PipemanRadio Interviews Marble Ghosts

0:04 Hi, you have unto censure. Wow for you young wake up of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four C why dot Com West pomp Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And we're going way north from where I am.

0:57 For you listeners, you know that I'm down co Rika, and now we're going up to Canada because I love so many bands in Canada and I do love We were just talking about this before the interview. I love the publicists who set this up because he's one of the best publicists out there. So shout out to John. And we have with us today Paul from Marble Ghosts. What a badass band and what a great story I'm going to talk about on this interview. So Paul, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Oh my pleasure. I want to start off right off the bat by talking about something we were talking about before the interview that I think is so cool. Your band is a multi generational band, Okay, which in twenty twenty four that almost seems like unfathomable because of all the idiotic stuff going on in the world where everybody's against each other and it's like, oh, Jen, see this gen x, that boom er, this uh millennial, that older millennial, younger millennial, blah blah blah, and like it's we're so separate and divide. So it puts a huge smile on my face that you have a band that has multiple generations. You're the oldest of the band, which hey shout out to the whoever's gen z in the band that they wanted you in the band. And not only that, I think by

2:30 having those multi generational you can create some music as ultra unique and ultra special. Absolutely, it's it's it's it's been, it's been great so far. And yeah, going back to what you're saying about being a multi generational band, it it seems to work for us. We have Adam the guitar player, youngest member, and he's he's very much into modern metal, metal core, Dylan very much a fan of early nineties grunge. Dylan, sorry, Jar the drummer more like me more into traditional metal, death metal, that kind of stuff. And I grew up listening to eighties Glamor. I mean the first album I ever bought was Shout at the Devil Monty Cruz nineteen eighty three, The first tip I ever bought. You want some trivia there by the way. Do you know that Too Fast for Love was not their first music. Shout at the Devil was their first music. I saw them in nine. It was either eighty eighty one at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip.

3:43 It was the first club show I ever went to in my life, and I was like, oh my god, I'm never going to a real concert ever again. And all the songs were off a Shout at the Devil. They had a couple of the Too Fast for Love, but it was mostly Shouted at the Devil. That's awesome, right, great? Yeah, So another thing I want to talk about is Okay, so your single old school, Yeah, Okay. What I like about what you guys are writing about, yeah, is against all the I'm going to be blunt the bullshit going on in the world, especially in twenty twenty four. And see it's funny because I can put multiple meanings to that name of that song. But the point is is we really need to get rid of all this hate in the world, no matter what the hate is, whether it's against the LGBTQ community, or whether it's against metal heads that don't play the same metal as other metal heads, like, because that's what I grew up with in the eighties. It's like good to be the gatekeeper. I remember, you know, I saw a Slayer's first show and Metallica's first show ever, and after that, my friends were like, Okay, you gotta burn all your Montley Cruise shit because you can't listen as Slayer and listen to Monthly Crue. And you know, it was just stupid. Like I also interviewed Josie Cotton a few times. We've become friends, and first time I interviewed her, I'm

5:14 like, you know, I couldn't listen to you in the eighties. I wasn't allowed, you know, because you were new wave, and god forbid I should listen to new wave, you know. And that is something I love about today in twenty twenty four, is like those gatekeepers are very far and few in between, and you know, we have bands like you that are spreading love and togetherness and unity, and that's what I love about your music most of all. So tell us from your perspective more about the single Old school Dylan wrote the lyrics. Actually, he wrote the lyrics to all the songs. He's very intelligent and he seems to have a good grasp on, you know, all things, all the social political issues that's going on in the world, from human basic human rights, women's rights and lg B DQ what you what you had mentioned before, and it's just, uh, it's it's and in this single, it's mostly like basically we're talking about, uh, you know, how you have religious values today are not are said the old school religious values don't don't really relate to today's. And we're not an anti religious band, but we're just we're just saying, you know, you know, with the rise of secularism, you know, it's just it's just important to know that we we just can't continue being uh divided or or

