PipemanRadio Interviews Dark Remedy About Guilty as Charged

0:04 Hey, you have unto censure. Wow, pray young, Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four c HY dot com. West pomp Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. I'm chelousa, I am not a norm I do coo ow coud. This is pipe Man here on the Adventure's Pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very excited about our new guests because man, there's some killer musicians with a killer new song and they are guilty as charged. So let's welcome to the show, Dark Remedy. How are you?

1:12 What's going on? Thank you for having us. Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure. You know, if you sucked that probably wouldn't you have beyond? But you're pretty badass, so I do. Hey, well we make it good in the studio. You know, I'm sure you're pretty good live too, because like listen, I mean, it is a difference, isn't it playing in the studio and playing live? And you know, tell us a little since brought that up, tell us a little bit about how it feels as a musician to be live compared to in the studio. From you your perspective. Well, I mean for me, there's a huge difference.

1:53 Dark Remedy has yet to play live actually this band, but we all have played other bands. Our drummer Paul was in Saliva. All of us come from other bands. And for me, writing the music is one thing, and you know, it's getting that message out, but when you're live, it's seeing how that message connects with other people. And for me, that's what it's all about. You know, we're trying to say something here with our music and hopefully it impacts somebody. So to get to see that firsthand, that's what it's all about for me. Well, it's funny you should say that too, because that's the one thing I do love about you that when I first saw it, I was like, yes, I would definitely do that interview because you're talking about people just being themselves. And I talk about this all the time, like we need to get rid of all the labels and putting everybody in groups. I feel like we're all in grammar school trying to get picked for the kickball team, okay, and it's like, just be yourself, just be real, even you know, when it comes to interviews or anything you do it's like, just be yourself and everything will be great. And I think that's so true for a musician too.

3:07 It's like, instead of all the chatter that everybody gives you, I think if you're a creative musician, that chatter only confuses things sometimes, and you have a vision in your head of what your creativity is. And that's why I think makes a musician great when they follow that one hundred percent. I mean, we're just normal guys telling normal stories that everybody deals with. And you know, being yourself is the big message to this song, and I think that's one of the most important messages that we kind of need in twenty twenty four is don't worry about what people think. You know, anything that you do, somebody's going to tell you you shouldn't do that. That's a bad idea, that's dumb, it will never work. I mean, come on, I'm a musician. You know how many times day I've been told what are you doing? You're crazy? Go be a lawyer, you know.

4:00 I mean, it's not me. You know, You've got to be you. And I feel like once you're comfortable with you and being yourself and unapologetically you, that's when real growth happens, no doubt. And you know, even as a musician, like you're talking about, I'm like, I'm thinking myself. You gotta be yourself to be a musician more than probably any other career, because it's so transparent when you're not to us, the people listening and watching you. You know, I can totally tell when a band's going through the motions or if they just have complete passion for what they're doing, and they only have passion when they're doing what they think in their heart they should be doing one hundred percent. And we hope that our music does reflect that because it all comes from somewhere with us, and you know, you're right, you can you can hear it when it loses that vibe, it loses that that originality, you know. Yeah, well and look at it like, Okay, so I come from the eighties sunset strip scene, and a lot of bands that were the hair metal bands quote unquote, were not that before the record labels got ahold of them, you know. And I sat there backstage while friends of mine were in bands, and the labels tell them, Okay, you're gonna dress this way, You're going to write the music this way. And look at what it did. Basically, metal

5:33 almost disappeared forever because of that, you know, And I think the only reason it's back now is because of bands like you that are being true to their art. Well, we really appreciate you saying that. Well, it's so true, and I saw it firsthand, you know, and it's like it's even funny. I was at that Grass Pop uh first this weekend. We were talking about something because like Kerry King has this new project that performed at it, and we're talking about Slayer compared to some of the other bands from the eighties, and it's like, no matter what like them or don't like them, they've always been true to being Slayer and nobody else. And so I look at that way as like when you're true to that, that's when you stay the long term. Like how many bands have lasted for forty years that did not stay true to themselves. Especially today's day and age of rock, it's it's it's harder today than it was even a decade ago, especially for new bands to break through. I feel like, if you're not doing what you really feel in your heart, as hard as it is right now to make it, you you're going to be miserable and you're not gonna ast you know, that's the exact word that was in my head as you

7:04 were talking, because it is an industry that if you're not true to yourself, you're gonna be miserable. And the redeeming quality of the feature of the redeeming quality of the industry is to play music and play the music you want to play. And if you're you know, anybody that's a musician is into music. So if you're not playing music you want to play, it's a pretty miserable existence, I would think, absolutely. And then you're just the whole concept of the song is not just musicians, it's everybody. How many people nowadays in twenty twenty four are so miserable because they're listening to everybody else.

