Ep.61 - tomemitsu “Toe-May-Meet-Sue”

This week Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to superchill bedroom pop artist tomemitsu about screamo, post-modern geography, and the LA indie scene circa 2011. Stick around to hear what happens when you swear in a middle school talent show.

Tomemitsu on BandCamp, Spotify, Instagram

Dream 2 on Vinyl

Tomemitsu with Steady Holiday on Spotify

Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube

Atriata on YouTube

Free Camp on BandCamp - indie rock/motown, like Fitz and the Tantrums, but lofi

Basement Babies on BandCamp - Fleetwood Mac meets Sonic Youth - opened for Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel, Puro Instinct (song with Ariel Pink) - backing band for James Ferraro, opening for Real Estate

Steady Holiday on Spotify

Mountain Bay/Los Altos, CA 

 Ibanez bass 

Sublime, Dire Straits song

You Don’t Know How it Feels - Tom Petty

Les Claypool - Primus, NOFX, Rancid - bass role models

Screamo 

Epiphone Les Paul Special

Atreyu - the band and the character

Gibson SG Burgundy (cherry)

Saved up and got a Marshall half stack

Peavey Butcher 

It goes to 11

Playing acoustic - Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, Pedro the Lion, Joan of Arc, American Football 

Skeeter (like the character from Doug) - pop punk - high school girlfriend and drummer from Ground ZeroH

The Bluest Eye - music video with different scenes from the book - Bob Dylan one where he rips off the paper - in 7/4 time - I wish we had that video

Elliot Smith trying weird chords

Went to USC for college

Post-Modern Geography - how place and urban planning effects the population - tapped into empathy

Pat Taylor bass genius - Magic cards,  Cap’n Jazz

Cossack - band on Strike Through Records 

Local H - Bound for the Floor

Math Rock

Tool - Aenima

Got a sync for an ad for Dickies, but fizzled after Pat graduated - touring bassist for Noah Cyrus! House band for American Idol

The Echo 

Pehrspace

The Smell

Echo Curio

“The FYF block”

Bob Odenkirk

Taix

Echo Country Outpost

Non Plus Ultra

Silverlake Lounge

Bootleg

Spaceland

The Monday night residencies - Echo, Satellite, Bootleg

 Jaws of Love residency

First CD Nirvana Nevermind - something in the way

Butch Vig - how they recorded that song

Edendale Grill

Bellwether

The Weezer song with the female harmonies