PipemanRadio Interviews Asking Alexandria at Rocklahoma 2023

On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Asking Alexandria at Rocklahoma. Pipeman and the band discuss the atmosphere of Rocklahoma including tents with strip clubs and bars set up along the festival grounds. The band just recently dropped a new album “Where Do We Go From Here” and discuss the feeling of being able to perform their new material live. The band discusses leaning back into their original sounds as well as the bands that helped form their unique sound. You can find the band online at AskingAlexandria.com for upcoming tour dates, merch, and their latest releases.

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, you Loveland too? Isthat sure? From four see Wow,
Wake up America. It's time forthe Adventures of pipe Man on w for

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cy dot com west pom Beats hisnumber one internet radio station. Here's your
host, the pipe Man. Thisis pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man w for c Y Radio andI'm here with Sam and Cam from Askin
Alexandrew Nice. So have you beento Rocklahoma before? I can't even remember.
I think we've played it twice.I think twenty nineteen and yeah then
was it soon? No, I'msure we've done it twice before. It's

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been a long time though. Yeah. So I gotta say, like,
okay, we always talk over herehow the UK and the European festivals are
better, and like I just gotback from Bloodstock and download. Okay,
but this festival is really wanted tokiller American festivals. Have you have you
guys ever been out to the campgrounds. I've not been to the compgrounds.

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I'll they fucking grab a golf cart. I'll go right ah there I walk.
I can't even walked to the katrienow here. It's so hot,
I know, right, So thereare golf carts out there, like that'll
bring you over there. But it'sa it's a sight to see, especially
at night. There's a strip clubcampsite and at the end of the way

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night when everybody's walking out, they'restripper and they're all crowd there. It's
like, I've given you the intel. I've given then we need to exchange
numbers, sir, meetingmation. That'sright, that's right. Bad things.
And now here's another great one.My neighbor out there. It's a school

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bus. They built a platform uptop and everybody's partying on that platform and
offering beads for any women that willshow their breasts. It's Monty g yeah,
and they're believing there's a lot ofwomen out there willing to show a
lot of beads, a lot ofbeads out there, and being being like

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you're drinking now, of course there'sbars at campsites out there with free alcoholic
thing like usually when he comes tofestivals, you're out there in the middle
of nowst you have to meet yourown entertainment, now you Yeah, yeah,
that's what makes this play so cool. You know. People take it
upon themselves to build a campsite stripclub. Yes, I mean Now that's

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the reason to stay after your setand come hang out with us. Oh
I would love nothing more than tobe able to stay and see Limbiscuit.
We're currently in the process of tryingto change op's call so we can
do that's otherwise we're gonna miss himand I'm not I'm not about We gotta
make that happen for sure, makegotta make it up. Five hundred mile
drives, it's a long drives.The next one, but where is the

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next one? What's the next one? Where we are absolutely no, I'm
pulling out my phone right now.Now, do you guys drive yourself or
you have a drive? We havea drive? Okay? Good? Because
oh yeah, I go absolutely insaneevery time I do download and blood stuck
because I'm like, what the fuckare these people doing driving on the wrong

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side of the row? WHOA,yeah, you're gonna say that. I
thought you were talking about like gettingin and the festival, Well that too,
you know what. I'm media AndI was stuck in the queue for
download for four hours to get inis a huge festival. Oh my god,
it's Hobbs. That was amazing andI love it. It's legendary and

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playing there is always such an honor. But the logistics in and out they're
a bits they're they're a bit trickier. And you know that bridge that it's
like this old bridge when you leavethere, I'm actually a sleep when I'm
yeah, entering and leaving. Yeah, that's a scary. I got pulled
over by a cop going over thatbridge because I was going so slow because

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I'm freaking out because I'm on theguy Yeah, pulled the big too slow.
Yeah, the way I'm on therock side road. I'm like,
the fuck, I can't judge.I can't judge it. And then cop
pulls me over, okay, andthey coach comes in the back of the
car. Now in the United States, that means you're going to jail.
So I'm like freaking out and likethat their question They thought I was drunk

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because I was driving so slow overthe bridge. Give me the check.
Yeah, yeah, totally. Butthey were nice as shit in the end.
Okay, But at first I wasit's like, fuck, I'm going
to a British jail because in yourmind you're like, I'm way over the
limit right exactly, Like can youimagine like just pulling over like ninety five

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percent of the people and everyone.It's just been clearly been a terrible I'll
tell you what blows my mind atUK festivals is guys whipping it out and
pissing right in the middle of thecrowd. They don't even walk to the
wall. Dude, I've seen something. I've check this out. You see

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guys doing it, but women aredoing it too. There's a thing we
have you seen the SHEWI tell meabout that. You should google, she
Wei. It's the it's the womenthat go to festivals or wherever else in
the out in the wilderness or whatever. They need to do their business just
like everyone else. You know.It's a funnel. So I was walking

