Pipeman Interviews Sam of The Teskey Brothers at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

0:04 Hi, you love one too, Yes, that's true. For see why for you your roll? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here. With Sam Tisky here nice here. At Bourbon and beyond. Yeah, man, how's it feel? It's very cool? Yeah, it's a it's hot here, I have to say that for sure. But it's a real cool fistle. I haven't got to check out too much of it yet. We kind of just rolled in and I've got to see it of Robert Cray, which is cool. Yeah, that was great to just check that out. That was just outside our bus. So we gotta pup and say that that's awesome.

0:51 Nice. Yeah. And how about how Danny Wimmer treats the artists? Okay I always ask that because man, there are so many different festivals you could play on, and yeah, how you get treated it determines how great your set is. Yeah, I reckon so yeah, I think. Yeah, good festivals know that if they look out for their artists, they'll look after you, you know, and they'll want to come back as well. You know. It's like they're memorable. We're on the road and we're playing a show every night. All over the country, and you know the places that stand out because they're the artists. And so then when it comes up in a few years time, like oh yeah, let's play that one. Let's do when we're trying to set up a new tour, like yeah, let's do our show there, because it's a big thing for sure, like to make the artists remember your venue or festival, it's well worth it.

1:32 I reckon throw everyone. Yeah, so far, how have you been treated? Would you come back? Yeah? I'll come back. Yeah. I actually haven't even really explored around too much, but I the first thing I've probably tried is that delicious sweet cocktail mocktail thing over there. Oh yeah, it is pretty It's pretty delicious. You know that true board is pretty badass too. Yeah right, Okay, well I'm yet to experience all the goodies yet, but I'm sure i will. Yeah, getting here, and. So the listeners don't make bad assumptions. Where's that accent from? What's that say? Again? Where's the accent from? My accent? Yeah? So I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Which I assumed, but I never assumed because UK South African Australian if you call them the wrong one.

2:15 They don't like it. Yeah, yeah, well we don't mind. But yeah, generally like us mistaken Canadians for Americans and vice versa, you know. I know, right, yeah, right now, Canadians are nice people, so it would be a complement to us and then sult them. Yeah yeah, I think it feel like it does go seems to go more that way, doesn't it, right, But yeah, for us in Melbourne, like, my background's English. I'm the first of our generation in Australia, so Josh was born my brother was born over in Exeter, and so we probably don't have the most Australian accents anyway, naturally, and growing up around Melbourne, we're not in the thick of the heart of heart. Of Australia where it's where it really gets. You know. It's the further you go out, the more Australian you sound, right, right.

2:58 Yeah, I've always been fascinated. I saw this show once where they had the digouts where you live underground in that really hot area and yeah, yeah, I don't remember where it was, but yeah, like I won't try that. So that's real Australia. I'm sure the accents would be strong out there, probably similar to America. I'd further you go out of the cities, the more. Its different, Like it's kind of like Europe, every state the other country here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you see that. You definitely definitely get that feel for sure. So when you're not playing music, do you surf? No? Really, I would like to get into the ocean more. I'd love to get more into surfing. I do. I just don't seem to have had the time for it. I got a country property out outside of Melbourne, so I find myself doing a lot of woodwork and chopping wood, you know, like just just nice wholesome country things.

3:46 You know, what's the coolest thing you ever made? Oh, coolest thing I've ever made? In your opinion obviously. Yeah in my opinion. Oh okay, Well, I've kind of made this out of seat of sort of recording box that has like all in one like it's one little box that sits on it has a has like a rack unit at the beginning, like we put a pre amp in and then you put like it has like a fold out microphone that you put in one side and another microphone on the other side, and it's all kind. Of routed up and ready to go. So all you have to do is kind of open. The laptop and it's ready to record or plug it in and ready to record us all charging. And so it's like this kind of little mobile digital recording station with a nice piece of like I had on it, a nice Chandler preamp, like a Tenservious three style preamp with a nice U eighty seven mic.

4:34 So it's nice. It's just bring the good stuff around. It's for nice. Yeah, I love it. That's great. I love to hear what musicians passion is. Yeah outside of. Me, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, totally and so. Cool to hear the different things that different artists you in their spare time. Yeah, yeah, little you have Yeah, that's right. You know, it's the creative thing. Like you have to have a outlet elsewhere other than music or else you could get two in your head with. It, figure would get burnt out. You do get burned out. And also you need you actually just need to have the experience of like when you sometimes when you're like carving back something with wood and doing that, that's kind of when a song idea will come. You know, like when you're doing something another activity, then you're like Okay, here's a song idea. Okay, well, maybe I'll pop it into the studio for a bit and you know, like put that song down or come up with some lyrics for it, or come up with some chords or whatever for it.

