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Episode 32: Wren Lanier

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Wren is one of the organizers of the Bill talks in Richmond. A counterpoint to the TED brand. Something maybe a little more egalitarian and affordable. She shares her inspiration for it and I am inclined to agree though I’m fine with what TED is. I like the idea that everybody should get a turn on the mic, (obviously). This is all the blurb I feel like writing, did you even read it? I thought not, chumps.(Photo borrowed without permission from the guy who’s name is in the bottom left corner)
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Episode 31: Beau Butler

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Beau Butler the Flava Flav of Avail is one of the most memorable characters I have known in this town. Regular followers of this podcast will note that I wasn’t much of a hardcore, hardcore punk or just plain punk fan coming up, so I was aware of Beau and Avail mostly as something to avoid as a likely occasion for violence. It wasn’t until I was 300 miles away in NY working as the night manager of a music venue that I finally saw Avail and that there weren’t nuthin to be skeert of. I had a great time sitting down and butting heads with Beau, its a podmosh.(photo Chris Boarts Larson, duh)
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Episode 30: Austin Fitch

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Austin is one of those guys I originally encountered in the early nineties at VCU one of wave of people who’d come to Richmond for Art School at VCU formed a band while they were at it. Although Austin has been in many bands since, the first one I saw him in, King Sour is not just a band to me but a capsule of associations that were so quintessentially Richmond around VCU in the nineties. We talk about some of that and his recent resurgence as a painter. Begin side one.(Photo courtesy of Scott Miller)
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Episode 29: Prabir Mehta

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Prabir Mehta musician,science afficianado, and biness man. Always I have known he was out there plying his craft making his sounds, cutting his swathe but I never until recently payed a whole lot of attention, my loss. Last summer I checked out Goldrush at Bandwars with Horshead and became an instant fan of his band and now I am a fan if his, period. He’s a righteous fellow and another RVA treasure.
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Episode 27: Scott Hudgins

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Although I’ve known Scott for years I haven’t until this conversation linked together his, dare I say, legacy in the Richmond music scene. He has been in Brainflower, Slang Laos, Tulsa Drone and Hex Machine, to name a few…and that’s just a few. Lately he’s been working in the electronic medium as ENE. By the way I chose this picture above because it embodies for me the way Scott’s been there in the greater context of the musical fabric of RVA.. always somewhere in the pic, guitar in hand,foot on the pedal never ever false metal….anyway.

Episode 26: Parker S. Galore VIII

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Parker is a ringmaster and ringleader of Gallery 5, the Carnival of 5 Fires and a founder of RVAMAG. He is painter in his own right and a “Burner”. I talked to him in the offices of Gallery 5 and got some insight into what has motivated his numerous projects as well his connection to Burning Man and the culture that continues to exist when the burners leave the desert. Fire in the hole.(Photo courtesy of Jay Paul)
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Episode 24: Sorvino

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Mike”Sorvino” Bauer is a world travelling tour manager and local guitar hero. He’s played in many bands but his baby is Channel 43, who recently released a record from the vaults of their Ellwood days. Over the years Sorv hit me up when he came through the Twin Cities with various bands he was leading through wilds of the touring landscape and it was always great to see his big grinning mug. Mike check.
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Episode 23: Ricky Tubb

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Ricky is a versatile musician, engineer and guitar tech. He’s been in Richmond bands since his Benedictine days and experienced the trajectory of signed musician that seems to be shared by many others. I’ve been checking in with him since we first met in the late nineties and have always enjoyed his readiness with some witty repartee. Most recently I saw him with his new band Glass Twin, which I dug immensely. Enjoy.

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Episode 22: Marty Key

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Marty Key is a musician, DJ and owner of Steady Sounds a fantastic record store in downtown Richmond, Va. We are contemporaries and yet I had forgotten about all the bands he’s played in from The Young Pioneers to Trixie Delicious and the Lot Lizards and most recently on the national scale as a pharmacist in Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. I went to see Marty at his store and we had a bull session up in the mezzanine there. Go visit his shop and let him be your guy that turns you on to the records that you tell some Podcast guy about when you grow up. May the circle be unbroken.

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Episode 21: Kevin Inge

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Kevin is a founding member of Horsehead and one of my other favorite (now defunct) Richmond bands Dragstrip Syndicate. He’s a great guitar player and a hell of a guy. I don’t know too many people who are as relentlessly solid as this dude. I did this sit down with him and then ran into him several times around this posting and every time I came away thinking, I could learn a thing or two from this guy about being all-right with shit, which a girl once told me was probably the most attractive thing anyone could be.So what I’m saying is, he’s hot.
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