Fan Story Podcast

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Fiction writer, music fanatic and friend William Boyle joins us this week to tell us about his work, growing up in Brooklyn, his music and film inspirations, getting starstruck and the writing process. We talk inner landscapes and creative states, following the thread of inspiration, having a healthy diet of high art and trash. Join us!

(( intro to the Measured Madness ep is cut off btw)) - synopsis ; On this week's episode, we say goodbye to the vibrant and hilarious Fred Willard! We also dip into talking a little about synesthesia (a form of madness or artistic interpretation?) Hayley Williams and lead singer spotlight entitlement? Which songs smell like vacuum bags to you? Which songs make your mouth water? Coping mechanisms and measured madness and fireworks and horn honking and the bright lights of important musicians going out in the age of the virus. Quarantine gets a little quantum and we ultimately, as ever, try to beam light on the positive things we got going for us. Don't gun anyone, just rock & roll.

Dream Theatre, The Offspring, Insane Clown Posse culture (we do though, sort of get that), Kiss, Modern "hip-hop," and internet based sewing discord and manufacturing fake outrage. This week we explore fandoms and other things we don't understand. We talk rock climbing and sculpting your way to the grave, doing what you love until it kills you. The magic of Mel Blanc. The newest Tool album comes up again, obviously. How do we love Tool, let us count the ways. How is Tool different from say, Phish? How is Tool like The Nazca Lines?! How about getting it eventually albeit with a delayed understanding? Kudos, UP YOURS! We don't get it, so help us know. We don't bash but will take the backlash.

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If the car is rockin and rollin, don't come a' strollin! The illustrious and versatile gemini and Fan Story engineer, Lee Mehlich joins us to discuss sexuality in music and share his unreal real-life David Bowie fan story with us! Sexuality, the invention of rocknroll and perversion, are they all linked? We read into lyrics and think about overt sexuality vs subtlety. What makes a performer sexy? Whose bath water would you drink and why? Does cuddling with an artist always lead to sex? Is too sexy even sexy anymore? Who is your personal Elvis? Girly boys and drag queens, androgynous aliens, and gods and phallic mic stand moves. Who is the sexiest musician of all?

This week we return from an unplanned hiatus to memorialize late, great, highly influential friends. We discuss finding a place, forging yourself through others, through music and shared interests. We get into what it means to keep others alive through song, losing shared perspectives, mortality, transfer of consciousness, digging through dogma following the death of someone close and rediscovering enjoyment. Life & death and everything in between. What happens to shared experiences when someone you love dies? How does music facilitate realtionships in early life? What does this all mean?? Rest in peace, Ian Shea, Bobby Daniels and Pete Pardalis.

Aristotle flies solo sans Tara for this one and enjoys guest The Panda Commanda/Bad Panda (Owen Edinger) and talks being an active Trekkie, the disenchantment of green screen, the trauma of 80's children's movies like The Neverending Story & KRULL, and being inspired in all the wrong ways. Is making bad movies better than not making movies at all? Tom Hanks or Keanu Reeves in a nice-off, who's your guy? Technological prophecies, celebrity run-ins, dangers of meeting your heroes, baby-charming and the perils and joys of life in LA. Join us! Follow Owen @ThePandaCommanda on IG and BadPanda on Youtube!

We serve it up deep and heavy this week with our guest Dr. Chris Gignoux as he drops some science on our musical asses. Join us as we take a dive into the crashing waves of aggro music, new sonic possibilities, and so many questions: How many strings do you even need, man? Does aggressive music make you feel feelings or cause you to take certain actions you otherwise would not? How does musical perception differ between cultures and over time? Does yelling in music equal anger or something else? This episode is for sure in ALL CAPS. We get djental and we learn that friendship is the only answer of all.

Podcaster and creator of The Storyhole Podcast/Actor/Producer Joel Huggins joins us for another Fan Story story in action for Tara! We talk Fish in a Sweater, working at Amoeba Records, making friends with musicians, getting backstage, playing it cool, not keeping it cool, Dwight Yoakam, Ian MacKaye, being annoyed by the beloved Billy Bragg & music video appearances, run-ins with a Beastie Boy, Jane's Addiction, Iggy Pop, and a shared love for living in LA. Join us for some quality fan stories right here!

The intended topic was running out of ideas and bad ideas, but we get into lighthouses in space, performing surgery on clowns, Pat Boone, when its appropriate to use the term "brother." Derailement abounds as we struggle to remain on track with special guest and friend of the show, Travis! We solve racism, talk size queens and "big dick energy." Is it too late to abort Donald Clump? Listener discretion is advised! (Maybe we did stay on track?)

The really realness of losing those we admire but have never met. We share stories of musical loss, our respective love of Monkees, Bowie's Blackstar, Chris Cornell, Steve Irwin, Dimebag Darrell, Chris Farley and Prince. We lament the dangers of handling sharp creatures and the importance of letting the animals do what they gonna do. Fight, flight or drugs? Listen to our hilarious and ill fated pre-Leaving Neverland discussion on reckoning with the accusations against MJ. David Bowie Blackstar

Intention, Intention, Intention. What’s it worth? We try and evaluate the intention behind both the actions and musical endeavors of those artists we may have once loved. We grieve lost artists and their crimes and attempt to separate the art from the artist. We cover MJ & Finding Neverland, intentions and outcomes, Roundup-ready garbage, taste aversion, narcissism, R. Kelly, body language, grandiosity & influence and some tips on identifying predators in the wild. We speak ill of the dead. Who has disappointed you the most when it comes to musical heroes? Do you think intention carries much weight in art and in life?