5:26 They're the moments that you're kind of harvesting. See that's cool, harvesting the ideas, you know. And then if you're in the studio con say oh, we're going to go do a songwriting session with nothing to kind. Of like write about, you're like, okay, well and you have it. It's like when you when someone forgets someone's name and you're like, oh, now I've forgotten their name as well. It's like you have that sort of block moment. So it's really important. To just get out and just do something else and let it just come naturally and then and then go put it down here. Like that's I think that's why other artists do have other little hobbies that get carried away with. When you first got into music, could you ever imagine that you'd be where you are now experience all the things you did? Yeah? I no, definitely not. I guess I imagined it, but I never thought it would actually sort of eventuate it would be cool.

6:10 Oh that cool. Oh I love to play in one of those big stages. I wonder what that would feel like, because it was just kind of we're playing a little cafes and bars for years, ten, ten years or something like that and playing to someone sometimes no people, to fifteen people to no one, you know, like whatever, would would do anything, kind of play any gig that we got asked to play, And then it wasn't until we put down a record that it kind of started to build some momentum and we're like, oh shit, okay, we'll try and play catch up with this, and we've kind of felt like ever since then, we've been playing catch up until now. But I love that you brought up what you did for ten years because well, yeah, I always talk about to become an overnight success in this business, it takes about twenty years. That's an overnight success.

6:52 Yeah. People don't realize that. They don't realize. What work you guys put into and dedication and sacrifice, Yeah, to be able to play at Bourbon then beyond yeah anywhere. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah, it's totally then. We felt that when we always made half decent money when we were playing in the early days, like just good money for it, just to get us by. But then as soon as we started pushing it and trying to play catch up, that's when we started getting a lot less money. We're like, I guess shit, And those few years were definitely like a hard few years, were just getting two hundred dollars a week and then putting the rest asiety into investing to come over here, because it's big money to kind of do a tour over here when you've got no guarantees or anything like that. You're just kind of you're putting yourself out there for sure.

7:37 And we're lucky enough that that has paid off. We spent the money, spend the time, and it's kind of paying off now. So Nakes, she's just great. Yeah, And you guys just dropped a live album recently. Now, when you listen to that compared to listening to your studio stuff, if you were to fan, how would you feel, I. Would yeah, I would like it. I feel like our sound is in all so much more when it gets to stage. Like so, so it's sort of like to not give not to not give fans kind of to both aspects, you know, because when we're coming up with a record, we come up with it in the studio and usually the songs are written there, and then we build it up and then we kind of have never played it live and we've already cut the record, so then when we start playing it live, we're like, oh, actually it feels better doing it like this, and the song really evolves, like it really kind of evolves with the crowd. So for us to put out a US the album doesn't fully represent that.

8:31 That cycle, that like kind of album cycles. So pretty much every album cycle we've put out a live record and you'll notice they're very different like that. Will I feel that our anyway? I love that? Yeah. Otherwise, like if I go on a show and it's just like the record, yeah, I could just sit home. Yeah yeah yeah, the company, your own speakers. Real stuff, the real musician ship, yeah, going off to script yeah yeah, it's got to happen. Yeah, making mistakes yeah yeah. And to me, yeah, that's real mute. Trying out new stuff, like and that's what it's about. When you're on the road every night playing to people, you're kind of like, well that didn't work, so well, let's not do that. Tomorrow night, like, you know, let's styal it back, And especially when you're trying these new songs, you're really kind of like it's tough. It's like when crowds know your music and you're like, okay, well now we've got some new tracks. You've really got to see how people respond, and generally it's they're a lot more team so you're like, okay, like did they like it or didn't they? You know, and we sort of and that's how we sort of navigate what songs we put in the set now because we've got enough music that we put all of our music in it. The cess is going to be way too long, so yeah, so we've really kind of got to gauge what works live and what.

9:37 Doesn't work live. And that's all kind of part of it as well. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, tell every way how they can reach out to you on socials, by your merge, but get your music tour date. It's all that. Look up with the test you brothers on Instagram and they'll probably lead you everywhere. And now they'll give you the website Tescibrothers dot com. Yeah, and yeah, buy it all there, check out our shows Spotify is a good way to look at it as well. So yeah, nice, Well, I'm so happy you're here at Bourban Beyond. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pap. Thanks Mane, that's pretty awesome. Jeez jeez. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tateman on w for CUI Radio.