201: Alan McGee
Craig & Friends
Craig And Friends
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The legendary Alan McGee joins me to talk cresting Creation records, managing the Happy Mondays, the drawbacks of drugs, Primal Scream & his friendship with Bobby Gillespie, getting sober, discovering Oasis, slipping back into bad habits, selling Creation to Sony, beating benzos, walking & weight loss, My Bloody Valentine, positivity, Slowdive, the magic of Mike Chapman, and a deep dive on David Bowie.
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| 0:06.7 | it never starts, it never ends Welcome to Craig and friends |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Craig and friends Welcome to Craig and friends |
| 0:22.0 | Hey there and welcome to my chat with Alan Niki |
| 0:25.3 | Well the chat will start in a second First I gotta tell you a few things |
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| 0:44.0 | reward tiers and the new rewards Bonus episodes chats with Ada and myself about |
| 0:49.1 | parenting, adult topics as well and you get ad-free, advanced and uncut versions of these very |
| 0:54.9 | episodes. TV Club, a new series where Rod Thomas of Bright Life, Bright Light and I discuss |
| 1:00.5 | and analyze and tear apart every episode of Murder She Wrote. Not to mention early access |
| 1:06.1 | to movie club titles and the ability to participate in future movie clubs. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you Jack Hughes, Nick Feldman, the Prince Charles Cinema and everyone who came to the |
| 1:14.4 | first Craig and friends presents Cinema Extravaganza in which we watched a beautiful 35 |
| 1:19.8 | millimeter presentation of William Friedkin's classic to live in Dine LA followed by a |
| 1:24.4 | lively Q&A that you'll be hearing very soon on an upcoming movie club episode. |
| 1:28.8 | And no, get ready because it's time for my chat with the one the only the Alan McGee. |
| 1:35.3 | There we go, just had to get the backup recorder. I'll set to go. Did you ever have an |
| 1:39.5 | instant, uh, incident where there was some kind of a problem with the tape or a hard drive or |
| 1:44.3 | something in a performance was lost when you guys were recording? Oh, if you just keep this up, |
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