Limberlost Release New Single "Give it to Me" Redux

0:04 Hi, you love don too. You censure. For se wow, for you young. Looking me into you see hiding all of the things deep beside all the. Dreams of the girl you want me to me think. Gush. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with an amazing band that has some incredible new music. So let's welcome to a show. Limberlost. Wow.

0:50 Thank you. So I gotta tell you it's actually funny. I mean, I'll know how funny she'll think it is when she hears it. But so, I was just getting my hair done similar to yours Britney, because I have this side shaved, uh, you know down but uh and somebody there who I know, she actually lost an arm during COVID. So and while I'm saying your name and consider it was right after that I'm like, well, that's kind of weird because it kind of said like, oh, Limb. Limb, Limb is lost.

1:32 I know, I know, Well that's been my big joke actually being here and in a fitness camp in the middle of nowhere. Is that my limber you know, always lost. All the time. So it's pretty great. I love I love the name of the. Band, but actually it comes from the name of a forest. And where is it? Georgia? Is that where? Uh? Indiana? Indiana? Because Georgia kind of scared me, you know, I'm a Yankee, and like I'm thinking that it's like in the deep woods of Georgia where they're like still lynching people or something. Whoa no very possible. Our our original guitar player, who was the guy that I started the band with his grandparents or he's from Georgia and his grandmother used to call the woods out behind their house where they send him to get a switch to get his ass beat with.

2:25 Uh. He called it the Limberlost and the Room. But then we did the whole research of it and it's actually a there's actually a story and a legend of a swamp up in Indiana, and that's where the whole thing came from. So I want to hear that story. Let's hear that story. Oh well, well, well. To make it real brief, it was a guy his name was Limber GYM. Don't know how he got that name, but that was his name. He walked himself into a forest and he got lost, and. He uh Limber Jim that's right, Limber Jim.

3:10 And he walked. Himself into a forest and he got lost, and he was to the point of thinking this would be the end for him, and he calls to a higher power and he prayed and he got himself out. He walked into straight lines in that moment, and he went forward. And so the story is a funny little story when I say it like that. But the message that we. Take from it is that no matter how lost you are or how lost we feel, we have a our mission is to just keep going and that we will we are on our straight path, and that it will we will find. Our way out, you know, and everyone. And that's the message we give to all of our fans, to the lost ones we call them, because everybody gets to a point in their life where they feel, how am I going to get out of this? Or how there's no way that this could move on for me, And that's kind of where our music comes from. It stems from that place, and it's supposed to be a beacon of light to help you out.

4:00 So there you go. See. I love that because eka binds both of my personalities, like you have my music metal head personality, and then I'm also a motivational speakers and a motivational personality all in one. I love that, and I would never out I would never out you brought up the story. I wouldn't even never ask how you got your band name because it's the stupidest question ever last Okay, but I'm glad the story came out because it is a pretty funny and good one and I like the message. So there you go, so tell us. About the new kind of formation of the band and like, you know, you got Steve with you now, and like just like it's being reborn into something better.

4:52 You want to say this one all right? For Steve, She's pointing to the people at the fitness camp. Okay, for myself. I've known these guys for a long time, and you know, go back twelve fifteen years, and you know, we crowsed a lot of. Paths doing shows together and such, and we've always liked each other as people. And I always thought they were a really good band at the time, back in the day, wasn't really my style of music because they were more like, you know, bluesy. There's anything wrong with blues, just not really my thing.

5:32 But when they came back from Europe on their tour and they decided to rebuild the band because it kept tell the pieces. After that tour, they went to woodshed and started writing some new material and they wanted to take the band in a little bit different direction. And when they send me the tracks of what they were coming up with. I was like, damn, this ship is really really good. And yeah, and it's funny because they were originally to my son Devin to play the guitar, and you know, my son being what he is, he took like a week to get back to him, and so Mike reached out to me and he's like, hey, man, we're looking for a guitar player and a bass player, and you know, if you know, we can grab your kid and you know, if you know anybody that's interested in the bass. And that's when he sent me the material and I was like, shit, man, I think that I got your bass player and your guitar player and my son Devin and I listened to it and we called him back and then dude, if you guys are aware in and so here we are a year later, and you know, a couple of videos later and the songs that hit the charts and things are going really good.

6:38 All we got to do now is get her asses out on the road and do the live show. There it is, there, it is. But you know what I love about that is you got the father and son thing going there, and like I think about it too. So that's why I'm asking you, do you do you think back in the eighties that you have ever imagined playing in a band with your. Back in the eighties, I couldn't even imagine having a kid, right. I having it. I thought that having a kid would be. Like a death sentence, you know, my my career would be done, and uh you know, I wouldn't be able.

7:19 To tour and I'd be stuck home with a kid and all that kind of stuff. And uh, you know, it ended up being a dating It happened to me. I love it. But yeah, he came out of the room with a guitar in his hand and ever since and uh, I what I know? And then I sent him to lessons and they now as far as there past a teacher. Man, he's way better than I am on it on a guitar or a base. But uh, yeah, it's pretty cool looking over and watching my son just blow people away, and. It's cool that we can have that nowadays. Like back then, I've never been in a band with my dad because whatever music he was listening to was definitely And it's like so great now. Like I do coverage up music festivals all over the US, UK, Europe and you see people, you know, it's parents and kids at metal head shows and like I put my son in his first mashpit ever and two of my grandkids and it's like it's like, wow, I would have never thought that, like I would.

