PipemanRadio Interviews Bayside at Aftershock 2024

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0:54 Between past and friends. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four CY Radio. And I'm here with Anthony from Bayside Nice. Here at after Shot. Yeah, man, I love that you're here. This is a fucking great thing. It's like to be here. This is our second time doing the festival. Why we did it I think two or three years ago. Yeah, And to me, this is one of my favorite Danny Wimmer festivals because it's just a cool atmosphere. You got the trees and you got this area back here, and yeah, like people really are into this festival. Like I know people in this Sack area and they just look forward to this every year. It's like their only thing to do every year. Oh really yeah, yeah.

1:40 Yeah it is a good one. Yeah, you're right, we've done a few of the other Wimmer shows, and this is the trees and sort of the grass. It does make for a nice location. Yeah, no doubt. So. Tell us a little bit about what's been going on this year in twenty twenty four. You got a new album that came out, You even dropped another new single. Well yeah, we say yeah. We put out a new record called there Are Worse Things Than Being Alive earlier this year, and we did a big tour, big headline tour around that in the spring, and then we took up most of the rest of the year off. We have the festival today, yeah, and then we have a show tomorrow in like near Joshua Tree nice, and then next weekend we have two nights in Vegas, like a two day festival in Vegas, and then we have the rest of the year off. So big tour in the spring, slow year otherwise, because next year is our twenty fifth anniversary.

2:36 As a band. Not slow your mind. Yeah, it's crazy. I've been in the band longer than I wasn't in the band. I started the band when I. Was seventeen, and I've been in the band for twenty five years, so it's like all I know at this point, it's. So wild to think of anything like that when you get to our stages of life where you're thinking that you did anything for twenty five years. Yes, absolutely, our friends like, oh I've known this person for twenty five years. I'm like sitting there like, how the hell did that happen? Yeah, I'm dangerously getting towards like that spot where you're in a band so long that I'm dangerously incapable of doing anything else, right, you know, it's really getting close to the point where like, all right now, like now this has to last forever because I'm like, I'm not.

3:21 I think you're a little committed that. Yeah, I'm not equipped to do anything else at this point. That's what I was thinking, you know, it's just covering the final No Effects show. I'm like, how are they not going to be playing anymore? Like what are you gonna do? Yeah? I think of Like hearing about their retirement definitely made me think about like, oh fuck, I hope I never have to retire. But hired like that just like and then like Slayer played last night. Yeah you know. And here's the cool thing though, like they stopped five years ago. But I think Tom was bored because Tom's the one that wanted to get off the road. Oh yeah, and he was just up there smiling and that riot Fest too, smiling and laughing an old time Slayer, the lead singer Slayer is like smiling and laughing while he's talking about death in this story.

4:12 You know, it is kind of part of the It's part of the deal when you're in a band for a long time and it's your job and it's your livelihood, where the grind keeps going and you never really think about like, oh, you know what, I just need a break, like I need six months off or I need a year off or whatever, and you grind and grind and grind, and then one day you burn out, you know what I mean. I think that happened for me like last year this year because after COVID, you know how they kept bringing that all these festivals and it's like I'd been doing one festival every weekend for like a year. Yeah yeah, and. I was like fuck, fuck it, I'm canceling. Yeah. For us, Secret Sauce these days is like that time off, you know what I mean.

4:55 It's like we did the big tour in the spring. We just had like six months or so long off a couple of flyout for a couple of festivals, and then next year will be busy. But like planning in substantial time off is like how we can get on stage and smile every time it's time to leave. I'm excited to leave. And that's the goal. Now. I love it because it has to be fun. Like, if you're not doing this for fun, what are you doing it for? Yeah, we can't. When you've been doing it for like multiple decades, you can't afford to have times where you're like, I just really don't want to be here. You know exactly. Now. One thing I always ask bands like you, is, you know, how do you come up with new music after like that many years? Like to me, it's like you kind of think like you run out stuff to talk about. Of course there's a lot going in the world to talk about.

5:44 Yeah, you've got to maintain that side of you that is a music fan, yeah, you know, and keep finding new music, keep falling in love with new things, keep finding new inspiration. See, that's how to do it. You've got to remember that you're like a music and a music lover first, yes, and that is the engine of like all the other things that you do. So who would be your newest like that gives you spark and passion? Newest banned out there? Not always, you know, it's not always you discover Yeah, it's not exactly. It doesn't always have to be something new. It doesn't have to be a new artist. It could be something that I've known for a long time, or that I'm just discovering that I find some spark in some new spark, you know. That could be something where I'm like, wow, I could see a lot of times for me, it's like it comes from the most random places.

6:36 It could be show. Tunes or jazz classics and vocalists where I'll hear a melody, I'll hear some kind of chord progression and I'll be like, all right, I hear this sped up and heavy, and like I can turn this thing from Fiddler on the Roof into a really interesting punk song, you know what I mean. That's what I love about punk music, though, like a lot of it that's stem from something you wouldn't even think it came from, and you just turn it into this punk sound and attitude. Yeah. Well, yeah, like you think of like one of the most iconic scene records from our scene is like my chemical Romance Black Parade, right right, and that is like through and through, like what if Queen was was a punk band, you know what I mean? Yeah, And it's like so that you know they had that, they got that spark, right, They're listening to Queen and they're like what if right, Like yeah, so yeah, that's how that's where inspiration comes from from. And you've just got to be ready and willing for it to come, you know, Like I said, by being a music lover, by listening to Queen and listening to maybe Bohemian Rhapsody for the thousandth time in your life and being like wait a minute, like I got an I think I have an idea, you know.

