PipemanRadio Talks Shark Bait and Jaws with DOLL

0:04 Hi, you have done to censure. I'm w for se wow for you your. King down. For surprise A sleaz are comeing h to narcom scay. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And we have somebody really cool for our next guest with some great new music that I love what it's about.

0:55 So let's welcome to the show. Doll. How are you good? Thank you so much for having me. Oh my pleasure. First, before we get into a new song, I just want to say your cover that you did of Smoke on the Water is absolutely killer. I kinda I kind of got like a doom metal vibe. Yeah, there is a bit of doom metal. Definitely down tune quite a bit. I think it's down to into like see a drop c Yeah. No, absolutely a bit of a doom vibe for sure. So that was pretty cool. But shark Bait, now you know what I love about that? Okay, So I love the movie Jaws, as I know you guys do.

1:36 So I have a trivia question for you. Okay, see and I'll give you a hint. Okay, I'm from. New Jersey originally. Okay, so that movie is not based on Long Island. Do you know what it's based on. Yeah, I heard that. I think it was filled in Jersey, right. Well, it wasn't. I was filmed in Jersey. It's it's actually a true story that they made fiction. It's not about a great white It's actually about a bull shark. And it was a bull shark. That attacked a family in the Manusquan River, not even in the ocean in New Jersey.

2:20 Wow. Interesting, Yeah, yeah, I guess right. It's the ocean we were. We were swimming up in the in the lake and over here in Canada, Ontario, and there's like big snakes, black snakes in the water. Like whoa these bake big black cobra snakes. And the first time I saw this. I was like, oh my god. We're out there on a paddle board. I was like, yeah, yeah, you know what, speaking of paddle boards, last week, I was paddleboarding right where I live. And I sometimes I'll do to escape the world, especially after you know, I go on tour and I do coverage at music festival, so I like to i'm home and just go down in the Milody Ocean and just show away from the whole world, you know. And so I paddled out real deep on the horizon. I just was hanging out on the board, just sitting there, and I looked down and there were like five bull sharks that swam right under me. And I was like, Okay, maybe it's time to go in now. But they didn't even notice me. It was like they just swam right under me.

3:26 Wow. I didn't know that there was that many over there. You wouldn't expect that, right. Well, I live in Florida now and we have more shark attacks than anywhere in the world. It's known for that. Like there's up north of me, New Smyrna Beach is known as like the most shark attacks anywhere in the world on the regular. Wow. Too. When we were in Florida, I was like crocs everywhere. Yeah, well you probably saw the alligators. There are crocs too, but they're in like out south but yet. But the alligators are kind of chill, Like when you're not from an alligator area, like I wasn't when I moved here, it kind of freaks you out. But now I know I could just walk right by them and they don't even acknowledge you're there, you know.

4:15 Yeah, I know for sure as someone from Canada and you don't see that every day. No, no, But in the same token, I'm not running into a Kodiak bear either, or a big brown bear or anything like that. So you know, it's funny how that works. Like, well, I was in Jersey, I you know, I hate it. When I came here, I was like, oh my god, alligairs. But now I'm here, I'm like welder or a lot more wild animals up there that I was worried about too. So it just doesn't matter where you are. There's wildlife everywhere. Exactly, and hopefully we keep it that way to be honest. Okay, so tell us about this new single, Shark.

4:57 Bait and why you guys are. So into Jaws that you made a song that references that story. Yeah. No, obviously big fans of the music of the movie. And it's cool. It's a fifty the anniversary the summer coincides really well. You know, we just kind of. Started off with like a fun kind of hardcore type of riff, you know, like we we love a lot of the new bands coming out, like Scowl and and and what you know, and the Sniffers and and. Gel and things like that. So we and then I don't know, like it just all came together very quickly, and it was like wanted to do something catching quick with with the chorus the shark bait, and we're like, let's just go with this theme and you know, make it super fun and you know, funny, and when we we've got a music video coming out for it, uh and it's the probably the dumbest music video.

