PipemanRadio Interviews Mercy Music

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0:56 This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w for c Y. Rate you when I'm here with our next guest, who has some badass music that you're gonna want to check out. So let's welcome to the show Mercy Music. And this is Brandon. How are you good? How are you? And I said it wrong? You're Brendan? Why did I do that? How many people do that? I'm so used here to this point. I respond to either, I know, how may do that to you? Like all the time, everybody don't feel best? Oh my god? And you know what, I was gonna think of editing that out, but now it just sounds funny. Okay, So tell us all about your music, you know, because I'm among those people I hate genres, especially nowadays.

1:42 It's like ridiculous. It's like every band has its own genre. There so many of them. Yeah, but artists shouldn't be boxed into a genre because to me, a true artist experiment and doesn't really think of genre. They just think of what they want it to sound like. And so how would you paint the picture to listeners of what your music is like. I also agree with the genre thing. I mean, I'm so I'm influenced by everything. I mean, so it's it's hard for me. I mean, I call us a I always say we're a rock and roll band. I know people don't like like because it's all it's a very broad term, but we kind of get pigeonholed on the punker side of things because of the way I look, but not necessarily the way we sound. I equate us somewhere.

2:29 I mean, I like saying like Thin Lizzie and Squeeze kind of kind of vibes. You get the pop, but you also get you get guitar playing and all that. So it's for me that's like things I go to is it is a comparison without Yeah, see that's rock and roll. That's why I love asking that question to hear how because it just tells me what the artist is all about, and there's some cool things they're like. I love that you said rock and roll like God Forbid. In two thousand twenty three, you should just be rock and roll. Yeah, like it's not cool anyone, Like I don't care. And then I'm old school when you know, being a punk meant you had a certain look. And the fact that people are pigeonholing you for that two in two twenty three blows by mind because like, hey, I remember back in the day, how did you tell punk punk from a preppie? The punk had tattoos and piercinges and the preppie didn't. And yeah, now that doesn't apply. It's I mean, of course, like I have my roots and that stuff, but I honestly think at the at the end of the day, I mean, I don't really consider us a punk band, Like we don't we play with again, like we play or with a lot of punk bands, but like we're not.

3:47 We're always kind of the odd duck. And you know, and I'm fine, you know, I think I think you're too good of a guitarist to be labeled as punk. And and I'm into punk music, so I'm not insulting punk music. But yeah, rarely do you have leads or solos in punk like you do. Yeah, it's I just because as I said, like I just I came up. I was lucky with with parents that listened to a lot of music. I mean I picked up a guitar because I saw and heard Hendrix and that was you know, when the rest followed. Well, if you're going to pick somebody to follow, that's definitely somebody to follow for sure. Yeah. Yeah, So your your newest albums dropping soon, but you have this really cool single that I think means a lot to you and I and I want you to express the audience why it means a lot to you, especially since it probably would mean a lot to them, And that's the single found out I'm useless, So tell us what that song is all about. I mean, the whole record kind of has a revolving scene of my life. You're kind of leading up to us recording it, and my wife and I separated after ten years of marriage. It's just kind of everything culminating, and that found it. I'm useless. I think is really like kind of being on the other side of the tunnel while I mean while still being in the tunnel, but like maybe trying to find the

5:20 humor and and maybe being a little bit more sarcastic about everything that's gone on, but not not so I guess less pain getting through the painful part of things while still I guess it's it's it's being able to laugh at the situation too, as shooty as it is, and I mean it's it's sarcastic in some ways too. But yeah, that song I do. That song is definitely special to me, and it's a little different. I mean, it stands kind of on its own from the rest of the songs on the album via tempo and stylistically. So yeah, i'd say that's I could definitely say that that song is one that could one hundred chart because it's it's you know, catchy, you can remember it, but people can relate to it too, because I can relate to it. I've been divorced twice and you know, yeah, the whole snow it's hard, like divorce is worse than death, they say, and you have to laugh at it or else, you know, you might kill yourself. It's times, you know, totally.

6:28 And then of course you know the getting gas lit thing, and it's it's funny as as the mail and the relationship. It's always assumed that word of ones gaslighting, but it's a lot of times them gaslighting us to make it look like we're gaslighting them. Yeah. And my thing like in terms of like everyone has like relationship in general fifty fifty and like everyone's got it on their part. I'm not. I'm not a fucking saying, you know, but like in situations like that, like you know, like you like inside you know, when ship's wrong, in which it's bad and it's it's I mean, oftentimes we don't listen to ourselves because we don't want to accept it and we don't want to, you know, believe that things really are where they are. Yeah, and it's just and a lot of a lot of times it takes a lot longer than then you'd think. And people, you know, from an outside perspective, you know, there's always the people that I've never let that happen to me, you know, I'd never like, you don't know until you're in it. No. I think kids too, Like kids are divorced parents. Because I was a kid of divorced parents, I'm like, I'm never gonna go through that, and I'm never gonna put my kids through that. But you don't really have control, you know, I mean, and that's and that's part of it too. I mean, you like I do have three kids. You know. That's the thing is like I hung on for dear life, and I I mean, I took

