September 22, 2025 • 17 mins
PipemanRadio Interviews From First To Last at Louder Than Life 2025
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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans
Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.
Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans
Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.
Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
Website: https://louderthanlifefestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
#LouderThanLife
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is pipe Man here on the Avenues, pipe Man
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Here with Matt good from first to last.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Nice here at Louder than Life.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now, how fucking awesome is this festival?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This festival is unbelievably sick, right, yeah. And I have
a lot of experience at festivals. Actually, I've been doing
this since two thousand and three, and we used to
do like Warp Tour and all that shit. It's like, man,
this is insane, right, insane man.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I want to ask you too that I ask everybody, like,
as an artist, how do you feel Danny Wimmer treats.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You really well, really really well.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And the one thing I will say about this really
cool is that all the bands, it feels like they're
all treated well. There's no weird hierarchy or anything like that.
You go in the dressing room and everybody has a
nice room. They're all the same size, they all have
the same accommodations. It's like it's just really it's just
done so well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I asked that question not only because we're here
at the festival, but in sixteen years of doing the
Wimmer festivals, I've never heard an orders say a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I ever easily believe that. Yeah, yeah, and you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Just proved it. And I love what you said.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I hear a lot. It doesn't matter who you are.
You are treated the same, whether you're bring Me to
Rise and Slayer or you're the band playing in the
theme park.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It doesn't You're right, and listen. I do a lot
of festivals too. Usually to La have a Ferros wheel
and maybe one other rut. I don't know if any
other festival in the world that has a whole.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Feed bark is part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't think there is one, right, I would be
shocked if there was.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's fucking wild man.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It is man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And the cool thing is too, is that the people
that come to this festival, they come for the music,
which means they're here early.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh yeah, like early.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The first band to play the day has a huge crowd.
When does that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, that's yeah, that's wild dude.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, we played it two fifty and it was literally
like packed to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
The brand and see the end. Yeah, it was just
like no one else can fit over here. That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How does that feel when you're up there playing at
that time, thinking you're gonna have nobody because it's so early.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, how does it feel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It feels fucking amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And the thing with us too, is we haven't played
in fifteen years, right, So I was like, I don't
even know what to expect.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You amos like culture shock, right, Yeah, you know, it's
like you want to ease your way back into it,
and there you are the biggest crowd ever.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's really funny too, because, like you get up there
and I was telling the guys like, it only took
like thirty seconds before I zapped into oh I know
how to do this right, yeah, even though it's been
so long, Like it only took like thirty seconds, and
I just went all right, I'm doing this thing now.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I know it's gone.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, And then you see that crowd and kind of
motivates you like, wow, we should do more of this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's actually really funny that some of the people that
work for us so like, yeah that was good enough
to be pretty encouraging, huh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And I was like, yeah, it was like yeah, let's
be real.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, And so.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What prompted you to make this comeback after so many
years to play?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, I mean realistically, we had. We just kind of
like recorded a song here and there over the last year.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I think we did two. Yeah, we did two. And
it was just kind of different.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
When I'm a producer, I have a studio and I
make tons of records for O their bands and stuff.
So tho some of these things where I felt like,
why wouldn't I just make a song for my own band?
And so I did and it was fun or whatever,
but it's way different than being like, oh, we're gonna
be a real band shows now, right, completely separated.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So Danny Wimmer's people hit us up and asked us.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
To play and I was like, oh, actually yeah, that'd
be sick. And then once we announced this song, then
some other people did and now it's becoming a thing
where I'm like, oh, I guess we're doing this again.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Guess where bam? Yeah, the band's back in town.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, after all this work of getting ready to play
shows again, and because it's like a whole other world,
you know, like I'm like, okay, wow, we got to
keep playing right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Right, Yeah, and you just dropped the song yesterday. Yeah,
uh huh, Like so that also says you have to
keep playing yes, yeah, and that song is badass.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Thank you very much, thank you. We're really stoked on it.
It's doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And how does it feel to be a producer, Like,
do you listen to the songs you write differently now
that you're a producer?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
God, yeah, one hundred, Because I think the thing that
like that releases the serotonin in my brain versus like
a normal person that's listening to it that had nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Is like thinking of the moment when we came.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Up with said idea, or like how we got some
sound to be there, or like how hard some guitar
part was snail, but we did it. So I'm listening
to it and like my brain is just like rapid
firing memories and like weird things like that. So for me,
I'm just like, Wow, this is so cool, feels so good.
