L7 are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the LP "Bricks Are Heavy" with as reissue and tour. Today co-founder, guitarist, songwriter Donita Sparks shares the journey across several decades & multiple record labels to celebrate this record and many more.
Topics include:
- The 30th anniversary of “Bricks are Heavy”
- Reissues of albums with band cooperation
- Nearly burning her neighbourhood during the cover of “Bricks Are Heavy” photoshoot
- Different versions of the Bricks reissue
- The state of the L7 master tapes
- The story of Yoko Ono on Wargasm
- The story of the name “L7”
- The various labels of L7
- The live L7 albums on Easy Action
- Memories of “Yummy Yummy” on the SST compilation
- How L7 ended up on Epitaph records
- The varying cover crops of the L7 debut LP
- Does Donita recall the runout groove etchings?
- L7 joining up with SubPop Records – Shove/Packin A Rod single
- Recording Shove, Packin a Rod & Smell the Magic w Jack Endino
- Why was Smell The Magic an EP, not an LP?
- Bootleggers selling L7 recordings
- L7 moving from SubPop to Slash
- Memories from the early days of Subpop
- L7 band members have ephemera collections
- Recording Bricks are Heavy w Butch Vig
- The impact of Nirvana breaking on Butch Vig and L7
- L7 making gold records of “Bricks Are Heavy”
- Who inspired the writing of the song “Shitlist”?
- Vinyl status of “Omaha to Osaka” on Man’s Ruin Records
- Comic Book and vandalism stencil inside “Slap Happy”
- When did the band recognize the large fanbase that missed L7
- The L7 documentary “Pretend We’re Dead”
- The issues of “Scatter The Rats” on Pledge Music
- Interview wrap up
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