122: Mitchell Feldstein (Lungfish, Arboretum)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Mitchell Feldstein's deceptively simple grooves contain a universe of poetic nuance. He tells Joe about growing up in Philadelphia, losing his parents at an early age, joining the inimitable band Lungfish, earning a master's degree in social work, being a "good nihilist", and why he is no longer compelled to play music.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, we have a live event coming up next Tuesday, May 16th, at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles.
0:08.0	The Trap Set is proud to present.
0:10.2	Drummers Only, a night of comedy and drumming starring Fred Armisen and Friends.
0:16.2	Get your tickets at thetrapset.net or email tickets at thet trapset.net for your chance to win free seats.
0:24.6	You must be a drummer to enter. Now on with the show.
0:27.8	This is Joe Wong.
0:42.9	Welcome to the Traffset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:47.8	I want to play something for you.
1:31.3	Music The way is wide, my all the time goes bright. You're hearing You're hearing signpost by long featuring my, featuring my guest Mitchell Feldstein on drums.
1:43.3	Lungfish was formed in Baltimore in 1987. Over the course of 12 excellent albums, the band distinguished itself as one of the most unique and important of its era. Feldstein's drumming is poetic, with cleverly succinct stanzas emitting mantra-like profundity.
1:52.0	His deceptively simple grooves contain a universe of nuance.
1:57.0	Aside from his work as a drummer, Mitchell has published two volumes of prose and poetry.
2:03.6	He works as a social worker and lives in Baltimore.
2:08.6	And now our conversation with one of my favorite drummers, Mitchell Feldstein. The first memory is kind of a scary one, I think.
2:35.0	I was with my mother and I was in the stroller and we were taking a walk up to the bakery at 50,
2:46.0	on 52nd of Market Street in West Philadelphia, and back in those those days you were able to be left
2:54.2	out front and I was in the front with my stroller and our dog and something happened
3:01.1	to the dog it got distemper or something I was told later and it had to be put
3:07.1	down in front of me.
3:09.8	What?
3:10.9	Yeah, that's my first memory.
3:14.5	That's really vivid.
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