4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Hunt Sales discusses his itinerant childhood (his father was legendary comedian, Soupy Sales); being mentored by Shelly Manne; beginning his professional career at age eleven; overcoming addiction; and why he doesn't have a desire to listen to legendary albums he made decades ago.
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0:00.0 | My mental health problem was life. |
0:15.0 | This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you. ...you Sometimes you gotta testify |
0:48.3 | Speak, speak loud and scream |
0:52.3 | To what you see to what you see, to what you see. |
0:57.0 | You're hearing Here I Go Again by Hunt Sales Memorial, featuring my guest, Hunt Sails on drums and vocals. |
1:07.0 | The son of legendary comedian Supi Sails, Hunt began his drumming career at age 11, often working alongside his brother bassist Tony Fox Sales. |
1:18.4 | Hunt's bombastic, hook-laden playing has proven to be fundamental to several classic albums by artists such as Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, and Tin Machine. |
1:29.3 | Hunt currently lives in Austin where he leads his own band. |
1:32.3 | I spoke to him last year in a backyard in Portland, Oregon. |
1:36.3 | And now my conversation with Hunt's sales. |
1:49.4 | Yeah, we moved to Los Angeles right when I was about seven years old. |
1:51.7 | That's when I started playing drums. |
1:57.4 | I was at a recording session of my dad's, and Earl Palmer was the drummer. |
2:01.6 | And when I saw him play, that's when I knew what I wanted to do. |
2:03.8 | You knew it right away when you saw Earl. |
2:05.2 | Well, that's what I wanted to do. |
2:07.1 | I mean, some people don't stick with it. |
2:08.0 | You know what I mean? |
2:09.6 | But I have a daughter. |
2:13.2 | I've got two girls, one older one. |
2:21.5 | And when she was three and four and five, she was already painting and drawing. |
2:23.6 | And she's an artist now still. |
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