231: Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes, Trigger Hippy)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Steve Gorman's natural sense of groove and knack for rhythmic hooks helped propel the Black Crowes to massive success. Over the course of a two hour conversation, Steve tells Joe about: growing up in Kentucky and Maryland; his love of Basketball; channeling obsessive-compulsive tendencies into rhythmic precision; his dysfunctional relationship with his former bandmates; the experience of writing a memoir; and the importance of family. Check out Steve's Book, Hard To Handle; and the new album by his band Trigger Hippy, Full Circle and Then Some.

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0:00.0	It's easier to admit I'm a mess than to be a mess.
0:16.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:20.0	I want to play something for you.
0:46.2	You're hearing The Butcher's Daughter by Trigger Hippie, featuring my guest, Steve Gorman on drums.
0:52.0	Gorman is best known as the drummer of the Black Crows, a band he joined in 1987.
0:56.0	His musical maturity belied his relative inex in experience, and his natural sense of time, coupled with a knack for rhythmic arrangement,
1:00.0	helped the Black Crows become one of the most popular bands of their generation.
1:05.0	Steve has also worked with artists such as Warren Zyvon,
1:08.0	Stereophonics, Jack Cassidy, and Joe Firstman.
1:12.9	Earlier this year, Steve released his book Hard to Handle, chronicling his time with the Black
1:17.8	Crows. He's the host of the radio show Steve Gorman rocks, and Trigger Hippie released
1:23.5	a new album, Full Circle and Then Some, in October.
1:30.3	And now my conversation with Steve Gorman.
1:38.3	There was a story behind the love.
1:44.3	There was a couple times in the book where when I was writing it and when I read it,
1:47.1	where I really did just get sad, you know, without doubt.
1:49.3	It was the same chapter both times.
1:55.1	The chapter in 2000 when Sven Flames Out, that was the hardest one to write for,
1:59.9	and it was the hardest one to read, you know, for whatever reason.
2:03.8	Those both took it out of me. But otherwise, and I, it's funny, I was talking to Sven. I was with him about a month ago, and I told him that. And then I think
2:10.3	the reason it was so difficult to write, which was Sven and I never actually, like, talked about that.
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