Ep469: Cook Craig - Pipe-Eye, King Gizzard, The Murlocs
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Cook Craig of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and The Murlocs discusses his new Pipe-Eye solo LP, early and rare recordings, KGATLW bootlegger series, touring & lots more.
Topics Include:
- Name preference
- Cookie's record collection
- Touring plans, summer in Australia
- Any live dates for Pipe-Eye?
- Remembering dozens of songs
- What's the hardest song to play live?
- Challenges of microtonal songs
- Themes of King Gizzard and Pipe-Eye albums
- Starting an album with a theme vs a collection of songs
- "Pipe-Defy" has a lot of funk influences
- When does a song go to Pipe-Eye, King Gizzard or Murlocs?
- Some King Gizzard albums are driven by themes
- Origin story of the "Pipe-Eye" moniker
- Strong influences of 60 garage rock in Geelong
- Working with Stu in "Revolver & Sun"
- Pre-release CD from Revolver & Sun – ever be reissued?
- Cookie was on the Angelsea EP
- Early band names - reaction to "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard"
- Becoming aware of his ability to make a living from music
- How KGATLW, Murlocs & Pipe-Eye stay prolific and keep quality high
- The plan for 5 albums in 2017
- Giving away "Polygondawanaland" – the gift economy
- Seeing, receiving and storing bootlegger products
- King Gizzard taped over many earlier recordings
- Recording at Daptone studios – recording on the road
- Overwriting and over-recordings to select the best tracks
- How Cookie writes on the road
- Pipe-Defy sounds less low-fi – higher quality production
- Doesn't guest on other projects
- Recording Cosmic Blip – recent reissues – relationship with Flightless
- The change from Gizzverse to "p(doom) records"
- Making the videos for Pipe-Eye
- Working with Jason Galea – albums and gig posters
- Involvement in poster and vinyl art
- More touring in 2025 – Europe residencies – maybe Australia
- What's left on the bucket list for KG?
- The Gorge in Washington State was quite surreal
- Working on new music over Christmas break – rapid turnaround
- Pipe-Eye interview wrap up
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| 0:26.7 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to the vinyl guide. |
| 0:31.2 | The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:34.1 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Ah, well, hello, |
| 0:39.1 | everyone. It's Nate. Welcome to episode 469 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record |
| 0:46.4 | collectors and music nerds, and ladies and gentlemen, this week we are thrilled, absolutely |
| 0:50.9 | thrilled to have Cook Craig on the show. Now, you all may know Cookie from King |
| 0:56.3 | Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and the Merlocks. And with those two highly prolific and regularly |
| 1:02.5 | touring bands, Cook still has time for his solo project, Pipey. And today he's going to talk all |
| 1:09.0 | about the new Pipey album Pipe Dify. It's coming out |
| 1:12.8 | October 18th. There's a few songs on streaming services now, a couple of videos, and of course |
| 1:17.5 | you could pre-order the vinyl at P-Doom Records.com. P-Dum, of course, the imprint that the King |
| 1:24.7 | Giz Camp runs to produce records for themselves and artists they |
| 1:28.3 | enjoy. So Cookie talks all about that today. He also talks about King Gizzard in the bootleg |
| 1:33.6 | series, the story of Polygonawanna Land and the impacts of the gift economy. We discuss his |
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