PEL Presents NEM#210: Matt Piucci (Rain Parade) Retires BACK to Music
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
After Matt's "paisley underground" band Rain Parade recorded two albums and an EP from '83-'85, he was a member of Crazy Horse (taking the Neil Young guitar role in Neil's absence), and released a few albums intermittently as he worked in law enforcement. Now that he has retired, he's back devoting all his time to music, and Rain Parade has been touring and released its first album of the millennium.
We discuss the title track from this 2023 release, Last Rays of the Dying Sun, then the title track by the Hellenes' I Love You All the Animals (2018), and "Blue" from Rain Parade's Glass Palace EP (1984). Finally, we listen to "Reason for Living" from the self-titled album by Boatclub (2008). Intro: "What She's Done to Your Mind" (a 1982 single). More at rainparade.bandcamp.com.
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| 0:44.9 | Matt Puyuchi he was one of three singer-songwriters to start rain parade in the |
| 0:50.3 | early 80s along with brothers Stephen and Dave Roback, you're right now listening to their first single, |
| 0:56.3 | Matt's composition What She's Done to Your Mind from 1982. The following year that band released a lauded LP called Emergency Third Rail Power Trip. |
| 1:05.0 | They were active in the California Paisley Underground scene, along with the Bangles Dream Syndicate, bands like that. |
| 1:12.0 | After that first EP, Dave Roeback left, |
| 1:14.4 | Dave eventually ended up as one of the main forces |
| 1:16.6 | behind Massey Star. |
| 1:18.5 | But Stephen and Matt and some other folks |
| 1:20.5 | continued on recording an EP and then a major label album in 1985 called |
| 1:26.2 | Crashing Dream after which they broke up and Madel explained what he was doing in |
| 1:30.6 | the many years beyond that. But very significantly in 1989, Matt released an album |
| 1:36.2 | as a band member in Crazy Horse, ordinarily Neil Young's backing band. So Matt was actually |
| 1:41.6 | playing the Neil Young guitar role in that group. |
| 1:44.2 | Time passes. He released his first solo album starting the band The Helenes in |
| 1:49.2 | 2000. Got a project with some other singer-songwriters in 2008 called Boat Club and another |
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