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Getting lumped UpRockshow Episode 212 The Pogues special guest Nate PalanRockshow Episode 212 The Pogues special guest Nate PalanNathan “Nate” Palan is a versatile musician, composer, and music enthusiast based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from southern Wisconsin, he has cultivated a diverse career in the music industry over the past two decades. The Pogues were a Celtic punk band formed in London in 1982, blending traditional Irish folk music with the raw energy of punk rock. The band was founded by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, and Jem Finer, and their name is derived from the Irish phrase “póg mo thói...
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This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is The Who, Part 2Presenting the 2nd installment of our podcast episode all about The Who! Yes that’s correct, perhaps you should check out episode 1 first. But do as you wish! My podcast guest Eric Chernov returns for more Who talk, entering the story at the touring of the Tommy album. From there, we will discuss more Keith Moon stories, Pete Townsend troubles, manger shifts, Quadrophenia, and anything else we may have forgotten to discuss in episode 1. Plus, we will finally get into English staple food that The Who earned the hard way. Once again sponsored by Izzy’s Coffee. Don’t forget...
2023-06-221h 25This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is The Who?No list of the top British Invasion bands of the 1960’s would be complete without The Who, arguable the most important band of their generation after The Beatles and The Stones. Although the band carries on in the absence of 2 pivotal members, (RIP John Entwistle and Keith Moon), The Who continues to fly the bullseye banner for Maximum R’n’B. Joining me today is musical scholar and composer, Eric B. Chernov, a lifelong Who aficionado who has been writing his own book about the band. The Who earns top honors in securing a pivotal English food, (not fish and ch...
2023-05-251h 06This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is NRBQ?NRBQ is fondly known as the greatest bar band in America, if not the greatest bar band in the world. Although they’ve never reached the forefront of pop-music fame, they’ve managed to gain the admiration of everyone with the their finger on the pulse, including such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, R.E.M.,… and the list goes on infinitely.
On This Band Could Be Your Food’s 30th episode, Madison Wisconsin’s very own Andy Moore and I dive into the rich history of a true American treasure, NR...
2023-04-241h 39This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Dinosaur Jr?TBCBYF returns from hibernation with our episode on the loudest band we’ve covered so far, Dinosaur Jr. J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph’s undeniable chemistry as an underground rock-n-roll powerhouse is so mighty, it keeps the three members of the band glued together whether they like it or not.
Join me and my old High School friend Eugene Kim, as we discuss what forces got him and I to go see them at Lollapalooza in 1993, our impressions on their 3 chapters of record releases, a thorough breakdown of J and Lou’s major blowout, plus a q...
2023-03-171h 28This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Pat Benatar?After two nominations and endless support from her dedicated fans, Pat Benatar has finally been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside her musical partner and husband, Neil Giraldo. It is puzzling why this inevitably took so long, since the music of Pat Benatar has been prominently featured on classic rock stations for decades, not to mention being a pillar in the foundation of MTV's heyday. Hopefully these accolades will help put her on the modern rock ladies Mt. Rushmore forevermore.
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2023-01-101h 09This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Alice Cooper?Vincent Damon Furnier is the inventor of shock rock, but we know him better as Alice Cooper. Avid golfer, devout christian, trouble maker and Hollywood Vampire, Alice has had a storied life. Today we get to know Alice a little better and piece together what food he is, in the made-up alternate food=band universe. Joining me for the journey is Charlie Schmid aka Del Judas. He is a life long Alice Cooper aficionado and the perfect pairing for this conversation. Join us as we trace the band all the way to the beginning, back to Phoenix Arizona, where...
2022-11-201h 22This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is David Bowie?- Featuring Michael TDavid Bowie was almost a one-hit wonder, with his breakout hit Space Oddity. Then he shocked everyone by changing his entire persona a few years later, transforming into Ziggy Stardust. Thus, a method to morph his look and sound consistently for years to come was unleashed. With each character creates, he always and forever remained Bowie. Today we will examine his career and transform it into an outside-of-the-box food. Join me and Michael T, New York’s upmost authority on all things David Bowie related. We will break down his upbringing, discuss all the many pivotal characters throughout his li...
