October 6, 2025 • 18 mins
PipemanRadio Interviews Five Headed Cobra at Aftershock 2025
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Aftershock 2025 Draws Record-Breaking Crowd Of Over 164,000 Fans, The Largest In The Festival’s History
The West Coast’s Ultimate Rock, Punk & Metal Destination 115+ Bands • 4 Unforgettable Days • Fans From Every Corner of the Globe
Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park, generating an estimated $35 million in local economic impact.
The West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival reached new heights in 2025.
Debuting in 2025, Aftershock introduced several new fan-favorite experiences that elevated the festival weekend to new heights. The Capitol Club offered an all-inclusive oasis with premium amenities and elevated views of the main stage, while Tremors Dive Bar kept the energy high with a pop-up set by DJ Rock Feed with surprise guests My Darkest Days, and a special Sunday takeover by Sacramento’s own The Jungle Bird. Fans also discovered spontaneous performances at Beatbox and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speakeasy hidden beneath the underpass — each adding to the sense of discovery and excitement that defined this year’s festival.
To celebrate DWP’s cultural and economic impact to the region, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, Senator Angelique Ashby, and Assemblymember Maggy Krell honored Danny Wimmer Presents with official recognitions from the City of Sacramento, the California State Senate, and the California State Assembly. The proclamation and resolutions celebrate Aftershock’s decade-long legacy, recognizing its profound cultural, economic, and charitable contributions to the Sacramento community and beyond, and highlighting how the festival has firmly established the city as a premier destination for live music in California.
The 2026 dates for Aftershock will be announced in the coming months along with early bird tickets, allowing fans to lock-in lower level pricing and maximum payment plan options. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to the festival’s official social media channels and AftershockFestival.com.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Aftershock featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Animal Place, Astral Tequila, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft, Body Art Express, California Army National Guard, Coors Light, Don Julio, Eargasm, Freak On a Leash, Fxck Cancer, Golden State Cider, Hyatt Vacation Club, Jack Daniel's, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Little Rocker Clothing, Mortus Viventi, Nowhere Fast, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Pretty Cult, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, and Waterloo Sparkling Water.
Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento and is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
For more information on Aftershock please visit:
Website: www.aftershockfestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aftershockfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aftershockfestival
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Aftershock 2025 Draws Record-Breaking Crowd Of Over 164,000 Fans, The Largest In The Festival’s History
The West Coast’s Ultimate Rock, Punk & Metal Destination 115+ Bands • 4 Unforgettable Days • Fans From Every Corner of the Globe
Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park, generating an estimated $35 million in local economic impact.
The West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival reached new heights in 2025.
Debuting in 2025, Aftershock introduced several new fan-favorite experiences that elevated the festival weekend to new heights. The Capitol Club offered an all-inclusive oasis with premium amenities and elevated views of the main stage, while Tremors Dive Bar kept the energy high with a pop-up set by DJ Rock Feed with surprise guests My Darkest Days, and a special Sunday takeover by Sacramento’s own The Jungle Bird. Fans also discovered spontaneous performances at Beatbox and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speakeasy hidden beneath the underpass — each adding to the sense of discovery and excitement that defined this year’s festival.
To celebrate DWP’s cultural and economic impact to the region, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, Senator Angelique Ashby, and Assemblymember Maggy Krell honored Danny Wimmer Presents with official recognitions from the City of Sacramento, the California State Senate, and the California State Assembly. The proclamation and resolutions celebrate Aftershock’s decade-long legacy, recognizing its profound cultural, economic, and charitable contributions to the Sacramento community and beyond, and highlighting how the festival has firmly established the city as a premier destination for live music in California.
The 2026 dates for Aftershock will be announced in the coming months along with early bird tickets, allowing fans to lock-in lower level pricing and maximum payment plan options. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to the festival’s official social media channels and AftershockFestival.com.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Aftershock featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Animal Place, Astral Tequila, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft, Body Art Express, California Army National Guard, Coors Light, Don Julio, Eargasm, Freak On a Leash, Fxck Cancer, Golden State Cider, Hyatt Vacation Club, Jack Daniel's, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Little Rocker Clothing, Mortus Viventi, Nowhere Fast, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Pretty Cult, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, and Waterloo Sparkling Water.
Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento and is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
For more information on Aftershock please visit:
Website: www.aftershockfestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aftershockfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aftershockfestival
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love then too? Yes, that's true. W why
for you? You?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There's a pipe man here on the bunget pipe Man
W four C by radio and I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
With Angel Dust from five Headed Cobra and he's not
boring anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Gott he cares from the five headed Cobra. He started
doing coke again.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Whooo?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that fixed the boring?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
This?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It helps?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It definitely helps, right?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Is that why you guys bring it so fucking strong
at aftershock?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The drugs help? And I have to ask you, pipe man, Yes,
tell me what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's funny because the most hated question to ask an
artist is the question I always get, how do you
get your name? And I want, yeah, let's hear your ideas.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm thinking, okay, So there's we have a logo here
that I want to I want to show you, and
we call that the pipe pitter logo.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And in motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Culture, where I kind of am a part of and
came up with, if you're a pipe pitter, you're somebody
that like that guy's gonna execute on what he needs
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He's a pipe pitter. A guy's a pipe hitting motherfucker.
I'll take that. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Pipe Man is bro I'll take that and let's see
how good of an artist you are.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
A lot of bands have assumed what I and what
my name means and they actually literally write a song
and sing it during the interview.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna steal something because it's
right on the tip of my fucking tongue. Pipe Man
with your microphone in your hand, Pip Dn.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, you know what that is, right, throwback to the nineties.
It's grunge time. Yes, I love grunge.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who is your favorite grunge.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
My favorite grunge artist is definitely Nirvana, but it's also
like the Melvins, and it's bands that inspired Nirvana, so
I love like. I also like British britpop grunge too,
Like I like Catherine Wheel, like really early grunge, like
shit when.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They they didn't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So I like Catherine Wheel and I think for like
my chillwave stuff that I do. So as an artist,
I have a five Headed Angel and then we have
a heavy rock band together called Five Headed Cobra. So
the chill rock stuff is inspired, definitely nineties inspired stuff,
and Five Headed Cobra, which is a heavy rock act,
is a lot more man Velvet Revolver. I fucking love
(02:54):
that two thousands like version of whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They're grunge singer with a hard rock, fucking metal band,
Like goddamn. That's one of the greatest things that I
think came out of the early two thousands was that band.
And actually had a chance to jam with those guys
when Scott got sick with drugs and alcohol. The actually
brought me in to sing and work with those guys
and rehearse with them, and one of the songs that
(03:20):
we did together, and the whole time I'm doing it,
my manager's saying, you're not getting the gig. They're putting
guns and Roses back together. So just so you know,
make friends with those guys. Have fun. But they didn't
put it back together. Robert Revolver's not happening. So we
wrote a song called Can't Stop the Bleeding, and Scott
hated it because it's about fucking him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow, But it's on our record, dude, and it's a
fucking banging song. We recorded it at the Queens of
the Stone Age Studio Rancho de Leluno. Yeah, and it
was produced by Dave Catching the original Queen's Guitar player.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow, the original.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, Like that goes so way back because Iron Matt nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Bro, Dude, that's fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And like me, I'm an old school thrash metal head
from the eighties, So I hated grunge at first because
it killed metal. Yeah, but then it's like everything back then,
you weren't allowed to like shit, so you secretly liked
it type of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I loved Nirvana.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like Nirvana changed everything. You're gonna laugh, Okay. When my
kids were little, I was just talking about this other
interview ironically, and I never talked about They loved the
song rape Me, but they were fine. So they were
five and six, so they thought when they were saying,
I'm listening to what I'm saying, they're saying rave Me.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I don't believe rave Me? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
WHOA Okay, So here's a good one and if you
can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They also loved James Addiction Great Badkay, one of our
big influences.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Caught stealing what do you think thought the name to
that song? Wend They always see say Dad. Yeah, they'd say, dad,
can you play being Catstean? But they didn't know it?
