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The SBL Podcast

095 - In Conversation with Erick "Jesus" Coomes - Lettuce

The SBL Podcast

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🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast Erick "Jesus" Coomes lends an insight into every funk bassist’s dream gig. Known for their incendiary live shows and die-hard fans, revered funk collective Lettuce brings forth a new vitality to classic funk music. Comprised of a stellar group musicians (drummer Adam Deitch, guitarists Adam Smirnoff and Eric Krasno, bassist Erick "Jesus" Coomes, keyboardist and vocalist Nigel Hall, saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, and trumpet player Eric Bloom) the band continues to cement their r...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here back with another episode of the SPL podcast.

0:05.4

And this week we've got the awesome Eric Jesus Coombs with us from the amazing funk outfit

0:11.8

Lettis. If you've not checked out these guys, get on it, check them out there.

0:16.1

A super funny. Great horn section as well. And if you guys caught them last year when they went out on a massive tour in 2017

0:22.6

following the release of their amazing Mount Crushmore EP,

0:26.0

then you'll already know about their bassist Jesus.

0:29.2

Or do you?

0:31.0

Because aside from his work with Lettis,

0:32.9

he's also written music for,

0:34.6

get ready for this,

0:35.4

some of the biggest pop stars in the game,

0:37.5

including Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Enrique Inglaseus and Jennifer Lopez.

0:44.8

And he's also played bass guitar, bass and guitar on some really well-known tracks as well,

0:49.7

right? Most notably, Kanye West's All Falls Down and Eminem's Crack a Bottle.

0:55.4

Now, with Lettis having just played a three-night New Year's Eve residency at New York City's Brooklyn Bowl,

1:01.5

and with a new live album out, which is Stu, we thought, get it, which is Stu, which is Brew,

1:07.8

we thought it was about time to, that we caught up with Jesus, who, in case if

1:11.7

any of you were wondering, got his nickname from DJ Quick because he wouldn't partake in any

1:17.1

of the debauchery and because of his long hair. Now, anyway, he's already deep in conversation

1:22.1

with Nick, so let's go straight over to the guys for this week's episode. Where are you?

1:27.5

London. Nice, dude. I's episode. Where are you? London.

1:29.0

Nice, dude.

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