Ep015: Todd Rittmann (Dead Rider, U.S. Maple)

We talk to Todd Rittmann about hats, inspiration and perspiration and Jim Belushi books. Academic deconstruction and more!

00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (Opening Theme)

00:04:26 Motherfucker – Dot Dot Dot
00:07:19 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up

00:09:27 Returning pets, getting old, etc.

00:17:02 New China – Bad Teacher
00:19:00: Dead Rider – Blank S(c)reen

00:24:17 Dead Rider tour dates announce, why Conan doesn’t like Spotify or use it.
Being friends with the idea of Conan.

00:31:02 US Maple – Letter To ZZ Top
00:34:06 Todd Rittmann of Dead Rider and U.S. Maple on the air, in a van… on the way to Houston Having Thymme Jones in the band, what is Dead Rider listening to on tour, The possibility of a U.S. Maple reunion, academic deconstructions or not, etc. Conan’s “Jim Belushi book story”

01:07:26 Dead Rider – The Walk Slow
01:10:13 Dead Rider – Of One Thousand

01:13:19 Sound Opinions sucks, there’s a new Morrisey album, Conan needs to be more inappropriate, some coffee talk with Real Time Drop
01:20:03 The Bismarck – Fake Tits, Real Assholes
01:22:30 The Austerity Program – Song 31
01:24:57 Commentary tracks on commercials “What song should Ryan Christopher Parks of B. Hamilton cover – finalist round”

01:52:01: by Shellac – The End of Radio (closing theme)