Pipeman Interviews Yächtley Crëw at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

0:04 Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true. Why were you young? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and. I'm here with Tommy Bowe from yachtley Crue. I love it. I had to almost start laughing there because I do absolutely love it. Thank you, thank you. Yeah. We're happy to be in Kentucky for the first time, and it's a beautiful weekend. Let's say we're gonna have my yachts are here, the whole fleet, the land. Yah, that's what we call our tour bus, the land yacht.

0:48 Oh that's pretty cool and it's funny. So person writing media here while and we were going over to interviews, she was like, and how do you spell crew? She for the same thing as a dods Ma. Sure, the spell it ew or ui, Yeah, exactly. How many people don't get that? Well, we get a lot of people thinking that we're a Motley Crue tribute band or doing Motley Crue songs in the yacht rock style, which were not, although we do. I know that's for somebody else. We love Motley Crue, obviously they have their place in the rock and roll history, but we do take the yacht rock songs of the seventies and eighties and rock them a little harder and put a more modern edge on them.

1:30 So when did that whole idea come up to do that? Like, well, I mean the literally set out. For those that don't know, the term yacht rock was invented in the two thousands by a YouTube comedy series, and so that was the thing that went viral on the internet, and then Serious XM then put out a yacht rock station. So the story goes is a few of us in our band were in the hot tub or drummer and our bass player with their wives and they had the Serious XM yacht Rock channel on and they were going, we should do a band of these songs, man, Like, nobody's doing that, you know what I mean. And so they did, and they got in touch with me and we started a band. That was eight years ago now and it's been like a rocket ride ever since since our first show. It's crazy. People just love this music.

2:16 It's insane. Well, I'll tell you what I'm really impressed by too, is like Jimmy Buffett gave you kudos. Yeah, Well, the late Jimmy Buffett Rip. He signed us to his label Mailboat Records. So our first record was put out on Mailboat Records, and he just loved what we were doing and it seemed to fit within the mailboat world, right, the Jimmy Buffett world, and totally we definitely aspire to have the kind of fans that he has. You know, he has the Parrotheads or had I should say, although the Parrotheads are still going strong. Yeah, yeah, they're still going strong. Yeah. So we have creopies as our fans. We call them creepies, and honestly, it's a similar thing where they instead of dressing up when Hawaiian shirts, they'll dress up in captain's outfits. Actually we still see some Hawaiian in stance too. But we've had ladies dress up as sailorettes and people wear flamingo costumes. We've had a lobster at our show, like it's a rock lobster, and so it's really caught fire with the fans and it's happening, and honestly, it's a tribute to the bands that made this type of music in the seventies and eighties and they were just geniuses and studio wizards.

3:25 And I was listening to your stuff, and it's funny because of course I grew up in the seventies and the eighties and I'm listening to some of this stuff, I'm like, man, this is really good. And what's good about is it doesn't even sound like it's a cover, even though I know the song Oh thank You Yeah, and that's the sign of a good cover. Well, this music is really kind of like jazz fusion music in a way. It's rock like Steely Dan stuff and yeah Toto. So thankfully we're all of our the musicians in our band are pretty well rounded musicians. But we definitely had to step up our game when we had to cover these songs because it was like, it's not twelve the twelve bar blues anymore. You gotta know jazz chords, you gotta know jazz shuffle beats and stuff like that. So we really had to step up our game.

4:12 And it's again, it's just a tribute to those guys that were just like I always think about, like, how did these guys learn this kind of stuff without YouTube, you know, And like I was born in the eighties, so I grew up in the nineties, but like I didn't have YouTube back then, but I've learned so much from YouTube the since it came out, you know what I mean. I feel like all of us that play instruments will go on YouTube and see other guys playing it. But like these guys back then, man, they didn't have that and they were just using their ear or they saw the guy down the street, or maybe you had your one guitar teacher in your town. So I'm always impressed by that. I think it's the experimentation part like that you don't see a lot anymore today, right, You know a lot of things today are like programmatic when first it wasn't back then. Even take a lot of bands from then, and even within the same genre, they didn't sound the same.

