PipemanRadio Interviews HotBox at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure. I'm see wow, pray you young. Why Become of America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four C why dot com West pomp Beats is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the Pipe Man. Play you're not going to different. I still get everything. Sorry, no, play, don't learn that you never gonna come. What a piece l This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w poor Cy Radio at Welcome to Rockville and I'm here with hot Bucks. I love it, I love it. And fuck you're here at the hot Box in Daytona Beach, Florida and you just played Welcome to Rockville. Man. Oh hell yeah, this was a fucking dreaming come true. Man. And thank god you had to play now because if you played later you would die. That would have been so hot. Yeah.

1:33 Well, we were working at like rehearsals with the schemesk and everything, so we get used to it. And we came from Israel. South of Israel it's hot like that anyways, so yeah, yeah, you're used to it, right. Is it humid there too where youre? But yeah, like we came here, it was like, huh it's Israel. That's funny because I just spent the last three months in Costa Rica and I live in Florida, and I came back and I'm like, oh, it's kind of cool here. So did it blow your mind that there would be that kind of crowd this early in the day of a festival to play. I expected less. Actually, I thought like it's going to be example, because I know a couple of homies also flew from Israel to see us here, so I know they like, hie people up. But they told us, like even before they speak about us, people already knew us. So when I saw the amount of people, I was like, damn. But I mean, like, you know, we like we did everything so people will know they perform here. And this festival is so great that people actually wake up really early to see music, even bands they don't know, and they sow down with it like shit, man, I mean like that's what we needed and hopefully, like luckily, so it's like it's actually happened. People showed up fucking first band one of the it's not the main stage, but people showed up and be like damn supported and like ma wash jumped and everything and as I'm grateful for being here. I think all of us is like for us, we came from South Israel. I say, like, first show I ever played was in a bomb shelter, man, like you know,

3:06 so from a bum like community bomb shelters in Israel when I was a freaking kid, to playing like Welcome to Rockville and next week Sonic Temple, right shit man, And we're touring right now, so we have the broadcast tour going right now because we are broadcast band right now. So if you want to donate, please donate to number eight or five. It'll six seven, eight, five four or five one yeah, five one five he wants the money. But yeah, I mean even better. You guys have a badass merch shop on the way. Oh hell yeah. We should talk about that because the only way bands like you survive or any bands nowadays by their merch. You gotta support them. Yeah, and most of it is like on the road is even better because like come see a show, buy tickets and you know, buy merche because like for us, it's not only about the money, it's also but like growing our family, like our hooligan families, like all over the Glow and specifically here in the US because we moved from usial like seven months ago. We've been really throw everything, like we brought like me and fleep. We broke up with our girls, we sold everything, all of us, took a pension out and just left everything behind with no coming back. As a statement also for ourselves, there's like there is no way back. It's either make it or like it's either make it or you know what. I love about that because I'm also a motivational speaker and I always teach that the only way that you can succeed is if you have nothing to fall back on, because when you do, you always do fall back on and you have no other choice but to move forward. Yeah, it's like staying in touch with your ex, yeah, exactly. I try

4:39 to stay away from them. Yeah, sometimes they follow me around these festivals. Hey, hey, that's all bad, like you know, like you know shit. Yeah, but then there's so much new out there in the festival. So like I have to tell the people right in media, I'm like, don't let any of these people near the tent have bodyguards. I have a list. Carol, is you no, you can't come here? So what Well, let's start with what was the music saying, like in Israel when you first started, well we started basically when we started as a band, nobody actually want to take us playing live because we were like in butt funk Nowhere in the South and like most of the shows going in the center. So every time we're like, ride into a band, let's play together, was like how many people can you bring? And we're like none because we have a new band with from butt fuck Nowhere, So it's like, nah, that's cool, we don't need you. So we decided to fuck that and like we always do, we we bought a GYMC Safari event ninety two. This like he was a fucking tank more I don't know how much in miles, but he already have like half a million killo matter on like on the engine. Yeah already wow gone. But that motherfucker drove as a beast. And we bought generators and like we bought equipment and start performing street shows. And at first we're like performing in skate parks and nobody really noticed us, like it's like playing well, people just skate. But eventually that's cool. Get yeah, I mean like i'd there, yeah, I mean, like it's really cool. But in the same time, we were

6:10 like, Okay, we're just gonna do it everywhere. So we drove from Haifa, which is north to Beheva to our Tel Aviv. We were even like in titory tories and play like random shows in random cities until like we got a little bit high and bends well, I want to get on this too, So we start to perform like make little small events in the middle of streets or like Alley's, you know, until cops showed up. They gave us fines for that. We had a lot of problems with that until we decided we're gonna do our own festival. We did two of our own big festivals. The first one it was in the middle of the desert next to like yeah political prison Wow across the time that the band performed with the Masks. Yeah, really it was the first time. So what prompted that?

