PipemanRadio Interviews Seven Hours After Violet at Download Festival 2025

0:04 Hi, you love them too? Yes, that's true. Wow for you. You it's the pipe Man here on the Inventors Pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with. More goth from seven Hours after Violet. Nice. Man, it's so cool. We were just talking Welcome to Rockville last month and here we are download. Dude, look at that shirt. You got the original Black Sabbath album on right? Is that cool? Cool? A guy actually off the Black Sabbath store that just came out for the last show. Oh wow, and it is bad.

0:48 Ass all over print. Yeah, very cool. I know cool. And you got Dyane Fetus. That shirt is fucking cool. It's like a skull with a help football on it, but not in English football and the American. Football American football out So. Man, how'd you like being here at Download? It was great? Yeah, our first time here, we played it great. It felt really great. You know, people didn't leave people. We had a pack tent the whole time. We played right before My Sugar, So that's a little scary because we all looked. So as soon as I finished, I just threw my guitar and was like, all right, I'm going to see my Sugar helming back nice, you know, But yeah, we had a great set. It was It was a lot of fun. So what was the crowd like here at download? It freak you out how great the crowd is.

1:34 It was awesome, Like you know, they they moshed, they clapped, they chanted, they did all the stuff you hope out of a out of a big crowd. So great. You know. I had a great time. I was getting to play with so many awesome bands today, so many friends. You know, we've been loving it. Did I don't remember if it was before or after. So I'm gonna ask you a question. At Rockville, was my hair and this color or another color? No? It was some Yeah, it was about that. You got the the blond going there. Let me tell you what happened after your girl that was doing the hair? Uh huh, Angela right, I Mike at the media introduced me to her and we're talking because my hair has been like blue for years. It's the first time it was like this, you know, And I was fading already, what like it was looking crappy.

2:22 While I was there, I said to her, well, I should interview you, and you should do my hair while we're doing the interview, because I've done that before, like live in my studio, got my hair nut. So she did my hair right back there on the grass. I told her, I'm like, do whatever the fuck you want. I don't even want to see it till after you're done. Wow, pick whatever color blah blah, And I showed her what my hair used to look like. She did like a mix of purple, blue and pink, like almost like an ombre. It was more purple than anything else, but it had this like you could see in the sunlight different colors like because of it. And then when it faded, it faded to those old colors.

3:08 So it's crazy. How wild is that? Like? Because she said she was doing the hair for your band, I'm like, well, let's sit I'm a publicity whore, let's do it might as well, right, So it would have been like that now but faded. That's too funny. And then she actually then helped me at Punk Rock Bowling because that was the next festival I had to do. Oh cool, that's about us. A festival. You know about that one? Punk Boy I've heard of it. Yeah, it's in Vegas. It overtakes all downtown Vegas. There's club shows everywhere. There's you know, the main stuff, but then there's all kinds of different things going on. My favorite part is the punk rock swim. So you're at the pool of the hotel and there's bands playing and there's a circle pit in the pool.

3:58 Oh that's awesome. Yeah, it was fun as hell. And then there was also inflable sex doll in the circle pit too. That's of course, right, of course there's gonna be that. Yeah, you can't have it without it without that, No, that's just natural. Right. So what's going on after download? Now? How you go to top download in Rockville? Well, we have hell Fest coming up. We I'm gonna be there too. Oh, there you go. We should talk again at hell Fests to see how that is. Let's say to keep checking in. Yeah, there you go. We have grass Pop coming up, the Resurrection Fest. I might be there too. Awesome Spain, It's gonna be awesome. We have some off shows with Corn. We've been playing off shows with Corn this whole month and Europe. We've been here for about a couple of weeks now, and that's been a dream.

4:45 You got a couple with Corn and spirit Box where us Corn Spearbox. We have to super line up. Yeah, so fun man, we have one with Avenge too nice. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, dude, it's great. You know, we've just it's been We've been getting received very well here, so you know, it's our first time here. We've had an album out like eight months, so you never know, you know what continent, how they're gonna feel, and yeah, how far it's been going great. Well, I'll tell you Like grasp Pop. I did that last year because every year they're on the same weekend except last year. I'm like, Okay, this year I can go to grasp Pop because I do Healfest every year. And then I applied to Resurrection Fest. I haven't heard yet. You know, out goes. It's like a last minute thing, so I'm ready. But Hellfests will definitely be at Have you been to hell Fest?

