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TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 93: Elijah Moore of LAKEElijah Moore is a much loved and revered veteran of the Pacific Northwest indie rock/pop scene best known as one of the creative forces behind the band LAKE.
In addition to his bands, Palisades and LAKE, Eli has been a frequent collaborator with other artists such as Karl Blau, Your Heart Breaks, Laura Viers and most recently with Jonathan Davis of the Folk Implosion and Nick Delffs.
In this conversation recorded in the summer of 2024, Jason and Eli talk about his path in life and music, their personal friendship and the music and art...2025-02-061h 55TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 92 Seth Lorinczi: Author of Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, The Vile Cherubs, DC PunkEpisode 92 is finally here, featuring the return of musician, DC punk and now AUTHOR Seth Lorinczi.
Last time we spoke back on Ep 62 we said we’d talk again when his book was released and I’m happy so say that day has come!
Writing show notes is my absolute least favorite part of making this podcast so here’s my first show notes written in with ChatGPT:
Episode Overview
In this episode of the TraegerMethod Podcast, host Jason Traeger sits down with Se...2024-06-111h 35TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 89: Chris Squire (Part 2 with San Diego punk legend)Episode 89 marks the return Chris Squire for part 2 of our series that tells a history of San Diego punk through the life and lens of one of the scene’s legends.
Our conversation picks up where the last one left off in the latter part of 80’s toward the end of Squire’s high school career and the end of the old school SD punk scene. Part 2 moves into the acid drenched, post-hardcore years that in many ways were just as wild and wooly as the earlier period but were far more experimental and far ou...2024-03-291h 43TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 88: Paul Schlesinger (Los Angeles Clowning/First TM Pod guest returns!)Episode 88 marks the return of TM Pod’s VERY FIRST guest Los Angeles based creative / clown Paul Schlesinger.
Paul is one of my best friends and favorite collaborators so it’s a special pleasure to catch up with him in the pod context. Our conversation focuses on his life today learning, producing and performing in the very happening LA ‘clown community’.
He explains that modern clowning has roots stretching back to European traditional clowning and the circus clowns which most of us think of when we hear the word ‘clown’ but...2024-03-171h 23TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 87: The pod returns with Sean Kelly!The podcast is back. We were gone for a spell. Now we’re back. Episode 87 finds us easing back into the podwaters with a low-key ‘comfort food’ conversation between myself and TMpod regular Sean Kelly (father, Tight Bros From Way Back When, SUBPOP, K Records, west coast punk rock real one)
We share a warm hearted conversation that touches on the joy of vinyl records, old guitars, self directed programs of learning and growing and other stuff that confirms we are walking, talking embodied cliches of late middle aged Portland music/culture guys.
...2024-03-012h 05TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 86: Bobby Lane ( Early San Diego punk flyer artist, tattooer)Hello and welcome!
Our ‘Legends of San Diego Punk’ series continues on the pod…
Episode 86 is a conversation with one of the great flyer artists of early 80’s ‘Slow Death’ scene, the very talented artist / tattooer Bobby Lane.
Bobby paints a picture of his experiences going to his first shows as a teenager in 1980 just as the ‘hardcore’ era was adding a new even more aggressive and stripped down feel to the punk/new wave style that came before.
He shares memori...2023-10-171h 42TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 85: Chris Squire (Part one with this San Diego punk legend)Hello and Welcome, dear listener.
Episode 86 is the beginning of a conversation with San Diego punk legend Chris Squire. Chris has done it all, he’s run a record label, booked bands, done sound production, and he’s either sung, played bass, guitar or drums in a ton of bands; PG13, The Tori Cobras, Belle Cora, Tit Wrench, Tiltwheel, Battalion of Saints, Russian Tremors, Kerosene, Tar Halos, Dark Sarcasm, TV Eye, Digital Leather, Bizarro Son, No Laughing Matter, Dog Boy, Royal Pains, Half On Tongue, Sloog, Blades, Unit Unit, Go Go Lords, King Wheelie, Plasticman, Choll...2023-10-032h 03TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 84: Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrate the life of Rick FrobergEpisode 84 is a conversation between myself, Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrating the life of artist and musician Rick Froberg.
Lia and Britt have been friends for decades and the two were close friends of Rick’s going back to the 80’s. Britt tells us how in recent years her relationship with Rick transformed into an intimate partnership that she felt was still only beginning at the time of his untimely death. While Britt is a new friend of mine, I’ve known Lia since we were classmates at San Dieguito HS in Encinitas, Califo...2023-09-181h 34TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 83: Brian Gathy (End On End Podcast, DC punk)Episode 83 is a conversation with prolific podcaster and veteran DC punk Brian Gathy.
Brian is co-host of End On End, a pod that examines every Discord Records title in the order they were released, he also singlehandedly produces and hosts The Unanimous Hour dedicated to deciphering the fractal brilliance of DC band Lungfish’s catalog of songs as well as Dweller On the Threshold which explores the music of Van Morrison.
Our conversation touches on those projects but the bulk of our talk focuses on a new podcast (my sec...2023-08-262h 04TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 82: Sean Kelly Returns!Episode 82 is a free-form conversation with TMpod bestie Sean Kelly (Tight Bros From Way Back When bassist, Derrick Tape originator, Father etc.)
Together we talk: Sean's pre-punk years as a Marine kid moving around, Toronto radio in the early 80's, San Diego 'Alternative' format pioneer 91X, the lives and careers of Sinead O'Connor and Pee Wee Herman, UFO/UAP disclosure, the horrors of Late-Stage Capitalism, and our mutual rediscovered love of playing music and musical gear among other subjects.
Content warning: We also get into some talk about pain and suicide. Hopefully we handle the...2023-08-122h 44TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 81: Jason bends and folds time while sharing some musical flow and love to TM pod listenersHello Deathless Neverborn,
I had to toss a conversation with previous TM pod guest Don Ankrom because of some technical difficulties (aka heavy nose breathing on my part and a non-stop barking wiener dog named Enzo) so I am offering TM pod listeners a remix of that episode's introduction with some of my music thrown in for color and intrigue. It's a new twist on the podcast you love. ...you do love it right?
Some links of people and places mentioned in the episode:
Host of the open mic I...2023-07-271h 25
Low Profile with Markly MorrisonScherler Sundays: Ralph Reign, Doctor Sleep, guest host Jason Traeger On today’s show, Jason Traeger of the Traegermethod podcast is filling in for me as host, presenting performances and conversations with Olympia synth rock artist Doctor Sleep and Tacoma rapper Ralph Reign. Interestingly enough, both of these guys incorporate a Nintendo Game Boy into their distinctly different sounds. This episode is being cross-released on both Low Profile and Traegermethod via the podcast universe. If you like one show, you’ll probably like the other, and there’s a lot of episodes to dig into. This is the second installment of Scherler Sundays 2023, recorded by Andrew Ebright and Kefa Crow, in fron...2023-07-2459 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 80: Rick Froberg RememberedEpisode 80 is a celebration of Rick Froberg's life and a celebration of life in general. I'm flying solo here, strolling down memory lane on a summer morning.
