Ep418: Billy Gould & Jared Blum - The Eclipse OST
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Billy Gould (Faith No More, Talking Book, Koolarrow Records) and Jared Blum (Talking Book, Gigante Sound) discuss composing the soundtrack to "The Eclipse", Koolarrow Records, Talking Book, Sleepbomb, "Shandi's Addiction" and more.
- Launch of "The Eclipse" soundtrack on vinyl
- How did the soundtrack opportunity come together?
- Composing to film segments
- Where can we see "The Eclipse" film?
- Personal story with Director's family in Serbia
- Billy's attraction/connections to Serbia
- Writing soundtracks are very different than songs
- Soundtracks can create a movie in the mind
- 3 members of Faith No More are movie composers
- Was there pressure for creating the soundtrack
- Sleepbomb – The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
- The challenges of making soundtracks to silent movies
- Koolarrow's evolution as a label
- The story of "Shandi's Addiction" – Billy, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk & Maynard James Keenan
- Recording "Calling Dr Love" for the "Kiss My Ass" tribute album
- Recollections of initial hearing the Mr Bungle demo tape
- Making demo for "From Out of Nowhere" with Mike
- Faith No More's original demo tapes
- 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 |
| 0:04.3 | for your vinyl collection. Ask for the groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. |
| 0:09.7 | Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show. All righty, good people. Welcome to |
| 0:18.6 | episode 418 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, and today is a very special day because not only do we have Billy Gould and Jared Bloom on today's show, but they are announcing a brand new soundtrack album to the movie The Eclipse with the super limited vinyl run of only 300 units. |
| 0:41.0 | So you better getting quick. It's at Sub Sound Records, which is at subsound.bigartel.com. |
| 0:47.6 | I've got a link directly to order in this episode page. |
| 0:50.5 | Click there and secure your copy today. |
| 0:52.9 | Only 300 vinyl copies are being made, so definitely |
| 0:56.9 | do not sleep on this one. |
| 0:59.6 | Today, we talked to Billy and Jared all about a myriad of topics, including how the soundtrack |
| 1:04.6 | came together, the story of the eclipse and connections to Serbia, Billy's Cool Arrow Records, the new Sleepbomb LP, the soundtrack |
| 1:13.5 | to the cabinet of Dr. Caligari. We even get into some Faith No More history, as well as the |
| 1:19.3 | story of Shandy's addiction. The project that Billy once did with Tom and Brad of Rage Against |
| 1:24.9 | the Machine, as well as Maynard of Toole, A Perfect Circle, and Pusifer. |
| 1:29.7 | And by the way, there is an extra 30 minutes or so of this discussion available only to show patrons at patriaun.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:39.2 | More questions, more music talk, more hilarity, and it's only for the absolute deadset legends who help support the Vinyl Guide podcast at patreon.com slash Vinyl Guide. |
| 1:51.5 | Head up there now, become a Patreon vinyl guide legend, and enjoy all the extras, including 30 more minutes of talk with Billy and Jared. |
| 2:00.6 | And finally, there are a ton of other episodes of the Vinyl Guide podcast available to enjoy any time, |
| 2:07.3 | including the first time that Billy and Jared were here on the Vinyl Guide, episodes 217 and 218. |
| 2:13.9 | Still in the Faith No More universe is Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs, and More, episodes 180 and 181. |
| 2:21.4 | Memories of Mr. Bungle with Bear McKinnon and Danny Hifitz, episode 402. |
| 2:26.2 | Willie D. of the Ghetto Boys, episode 172. |
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