5:31 I had. This is my first time. Oh my god, I'm really excited. Oh my god. Way do you see this place? Okay, like they own the whole place, so it's permanent. Everything's permanent there. Yeah, I've heard and at night fire comes up from everywhere and you're like, I'm in fucking hell is so and then there's a huge sculpture of Lemmy. Wow. Yeah, here's the best part for you to band. The first time I did it was right after COVID when they had the seven day two weekend four and three. Yeah, and they had like three hundred and sixty bands. Remember I had that like insane lineup, right. Every band I talked to raved about how they did sound there. Soundcheck was like for every band I talked to, it was five minutes and then it was perfect. They were like, it was so easy. We did this sound check and then we could just relax the rest of it.

6:26 Oh, that's so cool. Right, three hundred and sixty bands, not one went on late. Well that makes me optimistic, so I'm excited. Right, can you imagine? Yeah, not one band going on late. Nothing nothing more scared fearful than soundcheck not going well or underprepared. So that sounds great. And like sound was perfect there. I don't know of one band that had a sound problem, and that is the nightmare for bands. I don't think people realize when they go to festivals it's not your sound people, So. It's nightmare fuel Yeah for sure. Absolutely, Yeah, they're perfection, So you will be very happy with that. Sweet that's great. That's great. Is there anything else you want to tell the listeners that you got going on that they need to know about or look for.

7:09 Yeah, I mean, you know, well we have all these shows coming up. We'll be doing some state wide touring in the near future too. Can announce what. Yeah, but we have stuff in in motion, and you know we have new music we're working on. You know, our album did could just come out, but you know we already are. The riffs are coming, so you know you can expect more stuff from us sooner than later. And you guys all as a band, how would you describe yourself? Like your your relationship, Are you like a family or you like. Yeah, I mean we're all we're all just homies, you know, like me and our singer Taylor live together. I'm a producer, so you know, I produced his last his other bands albums, and Alijandro is just a good friend of ours. We're all super big fans of his aside from being in a band with him or anything. You know, we're all like just think he's amazing as a musician. You know, he got second in American Idol and like he's just a hardcore kid from Pomona I've known for a long time, so and Chavo. Obviously, being in a band with someone from System of a Down is like, you know, we're all like his little brothers at this point. You know, who wouldn't want to be in a band with someone you looked up to growing up? You know, it's definitely like a privileged thing that none of us really take lightly that we all are very stoked to be here and very stoked to be playing music with him, you know.

8:24 And you know, these guys have a lot of respect for you guys because to play with you guys. He doesn't have to do this exactly, he's in System of a Down. Like they would headline this, they would There's not a thing on the planet they would not headline, you know, exactly, There's not a probably a band on the planet they would play after at this point in their career, you know, career, right. I remember seeing them Aftershock and every song for the whole set, the whole place sang every single word. Yeah, you know, they're just lightning in a bottle like that right where I could rave about how much I love and have love System forever. So being in a band, you know, with him and just getting to write riffs with him and songs with him. We all are super stoked about it.

9:09 So that's very cool. And the fact he stoked on this, you know, is so cool. I love it. Let's talk about your tats because you got it's funny. Your pants that you're wearing look like they go with. Your tats, the Lorna Shore Real Tree camos right. Like it goes with this arm. Yeah, the match is pretty good kind of does. Right. So where did you start cause you got a lot there. Yeah. I got my first one around sixteen. I got this little punk rock pirate flag. Oh nice. Yeah, I know how it started. Well, I mean, I've just drawn on my body since I was a kid. I kind of knew I wanted tattoo since I was a kid, and just saw people like Travis Barker and you know stuff like that growing up where I was like, oh, I don't want to be like that. But really, my parents just kind of made a deal with me when I was like sixteen, like, well, if you get straight a's, you can you can get a tattoo.

9:58 Wow. And they just under I'm probably underestimated. They feel like you weren't good to it, and I was like, okay, so I did it, and I was they had they had to follow up on it. Yeah, you guys have the right incentive. Yeah, you know. And which would you say hurt the most? Uh, your head? Your head. I was thinking that's guy hurt because like I've even gotten acupuncture by my helper there. Yeah, and then just here her night, she's poke in my head and I'm like, I fucking hurt. Yeah, yeah, dude, get in your head. Tattooed is not a walk in the park. I wouldn't if anyone asked me, like, oh, I'm honest. You know, it hurt. It hurts. It hurt really bad. But it's permanent haircut, you know. And I've always kind of wanted to have like a full head tattoo.

