Podcasts by BIG EGO Tapes
Conversations with interesting people about music, film, art, philosophy, Del Taco, literature, politics, and more music. Recorded on to a single 60 minute tape with no edits and broken in to two 30 minute parts (Side A and B). Hosted by Chris Schlarb.
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Heather Sommerhauser (08.25.22) from 2023-08-07T07:01
Junatime mastermind Heather Sommerhauser talks about the two years spent making her album Remember The Magic, how she approaches rhythm and songwriting, and being validated in her love for Def L...
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Max Knouse (05.01.23) from 2023-07-31T07:01
Guitarist, songwriter, and sideman for Califone, Alex Dupree, and others, Max Knouse talks about how seriously everyone takes music, knowing what you're good at by how others react, finding insp...
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Josh Ottum (05.17.23) from 2023-07-24T07:01
Guitarist, songwriter, and conceptualist Josh Ottum talks about the power of sound, if proficiency is the enemy of the creative process, honest passions vs. post-modern irony, and the effects of...
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Alex Sadnik (03.27.23) from 2023-07-17T07:01
Alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer Alex Sadnik talks about his newest album Flight, contending with Charlie Parker, the difference between working for yourself and others in the recording ...
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Ryan Jewell (05.24.23) from 2023-07-10T07:01
Drummer, percussionist, and studio denizen Ryan Jewell talks about why some drummers sound different even when they're playing the same thing, loving Weird Al Yankovic, and dissecting Al Jackson...
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Chris Schlarb (07.01.23) from 2023-07-03T07:01
A rambling solo start to the fourth season of BIG EGO Tapes featuring a general wellness check, an update on the future of the studio, the voice of Stewart Copeland, album release news, photogra...
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Chad Taylor (06.06.22) from 2022-07-04T07:00:53
Prodigious drummer & composer Chad Taylor discusses his time spent playing alongside Pharaoh Sanders and Marc Ribot, cutting Sam Prekop's self-titled album, why Stereolab took Chicago Undergroun...
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Maria Elena Silva (04.12.22) from 2022-06-27T07:00:55
Maria Elena Silva talks about the trust and telepathy of Eros, touring the album, getting COVID, touring again, the American Dream prescription, and balancing her creative and maternal selves.
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T.J. Masters (04.13.22) from 2022-06-20T07:00:27
Guitarist, singer/songwriter, and Guma mastermind T.J. Masters talks about the recording his newest album, "A List of Sightings" before and after the pandemic, how different the record would be ...
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Nate Cross (04.12.22) from 2022-06-13T07:00:58
Astral Spirits owner Nate Cross pours the sotol and talks about why he still listens to unsolicted demos, releasing 30 albums a year, how record labels are modern day record stores, and being th...
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Steuart Liebig (03.31.22) from 2022-06-06T07:00:23
Bassist, composer, and improviser Steuart Liebig talks about quitting Les McCann's band in 1979, founding the avant-pop group BLOC with Nels Cline, joining Julius Hemphill's JAH Band, auditionin...
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Devin O'Brien (03.28.22) from 2022-05-23T07:00:52
Engineer, photographer, and musician Devin O'Brien has been at the center of BIG EGO from the very beginning. For the last few years Devin balanced his time playing in Cherry Glazerr with jumpin...
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Alicia Walter (02.22.22) from 2022-05-16T07:00:09
Alicia Walter sold her belongings, bought a car, and left New York to record her newest album with a live band of musicians she'd never met in California. In this conversation she talks about th...
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Dave Easley (03.02.22) from 2022-05-09T07:00:37
A rare in depth conversation with pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley discussing his formative years in Illinois playing in saxophonist Lin Halliday's band, finding his own sound, moving to New Orlea...
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Jerry David DeCicca (06.17.19) from 2021-04-26T07:00
Jerry David DeCicca on his preferred BLT composition, producing Will Beeley's first album in 40 years, the singularity of "the voice that fell from outer space," computers hiding humanness, and ...
