PipemanRadio Interviews Winds of Plague at Aftershock 2025

0:04 Hy you have done too, Yes, that's true. Why for you? Young? It's a pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm. Here with John from winds A playing nice here after Shock after Shock. Oh yeah? Is this a badass festival? It's just insane to be a part of it. Have you ever been to this festival? I've never been to this one. Now it's a trip with all the trees and everything. Right, it's awesome. Some concrete jungle, it's out, you're in. It feels organic, right, it's great.

0:45 So you were asking me something before we got on. Yes, so I apologies for my ignorance, but I was asking about the pipe man himself? What is what is the name? See? I love that because every artist asked me that, and they all have these ideas of what it is. I've had a bunch of them even write songs during the interview. What first, I'll ask you, what do you think it? I mean, just based on the logo and I'm hoping it has something to do with surfing. Well it doesn't, Okay, I am a surfer and my logo. Has to exactly Okay, Yeah, that checks out. That was good though. Okay, good day. Yeah, my last name's Piper.

1:25 Okay, so that pipe man, that's where it came from. Well, las name's cook. They call me the cook Man. Stay there you go and you cook some really fucking good music. Oh, thank you appreciate it. Yeah, so have. You done any any Wimmer festivals? We just did a Lotter than Life as well. Yeah. Yeah, that was a badass festival. It was amazing. Okay, So now which one I won't tell any Yeah, which one do you like? So? Louder than Life was our band's first show and. About this group in ten years, so that one was kind of nerve wracking. There's a lot of bugs to work out. This one felt good and felt locked in a really great crowd. So I'm gonna go with with this one. But that one's a close second. But there's only two, so you know that. Yeah.

2:07 I love it and I always ask people at the day in Wimmer festivals artists, has Dandy Wimmer treat you as an ordit? I mean it's insane, it's you almost have imposter center, Like I don't deserve this. This is awesome, right, It's really cool, and no other festival does that, Like every artist ever talked to. It's like it doesn't matter if you're the first band of the day or the headline or you're treated exactly the same. Yeah, it's just like it's just a really cool thing to be a part of. And then how about back here this Artist Press lounge. Yeah, the open bar, the open drip bar. Yeah. And then you got pizza starting. Right now again Imposter Center. Feel like I don't deserve it. It's amazing. I mean, do you like the catering better or the pizza.

2:48 I haven't had the pizza yet, but the catering is I mean ten out of ten. It's in sad. It's a hard thing too. Like Aris always tell me how good the catering is, Like they go to other festivals and it's like dog crap. Yeah, I mean yeah, you feel like you're in a five star restaurant right totally. And that makes it easier on you as an artist to get up there and give it your all because you're stress free, you're enjoying yourself, you're having fun before you get on stage, and then you really have. Fun exactly I mean. And then afterwards you come back hang out and talk to cool people like you and it's there. It is. It's just life is great. So what was it. That started your whole musical journey that led you into this moment in time at after Shot? So all of us we started this band just as a dumb high school band, and we were persistent enough to get some traction and seem to do all right with it, and we said we took along break and we're just these is our second show back. So I don't know, it's been a crazy journey. It feels like taking a step back into a former life. We've all went our separate ways, have our own careers, families, all those things, so come back together.

3:47 It's been really cool. What drew you guys back together? Honestly? We got these offers out of nowhere to play this in Louder than Life and it's one of those things like it wasn't on a radar and it can't say no to that. So we started practicing remotely. We all have in different states. Now, we all met in Chicago, rehearsed for a night, and then went out Louder than Life. And we're back. Now. How did everybody in the band react when this like just came out of nowhere, like it's one thing if you're on tour, it comes out of nowhere. But after that many years. Yeah, I wasn't sure. I was personally excited and I was like, I really hope they want to do too, But everybody was like absolutely, So I think everybody really miss it playing music together, and I was just a great excuse to all get back together and get it going again. So really, I mean really like DWP's that's who we can credit to to being back together now.

4:38 Nice and then it feel like an old shoe where like it just like that time never existed that you were apart. Yeah, definitely and working full time jobs and stuff. It's like a really nice mental break. It was really anxious right before the shet but as soon as we got on stage, I all just everything clicked back into place, locked in and it's like I never left. That's like how it always is though when you're or what I do, it's like you get really nervous leading up to a minute. For me, the mint the mic turns on the flips, which is like yep, totally and you're just in this zone and all that just smelts away. Definitely, and it's so funny, like with work. I've had to do a couple of public speaking things and I get so freaked out and nervous. And then when a's in front of like twenty people, then you go up on these stage in front of tens of thousands of people and it's nothing.

