Episode 1003 - Tal Wilkenfeld

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

The word prodigy gets thrown around a lot, but if Tal Wilkenfeld isn’t one then the word has no meaning. Tal tells Marc how she never even saw a person play guitar until she was 14 years old. Thanks to encouragement from her grandfather, she started playing as a teenager and immediately stunned professional musicians with her natural talents. Tal explains how her career took off in part because of a viral video of her bass solo in a Jeff Beck concert, how she wound up playing with artists like Herbie Hancock, Prince, and Mick Jagger, and why she often didn’t know who these famous people were as they introduced themselves to her. This episode is sponsored by What We Do in the Shadows on FX, Squarespace, and Stay Free: The Story of the Clash on Spotify.

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0:00.0	Lock the gate!
0:01.0	All right, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:12.0	What the fuckers?
0:13.0	What the fuck buddies?
0:14.0	What the fuck in here is what's happening?
0:15.0	I'm Mark Marin.
0:16.0	This is my podcast WTF.
0:18.6	How's it going?
0:20.1	Tall Wilkin fell this here and she's a genius bass player.
0:24.9	I don't know if you know her, but she's played with Jeff Beck, her B-Hancock.
0:29.6	She's played with everybody.
0:31.3	She's just a wizard and she's amazing and she's got a new record out called Love Remains.
0:36.8	It's great and it's available now wherever you get your music, but she's very young and
0:42.8	she's just a prodigy, I guess you would call it.
0:47.0	Is that the word?
0:48.0	Not prodigy, that's the other word, prodigy, but she's also a human and she just has this
0:54.3	gift.
0:55.3	She's a gifted person and I was excited to talk to her because she's been hanging around
1:01.2	comedy clubs for a while.
1:02.9	She likes comedy.
1:03.9	She's always a friend of the comics and she hangs out.
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