6:56 Was it because you're a prison in one day of the prisoners and it's more of our first vocalist. Well, the band have like two piers of so we had a different vocalist and a bassist shout out to six and size two ako, so, but when we had them with us, it was like really different when we found Danny, we like we split up for a year and then we started band all over. So for us, the band is like five years old basically since Danny came because we rewrote all our songs. We transfer all music and recorded all of our old songs and new songs. So but back in the days, our first vocalist was arrested for armed robbery and he say in jail, so when he got out, it was like and we started performing, was like, you know, it's a stick up thing because we don't try to be like Slip note let's say slipnot have their own kind of you know, creepy cool thing, but we're trying to be like, you know, it's more like you know, hooligans because whenever I claimed to be gangsters, because everything you're a gangst no no face, no case. Yeah, it's more of this like no face, ne case.

7:54 We always stay with a mask most of the time since the show starts until everybody out. So for us, it was like more of a hooligan thing and like more of a stick up thing than just trying to be creepy or like, you know, the dark thing. I get that because when you guys walk back here. I was gonna just walk up and tell you you do realize this is a cash list festival. Nobody guys say money you can steal from them. You don't know that. I saw a couple of First of all, I know where they're holding the money because they're paying for bends. So you don't know that. First of all, because we're getting money. So if we getting money, other bends get money. Hey, this is the Jewish mine. Man, I'm thinking about money right right. I love it. You know it's funny too. I'm looking at one of your tattoos, which is shows me that you're totally committed. Yeah, we all have it. You all have it now now I know you're totally Yeah.

8:46 That's and there's another reason with the tattoo I know you're totally committed is because, Okay, it's funny. My daughter just did birthright like oh really, not last summer, but the summer before. And she came back to me. One of the things she said is, Dad, it's not true that you can't get tattooed when you're a Jew. Yeah, oh, fucking ISRAELI hard tattooed. You have all of them. Therefore, Israel there's a team Tito is from here, but like Orlando, but here, you know, Yeah, so I grew up. I grew up generation like you can't get tattooed, you won't get buried at Jewish cemetery and because of the Holocaust and all that. And then and then my daughter she basically told me what Israelis were telling her. I'm like, well, see that that just goes to prove you really have to go someplace to know what it's like, you know for sure. I mean like when we came here first and we start playing shows, I mean like there's always like, you know, different political views, but when you talk to people, you just understand they never been there. They never they don't know any people from Israel, nobody like and they have that opinion they took from TikTok or whatever, and they just brainwash the like go meet somebody, talk to them, or go to Israel and you see that it's basically like here, but he's on stories because it's all big and shit. But like people are most of them are nice. Well, you know, everywhere you have assholes, but like that's we got playing assholes here in Florida. Like we have all diversity of like different nations,

10:20 Like it's all a big nationality is and a lot of different from all over the world, from every Arab country, from every European country, from basically everywhere in the world. And it's just a seventy year old country, seventy five and so diverse. Every ten years you get new people that come from Africa, Europe, doesn't matter. It's a cultural hub. I love it and you grow in it. You meet a lot of people and there's a lot of difference, but at the same time, everybody is willing to work together, which is amazing. Like you see that. I love hearing that. See, that's the stuff I want to hear, the bullshit that we're fed. I think what we happy to do because we never I'm like, at least me as a person, I never thought I was gonna be representative of Israel. But playing here in Rockville with the only Israeli band that play here ever, like since this whole festival ever know that with the first metal band, you know, you're not my first Israeli interview ever. Really no, but like as a metal band, like I don't really know other metal bands who play here before us, And even though like I'm really happy we are. We have the order to represent the people from Israel, but we are far from representing the political Like isn't that the truth everything? Now?

11:39 See, I love that you're saying that, because the same thing here in the States, our political shit is bullshit. My viewpoint is they're all on the same team and it ain't mine, okay, And why are they dividing us? And like we we should all have our own opinions and be able to get along just humans, man, exactly. So yeah, so for us, like people from Israel, the medals in in Israel is amazing. Like the talented bands that play there every fucking night have so much talent and promise you sometimes they have more talent than people that play like in big festivals. Man. Nice, Like we can name you so much. Bands who playing like small venues only because of Israel. In Israel, if they like had like publicity done right, they will be big as fuck. And I think in Israel you have a lot of talented musicians that just nobody know about.