When I started the TMpod I did so with the goal of connecting and reconnecting with old friends and sharing those conversations with whoever might want to listen. Rick was an early guest (Episode 15) because he was top of my list of people I wanted to reconnect with. I loved the guy even though we hadn't hung out in years. I always took special joy in making him laugh and...2023-07-081h 19TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 79: The Return of Tony Rettman! (Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 2nd edition)TraegerMethod Pod Episode 79 celebrates the return of writer, NO IDOLS HC kingpin Tony Rettman!
Tony has literally written the book on hardcore punk having penned three crucial books on the subject; NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990 , Straight Edge and his first book Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985. That book is about to be reissued in a new edition on June 21st through Revelation Records.Tony will have 100 signed copies with the rare green cover available through his NO IDOLS site, so be quick!
(LINKS BELOW!)
Befo...2023-06-201h 50TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 78: The Very Special "Jason finally got Covid-19" SpecialAs the episode title suggests Episode 78 is The Very Special ‘Jason finally got Covid 19’ Special episode of the TM pod.
A solo thang recorded straight from my sick bed, in it I share some body sounds and assorted horror, tales of the virus, live music reviews, thoughts on my own musical journey and our entertainment saturated culture and some of my current flix pix from the streaming services. I also celebrate the lives and music of Tina Turner and Elliot Smith.
Heretofore and furthermore I share an account of an algorithmic journey I took on YouT...2023-05-271h 18TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 77: Hutch HarrisHello and welcome and HAPPY SPRING.
Episode 77 is the return of Hutch Harris to the pod. We talk about the formation of his new band Clear Rivers with Jordan Hudson the original drummer of his beloved former band The Thermals. The band's recently released self titled LP is out now and it's a smash that listeners must check out. We also talk pretty extensively about psychedelics and the pro's and cons of altered states of mind. There's also a bit of discussion of home recording and the differences between 'lo-fi' and 'hi-fi lo-fi'
It's great...2023-05-202h 09TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 76: Marc Maxey (Justice League, Pollen Art Inland Empire 80's punk)
Here's a different way to do show notes.
EPISODE 76
Intro: Spring has arrived. Mindfulness.
GUEST: Marc Maxey
Bio: bass / guitar / singer Justice League, Pollen
Art, The Killing Flame, Slothfist
Co-owner (with Justice League bandmate Ryan Hoffman) of Quiet Panic Records
Date/Place of our first meeting:
Southern California Early/mid 1980’s
Conversation notes:
Inland Empire/Pomona punk history:
Toxic Shock Records
Fartblossom Records / Bob Durkee
Straight edge hardcore history.
Ren...2023-04-292h 20TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 75: Gary Floyd (The Dicks, Sister Double Happiness)Hello and welcome!
Episode 75 is a conversation with my old friend, Texas / Bay Area punk legend Gary Floyd. Possessing one of the most distinctive, soulful voices of the first wave of US hardcore punk fronting his band The Dicks Gary was always more than a singer; he was a trailblazing ‘out’ queer icon from the get-go.
I mean just consider what it meant to be punk band in Texas called ‘The Dicks’ with a communist hammer and sickle in their logo fronted by a singer who at times looked like a down-home version of Divine singing...2023-04-071h 35TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 74: Christopher Sutton (The Dirt Bombs, The Gossip, Dub Narcotic Sound System etc.)It has been my great privilege to count this week’s guest low-end legend Christopher Sutton as a friend for near three decades now. Episode 74 marks his TMpod debut, the first of many appearances I hope!
The conversation starts at the beginning, wherein we meet a young Chris in the 80’s walking down the strip mall streets of his hometown of Lacey, WA carrying his new $208 bass guitar toward home where he would begin practicing his hair metal bass shredding.
It wasn’t until his mom insisted he and his friend Dan check out a music f...2023-03-241h 56TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 73: Gabe Dinger (Stand-up Comic, Portland Punk)We’ve had run of Olympia music history episodes on the pod but with this one we’re heading south on i-5 and sprinkling in some stand-up comedy history.
Episode 73 is a conversation with my good friend, stand-up comic and 90’s/00’s Portland punk Gabe Dinger.
Now based in Los Angeles, Gabe and I met in 2011 when we were both working the stand-up stages of Portland. Gabe was one of my favorite established comics on the scene and after becoming friends we bonded further on our shared punk history.
He tells us about his pret...2023-03-111h 47TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 72: Pete Chramiec (Verbal Assault) returns!So good to have Pete back on the pod.
This episode Pete Chramiec and I stretch the very definition of what a podcast can be. For instance, together we prove that a podcast CAN consist of two late-middle age men looking through some old stickers and flyers in real time.
We also demonstrate that if you space out a guest’s appearances it really doesn’t matter if we tell the same stories we’ve already talked about. Podcasting is a very intimate medium, I hope my voice feels like the voice of a friend even i...2023-02-181h 46TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 71: Blaine Cook (The Fartz, 10 Minute Warning, The Accused, Toe Tag, Accused AD)It was a real thrill talking with Seattle punk/hardcore/thrash LEGEND Blaine Cook for episode 71.
As a kid coming of age in the pre-Grunge Seattle punk scene of the early 80’s, for me and my friends The Fartz set the standard of what it meant to be a hardcore band. Their name sometimes drew snickers from the uninitiated but the intensity of their live shows and recordings, which owed everything to Blaine’s guttural sandpaper delivery, immediately dispelled any idea that this was some kind of novelty punk act. They were as hardcore as it gets.
2023-01-281h 22TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 70: Jason solo Mini-sode (Overcoming resistance, seeing The Mona Reels live, is Mick Jagger a golfer?)Episode 70 is a SOLO MINI-SODE.
I've decided that here in season/year three of the podcast I am going to release an interview episode and a solo episode alternating weekly.
If you subscribe and support the pod because you love the conversations I have with musicians, artists and friends NOTHING IS CHANGING you will still get an episode like that every other week, just like you've been getting. The difference is now you will ALSO be getting another episode in-between those ones.
These solo episodes will be more free-form in nature, they’ll li...2023-01-1319 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 69: Jared Warren (Unwound reunion, Big Business, Karp, The Melvins, Tight Bros)Episode 69 (...grow up) is a conversation with low-end god and Oly punk legend, Jared Warren. Jared has kept it heavy since high school where he met his KARP bandmates, the late Scott Jernigan and guitarist Chris Smith.
From those beginnings he has gone on to front and play in several legendary combos, The Tight Bros From Way Back When, The Whip, and his current and most enduring job fronting and playing bass in his Big Business , his mega-duo with drummer Cody Willis. Big Business joined forces for many years with The Melvins and did the seemingly impossible...2023-01-071h 44TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 68: Jason's New Years Eve/Day Reflections and Projections (Non-Duality talk)HAPPY NEW YEAR TM POD LISTENERS!
