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Chris DeMakes A Podcast

Ep. 14: Matt Skiba discusses Alkaline Trio's "Radio"

Chris DeMakes A Podcast

Chris DeMakes

Music History, Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.9923 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode, Matt Skiba discusses the writing, recording, and release of the Alkaline Trio classic "Radio". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.4

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0:05.6

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0:09.8

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0:11.8

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0:17.6

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0:27.0

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0:29.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hey everybody. Today's guest is Matt Skeba, guitarist and vocalist for Blink 182 and

0:49.9

Alkaline Trio. I've known Matt for many moons, what a wonderful human being and such

0:58.0

a talent, amazing songwriter and lyricist. Absolutely love Matt.

1:04.2

He picked the Alcoline Trio Classic Radio

1:06.8

to discuss today.

1:07.9

And man, this was a fun one to talk about a lot of things about this song I had no idea about

1:15.2

Matt talked about how he wrote radio very quickly while in the studio during the recording of

1:19.3

maybe I'll catch fire. He said the lyrics and the music were written all at once, like as if it was something that was gifted to him.

1:26.0

And I mentioned to him that the song is almost five minutes long, but it doesn't feel that way at all.

1:32.0

It just kind of takes you on this ride.

1:34.0

The first line of the song, I could have never pulled this off with the conviction that Matt did.

1:39.0

The first line of the song is shaking like a dog shitting razor blades and I had no idea what

1:45.1

that meant and Matt told me that that's a Vietnam War reference basically for

1:49.6

Shell Shock and I also mentioned this is a very mature song for a being on Alkaline Trio's second record.

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