Interview with Jason Stanislaw (Part 2) - a podcast by George Bessett, Patrick "Sully" Sullivan, Ryan Black, REB Records

 "...there is a danger in the show because the band is on the brink" is Sully's line toward the end of episode 5.  The discussion is the immediacy and the danger of frontmen like Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison, and Axl Rose creating an unpredictability for both their audience and their aforementioned bands.  While choreographed and practiced shows like U2, Marilyn Manson, and Nine Inch Nails provide a safe "arena" which plays out like performance art.  Can virtuosity lend its' self to immediacy?  Is there danger when it is well rehearsed?  What's the difference?  What's the affect on the audience?  When 76 year old Mick Jagger first walked out on stage at Soldier Field in Chicago after heart surgery there was real danger. It was not a  manufactured moment.  Jagger could have dropped dead.  Sully and Jason, both Stones fans, were there to recount the 2019 concert moment.  This episode also has an interview with Don Letts who is responsible for the reggae influence in UK punk as well as being a film maker and member of Mick Jones' post Clash band, Big Audio Dynamite. Don recounts what led him to becoming a champion of punk and why he got behind the camera.  Sully gives New York's very own David Peel the honors of first infusing reggae into rock with his band the Lower Eastside and their song, I want to kill you in 1966/70.  

Songs in this episode and songs that should have made it:

immigrant song, it's so easy, my michelle, I want to kill you, king of punk, the pope smokes dope, open the gate, no fun, loose, penetration, t.v. eye, search and destroy, add it up, promise, gimme the car, top floor bottom buzzer, women r dogs, the story of an artist, no more pushing joe around, wolves at the door, hard to be, I go wild, suck on the jugular, day 3, fated faithful fatal, fall of the house of death, march of the pigs, discipline, shit mirror, the bottomline, the globe

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