SlapperCast

Episode 86: Part-time Professionals

September 29th, 2020 | 54 mins 17 secs

A free-form discussion of metal/prog drummers, recent gigs, and how we're learning to navigate this seemingly never-ending pandemic as professional musicians.

Episode 85: Martinis & Disappointment

September 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 17 mins

Record store memories, albums that disappointed us, musicians we like but wouldn't want to work with, difficult working relationships in bands

Episode 84: "Super Invisible Nobody" with Cindy Heywood

September 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 34 mins

September is National Suicide Prevention & Awareness Month, and this week on #SlapperCast, we talk with musician and author Cindy Heywood, a proud survivor of anxiety disorder and suicidal depression.

Episode 83: Vaseline and Muffins with Slade Ham

September 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 41 mins

This week we're joined by our longtime friend, comedian Slade Ham! We talk about the similarities between comedians and musicians, regarding things like creative process, work ethic, and plagiarism.

Episode 82: More Than Twenty, Less Than a Million

September 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins

Pandemic's effect on retail/office space, pre-show rituals, audience feedback, wedding gigs, pandemic weight loss/maintenance, etc.

Episode 81: Beast of Blackwater

August 25th, 2020 | 56 mins 29 secs

This week: Chris Steele, owner of O'Bannon's Taphouse in College Station and Blackwater Draw Brewing Co. in Bryan.

Episode 80: The Slums of Killiney

August 18th, 2020 | 58 mins 37 secs

Patrick's brother Andrew joins us to talk about his company PitchHub, and how online video has taken on greater importance during the pandemic.

Episode 79: Can't Get Rid of the Tramp Stamp

August 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins

Former drummer and Forever Blaggard Mike McAloon rejoins us for a whole episode!

Episode 78: Rabbit Hole Central

August 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins

The inevitability of drive-in concerts, Blaggards face masks, Eric getting "cut off" at Applebee's, ideal and realistic interview subjects, the importance of interviewing family members as a historical document

Episode 77: Longtime Listener, First-time Caller

July 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins

This week we welcome our longtime fiddler, Jeff Duncan!

Episode 76: Spaghetti Western

July 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min

Sleeping habits on and off the road, and a long conversation about the far-reaching effects of the classic film "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".

Episode 75: All the Couches That We've Desecrated

July 14th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins

Blaggards are SIXTEEN years old, the possibility of another shelter-in-place shutdown, the effect the pandemic is having on bars and music venues, house bands from late-night TV shows, what we think about mandatory mask-wearing

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