PipemanRadio Interviews Senses Fail at Welcome To Rockville 2023

On this episode of the Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman speaks to Buddy Neilson from the band Senses Fail at Welcome to Rockville. They discuss the unique experience of playing at the Daytona Speedway and the surprising angles of the turns. Buddy reveals that they were not allowed to drive on the speedway and shares his realization of how dangerous it would be to drive on the embankments. They also talk about the incredible lineup of legendary bands at the festival, including Tool, Deftones, and Incubus.

The conversation takes an interesting turn as they discuss their shared passion for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Buddy mentions that he has been practicing it for a long time, even longer than Maynard from Tool, and considers it as one of his main passions outside of music. They explore the concept of mastery and creativity in both music and martial arts, emphasizing the importance of continuous growth and pushing boundaries.

Pipeman and Buddy reflect on the importance of live performances and the energy that sets bands apart. They discuss how a captivating live show can change someone's perception of a band and how it adds a unique element to the music experience. Buddy shares his approach to live performances, often deviating from a script and embodying an exaggerated version of himself, akin to a superhero. They express the desire to engage the audience and make their time worthwhile, especially when performing alongside well-known bands like the Deftones.

The conversation concludes with a discussion about the journey of bands and the challenges they face along the way. Buddy shares his experience of playing to small audiences and highlights the perseverance and dedication required to reach larger stages. They appreciate the stories of bands starting from humble beginnings and emphasize that success is not just about the destination but also the journey itself.

You can follow the band on social media, particularly on Instagram and you can find Buddy personally all over TikTok so go check him out. Also be sure to keep an eye out for their upcoming tour and see if you can get yourself to a gig!

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Episode Transcript

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why you wake up America. It'stime for the Adventures of Pipe Man on
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Here's your host, the White Man. By my anxiety, What why do

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biggest stop some of resel me notlittle baby, I've been spending so much
press time. Listens the pipe Manhere on the Adventures pipe Man W four

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c Y Radio. And I'm herewith Buddy Nielsen from Census Fail Nice here
at Welcome to Rockville. And Imean, how does it feel playing in
the Daytona Speedway. Yeah, it'spretty wild. I guess I didn't really
get a scope of it until Ikind of got driven over here and I
saw the the angles that the turnsare on, and yeah, it's pretty.

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It's pretty. I had no idea. Did they let you drive on
the speedway? Wide asked, andwe were in like a van. The
guy that drive us over here,he was like, yeah, you gotta
apparently I gotta go at least thirtyfive and you can't be in a top
heavy like man. Yeah, AndI was told you gotta be at least
fifty five miles per hour or elseyou're gonna flip over. And I have

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a jeep out there. I waslike, I was driving on the speedway
and I was like, if Iwent up on those embankments, I'd flip
in two seconds. I didn't realizethat. I know, it's wild like
you'd see it on TV. Itdoesn't look like that at all. Yeah,
I mean, I don't think youcan't really see. You can't really
understand it until you're it's sitting thereand it's like a fucking thirty five degree

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angle. It's crazy. I askedthe people running the media because I have
my skateboard in my jeep, I'mlike, can I take my skateboard on
out there? Will you pull mymedia credential if I do that? I
don't think they want me to dothat, But the show is sick,
and I mean, it's awesome toplay with such legendary bands, you know.
I mean, that's one of thecoolest part about these festivals and why

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we always are just so stoked toplaying because it's like dream come true.
I mean, you know this onewe're playing with Tool, Like I know
wild right. You know, Idon't really you know, Tool Deftones,
I mean an incubus. I mean, it's it's crazy. It's kind of
nuts for for someone to be ableto put your name, you know.
You tell people like, oh,where do you play? And I'm like,

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well, you know, play ashow with Tool? Right, totally
I could say that. Did yousee what they have this poster? Okay,
so this morning I was out there. It's like three hundred bucks plus
attacks for this poster, and peoplewere running in the venule. Yeah,
a tool play they have like alike a limited printed Yeah, yeah,

