March 11, 2024 • 11 mins
Eric From I Prevail chats with Willie about the upcoming Tour
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(00:00):
Hell yeh so SEP nine KBP Ifired up. Man, we got Eric.
If I provail on the phone,joined the show, tell us about
not only a show coming up,but this show is three days after this
man's birthday. Man, Eric,great to have you on, brother.
How are you hey? Always goodto be on. How are you guys
doing? Fantastic? Man, Thanksfor asking. It's been a while.
(00:21):
Man, I'm anxious. I'm superexcited. I was. I was sitting
there just like, you know,biting the nails when I heard you guys
going back and forth. It wasfunny because my man Danny texts me out
goes we got him, Man,we got him. I prevail locked in
fill this Green, Baby, I'mlike, yeah, what a cool show
that's gonna be. Bro. Oh, it's awesome. Man. You know
(00:41):
we couldn't do a big US runand Miss Colorado. Dude, come on
right, it's crazy, man,It's so wild. The relationship you know,
this station in particularly has with yousince you know, since day one,
and you know over the years.It's wild. Man. Wouldn't that
long ago where we were we wereup on stage together on the side stage
(01:02):
out of Phillis Green. Now you'reyou know, now you're on that main
stage just crushing and killing it,and you know it's not the first time
you're on the main stage, butit's just kind of wild to see the
growth and where you guys have beenand I'm sure you guys are just so
anxious to get out on the road, get in front of the fans again.
Yeah. Man, it's like,you know, you spend five six
(01:23):
weeks on the road in about youknow, four or five weeks you're like,
you know, I could I couldenjoy my own bed right about now.
Yeah, And then you get homeand you're home for a month,
and after a week you're like,yeah, I couldn't, I could enjoy
playing some shows right about that.I'm in about I'm about two weeks into
that phase or I'm I'm itching toget back out. So you just got
(01:44):
off ship rocked. How was that? Oh boy, I'm sure people listening
may have seen the means and thenews on the internet. It was a
it was a wild experience, man. I mean, that's our second time.
We played five years prior to that, but uh, I mean we
(02:04):
played once five years prior to that, but uh, yeah, man,
it was it was a lot offun a lot of chaos. We may
have destroyed a peer or docking gutslike still up on uh in the Bahamas
or Jamaica, and we missed amissed the stop at what was I think
the Cayman Islands, but the boatdidn't go down. We played a show.
(02:25):
Uh it was uh, it wasa chaotic vacation, but uh,
yeah, we survived. Is thatyou own a boat with I prevail or
like you can take your risk withAlaska Airlines who apparently can't keep doors on
their planes. Dude, I thinkI think it's our name, man,
like we we name ourselves. Iprevailed and then you know the metal gods
(02:46):
throw everything at us challenge. Youknow, bus is touching on fire,
uh, touring during COVID the worldshutting down and racing to get home.
Now you know a cruise liner isthinking didn't didn't do it, didn't do
it, but it tested it right. That's too funny, man. It's
wild though. Man. You know, to see you guys, you gotta
(03:08):
love stepping out of stage in somany different venues places, watching the fans,
you know, sing the songs man, and just light you guys up
with the energy they bring. Iseen what that does on stage for you
guys. Man, it's awesome.Yeah, yeah, man, there's no
other feeling like it, the Rushespecially, I'm not even kid man,
(03:29):
I don't say this on every callin every station, but especially playing Colorado.
Man, you know, it's awesome. We have it. Just it's
another Yeah, y'all are another breedout there man, and appreciate rock and
metal to a different degree than therest of the US. Hell yeah,
but yeah, man, going outthere and playing music that you know,
(03:51):
we've been it's coming out in tenyears since this relationship with y'all, and
I know, man, and youknow it's heard it off insane and thinking
that Okay, I don't know howit could get any better, and just
every every fricking time it does.Man. Yeah. Right, Uh,
this is gonna be awesome too,man, right in the middle of summer
(04:13):
at Fiddlers with a great venue.I'm looking forward to it. Tell me
what's up you guys before that showin August? Is there a chance you
guys might release some new music?Uh, we're working and now that we
got some time at home, we'vebeen We've been working hard. H nothing
nothing playing like full full records oranything like that. We're just uh moving,
(04:36):
moving some ideas along. But youknow, we got we got plenty
of time before that tour. I'mhoping we can get something at least something
falling out before then. Yeah.Yeah, man, I'm sure that's uh,
that's big on your office plate.It's god of just cool man.
