Ep023: Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit w Klaus Flouride Interview, RSD 2016 list & Goodbye George Martin
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Dead Kennedys debut LP "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" is still a high-water mark in the history of American hardcore punk, today we discuss the LP, the various pressings and the history with DK bassist Klaus Flouride! Plus Record Store Day is coming on April 16, we talk about the release list. Also George Martin, uber producer of The Beatles, has passed and we say a short goodbye.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, vinyl fans. On this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide, we are talking about the debut |
| 0:04.8 | LP from Dead Kennedys, fresh fruit for rotting vegetables, and an interview with the Kennedy's |
| 0:10.5 | bass player and founder Klaus Floraid. Also, we discuss the death of Beatles producer George Martin, |
| 0:16.2 | and review the list of releases for Record Store Day. The list is out. See anything you want to buy? |
| 0:21.3 | I certainly do. And by the way, this episode of the vinyl guide is sponsored by as the recordturns.com. |
| 0:26.7 | As the Record Turns is a killer record shop on Hollywood Boulevard there for something like 25 years, |
| 0:31.7 | and they specialize in locating original pressings. No reissues. If you are looking for an original issue of a very special record, |
| 0:39.1 | contact Kevin by going to As the Record Turns.com or by calling area code 323-251-4895. Tell him the |
| 0:47.2 | vinyl guide sent you and he will throw in a free record with any purchase. Awesomeness. Now, on with |
| 0:53.1 | the show. Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. |
| 1:02.0 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, thank you for that wonderful introduction. |
| 1:08.0 | Yes, this is Nate, the Vinyl guide. I'm here for yet another episode |
| 1:12.4 | this week. Very excited to be here, as always. I always enjoy talking about records and turntables |
| 1:18.1 | and new releases and old releases and everything in between. Today's show is going to be jam-packed |
| 1:24.4 | lots of stuff to get through, and I think it's going to be a real great one. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it. I'm going to be doing a bit of discussion around a seminal punk band in American history, Dead Kennedys. And we're going to be talking about their debut LP, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. I always weren't saying that word, vegetables. It makes me kind of vegetables. Every time I put that extra E in there, I get that vegetables. I get a cartoon voice. |
| 1:49.5 | So fresh fruit for rotting vegetables. We're going to be talking about that album and going to be |
| 1:54.5 | interviewing Klaus Floride, who is a founder and bass player of the Kennedys. A great guy. He's |
| 2:00.4 | going to give us some stories about the early days of Dead Kennedys, and, of course, bring us through to modern times where they're still playing shows together. So that's going to be very exciting. Also, we're going to be talking about Record Store Day. They've got a whole slew of stuff that's coming out on April 16th, and we're going to talk a little bit about the list. And of course, we're going to remember George Martin, legendary Beatles producer and |
| 2:22.7 | all-around man about town. He is quite the legend, and now he is gone, but certainly not |
| 2:29.0 | forgotten. So that's what's happening this week on the vinyl guide. Of course, our sponsor, As the Record Turns.com. |
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