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The First Ever Podcast

49. Elijah Blue (Deadsy): The Gig That Launched a Thousand Ships

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0532 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Bolm interviews Elijah Blue of the band Deadsy
 
During this episode the two discuss Matt Pinfield, growing up in NYC in the 80s, Into Another and NYHC, discovering Men at Work, his love for Duran Duran, being terrified by KISS in full makeup as a small child, Guns N Roses, Gene Simmons gifting him his first guitar, the story of his Les Paul Black Beauty, learning how to play La Bamba, his first band, recording the Deadsy Demo, the Jay Gordon from Orgy and Jonathan Davis connection, Jeremy's discovery of Deadsy and a brief history of Seymour Stein, the story of Commencement getting shelved over and over, Deadsy's first shows, Commencement finally coming out and the aftermath, what brought them to cover Sebadoh, what's next for the band, and so much more!
 
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First ever

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First ever podcast

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First ever The First Ever Podcast Podcasts first ever

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The first ever podcast.

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Welcome to the first ever podcast. If this is your host, Jeremy Bollm. If this is your first time here,

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this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences and their

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art form that led them to where they are today. Today's episode is episode 49. Holy shit.

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Next week, 50. Huge milestone. I'm very proud of that.

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Been doing the show for over a year now. And if you're tuning in every week, I cannot thank you

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enough. Today's episode is a gigantic, gigantic get for me. I had a mental checklist of artists

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that I would love to talk to when I started doing this show.

1:13.3

And many of them are ones that are probably going to be really difficult to get or possibly impossible.

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And this is one of those conversations that I had on that list and, you know, didn't know how possible it would really be.

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And I want to say thank you to Matt

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Penfield for helping put this together. Today I am talking to Elijah Blue, full name Elijah Blue

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Alman. He's the singer of the band Deadsy and the son of Cher and Greg Allman. Really interesting conversation. I've always been very fascinated by

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Deadsy. I discovered them in 1996 by just coming across a CD at a record store that had a

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for a promotional use only sticker on it. And corn at the time was like my favorite band.

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And I saw in the liner notes that Jonathan Davis sang on the record.

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So I just blindly bought it, not knowing what it was.

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