Sep 22, 2021
This week Jeremy interviews Dustin Kensrue of Thrice
Dustin and Jeremy are about to hit the road together on a full U.S.
tour in support of Thrice’s new album Horizon’s / East so what
better excuse is there than to have Dustin come on. On this episode
the two talk social anxiety, being a hermit on the road, tour
rehearsal, discovering punk through Screeching Weasel, his parents
CD collection, the Michael Jackson “Bad” music video, seeing
Snapcase for the first time, the two share stories about the band
Far, learning piano in third grade and how it helped him understand
music overtime, picking up guitar in junior high, learning Beatles
songs, his first band The Typicals, his first show at a coffee
shop, Jeremy seeing Dustin play solo in the mid 2000s and covering
“Round Here” by Counting Crows, their first album Identity Crisis
coming out of Green Flag records, signing to Sub City / Hopeless,
first tours, playing SXSW and getting a booking agent, being
electrocuted by a microphone, Thrice’s infamous tour with Converge,
finding cheap hotels, merch prices, John k Samson / The
Weakerthans, Koo’s Cafe in Santa Ana, Curl Up and Die, recording
Identity Crisis with Paul Miner, flying to Maryland to record with
Brian McTernan, signing to Island Records, how they approached
recording Vheissu, signing to Vagrant, self recording albums, the
evolution of goals, and so much more!
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