PipemanRadio Interviews Kurt Deimer About Doom

0:04 Hi, you have unto censumu for Wow, cra Young why kind of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four c Y dot com best pomp Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man, Fire to the School checked the side to rondas sent to the fire to consume check. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very exciting about our next guest has a killer new tune and some other stuff for us to talk about.

1:04 So let's welcome to a show. Kurt Diimer, how are you good? How are you doing? Brother? Thank you for having me. Oh my pleasure. I'm doing great, and especially after hearing your new song Doom. It's a badass song for sure. Well, thank you so much. Man. I'm hoping it continues to, you know, gain traction all over the place, and with folks like you help and push it, hopefully the folks at radio will continue to play and we'll see where it goes all over the world. Yeah, and you just did a couple of tours, one with mushroom Head, one with skid Row and basically I'm sure you played the new song on tour. How was the audience like and digging it? Yeah, we actually out with you know Buck Jerry skid Row in September, and like you said, mushroom Head in October, we closed every set with Doom and I let all the fans know. It's actually the song that's featured in my feature film that's coming out in twenty twenty four, Hell Billy Hollow. It's the final scene song. Which is why I even wrote it in the first place. Was I knew I needed something for that movie. And you know, it also talks about the doom, you know, in a horror type movie, but it's the doom of life, you know, about addiction and

2:34 what can happen to one and how dreadful that can become. And people received it so well, and once they hear and we start ripping into it, the whole crowd starts moving and we really got really great response for it. So I love it, and let's talk a little bit about the movie. So I people like you your creatives, and I think a lot of people don't realize that just because you're a musician doesn't mean you don't have creativity and all kinds of other areas, whether it be other forms of art like painting or a movie or what have you. So what was it. Let's start with what started with your passion for making a horror movie and a horror franchise.

3:23 Well, it all goes, you know. I did music till I was like twenty before I you know, had to buckle down. I finished school and had a family and whatnot, and I suppressed my artistic creative side as far as music goes. I never knew I'd be an actor. Ever, that was never I was always full of anxiety when I was young and didn't really had to figure that out in my life first, but so that was never an option. In twenty seventeen, I guess you could say my creativity I took to the business world because I started my own oil brand, Starfire, and built those companies and they still run themselves today. And that took a lot of creativity on the business side. But in twenty seventeen I went to do a cameo because my oil brand was in a movie called Trading Paint about dirt track racing with John Travolta and Shania Twain and Michael Matt Mattson and a lot of big actors, and I went down to do this cameo and they offered me a speaking role because they liked my look and they needed a track announcer. So I ended up getting in this movie and shooting this scene within an hour or two of not ever thinking I would be an actor.

4:35 And then I'm shooting this with John Travolta and I'm like, Okay, well that was a sign. And I really loved that and it didn't bother me at all. And I'm in the movie and made the cut and all that stuff. And two months later, I get offered a role in Halloween, the reboot with Jamie Lee Curtis of the official one from the seventies, the official sequel, and I get to we want a few people killed by the Michael Myers and John Carpon was Halloween. And while I'm sitting there in this gas station with James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers, were just sitting there talking and I got this shit all over my head, all this prosthetics it took like three hours to put on to make me look, you know, Goraly killed, And I'm thinking, you know, I could do my own horror franchise. Just like Halloween did in seventy eight. Now they're doing this reboot which I'm sure is going to be huge, and it ended up being huge, and I go, why can't I do the same thing, And that's what spawned me wanting to do hell Billy hollow And this year in March, I just shot a movie called Scared to Death out in LA that stars me alongside Lynn Shay from the Insidious franchise and Bill Moseley from the Rob Zombie movies. And Bill Mosley was one of my idols that I kind of modeled my character Bull around for hell Billy Hollows. So not only did I do that, but then here I am in March of this year shooting a movie with Bill and becoming great friends with him. And now we're working

