PipemanRadio Interviews Heartsick at Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023

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0:51 It's his Pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w for c Y Radio, and I'm here with Alfonso from Heart Sick, the headliner of last night. Yeah, basically you could probably say that, right, Yeah, mans and so, and you know what, I'm so glad that your equipment actually worked after that, because I was there as we were talking about and holding the campy that was over the equipment like for dear life, until it started lifted me off the ground. I'm like, yeah, this isn't good. And then I can't believe that your equipment survived all that. Yeah, man, it was kind of crazy. I wasn't at our camp I was backstage on mainstage, helping working because like I got caught there. I had justy and dinner and we were passing through and we needed to pick up a drill that we forgot on stage, and then all hell broke loose and I became like a stage hand. And then I had a hide in like evanescence, like dressing room area. It was crazy. Yeah she was, but I saw her once, but not at like I saw her at catering.

1:57 I didn't see her at the actual like where her like trailer was. She was inside the trailer, but I was outside and a couple of our our friends were And then we came back to camp. But we saw all that happened, and you know, so our plan was to come here. We played the main stage at twelve thirty five, we opened up the main stages and then yesterday, today, and tomorrow we would be playing generator stages. So we brought all our own sound gear, generators, everything to throw a show, and we had everything set up we got here. When we got here Wednesday, did it all? Did it all nice? Set it all up great, you know, and then like this storm comes and just wipes everything out. We had to put it all together real quick. It didn't sound the greatest as far as like the way we would like it to sonically sound, but we still pulled it off. Less people loved it, so how could people not? They lost every single band. Yeah, yeah, like it was over even my photographer she when we were leaving later, we came down here check things out once it was clear, and she's like, I'm just gonna go watch the Heartsick show. That's amazing. We're gonna get tonight, and we think that tonight will probably be even bigger because now the words getting around. I think the words like, oh crap, these guys are doing this and that, so that'll be cool. Like I'm hoping it goes over well, I'm hoping more people show up, you know, just grow the exposure and give something people to do later. And you know, for like us underground bands, we don't we don't get these opportunities often.

3:30 So we're very blast and very fortunate and thankful to Blue Ridge and everybody who's done it. So yeah, and I'll tell you what. You're not gonna why to hear this, but y'are going on to hear this. Yeah, we've been in stage one, which means it could happen again. So you could be the headliner again again. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, you could a headline the whole Blue Ridge Rock Festival night. Because storms just keep taking everything out. Man, yis I thought I escaped that leaving Florida. Like, I'm on tour now, so I won't be home, but there's a category fourhead and my way being from Florida, I hear you man, you know, and Weston, I'm like, fuck, but I'm the one in here that new Like when that wind kicked up and I looked over there, I'm like, that's not good. Not good. And then when I was over by your ten Okay, you didn't see this because you're at the main stage, the fucking thing made a U turn, like literally past us, and we're like, we're thinking, we're the clear, and it literally made a U turn and came out. No. Do you remember years ago in Florida when that one hurricane I can't remember which one it was because it was that time we had like five hurricanes one season. It went up north out of Florida and then came back down and hit West Bomba like on the return it's like, oh, we forgot westpot meet. I mean for

5:03 me, you know, I was reading you know, the news, and it hit me. Yes, it hit me a few like a week or two ago that Hurricane Andrew, which I survived. I was in that one. Yeah, I was thirty one years ago and I was like, oh my god, can you believe that? I remember? Okay, So what's funny about that is I remember I was living Coral Springs, and I remember making my kids sleep in the hallway, and I was like outside checking out, because you know, I was in my twenties, so I was like, fuck that hurricane. I'm gonna go check it out, you know. And that was wild. Yeah, I can't believe it's so long. I remember leaving the during the eye, leaving where I was as a little kid like nine or ten, and going outside and looking and it being just the craziest like side I'd ever seen. It was like pure blood, red sky, no sound, no birds, the absence of all sound, and you're just kind of in this like weird phase of the storm where nothing's happening, but there's no anything, right, you don't there's the It was insane.

6:12 You never forget that, Yeah, you don't forget that, for sure. I had that one month we which is the same time we had that you turn one, but when we had what was it Francis and something else that hit twice in a row. The epicenter was the town I lived in where my studio is. I literally didn't have power for a month. I had all kinds of frozen chicken and ship and the freezer that my kids, that's what I was feeding him. I had the fireplace, so I just cooked everything in the freezer on the fireplace. God. But you know what was cool about it, My kids learn that you can have fun without your devices. Yeah, for sure. I made it fun for them. You know, we didn't have a cell surface, no nothing. Everything's like your back in the Amish times. Yeah, now you get creative, you know.

7:02 Yep? Ye? So saw you guys last year. What's been happening in the year to lead up to Blue Rocks Blue Ridge Rock Festival. Let's see in the year that led up. So we did Incarceration. This year, we went on tour for two weeks. We did our own little headlining tour and that was crazy and awesome. We put out two new songs. Uh, We put out two new videos. We recorded another new video. We have an EP coming out in November. We have what else? We have a tour in Puerto Rico that we're going out to love. I love ring Cone. We were just talking about Yes, sorry, because I'm a surfer, so like one of my greatest memories of surfing above Humpbacks because I went during humpback season. I was literally surfing above the Humpback giong good places for surfing. So we'll be back in Puerto Rico to do that. Uh yeah man. And then we just we signed a little cool little indie deal with THHC Music and Films Tom Hazert who used to be one of the head guys at Roadrunner out there and stuff. So yeah, so that's pretty cool.

8:18 So we have a tour coming up with tap Root, so that'd be great. And tomorrow yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so that'll be hanging out with them, so that'll be cool. Nice. Maybe they could open up for you at the camp at the camping show. Yeah, I'm not sure that they will do that, but that we're definitely we're definitely down the tour. When I interview them tomorrow, I'm like, listen to Sick, Yeah, talk to them. If you know those guys, if you want to be the headliner, you need to go and play at the Heart Sick because they're the headliners at this old festival. So tattoos, you got a lot of them, Yes, which one that's the most meaning to you? Which one has the most meaning to me? Man, I would say that probably the one that has the most meaning to me. I'm gonna go with this right here, it says three or five and then it says KL, and then it's got the Michigan like picture of the state. But it's because three or five is where I'm from from Miami. Five one seven is where I ended up in Michigan. KL used to be the old band name, which was No Life and it started in two thousand, so No Life became Heartsick and that's sort of that all kind of encompasses everything that I love, So I love it. That's pretty cool. See that's a cool explanation. Definitely.

9:35 So do you have a stories from this whole musical journey that's crazier than what happened yesterday? Because I would normally say what's the craziest and like the good journey that's happened that's crazier than yesterday. Yeah, I would say the craziest thing that has happened that's crazier than yesterday for us as a band is probably when we were on tour and we flipped our van with all our gear in it and almost died. Yeah. Wow, Yeah, that's a little crazier than Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty brutal. It always comes down to your gear, though, I think your gear is the problem. It's always the center of Yeah. Yeah, no, we ended up we flipped our van and got into a really really bad accident back in two thousand and four, but thank god everybody survived, nobody got hurt, you know.

10:28 So it was we hit some black ice and yeah, that's probably I think that's probably the craziest thing. And the second is the fucking worst. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say between that and having someone in our band that was in our band die, I think that those are probably the two. Yeah, yeah, those are I'd say those are crazier than that. But but like crazy, not in a bad way experience. I think the storm was kind of you know, probably the craziest did rank up there. That's why I was like I had to do that definitely, Like if we didn't have to storm, my normal question is what's the craziest with that storm? I'm like, yeah, I know what. We can't talk about that again, Yeah for sure. So how do people check out your socials, all your you know, your music and most importantly buy your merch because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your march. Yeah yeah, please buy merchu.

11:20 No. Yeah. The the easiest way, she's go to our website, heartsick dot us that has every single one of our socials. But if you're wanting to just go straight to a social, everything is heartsick band except YouTube. YouTube, it's heartsick Official, and that's literally everything. So Facebook, Heartsick Band in the go far, Facebook, Instagram, Facebook band, TikTok, Facebook band, Uh, it's Heartsick bands. And then the only difference is YouTube, which is heartsick Official. So Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Heartsick Band, YouTube, it's heartsick official. Or you just go to heartsick dot us and you get to all their nice you know, I'm thinking they last night we'd have been a perfect TikTok. Last night would have been what the perfect TikTok? Oh? Yeah yeah yeah. I think we got a bunch of videos. We're working on a bunch of like I do video stuff, so working on a bunch of content right now to kind of put it together because there's so much stuff, I mean, from like our stage show, the main stage appearance that we had here. Apparently I was like the only singer that got off stage at all and did anything with anybody.

12:26 So that was cool. We got a lot of video of that, so nice. Yeah, yeah, And you know, I'm thinking, man, a little bit nice with somebody videoed us holding down your tent because that TikTok would probably go vibra. I would have I would have loved, but not love to take that video. I know. Right. I got back to camp and I was like, man, I didn't even take a pictures or video of what was happening. Man I took I took one aftermath video and it was like it was it was, it was crazy, it was And then we got to see, uh we left camp today, we had a go to a run for our camp and for our artist stuff, and we saw a lot of like what happened, and people in general camping area got really hit hard. I felt really bad for them. A lot of stuff got messed up over there. Well you and I know, being from Florida, that this is that shit happens. Yeah, yeah, you know how many times? Okay, so I live in a high rise now, so so how many times I got dinner, I come home, I go on, go on to the balcony and sit out. I'm like, where's my chair? Yeah? When it just comes and oh yeah to nature is unkind when she wants to be man. But hey, what a way to have a heartsick show. That Now that's metal exactly, that is metal. Anything else you want to share with the listeners we haven't covered already? Nah?

13:46 Man? Uh you know, I guess I always have just a little message like if there's anybody out there in a band and you know you're at home and you're wanting to do stuff, uh, you know, real quick story from us as we're a band that has had no label representation until about two months ago, and wow, we've been doing it all by ourselves. You can do it. It's not easy. It's not gonna happen overnight. But if you have a dream, I'd say just stick with it and just and just go for it. Don't give up. That's right, and great words, because an overnight success takes about twenty years. People overnight never ever ever people think it is, but they don't see what happened before exactly right, No overnight anything. It just it seems overnight to you, no doubt.

14:30 Like I remember Metallica sharing sharing one room with three other bands, eating Bologney sandwiches with no bread, yea, yea, and look there you go. But people think, oh they just made it overnight, right yeah yeah, Well I love it that you're here at blue Ridge Rock Festival. I'm gonna be by tonight to check out your set as the headliner. Let's do it, and hey love to see more of you. Thanks a lot, Thank you so much, man. Thank you for having myself and the representative of a band for Heartstake on the pipe Man Radio. That's awesome. Hey, thank you for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. All right, thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man. I'm W four CUI Radio.