This episode I say goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023 with some reflections and projections on them both.
The bulk of the episode is dedicated to examining the non-dual perspective that has so informed and made possible the transformation I’ve experienced since a profound depressive episode at the end of 2021. Hopefully some of what I share is useful and helpful to listeners who might struggle with being ok and finding joy in their lives.
Here’s some of the names I mention in the episode:
‘Seeds...2023-01-0254 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 67: Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, the podcast return of...)Episode 67 features the return of Tobi Vail to the pod! Last time she was on we spent most of the episode covering her musical / cultural biography, growing up punk rock in western Washington.
This time around we focus primarily on her life today, making music at home and in residencies with groups like Girlsperm and Morgan and the Organ Donors when not touring the world with the newly reformed Bikini Kill.
We hear her account of the fraught and sometimes alienating reality of touring in the Covid era and also how fun and exciting it...2022-12-102h 12TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 66: Brandt Sandeno (Giant Henry/Unwound, Survival Knife, Olympia Music)Happy (American) Thanksgiving to all TM pod listeners! I’m delighted to say TM pod ep. 66 marks the first ever podcast appearance, here or anywhere else, of musician, friend, founding Unwound member Brandt Sandeno!
Brandt and I talk about his musical origin story beginning as a teen at Tumwater High School with his (pre-Unwound) Giant Henry bandmates Justin Trosper and Vern Rumsey. He describes how as a passionate guitarist, he was the band’s drummer out of necessity and was happy to turn over the throne to Sara Lund not long after G.H.’s name change.
...2022-11-271h 33TraegerMethod PodcastEPISODE 65 : TAE WON YU Returns! (Antiquarian Sticker Book: Imaginarium, artist, musician)The podcast is back baby! Artist, musician, dear friend of the pod, Tae Won Yu is also back! Season Three of the TMpod begins now with episode 65.
I certainly don’t need any special excuse to have Tae on the pod but I am very pleased to be able to have him on at this moment to celebrate the release of The Antiquarian Sticker Book: Imaginarium. The new third installment of his much beloved and successful series on MacMillan/Odd Dot.
Tae and I talk about the book and his process and experience gathering and cr...2022-11-122h 11TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 64: The return of Lord Shanty aka OMA aka Andy Newton (old school San Diego punk/skater)This week’s episode marks the return of pod favorite, old school San Diego ‘Slow Death’ punk and underground skate legend Andy Newton aka OMA aka Old Man Andy aka Lord Shanty.
Our freewheeling conversation takes the listener back to his pre-punk teenage years when he was listening to Ted Nugent, ditchin’ school, skating drainage ditches and smoking ditch weed as a member of The Chula Vista Cruisers skate team. Andy breaks down the legendary spots that preceded the arrival of the first skate parks in the San Diego area.
We dissect the blurry lines he navig...2022-08-051h 56TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 63: Jason Returns!The pod is back! This episode I let you all in on what’s been going on, how it’s going now and where the pod is going in the future. I explain how a couple of months ago pod momentum and all creative practices were derailed by a series of unforeseen illnesses in the family. Life suddenly got very focused on my immediate reality and not much else.
I share some of the practices and teachings that have helped me through this challenging time, specifically the guidance I’ve found in the straightforward, simple yet profound teachi...2022-07-281h 06
TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 62: Seth Lorinczi (DC Punk, Circus Lupus, Vile Cherubs, Author)I didn't plan on taking a pod hiatus but that's what happened! Feels good to be back with EPISODE 62 a conversation with my dear friend, author, bassist, DC Punk, Seth Lorinczi.
Our conversation covers how his early fascination with the 70's Mod Revival led him to 60's garage rock and punk before discovering and becoming enmeshed in the very vital, now-legendary harDCore scene happening right in his own backyard. Seth tells us about reuniting as a teenager with his childhood best friend Tim Green to form DC psyche-punk misfits The Vile Cherubs and how joining the recently re...2022-05-172h 25TraegerMethod PodcastSpring Break Check-in / First solo music shows in 20 yearsA short update on all things TraegerMethod and a springtime message of gratitude to all pod guests, listeners and supporters.
Check out Jason's upcoming shows with Hutch Harris! new episodes COMING SOON!
April 29th Astoria OR
May 1st Portland @ Kelly's Olympian downtown
Music:
The Fartz 'You Got a Brain'
Other music by jason2022-04-2706 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 61: Pete Chramiec (Verbal Assault reunion shows)Freshly returned from his recent east coast Verbal Assault reunion tour, Pete Chramiec has returned to the TMpod as well.
It is always a delight to catch up with Pete. Our conversation covers his experience on the VA 'two-er' (the band played two shows), his fear of having preshow diarrhea (he didn't!) and how wild it was for this 'humble carpenter' to take the stage again after all these years.
We cover a ton of other stuff like house building, A-frames, my job at Amazon and the madness and tragedy of Putin's idiotic war in...2022-04-021h 45TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 60: Pete Normal (Punk Rock Therapist)Episode 60 is a conversation with west coast punk rock veteran and practicing therapist Pete Normal.
Though we never met 'back in the day' our time spent in many of the same cities and our web of mutual friendships made talking with Pete feel like I was visiting with an old friend. In addition to our shared cultural and musical history we share a deep interest in mental health, personal transformation and spiritual growth. We talk about how his life in music and his interest in these subjects led him later in life to pursue the work he d...2022-03-221h 31TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 59: Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun, Musician, Artist)Episode 59 is a conversation with my old friend Olympia based musician, artist, world / interdimensional traveller, Arrington de Dionyso.
It was so good to sit down with Arrington in person in my painting studio a couple weeks back to record this conversation. I've long admired his singular, steadfast approach to art and music making over the decades we've been friends. His passion and creative fire shines through in everything he does and this light has been a consistent inspiration to me over the years. I'm happy to share this conversation.
We cover wide ranging territory starting...2022-03-061h 29TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 58: Hutch Harris (Suck Up All the Oxygen LP, The Thermals, Clear Rivers)My guest this week is Portland based singer, songwriter of insanely catchy punk music Hutch Harris. You know Hutch from his years fronting The Thermals and if you're hip, you are keeping up with his new solo music exemplified by his perfect Covid-era lofi bedroom LP 'Suck Up All the Oxygen'. During our conversation he also tells us we can look forward to listening to his new band Clear Rivers.
We talk about Hutch's life in music and we get deep into his love of the TraegerMethod podcast. This conversational thread leads us to a general celebration o...2022-02-261h 57TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 57: Cynthia Connolly (Minor Threat, Dischord House, 1982 Photo box set)It's been a little over a month since our last episode, and it feels good to be back with a return guest: photographer, artist, roots DC/LA punk Cynthia Connolly. We talk about her new Minor Threat, Dischord House, 1982 photo box set release and the epic heaps of work, reflection and feeling that went into making the project a reality. Speaking of work, we also talk in depth about my new job at a local Amazon sortation center and how surprised I have been by how much I like it. We also talk about our mutual friend Timojhen Mark...2022-02-191h 43TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 56: Nariko Ott (stand-up comic / friend) and Jason talking Jan 6th one year anniversary.Episode 56 is a TMpod first: I'm dropping this one the same day it was recorded. This one is fresh out of the pod oven!
