Ep379: Kevin Rutmanis - Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk, Hepa-Titus
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Rutmanis takes us through his career, rare records, vinyl pressings, working with Melvins, Tomahawk, Cows, AmRep, Ipecac Recordings, his 2 new LPs "Crackpot Whorehead" w Trevor Dunn, "unEat" w Hepa-Titus and more!
Topics include:
- Kevin has many hats
- Short vinyl runs on his new albums
- The recording of the new albums
- How he works with Trevor and other collaborators
- Putting his projects out in limited vinyl runs/lathe cuts
- How Kevin and Trevor collaborated across the country
- The album name "Crackpot Whorehead"
- The term "unEat"
- Hat Change #1
- Kevin understands music collecting
- Kevin spent a lot of money on White House records
- Kevin likes movie soundtracks
- Memories of recording Hostile Ambient Takeover
- Cows "Taint Plurbius Taint Unum"
- Cows getting involved with Treehouse Records
- Some Cows have been reissued, some haven't
- The HAZEXXL pressing of Sexy Pee Story
- Tom Hazelmyer is awesome
- The story of "Daddy Has a Tail"
- Kevin does know where the Cows master tapes are
- Does Kevin reflect much?
- Moving from Cows to Melvins
- Recording "Electro Retard" / Mans Ruin label vinyl
- Recording the Trilogy ("The Maggot", "The Bootlicker", The Crybaby")
- Hat Change #2
- Hepa-Titus & Mickey Mouse artwork
- Memories of Melvins joining Ipecac
- Joining Tomahawk
- Reissues of Tomahawk vinyl – where's "Mit Gas"?
- Kevin just wants his music out there, free or not
- How does Kevin find out about new music?
- LA record shops
- Kevin lost a lot of records
- Hepa-Titus hand drawn covers for an art show
- Discussion of rare records of Hepa-Titus
- Is Gina / Mow Skwoz do art inspired by the music?
- DIY record packaging and shipping
- Hat Change #3
- How to order the new LPs
- Will Kevin return to live shows?
- Matthew Barney soundtrack
- Cosmic Psychos memories
- Interview wrap up
Order Kevin's new LPs here: "Crackpot Whorehead" w Trevor Dunn | "unEat" w hepa-Titus
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| 0:21.9 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:25.9 | Well, hey there, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome to episode 379 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:33.1 | And today, we've got a nice long chat with Mr. Kevin Rout Manus, who you may know from cows, Melvin's, Tomahawk, |
| 0:40.8 | and he's releasing new music with hepatitis and a collaboration with Trevor Dunn, |
| 0:45.4 | who you likely know from Mr. Bungle, John Zorn, and a ton of other projects. |
| 0:49.5 | Now, Kevin has two very limited vinyl records coming out on February 17th, including Crackpot Horhead with Trevor Dunn, limited to 360 vinyl copies, and Hepatitis, Uneat, Limited to 310 Vinyl Copies. |
| 1:08.2 | So you'll want to get them as quick as you possibly can. You can go to rock as hell |
| 1:12.8 | dot big cartel.com or message Gina Squaws on Facebook and get them direct from the artist. Grab them |
| 1:21.1 | fast as there's only a few of these lovely art vinyl pieces available and once they're gone, |
| 1:26.4 | they are gone. |
| 1:34.4 | Now, today, Kevin is what the Australians call full of beans, which is an Australian expression, |
| 1:41.1 | meaning lots of energy. He's truly entertaining. He discusses lots of stuff, including the two new records, his time with Melvins, the rare records he plays on, |
| 1:45.8 | joining and playing with Tomahawk, his memories of working with Ipacac Records, |
| 1:50.0 | Amrep, the Hayes double XL vinyl reissues of cows music, his own vinyl record habits, |
| 1:55.7 | and lots, lots more. |
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