90 episodes

West Coast America-centric punk / indie cultural history as told by the people who lived it with a dose of mindfulness and non-duality talk. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-traeger/support

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West Coast America-centric punk / indie cultural history as told by the people who lived it with a dose of mindfulness and non-duality talk. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-traeger/support

    Episode 88: Paul Schlesinger (Los Angeles Clowning/First TM Pod guest returns!)

    Episode 88: Paul Schlesinger (Los Angeles Clowning/First TM Pod guest returns!)

    Episode 88 marks the return of TM Pod’s VERY FIRST guest Los Angeles based creative / clown Paul Schlesinger.



    Paul is one of my best friends and favorite collaborators so it’s a special pleasure to catch up with him in the pod context. Our conversation focuses on his life today learning, producing and performing in the very happening LA ‘clown community’. 



    He explains that modern clowning has roots stretching back to European traditional clowning and the circus clowns which most of us think of when we hear the word ‘clown’ but that it is also informed by the worlds of performance art, experimental theater, stand-up and improv as well.



    This talk couldn’t have come at a better moment for me with my very recent return to stand-up comedy. I hope it is just as interesting for you, dear listener.

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    Links:

    Paul Schlesinger Instagram

    clownpoems Instagram

    Eddie Pepitone comedy

    Secret Room Press



    Music:

    Inside Miracles /Paul Schlesinger w/Jason Traeger

    'Summer'

    'Alt Break-up Song'

    'Universe (Lovely Gift of Life)'




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    • 1 hr 23 min
    Episode 87: The pod returns with Sean Kelly!

    Episode 87: The pod returns with Sean Kelly!

    The podcast is back. We were gone for a spell. Now we’re back. Episode 87 finds us easing back into the podwaters with a low-key ‘comfort food’ conversation between myself and TMpod regular Sean Kelly (father, Tight Bros From Way Back When, SUBPOP, K Records, west coast punk rock real one)



    We share a warm hearted conversation that touches on the joy of vinyl records, old guitars, self directed programs of learning and growing and other stuff that confirms we are walking, talking embodied cliches of late middle aged Portland music/culture guys.



    It’s all love and light with some very tiny dustings of existential horror and dread on top to keep things balanced. Thank you so much for listening and for supporting the pod. WE LOVE YOU.



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    LINKS of stuff mentioned in episode:

    Gossip

    Language Transfer

    Merle Travis

    Los Escarabajos

    Hipgnosis Documentary



    MUSIC:
    Intro:Come Closer ‘Castle Walls’ from 'We Died with Print' LP

    Segue: Tight Bros From Way Back When ‘Hurricane’

    Outro: Be Fair ‘Hadfield 5’


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    • 2 hr 5 min
    Episode 86: Bobby Lane ( Early San Diego punk flyer artist, tattooer)

    Episode 86: Bobby Lane ( Early San Diego punk flyer artist, tattooer)

    Hello and welcome!



    Our ‘Legends of San Diego Punk’ series continues on the pod…



    Episode 86 is a conversation with one of the great flyer artists of early 80’s ‘Slow Death’ scene, the very talented artist / tattooer Bobby Lane.



    Bobby paints a picture of his experiences going to his first shows as a teenager in 1980 just as the ‘hardcore’ era was adding a new even more aggressive and stripped down feel to the punk/new wave style that came before.



    He shares memories of San Diego / Los Angeles punk graphic masters Mad Marc Rude and Shawn Kerri. Two greats whose styles informed his own and pretty much every other punk who’s ever picked up a pen in their wake, myself included.



    We talk about tattooing in San Diego and the evolution of the craft from the earlier period of wall flash, sailors and bikers to the modern era of bespoke designs and market saturation.



    We go on to discuss how the rebellious spirit at the heart of punk naturally leads to endless cycles of orthodoxy and overthrow as new generations reimagine, reinvent and make it their own. He cites SD experimental/ecstatic collective/band Crash Worship as the embodiment of this spirit without any of the proscribed stylistic cues. 



    I know you’ll enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed talking with Bobby. I look forward to having him back on the pod soon.



    Thank you for listening!

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    LINKS

    Bobby's Instagram

    In reference to my episode intro:

    Israel/Palestine vids from AJ+

    How Israel Was Created

    How Israel Automated Occupation in Hebron

    Palestinian voice: Noura Erakat

    Dr Gabor Mate On Trauma



    Music:

    Bobby's band Cholla

    Crash Worship live in Bremen 1996

    TMpod theme by Jason












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    • 1 hr 42 min
    Episode 85: Chris Squire (Part one with this San Diego punk legend)

    Episode 85: Chris Squire (Part one with this San Diego punk legend)

    Hello and Welcome, dear listener.

