PipemanRadio Interviews Jhariah at Riotfest 2024

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0:46 My will. Sport sport. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe MANW four CY Radio. And I'm here with Juria. Yes, here at riot Fest. Yeah. How's it feel man? Besides wet Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'm glad we played before the wet day, but I mean it's great. This is my first time like playing a festival like this, you know, and it feels like one of those things that like we've been preparing a really long time for. So I think like the main thought was like, man, I'm glad we didn't like do it before. I don't know if we were ready, and like, wow, I'm so glad we did it. We want to do more, you know.

1:35 Right, did shock you too? Like how many people were at your set for first time at festival? Yeah, I mean it was crazy. We played Chicago earlier this year and like it's always a great time, but like it's it's a whole different thing like starting your set and like finishing it and they're like five times as many people as there were at the start. You know, it's like really really really special. Well that says a lot about you, because one thing it happens at festivals is like people get drawn over because they like what they're hearing or seeing, and that sounds like that's exactly what happened with you. Yeah, I mean I think so we definitely had like our people that like came out early to catch the set. But you know, I've been hearing a lot of people saying that they're new fans, so that's like really fun.

2:19 It makes me very excited to come back on the next door, you know, for Chicago. That's pretty cool. So how would you for listeners that have never heard you before? How would you describe your music as an artist? Forget the genre labeling crap. I like to hear when artists thinks of their music. Yeah, for sure. I mean I barely even like believe in genres anyway, you know, so I always describe my music like if I had to put a label on it, I've been calling it maximalist pop music. I mean I like that. I think it kind of is like just vague enough that it doesn't really tell you very much, which is exactly what I want. All you know is that it's a lot of something. I love that because I hate genres because it boxes you in as an artist. It's like, I know, even going way back, it's like you can only play this kind of music. Or I've managed some artists that you go to record labels like Sony and stuff, and they're like, well, what genre are they in? Well, they can perform in any genre, and they don't want to hear that shit.

3:18 They want to hear that you. Are a specific, pinpoint micro genre that they can market exactly. It's you know, it's very syllable, and I get it. That's just like it's not me. It never has been, you know. And luckily, I think I found a lot of luck just doing what feels right and just like following it wherever I feel like it's got to go. I think it goes beyond luck. I think it's because you're being real instead of you know, I see it that way because like some bands that have to conform to record labels and keep it a genre, you can tell that they're not being real about it, you know, and you're being true to yourself as an artist. And I don't think any companies corporations should dictate creativity and art.

4:01 Yeah for sure. I mean, like when it comes to my music, I kind of consider myself sort of the director of all of it, you know. I think if anybody else took on that position, it would sort of lose what it is. So like, yeah, no matter how big the team grows, no matter how many people are involved, I try to steer the ship, you know, because that's like I think, why I decided to become an artist. Yeah, I mean, how can you be a long term successful artist if you're not feeling it? Like to me, creating a song is you feeling it? It coming from you and something you would want to listen to. Yeah. Always, all of my songs are just songs that, like, I don't know, I'll get a song stuck in Sometimes I'll get a song stuck in my head that doesn't exist, you know, and I have to just like go and make it because I need to listen to it and I don't have it like it's no word.

4:47 I love that. I love that that that's so great because it's just like when I do interviews. I don't listen to other interviewers because I don't want to be influenced. I just want to beat me hell yeah, you know. So, what was that one moment in time where you knew this was what you had to do. I mean, it definitely like happened gradually, but I think one of the big moments for me was actually going to my first show. I think I was always like, you know, I've been interested in music for a really long time, and I. Knew that like it made me feel something. My first show was Panic at the disco Wow Jones Beach on tour with Weezer. Wow, just like a creat. Jones speech, which is like an iconic venue, Yeah.

5:30 Iconic AMPI theater. I'd never been to a show before, and I just remember like reaching halfway through it and being like I never want this to end, and like what they're doing on that stage is exactly what I want to be doing, you know. And it almost felt like this like dooming moment weirdly enough, where I'd like kind of always figured, you know, I like music, but I don't have to do that, you know. Yeah, And I think I realized in that moment that I had to do it, and I was so scared, So I was like, oh no, like, I don't think I can like avoid this. I love it like way too much. I love hearing and I love hearing the scared part too, because you know, people have this what they think a musician is because you're up on stage. Most are introverted.

6:17 They think you're extroverted. Most think you have no fear. But I know for a fact that every artist, even if they've been performing for thirty years before they get up on stage, they have fear now once the MIC's on, different story because you go into his zone and you're like a different world. Yeah, for sure. I mean I think there's always, like you know, if you're doing something that's like meaningful and vulnerable, there's gonna be a little bit of fear involved. Yeah, But I don't think that necessarily means you have to move fearfully, you know. I think if you're scared, just go and do it scared the same way you would if you weren't, no doubt. So that's that's kind of.