6:08 on another movie that we're going to probably shoot here in the next year that I'm writing right now. So that's how it all came to Fruition, and the music just kind of happened in the middle of it all. Wow. Yeah, I mean for somebody that never imagined being an actor and involved with movies, you've been quite busy. Yeah, it's crazy, man. Well I never thought I could do it. I mean, when you have anxiety and panic disorder and you don't know how to treat it, you're mortified to getting up in front of let people in a concert, let alone be in front of a movie camera, you know. And once I figured all that out, when I was like at my early thirties, and my whole life changed, and now I can do whatever. I'd love being in front of people. I love watching them have a great time and seeing that they're listening to my lyrics, applying maybe some of those lyrics to their life, and just watching the joy they have, you know. And then the same thing with the movie. I mean, I'll love to go to the theater when it's scared the death comes out and just watch people's reaction to this really great movie that we're about to put out. So it's very very blessed to be able to do this, and we only give one light, and you got to live it to the fullest man, one hundred percent. I always say that it's like my mantra, I live life to falls every single day because you just never know, you know. And my viewpoint is is if if I were not to wake up tomorrow, well I wouldn't feel like unfulfilled because

7:41 I have always lived life to fullest, so you know, I've had those experiences. Some people don't. Some people in their whole life, they go without doing anything or scared of everything. And you know, it's great that you found these outlets because I mean, it's true for me. Tell me if it's true for you. But when you get up on that stage or you get in front of that camera, or you get on the mic, there's like this switch in your brain that turns on and the way you would actually be off stage or off the mic, as far as the fear and everything else goes away because you're like in a zone. Yeah, it's yeah, all day. You know, you're on the road. We're on the tour bus. We're getting to the town. We're worried about or we're going to get a shower, We're worried about where we're going to get some kind of food, and it's a big pain in the ass. And I'm a very chill, laid back guy. And don't get me wrong, I love the road, but yeah, it's like I'm a calm, chill, mellow dude in real life. If you hung out with me and we go have a drink or whatever. So once I hear that intro, and I know it's my time, and we're always on time when we go on stage because we're very professional and courteous to the bands we're touring with. And once I hear that intro, it's game over. I'm like a totally different dude, and I just go crazy. It's like a thirty forty five minute aerobic workout and I'm just going nuts, and I'd do it all on the fly.

9:13 I'm not worried about anything. I might I might have lost my sister and my dad in the last decade, and they're both with me when I performed, because they were the two singers in the family for the most part, and she was the thespian in the family, and so they're with me, and then my grandma. I just tell it. Don't let me forget any of the lyrics. She lived to be one hundred and six and was my rock in my life. I don't worry about shit. I go out there, kill it and people have a great time, and I just love it. Now, well, I love everything you said there in one hundred and six. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, she lived to be one hundred and six. The only reason she died at one hundred and six is because it was during the year of COVID and nobody could go visit her in the nursing home, and she just said fuck it, you know, and eventually she just got tired of human interaction. And that's unfortunately a lot of the unknown collateral damage that many people have I've not suffered during that year where a lot of us lost our grandparents that were probably elderly because we weren't allowed to go see them. You know. It's sad. Yeah, no, I and I'm totally with you. That was a rough time for everybody, and especially like it's weird for somebody like yourself who's a musician and you're used to being out there with the public and on tour and stuff like that, and that two years of doing nothing and being isolated, Like it's bad enough when you get home from tour and you go into that that almost for lack of a better way of playing a depressive come down mood, you know, and

10:46 then to have that for two years. So I can imagine somebody like your grandmother or anybody you know, at that stage, like it is like, well, what's the point if I'm just sitting here, you know, doing nothing by myself, you know, nobody, get no interaction with anybody. So it's horrible, exactly exactly except the nurse, you know, in the same nurse or whatever, and you can only do so many little activities and you're one hundred and six. Imagine what's going on in her brain. And the week before she passed, I had gone out on a tour during COVID. I was just getting started. I wasn't even going under Kurt Dimer. I started out under bald Man. That's how I got to LA and I caught the week before, I was in Vegas doing a show during COVID.

