Ep148: Living Colour's Will Calhoun
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Will Calhoun is best known as the drummer of Living Colour, however his musical building blocks were from jazz legends like Art Blakey & Elvin Jones. Today Will talks about his influences and the advice he had the pleasure of receiving from them first hand.
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, this is Will Calhoun, the drummer of Living Color. You're listening to The Vinyl Guide. See you soon. |
| 0:06.1 | Well, hey, everyone, this week on the Vinyl Guide podcast, well, you heard the man. We have on the show, Mr. Will Calhoun of Living Color. Today we're going to be discussing music, records. We're going to be getting some great stories from his experience. He's got advice and tutelage from the feet of the jazz |
| 0:21.5 | masters like Art Blakey and Ron Carter, and he's going to share that today. And I got to tell |
| 0:26.3 | you, Living Color is still one of the best live acts out there. And hey, good news if you're |
| 0:31.8 | in Australian, you get to see Living Color in December. So you can get your tickets at metropolis |
| 0:37.2 | touring.com, or you can get all tickets at MetropolisTuring.com, |
| 0:38.2 | or you can get all sorts of info, ticket links, and even ban merch at LivingColor.com. |
| 0:43.2 | Oh, and by the way, huge thanks to Gustav and Greg, two of our newest show patrons. |
| 0:49.2 | These two very handsome fellas signed up at patreon.com slash final guide and are helping support this show. |
| 0:55.5 | Now for show patrons, we have exclusive content, including an HD video of our recent interview |
| 1:01.2 | with ACDC and Rose Tattoo bass player Mark Evans, plus all sorts of stuff to come, and it's |
| 1:07.6 | only for patrons of the show who sign up at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:12.7 | By the way, more stuff is coming. So if you like our show, you want to help keep it going, |
| 1:17.6 | you want to do something nice for your buddy Nate and all the countless hours of interviews |
| 1:21.4 | and record nerdery I produce, please become a show patron at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. And with that, let's start |
| 1:29.3 | our very colorful conversation with Will Calhoun of Living Color. |
| 1:48.2 | I see what's happening. |
| 1:51.0 | Everyone this week on the vinyl guide, we're very excited. |
| 1:53.2 | We have Mr. Will Calhoun of Living Color, |
| 2:00.4 | dropping by for a quick chat before they get on a plane and head out to Australia for a few shows in the coming weeks. |
| 2:01.8 | You picked a great time to come to Australia. It's just warming up for summer. Well, that's fantastic news because it's freezing here. |
| 2:08.4 | Are you on the east coast of the U.S.? Is that what you're escaping? Yes, I'm a New Yorker. |
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