Matt Pike on Motorhead, Mastodon on High on Fire & Sleep's Stoner Rock Origins

Matt Pike of Sleep and High on Fire reflects on the lifer spirit of Lemmy of Motorhead, the magic of a one night bikie truce at a show in Sydney and their origins and his early tattoos in Oakland. Mastodon's Bill Kelliher reflects on their two year touring experience and long history with High on Fire and what bands like High on Fire and Neurosis share. Several killer stoner rock bands like Australia's Child and the UK's Orange Goblin also reflect on solos, blues and tone in this flashback special celebrating the mighty Matt Pike as High on Fire earn their first Grammy nomination for Electric Messiah. Features momentary guest appearance from Lemmy Kilmister on "the Motorhead way."
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[@willr2498]

I wanna see Matt Pike on Joe Rogans podcast

[@colliscrafton]

That would be fucking rad

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Joe Rogan does some cool interviews and it would be sick to get Matt Pike out to his massive audience BUT I think it would be way more awesome as well to get Matt together with Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins who speak fluent punk rock and see what happens with a monster conversation between three legends (I'd like to moderate). If you like long podcasts, this is also a podcast and engineer Mike Exeter (who has worked with Tony Iommi for 20 years, worked on the final Sabbath record and the latest Judas Priest album) that I've just released that you may enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZDdYXWCYq1-pZo :)

[@mysticblade35]

Rogan is a shithead, I don't want that shit

[@MrKylederp]

@@mysticblade35 I don't understand your opinion

[@norseman3514]

Sadly to say Matt like isn’t relevant enough to get on a huge pod cast, he’s a legend in the doom world, but if he takes a step out nobody knows him.

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Mastodon and High on Fire touring for two years. The weed budget tho.

[@wastehazey6468]

Pike for president

[@musicisfree91]

Blood for the Blood God!

[@sloshed-rat]

"First order of business... No shirts. For anyone. Period."

[@thathandleistakentrythisone]

So cool that HOF and Mastodon have so much respect for each other. My top 2 favorite bands by the way lol

[@mikestanislaus1107]

Sleep, High on Fire and Mastodon....yummy! I love stoner/sludge/doom metal.

[@jeremymiranda9742]

1:44 Here we find Matt Pike in his natural habitat, the shirtless guitar god reminisces on the god Lemmy Kilmister.

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Hahahaha... that should have been the voiceover, Attenborough style.

[@thathandleistakentrythisone]

Sleep confuses me AND sends chills up my spine!!! And i couldnt be happier!!

[@marwutz]

"...and fuckin' Brent." lol

[@nicosimioni7363]

Great job, as usual. Happy 2019!

[@NIN-GISH-ZIDDA]

When I was introduced to GoatSnake in '99...I chatted with Greg after the show to give them love cuz they tore my head off and offered a distinct sound that no one else had a grip on.... Greg told me that I needed to check out HOF...so I did one night on a midnight road trip to LA alone in my truck....I had to pull over because Baghdad scared the living sh*t out of me. The beginning of Track 1 on The Art of Self Defense sounded like foreboding inescapable ancient truth. I had no idea that tone and depth at scale accompanied with certain sort of esoteric subject matter like that was achievable, necessary, and that f*cking sublime, like the evil twin of Sleep.... in retrospect, it had to have been a baptism of sorts ... somehow invoking the angel that presides over the key of C with a merciless dull and rusty blade hardened in black widow black fire..... Up until that point it was all about The Melvins, Clutch, Brainoil ...and I'm sure quite a few others that I'm sure that I may be ignorant of that were amazing, don't get me wrong, but in terms of brute force and frightening presence....no one has left a more indelible impression on me and in my humble opinion. Matt Pike is the master of weaponizing over soaked denim clad tube driven warfare....and we haven't even scratched the surface in digging into George Rice and Dez Kensel's contribution to the art of the assault. Was Sleep proto HOF?! Understanding of course that Sleep deserves an entirely specific conversation on their own here...I'm just so f*cking glad that Pike wasn't finished when Sleep wrapped it up at that point in their story. Either way we can agree that one cannot exist without the other.... Thank you so much for posting this! And thank you for the opportunity to lay it down in my own words.

[@fuzzylumpkin49]

Great interviews. Matt is a legend. 😃

[@beatlejuice5951]

Matt invited my friends band n I to his house, gave me his guitar pic n let me jam on his amps lives here in Oregon now

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Awesome. Good dude!

[@GODHATESADOPTION]

Loved your interviews for years! Thanks for having such personality.

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Thank you for watching!! Stoked to hear. I love doing them immensely, super happy people dig them :)

[@groovysnake6664]

Great vid as always

[@hefipaleburp9543]

Thanks to the Heavens and the Hells we still have Matt Pike in a dying breed of true musicianship nowadays.

[@christopherk111]

you crack them open,,and they spill everything,,you have a magic rapport with the most interesting people / subjects....your archive of conversations is incredible,,and you create the greatest rockumenteries in the world,,thank you .

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Thank you so much!!

[@garrettallman3832]

You're seriously one of the best interviewers out there. Matt and Bill are icons and you just have a genuine conversation with them that is interesting and keeps me coming back to your channel. Happy New Year!

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Yo I really appreciate the support! I live for this stuff, nothing makes me happier than talking to these great humans. Coming back makes more possible. Hope your new year rules!

[@blindlemonfishbone]

High on Fire is the only band I’ve seen live, more than once. Saw some of the greatest bands in history: Pink Floyd and Tool come to mind. But Pink Floyd are no longer touring and I’m not paying $300+ to see anyone (Tool). I saw the Ænema tour in 1996 for $40.

[@saltpeter7429]

I saw TOOL at Ozzfest in 97 or 98. I'm thinking 98. Great show, but yeah, I cant afford these new ticket prices.

[@tryptamineodyssey]

Daniel Day Lewis from gangs of New York is also my favorite actor!

[@ZweiAmigos]

good job dude

[@avsky837]

I wanna fucking shake that man's hand. absolute legend

[@nixadventures3938]

Feel good soon dude. 🤘🏼

[@Realcernunnos]

Based on the songs you chose, you might like another band called "High on Fire." I believe they were an inspo for some aspects of Mastodon's early sound. 🍻

[@JandroSthen78]

❤❤❤❤

[@vectorhold6489]

I currently live 5 houses down from where Asbestos Death was formed

[@robertgutierrez8464]

This is kool shit lol ... Christina keep it going good stuff u kick ass ...

[@stepitupandgo67]

you interview all my heroes...!! do scott kelly of neurosis!! he's my friend and colleague

[@mysticblade35]

The funny shit about his vid is that High on Fire have remained kings of the just-barely-underground and Mastodon blew up and then kinda faded. I love em both but the path of both bands is funny

[@lachlanspinks12]

I fucking love Pike

[@thathandleistakentrythisone]

Christina 😍😍😍

[@sword649]

Yabba dabba dooo!

[@stepitupandgo67]

fucking amazing

[@frankiedeg]

What's the song at the end?

[@ooll6600]

get this man on Rogan!

[@r.edward5701]

Fuck Rogan.

[@Blackf1ngers]

6:54 what most people don't realise is that Ben is sitting down.

[@scrooloose]

Matt is high as fuck here - :)

[@jacobpennington7095]

Isn’t this interview like 3 years old?

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

they're actually older ... just cut it together to celebrate Electric Messiah, High on Fire's Grammy nomination, Lemmy and overall band interconnectedness :)

[@jacobpennington7095]

The Void with Christina Cool was having major deja vu lmao

[@DuskPatrol]

Spot on. I was gonna say, Matt is clearly hammered (he's sober now - huge props) and clearly younger (yes, we perceive time linearly). Still cool footage!

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Yeah I will do a follow up as soon as I can dudes! I may need to get over to the real world from Australia to do it :)

[@DuskPatrol]

@@TheVoidwithChristina Australia seems pretty righteous. Can we do an exchange? 😂🤘

[@Ievolovel]

@Christina If you can get a new interview with Al Cisneros I'll drop out of life with bong in hand.

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

That made me laugh so hard. You better do it though!! Oh man they are totally at the top of my MUST INTERVIEW IN 2019 list. I've barely scratched the surface of their story in past interviews with Matt. SO MUCH HISTORY. SO MANY RAD TUNES.

[@Ievolovel]

@@TheVoidwithChristina I try to do it daily, but I'll really do it if you get Al. I had a chance to meet Al about 5-6yrs back at an Om show in KY.. I was a little too scared to say hi, because I was a little bitch, but I now see he is really a nice guy.. I regret never saying whatsup to him and letting him know he brought me back to life by inspiring me to pick up bass. Thanks for this upload!

[@DIYTFY]

Kilmster...lmfao

[@josephaper9077]

this seems to be an old video because where are his frontal chest tattoos?

[@TheVoidwithChristina]

Yeah it's a mix of interviews over a few years, just to celebrate the Grammy nom and the Lemmy references on Electric Messiah. They haven't been out in Australia since 2016. Wanna do a new one later on this year, probably overseas.

[@josephaper9077]

@@TheVoidwithChristina word i wasn't meaning to call you out by the way you are so beautiful i dream of you anyway you are great love what you do haha wink

[@jacktowers7533]

Never clicked faster

[@jcmangan]

From a female perspective spoken you should do more topless male interviews. :-)

[@ShlomirBareket]

I want Matt Pike to do a Marc Maron interview, why are metal interviewers always so gushing and dumb?

[@Lee-ef6tg]

*Bill's sewn ears tho.*

[@craigstuckey319]

Dude from Mastodon talking about watering stuff down from the framework created from other bands. That's the pot calling the kettle black isn't it?

[@jasonw5635]

I think he meant it more as bands don't pay homage to HOF and Neuorsis. Mastodon has always had close relationships with both bands

[@craig9306]

Bill is paying homage, saying HOF made things easier for bands that followed.

[@Necrometalfist]

Shit bands

[@1985cactus]

They are kinda watered down mainstream version of Sleep/Neurosis.

[@YouCanCallMeXoe]

@@1985cactus They'd probably agree with if you were to say that to them. XD

[@lilakmonoke982]

matt "those gangs show up and shit" pike!

[@nathanielbaker6884]

if you can grow a lemmy mustache you're insanely a badass

[@sebastianalzate3568]

Matt looks like a non so stoned post malone

[@SSSC55]

I wonder what copy cat bands Bill is referring too

[@HeatMyShorts]

Me too..!

[@LZ-ky6ty]

Dammit Pike is all fucked up again

[@barrywhitesavedmylife7957]

Love HOF, Sleep and Matt Pike. Don't get Mastodon though, find them really boring and pretentious.

[@jakeybball]

Melvins Fanatic '79 really boring and pretentious? Listen to Remission and Leviathan. If you don’t like their new stuff that’s understandable. But being progressive does not mean they’re pretentious. Also the guy in the video Bill, is a massive Melvin’s fan, said they were the greatest band of all time.

[@saltpeter7429]

I like earlier Mastodon, Lifesblood to Blood Mountain. Actually, I LOVE those Mastodon albums. Dont have any love for Crack the Skye or anything since, but that's ok. Bands can change and go different directions, and if I dont dig it I dont have to. Opeth, same thing. All these bands are extremely talented, good on em.

[@a.monkey1275]

This dude needs to go to a Dentist so bad, wow. Wow.