And then I think people on the other end of
the thing are just like I like this.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
This emotionally triggers me in some positive way. Right, It's
just a little different because.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Music's the best therapy there is for you, the artists,
and for me the listener.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you look at you and the people in the band,
how you're playing and how you're performing differently now as
a producer, I.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Would say a little bit, I'm trying to like not
get too producer brained about it, yeah, because it would
be really easy to like get like really dissect everything
a little too much and get a little too deep
on the details. I'm really just trying to stick with
the right vibe. Yeah, you know, like I want to
make sure the vibe is right. Like the things that
people loved about our band, I'm like, let's just make
sure that we are not losing sight of those, because
(05:59):
like in the modern era, as a producer, there's a
lot of ways to like make things feel more perfect
but also waters down some things that people like about
us in the first place. So I'm trying to really
it's two.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Different personality, yes, And that's why I'm asking these things
because like if it were me, I would do it
your way too, Like I would shut off producer mentality
and turn on artists. Yeah, and then when I'm producing,
turn off artists, yeah, turn on producer. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It is like that right, Yeah, and it even with me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's like I have my engineer or produce my show
because I want to fuck with that when I'm doing
my show. Makes sense, like why do I want to
twist knobs while I'm trying to focus on doing an
interview or whatever I'm doing. It's like, I think you
really need that too. I think you need the objectivity.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
As a perfect example, you take the Black album by Mentallicoat.
Without that producer, that album isn't what it is now.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean shit, that won't even be remotely close to
what it is honestly exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So I think you kind of need that objectiveness as
the producer where you remove the emotion from the equation,
because when you're the writer or the performer, you're emotionally attached.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
To that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, It's funny like I wrote one song
once and I'm more of a book writer, so I
wrote it was more like a book, and I brought
it to Mike bro who was the head engineer of
our station. He was also a musician and he was
really good. Like I picked him because I used to
watch him play gigs and fuck with the mixer board
the whole time he's singing and playing, you know, because
(07:36):
he needed the perfection, and he goes, what the fuck
is this? You need to shorten this? This is a book,
And he's like, can we take this out of him?
Like no, that's important, like and everything. He was saying,
that's what I'm saying, you can't take it out. Finally
I was like, Okay, do whatever you want, because I
(07:56):
don't want you to take any of it out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's like part of you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So it's very hard for me to sit there look
at it and say.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That doesn't belong right right, whereas.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He it's that it doesn't belong to have no emotion
involved and make it a real song.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I think you see that all the time, all
the time.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Those conversations are touchy too.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You got to really be like, I think, let's have
a certain level of empathy pre installed in your in
who you are, because I can really tell how people
are feeling by just you can feel the vibe obviously
in the room, you know, like they'll talk quieter, look down,
or you gotta be really smart about the way that
you approach people when you're telling them their ideas could
be better or they're not good enough. Or they need
refinement when they're already so invested in these ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It takes a certain skill, for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And I think that's where you have a benefit as
an artist being the producer, because you understand how it
feels to be on the other side.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You are more right than you could ever even know.
Probably right, yeah, because a lot of the bands they
work with they know of my band, and I'm like, look, man,
I've been there before, and they know that I'm not
bullshitting them, right because they just know, you know what
I mean exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I look at the same way here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's like, when I'm doing interviews, I'm thinking, as if
I was the artist, how I would feel on the
other end of the mic. And for sure, sometimes at
these festivals I listen to other media people, I'm like, man,
if I was the artist, I'd slip my throat right
now as boring as fuck. Man's why are you asking
a question that the other twenty people asked?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Why are you asking a question that you can google?
