Fight From Within New Single “Let Me Out” Featuring Hidden Track “TATT” – PipemanRadio Interview

0:04 Hi, you love done to the censure? Wow for you you. Try. This is the Pipe Man here with the Adventures the Pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with our next guests, who are some killer musicians and friends of mine. So let's welcome to the show.

0:45 Mikey from Fight from Within. Yay, what's going on, guys man, it's good to see you again. Thank you man. Yeah, dude, it's is a head of blast. Last time we were hanging. Out, it's always on, it's always fun and I have a blast that you have this new single out let Me Out. Yeah. I feel like that's the mantra of my life right now, and which is why I went to Costa Rica last month to escape. That was at That was a let me out moment, get me away from all this insanity that's going on. Yeah, you know, and uh, that's what music's all about. And you know, I want to hear about the surprise.

1:32 Oh the other song. So so yeah, we dropped T A T T which is TAT tired all the time. We dropped that with it because it was just something that we wrote and it was so true because God, we're exhausted, we're so exhausted. It's hard out here, man. But like you know, let me out too. I feel like depending on what you did in Costa Rica or what you what you've done in the past. So that song is literally about a bad LSD trip. Oh though, well there you go. Yeah, so if you look, if you look at the lyrics, it was about a bad acid trip. The song itself instrumentally was just very you know, I felt like it was extreme. It was extreme and it was super trippy the way that the way that we blended, the breakdown in the middle and everything. So, uh yeah, I formulated it around a bad acid trip, not saying that I've ever done acid or anything.

2:30 Well, only somebody that's done would know what it's like to have a bad one and want to get out of it and want to. Get out when you're sitting there for nine hours later. Why exactly exactly. And you know, to me, I think that's what makes great music too, is everybody puts their own meaning to stuff. And there's so many things that people could say let me out to nowadays, you know. And as far as the other song, I'm tired all the time, Well, listen, I don't know how you can even be a musician today. Like you know, back in the day, if you were a musician, you're fucked off your party, sex and all that, and people would cheer you on. Nowadays, you know, you don't have record labels throwing that silly money at people, so you have to work all the time. Is such hard work being a musician nowadays. You have so much to compete with, Like there's so many bands and people don't even give you consider a short attention span that the amount of time that's necessary, and so yeah, I mean that is definitely you know, like some of my favorite songs. Perfect example, I was doing coverage at we can call it at

4:01 Hell's Heroes and you know, it's Udo was there and I heard the beginning of his set and it took me only one second to know what song it was. But that first ten seconds is something that nowadays kids probably wouldn't even listen to, And that was fast as a shark, and when it's starting to be a dude, most kids nowadays would probably go to the next track after hearing that, and they would miss one of the best songs ever. Yeah, I listened to all types of crazy shit. I was to this day, to this day I listened to my favorite pink floid EP with Animals.

4:46 Right nice. I love that and I'll be putting it on and people be like, what are you listening to? And I'm like, are you out of your mind? This is music, man. That album specifically has given me insight to all my bad choices of women for the rest of my life. And I'll tell you why. Because Okay, So I was twelve years old. My dad's business part had two stepdaughters. Both of them were super hot. Okay, one was thirteen, one was eleven. The thirteen year old she was like, I was still kind of geeky. I wasn't even really that cool yet, Like I was still you know, I was still kind of like that, you know, you're on that border of geekiness and cool them at that twelve year old bark right in that.

5:38 Mix of puberty when it's starting to. Hit exactly that. Okay, So, she turned me on to that album Animals, and to this day, I can't listen to that album without thinking about her. Now, the funny part about the story is I had a total crush arm massive but she was thirteen. I'm twelve. That wasn't happening. Her boyfriend was some dude van who was seventeen or eighteen, you know, like that type that situation, yeap. And she also, you know, she was partying doing drugs. I hadn't found that life yet. And then there was a sister who was eleven, who was also super hot, and she had a super crush on me, and I wasn't interested at all because she was too young.

6:39 I feel like that happens so a lot, like especially or younger, the ones you were chasing are interested and the ones that were chasing you you weren't interested in Oh totally. I think it happens to everybody as adults too. But here's the best part. Okay, so the older one she ended up like a heroin, addict, prostitute, all these things, like I dodged the bullet that her not liking me, and yet it is sad where but karma is a bitch and somebody up there as a sense of humor because the younger one she became a famous supermodel and that's the one I turned down. So it just I look at now, I'm like that was the beginning of my wrong choices.

