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The First Ever Podcast

125: Ross Farrar (Ceremony / Spice): The Fear of Electricity Will Be Lifted From Me

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week Jeremy interviews vocalist and poet Ross Farrar of Ceremony / Spice

On this episode Ross and Jeremy talk Hitchcock, Underground Hip Hop, Panic, seeing The Rolling Stones, self recording, Hammer Time, the Ceremony Ruined 7", their "Pressure's On" cover, signing to Bridge Nine, Rohnert Park, the evolution of Ceremony's sound, Crisis Man, the genesis of Spice, Flaming Lips, writers block, and so much more!

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1:14.7

My name is Jeremy Boll.

1:15.9

I am your host.

1:16.9

And if it is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds

1:20.4

about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today.

1:25.4

This is episode 125. And my guest this week is Ross Farrar of the band

1:31.9

Ceremony, of the band Spice, of the band Crisis Man. He also is a poet. He's released a couple books.

1:40.2

We talk about that. We talk about all these things and not to sound too hyperbolic. But this is one of my

1:46.6

favorite interviews. This is the reason why I keep doing this. It's these kind of conversations. So I

1:51.9

hope you enjoy it as much as I did having it. If there's a chance that you are new here, I want to

1:57.8

let you know that there's a bonus episode available right now if you head on over to the Patreon, which is patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon.

2:05.5

There's a bonus episode available right now where Ross answered questions that were submitted by subscribers.

2:11.6

That is a common occurrence here.

2:13.8

Most episodes have these bonus episodes.

2:16.5

And if you feel like you want to participate in so many questions, upcoming guests, head on over to the Patreon, sign up.

2:24.8

There's a couple tiers.

2:26.4

You get access to a Discord channel.

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