201: Brooks Headley (Born Against, Oldest, Universal Order of Armageddon, etc.)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brooks Headley fell in love with music while listening to Dr. Demento on his grandmother’s radio. He’s also had a lifetime obsession with food, leading to a career working in--and eventually owning-- restaurants.

He talks to Joe about: having pragmatic dreams; being raised by an incredible, single mom; drumming for bands such as Universal Order of Armageddon, Born Against, Skull Kontrol, and (Young) Pioneers; cooking for the 1% at high-end restaurants; and how his love of fine food and punk rock converged to inform the creation of Superiority Burger, his vegan restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm a little bit, a little bit, a little bit of a control freak.
0:04.0	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you.
0:23.6	...you know. You're hearing Starvation Army by Oldest, featuring my guest Brooks Heedly on drums.
0:52.3	Brooks grew up in Baltimore and in 1992 began playing with local
0:57.4	hardcore band Universal Order of Armageddon. Over the subsequent 25 years, his body of work has
1:04.4	expanded to include recordings with the bands Born Against, Young Pioneers, Skull Control,
1:10.4	and Wrangler Brutes.
1:13.1	In addition to his work as a drummer, Brooks has built a formidable career in the restaurant
1:18.0	business. His work as a pastry chef at Del Posto won him an award from the James Beard Foundation.
1:25.1	Currently, he's the proprietor of superiority burger, a vegan restaurant
1:30.2	that in short order has become an international sensation. As a drummer, he stays active with
1:36.2	oldest, his band with Guitar Wizard Mick Barr. I spoke to Brooks near his restaurant on Manhattan's
1:42.8	Lower East Side.
1:47.0	And now my conversation with Brooks Heedly.
2:05.6	I live with my mom, and she was a school teacher, elementary school teacher.
2:10.0	That's, I mean, that's what she did pretty much her whole life, so.
2:11.8	Is she still around?
2:24.0	No, she's not around anymore, but she was incredibly supportive always about any sort of ridiculous music thing I ever did.
2:24.4	Was she pretty passionate about teaching?
2:27.1	Oh, for sure.
2:28.0	She was like a psychopath in like the coolest way, you know.
2:32.6	What do you mean?
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