310: Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Raw Impressions)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Over the past 40 years, Lou Barlow's body of work--with bands like Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and as a solo artist--has immensely impacted Joe's life. Lou tells Joe about growing up in the chaotic 1970s; his early love of pop radio; the enormous influence the Ramones had on his life; hearing his early songs on college radio; sleep hygiene; and his inclination towards flittering and fretting.

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0:00.0	I better go in here if I don't.
0:02.0	That guitar, I mean, I gotta finish right.
0:05.0	I got to, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I haven't written a song and fucking,
0:07.0	God, it's been like months.
0:09.0	God, I haven't written a song, I forgot.
0:11.0	You know, it's more of this, like, breathless, like,
0:14.0	you know, this kind of flittering around.
0:17.0	These parts of my personality are probably never going to go away, but the flittering kind of, like fluttering and fretting still happens.
0:45.3	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you. I feel your eyes upon me. How should I activate? You're hearing repulsion me, you're hearing my
1:08.0	featuring my guest Lou Barlow on bass.
1:11.7	Over the past 40 years, Barlow has cultivated a body of work that has impacted my life
1:18.0	immensely, with Dinosaur, with bands like Cebedo and Folk Implosion, and as a solo artist.
1:24.6	In addition to his work as a musician,
1:28.8	Lou and his wife, Adele,
1:32.3	host an excellent podcast called Raw Impressions.
1:35.1	He spoke to me from his home in Massachusetts.
1:38.4	And now my conversation with Lou Barlow.
1:51.1	Repulsion. Thank you. What was the first thought that went through your mind this morning?
1:54.8	I woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning.
1:57.5	So I don't know if you could even call it morning.
2:03.6	I woke up at 3 and I just meditated and bed next to my wife for like three hours. Three hours. I went through a lot of stuff. I went, I went, I did. Sometimes I'll wake up
2:08.8	like that and I'll be like, I got to go back to sleep or I'll take maybe like half a Xanax or something.
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