209: Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think, Film Composer)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Craig Wedren is a Midwest native whose father owned a fast food chain. He spent some time in DC, fronting the influential band Shudder to Think, while developing a career as a film composer, eventually moving to LA. In many ways, Craig’s life has the most parallels to Joe’s of any Trap Set guest.

Craig and joy discuss: divorce; Little Tavern; DC; Shudder to think; Musical Ecstasy; becoming “muted”; emerging the “muted” state via life coaching; vulnerability; and film composing.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I feel crazy. I mean, I feel physically great.
0:05.0	And mentally and spiritually, like, kind of titanic right now.
0:13.0	Oh! This is Joe Wong.
0:28.2	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:30.1	I want to play something for you.
0:32.6	Where my son's gone, we can catch me to buy. We can't We can't
0:40.3	follow
0:42.3	you now
0:44.3	there
0:47.3	are
0:48.3	home You're hearing two priests by my guest Craig Wedron.
1:09.4	A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Craig first gained national attention as the vocalist for the band Shutter to Think,
1:16.6	which formed in Washington, D.C. in 1986.
1:20.6	In 1993, Craig began a parallel career as a composer for the MTV sketch show, The State.
1:28.3	In the subsequent 25 years, he's scored dozens of films and TV series,
1:33.3	including The School of Rock, Wet Hot American Summer, Glow, and New Amsterdam.
1:39.3	Since the dissolution of Shudder to think, he's also released a diverse string of excellent solo albums.
1:46.0	Earlier this year, Craig published My 90s, a decade-spanning book of Polaroids.
1:53.0	I spoke to him in downtown Los Angeles.
1:57.0	And now my conversation with Craig Wedron.
2:15.6	Once I realized that Kiss was just a bunch of, you know, dorky Jewish guys.
2:16.7	Yeah.
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