2022-10-201h 28This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Jane’s Addiction?Although Nirvana seems to get the credit for opening the world to the Alternative Nation, Jane’s Addiction leader Perry Farrell was the one who literally coined the term “Alternative Nation.” After releasing three groundbreaking records, the band broke up in 1991. They have had various attempts at reviving its legacy, and are making a strong claim recently by welcoming back founding member Eric Avery. What a coincidence that Nick Cialdini and I, two Wisconsinites moonlighting in Italy, had an in-depth conversation about Jane’s Addiction over a tasty meal this summer. Have a listen to the latest installment of This Ban...
2022-09-121h 11This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Minutemen?Minutemen were to hardcore what The Talking Heads were to punk. D Boon, Mike Watt and George Hurley, the three "corndogs" from San Pedro that drove the Minutemen style of Econo punk rock, understood that being punk meant breaking down all the establishment borders. SST records helped them get their first recordings out to the people, and also helped them create their own label, New Alliance. Mike Watt and company are the focus of this weeks food/ music pairing! Sitting in as co-pilot is Jeanette Dainty, an old friend who almost named her first born after the iconic bass...
2022-05-261h 02This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is My Morning Jacket?Louisville, Kentucky's My Morning Jacket is the topic of this week's band-to-food comparison. I travelled to a remote lake house straddled between the North Carolina and Georgia border to discuss why this band is so important to a devoted group fans who also happen to be members of my running team, (the Rabies Awareness Running Team). We discuss the very beginning of Jim James' venture into the reverb drenched records, starting with Tennessee Fire and onwards. We will get into Jim's very earliest and unlikely influences, why this band truly needs to be experienced live, and a run-down of...
2022-05-091h 10This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Huey Lewis and The News? Featuring Leo SidranFor this week's band to food pairing, we examine the history of California's 80’s rock staple, Huey Lewis and The News. My partner for the journey is none other than Oscar winning producer, multi-instrumentalist, Grammy nominated composer, as well as host of the podcast The Third Story, Leo Sidran. Together we will discuss the deep roots of Huey’s upbringing as a child of two parents on different coasts of the country, the history of Huey’s first major band Clover and how they got the gig of backing Elvis Costello for his first record, the controversy surrounding Ghostbusters and it...
2022-04-091h 26This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Tears for FearsThe day Roland Orzabal laid eyes on a handsome Indian looking fellow in Bath England, (he wasn't Indian), Curt Smith and Roland became a musical force that eventually became Tears for Fears. They came to rule the world in the 80's, split up in the 90's, and reformed in the 00's. They just released a new record that's right on par with the rest of their catalog. For this week's episode of This Band Could Be Your Food, I travel to Asheville NC to talk with the number one Tears for Fears fan in my orbit, Ross Britton. We...
2022-03-221h 16This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Neutral Milk Hotel?Jeff Mangum and his fellow Ruston, Louisiana buddies in Elephant 6 had a lot of bands with a lot silly names. Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Cranberry Lifestyle, System Flying Machine, Elf Power... just to name a select few. Of all of these groups, one really captured the imagination of the indie rock world; Neutral Milk Hotel. With the help of schoolyard friend and musical companion Robert Schneider, the recording project that eventually morphed into the four piece we know and love recorded two incredibly beautiful, noisy and influential records, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea and On Avery...
2022-03-091h 22This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Cheap Trick?Cheap Trick is on the table for today’s episode of #TBCBYF. Back in 1973, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson and Bun E. Carlos created the bedrock for Beloit Wisconsin native Robin Zander to step in and ride all the way to Japan and back. Cheap Trick is midwestern proud, just like myself and this weeks guest, Kyle Urban, aka Kyle Motor. We dive into the history of the band and uncover where Bun E. Got his name, the origin stories of how the band got its name and signature checkerboard look, the secret album they rerecorded with Steve Albini, and pl...
2022-02-161h 37This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Meat Loaf?Marvin Lee Aday, otherwise known as Meat Loaf, is the topic of these weeks TBCBYF episode. He left this world at the age of 74 due to alleged Covid complications, but his legacy and infamy will live on forever. Alongside musical collaborator Jim Steinman, their musical presence in the world transcended all the musical trends in their time against the odds. How did he do it? I bring in my “in-memoriam” podcasting partner, Nate Hall, to figure out what magical combination it took to make this Broadway rock act create one of the best selling albums ever. If you like what...
