PipemanRadio Interviews All Hail The Yeti at Bloodstock 2023

0:04 Hey, you love them too, that's sure. I'm coming from w S Why for you wake up of America. It's time for the Adventures. So pipe Man on w f CY dot com West Palm Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man cept. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with This is Conner from All hell the YEDDI nice. So I want to start right off the bat forget all hellly, yettie. Let's talk about your tattooing. All right, let's talk about your tattooing. You do tattooing in La. I do. I've been tattooed for about twenty six years.

1:08 Wow. I opened my shop in two thousand and nine and it's been a uphill battle ever since. That's funny. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of tattooers in LA What makes you stand now to get over the others? Uh? You know there's a lot of really great tattoos in California in Los Angeles as well, and there's a lot of really really bad ones. So I've always strived to just focus on myself and my work and do as best as I possibly can and try to perfect do a better tattoo each day, kind of the same as music, you know, and do a better performance or do a better song each time. So my shop has always been strived to give give each person a great experience and treat them like they're getting the biggest tattooed possible, whether it's just you know, half an inch or half sleeves. So it's more about the customer experience for us, and it is about my experience or like my personal kind of thing with it. So I built the shop that everyone can be comfortable at rather than just a place where I can work. I love that attitude. That's amazing and that's the way it should be right there. Absolutely, it's unfortunate nowadays, especially with the Instagram and the all the ship that happened during pandemic and everyone kind of going going private and exclusive, so it's kind of it's kind of destroyed that traditional like walking tattoo shop kind of vibe, right, So we're bringing that back, especially in California and in Hollywood. Yeah, that must have been kind of tough too. Yeah, that was weird. People are worried, like yes about it, right, Absolutely, They a lot of these younger

2:42 artists kind of don't do the traditional apprenticeship, you know, the steps to getting to be a good tattoo where they just build their Instagram up, get really big popular, a lot of ratings on Instagram, and then and then I want to be a tattoour and so they skip everything and do everything kind of backwards, and then once they have fifty thousand followers, they're like, oh, I'm a tattooer now instead of going through like I'm learning how to be a tattoo or So. It's crazy. It's a crazy world. And it's like music too, right. You got these TikTokers that are all signed rock stars, but they've never even done them perform. I've never even finished the whole song. Yeah. I put out a little fraction of a song and that goes goes viral and then everyone's like, well, can I hear the full song? It's like, oh, we don't have a full song, right, It's so weird, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's bad enough there's that full albums yea, not a full song yep. Yeah.

3:32 I mean we come from a different era, I guess, right, So I missed the days of waiting in line at a record store to buy a CD that was going to come out, or a vinyl and that feeling of unraveling it and opening it and like looking at the art and right, it's a dead thing. And kids nowadays, unfortunately, will never understand that. You know, some do and some some like to buy vinyl and but that whole it's like standing in line to buy tickets, right, that's it's all gone. And you know, remember camping out. I remember sneaking in line. There's people camping out for someone Tapple of Pilot tickets in ninety four in my hometown, and I remember like everybody was camping out and I was just like, I'm not camping out. I just like walked up and just like stood in line behind a bunch of people. And they ended up canceling because he was went to rehab or something. But I never got to see them.

4:21 But anyway, Yeah, I was telling a story yesterday about I camped out for Black Sabbath Tickets Mob Rules Tour. Yeah, hell yeah. And some dude came up to me, like in the marie because I was right at the front of the line. I was like, Hey, buy me my tickets and I'll smoke you out at the show nice and being a teenager, I was like, sure, you know, like that that was for ten bucks back then, probably yeah, right, So uh and then how does the artistry of doing music for you compared to the artistry of tattooing for you. I think they've always gone hand in hand, you know, like guy, growing up what listening to Motley Crue and those bands. You know, obviously that that band for me was my first kind of oh my god, I want to be those guys, right, like which Out of the Devil came out. I was a young young boy, and you know, the tattoos were part of it, like that they're badass. Was like there were these crazy fucks from from Hollywood that had tattoos, and I was just like blown away, and and I never meant to get into tattooing. It just kind of happened. And at the time when I did it was it was a little bit right around the same time I started playing music and making my own music and playing it in my own first band. And they've just been hand in hand ever since. I've had that duality since the very very beginning, you know. So they you know, tattooings offered me a lot, you know, and they and given me the chance to do a lot of things and and musically, you know, because I can take off whenever I want and I can you know, I kind of run my own business,