8:25 And you know, it's funny. Me and my bro used to always say, like, you know, when we get older, what are our kids gonna listen to? That makes our stuff seem like, you know, like we're old, you know, like we're listening a Slayer and of course metal Church and Metallica and Exous. It's like, what could possibly be more rebellious that our kids would do? And it went the other way, it went, they're just joining us. Yeah. We Luckily for me, my kids grew up around the eighty stuff, so that's kind of what they fell in love with. And then Devin's first concert was a Kiss concert when he was five years old. Uh, my agent ended up getting me front row tickets. I had tickets to go to the show, but they were, you know, somewhere back in the nosebleades probably, And he called me up like a day or two before the show, and he's like, you're.

9:18 Gonna love me, and I'm like, nick, I already do love you. And he's like, no, you're gonna really love me now. I got your three front row tickets for Kiss tomorrow night. Wow about shipped my pants, and uh so I brought my son front row, dead center and he ended up becoming part of the show. Paul Stanley pulled him up on stage and gave him his guitar and everything, but we still got. The guitar here at my in my studio and it's uh with as experience and probably a life changing thing for him. So uh as for him seeing Kiss his first time and being pulled on stage and ended up with a guitar that kind of set the hook of what was already I was already trying to, you know, get him to go that direction, and you know, Kiss got the hook with them, kind of like Elvis Presley for me because that was my first concert and you know, first time you're at a show, and you see something blow you away.

10:05 It leaves an impression on you. So oh, I know that feeling, like we all have that feeling, like, you know. For me, it was the first club show actually. Cause my dad moved me from Jersey to LA in May of nineteen eighty. Imagine what a time to move to LA. And I went to the Roxy to a Motley Cruise show before they ever had an album, before they were glam, when they were basically like horror punk, and I remember walking out of that show, I'm like, I'm never going to a real concert ever again. It is really cool to see big bands in a smaller vent. You can actually get to see them, you know, and see all the little things that they do that you don't see when they're in a big, enormous stage and you know, twenty thousand people in the crowd and you happen to be back in the nosebleeds. You know, you don't get to really be part of the show, even though you're there exactly.

11:01 And I love to hear that about Kiss bringing your kid up on stage, because everybody likes to throw shade at Kiss, but Kiss is what got me into music. I remember being at the Jersey Shore at the Boardwalk the first Kiss album first came out, but I didn't know who they were. I was playing some game and I won, and it was for record albums. I picked the ones for record albums, and I just saw their faces on the album, like, that's the one I want. And then I became like a Kiss fanatic right after that. And the cool thing about that concert was that after Paul gave him the guitar, Doc McGhee came up to us and invited us backstage after the show, and Paul came in and hung out with my son for about twenty minutes. And I didn't I didn't have a camera with me at the time, and he took a picture.

11:51 He had some buddy backstage take a picture, and he took my address and he's like, hey man, this picture turns out. I'll make sure you. Get a copy. Oh yeah, yeah sure. But like three weeks later, a big package showed up eight by ten. Hey, Devin, you know, it was great to see you keep rocking with your dad, you know, Paul Stanley and you know, wrote a letter and signed all the pictures and everything, and he followed through and you know that, Yeah, definitely blew me away because it was like. I've been a Kiss fan since I was my son's age at that time. And you know, it just kind of like renewed my sense of you know, I made the right choice just as a bitch and band, you know, they actually followed through and did something like this for a fan.

12:32 I love hearing that because as big as they are, you know, like some of the bands out there, when they get that big, a ghosted or head or whatever, and you know, it's it's good to hear when bands are acting like that because that's going to create the future generation that's going to be into the music, you know, and like you made like he made your kid's life forever. Yeah, you know, I had that experience with my couple of micro children. Like one of my grandchildren his favorite band was and he was like, I don't know, nine was five Finger Death Punch, So I was. I used to bring him to festivals with me, and I brought him and he actually got interviewed by Ivan because I had an interview with Ivan.

13:19 Ivan. While I'm setting up his interviewing him, Ivan brought him up on stage and then you know, we went upside stage for Tremanney and and Mark and his other guitarists were sitting there, coming over to him and playing guitar to him with their back to the crowd, and like you never forget crap like that, you know, Did. I haven't beat anybody up while you were with him? Say that again? Did I haven't beat anybody up while you were with him? Uh? No, he was still, he was sober. I seen him come back at backstage. I was hanging out in your bus and he came back out stage. And so guy that was wearing his his shirt said something that.

14:03 He didn't like. He's like, give me that shirt. You don't worthy wearing that shirt? You like, rip the shirt right off the guys. Oh my god. Those were the drunk days though, right yeah. And he goes, he runs on the bus and you went you had like picky bucks and the dude's the guy to get back from the shirt. Wow? Yeah, kid walked off without her shirt. Yeah. He was a hot mess during those days, for sure. Oh man. Yeah, So like this is why it's all about right here, And like that's why it's cool that I think your son's in the band too. And you know, how do you guys feel about having a father and son in the band.