But okay, so one question. You get one chance and
I get a chance. So what did his kids think?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like a kid when I was five?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Big caught squealing?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Okay, terrible, but thank you. He's not boring anymore. All right,
five headed Gotti?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What's your answer being constelan, Ben's Scott hold on, Ben's
got Ben benscots.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You're not even close, neither one of you or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Even Ben's got Ben's got, Ben's got feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's better than his dogs singing. Think about the beginning
of the song.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh it's amazing, dude, I love that so much, like
it was a novelty song as far as your kids
were concerned, it was a novelty song.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Right, that's hilarious. So there you go. There's my Nirvana stories.
Oh fucking love a.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Right, which the song is about them stealing because they
were so poor.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well that's why I was hoping they didn't know what
really man. Yeah, give it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
In the mic to eat, there's still stealing dogs to
eat to eat.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh yeah, well that makes sense. They were eating dogs.
They were really broke. That is it's just so we're clear.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That that might be. Why is that why it's called
grunge then? Because they ate dogs and that it was
kind of grungey.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I think the grunge thing was it was like a
fashion statement at first, and it went with the music,
and I know, yeah it really was. And I know
Kurt hated the moniker and I know Soundgarden guys hated it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But yeah, it was an anti fashion.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
True for most bands when they make up those stupid
larry bows like Corn that played last night, they hated
it being called new metal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hated it. Yeah, totally. Now they're okay with it, but well,
because it's they started the genre. Same thing with punk rock.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you talk to any of the Pistols guys, they
were like, that was a way to describe us.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Negatively, to make us look stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And you've got Johnny Rotten being like, fuck you when
someone would say you're punks. He would say fuck you
in interviews and get furious because there was an insult.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Totally, I'm not a fucking punk, you cunt.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Remember the famous interview where they just went off on
that fucking old older.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Guy and destroyed him. Yeah, because checked the YouTube's kids.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was an insult, like, really, you're a punk, You're nothing,
you're broke ass. Yeah, and think about with no job.
Now we're proud to say I'm a punk. Yeah, you
think about that. It's like you're proud of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Bro When people, like, when people see our band and
they watch what we do, they always say, there's a
punk rock energy to your hard rock that I can't.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Explain because you ain't play that. It's just because it's
balls deep vibe.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Man, fuck you, We're going balls deep and I don't
care if you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And now you know, you wouldn't have been able to
have that back when in the eighties, which, by the way,
this is my battle vest from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh my god, we need to talk about this. Read
some fans off that whole thing. All right, this is sick,
This is amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh my god, this is legit real right, Yeah, I
drew all my good dude, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Can you get this for the movie? Dude? I know right?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
This guy is literally the og of the ogs. Like,
this guy was into hardcore. He was into fucking metal.
He was into black metal, one of my favorite bands
of all time. Is Mayhem, Nice Beautiful Slayer Metallica GBH.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
See that's when the punk.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Discharged, the exploited Dark Angel, the original exodust logo.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I have original Dark Angel shirt. Nice.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So I interviewed ginat helfest a couple of months ago.
I pulled this out and I held up I'm like,
do you recognize this logo?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And they just came out when new album. It's amazing. No,
I didn't know that that's what happened. They were one
of my favorites, possessed right band. I use all.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I used to see some of these bands, like like
I used to hang out with Don Dodie.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
We were like fifteen, he was fifteen when it was
in Dark Angel. Fucking so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Dude got blood on here, sweat some blood up, okay, doors,
blood on the vest.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He's gonna lick it because he's not boring anymore. Right there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The story is I went to see this band, Savage Grace,
that was a big thrash band back then that isn't today,
but they toured with Mared and stuff. They were friends
of mine. I hopped up on stage. Security was chasing me.