I'm like, I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
All that shit, yeah, Wikipedia, right, Like, the only time
I'll bring up Wikipedia is if I know something's like
dead wrong right for sure. And it's like well, is
this true? And I'll play it off like that, like
it that's not really true? Is it that you get
the real story? But then they laugh because you realize
it's bullshit, Whereas there's other people that, if you're scripted,
(09:53):
are like, well it says in Wikipedia this, So how
do you feel about that? And I think you're about
to get from the artist it's fucking bullshit.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Shut up. Yeah, that's the way I think, or.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
At least like a version of that, right exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So now that you got the bug again, Yeah, and
then a big way yeap, what else do we want
to expect from you guys?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
October third, which is coming up really fucking soon. We're
playing in Birmingham at Furnace Fest. It's another festival. Yeah,
and then after that we don't have any plans because
the year's coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm actually going to.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Japan with my kid nice yea, and they're gonna go
hang out there and just kind of like decompress a
little bit and then get back. It's the holiday season,
but in that time we're gonna start planning future for
next year.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I love it. How old is your kid?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
She's about to turn eight? In two weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Wow, yeah, it's fun age.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, she's the best, man. I fucking
love her.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's so great to hear. How does she love your music?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
She actually likes it a lot. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I played her new song in the car and I
didn't tell her anything about it, and she's like, Dad,
I really liked that song.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And I was like, oh, oh that was cool.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah maybe really what a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, And I think that's also what's different nowadays, Like
is there was not one thing my dad would have
liked about any of my music when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, it's a different.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Time now where parents, grandparents' kids are all going to
these type of festivals together.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That would ever happen. Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
On that note, I was telling someone this the other day.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The thing that blows my mind right now, that really
blows my mind is I'm forty one. Okay, when I
was in high school, Well, sorry, I should do with
the reverse order the kids in high school now that
keep listening to bands like mine from our era, because
there's a lot, like a lot that would be the
same as if I listened to ac DC when I
was in high school.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Right and I'm just like, wait, no one would ever
do that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I talk about it all the time because I was
like at Slayer's first show ever, Metallica's first show ever,
and I talk about it all the time, Like, no
way me and my friends would go see a sixty
some odd year of Metallica. Yeah, yeah, like Metallica now.
And then I see them out in the crowd, I'm like, yeah,
we would have never gone to see them.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like when I was in high school, I was listening
to slip Knot and Corn and Blink Went two and
like all the bands that were new, you know what
I mean, like the new bands that were right out
in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I wasn't listening to vance from the eighties, I know,
but that is what's happening now. It's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It really is a trip.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like I was here for Slagher the other night, obviously,
and there was no empty space anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I'm like, this is wild because listen, I've seen
them loads of times, but we were the same age
almost basically, so we hang out. Yeah, and they were
like your contemporaries and I look up there, I'm like,
I can't believe these kids are like Mausian to this
band that is full of a bunch of people in
(12:48):
the early sixties.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, it's kind of wild, right, it blows my mind.
That's just the world has changed, right, Yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You ways said that to me, like, oh, go see
this band, they're all sixty fuck you.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Another huge fund mental difference have noticed is that there's
so much less genre segregation now. Yes, Like when I
was a kid, it was like, oh, I like pop punk,
I like punk rock, I like metal whatever. It's like,
oh okay, and then your whole life is at everything
about you is defined by that. And now like people
are they like everything. They just like literally everything.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Which I love that because too. I hated the gate
keeping back in the eighties. It was even worse than
in your time because like I had long hair, I
couldn't go to a punk show.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, I'd get my ass b.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, it was just too like specific, right, you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Had to like I was a thrash metal head. That's
what you listen to. Yeah, thrash metal, and that's it.
Maybe a little other things, but that are close, like death.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Metal or black metal.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, you can't listen to this band because they don't
fit what we like.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Or what we look like.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, and it's just like, bro, it's not that serious.
Like I can like this too, And I.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Don't get how artists are boxing like that, because to me,
the whole idea of being an artist is expressing yourself.
It doesn't mean I have to play this music. We
all have vibes, we all feelings at different times.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
A lot of fans don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like when you make our record as a bunch of
people that are artists, like all the things that influence
what you decide to put on that record are like
direct influences of your life in that moment or what
got you to that point or whatever, right, and then
every time you go back to do it again, all
those things have changed because you're growing and getting older
and experiencing new things in your life. And there's no
(14:24):
way that you can ever, like organically one percent recapture
who you were four years ago or eight years ago
or twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It just doesn't that's not possible.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, like even when Mentalllica, like there were twenty five
of us that were the hardcore original fans, Yeah, and
when the Black album came out, we're like, oh fuck them.
