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Supposedly what is there? What will make you happy? Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. I am not a foretrack man.
I am not a foretrack man. When I know who I be, you've got to wonder. You've got to wonder. You don't do it in a dale or how impressions take it away.
Take it. Take it. All the edge roads and bloodthirsty tumors. Who is this new visitor?
He didn't come from the foretrack. It's quite ominous. I don't know who that is. He just appeared.
Do you come out of a keyboard, a synthesizer? He came out of a box that I do not remember the name of. I've stared at this box over and over again. Should I grab it real quick?
Sure. Grab it. Hey, Geertes. Get it sized.
Where did his backs come from? This is a boss voice transformer VT1. Where did you get that? eBay.
Apparently favored by David Lynch, who did a lot of studio work. Our friend Adam Harding worked pretty extensively with Mr. Lynch for a while. And Adam suggested when I was living in Los Angeles years ago, decade plus possibly two.
He suggested that I buy one of these babies off of eBay. It can make you sound like a robot. It can make you sound like another gender. If I can make that generalization, I can raise the pitch of my voice to make it sound higher.
I've used this on a lot of recordings and people think have said to me, like on the reason to live record, who is the woman singing with you? Oh. And the woman singing with me was me. Via the boss voice transformer VT1.
This thing is a real champ. It works with a regular 9-volt adapter, which is a real plus when it comes to this old year. A regular 9-volt adapter. A giant drowning in adapters.
Different things that may or may not fit little holes. But this one just works off of a regular old 9-volt wall wart. Well, thank goodness for that. It sounds like portable.
You can take it on the go. Well, I've taken it. I've taken it lots of places. Really?
Yeah. That thing's traveled? Yes. Obviously, it's traveled from Los Angeles to here, but do you know where you ordered it from?
No. Nope. Don't remember. I don't remember.
Didn't keep any records. Did you use it on any music then? Oh, God. Yeah.
It's all over my solo album, Reason to Live. Is it? Oh, that's the woman singing with you. This is the woman singing with me.
There's only one other musician on Reason to Live, and it's John Maloney who plays drums on one of the songs, Clouded Age. I didn't know he played drums on that. Yeah. I got him down to Justin Pizzavarato's studio, and he added drums to that song.
Nice. But otherwise, it's on me. I didn't know that I was going to be explaining my Reason to Live album. I was not...
Plug it, plug it, Daddy. Reason to Live. I was not trying to plug this one. I was not trying to peg my career with that one.
Hey, it's our podcast, plug away, baby. Plug, plug, plug. That's what podcasts are for. I'm just burning up in here.
Holy cats and dogs. You're burning up all the time. I'm living in the most trendiest time ever. The Perry Menopause Menopausal Busam.
Yeah. Yeah, it's all the rage right in the world, in the news and... You start talking about it, and pretty soon there's seven magazines about it at Whole Foods. Damn.
Yeah. Everyone. Everyone is going through Menopause and Perry Menopause right now. And if you're not, I'm sorry for you, because you're missing out on this hot trend.
She's all that... She's all like my big toe hurts, and then I go to Target, and then there's a magazine said, like, Toe Hurt Magazine. That was terrible. That was terrible.
That was terrible. I felt it rising, and then it came out of my mouth. And then... But I knew it.
I knew, and I know that it just doesn't matter. You had to see it through to completion. I had to see it through to completion. I see a young child behind the door.
Oh, God. Lizzy. Oh, she's gone. I was kind of getting excited for a little cameo.
Lizzy, I don't think people have heard from our nine-year-old daughter Lizzy in a while. I know she just... They do backup vocals on my coverage and institutionalized. Institutionalized.
Bad ass. Yeah, she's been doing some badassery on her bedroom, just cleaning it up. Cleaning her bedroom. Such a good job.
That was shocking. Yeah. Yeah, we've been not cleaning her room for quite a while now. But she...
I don't know what... It's kind of what's her first day of summer vacation. That's true. We left immediately after school ended.
So... We left. We went to Wisconsin to visit Adele's mom and father and brother and family and family. And saw family.
Mm-hmm. They saw some osprey. Oh, yeah, that's true. We did.
We saw some deer. Saw some deer, and I saw some big old turtles crossing the road, and they had just laid their eggs on the sandy beach. That is my parents' little waterfront part. We were there during Egglaying Day, where just for some reason all the turtles get the message.