14:48 Oh, I love it. I think it's amazing. It's it's you know, like Steve said, Steve and I go back probably fifteen years and what was really funny, Devin, I don't know how old he was. He had to be probably fourteen or something like that. Actually, his one of his bands. I don't know if it was their first show, but we used to have this club called Louis G's down in Tacoma where we're all from, and my eighties band was doing its thirty year reunion show and this little band since Circus opened up for us, and I guess, I swear to god, you had to. I think Steve even got up and sang at that. Weren't you singing for him back then? Oh? I think we got up a jam to Detroit Rucks City or something like that.

15:29 Yeah, something like that. Yeah. So I mean that's that was my first exposure to these, uh, to Steve and his and his boys. But you know, i'd know Steve, I think a little bit before that. But you know, it's it was just kind of odd how it all came. I mean, Brittany can attest this. We're driving down the road and we're starting to figure out how we're going to get players and doing all this stuff, and and I, you know, we talked to our manager, Paul Crosby, you know, from Saliva, and he's and he's like, oh, yeah, dude, we can get players. Man, national's full of players. This ship's great. We'll get players. Don't worry about it. And I'm like, yeah, but and I'm telling Brittany, I go, yeah, but you know, there's this one kid I've been really wanting to play with. You know, he's just such a cool kid, and it's never worked out, and he's he's just really professional. And I said, I'd like to throw this at Devon. I never, in my wildest dream stopped.

16:16 The busiest man in show business was going to listen to it and go, shit, I want in, you know. But like Steve said, I I went about a week and I didn't hear back from Devon after I text him a couple of times, and and we're we're sitting I think we were out shopping or something. We were sitting in a parking lot, and I said, you know, I'm just gonna call Steve. I don't want to think I'm coaching his kid. Here, you know, and all that. So I called him. I called him up and he's like, well, shit, send me the stuff. I'll listen to it and i'll get it over to him. And what are you looking for? And I go, guitar and bass. Okay, cool, I'll see what I can do. And what was it? Two days later, day later, two days later. Something like that, he called up and and we both were just like looking at each other when he says, well, yeah, I want to be your bass player, and we're like, okay, I'm wondering how that's all going to work with, you know, the Metal Church and the autograph at the time, because he was pretty busy and and you know, he has his other project with his Elvis tribute. And I was like, yeah, this could be interesting, but you know, the universe has a way of shaking things up, so at least one of those.

17:16 Deals I don't got to deal with anymore. But but we're looking, uh, we're looking to you know, get it out. Yeah, you know, it's just fun having them both. I mean, like I said, Steve and I have been you know, throwing jabs at each other on the internet for ship probably at least last ten or twelve years, so it's it's now we're just doing now. We're just doing it across the studio, you know, So it. Is what it is. Speaking of jabs, the funny thing is, if you add my age and my son's age together, we're still. Younger than Mike. Wasn't wasn't the bad kiss short for kiss my ass?

17:56 God? Yeah, this is. Why you guys are a great band right here, Like like you're just having fun together and like each other like bands out there that are just like pissed at each. Other all the time. I'm like, dude, you're a music. We're just getting it's early. We're gonna just get started early. Yeah, if you're not having fun in this industry, it's the wrong one to be in. Way too hard to not have fun with it, man. No doubt. You know that was a really cool thing about Steve coming on board too, is it's just like the the fun factor went up because both of us are kind of the same guy when it comes to certain ship.

18:46 So you know, I you know, we haven't turned on each other yet because you know, there's still too many helpless victims out there. But you mean one of you didn't go across stage and try to punch the other out during the performance. Not even so much. It's more like the backstage antics. And when we're in hotels and his time, you know, and we're just working with each other, and you. Know, yeah he doesn't he draws wieners on people's faces. I trace him. Yeah, yeah, still trying to figure out what happened to. His toothbrush that one time.

19:27 There's that my teeth that brown. See. This proves that there's still fun things that go on backstage. Yes, yeah, Well, the world's a fucked up place, and this is supposed to be an escape. You know. Music for me now has always been an escape. If I go see the concert, I don't want them preaching politics to me. I don't want them to preach and you know, whatever their thoughts are or whatever the bun going off in the world, I paid money to the show and had an escape for reality, no doubt. I'm with you, man, like I actually came up with an idea of how we could solve all the world world's problems, and that is to have one big music festival, specifically rock metal punk, not the ones where people fight at and uh you know where the whole world has to attend.

20:27 Because everybody's handed to joint. There you go, because that's where we were united. That's where there are no outsiders. Funny story about that is like I had somebody working for me. She was also a co host on my show, and she was a country girl. And one time, one weekend, I had to cover two festivals at once, which of course I couldn't do, and so I sent her to one. And she had never been to a rock show in her life. And even Danny Wimmer festival with I think Slipknot was headlining, or and Bring Me the Rising and. Stuff like that, and she I said to her, I'm like, listen.

21:09 She was really scared about it, you know because like us metal heads, we scare people. Uh, And she go I said to her, listen, you're gonna have so much fun at this thing, Like it's not like your country shows. You get to go to where the rednecks are getting drunk and beating the shit out of each other. Like you're gonna make new friends. You'll probably meet some dude. And and I just paid this like picture of how great it is. She comes back after the weekend and she goes, oh my god, you are so right, like I may, I had all these great new friends. I tea bagged some guy and he's now my boyfriend. She goes, I have this new favorite band. I don't think you know them, you're called bring me the Horizon. I can't think I kind of know who they are, and like there you go. That's how you convert them right there, Just send them to a festival. And like that's why I think, like we would all get along if we just all went to a festival, had one huge mosh pit and just let all the bullshit out in the wash pit.