5:48 That but those are usually the best ones. I mean ones like you know, homemade just just ridiculousness, you know, like we got to play with sharks and Barbie dolls and and it's just it's just ridiculous. So I kind of embodied the song as is just fun. I love that, and I also love like there's also another take on it, like with everything going on in the world the way it is right now, it's very appropriate because we are definitely swimming in a world of sharks right now. Yeah, you know, so, I like it all kind of comes together. It would be kind of cool maybe if you got you went out for the next video paddle boarding and encountered to shark.

6:38 Yea, yeah, that would be something. I have to take it to the ocean, right like here where we are very kind of central central, so we just have legs and stuff, and the most that we see is big snakes. Yeah, that would be. Something I would probably freak out more about the snakes and sharks man, because like I would see that thing be like oh crap, and they can they're really faster and. Wow, they were faster than you were, like they're just like zip bias, Like oh okay, that is okay, all right. So I was paddleboarding up near Orlando area and uh, I was with my daughter and her husband and they were way behind me, and then all of a sudden I saw something like, hey, guys, don't get too far from me. There was an otter chasing me.

7:27 Oh okay, well it was I could deal with that. It was pretty cool to be honest, and ignorance is bliss because after it happened, I'm like Google and I'm like, oh, I guess I'm pretty lucky because apparently they're not. They're very territorial and they will come and like knock you off your paddle boy, and they could. Be very vicious. Really I had this. One was just cruising like this, you know, and like just pass right by me, flying by me. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, they're super They're extremely fast, and you see them at the zoos all the time and you're like, oh, these are so cute. I never knew that they were. They could get aggressive because they don't put out that vibe. Yeah, you know, wild animals. You never know.

8:09 I'm looking at thinking, oh, how cute you know. So but so what you also have the album dropping or in two days. Yeah, that's cool to tell us about the rest of the album. Yeah, so six songs coming out on Friday. It's gonna be everywhere, like on Spotify and all that stuff. And it is a little bit you know again, like we we have been together as a band for quite some time and we you know, we're in a little. Bit of a hiatus. And and the rest of the songs, you know again, like I myself, I love a wide range of music, right, Like I like your hardcore, your doom, your punk, your pop, whatever, right, I just pretty much like it all.

8:56 And and this song, I. Hopefully, folks, we hope people like there's you know, a song that's a little bit more, you know, a little bit more on the hard rock side. We've got you know, shark bait that's a little bit more hardcore, Smoke on the Water that's a little bit more doom, got some stuff that's a little bit more shoegaze, and then you know, maybe one or two kind of like slower indie rock, all rock kind of ballance. So it's a little bit, uh, definitely not all just. One genre and we I. Love that people like it. Yeah, I love that because so first of all, I hate the whole genre thing as a metal head and punk from way back, it's like before it was just metal or punk or just rock, and now it's like it's almost like every band has to have its own genre.

9:46 There's so many subgenres and micro genres, and then you have to be stuck to this like formula for whatever it is. And I think that's bullshit for an artist. Like to me, an artist is going to express themselves any way that it feels, not because it has to be to a genre. And I think, especially nowadays, like so many artists do sound the same because that you know, they use this like equation to make music. That I love artists like you that just take a mishmash of everything and just do what they feel. Exactly right and that's kind of what we did with our first two albums as well, right, Like it's we were never really fit in a category, right Like we we've played with you know, Hailstorm, and we've played with Jenny Torturers, and we played with Lacuna Coil, and then we've played with like, you know, Spinnerett. Like it was all over the place. People never knew, like what kind of band are you?

10:40 Right? So we're I love it though you're not. At least we don't have to be like, oh, well, you know, or just like punk rock band. Like, let's right, like we can kind of go anywhere because people expect that from us. We're hard to kind. Of well makes you stick out too, like because you not, you know, don't have uniqueness. Otherwise nowadays there's like so many bands that you're lost in the sea unless you're Unique. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, And it must be kind of boring, right like I kind of you know, you're in a I don't know, thrash metal band and it's like, yeah, you gotta, you gotta. This is what your fan expect from Unique. Every album's trying to make it fresh and keeping it's difficult. And then whenever you get out of that mold right where some bands have tried to do that.

11:29 The fans are like, oh. My god, right, well I was guilty of that long time ago. To I got smart, like you know, when you're younger, you're stupid gatekeeper bull And it's funny you mentioned thrash because I'm an old school thrash metal head. So perfect example. I saw Metallica's first show ever, so when Black Album came out, I'm like, fuck you posers, like you sellout, but now there's still my favorite band. And like, as you get a little older, you start to realize, yeah, as an artist, it would be kind of boring, you know, to stay a garage band number one, and don't you want to get better at your craft? Like you know. Hetfield talks about how the San Jose Sharks you Search, Seek and Destroy as a theme song, but they use the original version.

12:15 He's like, why did I use that version? My voice sucked then a munch much better singer now and we have a newer version they could use, and like I can see that, Like why would you want to stay a beginner or an amateur or you know, as you grow through the years, you're going to get better at the craft. And yeah, like Olie from Bringing Me to Rise and said interview when they were giving so much crap about how much they were changing their music, He's like, why do I want to write the same song over and over again? And then when you look back on and you're like, well, my god, like that's that's the spirit is obviously different album, but it's. Great and right melonic, and it's you could.

12:56 See the evolution right, Okay, wow, I just clean vocals now and they're this right. So I think it. Always shocks folks a little bit at the beginning, but then give it five ten years, I'm like, oh, yeah, the Black Album is a great album. Right right exactly, you know, And when you think about it, it's like, well it was definitely much better musicianship and much better songwriting and stuff like that. You know. But when you're that loyal fan from the beginning, it's like, we have a hard time letting you grow. It's kind of like parents trying to let their kids grow up. Yeah, as individuals too, like we all are, our musical tastes evolved too, right, Like I still love a lot of stuff that I like when I was a kid, Like I was a big fan of the Rye Girls, and I still love l seven and Luna Chicks and and all those bands too, But you know, you kept you again, Like my kids are big into k POB Now I don't mind capob, right, you kind of like, you know, we keep listening to a lot of this stuff and you kind of start expanding your risings a little bit as well.

14:01 Totally. Is there anything else you want to share with the listeners about your music or anything you got coming up in twenty twenty five? Yeah, no, we're just again very excited if you're releasing the EP finally on Friday, you know, follow us on you can be able to listen to it on Spotify or all the the platforms usually go to, and then keep an eye out for our very silly music video shark Bait. I hope you like it and uh yeah no, just just yeah, just looking for looking forward to people to hearing it and commenting and letting us know what they. Think nice and how do they connect to you guys on the web on socials and all that stuff. Yeah, we're everywhere, right, Like we're on Facebook, Instagram, all band camp, all that good stuff.

14:46 YouTube. It's so hard to be a band nowadays. Like in the old days, it was like you didn't have to do all that work. Yeah no, yeah, now you've got to be everywhere, right, And they were like, I should be on TikTok Now, I don't know, I don't. Think so I think you should start maybe with this new video because silly stuff works on TikTok. Yeah, maybe the dance, yeah exactly. You could start a whole trend. Look at that. Yeah, it was really popular for baby sharks or who knows. Yes, see it could happen. And look at what happens to be going bring me a rise, and look at what happened. Can you feel my heart? Like what was it? Five years later, all of a sudden, it's trending on TikTok.

15:27 So you just never know. Yes, Fleet with mac right, they had the big research as well, just because. Of lot no doubt. Well, you guys rock and everybody needs to check out the new songs and the new EP and two days, better days, different times, And thanks a lot for giving us great music, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Sounds good. Thank you so much. Have a good one you too, Hi Thank you for listening to the adventures of pipe Man on W four CUI radio