PipemanRadio Interviews Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire at Aftershock 2023

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure? Wow? Crazy you why become of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four c HY dot com West Pomp Beats his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. No don't know, it's the pipe Man here on the Adventure's Pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Doddy Mullins missus may fire. Thanks for having me, brother. Oh so happy to have you here. Your like one of the coolest people in rock and roll. Anyway, you are too, dude and friends. I always think about you. Anytime we're about to go to press, I'm like, man, how ap I get to do that one again? Nice to see you.

1:08 I love it. You know what I love about Aftershock? I have a screen up there, so while I was doing the interviews, you were up there on stool. That's cool man, you know, because I'm like, fuck man, I can't get out there to catch a set. That's great, and so I'm like watching your show while I'm doing somebody else's air view. That's that's so awesome. I didn't know you guys had that. That's very cool, I know, right, because it sucks sometimes you do festivals, you know, I have that here, and it's like, oh man, you want to catch somebody set, either A to talk about it on the interview or B to say hey, I supported your set, you know. But you know how it is, sometimes you can't even get out of this whole sucks, dude, I can't imagine. I bet sometimes you just want to come and like enjoy a festival instead of work it. You know, well, you know it was. It's wild about that because when the first festivals came out after COVID Lockdown and there were no interviews. But yeah, but I was like, kind of, okay, that's cool.

2:00 I haven't had live music in two years. I don't have to work. I'm just gonna go out there and have a good time, you know. I mean honestly, I still want to let you interview me, like let's do it anyways. Yeah right, but man, it's just cool. It's cool to be here. It's cool to to see you. I feel like I've done more interviews with you than anybody else. I love that. And I had to follow up the Power Hour, you know, like I'm the I'm the I'm the last one, I'm the I'm the anchor. I mean you're the headliner, dude. That's right, that's exactly let's go. So tell us what's been going on lately? Man? So a lot in unbelievable amount, Memphis. This is our last show of the year after Shock, and then we start writing a new record next month. Nice. When will this air right away? Right away? Cool? In a couple of days.

2:52 Yeah, So I joined another band as well. It's uh, nothing's happening with Memphis. Everything is like staying the same obviously, but that'll be announced in the next in the coming weeks. Wow, which is very cool. It's like a childhood dream come true. Nice. And so that's really exciting. I've been writing new music with that band, and so that's an existing band or any new band. Oh, that sounds like it might be big. It was a childhood dream of mine to to just even see them live, let alone one day be singing for them. So it's really crazy. It's gonna be awesome. But yeah, it's it's constant, constant. Everything always is kind of what my life is. How did that happen? Anyway? Had this come A singer of that band sent me a text message and said, I need to step away from touring, to be away from to be with my family, and you're the only person that I want to take over. So crazy, it doesn't even feel real. Are you sure you were awake when that happened? You know, I truly had to pinch myself. I like called my wife. I'm like, babe, like, let's talk talk me down right now. My body is tingling. You know, it's crazy. It's it's really special, really really special for me.

4:01 New songs are coming out. There will be a new one out in December, so it's very cool. Wow, I can't wait for that now. I mean, you're already hard working. How you gotta have time with two bands. I'm lucky in the in the fact that they are willing to work around Memphis. You know, that was kind of the big thing. It's like Memphis is a freight train right now. We're not slowing down at all. So basically, in my time off with the band, that this other band can have access to me being on tour with them. So it's a it's just gonna be a full, full, full time thing. Wow. I love it. You know. It seems like a lot more artists nowadays are doing double and triple duty, and it's almost like I think it's not because they need to. It's more like you said, dream come true.

4:46 Fun. It's just fun and you get to be different one home percent. Like I when I got this opportunity, I knew twenty twenty four is gonna be busy for Memphis, and I knew there's a chance that I'll get to the end of the year and I will be beat, like I will be literally beat to the ground. But that would not feel as bad as always wondering if I had if what if I had done it? You know, it's worth So it's going to be very cool for me. It's gonna be a special thing for fans of of my band and fans of their band to get to kind of experience something different. And I'm just gonna go out and try to honor their original singer the best I can. And it's uh, yeah, it's gonna be cool. Is it gonna be kind of like a different version of you or more the same in a different way? I am.

