67: Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!): The Sun, The Moon, and The Rolling Stones

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week Jeremy interviews Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!

Listen now as the two talk phone anxiety, Ghostbusters, the passing of time, The French Dispatch, Tom Petty, moving from Italy to Florida, her first guitar and reading music, junior high imaginary bands, learning Nirvana Songs, how playing bass has influenced her songwriting, non-rhyming lyrics, how she became a front person, 4 track demo recording, talent show performances, first basement show, creating your own scene, the genesis of Against Me and Laura's zine Misanthrope, being pen pals with death row inmates, Crasshole records and the release of the self titled 12", recording the Crime EP and what lead to Reinventing Axl Rose, how Laura and Jeremy first met, major label expectations, her first touring experiences, and so much more!

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0:00.0	First ever
0:10.8	Pondes
0:13.8	First ever
0:16.3	Puntges
0:19.0	First ever The First Ever Puntges Podcasts first ever
0:21.6	The first ever podcast.
0:24.2	Welcome to the first ever podcast.
0:37.7	I am your host, Jeremy Bollm.
0:40.5	And if this is your first time here, 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.
0:50.4	I am so excited that my guest this week is none other than Laura Jane Grace.
0:58.9	I'm thrilled.
1:00.7	I'm a big against me fan.
1:03.4	When I went against me first came into my life, I was at just, you know, the right age.
1:08.4	I think it was around like 19 years old or something.
1:10.7	And I was just completely obsessed with, the right age. I think it was around like 19 years old or something. And,
1:10.8	uh, I was just completely obsessed with the reinventing Axel Rose and crime and acoustic. And then,
1:17.3	of course, as a eternal cowboy, everything. I just, I've found them so, so wonderful and, uh,
1:24.5	one of the best live bands around. Um it was exciting to get to talk to Laura.
1:30.6	What else?
1:32.5	Oh, she has a tour.
1:33.7	She just announced a tour in Canada in March.
1:37.2	She also has dates during December, I think one or two maybe in January.
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