12:28 So this is like we moved here because we knew that if we want to go big, we're gonna have to come here. Man. We did it all Like in Israel. We played the biggest venues. We did Alldy. We did like a less show in Israel. When we arrived to the like we pull up to the venue in a cop car handcuffed with cups like we did kabuki. Yeah we did. I wanted to say bukak, but yeah, we did the bukaki. Yeah, we did a kabuki everything but my ex sauce like this big old curtain like seven nine meters or nine meters and we dropped it like by hand pulling, but still worked, man, and we did it all by itself. But you understand that no matter what you're gonna do there, you're gonna still work your day job. And eventually you know, we don't want to do it, we wanna. You gotta expand no matter where you're from, like you have to expand your area.

13:20 And that's what you're doing. Now. How did Danny even discover you because he he always discovers bands, he's amazing at it. And the fact that you're the first Israeli band to play Welcome to Rockville. How'd that happen? Well, it was through our manager, which is yeah, a booking booking agency who just like rote to him and tell him like, I have this band, what do you think about them? And was like I have those two festivals put him out and it was really like more like you know, reaching out kind of thing, because like it must be freaking good, because yeah, of course, how many bands reach out to Danny Wimmer and how many actually get Well, you also saw a show and he is such a nice guy. He saw a show. You don't think same? Yeah, I think, yeah, well I don't remember names right now, so I'm just out of the show. But no matter, whoever, like make this happen. He saw a show because it was like I the one who puts you in. Sorry if you listen to this interview, we didn't want to hurt you like that. But but for really he told us, yo, guys, you did like fucking great and keep doing it because it's amazing, and you know, next year hopefully we get too, like more than two.

14:24 But I see that most of them get too festivals each time. But hey, like for me, it's like there was like a dream con trueman, like I pictured this in my mind nice back in home when I was in Israel. So yeah, let us cook. Yeah, man, this ship is fucking hot. Yeah. Right, So tell everybody what else you have going on after Sonic Temple, what they have to look out for, how they reach out to you on your socials, on your merch store and all that good stuff. Yeah. So we right now, as we say in our broadcast tour basically a little explanation why we call it the Brokens Tour. So when we started the tour, our booking agency gave us like a one week notice. It was like yo, I mean, like you going to this tour because we try to understand and we're like, yeah, you're going to the door and we're like, okay, it's just one week.

15:13 And we sit down in our because we live together, all of us. We share the same apartment. We and me and Flip leave in the same room. We have a dog, Tamir, our camera guy live with us. Uh. And we set it down and thinking like, okay, we don't have the budget to do that, but we ain't gonna pull out. So we call our homie Johnny, which is like one of our friends. We met in one of the underground show we did in la and we asked him like, do you have like a van or something? So I have a pickup truck. I was like, Oh, we're going to tour in a fucking pickup truck. Nice, And so we call our homie Jim, and we took Jim, and we took Johnny and he also rapper checked Jim Wavy on all platforms, and we took him Johnny and we just put everything in the back of the pickup truck and start driving. We drove forteen hours for the show. First show, all night, we play Colorado, Ido and Utah and we sold We sold out on our merch like in the first show, which was our rent money that we didn't have and like money.

16:11 So like basically we got out the best situation only because of music. And that's like a big like sign for us that if we're gonna keep doing it right, we're just gonna make it. So we started a broadcast tour. This is the part two of it. We have Welcome to Rockville today. Then on the thirteenth we have we play in Cleveland with Hirod The Hero, which is too Yeah. And day after this we're gonna in the fourteenth we play Michigan, Yes and the Hero. Check our social media on Instagram for all the cities because I really bet in pronouncing them. Yeah friendly you see we need Americans to pronounce it right, yeah, hell yeah. So it's Cleveland, Ohio, and Friendale Michigan, and then we're going back to Columbus to play Sonic Temple. Then we go to Michigan again to play a headline show, which is cool that we are starting again. Tran Rabbits, see we need a Jim Lee. He's got it down. Hey man, he's our American and Israeli friends, so homie. But and then we go in we have three days off and we start again. We going Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania twice and ended up in Michigan again and I thing, so this whole thing. And then we go Vegas, go Phoenix, Vegas and four shows in the late So you've made it once. You got to Vegas.

