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Wong Notes

Ed Robertson Is a Pinball Wizard

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The pinball-obsessed Barenaked Ladies’ songwriter reflects on his band’s grassroots beginnings, pop culture and social media’s influence on songwriting, and the similarities between country and hip-hop production.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

Presented by DistroKid

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening, everybody? How you doing today? I'm doing all right. Thanks for asking.

0:09.6

This is collaborative. This is a back and forth. Okay. Podcasts can be interactive. You know,

0:15.8

it's the internet now. You know, like we're all, you know, I don't know. I feel like I know you.

0:19.6

And you probably feel like you know me.

0:21.6

So, cool.

0:22.6

We know each other.

0:23.8

My name's Corey Wong, for those of you that don't know me, and this is the podcast, Wong Notes.

0:29.3

Thanks for hanging with us today.

0:31.1

Super excited because we have an incredible musician, writer, band leader, witty human being, clever guy, Ed Robertson, from the band, Bear Naked Ladies.

0:45.2

Now, I'm just want to set the record straight here. It's not the Bear Naked Ladies.

0:49.6

Now, even, geez, I'm in my 30s now, and still when I say Bear Naked Ladies is a band name, I'm like, scandalous. It's a little bit like, ugh. You know, I remember just be, I, it's from, I got hip to this band when I was a kid, you know? So I'm in kid, I'm late elementary school or something. Talking about bare naked ladies, like, dang, I don't want the teachers to think that I'm talking about something I shouldn't be.

1:13.6

Anyways, whatever.

1:15.4

What I was saying is, we got a little Eagles situation here.

1:18.7

It's not the Eagles.

1:20.2

It's Eagles.

1:21.2

It's Eagles. It's not the bare naked ladies.

1:23.3

It's bare naked ladies.

1:24.9

So, I just want to get that straight right out the gate. All right? You might know bare naked ladies. So I just want to get that straight right out the gate.

1:28.6

All right.

1:29.2

You might know Bear Naked Ladies.

1:31.7

You might know Ed Robertson from a variety of smash hits.

1:36.9

One week, it's all been done.

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