237: Jeff Friedl (Beta Machine, Devo, A Perfect Circle, etc.)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Friedl drums with well-considered precision and a soulful groove. Jeff and Joe were born in the same year and discovered some interesting similarities in their respective life trajectories. Jeff discusses being raised in Tuscon by a visual artist and a pharmacist; how drumming kept him from making bad life choices; and how his life changed in 2008.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Joe here.
0:02.3	I made an album.
0:03.8	It's called Night Creatures.
0:05.7	It's coming out on May 15th on Deca Records.
0:09.6	I'll be touring soon after with the 20-piece orchestra,
0:13.0	including alumni from this show like Matt Cameron, Mary Timony,
0:17.4	Janet Weiss, Chad Malter, and more.
0:20.1	Tickets go on sale this Friday at nightcreatures.com.
0:25.1	That's n-I-T-E-Creatures.com.
0:29.6	So I'd play Ritey in school, read up music that way,
0:33.8	playing the jazz band that way,
0:35.6	because my teacher wouldn't let me switch it.
0:37.3	And then I'd come home and play lefty
0:40.3	this is Joe Wan welcome to the trap. I want to play something for you.
0:59.0	I want to play something for you. You're hearing embers by Beta Machine, featuring my guest Jeff Friedel on drums.
1:27.2	Extraordinarily precise, yet deeply groovy, Jeff's playing falls into this soulful robot style
1:33.8	pioneered in the 1970s by German cosmic music drummers and Alan Myers of Devo, a band in which
1:40.7	Jeff currently occupies the drum throne. Jeff combines a compositional cleverness with fierce conviction,
1:47.9	qualities that have earned him a place in bands such as a perfect circle,
1:51.5	Ashes Divide, Pusufour, and Filter.
1:54.8	I spoke to him in Pasadena, California.
1:57.8	And now my conversation with Jeff Friedel.
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