PipemanRadio Interviews Plush at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:02 Hi, you have done too. Yes, that's true. For see Wow, pray young. Whyke up America, It's time for the adventure. So pipe Man, I'll be four c Why dot com wis Pompis is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the hite Man. If I get this tunnel vision, I'm not really leaving the tone I gave in to the dome. The only thing I noticed is that this vision shut us and the donness breaks point too fine, the beautiful fall, the beautiful fun, the beautiful fun, beautiful fun, beautiful fun, the beautiful It is the pipe Man here on the adventures pipe Man w four CY Radio, and I'm here with plush. Nice. All you ladies introduce yourself. Hey, what's going on? My name is Bella Pron and I play guitar in the band.

1:19 Hello. I'm Mari Formika and I played rhythm guitar and lead vocals. Nice. Hey, I'm Ashley Supa and I play bass and sing backing vocals. Hi. I'm Faith Pal and I played drums. Nice. So you're here at Welcome to Rockville. Have you guys played Welcome to Rockville before? Yes? Actually we were here two years ago and we are so excited to be back. The last time here is like one of my absolute favorite shows we've ever played. I'm so excited for today. It's the coolest venue, isn't it. Like gosh, here you are looking at the Daytona Speedway, you know, like one of the most iconic speedways ever. Did you get to drive through the speedway? Yes? We did. That was so cool, honestly, Like, aside from the show and everything and getting see all set, it's like also just a highlight of like, you know, we take our army on the speedway, right go. One of those very surreal experiences.

2:07 For sure. I know the feeling because like I do a lot of festivals and like I come to this one and I'll like text everybody check it out. I'm driving on the Daytona Speedway. Like that's more exciting, right, It's pretty wild. Definitely the coolest spot to have a festival for sure, no doubt. And you got a lucky day here because it's Florida and it's actually kind of cool. So it's it's rough to play in Florida. I mean there were people passing out like the past few days, so really well because it gets so hot and human then thank you, you guys up on stage when it's that hot and humid and oh my, and the sun's beating down. So let's hope it just stays like this all day. Fingers crossed for sure, and you will be shocked from last time, because I think the crowd this year has been the biggest DWP crowd I've ever seen.

3:07 And I don't know if that's fact, but it seems that way to me. Like just no matter where you went, there were crowds, So you're gonna have a big crowd out there today. Way, we are so excited, for sure. I feel like the past few days, I keep seeing it all over social media, you know, pictures from the crowds and the shows, and it just looks like such an incredible time. We can't wait. Yeah, totally. So what can we expect from you from a live show? For those listeners, I have never tated a live show, and now we'll have to go to Sonic Temple to catch you. Yeah, so from a live show, what you can expect is, I guess an energy packed set and just real raw, straight up rock and roll. Just plug in and play nice. It'd be a fun time. And so what for each of you, what really started this musical journey and how did you all connect? Well? For me, I kind of started out with I played guitar first at like six years old, and then I figured out that I liked to sing at like ten, and then kind of just went around doing open mic nights and stuff like that, and then it kind of grew from there and here we are today. Yeah. For me, I started playing guitar when I was five gran My dad owned a music store, so I was just always around instruments and music and so yeah about that age and decaying, you know, that's what I want to do. So it's kind of just been guitar not stop ever since. Nice. I started playing, if you would call it that guitar when I was around five or six. It's more so playing with a guitar, I guess right. My dad was a

4:39 guitar player. He still is. He played in a band with Mike Star from Alison Chains. He would jam with Ace Freley from Kiss. So I grew up watching him play and he just inspired me so much and I knew that was what I wanted to do. So when I was around eleven years old, I started going to the School of Rock and I ended up going from guitar to bass because they needed a bass player and for some reason, I guess there weren't enough for the that year. So I was just like, okay, I think I have a bass. I think I know what that looks like. So we had one in my house and then I picked up bass and then I couldn't put it down ever since. So trivia question, do you know who's the most fa one of the most famous basses in history? Who was actually a guitar player And because the band Norriady had two guitars, he had to play bass. Who Paul McCartney. Oh yeah, okay, Like he was not a bassis and that's why. Now if you go listen to Beatles music and you listen to his bass, it's some melodic Yeah, he sounds like guitar exactly. Well, that's why he's one of my favorite bass players of all time. See, I just think he's brilliant.