Their posers we can sell out. I know we're not
listening to them ever again yeah, type, but it's just
so stupid. Yeah, And I think this is what keeps
rock alive because that mentality is what almost killed metal. Yeah,
(14:56):
and because we have all these influences and people like
different things. You can have a festival like Louder than
Life that can have an acid bath and have a Slayer,
but can also have your band, could have insane clown posse,
like the list could go on of the different types
(15:18):
of genres that can be here as one big, happy family.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's the key, and the fans are just like, yeah,
I'm about it. This is a great and it's good.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We I hate on each other, let's all just love
each other. That's what metal's about. That's what punk's about,
you know, it's unity, it's family. And thank god for
bands like you and other bands coming up now that
are keeping that alive and growing the genre by not
being gatekeepers.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Hey, that's so lame, wouldn't Yeah, I'm not about that
at all.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well, Like even with the labels, the genre labels that's
designed to separate everybody, Like why do you need to
be a post hardcore metal core, death, that old technical.
I could go on with the list of what the
micro genre could be.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it's obsession over labels.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh, I fucking hate it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's like there's always feel like if I can't label it,
I'm gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's like, you don't need to it doesn't matter, doesn't
need a.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Label exactly like I don't want to know what the
label is.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I just want to know that's good music and I
like it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I agree, I agree, And.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
That's what you guys offer. So that's a killer.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And you have any last words you want to share
with the listeners that we haven't covered already.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Just that today made me really realize how much I
appreciate what I get to do, like on a spiritual
fucking level. Like it felt incredibly nice and I don't know, man,
sometimes people do take things for granted. And I really
realized to say, like, how fucking like privileged I am
to be able to do this, And I just I
don't know, I'm just really happy right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's the most important part, because we need a lot
more happiness in the world. And I thank god I've
been here at loud in life and I haven't watched
or seeing any bit of news of what's going on
outside these gates, because all that matters is what's here
and our family here and showing how we can all
unite together from all walks of life and screwed a division,
(17:13):
screwed to being an asshole.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No matter who you are, It doesn't matter what you are.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Let's just all love each other, get along and respect
each other's differences instead of fighting each other's.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yep, you can never have too much positivity, trust me,
especially not right now.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm all about that, and I'm all about you being
here at ladder in life. And thanks for being on
the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm w for CUI Radio.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is pipe Man here on the Avenues, pipe Man
W four c Y Radio and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Here with Matt good from first to last.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Nice here at Louder than Life.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now, how fucking awesome is this festival?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This festival is unbelievably sick, right, yeah. And I have
a lot of experience at festivals. Actually, I've been doing
this since two thousand and three, and we used to
do like Warp Tour and all that shit. It's like, man,
this is insane, right, insane man.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I want to ask you too that I ask everybody, like,
as an artist, how do you feel Danny Wimmer treats.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You really well, really really well.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And the one thing I will say about this really
cool is that all the bands, it feels like they're
all treated well. There's no weird hierarchy or anything like that.
You go in the dressing room and everybody has a
nice room. They're all the same size, they all have
the same accommodations. It's like it's just really it's just
done so well.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I asked that question not only because we're here
at the festival, but in sixteen years of doing the
Wimmer festivals, I've never heard an orders say a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I ever easily believe that. Yeah, yeah, and you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Just proved it. And I love what you said.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I hear a lot. It doesn't matter who you are.
You are treated the same, whether you're bring Me to
Rise and Slayer or you're the band playing in the
theme park.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It doesn't You're right, and listen. I do a lot
of festivals too. Usually to La have a Ferros wheel
and maybe one other rut. I don't know if any
other festival in the world that has a whole.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Feed bark is part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't think there is one, right, I would be
shocked if there was.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's fucking wild man.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It is man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And the cool thing is too, is that the people
that come to this festival, they come for the music,
which means they're here early.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh yeah, like early.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The first band to play the day has a huge crowd.
