68: Rickie Mazzotta (mewithoutYou): Music Has Been One of my Greatest Teachers
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Rickie Mazzotta - Drummer of mewithoutYou
Jeremy spoke to Rickie days before mewithoutYou embarked on tour and talked touring pre-covid, overnight drives, tour rehearsals, Dr Dre's The Chronic, Dookie, faux grunge, Lollapooza 94, his first drum kit, Weezer's Blue album, first bands, how he met the members of mewithoutYou, their early recordings and shows, Creep Records in Philadelphia, I Never Said I Was Brave and Kickstart Audio, signing to Tooth & Nail, Recording A to B Life with J.Robbins, coming to L.A. to meet Brad Wood to record Catch For Us the Foxes, Sunny Day Real Estate, self releasing Ten Stories, punks and money, the first time Jeremy saw mewithoutYou, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | First ever |
| 0:10.8 | Pondes |
| 0:13.0 | First ever |
| 0:16.0 | Pontius |
| 0:19.0 | First ever The First Ever Puntest podcast first ever |
| 0:21.6 | the first ever podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 0:37.8 | I am your host, Jeremy Bollm. |
| 0:40.0 | 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. |
| 0:48.1 | My guest this week is my favorite drummer, Ricky Mazota of Me Without You. |
| 0:53.1 | We recorded this just before they left for tour, |
| 0:55.2 | and I believe on the 14th, uh, which was yesterday, they wrapped it up, but that's only the first leg of the tour. They pick it back up in January on the 7th. You're not going to want to miss them. They're starting to, uh, sort of wind down. They're one of the coolest bands that I think has come out of punk and hardcore, and they're very special, and they deserve all of the love that's headed their way. |
| 1:17.5 | But before we get to that interview, I want to remind you of the Patreon. If you go to |
| 1:21.1 | patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon, you could actually hear a bonus episode with Ricky right now. |
| 1:27.5 | Subscribers were able to submit questions to Ricky, and he so kindly answered them in a bonus episode. |
| 1:32.7 | So if that interests you, head on over to patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. |
| 1:37.1 | And if you subscribe for seven or ten bucks, you can submit questions to upcoming guests and kind of find out who's coming up next and before anybody else. |
| 1:46.6 | It's cool stuff. |
| 1:48.8 | Also, I want to give a shout to our sponsors, Discovered magazine. |
| 1:52.4 | Discovered is an international print counterculture magazine, encompassing the best of music, art, skateboarding, and anything with a punk ethos. |
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