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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Danny Elfman: The Chili Pepper Thing

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When Danny Elfman joins Rob Lowe, It’s two lively personalities at the Dead Man’s Party! On today’s episode you’ll find out why the theme from Halloween drove Danny wild, what it took to squash the beef between him and Simpsons creator Matt Groening, and which funk-rock band used to get booed while opening for Oingo Boingo! Strap in, it’s a spooky one! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Yours could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

I was weirdly nervous, prepping and reading and getting ready to interview you.

0:05.6

I don't know what that means.

0:08.0

I can't hurt you through the Zoom screen. Just remember that.

0:11.4

Welcome. Hello. This is literally, you've come to the right place. It's literally with me.

0:30.2

I literally am Roblo. Danny Elfman occupies such a big place in my musical fandom,

0:36.6

both in terms of Wingo Boingo and all of the amazing scores that he has done.

0:43.3

He's done every single Tim Burton, really. The Simpsons, the Grinch, all the 50 Shades of Grey movies,

0:51.6

Milk, all the Sam Raimi movies. I mean, my man amazingly, amazingly talented. I've always wanted

0:57.8

to pick his brain. And frankly, I'm always a little afraid of what might be in his brain,

1:02.4

but we're going to find out right now with Danny Elfman. You've been a big part of my musical life,

1:10.1

not just the scores, but going back to when you were a rock and roll star.

1:16.1

When I did my first movie, the outsiders, when we did the rumble scene,

1:23.7

there was a lot of Dead Man's Party being played. Wow. I would never have guessed that.

1:30.0

There was a lot of Wingo Boingo being played. Am I remembering correctly that oftentimes,

1:37.4

do you remember a venue deep in the valley called the Country Club? Oh, yeah. Sure.

1:41.9

You guys played the Country Club, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, quite a few times.

1:46.7

Yeah, we used the bounce kind of between like four or five clubs almost every weekend. It was a

1:52.3

great era starting up in a band because you had the whiskey a go-go, of course, in the Roxy.

1:58.8

Then you had Matamong's East and Matamong's West in Chinatown and in West LA.

2:04.9

Then you had the Country Club in the valley. Oh, God. There's a place I'm trying to remember

2:11.6

that was down in like Redondo Beach. Between these, it created this loop. We would be going into

2:18.8

the whiskey or the Roxy. The next weekend, the go-go's or somebody would be coming in. We leave

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