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The most depressing line in the Damon Che podcast for me was: "I'd trade it all for a song as successful as Bow Wow Wow's 'I Want Candy', I'm trying of course to be humourous but I think even Thurston Moore would agree with me."The Mitchell Feldstein episode is good and doesn't outstay its welcome. For me, as a non-drummer, I would like to hear more about drumming in these drumming podcasts, rather than whether Damon Che thinks we're getting "more psychic, generally".

My only complaint is that I wish the interviews were a bit longer. My brain has got used to pods lasting about double the length.Super content though. Wong does an excellent job of letting the interviewee speak.

That Bruford one was great. J. W. is getting better at this. When he said he wanted to be "Marc Maron for drummers" I FUCKING GROANED OUT LOUD. He's moved past that. One major thing is he no longer talks over people, which should be punishable by immediate expulsion from the ranks of all podcastdom, the Barrage notwithstanding*. *mario notwithstanding.

Bill Bruford. That was a get! Thanks Joe Wong.https://youtu.be/GVPwL7S0rms

Angus Jung wrote:Hosoi wrote:Drummers are the most important, obviously, but one wouldn't expect them to be any good at speakingThis accurately summarizes the problem with this podcast (sorry, drummers, I love you).clearly y'all have never met Zach Barocas, who besides being a ridiculously inventive drummer, is one of the great talkers of all time.

Angus Jung wrote:It was an interesting move on Wong's part to choose to pretty much eschew anything about technique, gear, etc. when he talks to drummers on this pod. Do the drummers that listen to the Trap Set like this decision, or wish the pod was more technical in nature?The last one of these I listened to was the Phil Collins one. I enjoyed hearing Collins talk shit about Carl Palmer's playing. Prog Beef!Redline wrote:Joe Wong is a funny guy and a great drummer. Not Crap, even though I wish they would talk about drum sticks more.I still think that. I guess I can see where he wouldn't want to fall into the gear-nerd trap, but depending on the featured drumbo, it would be nice to hear about more idiosyncratic gear, like Bill Bruford's bent Zilco cymbal he used as a china type, Carl Palmer's drum set made of Paiste 2002 cymbal alloy, etc.

Angus Jung wrote:It was an interesting move on Wong's part to choose to pretty much eschew anything about technique, gear, etc. when he talks to drummers on this pod. Do the drummers that listen to the Trap Set like this decision, or wish the pod was more technical in nature?I'll probably be in the minority, but this is what I don't like about his podcast. I'm not a technique nerd but I enjoy hearing about the physical connection that people have with their instruments. It's often a very distinctive part of their playing, and in some ways, it can be more revealing than talking about influences and tour stories and how everyone met, and the usual interview stuff.

John Mayer's / Lana del Rey's drummer doing its best emulation of a human in the most recent ep was pretty funny,