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🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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A native of New Jersey, Jim Derogatis raised the cash for his first drum kit working odd jobs, such as scraping gum off of school desks. He is perhaps best known as a music writer; but Jim has also toured and recorded with bands for over 30 years. He tells Joe about his childhood in New Jersey, Catholic guilt, how his writing and drumming are fed by the same creative energy, and an early encounter with Lester Bangs.
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0:28.1 | Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers. |
0:33.5 | I want to play something for you. |
0:39.3 | Everybody has to be killed, you and me. |
0:41.3 | Everybody has to be killed. |
0:43.3 | You and me? |
0:44.3 | I'll tell you why. |
0:47.3 | You're cutting me off. |
0:49.3 | They slow me down. |
0:51.3 | Get off the damn phone. |
0:53.3 | Take a look around. You're hearing everybody killed by Vortis on |
1:01.0 | Jim D. Regatus on drums. |
1:04.0 | A native of New Jersey, Jim raised the cash for his first drum kit working odd jobs, |
1:10.0 | such as scraping gum off of school desks. |
1:12.6 | For over 30 years he's toured and recorded with bands such as airlines, |
1:17.6 | Speed the Plow and the Mandrakes. |
1:20.6 | Jim is perhaps best known as a music writer. |
1:24.6 | He was the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times for 15 years. He's authored |
1:30.3 | 10 books on subjects ranging from Lester Bangs to the Flaming Lips, and along with Greg Kot, Jim co-hosts, |
1:37.3 | The Long Running Rock Talk Show, Sound Opinions on WBEZ. And now our conversation with Jim D. Regatus. |
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