131: James Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth, The Cramps, etc.)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

James Sclavunos grew up in Brooklyn and dreamed of becoming an astronaut priest or an avant-garde saxophonist. Instead, he attended film school at NYU and became a part of the musical movement that would later be known as No Wave. He tells Joe about his relationship with Catholicism; cruising the Village in a sailor suit; his initiation into Lydia Lunch's band; writing books about Motley Crue and Paula Abdul; and the family dynamic of The Bad Seeds.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
0:05.4	Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate.
0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:28.1	Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:33.5	I want to play something for you.
0:37.3	Get ready for love.
0:44.3	Brace it. You're getting ready for love.
1:13.9	You're hearing Get Ready for Love by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, featuring my guest, James Sclavuna on drums.
1:16.3	A Brooklyn native, Jim attended NYU Film School and found a home among the artists that made
1:22.4	up the movement that became known as No Wave.
1:25.2	His many collaborators have included Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth,
1:29.3	Tav Felco's Panther Burns, and Congo Norvel. Since 1994, Sklavunas has worked with Nick Cave,
1:36.3	in the Bad Seeds and in Grindr Man. Jim fronts his own band, The Vanity Set, and he's also active as a producer, working with artists such as Boss Hog, Beth Orton, the Jim Jones Review, and Golgo Bredello.
1:50.4	Calling him, boy and girl You're calling now the world
2:03.6	Get ready for love
2:06.6	I spoke to Jim in Santa Monica, California
2:08.6	after a recent bad scenes tour When I was ready for me.
2:20.3	When I was very young, I thought John Coltrane was the bees' knees.
2:27.3	And then there was a whole series of free jazz and other sex styles of modern sax players that I was really
2:37.4	enamored of like Albert Eiler and Ornick Coleman and um Eric Dolfie
2:44.2	Eric Dolfie although I was more familiar with his other instrument you know his other
2:49.8	skills on other instruments but anyway yeah I was more familiar with his other instruments, his other skills on other instruments.
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