8:00 more than I think anybody would ever ever take or take on or accept or just just like I know, it's a classics stay together for the kids thing, but it's like you really, you really don't want to because again, like me too, I was a product of divorced parents, and I never you never ever want to. You don't want it. And I was, I mean, I get you know, I jump off of fucking building onto a pile of fiery nails for my kids. So it's yeah, it's just it's it's it's a difficult thing all around. It's never what anybody really wants. Yeah, yeah, and it's so much harder with kids, Like you said, like I have four kids, and I was miserable for like nine years, and I was doing the whole stay together for the kids thing, Like I look it back at now, I wasn't even doing the right thing by the kids by staying together for the kids. It would have been easier had I gone a lot earlier, or had things happened a lot earlier, because the kids sends it to Ah they know. The kids always they know they know more. Third, no one ever thinks about that, but they always know that they know more than we do. Exactly, They always no you know, so, but it's cool. You know. That's the cool thing about being an artist is not only do you have an outlet to get that stuff out, but you give us a listener the therapy as well, because that's what music is. The music is therapy. And you know, maybe somebody listening to your song, they won't have the same exact situation,

9:33 but they can definitely relate and and they get what they want out of it. And at the end of the day, I mean, I have to say, like, I don't know if it sounds like selfish, but I mean that's a huge reason for me continuing to do it. It's like I think, like I think about the songs that saved my life or were there for me when I was at my worst, you know, and if I can do that for someone else for three minutes of their day and just like of some kind of peace or relatable thing, like, then my job's done and I feel like, you know, it makes me feel good. And it's part of the reason why I still continue to do this. So like when people come up to me and tell me that, like that's the greatest achievement compliment. Yeah, you know, I can receive and it's like one of the most fulfilling things as well, because that's what music was for me, you know, it still is. I think that's the case for all of us, you know, and I think that's a big reason why after the lockdown everybody was a bunch of pissed off people because yeah, there was no music as therapy, really no live music. Yeah yeah, thing now so June thirtieth, Yeah, what you stand to lose be dropping and man, even talking to you now that title even has more meaning to me, like ed meaning to me before we got on the interview, but now we're talking to you has even more meaning. That as the most for the best

11:07 way to put an ambiguous spot on title. Yeah, it's like it's all encompassing, but it also gets to the point, you know, like I think you said it better definitely, but yeah, I stand by Oh I love it so And then you got some shows coming up right, yeah, I mean this I don't know when this will drop. I mean we're in Long Beach this Friday, the sixteenth, and then La the seventeenth, and then a couple of days before the release. Through that week, we're going to do some West Coast release release shows from from Phoenix up to San Francisco, and then we're gonna follow up some more in July up to the Pacific Northwest and more through the summer. That's that's what's on the books for now, and just stay as busy as possible. Very cool, and I even think the video for this song, it is like so California to me.

12:05 Yeah, it's like, okay, I remember being a teenager like driving down the Sunset Strip or through Westwood, and that's exactly what it reminds me of. When you were like doing the guitar solo on top of the car. That was our bass player's idea, and I thought it was fucking brilliant, so we went with it because it's kind of like you know, poking fun at the at the cock rock guitar solo of the of the eighties. You know, you're exactly really nineties. You got November rain blessing out of the I mean that was the that was the piss take on that, and I love that we did it and that I didn't fall off the van, so that's well, that's a good thing. But yeah, and see I'm from the eighties sunset strip scene, so that's why I saw that instantly. It was giving me flashbacks. We used to do shit like that. That was totally the That was totally what we were. That was the inspiration one hundred and ten percent. So yeah, you could. You could tell him.

12:58 Pipeman gives some kudos for coming up with that idea. Hell yeah, man, So tell everybody your socials how to connect you on the web at it can get the new album? Why it drops by your merch because that's the only way artists survives. So like people aren't allowed to listen my show, and let's say, Bud, Mercy Music for You. Dot com is going to get you everywhere you need to go as far as merch and additional socials, but Instagram, We're at Mercy Music on Instagram, Mercy Music for You on Facebook. Yeah, and new record drops June thirtieth on Double Helix Records and Spam Records and the European territories and hopefully we'll see see you soon in your home state. Absolutely ency at some festivals and stuff. You know I traveled thirty seven hours from Download Festival to do this interview. Wow, thank you. It wasn't specifically do the interview, but it is what happened.

13:58 Still thirty still thirty seven hours. Yeah, you know that, you know the drill like, I'm lucky. I'm still alive right now. And Download. I think I think I've slept a total of twenty hours since last Tuesday. It's amazing, you know. That's the life. If we sound very similar, that's the light. I wouldn't have it any other way. You know. My daughter sometimes she'll come to festivals with me and after halfway through the first day she's like, Dad, I don't know how you do this. Every weekend I'm like, I don't know how. I don't Yeah, exactly. So there it is. So I love it. Love the new music. Everybody. Make sure to check it out. And thanks for giving us therapy because we need it a lot nowadays. And thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thank you for thank you so much for having me and appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.