7:30 Yeah, yeah, And that's all thing I could listen to the song. The song dogs so much. That seventeen minute masterpiece has always been stuck. Imagine we were just talking about this and lasts on the interview. Imagine somebody listening to a seventeen minute song now like a kid. No, that's seventeen songs now exactly. You know I was talking about. Imagine kids would never listen to Daston confused because it was too long, you know. And I think that's what's making a comeback a little though, is that bands, you know, are going back to musicianship, you know. And I think the young even younger generations are going back to that too, because I have like two granddaughters that what they want for their birthday, They want me to take them to get them a vinyl.

8:26 Yeah. Like definitely the hard too. The hardcore community tends to be extremely just about the music. Yeah, right, total, and that's. Good to see, especially with the younger kids these days. Unfortunately, a lot of it, you know, it sets yourself up that you right now you have to just learn how to be your own label. It's kind of like you were saying earlier, because a lot of people aren't taking people and spending that kind of money anymore. And now everything's so oversaturated. But you actually have the tools to get out there, you just have to be able to use them. And a lot of people don't want to even bother learning.

9:07 How Yeah, and it's a lot, you know, Like so you know, you go back to a day of the tape tape trading days. That was fun. It wasn't a lot. But like even what I do, I have to be on all these different socials and it's like sometimes I just want to like throw it all out the window, you know, because it's like it's so much for you artists to have to do. You can't just do like one thing. You can't you can't do like Motley cru did and plaster flyers all over LA on telephone polls, and you know you have so much. It's a full time job. It's a full time job, a million percent, you know.

9:49 As a band manager too, you know, I tell I tell my guys, I'm like, listen, if you think you can take a day off, you can't. Like they're not relevant anymore. No, man, if you take a couple hours off, people don't know who you are anymore. So it's it's it's so important to just be in front of someone's face constantly, right, And that's something that my band has been pretty successful at with our like impact reels that we have. You know, someone crashes into a car and all of a sudden it goes to a breakdown. Right. It really punches people into your music. It makes people pay attention, right, And that's that's hard now, it's hard to get anyone's attention.

10:30 Yeah, totally. And even from my end, like as you know, because we met this way, I go on tour and I do media coverage at music festivals all over the US, UK, Europe. There's sometimes that I'm like, maybe I'm gonna sit out this year, this one, and then it's like no, I can't. I can't. You can't sit one out, you know. It's like otherwise you're not unrelevant anymore the next year. Even me, my band doesn't even have to be playing, and I somehow need to make sure that I'm there, right, you know, my band still has to have a representative at these things, even if we're not. Playing exactly exactly. Now. That's also the beauty nowadays is that you do have people like Danny Wimmer. They're putting on these major festivals and bringing artists up that normally win because that used to be like it's coming back next year, but that used to be Osfest is like I remember I was at os Fest ninety nine and saw on the third little teeny stage slip Knop Monday and in this moment all on the little teenie stage.

11:37 Yes, it's it's insane. I remember one of my things as a kid, You remember hit Parader in Circus magazine. Totally my bedroom was just posted in all those pictures they'd have so mud vane. Chad Gray is like my idol. Nice, right, So when I got to meet him at Louder than Life and actually hang out with the guys, they're guitarist Marcus Efferty is a good friend of mine, so uh yeah, that was It was a really cool experience. And you know, Danny Wimmer, dude, you know, like their whole community, they just want everybody. They provide really literally a spot where everyone can just network and talk and and help each other grow and form connections and relationships.

12:22 I owe. I feel like I owed Danny Wimmer like half of our career, honestly. And there's a lot of bands that could say the same, you know, Like he discovers bands. The funniest thing I remember is, you know the band Silly Goose right, yep, So I was trying to remember which festival it was. I'm pretty sure all of them, but the first one that they crash okay like old school punk bands used to do. Yeah, just pulled up and they played in the parking area without permission and Wimmer was sitting there with arms folded watching them.

13:03 Yep. Next day they were on the stage yep, on a real stage. And they've been on festivals ever since. Yeah, they're so sick. I remember seeing that happen. And then we ended up playing the festival Incarceration. We played the small stage, but they they played the campgrounds, the campground stage, and they just had they had people hanging in trees. Dude, it was a party out there. Oh yeah. And those yeah, they're they're kind of like even for being younger, like, they're definitely an inspiration to people who are older. I feel like too, man, getting out there and really getting back to the roots of just we're gonna play whether the fuck you like it or not.