My guest Portland based stand-up comic Nariko Ott is one of my favorite comics, a good friend and someone whose class conscious politics always resonate with me. Even though we're talking about the Jan 6th attempted coup and the rising fascist tide in America we still manage to have some laughs and share hopeful ideas about how to survive and win in our increasingly dystopian reality.
Check out Nariko's instagram and...2022-01-071h 32TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 55: Jackie Stewart (Smegma, The Tenses)Episode 55 is conversation with "Rock and Roll Jackie" Stewart of legendary west coast noise/experimentalists SMEGMA. She also makes music today as half of The Tenses with her partner and Smegma founder Ric "Ju Suk Reet Meate" Stewart. Jackie joined Smegma in 1983, ten years after the collective was founded in Pasadena, CA. but her west coast underground bone fides stretch back before the 'Summer of Love'. She tells us about seeing the Grateful Dead playing on a flatbed truck in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park in 1966 as a 10 year old.
Her adolescent dreams of coming of a...2021-12-211h 19TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 54: Nicky Thomas (Fire Party, Mavis Piggott)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, great Seattle 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 p...2021-12-041h 37TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 53: Sam Knee ('A Scene In Between' book and instagram feed)This week’s episode is a transatlantic conversation with Sam Knee, UK based creator of the always impressive and seemingly endless ‘A Scene In Between’ instagram feed and author/compiler of the book by the same name which is available now in a new revised edition.
Sam and I talk about his life in music and fashion beginning with his immersion in the UK’s early 80’s Mod Revival through his years in the Indie guitar pop/garage rock scene documented in the ‘A Scene In Between’ book, into his time as a member of the band Marzipan livin...2021-11-161h 31TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 52: Peter David Connelly (The Mona Reels 'Without Love')Episode 52 is a conversation with brilliant Olympia-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter David Connelly aka The Mona Reels. His new album ‘Without Love’ is collection of songs that sound like classics you’ve loved all your life but are hearing for the first time. I just love it.
We talk about the album and the creative process, we get into his history, arriving in Olympia in the early 90’s as a tween from Ellensberg, Wa. As a teen, he rejected the bustling local scene in favor of the ‘grunge’ from up I-5. It wasn’t until a decade later a...2021-11-031h 29TraegerMethod PodcastEPISODE 51: John Yates (Stealworks, artist, former Atlernative Tentacles co-worker)Hello and welcome to TM pod SEASON TWO Episode 51 with my guest, the prolific, punk rock, political graphic art legend John Yates.
John and I met in San Francisco in the late 80's when we both worked for Jello Biafra at Alternative Tentacles. We've been in touch off and on ever since and I've never stopped admiring his artistic output over the decades. We talk about our time together in that very vital era of SF music before and after the dawn of the 90's. Working at the label gave us access to almost any show or...2021-10-281h 22TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 50 Part Two: Ian MacKayeTM Pod is back after a two week break with a special two part Episode 50 featuring guest Ian MacKaye.
Part two of Jason’s conversation with guest Ian MacKaye covers a very broad range of topics from the mystery of the cosmos to the difference between a Plymouth Scamp and Plymouth Duster (there isn’t much).
It’s a fun conversation between two old friends.
Thank you for listening!
Music:
Fugazi 'Great Cop'
Coricky 'Woulda Coulda'
TM pod Theme by Jason
Support the podcas...2021-10-191h 08TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 50 Part One: Ian MacKayeTM Pod is back after a two week break with a special two part Episode 50 featuring guest Ian MacKaye.
Part One of the conversation focuses primarily on the hardcore years of the early 80's. Ian shares memories of barebones tours with Minor Threat, road tripping in vans, buses and drive-away cars, crashing in punk houses and wild (and sometimes surprisingly quiet) punk shows.
With a friendship stretching back to the mid 80's, "Birthday Twins" Ian and host Jason have more than just a birthday in common. The two also have a web of mutual friends...2021-10-191h 19TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 49: Jon 'Quitty' Quittner (Brent's TV, Pinhead Gunpowder, Mukilteo Fairies, Behead the Prophet N.L.S.L.)Episode 49 is a conversation with Jon “Quitty” Quittner.
Listeners will remember Quitty’s previous appearance along with his Tight Bros From Way Back When bandmate (and last week’s guest) Sean Kelly on TM Pod Episode 30. That conversation focused on the phenomenon known as ‘The Derek Tape’
This conversation Jason and Quitty discuss his earlier bands: Pinhead Gunpowder, Brent’s TV, Mukilteo Fairies, and Behead the Prophet N.L.S.L.
The episode closes with a taped phone call made in 1990 between Quitty and his friend Scott Garvey that, although it is much more brief, ri...2021-09-291h 35TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 48: Sean Kelly is a father now.This episode Jason talks with return guest Sean Kelly (Tight Bros From Way Back When, Derek Tape) about becoming a father for the first time two weeks ago.
They also talk about Woodstock '99.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.
Music:
Capitol Punishment 'El Salvador'
Code of Honor 'What Price Will You Pay?'
No Labels 'Ego'
TM Theme by Jason.2021-09-211h 12TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 47: Star Athena (Olympia bands Subdebs, Flying Tigers)Episode 47 Jason catches up with his ex-wife, Los Angeles raised, former Olympia punk, now fellow Portlander Star Athena.
The two talk about Star's experience growing up in Los Angeles. Raised in a westside apartment down the hall from Punky Meadows, frontman of Casablanca recording artists Angel. Her brother Heath played in many LA bands, doing a stint with Angry Samoans among others. She talks about how as a teen going to punk shows she was repulsed by the sexual violence and harassment she experienced in the crowd, but that it didn’t crush her love of music.
...2021-09-071h 21TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 46: Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Sex Stains, Riot Grrrl)TM pod 46 is a first for the podcast in three ways: it is the first episode recorded with a guest face to face, it’s the first one recorded outdoors and it’s the first time Jason has talked with singer, writer, podcaster, and OG Riot Grrrl Allison Wolfe.
The two old friends cover her formative years in Olympia, where they met in the mid 90’s. They explore Allison’s multi-decade, ongoing run fronting more than half a dozen punk bands beginning with her ground zero Riot Grrrl band Bratmobile through to her pandemic era project Magic Witch Co...2021-08-301h 17TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 45: Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow/ Whipping Boy/ Author/ Martial Artist)Episode 45: Jason speaks with acclaimed writer, musician and martial artist Eugene S. Robinson.
