We have beers and hear stories from Ross Knight of Cosmic Psychos - talk of the early days, discovering punk rock, early Cosmic Psychos records, working w labels like Subpop, Amrep, influencing the Seattle sound, his new children's book & more.
Topics include:
- Intro with Ross and Dean
- Getting back on the road after the pandemic
- Cosmic Psychos songwriting & recording process
- Ross’ road-ridden bass guitar
- The early days on the Farm
- Ross watching the Sunbury Festival
- Music in Ross’ early days – records and live bands
- Aussie touring in the early days – AC/DC
- How his parent’s reacted to his music
- Discovering The Saints, Radio Birdman, Ramones
- When Ross got his first bass guitar
- Playing early shows w Rancid Spam
- “Down On The Farm” on Mr Spaceman Records
- Recollections of those early vinyl pressings
- Mudhoney were early fans of Cosmic Psychos
- How did Cosmic Psychos records make it to the US?
- “Go The Hack” & “Slave To The Crave” on Survival
- Working with Subpop on “Go The Hack”
- Working w AmRep / Tom Hazelmyer on “Blokes You Can Trust”
- Discovering “Bleach”, memories of Nirvana
- Any dealings with Waterfront or Au-GoGo
- Storing and archiving the Cosmic Psychos master tapes
- Stored band ephemera, shirts, etc
- Vinyl repressings of Cosmic Psychos albums
- Possible upcoming album w Cosmic Psychos
- Ross loves fucking with people
- Ross’ new book “The Incredible Tail of Little Roo”
- Where can the Little Roo tail go?
- Upcoming tour of the US with The Chats
- The spirit of Cosmic Psychos living on in other bands
- Wisdom for new bands
- Ross’ farm and Mad Macka’s computer job
- Ross hates the split single with The Melvins
- Interview wrap up
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