100: Joe Wong interviewed by Brendan Canty (Parts & Labor, Marnie Stern, Mary Timony, The Trap Set)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's Episode 100, and our first guest, Fugazi's Brendan Canty, returns as guest host to extract the origin story of Joe Wong and The Trap Set. Joe talks about his childhood in Milwaukee; meeting his composing partner in the experimental theater scene; scoring for film and tv; and his time with artists such as Parts & Labor, Mary Timony, Marnie Stern, and Akarso.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Joe. For episode 100, I'm passing the mic to my co-producer and editor, Chris
0:07.2	Karwowski.
0:20.8	This is Chris Karwhowski.
0:22.1	Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:25.6	I want to play something for you.
0:27.6	I want to play something for you. This is Skin and Bones by Parts and Labor, featuring my friend and co-producer Joe Wong.
0:56.8	For this, our 100th episode,
1:03.0	we decided to do something very special. We invited our very first guest, Fugazi's Brendan Canty,
1:08.9	to interview Joe Wong. We here at the trap set want to say thank you to all the fans,
1:12.9	friends, and guests who have made this podcast such a special thing. The trap set has been an incredible adventure, and we can't wait to get to episode
1:19.1	number 200. And now, Brendan Canty's conversation with Joe Wong.
1:41.9	I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or to be more accurate, a suburb of Milwaukee called
1:48.2	Wauwatosa, which is about five minutes west of downtown Milwaukee.
1:53.5	And so this was in that you were born, obviously, sometime in the, in the, in this 80s?
2:00.0	I was born in 1980, yeah um so yeah significantly younger than I am
2:06.9	at this point so I so yeah so yeah so what was it it was a suburb and you went to public schools
2:15.7	yes and the music scene there, you obviously got
2:19.3	early into music. What was how did you get? How did you find music? I always loved music.
2:26.4	You know, when I was, I can remember when I was four years old, I got Thriller by Michael Jackson
2:33.7	on cassette tape and I was obsessed with it from an early age.
2:38.4	And then when I was six, I started taking piano lessons from a lady who taught actually lots of
2:47.9	Asian people, or Chinese people, to be specific. I think my dad found her.
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