Ep136: Craig Locicero - Dress The Dead, Death, Manmade God & more
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In part 2, Craig discusses his time working w Chuck Schuldiner of Death, working w Rick Rubin on Manmade God and his new band 'Dress The Dead', plus a new track to enjoy.
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 | Welcome back there, Vinyl Guide Peoples, and thanks for listening in. This is part two of our two-part conversation with metal guitarist Craig Lissauro. |
| 0:08.8 | Part one took us through his youth, his upbringing, tales from the early days of the Bay Area thrash scene, recording with Forbidden, through twisted into form, and now we will pick up from there. |
| 0:20.7 | Today in part two, Craig will be discussing |
| 0:23.0 | his time with death, getting signed and working with Rick Rubin for Manmade God, his new band |
| 0:28.5 | Dress the Dead, and heaps more. And we'll also have a track from Dress the Dead after the interview. |
| 0:34.9 | So definitely stick around for that. And this week we want to make sure you know all about Voyage Air guitars. If you play |
| 0:44.3 | guitar, know a guitarist, or just like the way they sound, check out the design of the Voyage Air. |
| 0:50.3 | Guaranteed you have not seen anything like this in the past, the neck of the Voyage |
| 0:55.5 | Air snaps down for easy transport. And when you're ready to rock, bango, open the neck |
| 1:01.4 | and it's 100% ready, tuned strings and everything. No, they are not using witchcraft. It is a |
| 1:08.5 | patented design that you'll only see on the Voyage Air Guitar. Check them out |
| 1:12.6 | at voyageairgatar.com and tell your friends all about them. Deal? Deal. All right, let's |
| 1:19.5 | get underway with part two of our conversation with Craigless Cicero. Driftia Oh |
| 1:29.3 | Drifting Oh, drifting towards the reality of our only hope abandoning So, abandon me. |
| 2:12.4 | So after twisted into form, you start playing with death for a period of time. |
| 2:14.2 | I did, I did. |
| 2:19.4 | And after, and that all happened, in between that is when Paul joins Slayer, too. |
| 2:26.1 | So there's that, that period of time too. So, um, yeah, we, forbidden was in, I call them the, the demo days when the music industry had changed so much and Nirvana had come out and the, |
| 2:33.2 | the whole thing, you you know obviously there was already |
| 2:36.0 | Allison chains and Soundgarden there but things really didn't make that sea change until |
| 2:40.5 | nirvana right so that all happened when we were about to sign a record deal with RCA |
| 2:46.6 | we were first we were about to sign a deal with RCA because we just got off combat they agreed |
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