Ep425: Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) Celebrates Melvins for RSD
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) and I nerd out on Melvins while discussing his new limited RSD vinyl release "Gory Scorch Cretins", a project developed with Melvins & team.
- Connecting with Melvins after Chris Cornell tribute show
- Melvins version of Spoonman
- Working at Toshi Kasai's studio
- Early memories of Melvins
- The art and evolution of Melvins
- Matt's favourite period/albums of Melvins
- Work ethic of Melvins
- Working in the studio on Matt's songs
- Sharing drums between Matt & Dale
- Doing a Melvins parody of "Gluey Porch Treatments"
- Working with Taylor Hawkins
- Plans for "Nighttime Boogie Association"
- So many people loved Taylor Hawkins
- The way Taylor listened to music
- Unreleased tracks
- Melvins & Tom Hazelmyer artwork
- Only 2500 "Gory Scorch Cretins" pressed on white vinyl
- "Keep it Trippy Records" is an homage to Taylor
- Matt's sessions with Tony Iommi
- Who else would Matt like to play/collaborate with?
- New album from Pearl Jam / possible 2024 shows
- Status of final 7 Soundgarden songs
- KISS parodies and memories
- "KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park"
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Matt Cameron from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, and I'm with Nate from the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:05.7 | We're talking about my record store day release, gory scorch cretons coming out November 24th, Black Friday, record store day. |
| 0:14.1 | Check it out. |
| 0:14.7 | This episode is brought to you by vmgvinyl.com. |
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| 0:22.4 | Refresh your records with VMGVinyl.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And with that, on with the show. |
| 0:29.3 | Well, hello, everyone. It's Nate. Welcome to episode 425 of The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:34.7 | The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:37.3 | And today, we've got a special |
| 0:39.4 | record store day Black Friday show, and we are featuring a conversation with Matt Cameron, |
| 0:45.9 | who you likely know from his time with Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and a few dozen other projects, |
| 0:51.6 | which I'm sure you have in your record collection, Matt has a very |
| 0:55.3 | special release for this record store day, Black Friday, gory scorch cretons, a set of songs |
| 1:01.6 | featuring Melvins, and it even has a slight parody cover of Melvins. What am I talking about it? It's |
| 1:07.2 | not slight, it's not subtle, it's a full-on parody cover of Melvin's debut |
| 1:11.9 | album, Gloy Porch Treatments, which is a record that has been beloved by fans of the band |
| 1:17.7 | since its release in 1987. It's still earning fans today, even recently enjoying a reissue |
| 1:24.4 | on Ipecac, and today Matt talks not only about making the project, |
| 1:29.7 | gory Scorch-Cretans, with Melvins, but also the sessions with Buzz, Dale, Stephen, and Toshi |
| 1:36.1 | Kasai. We talk about the influence the band Melvins has had on him and the early Seattle Sound, |
| 1:41.8 | and if you are a Melvin's nerd like I am, you're going to absolutely love this discussion. |
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