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Hi, you have done to censure.
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Wow for you young ro Why Become of America. It's
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time for the Adventures of pipe Man on W four
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C why dot Com West Pompeas is number one internet
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Stake, my estylishes coolation.
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This is quite here on the Adventures pipe Man W
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four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Jason from
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Breaking Benjamin nice and one of the most hardest working
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musicians because you're from Breaking ben You're here at after Shock,
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but you do so many other different things I do.
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Yeah, I stay busy. I try to un fortunate to
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stay busy, you know, working with other bands, writing with
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other bands, that kind of stuff. So music's been the
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only thing I've ever done. Yeah, lucky you have to
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do it professionally for twenty years and here we are.
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That's pretty cool. What is it like when you change hats, Like,
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do you go into different zones?
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I don't know, because I don't know that the creative
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side that hat does ever comes off. I'm probably the
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least band guy out there. Sometimes I feel like maybe
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imposter syndrome there a little bit, because I never really
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wanted to be in a band or strive to be
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in a band. You know, I was always the songwriter guy.
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That's what led to being in a band, right, But yeah,
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so that was an organic transition there. But yeah, I
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think the creative side is always there. Have a recording
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rig that we tour with. We'll do some stuff on
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the bus. My voice members are always full of ideas,
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you know. So but I love touring. I generally do.
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See it takes that's a certain person, like even me,
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Like you know, I do all the festivals and one
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like I brought my daughter to a festival. Halfway through
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the first day, she's like, Dad, I don't know how
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you do this every weekend Like I'm done.
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It's impressive. It's impressive. My kids they grew up
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in
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this world and they still fall asleep in shows. They
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could give crap any of this, right, So again, I'm
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just fortunate to be here and this is all I've
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known and it's an amazing world, amazing community is you know,
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being as plugged in as you are. I think that's
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the coolest thing about it, and that's the takeaway. And
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been doing it for twenty years, so you I see
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people that I knew twenty years ago, right, still doing it,
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and there are different roles Danny Whimmer used to be.
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I remember showcasing for Danny Winner when he was at
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Atlantic Records. Right, So it's wild.
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It's really cool.
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It's wild to watch everybody grow together and like to
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your point, people saying, may, well, isn't it bummer toll
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at least be on the road.
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I'm like, well, that's where all my friends are. It's
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a bummer when I go home time.
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You know, so much closer to my road family than
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I am. You know, friends, I have friends at home,
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don't get me wrong, right, but no, I mean all
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my we all live in different states now. Obviously we
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used to live closer on the same area, but everybody
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kind of branched out started when they have families and things.
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But yeah, I love it. I absolutely love it.
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So you guys, did I see right? You dropped a
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new single?
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Mmm mm yeah, got one coming right? Yeah?
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Breaking cool?
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Yeah, so excited as we're recording now going into the
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next week will be the official release of it. And
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we've been working on the new album and new music
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for the better part of two years, but started really
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writing kind of when Covid hit, But yeah, I mean
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we've written huge batches of songs and gotten rid of
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some of those songs. I've written more batches of songs,
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gotten rid of some of those, and been able to
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whittle it down and try and focus the sound in
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a
way that we wanted. That for us was interesting
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and new and fresh, but still true to being breaking Benjamin.
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Nice and showing that you evolve as a musician.
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It's so hard to do because it'll be contrived not
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You can't just force something to be like, well, we're
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gonna do a country thing now, right, Well, I mean,
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are you a fan of country? Are you?
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You know?
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Like Postmon can do it, but it's natural. He also
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put in the time and spent a year national writing
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two hundred songs with writers.
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So that's what people don't know.
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That's what they don't know. And so not that we're
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taking a pivot like that. It's not a country of them,
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but it's still a rock album. But I think it's
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that kind of thing where you really have to kind
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of explore the edges of how far we're willing to
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go over some of those and then come back and
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kind of create a new space for yourself otherwise it's
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really easy to get pigeonholed into just writing the same
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thing over and over.
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And do you think the COVID lockdown I always say,
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because if you're gonna take one positive out of it,
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it allowed people like you songwriters musicians to get off
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the hamster wheel and get creative again.
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Yeah, big time.
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Yeah.
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Obviously we were doing it remotely. You know, everything was
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kind of satellite and on FaceTime every day and that
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sort of stuff. I remember from the studios in early
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two thousands, still doing you know, real real tape machines
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and not having reputers record to where you could edit.
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Like I think that same transition into like the digital domain.
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COVID kind of did that from a creative process of
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bands too, you know, where it wasn't in the past.
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We've gone and gotten in a room and hash stuff
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out and done demos for two or three months and
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then lock in the studio. And this has not been
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that process at all. So opening up a whole new
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world for sure.
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Well, I love it.
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I can't wait for the new music. I love that
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you're here at Aftershock. That's a madass, And thanks for
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being on the Adventures of Pipe. It's your time, my pleasure.
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Hey, this is Jason for Breaking Benjamin. You're listening to
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Pipe Man on W four c Y Radio. Thank you
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for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Main on W
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for CUI Radio.