264: Sean Solomon (Moaning)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sean Solomon tells Joe about: taking lessons with the late Richie Hass of Saccharine Trust; growing up with a musical father and uncle; his early affinity for drugs; turning his life around in the psych ward; the meditative benefits of guitar playing; the band dynamic of Moaning; and his career as an animator.

Also, Rob Ellis returns to discuss his new album, The Nostalgia Machine, out today.

During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing new episodes every day.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, I'm excited to share our episode with Sean Solomon. But first, I got a call from my very
0:07.0	self-effacing, but extremely talented friend Rob Ellis, whom you might know as the drummer for
0:13.6	everyone from PJ Harvey to Marianne Faithful, and who was on the show a couple years back.
0:20.4	Rob has a new solo album out today, and I loved it so much that I asked him to call me and tell
0:25.6	me about it.
0:29.6	Hi, Joe.
0:30.7	Hi, Rob.
0:31.4	How are you?
0:32.6	Hi, good.
0:33.4	How are you?
0:34.3	I'm doing okay.
0:35.1	What are you up to today?
0:42.1	Oh, what am I out to? I've been for a walk and I've been doing a little bit of work. I am actually doing a little bit of writing here,
0:49.0	managing to. But yeah, yeah, funny old, funny old business at the moment that i wanted to call you real quickly
0:57.5	to talk about the nostalgia machine which is a new album that you have coming out on friday oh yes right
1:04.0	yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um yes it's um it's something i worked on last year and uh it's like an
1:16.1	instrumental record or another instrumental record i've done a couple before but not for the last one
1:22.0	i did 16 years ago so it's quite a quite a long gap and, yeah, I've just done this new one,
1:30.3	which is a bit different to the ones I've done before.
1:32.6	It's a little bit more, a little less avon and a bit more guard.
1:42.5	But, yeah, it's, yeah. But, yeah, it it's um yeah i'm quite pleased with it it it's beautiful
1:49.0	i've been listening to it today oh thank you no that's great it's um yeah it's uh it's uh it was
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