Ep382: Chris Shiflett - Foo Fighters and Beyond
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Chris Shiflett has been a Foo Fighter over 20 years but continues to write and release solo music at an astounding rate. Today we discuss his career leading up to joining Foo Fighters, his early punk & vinyl roots, his new solo track "Black Top, White Lines" and lots more!
Topics include:
- Does Chris have a record collection?
- Chris enjoys listening to full albums
- Does Chris go to record stores?
- Chris' first record was the same as his son's
- The artists he admired in the early days
- Chris' first concert & early memories
- Discovering punk rock
- Joining the band "Rat Pack"
- 1st record - Rat Pack on SuperSeven records
- The name "Boat Plastic"
- History of pseudonyms - Jake Jackson
- Working at Fat Wreck in late 90s
- Joining No Use For a Name
- What Chris learned from Tony Sly
- The songwriting process for Foo Fighters
- Dividing guitar ideas between Chris, Pat and Dave
- What's the title of Chris' new LP?
- Making the 1st Gimme Gimmes album
- Auditioning for the Foo Fighters, leaving NUFAN
- What changed in Chris' life immediately after joining Foo Fighters
- Chris' 1st tour w Foo Fighters
- 1st recordings with One by One
- Are there unreleased Foo recordings?
- The last time Chris was starstruck
- Playing with Mick Jagger, at White House
- Discussing the scale of a Foo Fighters tour
- Who's still on Chris' bucket list?
- Upcoming album on Blue Élan records
- Previous solo record labels
- Preparing solo and other projects on streaming services and vinyl
- Sharing a new solo track every few weeks
- Nate's gramophone
- Interview wrap up
Check out Chris' new track "Black Top, White Lines"
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's happening? This is Chris Shipplet from Foo Fighters. You are listening to the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:05.7 | And when you're done listening to that, please listen to my new single, Black Top, White Lines. |
| 0:10.6 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection. |
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| 0:20.3 | Discount code, vinyl guide 10. And now or go to groove washer.com. Discount code, |
| 0:21.2 | Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show. Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to |
| 0:29.4 | episode 382 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. And guess |
| 0:35.5 | where I'm at, people? I'm doing this episode from my hotel room |
| 0:39.6 | in Austin, Texas. I've been here this week, catching up with friends, buying records, and |
| 0:44.1 | seeing shows. Of course, you could check out my recent adventures on the Instagram page |
| 0:48.6 | at Vinyl Guide. But I got to tell you, people, I'm super excited about this week's show. |
| 0:55.0 | We have an actual foo fighter with us, talking records, vinyl collecting, and more, Mr. Chris Shifflet, |
| 1:01.8 | who you may know from the Fus, you may know him from no use for a name, and you may know him from various solo projects. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, today, Chris wants each of you to check out his new track on streaming services, |
| 1:14.8 | Black Top, White Lines. |
| 1:16.7 | You can go listen to it now. |
| 1:18.1 | Chris has a ton of solo material out there, and the new album is coming up. |
| 1:21.6 | So check out his new track, Blacktop, White Lines, ready for your earholes right now. |
| 1:28.3 | Now, Chris and I speak about quite a few many things. Early records, the rare recordings he's on |
| 1:34.6 | with Rat Pack, joining recording and touring with no use for a name, and of course, joining the |
| 1:40.5 | foos. He talks about some of the crazy times, some memories of opportunities that |
| 1:44.9 | only a band like foo fighters would get. And in full disclosure, we did not talk about |
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