Ep136: Brainiac (John, Juan, Tyler)Ep136: Brainiac (John, Juan, Tyler)
- -Documentaries, keys to the city and being Brainiac in 2019
- Honoring Tim’s memory
- revisting material and the perspective of age.
- Tyler, coming back to playing music and his son “getting” Brainiac.
- Multigenerational audiences
- the reunion industrial complex
- Tim’s dad: “are you going to keep going?”
- Getting back together for a benefit and reconnecting
- Familiarty for better or worse.
- Idiosynchratic music, context and impact
- Tim Krug (the missing link/understudy)
- Picking who does what (singing songs, etc.)
- Subbing for the local legandary hardcore band and destroying the floor in the process.
- “We’ll Eat Anything.”
- “oh, that was awful” “That was the best show ever!”
- Being claimed as an influence and embracing doing something different than what others do.
- Hostile or baffled audiences?
- the band playoffs (and WINNING it)
- The Brainiac – internationale ep with Kim Deal
- When John joined the band, Bonsai Superstar, etc.
- Brainiac as the all boys Brady Bunch.
- Hissing Prigs
- Tyler gets new drums, and how they shaped the sound of that record.
- Recording “nothing ever changes”Recording Electro Shock for President, distortions and learning how to record (usually the wrong way)and bringing that hodge podge to Jim O’Rourke
- Keyboards, samplers, etc. and bringing that out live.
- Playing “New/unreleased songs” for the reunion show, songs that might have been on the next (major label?) record.
- Being a “weird” band and infiltrating mass cultureB
- Brainiac covers and legacy, overall take on things, and the rights to the back catalog.