6:47 or imposed on these old world values that just do not apply today. And it's it's it's horrible. Sometimes I'll tell you something interesting you probably don't know. And I was just talking about somebody with this recently. You know, it's interesting in bringing up the religious aspect because I'm a Jew, and even a lot of Jews don't realize this, but in the Jewish Bible before there was ever such thing as Muslim or Christianity. There's no negative reference against anything LGBTQ. As a matter of fact, it does mention about there's a minimum of six genders. It talks about Adam probably was intersex, and there's no reference of sin about anything having to do with anybody that is gay or And actually the Old Testament is full of gender fluid statements in it. It's it's and that was the one that if you're going to believe in that came from God, Christianity and Muslim came from prophets. If you're going to believe in that, and they're the ones preaching that, it's immorl and it's an abomination, and it's like, where did they even get that from? Because they didn't get it from God. It is my viewpoint, whether you believe in religion or not, Like I believe God is a God of love and loves

8:20 all of his creatures. And if there is a God, why would God God hate anybody that they created. I totally agree. And you know, you fast forward to the New Testament and it's it's, it's, you know, difficult to understand what's what's written in there. I've never read the whole thing through. But you have to have like a bunch of men writing these rules for you, and that you have to adhere to these rules, whether it be traditional or you know, even misogynistic, and it's inequality. As for me, yeah, I'm just I've never been a religious person. I consider myself an atheist with maybe agnostic tendencies, I would say, you know, and I never really was. I always appreciate people who's who believed in God. I just don't believe in the fluff that surrounds that just exactly in like you say, a God of love and right now, it's it's division right now, and it's it's it's difficult, it's terrible, and it's like whether somebody believes doesn't believe, I think it's also a human right too.

9:41 Like I'm a Jew that also believes in Buddhist philosophy, spirituality, New Age. I even have agnostic points of view and in Judaism, that's quite all right. You're allowed to, like like you're told not to believe, to study and learn, and you're told to, you know, basically just be a good person and question everything because that's the only way you learn. Not just oh just because I said so type of thing, and so I'm so happy about band like you. That's like spreading the same type of message.

10:24 Because listen, I don't really get why people care what other people do as long as they're not intentionally harming people, I say, you do you? You know it doesn't affect my life in any way. Like these people that are against gay people, how does it affect their life? I don't understand, Or are against trans how does it affect their life? I don't understand. And we need music because music is always the greatest message, and we need music like yours to spread a message to maybe turn things around. I agree, and I mean, and Dylan has multiple topics and any other songs talking about all other kinds of injustices and basically and I agree with you.

11:07 It's to me, it's like, you know, to be a good person, you don't need a moral code to be a good person. It's it's it's I don't know if I find that's ridiculous. And who decided the moral code too? Like, like you said, a bunch of men just really what the New Testament? There is a bunch of men that wrote it, like they're the ones deciding exactly. And I mean I I if I would belong to any church, who would be the Church of common sense? I love that. But I don't speak for for all the band members. But uh, we're we're pretty much you know we we we love playing music and uh, and it's important to have a message. It's important to have something you believe, and it's it's important to to to to promote your convictions when you're in a band and I find out without having that that that that that glue, that that that brings everything together in a band, and it just maybe lacks a little bit of substance, but for us, it's it's important.

12:15 I think it's important too. I mean, like, you know, you see a lot of that going on lately where there's people not band members, but people like yelling at bands like just sing the song sup spraying blah blah blah blah. Hello, do they even understand what music is about? Music is about talking about your convictions, talking about different things. And yes, if you have that pulpit that you can spread your positive message to people from the stage, I'm one hundred percent for it. So like if a band gets up there and gets everybody to be united, Hey, that's the way it should be. And you know what, the fact of the matter is, music is therapy and it's not supposed to be having no meaning to it. It's supposed to have meaning and it's supposed to be fun at the same time. Yeah, exactly, exactly, and that's what makes people listen.