The turtles all get the... time to lay eggs, and then they all lumber towards the beaches and lay their eggs. It's interesting to me that they spend so much time in water because they actually need oxygen debris. They have to come up for air, but they can be down there for so long.
And then I think the turtles actually are in the water, too, even in winter. So then do they just hold their breath for 10 months under water? How did that work? Yeah, they just go into some mode where they go into hibernation.
Yeah, their own little turtle hibernation. They take one deep breath and they're like, it's cool. I'll breathe again in May. They don't hold their breath.
They breathe very little. It's called Brumination. Look it up. You know what's funny is so when we were out in Wisconsin, I was in my parents garage getting ready to do a little workout video.
That sounds weird as doing the garage, but I had the garage door open. It was just a place to do it. And I could see up the driveway from there. And I noticed a big thing moving at the top of the driveway.
And I thought, okay, pause on the workout video. Let me go see what's going on. And I grabbed my phone and ran up there and churned off. There was a big ass turtle slowly making its way across the driveway.
And it stopped and looked at me and practically like, side, great. Who's this? What are you going to do to me? You're going to try to kill me.
Yeah. And my dad, is this it? Are we going to poke me? What's happening?
And I just took a video of it. And it was almost as if it was rolling its eyes. Hurry up, lady. I've got to go rest now.
And these things look absolutely ancient. It's insane. And so I was taking video of this really cool, pretty big turtle and I mean, like a big dinner plate. You know?
Oh, that's like a big moldy moldy. Well, this one had moss all over it. Yeah. Yeah.
Mold might not be the right. I don't know if it's mold. Yeah, it's just moss. What's this?
Moss is like nice mold. No, it's not. It's a cute mold. Look at that.
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Good job. I think it's dancing. Yeah, kind of like those raves or whatever you go into a little rave. It's a it's a Husker Duesong written and sang by Grant Hart.
It's one of my favorite Husker Duesongs. Oh, I was told through that box. Yeah, I used the box. I thought of asking for track man, but then it's like, there's a deal on the before track right now.
Yeah, not easy. There is a listener of our podcast who is actually going to meet with me this weekend and I'm going to hand them one of my broken four tracks. Is that going to happen this weekend? Okay.
Yes. Yeah. With the idea that it will become fixed at some point. Okay.
But it's been my long time dream, not my lifelong dream. This came up on maybe the last year or so. I really wanted to do a cover of what do I want? By Husker Dues from their second seven inch titled In a Free Land.
It was released in 1982. I bought it fresh on the mail order right when it came out. I was ready. I had their live record land speed record and you sort of a very fast, really fast, almost proto hardcore hardcore before hardcore became hardcore.
Husker Dues were it was a live show record on and on. Look it up yourself. Do the math. Do the Google do the whatever.
Do the disc choreography dance. Do the dance through the discography, but I bought the In a Free Land 7 inch and I've always loved that song so much and I thought it would be a really good done in the style of like a new wave song. Like you said, almost like an old beat off of one of my old other machines. And then I put some old synthesizer on it and then our new mysterious guest did the sing vocals.
Nice. Wow. Maybe we should call him Grant. That's a tribute to Grant.
Yeah, exactly. G-H, the G-H machine, Grant Hart machine. Hart who passed away a few years ago. I was able to meet him a few times shortly before he passed away.
But Husker Dues are an interesting band because Grant really was a great songwriter too. And he wrote some of my favorite Husker Dues songs. And the reason that I finally decided right when we got home from Wisconsin, just like practically yesterday, I was like, I've got to cover this song because you and I, we were driving from Wisconsin to the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport MSP, which is where we depart from and fly back to our home here in Massachusetts.
Yeah. We just got into, we started listening to the replacements and oh my god. And I know they're a legendary band and I know how much I love them. But it is rare sometimes when you hear something that was such a part of your life at a really, you know, I listened to Let It Be by the replacements, that album and my senior year in high school.
So I have a lot of memories associated with that record. And it was on a playlist that you were playing. Interesting. Yeah.
Anyway, the song Unsatisfied came on and I thought, wow, what an incredible song. And I thought, in my mind, I'm like, wouldn't it be funny if I covered that song? Like an old, like what I did with what do I want? Maybe I could do the two songs together, a little mini-appless cold wave tribute where I play these deep-wave emotional songs, but in this sort of detached way with synthesizers, you know, we're sort of, because both bands were known as guitar bands, really influential guitar bands.