5:02 They couldn't really like pick them as a specific genre. You know, they could fit into multiple genres and they're just experimenting when they're creativity. That was definitely like I think that was maybe born out of the sixties, I don't know where that. It was like adelics and all that kind of stuff, and it was the thing to do is to be as creative as you could be. And you know what, we're going to write a seven minute song and it's going to be the single like that that just doesn't you know. It's like I feel like the music industry is going away from that a bit, and you know, hopefully it comes back comes back around. People have the at tension span of half of gold. And that is true. Yeah, the phones aren't helping, but it is changing. Like so there are bands now coming out with the longer songs.

5:43 And it's rushing on and that's great. There's bands that are like similar to the seventies, bands that are all of a sudden becoming popular now. So everything comes back around. So and I'm sure the kids that are growing up, they're digging into the old stuff and see, and it's because it's great music. Honestly. It's like you can't deny that. You can't deny what the Beatles did, you can't deny what Eppelin did. You can't deny what Black Sabbath did or what all the out rock guys did. It stands a test of time. So that's why we're popular. Well, you know what else too is the fact that I think maybe a lot of the listeners are sick of not having musicianship right because.

6:24 That has and they don't even know, they don't know what they're missing or longing for, but then when they hear it, they're like, that's what. I want, you know exactly, because like the musicianship of the bands that you are coming from that you're influenced by, right, like, was just incredible. And like you said, with jazz, you better know what you're doing you play jazz. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I. Know when I was a teenager playing guitar, I remember my dad saying you should try something else because you suck the way he didn't realize what is doing. What we were talking about is like I wasn't trying and play notes chords like the scales were boring the shit out of me. Yeah, I was just experimenting. I wanted to see what I could do.

7:11 And there's a lot to be said for that too, you know what I mean. There's a lot to be said for just experimenting. And I don't think Kirk Colebaan k new jazz scales, you know what I mean. So it really is what you want to do. There's no I believe, there's no right or wrong. But some people get really into scales and our peggios and stuff like that, and those guys end up being jazz players exactly. Oh it is, so how does it feel to be here at Bourbon and Beyond. Man, It's so cool. This is probably our second big time festival we've played. Yeah, I mean, we kind of do our own headlining tours mostly, but every once in a while we got offered to do one of these, and we did Beach Life in Dando Beach, California, which was a great weekend by the beach. But this is like, we're excited. Man. It's just like, I'm going to drink some bourbon. I think this weekend. I think you have to.

7:54 I don't even like bourbon, and when I come to this, I'm like, okay, I got to drink some bourbon because I'm right from talking at Bourbon and Beyond. But honestly, as excited as I am to drink bourbon and play with all the other bands on the line, I mean, Ringo's here, man, That's what I was going to. Say earlier you mentioned the Beatles. Was it like knowing that you're playing the same venue as Ringo? Star, Like, come on, so many other artists and honestly, we've shared the stage with This is a good time to mention we've had guys yacht rock legends come up on stage and play with us. And it's like We've had Peter Beckett from Player come up and play Baby come Back with us. We've had Elliott Larry from looking Glass play Brandy with us. Sebastian Bach who's not a yacht rock guy, but he came to our show in Vegas and he came up and did Hotel California with us, and that guy can still sing man. Oh yeah, he still got it.

8:42 Super talented. Yeah, and nice guy too, he still has that voice. Yeah, yeah, totally. And he was a great guy, really nice to us. So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here as a fan. I'm planning out my schedule on the Apple like everybody else, like, Okay, once our set's done, what am I gonna go see? So well, it's funny too because I'm a Beatles freak too. From a young age. I played guitar. I played drums for nine years and who was it that made me want to play drums? Ringo Starr and Peter Criss Cool, you know both of them, and that was what like, oh, I won't be that. And it's funny because I used to do this festival every year and then there's this other festival the same weekend usually that I started doing.

9:23 And this year I look at the lineup and I said, and I saw Ringo Star. I'm like, oh, now what am I gonna do? And I think the universe provided because that other festival switched weekends this year. Wow. It was like, Okay, that's a sign. There you go. You could be here with Ringo, Starr and everybody else. Yeah, and I believe Luke at Ther from Toto's playing guitar usually plays with him. I'm assuming he's on this Star because sometimes Ringo will change his lineup up. Yeah, but I'm excited to see Steve played too, because he's a studio legend and literally played on all those records from back in the seventy all the boss S, gag stuff, Michael Jackson, Thriller, the list goes on with him in terms of obviously all the total stuff. So yeah, I'm excited to see him and maybe I'll get to meet him.

