PEL Presents NEM#198: Chris Stamey Keeps on Developing
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Chris started in the mid 70s in Sneakers, then backed Alex Chilton, started a record label, and then founded the dB's, which he left after two albums in 1983. He then became a producer and has released nine solo albums plus avant garde guitar collaborations with Kirk Ross and four reunion albums with Peter Holsapple and/or the dB's.
We discuss "I Will Try" from The Great Escape (2023), the title track from Lovesick Blues (2013), "Glorious Delusion" from Fireworks (1988, released in 1991), and "I Don't Think of You" by Chris Stamey & The Fellow Travelers feat. Ramune Martin from A Brand-New Shade of Blue (2020). Intro: "The Summer Sun" (1977 single). More at chrisstamey.com
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh America's Number One Meal Kit. |
| 0:13.4 | We're listening to Nick and the Exam of Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. |
| 0:17.2 | My name is Mark Linton-Mire. |
| 0:18.8 | My guest for episode 198 is Chris Stainey. |
| 0:22.1 | He started recording at a young age and was in a band called Sneakers with his child's |
| 0:26.7 | friend Mitch Easter, who you might know as the producer of many of the REM albums. |
| 0:32.0 | He moved up to New York. He started a record label just out of his apartment. |
| 0:36.5 | He was a big fan of Big Star. He released the solo single, I Am The Cosmos, for Big Stars. |
| 0:42.3 | Chris Bell and actually back Alex Chilton from Big Star in some gigs and underlies solo work |
| 0:49.1 | to right now hearing his summer song in 1977. Chris Stainey's single that Alex Chilton |
| 0:55.2 | produced and plays on. This activity morphed into Chris starting his own band The DBs, |
| 1:01.5 | which soon became a dual singer songwriter thing with Peter Hall's Apple. |
| 1:05.6 | They released two albums Chris left that band in 1983. |
| 1:09.7 | He became a producer for several bands. He played in the Golden Palaminos with folks like Michael |
| 1:14.5 | Stypen, Jack Bruce. And he has now released nine solo albums in addition to the DB's reunion album, |
| 1:21.8 | Three More Albums with Peter Hall's Apple. Several collections of avant-garde guitar |
| 1:26.3 | stuff with the guy named Kirk Ross. We're going to be discussing I Will Try from his latest |
| 1:30.4 | solo album, The Great Escape 2023. The title track from his album Love Sick Blues from 2013. |
| 1:38.1 | Glorious Delusion from his third solo album Fireworks, which was recorded in 1988. |
| 1:43.7 | It will conclude with a full discussion of I Don't Think of You by Chris Stainey and the fellow |
| 1:49.2 | travelers from a brand new shade of blue 2020. For more, please see ChrisStainey.com. |
| 1:55.7 | For more about this podcast, see NicodelyExaminesic.com and I hope you'll support my efforts by going to |
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