231: Geoff Garlock (Orchid): Paper Bag Hardcore
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews bassist Geoff Garlock of the band Orchid.
On this episode, Jeremy and Geoff talk podcasting, Orchid reuniting, Primus, bass guitar, Saturday Night Live, the band Therapy?, metalcore, touring in Orchid, smuggling merch, and so much more!!!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, you know what time it is. It is time for that convulse records update on their new releases. |
| 0:07.1 | Just about the best label going around right now. So let's get into it. We got a new EP from punitive damage. It is called hate training. |
| 0:14.5 | Picking up with the 2022 LP, this is the blackout left off. This EP delivers enormous direct hardcore across six tracks. Lyrically, |
| 0:23.3 | hate training addresses historic cycles of oppression and their echoes today. Sonically, it gives you |
| 0:28.8 | everything you want from hardcore without any bloat or excess. It is fast, aggressive, and loud. |
| 0:35.8 | Up next we got the debut LP from Public Opinion. It is called |
| 0:39.4 | Painted on Smile, one part ultra catchy punk, one part exorcism. It's an album that |
| 0:45.4 | reckons with self-loathing and self-doubted so thoroughly that by the end of it, maybe |
| 0:49.8 | things don't seem as cursed after all. Painted on Smile somehow draws together the melodicism of early Otts Rock, the intensity |
| 0:56.8 | of hardcore, and the spiky swagger of primordial punk into a surprisingly cohesive blend. |
| 1:03.0 | Lyrically, the album hinges on Hart's ability to capture existential frustration without |
| 1:08.5 | stumbling into self-pity. You can order these incredible records and see what else Convulse has to offer |
| 1:14.4 | when you visit convulse records.bantamp.com. |
| 1:23.5 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:32.3 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:58.0 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. 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. |
| 2:07.6 | This is episode 231. And my guest this week is Jeff Garlock, the bass player of the band Orchid. You might remember I had Jason Green, the vocalist of Orchid, |
| 2:19.8 | on the podcast around the time of their reunion shows that happened on the East Coast and in the |
| 2:24.2 | Midwest. Well, guess what? They are playing on the West Coast this February. So we figured, |
| 2:29.8 | you know what? Let's bring Jeff on. Talk about that, talk about how those first reunion shows went, |
| 2:35.3 | talk about all things music. If you're looking to find out where their shows are, February 10th, |
| 2:41.2 | they're going to be in Seattle at substation, the 11th in Portland at Revolution Hall, the 13th, San Francisco |
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