5:53 so and music has offered me, like any ability to like meet a lot of people that want tattoos. So they were pretty good together. Yeah, I love it. And you know, it's funny you mentioned Crew because the first ever club show I ever went to before they even had an album was Crew at the Rosy Amazing, and I was like, I'm never going to a real concert ever again. I can imagine those were electrifying, those shows like in those days, Like I mean I got to Hollywood in two thousand and that was the tail end of it, right like the new metal kind of thing. It was still crazy. There are people were still handing out flyers and it was just a crazy, crazy place to experience and I'm glad I was there for it and kind of cut my teeth in that world.

6:39 And I mean, our first show is this band was above the Roxy. So I played the first gig that we ever played at at the rock Sy and then the Whiskey and you know, the Key Club and all those places at Dreubadour. So we're you know, we're in grained in that history of Hollywood because it's all different now, everything's changed. Oh yeah, like I remember the Roxy. We're still there, but but like a few years back, I remember Roxy like Turn of Tech. Though, I'm like, yeah, you know, honestly, I stopped going there when they used to do the on the rock stuff, which was a little like private club upstairs and a bunch of my friends round that around that, so we were always there every night, and once they stopped doing that, it was just kind of the promoters switched and there was less less and less rock and roll and every now and again, I think they have shows like that, but there was so many memories of the sunset. Oh my god, I'm sure yours are probably like yours are the ones that I wish I had because I wasn't old enough right like I and I was living in Canada. Of course we got Megabeth here. Oh yeah, yeah, that the first Metallica show ever.

7:42 This dude gets off the stage, walks up to me. They were like twenty five of us are hees like, hands me its business card, said Metallica power metal, Dave Mustain, there was no thrash. Yeah. Crazy. Can you imagine like they're they're being considered power metal? You know? Yeah, I mean I I don't. I don't want to say things that were angry people, but angry people, but I just don't consider me Metallica to be thrash, right, like I maybe the first couple of Moore first records not anymore. Yeah, it's been a long time since they were. I feel like even I mean great albums, I no question, I mean, Master Puppets right the lading. They're brilliant records. I mean, I love those two albums, but I just don't see thrash in that.

8:24 You know what's funny is me and my bros. We used to always say if you took fight Fire with Fire off a Ride to Lightning and put them on kill them All, and took Jump in the Fire and put it on Ride to Lightning and Kill them All was the perfect album. Yeah, I mean, it's a great record. I you know, I was young when I was listening to that, and we were super into it, and it was awesome all the way up until just even the Black Album. I love the Black Album too, like because that was my like, you know, they were they were kind of they were growing up as I was kind of right. So when the Black album came out, it was like, obviously I understand man was just like this popular radio song and I was like, okay, cool, it's good. You know, it was a it's a great song. You can't argue that, but like, I don't know, I mean, one, I still think it is an awesome song. I and Justice for All, like everyone argues about there's no base and whatever, but like it's a great record, like no doubt a bad the Harvester of Sorrow and like those songs are just like yeah, it had a motion right which I feel like Kill them All was a different type of emotion. It was just like in your face, beat your ass, beat your ass.

9:22 And then and Just for All was just like they were really digging in deep. I feel like like to that, to that of musicians, yeah, yeah, for sure, sure, And it's it's the same thing that's happened to us, right, Like we our first record was ten of the first songs that we ever wrote as a band, and it took us seven eight years to write them. Our second record was was twelve songs that we had to write in a year and a half as a band. People don't realize that your first album, like it takes forever, and then the second album you have to do it like right away, and there's all those expectations that you can't. You can't, and when you try to, that's when you fail. Yeah, right like, And that's what I've noticed about any band that's tried to like outdo their debut, and there's few bands that have.