Listeners will recall his previous appearance on TM pod ep. 38 which explored the enigmatic late 80’s/early 90’s bay area Rollins doppelgänger Mark Sperry.
This time Jason focuses on Eugene’s incredible life story: his days as a kid coming of age on the gang dominated streets of Brooklyn, his teen years split between the discotheques and punk clubs of 70’s Manhattan, to his long and legendary career in music that began as a student at Stanford, fronting early 80’s bay area hardco...2021-08-241h 05TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 44: Bucky Sinister (writer, stand-up comic, east bay punk)Episode 44 is a conversation with Los Angeles based writer, stand-up comic, competitive kettle-bell athlete and old school East Bay punk (via Arkansas) Bucky Sinister.
The conversation begins by revisiting a subject explored in prior episodes, the late 80’s / early 90’s SF Henry Rollins-doppelganger Mark Sperry, who was a friend of his in that period. He offers insight and shares his admiration for Sperry.
The two get into Bucky’s biography, his discovery of punk rock, his move from Arkansas to California in the 80’s and his near fatal struggle with drugs and alcohol during his days cra...2021-08-171h 23TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 43: Pete Chramiec (Verbal Assault Reunion Shows)This week Jason talks with TM pod regular, Pete Chramiec about the recently announced Verbal Assault reunion shows scheduled to take place Sept. 2021 in New England. Pete shares his concern that the newly surging Covid-19 Delta Variant may lead to the postponement of the dates but as of now they are very much a go. He talks about his recent trip back east to practice with the band and how much fun it was to revisit their set after a silence of 30 years.
The two get deep into the reeds with talk about the equipment used to...2021-08-101h 10TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 42: Fernando 'Ferny' Cruz Jr / Run For Your Fucking LifeThis week Jason talks with Fernando ‘Ferny’ Cruz Jr. about his formative musical years with San Diego (more specifically Chula Vista) hardcore madmen Run For Your Fucking Life.
The band cut a swath of music and mayhem through endless house parties, desert generator shows and clubs from 1994-2001. The 2019 passing of their beloved singer Jason Weedon has inspired the remaining members to reissue their classic self titled LP this summer on 31G records. Ferny tells us about the trials and tribulations of life in a band who lived as intensely as the played and singer Jason's enduring lega...2021-08-021h 10TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 41: Brian Walsby (artist)The last time this week’s guest Brian Walsby and Jason talked was in December of 1985 at a show in Northridge after Brian took an impromptu turn as the singer for The Descendents when Milo was delayed making it up from San Diego where he was going to college.
This conversation is the two catching up on everything that has happened in their lives in the subsequent 36 years since that evening, leaving out nothing ...Maybe a few things were left out but all the most important stuff was covered like the fact that at one point Jason an...2021-07-201h 29TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 40: Alison Braun (Photographer, 'In The Pit')Episode 40: Jason catches up with legendary west coast punk rock photographer Alison Braun about her prolific work capturing the fire and fury of So Cal punk in the 80’s and Seattle metal/grunge at the beginning of the next decade.
Her photographs published under her punk nickname ‘Mouse’ were a ubiquitous sight in the pages of MRR and Flipside and can be found on many classic record sleeves and inserts of the era. Like her contemporaries Ed Colver, Gary Leonard and Robbie Robinson, Alison’s work is an essential contribution to the documentation of the west coast undergro...2021-07-1244 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 39: Greg Lipman (Leading Edge Fanzine, old-friend)TM pod 39 is a conversation with Jason's old friend since teenage years, San Diego punk and fellow Leading Edge fanzine maker Greg Lipman.
The two talk about Greg’s life as an expat in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam where he has made his home for the past decade. He describes what life has been like through the Covid-19 epidemic and what its like today under lockdown as the country deals with the arrival of the Delta variant.
About a half hour into the conversation the two trip down So Cal punk memory lane. It’s a...2021-07-101h 30TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 38: The Mystery of Sperry Feat. Eugene Robinson (Oxbow, Whipping Boy), Nathan Carter (artist) and Jeremy Adkins (Bay Area Punk)Episode 38 is a BONUS companion follow-up further exploring the mystery of late 80’s / early 90’s Bay Area writer, spoken word artist, musician and Rollins doppelgänger Mark Sperry. A topic introduced in episode 36 by Jason and guest Martin Sprouse.
It seems the two are not alone in their enduring fascination with the lengths Sperry went to in that era to fully adopt the style, attitude, sound and even tattoos very similar to those of Henry Rollins. The homage was so complete it transcended mere influence and entered the realm of performance art. Many questions came up about Sperr...2021-07-0751 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 37: Erin Yanke (It Did Happen Here Podcast)Jason speaks with producer Erin Yanke about the 'It Did happen Here' podcast, a documentary pod about the battles waged in the wake of the 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw to liberate Portland Oregon from the terror inflicted on the punk scene and the broader community by neo-nazi skinheads.
Erin tells us about how she came to work on the project with co-producers/hosts Mic Crenshaw and Celina Flores, and explains why the stories of the anti-racist streetfighters, activists and organizers of that era are so relevant to our political and social reality today.
2021-06-291h 11TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 36: Martin Sprouse (@3chordpolitics, TM pod regular, MRR, Gilman)TM pod has the WORLD EXCLUSIVE interview with Martin Sprouse (@3chordpolitics) aka "The Elon Musk Billboard Guy". Jason talks with him about going hugely viral last week and his subsequent stonewalling of all press contact. Funny stuff. The two go on to talk about the early 80's SF band Crucifix, the mysteriously underwhelmed reaction they and the world have had toward recent US government admissions that UFO's encounters are a common occurrence, the mystery of early 90's SF Henry Rollins tribute/doppelganger artist Mark Sperry and much, much more.
Thanks for listening and for supporting our sponsor...2021-06-211h 08TraegerMethod PodcastEPISODE 35: Tony Rettman (Writer, New York Hardcore, Detroit Hardcore, Straight Edge Hardcore)TM pod 35 Jason talks with music and culture writer Tony Rettman about his life and work.
The story starts in Trenton with a 11 year old Tony being drafted into punk by his older brother who was a DJ at the city's legendary City Gardens venue. From there he branches out to nearby Philly and NY to explore those scenes and most importantly in his telling to buy as many records and zines as he could.
He describes his immersion in the straight edge hardcore scene of the late 80’s and his work with Tim McMahon on...2021-06-141h 19
Fear and Loathing in TacomaThe Return of the Renaissance Man Featuring Jason TraegerJason Traeger is one of the coolest people I know. We became fast friends in the stand up scene almost 9 years ago and I always enjoy getting not talk to him. He is an artist in the truest sense of the word and his painting and music and comedy are all unique and incredible
Jason and I talk about a lot of different stuff and he has an amazing story about Vegas and even a flash back to y2K
Check his stuff our at traegermethod.com
2021-06-041h 07TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 34: Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, GSP, Jigsaw zine)This week Jason talks with Tobi Vail about her life in music and activism. Tobi's story starts with her teenage parents taking her to the Tenino Rock Festival in 1969 when she was six weeks old and it only get wilder from there!