When does that happen?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, that's yeah, that's wild dude.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, we played it two fifty and it was literally
like packed to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
The brand and see the end. Yeah, it was just
like no one else can fit over here. That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
How does that feel when you're up there playing at
that time, thinking you're gonna have nobody because it's so early.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, how does it feel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It feels fucking amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And the thing with us too, is we haven't played
in fifteen years, right, So I was like, I don't
even know what to expect.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You amos like culture shock, right, Yeah, you know, it's
like you want to ease your way back into it,
and there you are the biggest crowd ever.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's really funny too, because, like you get up there
and I was telling the guys like, it only took
like thirty seconds before I zapped into oh I know
how to do this right, yeah, even though it's been
so long, Like it only took like thirty seconds, and
I just went all right, I'm doing this thing now.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I know it's gone.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, And then you see that crowd and kind of
motivates you like, wow, we should do more of this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's actually really funny that some of the people that
work for us so like, yeah that was good enough
to be pretty encouraging, huh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And I was like, yeah, it was like yeah, let's
be real.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, And so.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What prompted you to make this comeback after so many
years to play?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, I mean realistically, we had. We just kind of
like recorded a song here and there over the last year.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I think we did two. Yeah, we did two. And
it was just kind of different.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
When I'm a producer, I have a studio and I
make tons of records for O their bands and stuff.
So tho some of these things where I felt like,
why wouldn't I just make a song for my own band?
And so I did and it was fun or whatever,
but it's way different than being like, oh, we're gonna
be a real band shows now, right, completely separated.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So Danny Wimmer's people hit us up and asked us.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
To play and I was like, oh, actually yeah, that'd
be sick. And then once we announced this song, then
some other people did and now it's becoming a thing
where I'm like, oh, I guess we're doing this again.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Guess where bam? Yeah, the band's back in town.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, after all this work of getting ready to play
shows again, and because it's like a whole other world,
you know, like I'm like, okay, wow, we got to
keep playing right.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Right, Yeah, and you just dropped the song yesterday. Yeah,
uh huh, Like so that also says you have to
keep playing yes, yeah, and that song is badass.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Thank you very much, thank you. We're really stoked on it.
It's doing quite well.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And how does it feel to be a producer, Like,
do you listen to the songs you write differently now
that you're a producer?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
God, yeah, one hundred, Because I think the thing that
like that releases the serotonin in my brain versus like
a normal person that's listening to it that had nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Is like thinking of the moment when we came.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Up with said idea, or like how we got some
sound to be there, or like how hard some guitar
part was snail, but we did it. So I'm listening
to it and like my brain is just like rapid
firing memories and like weird things like that. So for me,
I'm just like, Wow, this is so cool, feels so good.
And then I think people on the other end of
the thing are just like I like this.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
This emotionally triggers me in some positive way. Right, It's
just a little different because.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Music's the best therapy there is for you, the artists,
and for me the listener.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Do you look at you and the people in the band,
how you're playing and how you're performing differently now as
a producer, I.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Would say a little bit, I'm trying to like not
get too producer brained about it, yeah, because it would
be really easy to like get like really dissect everything
a little too much and get a little too deep
on the details. I'm really just trying to stick with
the right vibe. Yeah, you know, like I want to
make sure the vibe is right. Like the things that
people loved about our band, I'm like, let's just make
sure that we are not losing sight of those, because
(05:59):
like in the modern era, as a producer, there's a
lot of ways to like make things feel more perfect
but also waters down some things that people like about
us in the first place. So I'm trying to really
it's two.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Different personality, yes, And that's why I'm asking these things
because like if it were me, I would do it
your way too, Like I would shut off producer mentality
and turn on artists. Yeah, and then when I'm producing,
turn off artists, yeah, turn on producer. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It is like that right, Yeah, and it even with me.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's like I have my engineer or produce my show
because I want to fuck with that when I'm doing
my show. Makes sense, like why do I want to
twist knobs while I'm trying to focus on doing an
interview or whatever I'm doing. It's like, I think you
really need that too. I think you need the objectivity.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
As a perfect example, you take the Black album by Mentallicoat.
Without that producer, that album isn't what it is now.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean shit, that won't even be remotely close to
what it is honestly exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So I think you kind of need that objectiveness as
the producer where you remove the emotion from the equation,
because when you're the writer or the performer, you're emotionally attached.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
To that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, It's funny like I wrote one song
once and I'm more of a book writer, so I
wrote it was more like a book, and I brought
it to Mike bro who was the head engineer of
our station. He was also a musician and he was
really good. Like I picked him because I used to
watch him play gigs and fuck with the mixer board
the whole time he's singing and playing, you know, because
(07:36):
he needed the perfection, and he goes, what the fuck
is this? You need to shorten this? This is a book,
And he's like, can we take this out of him?