5:26 It's just like, this is what I do. It's funny because I'm also a motivational speaker, and I think it's much harder to do a set or a speech for twenty people than his thousand. Yeah, I don't know, it's something. It just mentally messes with me, I guess. But out here just feels so natural, like said, it feels like it's where I meant to be and it's fun and. After all this time, okay, doing both Louder and after shock, it also shock you that playing this early, how big did Danny Wimmer crowds? It's insane? Yeah, you didn't know it's back. Do you think, well, hopefully there's a couple hundred people there and then ends up being like ten thousand. It's insane totally. So now is this a springboard for a lot more coming?

6:10 I think so. We said, Yester, these two and we just wanted to kind of see how they go, and I think the consensus it was awesome. We had fun, we had a good time doing it. Let's keep it going. Nice And what do you think is different in the band chemistry now compared. To well, the pressure of making money, growing the band, the business side of it, all that's gone and now it's just for the love of the game. So we're just very thankful to be able to do it and have fun with it. So yeah, I love that you said that, because that's usually what is kills bandep is all that stuff. And if you're not having fun in this business, it's the wrong business. Absolutely yeah. And it happens, right. We toured NonStop for ten years and you reach a point where you're just burnt out and the love of it slips. So it was nice to take that break, and like I said, we all got to go and establish ourselves as just humans and careers and all those things.

7:02 And being able to come back together now it's the magic's back. I love it, love it. That's the way it should be. Absolutely yeah. So one story, good or bad in your home music, Johnny. What would it be? I love that because it's such a hard question. It is a story. It is a hard one. I'll tell you the time we got kicked off of a tour with Devil Driver. Oh yeah, that sounds like, yeah. It's a good and a bad one. So we played this really up. We were into our Western Texas. We were playing in this outdoor park area, and I don't think I'm a very. Good vocalist, but I feel like I'm good. I'm a good like height man. I can get the crowd going right, So that was that's my thing. And right in the middle of the pit there's this giant tree and I don't know why it popped my head on my Hey, first one to climb the tree gets a free T shirt, and all of a sudden, like hundreds of people start climbing this tree and then it starts, branches start breaking.

7:51 In the following those are being crowdsurfs to the front. So we ended up getting fined a ton of money because I guess there's some sort of protected tree sanctuary. So we find a ton of money. We got kicked off the tool and then the next day we got brought back onto the tour. But that was our that was our The Devil Driver guys like, oh, it's punk rock whatever, So they're super cool about it. But yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's all. That's the way it should be now. Fight. You should say that because in years past and after after Shock, I have seen many times during the headliners people sitting in the trees to watch. Yeah, and I'm thinking, I'm the artist. That's fucking cool looking like you're looking out and there's. People in the tree. It's insane. Yeah, it just blows by. It's like, what is happening?

8:31 Right? Yeah? Totally? What else do you want the listeners to know about you guys that we haven't talked about it. I'm just happy to be here. I'm grateful to be here. If we start playing shows against so I think we are. We hope to see some of you guys out there. And yeah, I. Hope to see in prison next year. Where at at incarceration Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my career. I designed in fabricate haunted houses across countries. I'm very familiar with Blood Prison out there, and I would love that an excuse to go out there too. Yeah. You know what I did do at incarcerat I hide in all the secret spaces and people are on the tour I scale. There you go perfect. I love it. So tell me about the haunted houses that you do. Yes, So, based off the name wins a Plager, I have a company called Plug Productions or probably one of the largest creative agencies for Haunt Attraction to do a lot of the universal Halloween horrn Nights, six lights, fivefrests all across country. We do all kinds of weird independent things as well. Yeah, that's see all I do all year of Florida.

9:24 So we have the Haunted Thing at so Florida Fairgrounds. Jaden over here, who is taking pictures. She lives in Orlando. I'm in Orlando by Halloween Horror Nights and probably goes there every single day. Yeah. So we built the stage this year at the Fueld Girl Stage. Yeah. Yeah, nice. Well tell everybody how they can reach out to you guys. Check out your music, check out anything that's going to become upcoming. Yeah, to social media. I don't have social media, so I don't know. I think we're on there somewhere. Yeah, just Google Winds Yeah, yeah. Winds a flag or somewhere there it is find. Us you guys rock. I hope I see other debt Any Wimmer festivals. We'll have to hang out in prison together. Yeah yeah yeah.

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