Kurt St. Thomas

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Kurt St. Thomas, filmmaker, author, and radio DJ. joins Rhett to talk about his fascinating career, including time at iconic radio stations and record labels, and his transition into filmmaking. Kurt shares stories from his career in the music industry, his encounters with legendary artists like John Doe and David Bowie, and his unique relationship with Kurt Cobain. The two discuss the effort it took to make his latest film “D.O.A”, and the importance of following your gut instinct. Kurt St. Thomas is known for his pioneering work at Boston's WFNX radio station, where he made history by being the first to play Nirvana's "Nevermind" on the air. His contributions to the music industry extend to co-authoring "Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects" and producing the interview album "Nevermind It's an Interview." His latest film, "D.O.A.," is available for viewing now. Follow Kurt @kurtstthomas Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. 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. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	He started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Kurt St. Thomas is the director of a new film called D-O-A, a black-and-white noir,
0:31.3	extravaganza starring the great John Doe, who you might know from his appearance on Wheels Off, or his decades with the band X and his own solo records and his acting career and, etc.
0:45.7	Kurt St. Thomas has made quite a few of these movies, indie films, and worked for years in radio and at record labels and has written a book,
0:59.0	at least one book, and is a really fascinating dude. I was really glad to be able to interview
1:06.1	him because, like with so many of my guests, his perspective is unique and offers really valuable
1:15.2	insights that you're not going to find from anyone else's experience.
1:20.4	Kurt St. Thomas is pretty fascinating.
1:25.6	You're going to find all this out soon enough.
1:27.2	I think the interview goes pretty great. I're going to find all this out soon enough. I think the interview goes
1:28.3	pretty great. I think you might hear a little bit of distortion in his microphone. I don't know why I
1:38.3	always worry about telling you guys about the sound quality. I think it's pretty good, though.
1:48.8	I love that he expounds upon his ideas.
1:55.2	He apologizes for it a few times. To me, it's not rambling. It's a great glimpse inside someone's fascinating brain, and I'm really grateful that he was willing to give us that glimpse.
2:01.3	Please welcome to Wheels Off, the great Kurt St. Thomas.
2:05.6	Welcome to Wheels Off, Kurt St. Thomas. Thank you so much for joining me. How are you?
2:10.1	I'm all right. Thank you for having me. I'm kind of surprised that you would, you know,
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