120: Sammy Ciaramitaro (Drain / Gulch): The Slingshots Went Way Far Back and just SNAPPED
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Sammy Ciaramitaro - Vocalist of Drain and drummer of Gulch.
On this episode Sammy and Jeremy talk pandemic popularity, Santa Cruz, Minor Threat, Skate Culture, KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, Municipal Waste, Rockband, pay to play, early recordings and the genesis of Drain, transitioning from drumming to vocals, his first tour, working with both Taylor Young and Jack Shirley, releasing California Cursed, Gulch's trajectory and last shows, and so much more!
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| 1:33.0 | The first ever podcast. My name is Jeremy Bollm. I am your host. If this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. This is episode 120, and my guest this week is Sammy Sierra Mataro of the band Drain. I am so amped to have Sammy on. What a lovely, funny, kind, |
| 1:41.6 | very Californian person. We talked before I left for tour. I am officially home. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm recording this from my office. Holy shit. I'm so excited to be home. My band, Tusha, Mory, was on |
| 1:52.8 | tour for two months straight. And just a quick thank you to anyone who came out, said nice things, |
| 1:59.3 | caught us with Thrice and Coheed in Europe, or maybe caught us in the States |
| 2:03.6 | with the menzinger's and screaming females. Had a wonderful time, but boy, does it feel good to be |
| 2:08.2 | home? It can be very exhausting to be away that long, and sometimes things feel very routine, |
| 2:15.7 | especially when you're doing it for that long as well. |
| 2:18.5 | And to have anyone randomly pull me aside and just say they enjoy the show is something that |
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