PipemanRadio Interviews Hollywood Undead at Aftershock 2025

0:04 Hi, you love done too? Yes, that's true. See why crazy young. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe manw four c Y Radio at Aftershock and I'm here with. Jay Dog and Danny. What up? This is Danny from Hollywood Undead. Yes, and this is the end of your Danny Wimmer festival tour for twenty twenty five. Because you've done Sonic Louder and now after Shock. Yeah, it's awesome. Danny Wimer. We're talking abou him last night. We've known him for a very long time. He really like figured these festivals out, man. I remember, like the catering was like hot dogs and hamburgers. The porta potties were overflowing, and festivals used to not be cool and fun and they were just like disgusting. Somehow he like stepped in and changed all of it. There was like we're always like europe festivals are better. Any I don't know if he studied European festivals. He probably did, but came back and figured it out and brought it to America.

1:05 I have an answer to that because I cover Hellfest. Yeah. He came to hell Fest one year. Yeah, just as it like to observe to observe spectator and yes to bring that. That's what's cool about Wimer is that he realizes that people say things like, oh, the European festivals are better, so he goes over there and finds out what. Makes them better? Yeah, totally from their perspective. Yeah, Like how many promoters, you guys do a lot of festivals. How many promoters actually will want to see what the fans perspective is? Sure? Not many? I don't. I couldn't see a lot of wealthy guys wanting to do that, right. Yeah. I'm not going to name names, but there's been festivals where like I was like, man, this dude like looks like he lives in a castle on a hill somewhere and we're just peasants, you know, Like he couldn't be bothered by the bands that are there. Wimer's like, very cool.

1:55 It remembers everybody like he's doing it right. Yeah, in like sixteen years of doing his festival, the holes, I've never heard of artists say one bad thing about him or his festivals. Yeah, because he's doing it right for sure. And how does he treat you as artists? Forget everything else? That makes it great? How about you the artists. He treats you just like he would probably like one of his family. He comes up, he's like, hey, I'm over here, come visit me in the office at this time. I'll be free from then and then I want to catch up. You know. He's always just very like like when you talk to him, his attention is on you, right, And that's a cool feeling when you're talking to somebody. That is yea and band guys are simple, dude. You put like good coffee backstage, open bar, like decent food, pepper, some influencer girls back there, and like every band's happy, you know what I mean, Like it's easy.

2:44 There, it is there, it is. I heard you guys talking over in another interview about Insane Clown Posse. Oh dude, their show is like wild and louder than life. We went and watch them and like kind of like watch them get ready on the stage, and I was blown away. I've never seen them live and I was like, this is one of the coolest shows I've ever seen. Yeah, I wasn't expecting all of that. It was like it was such a spectacle. It was really cool the way that they were like they had this technique where they would shake the two leaders of the Fuego yep, is that what it is? Yeah, Pola, and then they just like shoot it like rockets into the crowd and it was just like. And it's like a badge of honor if you get hit with that kind of like getting hit. By guards whatever their blood.

3:26 It's really cool. We were talking to their DJ before they went on stage and he was just like, yeah, it's crazy, like we're cool, Like it's look at this, you know, and there's I think they probably had the biggest audience of the day. It was wild and like we watched so many bands, I'm like, oh, that's cool, but watching them, I was actually getting hyped up to play the show. I was like, I want to go on stage after watching this, and like, I don't remember the last time I felt like that. I see me. I Actually, that's one of the things I love about your Guys Live show, because I've seen you a lot of times at the festivals, and I think you that same excitement that they do. I think very similar. I feel that everyone's like, man, I didn't understand your band until I saw it live, right, And it's very easy to say that about ICP as well, like I didn't get it, but you see them live, I was like, dude, I will go to their shows forever ever. Seeing that that was so much fun.

4:16 You guys should do a tour together. I like the most badass tour. If they like knighted me as a jugglo, I'd do it right, Like I want to be put on game by them. By them nice and only them. The heads. I love it, Yeah, the head Jugs. Let's talk about your newest song, Savior. Yeah. So, how do you feel that's evolved from your previous music? What makes it unique? It's just different because like I feel like it's more of a mature sound, but it's staying true to us. And every band's gonna give you the same answer, which is exactly that. But it's like to me, I feel it's one of the best songs we've ever done, and it's like, how do you get better but still sound like you? Is the struggle every band has, and I feel like we actually did it. It's like heavy, it's still us.

