Dancast Episode 00 (Patreon)

"How We Made It"

Greetings friends,

Here's the first episode of something new. Consider this episode zero. The first pancake. The audio quality...what can I say? I tried something new and one of my guests recorded while driving up the California coast. It's all Audacity from here on out.

On this inaugural episode I have Matt Chamberlin, Brad Laner and Randall Dunn. Matt has been THE session and touring drummer for decades, playing on records by Fiona Apple, Bowie, Dylan, Elvis Costello, Soundgarden and honestly i could go on but just look him up. Brad founded one of the first noise bands in the US, played in what was arguably the first post rock band and then formed the best US shoegaze band of the 90s
(Medicine). Randall came up in post grunge Seattle and through his work (both recording and doing live sound) with Sunn 0)), helped redefine metal and psychedelia in the 21st century.

What do all these people have in common? They formed the core group that made my upcoming solo album. This is a pretty freewheeling conversation about that process but also about Beefheart, surviving the 90s, the state of music, German music opinion and avocados in Joe Bidens America. No intro. No outro. We just let the tape run out.

I'll be doing this a few times a month, sometimes with guests, sometimes alone. Sound quality will improve. We will all of us be pulled towards the light, into the glorious future.

XO DB