Dan 'Soupy' Campbell | The Wonder Years
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Watercooler Podcast
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Wonder Years' lead singer Dan 'Soupy' Campbell recalls working at Chuck E. Cheese and pureeing steaks at a retirement home before his band took off. He also talks about some of his favorite bands, overcoming writer's block, and the creation of The Wonder Years' latest album 'No Closer to Heaven.'
'No Closer To Heaven' is out September 4th. For tour dates and more information, visit TheWonderYearsBand.com
And reach out to Dan on Twitter @headabovewater
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Chris here. |
| 0:00.8 | Just letting you know that resume season two premieres Wednesday, August 10th with guest Adam Carolla. |
| 0:05.9 | So be on the lookout for that. |
| 0:07.2 | And until then, I thought it would be fun to dig into the archives and re-release some of the old interviews I've done for resume. |
| 0:13.8 | So please enjoy. |
| 0:14.9 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:16.6 | And thanks for listening to the water cooler. |
| 0:18.2 | And make sure to tune in Wednesday, August 10th, for the rollout of Season 2. |
| 0:28.4 | This is Corolla Digital. And it's resume. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm your host, Chris Loxamana, |
| 0:57.1 | and this is the show where we take a look into the job history of some really notable people, |
| 1:05.9 | and I'm very excited to introduce my next guest to you. With me, I have Dan Soupy Campbell, a singer of the band The Wonder Years, the Rock Band The Wonder Years. Welcome to the show, Dan. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I like this music. Thanks. It's, uh, I know it kind of goes on for a little bit. It's going to end like any second now. Do you want to just leave it on for the whole show? Yeah, we'll just let it loop behind everything. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, let me find a good head and tail there and we'll just let it go the whole time. Well, just a nice little background music. It'll just drill down. You kind of lull everyone into like Delta brainwaves. Yeah, and you won't even know it's happening 15 minutes in. Yeah, it'll sound like just like one fish song. So the Wonder Years, rock band, pop punk, would you say? Yeah, |
| 1:48.7 | I know it's a, I know genres are a weird thing for everybody. Yeah, for most musicians, |
| 1:53.2 | genre is like, yeah, whatever you want, whatever makes you happy. Okay. I'm not concerned with it. |
| 1:57.1 | Well, let me let me tell you about my history with pop punk music. Just so people |
| 2:04.2 | would understand why I'm so excited to have you here. But before that, I want to let you know |
| 2:09.3 | about their new album, the band's new album, No Closer to Heaven. It's out September 4th. You can |
| 2:13.9 | pre-order it now. September 4th, you can get it now via merch now if you want, |
| 2:18.9 | or Target has it. They're going to have it in stores starting September 4th for, it'll be on |
| 2:23.6 | sale for 99, and actually Target has two bonus tracks. Or you could get it at your local |
| 2:28.9 | record store, which we love and go support them. Yeah. Or iTunes, or, I don't know, steal it I don't know. I mean, don't. But if you do, I don't know. That's the last, last resort. Yeah, I would prefer that you don't, but I'm not the cops. Yeah. Support, just support them. No closer to heaven. I've heard a few tunes off of this album. and it's a concept album, so I heard them out of context, I feel. |
| 2:53.3 | Yeah, it's tunes off this album. And it's a concept album, so I heard them out of context, I feel. |
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