PipemanRadio Interviews Slothrust at Louder Than Life 2024

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0:55 I'm just a fast This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w for cy Radio and I'm here with Slow Thrust Nice here at Louder than Life. How does it feel to be here at Louder in Life? Have you guys been here before? I will remember it all swirls in my head. No, We've done some other Danny Wimmer festivals, but this is our first time playing Louder than Life specifically Nice. So, how you like this one so far? Compared to the other Danny Wimmer festivals? We like it great. It's always fun to play to an audience of people that came to rock. That's right. It isn't wild too. Like bands that play early in the day. On a Thursday of a festival, you have a huge crowd. It like blows my mind even.

1:37 Yeah, it's awesome. I think it says something about the quality of the festival and the people who are people who buy tickets to it. They really want to see the whole thing and invest the time in getting to know new artists, which is. Really awesome, and that is what festivals are about. I hate when people say, oh, the only band I wanted to see is not playing now, then good to their concert. The festival is so you could hear other things maybe you would never hear before. Some of my favorite bands come from going a festival and I never knew who they were. Totally, I completely agree. Is there any bands you guys saw at a festival at some point in your life that you never saw and then they became like somebody you loved?

2:18 Who has that band that played at Lincoln plaq Blague? You remember what I'm talking about? Is that what they're called? Plac Blague? On that same stage Fever three three three, they were yeah and yeah, those guys are really nice and were fans of our band too, which was so cool. I was like, see, that's cool. I'm so psyched to learn that. I was like, oh my god, I love hearing that. You know how many times I hear like some of these big bands are fans of the smaller bands. I think that's just so cool. I think listeners they don't realize the camaraderie in this world that we're in, and you think people would have these attitudes, I find that the people that you would most think have an attitude are the nicest ones in this industry.

3:06 Yeah, we've definitely experienced that too. We have a lot of friends that kind of play in this genre, and they've always really gone out of their way to lift us up and elevate us, particularly highly Suspect and Hailstorm. Aren't you nice that have like really, I don't know, just like showing up for us. And they're both playing today. They haven't played yet. We're gonna catch both their sets, so it's gonna be sick. That's cool. I'd love hearing stories like that. Speaking of stories, what do you think is your most memorable story, good or bad in your whole musical journey? That like when you're like eighty, you're gonna still be talking about. Oh I need a second to think about that good or bad?

3:46 Right, I'm sure there's a lot of stories. Well, I will say, at one point, when we were touring many years ago in our own van, it caught on fire on the highway about forty miles outside of Saint Louis, middle of nowhere, Missouri, and yeah, we obviously had to pull over and really quickly evacuate the vehicle and luckily roadside showed up to like hose things down until the thing we got stuck in Missouri. For a while. We were on our way home from a tour for a break to then turn around and go to another tour. So that was memorable, mostly challenging, but definitely a. Good s It's usually the challenging ones that are memorable. They're the ones you don't want to relive, but they're memorable.

4:28 Yeah, it stuck something. And that is something I think a lot of people don't realize. We were talking about this with another band earlier, like what you have to go. Through in the beginning. They think it's like, oh, you're living the dream life travel it. Yeah, in a van with no money and no food and sleeping on a floor. But people don't see that part of it. That's right. The lifestyle asks a lot from you physically and mentally. But physically I think some of the things people just don't it doesn't cross their mind. No, it's true, traveling, doing that much. Travel is really hard at any scale. Yeah, and I go and I do all the festivals, so like, I'm going traveling all the time, and I bring my youngest store sometimes to festivals with me. First day, half the day's over and she's dead. I don't know how you do this every weekend. I'm done already and I don't know how. I don't like I get home.

5:25 I'm like, I don't want to be home. Yes, that's awesome. You're the real deal. Then you're like a real music fan who's like there for the there for the sauce. Oh, no doubt been since the very beginning. It's you do really have to have a passion. And I say that about musicians. Musicians nowadays especially are not in it for money or business. You're in it because you're an artist, and you're in it for the passion of music, because we surely know there's nothing else redeeming about it. So my kudos to you for being out there and entertaining us. Because it's hard work. People don't realize how hard musicians work, so I always like. To stress that, thank you, we appreciate that.

6:07 Speaking of hard work, how do people reach out to you on socials on the web buy your merch They can't listen to my show anymore if they don't buy your merch because that's the only way you get to the next show. That's right, you're the real deal. Okay, so the band. You can find all things slow Thrust at www dot slothrust dot com, and you can find us on all social media apps or sites or whatnot. I'm like losing the lingo these days. The other day, I was like texting with someone and I was like, we can add a sound bite, and I was like SoundBite. I was like, do people say sound bite anymore? Is it? Like? Is that just me stuck in like two thousand and five. I'm not sure, but yeah, s l O T h R U S T on all the places you'd think you would be.

6:48 How about have you heard all the kids slang? Nowadays? It's like, okay, some of it and then some weird. It's totally weird. Okay, Like your toy skimmity toilet. Oh I know about skippity toilet? What the hell? Oh my god, I can't leave you brought that up. You're one of the only people that I've ever met that's known what skibbity toilet was, and you're actually one of two people who's. Brought it up to me. Ever, Wow, look at that Skimby toilet. I can't believe you brought that up. Yeah, most people don't know what that is, even if they are like deep in the social media game. It's just not relevant to our generations. I have eight grandchildren, Andre you go. I was just with a few of them and they were like, every word out of her mouth was all this new slang. There was not one English word in it.

7:30 It was like toy riz, gimby toilet, sigma and they're like, I go, I'm a Jew. So they call me Zady and they're like, Zada your sigma and I'm like. All right, I'll take that. I'll take that. And then to my ex wife. They're like, yeah, you're Beta and I'm like. All right, I'll pay you later for that one. Wow. So is there anything else you while I tell the listeners that you got coming up or to look for, or that we haven't covered yet. We are on tour right now with Bad Flower and Mizzio and it's been a great tour, long tour, seven weeks. We're about halfway through it. We were playing Chicago tomorrow and then we're just cruising on through and then we're about to announce a bunch of headline shows too. Very first, we're gonna do a big tour in twenty twenty five, so no five, Yeah, that's next year.

8:22 Can you believe that? Like skibbity toilet, that's all I just know right, that's where my brain has gone. Uh yeah, so that's it. Very cool and bad flower. Those dudes are cool. They're playing at four pm. Yeah, Josh was already on stage. Did you know that doing what? Okay, you're ready for this? Yeah. Dead Poet Society was on stage. The lead singer was getting a tattoo on his ass and so he couldn't. Play the guitar. So Josh came on and played guitar while he was singing and getting his ass tattooed. Wow, here at Louder than Life. So there it is. That's the news. You guys rock and uh, I'm glad you're here at loud in Life. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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