Ep345: The Records of TAD with Thomas Andrew Doyle
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Best known as founder, front-man and namesake of grunge-legends TAD, Thomas Andrew Doyle discusses the early and rare records of his career, shares memories of the Pacific Northwest music scene and his new instrumental compositional work.
Topics include:
- Revisiting TAD through recent musical output
- Formal background of music and playing in orchestras
- Thomas losing his record collection
- His personal TAD records, test pressings
- CZ Records "Secretions" compilation
- "Daisy Ritual Device" single variations
- Fun with runout groove etchings
- The story of Dick Johnson
- Thomas' pre-TAD job
- TAD split w Pussy Galore on SubPop
- His memories of early SubPop
- His memories of the early grunge scene
- The creation of & plan for the "Daisy Ritual Device" single
- The formation of TAD & recording "God's Balls"
- The Manzine in "God's Balls"
- The poster that was included in "God's Balls"
- Thomas being the visual focus of TAD
- Recording the "Salt Lick" EP w Steve Albini
- What did he learn working w Steve Albini, Butch Vig, Jack Endino
- The story of the cover of "8-Way Santa"
- The issues with "Jack Pepsi"
- Who controls TAD music?
- Recent reissues of TAD albums ("Infrared Riding Hood", "Inhaler")
- "Live Alien Broadcasts" LP
- Thomas' recent compositions
- How he creates his instrumental music
- His methods of recording and creating
- Making music for "Fundamentally Cynical"
- Interview wrap up
Enjoy TAD's new compositional music here.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection. |
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| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. |
| 0:12.4 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:16.3 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to episode 345 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record |
| 0:23.3 | collectors and music nerds, and today, Nerd Out We Shall with the legendary Thomas Andrew |
| 0:29.8 | Doyle, or Tad, as you may know him. Tad has an amazing history steeped in the formidable time |
| 0:36.1 | when the music scene in the Pacific Northwest |
| 0:38.6 | was percolating the music style that came to be known as grunge. |
| 0:43.2 | And Tad was in the absolute dead center, releasing some of the most notable albums of the |
| 0:49.1 | period, including God's Balls, Salt Lick, and Eight Way Santa. |
| 0:57.2 | Lots of rare collectible records from Tad and team, and today we cover them all. Plus, we talk about some of the more current projects, which are |
| 1:03.3 | very different and very much worth pursuing. Thomasandrewdoyle.Bancamp.com is the place you want to go and enjoy his newer creations. |
| 1:13.5 | The soundscapes, the darkwave-esque industrial ambient music that I foolishly keep referring to as classical |
| 1:20.6 | music during the interview. However, don't be deceived. It's not what you may expect. |
| 1:25.7 | Or maybe it's exactly what you expect, but enjoy the music |
| 1:29.1 | and order some of the streams and even some vinyl at thomasandrewdoyle.bancamp.com. |
| 1:36.8 | And this may be Thomas's final comments on the tad portion of his career. He shared this |
| 1:43.5 | comment during our chat indicating exactly how he feels on the Tad portion of his career, he shared this comment during our chat, indicating exactly |
| 1:46.2 | how he feels on the subject. |
| 1:48.4 | And to be honest, this might be the last interview I ever do. |
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