Ep271: Clint Walsh of Dot Hacker
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dot Hacker is an amalgamation of four brilliant musicians, balancing the band alongside careers playing with stadium-filling artists. Guitarist Clint Walsh shares the story of Dot Hacker, the vision, the formation, the recordings, the challenges and what feels like a new phase of extraordinary artistry and music.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode number 271 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:04.6 | This is Nate, your humble host, and today we're going to be talking with a really interesting guy, Mr. Clint Walsh, from the band Dot Hacker, and so much more. |
| 0:14.6 | Clint has dedicated his life to music, touring and collaborating with a ton of bands, you like Narls Barclay the motels |
| 0:21.6 | Juliet Lewis and the Licks Chris Varenna and Tweaker and a ton more and today we're |
| 0:27.6 | gonna dig deep into the history of the band Dot Hacker a group Clint founded alongside |
| 0:33.2 | Eric Gardner Jonathan Hitchke and Josh Kling. Now, it's been a while since we heard from |
| 0:39.5 | Dot Hacker. Their last LP was number three, released in 2017, but just recently, the band released |
| 0:47.1 | a brand new surprise single, Divination, as well as a vinyl tricolor splatter reissue of their first album Inhibition. |
| 0:55.6 | Both are available at orgmusic, so head over to orgmucic.com and grab yourself copies before they're gone. |
| 1:03.7 | Now, today, Clint and I cover a whole lot of ground, the founding of Dot Hacker, his music career up to that point, |
| 1:12.7 | the creation of each Dot Hacker album, including the How's Your Process One Two Punch, the issues of being in a band like |
| 1:18.7 | Dot Hacker, where all the musicians are touring and parts of other bands, the coming together |
| 1:23.1 | and perhaps Renaissance of Dot Hacker, and lots, lots more. |
| 1:27.1 | Now, what you're hearing today right now |
| 1:29.3 | is only a portion of the interview. There is a much extended version available only to the |
| 1:35.3 | Patreon.com slash vinyl guide community. So head over there now to hear the rest of the interview, |
| 1:41.0 | and you also get to see it. That's right. We've got a video version of |
| 1:46.8 | this interview and man, oh man, is Clint Handsome. You got to see this guy. The only downside is you |
| 1:53.4 | have to look at me too, but I'm sure your gag reflexes will all deal with that. The video interview |
| 1:58.9 | is only available to our patreon.com slash vinyl guide community. |
| 2:04.0 | So if you like this interview, you like our podcast and you want to hear and see more, |
| 2:09.6 | head over to patreon.com slash vinyl guide, help support the vinyl guide podcast and enjoy the rest of the |
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