2022-02-031h 13This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Foreigner?What's so bad about Foreigner? I bet you love more of their songs than you know. When band leader Mick Jones wrote the riff that became Feels Like The First Time, his double vision dreams of creating an iconic arena rock band came into focus once Lou Gramm and the boys jumped aboard the ship. Charlie Schmid and I once again join forces to ponder the question, what food is Foreigner? The really come from no one, specific place. Yet, you can find their music blasting at every state fair, roller rink, Nascar event and AOR station from coast...
2022-01-171h 02This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is The Pogues?In 1982, London punk-rockers Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy stumbled into fusing their love of punk with traditional Irish melody, and a new music genre was born. Often imitated and rarely duplicated, The Pogues laid the foundation for many Irish rockers to come, including Black 47, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and The Kissers. No matter how many other bands walk in their footsteps, “There’s only one Shane MacGowan.” Join me and The Kissers’ bandleader Ken Fitzsimmons, (a group that I played in for many years), as we dive into the history of The Pogues, the importance of the London punk scene on...
2022-01-031h 28This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Fugazi?Fugazi was not just any old band from Washington DC. They were an important musical and social movement that inspired a generation of kids to do-it-themselves. They were the “real” alternative to what was known as alternative in the 90’s, and it ingrained a conscience into everyone who participated in the scene that still permeates today. My old friend and ex-DC native Peter Heyneman sits down with me to rap about all things Fugazi, including our personal stories of meeting Ian MacKaye, how the band was able to successfully build their own business model that stuck it to modern-corporate societ...
2021-12-061h 27This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Wilco?People usually have one of three different reactions when it comes to the band, Wilco. They either love them, think they're ok, or they've never heard to them. Nobody hates Wilco, from what I can tell. For this weeks Thanksgiving themed episode of TBCBYF, I chat with my childhood friend and Wilco aficionado Eugene Kim. Together we discuss Jeff Tweedy's first band with Jay Farrar, Uncle Tupelo, the pros and cons of the various members of Wilco, including early line-ups, the Jay Bennet days, and the current gang with Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline, why Wilco has become the...
2021-11-221h 15This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is AC/DC?This week, we discuss the intricacies of Australian's contribution to classic rock radio stations around the world, AD/DC. When Angus Young wore his schoolboy outfit to an early gig in 1973, the look fused alongside their timeless take on rock and roll, and their songs have been inspiring young guitar players for decades. Tune is as I chat with Kyle Peterson, singer of various punk and rock bands in Madison Wisconsin, (including the singer of Bon Scott era AC/DC tribute band, The Bon Squad). We will examine how Malcolm and Angus young owe much of their success to...
2021-11-0858 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Guns N‘ Roses?Since we just examined Rolling Stones and Living Colour, let us round out the trifecta with the 3rd band to play LA's Memorial Coliseum back in October of 1988. This was when GnR filled the final slot of a legendary 4-show run in LA for the Stones tour backing their new release, Steel Wheels. GnR happened to be pushing their second major release, Lies, featuring the dumpster-fire-of-a-song One in A Million, which effectively polarized fans, critics, and their own band members. For this episode I talk with Dan Hinkel, a former writer for the Chicago Tribune as well as an o...
2021-10-251h 10This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Living Colour?In 1988 when the video for Cult of Personality catapulted onto the MTV cable waves, Living Colour was ready to expand the minds of music listeners all over the world with their debut record Vivid. Drummer, musician and lifelong LC fan Charlie Schmid recommended we dig into the history of this iconic band, and we learned a lot. For this weeks episode of TBCBYF, we take a look at the deep musical backgrounds of each individual member, from their roots in NYC, how guitarist Vernon Reid and singer Corey Glover first met, and how the destiny of this quartette inspired...
2021-10-1155 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is The Rolling Stones?To celebrate our 10th episode, as well as to pay homage to the passing of The Stones' drummer Charlie Watts, this week Nate Hall and I discuss The Rolling Stones. It seems like they have always been here, but we'll see if can't trace back to the moment when the plates collided, resulting in the formation of the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band. For this episode I drill Nate with trivia questions and see if I can't stump him. We will be discussing Charlie Watts' career, the dreaded 1969 Altamont concert, their first live performance of Brown Sugar, and treasure...
