131: Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids): The Only Time We Ever Stopped Was to Sleep or Watch the Simpsons
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids / The New Amsterdams
On this episode Matt and Jeremy talk Kansas vs. Missouri, working with Producer Ed Rose, Matt's early love of hair metal, pre-Get Up Kids band Secular Theme, the greatness of Coalesce, Bob Weston, record label woes, Heroes and Villains, On a Wire, the origin of the name New Amsterdams, the upcoming Worse For the Wear anniversary tour, and so much more!
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| 0:34.3 | Music hard times. First ever podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | First ever! The first ever podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:12.7 | My name is Jeremy Boll. |
| 1:13.9 | I am your host. |
| 1:14.8 | 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. |
| 1:23.3 | And my guest this week is the ultra prolific singer-songwriter and member of bands like the Get Up Kids in the New Amsterdam's. |
| 1:32.6 | It's Matt Pryor. |
| 1:34.1 | Very excited to have Matt on. |
| 1:36.1 | He's about to celebrate an anniversary tour with Kevin Devine for his new Amsterdam's record, Worst for the Ware. |
| 1:42.9 | But Kevin Devine's going to be doing Make the Clock's Move. Check out the dates, I believe it starts the first week of March. You should not miss that tour. I'm going to try to make it out to the Pioneer Town show. It's at a spot called Pappy and Harriet's. It's tucked away, a little barbecue restaurant way out in the desert. If you haven't seen a show there and you're from Southern |
| 2:01.0 | California, do it. Have this one be your first. Hey, I want to let you know, 90% of the episodes here |
| 2:09.0 | have a bonus episode. You can access those over at patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. |
| 2:14.8 | This week, Matt and I ran out of time, but he was kind enough to answer |
| 2:19.7 | the questions via text. So if you're subscribed to the show, you could head on over to |
| 2:25.4 | patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon and check out the questions that were submitted by |
| 2:29.8 | subscribers that Matt was kind enough to answer. You can access that now. |
| 2:36.9 | Plus tons of bonus episodes. |
| 2:38.6 | I do bonus radio hours. |
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