LINKS:
Tobi's band GSP have a soon to be released LP on Thrilling Living Records.
Bikini Kill will be touring extensively in 2022.
Pussy Riot's Maria 'Masha' Alyokhina is currently under house arrest and is facing a possible sentence of ANOTHER two years in prison merely for for protesting Putin's Ru...2021-05-311h 26TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 33: Jon (Quitty) Quittner and Sean Kelly. Talking about kids, weed, Kiss, depression and plastic.Episode 33 is a free form conversation between the real-life tight bros from way back when: Sean, Quitty and Jason.
Serious TM pod listeners can try to spot all the references to the Derek Tape the trio make as they talk about life, love and Gene Simmons' wig.
Thanks for listening!
Music:
TM theme by Jason
Closing music by Behead the prophet NLSL.
2021-05-251h 20TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 32: Jason talks about the game 'Gears' and remembers a childhood daydream of a computer in the woods.This is a very special short episode of TM pod.
This week Jason talks about a marbles-like game called 'Gears' that was passed down through generations of kids in the 70's at his elementary school in Kenmore Washington.
He also remembers a fantasy he had as a child of a computer in the woods behind the school.
Thank you for listening and supporting the podcast!2021-05-1818 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 31: Amy Miller (stand-up comic, bay area punk adjacent)Episode 31 is a conversation with Los Angeles based stand-up comic, writer, actor and podcaster Amy Miller.
The two met over a decade ago after Amy relocated from the Bay Area to Portland and the two became fast friends, sharing countless comedy stages and green rooms around the Pacific Northwest. It was only after they'd gotten to know one another that they discovered they may have also breathed the same air many years before when Jason was active in the San Francisco punk scene and Amy was a pe-teen tagging along to see her older brother Jason Beebout's...2021-05-111h 23TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 30: 'The Derek Tape' (addendum to episode 29)Episode 30 is an addendum to Episode 29. It is The Derek Tape in its entirety.
WARNING: This conversation is peppered with offensive language and threats of violence.
'The Derek Tape' was made in Los Angeles in 1993. It is a 43 minute long recording of a phone conversation between stoned record store employee Kurt and one of his frequent customers, heavy metal/hard rock obsessed maniac Derek. The tape begins with Kurt asking Derek if he was able to get a parking enforcement 'boot' off his car, and from there it moves in two distinct narrative streams. First t...2021-05-0344 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 29: 'The Derek Tape' with Sean Kelly and Jon 'Quitty' Quittner (Tight Bros From Way Back When).Episode 29 is a first for the TM Pod in several ways: It is the first appearance of Jon 'Quitty' Quittner, the first featuring multiple guests and the first dedicated to a specific subject rather than a look at a guest's biography. The subject: 'The Derek Tape'
'The Derek Tape' was made in Los Angeles in 1993. It is a 43 minute long recording of a phone conversation between stoned record store employee Kurt and one of his frequent customers, heavy metal/hard rock obsessed maniac Derek. The tape begins with Kurt asking Derek if he was able to get a...2021-05-031h 23TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 28: Margarat Nee (San Diego Punk Archive)This episode Jason speaks with archivist/artist/healer/historian Margarat Nee both about her life coming of age as a punk girl at the cusp of the 1980's in North County San Diego and about her work today documenting the era with her ongoing project the San Diego Punk Archive.
The two attended the same Encinitas High School five years apart. Margarat shares tales of San Dieguito she says she wasn't a problem child but was physically removed by a bouncer from the only dance she ever attended, so you'll have to decide.She was a classmate o...2021-04-271h 14TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 27: Mark MacFarlane (Long lost friend from San Dieguito High School)Episode 27 is conversation between Jason and his high school friend Mark MacFarlane.
The two recently began trading DM's on instagram after Mark reached out in response to the TM podcast. This conversation is the first time they have spoken since the last day of school 1985. In catching up Mark shares sometimes funny and sometimes gory stories about his years flying Blackhawk helicopters for the army, the crooked educational path he took to his career as a land surveyor and lots of North County San Diego high school stories from the 80's.
Characters mentioned in this e...2021-04-201h 12TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 26: Walter Glaser (Bay Area Punk, MRR, Gilman, Turn it Around Comp)Episode 26 is a conversation between Jason and his old friend Walter Glaser.
A Bay Area punk, Walter was the longtime MaximumRockNRoll cassette reviewer and the face on the cover of the influential Gilman Street Project 2x7” comp ‘Turn It Around'. He might protest but a case could be made that this appearance makes him the honorary ‘Face of Gilman Geek-Core’.
What is ‘Geek-Core’ you might ask? If you picture the pit filled with Big Wheels and jumping jacks instead of moshing and slamming you’re getting the idea. Sounds annoying and it could be but when Walter sh...2021-04-121h 10TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 25: Tae Won Yu (Kicking Giant, artist, NYC/Olympia)Episode 25 is a conversation with artist, musician, photographer and host Jason’s dear friend Tae Won Yu.
The two met in the fertile scene that was Olympia, WA in the early 90’s and immediately bonded over their shared devotion to music, art and the creative process, though their paths to that meeting couldn’t have been more different. Jason’s move to Olympia was a return to his home in the Pacific Northwest after his years in California, Tae was a transplant from NYC whose childhood had been split between his native country of Korea and Tokyo, Japan pr...2021-04-051h 39TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 24: Scott Crawford (filmmaker, Salad Days, Boy Howdy, Something Better Change)Episode 24 is an interview with filmmaker Scott Crawford, director of DC punk documentary Salad Days and Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine.
The conversation starts with Scott’s punk rock biography beginning with his stint as a post-pubescent zine maker in the DC scene of the early 80’s and moves through to his forthcoming project; a documentary film about Canadian punk pioneers DOA and frontman Joey “Shithead” Keithley’s current political career in the band’s hometown of Burnaby B.C.
Jason shares some of his own experiences with DOA and the two reflect on the treme...2021-03-301h 03TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 23: Eddie Joseph (Eddie and the Subtitles)Episode 23 is a conversation with Eddie Joseph of early Orange County hardcore/punk/new wave pioneers Eddie and the Subtitles.
Already a veteran of the Haight-Ashbury ‘Summer of Love’ scene that had fizzled out a decade earlier, he was in his early 30’s as the first wave of LA/OC punk splashed over from the 70’s into the 80’s.
Not only did he write and perform one of the most iconic songs of the era with The Subtitles, 1980’s ‘American Society’ he also worked as a manager for bands like Social Distortion and The Adolescents who along with h...2021-03-2254 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 22: Chris Chacon (BCT, Borderless Countries Tapes, Bad Compilation Tapes)Jason speaks with Chris Chacon founder of the influential San Diego based international hardcore punk cassette label Bad Compilation Tapes, later renamed as Borderless Countries Tapes, commonly known as BCT.
