New Jersey hard rock band BLACK ROSE REBELLION New Album, Hail The Rebel Queen – PipemanRadio

0:04 Hi, you love one to the censure. Wow for you young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w four c Y Radio. And our next guest has some killer music that we're going to talk about. So let's welcome to the show. Dave the rock Dock from Black Rose Rebellion.

0:46 How are you? How you doing? I like that name, the rock doc That's killer. That was given to. Me by j D from Black Label Society. I'm a dentist. I treat a lot of the rockers also and between that in music, and I've hung out with them and played with them and stuff. So it's been pretty cool. That's pretty funny because Okay, so in the town where our studios have been for like eighteen years, when I first moved there, I went to the dentist. Oh yeah, and I'm wearing a Misfits shirt in the dentist chair. And so the dentist as he's drilling me, he's like, you like the Misfits. I'm like yeah. He goes Glenn Danzig's my brother in law.

1:28 Oh that's wild. Yeah. I was like, holy crap, how does that happen? Right? So tell us a little bit about your debut album, coming out, and I think it's pretty badass. The music's pretty badass. And tell us how it all came about and what you're looking for your music to do for people. That's great. Yeah, So black ho was Rebellion was founded on my stinger and eyes feelings of trying to actually give up music. We were kind of bad experiences with some other bandmates and different situations and some a mutual friend reached out to us and hooked us up, and I took my wife, who's my drummer, and we went down to meet Tribe and she was just amazing and we had the same type of ideas, same type of goals. So we were sending demos back and forth, her vocals, my music, and it just really connected and she connected. It has been an unbelievable ride ever since. So this this album is we have sonic ride. Each each song kind of stands on its own. They're all very different, but still you.

2:40 Can know it's us. We're looking to really have people reach out, and all the songs lyrically and musically kind of connect with people. It's all about people's everyday lives and you know, Tribe is the rebel Queen, but really She's the rebel queen for everybody. Right, everybody could be a rebel queen. Right. The whole idea is to not about chaos and all that. It's more about being able to be your own person and bring your own feelings and fighting back people who are against you. What what what a thought? Right? I mean, like in this day and age, I think that's so apropos because come on, people, just think on your own.

3:22 Man. You don't need to join a team, you don't need to join a label. Just be yourself and you know if people don't like it, oh well you know they're not your people. That's it. And people seem to really. Connect with that whole idea too. It's it's really an amazing thing. I love it because it's what it used to kind of be like and it's become not like that. So we need artists like you to kind of unite us back together again with individuality. Absolutely. So, where in Jersey are you from? So the band is kind of split up. So our bass player, Michelle Mayhem is from Staten Island. My wife and I are from Northwest Jersey in the Clinton area. Tribe is from South Jersey. So it kind of will spread out all over the place, but it makes for great for.

4:12 Shows, right. And I'm from South I live in South Florida now, but I'm from Jersey. Oh and I'm from like many parts, Okay. So I grew up in Little Falls, roseland Montclair. Sure, and I've lived up by where you're talking about. I've lived up in Jefferson Township, up in the Lake Apacon area. I've lived in South Plainfield, Marlborough, Manawpen, old Bridge, that's Ocean Township. Funny story is like in nineteen eighty my dad came up to me and goes, meet your new mother. We're moving to California in three days. Oh little did I know that was actually a good idea. Like I was not down with that. And I remember when I first got to California, I'm like where how am? I was like I was an alien planet. But then I found very quickly the Sunset Strip and the Troubadour and all those areas of the eighties scene and got very involved.

5:14 So I relate to what you were talking about because I was very involved in the music scene then and I left. I left the music scene because I couldn't stand the bullshit of the eighties and what record labels were doing the bands right, right, So I definitely relate to your music. And then, you know, I was listening to. It and it's like, it's kind of like old school and modern at the same time. I say old school because it's just good rock and roll and musicianship. Legacy rock and roll with a whole new. Modern feel exactly, you know, because we've been kind of losing it in the past years, losing musicianship, and I think it's making a comeback now from a lot of bands I'm seeing coming up like your band and that, you know, want to go back to where you're actually a musician, right.