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around. I don't know if we'rein Germany and that all the dudes along
the fence peeing against the fence,but there's all these women and doing it
to him, right, Yeah,I saw. I should they have to
line up because we're able to givehim And I did see. I did
see women walk up to the troughs. I don't even I'm American, so
I don't like pissing in that trap. I don't want to be sitting there

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with twenty other dicks. Okay,dude, pop up Pirate? Heard about
that guy? No, tell meabout that guy, Karen, You want
to tell him about pop up Pirates? It download crawling? What year was
the download? When you inst multipleyears pop up Pirates? So obviously when
everyone this is one of the mosthorrific festival story ever. I don't know

(06:36):
where everyone goes. Let's take aship, right, it's just in Ga
Like it is just a trough ofa hole that they've dug out for people
to sit. There's a dude thatwhen with a snorkel and a mask and
dove in there and he would popup while people were taking ships and like
scare him and stuff. Holy shit, And I think anyone who went to

(06:58):
download exactly I don't right, thatwill get all you never knew when he
was. He's a real thing.It's like me, bring a sledgehammer so
you can play whack them all withthem? Oh my on came quite became
quite a legend. So how doyou top that? I don't think you
can. I don't think so either. I don't know if you legally,

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I don't know, dude, legally, illegally doesn't matter. So what you
guys got going on after Rock Oklahoma. What you got was googling it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Actuallysee I love this though, because I
know that feeling. It's like Ihave beating because I go and do all
the festivals and my daughters will askme, so, which is the next

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one. I'm don't. I knowwhere I'm obviously right then where I am
I right now, I've gotta check. I know I've got just me.
I'm useless. But besides where you'regoing, like, new stuff's going on
that you want to talk about.We just dropped a new album. Yeah,
you know, it's a really excitingtime at the moment being able to

(08:07):
play new some of the new stufflive and see how how are people receiving
that, Because you know how peopleare, they might hear the old stuff,
so new stuff, you're like kindof scared to play that. I'm
not scared of all for playing itbecause we just we we've we've played a
couple of singles from the record beforeit came out. We're in Europe.
And the response to the new stuffbecause it's a bit heavier. I like
that better so our old stuff.People will say it's heavier with this new

(08:31):
album. That we've just put outis a mixture of everything. We're not
shying away from some of the earliermaterials, some of the earlier influences that
we had, and it goes off. It's really going off live. The
new stuff is going down almost betterthan some of the older stuff. Like
you see, that's so not moving, dude. I want to see people
moving again. I like I likeplaying heavy music. Yeah, me too.
Listen, Like, if I canget in your pit, then I

(08:54):
like your music. That's the line. There you go. I was at
download those in both my Metallica pits, the Slipknot and to bring Me to
Horizon. I will tell you bringme the horizon. Blew them all away.
Really yeah, but it was afucking amazing pit and it was so
cool to see them, just likeseeing you in your home country because it's

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kind of a little different due toheadline. Download is honestly the pinnacle for
us. As you know, we'velived in America for a long time,
but we are British, our wholefamilies, right. I think we've grew
up there. I've moved here whenI was seven, seen with asking and
stuff. But to do download,headline download and I know, right.

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Most of respect to the Bring Meguys for doing what they've done and getting
that and not just headlining download bringingit too. I actually put they put
on. I've seen them so manytimes. It's the best show I've ever
seen. I saw them a coupleof weeks later in West Palm Beach,
you know, they were on tourwith Fallout Boy. I was telling the

(09:56):
girl I brought, like, yougotta check out their show. But then
because they weren't the headline or itwasn't their full show, they were still
great. But there's rules that playin there that they've got a followed it
exactly. It's nice to see aboutgiven that opportunity really actually step up and
show you what the because they're socreative as well, like Ali, I
think it was really involved in likeeven the production inside. Oh yeah,

(10:18):
let's create something totally. They're onlyan hour away from where we live as
well. So like, huge respect. I'm so glad to hear you say
that. You know why, becausethere's so many people that give them shit
for what they're doing now and andstraying away from their origin of deathcore.

(10:39):
You know, but I think artistslike you guys just keep pushing the boundaries.
Well, people don't realize you growas musicians and like I always said,
I don't want to play the samesong on every album. You know,
we don't either. I get it, completely get it. But you
can tell there's no lack of likethere's a secret. Also in whatever they

(11:01):
do that you can tell it's justquale. It's like quality, like it's
just what they're doing. You know. The music is incredible, Like yeah,
I know, but it's it marrieswith the visual everything. And I'm
saying it's because you're a new albumand talking about being heavier and stuff.
To me, it's the same thing. It's like you're doing what you want
to do and as musicians you've evolvedgotten better at your craft so much.

