167: Michael Bingham (Spiritual Cramp): All You Can Do Is Bet On Yourself
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Michael Bingham of Spiritual Cramp.
On this episode Jeremy and Michael talk Christian alternative, audio quality, Social Distortion, learning guitar, bonding with family through music, 36 Crazyfists, pentatonic blues scales, stage presence, metalcore, being open to feedback, visual art direction, Terror, the liberation of touring, recording with Efrim Menuck, the role of music videos, the new Spiritual Cramp LP, and so much more!!!
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| 0:55.0 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | The first ever podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | My name is Jeremy Bollm. |
| 1:14.9 | 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. |
| 1:24.9 | My guest this week for episode 167, it's Mike Bingham. He is the vocalist |
| 1:32.8 | and altogether mastermind of the band Spiritual Cramp, who just released their incredible |
| 1:40.7 | self-titled debut album this last Friday. And it's, if you, have you heard this thing? |
| 1:49.4 | It's so fucking good. I had been screaming the name Spiritual Cramp from the Mountain Tops for a number of years. |
| 1:58.6 | They've been releasing EP, 7 inches, what have you for a number of years. They've been releasing EP, 7 inches, what have you, for a number of years now, |
| 2:02.9 | but we finally have the full length. And God damn, I got to say it was worth the wait. |
| 2:09.6 | They have a record release show, actually, November 15th up in San Francisco at the kilowatt bar |
| 2:13.9 | that you should check out if you are in the area. In December, they're going to be |
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