11:33 I was able to do a show in Vegas during COVID, but I wasn't able to go see my grandmother. Go figure, that's ridiculous. I call her and she we had our last good conversation, and I said, you know what I'm doing, Grandma. I'm out singing about positivity and things that I write that I'm getting out of my brain over life of My grandpa was a motivational speaker. Her husband, I said, I'm doing what Grandpa did. I'm just doing in rock music and she was so proud and we had such a good call and then a week later our lost her. So that was it's tough, man, But she's with me everywhere I go. There you go and sorry about that, and you know, it's it's pretty wild because before you talked about your grandpa, I was going to say about you know, with me and talking about the stage thing like I'm also I'm a motivational speaker. I was going to say that, array but it's pretty wild that your grandpa was one too, And it's funny and you probably feel the same way like I was saying that, because before I get up on stage, like all these things are round my head. You know, you worry about screwing up, blah blah blah blah blah, make sure to remember do this, do that. But the minute I step on that stage, it's like all that just goes away and I'm in a zone and I do what I do. That's it. You can't work, you can't worry about it.

12:50 I mean, my first you know I have I've only been touring two years now in a big way, but so it really it started in a big way because I went out on tour with my first big tour was with Jeff Tate, so it was a good tour to start with. You know, I learned a lot on that tour, and I used to worre. I used to think through my lyrics all day on the bus and just kind of practice through it in my head. And I don't do any of that anymore because I know it's just there's nothing to worry about. Just go out there and be you and let it loose and let it fly and make each show its own individual masterpiece. That's the way I look at it. Oh, I can agree more. And I always give people the advice, you know, just be you. That's what people see you anyway. You know, like if you're not being you up on stage, people can tell, Oh, they can tell. And you know, early on, everybody in my band wanted me to dress in this different way and wear this hat or do this. And I finally just eventually just said, you know what, what's missing in my show is I'm listening to what everybody's telling me to do and I'm not being me. And you know it's like now I can go out every night and it's like I'm a painter, but what I'm doing is I'm putting on a show, and each show is different, and each show hasn't son. I want to say different things, maybe something about what's going on currently in the work, you know, in the in the world.

14:18 Maybe before I, like I do, did hero which is one of our big songs about our heroes in the world, in the military and all that. You know, the other night, you know, the last couple times, after that motherfucker up in Maine went and shot all those innocent people, I called him out to the crowd and we raised all our phone lights up and everything in honor of those deceased because of him, and we talked, we sung about heroes. So every night is a different painting, and that's the way I look at it, and that will leave that mark in that human beings had fan that was in the crowd, So they're seeing a different work of art every night. See, I love artists like you that do that, because you know, I've seen a million concerts in my lifetime, and I go on tour and I do radio coverage of festivals and a lot of festivals. As you know, they'll have the same bands plans. I'll see like a certain band like ten times in a year. And yes, some of those bands, Like just recently, I think I was Aftershock and a band was performing. The person I was hanging with, I was literally saying the words not even the song, but the words between the songs that the lead singer was going to say before he said them, and she and then he would say him and and she'd She was looking at me. He's like, how did you know? It was goods? You know, and to me, you know, not to throw shade, but you know,

15:48 it gets me bored. And even the bands I love, it's like, oh, you know, I'll be at a festival. They're like, oh, you're gonna catch her set. Yeah, I've seen them about six times this year. I think I'm done this year. And yeah, it's not not liking them, it's more of the fact of, like, I want to see somebody do like you do, and like I'm gonna get surprised every single set, and that makes it just so much more fun. Yeah, you got to be spontaneous. You don't want to make a photo copy of your show and photo copy and just hand out the flyer every night. You want an original work of art. And that's what I can write. And you know, I don't want to be cookie cutter. I think that's boring as fuck, and I don't want to copy myself, So I just wanted to come out naturally. And then you feel it, and you know, as a fan, ow, this dude's real and this is what he's feeling tonight in this moment, and that's how I do it so exactly, And you know, it makes you more relatable and connectable by the audience because now they realize you're just being a person up they're performing, opposed to somebody that's just playing a role and rehearsing their script and getting out there and doing their script exactly exactly. That's not what it is. They know your songs.