I climbed up on the marshall stack when full Swan
crowd moved teeth.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
First into the floor.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's an epics linoleum floor.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Man, my teeth are not there anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But that's that's a battle scar front on my battle
vest right there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So yeah, I mean, well, here's even better.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So the band came out with new album like two
years ago, and I get email, can you interview this band?
I look, I'm like, holy shit, because I never saw
the band since that time?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Am I out? Are the teeth still in the pocket? No,
but you know what I from you?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wait, that would be metal.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Wait going back to the Bageia airview. Okay, fast forward
twenty five years. I pulled this out of the closet
and I reach into this pocket. I'm like, bonus, there
was a joint there from nineteen eighty something fucking in
the pocket like that. I moved still fresh, moved like
(11:35):
everywhere for years and it was still there. And yes,
I smoked it. I'm not really sure, which means I
probably did.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
If you're not sure, you got me really.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Hot right exactly? I know totally. It was the og
La weed.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Did you find yourself saying this movie is really that
would be your answer?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh man, there it is answer right there. But yeah,
so I interviewed the dude and game on. We were friends,
but I haven't talked to him since. And you know
how you tell your kids these stories from when you're
younger and don't have kids, right, but you your parents,
when your parents told you stories, You're like, yeah, sure, dad, yeah,
(12:26):
sure that happened. You think we're exaggerating, Yeah that was
my kids with this story. I'm like, yeah, I was
like the most tragic thing that happened in La Medal
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, sure dad.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I get this interview and he goes, oh my god,
I wondered what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I felt so bad, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He goes, you were the most tragic thing that happened
to La Metal record.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Here you go, kids, there's my proof.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's so do you get proof of what happened in
your teenage years? Well, nowadays teenagers are fucked. There's proof
of everything.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh yeah, like everybody, I agree, Thank god.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When I was on the Sunset Strip in the eighties,
there is no fucking proof anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Okay, I don't even have memory for proof. That would
have been Instagram reel.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, I wait, god viral, Like fuck, I miss my
calling wrong generation. So how is it here at Aftershock,
in this blazing heat with that fucking insane crowd so
early in the day on the line.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We love it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, we had a really good show. We had a
really good turnout. It was the sound was amazing. Everybody
hears lovely, very sweet people, super professional, good vibes. I
keep saying that it feels like summer camp for rock and.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Roll, and you're not the only one.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, And even like the way it's a park with
trees and shit. Hey, nice meeting you, brother. Even with
the trees and shit, it's what you like a family.
It's a heavy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Metal family reunion right here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Anything else you want to tell listeners that you got
coming up that they need to know and follow you
or they can't listen to my show.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The band is five Headed Cobra the Instagram, you can
find us anywhere five Headed Cobra.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's spelled out five Headed Cobra.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I am Angel Dust and I am the singer of
the band and the primary writer and the artists kind
of behind it doing the artwork.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And it is an artsy band, as you can tell
by the makeup if you look at.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
The make up, So there's like layers of masks and
stuff that I wear on stage, Like I feel like
to do what we need to do in this coming
moment creatively, you can't just be a band of a
bunch of white guys with beards and black clothes.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You can't be grunge.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
There's got to be something bigger, dude, And for us,
that's really what we're doing. And I will also say
you can follow me at five Headed Angel spelled out
so five Headed Angel on Instagram, and you can join
our Discord, which is fucking off the chain, dude. Seven
thousand fucking members on Discord, a quarter million followers for me,
(15:19):
quarter million followers on Instagram, forty nine thousand on Facebook
in two months. Like the band is just exploding, So
you guys are just a little good then you know what, dude,
we're bringing authenticity, bro, and we're etiquete. Yeah, and we're
making it freaky again. Like I don't give a fuck, dude.
