039
both similar types of music, we were both getting bullied

216
00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.480
by the jocks in school band together morons instead of

217
00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.840
fighting each other. And I'll tell you a funny story

218
00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.919
about that. So there's this place in Hollywood on Melrose

219
00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.240
called Posers, which is where you got your spikes, but

220
00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.799
only if you were a punk. I wanted to go

221
00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.200
there because that was the place to get all your

222
00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.399
spikes and stuff. So I recruited two of my punk

223
00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.879
friends because they knew the owners, and I'm like, hey,

224
00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.480
bring me there so I don't get my ass kicked,

225
00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.679
you know, And they brought me. I was in there

226
00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.600
for twenty seconds and my friend walks up to me.

227
00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.720
He's like, we got to leave. I'm like, you mean,

228
00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.720
I'll tell you outside. We got to leave now the

229
00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:12.320
godside he goes, because we know the are owners. They

230
00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:15.679
gave us a courtesy and told and told me I

231
00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:17.639
had to get you out a store before they kicked

232
00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:22.240
your Ass's that's that's so crazy, especially because Glenn's got

233
00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.960
long hair now, right, you know. And Dri Dri was

234
00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.879
one of the first ones to grow to their hair out,

235
00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:29.159
you know.

236
00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:33.960
And our our second show ever was supporting Dri Nice.

237
00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.440
They're one of my favorites ever. Really, that first album,

238
00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.679
I'm not dealing with it the first album.

239
00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.919
Oh my god, that was insane. Well, I'm more of

240
00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.000
the metal dri thresh.

241
00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.440
And well, I like both. I like listen. I'm an

242
00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.279
old school thrash metal head. I went to Metallica's first

243
00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.559
show ever, slayers first show ever. When they left LA,

244
00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:57.799
me and my bro would hitch up to the Bay

245
00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.759
Area to go catch the real shows. Like, if you

246
00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:04.559
were to ask me to pick a genre one it

247
00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:08.399
would be thrash. But I like all of them, like

248
00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:13.039
you know, I like, you know, Possessed was There's like

249
00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.360
controversy because they were when I was growing up, they

250
00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.759
were the first death metal band, but death metal bands

251
00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.039
called them thrash, and they used to make fun of

252
00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:27.799
them that they were a Slayer, you know, copycat. And

253
00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.279
I never saw them as sounding like Slayer. I thought

254
00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:37.799
they sounded totally different, you know. But now it's funny.

255
00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:43.759
Thrash came from bands like the Misfits, you know, yeah,

256
00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.240
and and have Field huge Misfits fan and Slayer. Two

257
00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.120
of them were punks, two were well, one was metal head.

258
00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.000
Tom wasn't even didn't even know metal when he joined Slayer.

259
00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.679
Go figure that one out. Uh, And so that's how

260
00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.519
that whole thresh scene was the first starting of the

261
00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:08.080
combining of the two genres together to make what we

262
00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.639
have today with a lot of the bands. You know,

263
00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:16.399
Suicidal was originally pure punk, but they crossed over. Dri

264
00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:21.879
I crossed over and they dri still plays near me

265
00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.600
in this club that I love every single year, and

266
00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.799
they still are so fucking good to watch.

267
00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.879
Yure R I on are on tour in Germany right now,

268
00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.320
but they don't play Vukan, which is a shame.

269
00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.799
Total shame. We got we gotta change that. Yeah, we're

270
00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.440
bringing that out in the universe right now on this

271
00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:47.039
interview that dri I needs to play Vadkan. I wonder

272
00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.519
if they even play uh, what's it called Rebellion. I

273
00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.399
wonder if they play Rebellion, you know Rebellion, the big

274
00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:53.960
punk one.

275
00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.080
And you know, that's one one of my dream festivals.

276
00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.200
I would love to play there because all the big

277
00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.080
bands play there in small venues right like from Germany

278
00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:04.960
de Jordan holes and they play there all the time,

279
00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.879
and it would be amazing to play a show there.

