PipemanRadio Interviews Flat Black at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:04 Hey, you have then too censure. I'm telling I'm fore Wow cra Young, Why become America. It's time for the Adventures of White Men. I'll TEW four C why dot com wis pond beats his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the white Man. Chow fucked man. Don't talk about that God that all on the rail I Betty tell I bought a lot gord a ball the thank God defer a fel. I got a feeling that I wasn't. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe MANW four C Y Radio, and I'm here with Rex and Nick flat Black here at Welcome to Rockville. How are you good man? How are you? Oh?

1:19 I'm good and I'm excited and bummed at the same time, because we'll not excite, but I'm happy and bum. I try to always get out the sets I really want to go to if I can get out of this press area. Yeah, and I really wanted to go to your set, but I couldn't get out of here. And one of the reasons I wanted to go your say is I wanted to see if there was going to be a surprise because there's this other band playing here on Sunday, and I thought maybe the song there might be a surprise, and so I sent my photographer Oute to make and to catch your set. Well, she went on her own, but I said, let me know what happens, cause I can't act like an idiot in the interview would not know if something happened that they're set. Yeah, the stars may align someday, but you didn't miss out this time. That's the part why I was happy. I was bummed because I miss your set, but I was happy because that didn't happen. So we may yet get the chance. You never know. Oh yeah, So how long are you stick around at Welcome to Rockville this time? Like?

2:21 Are you jetting right eye? Here? Are you staying till Sunday? I think I would love to stay. There's a ton of bands that I like that are that are here. But you know, these these fly we're not on tour right now, and these fly days. You know, we have to catch flights and all this stuff. This is the big bummer with this stuff is I could hypothetically see Limp Biscuit for the fifty fifth time today, right, I don't. I don't think I'm gonna make it to this one just because you know, we have all the traveling and stuff, but ideally, you know, I would be here the whole time. Man, I love this. I love this venue. This format like nice. It's just you know, I don't know if it's three stages or but it's really nice to Actually there's four Okay, wow, wait is there more? Now there's five? Now there used to be four, Now there's five. I find this well staggered though I don't see I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but there's not too much overlap, you know, and that's a lot. You know, it takes a lot of organization. Of course, there's gonna be a little bit, but you know, as a fan, you get to see ninety percent of what you want to see, you know. Yeah.

3:22 And because we have five now and they changed it around and changed the names, I actually you're gonna laugh. I almost missed a set last night that I really wanted to go to because I was in the in where the pit would be at the wrong stage. Oh yeah, yeah, you gotta book it over right, mere scenario. Oh yeah. I was like I was there and then the lead singer in the band that was playing came out, I'm like, oh, wrong band, wrong stage, I'm out of here. Yeah. So yeah, but it is cool how they lay it out here because it's like pretty like simple and you know for simple, very comfortable and kind of just laid back man, Like, I really like the vibe.

4:06 Sometimes you get to places and it's very kind of like aggressive and you know, uh, you know you can't do that here, You can't. You gotta go over here do that. Everyone here has been so nice and so accommodating, and even the crowd and everything is super low key, you know, like kind of got to walk through after our set and kind of walk on the lawn and it's just everyone's hanging out, they're relaxing. You know, everyone's in good spirits. It's just a really really nice overall vibe here, which is always so it's so important for an artists like Danny Wimmer really knows how to take care of artists at a festival, right because no doubt, you know, it sucks when you show up to a festival and you're treated like whatever and then happens all the time exactly And I've never heard a bad word from an artist about playing And Danny Wimmer first reason why he's at the top, you know what I mean, it's you and it really does show. And it's great because I think, you know, it's just great to see that over here. I've been to Europe a handful of times and I feel like they really kind of set them are for like how to treat artists and how to take care of people and everything, and it's great to see that happening here as well. You know, it's funny you should say that, because the better you treat your artists, the bigger artists you get. So that's you know, and they keep coming back and they're talking good about you, so other artists want to go because it's a small world you guys all live in. Now, I gotta tell you. You mentioned the European festivals, which I covered the European UK festivals, and I've been saying it all along, like Danny Wimmer took the template for what works over there and brought it to the United States. Otherwise, most of the festivals are like going to the county fair. Exactly, yeah, exactly, you know, it's exactly right. Yeah. So I'm going to tell you something

