PipemanRadio Interviews grandson at Welcome To Rockville 2023

0:00 Hey, you love them too? Yes, that's sure. I'm I'm four see wow for you Why Coup of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on w four CY dot com. West Poon Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. How many chances? Well, I got? How many times can I let you gone?

0:42 I think good? How much can I ask for to you? How got speed? Now? Hold your birth? Yeah? If not, what's it gone? And taking? That's it's the pipe Man here on the Adventure pipe Man w c Y Radio. And I'm here with grandson Nice here at Welcome to Rockville. I'm happy to be back. Yeah, back with the Pipe Man. I'm back at Rockville in my world because I'm here in Florida, So you're in my world in Pipeland. That's right, but it's your world. I'm just living in it NA. How you doing, Oh, I'm doing amazing. How can it be bad? We're here at music festival at the Daytona race Way. Can you believe that is? That's that? I don't know about you, but for me, it's kind of cool driving on the Daytona Speedway. Yeah, it's cool. What people don't know is that those turn circuits, man, they are they're pretty steep. Like, yeah, we keep trying to tip our guy to go a little bit faster and see if we can hit that thing. But if you're not going like one hundred, one hundred fifty miles an hour, you'll you'll barrel roll on it.

1:49 So yeah, I don't think he wants to flip the tour bus today, but I'm trying trying to get him to do it. Maybe if we get a couple drinks in and we'll see what happens. Yeah, that would be fun. Yeah, I want to be out there to see that. Yeah, I bet yeah, that'll be your your headlines a tool who you know, right, Come watch me and take this bus fifty miles an hour with a trailer on it on that high embankment turn. And it's true until you're here, like like even walking in it, like to see how high you never imagine an embankment. Pretty dramatic. It's pretty funny the places that rock and roll can take you. I never once thought I'd be, you know, sitting here in the middle of some gigantic race way talking with pipe man. You know, right, that's why you eat your vegetables and you write your rock songs, kid, you never know. There you go.

2:37 And I have my skateboard with me. I was thinking doing those embankments with a skateboard, but I would eat shit. Probably. I'll wait till all my interviews are done because they can't kick me out. They can kick me out, it don't matter. I got all your memory card on the bus, you know, don't don't lose all your work. Oh man. So what's been going on since last week? Talked kinds of stuff. Just put an album out and on the road touring that just in the beginning of an eighty four date international tour. Nice where we're just hitting the road, connecting with people all across the world. It's a beautiful time, man, It's a beautiful feeling. Yeah. I mean, listen, it's like a few years ago we were thinking that, oh man, this sucks and there's no live music. There might not be any ever again. And I think in the past year we've all probably been the busiest we've been. So that's some good news. Yeah, it's cool. I'm especially happy for the people behind the scenes. Like we as artists, we get a lot of the limelight and stuff, but you know, to see the drivers, the production managers, the journalists. Like just seeing people get back to busy. It's really rewarding. And look, who knows where my career is gonna take me.

3:50 But you know, if people are talented and driven and motivated like then they can be doing this a long long time. And so yeah, it's cool. I've now been doing it five years or so, and you see familiar faces. Yeah, just happy to be back, man, happy to be back in more ways than one. And you are killing it. But I'm glad you brought up about everybody else. I love hearing that from an artist because it's not just artists that were affected. A lot of people were affected. Yeah, and artists had, you know, social media and other ways to kind of navigate those couple of years. But for you know, the stage hands, the guitar teck, it was tough go and the government was very, very slow to do much for the entertainment industry. I felt really bad for everyone that was affected on my team because there was just for a while there, what were people supposed to do? You know, I know so many people that got out of live music and into some other industry, and not because they didn't love it. They just ran out of money and like the government was just not here for them when they needed to be.