2021-09-2759 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Pavement?Pavement is one of the most influential indie rock bands of all time, yet the most obscure one TBCBYF has covered thus far. Although the band released their final record in 1999 and have been dormant since their reunion in 2010, they are gearing up for deluxe release of Terror Twilight, (produced by Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich), and a tour to boot. This episode is the first to have its food recommended by actual Pavement member, Bob Nastanovich, which makes this whole thing an extra, special treat. Join me and my old high school friend, Andy Hinkel, as we discuss how al...
2021-09-131h 07This Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is The Band?Originally formed as Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks, and later cherry picked to be Bob Dylan's first live backing band, four Canadians and a feller from Arkansas eventually settled on a legacy, forever known as The Band. For this episode, Nate Hall and I brew up a pot of coffee and sip bloody Mary's, as we analyze the power struggle between Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. The two main Band members never saw eye-to-eye, but they still created a body of work that has transcended music for decades with a style all their own. To top it all off...
2021-08-3047 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is U2??As for as Irish bands go, none of them have achieved the captivation and near world domination that U2 has. For this episode, I discuss with former Rolling Stone writer, Bono-fied lifelong U2 fan and MomMeCare curator, Sarene Leeds, we navigate the band's history from, their first band meeting as a 6-piece in Larry Mullen Jr.'s parent's kitchen, discuss which members are Christian and which are vegetarian, a look behind the scenes of what hard-core U2 fandom really looks like, the effects of giving music away for free, and all the while, we share a modernized recipe of an...
2021-08-2352 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food are The PoliceIn 1977, Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers became a turbulent musical force known as The Police. The impact they had on music, fusing punk spirit with reggae, jazz, fusion and world music, is still felt in the world today. Since we couldn't round up the actual members of the band, we found the next best things- New York's Finest, a NYC based Police tribute band. Members Oscar Bautista and Alan Camlet sat in with me as we discussed the origins of the band, what convinced them to dye their hair blonde, their darkest record, how many recordings they still...
2021-08-1647 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is ZZ Top?This week's episodes takes a deep look into Houston’s legendary powerhouse, ZZ Top. The band recently lost their talented and iconic bass player Dusty Hill at the age of 72. We are dedicating this weeks band and food pairing to their untouchable legacy. The ZZ Top tour continues on, but we take a pit stop to examine all of the mouth watering Texas dishes we could dream up in order to pinpoint the perfect dish. My old friend Nate Hall joins me as we discuss ZZ Top's origins, their previous side bands and odd jobs, how they stumbled into th...
2021-08-0949 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodWhat food is Todd Rundgren?Upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Todd Rundgren is the centerpiece for this week's TBCBYF episode. Join me and my former bandmate Tommy DeVito, as we dive into the bottomless well of Rundgren trivia, discovering his famous actress daughter, his ongoing controversy with John Lennon, a story about Tommy playing on-stage with Todd, and much, much more. All the while, we dig into a spice plate of.....
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2021-08-0247 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodThe Go-Go‘s are lemon meringue pie80’s darlings of the LA punk scene, The Go-Go's are the subject of this weeks band and food matchup. We are once again joined by our good buddy and Long Island native, Charlie Schmid, otherwise know as goth-romantic Del Judas. Charlie and I discuss the origins and history of the band, their punk beginnings, the issues surrounding their on-again/ off-again career, and their ability to transcend a primarily male dominated music scene and become the first and only all-female driven rock band to top the charts. If that wasn’t enough, we also perfect a tasty and tricky-to-make summer trea...
2021-07-2643 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodMotley Crue are bourbon marinated skirt steak tacosJoin us as we pick apart Mötley Crüe in order to guide us to the very delicious food that they are. I bring on Charlie Schmid to help me untangle the thick web of rumors surrounding the band, including their LA origins, their connections that brought them together, the effect they had on Long Island men in the 80's, and ponder why they keep retiring and un-retiring. All the while, we munch on some tasty....
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2021-07-1847 minThis Band Could Be Your FoodRamones are Cheeseburgers.For the first episode, I decided to keep it simple. It doesn’t get any simpler than the Ramones. They made rock and roll live again in the late 70’s, and won’t take credit for launching punk-rock, (but we all know they did). This food pairing was so obvious to me that it had to be the lead-off episode. Enjoy as my good friend Charlie Schmid and I navigate a mountain of great Ramones trivia, and devour a tasty...
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