(11:22):
It's such a well rounded album insense in the sense of that we've not
we've not shied away from the oldeststuff obviously, right, also the new
sound that we've been you know,we've gone on a journey in the past
sorry, the past like five yearsat least of these past few albums of
making some really powerful emotional music thatwe're really proud of. But it's an
amalgamation of that and some of theoldest. It's everyone because we've we've got

(11:43):
fans that love us for some ofthat music, and they don't really know
necessarily the earliest stuff, the heavystuff, and it's it's nice to see
everybody happy. I almost say,I almost say it's better that way at
some way. Like there's bands likeI went to Metallica's first show ever,
Slayer's first show ever, so I'mlike, any album after Kill Them All
or Show No Mercy it's downhill,yeah, you know. But then like

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bring Me, I didn't. Ididn't really know them till like either Sempatornal
or even like that's the spirit,So I'm not one of the gatekeepers for
bringing me, you know. Andit's like I have a different view.
Good day exactly, it's exactly whatit feels like the right. But also

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you've got you know, then you'vegot the realm with funds that have been
there since day one through your growthand do you get it. Yeah,
that's so that's the best right there, the people that can see that and
you can get on that level withthem, like that's what makes it all
worth it. That's the best fuckingalbum to fall that like Suicide season like
hole a shit. It was likethe album was like insane, right,

(12:50):
it was like game changing for likethe whole scene in England like where we
yeah, yeah, where we werelike grown up. Well you know it's
well you should say that because likeonce I got to know them, like
I saw them at a festival,I was like, holy shit, I'm
in love with this band. Andthat's the cool thing about playing festivals because
I would have never known otherwise.But then I went to their back catalog

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and so to your point, it'slike get people interested in and then they
can discover all your stuff. Andyou know, I just think it as
well, like if the artist isn'texcited about what they're doing, you're not
gonna ever get what you want.No, you have to be it's gonna
be honest, and it's gotta bedone at a time where it's makes sense.
Otherwise you're just gonna get some manufacturedbullshit that sounds like everything else.

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That's the problem I think nowadays asan old school gatekeeper, you know,
like and I'm not anymore, Butthe fact is is that you know,
you look at some of this stufftoday and I see some of it as
just they're just going through emotions,plugging in this formula. Let's not forget
these jins and these pioneers. Thepioneers, they don't just say keeps these

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bunds from like you know, theogs. Yeah, they will once change.
They would want seen as the guysthat were changing it, exactly,
the ones that were keeping it andexactly like the innovation was there from the
get go, and people seem tosometimes forget that. Yeah, music and
creativity is always that, and ifit's not, it's just it's a form
of expression. So if you're gonnado music, you gotta be real.

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I can tell if you're up onstage and you're not into it, and
like this is the wrong fucking businessif you're not into it, because there
ain't no rock stars anymore. Like, sure, you do it because you
love it, you know, Icouldn't imagine doing anything else. And everyone,
dude, this is me. Andevery time I see you guys,
that's what I see on stage,you know, And there's other bands I

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don't see that. Like it's likeI on even want to go out of
the man Like we've we've been doingthis together the same guys for a long
time. It's nice to look aroundand see the same and that's rare,
rare. Well, this is somespecial because magic cannot oh yeah, one
hundred percent because you have this bondand you know each other. It's just
like that than anyone. Yeah,it's like my engineer, he knows when

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I'm doing my show what to dobefore I know, you know, because
if you find that team or thatconnection, like yeah, so give everybody
out, they should have it array. But give out your socials, your
website and how they can buy yourmerch and check out everything. Yeah.
Wow, let me just get theone page out. The handles are asking

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Alexandria on Instagram. You can findus on Spotify, Apple Music, you
can stream and pick up buy musicanyway. You can buy music pretty much.
But yeah, a new album,Where Do We Go From Here,
came out August twenty fifth. Goand check it out, like I said,
stream it, buy it, justcheck it out, and where do
you go from here? Right,that's the question. Right, everybody's got

(15:54):
to buy that new album because I'msure it's badass as hell. And I
like the fact that it's heavier,so that's cool, and you'll see it
live today and I like that itbrings in old too, Like that's a
hard thing. You just tie everythingtogether. Still all sweet spot, man,
it feels great. Yeah, it'sstill you. It's just the oldest
the foundation and these are the buildingblocks. But like asking Alexandre, like

(16:17):
I would say, like, it'ssuch a complex cake with so many ingredients
and stuff, and you can't Idon't know if we've been doing it so
long, it's like you should.My opinion is you shouldn't shy away from
some of the ingredients that make uswho we are, and that's what makes
you easy. Exactly exactly, evenif it's music or influences from ten years
ago, like we've got you know, we're such a melting pot as a

(16:40):
band, and see, that's whatmakes you great. In my opinion,
we all have different stuff and itcomes out because otherwise you sound like everybody
else nowadays. That's the way itis, like if you're not that melting
pot, you just every band soundsinsane because there's so many of them,
so you have to stand that.Yeah, yeah, exactly, one hundred

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percent. So thanks for being onthe Adventures of Pipe Man, Thanks for
being in Oklahoma, and thanks fornot cutting and pasting appreciate Man. Thank
you so much for robbing is.Hey, this is Salmon Cameron from Moscow,
Axandrea and you're listening to pipe Manon W fall c Y radio.

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