Intuition, Creative Freedom & Doing What You Love with Chris Ballew

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is going to rock your world … pun fully intended because today’s guest is an actual rock star. You may remember a band called Presidents of the United States of America. They took the world by storm in 1995 with their self titled album, Presidents of the United States of America playing songs like Lump and Peaches. Yes, that’s right. My guest today is frontman Chris Ballew.

Chris and I have been friends for years, including collaborating on a music video together and at least one live performance (gotta listen to find out ;). Of course we get into his musical journey, a meteoric rise to success, and then realizing something was missing. We take some deep dives into Chris’ creative process, including his method for capturing his small bits and later using those to write new works, including his new project Casper Babypants.

In this episode:

Consider what kind of artist you are and how you relate to other artists. For years Chris played in bands, but what he learned about himself is his work is actually solo.
Don’t censor yourself while you’re creating. Get it out, no matter how crazy or ridiculous or unusual and then look back later. For years Chris didn’t allow himself to write on certain topics because it seemed silly. It wasn’t until he realized that was a false limitation that it help unlock a new level for him.
How staying curious with a childlike imagination will give you fresh perspectives.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. I want to welcome you to another episode of the show.
0:09.3	That's right. It's the show, the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live, the one and only show.
0:13.7	Now, I'm sure you listen to a few shows, but I want this to be your favorite, maybe one of your favorites, although there's a lot of good stuff out there.
0:20.4	And this episode is going to rock your world and pun fully intended. The reason it rocks is because my
0:26.2	guest today is an actual certifiable rock star. You may remember a band called the Presidents of the
0:32.3	United States of America. They took the world by storm in 1995 with an album, a self-tottled album called the President's
0:40.0	United States of America, and they had songs like lump, she's lump, she's in my, now you remember
0:45.5	that one, and peaches, millions of peaches, peaches for free. I won't sing anymore, I'm sorry,
0:51.7	I promise. I'll leave the singing to Chris. Chris Ballou is a dear friend of mine, and he is an absolute pure artist. He and I have been friends for a long time, so the conversation is damn intimate. We talk about how fame came nearly overnight, of course, like all great successes, after 10 years of working
1:14.2	in the trenches. We get to hear his story from relative obscurity through a couple of moments in time
1:21.8	that changed his outlook, one including he was roommates with Beck and just got to I think work with
1:30.0	Beck early on in Beck's career ignited Chris and said wait a minute I can do
1:34.7	this he came back to Seattle and kicked off a music career that went from zero to
1:40.3	a hundred miles an hour selling millions of albums and only to realize in the wake of that
1:46.3	meteoric success that it wasn't actually all it was cracked up to be. The music, the integrity
1:52.8	of the art, his vision for continuing as a music maker and a multifaceted artist still completely
1:59.7	intact.
2:00.8	And we get to trace his journey through all of those different aspects
2:06.2	of his career and landed ultimately in his most recent project
2:09.2	called Casper Baby Pants.
2:11.7	That's right.
2:12.2	Now, if you have kids, you probably know Casper Baby Pants.
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