Uh hey, I'm just really fortunateglad you guys are fired up to uh
(04:57):
to step on stage in Colorado becauseso many of our people they they consider
you guys as wow man, becausewe play a lot of different bands,
like different music, but there's certainbands that we consider like those are our
boys, you know, those arethat that band. They they're KPPR family,
you know. Yeah. Yeah,man, dude, I can't appreciate
(05:19):
it. Can't tell you how muchI appreciate it, Like from the three
one three to the three oh threeman, like all love, all loved,
and we we love being a partof part of your guys' family.
How how was it looking locking inHailstorm And is this gonna be a tour
that travels. Are you guys travelingwith Hailstone together or is this just like
a one off Colorado deal? OhNo, We're doing a. We're doing
(05:41):
a whole whole US tour. Well, you know, as much as the
US you can do in six weeks. But yeah, right, yeah,
yeah man, it's US Hailstorm.Uh we're doing co headliner, flipping back
and forth every night, and thenuh we're doing uh Hollywood and Dead and
our boys are fit for a kingor coming out. We're doing this six
week run all together. That's awesome. It's gonna be it's gonna be sick.
(06:02):
We played a festival and it wasBelgium last summer, and uh we
watched Hailstorm and damn, man,she's got something holy crap. Yeah,
so they just put on a killershow and we were we ended up talking
hanging out after and and they're they'rean awesome band, and we were talking
(06:23):
like how we could get something togetherand I'm crazy to think that, like
from one stummer just talking and anduh making friends. Then it turned into
a whole US tour, So it'sit's really cool to see it from from
the you know, ground up.Yeah. Man, we're speaking with Eric
from Ipravail. Uh did you guyshave such a cool formula and sound in
(06:43):
your music? I know a lotof fans are anxious to hear new stuff
and see you guys up on stage. It's gonna be cool. You guys
are coming back to town August.What is August thirteenth. Another band on
that on that bill is Hollywood andDead. And I don't know if you
ever get a chance to speak withthe Hollywood and Dead guys, but man,
I got some hilarious, hilarious storiesabout those guys. So we were
(07:05):
one of the first stations to playthose cats back in the day too,
and they're old. Dude. MichaelPolly used to bring them in all the
time, and he would bring themin just to hang out on the show
and you know, play in ourperformance studio and all that stuff. Well,
it just so happened. We usedto do the stripper spelling be where
we'd have a lot of strippers comein and you know, they they'd spell
(07:27):
or not spell, depending on howyou looked at it. But every time
they came in Hollywood and Dead,every time they came in, I would
have strippers for them, and theywere like, dude, this is the
greatest radio station ever coming there becausethey really always as strippers. It's just
saying that's hilarious, know we arethird or fourth. I think it was
(07:51):
like our fourth tour. This isprobably two thousand and sixteen seventeen. They
took us out and that was likethe first time we were playing like like
two thousand and three thousand cap rooms. I man, that was that was
years ago. So it's uh,it's awesome to bring them back to be
able to return the favor and bringthem back out, and uh, I'm
just excited to hang with them.They're they're a riot, dude. Oh
(08:15):
absolutely, Man, They're they're acool ass band like that band is.
Yeah, they're freaking why but they'rethey're awesome. You know Johnny when when
uh, when he's the guy,man, he always coming in like I
can't I can't believe you did again. Really, I can't believe you did
again. I think he's my homie. Dude. He's a good dude.
(08:39):
They're all they're all hilarious and awesome. Dude. Yeah, man, who
do you like being so far?Of all the people you've been on the
road with, is there one oneor two bands you really really click with
and just you love to do anothertour with him? It's hard to have
a band that we have met thatWe're like, we don't want to do
anything in the future. Every We'vebeen lucky enough the last few years of
(09:01):
tour and we just bet on theroad with or taken out bands that we've
just become good friends with. I'mI am especially excited to take out Fit
for a King again. We tookthem out. Was when we took we
did the True Power tour. Itwas that year and a half ago or
whatever, it was a year agotwo, I don't know. Times.
