Ep346: The Records of UNSANE with Chris Spencer
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chris Spencer has led UNSANE across 3 decades and worked with labels like Sub Pop, Matador, Amphetamine Reptile and Alternative Tentacles. Today Chris discusses the rare records of his career, the stories behind them and the new reissues being made available direct from the band.
Topics include:
- Touring post-Covid
- Chris talks about his record collection
- His most precious record
- The music in his house growing up
- Getting his first guitar
- Getting into his first band
- Stepping up to becoming a vocalist
- Booking gigs as teenagers
- Discovering punk rock
- Unsane records on Treehouse Records
- Early NYU years
- Chris' career 'Plan B' – cinematography
- "Urge To Kill" / "This Town" single
- The story of "Improvised Munitions" test pressing
- Chris' label "Lamb Unlimited"
- The story of the UNSANE debut album cover
- Challenges with controversial record covers
- Ordering the reissue of UNSANE debut vinyl
- Getting rights to back catalogue
- "Scattered, Smothered & Covered" HAZE XXL version
- The story of the "Scrape" video
- Memories with the Laughing Hyenas
- UNSANE collectable records
- Zodiac artwork and vinyl variants
- The 'Blood Run' process for photo shoots
- Interview wrap up
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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. |
| 0:05.6 | Ask for the Groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. |
| 0:09.7 | Discount code, vinyl guide 10. |
| 0:12.3 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:14.5 | Hey, this is Chris Spencer from Unsane and Human Impact. |
| 0:17.9 | You're listening to The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:21.3 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to episode 3, 4, 6 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:27.2 | The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:29.8 | And this week, we have a very special guest, Mr. Chris Spencer, of Unsane, Human Impact, and Lamb Unlimited. Now, many of you know Un sane. It's a phenomenal |
| 0:41.0 | band. It's heavy. It's brutal. It pulls no punches. And not just with their music, but with their |
| 0:47.2 | album covers as well, which are generally very heavy on the blood theme. Not for the faint-hearted, |
| 0:52.9 | but it's a pretty appropriate packaging |
| 0:55.1 | for the music that's contained inside. Now, today, Chris talks to us about his musical history, |
| 1:01.2 | the unsane records, the collectibles, the singles, the amazing story of the improvised munitions, |
| 1:07.2 | test pressing, the controversial album covers, the upcoming reissue of the Unsane debut album, |
| 1:13.9 | and that can be ordered now at unsane.bancamp.com. There's no album title, it's just the |
| 1:21.0 | self-titled, but we can just call it the Train Tracks album. And once you see the album cover, |
| 1:26.5 | I think you'll know why. I get quite a few |
| 1:30.0 | emails and comments online of people who want to know how they can help this show. People enjoy |
| 1:35.8 | the podcast and that just pleases me to no end. And people asking how they can help. Well, |
| 1:41.2 | it's very easy. You can always join our Patreon community, patreon.com |
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