13:45 Yeah, And you know, it is funny because they used to they they were before the Danny Wimer thing. They were going on tour doing this, like they didn't. It wasn't a tour that was booked. That was just let's get in the trailer. I remember I was covering riot Fest and they were outside the venue promoting a subway show they were having. Yeah, dude, they were playing there. Well, I think it was Lollapalooza. They were played. They shut down a parking lot and started playing there. They got arrested in Atlanta for playing in a gas station. I have the shirt for that. Sure, yeah, dude, you know, good for them, man, it's that's the stuff you got to you know, it's crazy that you have to go risk a criminal record to get noticed.

14:34 Nowadays, right right, you know, And there's so many bands out there and so many are so that you do have to go outside the box to get notice. There's just no choice, man. You have to provide something different or be relevant, and you have to if you're not gonna if you're not going to hustle twenty four to seven, then you really have to have something going on. You really have to be innovative in some sort of way. Right. Oh, So. There's not really a choice. You're either gonna hustle like the rest of us do, or you're gonna come up with something that's never been heard before. And then, and that is what you guys are all about.

15:14 You're you're the band headed into twenty twenty six. It's like a freight train, all gas, no breaks. We we went. We focused on touring this year, like we we the festival route is amazing, uh you know, uh, but we can only we played basically every festival last year, So to go back, you know, it's not as easy or that you even want to because you want to. You want to create a demand. You don't want to oversaturate festivals just as much as you don't want to oversaturate your hometown. Right, we were lucky enough to have Incarceration back. So Incarceration we. Wanted to get on the first one. Dan Jensen picked us up for the next year, and then they basically gave us our own headlining show the day before, right, so that festival in itself, we've been able to build such an amazing network of amazing.

16:06 People that want us back there. But you know, we also we had to take a year off. Man, you know, I hear you. You know it's like it's funny because even recent recently, because last year was brutal for me, Like I was at a festival every weekend from March till October. God, it's a beautiful thing though. And it is fun Like I bring my daughter and she'll be like, halfway through the first day of a festival, she's like that, I don't know how you do this every week and I'm done already, and I don't know how. I don't. But there are some times that I'm like, well, you know that, as much as I hated it, that period of time during COVID was kind of nice to get that little force break but still be able to be relevant because you had no choice by that break.

17:00 That being said, after that break, it was like, oh my god, I don't know how I lived for two years without live music, you. Know, I think my band was that's where we formed during COVID, So like we were, you know, lucky enough to just hit the ground running when everything opened back up, which is it sucks for a lot of people that there was a lot of people that hit the ground running right before COVID started, and yeah, he got kind of halted. I interviewed a bunch of them that they were like about to break out, and then that's it halted, like you said.

17:42 And then if you didn't stay relevant on the internet, then you just fizzled away totally. And that's hard work right there. So what else can we expect from you guys for the rest of twenty twenty six. Well, we got a bunch of music coming out. We ended up dropping that together, and we've been kind of thinking of just sporadically dropping music, right, like, I love it, you know here, Who knows, Maybe next month we're gonna have two songs come out, right, who knows. Maybe we're gonna drop an EP. Who knows. Maybe we're gonna drop four singles in a month. Maybe we're gonna drive. But I know that you guys are gonna just constantly have music from us. That's something I do know.

18:22 And I love that. Yeah, that's surprise hidden track that Yeah, thank Badass. Yeah. You know, stuff like that is what sents a band like you aside from the rest of the crowd. And that's really what you need to do nowadays. You have to stand out. We're trying, we're trying to stay relevant, we're trying to hit tours. We'd like to get out to the West coast. As far as festivals go, you know, we have a few smaller ones this year. We're probably gonna aim to try to hit Rockville and Aftershock, two places. We haven't been yet. Maybe next year, right or maybe do the circuit for twenty twenty seven. But this year, you know, we're we're leaning on a bunch of our own tours. We have a run with Autumnized Buried. We're doing a four day run with We're gonna be going to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and.

19:11 Juliette, Illinois outside of Chicago. Then we have a tour right after that. We're jumping on with Confessions of a Trader and and Exit Wounds, where we're gonna be hitting the from Chicago to New England all the way down to Florida. And then we're cool enough man to actually go play two shows with direct support. For a pun a Burning Body in Texas. Nice, and we're going on tour with Young Mash, bringing them with us from from from Memphis all the way down to cn L Ray which is right on the border.