22:19 Man, that's the way it's big. Just leave it all in the d Fuck. The wars, fuck the bullshit, just leave it all in the pit and we can all have a joint and. A beer afterwards. That's the way it goes. You go, and we're not beauty of music. It's the best therapy there is too, Like anything that's ever been shit in my life, Man, all I have to do is go. To is show and it changes things immediately. Yep, you know, so, yep, you got the EP coming out later this year, and tell us about that, and you know, tell us about the other songs, like you have the new single, give it to me, but give give us an idea of what other songs on there are going to be.

23:03 Like, oh my gosh, Okay, I'm so excited for this next one because it's it's a bit of a continuation on our last. Their last album, Beautiful Scars, was a concept album taking on the Japanese art form of kinski or kinsigi on as a as a person and as you grow and gain experience and you get scars, sometimes we make them mean negative things, but what if we made them mean beautiful thing? So that was the store of Beautiful Scars is. Kind of coming into your own and owning everything that is that you are and that you have done and that you have been through. And then Villain is the working title of our next EP, which will be a little bit of a different release because we're not going to release it all in one. We're going to give it to you all slowly, so one song at a time.

23:54 And I think the first one is that, Yeah, so the first one, that's. Right, you know, That's that's what. Everyone's telling us to do, So of course we're we're gonna do it. But also it's a good thing because it allows us to just keep ourselves on the radio. Here's another one, here's another. We have a whole bunch, and then there will be one special track and maybe a hidden one on the album for you to find that won't be released until the album. So but Villain is a continuation of that, and this is where you've not only come into your own, but you accept who you are and everyone else's story to So like Villain, the title track is about exactly that. I'll be the villain of the story in your head. And the song on the radio, give It to Me, is about owning it, like you know what I'm not. I'm not gonna take it, You're gonna give it to me. Having that kind of confidence to walk into a room and know exactly who you are and how you stand and how you can and how you gain you know what? It was the word I want to think of, But it's not independence, but it's sort of like you gain. I guess confidence is really just that word that's very sem powered. It has a lot of language that's testosterone driven language sung by a female, so it's just a very strong feminine song and I love it. That's give it to Me.

25:12 Oh my gosh. We have a lot on this album. We have a cover song that I. Don't want to give away, but I'm. Super excited about it because it's the one that most people do very very slow, and we put a bit of a heavy drive to it. We brought out a little bit of emotion in it, and we bring in some big guitars to it, and it's a very well known song. So I'm excited about that one. Oh my gosh, I did I forget amusing. We have one on our O that we were re resurrecting, so Give It to Me was a resurrection of one, and we're also going to resurrect another one, potentially from Volume one. So again I won't say which one. I'm gonna keep them all a little secret, unless unless Mike says we can share.

25:54 Oh yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, okay, okay. I have a meeting with our radio guy next Thursday just for the order of release. But yeah, everything's already packaged and ready to go, so you're you're free to move about the country. Nice. Great, Well, you. Will hear another redo of our song Babylon, and this one is I'm so excited about because I took it to a different level. It's just that total fevered dream. It's just amazing. And the cover song, which I'm very excited is a Beatles one because I've been I love the Beatles, that grew up on the Beatles and we're gonna do it in my life.

26:38 Oh I love that song. Interesting going back to a Kiss, like I was also Beatles for that because right after I got that album, some other kid I think I was like first second grade, I don't even remember, but they came into the oral report on the Beatles and I was like, oh, they're cool, and you know, my my walls as a little kid in my room no wall, it showed my uh, I don't know. I guess schizophrenia or whatever because down the middle I had Kiss on one side, Beatles on the other. As far as posters ball the wall. Yeah, but they're so similar and people don't know when I say how similar they are, there like Beatles and Kiss come on, and then I tell them that different things, like you know, it was always Paul and John if either one of them wrote a song, and just like Gene and Paul and you and you know, whoever wrote the song sang the song, you know, and there was just the formula was pretty similar as far as that goes.

27:44 And then even the fact of branching out in different directions. The Beatles were known for like going in so many different areas, and I think. Kiss did a lot of that too throughout the years. Oh yeah, absolutely. You know, so. I love that you're doing that cover, and I love that you're doing it not slow. Well. It was very interesting because she was. Singing it one day and it was just kind of like I'm hearing this thing and I'm going, what is that? And she's like in there, just belt in this song and I go, I'm just like that is amazing, and she's like, yeah, we should, I want to do this and stuff, so, you know, and it was really interesting that there's there's a little bit of a I don't want to give too much away out of it, but you know, it is what it is.

28:35 There was, you know, just like she. Said, we we went and scoured and listened to all the different covers out there, including Ossie and Slash, and nobody ever had the I don't know if it was the desire or the feel or the courage whatever, you know, to take that song up a couple of notches, you know what I'm saying I'm not talking about going full undisturbed with it now, right, you know, But it was just that there was there was a lot of power in the emotion of that song. Can I put it that way, Brittany. It's very, very emotionally powerful, and I don't think the emotional power of that song ever really got tapped. And that's a good point.

