Guitarist and vocalist Kid Congo Powers has been a key member of several paradigm-shifting bands such as The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Bad Seeds. Over the past fifteen years, he's also led his own excellent band, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. Kid tells Joe about: growing up in a Chicano family in Los Angeles; how he became obsessive about music before ever playing an instrument, ultimately becoming president of The Ramones Fan Club; learning to play guitar in The Gun Club; his parents' experience at a Cramps show; "growing up" in Berlin; sobriety; how the current pandemic evokes AIDS-era PTSD; and the process of writing his memoirs.
156: Michael Stuart-Ware (Love, The Sons of Adam)
155: Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (The Killers, Big Talk)
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154: The Trap Set Turns Three!
153: Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello, Seal, Doyle Bramhall, Andrew Bird)
152: Live in Minnesota (Eric Gravatt, Lori Barbero, Todd Trainer, Gordy Knudtson)
151: Chad Molter (Faraquet, Medications, Grass)
ML1: Laura Veirs + Carol Kaye (Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, Frank Sinatra, etc.)
BNS: Bernard Purdie Revisited
BNS: Bill Ward Answers Listener Questions
150: Bill Ward (Black Sabbath, Day of Errors)
149: Bryan Devendorf (The National)
BNS: Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Solo Artist)
148: Aaron Steele (Chrome Sparks, Portugal The Man, Alice Smith)
147: Scott McPherson (Elliott Smith, M. Ward, Sense Field, etc.)
146: Dave King (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple)
145: Riley Breckenridge (Thrice, Less Art)
144: Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips)
143: Jojo Mayer (Nerve)
BNS: Fred Armisen on "For Drummers Only"
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