Ep447: Matt Pike & Coady Willis of High on Fire
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Matt Pike (Sleep) and Coady Willis (Big Business, Melvins) discuss their latest High on Fire album "Cometh The Storm", the many vinyl variants, touring, winning a Grammy and much more.
Topic Include:
- Coady and Matt fighting with Zoom
- Great response to the new album
- When is it time to do a new High on Fire album
- The process of writing a new album
- Lessons learnt with Melvins brought to High on Fire
- Any outtakes or over-recording?
- Involvement in the vinyl variants
- Quantities of vinyl pressings
- Forming and sequencing the album
- Where Matt keeps his Grammy
- Memories of Lemmy
- Reaction when the Grammy nomination was announced
- Busting Coady's chops
- Touring the new LP first in Europe
- Is post-Covid touring normalizing?
- Potential Australian tour dates to be announced?
- Integrating tours with various other bands
- What's up with Big Business?
- Balancing multiple bands
- Sleep Dopesmoker pot leaf vinyl from Third Man
- Al is great at marketing and merch ideas
- The Sleep Vault materials
- The recent reissue of "The Art of Self Defence"
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This is Matt Pike from High on Fire. You're listening to The Vinyl Guide. This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer. The Best Record Cleaners and Protective Sleeves for your vinyl collection. Ask for the groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now on with the show. Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:23.9 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:27.5 | Ah, well, howdy-ho, people's? |
| 0:29.2 | It's Nate here. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome to episode 447 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:34.8 | And, guys, I'm going to crack right into it. |
| 0:36.7 | We have a short, sharp sharp and succulent one today |
| 0:39.7 | uh mr matt pike and cody willis join us to talk about the new high on fire album and the vinyl |
| 0:47.4 | variants of cometh the storm we talk about touring we talk about winning grammies about pressing pot leaves into vinyl records, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:58.1 | Now, surely you know Matt Pike from Sleep and Matt Pike versus the Automaton. And of course, Cody Willis, a big business, Melvins, and many other adventures. And man, the new high-on-fire album is killer. |
| 1:12.5 | Get it on streaming right now. You could hear it right now on your phones. And man, the new High on Fire album is killer. Get it on streaming right now. |
| 1:17.0 | You could hear it right now on your phones, and you could order the vinyl from your local record shop. Please do that. If you can't, for some whatever reason, you could order a vinyl copy |
| 1:23.3 | direct from the band at high on fire.bancamp.com. Now, for those of you who are interested in |
| 1:29.8 | the way back machine, we had Matt on the show episode 326, and of course, Cody was our featured |
| 1:35.4 | guest, episode 156. Both these episodes and several hundred others, including the likes of |
| 1:42.3 | Buzz Osborne, Keith Morris, Billy Gibbons, George Clinton, |
| 1:45.6 | and hundreds more are available anytime by simply following the Vinyl Guide podcast in your |
| 1:51.0 | podcast app. Super simple. Just hit that little follow button and you'll be sorted, Mike. |
| 1:58.0 | But enough of my yibber-yabber. Let's talk to Matt and Cody about high on fire and so much more. |
| 2:09.5 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 2:11.0 | Can you hear me okay? |
| 2:12.3 | I can hear you. |
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