29:17 And we did that. And there's a lot of Brian Mayish style kind of guitar stuff coming into it. Very melodic in its sense, but there's a lot of hit to it. There's We'll take you to the cliff and drop you off. It's it's a. I mean, if you don't, if you don't when you're done listening to the song, if you don't feel something, then you either weren't listening to. It or you hate music. That's why I can't lay. And so there you go. But yeah, so Eric scited. I mean, it was just kind of one of those things. It's like, yeah, that works. You know the story of Give It to Me, the song that we're talking about today. You know that song actually got released in twenty twenty three, but never got released in the United States.

30:02 Oh that's interesting. I didn't know that. Yeah, it was. It was just kind of a thing, you know. Brittany and I were like coming up with all these little marketing plans we had for our European tour with ing Bay, and one of the things that was like, you know, what we should be doing, and of course I was talking to Paul too, is man, if we had a song we could put out, then we could hire a PR person over there, we could get some radio spots, you know, we could build up a little gin up some you know, obviously Ing Bay's going to sell out, but it'd be nice to have some Limberlost shirts in the crowd, right, you know, and being our first trip to Europe, that's a tall order too. But it was like, you know, we had some internet traction over there, so we figured we try and get that. So it just so happened that Give It to Me was kind of in that almost done space, so we kind of pushed it and produced it and got it out and then released it and whitelisted all the stuff in the Western Hemisphere, but we only released and released it all over there. So yeah, if you were in the UK, you could spotify this that song In twenty twenty three to today.

31:03 In fact, it still gets a lot of spins over there. But then we got back and it was kind of like, now we've got to release it here. But then we were kind of like, I don't know if this is the band we want to release it with. This is the I don't know if this is the direction we want to go hurt to go ahead. Our songs were sounding different, right, and if I remember correctly, we were like. It doesn't sound like our new material now, Oh no, you know, and so it be what. Do we do with this song? I remember that, And we had a couple of them. There's a song we wrote with a friend of ours named Sammy called Rusia, and it's kind of sitting in this nexus, like what do we do with this song? But you know, the. Then the sound changed dramatically, and so when this new EP started to take shape, it was kind of like, you know, if we gave this song a modern makeover, and when I say modern to this band, to this sound, right, this energy, this would be a good time to release that song.

32:01 So that's that's what you have. And it's just kind of. A reimagined version of what we what we wrote back in twenty twenty three, and I personally, even though I penned it, I personally like this version way better than the old one. Nice. I think that's true of a love artists. Though. It's like I've heard Hatfield say all the time, like I don't know why they play the old version is seeking destroy at the San Jose Sharks Games. I can sing a lot better now, you know. And it's like I find that a lot of artists when they redoce stuff for their music later, they like it better. Why because you're a better musician at that point, Like when you're a teenager doing this stuff, you don't really know what you're doing yet, so like you want to grow into your craft and get better at your craft. And I think that's what happens, and that's probably what happened with this song.

32:51 Yeah, well we've got we've got the players, you know. I mean, you know Steve Is, you know, renowned metal Hall of Fame bass player, his son as a Beat. In fact, we just released a short out today of him covering this, his solo in this and playing and it's just like, you know, you listen to it and then watch him play it, and you're. Just kind of like, Wow, this kid's good, you know. And uh, and then of course we've got you know, Beaker the Wizard. You know that our keyboard player, Tony. We have lots of names for Tony. There's there's Tony, there's tea bag. Doctor. Yeah, I mean, and uh, well he's the coffee roaster.

33:34 Was he won baldies now because he's roasting coffee on that. But anyway, uh, you know, but uh, you know, and then of course these two lovely opera singers that you know, just are you know, top of their craft, you know, I mean, what do you do? You know, what do you do with that? You know? And and uh and the material and this that has been we've been able to write and the way we've been able to produce it. I I don't know, it just was kind of like one of those lightning in a bottle moment. But I think it's definitely where we belong. I think we are strong here and you're just seeing the beginning of it. You know.

34:15 We've took a couple of these songs that are on the albums Sugar and Dyllaan. We actually took those out on the road last year. We had just finished writing those. I think about the time we were rehearsing to go out on tour and we were like, shit, let's put these in the mix, you know. And so we've been playing those for a little while now and those those haven't been released yet, but they went over really well on tour. So yeah, we're really excited. You know, there's it's it's you know, it's an interesting year. It's gonna be uh, gonna be fun, like Steve says, you know, our biggest challenge right now is we kind of went through a couple situations where we don't quite have the uh booking management that we thought we were going to have, so we're a little slow off to start getting out this year. We do have some shows coming up. Of course, there are things we've signed that we can't talk about yet because there's bigger names on those bills that haven't announced yet. But you know, so we do have stuff coming up, but you know, the fun stuff is going to be releasing these songs of course, and then we also I'm personally very excited about the summer when I think we're going to do it. When we hit Sturgis.

