174: Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson, Beastie Boys)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kate Schellenbach’s formative musical experience was in the choir at the Church of St. Luke in Greenwich Village; but soon enough, she was watching Clem Burke do lines at CBGB. Kate tells Joe about drumming for an early, punk-influenced version of The Beastie Boys; achieving popular success with Luscious Jackson; singing on Broadway as a child; her second career as an Emmy-Award-winning TV producer; and raising a son.

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0:00.0	Losing sleepover shit, it's just going to make you tired. It's not going to make you figure out how to do it better.
0:18.0	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:24.6	I want to play something for you.
0:26.6	Hey, surprise, surprise, look into your mother's eyes, I go where no man goes.
0:44.3	One particular role in the hay happened one day.
0:49.3	It only takes one to get it done.
1:11.6	You're hearing surprise by Luscious Jackson, featuring my guest Kate Schellenbach on drums. A child of Greenwich Village, Kate found a home in her neighborhood punk scene,
1:16.6	and she achieved some notoriety as the drummer in an early incarnation of the Beastie Boys.
1:22.6	In 1992, Kate joined Luscious Jackson.
1:26.6	Her agile, energetic style and lo-fi groove allowed the band to stretch out in multiple directions.
1:33.3	Luscious Jackson broke up in 2002 and reformed in 2011.
1:39.3	Shellen Bach has found success outside of the music world as an Emmy Award-winning segment producer for TV shows
1:45.7	like The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Chelsea Lately, and The Late Late Show with James Corden.
1:51.5	I spoke to her in downtown Los Angeles.
2:08.7	Music And now my conversation with Kate Schellenbach.
2:23.9	My mom worked many different jobs, but eventually settled in, she was the media relations director at American Cancer Society.
2:26.6	So she did like PR, that sort of thing.
2:34.7	And then my dad was sort of under functioning, didn't work very well at jobs and was an editor and a variety of things.
2:35.6	A film editor?
2:36.9	No, like a book editor.
2:37.3	Okay.
2:40.2	Worked at McGraw Hill and worked for magazines and that sort of thing.
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