169: Jack Shirley (Producer / Comadre) & George Clarke (Deafheaven): Kinda Like a Bay Thing
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews producer and engineer Jack Shirley with special co-host George Clarke of the band Deafheaven to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the record "Sunbather."
On this episode, the group discusses the 650 area code, Beach Boys, 411 Video Magazine, the movie New Jack City, AC/DC, improving the live DIY experience, car audio, Refused, karaoke machines, At the Gates, building your own recording space, setting expectations, meeting Deafheaven, making the album "Sunbather", remixing it for the 10th anniversary, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | First ever |
| 0:11.0 | Pondes |
| 0:13.0 | First ever |
| 0:16.0 | Pond chips |
| 0:19.0 | First ever |
| 0:21.6 | The first ever podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I am your first ever podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | My name is Jeremy Boll. |
| 0:39.1 | 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. |
| 0:49.2 | My guest this week for episode 169 is Jack Shirley. And to make this extra exciting, my co-host for this |
| 0:59.5 | episode is George Clark of the band Death Heaven, who I am about to start a U.S. tour with this coming |
| 1:07.7 | weekend, where they will be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Sunbather. |
| 1:12.0 | So this all ties together because none other than Jack Shirley produced that record. |
| 1:16.8 | So I figured, hey, why not take this opportunity, talk to Jack, celebrate his incredible career, |
| 1:22.1 | and bring on George to have some real in-depth sunbather talk. |
| 1:26.4 | It's a lot of fun. |
| 1:27.3 | And hey, I want to let you know if you're new here that there's a bonus episode available right now where Jack and George answered questions that were submitted by subscribers. You can access that by going over to patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. You can subscribe for as little as $3 a month and get access to that bonus |
| 1:44.8 | episode plus all the other bonus stuff. There's a Discord channel, all sorts of fun stuff |
| 1:49.7 | happening over there. I will likely be keeping everyone updated with how this tour is going. |
| 1:54.9 | I'm really excited about it. We start in Chicago on Sunday. Then we're going to be playing |
| 1:59.9 | Detroit. |
| 2:06.2 | And in no particular order, Philly, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, |
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