10:44 I just always thought it was cool. It's not really anything too deep. It's more just like I guess it kind of comes down to whether, like you know, you kind of think your body's a canvas or not, and I think I think it is. And it's the ultimate canvass. Yeah. I just I just I just like tattoos, you know. It's really all of them have some level of meaning to them, you know, whether it's just like something funny and like nonsense or something more personal. But yeah, it's not something I'm like, it's not my identity, you know, like I've always kind of fund yeah it's not my I just have tattoos. But it's not really like I'm not like, oh like everything about me is tattoos. You know, It's just I just have them. See I love that. Yeah, you know because I'm making a big deal about it.

11:26 That's just you're doing because you want to do it. And that's it. That's really it, you know, it's really it's really it. It's not that deep. Is the significance to the wolf. Yeah, there's a couple of things with it. One, I like the style of art a lot that it is, the kind of Colorado gas station T shirt sort of vibe, you know, that's kind of the style of it. Two, it's just been like a kind of like joking spirit animal a mind since I was a little kid, just like jokes my grandparents and stuff would make about me being like a little wolf troublemaker thing, you know, right, And there's interesting like just lore behind wolves. And yeah, honestly, more than anything, I like the way it looks.

12:06 I got a story where you'll love Okay. So I'm originally from New Jersey. My brother was living up in the mountains in New Jersey and he had a pet wolf. Coo Okay. One night, I was outside smoking a cigarette and like, it's dark it we're up in the mountains. There's no light and Dakota, that's the wolf's name, was in its pen and it was huffing and puffing and going back and forth and never did that. Like we used to take the wolf for a walk and it never did that. I'm like, why is Dakota freaking out? So I heeded the warning. Whatever it was. I didn't know what was going on. Something told me go inside.

12:48 There was a bear right by me, and the wolf was warning me, Wow, get the fuck out. That's so good. I was gonna guess. I was wondering if it was a bear, you know, yeah, the scariest animal. And I wouldn't have seen it, no, you know, like, and the wolf was like warning me, like, get the fuck out of it. Yeah, yeah, dude, shout out to that wolf right saved your ass exactly. So when I see that tattoo, I'm like, they are majestic animal, and I think a lot of people misconstrue the wolves. Yeah, I mean, I'm and everyone loves dogs, you know, and I have a lot of wolves and like raven tattoos and stuff, and they are like a really interesting hunting hair, you know, like they they help each other hunt and stuff. I always thought that was kind of cool.

13:32 I grew up like really close to a native reservation. My dad grew up on Apache Reservation in northern New Mexico. So there's like little little family jokes in there too with it. So it's not really anything too crazy, you know. Face tattoos are pretty normal nowadays. And yeah, I'm a musician and music producer, so like I can afford, I can. It doesn't matter, you know, it's a it's I'm not gonna miss out on you anyway. You know, you gotta be you. And basically, what was I going to say? There's something about what were you saying? What other animal were you talking? Oh? The raven? The raven trivia question? Do you know? Well, not really question, but did you know that ravens have this like gang mentality and that superior memory? So if you like twenty years ago, fucked with a raider, remember you they will remember.

14:23 Yeah, it's one of the smartest animals on the planet. I have one that comes onto my balcony and just hangs out with me like and just hangs there like every day. That's cool, right, because I didn't piss him off, and I'd rather have him on my side exactly. Look out for you, no doubt. Anything else you want to share with the listeners. Yeah, you know, just to check out seven Hours after Violet. You know, we have music videos. Check out our album self titled, and yeah, just keep an eye out. You know, we'll have some new songs and we'll be out on tour soon. So hopefully coming to a city New Year. And you guys are badass and you appreciate so happy you were download. I look forward to seeing you at hell Fest awesome. And maybe Resurrection and grasspop will be a lot of fun too. I bet they're like I heard artists. I've never done Resurrection, but artists I talked to today they're playing there. They said they love playing resurrect Yeah, wait.

15:16 You know, so awesome here it is, all right, man, France. All right, you got it. Thanks for being with the pipe man. Thank you, bro, Thank you For listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on W for CUI Radio