5:31 It's a different genre of music, so to speak, But I'll still get to be fully me. If that makes sense. I love that. Yeah, that does make sense. You can only be you right. You know, that's what makes you great because you're like, you're just true to your beliefs, to your music, to your craft, and that's it. I appreciate it, man, you know, and that's the way it gotta be. I think in this business, I think so too. You know, there are live artists I wouldn't say that about Like it's like they're going through emotions, and I just think to myself, what a crappy business to just go through themotions for you know, like you for this business to be great, you have to have passion, love what you do and just be altruistically you you do you do. If you don't love this, it's not like get out, but it's like I hurt for you. I feel for you because exactly music like this job will take every ounce of you and if you don't love it, then that's painful man. You know, like maybe consider something else because it's it should be joyful. Like we're so unbelievably lucky to get on that stage. Every single time we get on that stage, and to do interviews and to talk to people and to you know, meet making new meet new fans, like the whole thing is such a gift.

6:46 So you know totally. And you know, the fact is is that you know, when you love it, it's not any of the stuff that's not good about the business doesn't really have affect you because you love it, you know. And I think that's true of anything, but more so in the music business, because music is a passion. I don't think it should be viewed as a job or else it would be drudgery. It's like you're living your dream, yeah, that whole Like, you know, if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. It's like, obviously that's a that's been used a lot, but it's yeah, it's so true, man. I mean, like, if you truly love what you do, like working, doing the things that you need to do to succeed at what you're doing shouldn't feel like work. It should feel like a gift, you know. And it's interesting because you have to have the personality for it too. Like my youngest daughter sometimes I'll bring her in festivals, and I mean she's twenty eight years old and she'll be after the first day.

7:43 Halfway through the first day, she's like, Dad, I don't know how you do this. Every weekend, I'm done already great. And my answer is I don't know how I don't. Yeah, I go home. I'm like, I don't want to be here. Yeah yeah, man, I mean when you love it, you love it, and nothing else will you. And just even being able to do this interview after playing our set today, like we usually do press before the set, I have real time emotions about how cool this is because the show is so I love your energy after doing a set, because it's super freaking hot out. Yeah, you're super freaking active on stage and like most artists have to. You know, I know if I was at ours, I probably wouldn't want to do interviews after Oh, man, don't get it twisted. I went to the to the green room. Oh the tour manager brought me an ice pack, an icy towel, and uh uh my photographer brought me like a water and I had a coconut water and everything. I felt like I was gonna die it was so hot. But I'm back. I bounce back. I'm here.

8:46 Yeah, look at you. You're like exactly who I know you to be. You know you're not there, like, thank God for coconut water, right, you know it's fight. You should say that because I don't really like coconut war. But when I was, I think it was bali and I was like super dehydrated. I was just pounding yea the coconut or it made me feel great, kicks in fast, for sure. I hate coconut in general, like this too. Coconut. I got food poisoning, and the thing that I had eaten right before getting food poisoning was a coconut cookie when I was young. The actual like, coconut makes me nauseous, right, But coconut water, when you know it's gonna do what it's gonna do, chug it, take it straight to the dome and just reap the benefits.

9:28 Yeah, that's right. So anything else you want to share with us, what's going on that we haven't talked about it? Right? No, I mean stay tuned for new Memphis music. Obviously give us grace. We're gonna start writing next month. It takes time. Writing takes time, recording takes time. We'll put it out when we can. We had a very busy twenty twenty three. We just wrapped up a co headliner with a TRAYU, which was so sick. I hope you made it out to a show. Be on the lookout for new tunes, not only you know from Memphis, but from this other band that I'm a part of now. Super stoked, and thank you for your support, thanks for reporting live music and music in general. Because I am so grateful to be sitting in the seat right now. I love it, and that's why I love about you too. You're grateful. You're not like Prima Donna. You're not like any of that stuff. And I want to say too, to your to your point, Okay, it's like, basically, yeah, I mean writing music should take time. I think that's what I think. If you're gonna take a positive at COVID, that's what taught artist is like. You're saying, start taking your time and writing the music like it was in the old days, yep, opposed to oh my god, I gotta write this whole album on the tour bus on the way to the next gig. YEP. I mean, we wrote our record, our recent record, during the pandemic, and it was a gift to have that time, right too. Obviously a really hard thing, but it was a gift to have that time to to say, nobody can be on tour, so all we have is music. So make the best music you can possibly make, and that's what we did, and

11:00 that's why we made the best record that we've ever put out. And we're going to adapt that same thought process to the next time that we make a record, which is next one. There it is, love it, Love you guys. Is so great. You're here at Aftershock and thanks for being on the Adventures by Man. Thanks for having me again, dude. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Fate Man on w for CUI Radio.