5:39 since since he's not at the table right now, that have never said on the radio, ever before you you see my hair? Sure, do you know where I got the idea for this hair? I can guess yes, say now you know, could could it be the the the Jason hook Man. Yeah, so here's what happened. I used to have a hawk and used to color the top and then one time I was at one of his shows and I'm looking up. I'm like, now that's fucking cool. Yep, I'm doing that, but in blue, not red, and it stuck and it's been come like my trademark. It's on my logo and everything. Like I actually got rivet for a while and everybody was complaining and saying, you got to bring the blue back my hair. The dude that does my hair, he's like, you got to bring the blue back. Man, You're a fucking rock star. You gotta have the blue. And I'm like, okay, so here we are back with the blue again. But yeah, that's where I got the idea from. Man. Yeah, the hair is obviously a very important aspect of you know, it's a brand defining thing, right, no doubt, no doubt. Absolutely, And so yeah, I don't know if I would have said it while he's here, because I seem like, hey, I copied, dude, dude, but I did, and I'll give credits. Okay, it wouldn't be the first time with him. I don't think I'm sure, right, So tell me about this song with Corey Taylor, because that's bad as sorry. Tell me about the song with Cory right. Yeah, before me and Nick here were I think even in the band, Jason was desperately looking for a singer and couldn't find

7:11 one for a long time until he eventually landed on me. But Corey became a really good friend of his when he parted ways with Death Punch, and Corey offered to help him write when he was sort of struggling to find a singer. Yeah, they wrote like five songs together, I think, And when we went to record, one of those songs was selected for the record. And that's nothing to some and we said, hey, you know, he told he this. This is his version of it. But he says, I'm gonna I'm gonna be kicking myself for the rest of my life if I don't ask you this. You know, is there any is there any way you want to be involved with the song? Like feature on the song? He said, Hell, Yeah. Nice, So that's pretty much.

7:53 That's pretty much the story with it. And I went in and recorded my parts and then we piece it all together and yeah, then you get the song. That's that's pretty much it. And it doesn't really change the sound because like you guys do have like a similar voice, so it has the same it's not like you're hearing a different band shown. I would be lying if that wasn't you know, a pretty major influence on me. You know, I've been quite a big fan for a while, so it's definitely a big deal for me as a as a you know, vocalist doing metal for years, and it was definitely like something to chuck off the list, you know, it was. It was really great. Yeah, I love it. I love the story you just said because it shows a true camaraderie of somebody like Corey Taylor. Yeah, he's a great guy, you know, nothing but good things. Because not every artist would be like that. But the fact that you know, he went out of his leg didn't he doing help and he goes out did not do that. Everybody did not have to do that at all. You know, he's like all over the place, and you know, even recently, I got pissed off because you know, when he took that little break for a little bit it, Yeah, and everybody was giving him fucking shade. It's like, do you realize how hard this dude works. Man, you get a vacation, why can't he?

9:07 You know, And it's like his his mental health or whatever he's going through worth you missing a show. You'll get to see another show, And like, come on. And I think that's what we need to learn in music. It's everybody needs to understand, especially we're in mental health Awareness month. Okay, absolutely artists. People look at you guys and like, oh, they're living the life because they see one little aspect of it. You see one percent of it. What probably less exactly. So, like, I think what he did, kudos to him for doing for himself and his family, and kudos for being man enough to get up and say it, you know, opposed to somebody a rep making up some bullshit story. He was just straight up on us. I think people should appreciate that. Yeah, definitely, I think too. You know, the thing that people forget is so many people people are so obsessed with the grind mindset, you know, and and a lot of people forget that sometimes you have to rest, you know, you have to take time for you and and that's kind of that's some people have an aversion to that, you know. I mean even Jason he's he's like a workaholic, and I mean some you know, I I definitely appreciate you have to work your ass off to to get where you're going, and having a great work ethic is super important. And obviously like always being busy and stuff is super important. But I think if you don't take time to sometimes just be able to recharge, you know, then you're you're never gonna make it. It's definitely. I think it's very important A for artists to be able to do that, and B for the fans to understand that they need to do that, you know, and you're no good to fans if you're not reacharged exactly, yeah, exactly. So well that's cool,

10:43 And man, you guys fucking rocked it here at Welcome to Rockville. Thank you, pun intended. We had a fucking blast. Anything else you want to share with the listeners that we haven't covered yet and give out the socials and how they buy merch and all that stuff. Yeah, Flat black music dot com is the main website that's got all the links and stuff on it and pretty much everywhere else. We're just at flat black and pretty easy to find everything from there. You know. We got some new singles rolling out pretty soon, a lot of exciting stuff happening. We're going to be on the road, you know a little bit later this year. Yeah. Man, we're just having a great time, you know, onward and upward. Yeah. We have a new single coming out in June, and that will be accompanying the announcement of the album release date. So, and we were doing more shows with god Smack, and we are doing an additional week with another band that I'm a massive fan of. That I'm really excited to do that too, but I can't say that yet. But then there will be even more things. There'll be headlining dates too, nice probably probably in starting in late July August, and then the falls pretty busy too. We're trying to be very busy. We're trying to deliver as many shows to as many places as we possibly can this year. And we won't let you down on that one, that's for sure. I love it, especially because I love live music and I love you guys live, so that's very cool.

12:11 And thanks for giving us on such great music and live performance and well, thank you man. We appreciate it our pleasure, thank you, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipemin. Thank you, Love Joe Fucked. This is Rex from Flat Black and you're listening to W four cy the Pipe Main. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on W for CUI Radio.