7:53 Yeah, I mean that is a cool way of putting it, because I don't think I've thought of it that way, but that is a way cool. Yeah. It's just about being will like willing to accept inspiration like wherever it might come. Yeah, because to me, a musician is about experimenting and gaining creative and I think there's a lot of the newer bands nowadays that they kind of try to find us this algebraic equation formula to make music, right, which bands like you and other bands, you know, there was no equation. It was you just did what you felt. Yeah, but I think that there's also I recognize that like we are building on top of a We are building a house on top of a foundation that was laid for us, right. I like to think of it like that, because you're not just going to pick up an instrument and ignore the fact that chord progressions exists, right, right, You're not going to ignore the fact that there are keys and there are time signatures.

8:48 So yeah, so you can experiment, but there are parameters, right, I agree with you. And then I think that experimentation also doesn't come from sitting in front of a piano and hitting random notes until it sounds good there. I think it's at its best when there's a spark of inspiration, you know. And that made me think of when I was learning to how play guitar, and all the teacher wanted me to do is play these scales, and I was like, I don't want to fucking do these scales. I just want to play a song. But then you realize later that you needed those things to play those songs or to create new songs. Yeah, And you can think about that like the building blocks of actually playing music right where they play, like scales and chords and time signatures and keys like you can think of those as the building blocks of playing music.

9:38 But the building blocks of like writing and creating music, I think are those that came before you. Absolutely, And do you think I think if you're going to take one positive about that COVID lockdown, is it gave artists a chance to jump off the hamster wheel and get creative again. Yes, and to miss like I said, I mean, you always want to when it's time to play show, when it's time to leave home again, to be excited, like, man, I missed that part of my life, you know, And that was that was a massive reset for everybody. Whereas like by the time you were able to go again, I think everybody was like, man, I really missed that part of my life, you know.

10:18 I can't. No matter how burnt out you might have been in like twenty twenty one, by twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, you were like definitely not burnt out anymore. You were like ready to be on stage, ready to travel. It drove me crazy not having live music, and I could just imagine how musician feels and then yeah, it's like you get a whole new appreciation. I remember the first gig I did, yeah, was Sublime and Dirty Heads in a little local amphitheater after COVID Lockdown. I was like, oh my god, this is awesome. And then I went a couple days later to Green Day, and I think it's the best time I ever thought Green Day was live, and I think it was just I was right. I didn't care if somebody a fifth grade was playing recorder on the stage. I want had live music.

11:05 Yeah. No, yeah, definitely. And as an artist, you must like feel the same way. You may have taken it for granted at one point and then you've had that time offense like now now yeah. Well, even things like travel, you know, because it's easy to get jaded. It's easy like I'll talk to friends at home or family members or something where. It'd be like, oh, where are you off to this weekend. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to Sacramento for a day and then whatever, and then they're like, oh, man, I heard Sacramento's cool, and I'm like, you know, I've been there thirty times, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, it's cool, you know what I mean? But that is what that COVID great reset where you're just you've been sitting at home for a year and a half or whatever, and you're like, man, I wish I could eat at that fucking place in Sacramento, you know what I mean, Like, I really wish I could go to Sacramento or go fucking anywhere right now, anywhere but my living room.

11:56 So how can people they should know, but how do they connect to you guys on socials on the web by your merch because that's how you get to the next gig. Yeah, we're just base side on everything, you know, baside on socials at the Baysidebaside. Dot com is the website. And yeah, like I said, we're really like this year we did the big tour, but it's been a lot of rest in preparation for next year. And next year is going to be a real big, busy, busy year. Oh I love it. That's and it's great to hear ours like you doing this so long. They're excited to have a busy year next year. Absolutely, and it's you know, and it was in that planning it was like, let's have a real easy year so that when it's time to go, we'll it'll be like, I can't wait to go do this?

12:37 Cool? Is there anything else you want the listeners to know that we haven't covered? Don't just check out our new record the worst things than being alive. It's our ninth record. It's that blow your mind too, not like it's crazy. Could you think when you were back then doing it, like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna have nine records? Well it's for that. I never thought i'd have a second one. Right when you finish writing a record, you're just like every idea I had, I have no more ideas. I don't know how I'm ever gonna make another record. And then somehow you said coming. Up or you got those first teenage angst ideas, and then like how do you follow that up? But yeah, well, do you have a lifetime to write your first record? You have two years to write your second record.

13:18 And that is the key right there. Well, man, I'm so excited you're hearing Aftershock and thanks for being on the Adventures Pipe. Thanks for having me. Sure thing. Hey, it's Anthony from Byside and you're listening to the Pipemin on W four Cuy Radio Wonder. Thank you for listening to the adventures of pipe Man on W for Cui Radio.