On today’s episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Texas-born, genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Lucas/Heaven about public libraries, the cultural significance of DJ Screw and his screw tapes, and information theory as it relates to music. We got some good stories about the Houston music scene in the 2000s, and a 3 week psychedelic life journey that opened him up to writing.
Lucas/Heaven on BandCamp, Spotify, and Instagram
Drank - TPain Cover
KCRW Today’s Top Tune - Every City Has a Rhythm
Grandfather Child on Spotify - Ride That Train...
On today’s episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Texas-born, genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Lucas/Heaven about public libraries, the cultural significance of DJ Screw and his screw tapes, and information theory as it relates to music. We got some good stories about the Houston music scene in the 2000s, and a 3 week psychedelic life journey that opened him up to writing.
Lucas/Heaven on BandCamp, Spotify, and Instagram
Drank - TPain Cover
KCRW Today’s Top Tune - Every City Has a Rhythm
Grandfather Child on Spotify - Ride That Train
Heaven the Dude on SoundCloud and Spotify
Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube
Fat Tony on SoundCloud and Spotify
Satin Hooks on Spotify
The Turkeys - they had rules: wouldn’t play unless there was a keg, all the songs had to do with turkey - Party Fowl, Get Basted in the Face - Butt Rock
LA Public Library Resources
LA Central Library
Peavey Bass
Tejano/Conjunto music in the garage
Santana, War, Hall & Oates on the roadtrip - favorite bands
Bird and the Bee Hall & Oates tribute album
Stan Getz
Sade, Anita Baker
1991 was an incredible year for music: Pearl Jam - Ten,
Nirvana - Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Weezer - Blue Album
Geto Boys
Master P and Cash Money Millionaires
DJ Screw - important to Houston music - slowing down/diabolical
Got big selling tapes out of his house - made people custom mixtapes, “Screw Tapes” - folk music, in a way
The Screw Shop - in Houston - a ton of CDs of his
University of Houston has an archive of DJ Screw! - the librarian who organized that inspired him to become a librarian!
Sippin ‘Lean
Alvin & the Chipmunks speeding up tape
Relic guitar that got past around the Houston scene - BC Rich Warlock he played that only in this band
Joe/Yppah
Double Wish - Fever Dream (favorite alt rock band in OC) - Yppah remix
Saw The Boredoms at the La Brea Tarpits - 88 drummers on 8/8/08
Sacred Steel (movie) - steel guitar in gospel music - House of God Pentecostal Church
Harmonium - Terence’s music
Robert Ellis
Geoffrey Muller
Chet Faker, Com Truise
Love AC/DC and the slash
Information theory - data transforms into information and that transforms into knowledge
Every Breath You Take by The Police
Forgotify - an index of tunes on Spotify that have zero plays
Echo Park Rising
Scribble in Highland Park