It's not a flat circle, right, but I'm about to out myself as
(09:26):
a huge nerd. But we wouldplay Magic the Gathering on off days and
before show. So I'm excited toplay some more nerd nerd stuff on the
road with them. Hell yeah,man, especially stepping out of stage here
in Colorado with the fans. Dothey get lit when you guys come to
town? So that's always awesome.Oh yeah, man, it's always a
(09:48):
highlight on the tour. I thinkthat's why we put it in the middle
of this one. So it's anice kicking the butt once we get there.
It's just it picks us right backup. Yeah man. We'll look
tickets on sale well now, soyou can scoop those up. I know
the rest of the guys are prettyanxious to get out of and up on
stage as well. Right, Ohyeah, man, I mean it's been
(10:09):
a warm it's been a warm latesummer. What is it winter, late
winter the Michigan, but it's stillcold. Man. I gotta get out
of this state. I gotta warmup. We're anxious to get the hell
out of here and get on theroad, and summer can't come quick enough.
Man. Well, Colorado's stoked tohave you back on stage. Grab
them tickets you out again. They'reon sale now. The best way to
(10:33):
do it is Look, it's oneof those things. I believe this is
one of the few shows that reallyis gonna have an affordable ticket price this
year. Man, dude, ticketprices are blown up, so this is
gonna be There's gonna be a greatshow, sick lineup, awesome venue,
and I know we'll have some tostack up and hand out. So I'm
just anxious to get you guys backup on stage. So Eric takes a
(10:54):
ton man, appreciate you guys firedup that I prevails coming back to Colorado,
and I know the BPI family willbe stoked to see you guys light
them up on stage. Man,dude, thank you, thank you,
thank you from all the probably loveand all the good times and just this
hangout. Man. I love talkingto you. I can't wait to get
back there and play for all y'all. And yeah, man, it's about
(11:16):
to be a rager. Yeah forsure. Keep it up. Man.
We'll talk to you, I'm sureagain before the show gets to town.
But I can't wait to give youa big old manhood cuz it's been too
long, man, too long.Hell yeah, hell yeah. Man.
All right, brother, take careof talk soon and we'll definitely keep a
touch between now and August. Man. Sounds good, bro, Hi buddy,
(11:39):
Eric and I prevailed. You gotthe tickets back at it with metallicas BPI
Hell yeh so SEP nine KBP Ifired up. Man, we got Eric.
If I provail on the phone,joined the show, tell us about
not only a show coming up,but this show is three days after this
man's birthday. Man, Eric,great to have you on, brother.
How are you hey? Always goodto be on. How are you guys
doing? Fantastic? Man, Thanksfor asking. It's been a while.
(00:21):
Man, I'm anxious. I'm superexcited. I was. I was sitting
there just like, you know,biting the nails when I heard you guys
going back and forth. It wasfunny because my man Danny texts me out
goes we got him, Man,we got him. I prevail locked in
fill this Green, Baby, I'mlike, yeah, what a cool show
that's gonna be. Bro. Oh, it's awesome. Man. You know
(00:41):
we couldn't do a big US runand Miss Colorado. Dude, come on
right, it's crazy, man,It's so wild. The relationship you know,
this station in particularly has with yousince you know, since day one,
and you know over the years.It's wild. Man. Wouldn't that
long ago where we were we wereup on stage together on the side stage
(01:02):
out of Phillis Green. Now you'reyou know, now you're on that main
stage just crushing and killing it,and you know it's not the first time
you're on the main stage, butit's just kind of wild to see the
growth and where you guys have beenand I'm sure you guys are just so
anxious to get out on the road, get in front of the fans again.
Yeah. Man, it's like,you know, you spend five six
(01:23):
weeks on the road in about youknow, four or five weeks you're like,
you know, I could I couldenjoy my own bed right about now.
Yeah, And then you get homeand you're home for a month,
and after a week you're like,yeah, I couldn't, I could enjoy
playing some shows right about that.I'm in about I'm about two weeks into
that phase or I'm I'm itching toget back out. So you just got
(01:44):
off ship rocked. How was that? Oh boy, I'm sure people listening
may have seen the means and thenews on the internet. It was a
it was a wild experience, man. I mean, that's our second time.
We played five years prior to that, but uh, I mean we
(02:04):
played once five years prior to that, but uh, yeah, man,
it was it was a lot offun a lot of chaos. We may
have destroyed a peer or docking gutslike still up on uh in the Bahamas
or Jamaica, and we missed amissed the stop at what was I think
the Cayman Islands, but the boatdidn't go down. We played a show.
(02:25):
Uh it was uh, it wasa chaotic vacation, but uh,
yeah, we survived. Is thatyou own a boat with I prevail or
like you can take your risk withAlaska Airlines who apparently can't keep doors on
their planes. Dude, I thinkI think it's our name, man,
like we we name ourselves. Iprevailed and then you know the metal gods
(02:46):
throw everything at us challenge. Youknow, bus is touching on fire,
uh, touring during COVID the worldshutting down and racing to get home.
Now you know a cruise liner isthinking didn't didn't do it, didn't do
it, but it tested it right. That's too funny, man. It's
wild though. Man. You know, to see you guys, you gotta
(03:08):
love stepping out of stage in somany different venues places, watching the fans,
you know, sing the songs man, and just light you guys up
with the energy they bring. Iseen what that does on stage for you
guys. Man, it's awesome.Yeah, yeah, man, there's no
other feeling like it, the Rushespecially, I'm not even kid man,
(03:29):
I don't say this on every callin every station, but especially playing Colorado.
Man, you know, it's awesome. We have it. Just it's
another Yeah, y'all are another breedout there man, and appreciate rock and
metal to a different degree than therest of the US. Hell yeah,
but yeah, man, going outthere and playing music that you know,
(03:51):
we've been it's coming out in tenyears since this relationship with y'all, and
I know, man, and youknow it's heard it off insane and thinking
that Okay, I don't know howit could get any better, and just
every every fricking time it does.Man. Yeah. Right, Uh,
this is gonna be awesome too,man, right in the middle of summer
(04:13):
at Fiddlers with a great venue.I'm looking forward to it. Tell me
what's up you guys before that showin August? Is there a chance you
guys might release some new music?Uh, we're working and now that we
got some time at home, we'vebeen We've been working hard. H nothing
nothing playing like full full records oranything like that. We're just uh moving,
(04:36):
moving some ideas along. But youknow, we got we got plenty
of time before that tour. I'mhoping we can get something at least something
falling out before then. Yeah.Yeah, man, I'm sure that's uh,
that's big on your office plate.It's god of just cool man.
Uh hey, I'm just really fortunateglad you guys are fired up to uh
(04:57):
to step on stage in Colorado becauseso many of our people they they consider
you guys as wow man, becausewe play a lot of different bands,
like different music, but there's certainbands that we consider like those are our
boys, you know, those arethat that band. They they're KPPR family,
you know. Yeah. Yeah,man, dude, I can't appreciate
(05:19):
it. Can't tell you how muchI appreciate it, Like from the three
one three to the three oh threeman, like all love, all loved,
and we we love being a partof part of your guys' family.
How how was it looking locking inHailstorm And is this gonna be a tour
that travels. Are you guys travelingwith Hailstone together or is this just like
a one off Colorado deal? OhNo, We're doing a. We're doing
(05:41):
a whole whole US tour. Well, you know, as much as the
US you can do in six weeks. But yeah, right, yeah,
yeah man, it's US Hailstorm.Uh we're doing co headliner, flipping back
and forth every night, and thenuh we're doing uh Hollywood and Dead and
our boys are fit for a kingor coming out. We're doing this six
week run all together. That's awesome. It's gonna be it's gonna be sick.