5:40 See so you followed it his footsteps and you didn't even know it. Well, thank you for me. It started out as for my tenth birthday, I got a drum set and then I'd love going to concerts too. My parents would take me and every time I want to be like, oh wow, I wish I could do that. I wish I could play on that stage. And just going to shows do that with my family. It really motivated me to keep on going and working hard. And I joined local bands when I was sixteen, just playing around the area, and then after I graduated high school, I joined Plush and now we're here Nice And that first time you were on stage from like wishing to be there, did it hit you while you're on stage or after stage where you're like, oh my god, I got here. Yeah, Definitely on stage, it's like such a rewarding moment. Like looking back at the times I was like, oh, just like wait five years and like so much we'll be different. Just thinking back like that, we're like, you never know what the future could be like. So it's super cool to see now that we're here playing Welcome to Rockville, and I'm super grateful to be here. Nice. And so how did you all connect? So we kind of connected through social media more or less. Ashley and I kind of started out together and we were jamming and stuff, and then we put out a PSA for a guitar player and then that's how we found Bela yeah, and then Faith the same way, very cood less social media. It's kind of like during the lockdown, you

7:12 know, and it was like what else we're going to do? But thank god we will see there there's the positive of the lockdown. There are positives. It was a shit time, but there are positives, you know, and that's one of them. I think one of the other positives is is that artists like yourself were able to sit and create without being bums rushed and to go here, go there, and like, Okay, produce this, write this song in two seconds, and don't check it over, don't change it because we need to put it out right away. So COVID gave you a chance to be actually creative, right right? Absolutely? Yeah. So what is if you're each one of you one moment that is like the most memorable moment of your musical journey so far, what would it be? Gosh, it's hard to pick just one. I feel like there's so many pinch me moments, especially like Mari was saying, like since COVID, all of us were fresh out of high school and then the band just kind of has been on this you know, crazy, you know, NonStop role of like just tours and shows and gosh, there's been so many moments. I'd say for sure is playing you know, the bigger festivals and seeing a crowd the size and like something you know you don't dream of as a kid, right And for me, it's been getting to also meet and see a lot of like my guitar heroes out closed and like watch they're playing and just feel more and more inspired to like you know, still feeling like I'm a kid on the inside. Nice And so who are your guitar heroes? For ones we've are like people we've met. It's for like the when we opened for Slash that was like the coolest tour for me as a guitar player, just you

8:45 know, a player I worship for sure. Some of my other influences are like Steve I and Josatriani and Nu know Vet and Court all like you know eighties and nineties shred guys. So it's like any chance too for like seeing you know, some of our favorite bands live. It's definitely just kind of surreal for sure. See, and I love who you pick because they're all like true musicians, Oh my gosh, you know, yeah, they're all so inspiring like that. There isn't a lot of them that are today because maybe it's because of the times that you know, you kind of take that stuff out of the songs. A lot of bands have to take out the bridge, the solos and all that, so you don't really get to see the true talent like the names you mentioned. So that's so cool that somebody today that's where you're getting your vibe from. Thank you so much. And I think that's definitely something we all try to have in mind too for our live sets of like you know, sometimes jam parts or added solos or whatnot, you might not you know, make the cut on the record, but having that energy live and that time to add in fun little flares like that, that's something we love to do for sure, and we can We're definitely excited to do that today as well. Very cool. What what other stories do we have here that are like memorable, that are those pinch me moments over the for each one of you. I would say a big pinch me moment for me was when we got the chance to tour with Evanescence in Hailstorm Wow. Because they are Lizzie and Amy are literally two my biggest heroes,