Chris tells the story of his late entry into early So Cal punk in 1979 at age 25 after hearing The Urinals on a new wave/punk show on the local rock station KGB. From there he dove headlong into the subculture and never looked back.
He formed BCT in 1982 as a means of contributing to the larger project of punk rock and helped make the world...2021-03-161h 02TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 21: Pat Weekend. "what do punks have against toilets?"Jason and Pat's talk begins with more about their old San Diego punk friend the late John Murphy, then they veer off into the Venice scene, the new documentary film about The Olympic Auditorium, and ither things before the conversation ends with Pat telling us how cool Lenny Kravitz was toward high-end retail drones like himself back in his days as Romeo Blue.
Along the way they ask the question "what do punks have against toilets?"
Music:
Excel : 'Split Image' from their 'Personal Onslaught' demo.
Useless Pieces of Shit : 'Obnoxious Teenage Drunk Ol...2021-03-0952 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 20: Joe Lally (Fugazi, Coricky)Episode 20 is a talk with Joe Lally. The conversation focuses on his formative years and traces the journey from pre-teen soul / funk fiend through his suburban stoner teens as a dedicated acolyte of eclectic doom pioneers The Obsessed. Joe describes the profound impact touring the country in 1986 as roadie with Beefeater had on his life. He pays special tribute to the band’s late guitarist Fred Smith who invited him on that tour.
Jason and Joe met for the first time when the band arrived in Reno on their way west. He was about to head off wi...2021-03-031h 11TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 19: Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds)Kevin Seconds is a true American punk/hardcore D.I.Y. indie icon.
Jason and Kevin met in 1984 when he interviewed 7 Seconds for Leading Edge fanzine backstage at Perkins Palace in Pasadena and they have been friends ever since. The two lived together in Reno for a time and Jason was roadie on the band's 1986 North American tour.
This conversation focuses on Kevin's origin story. We learn about the hardscrabble circumstances he and his family experienced after arriving in Reno in the mid 70's, and how the precariousness of his situation helped prime his fascination...2021-02-221h 17TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 18 with Martin. Pod digest, Derby Jackets.TraegerMethod episode 18 begins as a podcast. Martin (@3chordpolitics) and Jason look at back recent TM guests and share recommendations for some other pods including James Call’s ‘Punk Lives!’ about San Diego scene history and ’It Did Happen Here’ about the battle in the 80’s and 90’s to defend the Portland punk scene from nazi skinheads and how it evolved into a wider effort to drive them from the city altogether after the 1988 murder of Ethopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw.
Around the 30 minute mark the two get into a discussion about punk clothes crafting and specifically Martin’s favorite 7 Secon...2021-02-161h 08TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 17: Cynthia Connolly (Artist, Photographer, DC, LA Punk)TM Pod Episode 17 is a conversation with Jason's dear friend, D.C. punk legend Cynthia Connolly. A prolific photographer, documentarian, punk rock mover and shaker, she painted the cover of Minor Threat's Out of Step EP and wrote the book on DC punk: Banned in DC.
TM theme by Jason
Additional music: Minor Threat 'Out of Step', Eddie and the Subtitles 'American Society'2021-02-081h 24TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 16: Sean Kelly. Teenage Jobs.Episode 16 of TM Podcast will make you think twice about the value and virtue of teenage employment.
Jason and return guest Sean Kelly explore their shared first experiences in the entry level of the North County San Diego workforce of the 1980’s.
Pizza pranks, racist managers, larceny, drawings of a floating head named 'Charly' and the role of crystal meth in the local economy are all examined in this conversation.
“Can I get a price check on a Nestler Codpiece?”
Bumper music by Paul Schlesinger
Outro music: "Running Away" by Jas...2021-01-261h 18TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 15: Rick Froberg (Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes)Jason and Rick became friends in the mid 80’s through their respective punk zines Leading Edge and Subculture. Their bond only deepened through a shared background and love of all things BMX. This episode is very BMX heavy, so get ready to get gnarly!
Among all the bike talk the two get into the story of Rick's path to punk and how he qualified to be the singer of his first band Pitchfork through his willingness to do it and more importantly his ability to buy a cheap P.A. set up.
Also discussed: San Die...2021-01-191h 17TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 14: Jone Stebbins (The Wrecks, Imperial Teen)Jone Stebbins was guitarist and a founding member of all-girl early 80’s hardcore punk pioneers, Reno, NV.’s The Wrecks. She and bassist Bessie Oakley also produced the beloved and influential Paranoia fanzine in that era. Since the 1990’s she has been making music with Wrecks drummer Lynn Perko-Truell as bassist of Bay Area super-group Imperial Teen.
Jason and Jone became friends in 1983 as penpals, they met later that year when she and Bessie spent a number of months in Los Angeles running Shawn Stern’s BYO record label.
The conversation tracks her path as a self-p...2021-01-1157 min
The Giggle EconomyEpisode 11: Jason TraegerOn this episode we have a conversation with comedian Jason Traeger all the way back in 2015. Jason is such an immense talent and you're going to love this interview. We discuss clutter, life, love, punk, flowers and beyond.
Intro Music (used with artist permission) "Strawberries" By: BIG CITY DRUGS from the album HUMAN CARGO, stream the full song & album here
Interstitial Music: Pictures by Two-Chord Terror & Under SeaWorld at clipdad.com
Follow your host, David Mascorro at @DavidMascorro on Instagram, FB & Twitter & @TheGiggleEconomy on Tik Tok & our new podcast INSTA here
N...2021-01-111h 10TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 13: Don Ankrom (Pitchfork, Frenchy)The conversation begins with Jason and Don's introduction at “the weirdo wall’ of San Dieguito High School in the mid 80’s and from there they go backwards and forwards to put together a picture of their enduring friendship and Don’s biographical timeline.
Don was a founding member of Pitchfork, a band that helped define the post-‘Slow Death’ San Diego post-hardcore era. He talks about forming the band with John Reis and Rick Froberg at this transitional period as they sought alternatives to the violence plagued scene that came before.
Among the many blanks the two fill...2021-01-081h 09TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 12: Sean Kelly (Tight Bros From Way Back When)You may know Sean from late 90’s early 2000’s Olympia band Tight Bros From Way Back When. You might not be aware however that the only reason he came to live in Olympia was because he and I were tight bros from waaaay back before that.
The episode begins with an account of our date with destiny in high school marine biology class, how it led to his first dip into the choppy waters of ’Slow Death’ San Diego punk and a life of rock n roll weirdness beyond that.
Among many other things, we discuss...2021-01-021h 20TraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 11: Pete Chramiec (Verbal Assault) plus 'Thoughts and Feelings' with Paul SchlesingerEpisode 11 is a little different.
The first half is a conversation between Jason and Pete Chramiec. The two dissect the timeline and events of a West Coast tour Jason went on with Pete's band Verbal Assault in 1986. Pete goes on to share stories of a South / Midwest tour VA did with NYHC legends Agnostic Front a couple years later.