6:06 Absolutely, you're singing a lot of the new generation. Also, the young kids are going back to all the old school stuff and bringing that. It's pretty amazing. I think it's way cool. Two of my grandkids for their birthdays, they wanted me to get them vinyl. I was like, that's way cool. I'll be happy to do that. Of course, that was until I went to the store and I saw how much nyl is nowadays at the store. I'm like, holy crap, you know, I have the album go ahead. That's how I grew. Up, like you got an album, you own the music, right, You ripped over the plastic, you ripped up in the thing, You looked at the lyrics, you looked at the pictures, you owned it. Today's world's a lot different, right, It's fifteen.

6:48 Seconds his wife right left, as you like it, and it's changed the way people will Right. Some people are writing now where they're putting the choruses right up front so that you kind of connect with the hook right off the bat. It's definitely had an song music today. Well, you know, I took songwriting classes when I was younger, and I was talking. I was actually to your point talking to a band a couple months ago that was telling me how, Yeah, in teaching these kids songwriting that they had to change it for the times were in and the attention span that people don't have. Yeah, like you were just saying, putting the chorus right up front, maybe only two verses, no bridge, no solo, no intro Like some of my favorite songs. Ever, it took at least, at the very least thirty seconds to get to the meat of the song.

7:39 Oh, you're like, whoa, But you're right. When we were younger, you invested your money in some vinyl or cassettes or eight tracks or CDs, and you made sure that you listened to it from cover to cover because you paid your hard earned money that you couldn't get it, you know, and you couldn't just say, oh I don't like this, forget it. Some of my favorite albums I had to listen to like five times before you. Like yeah, yeah. You know what got you originally into music? Oh? I started as a kid. It just it was inevitable, you know. I love playing from the get go. I taught himself, taught I loved it and how to make a decisions if I wanted to go into music and go into school.

8:29 My parents pushed me to school. And then when you know, years later, my son had another band, and at sixteen years old, he's like, I don't want to go to college. I want to be a rock and roll drummer. So I started the band. He was my drummer. We opened up for Leida Ford's sworder early Guns. We played a lot of really amazing shit nice and then I had to do that for him. So actually he took lessons from j D. From Black Label. He taught him based and said let him Dave let me just try to. Steer him the right way. So he learned bass as well as drummer, probably one the best drummers I've had, and then ended up becoming a mechanical engineer. We pushed them towards that, so that was cool. But that drive me back into music. And when we played a huge festival, I had to write ten storms within two weeks.

9:13 And it's just been like that. Wow. So it's my it's my safe place. Well, you know, it's interesting. That's one of the things I love about today is your story. I'm saying with like my kids and grandkids. It's like when we were kids, there was no way we would be in a band with our parent, right, We wouldn't even we wouldn't even see a band that was the age of our parents, you know. And it's so cool, Like, you know, I do festivals all over the US, UK and Europe and I see like generations, Oh yeah, and I love it. It's amazing. Yeah, And that's where I'm feeling like rock is definitely not dead. It So we have a rebirth now, which is part of the band's name, right, Acho's rebelling. The whole idea of Black Rose is rebirth, renewal, you know, so it's kind of fun to see that music industry also.

10:10 Yeah, and I just got back from doing coverage Welcome to Rockville with two hundred and ten thousand people, So rock is definitely not dead. Awesome as that. That's great. Yeah, I do that one every year, but like two hundred and ten thousand. I think it's like a record for all the Danny Wimmer festivals at this point. That's all right. That just tells you it's not dead, right, two hundred and ten thousand people and what not one incident? I see. That's yeah, that's awesome. I love it, you know. So what else can we expect from you guys the rest of twenty twenty six, Well. We're going to put some some tour dates together right now. We wanted to get the album out, push that out. The release date is made twenty ninth. There's been a lot of amazing feedback, so that's really been great.

10:57 We're looking forward to it. We took about two year to really get this record the way we wanted to, so it's definitely a love project. See. I love hearing that too, because you know, a lot of musicians throughout the years I would even say, going up to COVID, you were on this hamster wheel and there's no way you would be able to take two years to. Write an album. You're like writing it on the tour bus from one gig to another. Yeah, we're getting the creativity back because I think how many times do artists put on an album and then later they're like, it really wasn't finished. That's not how I would have finished the album.

