#427:Bill Kelliher/ Mastodon

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🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today on LET THERE BE TALK my guest is the incredible Riff Master himself Mr.Bill Kelliher of Mastodon.

It was an honor to talk to Bill a few weeks back before soundcheck at their NYC show in Coney Island.Bill and I cover all kinds of ground including Songwriting,Music Business,Guitars and of course their new record Emperor Of Sand and the new EP Cold Dark Place which is shaping up to be one their all time best if you ask me.

Over the last few years Mastodon has become one of my all time favorites. This band constantly pushes the envelope and takes chances never putting out the same record twice.

I highly recommend you start with the latest EP and work your way back thru their 17 year career.

Make sure you catch Mastodon on tour all summer.

Candles Lit.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of Let's To Be Talk
0:04.4	today is Monday. What June 25th? How the hell are you guys coming to you from New York
0:10.9	City with a fantastic guest today. It is another member of mastodon Bill Keller. And I got
0:20.2	to tell you, man, over the like last, I would say really the last five years, but really
0:26.5	over the last year, I've kind of become obsessed with this band. And it really, I really
0:34.2	realized it when I was seeing them live for my fourth time now or whatever, recently at
0:40.7	Coney Island, they were out there with Primus a few weeks back. And I watched the band and
0:45.9	I was just like, this band is so fucking great. They're just so original. Everybody sings,
0:54.5	everybody is completely full on killers on their instrument. The songs are insane. The show is great.
1:04.8	It's just amazing to have a band that's been around for a shit 100 years now. I think 17, 18 years
1:14.6	we're talking about. It's just amazing that a band like this can just, you know, all the sudden
1:21.2	creep up, you know, over long periods of grass roots slugging it out on the live trenches
1:29.8	out there on tour. And eventually reaching people, even somebody like me who I should have
1:36.2	probably known about this band the day they came out, but who knows what the fuck was going
1:41.0	on in my life back then. And I don't really come on to the band until, you know, later on with
1:49.5	the record, the Hunter. And I used to shout out that record all the time. Some mastodon fans are like,
1:55.8	oh, no, no, you got to go back. Well, it's whatever record that you discover the band on is usually
2:03.3	the one that is your one of your favorites because it's your gateway into the band. And that
2:10.3	was what the Hunter was for me with Black Tongue, that song and Curl the Burl. And the actual track,
2:18.7	the Hunter. I love this record and I rocked it for a while. I saw them, of course, years back
2:25.8	with ghost opening early, I think it was the first ghost tour at Universal Amphitheater. And I
2:34.1	just fell in love with them. And slowly, they've just been absolutely destroyed it over the last
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