4:56 So it was sad to see, but I am happy for everyone. It's it's getting back to work and eager to do it. And now you just got to hold onto that perspective and that gratitude when when you know things don't go your way. Yeah, and you're having a rough day at it. I mean, it's better than sitting in your living room, for sure. No, No, I think there's a bigger appreciation for music, live music, especially now, you know, because there were people maybe beforehand that we're bitching and complaining about stupid crap, and now you realize it could have been taken away. Let's enjoy every minute of it. Yeah, or let's just find even stupider shit to bitch about. That's why I love it. Get the past, Yeah, I find new site bitch about. You know, that's right? And what you got going on after Rockville? After Rockville, Yeah, we're on the road, man. I love you. I'm trying world tour. I love you. I'm trying to the name of my new album. Put it out a couple of weeks ago, really, really proud of it. I'm playing Tampa next and then we go to Atlanta, Nashville, just keep making our way across this, this big, beautiful planet of ours end. Really looking forward to it. I'm out with some great bands right now, Rockville. This is my second time here. I see some old familiar faces. I'm drinking whiskey. I'm living life. So which whiskey are you drinking? You know, last year I was on Jamison, but this year I had to get a little bit classy or so we're doing Makers, all right, you're not careful. You start getting too used to one of them and it starts tasting like water and gotta keep switching it up.

6:27 Have you tried to blackened? What is this? That's a Metallica wis It's pretty good? You know what's funny about that is when it first came out, I was doing all my interviews and their tenth and doing tastings. Oh yeah, there's some interesting interviews from those times, like you hear the interview change as their drinking was in the Metallica Rider, where if you wanted to book them then you had to have them be your liquor sponsor two or something. But for like you know the stretch of shows. Every time we would open from Metallica, there would just be this whiskey everywhere. It's like coming out of the water fountains, and it's like, man, I'm fucked up right now. This is crazy. So no, I'm not until they pay me. I'm not drinking that stuff. There you go, What would Lars?

7:11 Do you think Lars would go promote my whiskey right now? No? No, no, I don't think he worried at all. So like, what's fair is fair? That's right? Yeah, man, And thanks for thank you and thank you for being here at Welcome to Rockville and killing it. Why don't you tell everybody you know how to reach you connect on socials and more most importantly, get the new album and buy merch. Yeah at Grandson on social media. I'm Grandson. My stuff is at Grandson. If you yell Grandson music loud enough, hopefully somebody will know what you're talking about, pointing in the right direction. Well that's how you got over here. I was like sitting over there yelling Grandson, Granding, and then he came over. I got T shirts and stuff. If you want to buy shit, you don't have to listen to the music, enjoy your day. How is the new music for a listener? And like not how like? Is it good? We know it's good, But it's alternative in a very true sense of the word. Parts of it are very riff heavy, alternative rock and roll, but also elements of hip hop, elements of traditional palm music.

8:18 It's a little rounder around the edges. Maybe it's a little less of like a traditional Rockville band, But I'm really proud of it. And I have a very eclectic taste in music. And if and if you two consider rock and roll to be one facet of your music tastes and maybe not the only thing you listen to, then you'll pick up on a lot of subtle things that I do it with this album. And if you really just want to hear like you know, oz Fest, then you're gonna hate it and don't listen to it. But if you if you like alternative music, if you like stuff that's a little off the beaten path here in the world of rock and roll, then I think you'll like what we're making. Well. That's why I love about you, is like you can't be labeled as one thing. You just have this blend of a lot of great talent. But then the show, the live show, Yeah we'll still rock your face off.

9:07 That don't don't get it twisted. You know, we still we still bring a ton of energy to the show. And yeah, I'm just trying to do something. They keep myself interested. I've I've been making music for a while now. I'm very very lucky. I'm a young guy. But but I only want to do it if I love it and if it excites me. And that's why I'm constantly changing it, you know, for better and for where some people like it the old way or some people like something, and then I'm doing something to you. Yeah, you're the artists. And you know what it shows when an artists doing for them, It shows when they're not it shows too. And that's why big about you. You have some energy that I know you're an artist. Yeah, I'm really trying to be to be honest up there, and even when there's a plenty of reason to just try to do it somebody else's way, it just doesn't.

9:54 It's a dead end road man, trying to live your life to make other people happy. So that's right, you got the with sunglasses ever, But oh, I know, I know, my girlfriend got him. There you go. Thanks well, thanks a lot, Thanks for being on the Adventures pike Man rock On. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four CUI Radio