Chris Shiflett is Over the “Shame of the ’80s”
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The Foo Fighter talks about his influences from the guitar-hero era, and shares all the details of his gear, from his signature model Fender to why “you gotta have a Phase 90 on your board.”
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. We're back for a new season. We're back. We took a little break. |
| 0:08.9 | And I am excited to be back because this season I have gotten to talk to some of my favorite musicians. |
| 0:14.2 | You will find out who they are soon. It feels good to be back. I'm on a little break from Festi season right now, |
| 0:20.7 | gearing up, getting ready, bunch of new |
| 0:22.6 | tunes for a tour this fall. |
| 0:24.6 | I feel like I've been playing a lot this year and I'm feeling in a really great flow. |
| 0:28.6 | My band is sounding tight as ever. |
| 0:31.6 | And we got like 40 new songs that we're playing on tour that we haven't been doing for the last year. So I'm gearing up to work on that. So I've had to practice a lot of stuff. I've been practicing a lot of guitar this last couple weeks. It's been really fun. Just diving into a bunch of things and learning old tunes, kind of different techniques and things that end up showing up from songs that I haven't played for a while. If you're in the U.S., come check us out on tour. I'm going to be out on tour. Corey Wong, with my full band, Sierra Hall, Robbie Wolfson. We're going to have Victor Wooten out, band Truesdale. Depending on what city you're at, that depends on who's going to be with me. but either way, they're all going to be awesome. |
| 1:12.0 | Today on the show, we've got Chris Shifflett. |
| 1:13.9 | I am such a huge fan of Chris. |
| 1:16.3 | You might know him from the Foo Fighters. |
| 1:18.2 | I've seen him with that band several times. |
| 1:20.8 | He's also got a solo project that is fantastic. |
| 1:23.7 | Let's not hold you up any longer. |
| 1:25.1 | Chris Shifflet. |
| 1:29.6 | You guys hit the distro kid yet? |
| 1:31.9 | It is the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to get your music onto streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube music, |
| 1:39.2 | pretty much anywhere else that people consume music. |
| 1:41.8 | You can get an account starting at 1999 per year. Per year, |
| 1:46.3 | you get unlimited uploads and you keep 100% of your earnings. A hundred percent. So somebody like |
| 1:53.1 | me, I put out a lot of albums last year. It was still just one annual price, no matter how many |
| 1:59.6 | albums I have up, and I keep 100% of the earnings that come in. |
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