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Rock 'n' Roll Re-Creation: Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker

2024-04-1646:35

On this TMEP Show Classic celebrating Sleater-Kinney’s new album “Little Rope," Carrie and Corin reflect on whether it’s better to get electrocuted than to cover your mic with someone’s sock; who stunk them out of their dressing room at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks; and how the glamour and the squalor sit side-by-side on tour. Find Sleater-Kinney's "Little Rope" and tour dates: www.sleater-kinney.com Hear Corin Tucker's song, "What's Mine is Yours" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owia8H9zbdM -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Taps - An OSHA of Emotion

2024-04-0907:55

In this painfully funny Quick Tap (short episodes with short stories for short attention spans), Book of Boba Fett's Dave Pasquesi tells us about having a bloody tough time on a movie set; MADtv’s Stephnie Weir reveals why she didn’t have too much fun with Dick and Jane and Jim Carrey; and New Model Army’s Justin Sullivan dies on stage...literally. New Model Army album, Unbroken, and tour info: https://www.newmodelarmy.org -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Old Man's Amy Brenneman - Running Away From Robert De Niro Onto the Lap of Jeff Bridges

2024-04-0252:33

Actor Amy Brenneman goes all method on us when she recounts becoming the first person in network television history to take off their clothes onscreen; the embarrassment she felt trying to snap a selfie with punk rock icon Patti Smith; and what it's been like to work with some of the greatest actors in history including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jeff Bridges, and John Lithgow. Amy IG: @amybrenneman Amy webs: https://theamybrenneman.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Fred Armisen - Live From New York. And Chicago. And Portlandia.

2024-03-1945:18

11-year Saturday Night Live vet Fred Armisen steps out of character for a moment to tell us about the time the Beatle's George Harrison dropped a reference to Spinal Tap; what's his all-time favorite drummer joke; and how he nearly became road kill during a Portlandia sketch. Fred grams: @sordociego Fred webs: http://www.fredarmisen.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Taps - Bowie

2024-03-1211:39

Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. In this episode filled with close encounters of the Bowie kind, Allen overuses David's song titles to set up moments when the Man Who Sold the World was at a grocery store during the LA riots; in a nightclub acting inappropriately; in another nightclub acting very appropriately; and at a bar in need of a friend. It’s our favorite alien at his most human. Find our guests: Jim Fairchild on IG @smallislespicturemusic and https://linktr.ee/smallisles Ramona Jan's Yarnslingers youtube.com/@yarnslingers Jim Cushinary's art portfolio https://www.cushimages.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

311’s Nick Hexum - The 411 on 311

2024-03-0553:22

311 singer/guitarist Nick Hexum cruises through a mosaic of stories like the time his entire band nearly combusted like a gaggle of Spinal Tap drummers; how he got to play with his idol, Joe Strummer from The Clash, along with a supergroup of Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, DJ Bonebrake from X, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, and Benmont Tench from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; and what nickname Snoop Dogg has for him. Get 311 Day and band info here: https://311.com On IG: @311 and @nickhexum Nick's new start-up SKP.io is changing how the music industry works to help artists. What's Nick digging musically these days? Hear Madison Cunningham: @madicunningham -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spinal Tap Turns 40! Our Tap 11 Movie Moments

2024-03-0218:51

On March 2nd, 1984, This Is Spinal Tap hit the theaters to universal acclaim including *Two Thumbs Up* from Siskel and Ebert who said, “It feels like a documentary, works as a great comedy, and succeeds in telling us the story of this very badly confused rock band.” To celebrate this momentous anniversary, Alex and Allen replay a countdown of their 11 favorite moments from the movie. Did any of yours not make the list? Let us know! Watch This Is Spinal Tap on Amazon Prime. Coming Soon: This Is Spinal Tap 2 -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Less Than Jake’s Chris DeMakes - Winning the Rock 'n' Roll Lottery

