PipemanRadio Interviews Pistols at Dawn About Fly

0:00 Hi, you unto censure for why for you young wake up of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four c HY dot com vis Pond Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. Hold. So you say, level otors how z like a feather? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with our next guests at how some badass new music and we've talked to them before and we're here again to punintended fly with Pistols at dawn. How are you? Thank my brother? Thanks so much for having us back. Hey, my pleasure. You like how I did that? There, we're gonna We're gonna fly away with Pistols at Dawn.

1:19 There I do, I do, and we are flying. So it's an honor. So tell our listeners a little bit about the new song and uh, you know how it's the same as previous music, but how it's different. What's kind of you know what it means to you? Yeah? Man, Well, you know, when we started as a band, we had a certain sound and it definitely was the Pistols at Dawn sound. And then I guess you know, as we went into our first DP, we evolved, and then as we came into this album Ascension, we definitely evolved and wanted to give the full breath what we could do on an album. You know it every way, So every track on the current album is different than the other. And when it came to Fly, this was one of those songs when you hear other bands just say how it kind of wrote itself.

2:12 We started playing it and it was a riff that our former guitarist Devin had and he started playing it and you know, I'd say within fifteen minutes the song was written. It was just one of those special songs. And you know, it's just just a good, solid rock and mid tempo song that has builds and a beautiful chorus and harmony. And you know, when we did it on the album, we screwed. We had a lot of screaming on it and made it really passionate. It's a love song. And when we ultimately put it out to radio, we decided to make it a little bit more melodic and radio friendly and we're just so happy how it came out, and we just appreciate, you know, people like you playing it so much. Yeah, I mean it is pretty badass, and I love that what you said also about having pretty much every song different, I think that's kind of cool, because why do I want to listen to the same song over and over again? More importantly, why that's an artist want to write the same song over and over again? Yeah, I think. I think so many bands put out albums with fluff on it, and I think, and I mean fluff as in songs that just aren't gonna they're either just repetitious or they're going to they're not going to hit the way that you hope they do, right. And you know, we were really honest with ourselves from the beginning that we wanted to limit the album to eight tracks, so each of the eight tracks would leave a different stamp on the listener and give

3:44 them the full experience. At that time when we wrote Ascension, that was like two years ago actually, and now coming into twenty four, we've written the new album and we're probably seventy five percent of the way there, and all of the music is written and many many of the vocals are written, and I can genuinely tell you, you know, we've got ten new tracks already and every one of them are different, like I'm playing them and you know, you know some bands say get kind of bored with, you know, playing the same old song over and over and over because it sounds like the old songs or the repetition songs. And I swear to God on the new album, like every time we rehearse, I'm so excited because when we play the ten tracks, they're all different, they're all unique. They're unique from Ascension, they're unique from Nocturnal Youth, and they're unique from our original singles. And I'm so excited for you to hear what we're evolving into after this. But for now, Fly just hit thirty six at Billboard yesterday and we're we're just on top of the moon, you know, finishing the year strong. I love it. And you know, evolve, I love that word because, as you know, you got the gatekeepers and the non gatekeepers.

5:04 I used to be, well as young the gatekeeper because I came from that time and now I can't stand that. I couldn't stand it then, but you know, you were part of it. But that that gatekeeping stops artists from evolving. And I think if you're an artist and you're perfecting your craft, or you're experimenting with your craft or anything like that. You're going to evolve, and you're going to evolve as life changes, you like, you know, we we have the same core, but there are different influences that happen in our life that kind of change certain parts of that, and I think the music should reflect that as well, one hundred percent. And you know, when we put out it's like, for example, we put out our EP, and even as we were writing O our LP Ascension, you know, we were in the hardest part to the pandemic, and so we were writing from a place that was a bit darker, a bit heavier, a bit meaner. You know, people were unhappy, people were uncertain about the world. As we write this new album, you know, we had to make some lineup changes after our last couple of tours and and just kind of kind of regroup so we could go to the elite, you know, the most elite levels which we're headed, which we feel like we're headed to. You know, when we did that, it was just like a big boost of fresh air into our music, so much so that I think

6:34 when you hear the new album, you're going to get it all. But it's going to be even more fresh and more positive and more just just forward thinking. I love it and you know, getting to new levels. You know, I think a lot of people don't realize that when you do have lineup changes, a lot of times it is for the better and maybe takes the band to a whole nother level. I mean, you took it. You take examples like ac DC, Iron Maiden. You know, there's multiple ones I could throw out there. Nirvana, Yeah, there you go.

7:15 I mean that. I mean, think about think about if Nirvana had done Nevermind with their old drummer, would it? Would it have been Nirvan Nirvana right right exactly? You know, And it's like you did going back to the gatekeeper thing. You got the people that are like hardcore, Oh no, I want the original, But if the original was meant to be, it would have made it. But what brought it to other level? Hold on their level, just like you point out with Nirvana is like you wouldn't have the influences that come in to make that music that make the band basically unforgettable and leave their legacy one hundred percent. And when we came out of our most recent touring, you know, we had to make some changes due to a multitude of reasons, and but most importantly to go to the most elite levels as you know, as a unit, as a real defined unit.

