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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S1E45: Harry Shearer

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show we speak to Harry Shearer – an honorary rockstar! Well, he can play the bass!

Harry has had an incredible career thus far that includes American radio drama, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap and The Simpsons – to name just a few.

We take a whistle stop journey through that impressive CV and get the low down on how Tap almost never got made in the first place and we hear how Harry ended voicing some of those iconic characters in the longest running animated show in TV history, The Simpsons!



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0:00.0

Hello Gary. Hey Guy, how are you? I'm all right, muddling through. Now this is very interesting that we're taking a bit of a turn here aren't we because it's someone who's sort of...

0:11.0

You've always been a turn. Well, one of my turns.

0:16.8

In fact, you can hear the turns outside as it's brighten.

0:19.2

I'm here all week, try the veal but yes someone who actually more of a satirical

0:27.6

comedian than a musician in fact not a musician although he is quite a handy

0:30.8

bass player he is a handy bass player isn't he I mean how do you judge these levels of what's good in

0:34.7

base I've no idea you know I mean it's yeah I don't really know and you know heaven

0:41.6

far be it from me to cast the first stone.

0:45.0

I've been listening to his, yeah, he's a, he's a multi character we're having on today,

0:51.0

isn't it really? It's, to be honest, it's not one person. I feel like we're having on today isn't it really it's it to be honest it's not one person I feel like

0:54.3

we're we're about to interview about six people exactly yes it's a series and I'm

1:00.8

in comparison it's a microwave podcast series and I am I am quite concerned that he doesn't you know get too vicious with us with us with the

1:09.4

principal Skinner or something. Yeah he he could, yes, exactly.

1:14.0

It's the children who are wrong.

1:16.0

I've been listening to his podcast radio show that he does and the last one he did he said the two words he dislikes the most

1:26.7

are hey guys so let's try and not to say that I'm. I mean he's actually very much like a Peter

1:34.2

Cook sort of character isn't he he's in the way he's because I've his because his

1:38.6

podcast is very deep dive American politics. Yeah it is yeah and he's done stuff on Nixon and the

1:44.4

Nixon tapes it's gonna be interesting should we let it roll. Yep. Welcome to the

1:48.1

rock on tours. Okay guys I'm ready. This was great guys. It's so great to talk to two guys that have done this.

1:56.6

But it's a big tune for sure. I actually wrote that originally for Tina Turner.

2:00.6

Of course I had gone and found Johnny Mitchell

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