35:24 We picked up a very very talented and very experienced front of house guy. That's important. And he's worked with I don't know Steve Cot speak to a better because we met him through Steve. But he's dropped names like the Commodore's, Lady Gaga, Bondie. He was just supposed to go out on tour with Ghosts, but got got COVID right before it, so they had to. Find somebody else. You know, he's he's worked the board at Whack and he's you know, I mean, he's he's. Really really good. He's actually a serial killer in our video. Uh actually moving on.

36:09 Yeah, actually it's a delivery, I. Know, right exactly. Uh, but but so we're just gonna actually he is. Actually we did this on tour and we kind of tested the waters a little bit and it sounded pretty good. We just didn't have the right setup for it at this one venue. But uh, we're going to have the right setup in Sturgis. So we're he's going to record it and then we're gonna get together with him in Vegas probably for a few days and uh do all the mixedowns and stuff like that, and we're gonna put out a live record probably around the just before the holidays, and you don't know that too often from a band like us so at our level. So right, so I didn't do that. I love it, and you know what we're gonna.

36:51 I'm just playing the buzz out there because I promote all their festivals. But we got a need to see you guys at like Ladder than Life and Aftershock later. In the year. Please hello, right, line up the other one you actually your band like with just that song alone, which by the way, I was listening to, I'm like, man, that song could seriously have commercial success. I don't say that often because I'm not into most songs that are gonna have commercial success, you know, but it definitely it has the components to it and I love the message too. Like to Steve's point, you know, fuck all other negative bullshit that people musicians are talking about.

37:37 Let's talk about stuff like this because that's what we need right there. And yeah, and. I sor you know, I can also tell you and sorry, but I could also tell you that the other wimmer festival, Bourbon Beyond, which is not the metal hard rock one, you guys could probably play there too, because you're the type of band, based on what I heard, that can go. There's some bands that play Bourbon Beyond that can be in louder in life and Bourbon Beyond, you know, and I think that's what you guys are. Well appreciate that. Yeah, if you have, if you have any tricks for us to line up into those areas, I'm all theres because those are those are actually big goals of ours to get to find our way. That's one of the reasons we're pushing so hard on radio too. And you know, I think we're actually gonna this song might even be going It's not gonna, Paul.

38:32 It looks like we might even be getting up, you know. And again nothing's guaranteed, but we might be getting pushed into possibly a test drive on octane with this nice you know, at least an opportunity, you know, at least put on the table, you know. But you know, but then again, like you said, we can go you know, you know, we can go softer too. You know. It's it's how do I want to say it? I think I think we are built for those type of deals. That's what this band has actually been constructed for, is the live show production. Energy. When Brittany and I sat down and put beautiful scars together.

39:14 One of the biggest conversations we had during all that was how it was almost looking at it from a musical theater standpoint, is how does this How does the whole production? How does the whole stage show look per song? And so we really put a lot of thought into that. When we're writing and producing these songs too, it's like, what are we going to do here? What are we going to do there? Oh, we could do this with this part, you know, and and stuff. Because at the end of the day, with all the bs going on out there about music and all the computers and AI and all the stuff going on, at the end of the day, you still have to go out and deliver it, you know what I'm saying. You still have to be that connection to somebody, you know, Paul Stanley to little Devin Hunger. You still have to provide that, you know.

39:57 And so that's what our Those are our major goals. So when you say things like Louder and life and actor Shop, I'm kind of chubbing up over here. I can't really see. But it's small, you know, But well that's great. I'm just saying, you know, that's those are our bucket list items, right now at least on the space side thing. And you know you you made a comment about the positive and stuff too. I got to share one little story with you from our last tour, sure, and we wrote a song back in Oh God, I think we recorded back in twenty nineteen. We had a very famous producer come to town and named Timothy Eaton, and he he took this song on and there's a whole story how that happened, but you know the the yeah, and he produced this song and we did a video and it's it's a very long song. It's not a radio song.

40:54 It's like a six and a half minute song. But it's just so impactful. It's got so much message to it. And we were out on tour and we just finished our show in Atlanta and we were, you know, we were driving O RV and the boys were in the hotel. But we hit this little out of like the day of hey, let's stay here our V park and mobile Alabama, Alabama. As we do, I pull in with our fifty three foot land yacht here and I you know, I go into the you know, check us in and of course I talk to the person, I tell them who we are. I give them a CD, because that's what we do. You know, we're spreading the word right, And she goes, oh, my daughter will love this. She listens to this kind of stuff. And she tells me a little story about her daughter and some trauma she'd went through and family stuff that had happened, and how she was really into music now and dah dah. So as I'm leaving this young gal, the young gal walks in. I didn't know it was her daughter. And then we go and park and start setting up our stuff for the night, and about what twenty minutes later, they roll up. They roll up in their little golf cart and the daughter had walked in as I was walking out, saw the CD sitting on the counter and said where'd you get that?

42:11 And she goes, uh, well there's that. The drummer was just thing there. They're staying here and you gave me their new CD, and she goes, shut up, I have them off my Spotify, and we're like, so they drove down to meet us, and she's and I mean, I don't want to go into the story because it's it's well and it's not for public consumption, but you know, she went through some heavy trauma and it was our song. Good Fight that got her through it. Wow. And we're a little band out of Seattle and she's a little girl in Mobile, Alabama. I love that. That's what music's all about, right there? Yeah, oh yeah, that's that that. It's moments like that for people like you, guys, that that's what you do it for. That's when you get that moment here, even if you're in the moment of like, oh, it's so sick of this business, why am I doing this? And then something like that happened and you're like, that's why right then?

