Wednesday 13 Discusses Tattoos, Grandkids, and the Camaraderie of Metal Festivals

0:04 Hi, you have done too es censure for see wow for you your This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of Pipe Man W four cy Radio and I'm here. With Wednesday thirteen. Yes, you're at Bloodstock, so the last time you were here was twenty eighteen, right, correct? So what do you think about Bloodstock? You personally as an artist, you play a lot of festivals. What do you love about Bloodstock? I mean, playing a festival in the UK is always great for us. That's sort of my home away from home.

0:50 It's the first place accepted what I did, still accepts what I do, always open arms, always a big crowd. And then coming back here as our second time in headlining the side stage is a really cool thing. We get to play in the dark. We get to do what our show is supposed to look like. You know, we're not last time we were in the sunlight. And not that I don't mind that because it is a weird visual, but it's you know, this is a really rewarding thing to be able to do this tonight. We get a full headline set too. Yeah, you know your show is better in the dark, so that's kind of cool. It meant for the dark I don't write with the son and mine usually exactly exactly.

1:31 And so the last time you played you were a new grandparent and now. Yeah it was right years later. So is your granddaughter come to your shows now that she's a little older. Yeah, she's been no couple of shows. What does she think of her granddad being so cool? She loves it, see loves it, see that, or wasn't ever really into it. But the grand the granddaughter loves loves what I do, thinks it's cool, interested in it. So hopefully she will go that musical way. See I love that because grandkids are much better than the kids, right, Like they they love you no matter what and they never give you shit. And my grandkids I take them the festivals all time. They actually sometimes do interviews for me and they have to like the best time, and then the band will interview them, you know, and it's kind of cool, like to bring them into this community. That's how you keep this community going, how you do it. So I also was looking at your your cover up tattoo. I was gonna pull it up here, and oh my god, that is the best fucking artwork I've ever seen.

2:44 She's pretty good. Oh my god Like, I've never seen a tattoo that realistic. Thank you. So I guess you were kind of like over what you already had and you need to do something new. What made you pick of that to do to cover up? There's a couple ideas. I mean, you know, Anna is a great tattoo artist. She's a fan of the band. I met her through that, but uh, you know, we just talked about ideas what we could do for you know, because all my artwork was black and gray, so I never really do color, but I always like color. And then we got I got this right idea, why don't I just revamp all my tattoos and color? And many, many painful hours later, that is the cover up of one arm.

3:33 So, uh, you know, I turned fifty next week. Yeah, and so. Going and doing new things and just being healthier and feeling better. And you know, to have some new skin. I figured that's a good way to do it too, So sort of shitting the old skin and kind of going into my fifties with a just you know, wiser better and you know, hopefully not looking older. Well you definitely don't. And I'm in my fifties too. It's a tripp being in your fifties, Like, yeah, it's like trips me out. I don't even know that I'm in my fifties. It's like weird to me. Good.

4:14 Yeah, it's not something that's in the rock star lifestyle. No one looks at fifty. It's like, you know, live fast, eye young. So being fifties is kind of odd. But uh yeah, So. What gives you the juice nowadays to keep doing this? What is it that you still love about it that keeps you going. I love making music, I love I love the fans. I can endure horrible travel situations and flying for ten hours of baby screaming, and but when you get on stage, all that goes away, every bit of it goes away.

4:54 You have a twenty three hour day and you got one hour on stage, and all of that goes away. If you love what you do, and I know I love what I do because all that shit goes away. And you got to love this part of it, because there's so many parts, like you're saying, that are not fun that if you're not loving this, you're in the wrong industry. But even the bad stuff, right, I make do with it. It's never bad, you know, I never wanted a real job. That's why I became a musician. I wanted to be a rock star. That's not a job. Yes, I've learned over the years there is a certain job to it.

5:36 But still I don't feel like I have a job because I love what I do. You know, to be able to come here tonight and play a huge audience. You know, I'm from a haystack in North Carolina, dude. You know I had this dream, a dream of doing this, you know, as a pre teen, dreaming to do this, and here I am, here you are. I achieved my dream. It's it's the craziest thing. Sometimes I think about it. I go, man, how did I do it? Because I believed in it. I took no foreign answer and I became it. So I tell people all the time when they go what's your advice? I go, well, do you love it? Yeah? Well do you well?

6:19 Then fucking dream it and be it and become it and own it and do it. And I'm a perfect example of that. You know, pre internet, no YouTube, you know, just doing something creative that resonates with people. You know what you got to do. It's interesting too, because like sometimes I'll bring my kids to festivals that I cover, and my youngest daughter she'll say to me, Dad, I don't know how you do this every weekend. On the first day, she'll be like halfway through first say I'm already done, and like I don't think I've slept in a couple months. But because you love it, like you know, and it's like I came here and it's funny you should say what you did because I love being in the UK.

7:05 You know. I just got here from Vadkin and I was like, I'm home with my family. That's the way I felt coming to Bloodstock. Yeah, the festivals over here have been going for so long. The American festivals are starting to pick up on it, but they don't have that camaraderie like at Vakin. That's a family there. Yeah, if someone falls down, they. Pick you up. There's no fights at Vakin. There's no racism at Vakin. They don't tolerate it. They're just a killer community. And I'm glad that we're playing there next year. My second time playing there, you know, and the second time playing Bloodstock.

7:46 There's this there's this camaraderie. It happens in the Germany. It happens in the UK, it happens in every country. They love music and they come here and they'll sleep in a field. I mean, what the dedication of that? Oh man, If they told me, hey, you can headline Bloodstop and you got to sleep in a feeling, I don't know if that would be his appealing, but I'm probably with my mom, but I probably would do it, but I wouldn't want to. It blows my mind like I do all the wimmer festivals. In the first time I did hell Fest and I saw people walking for miles with all their camping equipment. I'm like, these people are freaking dedicated. Education, man, And that's why music will never die. It's what if what fuels people, It resonates with them. They find a band they like or similar bands they like, and that's their soundtrack. There's their life, it's their rocky training montage.

8:45 You know we all got it. You know we're all different and that's what makes us all special. Well, you definitely are special. I am fucking super pumped your hair, Bloodstock. No interviews during your set because I made sure it was clearer. Because thank you Scott Wrothy on your set. Be a great night. Tonight, So thanks for being here and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you for having me. Hey everybody, this is Wednesday thirteen and you are listening to W four CY Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm W for CUI Radio.