2024-02-2040:37

Less Than Jake frontman and fellow Evergreen Podcast Network podmaster Chris DeMakes doesn’t ska-daddle when we ask him about his band's obsession with Pez dispensers; how he ended up hanging out with Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton one night in Tallahassee; and what happened when Little Richard accidentally walked into his hotel room. Follow the Chris DeMakes a Podcast on IG: @chrisdemakesapodcast And Chris! @lessthanchrisd Less Than Jake stuff: Interwebs: https://lessthanjake.com On socials: @lessthanjake -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock 'n' Roll Re-Creation: Dan Wilson - 3x Grammy-Winning, Super-Semisonic Songwriter

2024-02-1354:02

To celebrate Dan Wilson's third Grammy Award (for Country Song of the Year with Chris Stapleton), we're revisiting our conversation where Dan opens-up on how the demo version of Adele's "Someone Like You" made it onto her album; why he's not upset that Oasis's Noel Gallagher dissed his songwriting partner Taylor Swift; and how the trees roared at Radiohead's show at the Hollywood Bowl. Plus, Alex reveals his own list of real-life Spinal Tap Moments between Dan and himself. Watch Chris Stapleton perform White Horse on YouTube: Buy “Words + Music In 6 Seconds by Dan Wilson” -- a deck of 75 cards providing a unique and inspiring look inside the art of songwriting and collaboration -- on the Semisonic.com website. See IG: @danwilsonmusic Website: danwilsonmusic.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Police’s Stewart Copeland - Conducting a Sting Operation

2024-02-0659:04

The Police drummer waives his rights and confesses to fracturing Sting’s rib over a copy of the New York Times; how many more albums the band could have cranked out if they hadn’t spilt up in 1986; and why it was necessary to call 911 when Cream drummer Ginger Baker paid a noisy visit to Stewart's Sacred Grove Studio. Get the book, Stewart Copeland's Police Diaries See Stewart's jam sessions at Sacred Grove Studio on YouTube with Snoop Dogg, Sheila E,Primus, Stanley Clarke, Andy Summers and, of course, Ginger Baker.= Stewart's IG: @stewart_copeland -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Devo's Gerald Casale - Uncontrollable Urges, Pink Pussycats & Space Junk

2024-01-2253:36

Jerry cools our swelling, itching brains with his tales about the time David Bowie wanted to produce Devo; when Virgin Records founder Richard Branson tried to get Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten to front the band; and what Rolling Stone Mick Jagger did the first time he heard their amazing version of “Satisfaction.” Chris Smith's new documentary, DEVO, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2024. Catch Jerry & Mark Mothersbaugh at MoMa in NYC, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9300 Get the Celebrating 50 Years of De-Evolution box set: https://www.clubdevo.com/ See Jerry's video for "I'm Gonna Pay U Back": https://youtu.be/8kv2UMoynOw?si=77P8wvVyva7YRSfd -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com IG + X: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Taps - Spectacular #Fails

2024-01-1610:00

Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this disastrously delightful episode, Second City legend Jill Talley tells us about the time she, Jennifer Aniston and the rest of the cast of the '90’s TV comedy "The Edge” tried to charm Fox executives into not canceling their show; writer Anthony Farrell tells us about the time his big breakthrough on the CBS hit sitcom "The Office" fell through; and former Jimmy Kimmel writer Rick Rosner spins his epic tale about appearing on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" only to end up suing the show for a million. -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com IG + X: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tay-AI-Lor Swift: Eras Errors

2024-01-0908:38

Before 2023 fades in the rear-view mirror, Alex and Allen take a look back at the top 5 Spinal Tap Moments from last year's biggest music event -- Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour -- and are joined by Taylor's opinionated AI-stunt double to guide us through them all. Thanks to @TheErasTourChannel13 on YouTube for compiling the funny clips & quotes from the Eras Tour included in this episode. All rights in that material reserved to those individuals who filmed the videos and, of course, to Taylor Swift. -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com IG + X: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's All Relative - Family-Fueled Spinal Tap Moments

