PipemanRadio Interviews Taking Back Sunday at Aftershock 2025

0:04 Hi, you love them too? Yes, that's true for see why for you young. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm. Here with Taking Back Sunday. That's us. My name is Adam and hey. I'm Sean Nice here Aftershock Man. Yeah we're pumped. Oh man, do you love this festival or what? So far? So good? This is our very first experience with after Shock and I gotta say I love what they've done with the place. It's kind of cool with all the trees. Like how many festivals are like that where you have just the it's like you're just sitting in a park having a massive, cool, big family reunion.

0:55 Yeah, it's so great there there, It's like that's a real thing. It is the way that it feels to be in a setting like this as opposed to some kind of parking lot, right is like night and day. And that's one of the things I think contributing to just the day we've been having so far. So we're happy to be and. How to make artists like you feel when to play in this environment opposed to the regular parking lot, expo center, what have you? I mean, I don't think. For us as far as playing, We're gonna do this thing the same either way, right as song. As there are people there, Yeah, there's people there. We're gonna go off no matter what.

1:37 Well, you can be sure there's gonna be people. Here for sure, that's right, so bump. But for this environment, for talking to people and hanging out and seeing the bands, me and stuff, it it feels like a camping trip, right, So it's very relaxed. It's very chill. So the mood is the same getting up on the stage, the same excitement, but a little bit more relaxed before, which is really nice. See that's important. And I don't know about you, but I think I attribute that to Dan Wimmer because the stuff I hear artists tell me of how he treats you guys, Well, don't you guys tell us what it's like to be at Danny Wimmer festival and how he treats you. Well, it's fantastic. Actually, for the longest time, we would always say, man, there's we wish America had festivals figured out the same way Europe does because dude, like they have it down to a science over there. Yeah, but he's one of the people over here that is doing it right.

2:25 And he actually went and attended hell Fest one time years ago. Yeah, so that he could do that because he really cares about the fan experience the artists experience. Yeah, and like Health Health Fest, I've covered it and like nobody's late there. They treat artists great, and I think he kind of took from that model of how it could run smoothly and stress free because listen, nothing better than if you have no stress before you have to get on. Stode oh Man. Yeah. Well, and then two, if you're someone even attending the festival, then like you're going to walk away with having had so much of a better experience when you're not having to deal with all the ticker tape.

3:12 And all that totally. So after doing this for all these years, what still drives you to come perform at a festival like Aftershock? Oh Man? For us, I have found that through playing and like the live like there's a thing that happens to me and there's like a like it's just the dis cathartic experience selfishly and that and to be able to do that with just being on the bill with that's as great as this one is and in front of all the people that came out, I just really look forward to it and I hope somebody else can get lost with us, you know, like through seeing us at all. And see I love that because I always talk about music is the best therapy, not just for ro but for you guys.

3:53 Yeah. Yeah, And I use the word cathartic all the time, like, and I think that's how you find your tribe of listener and people that attend your shows because they can sense what you're putting out there and it's making you better and making them better for different reasons at the same time. Big, and it's beautiful, right, It's just so beautiful. I have this thing, it's like magic. It's like real world magic, right. I have this thing like, if we want to solve all the world's problems, we need one big music festival that everybody in the world's required to attend because listen, in this environment, we all are just like one big family and we don't have those outside world problems, right right, And it's because of artists like you that can take us on a journey somewhere else.

4:44 Oh well, man, I really hope we can, because that's always the goal. Tell you, I think that's why you're still around because you do not only can, but I think because you do. Well, I do for myself. So yeah, I think that's it's the smartest thing. Feel great to hear. Well, I think that's the smartest thing as an artist because you're not gonna please everybody. So if you do for yourself, you're gonna get your people and they're gonna notice that you're into it. Because when you do it for yourself, then you're really into it. If you do it for other people's reasons, you may look like you're dialing it in. So I love that when an artists just it's not selfish. It's basically creating art from within instead of somebody saying you should do your music this way.

5:33 You know, true, you can only do it yourself. Yeah. Well, and then oftentimes, even if you try to do it the way that they're telling you to do it, it's still gonna come out sounding like you anyways. Exactly exactly all these years, one story good or bad in your musical journey, what would you guys share and maybe different stories? God, that's a hard one, right. If Yeah, picking from a whole lot. Yeah, Yeah, we've been very so very fortunate, Like, right, it's hard to there's a moment, it's a just to keep on the theme. It was like a personal moment. We were just out on tour of the band called Coheed and Cambery, and we're playing like these larger places, right, and we're playing this song that we have. It's like acoustics starts, so like I'm starting out, I have the acoustic guitar, and normally and when I have a guitar, I'm like tethered to one spot. And so it's nice because I can like look around and the whole thing.

6:26 And so we're like playing and I look over and my wife and daughter are walking up the stairs going up, and literally the whole song from start to finish. I walked in. I watched them walk. Up and then kind of stop for a minute and then keep walking and they're holding the hands, walk all the way across, and then walk all the way back down, and then they left out the other side, and it was just it was one of those moments. I'm like, I felt like I was in a movie like it, and it was hard to keep it was hard to keep my composure and that was really special.

7:06 That's pretty cool now, has your daughter ever given you feedback on your music? And what has she said? No, she hasn't yet, But I figure if like, so long as we can get her head up and we're doing good. Yeah, like if she's not saying anything that's actually good because like it, if she thought it sucked, she would probably tell you. Yeah, yeah, true, especially up to like a certain age for sure. Right right, yeah, what story would stand out for you? Gosh, I don't know, like you were saying before, I was just thinking. We did this long tour with Cod and Cambria. It was a beautiful thing. We used to play shows to them to like less than one hundred people. Then we're playing these great, big giant venues and stuff, and it was just such a beautiful tour and a great time. And then we get to play this big festival and I'm not gonna lie. I don't like getting on the plane and flying across the country back and forth, but through that, through sitting in the traffic in New York and getting on the plane and dealing with the people and this and that, like can you believe you get to play a show with Blinkwin eighty two? When you get there, like my god, what a wonderful thing you get to do once you're there. The show is the easy part to travel and all that stuff. That's what being a pro is about, dealing with that. But man, when I go up there, I'm the happiest guy in the room. And that's kind of the perspective being this twenty five plus years. You know that you kind of see and how lucky we are that we still get to do it. So it's just reminding myself that all the time, like I get to do this. I can't believe the dream has come true and continues for all these years.

8:31 See. I love hearing that because there are a lot that don't get to do it, but they start a band out and then for whatever reasons, it just fizzles out. And to be able to actually be in this industry doing what you love and helping us at the same time by giving us art, Yeah, it's like to me, I think that's probably the best feeling you could have, right, Yes, Yes, Is there anything else you guys want to talk about that we haven't discussed yet that you think the listeners need to know? Well, I just have to say we have a record call one five two that's out right now and it's fantastic if you ask me and then, but aside from that, I think we covered well, yeah, Shan, you gotny More bases.

9:16 No, no, my bases are covered. There you go. Well, they definitely have to check it out because it is badass. Your music's badass, and I'm so glad you're hearing after Shock and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you so much for having us. We hope you have a great rest of your day. You too. Hello. My name is Adam, I'm Sean and we are in a band called. Taking Back Sunday. You are listening to the Pipe Main on W four c WHY Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on W for CUI Radio.