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Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

John Doe

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter, actor, and poet John Doe joins Rhett from Austin, TX to talk about the concept record he just released about the pre-industrial U.S., why he enjoys writing high-stakes tales, and the importance of getting bad songs out of the way early in one’s songwriting career. John also discusses the importance of not sweating the “small stuff,” how gratitude helps him find balance, and the life lessons he learns from horses.   John Doe is a musician, actor, and poet from Illinois best known as the co-founder of the LA punk band X. He has also released 14 solo records and has acted in dozens of TV shows and several movies. His band X is considered to be one of the most influential bands of the 80’s and early 90’s, and in this episode you’ll hear all about John’s exciting and versatile career.   Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven.  This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.7

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0:27.0

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0:31.8

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0:36.6

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0:39.1

set the rules, you could win vintage Coca-Cola jerseys, Premier League tickets and more. So go ahead

0:45.3

and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in.

0:50.8

Osiris.

0:53.6

Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

0:58.7

I'm Rhett Miller.

1:00.2

That's when it got wheels off.

1:03.1

We started ugly, he ain't gonna stop.

1:05.6

Oh, she made me feel like a good guy.

1:08.9

That's when it got wheels off. One of my favorite things about recording these wheels off conversations is getting to meet people whom I admire.

1:20.8

It's always been a perk of my job to meet these people I look up to.

1:26.4

And one of my very earliest moments of that happening

1:31.1

was when in the mid-1990s,

1:35.3

I got to meet, befriend, and eventually work with John Doe.

1:40.9

His band X was essential to my formation as a musician, as a songwriter, as a performer.

1:51.8

The abandon that he threw into his songs and his performance, his stage demeanor,

1:59.0

is something that I admired from, I don't know, 13 years old on.

2:04.6

And the fact that later I got to work with John and be friends with him and eventually become, you know,

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