Ep.59 - Lucas/Heaven “These Guys Were Real Freaks”

On today’s episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Texas-born, genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Lucas/Heaven about public libraries, the cultural significance of DJ Screw and his screw tapes, and information theory as it relates to music. We got some good stories about the Houston music scene in the 2000s, and a 3 week psychedelic life journey that opened him up to writing.    Lucas/Heaven on BandCamp, Spotify, and Instagram Drank - TPain Cover KCRW Today’s Top Tune - Every City Has a Rhythm Grandfather Child on Spotify - Ride That Train Heaven the Dude on SoundCloud and Spotify Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube Fat Tony on SoundCloud and Spotify Satin Hooks on Spotify The Turkeys - they had rules: wouldn’t play unless there was a keg, all the songs had to do with turkey - Party Fowl, Get Basted in the Face - Butt Rock LA Public Library Resources LA Central Library Peavey Bass Tejano/Conjunto music in the garage Santana, War, Hall & Oates on the roadtrip - favorite bands Bird and the Bee Hall & Oates tribute album Stan Getz  Sade, Anita Baker 1991 was an incredible year for music:  Pearl Jam - Ten,  Nirvana - Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic Weezer - Blue Album Geto Boys Master P and Cash Money Millionaires DJ Screw - important to Houston music - slowing down/diabolical Got big selling tapes out of his house - made people custom mixtapes, “Screw Tapes” - folk music, in a way The Screw Shop - in Houston - a ton of CDs of his University of Houston has an archive of DJ Screw! - the librarian who organized that inspired him to become a librarian! Sippin ‘Lean  Alvin & the Chipmunks speeding up tape Relic guitar that got past around the Houston scene - BC Rich Warlock he played that only in this band Joe/Yppah Double Wish - Fever Dream (favorite alt rock band in OC) - Yppah remix Saw The Boredoms at the La Brea Tarpits - 88 drummers on 8/8/08 Sacred Steel (movie) - steel guitar in gospel music - House of God Pentecostal Church Harmonium - Terence’s music Robert Ellis Geoffrey Muller Chet Faker, Com Truise Love AC/DC and the slash Information theory - data transforms into information and that transforms into knowledge Every Breath You Take by The Police Forgotify - an index of tunes on Spotify that have zero plays Echo Park Rising Scribble in Highland Park