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Katie Jo Oberthaler (03.29.21) from 2021-04-12T07:00
Equally at home leading a slow dance or a blazing honky-tonk, Katie Jo talks about living out of her van during the pandemic, shooting a video at her childhood roller rink in Wichita, and the du...
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Danny Frankel (11.13.20) from 2021-03-29T07:00
Drummer and percussionist Danny Frankel on growing up in Cleveland, playing CBGB's with Urban Verbs in the late 70's, recording demos with Brian Eno, working with producers Steve Lillywhite and ...
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Alisha Westerman (07.01.20) from 2021-03-22T17:19:16
Singer / songwriter Alisha Westerman on the recording studio as a holy space, group flow state, paranoia, processing trauma, and the spiritual visitation from Ikey Owens that led to the making o...
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Anthony Shadduck (03.07.19) from 2021-03-08T08:00
Bassist, composer, and bandleader Anthony Shadduck talks about why Charlie Haden sitting in with the Minutemen was a pivotal moment, shouldering the burden of the song, discovering music in the ...
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Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon (10.27.19) from 2021-03-01T08:00
Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon on the euphoria and ambition of recording his debut album Namesake, how "Almost Heaven" died and came back to life, why an artist sings a song, and escaping the star-maker ...
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Mike Watt (01.09.20) from 2021-02-22T08:00
Bassist, librettist, and musical force of nature Mike Watt on the fear of reruns, the social construct of "winning", being yourself while creating art for a larger audience, working on Ball-Hog ...
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Mike Baggetta (03.14.19) from 2019-03-18T07:30
Guitarist & composer Mike Baggetta on the drama behind recording "Wall of Flowers" with Jim Keltner and Mike Watt, turning mistakes into greatness, gigantic looming moments of self doubt, and sa...
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Meg Duffy (02.21.19) from 2019-03-04T08:30
Hand Habits alter ego Meg Duffy on the demos becoming the record, not sanding off the rough edges of art, working on Placeholder in Wisconsin, music as religion, and the transition from bartendi...
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David Lord (01.10.19) from 2019-02-25T08:00
Guitarist and founder of Air House Music Academy David Lord on touring across the United States in a school bus, the best advice he ever received, cultivating his unique compositional voice in i...
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Philip Glenn (01.04.19) from 2019-02-18T08:00
Southern California fiddle shredder Philip Glenn on quitting his teaching job to become a full time musician, making his old time bluegrass album "Outsider" with non-bluegrass players, Nickel Cr...
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Steve Wynn (01.11.19) from 2019-02-11T08:00
Dream Syndicate co-founder and prolific singer/songwriter Steve Wynn on hitting his artistic stride, writing songs to fill an emptiness, meeting Kendra Smith at UC Davis, looking for musicians i...
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Clementine Creevy (01.24.19) from 2019-02-04T08:00
Cherry Glazerr frontwoman Clementine Creevy on the punishing joy of playing guitar, the band's new album Stuffed & Ready, choosing punk rock over college (and telling her parents), rumors of goi...
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Ronan Chris Murphy (11.30.18) from 2019-01-28T08:00
GWAR producer and King Crimson mixer Ronan Chris Murphy on surviving almost 30 years in the music business, working on the MAFIA III soundtrack in Nashville, collaborating with Robert Fripp, con...
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Stephen Hodges (11.21.18) from 2019-01-21T08:00
Legendary drummer and Long Beach native Stephen Hodges on playing music for dancers, recording Swordfishtrombones with Tom Waits in 1981, a decade of working with Mavis Staples, wanting to sneak...
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Gustavo Turner (11.15.18) from 2019-01-14T08:00
Prolific writer and photographer Gustavo Turner on the Baconian Theory of Shakespere's authorship, the LA Weekly's right wing trojan horse takeover, trading the muse for money, Bob Dylan's 55 ye...
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Tabor Allen (11.12.18) from 2019-01-06T07:50:52
Cherry Glazerr and Psychic Temple drummer Tabor Allen on writing a rock opera for Mike Watt at age 17, working as a security guard and truck driver, the power of "sessions", being a workaholic, ...
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