13:16 You know, it's fun. It's not like somebody's up there lecturing. But you know, somebody that's writing music, singing music, what have you. You know, they're singing about things because they have something to say, they have a perspective on it, and you can agree or not agree, because I don't think most bands expect that everybody's going to agree with what their song says. It's not for that, it's for you know, the canthirnism of getting our thoughts out in a positive, fun way. Absolutely, and it's you know, and we might get a little division, but we just we we stick to what we do and that's all we can do. So tell us about so many other songs. You got this self titled EP coming out, tell us about some of the other songs on there and maybe what they're about. You know, you have this other song alone, Maybe talk about what that's about people. I see the name of it, and I already have a feeling of like, hey, I want to listen to this song. Sure, I'm not one d familiar with with what uh Dylan's message in that song. I guess uh he's talking about. I guess represents both imagine and real fear. Okay, and you know how we we we create

14:50 our own, uh scenarios that frighten us. Yeah, so he's basically singing about, uh, you know, just just for for example, just trying to get my thoughts here on that, you know, just just like, for example, a real a real fear is being being attacked late at night, I get beaten up by a bunch of people, and that's that's a real fear. And that's a real scenario. And then I guess that scenario real or imagine, it could be imagined, but then it becomes real. So I guess he's he's singing about, Yeah, are are real and imagined fears? You know which You're right, It is interchangeable. And even the example that you brought, uh, you know, there have been scenarios like that, you know, and you know, I think again it's cathartic because these are things when people are listening to songs that they can relate to put their own meaning to it. And that's the beauty of a great you know.

16:00 I even think of like the title, and I think of myself and it was like, you know, you think of like being all alone in the world, you know, because people aren't on the same page as you or for whatever reason. There's many definitions of being alone. It doesn't mean you could be listen, I go and I do radio coverage at music festivals. I could be a music festival with one hundred thousand people there and still feel alone. Yeah. Yeah, So tell us when the EP is coming out, and tell us about your upcoming shows and all that good stuff. Yeah. The EP is going live March first, and it's going to be available on all platforms, and we're really excited and we've got we just got per CDs in the mail today. We had them pretty nice and so we got we got actual tangible products to sell. I love it. So we're looking forward to that. And our EP release show is on February twenty ninth at the twenty seventh Club in the market here in Ottawa, and I think it's going to be a great, great time. So we're opening for a great rock band, local band called Team in Seri and a great Australian rock band called The Lazies, and I think it's just going to be just a great party. It's going to be lots of fun. We're looking forward to it. I love it. And how do people connect to you guys on

17:30 social media? YouTube, all that good stuff? Yeah? Yeah, I mean we have our own Facebook page. We post occasionally, sometimes frequently, sometimes strategically, and we try and get the message out there and get people reminded that we're out there and that we're in new an upcoming band, and and we've got great little visualized visualizers on on YouTube, Instagram. So that's that's all going great. And you know, also word of mouth and that's you know, I'm old school with that kind of stuff. There's the old school right there. I love it. Is there anything else you want the listeners to know about Marble Ghosts that we haven't covered already and that they should know? I I guess musically speaking, I just wanted to touch base on the fact that, Yeah, like we were talking about multi generational band and what I think is is really great is that we allly bring in our little eras of influences in the music, and I think that's that's fantastic. We do we are, we do consider self a modern rock band with maybe a hint of metal, and we just we just we just get a great we The writing process has going great. We've got five new songs for for another

19:03 ePIE, so we're gonna be heading back in the studio, are doing our parts in our little studios and getting it all mixed in my friend's studio. So the next next two three months, we're we're gonna be releasing another epiece. So I think as far as as musically, to me, it's it's interesting. I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm an eighties metals metal guy and uh I I've I've never really had the opportunity to to play more modern rock or modern metal or anything like that. But uh, it's the songs are to me, are just are incredible and uh and uh, I I just I just just love being in this band. And we all get along great.

19:48 We all, we all, we all, we all, we all gel and we all get along. We all uh have our own we we have our own opinions about what we want to do, but we all come to an agreement and it works like a collective and it's uh, it's actually one of the most easygoing bands I've I've ever played it and that's that's to me. Is uh that says a lot, great greatest thing, you know. I love it. I love you guys. I hope everybody checks you guys out. Music is badass and uh, hey, thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for c u I Radio.