RSR257 - Packy Lundholm - Chip Tunes, Tetris Guitars, Vulfpeck & I Fight Dragons
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Packy Lundholm a Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer/engineer. He plays the guitar with Nintendo rock band I Fight Dragons, who just released their third LP "Canon Eyes" and celebrated their 10th anniversary. Packy runs his recording operation out of the B-room at Sound Vault Studios in Chicago, where he records various artists, and works as a session musician at Rax Trax Recording and Gravity Studios as well.
In recent years he has collaborated on several projects with Vulfpeck keyboardist Woody Goss, sharing credits with Vulf members Theo Katzman and Joe Dart. Outside of the studio he performs live in different contexts, from jobbing bands and bar mitzvahs to improv-heavy tributes to Traffic and the Grateful Dead.
Packy writes and records his own music from time to time, his most recent full-length release being 2016's American Soccer. His music draws heavily from early power pop influences with touches of psychedelic rock and Americana. He is slowly brewing plans to release more singles over this year, hopefully culminating in another full-length record in the nearest possible future.
Recently I saw a new video that Packy posted recording the song Don't Leave A Thing Behind in his studio and I knew he would be great to have on the show to talk about recording yourself in the studio as well as playing with and producing other artists.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rock Stars is brought to you by OWC, JZ Microphones, Prisones, Spectra-1964, and API Audio. |
| 0:11.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:14.1 | When I'm recording myself or when doing a piecemeal type of thing that do need to leave some, you know, leave some room for |
| 0:22.4 | just those random things to occur. |
| 0:24.9 | Even just like extraneous noises |
| 0:26.6 | or string scrapes |
| 0:28.6 | or something. Like, even leaving that |
| 0:30.6 | in helps, you know, |
| 0:32.5 | helps provide some sense of |
| 0:34.3 | of humanity and reality |
| 0:36.8 | and stuff. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. some sense of humanity and reality and stuff. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:09.0 | If you feel like the fast pace of computer tech has made your studio Mac obsolete, then think again. |
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