TM pod is one year old! This week we celebrate with a very special friend to everyone at the pod (me)... Nicky Thomas!
Nicky was drummer extraordinaire behind 80's Dischord / DC legends Fire Party, greatSeattle 90's band Mavis Piggott and today she plays with bay area mods Hard Left. As you'll hear there were many bands and collabs before and in-between these notables. Of course with a new covid variant on the way her current band isn't playing much but she tells us she's working on a memoir that she describes as a 'racial reckoning' in part exploring her experience as a black woman in punk rock.
We talk a lot about music but we don't only talk music. We hear about her experiences as a world traveller, as a working mother raising a kid in pandemic times. She tells us about her life-long passion for cooking, growing, eating and celebrating food and the places that passion has taken her, like her work with culinary visionary Alice Waters when she was as a teacher at the Edible Classroom in Berkeley.
It's a great conversation, I loved catching up with Nicky and I know you'll love catching up with her too!
PROFOUND thank you to all TM pod listeners, supporters and guests on this one year anniversary episode. I hope my intro was worth the struggle. THANK YOU!
Music:
Fire Party 'Make it Quick'
Mavis Piggott 'Tense Money'
TM pod theme by Jason
SUPPORT THE POD:
Venmo : @Jason-Traeger-1