I pulled my cock out. I was standing on the
(15:42):
fucking on the big bass fill and I pulled my
cock out and fucking they closed our showdown.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's fucking metal.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because I was like I was feeling Jim Morrison, and
when you're feeling Jim, you got to show your Jimmy,
no doubt no, and we were immediately shut off. I
just want to, like, I want to battle against this
prude place that we're in as a culture where you
can't there's no fun and there's nothing you can do,
and like it's not political, Like I'm not trying to
(16:12):
say retard, right, I'm saying I just want to be
in a rock and roll band where we talk about
like doing drugs and eating pussy and signing titties and cocks,
like come the fuck on. So our stage like image
was shoe demons eating pussies that were like that was
on the fucking that was on the behind us. It
(16:34):
said five minute Cobra and there were these two demons
and that this death head logo that was I want
to bring Freaky back.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I want to bring like rock and roll back.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I want to bring the insanity of like what what
Jim Morrison was, what Iggy pop was, Yeah, Wendy O Williams,
the Stooges, like, fuck dude, the Kiss when Kiss was
fucking crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And you're also bringing back my favorite era the eighties
and that debauchery that we had, and that absolutely it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Went through, Yeah, the sixties, seventies, and eighties for sure,
and it didn't dry up until the nineties. And then
the music got really heavy and cool and sludgy. So
we're combining everything.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with the millennials that
they ruined all the fun?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Then?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I wouldn't say that. I think that the world spun
out during COVID. Yeah, people got really bored and they
became keyboard warriors and that hate thing that we have.
We just started digesting ourselves with hate. And look, man, like,
I've got like a niece that's gay. Like, I'm not
saying gay jokes in front of her. It's not cool. Like,
(17:42):
I'm not that guy's fucking dumb white guy that's saying
stupid shit.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't do that right.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
However, I'm gonna draw a line on certain things and
be like, hey, I'm not playing by that rule. I'm
not gonna say certain things because I respect people, but
I'm also not gonna be an authentic to myself.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You've gotta be yourself, yeah, and do what I.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Want to do on stage and feel what I want
to feel on stage.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I love you, Dean, fucking awesome, dude, you rock.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
How do I follow you? Pipe Man Radio? Fuck yeah,
dude everywhere I'm in. Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Mans fucking amazing. Thank you for listening to the Adventures
of Pipemin.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I'm w for c UI Radio.
Hi, you love then too? Yes, that's true. W why
for you? You?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There's a pipe man here on the bunget pipe Man
W four C by radio and I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
With Angel Dust from five Headed Cobra and he's not
boring anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Gott he cares from the five headed Cobra. He started
doing coke again.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Whooo?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that fixed the boring?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
This?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It helps?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It definitely helps, right?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Is that why you guys bring it so fucking strong
at aftershock?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The drugs help? And I have to ask you, pipe man, Yes,
tell me what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's funny because the most hated question to ask an
artist is the question I always get, how do you
get your name? And I want, yeah, let's hear your ideas.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm thinking, okay, So there's we have a logo here
that I want to I want to show you, and
we call that the pipe pitter logo.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And in motorcycle.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Culture, where I kind of am a part of and
came up with, if you're a pipe pitter, you're somebody
that like that guy's gonna execute on what he needs
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He's a pipe pitter. A guy's a pipe hitting motherfucker.
I'll take that. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Pipe Man is bro I'll take that and let's see
how good of an artist you are.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
A lot of bands have assumed what I and what
my name means and they actually literally write a song
and sing it during the interview.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna steal something because it's
right on the tip of my fucking tongue. Pipe Man
with your microphone in your hand, Pip Dn.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, you know what that is, right, throwback to the nineties.
It's grunge time. Yes, I love grunge.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Who is your favorite grunge.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
My favorite grunge artist is definitely Nirvana, but it's also
like the Melvins, and it's bands that inspired Nirvana, so
I love like. I also like British britpop grunge too,
Like I like Catherine Wheel, like really early grunge, like
shit when.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They they didn't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So I like Catherine Wheel and I think for like
my chillwave stuff that I do. So as an artist,
I have a five Headed Angel and then we have
a heavy rock band together called Five Headed Cobra. So
the chill rock stuff is inspired, definitely nineties inspired stuff,
and Five Headed Cobra, which is a heavy rock act,
is a lot more man Velvet Revolver. I fucking love
(02:54):
that two thousands like version of whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They're grunge singer with a hard rock, fucking metal band,
Like goddamn. That's one of the greatest things that I
think came out of the early two thousands was that band.