19:51 Wow, very cool. That's gonna be really cool. And then we have another tour we haven't announced yet so. Oh so everybody's have to watch out for that. Huh oh yeah, one hundred We're trying to get out to the West coast sooner or later too. That's that's the next the next trail. We might as well be traveling to Russia at that point. But right, well, you need to tell everybody how they can reach out to you on the socials on the web so they can watch out for all these happenings that are going to be coming and not miss them. Yeah, one hundred percent. Everything can be really found on fight from Within dot com. That's our website. We'll have our updated tour routes. Very We're extremely active on Facebook, ridiculously active, that is, honestly, and you can find everything there, our Instagram, Fight from within, n y on on everything. Also, you know, my own little business venture, me and my partner and a few other agents, we started our own booking agency and management company that we've been putting out there called the Core Collective, and you can stay up to date with that and all our bands that we have over there as well.

20:55 Nice. So I love it. I love your everybody else check you out. They can't listen to my show, And let's say, you know, go some shows and buy some merch. Okay, I'll ban them from the show if they don't. I need we need it, We need it well. And I say that, you know, jokingly, but it is true. That's there's the only way bands can get out there and give you a live show and new music is through merch. Because surely a Deify is not paying you. No, that's how happened. But if you get enough streams, you can make money. I will say that, Well, there you go. So you gotta get out there, everybody, get out there, get them enough streams, and uh, do you have any final words for our listeners?

21:42 I guess that's it. Man just keeps importing the scene. I will say this, Uh, the music scene is in a lot of trouble right now. So it's it's more imperative now than ever to get out there and support people and buy pre sale tickets and make promoters feel comfortable that they can still bring people and they're not going to lose their house over it. You know, no better words right there. Because there's been a bunch of festivals that are usually on the Pipe Man Radio tour that are not going to be there this year, and that's unfortunate. One of them's one of my favorites that it blows my mind. But state of the world we're in right now, and that's punk rock Bowling in Vegas. Like, I'm shocked I found out they're not going to have one this year.

22:28 Yeah, I mean, well, it's kind of hard to do anything in California when it's out that way, when it's seven dollars a gallon right now. Yeah, no doubt that, you know, And people don't realize that's why I say they have to support bands buying their merch because it's a very costly thing to go on tour. The merch is in. The merch is vitally important for artists. I sit here and I tell everybody right now, is somebody who's deeply rooted as far as booking across the country working with these festivals pre sale tickets, pre sale tickets. It's cheap. I understand that. Like when I say pre sale tickets, imagine I'm not talking about ticket Master Alive Nation. And that's those companies with the fees have given a stigma to the smaller ticketing companies that are trying to survive and the promoters that are trying to survive. If the pre sale, you're gonna see tours getting canceled and shows getting canceled left and right, if there can't be some kind of compiled data proving that the show is not gonna flop, and the only way you're going to be able to save that is by buying pre sale tickets for these bands that you care about. Do not wait until the last thirty days to buy a ticket, because by that time they might already be thinking about canceling.

23:42 It doesn't even matter if one hundred and sixty people show up the day of show. If they don't know that's going to happen, the show. Is not going to be there. Yeah, it's a bummer, and we need music more than ever right now because it's the best therapy there is. Yeah, Well, you're lucky enough to have people like you and people like me that are fighting to try to keep that happening. Right, So there you go. Well, you guys rock and I look forward. You definitely have to be at Rockville and aftershot because Rockville, well that's my home state for festivals. But you know, you get the drive on the Daytona Speedway. Yeah, oh yeah, I've been there. It's really cool. Are you Are you in Florida?

24:23 Yeah, I'm in South Florida. You're not coming down my way because. The Yeah, the closest we're going to be to you is Winter Park. Yeah, which isn't bad. It's a couple hours. Yeah, and I would drive up there for one of your shows if I'm not out at a festival. So I'll have to look into that. But I believe or the twenty third, it's that weekend. Oh, it's that the same weekend as Milwaukee Metal Fest. Probably that might be there. We'll all right, we'll check it out because I would always support you guys. You guys are appreciate that you're badass band. And after Shock, by the way, my favorite of all the wimmer festivals.

25:09 Are you going to be in this year? I'm deciding right now. Uh, you get to hang out with me if you Yeah. I'm usually there every year, and I'm deciding right now. I do have all my travel books, so I'm decided more on the yes than the no. All right, but after Shock has the coolest media artist lounge you ever saw, Like it's Yeah, it's a lot of fun. That's something I definitely can't wait to get a part of hopefully next year. There it is. We're making that happen. We're putting it out in the universe. All right, but let's put it out there. So thanks a lot for giving us great music, and thanks once again for being on the adventures of payment. Of course, brother, thank you for having me.

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