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55 Neil Campau (World History) & Ellie Avis (Electrician) @ their home in Williams, OR (5/29/18) Aug 28, 2019

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Neil Campau and Ellie Avis are true road warriors, having actually taken a newborn on tour in an RV for a few years. Neil also created the invaluable DIY venue resource DoDIY.org, which I have to personally thank for helping me set up more shows over the last decade than I can begin to count. Ellie chose not to share a specific story, but chimed in with comments about some of Neil's worst show moments in their band Electrician and Neil's previous band, World History.

54 Keelin Mayer (Abronia) @ Colonel Summers Park in Portland, OR (5/25/18) Aug 21, 2019

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Keelin and I sat down in a lovely park on a lovely day in Portland to talk about, as she put it, "crazy men with huge fucking egos". Keelin shares a few stories involving some interactions of her bands Fake Lake and Scalpels with bands who are a pretty big deal. Or something like that. You'll just have to listen.

53 Kenseth Thibideau (Sleeping People) @ Singing Serpent in San Diego, CA (7/31/18) Aug 14, 2019

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On the week that marks the one year anniversary of releasing these stories of terrible shows, I wanted to celebrate the occasion by featuring one of my musical heroes, Kenseth Thibideau. He used to play in Rumah Sakit and Tarentel, 2 San Francisco bands that altered the course of my personal musical development, as well as amazing bands like Pinback, Sleeping People, Goblin Cock, and lots more. Being a positive guy, Kenseth has a hard time coming up with a worst show ever, and tends to find a silver lining in most of the awful or weird show experiences he recalls. Some gems come up though, and it's lovely to talk to him about the incestuous San Diego music scene and all the strange places that has taken him.

52 Eric Crespo (Ghost to Falco) @ his house in Portland, OR (5/16/18) Aug 07, 2019

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On this week's episode, Eric Crespo insists he doesn't have a worst show, but he tells the story of a show in Bakersfield in which they had no place to stay, and goes on to relate several unfortunate events on the road.

51 Andrew Barr (The Slip) outside the Barr Bros studio in Montreal, QC (10/9/18) Jul 31, 2019

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Drummer Andrew Barr of The Slip tells a story of flying to Europe to play with Lhasa de Sela, and the highly illegal things he was willing to do in order not to miss the show.

50 Shenandoah Davis @ her apartment in Seattle, WA (5/1/18) Jul 24, 2019

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Always a delightful conversationalist, Shenandoah Davis has spent a ton of time on the road, and has accumulated as many hilarious stories as you might imagine a road dog of her ilk would. She takes me through just a handful of the most delightful ones, including a rock opera opener, a halloween disaster, and quite possibly the best response to a sexist heckler I've ever heard.

49 Monica Arrington (Nerdkween) @ Metropolitan Library in Atlanta, GA (1/5/19) Jul 17, 2019

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Monica Arrington and I met in the public library to talk about an Afropunk-inspired bill of miscellaneous musical projects. We then get into some interesting stories from Monica's time spent playing at train stations in Atlanta.

48 Mike Gamble @ his studio in Portland, OR (5/23/18) Jul 11, 2019

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Guitarist extraordinaire and long time friend Mike Gamble relates a few stories with a common theme of mishaps involving law enforcement.

47 Johanna Warren outside her aunt's house in St. Petersburg, FL (1/9/19) Jul 03, 2019

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One of my very favorite living songwriters, Johanna Warren shares the distinctly mystical and challenging experience of being a touring musician with type one diabetes.

46 Elliott Miskovicz (A Stick and a Stone) in his Trailer in Portland, OR (5/24/18) Jun 26, 2019

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Elliott Miskovicz of A Stick and a Stone tells a story of a perfect storm of a show in which the universe austenibly conspires to destroy them in every way, and yet they persisted. Always lovely to have old friends on the show and get into all the ways a show can go wrong. In this case, all these ways were happening at once.

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