6:57 Been mike My guiding principle with all this. You know, just just do it scared. There you go. I love it. You know who also said that Mike Tyson, every time he went in the ring, everybody thinks everybody was scared of him. He was more scared than anybody he went in the ring against, and Customato taught him to use that to win the fight. And I think it's the same with music, use that to create the passion. Yeah, I think you have to embrace it, you know, because I think anything you're scared of, I think eventually you'll get over it. But you also have to embrace the fact that you'll find a new thing they'd be scared of. Yeah, you know, and you just have to be up for this task every time. Totally love it. And is there some story that sticks out in your musical journey so far that when you're like eighty, you're gonna tell people about from this musical journey.

7:46 Good or bad? Huh. See that's a hard question, right. That's I mean, yeah, there are so many I'm trying to think of, Like what would be a good one, Like, like, what's a good, big, concise story I can put it over there, story that would stick out. To me like in my full career you're saying. Like looking back, Yeah. Honestly, I think for me it's got to be the tour we just finished in April, the Toothpack tour. I was like in the last few months of writing and producing my sophomore album, which I'd been working on for five years, and it you know, through like such a huge mess of like logistics in time and like you know, limited resources. You know, it just ended up being that I had to finish this album while on tour because it was coming out the day after the tour or something like that. And it was such a crazy feat and I think like the most beautiful part of that experience is that, like, through all the exhaustion of finishing it, like the hardest, most like difficult thing I've ever done was trying to get this done throughout finishing the tour.

8:55 Basically at the very end of it, we got to my saxophone player, Allen's house, and I was like, guys, I'm not gonna lie. I have so little left in me. We have like three more shows, I have all these songs, I have more songs to finish. The Master's need to be in and like, honestly, what happened is that we sat down and everybody just helped. Me finish the songs nice. You know, we like gotten into their room and recorded tracks and we sung together and we played together. And at the end of it, you know, I pulled an all nighter and we got to our New York show and I got to like get on stage and say, hey, like I finished the album and I did it with all my friends. You know, that's just like a really meaningful story for me, because that's how I want to keep going, because I want to do everything. You know, it's I always know that, like I can count on the people close to me to take me over the finish line.

9:45 I love it. And you know, I was thinking while you were saying about your sax player, I was thinking of something funny. So is your sax player also secretly and secretly sacks Squatch? Did you see sack Squatch? Sack Squatch? Just have that one ready. They play sax Squatch. He played here at riot Fest. Uh huh. Basically he dresses up as a sasquatch bigfoot and plays the sas. Nice right, Okay, sure. So nobody knows who he really is, so maybe it's secretly your sax player.

10:27 Well, I've never seen him in the same room. See I think see there is you never know zero, So how do people reach out to you on the web on socials? Check out all your stuff by your merch all that good stuff. You can find me really anywhere that music can be heard. It's just Jeriah. I released a new album called Trust Ceremony a few months ago, and it is my baby. I've spent five years on it. It's like everything I anything I have to say to you, is on that album. And if there's anything you take away, I hope you check it out. Oh man, love it, love it? And is there anything else you want to listen? So know that we haven't covered yet that they need to know about you or that's coming up.

11:11 Man. I don't know if anything comes to mind, like off the top of my head, but I will say that after playing riot Fest, after seeing it, after experiencing it, I don't think I want to do like another big tour until I figure out how to take some of what we've learned this weekend, and next time we do a tour, I want it to be the best tour that's happening at the time. Nice. So, what's the biggest thing you learned doing riot Fest? Oh my gosh, I mean, I'm like almost overwhelmed with things I've learned. But I think the biggest thing really is to just like get on that stage and literally prepare like as much as possible. I don't think I realized just how much you could prepare for a show until I saw some of these headliners.

11:55 And I was like, oh, yeah, like we have to like lock. In and we have to like brig in shadow box this next tour until like we can do it with our eyes close. There it is. So that's the plan. Love it. I'm sure you might caught some sets while you're here. Who is your favorite set besides. You Fallout Boy? Well that was quick. Look at that all. Out Boy, change my life? Nice? Love it. So now have you toured with Fallout Boy yet? I would love to. Yeah, we're putting that out there right now. Putting it out there. Fall Out Boy, hit me up, I'm around, Let's do something. Love it. Well. Thanks a lot for being here at ryte Fest, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

12:40 Of course, thanks so much for having me. This is so much fun. I love it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.