Ep438: Tom Flynn of Boner Records
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Boner Records never went away, they were just hibernating. Today founder Tom Flynn discusses the label history, early records, Melvins KISS parody EPs, the Lysol lawsuit, having his song covered by Nirvana, the imposter "DUH", the new release of "Antler Family" and more.
- Tom is not a record nerd
- Does Boner Records have a website?
- Creating the "Tapeworm" record – Hermaphrodite Records
- Forming "Fang" – Yukon Fang 45
- Creating the "Boner Records" record label
- Fang's "Landshark" record
- Expanding Boner Records to take on additional bands
- Working with Alternative Tentacles on Maximum Rock n Roll compilation
- The song "The Money Will Roll Right In"
- Impact of Nirvana covering "The Money Will Roll Right In"
- Kurt Cobain really liked Fang and Melvins
- How Melvins came to Boner Records
- Recording "Ozma" with Mark Deutrom
- Tom's role in album artwork for Boner releases
- Melvins KISS parody solo albums
- Original artwork for modern reissues
- The activity of Boner Records in recent decades
- The Melvins "Lysol" fiasco – lawsuit, fixing album art
- How they fixed the album covers, cassettes and CDs of Lysol to comply
- Melvins & Steel Pole Bath Tub Sub-Pop parody
- Alberti and Rainbo pressing plants going out of business
- The story of the band "DUH"
- The imposter "DUH"
- Did any major labels approach Boner Records to purchase?
- Why did he pause Boner Records for so many years?
- Boner Records was largely a 1-man show
- Recent revival, making "Antler Family" album
- 250 Antler Family vinyl copies
- Playing live again – future of Antler Family
- Another band "Suboptics"
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:21.2 | Vinyl Guide 10. And now, on with the show. Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record |
| 0:31.0 | collectors and music nerds. Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, everyone. It's Nate. |
| 0:39.6 | Please forgive the gruff voice this week. I'm fighting off a cold. |
| 0:43.5 | I'll keep the up fronts nice and short. You guys will hopefully enjoy that. |
| 0:47.8 | Look, this week, we're talking with Tom Flynn of Boner Records. |
| 0:53.3 | Now, Boner Records has an amazingly strong history with underground music in California and |
| 0:59.3 | the West Coast in general, and they're still at it some 40 years later. |
| 1:03.9 | The label started with the band Fang, which Tom was part of, and along the way earned |
| 1:09.7 | many, many fans, including a very young |
| 1:11.8 | Kirk Cobain, who reportedly admired Fang and their music, especially the Landshark |
| 1:17.3 | album, Help Shaped His Art. Boner moved on to other bands, including Melvin's, SteelPull |
| 1:22.8 | Bathtub, the Mr. T experience, the boneless ones, and more. |
| 1:33.6 | And right now, Boner is currently releasing a new project from Antler Family. |
| 1:37.1 | It's a new slash newish band Tom is part of. |
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