47. Jon Simmons (Balance and Composure / Creeks): End of August

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Arts, Music, Music Interviews

5.0 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Bolm interviews singer/songwriter Jon Simmons of Creeks / Balance and Composure.

During this episode the two discuss Jon's trip home to Pennsylvania, his time in Knoxville, TN as a child, Christian pop punk, his early love for rap and R&B, joining the church band, playing air guitar in the mirror, his first band The Has Been's, Easter Kids, This Day Forward, The Erection Kids, the Doylestown music scene, early recording memories, signing to No Sleep records, recording Separation with Brian McTernan, his friendship with Vinnie Caruana, myspace tours, his first package tour with Title Fight, Bayside and Senses Fail, reminiscing about our time touring together, life after Balance and Composure, moving to Los Angeles and making new music with his solo project Creeks as well as Coward and Misery Club, and so much more! The show ends with a very special performance of his new song "Stone Cold".

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0:00.0	First ever
0:11.0	Pondes
0:13.0	First ever
0:16.0	Puntips
0:19.0	First ever
0:21.6	The first ever podcast.
0:23.6	Welcome to the first ever podcast. If this is host, Jeremy Bollm. If this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today.
0:51.1	My guest this week is an old friend and one of my favorite people on earth, John Simmons.
0:58.6	You might know John from singing in the band, Balance and Composure, but what brought him here
1:03.6	with us today is he just released a new EP under the name Creeks called The Pain You Took
1:10.8	On, and it's very, very good. It's very good.
1:14.6	And he performs for us at the end of this conversation. So you be sure to stick around because you get a,
1:21.3	you get a very special performance by Mr. John Simmons of a song called Stone Cold, which is actually
1:26.4	the first track on that new
1:28.3	EP.
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