43:04 Yea, every affirms it. Every you know, it brings you back to why, you know. I think that's the whole thing is that if you get up in the morning and you've lost your why, well then what the hell are you doing? No doubt, one hundred percent. But I think we're all we're all, you know, rockers, so we're naturally immature. So I know, my grandmother says, you're only you're only young ones, but you could be immature forever, you know. So I think that, you know, we have that natural immaturity that comes along with it. Hey, what's great about that? As my grandkids like me a lot better than their parents, because I'm a lot cooler and a lot more fun. Yeah that's right, I said, say, don't take them into posh mosh. But I'm like, okay, whatever I'm taking I was.

43:50 Around this way. I'm old enough that I saw the original I waited every Friday night to see the original Batman series. Yeah, me too, man, me too, all right? And I hate old people. I don't. I mean, I mean, I'm I'm an old. I'm just saying I just don't want to be. I mean, I don't want to be that. You know. It's so true though, they've lost their limber. I don't know that. Yeah, of course, that's what it is. It's so true though. Like I have this brother that's six years older than me, and I swear he's like thirty years older than me. Right. He was just telling me the other day, was complain because some kids were playing their music too loud, and I'm like, well, that.

44:38 Would have been fun. What the fuck are you complaining about? You? I would have been over the partying with him, right exactly, you know. And it's it is. I think that's the is the. True thing about rockers is that, you know, we never get to that point where it's like, like my parent would have been, well, you and your mot like crew turned that ship off satanic music. Oh yeah, it's like. Shit. Oh man, uh it was I. By the way, speaking of that, I figured out how to get rid of Jehovah's witnesses when they come to your door.

45:21 That's a good one too. I'll have to try that. But the pizza, I think it was like I was like sixteen years old and I had Slayer playing through my guitar amplifier when they knocked on the door, and I had Ozzy Diary of a Madman shirt on, and they started their thing and I just looked at him very dead seriously. I'm like, yeah, I'm a devil worshiper. Can't you tell they freaking ran? Man? They believed me, They freaking ran. Yeah. I had a similar story like that because I used to have a pet snake who sadly passed away. But one time I answered the door with a pet snake around my neck. To this was witnesses who talked for a minute until she looked up and went, so, if you haven't, you know, just whip out the snake.

46:17 I think in any way, no, no, no, I think that in general, that's probably the message we all shared. There was kind of wibout the Snake. I need you to send me that sound clip. I think I am going to go into serview distribute that part as a real.

47:01 Play that repeat, play on like without the sy. Oh boy, the next ep that we'll. Have, don't Jehovah's Witness whip out the Snake. That's it's funny. We actually have a song on this mo sings. We There we Go, we do There we Go. So that's perfect. So how do people reach out to you guys on socials on the web? Buy your merch, check out tour dates, get the music, all that stuff. And by way, if they don't buy your fucking merch, they can't listen to my fucking show.

47:47 That there you go. Well, I'm gonna say you got to look at our Limberlost music dot Com web page. Not to be confused with Limberlove. By the way, we were once called lumber Lust, you know, because the guys that would get wood. Yeah yeah, so on spoted out fix that. But anyway, uh, yes, Limberlost music dot Com is our website and we are all over everything Facebook. We are on Instagram, TikTok YouTube just did our first couple of YouTube lives. So we've got a lot of stuff, a lot of independent artists kind of things going on over there, and plus all of our music and stuff, and of course all the platforms you know, Spotify, Pandora, you know, iTunes, all you know anywhere. We're professionally distributed, so it's it's everywhere. But if you go to our website, there is a store and uh it's been called the Walmart of rock and roll. Uh, merchandise stores because we have just about everything you could think of, including Steve's refreshing limber lube.

49:05 Perfect. Uh, but we do have a lot. We have a lot of stuff that we have. We have dog. Collars, luggage and just anything you'd want on a Saturday night. I guess tennis shoes. You can get limber lost tennis shoes. It's really cool. You can tis. Here's all. Here's what you need to do. Alien alien what alien g string? But no, I don't know do we have any. Here's here's what you gotta do. I have a pair of bad flower heelies. You gotta do heelis. Yeah, since you've brought up the sneakers.

49:52 You know, you can buy my drumsticks. Nice. Yeah, we even have instruments. Actually, we've got a lot. We have like all kinds of fun and death. It's definitely worth a look. But you can find us in all the social media platforms where you know, Limberless music dot com. You could just google Limberlost, Limberlost Music Shopify. We're on that, like just all the things there. There isn't a place you won't find us. How about how about this? Do you have a limber a limber cano? Yes, oh my gosh, you. Know it's from a band that I interviewed. I think Bloodstock.

50:36 I can't remember which band, and it was a death metal or metalcore band, so I can't read what the band is either, right, can do? We do have an. Air freshener that can go in your car, though, and it's our logo and it smells like coconut. That's so funny. You should say that because I like that, because I was driving down the road just literally two days ago, and I saw somebody with those old school look like pine tree uh air freshers, and I'm like, man, why are people still buying generic ones? Like like you're get hanging that in your window like that looks stupid. Get something cool, you know, so right, that would be a good one.

