Captain Kirk Douglas

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Captain Kirk Douglas is the longtime guitarist for The Roots. Over the past 21 years he’s seen the group evolve from a touring act, to the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, to having their own successful music festival in Philly. All the while continuing to record albums for themselves and others.

Between The Roots' many commitments, Kirk has also found time to record a solo project under the name Hundred Watt Heart. His most recent offering “New Unknown” was recorded in the basement of his childhood home on Long Island where he first fell in love with the music of Van Halen, Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, and so many others.

On today’s Broken Record Justin Richmond talks with Captain Kirk from the Roots’ green room in 30 Rock about the seductive pull he felt as a little kid seeing electric guitars on the cover of an old Kiss album. He also reminisces about his early days gigging around New York City in the ‘90s while also working as a preschool teacher. And he recalls the elation he felt when Prince played one of his guitars on the Tonight Show, only to smash it onstage at the end of the performance.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:09.0	The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Since it was
0:15.1	established in 1861 there have been 3,517 people awarded with the medal.
0:21.6	I'm Malcolm Gladwell and our new podcast from
0:24.3	Pushkin Industries and I Heart Media is about those heroes. What they did, what it
0:29.8	meant, what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice.
0:35.0	Listen to Medal of Honor stories of courage wherever you get your
0:40.0	podcast.
0:47.6	Captain Kirk Douglas is the longtime guitarist for the roots and someone I've always considered to be their secret weapon.
0:50.7	Kirk started playing with the roots in 2003 just as their guitar-driven hit song, The Seed was taken off.
0:57.0	Over 21 years, he's seen the group of Vol from a touring act to anchored around the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, to having their own
1:03.8	successful festival in Philly, all the while continuing for the most part at least to
1:09.6	record albums for themselves and for others.
1:12.8	Between the band's many commitments and there are many,
1:15.8	Kirk has also found time to record a solo project under the name 100 Watt Hart.
1:21.1	His most recent offering, New Unknown, was recorded in the basement of his childhood home on Long Island, where he first fell in love with the music of Van Halen, Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, and so many others we discuss in this episode.
1:35.2	On today's broken record I talk with Captain Kirk from the Roots Green Room in 30 Rock
1:39.2	about the seductive pulley felt as the little kid seeing electric guitars on the cover of an old Kiss album.
1:45.2	He also reminisces about his early days gigging around New York City in the 90s while working
1:49.2	as a preschool teacher.
1:51.6	And he recalls the elation he felt when Prince played one of his guitars on
1:55.1	its night show, only to smash it on stage at the end of his performance.
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