The second half of the episode is something like a therapy session between Jason and his friend and collaborator Paul Schlesinger. In the course of the session Jason shares anxiety he's been having about the podcast a...2020-12-2837 minTraegerMethod PodcastEpisode 10: Andy Newton aka Lord Shanty (skateboard legend old School San Diego punk)Episode 10 is a conversation between Jason and old school skating / San Diego punk rock legend Andy Newton aka @lord_shanty aka #OMA.
Though the two didn’t know one another in the San Diego punk scene of the early 80’s they were in many of the same rooms, seeing the great hardcore line-ups that were a weekly occurrence in those days.
In that era Jason and his friends were straight edge teens doing their best to see the bands and have a good time without getting beaten by the older, drunker more violent elements of the...2020-12-211h 04TraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 9 with Michaela Murphy (aka Jason's Mom)It's Mother's Day here at the TM Pod.
Episode 9 is a conversation between host Jason and his mother M. Michaela Murphy. The story begins with tales of life as an American officer’s kid in occupied post-war Germany where as a young teen when she wasn't swatting old Nazi's or chasing away home invaders she was watching the King of RocknRoll do his thing. She goes on to describe her trouble readjusting to the horrifying reality of life in the Jim Crow South. Along the way she meets some Teddy Boys, who in the episode Jason erroneously de...2020-12-1853 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 8 : Paul is on LSD / Jason botches the sound on his talk with Greg and ...MAILBAG!Episode 8 is a patchwork quilt featuring clips from an aborted episode with visionary musician and comedian Paul Schlesinger and fragments of a technically flawed conversation with the missing piece of the Leading Edge fanzine puzzle Greg Lipman. This episode's music is also provided by Paul.
In addition to these morsels we introduce a new segment called 'Mailbag' in which we share comments and DM's from listeners and followers of the TM insta feed.
A big 'thank you" to all who have commented and written and to Greg and Paul for being a part of this...2020-12-1623 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 7 with Martin SprouseJust to keep things totally hermetically sealed, in this episode Jason and Martin begin with talk about last episode's guest Pete Chramiec, and Martin's cursed relationship with his band Verbal Assault. From there the conversation veers to D.C. band Beefeater's first tour west and the New Method warehouse where they played a show with 7 Seconds.
The two dissect the distinctions between 'Peace Punk' and 'Crust Punk' which leads the two to reminisce about their stop by the ant-infested barracks of the Sylmar band Iconoclast. From there it's tales of Pushead and more!
Thank you fo...2020-12-1256 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 6 with Pete ChramiecJason was living in Reno with Kevin Seconds in 1986 when Pete's band Verbal Assault pulled into town on their first tour, they have been good friends ever since.
Episode 6's freewheeling conversation starts with a description of Pete's 1982 "Quest for MacKaye" bus adventure to Washington D.C. where he met Ian and Alec's mom before ever encountering the brothers. From there we go to him getting punched in the face by Boston hardcore royalty, the shape of Rhode Island punk in that formative period, revelations provided by early MTV and an extended recollection of the two month N...2020-12-071h 14TraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 5 with Martin SprouseIn this episode the friends talk about how Jason used to hang out with Milo from the Descendents when he was in high school and Milo was in college. The two discuss the punk/cholo style common in their San Diego punk circle. In doing so Martin explains what 'Wino' shoes are. This talk leads to a discussion of Suicidal Tendencies and the time Mike Muir called his house and spoke to his mom.
We get a little more information about Martin and Pat's 1982 trip to see the Misfits in Compton. Martin shares the part of the s...2020-12-0454 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 4 with Patrick WeekendIn episode 4 Jason talks with his friend of 30+ years Patrick Weekend. He and last episode's guest Martin Sprouse started The Leading Edge fanzine in 1983 and were the first two people Jason met when he moved from Tacoma, Wa. to San Diego that same year.
Along with stories of the 'Slow Death' (San Diego) and LA punk scenes of the early 80's, the two get into Pat's exploration of the West Coast rap scene that was emerging parallel to punk rock in that same era. Beyond music talk they reflect on tender experiences with their first girlfriends, falling in...2020-11-3046 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 3 with Martin SprouseThis episode is a conversation between Jason and one of his oldest, dearest friends and a fellow veteran of the west coast punk scene of the early 80's, Martin Sprouse. They talk about the abundance of talented artists associated with the 'Slow Death' punk scene of the late 70's/early 80's as exemplified by influential figures like Shawn Kerri and Mad Marc Rude. They go on to discuss other important figures in the generation of SD punks that came just before their own. Of course it wouldn't be an episode about SD punk in the early 80s without sharing...2020-11-2748 minTraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 2 with Paul SchlesingerJason talks with Paul Schlesinger about the exceptionally violent nature of the San Diego punk scene in the early 80's. 2020-11-2441 min
TraegerMethod PodcastTraegerMethod Episode 1 with Paul SchlesingerIntroducing the companion podcast to Jason Traeger's TraegerMethod Instagram feed.
Artist, musician, comedian, west coast indie/punk scene veteran Jason Traeger discusses his latest autobiographical posts with his friend Paul Schlesinger.
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Live Wire with Luke BurbankEpisode #358: Terese Marie Mailhot, Jason Traeger, Sophie Egan and Reggie HoustonWriter Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her new memoir “Heart Berries” and the importance of empathy for the indigenous experience, comedian Jason Traeger describes his therapist choices in Portland, program director of the American Culinary Institute Sophie Egan talks about what’s known as the American food psyche, and former Fats Domino band member and saxophonist Reggie Houston performs the jazz standard “Autumn Leaves."2018-03-1652 min
Comedy NorthWestEpisode 16 - Jacob Christopher and Jason TraegerWe've got another one from the archives! Back in January 2016, Ryan sat down with Jacob Christopher and Jason Traeger to talk about everything from their writing process to the worst gigs they've ever had. For those in Central Oregon, Jason Traeger will be back at Seven Nightclub this Friday, June 9!
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The Haute Garbage PodcastFood Fantasies with Jason TraegerDrew is on vacation this week, so Brandon is here! Portland comedian Jason Traeger is our guest this week. We get deep into politics, Taco Bell, powdered cacao, Jason's comedy history, competitive eating, Cincinnati chili, Smashmouth, and more. Plus, for our true fans it's a real "who wore it better" situation when Brandon tells his side of the laundry mat wallet mystery. 2016-08-111h 36
Funemployment RadioFER 1316: Jason TraegerGUEST: JASON TRAEGER, Greg Rooney, FER COMEDY SHOWCASE, Old Man Yelling, Movies In Black and White, JASON TRAEGER, Man Of Many Hats, The Tate, London, Tidying Up, Jason Is Awesome, Greg Reveals A Happening, The Little Room, Ball Talk, Vince Neil Sings, Amazon2015-04-021h 02