And actually had a chance to jam with those guys
when Scott got sick with drugs and alcohol. The actually
brought me in to sing and work with those guys
and rehearse with them, and one of the songs that
(03:20):
we did together, and the whole time I'm doing it,
my manager's saying, you're not getting the gig. They're putting
guns and Roses back together. So just so you know,
make friends with those guys. Have fun. But they didn't
put it back together. Robert Revolver's not happening. So we
wrote a song called Can't Stop the Bleeding, and Scott
hated it because it's about fucking him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow, But it's on our record, dude, and it's a
fucking banging song. We recorded it at the Queens of
the Stone Age Studio Rancho de Leluno. Yeah, and it
was produced by Dave Catching the original Queen's Guitar player.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow, the original.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, Like that goes so way back because Iron Matt nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Bro, Dude, that's fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And like me, I'm an old school thrash metal head
from the eighties, So I hated grunge at first because
it killed metal. Yeah, but then it's like everything back then,
you weren't allowed to like shit, so you secretly liked
it type of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I loved Nirvana.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like Nirvana changed everything. You're gonna laugh, Okay. When my
kids were little, I was just talking about this other
interview ironically, and I never talked about They loved the
song rape Me, but they were fine. So they were
five and six, so they thought when they were saying,
I'm listening to what I'm saying, they're saying rave Me.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I don't believe rave Me? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
WHOA Okay, So here's a good one and if you
can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They also loved James Addiction Great Badkay, one of our
big influences.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Caught stealing what do you think thought the name to
that song? Wend They always see say Dad. Yeah, they'd say, dad,
can you play being Catstean? But they didn't know it?
But okay, so one question. You get one chance and
I get a chance. So what did his kids think?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like a kid when I was five?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Big caught squealing?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Okay, terrible, but thank you. He's not boring anymore. All right,
five headed Gotti?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
What's your answer being constelan, Ben's Scott hold on, Ben's
got Ben benscots.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You're not even close, neither one of you or.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Even Ben's got Ben's got, Ben's got feeling.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's better than his dogs singing. Think about the beginning
of the song.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh it's amazing, dude, I love that so much, like
it was a novelty song as far as your kids
were concerned, it was a novelty song.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Right, that's hilarious. So there you go. There's my Nirvana stories.
Oh fucking love a.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Right, which the song is about them stealing because they
were so poor.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well that's why I was hoping they didn't know what
really man. Yeah, give it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
In the mic to eat, there's still stealing dogs to
eat to eat.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh yeah, well that makes sense. They were eating dogs.
They were really broke. That is it's just so we're clear.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That that might be. Why is that why it's called
grunge then? Because they ate dogs and that it was
kind of grungey.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I think the grunge thing was it was like a
fashion statement at first, and it went with the music,
and I know, yeah it really was. And I know
Kurt hated the moniker and I know Soundgarden guys hated it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But yeah, it was an anti fashion.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
True for most bands when they make up those stupid
larry bows like Corn that played last night, they hated
it being called new metal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hated it. Yeah, totally. Now they're okay with it, but well,
because it's they started the genre. Same thing with punk rock.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you talk to any of the Pistols guys, they
were like, that was a way to describe us.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Negatively, to make us look stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And you've got Johnny Rotten being like, fuck you when
someone would say you're punks. He would say fuck you
in interviews and get furious because there was an insult.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Totally, I'm not a fucking punk, you cunt.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Remember the famous interview where they just went off on
that fucking old older.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Guy and destroyed him. Yeah, because checked the YouTube's kids.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was an insult, like, really, you're a punk, You're nothing,
you're broke ass. Yeah, and think about with no job.
