Ep077: Brant Bjork - Kyuss, Fu Manchu & Beyond
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Brant Bjork was a teenager playing parties in Southern California's Palm Desert Scene when his band Kyuss exploded onto the scene. After several landmark LPs they disbanded and Brant wandered the desert to find his unique space. Today he joins us to share that journey, his scars, his wisdom and a track from his new LP "Tao of the Devil", available from BrantBjork.net. Plus we talk RSD2017 and the new Robert Johnson Centennial Collection audio improvements.
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 | Kaius and the like, they didn't go out, kiss and ass. |
| 0:05.0 | Record deals came to them. |
| 0:08.0 | It came to them. |
| 0:10.0 | It came to them because it was an undeniable thing. |
| 0:13.0 | Kios epitomized the collective middle finger of the desert. |
| 0:16.0 | Do as you want and not as you're told. |
| 0:19.0 | Coming on with a whole new kind of heaviness in their music, |
| 0:21.6 | the quartet of singer John Garcia, guitarist Josh Homi, bassist Nick Oliveri, and drummer Brant Bjork |
| 0:27.6 | recorded their first album, Retch, in 1991 while they were still in their mid-teens. |
| 0:32.6 | The desert scene was becoming far more than a local phenomenon, |
| 0:35.6 | as like-minded bands from all over southern |
| 0:38.5 | California came to play the Coachello Valley. |
| 0:53.7 | There's always relief when conflict is resolved and people can just, you know, let go and move forward. |
| 1:01.0 | And that's where we're at and we feel great. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, it's always unfortunate to experience differences with, you know, specific people. |
| 1:13.6 | But, you know, we feel great as a band and we're really, really excited to move forward into the future |
| 1:19.6 | and focus on what it is we do, which is play music. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for fans and |
| 1:34.5 | collectors of vinyl records. |
| 1:36.1 | And today we are stoked to have with us, Brandt Bjork, one of the key dudes in the Southern |
| 1:40.9 | California desert rock scene, member of Caius, Fumanchu, Vistachino, as well as an established solo artist. Today, Brandt is going to talk to us all about the desert rock scene, the rise and breakup of Caius, his work with Fumanchu, and his new LP, Dow of the Devil, available at brantbjork.net. Plus, we're going to play a track from his new LP, Dow of the Devil on today's show, so stick around for that. And I also know we're all detoxing from record store day, but today I'm going to play you a bit of audio, showing you the difference and the improvements from the Robert Johnson Centennial Edition recordings. Man, it is like night and day. And today's show is brought to you by Black Pug Records. |
| 2:18.8 | You need Australian record pressings. Check out Black Pug Records at Facebook.com slash Blackpug Records. |
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