Discograffiti

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with OG Love mainstay Johnny Echols about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output (for 4 1/2 hours total), with commentary on their history, wild stories, and star ratings—from both Dave and Johnny—for every release. 7 & 7 & 7 Is: The Definitive 21-Episode Story Of Arthur Lee & Love was consciously crafted to act as the ultimate repository of fact and opinion on one of the greatest bands to ever walk the face of the earth, the almighty Love. 

Part 2 is the first part of my interview with Johnny, which covers the same time period as Episode 1, but in more granular detail, and heard directly from the man who lived it: it’s Love’s early years, as best friends Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols spend copious amounts of time inspiring each other…all of it building toward the moment they record their very first album as Love.

Here are just a few of the many things that Johnny discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

What Arthur was like as a kid;

His relationship with Billy Preston, and the time they saw The Beatles together;

Johnny’s holy shit moment of creative epiphany;

Whether or not he thinks Hendrix borrowed from his own early showboating style;

The realities of Love’s compromised touring strategy;

And Johnny’s ongoing relationship with ex-Love member Bobby Beausoleil.

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SOS 250a: A Conversation with David Gedge of The Wedding Present and Cinerama Previewing His Upcoming Tour and Our Epic Deep Dive into his Many Songwriting Eras

And yes, the episode title is needlessly long in tribute to the early days of David Gedge giving songs ridiculously long titles. 

Anyway, Paul Kelly of the great Indie band, The Martial Arts, and Rudy were just minding their own business recording their thoughts on David Gedge for a series of episodes about his great and varied songwriting when SOS friend Patrick Tape Fleming of the greatest Indie bands Poison Control Center and Gloom Balloon arranged for Paul and Rudy to talk to Gedge himself. Naturally, this was not an opportunity two fanboys could not resist. 

This discussion centers mostly on The Weddoe’s “Seamonsters”, since Gedge will be touring the US and Europe to celebrate that release’s *gulp* 35th anniversary. Think of this episode as a special preview of the proper “David Gedge Series” that starts next month, and motivation to get tickets to go see The Wedding Present perform “Seamonsters” in its beautiful entirety along with many more TWP classics. 

To see where The Wedding Present is playing and how to get tickets, visit:
https://www.scopitones.co.uk/forthcomingconcerts

Paul Kelly is the artist behind the excellent indie band The Martial Arts. You can find their releases and merch here:
https://themartialarts.bandcamp.com

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Get to know your new music-obsessed friends in Rudy Fischmann's fascinating podcast-within-a-podcast, The Discograffiti Soldiers Of Sound Podcast, created exclusively by & for Discograffiti's Patreon "Soldiers of Sound" community, where you get to be the guest!

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Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with podcast OG Joe Kennedy about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output, with commentary on their history, wild stories, and star ratings for every release, including long-form interviews with both Johnny Echols and the members of Baby Lemonade, who’ve served as Love now for coming up on 35 years. 7 & 7 & 7 Is: The Definitive 21-Episode Story Of Arthur Lee & Love was consciously crafted to act as the ultimate repository of fact and opinion on one of the greatest bands to ever walk the face of the earth, the almighty Love. 

Part 1 covers the early years, as best friends Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols spend copious amounts of time inspiring each other…all of it building toward the moment they record their very first album as Love.

Here are just a few of the many things that Joe discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

The miracle that brought Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols together as best friends;

What Arthur was like as a kid;

Arthur’s inspiration to assemble his first band;

How Arthur’s style mutated until it reached a state of complete originality;

The clubs on the Sunset Strip that were instrumental in allowing Love to grow;

The reason Love had to (thankfully) change their name from The Grass Roots;

Manson acolyte Bobby Beausoleil’s brief stint in the band;

And how they arrived at the name Love.

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For the full, ad-free, 51-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Private Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

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Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with Spirit biographer Ryan Gabrinetti about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output, with commentary, stories, and star ratings for every release. Part 9 covers Randy California’s creatively listless final years, which produced a handful of problematic records with terrific cherrypicking moments…before he tragically lost his life.

Here are just a few of the many things that Ryan discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

The most surprisingly ambitious project on which Randy worked during his last decade;

Details surrounding the long slide down in Randy’s relationship with Spirit;

The legitimately tragic and valiant death of Randy California;

Noteworthy posthumous releases;

Spirit’s arc, as determined by Dave;

Our top 3 Spirit albums, and our least favorite;

And an in-depth deep dive on some of the songs off Rapture In The Chambers, Sea Dream, Tent Of Miracles, and California Blues.

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For the full, ad-free, 34-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

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Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series: it’s Chuck’s chat with legendary songwriter/singer Jimmy Webb.  This beautiful little interview serves as the perfect palate cleanser before Discograffiti launches into our unprecedented 21-episode Love Series, which kicks off next week.

Winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21, Webb has written multiple platinum-selling songs, including ”Up, Up and Away”, “By The Time I Get to Phoenix”, “MacArthur Park”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Worst That Could Happen”, “Galveston”, and “All I Know”. He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, country supergroup The Highwaymen, The Supremes, Art Garfunkel, Richard Harris, and Carly Simon. He’s the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration.

Here’s just a few of the many things that Jimmy discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

What George Martin had told Jimmy about Pet Sounds;

The importance of multi-track recording for works like Pet Sounds to even exist;

Magic Alex and the freeing possibilities of recording potential during the 1960s, which we now take for granted;

Jimmy’s favorite song off Pet Sounds;

And the fascinating story about Jimmy’s prospective project with Frank Sinatra, which unfortunately never got off the ground.

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For the full, ad-free, 39-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Private Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti