175 | Damon Wood Relives Smoking Section's "Smooth & Nasty" Grooves

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

More than just an interview and jam with the great guitarist DAMON WOOD (currently of SEAL PARTY), this episode is also a portal back to the amazing "thrash funk" era of San Francisco Bay Area music, an exciting time in the late '80s/early '90s when live bands pushing an infectious new genre of music ruled the Bay Area clubs. Some of the acts coming up in this scene — Primus, Limbomaniacs, and Fungo Mungo come to mind — lived up to the genre description by alternating danceable funk grooves with heavy, head-bang-able rock riffs, typically within the same song. However, SMOKING SECTION — Damon Wood's immensely popular Bay Area dance band — truly delivered the "funk" half of the thrash/funk equation, and in spectacular fashion. And in this episode Damon relives those unforgettable days — and Smoking Section's unforgettable grooves — in all their glory, and celebrates the fact that Smoking Section's album "Smooth & Nasty" is finally (after over three decades!) available for you to hear on Spotify, Apple Music, and just about every other streaming service. Presented by GUITAR PLAYER magazine. Hosted by JUDE GOLD.

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0:00.0	One fish!
0:00.8	Episode 175 of No Guitar Is Safe, the guitar show where guitar heroes plug in,
0:07.3	is brought to you today by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com.
0:12.5	Guitar player, play better, sound better.
0:15.8	Hey, Vern, how you doing?
0:19.2	No guitar is safe. Okay. man i'm so psyched to have the super funky damon wood on the show today i I am all new
0:42.6	That's Damon's current band
0:44.4	It's called Seal Party
0:45.8	Great musicians there
0:47.1	Damon laying down the funk
0:48.8	Of course I've been watching Damon
0:51.0	Lay down that funk
0:52.5	Forever it seems
0:54.0	They're catching big fish Down the Butterworth I've been watching Damon lay down that funk forever, it seems.
1:03.0	And I'm super psyched to sort of get in the time machine today and go back to one of the most exciting times that I know of in the Bay Area, which was
1:08.0	89, 90, up through 93, 94.
1:12.0	I don't know.
1:13.4	Just the scene, man.
1:15.0	We had a scene.
1:15.6	Do you ever have a scene in your town where there's just a bunch of bands coming up
1:19.8	and energy and tons of crowds and the clubs were packed?
1:24.7	Oh, it was great.
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