11:37 Yeah, our albums and music really came from our live shows. So the album's over the last amount of time. It needed to brew, right, It's like a great coffee or you needed to really sit there. And just and grow. And it really did, and you could see it through the audiences and the feedback we got. It's great when everybody comes up and one person's say, we love this song, the next one, I love the other song, I love that one. Here's a great feeling. But really allowing it to really mature. That was the key, and us as musicians together as a group too mature because we put it together and boom. We were right out of the gate. We were doing shows. And how you feel about being at this stage of life compared to early in life, and how you interact with bandmates.

12:22 Oh, it's so much different because she's so much mature. I having my wife in the band, that's even that's great. But right, we're like a family and people say the all the time, but each one of the positions that we have are people that have been in the industry for many years and cut their teeth on it, so they know how special this is and how special these personalities to work together. Tribe is actually a very veteran She did thirteen years in the army, so this is her way of really breaking out and having control of her own thoughts and ideas and vocal melodies and lyrics, and you can see that. So it's really we're all really appreciative of the whole process and the band together.

13:06 So when you're. Younger, you hit it for granted, you're out doing things, you don't really know where you're at. We really appreciate, we really appreciate how much what we have from other musicians and the people in the industry. I think part of it too is when you're younger, like most of your people that you were really close with or not even in your life at this stage of life, like it's different you know, so you do find your no pun intended pun intended. Tribe, you know, absolutely, So. I have to say too, like I love. You know, you have the rebel army, So how do people join that rebellion?

13:56 So it goes to anybody can be part of the rebel or army. It's not so much about fighting or chaos and all that. It's again being being yourself, everybody exiting each other, everybody being appreciative each other, and not putting labels like you discussed before. And things on that. So we just be very exclusive and bring everybody in and enjoy the music for what it is and what it and how it touches people. That's really important. All the all the lyrics and the feeling of the songs. We wanted to like touch somebody, really connect with the music. So that's kind of what the rebel army is. Rather than like. We're gonna go out and do chaos or we're gonna do that. It's more about come.

14:37 Far there you go. I love it, and I want I also want to thank tribe for serving our country. My son's been in the army for it's almost twenty years. He's like in his retirement papers now. And I don't care who you are out there, whether you agree with military, agree with war, you should always agree with soldiers because they're doing things that are for us at their own sacrifice. And you know, my hat's always off to somebody that like sacrifices their life for us to be able to say whatever we want. Oh, thank you. Yeah, And she continues to do that many days during the week. She's out there helping veterans and go to conferences and fighting for benefits and things like that. So she's still in the fight, which is.

15:24 Really a great thing. I love that because the veterans definitely need it. For sure. We've worked a lot with them, and yeah, they need all the help they can get. And I also want to say it was funny. I don't know if you know about this yourself, or she knows about this, but I didn't know about it. And I called up my son one day. It was from doing a Danny Wimmer festival years ago, and I was like, why didn't you get this job? Because there's a band that plays at all the Danny Wimmer festivals. It's the Army Band and a constantly you know new people in it, but that's their job in the army. That's great, and I'm. Like, why are you jumping on planes into dangers areas you should be on stage playing at Danny Wimmer Festival.

16:11 Yeah. I think the adrenaline of helping country and the adrenaline. Of what their focus and goals of the day, that's really important. Yeah, and again I think that's what Try brings to our band also, that adrenaline rush. She is definitely a firecracker. Nice. I love it well. I wouldn't expect anything less from anybody from Jersey anyway. Is there anything else you want to share with the listeners that we haven't covered yet, Well. You can down. May twenty ninth is the record released through Sony on all platforms. You can download the music. I think you're gonna see your real surprise. It's amazing stuff.

16:51 We have two really amazing videos that were shot over a couple of days on One is our original tune and one is a cover tune, the cover of Toxic from Britney Spears. Wow. Yeah, and we put our feel to it. We paid homage to it. But I'm a rocker and it definitely has that sound. I broke out a seven strings for some lower sound on that, but it's a very cool vibe and the video is incredible. We paid how much for all our videos, so that's pretty cool. Love it well, everybody has to go and check you guys out. Get the album on the. Twenty ninth, And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you so much appreciated.

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