(06:02):
We played a festival and it wasBelgium last summer, and uh we
watched Hailstorm and damn, man,she's got something holy crap. Yeah,
so they just put on a killershow and we were we ended up talking
hanging out after and and they're they'rean awesome band, and we were talking
(06:23):
like how we could get something togetherand I'm crazy to think that, like
from one stummer just talking and anduh making friends. Then it turned into
a whole US tour, So it'sit's really cool to see it from from
the you know, ground up.Yeah. Man, we're speaking with Eric
from Ipravail. Uh did you guyshave such a cool formula and sound in
(06:43):
your music? I know a lotof fans are anxious to hear new stuff
and see you guys up on stage. It's gonna be cool. You guys
are coming back to town August.What is August thirteenth. Another band on
that on that bill is Hollywood andDead. And I don't know if you
ever get a chance to speak withthe Hollywood and Dead guys, but man,
I got some hilarious, hilarious storiesabout those guys. So we were
(07:05):
one of the first stations to playthose cats back in the day too,
and they're old. Dude. MichaelPolly used to bring them in all the
time, and he would bring themin just to hang out on the show
and you know, play in ourperformance studio and all that stuff. Well,
it just so happened. We usedto do the stripper spelling be where
we'd have a lot of strippers comein and you know, they they'd spell
(07:27):
or not spell, depending on howyou looked at it. But every time
they came in Hollywood and Dead,every time they came in, I would
have strippers for them, and theywere like, dude, this is the
greatest radio station ever coming there becausethey really always as strippers. It's just
saying that's hilarious, know we arethird or fourth. I think it was
(07:51):
like our fourth tour. This isprobably two thousand and sixteen seventeen. They
took us out and that was likethe first time we were playing like like
two thousand and three thousand cap rooms. I man, that was that was
years ago. So it's uh,it's awesome to bring them back to be
able to return the favor and bringthem back out, and uh, I'm
just excited to hang with them.They're they're a riot, dude. Oh
(08:15):
absolutely, Man, They're they're acool ass band like that band is.
Yeah, they're freaking why but they'rethey're awesome. You know Johnny when when
uh, when he's the guy,man, he always coming in like I
can't I can't believe you did again. Really, I can't believe you did
again. I think he's my homie. Dude. He's a good dude.
(08:39):
They're all they're all hilarious and awesome. Dude. Yeah, man, who
do you like being so far?Of all the people you've been on the
road with, is there one oneor two bands you really really click with
and just you love to do anothertour with him? It's hard to have
a band that we have met thatWe're like, we don't want to do
anything in the future. Every We'vebeen lucky enough the last few years of
(09:01):
tour and we just bet on theroad with or taken out bands that we've
just become good friends with. I'mI am especially excited to take out Fit
for a King again. We tookthem out. Was when we took we
did the True Power tour. Itwas that year and a half ago or
whatever, it was a year agotwo, I don't know. Times.
It's not a flat circle, right, but I'm about to out myself as
(09:26):
a huge nerd. But we wouldplay Magic the Gathering on off days and
before show. So I'm excited toplay some more nerd nerd stuff on the
road with them. Hell yeah,man, especially stepping out of stage here
in Colorado with the fans. Dothey get lit when you guys come to
town? So that's always awesome.Oh yeah, man, it's always a
(09:48):
highlight on the tour. I thinkthat's why we put it in the middle
of this one. So it's anice kicking the butt once we get there.
It's just it picks us right backup. Yeah man. We'll look
tickets on sale well now, soyou can scoop those up. I know
the rest of the guys are prettyanxious to get out of and up on
stage as well. Right, Ohyeah, man, I mean it's been
(10:09):
a warm it's been a warm latesummer. What is it winter, late
winter the Michigan, but it's stillcold. Man. I gotta get out
of this state. I gotta warmup. We're anxious to get the hell
out of here and get on theroad, and summer can't come quick enough.
Man. Well, Colorado's stoked tohave you back on stage. Grab
them tickets you out again. They'reon sale now. The best way to
(10:33):
do it is Look, it's oneof those things. I believe this is
one of the few shows that reallyis gonna have an affordable ticket price this
year. Man, dude, ticketprices are blown up, so this is
gonna be There's gonna be a greatshow, sick lineup, awesome venue,
and I know we'll have some tostack up and hand out. So I'm
just anxious to get you guys backup on stage. So Eric takes a
(10:54):
ton man, appreciate you guys firedup that I prevails coming back to Colorado,
and I know the BPI family willbe stoked to see you guys light
them up on stage. Man,dude, thank you, thank you,
thank you from all the probably loveand all the good times and just this
hangout. Man. I love talkingto you. I can't wait to get
back there and play for all y'all. And yeah, man, it's about
(11:16):
to be a rager. Yeah forsure. Keep it up. Man.
We'll talk to you, I'm sureagain before the show gets to town.
But I can't wait to give youa big old manhood cuz it's been too
long, man, too long.Hell yeah, hell yeah. Man.
All right, brother, take careof talk soon and we'll definitely keep a
touch between now and August. Man. Sounds good, bro, Hi buddy,
(11:39):
Eric and I prevailed. You gotthe tickets back at it with metallicas BPI
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