8:20 And and after we made those changes, I can genuinely tell you, I mean, like the direction of the band is just so face towards the moon. You know, nothing is holding us back. Now. The writing is so youthful and exuberant and fun, and and I think people are just going to be blown away by the advances that we've taken. Not to say that the previous lineups weren't just as good or even better, It's just that I think to get where we're where we need to go, the changes had to be made for longevity and for and for musicality. Yeah. Well, sometimes it's just chemistry and sometimes it's it could be alive. Those type of things, like the behind the scenes type of things that make the difference.

9:11 Because listen, you're on the road with this band, you better be best friends or else you're gonna kill each other. People people have no idea. Let me tell you, I mean, I've I've toured, I've toured with a with a bunch of different guys now and and uh, pistols are down, and I can tell you that that cohesiveness within the band, and mental health issues and personal dramas, alcoholism, the whole gamut of experiences comes out when you're that close to somebody, I mean, the plane. The funniest thing is that I can genuinely look back at our last two tours and even the radio too before, and the playing was perfection, you know what I mean, Like every night, no matter what happened during the day, the other twenty three hours when we went on stage, no matter what happened, you had one of the what we feel is one of the best new bands in the world, no matter what. But I can genuinely tell you those other twenty three and a half hours each day we're one of the most challenging experiences of my existence. And and just for a multitude of reasons, you know. And I can tell you that now we're such a unit and we're so clicking. We just click. It's like that perfect relationship, you know.

10:37 That's so key, that's so key. We we just we love spending time together. I think that's the most important part. When you figure it out, like you did, you know that, yeah, you could be great musicians and on stage you could be great, but without the off stage being great, there's always going to be something missing, something that's harder, and something that's going to hold you back from those levels you need to be at a million percent or are you know, like most bands, you break up. Yeah, I mean, you know, and I think I think Pistols had done, had we continued with the former lineup. As good as it was, it was the type of thing where changes had to be made.

11:24 And uh, you know, I value the work performed by the previous previous members that were in the band and in the previous members before them, and I think any elite band would tell you you just have to evolve them. And one interesting interesting note is, look at this week, you know slip Knot. Slipknot parted ways of one of the best drummers in the history of metal music, you know, Weinberg. Weinberg, I'd say there's probably what three four people on earth that can play what Joey Jordison did and dants it and advanced the band right. And Weinberg came in and actually did that.

12:05 And he's such a technician, but he's so banging. I don't even know how to put into words what it felt like when I read that they were exiting him or I don't know what happened with him, but I mean, you know what, Dell have a new drummer, and Dell their music will be different because of it. That's what they choose. Yeah, And you know, it's funny because you mentioned that, because I think about like a band like them having two of the best drummers I've ever existed in what one banned. And that's an example what we're talking about too. People would have thought after Joey, oh, slip knots done and they're saying it now too, But one hundred million percent, ninety nine point nine percent of everyone thought the band was done right because no one could fill Joey's shoes. And then they find this guy who happens to be just a maigmatic phenom, you know, who loved Slipknot, and I you know, I just wonder how they're going to do that again. But maybe maybe they just wanted to change their music, you know, maybe they want to go in a completely different direction. For however many albums they have less you never know, and listen, I mean, Corey's been doing a lot of different stuff, So maybe he wants to have more influence of putting different things into the mix, you know, put more into the funnel instead of that just one straight sound, you know, because yes, I mean the bottom line is, if you

13:35 when you've been in the business a long, do you really still want to play the same kind of stuff you did twenty thirty years before? One hundred million percent. So speaking of playing live, you guys you know, announced a UK tour with Fozzy in February. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, we need to go over to Europe and plan our flag. We uh, we really feel our sound is perfect in Europe as well and and in the UK. And and we went on we went on a full US tour with Fazzi back in back this summer in June, and we clicked with those guys so well. Loved those guys. They're so talented, it's so awesome to be with. And uh, I actually called their manager after the tour and I just said, hey, you know, we had such a great time with them. We fit them so well, you know, take us with you. And we worked out a deal and and uh got it done nice.

14:33 It's gonna be a hell of a hell of a tour in the UK those I hope that the Brits are prepared for what what what we're about to bring. I'm not sure they have any idea of what's coming. Yeah, I don't think they're prepared, but I think they're gonna love it, Yes sir, Yes, sir. And you know, at the same time, you know, we're we've instructed our booking agent. Uh soon we're probably gonna announce some new management. It's some exciting new management news. And you know, we're gonna do this twenty four album which we which will be the best pistols At album ever thus far. And I know it like like I can just tell you it's it's one of those things where we just feel it and you know, we want to shoot it to the moon. You know, we felt like A Sinsion has been great. We're ending with an incredible track with Fly, which will hopefully, you know, stay on radio through the rest of the year, maybe the beginning of the new year, and and and then you know, get ready for twenty four and the new album and then hopefully we'll tour the entire world next year. I love it, looking forward to it. Tell everybody how they can connect to you guys on socials on the web, all that good stuff. Yes, pistols at Dawn band on Facebook, pistols at Don official on Instagram, and you can find every link updates, et cetera, et cetera on our website, pistols at donband dot com and listen. We're just so grateful for you have us today, for having me today, the entire band since its thanks. Actually, the

16:04 other three guys are actually in the studio right now. We have a surprise, a surprise holiday track nice for those who are listening that we're going to put out and a surprise check for the holidays. So they're in the studio right now working on the new record and you know, we're just so excited for what's to come and we look forward to talking to you again after our twenty four album comes out after the UK tour. Let's do It. I love it. Thanks for the great music and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Yes, sir, thank you, sir, appreciate it so much. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man. I'm w for CUI Radio