     

    Episode 86 is the beginning of a conversation with San Diego punk legend Chris Squire. Chris has done it all, he’s run a record label, booked bands, done sound production, and he’s either sung, played bass, guitar or drums in a ton of bands; PG13, The Tori Cobras, Belle Cora, Tit Wrench, Tiltwheel, Battalion of Saints, Russian Tremors, Kerosene, Tar Halos, Dark Sarcasm, TV Eye, Digital Leather, Bizarro Son, No Laughing Matter, Dog Boy, Royal Pains, Half On Tongue, Sloog, Blades, Unit Unit, Go Go Lords, King Wheelie, Plasticman, Cholla … to name most of them?



    Part one of the Squire story really starts around 1980 when he begins attending The San Diego School of the Creative and Performing Arts  where he meets his guitar and boombox toting soon to be lifelong friend John Reis who introduces him to Dead Kennedys and Black Flag and sets him on a course that takes us through to Chris starting his first band PG13 later in the 80’s. Amazingly, the first hardcore show he attends in 1984 is an Aggression and Ill Repute show at Fairmount Hall that my friends and I produced! A very cool factoid I did not know.



    Along the way, as Chris’ story unfolds we get a road map of the SD punk family tree in the 80's that is a really great historical record, told in his engaging and colorful style the conversation is as compelling and entertaining as it is information dense. 

    I’m glad to share this episode with you all and I’m looking forward to part two as well!



    Thank you for listening and for supporting the podcast!

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    Music:

    Fishwife: 'Chad' (feat. Squire name drop)

    Conservative Itch: live in '86 pulled from Youtube

    TMpod theme by Jason


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    • 2 hr 3 min
    Episode 84: Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrate the life of Rick Froberg

    Episode 84: Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrate the life of Rick Froberg

    Episode 84 is a conversation between myself, Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrating the life of artist and musician Rick Froberg.



    Lia and Britt have been friends for decades and the two were close friends of Rick’s going back to the 80’s. Britt tells us how in recent years her relationship with Rick transformed into an intimate partnership that she felt was still only beginning at the time of his untimely death. While Britt is a new friend of mine, I’ve known Lia since we were classmates at San Dieguito HS in Encinitas, California. 



    The two share their memories of coming of age in the vital and influential North County San Diego punk/post-hardcore scene of the 80’s and 90’s, a scene that produced bands like Crash Worship, Heavy Vegetable, Boilermaker, powerdresser and Rick’s bands Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu among others.



    Of course, most of the conversation focuses on celebrating the immensely talented, perpetually intellectually curious, self-educated, complicated genius that was Rick Froberg the man and the artist and musician.



    Rick Froberg Forever!



    Links:

    RickFrobergForever instagram

    Britt Neubacher's Tend Project

    Lia Friedman instagram

    Deathlesss Neverborn Podcast

    powerdresser

    Heavy Vegetable

    Boilermaker





    Music:

    Hot Snakes: Audit in Progress

    Big Boys: Red/Green

    TMpod theme by Jason






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    • 1 hr 34 min
    Episode 83: Brian Gathy (End On End Podcast, DC punk)

    Episode 83: Brian Gathy (End On End Podcast, DC punk)

    Episode 83 is a conversation with prolific podcaster and veteran DC punk Brian Gathy. 



    Brian is co-host of End On End, a pod that examines every Discord Records title in the order they were released, he also singlehandedly produces and hosts The Unanimous Hour dedicated to deciphering the fractal brilliance of DC band Lungfish’s catalog of songs as well as Dweller On the Threshold which explores the music of Van Morrison.



    Our conversation touches on those projects but the bulk of our talk focuses on a new podcast (my second, his FOURTH) that we discuss and name during the course of this episode. The new pod will be called Deathless Neverborn and is dedicated to exploring what might be called ‘the spiritual journey’ primarily from a Buddhist and Non-dual perspective. 



    Having just met, we share how the idea for the pod came to be and we open up about some of the formative experiences that have shaped our lives and led us to want to make a pod like DN. 



    So here it is dear listener, the birth of Deathless Neverborn podcast!



    Thank you SO MUCH for listening and for supporting the pod!



    Traegermethod Patreon



    Music:

    Rites of Spring 'End On End'

    Jason Traeger 'Neutralize Existence'




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    • 2 hr 4 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
48 Ratings

48 Ratings

kiddaaron ,

An important podcast

The conversations, memories and history shared here are a treasure.

SPR1971 ,

Podcasts are the new fanzines....

Excellent podcast and companion IG feed!

Dylan_Jenkins ,

HAIL TRAEGER!

Jason Traeger is the absolute best! Listen and enjoy.

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