7:49 Like, like you said, there's always going to be somebody that says something negative, and there's gonna be somebody that says something positive. You're not gonna play everybody, And that's the thing that people in anything in life, they're looking to please everybody, and you're never going to please everybody, so you might as well just please yourself and your people will come one hundred percent. I mean that's That's how we look at making music, is we make music that we like. We write songs that mean something to us, and we can only hope that maybe it means something to somebody else, But that's not guaranteed, right. You know, that's the most humbling thing in the world when when you know, we've had several quite a few people hit us up say you know, hey, I really like the message of guilty is charge. Here's what it means to me. Like, that's that's what this is about. That's the gratification right there. Hopefully you can help somebody.

8:46 Yeah, and you you touch on a great point because what does it mean to them? And I think that's key to a great song is Yes, when you write the song, it's what it means to you as the person writing it. But a good song also has the ambiguity that the people listening can put their own meaning to it that they relate to. Yeah, I can tell you that those of us have wrote the song, myself, Stephen Miller, and Jonathan Norris from Kingdom Collapse. It means something completely different to all three of us, and we all wrote it together. I love that it's so true. But most people don't get it, you know, so I love that you said it. Okay, it is funny too, like how you can all have a different meaning to it but still collaborate to make something great. And I think that's the big message too, because we live in such a society of people being put in boxes these days and divided, and that just proves that we can all work together and we don't have to be on the exact same page. Yeah. Absolutely, that's what collaboration is all about, no doubt. So what else are we going to have coming after this? Now that we have guilty as charge? Do we have?

10:09 What else do we have in the works? A lot? So we're we were actually in the studio till about three am this morning. We've been in the studio for weeks now. We're working on some follow up stuff. We'll be releasing an EP at some point, I'm hoping by the end of the year, and we have several more singles on the way, more music videos, and we're hoping to get out there on the road here very very soon. We are itching to come out there and see everybody. I bet you are, because I don't know if people really realize that musicians, that's your favorite time is playing life. For Steven and myself, it's been especially difficult kind of how Dark Remedy started. He Stephen produced my other band, and we'd worked together for years. My other band had a tour lined up during COVID that obviously didn't happen. The band which kind of took a break there, and Stephen and I said, hey, let's start working on this thing.

11:18 So we released our first single in twenty twenty. But neither of us have been on stage since twenty nineteen, right before COVID, So we're, you know, we're like fiendan to get back out there. I know that show's going to be that first show is going to be, Oh my god, it's going to be insane because all that energy you have pent up from all these years. Yeah, he and I are one and the same in that That's where we both find our joy is connecting with the audience. So we've got a ton of pentop energy and we're ready to share it with the world. I love it. I love it, and you know, I had to try to take positive things out of things, and if you're going to take the positive out of COVID for musicians, I've said a lot that some of the best music's can come out of COVID, not because of COVID, not because they're writing about COVID, but because artists get to jump off that hamster wheel that during that period of time and go back to being creative and even reevaluating things. So the way I look at it is, Hey, if COVID didn't happen, you might be doing what you were doing before, and maybe not on the path you should be on. That gave you ability to, like, sit down, allies, where do I really want go? Because when you're on that hamster wheel, you don't have time to think about that. It's just gig, the gig, the gig, the gig, right, you know, and there's no time. So I think

12:50 if there wasn't a COVID, there wouldn't be a guiltiest charge. No, you're you're one hundred percent right, and that that's pretty much exactly what happen. Happened to us, and down to even the name Dark Remedy. It was Dark Times. This was our remedy. Yeah, I love that, you know, and again something that everybody can put their own meaning to because you think of a band name like that, and if you're the person think about. You're putting your own story to it, so to me, that makes it a perfect band name. Actually, well, thank you. So tell everybody how they can connect you with you guys on the web socials.

13:33 You do have a pretty badass website by the way, Thank you. Yeah, darkremedyband dot com, Facebook, Dark Roni Band, basically everywhere Dark Remedy Band, YouTube, TikTok. We're on all of it. Is there anything else we haven't covered yet that the listeners need to know that we want to put out there right now. Yes, we want to let every one of you that's listened to Guilty as Charge know that we love you from the bottom of our hearts and thank you so much for supporting us. Well, we love you for bringing us great music and thanks for that. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.