Now we're proud to say I'm a punk. Yeah, you
think about that. It's like you're proud of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Bro When people, like, when people see our band and
they watch what we do, they always say, there's a
punk rock energy to your hard rock that I can't.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Explain because you ain't play that. It's just because it's
balls deep vibe.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Man, fuck you, We're going balls deep and I don't
care if you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And now you know, you wouldn't have been able to
have that back when in the eighties, which, by the way,
this is my battle vest from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh my god, we need to talk about this. Read
some fans off that whole thing. All right, this is sick,
This is amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh my god, this is legit real right, Yeah, I
drew all my good dude, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Can you get this for the movie? Dude? I know right?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
This guy is literally the og of the ogs. Like,
this guy was into hardcore. He was into fucking metal.
He was into black metal, one of my favorite bands
of all time. Is Mayhem, Nice Beautiful Slayer Metallica GBH.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
See that's when the punk.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Discharged, the exploited Dark Angel, the original exodust logo.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I have original Dark Angel shirt. Nice.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
So I interviewed ginat helfest a couple of months ago.
I pulled this out and I held up I'm like,
do you recognize this logo?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And they just came out when new album. It's amazing. No,
I didn't know that that's what happened. They were one
of my favorites, possessed right band. I use all.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I used to see some of these bands, like like
I used to hang out with Don Dodie.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
We were like fifteen, he was fifteen when it was
in Dark Angel. Fucking so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Dude got blood on here, sweat some blood up, okay, doors,
blood on the vest.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He's gonna lick it because he's not boring anymore. Right there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The story is I went to see this band, Savage Grace,
that was a big thrash band back then that isn't today,
but they toured with Mared and stuff. They were friends
of mine. I hopped up on stage. Security was chasing me.
I climbed up on the marshall stack when full Swan
crowd moved teeth.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
First into the floor.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's an epics linoleum floor.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Man, my teeth are not there anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But that's that's a battle scar front on my battle
vest right there.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So yeah, I mean, well, here's even better.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So the band came out with new album like two
years ago, and I get email, can you interview this band?
I look, I'm like, holy shit, because I never saw
the band since that time?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Am I out? Are the teeth still in the pocket? No,
but you know what I from you?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wait, that would be metal.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Wait going back to the Bageia airview. Okay, fast forward
twenty five years. I pulled this out of the closet
and I reach into this pocket. I'm like, bonus, there
was a joint there from nineteen eighty something fucking in
the pocket like that. I moved still fresh, moved like
(11:35):
everywhere for years and it was still there. And yes,
I smoked it. I'm not really sure, which means I
probably did.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
If you're not sure, you got me really.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Hot right exactly? I know totally. It was the og
La weed.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Did you find yourself saying this movie is really that
would be your answer?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh man, there it is answer right there. But yeah,
so I interviewed the dude and game on. We were friends,
but I haven't talked to him since. And you know
how you tell your kids these stories from when you're
younger and don't have kids, right, but you your parents,
when your parents told you stories, You're like, yeah, sure, dad, yeah,
(12:26):
sure that happened. You think we're exaggerating, Yeah that was
my kids with this story. I'm like, yeah, I was
like the most tragic thing that happened in La Medal
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, sure dad.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I get this interview and he goes, oh my god,
I wondered what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I felt so bad, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He goes, you were the most tragic thing that happened
to La Metal record.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Here you go, kids, there's my proof.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's so do you get proof of what happened in
your teenage years? Well, nowadays teenagers are fucked. There's proof
of everything.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Oh yeah, like everybody, I agree, Thank god.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When I was on the Sunset Strip in the eighties,
there is no fucking proof anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Okay, I don't even have memory for proof. That would
have been Instagram reel.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, I wait, god viral, Like fuck, I miss my
calling wrong generation. So how is it here at Aftershock,
in this blazing heat with that fucking insane crowd so
early in the day on the line.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We love it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, we had a really good show. We had a
really good turnout. It was the sound was amazing. Everybody
hears lovely, very sweet people, super professional, good vibes. I
keep saying that it feels like summer camp for rock and.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Roll, and you're not the only one.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, And even like the way it's a park with
trees and shit. Hey, nice meeting you, brother. Even with
the trees and shit, it's what you like a family.