17:32 Oh we're gonna have strippers. Man, of course we made it right. You can't do an American tour without Vegas. Oh hell yeah man, yeah yeah. We drove through Vegas when we went to Utah and we were like, damn, we have to stop. So we just stopped there like it in and out and went. But it was like damn man, yeah, it's we went to it because you know, we didn't play because it's broadcast too. You know, we don't want to be broke more than we are right now. So but yeah, hell yeah, I mean like we're selling merch and that's what actually helped us paying the bill because no matter how how are we gonna work in like on our day jobs, it's ain't gonna fucking close the month because LA is expensive. And we sold out most of our merch. So we did like a new patch of Merrich just for this part two, and we're selling it. We're selling merch online and everywhere we can. So yeah, if you are in one of those city, check our Instagram. All the dates are there in the post. It's pinned in so you can check the first post and see us play and come buy Merrich, say hello and take photos. We signing everything from TDS to I don't know whatever, dicks, whatever you need. Hey, you're an all opportunity, hell yeah, whatever the fans need your there form. Hey it's a family man. We've grown our family. And speaking of families, I hope your families and friends are are great over in Israel. What do they think of you coming over here to do this? Well? We have a lot of support. If you want to say, yeah, well, it's not only big for us, it's also big for everybody in Israel because it's it's

19:04 literally a glass ceiling and we broke it. And now that this is happening, a lot of bands I at least from my perspective and the people I talk to really at least take inspiration from it. And we would love to see more our people and more Israeli bands are super talented, like really insane amount of talent and drive, come here and take stages like like you know, Sonic Temple and Welcome to Rockville. And yeah, we got a lot of love. We got a lot of support. People actually follow us and are interested in our day to day because for them we're living leaving a dream.

19:52 Yeah, and for us it's it's our life. So it's fucking insane. I love it. Yeah, man, I'm so glad you're here at Welcome Aroun Phil because forget everything else we talked about. Your music is badass, so you know, and badass live show. Everybody's gotta check you guys out, follow you on solcials, check out your shows. My favorite merch that you have in your store are the shorts. Those are cool as hell. It's a basically all of our merch is like it's more of a hip hop thing. We're working with the street art community like artists from UK to Indonesia, Israel a lot, and it's more like supporting artists. So we like most of our merch made up about one of the sickest calligraphy artists and his name is Golfo and the other one is a girocue Gelman, which they collaborate with us multiple times. The grinders, the we trays, the shorts, a couple of shirts. Yeah, they tattoo us. We have the two like they insane, Like we have so much talent in is, from music to tattoo artists to like break dancers, whatever you want, so trying to work with a street artist and try to put that street culture back again in business like from whatever we were. We already collaborate with the Awake Skate Shop, which is located in Lensdale. Lansdale, how you said, Jim, No, No, it's all probably l No, it's above part of a little bit Lind's day. I think something like that. Well, sorry

21:22 to forgive some from Israel, I don't have to know you can't do your names. But I mean, I mean, like we collaborate with the Awake skate shop. They endorse us with all of those all of those clothes and just part of I think the culture because basically I think street artists and street like music supposed to you know, I take's hand in hand, yeah, because we we like have that vibe and we came from the street. Like we play street shows as first fucking shows, and I think it's like a must. So we're working with them and they did amazing jobs. So the shirts are made by gaelmann a Giroc, which is right now I think in Canada, and the merch with selling right now is by Golfo. But we have like our logo. Have you read the description of the shirts. I don't think I should. I'm in charge of Oh I gotta hear that now, the description. Yeah, I'm working really hard to describe our vibe in everything. I can't believe I mess that because I usually so you gotta tell us about that. No, no, man, you you get in the site and you read it all right, And all the listeners have to too that they can't listen to my show anymore until they go do that. Yeah, hell yeah. So hot boxmerch dot com check out your new gear, yeah hell yeah. And that's it. Don't mean like we're trying to work with much as artists we can. They become our family most of the time from the crew we have in here and they're welcome to Rockville, which most of the people we met because we work with them or because of our music.

22:52 And it's amazing because like you surround yourself with the right people, you get in somewhere, you know, that's right. That is I've always believed that you guys surround yourself with the right people to go to the right direction. So and you guys are definitely doing it, especially being here at Welcome to Rockville. And man, I can't wait to see a lot more of you. You need to be on every Danny wimmer Festal hell ya if you hear that, Damie Winterer, please there it is Israel representing right here. What. Thanks a lot, guys, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Hell yeah, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.