But when we played Unsatisfied, I was like, I don't think I can try this song at all in any way, because it is so incredible in its original form. And so I thought, so I thought what it was, I was thinking about it so much that when I did get home, I'm like, I gotta just start, I gotta cover that who's going to do song. Because we were also talking about bands going off here. Oh, baby.
So all right. One amazing thing about Paul Westerberg is a lot of his vocals are just like, he just does a lot of like, like, it's not tortured, but he does a lot of emoting. He emotes in a way that is not cheesy, because sometimes- Well, I feel organic, right? It feels like they happen in the moment.
He does a lot of organic emoting. Yeah. And it sounds so, and I was thinking- It sounds so natural and like, it sounds soulful, which is really not a word that you hear a lot when you start banding around like, College Rock, REM. I mean, as much as I love all of that music, I don't know if I would ever think soulful, but somehow when we listen to unsatisfied again, I'm like, Oh my God, it sounds so soulful.
And then I was thinking of other bands that have that do a lot of like stuff like that. And who's going to do it? And who's going to popped up for you? That's true.
Yeah. So that's a long way around. I love it. Keep going.
I, yeah, I think it was a moment where we both were hearing that song again for, you know, we've obviously both I love the replacements, you love the replacements. We love them on our own individually when we met and became partners. We were like, Hey, we both like the replacements. But that song, you know, man, it just came on and it was as if we were both, I don't know, just feeling all these feelings, you know, it's like, ah, damn, what a, it just gets you.
I don't know. I felt like I was sort of transported back to, you know, this apartment I had Minneapolis and- You were describing the apartment. I just walked in the door. Yeah.
And we used to play the replacements a lot when I worked at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport. I worked at Caribou Coffee and we would put on the seven disc changer. We would pop in the replacements and listen to them.
And I would sort of like cringe and laugh. You know, when like bastards of young would come on really loudly and people or 2000 people are waiting, get their coffee and sorry, guys, I said to send my phone. And, you know, that time does not exist now, right? I mean, I think that kind of music, you can't really, it's all curated like for music or whatever.
And coffee shops and things. Yeah, playlists and whatnot. But yeah, we were, we were the, we were the DJ. And I do remember when Paul Westerberg would come through for his coffee when he would fly and we would all just be so excited and we were such fans.
And I believe he got two shots of espresso with a dollop of Frauthamakiato. I believe that was his, his beverage at that time. I don't know what he's up to now these days, but man, he's really one of my favorite voices. And that kind of ache, I think.
Aching. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah.
When he's singing, there's something coming from deep in him, you know. I think as his story is unfolded for us, you know, and when Diasar Jr opened for the reunited place, replacements, it was their reunion and it was pretty exciting. It was, we got to see him in Boston. And I realized that ache is like he has a hard time even singing.
Yeah. And like being in a band. He struggles with the gentlemen. Yeah.
The gentlemen, ache and confusion and ambivalence. True, true. What's that? I guess that could have been the ending of our podcast.
Okay. Although we've only done 21 minutes. Do you want to keep going? Well, I do have, I do.
You probably have to wrap it up because you have to, because I'm working on a secret project. You've got to, you've got to run. I know I got to go list, I got to, we have so much to do today. Our nieces are flying in tonight.
We're so excited from Minnesota. Yeah. Oh my gosh. We get to have them on our own here with us for like five days, 20 year old and a 17 year old two girls and we're so excited to show them around and hang out with them.
As a musician. Yeah. She writes her own songs and she plays guitar and we've jammed before. So I'm thinking we're going to jam.
She's got a happy honor replacement song. Yeah. Maybe on unsaid thinking that might be that would be cool. Feeling like it would, it feels like a good thing to explore.
You know. Yeah. I'd love to hear her take on it. Like yeah, let's have a, let's have a two year old with a beautiful voice scene.
I mean, she writes and sings her own songs and she also sings in the University of Minnesota choir. Yeah. So yeah, she's just talented gal. We're really excited.
So you go off to your secret project and maybe we'll be back next week with our niece, even. Who knows? We'll see if she'll want to be on the pub. Yeah.
She just might. Okay. All right. Till then.
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