Episode 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 part exploring her experience as a black woman in punk rock. We talk a lot about music but we don't only talk music. We hear about her experiences as a world traveller, as a working mother raising a kid in pandemic times. She tells us about her life-long passion for cooking, growing, eating and celebrating food and the places that passion has taken her, like her work with culinary visionary Alice Waters when she was as a teacher at the Edible Classroom in Berkeley. It's a great conversation, I loved catching up with Nicky and I know you'll love catching up with her too! PROFOUND thank you to all TM pod listeners, supporters and guests on this one year anniversary episode. I hope my intro was worth the struggle. THANK YOU! Music:  Fire Party 'Make it Quick' Mavis Piggott 'Tense Money' TM pod theme by Jason SUPPORT THE POD:  Patreon  Venmo : @Jason-Traeger-1