51:24 Yes, we've got that on there. We got all kinds of stuff, but there is there is Steve's limberloob, so that's it. It really smells nice. It's got very nice. Yeah, but you all seriousness though. We also have all of our music downloadable and for straight there on our website. So uh we as much as we love all the distribution platforms and you can get our music everywhere, but if you buy it from us directly, we don't have to share, so it really helps us as independence. If you're gonna download our music, download our singles, uh, download you know albums. You know, we have all the you know, all the digital downloads available. We also have some physical copies depending on how new it is, but we all of that is on there also, so we're kind of a self enclosed one stop shop. We also have a VIP section on our website if somebody wants to support us that way, it's what thirty five bucks a year or something like that, and then you get all the you know, you get all the outtakes, all the cut ups, all the you know who got the wedgie on tour?

52:27 You know, all that kind of stuff. You know, that's all in that little little corner there. So we call that our VFP section. Plus you get a chance to get things a little bit before they come. Out, so all on our website. So we're we're becoming our own little country. Do you have a eight tracks? Eight tracks? I have eight tracks, but I don't have any limber laws ap how do we make Yeah? Yeah, it's hard enough to make. Records, which we do have. We do have a way to buy. A record and cassettes now again too. Yeah. So I came back the eight track like I missed my Blizzard of Oz eight track where I had to put the matchbook underneath and it shifted from track two track three in the middle of mister Crowley and.

53:14 It fades out when you go the speed. Bumps would have changed automatic. Yeah, I wore I wore a two neck my sharonas you know, and and my of course you know the problem with eight tracks. The reason I had so many is I was one of those dumbasses that did the Columbia House. You know I did too. I let oh them probably like ten million dollars, like because it's interesting. The only mark on my credit history is those guys. Here's a here's a big intel about me. I found out like later in life my father owned one of those companies like Columbia House, like before. I was born, Like damn, I could have had a lot of good ship. Man.

54:00 Yeah, oh man. I think when I was a teenager, like it was great. I didn't have money, so I just gave my penny and like once a week and I got all my music. Yeah, oh man, so say that again, say it again. I said what it was, like. That's for a dollar or for a penny, and then you had to buy like two or three over the next twelve months, right. Yeah, and they would keep sending them to you. They would keep sending it to you. I just kept them like I was underage, Like sure, bill me. So anything else we haven't we touched on so much. This actually borders on like I think my third longest interview ever have like over three thousand of them.

54:56 Yeah, that said something about you guys though, serious because like it's just good. There was no dead air. There's I'm not bored like there's some bands like sometimes you're bored hate to say it, but there's like my worst ever. The dude is one of the best guitarist ever wears makeup and it starts with D But I won't say who it is, but everybody knows who it is, even without me saying. And like, you know, it's like some you're like just like artists. Some I'm like, oh, I can't wait till his interviews over. And this one was just a lot of fun. And that's the way it should be. Interviews should be fun, you know. I always say that to the other press people at the festival, especially the ones I see that like they're boring me and I feel like I'm sitting there doing another interview and I want to slip my throat hearing nerves behind me.

55:50 And U, yeah, walked up. Well, first of all, the ones I have scripts, I just take them. I'm like, get rid of this shit. No metal head wants to interview with you with your script. I'm like, just chill out and just they're normal people. Just have a conversation. They'll tell you everything that you need for the interview. You don't like it takes a life of its own that way, that's where you get the stories. You know, not with how do you get your band name? Even though we started out somehow there fucking happens. Yeah, but it was unscripted.

56:31 You know, we were getting I always give a mulligan, bean. I do have I do have two great stories I have to do with that. That'll tell quickly. One of them, Like one of my best friends is Damn Spits, and he always used to say to me, you know, I wish they would just ask us on when we were on tour what skin conditioner we use, because I'm so sick of every fucking other question they're asking us million times, you know. And then right and then uh so I was interviewing August Burns Red and I like, I used to say all the time, I'm not gonna ask you dumb questions like how'd you get your band name?

57:13 Or if it's in Wikipedia. He goes, well, you're lucky then, because we fuck with everybody to ask us that question. See that girl next to you, she goes, and she was a friend of mine, and he goes, she asked us the question. We do it a total straight face, and we make up a different story every time. But for her, we were like, yeah, me and my sister we were teenagers. We got this dog. It was her dog. She named it August. We were partying out in the street. We thought we were all high and thought it would be funny to light August on fire and watch it run down the street. Ergo. August was red and the look of horror on her face, and he could not break character.

58:00 God, there you go. See, there's so much you could do with that. You should even. Bring bring Steve's lube to the interviews to do to fuck women. You know what we would, except somebody bought it at one of our shows. So we did. Yes. Well, see now at the story from them of how they use it, what happened, and turn that into a song that was. Gone in a box of cleenex. Oh god, it's been a pleasure. Your music is badass.

58:42 Everybody better listen to it and buy merch or they can just fuck off. And but seriously, you guys are badass, and everybody's got to check you guys out. And thanks a lot for giving us some such great music and entertainment, and you may my day like this is most fun I've had all day. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you very y thank you for having us, my Ben, Thank You for listening to the adventures of pipemin on w for c u I Radio.