10:11 That would be really cool. How wild I met his son? Actually, his son, Trevor is a super nice guy and has been to a bunch of our shows. And yeah, and there's always oh, we got a hopefully they can't hear that it's a loud playing, but yeah, anyway, shout out Trevor Luke at there, and we love the Luke at theirs. They're great, nice and Yeah. The thing is too, is that it's just such a cool vibe at this festival. There's so many different types of music, is what I like about it. Yeah, it's not just one thing. It's not just a country festival or a rock festival or yeah, it's a little bit of everything. Yeah, totally, it's totally Kentucky as far as on the constat Yeah, it's like the total Kentucky vibe. Now, I do have to say my home base is South Florida.

10:57 Oh nice. I low upset because I looked at your tournades and like Samford, that's the closest you're going to get. To on this off and I would say stay tuned for early twenty six. I believe we will be doing a few dates in Florida, but I'm not allowed to announce that yet, but maybe off the air, I'll tell you. Yeah. Yeah. But we've been to Key West, We've been to Fort Lauderdale, both great. I love Key West Man Key West well that's what I was gonna say. I'm like, when I was looking, I was like, why isn't Key West on this list? Like that makes no sense to me. Yeah, yeah, we'll be there. We love Key West. So that's always a fun party. Party atmosphere, what a place to do it, Yeah, exactly.

11:37 Have you ever done gigs on a yacht? Yes? Actually, well quite a few out of Marina del Rey, which is a marina in Los Angeles, US. Oh really yeah, well then you know it well yes, especially when we first started, we got hired to play birthday parties our wedding and on a boat that would go out through the marina. And actually we played a friend's fortieth birthday part. This is like early on with yachtley crew and one of their friends that was on the boat with us, with everyone saying, oh he's he just got drafted into the NFL, like, oh, some rookie in the NFL, Like, oh that's cool. I ever said I own it was Patrick Mahomes. Wow, and that year he went crazy his rookie year, And then we were like, that was the guy that was on our boat. He saw his play, So hi Patrick Mahomes.

12:23 Good to see I'm a Giants fan, but he's my favorite quarterback. He is awesome. I'm incredible. Love how he can run. It's incredible. Yeah, and he's and he's not just a running quarterback though he can throw it to But anyway, Oh yeah, we're turning this into a sports podcast. I know, right. I played I met. I played Madden Football on Xbox and I always pick to be Patrick Mahomes. Oh that's smart. Yeah. Yeah, So tell. Everybody how they reach out to you guys. I'm socials on the web. Yeah, follow us at gotli crew dot com. I should also say that our new record, Sees the Night on Earache Records. Shout out Earache Records. They've been great to us, comes out September nineteenth. You can go on yachtikru dot com right now and pre order it. There's all sorts of different colors, a vinyl you can get, you can order a CD, but it will also be in all the streaming platforms September nineteenth. And we have our single which was written by the great Diane Warren, who you might know from Don't Want to Miss the Thing Bierosmith.

13:22 If I could turn back time, Share and countless all Thiss. If you look at her wiki page, she wrote us a song called the Pain of Losing You, which is now in the Billboard Top twenty Adult Contemporary charts. So go stream Pain of Losing You and. A badass song. Oh thank you? You heard it? Oh nice? That's my preparation for interviews is listening to the music. Yeah awesome, I love it. Yeah, Well that's all you need to know, right exactly. Like how could you not? Like I do know other media people that they don't even know what the music sounds like. I'm like, how do you interview somebody and promote their music if you don't know what? Right? You gotta listen, you gotta listen supporting. So it is a badass song.

14:02 Thank you. I appreciate that. So we're really pushing that right now and seeing if we can get it to number one on the Billboard chart. That'd be great. Let's do it. Let's do it. So if you're out there listening, check out Pain I'm Losing You. Definitely a final words you want to give the listeners. Thank you for listening, and check out Yacht Lie Crue and check out just keep yacht Rock alive. That's what I'll say there it is. It is alive and well and especially here at Bourbon beyond. With you guys here all right, glad to be here. Thanks so much, Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio