PipemanRadio Wants to Know Why The Midnight Devils Will Shock The World
PipemanRadio talks with Sam Spade, the lead singer and manager for The Midnight Devils. The Midnight Devils are an international touring glam slam party rock n roll band based out of Omaha, NE and New Orleans, LA. We discussed their third album, So Hard It Hurts and their brand new single and video. The Midnight Devils are very excited to release Shock the World, the 2nd video and single from So Hard It hurts.
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Since the last time Pipeman and Sam talked, The Midnight Devils finished 4 tours across the USA and will be headed back to Australia in November of 2025.
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0:04 Hey, you have done to censure. Wow, crazy young. Robbing, robbing, straight as a jam, robbed every corner on that breeze street. Dust Gail Days always don't grow get the tops with out probil.
0:50 They were a probatad. Yo. It's pipe Man here and I'm very excited about our next guest because what a killer artist and with some killer new music. So let's welcome to the show, Sam for the Midnight Devils. Are you? What's going on? Pipe Man? It is great to be back here, and man, it's good to see you. How's everything going with you? Oh it's good. I just got back from LA And before that I was in prison at Shawshank Prison for an incarceration festival. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. What cool place to have a music festival, but a haunted, closed down prison where the Shawshank Redemption was filmed.
1:31 I saw a ton of videos and it looks like maybe the coolest festival in the United States. I know, right. So the first time I ever did that festival years ago, I was outside taking a picture of this prison some other dudes taking a picture, and he was in one of the bands playing and he goes, hey, can you take my picture? And I'll take your picture, and he goes, look at us. We're fanboying out on Shawshank Prison. Pretty cool though, Yeah, totally cool. And then I'm going next week to UK for Bloodstock Festival, which is another cool festival. Dude, that's gonna be huge. Who's the who's the headline on that?
2:13 You know? Who are you? I fucking forget who the headliner is because I've been to like, I've been on tour doing festivals since like February. It all swirls around my head. But I am totally looking forward to Lacuna Coil because I love them, and they are playing at Bloodstock. A bunch of killer bands, and I can't play favorites because I got a shitload of interviews, so I love it. I have to say I love them all. You be working, working, working, working, but that's good. That's a good thing. And you've been working too because you got some killer new music, so let's talk about that, dude. Yes, we've been traveling. Uh, we've been.
2:53 We released our third record called So Hard It Hurts on July fourth or July fifth of twenty twenty four, and basically since then we've been touring our asses off we've been going hard. We did Australia, we did Japan for the first time. We did the UK, we did Norway, We did all these great places. Then we came back to the USA in January. We kicked off four We did four legs of a USA tour from January to July. So it kind of brought it around all. The way to about a year since we released this record and right it about a year we released a second single which is called Shock the World brand new music video out on YouTube right now. The tour just was incredible and everywhere we went in the first time we've been in the USA in two years that we played shows in the USA. Wow, Like from January to July, we we just went out and partied for that four or five months.
3:47 Nice. Where was your favorite place to play in the US. It's hard to say, man Like, it's just so cool being back. Like we did Florida, we did Myrtle Beach, we did New Orleans, we did Nashville twice, we did upstate New York. We did Phoenix, you know, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, like all these cool places, and so it's like anywhere that the weed is legal, I think is our favorite place. I love it. You know, it's kind of cool about that nowadays. Is you know, in the old days when you go on tour, if you were getting on planes, you were kind of screwed. Yep. Now it's just you get on a plane, you go somewhere, you stop at the dispensary on the way to the gig.
4:31 It's it's perfect. And I think in Nebraska, which is where The Midnight Devil Sniper and Isaac's Hard Player and I are located. Here in Nebraska is still a holdout, and so weed is still illegal here, but basically anywhere else we go it's legal. So let's say it's fine and it's it's wild when it's your own hometown. Well, here in Florida, medical is legal, but not wreck. But the ridiculous thing about medical is you could go in and say I dub my toe and they'll give you the prescription. Yeah, it's just all it's all bureaucrats and politics and it just hey, we just want to get high. Everybody, Well it go stop, We'll stop all the nonsense. But you know, there's money to be made, and at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
5:15 Yeah, I mean I was just talking about that recently, that like it was better when you had to street drug deal. We're selling weed because now that the government's taken over, like the ship has all kinds of man made stuff in it and they're collecting all kinds of taxes and they're making shitloads of money, and if they do something good with that money, that'll be great. Here's the deal, here's what we've traded. I think I figured this out. So now we pay higher taxes for our weed because we go to dispenser and buy it. Back in the old days, you had to go to your buddy's house and go down into a smelly basement and play video games with him and chit chat with him for an hour and a half to get the same amount of weed. So that was the tax. So we got rid of that hanging out with your buddy or the weird on the street corner. Now we just have to pay the high taxes to go to dispensary.
6:03 It's a give and take relationship. Well, it's so funny you should say that because the last person that I did that with is so true. I was at his house for like two hours, and I like to get out of there. I just wanted to do what I need to do. Leave, or it was drive my dad, you said. When I was a teenager, my dad used to have me drive into East La. Okay, And I was like, listen, I have no business being in East La. But okay. I drove into East La and you pull up to this street corner and you just yell out the window, Malta, Monta, Monta, and like every Mexican drug dealer in East La swarms your car.
6:48 And I'm thinking of myself now looking back on that, like I didn't even think about it then, I'm looking like, wow, that that was kind of stupid. Taking some liberties. But you know, and that's that's the cool thing is that we're coming around now to see the benefits of all of this, and it's cool. It's all good though, yeah, you know what. The fact that the matter is, why should all these uh you know, opioids be legal because big Pharma doles it out and weed not that's mine, right, I. Know he's going to jail over weed, and and that's just fine. And it seems to make everything better. And we've been such big proponents of it, you know, anywhere we go that it's it's it's it's a really cool thing.
7:33 Us. We're all recovering alcoholics. All three of the see it's better right. Recovering alcoholics fifteen years, you know. And so we've kind of especially you know me personally, where it was like I couldn't sleep, and I couldn't do I couldn't do anything, and I couldn't take drugs because I've given that up, you know. So so we kind of became this thing that that helped help my mind, I guess, ease my mind. Well, you know what, as somebody who rarely drinks and was had a father who was an alcoholic and two xys is alcoholics, I see no reason why alcohol should be legal and marijuana not legal. I mean, listen, fucking debauchery that comes from alcohol. Yep, Like you get stone.
8:22 You're too lazy to do anything stupid, You're too lazy to get into a fight with somebody. Like how many times do you hear of like have you ever heard of like an Amsterdam in one of the coffee houses of a fight? No, I went there. I'll tell you this, plight man. We went there and I got stories of Amsterdam. We went there with enough enough night. Oh boy, that that was enough. Took us to Amsterdam with Jimmy Masser, drummer who lived there for like a he lived there for a few years. But Chip took us to Amsterdam and we walk into the coffee shop and his pictures on the wall like wow, celebrity walk. And so they cleared out of the place.
9:04 The spot on the place is completely packed and clear out of table and they sit us down like royalty there he chips enough in Amsterdam. It was one of the coolest things we've ever done. That that's so funny. Like, okay, so every professional stoner that I know like get gets stupid in Amsterdam, like they could totally have high tolerance here, you know, Like I have a friend, she's the most professional stoner I know. From the morning a minute she wakes up to a minute she goes to bed, and it's like the strongest shit there is. She faced planked in Amsterdam the first time she went me. Okay, So I was married for twelve years and my wife never knew if I smoked or not, because like you know, I just turned into a normal person instead of like ten million miles per hour.
9:53 And so we go to Amsterdam. We get off the Red Eye. It was like twenty eight years ago, and like, she wants to go to the hotel because we just got off the red Eye. I'm like, you have your mind. I just arrived at Amsterdam. I'm not going to a hotel yet. The first place I'm going as a coffee house. Now, remember then there was nowhere that was legal in the US, so that was the place to go. So we went during the Cannabis Cup, so I know, right, we go it to the Grasshopper, which is now just basically a restaurant now, but then it was the place to go, and you had like the downstairs and the upstairs. The upstairs was for alcohol, downstairs was for pot. And it was like going to a restaurant. You sat a table, they brought you menu, and your server like he wasn't a bud tender, he was a server like he was he gave you all day and taking your order like you're ordering a meal, you know. And so anyway, I'm like, okay, when we first get there, I'm like, what do you have that's mellow? Give that to me and he's like, okay, here you go. That was That was the pregaming so he gave me some Jamaican or whatever. And then I said, okay, now give me the best ship you have, the stuff that won the cup. And see that there was a bomb over there that was like taller than me. Like see that bong? I want that? So I take one hit off that bog. The ship was called white Weirdo. Okay.
11:26 We go out to eat that restaurant Chinese restaurant. I'll never forget it, and I'm looking at the venue. I look up at my wife and I'm like, yeah, I can't do this. She's like, what are you talking about? Like she never she had no clue why, But I'm like, I just can't do this, Like please, God, I am so high. I just want to come down, please, And no, I can't order anything off this menu, like I'm over it. Do you guys have Manzarella Chinese restaurant because that's what I need right now? I know, right exactly. Do you have some brownie Ala mode for me? Please? What about those Amsterdam pastries? You know?
12:11 But it was like, oh, I just couldn't believe it. How I have other stories too, like other places like have you been to Christiana? No? Not yet? Oh okay I know what you're talking about, but we have not been there yet. So it's pretty cool because in Denmark it's illegal. People think it's legal because of Christianity. Christiana is just this old hippie commune that like his grandfathered in that they don't have to follow the laws of Denmark. They're like a self sustaining community. And so you go in and there's like a gateway to walk in and you literally just walked into the sixties. Man. Wow. And there's painting. There's paint art. You know, murals everywhere, but there's murals that have like cameras, like pick a picture of a camera and painting of a camera. Don't take pictures. That's why you don't see it anywhere on the internet. Like, oh, you walk in and nobody wants to take picture, you to take pictures and you buy your weed from the police station.
13:14 Wows right, all right, all right? So there's all kinds of cool places in the world like that, like Bali. Have you been to Bali? I've not been to Bali, but we went to uh where we're headed to Australia, and that's been like a weird one for us. Uxtable's out of there, but it's still illegal in Australia except for in like the capital city I believe it's called Canberra. Right, so you can grow it there I think. And in Indonesia it's very illegal, like very much. They will catch you, they will bring you out to a beach and shoot your ass like just like that. But then you have the Gilly Islands, which are right off of Bali and they are like Christian they're part of Indonesia, but Indonesia gut does not govern them at all. They have no police on the island. And you go and you go on the island, there's no vehicles and there's like makeshift shacks along the beach whether you want to buy pot or mushrooms, whoa, And there's no problem with it, but don't bring it back to the mainland.
14:22 Absolutely. There's like there's so many weird, weird shit like that in the world. It's kind of cool that America has finally come around too, like you know, let people feel better, it is. And you know what the weird thing is that as an American rock band, we will tour all over the world, right, and we go to these places Australia, Sydney, like and they go, Okay, what do you guys want on your writer? You know what? Do you drink it tonight? It's all on the house. And we're like, we don't drink. They're like, you don't look. Like we're aliens. You don't drink. I know, right, a rock. Band that doesn't drink. I go, yeah, it's it's weird, like we had to stop drinking. It's weird that there's not more rock bands that have had to stop drinking.
15:07 Like we can't be the only ones that overdid it in our younger days. Right, Well, look at who we just lost recently, and did he overdo it? Boy? He wrote the book on overdoing it. I think, like, I don't even know how he lasted to seventy six. Man, he's on my shirt here, He's in the background there somewhere. Man. But I hear the stories so and I just what boggles my mind is that I hear the stories about how messed up he was and how he'd be held up in hotels and stuff and just the worst possible shape ever. But he's Ozzy Osbourne. He's still out there like creating these amazing albums and right on tour and do it, and like, how is he getting this stuff done while being at the lowest point in his life.
15:48 I don't understand. That's a testament to how I guess how great he was. Testament to him and Sharon too. Yes, if it weren't for her, oh you know, it's yeah, I mean, like it is kind of wild. They just had his funeral procession and yeah, and it was kind of cool. Like you know how much I love that the king of the Prince of Darkness is so beloved and considered such a great human being throughout the world. Because when I was in high school, I remember I was wearing an Ozzie Diary of Madman's shirt. You know, I saw Randy live and when I went to school the next day, like this girl, I knew, She's like, oh, you're a devil worshiper, Like you weren't a bad person because you listen to Ozzy, okay, and look at what he has done, So you wouldn't be playing today if it weren't for Ozzie.
16:43 Probably every artist the same. Story who doesn't have that same story where it's like, man, when we were kids, if you had an Azzie album or you listen to Azzi the parents, the teachers, everybody would come down on you thinking you were a devil worship, that you were going to hell, or that you were doing something sacrilegious, and that was always it. And at the end, all that did was make me more into the music and make me more into it, and I had to find out more and I had to, but that that's what dropped, That's what drew me in. So it was like had the opposite. Effect, no doubt. Listen, it's funny you mentioned teachers could have had a history to class in high school that the history teacher, I don't know, left or whatever, so they had to put somebody in quick. They put in the music teacher. Yeah, yeah, okay, and so he he was like one one assignment for the whole semester. And that's your whole grade. Other than that, I don't give a fuck what you do, and you could do it on any subject. You got to do an oral presentation on any subject, doesn't matter what it is. And I did mine and I got an a in the class.
17:50 Ozzy Osbourne Satanism in his music love that, I love it right right, and I brought it props like I brought in shirts and all my my schwag, and I brought in Diary of a Madman and start playing it and start playing mister Crowley and they room, you know, and yeah, like I mean, it's just amazing. He was everywhere. It's so cool and he was such an influence on me. And I got it like I work at a bar so on a strip club DJ, right, and my time when we're not touring is what is what I do is we work at a strip club every night of the week. The day he died, I walk into the strip club and there's people there like waiting for me to roll into. All I wanted to do was talk about Ozzy, right, And I think that's such a cool thing because in a strip club you don't play a whole lot of Ozzy. Now I do, but normal strip clubs that's not a thing. And people just wanted to talk about Ozzy and and there were guys there waiting I go, you know, for me, Ozzy was like it was before the Osbourne's came out. Yeah, he was still he was still this guy, this kind of this this enigma that you listened to him and you felt like he understood it, that he got it, and that by listening to him, I he understood what the plight that I was going through, and it helped me get through it, you know, and all these things like Ozzy was one of us and we got all that.
19:11 And and the parents didn't understand. But people that listened to Ozzy in that time, they got it and they understood it. And now after the Osbourne's came out and he kind of became this household name, it felt a little different than it did the day when he wasn't such a national or an internationally known figure, you know, like. A real Eastar right right. But for that he was like our metal like leader almost. He was like a Ronnie James Deo is the. Scene, you know, oh one hundred percent. And you know, it's funny because he did that other show with Jack where they went on the road. That was good. I love that show. But what was amazing about that, after decades of thinking that he was banned from the Alamo, he found out he was so fucking drunk that it never happened.
19:58 I loved it. I loved the story. The thing was great. I couldn't stop watching. It, right, you know. And it's funny because here where I am in West Palm Beach, Florida. Another radio personality I'm friends with that used to be here years ago, but the station doesn't exist anymore. I just saw him at incarceration because he's up in that area, and we were talking about It's weird because we were talking about I remember when he gave Ozzie a key to the city. So right here where I live, Ozzy was given a key to the city. And you know what the crazy thing is. I don't even know if this is if we talked about this or not, but we recorded our album right there in West Palm Beach, basically Boydon Beach.
20:39 Oh wow, See, I don't remember if we talked about that, but yeah, that's not far. I don't know. So January of twenty twenty four, we were there recording the record with Rick Browdy, who's the producer, Cher Ross from Vixen and Bam Ross. They all live right there, and Rick Browdy did the Poison record and the ten Nugent record, ten New He did the first boy record in Tennusian Double Ave Gonzo And they all live right there, like within, you know, a block of each other in Boyton Beach, and and we flew in and did the record right there in January. Nice. So see you should get key to the city. I would love that. We actually love it down there. We think it's really cool, Like there's a little you know, the little Cuban coffee places and all that.
21:20 Like just love it there. See. Now, somebody like me that lives here is originally from New York and New Jersey and then lived in the eighties starting nineteen eighty in La. Yeah, I wish I could say the same to you about Nebraska. Field, Nebraska. You know when Nebraska's so weird and it's so but it's like it's it's mine. And that's how I feel. Like nobody else. Everybody talks so much, so much crap about it, but like a week ago, and I'll tell you this, like this has nothing to do with anything except for that everybody talks about Nebraska, but I love it. We went to a weed field in the middle of Nebraska, and I'm not just it was the coolest thing I have ever seen. Like you're out in the it's just like God just saying hello, I'm here.
22:10 So here's what I'm imagining. Do you guys like sit there? And of course I have to make it funny. But do you guys sit there after you're in the weed field? Yeah? Do you then walk across the street and because you have the munchies to the corn field and eat the corner. We just shoot the cow right there on the other field and cook them and start frying them up. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Oh man, So tell us more about your music for listeners that don't know who you are. Yeah, and especially the live show, Explain what kind of experience that would be, because that I love the video and to me it shows how fun it is to be at one of your live shows.
22:59 Yeah. Absolutely. The Night Devils are an international touring glam slam, party rock and roll band. I think that's the best way to completely describe what we do. We are. We are it's just party rock and roll. People ask what it is, it's it's it's going out there having a good time doing what you love, regardless of any what what what anybody else says. I grew up listening to Kiss. Our guitar player loves Van Halen and and his name's Chris Heinleines Sniper and our drummer Jimmy Mess loves the Ramones. So you can imagine all three of those bands mixed together and you slap it put it on the road. Uh. But it's it's loud, guitar driven party rock and roll.
23:39 That's what it is about having a good time and really. Nothing but no doubt. And you know, it brings us back to times when it was just fun and not all the bullshit we have to deal with now. And that's why I love about That's what music should do. It should take you to good times, fun times, and just have those euphoric feelings just from the music, right. And we completely agree. I think there's so many bands that take it so seriously and and it's it's very. You know, there's not a lot of bands that have fun. And I think that's kind of the thing that we've we've always been about that it's not just us that it's having a good time on stage. Because let me tell you, we're having a blast out there. We've been touring, touring now for almost ten years. Come up in two years, we're celebrating a decade of the Midnight Devils. I don't even know if you can believe that. Like, we started this in the basement in Nebraska and now we're headed to uh you know, Brisbane, Australia in.
24:35 November that that those are really cool things for me. But really it's all because we have so much fun as a band as a live show that travels around. Like we love touring, we love putting out records, we love doing all this stuff. It's just this this. This creative freedom to be and do whatever you want, and I think that's kind of lost in this music. There's no there's nobody else doing it. There's nobody else putting on the lipstick, you know, spiking up the hair, playing a loud guitars. It's unapologetic and it's just it's what's needed in just such a kind of a crazy time right now. Oh, no doubt about it, because it is just fun. It's you know, and the fact is is, even though you're a musician, you're an entertainer. Two. So when you're playing on a live show, it's a performance.
25:24 Yep. You know. There's bands that I never really liked it i saw their live show, and then there's other bands that I love that when they're live shows, like eh Okay, because because it's a matter of whether they're playing on a show for us and for themselves. Or if they're just getting up there and going through the motions yep. And for us, it's like I wonder sometimes I'm like, man, do I really like the seventh. Or eighth night in a row? I got to put my makeup on? Is it gonna? Like do I really need to be doing this? And you get out there and it's like as soon as you just kind of step foot on that stage, you're like, it's all worth it. Let's go. I'm ready to party. We're gonna do this thing. We're gonna do it big. Even though it's the eighth night in the row that I'm gonna do this, It's totally cool and I love everything about it. So it's just like for me especially, it's like how hard can we go? And that's kind of almost a punder how hard can we go?
26:18 And like so hard it hurts, really like we're just gonna keep pushing it. And we've been very blessed to have this this ten year long career, almost three albums in and it just keeps going and it works because of the story, because of the images, because of we're the only band that's out there having fun, and that's really like that testament we went and saw Dave Lee Roth a few weeks back, you know that bit at. M three he did the big comeback right right. It was the coolest thing ever. He killed it, and I go, that's what that's exactly it. That's what we need to do right there, right the blueprint has been written. Go out there and entertain the people. And the smiles on everybody's face is like, dude, it was next level.
26:59 And I go, that's it. That's what we need to do, just every single night. Just continue to do that. Well. I don't know if I told you last time, but did I tell you my story about David Lee Roth and Van Halen at the US Festival in nineteen eighty three. No, I would love to hear it though. Okay, so I am definitely team Roth when it comes to Van Halen one hundred and I liked Sammy Hagar without Van Halen, sure, but to me, David Lee Roth was Van Halen, you know, like the whole style, the party band that they were in LA And you know, I went to the US Festival. It was the first music festival I ever went to. I told I was sixteen, I drove, I told my dad.
27:48 Was this the one where I had to find him in the in the Amazon rainforest. I don't know if they had to find them there, but it was. It was the one where they headlined, yeah. And they like a million They're like some astronomical amount of money, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was three hundred thousand people there, right, okay, and was in the desert in California, like in one hundred and ten degrees. It was. I had multiple friends pass out in the crowd, you know, they were doing the hoses. That was the beginning of hoses, you know at festivals. So anyway, and Ozzie played too uh trip while those arrows like way up front in the middle of the sardine can and somebody like two people away from me got stabbed, and Ozzy came over to speakers and he's telling people, you know, like Joe out, you know, we're all here to have fun, blah blah blah blah blah, you know, and said all this stuff. That was like, here's the Prince of darkness coming out and telling you to stop being evil. Okay, but basically okay, but then so they and Van Helen comes on the headline Heavy Metal Day, which is a trip to me in and of itself. If you think about heavy metal today, Van Halen would be the headliner, like over Judas Priest, over you know, Azzie, you know, over all those people over Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, they were the headliner. And so
29:21 they're playing, ain't talking about love, but Dave's not singing, and Eddie's looking over at him, and Mike lan Thing's looking over at him, and finally he just goes, this is what makes him the greatest frontman ever next to you, of course. But you know because instead of it being a negative thing, he just yelled to the crowd, I fucking forgot the words with a big smile on his face. Three hundred thousand people roared like they just won the lottery. Man, Okay, words, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, I was there for it. And then cool one dude heckled him in the whole crowd and he just turned to him typical David Lee Roth. They said, I am gonna fuck your girlfriend. That is rock and roll.
30:17 My friends absolutely absolutely that. It's the attitude and that and I tell people that, you know, if this is still the wild West out here and being in a rock and roll band it's still a party. It's still whatever you want to do, you know, anything that you want to do, day or night. We're still kind of that uncharted territory out there, and I think that's still a really cool thing. And talking to all of our friends and everybody that that are out touring still and still loving it, you know, enough enough and pretty Boy Floyd, all those great guys that are still out there doing it. Everybody's still so much fun. No doubt. And listen, you know, I gotta give you big props, but on that makeup all the time like that, because that would be a pain in the app sent a lot of work. But it just shows you're doing willing to go to extra mile for the fans. That's what it does to me.
31:06 I love it. And it's become it's become a trademark, and it's become the thing that we're known for. And and really it's like it's it's a I don't know how to explain it. It's it's like almost the Three Musketeers or or whatever, like we go up there and we're gonna do this, and we're gonna we're gonna burn it down to the fucking ground, no matter what like, if there's three people there, that's cool too. I'm happy that there's three people. If there's a thousand people there, that's even better because we're gonna make this fire even fucking bigger. But with this band, it's it's just like that that relentless attitude of like we're coming no matter what. I love it. I love it and you know, burn it down the ground. I love that term too, because that's what that's what got me here. It's like my first club show ever in LA was The Roxy and it was Motley Crue before they had an album, and they tried to burn the Roxy down. It brings say and then like that's rock and roll, Like so you're right up there with all of them.
32:05 That it's and this is a really cool thing that the Midnight Devils we have going for us. And we've always been a big proponent of this. We don't use tracks when nothing has tracked us all live and it's all you know, whatever happens out there, like that is the realness, and that's that's it. That's what makes it rock and roll. Yeah, that's the way it should be. Just like what I said with David Lee Roth, like nobody gave us ship, they forgot the words no, you know, because it's then you know it's real, Like because listen, there's no way even being on the radio, Like there's times I fuck up and I just pretend I didn't. You know, it's like, you know, you just keep going and you just do it because we're real people. I don't have a script in front of me, I don't have notes in front of me. You're just being real, and that, to me is what makes rock and roll so great.
32:56 You're one hundred percent right, And we've since day one, have always felt that way and felt that if we're gonna do this, we have to do this as real as possible because the makeup and the and the and the costumes and everything else is so over the top that that when you strip all that down and take away all of that, the music and the songs have to be good and they have to be the heart of it. Yeah, So it has to be that realness that these songs happen to us, and the lyrics and the stories they're all real, like we've seen it, like we were talking about the stuff that has actually happened to us on the road, and take away the makeup the shows and everything like that, and those songs have to be good and they have to stand up and they have to be what people latch onto and people they they kind of they feel like they've been through the same things that we have.
33:43 Yeah, exactly. So how do people reach out to you guys? How do they check out your music, check out your tour dates, merch all that good stuff? Super easy, And we're very active on all of our social media platforms. So we're on Facebook, we're on Instagram, we're on x on, you can stream us on Spotify, on Amazon, but more importantly all of our website stuff. The Midnight Devils dot Com has our where you can pick up the music, you can buy the CDs, you can buy the vinyl. We have a brand new vinyl that's going to be released pretty soon, which is a green and pink splattered seven inch vinyl because just because I think seven inches are like the coolest thing ever, you know, ner of vinyl collecting. That'll be the next thing coming out in the next few if you like, it's in a month or two, that'll come out, and then we'll head over to Australia in November.
34:31 We're working on a. Cassette right now, like a disco Merrbald cassette. I love it. Just stupid stuff that I think is really cool. That Like if I was a kid, I would want my favorite band. I would want Kiss to put this out. Why would we not do it? Let's do it? There it is. Well, I love it, and man, I'm jealous. You're going to Australia. That's one I haven't gone to yet. Ten days over there. I think it's ten shows in ten days and this will be our third tour there, but starts in Brisbane on November two, twenty something, twenty third or or so. And the first gig. The first gig is a boat cruise through Sydney Harbor where the Midnight Devils are playing with a bunch of other bands. Is like a festival.
35:12 Honest, that's way cool. Yeah, that's way cool. I love it. You guys rock for sure, and keep giving us great music. And listen, you're almost there, because it takes like twenty years to be an overnight success. So yeah, you're halfway there. Go twelve more years ago, but we'll be all right. Thanks a lot. There it is, and you know what, you love it, and that's all that counts and that's what music should be all about. Absolutely, thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thanks bite Man. I appreciate it thing you have for always always taking care of us. I really do appreciate it. Anytime, brother, all right, kids later, dude, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pip Man on w for CUI Radio.
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