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Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Joel Quartuccio (Being As An Ocean)

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Episode 35 - Shane sits down with Joel Quartuccio of Being as an Ocean for a heartfelt discussion while on tour together in Europe. Topics include: The irony of winning an Alternative Press award for Best Underground Band, Spending a lot of time in the crowd and being banned from venues, Getting bigger versus selling out, Money and fame "changing" people, and of course his technique when it comes to writing such great lyrics. Bonus: Shane fights a spider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.5

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0:19.4

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0:50.8

McCall. Stream free with ITBX, the UK's freshest streaming service. I'm going to go and What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Lead Singer Syndrome. As always, I am your host, Shane Told, and this podcast is all about

1:26.2

me talking to other lead singers about what it's like to be the front man or front

1:32.0

woman of a professional touring rock band.

1:37.0

Right now I'm on tour in Europe with Silverstein, just having the best time. We decided on this tour, we were going to spend a lot more time, you know, actually seeing stuff,

1:48.0

going to some landmarks, checking out some beaches, you know, whatever there is to do in some of these amazing cities. It's amazing you know like you tour

1:56.1

all over the world like I do and it's amazing how little time you really have

2:00.8

just with things like the sound check and meet and

2:03.4

greets and signings and even the show itself how much time that takes up and it

2:08.8

doesn't really leave you with much time you know to see the. So we decided we'll get up early. I mean the

2:15.5

weather is beautiful here in the summer. You know, we tour Europe so much in the

2:19.1

wintertime and the weather sucks and you don't really see anything. It's dark early and everything.

2:23.6

So this time we've really made it a point to check out some things and we've just been having the best time.

2:28.8

Another awesome thing over here in Europe right now is it's festival season so we're here

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