NEM#214: Head vs. Gut Songwriting w/ Roger Joseph Manning Jr., David Christian, Rachel Taylor Brown
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
It's a new, discussion-only format, just for this episode (and perhaps some rare ones in the future)! When we write, how much is planned vs. improvised? How much is inspirational vs. double-or-triple checked? How does this factor weigh into how much music we release, how eclectic our sound is, and how well we improvise with others?
This discussion features three returning guests:
- Roger Joseph Manning Jr. was the keyboardist/singer for Jellyfish and Imperial Drag, and more recently as a solo artist and with the Likerish Quartet. Hear his solo episode. The end song on this episode "I'm Startin' a Band" from his Radio Daze EP (2023).
- David Christian is the singer/guitarist for Britain's Comet Gain. Hear his solo episode. The intro music to this discussion is "Love and Hate on the Radio" from Radio Sessions 1996-2011.
- Portland-based Rachel Taylor Brown has released 10 solo albums. Hear her solo episode. Her song choice relevant to this discussion was "Stagg Field."
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special episode. It's a nakedly examined music episode, but it's also sort of a pretty much pop episode. |
| 0:15.6 | Those are usually two different podcasts. |
| 0:17.5 | Here they're the same podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | You could check out more about those various shows at nakedly examined music.com on the one hand and |
| 0:24.7 | pretty much pop dot com on the other hand you could support each of those on |
| 0:28.8 | patreon that's patreon dot com slash nakedly examined music or patreon |
| 0:32.4 | com slash pretty much pop that will get you add free versions of these two |
| 0:36.4 | shows you can also support both of them together if you're using apple |
| 0:39.9 | podcasts and you just click that subscribe button you'll start paying Apple a monthly |
| 0:44.2 | little fee and you'll get the ad-free versions of three of my podcasts so maybe you |
| 0:50.0 | want to do that. Now normally on Nakedly examined music I take one guest and I really |
| 0:54.4 | focus in on three of their songs I have done this with all three of the individuals |
| 0:58.8 | you're about to hear so if you want to get to know them better go listen to their |
| 1:02.2 | individual episodes. |
| 1:03.7 | On pretty much pop I've had several discussions like this often with past guests from |
| 1:08.1 | nakedly examined music but they've maybe never gotten quite this music geek before, so in the future I'll probably just |
| 1:15.3 | brand them as a new kind of nakedly examined music episode. |
| 1:18.9 | Feel free to reach out to me, Mark at nakedly examined music.com, or through my social media. Let me know what you think. |
| 1:25.0 | Now right now you're hearing David Christian's band Comet Gain. |
| 1:29.0 | His song is called Love and Hate on the radio sessions 1996 to 2011. |
| 1:37.0 | You're also going to hear Roger Joseph Manning Jr. |
| 1:39.8 | from Jellyfish Imperial Drag, the Liquorish Quartet. He's got a new song that's going to be way at the end of this episode, so stick around to hear that. |
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