It's a heavy.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Metal family reunion right here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Anything else you want to tell listeners that you got
coming up that they need to know and follow you
or they can't listen to my show.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The band is five Headed Cobra the Instagram, you can
find us anywhere five Headed Cobra.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It's spelled out five Headed Cobra.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I am Angel Dust and I am the singer of
the band and the primary writer and the artists kind
of behind it doing the artwork.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
And it is an artsy band, as you can tell
by the makeup if you look at.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
The make up, So there's like layers of masks and
stuff that I wear on stage, Like I feel like
to do what we need to do in this coming
moment creatively, you can't just be a band of a
bunch of white guys with beards and black clothes.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You can't be grunge.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
There's got to be something bigger, dude, And for us,
that's really what we're doing. And I will also say
you can follow me at five Headed Angel spelled out
so five Headed Angel on Instagram, and you can join
our Discord, which is fucking off the chain, dude. Seven
thousand fucking members on Discord, a quarter million followers for me,
(15:19):
quarter million followers on Instagram, forty nine thousand on Facebook
in two months. Like the band is just exploding, So
you guys are just a little good then you know what, dude,
we're bringing authenticity, bro, and we're etiquete. Yeah, and we're
making it freaky again. Like I don't give a fuck, dude.
I pulled my cock out. I was standing on the
(15:42):
fucking on the big bass fill and I pulled my
cock out and fucking they closed our showdown.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's fucking metal.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because I was like I was feeling Jim Morrison, and
when you're feeling Jim, you got to show your Jimmy,
no doubt no, and we were immediately shut off. I
just want to, like, I want to battle against this
prude place that we're in as a culture where you
can't there's no fun and there's nothing you can do,
and like it's not political, Like I'm not trying to
(16:12):
say retard, right, I'm saying I just want to be
in a rock and roll band where we talk about
like doing drugs and eating pussy and signing titties and cocks,
like come the fuck on. So our stage like image
was shoe demons eating pussies that were like that was
on the fucking that was on the behind us. It
(16:34):
said five minute Cobra and there were these two demons
and that this death head logo that was I want
to bring Freaky back.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I want to bring like rock and roll back.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I want to bring the insanity of like what what
Jim Morrison was, what Iggy pop was, Yeah, Wendy O Williams,
the Stooges, like, fuck dude, the Kiss when Kiss was
fucking crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And you're also bringing back my favorite era the eighties
and that debauchery that we had, and that absolutely it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Went through, Yeah, the sixties, seventies, and eighties for sure,
and it didn't dry up until the nineties. And then
the music got really heavy and cool and sludgy. So
we're combining everything.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with the millennials that
they ruined all the fun?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Then?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I wouldn't say that. I think that the world spun
out during COVID. Yeah, people got really bored and they
became keyboard warriors and that hate thing that we have.
We just started digesting ourselves with hate. And look, man, like,
I've got like a niece that's gay. Like, I'm not
saying gay jokes in front of her. It's not cool. Like,
(17:42):
I'm not that guy's fucking dumb white guy that's saying
stupid shit.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't do that right.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
However, I'm gonna draw a line on certain things and
be like, hey, I'm not playing by that rule. I'm
not gonna say certain things because I respect people, but
I'm also not gonna be an authentic to myself.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You've gotta be yourself, yeah, and do what I.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Want to do on stage and feel what I want
to feel on stage.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I love you, Dean, fucking awesome, dude, you rock.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
How do I follow you? Pipe Man Radio? Fuck yeah,
dude everywhere I'm in. Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Mans fucking amazing. Thank you for listening to the Adventures
of Pipemin.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I'm w for c UI Radio.
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