280
00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.200
Yeah, so I They a lot of times played the

281
00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.399
same weekend as Bloodstock, and I've been invited to go

282
00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:19.480
do media rebellion, and so I think I'm always doing Bloodstock,

283
00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.960
but I was told this year. Next year it'll be

284
00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:27.360
a different weekend. So now I'll go next year because

285
00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.600
that is that's a killer festival. That's on my bucket.

286
00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:33.320
Let's just speak to the promoter, tell them about us.

287
00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.360
Yes, I will, like, I'm not comming unless the other

288
00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.679
is on your and it'll be the other. What just

289
00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.240
the other? Okay, that's all you need to know. And

290
00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:51.440
so I have a trivia question for you. Now, what

291
00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:56.679
band that you would never think or maybe you would

292
00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.120
was originally a horror punk band and ended up a

293
00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:02.720
glam hair metal band?

294
00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:05.759
Wow?

295
00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:07.320
Ah?

296
00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.519
And it was the first club show I ever went

297
00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.799
to as this band, and I liked them a lot

298
00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:13.879
better as horror punk.

299
00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.679
Tough question, I would say one of Linda Madley Crue

300
00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:19.720
from the.

301
00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:24.480
Bing Ming Ming Mingming. You got it. That's absolutely one correct.

302
00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:28.679
Wild guess though, but yeah, I mean it's of all

303
00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:33.960
the hair metal bands, they're the most horror Yeah.

304
00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.840
So that first. I grew up in Jersey in nineteen

305
00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.000
eighty I was twelve years old. My dad comes up

306
00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.639
to me, he says, pack your bags, were moving to California.

307
00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:44.320
In three days.

308
00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.679
Now. Initially I was very pissed about that. Now I'm

309
00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:50.840
very happy about that. We wouldn't be seeing here right

310
00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.480
now because I got involved in that whole LA Sunset

311
00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.320
Strip scene. First club show I ever went in my

312
00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.720
life was Motley Crue before they had an album, when

313
00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.120
they were horror punk at the Roxy on the Sunset

314
00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.319
Strip and they were lighting everything on fire, try and

315
00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:05.960
bring Satan into the club.

316
00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.680
Oh, I'm jealous. I'm dying here.

317
00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.279
We actually played Los Angeles.

318
00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.039
We played the Whiskey in twenty sixty nine, legendary club.

319
00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.519
Oh yeah, so a little bit of what you're describing,

320
00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:24.880
We had a little bit of that experience.

321
00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.880
He's gonna be really jealous because I used to hang

322
00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.319
out with Mick Mars at the mall. Wow, and then

323
00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.880
like the Rainbow. Okay, so I go by the Rainbow

324
00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.759
now I look. I'm like they're id and everybody like, hey,

325
00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.079
did I ever get in there in the eighties because

326
00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:44.319
I was thirteen years old walking into the Rainbow. Then

327
00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.079
I thought about it. I'm like, oh, I was walking

328
00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:51.480
in with Motley Crue and hanging out with Lemmy at thirteen,

329
00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.920
Like wow, thanks Dad, I thought you were being an asshole,

330
00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.319
moving me away from all my friends and my whole life.

331
00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.440
But thanks, So what was the show you ever saw?

332
00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:02.400
The first ever show?

333
00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:07.240
The first ever show I saw was not even the

334
00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.119
band but because they were gone, but it was beatle

335
00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:11.880
Mania and Madison Square Garden.

336
00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.480
No way you saw the Beatles.

337
00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:17.240
That It wasn't the Beatles. It was called beatle Mania.

338
00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.759
It was that tribute thing that they did for a while.

339
00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.200
I'm not I'm not even old enough to see the Beatles.

340
00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.880
That was the first one. The first what I considered

341
00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.559
the first real concert I went to being a real

342
00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:36.400
band was Journey and lover Boy believe it or not. Okay,

343
00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:39.480
And I have a question for him too from something

344
00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:43.400
he said earlier. Are you team Diano or team Dickinson.

345
00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:46.079
I'm team Dickinson.

346
00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.880
See I love Dickinson, but I'm team Diano because Killers

347
00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:52.559
is my favorite Maiden album ever.

348
00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.680
I hear it, I hear you.

349
00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.440
Dickenson's got a great voice.

350
00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.599
My first concert I ever went to was also a

351
00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.400
tribute show. Was in my hometown and there was an

352
00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:10.480
Iron Maiden tribute band featuring the drummer from Halloween actually

353
00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.240
Nile Power Slave, and.

354
00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.319
I was you know, I was fourteen years old.

355
00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.680
I had a new Maiden shirt, and you know, people

356
00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.519
were giving us shit because yeah, those were new shirts.

357
00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.160
But we're fourteen.

358
00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.920
I mean where would I get an old shirt?

359
00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:29.240
You know.

360
00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.160
And we had the exact same conversation with all dudes,

361
00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:39.319
is said, you know, we're a team Diana. But a

362
00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:42.359
good friend of mine is actually he played with a

363
00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:46.440
Diana a long time after he left Maiden, and.

364
00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.200
He also has a vegan cookbook.

365
00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:56.119
Wow, yeah, so you should What you need to do

366
00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.359
is you need to give that vegan cookbook to Doyle

367
00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:02.119
Oil two toys.

368
00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:03.440
He's in it. He's in it.

369
00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.400
That makes sense, That makes sense.

370
00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.559
Yeah, they have a features side and a few other others.

371
00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.799
That's cool. So the question you should have asked me,

372
00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.480
which you'll like the answer, is who was the first

373
00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.680
album you ever owned? Meaning me? So go ahead, you

374
00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:23.240
can ask.

375
00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.440
Yeah, what's your the first album you ever owned?

376
00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.160
So is that I was in like I think first

377
00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.440
grade or something like that, you know, maybe a little older,

378
00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.880
maybe I was like seven eight nine, and I was

379
00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:39.519
at the Jersey Shore, which if you know anything about that,

380
00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:42.319
it's a boardwalk like a carnival on the beach all

381
00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.799
the time, and there was there was this Carnie game

382
00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.440
where you could win an album, and I won it,

383
00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:53.279
and I looked up and there was one album that

384
00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.240
just like, oh my god, those fucking dudes look cool.

385
00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:05.559
It's when the album first came out, the original Kiss album.

386
00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:06.599
There it is.

387
00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.640
Let's see that tat Yeah, okay, you Kiss tattooed on

388
00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:11.079
my arm.

389
00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:12.160
Who's your favorite?

390
00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:13.000
Well, that's.

391
00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.200
Gene is the biggest, Paul, those are my favorites. Of course,

392
00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.759
I'm not a big fan of Peter Cris drumming or

393
00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.079
his look, but so he's the original.

394
00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:27.400
Now see, you're not gonna like me now because I

395
00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.000
played drums for nine years and it was because of

396
00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:34.160
two drummers, Peter Chris and Ringo Starry.

397
00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.680
So I was always more an Eric Carr fan because

398
00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.720
he hit the drums really hard.

399
00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:41.799
And I like the eighties Kiss a lot too.

400
00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:44.920
Yeah, there you go. And I used to dress up

401
00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.960
as Gene Simmons for Halloween. Me too, And I always

402
00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.759
loved space Ace like to me, he was such a

403
00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:55.839
great guitar. So he's pretty funny too, right, And we

404
00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.880
were talking about Paul Deiano, and you know, I got

405
00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.720
requested to do an interview with him, like a month

406
00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.519
before he died, and but they said, but it had

407
00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:07.519
to be I forget what it was some weird way

408
00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:09.480
to do it, and I'm like, yeah, I can't do

409
00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.599
it like that. I won't be able to broadcast that,

410
00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:16.440
you know, like it was a non technology thing. It

411
00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:19.119
was like just on like a landline phone or something,

412
00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:21.920
I don't know, something weird like that, you know. And

413
00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:24.319
I'm like, I can't do it. And I was really

414
00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.559
bummed out because then he died like a month later.