2023-12-2622:25

Tis' the season for FAMILY...sometimes too much effing family. Join the Too Much Effing Perspective crew as we go to 11 with family-fueled Spinal Tap Moments from Heart's Nancy Wilson; comedian Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords + Our Flag Means Death; Big Thief's Buck Meek; and the Daily Show's Josh Johnson. -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com IG + X: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Taps - Sex Lies and Videotape

2023-12-1907:03

Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this not-so-private episode, we chat sotto voce with All Day Sucker’s Morty Coyle and Jordan Summers about the night Tori Spelling “spread” the word about their band at the Viper Room; America’s first male supermodel Michael Bergin confides in us about the time he and Hugh Grant snuck away from Elizabeth Hurley to watch the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape; and comedian Billy Wayne Davis reveals how Larry the Cable Guy spoiled the climax for scores of VHS lovers. Guests on the Grams: @alldaysucker @billywaynedavis -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avenged Sevenfold's Johnny Christ - Heavy Mettle

2023-12-1247:52

We go heavy on the bass, light on the treble when Johnny tells us about being pelted with sandwiches when opening for Iron Maiden in Italy; why his band nearly broke up while simultaneously touring Europe with Metallica and Guns N' Roses; and what a smokin’ barbecue the late, great Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul threw at his Texas compound. Johnny's IG: @drinkswithjohnny Avenged Sevenfold IG & FB: @avengedsevenfold -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Rebecca Corry - The Pitfalls and Pit Bulls of Comedy

2023-11-2833:11

Rebecca gets our tails wagging with stories of the time(s) she auditioned for Mad TV; how her beloved pit bull, Angel, took a well-timed dump on the lawn of the US Capitol; and what it's like to be hit on by both Arnold and Willis from the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes. Follow Stand Up for Pits on IG and FB: @standupforpitsfoundation Rebecca on FB: @TheRebeccaCorry -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quick Taps - Momma and Poppas

2023-11-2111:14

Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps - short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this mother of all tiny episodes, we talk to Daily Show writer Josh Johnson about the comedian who nearly had to walk home from a gig when he heckled the wrong person; Mmeadows tells us of the time a teenager’s parents almost got them killed over a keyboard; and songwriting great Freedy Johnson tells us about when he tattled to someone’s mommy that her son was a thief. Josh Johnson IG: @joshjohnsoncomedy Mmeadows music & info: mmeadowsband.com Freedy Johnston music & info: freedyjohnston.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock ’n’ Roll Re-Creation: Old 97’s Rhett Miller

2023-11-1444:54

On this TMEP Show Classic, Rhett Miller talks about his “Most Messed Up” Spinal Tap Moments like the time Kobe Bryant said "Cool" after he sang the National Anthem at a Lakers game; and the time Kobe DIDN'T say "Cool" when Rhett sang the anthem stoned; and how awkward it was when Rhett stopped by a recording studio and Kanye West was in the vocal booth "taking a nap with a lady.” See IG: @rhettmiller Websites: RhettMiller.com & Old97s.com Find Rhett's podcast Wheels Off and other music-powered shows on the Evergreen Podcasts Network Evergreenpodcasts.com -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Website: https://tmepshow.com Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Thief's Buck Meek - Buck Stops Here

2023-10-3140:48

We steal a few moments with Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek who tells us about the time his band recorded an album on a Texas pecan plantation; the ways in which Tom Waits has influenced his songwriting; and how his friend almost died delivering a guitar to Bruce Springsteen. Find Buck's new solo album, Haunted Mountain: www.buckmeekmusic.com Buck on IG: @buckmeek Big Thief on IG: @bigthiefmusic -------------------------------------------------- Get in touch with Too Much Effing Perspective Contact us: hello@tmepshow.com Join our Mailing List: https://tmepshow.com Follow us on Social: @tmepshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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