10:05 I don't know a lot that have. I mean, Martley Crewe arguably did it with Shout at the Devil. You know what's funny though Shout the Devil was their original music. I know, I know it all came from the same spot, right like, But for us it was you know, the first record was written with like six or seven different people, like over the course of the nine years when we were cutting our teeth in la and then the second record was written with the four of us right and our producer and that was it. So it is what it is. I love like I love the progressions like if once he and that was like something like my mentor that taught me about tattooed. He's like once he stopped learning you should quit. So I've always been trying to like do new things and learn more. And I don't play music. I don''m not a guitar player. I just I just know what I like to hear and I know it sounds good, and I know how to write, so I just strive to kind of outdo the last one every time. There you go, So bloodstock Man, Yeah cool? Right? So cool? Is this the cool? One of the coolest thing is it is for us. Is our second time doing it, and we've moved up to slots on the main stage. So in twenty nineteen we were on the Scorpions first and we were supposed to be here last year, so this is our kind of making it up for last year, and we love it. They treat us so well and everything is great, different like how they treat artists over here opposed to the US and the festival.

11:24 Yeah, I mean even the UK year efforts. I mean, I don't want to get myself in trouble by saying stuff, but that's all right. I've probably got myself in trouble a lot this week because it's just so much. It's just I feel like people just appreciate maybe maybe it's because we're an American man and we're coming over there and they just appreciate it more, and that the promoters just treat you better and they care more about it, right, and they know that. I feel like the people here just see it. That's like we're working hard to kind of do it and it's giving us. Giving us twenty four waters is not that big of a deal, right, I know. Here's why I found out. I was talking Vicky yesterday, and it's like they overhear realize that without the artists, without press, there is no festival totally in the United States. They think they're doing you a favor. Yeah, yeah, I mean we've been trying for years to get on all those big festivals in the States as Danny Wimberlin's and and it's just the only reason why we haven't is because we don't have an agent that's in with that crew. Right. It's like, it's not because we're not good enough or we're not you know, we haven't had the experience. We haven't played a bunch of festivals out here or a bunch in the States.

12:24 It's just because someone that's working for us doesn't know someone that's working for them, and it's all fucking politics, of course, the shitty thing about this business and for me, And I was just saying this in another interview that we you know, we cut our teeth for six seven years in the local scene and then built ourselves to the top. And we're like, here we are. We're packing clubs and we're labels are coming out, and we're like, this is it. We're gonna be you know, we're gonna be assigned, man, and we're gonna sit. And then as soon as we signed and then everything happened, it was like boom, right down back to the bottom of the list of cutting our teeth and building, you know, improving ourselves again and again and again. It's a tough business. People don't realize it takes like twenty years to become an overnight success. Hard. Yeah, I mean there's those there's definitely those bands that do it and and that that blow up and and you know, but again it's a hundred yard dash or the marathon, right, What's what's really worth the most. So we're happy and I'm just gonna keep on keep on keeping on. Well, we should continue talking afterwards, because I do all the Danny wimmer Festival. Great, see if I can connect you in there. But you know how it is politics, it is even when you know them. It's pos And it's funny too because our manager is Dez from Coal Chamber and a Devil Driver, and he's in with all of them too, and it's just again he's even saying, he's like, it's just politics, Like it's just the way the way it works and control. Once we get on one of them, then oh then you'll be on all right. And like, and there's bands that we're friends with, like like from La and stuff that are no record out, not signed, they haven't done any touring and they're playing Lotter than Life and

13:58 they're playing and Rockville and I'm just like, so are they either paying or I don't know. It's weird, right, I think it has to do with and hopefully I won't get in trouble. But then somebody I won't name who will own that band. Yeah, possibly, you know it's funny. At Rockville a couple of years ago. You're gonna love this. It's so old school. There was a band that Crash, No not Rockville might have been loudered in Life. Yeah, they crash and they were playing in the parking Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and Danny walked up and actually put them on stage. Amazing, right, Yeah, good for them, So maybe that's what you need. Yeah, she's gonna crash it. There was a band doing that on on Suicide Silence and Ginger tour. Every night.

14:45 They were just be in a van to slide the doors of them, pull out in front of the lineup and just play a bunch of songs and then drive to the next show. It's pretty cool, right for them, Like, you know, I commend them on that because I couldn't. I mean, I spent a lot of time in a van, so that's probably why I couldn't. But yeah, it's pretty rudy. Well, I love that you're here at blood Spot. We're super happy. Tell everybody how they can connect to you guys on socials, on the web, and most importantly, check out your music, check out your tour dates, and buy your merch because bands don't survive today without my stuff. The only thing you have to do is type in all Hail the Jetty and it'll come out. It's that's the one thing that we when we we locked out with the name and stuff.

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