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METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Episode 192 - Squindo

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9775 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Tony Squindo is an American artist, painter, author and sculptor. He's best known for designing some of Metallica's most iconic artwork since 1999/2000. Whether it's t-shirts, album covers or poster art for other notable bands like The Misfits, Green Day, The Offspring, Kid Rock or The Ramones, or skate decks, snow mobiles and custom tikis, Squindo's work is completely original featuring a playful mixture of monsters, skulls and folklore. In this episode we learn about Squindo's childhood, his love of making art, his break with Kid Rock, meeting Lars and his career carving a unique path through some of our favorite bands and designs. Like most people involved with Metallica, Squindo is both a true original and a generous person. We hope you dig getting to know him as much as we did. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!

0:23.3

On our burn!

0:44.2

This is Johnny Z, and you're listening to Metalup Your Podcast. Welcome to Millup Your podcast. I'm Ethan Look.

0:57.5

And I'm Clint Wells.

0:58.4

And this is episode 192 and a very, very exciting one that is about a year and a half to two years in the works.

1:04.2

Ladies and gentlemen, we have Mr. Squindo on the show this week.

1:08.5

We have Tony Squindo, who famously has designed some of your favorite, whether you know

1:13.2

it or not, Metallica designs, super cool dude. He's been doing all sorts of T-shirts, merch,

1:19.7

posters, which by the way, we are giving two limited edition posters out on the show. We will

1:25.1

have details about that later in the week. He's done bobbleheads.

1:29.9

He's written a children's book. He draws and sculpts skulls. He has a neck tattoo. He has a neck

1:36.7

tattoo. That's another, that's another. We're just naming things about Tony, and that's one of the

1:41.4

things. We met him at our party, our two-year anniversary party in

1:45.4

Nashville. It's one of the most fun nights of my life, by the way. We're celebrating two years

1:51.0

of the podcast. It's the night before a Metallica show at Bridgestone Arena. So everyone's in town,

1:58.3

and including Squindo and his lovely wife.

2:03.0

So we touched base that night.

2:07.1

He gave us some prints that night that we have up in our houses right now.

2:07.5

Exactly.

2:10.1

And that was when the seed was planted, as they say. And we finally were able to get our paths to cross.

2:14.3

And what can I say, man?

2:15.4

Such a sweet dude.

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