4:57 There's a lot of people on the song just have to listen to it, like a lot, even like my own kid. Finally, like after visiting us on tours, like, Man, that song so much better. Than I thought. I noticed Marley was like singing Savior on the bus and I'm just like, why are you singing safe? She's like, well, I was listening to it and like it came out a month ago. That's great. Yeah, And of course during the mixing process and all that, we're listening to it a thousand times. But yeah, man, Savior is a really special one for me too, and we're really stoked on it. We're seeing the response live. A lot of people are really just like connecting with it. It's good. That's the most important part right there. Yea, Especially in the world we live in today. That's where we need music more than ever and people to be able to connect to it. I mean, if we don't like the song ourselves, we won't release it. We've trashed so many songs and people like this one might do well at radio. Let's put it out. And we're not like that. If we don't like it, we're not putting it out. We've trashed a lot of songs.

5:46 Yeah. I love that about you, because you gotta be true as an artist. There's two types of artists. There's arts that they're just true artists, and they're very picky about their own art. Yeah, and then there's those that think they're gonna become a rock star, which doesn't even existing. Yeah, it's like gut it has to pass, like our gut test, Like is this us? Is this the best week in show that represents us? Now? And if it's not, fuck it, get rid of it. Otherwise how can you even have a good live show? Like exactly if you're not. If you're not believing it, how are we believing it? If you swing and miss, you look stupid? Like this is gonna be big at radio and it's not big. I'm like, you just released a watered down version song of yourself and it didn't do well.

6:28 Now people will hold it against you for like a mile. That's why you gotta be true yourself as an art. We learned the hard way. We had a lot of pressure back in the day from labels and manage and everyone, like they'd be like, we're not We're so poorer and broke. They're like we're not gonna give you like an advance if you don't do what we say, and like I couldn't even pay my rent, so I was like I don't have a choice but to listen to them. They'd hold us like that, Yeah, totally. Kept us broken poored so they could control us. And finally I was like, you know, this ain't worth it. I'm gonna do what I want. See That's why I love better about music today. Like in the eighties, it was like that with all the bands when they would set used to be there on the sunset strip backstage, and they're like telling these bands what their music should sound like. And I think the business people should handle the business end and the artists should handle the creative.

7:13 In period, man, we've. Had a lot of charathow shape, but managers be like you everything about doing this with the song. I'm like, do you even play an instrument? Right? Like? And you're telling me what we should do on like the bridge, I was like, get out of here, like crazy. To me, you're just like chiming in. Just to say they chimed in. They're trying to A and R the song when it wasn't asked for. I find this is like the only industry where people don't have to have experience and whatever. They're telling other people what to do. Like you go into any business environment you're not telling somebody that's been doing what you're doing above you how to do things. You have to climb the ladder. And I think same here. Like you said, if I was a guitarist, I would never have somebody that never picked up a guitar in their life telling me how to play guitar.

8:01 Yeah, yeah, straight up, bro right. Yeah, this is the one industry that's yeah, dude, that's insane. It's weird because. All the times. Another weird thing is like, so one industry is okay to like publicly berate people and be little like I'm talking about the crew guys behind the scenes, Like you could just yell at someone in front of everyone and threaten them and call them names. Imagine doing that in an office. I don't like that stuff. I don't like them when people humiliate and bully other people. So like the crew guys will be yelling at someone in front everyone, and I'm like, dude, like I'm gonna have to knock you out, like because that's not cool. Well, they messed up. I'm like, imagine doing that in an office. You know what, Like we all mess up. It's all how you handle it. Like, yeah, but you're not allowed to do that anywhere. Try not to make the same mistake again. And yeah, but belittling and shit, we don't we won't stand for it.

