Dave Alvin
The Working Songwriter
Joe Pug
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The roots rock legend and creative force behind The Blasters discusses the punk rock scene in 1980s LA, touring with Queen, and the sublime moment of playing the right song with the right band.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. Hi and welcome to the working songwriter, the show where today's best songwriters come to |
| 0:20.8 | talk shop. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm your host, Joe Pug. Each episode here we host a |
| 0:25.8 | distinguished guest and we ask them to go deep on their inspiration, on the |
| 0:31.2 | process on the |
| 0:33.0 | general ups and downs of making a life in music. |
| 0:36.0 | So, whether you're a grizzled veteran |
| 0:39.0 | asking your nephew how to upload music videos |
| 0:42.0 | onto your Facebook page or else a scrappy upstart |
| 0:46.7 | deleting your Facebook page to only release hand-numbered cassettes, this is your show. |
| 0:53.0 | Because ultimately, it is what every writer seeks most, |
| 0:57.0 | an ironclad excuse to put off actually writing. |
| 1:10.0 | Hey everybody, it's the first Friday of December 2020, and I thank you for joining us. |
| 1:12.0 | This week's show is brought to you by Bandzugal. |
| 1:14.5 | Built by musicians and for musicians, Bandzugal is an all in one platform to build a |
| 1:20.5 | beautiful website for your music. I'm old enough to remember when you had to pay somebody |
| 1:25.4 | called a web developer to get a website made, and it would always be some guy named |
| 1:31.5 | Sven who drove a Mazda Miata with a trailer hitch welded to the bumper |
| 1:37.2 | because he was always fencing pallets of monster energy drink that his cousin |
| 1:42.1 | stole from AMC movie theaters. |
| 1:44.4 | And old Sven would charge you about a thousand bucks for a website |
| 1:48.2 | that would be obsolete in six months. |
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