157: Dallas Green (City and Colour / Alexisonfire): A Half Step Down
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Dallas Green of City and Colour / Alexisonfire
On this episode Dallas and Jeremy talk skateboarding, Sade, his family's love of music, Alice in Chains, Canada, Kurt Cobain, the Fender Prodigy guitar, Al Pacino, Sonic Onion Records, forming Alexisonfire, being inspired by the band Taken, Equal Vision Records, collaborating with Gared from Planes Mistaken For Stars, transitioning to City and Colour, Dine Alone Records, releasing an album with Pink, his new record "The Love Still Held Me Near", and so much more!
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| 1:46.6 | 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. This is episode 157, and my guest this week is Dallas Green. |
| 1:49.0 | You know him from Alexis on fire. |
| 1:51.3 | You know him from City and Color. |
| 1:53.3 | Do you know I'm going to confess this? |
| 1:56.5 | I never thought twice about the name City and Color. |
| 2:04.8 | I just thought it was a good name, you know, but I didn't put it together that it was Dallas as in city, green, as in color. |
| 2:10.1 | There's so many people that are like probably hearing that and being like, well, yeah, you didn't realize that right away. |
| 2:17.3 | But maybe I'm getting through to the people who are just like me who are having that realization right now. You are not alone. You are not alone. I just met Dallas |
| 2:23.0 | for the first time in person. Just a couple, I guess I could say over a month ago, we played a festival |
| 2:28.9 | together in Europe. And just what a lovely guy. He came up and introduced himself because we all thought it was silly that we'd never met. |
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