8:44 Bro Our crew guys are like our bus drivers. Like I've never seen the line blurred between band and crew so hard. Your crew guys act like they're in the band. The ship they say to you, guys, blows my mind. I love hearing that because there are live artists out there, like what you were talking about before. So I always love when I talk to people that work for or with the artists and they're like talking about how great they're treated. That's like my favorite thing because without the whole crew, the show does not go on. That's it, man. I think honestly, our crew it's like a family too. We've been with our crew for so long. Our stage manager, guitar Tech, he's been with the band since the very beginning. I don't know of any other bands that have somebody that's been with them from the very beginning of twenty year career.

9:28 Hey, yeah, we let them do whatever they want. As long as you do your job. I don't care how hammered you get every night, Like, just don't mess the show up. Exactly, as long as you do your job and do it right exactly. And I've sat side stage on your shows and I've watched the people up there working. You could tell that they really care and they're really on it, and they're making sure that you guys ye have the best performance pot. Yeah, our guitar tech he's talking about. We call him King Dawn. Yeah, he's worked for all the bands in the eighties. And someone gets on stage, he's still like a bullet, runs at him and tackles him like he that guy moves when he needs to. He did become famous on Ship Rocked. Like everyone, like the promoter was like, I've never experienced anything like that in my life, Like that was the most famous guy to ever stepped foot on that boat.

10:11 I'm like in my it was in my room and there the PIA system's talking about King Dawn, like right, yeah. Even when we were leaving to get off the ship. It was like they were calling him like Kingden or something like that. Kingden. I was like, king Don, it's king Don. He did the family feud with us, yes, and he got the last answer to win the game, right, and it was strippers. That that, Yeah, and it made him and he was so fricking drunk. Yeah too. It was like he pounded his talkin instead of well, well, we were like, let's get him drunk. We gave him a bottle of tequila at nine am. Let's get him hammered. And it worked. It did work, for sure, but it made him like to start a whole Ship's made him. Everybody you'll remember from ship Rock came on and what a rivalry between you guys in Parkway Drive with that family FEUDU.

10:59 Yeah, I hope they still because I feel like they wanted to beat us really bad and at the corn hole and all that. After I've talked to Wednesday a couple of times after, he's just mad as bad because none of them could get the answers. Right, Yeah, that that whole like the y they literally like handed at the wind, they handed at the King down on a platter. I was like, that was the easiest answer, Like come on, like, I love totally. Yeah, So would you say that's your favorite story of twenty twenty five words or one better? He doesn't get better than King down on that boat man, right, I was like, and I'll never forget. And he was walking through the ocean with his shoes on and his clothes and everyone's like, why are you have all your clothes on the ocean. He's like, because I'm a nube.

11:44 And I was in the airport afterwards, people are coming up to me like can you take a photo of me? And King Donald was like, yeah, yeah, sure, Like they don't care if I'm in the band, they want his photo. I love it. That's I loved watching that for him. Right, it was so much fun. But then I watch him up on stage with you Got and he's on it man, like oh yeah, yeah, oh my god. He moves what he needs to. Yeah, Like he beats say the younger people working hands. Down our crew, like looks like the Devil's reject poster, you know, like a like a rob zombie film. It just looks like they look like they shouldn't even be alive, and like something's animating their bodies. Like love it? Anything else you want to talk about that's happened the rest of the year twenty twenty six.

12:26 Releasing a street tracks, not a single per se like before the end of this year. I can't say too much about it. We're like waiting on the behind the scenes stuff. But we got one more song coming out this year. Nice. Yeah, and just thank you guys for the support. We love you. We couldn't do it without you. Well, thank you for giving us such great entertainment and music and art because you guys kick ass. And I already said that, I said Jaden to I'm like, we gotta go see how we would undeck. You guys are like the best live show and that's where we. Hear that a lot, and that's what we strive to all. Right, man. Yeah, I say this every time. I'm like, my wife calls me pipe man.

13:08 Yeah. Well, thanks for being the pipe. Man too, pipe Man. Dose. There it is, and thanks for being here. Yeah, thanks for having us and I look. Forward to your set because you're going to kick some asks here after shot on. Thank you pipe Man. Thank you for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.