85: Bob Nanna (Braid / Hey Mercedes): I Still Am Striving To Do Something That I Think Is The Best
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews musician Bob Nanna of Braid, Hey Mercedes, and more!
On this episode Bob and Jeremy and talk solo vacations, his first shows back, pre show anxiety, vocal warm ups, being prolific, his childhood jukebox and the music journey of his teen years, hair metal, Naked Raygun, playing drums and his first show, his band Friction, learning how to play guitar, his first tour, Polyvinyl records, working with J Robbins on Frame & Canvas, signing to Vagrant Records, working with Will Yip, and so much more!
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| 1:33.3 | The First Ever Podcasts Welcome to the first ever podcast. I am your host, Jeremy Bollm. This is episode 85, and if it 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 |
| 2:01.8 | them to where they are today. My guest this week is Bob Nana of the band Braide, of the band Hey Mercedes, |
| 2:10.4 | of a million bands. He's a very prolific musician. I'd seen that he had posted on Twitter being |
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