415
00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.240
I'm like, oh, maybe I should have figured it away.

416
00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.640
But uh so, what else do you want to let

417
00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.160
the listeners know about you guys, and what you got

418
00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.839
coming up, what they should look out for, how they

419
00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.720
connect to you on socials and all that. And by

420
00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:46.279
the way, that in that one there, At first, you know,

421
00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:48.640
I was thinking it looked I was gonna say, it

422
00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:50.880
looks like Doyle. And now I'm seeing, like, if you

423
00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:55.319
took Doyle and Frankenstein and combine them, that's that tattoo.

424
00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:56.160
It's totally true.

425
00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.119
I mean, Doyay's look is iconic though, right, And it's

426
00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.680
obviously since Doyle Wolfgung from Frankenstein, right, you know, it's

427
00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:04.640
what he looks like.

428
00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.079
I guess.

429
00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:06.119
Yeah, yeah, there you go.

430
00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.839
Well, yeah, we're we're we're playing Brazil next year. We're

431
00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.200
playing the the Bengus Open Air. We're playing Oh yeah.

432
00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:16.519
I've I was gonna try to getting there. I tried once.

433
00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:20.440
I didn't get in yet, but I heard Brazil that's

434
00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.240
the place to play. And we're very excited.

435
00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:24.799
You know.

436
00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:26.759
It's one of those things you look forward to and

437
00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.200
you still think it can't be happening. Some something, some war,

438
00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.960
some whatever will come in between, it will not make it.

439
00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.119
But yeah, we're we're really hoping that it's gonna happen.

440
00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.680
It's gonna happen. We're putting it out there.

441
00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:43.200
Yeah, nothing bad is gonna happen to stop it, you know,

442
00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:45.440
except maybe my country.

443
00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:51.279
Right, we have we have that compilation album coming out.

444
00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:56.759
It's called Other Dimensions because it's songs from a decade.

445
00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.359
So yeah, then we're gonna work on a new album

446
00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.400
with new songs that should come out on Halloween next

447
00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:07.160
year if they're passed enough. And our last album was

448
00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:13.240
top ten album here in number six the official album charts.

449
00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:17.559
That's you know, yeah, that's that's something you.

450
00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:23.559
Yeah, and now by listening doesn't listen to your music. Now,

451
00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:27.079
they're just not in style or trendy because you know

452
00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.839
you're you're like the top, one of the top bands,

453
00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:34.480
and they're not listening. They're stupid. Very true.

454
00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:37.279
Well, I would tell I would like to tell you

455
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:43.240
listeners that, yeah, like like a Venom already said, we

456
00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:45.640
have that mix of punk and metal and golf.

457
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:47.920
If you like the Misfits, if you like Danzig, if you.

458
00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.720
Like Typeou, if you like Afi all that kind of stuff,

459
00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:53.039
you will probably like us.

460
00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:57.519
They definitely will, because you guys are badass and you

461
00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.039
have to be good to play a Vodkin anyway. So

462
00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:02.640
I mean, come on, it's the Holy ground. If you're

463
00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:04.440
playing here, you must be good.

464
00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:08.559
And we're so proud. Seriously, it's an honor to be here.

465
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:12.160
Well, it's an honor to have you here, and I

466
00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.839
look forward to seeing a lot more of you.

467
00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:15.920
Thank you so much.

468
00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:18.359
Thank you for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

469
00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:19.359
Yeah, thank you.

470
00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:26.359
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm

471
00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:29.519
w for CUI Radio.