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Keep the Dream Alive Part 3: How the West Was Won (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-09 14:00:07
Edited:
2024-10-11 00:17:08
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2026-06
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In this episode: the calendar gets full; sticking with tape; working with big bands; musical conservatism; owning the means of production; women in recording; love on tour.

Interviews with: Daniel Handler, Beau Sorenson, and Maryam Qudus.

Featured tracks: "Holy Roller" by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, "Trance Manual" by John Vanderslice, and "Buck and Judy" by Deerhoof.

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ronnylongjohns

These episodes are wonderful! Thank you YC!!!

Null_null

Anybody notice the Behringer module on YC’s IG story recently? I was always skeptical of their Model D ripoff, but now I’m definitely buying one.

Patrick McAuliffe

Thank y’all so much for this series. It’s very interesting learning about the art industry, and I’ve never heard of any of these awesome bands. And they’re so weird and awesome 😎 😊

Karen-Ethel

I don’t know if J.V. coined the term “pantomiming capitalism”, but every time l hear it I have a visceral response. I’ve been calling it internalized capitalize, but I find pantomiming capitalism far more cathartic in naming what I’ve been doing for 25+ years. (Love this series. I think I’m going to be bummed when it’s over.)

Brian Kim

The stories that John Vanderslice told were so funny and heartwarming. Props to him and the unheard interviewer.

Jeremy Cooke

Signed up for the rest of Keep The Dream Alive! Can’t wait! :-)

Dave

Enjoying the series! So weird growing up with these bands and never knowing where they recorded. What was the deal with Third Eye Blind’s Jenkins rate comment?? Haha

Jim

I knew some of these people in the day or was near them before they got bigger, but younger than JV. It’s interesting & heartwarming but also heart breaking having friends in the SF, Portland & Seattle proper diaspora (including myself trying to hide out Oakland ghost-ship style thru all this) all scattered now or much more wildly on one side or the other or touring/full time hustle/success to part time hustle / not sure if I wanna tour or even can side or the knife edge that is ultimate OG ‘gig’ economy…:-/

Jim

I really love the series but being a uh…defacto Bosch / eurotrash fuel injection guy/junkyard owner/backyard mechanic & traveling heavy equipment mechanic guy that uh…has a similar story but Um more manic & less collaboratively constructive creative or outgoing trapped in SF, PDX & SEA @ different stints, it just kinda hurts in a way? J.V.’s not alone tho? Finance Capitol tech & deindustrialization / outsourcing has really done a number in those 3 cities, & the industrial port moved to Oakland in 1975/people no longer live together & work together industrially & artistically & take public transit etc? There was some golden twilight in the pdx backwater/parts of puget sound until the early 2000s/economy & timber industry still going as an affordable rainy gloomy backwater on the (now) unaffordable west coast, but now it feels like they’re just brought the 16-ton weight down to squeeze blood from the stone of the whole west coast & make all 3 places totally oppressive to working people/artists?…no? As Brace sez in the Larry Charles doc “if you’re a working person in S.F., you may as well not exist” Might as well extend that to every major west coast state/city?

Kate Richardson

I was glad to hear JV discuss Trance Manual specifically. Pixel Revolt came out when I was a senior in high school and dabbling in anti-Iraq war thought. For fifteen years that song has captivated me, musically and lyrically. Enjoying this series!

Maloola ba ba ba black sheep

I’m so confused is it satire him describing touring as this manic depressive pain because like that’s both completely wrong and misguided, and lame as fuck

Maloola ba ba ba black sheep

Wow everyone in this podcast is incredibly, almost impressively narcissistic, terribly spoken and completely up their own ass

Night Zoo

This is a mater class in the audio doc format

Biels Nohr

Another banger, thanks for putting it out, guys

PrinceVocalFry

Damn, Stephen Jenkins gave you the old motorcycle drive by

Carys Holbrook

I met Steven through my brother and didn't know anything about him other than his music. I said "It's an honor to meet you" and he straight up ignored me and left the room

Joedie Sawyer

I’m hooked just listening to JV and this story, it’s a great interview and so entertaining to listen to, I have very little music knowledge other than being a fan of some bands, just an average music listener who mostly listens to podcasts anyway.

Darren Kennedy

I saw Third Eye Blind at a BMI showcase at the Paradise Lounge and I actually didn't remember seeing them until they came out with their big hit on MTV and then I remember that band with the lead singer that seemed like a frat boy impersonating Jim Morrison. As for SF, and it's decent into a neo-liberal hellhole, more specifically nostalgia for SF's past, check out this clip from Vertigo in the 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKIclvOp3o