10:20 you know, huge, huge vocal inspirations, and I just it was a total pinch me moment. Nice, Yeah, and they are they are like I mean, I don't think there's anybody out there except maybe you that Amy Lee has that has a better voice than Amy Lee. Like she's unbela She's ridiculous. And what a role model for her. And you know Lizzie Hale. I mean, both like huge role models that I think are part of changing this industry because there's so many more badass women out there now in this industry because of people like them, right exactly. They really kind of opened it up. Yeah, allowed us to do what we do exactly, which I think is cool because I don't know, I think the women are way cool, cooler than the men because women have like passion and this emotion and like that that should be in music, you know, absolutely, How about you? I agree women are way cooler than met There you go. I would say one of my pinch me moments was probably the first show that we did on the Alis and Chains tour. I grew up listening to them all the time. They're my favorite band, and I remember getting ready for that show and getting onto the stage, and then I just looked over to my right and I saw, you know, some of the bands that we were touring with standing to the right of me, and I was like, oh my gosh, I better play the best show I've ever read in my life.

11:50 And I don't know if I did or not. I hope I did, but that that whole tour in itself was just a dream and there were so many amazing people and the bands and the crew. It just it couldn't have been a better time in my life. I think those happiest time in my entire life. I love it. A big moment for me was when we were on the Disturbed tour playing the talking stickers were Amphitheater. I would always see like my favorite bands play there, like Slipknot, Food Fighters, and then then we got to play it. I thought it was such a cool moment because I would just like go to my friends wishing we was like, oh, I hope I can play that stage one day, but never knew if like it really happened. So that was like super special moment for me too. And it being the first hometown show with me and Plush.

12:31 There you go, see, that's a special moment too, Right, you played at hometown show and then all the people you've known are like, whoa, she's up on stage. Yeah. It was so cool, especially my family and all my friends being able to come out. Yeah, it's great to have that support too. There absolutely, And would all you girls say that your family were like huge supporters of this because that's so important. Yeah. Yeah, my family definitely was. When sixteen, I couldn't drive yet, they would take me to every like band rehearsal I had. They drive hours, like wait for the rehearsal, then drive me back. They did whatever they could to get me where I'm at now. See that's so cool because nowadays that's the way it is. You know, there's a lot of parents out there that are super supportive of creative talent. Like in my day, it was like, oh, you want to be a musician, get a real job, you know, like stop playing around with that and get a real job. Or I would sit there playing guitar and my dad would be like, you better figure out something else to do because you suck.

13:37 Because he didn't like metal, so he's expected me to like play Frank Sinatra or something like that. So what else you got going on. You have a new EP that dropped in January. Let's talk about that. Yes, we have a new EP that dropped in January. It's called Find the Beautiful and we're actually on our very first headline tour called the Find the Beautiful Tour. Nice. So that's super exciting. And then we have today, which is awesome, and then we have we're doing Sonic Temple as well, another iconic Danny Wimmer festival. Yes, oh my gosh, we're so excited. Have you ever played there? You haven't. Oh no, we've never been there. And it's this big stadium like you'll be playing a stadium show.

14:22 It's it's it's an iconic venue. That's a first for us. We've never done a stadium before, so this will be amazing and we're so excited. Very cool. I can't even picture playing a stadium, right, that's pretty ridiculous. I'm so excited because Sonic Temple is done. One of those dream festivals for me again since I was you know, little kids like starting to play your time, I'm like, oh my god, like I'd always hear Sonic Temple and it's like this sounds like the coolest festival ever. And so we're still stoked to be a part of Rockville and Sonic Temple both back to back, you know, two weekends in a row. Two like iconic venues, iconic festivals. Like to me, that's a pinch me moment too, right, absolutely, So I also ask a lot of people this, well, let's get your social all your socials, your merch store, because that's important. You gotts support merch and all that and anything else that we miss that you want the listeners know about. Yeah, so you could find us at plush rocks on Instagram and Twitter, and then we are plush official on Facebook and you can get merch and see our tour dates and find our EP as well on plush rocks dot net and as far as anything else, I guess, thank you so much for the support and for listening, and thank you for having us, Oh my pleasure. Thanks for being here at Welcome to Rockville, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you so much for having us. Hey, this is Bellaparan, this is

15:52 Mariah Farmiko, this is Ashley Supa, this is Faith Palell, and we're on W four c Y Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of tapement on W for c u I Radio