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The First Ever Podcast

122: Jesse Barnett (Stick To Your Guns / Ways Away): If Hatebreed Met Rise Against

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

This week Jeremy interviews Jesse Barnett of Stick To Your Guns / Ways Away

On this episode Jesse and Jeremy talk Montreal, the Maritimes, jock jams, gateway hardcore bands, his first concert, metal kids playing hardcore, the first show he ever played, the genesis of STYG and singing on stage the first time, navigating record labels, Bill Stevenson, the delayed release of Spectre, mutual love for Boysetsfire, running a record label, all power books, and so much more! 

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:05.8

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0:07.0

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0:59.3

First ever, the first ever podcast.

1:13.0

Hello, and welcome to the first ever podcast.

1:14.7

My name is Jeremy Bollm.

1:24.7

I am your host, and 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.

1:30.6

My guest this week for episode 122 is Jesse Barnett of the band Stick to Your Guns. They just announced their 20-year anniversary shows here in Southern California

1:35.3

at the infamous venue chain reaction. They put out a record earlier this year called Spector,

1:41.0

and his side project band Ways Away also put out an album this year

1:45.3

called Torch Songs, which I was invited to sing on. It was really cool of them to have asked me.

1:52.2

I'd never really met Jesse before, which was interesting given our proximity. So this was a very

1:58.5

cool way to get to know him. I want to let you know if you are new here that there is a bonus episode available right now where Jesse answered questions that were submitted by subscribers. You can hear that over at patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. You get access to all of the previous bonus episodes, plus bonus radio hours. I do a show

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