17:15 You can hear the same song over and over on the radio over wherever you stream music. You know, as we continue to grow, you can hear that if you want to hear it. But when we come out and perform, you're going to hear that song the way we're feeling it that night, and we're going to rock it out. And I'm going to say what I want to say when I want to say it, depending on how I feel in the room, and you know, the vibe and all that and once I decided to be myself and not listen to all the noises around me, our fan base is growing. People are coming up to me, going, you're the best man we've never heard. I can't wait till these festival promoters like Danny Wimmer and everybody get, you know, notice us. And I don't care if we play it two in the afternoon. Once we break that, we're just gonna blow up, because I can see it in the fans' faces, like this is a band that doesn't sound like everybody else and they rock the fuck out, and that's rare nowadays. Like if we went back to seventies and eighties, you know, bands were unique. Nowadays, it seems like a lot of them sound the same. So I love that what you just said, because I think that's what makes bands stand out nowadays, especially you know, you have a lot of bands that have access to things that people didn't have years ago, so they're almost able to produce it to make it sound the same as something else. And I'd rather have you be unique and stand out above the crowd. Yeah, that's my biggest thing right now with these the people who control the radio is I don't think they know

18:48 what to do with me yet, you know, because I don't sound like what's big on Octane, you know, right, I've got my own unique sound, but you know, I refuse to try to make it sound. Why would I want to copy somebody else They have their own art. I want to do my own art. And then once people finally see that people love this music and it's growing, then it'll take off. Kind of like ACDC. They were different. They're one of my role models from the past Van Halen. They went out with Black Sabbath. They sounded totally different than Black Sabbath, but they have their own unique sound and style, and that's what I intend to do. So I'm just going to stick to it until the day I die. And it never takes off. It never takes off, but it is. It's just it's not easy to make it and anything in life, and you just never give up. And I'll just stay true to who I am and keep putting out songs that I that I really dig and that I think the public will and I think it'll eventually that one will hit and then everybody will know our whole catalog. So there you go, and I think definitely everybody should check you out because your music is badass and everything you do is great, and so how do people connect with you on socials on the web? How they check out the new song, your merch and everything. Okay, yeah, yeah, everything mean of course Instagram is growing, so follow us on Instagram at Kirkdimer, Facebook at Kirkdimer. There's

20:22 also the kirk Dimer Fam Club on Facebook to join, so I'd love it if you guys would do that. And then on x we're on there and TikTok at Kirkdimer. And then the website is kirk k u r t d e I Emason Mary e r dot com. You can check out my ib page which would be awesome. You can google my name and all kinds of stuff will pull up articles, interviews, and then Spotify Apple. Apple's growing every week now like crazy. Spotify is growing at Kirkdimer and just follow us and share the music, can share the love and check our videos and our channel on YouTube at kurt Dimer and subscribe to that. Stay in the loop.

21:07 And we've already got tour plans are already going to be announced here soon starting in January, and got a lot going on. Man, it's got to finish this album, I got to go to shoot some stuff for my character the Grog from Scared to Death, so I'll be out in La doing that and there'll be more videos coming out and whatnot. So it's drill simple, Kurt k u RT dimer d E I M E R Google that follow us everywhere and be great man. Well, I love it, and I hope they do check you out because they'll be missing out if they don't. And thanks for being on the adventures of pipe Man. It's always always pipe Man. Thank you so much Teine for having me. And look forward to talking to you again. And let all the folks that I heard or the festivals know about me, and hopefully I'll see you soon and we can do an interview live. Absolutely, I would love it. That'd be cool man.

21:57 Yeah, And if you ever want to go out out together and do motivational speaking. I love to help people. I'm love to help people not be scared of this world. And I'm a guy who's self made. Nobody's handing me anything in life, and I got a lot to share with people, So let me know. I'd love to go out and talk to people. Looking forward to it. Love it we'll definitely talk again, all right, my brother. I'd be safe and thank you for having me me anytime. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Tatement. I'm w for CUI Radio.