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four hundred copies only people were runningin and I was talking to one of
the workers. I'm like, man, it's insane for three hundred dollars for
a poster, and the dude's like, yeah, it's it's already gonna be
worth a thousand on eBay. Yeah. And somebody who's telling me one from
like Louder than Life is worth seventhousand. Now, I'm like, I'm
in the wrong business. I'm justgonna buy Tool posters and like the point

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zero one percent of rock bands thatright, there's only one tool, Yeah,
exactly, modeling your band after Tool, is you just can't do it.
No. No, it's like anythingthey do, it doesn't matter,
you can't. There's only one Maynard. Yeah, yeah, but may I
have a lot in common. I'mactually do tell. I've been doing jiu

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jitsu for actually longer than Maynard.I'm actually high rank than him. Who
I'm not saying anything and just butMayard and I were one of the very
few people who've been doing jiu jitsua very long time. There's a couple
of us. Dude Zultan from OhYeah three, he's a he's a black
belt. He I seem a lotof tournaments and stuff. But Maynard myself,
Zultan, like, we're high ranking. Are you a black belt too,

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I'm a brown belt, you're not. Almost Yeah, I'll get my
black belt. I should have myblack belt. It's I'll get it.
I'm not worried about it. Onceyou're a brown belt, you're like,
I got it. I got thisso well. COVID lockdown, what's going
on? Killed me? Yeah?Yeah? And then maybe you're like,
well, there's never live music again. I could always join the you know

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MMA. Oh yeah, I meanI teach and you know I do.
I do, But that's so I'malways interested in I think it's really interesting,
you know, people who dedicate theirlife to music and then also something
else. Yeah, just I thinkyou have to have more than one passion
a lot of times and stuff,so I always like to find out.
That's why it's great you said,No, I always like to find out,

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in their views, what's your otherpassion? I mean I do,
I do a lot of stuff,but I say that one thing that's stuck
as long as music is definitely ajiu jitsu. Nice it'll come, it'll
go, it'll come back. It'skind of how you know, it's not
just a what I moved from hobby? You know, people do a hobby
for a little bit and then maybemove on and find a different hobby or

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whatever. So what do you likeabout it? Oh? How difficult it
is? I like? Also,I like I think a lot of musicians
are into the mastery of I wouldsay, people who've been able to make
it to some level of success inmusic, you got to master some aspect
of it. Yeah. There it'sthe live show, whether it's your instrument,

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whether it's your creative process. Andthe same goes for jiu jitsu.
It's very creative, and once youget to a mastery level of it,
you start to unlock the creative potentialof it. You know, when you
start playing guitar, you could neverreally imagine writing right, but then you
get to a certain point you're like, oh wow, I can be creative
with this instrument. I don't justhave to play other people's thing. I

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think. I think there's a thoroughthere's a line in how hard it is
and how much effort it takes toget really good at it. That's a
really really good point, you know. And I think about it too,
especially if you're like a heavy band. I think you need to be in
good shape to do a live show. I was just running around like crazy

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for thirty minutes. And as youget older, I think it's more important.
I think I think a lot ofI think people want you need to
embody a certain level of like Imiss rock stars, and I don't mean
an ego, but I mean inlike, oh my god, like this

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person seems like a superhero, right, you know, And I think there's
some level that you kind of haveto like keep up a level of superhero
nests, whether it's whatever it isyou choose. Some people are like amazingly
just intelligent. Some people go adifferent route and are just really good,

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you know what I mean. Soit's like, yeah, kind of have
to like super succeed in some oftheir aspects of it as well to reinforce
that, like, hey, likenot only may I because when you're standing
in front of a crowd of liketwenty thirty thousand people, you kind of
got to make them wonder. Youkind of got to let them know why
they should be standing. I talkedabout that a lot with bands, is

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like there's bands that I didn't likeand I saw their live show and now
I love them. There's other bandsthat I love and I see their live
show, I'm like, well,I could watch it that on YouTube,
you know, and I could lovethe band. But there's gotta be a
certain energy, a certain performance livethat differs from what you're going to hear

(07:56):
in your headphones, which I thinkis interesting now with the Internet and just
way every music is very like likewe were watching Kurt Cobain at reading Nirvana
and it's a terrible performance, butit's amazing, And it's like I think
a lot of times people are soused to hearing perfection and then they go
to see the live show. We'rea band that's not perfect live obviously,

