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The Old Man's Amy Brenneman - Running Away From Robert De Niro Onto the Lap of Jeff Bridges Apr 02, 2024

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Actor Amy Brenneman goes all method on us when she recounts becoming the first person in network television history to take off their clothes onscreen; the embarrassment she felt trying to snap a selfie with punk rock icon Patti Smith; and what it's been like to work with some of the greatest actors in history including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jeff Bridges, and John Lithgow.

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Amy webs: https://theamybrenneman.com

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Comedian Fred Armisen - Live From New York. And Chicago. And Portlandia. Mar 19, 2024

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11-year Saturday Night Live vet Fred Armisen steps out of character for a moment to tell us about the time the Beatle's George Harrison dropped a reference to Spinal Tap; what's his all-time favorite drummer joke; and how he nearly became road kill during a Portlandia sketch.

Fred grams: @sordociego

Fred webs: http://www.fredarmisen.com

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Quick Taps - Bowie Mar 12, 2024

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Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. In this episode filled with close encounters of the Bowie kind, Allen overuses David's song titles to set up moments when the Man Who Sold the World was at a grocery store during the LA riots; in a nightclub acting inappropriately; in another nightclub acting very appropriately; and at a bar in need of a friend. It’s our favorite alien at his most human.

Find our guests:

Jim Fairchild on IG @smallislespicturemusic and https://linktr.ee/smallisles

Ramona Jan's Yarnslingers youtube.com/@yarnslingers

Jim Cushinary's art portfolio https://www.cushimages.com

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311’s Nick Hexum - The 411 on 311 Mar 05, 2024

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311 singer/guitarist Nick Hexum cruises through a mosaic of stories like the time his entire band nearly combusted like a gaggle of Spinal Tap drummers; how he got to play with his idol, Joe Strummer from The Clash, along with a supergroup of Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, DJ Bonebrake from X, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, and Benmont Tench from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; and what nickname Snoop Dogg has for him.

Get 311 Day and band info here: https://311.com

On IG: @311 and @nickhexum

Nick's new start-up SKP.io is changing how the music industry works to help artists.

What's Nick digging musically these days? Hear Madison Cunningham: @madicunningham

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Spinal Tap Turns 40! Our Tap 11 Movie Moments Mar 02, 2024

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On March 2nd, 1984, This Is Spinal Tap hit the theaters to universal acclaim including *Two Thumbs Up* from Siskel and Ebert who said, “It feels like a documentary, works as a great comedy, and succeeds in telling us the story of this very badly confused rock band.” To celebrate this momentous anniversary, Alex and Allen replay a countdown of their 11 favorite moments from the movie. Did any of yours not make the list? Let us know!

Watch This Is Spinal Tap on Amazon Prime.

Coming Soon: This Is Spinal Tap 2

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Less Than Jake’s Chris DeMakes - Winning the Rock 'n' Roll Lottery Feb 20, 2024

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Less Than Jake frontman and fellow Evergreen Podcast Network podmaster Chris DeMakes doesn’t ska-daddle when we ask him about his band's obsession with Pez dispensers; how he ended up hanging out with Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton one night in Tallahassee; and what happened when Little Richard accidentally walked into his hotel room.

Follow the Chris DeMakes a Podcast on IG: @chrisdemakesapodcast

And Chris! @lessthanchrisd

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Interwebs: https://lessthanjake.com

On socials: @lessthanjake

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Rock 'n' Roll Re-Creation: Dan Wilson - 3x Grammy-Winning, Super-Semisonic Songwriter Feb 13, 2024

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To celebrate Dan Wilson's third Grammy Award (for Country Song of the Year with Chris Stapleton), we're revisiting our conversation where Dan opens-up on how the demo version of Adele's "Someone Like You" made it onto her album; why he's not upset that Oasis's Noel Gallagher dissed his songwriting partner Taylor Swift; and how the trees roared at Radiohead's show at the Hollywood Bowl. Plus, Alex reveals his own list of real-life Spinal Tap Moments between Dan and himself.

Watch Chris Stapleton perform White Horse on YouTube:

Buy “Words + Music In 6 Seconds by Dan Wilson” -- a deck of 75 cards providing a unique and inspiring look inside the art of songwriting and collaboration -- on the Semisonic.com website.

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Website: danwilsonmusic.com

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The Police’s Stewart Copeland - Conducting a Sting Operation Feb 06, 2024

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The Police drummer waives his rights and confesses to fracturing Sting’s rib over a copy of the New York Times; how many more albums the band could have cranked out if they hadn’t spilt up in 1986; and why it was necessary to call 911 when Cream drummer Ginger Baker paid a noisy visit to Stewart's Sacred Grove Studio.

Get the book, Stewart Copeland's Police Diaries

See Stewart's jam sessions at Sacred Grove Studio on YouTube with Snoop Dogg, Sheila E,Primus, Stanley Clarke, Andy Summers and, of course, Ginger Baker.=

Stewart's IG: @stewart_copeland

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Devo's Gerald Casale - Uncontrollable Urges, Pink Pussycats & Space Junk Jan 22, 2024

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Jerry cools our swelling, itching brains with his tales about the time David Bowie wanted to produce Devo; when Virgin Records founder Richard Branson tried to get Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten to front the band; and what Rolling Stone Mick Jagger did the first time he heard their amazing version of “Satisfaction.”

Chris Smith's new documentary, DEVO, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2024.

Catch Jerry & Mark Mothersbaugh at MoMa in NYC, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9300

Get the Celebrating 50 Years of De-Evolution box set: https://www.clubdevo.com/

See Jerry's video for "I'm Gonna Pay U Back": https://youtu.be/8kv2UMoynOw?si=77P8wvVyva7YRSfd

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Quick Taps - Spectacular #Fails Jan 16, 2024

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Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this disastrously delightful episode, Second City legend Jill Talley tells us about the time she, Jennifer Aniston and the rest of the cast of the '90’s TV comedy "The Edge” tried to charm Fox executives into not canceling their show; writer Anthony Farrell tells us about the time his big breakthrough on the CBS hit sitcom "The Office" fell through; and former Jimmy Kimmel writer Rick Rosner spins his epic tale about appearing on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" only to end up suing the show for a million.

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