46. George Clarke (Deafheaven): Will There Be Blast Beats?

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Arts, Music, Music Interviews

5.0 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Bolm interviews George Clarke of Deafheaven

During this episode the two discuss Earthquake weather, his mother's influence on his musical taste, The Offspring, early connections to lyrics, being the token aggressive band on big festivals, unfavorable festivals sets, first concerts, tongue kissing, the rock church, recording for the first time, tracking vocals, first experiences with a record label, Jeremy learns that they once played together in the mid 2000's, the formation of Deafheaven, the Touché friendship forming, Jack Shirley, finding a place to belong with the music they made, the recording of Sunbather, collaborating with JMJ on the new album Infinite Granite, the transition to singing, Nick Steinhardt and so much more!

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0:00.0	First ever podcast.
0:13.0	First ever podcast.
0:15.0	First ever, podcast.
0:20.0	First ever, the first ever
0:21.4	the first ever podcast.
0:24.2	Welcome to the first ever podcast. If this is your host, Jeremy Bollm. If this is your first time here,
0:43.3	this is a show where I ask artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today.
0:50.6	My guest this week is George Clark of the band Def Heaven. They have a brand new record that comes out August 20th called Infinite Granite, which you can pre-order over on their web store. And they also have a U.S. tour that they just announced, which is also on sale.
1:06.1	Subscribers to the Patreon, we're able to ask George a couple questions, and you can hear those answers now
1:10.9	on a bonus episode if you are subscribed. If this kind of activity excites you, head on over to
1:17.9	patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. A lot of fun stuff going on over there. It's hard to put it
1:25.2	into words. All right, let's give a shout to the sponsor.
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1:59.3	Any size, any grind, any time. Break free from boring. All right, here is my
2:07.0	conversation with George Clark. Enjoy. George, how are you? It's nice to see you today.
2:15.4	I'm well. Good to see you on this beautiful Thursday.
2:19.8	How weird was that rain this morning? Did you catch that?
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