(08:18):
we're not trying to mess anything up. But it's right. There's an aspect,
it's it's real. I want itto be very unique to whatever's going
on. Yeah, so you needto experience, and you see us at
Rockville this time. The next timeyou see this is it's gonna be different.
Yeah, it's gonna be different.And I love that because there's somebody

(08:41):
even myself that you know, Ido radio coverage at all the festivals,
or some band, so it's like, Okay, I've seen them six times
this year, and I can quotewhat he's going to say between songs,
and I'm over it. I tendto not stick to a script. I
have certain things I might say,but today I was talking. I started

(09:03):
saying I started talking like Ruddy RuddyPiper. I started saying all sort of
like some of his sayings. Istarted I I think I claimed I was
the mayor of Rockville. That's youknow, it's just like, that's that's
so bad, that's so good looking. I could see myself on the other
main stage on a JumboTron, andI'm like, I have to embody whatever

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this is. That's what now see. I never thought of that. You
see yourself like because the stages areso far away, Like that's gotta be
a trip. You're on one stageand you see yourself at the opposite end
of the festival. I was created, like weird, You're like, man,
I better. I kind of justgotta embody whatever that is, you

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know, and I kind of likego outside of myself. It's not like
my normal self, like it's someextra superhero person that's you know. And
I think a lot of bands that, especially when you come to these festivals,
you kind of got you gotta doa little bit of that. And
it's not a competition at all,not in that way. It's just like,
no, you got these people watchingyou and you want you know,

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might be people who've never seen you, never heard of you, people who
are already getting set up for thedeath Tones in our stage, which I
love because I love I'm that's theband I want to see. But thank
god they're setting up for the deathTones because they might have never seen you.
So you gotta make those if yougot to pull them in and let
them know why why they should whywhy you make their time waiting for their

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favorite band worthwhile and that that's likesome of my favorite bands come from the
third stage and whatever. Like listen, I saw slip On and mud Vane
at Osvest ninety nine on third stagea little you know, smaller than those
things. Yeah, I mean we'vewe did tours with Mike Kem. We're
twenty people there, right, youknow, like I'm from you know,

(10:50):
I'm from that world of like itdoesn't the band here. There's a lot
of way, there's a lot ofthey've been through a lot to get there.
Yeah, you know, so thosestories of you know, even bands
like Slipknot, Like you know,you see Rage against the Machines for a
show. Yeah, we've ever seenthat on YouTube. No, hilarious,
it's like at a local like parkin like a band show. It's hilarious.

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I saw Oengo Boeingo in my highschool gymnasium. Yeah, wow,
nineteen nineteen. Any Elfman's like,I don't know if you can find a
more successful It blows my mind.Like I just remember being freshman high school
in this band I didn't know whothey were, was playing in our gymnasium

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during school hours, not even likea special concert was just like a recess
or some shit like that. Andthen he becomes like the most well known
composer of all times. I meanhe's written cult, I mean class classic,
I mean things that will be existin like Aladdin. Yeah, whoever

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wrote the original fucking a Laddin,like you know, and whatever that was,
it might even be BC. Imean, now people will remember Nightmare
for right exactly crazy. I've seenhim a couple of times do Nightmare for
Christmas. I've seen him do.He did like a comp like I guess
said a retrospective of his career wherehe would do all of his stuff.

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That was amazing, because it's great. He's a conductor of the singer so
voices. It's incredible. It's incredible. You're the next one. You'll be
the next maybe. So let's telleverybody your guys socials, how they connect
you, how they buy your merchcheck out your sail official on Instagram.
I'm super active on Instagram. I'msuper active on my personal social but the

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chudd Twitter is getting a little weird. But I'm all over TikTok and we're
all over the place, so we'realways posting stuff and We're very active on
there, and we're torn right nowand we're gonna be tourn later this year,
so we are constantly gonna We've beengoing for twenty one years and love
it, and I loved that youmade that stop here at Welcome to Rockville

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and kicked our act. Glad wewere invited, So thank you for that.
NK you, thank you for beingon the Adventures of pint Man,
Thanks for having me, Thank youfor listening to the Adventures of pinate Man.
I'm W four CUI Radio.