Puppet girl Christine Barger joins us this week to talk puppets, stanning and stalking, meeting Penn & Teller & meeting her own fans!

Ep 14 - Actor/Director Lee Boxleitner joins us for a spiraling trip into his cavernous mind. We take on horror movie scores and soundtracks, Mandy (SPOILER ALERT), going full Nick Cage, Moogin’, Suspiria, spooky synthesizers, Goblin, Yes! What makes your prog frog rock? Special surprise guest appearance by Brian Thompson (YES, that Brian Thompson!) Is it pronounced Moog or Moog? This will be answered and more! More or less…

Huge fan of the arts, actress Melissa Graver joins us and shares her experiences drawing from music in her acting, and her deep love of Guns N’ Roses. We talk about using music to emotionally transport, sense memory, aversion reactions, muscle memory and how these things relate to performance. We change the term vocal fry to something way cooler. We also discuss music videos and what the hell happened in the November Rain video? IG: IAmGravey

We go a’ muckraking in this one folks and not a moment too soon! We dispel many of the musical myths and legends we have grown so fearful or fond of over the years and even look for truth in some of the most pervasive lore of popular music.

We fling ourselves off the rails in this one, mainly we talk about being sex positive about incest porn. Buckle the hell up, folks.

Tara finds a trove of little time capsules uncovering often revealing, sometimes embarrassing mixes she compiled during bygone lives. We celebrate this lost art and dig through piles of personal annals of selected songs and revel in the past. Who did you feel deserved a mix tape and at which time in your life did that happen? What friends have encapsulated themselves in your musical library? What songs did you include on those mixes and why? What songs bring you back to a certain time in your life and who do they remind you of? How did you catalog your listening experiences? What themes did you follow while making your mix for someone? Next time, won’t you sing wit’ us?

Musician, Producer and friend of the show Michael McManus joins us to share his fan stories. We talk The Mars Volta, the Long Island music scene, El-P, John Frusciante, California magic and the serendipity of fandom.

Your hosts, the Long Island natives invite fellow Long Islander, musician Ryan Colt Levy and talk the genesis of musical love. We take it wayyy back to the beginning in this one and excavate our first memories of being moved by music. We dig up our first-evers, swipe away the secret shame of guilty pleasures and access an ancient trove of feelings. Why did we respond the way we did to music? What were our unrefined, gut-responses to early listening? Do some of your earliest memories tie back to particular songs or records? Do those songs still bear the same magic for you?

Music & movies in consort with each other?! What could be better? Ever deeper into cinematic and musical worlds, we recall music we discovered because of the films we loved. Worlds collide in the best possible way on the soundtracks that informed our young lives. What do songs do for film narrative and why do we long to take that experience with us? We differentiate between diegetec and non-diegetic scoring and we name the 80’s soundtracking champ and discuss how and why certain artists end up in certain films and/or on certain soundtracks. How did you alter the atmosphere of your youthhood hangouts? How did you score the film of your life?

Tara coins and shares her term “time-staining,” thereby sending Aristotle and guest Nathan Sloan (of We Tried We Failed podcast) into murky, often shark-filled vulnerable waters and we discuss which songs have retained a certain deeply personal, emotional quality for us. Do certain songs bear something super personal for you? Do you recognize something of yourself in certain musical movements or artists? Are your time-stained songs and albums mainly related to heartbreak as we discover many of ours were? We want to hear about some of your standout time-stained tracks/albums as this will be a topic we are sure to revisit, fans! Experience the Tara Dalton Effect in full force.

This week Aristotle and his foil/counterpart Tara get into the nature of (in)famous rivalries and counterparts, the essence of frontfolk, and attempt to outline the meaning of these things relative to popular musical acts. We ask ourselves AND YOU, the listener, if all rivals are foils to some degree. Are foils a necessary catalyst to creativity? Do you think that you could get anywhere close to the amount of air that DLR got when JUMPing in that classic vid or are you more of a Right Now kinda gal/guy? Who do you think you are, anyway?

The 90’s have come & gone, and in the meantime, what the heck happened to Spacehog? We talk hits, pressure to recreate hits, writing “whatever comes in through the window” & swinging (& sometimes missing) for the fences. Radiohead still makes us go all buttery at Madison Square Garden.

We coin the term fractious.

Tay Zonday appears and has an earnest conversation with Aristotle and Tara about his love of Star Trek, growing up smart, and not really feeling that human. It turns out, you don’t always get to decide what you’re known for.

Ever eager to reach out with gratitude to a beloved artist, her offer of a gift morphs into an adventure through LA to Ferndale Park where IO Echo (Ioanna Gika, Leopold Ross and Stormcloud of Swordsmanship, their dog) accept their quest and discover Tara’s gift of some art of her own. Through the collaborative efforts of Tara and Ioanna, this quest becomes a Fan Story IN ACTION! Don’t miss this one, Phanz

Aristotle gets jumped by Kyuss, Tara gets shut down by Counting Crows.