Like no, that's important, like and everything. He was saying,
that's what I'm saying, you can't take it out. Finally
I was like, Okay, do whatever you want, because I
(07:56):
don't want you to take any of it out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's like part of you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So it's very hard for me to sit there look
at it and say.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That doesn't belong right right, whereas.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He it's that it doesn't belong to have no emotion
involved and make it a real song.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I think you see that all the time, all
the time.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Those conversations are touchy too.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You got to really be like, I think, let's have
a certain level of empathy pre installed in your in
who you are, because I can really tell how people
are feeling by just you can feel the vibe obviously
in the room, you know, like they'll talk quieter, look down,
or you gotta be really smart about the way that
you approach people when you're telling them their ideas could
be better or they're not good enough. Or they need
refinement when they're already so invested in these ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It takes a certain skill, for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And I think that's where you have a benefit as
an artist being the producer, because you understand how it
feels to be on the other side.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You are more right than you could ever even know.
Probably right, yeah, because a lot of the bands they
work with they know of my band, and I'm like, look, man,
I've been there before, and they know that I'm not
bullshitting them, right because they just know, you know what
I mean exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I look at the same way here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's like, when I'm doing interviews, I'm thinking, as if
I was the artist, how I would feel on the
other end of the mic. And for sure, sometimes at
these festivals I listen to other media people, I'm like, man,
if I was the artist, I'd slip my throat right
now as boring as fuck. Man's why are you asking
a question that the other twenty people asked?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Why are you asking a question that you can google?
I'm like, I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
All that shit, yeah, Wikipedia, right, Like, the only time
I'll bring up Wikipedia is if I know something's like
dead wrong right for sure. And it's like well, is
this true? And I'll play it off like that, like
it that's not really true? Is it that you get
the real story? But then they laugh because you realize
it's bullshit, Whereas there's other people that, if you're scripted,
(09:53):
are like, well it says in Wikipedia this, So how
do you feel about that? And I think you're about
to get from the artist it's fucking bullshit.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Shut up. Yeah, that's the way I think, or.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
At least like a version of that, right exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So now that you got the bug again, Yeah, and
then a big way yeap, what else do we want
to expect from you guys?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
October third, which is coming up really fucking soon. We're
playing in Birmingham at Furnace Fest. It's another festival. Yeah,
and then after that we don't have any plans because
the year's coming to an end.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm actually going to.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Japan with my kid nice yea, and they're gonna go
hang out there and just kind of like decompress a
little bit and then get back. It's the holiday season,
but in that time we're gonna start planning future for
next year.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I love it. How old is your kid?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
She's about to turn eight? In two weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Wow, yeah, it's fun age.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, she's the best, man. I fucking
love her.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's so great to hear. How does she love your music?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
She actually likes it a lot. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I played her new song in the car and I
didn't tell her anything about it, and she's like, Dad,
I really liked that song.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
And I was like, oh, oh that was cool.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah maybe really what a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, And I think that's also what's different nowadays, Like
is there was not one thing my dad would have
liked about any of my music when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, it's a different.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Time now where parents, grandparents' kids are all going to
these type of festivals together.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That would ever happen. Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
On that note, I was telling someone this the other day.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
The thing that blows my mind right now, that really
blows my mind is I'm forty one. Okay, when I
was in high school, Well, sorry, I should do with
the reverse order the kids in high school now that
keep listening to bands like mine from our era, because
there's a lot, like a lot that would be the
same as if I listened to ac DC when I
was in high school.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Right and I'm just like, wait, no one would ever
do that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I talk about it all the time because I was
like at Slayer's first show ever, Metallica's first show ever,
and I talk about it all the time, Like, no
way me and my friends would go see a sixty
some odd year of Metallica. Yeah, yeah, like Metallica now.
And then I see them out in the crowd, I'm like, yeah,
we would have never gone to see them.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Like when I was in high school, I was listening
to slip Knot and Corn and Blink Went two and
like all the bands that were new, you know what
I mean, like the new bands that were right out
in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I wasn't listening to vance from the eighties, I know,
but that is what's happening now. It's really interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It really is a trip.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like I was here for Slagher the other night, obviously,
and there was no empty space anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I'm like, this is wild because listen, I've seen
them loads of times, but we were the same age
almost basically, so we hang out. Yeah, and they were
like your contemporaries and I look up there, I'm like,
I can't believe these kids are like Mausian to this
band that is full of a bunch of people in
(12:48):
the early sixties.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, it's kind of wild, right, it blows my mind.
That's just the world has changed, right, Yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You ways said that to me, like, oh, go see
this band, they're all sixty fuck you.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Another huge fund mental difference have noticed is that there's
so much less genre segregation now. Yes, Like when I
was a kid, it was like, oh, I like pop punk,
I like punk rock, I like metal whatever. It's like,
oh okay, and then your whole life is at everything
about you is defined by that. And now like people
are they like everything. They just like literally everything.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Which I love that because too. I hated the gate
keeping back in the eighties. It was even worse than
in your time because like I had long hair, I
couldn't go to a punk show.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, I'd get my ass b.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, it was just too like specific, right, you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Had to like I was a thrash metal head. That's
what you listen to. Yeah, thrash metal, and that's it.
Maybe a little other things, but that are close, like death.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Metal or black metal.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, you can't listen to this band because they don't
fit what we like.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Or what we look like.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, and it's just like, bro, it's not that serious.
Like I can like this too, And I.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Don't get how artists are boxing like that, because to me,
the whole idea of being an artist is expressing yourself.
It doesn't mean I have to play this music. We
all have vibes, we all feelings at different times.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
A lot of fans don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like when you make our record as a bunch of
people that are artists, like all the things that influence
what you decide to put on that record are like
direct influences of your life in that moment or what
got you to that point or whatever, right, and then
every time you go back to do it again, all
those things have changed because you're growing and getting older
and experiencing new things in your life. And there's no
(14:24):
way that you can ever, like organically one percent recapture
who you were four years ago or eight years ago
or twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It just doesn't that's not possible.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, like even when Mentalllica, like there were twenty five
of us that were the hardcore original fans, Yeah, and
when the Black album came out, we're like, oh fuck them.
Their posers we can sell out. I know we're not
listening to them ever again yeah, type, but it's just
so stupid. Yeah, And I think this is what keeps
rock alive because that mentality is what almost killed metal. Yeah,
(14:56):
and because we have all these influences and people like
different things. You can have a festival like Louder than
Life that can have an acid bath and have a Slayer,
but can also have your band, could have insane clown posse,
like the list could go on of the different types
(15:18):
of genres that can be here as one big, happy family.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's the key, and the fans are just like, yeah,
I'm about it. This is a great and it's good.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We I hate on each other, let's all just love
each other. That's what metal's about. That's what punk's about,
you know, it's unity, it's family. And thank god for
bands like you and other bands coming up now that
are keeping that alive and growing the genre by not
being gatekeepers.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Hey, that's so lame, wouldn't Yeah, I'm not about that
at all.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well, Like even with the labels, the genre labels that's
designed to separate everybody, Like why do you need to
be a post hardcore metal core, death, that old technical.
I could go on with the list of what the
micro genre could be.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, it's obsession over labels.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh, I fucking hate it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's like there's always feel like if I can't label it,
I'm gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's like, you don't need to it doesn't matter, doesn't
need a.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Label exactly like I don't want to know what the
label is.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I just want to know that's good music and I
like it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I agree, I agree, And.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
That's what you guys offer. So that's a killer.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And you have any last words you want to share
with the listeners that we haven't covered already.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Just that today made me really realize how much I
appreciate what I get to do, like on a spiritual
fucking level. Like it felt incredibly nice and I don't know, man,
sometimes people do take things for granted. And I really
realized to say, like, how fucking like privileged I am
to be able to do this, And I just I
don't know, I'm just really happy right now.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's the most important part, because we need a lot
more happiness in the world. And I thank god I've
been here at loud in life and I haven't watched
or seeing any bit of news of what's going on
outside these gates, because all that matters is what's here
and our family here and showing how we can all
unite together from all walks of life and screwed a division,
(17:13):
screwed to being an asshole.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No matter who you are, It doesn't matter what you are.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Let's just all love each other, get along and respect
each other's differences instead of fighting each other's.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yep, you can never have too much positivity, trust me,
especially not right now.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm all about that, and I'm all about you being
here at ladder in life. And thanks for being on
the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm w for CUI Radio.
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