271: Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Yo La Tengo's Georgia Hubley joins Joe from Montauk, NY to discuss: her animator parents; her background in visual arts; her band-specific drumming style; and her strong sense of intuition.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:14.6	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:17.0	During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing episodes every day. Today's guest is Georgia Hubley, drummer and singer of Yo Lettengo, the New York-based band she co-founded in 1984.
1:02.0	Georgia spoke to me from Montauk, New York. Georgia?
1:18.9	Hi.
1:19.8	How's your day been?
1:24.4	Pretty much like every other day.
1:28.8	It's been fine.
1:30.2	It's, um, I went for a nice walk.
1:33.6	That's usually at some point during the day.
1:35.9	I'll go for a walk and, uh, and then make dinner and then watch a movie and then go to sleep.
1:43.2	It's like pretty much like pretty much the day.
1:46.0	It doesn't sound like a bad life.
1:48.4	No, no. It's fine. It's fine. I mean, what are we going to do? I don't know.
1:55.5	We'll see. I sort of was thinking, though, at some point I'm hoping we can start playing together,
2:04.6	at least I feel like three people can get in a room and play together, you know, like,
2:10.6	distanced, equally distance apart should be okay.
2:14.6	Well, especially since two of them are together all the time anyway.
2:18.6	Exactly.
2:19.7	Yeah, right.
2:20.4	We can be closer, and then he has to be on the other side of the room.
2:24.4	You should get one of those plexiglass shields like they have for certain drummers.
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