250: Billy Martin (illy B; Medeski, Martin & Wood; John Zorn; Bob Moses, etc.)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Billy Martin joins Joe to discuss: how his parents met at Radio City Music Hall (she--a Rockette, he--a musician); his childhood affinity for Jacques Cousteau; how going to the movies informed his inner world; some of his key mentors; the difference between dead music and live music; and why he considers himself an experimental artist.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:17.0	During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing daily episodes. Today's guest is Billy Martin. Though he's perhaps best known as the drummer of Medeschi Martin and Wood,
0:57.7	Billy has sustained a 40-year career collaborating with several luminaries of experimental music,
1:03.8	including Bob Moses, John Zorn, Iggy Pop, John Schofield, DJ Logic, and countless others.
1:12.2	As we'll discuss, he's also a visual artist and educator.
1:16.8	Billy spoke to me from New Jersey. Hello.
1:37.2	Hey, Billy. How are you?
1:38.9	Good. How are you doing, man?
1:40.4	Good. What are you up to?
1:42.4	I'm sitting here in my car and at a nature center in new juret northern new jersey
1:46.6	in the parking lot just did some shopping for my parents my dad's 94 my mom's 87 so uh just to care
1:56.0	some food shopping for them you're a good son travel those nasty things i did no we have a good You're a good son. Travel those nasty things I did.
2:02.0	No, we have a good.
2:05.4	I'm a good kid in general.
2:16.1	Whenever I see a number coming in from a Hackensack, New Jersey prefix, it makes me think of Rudy Van Gelder.
2:18.7	And all those records. Yeah, yeah. Well, Englewood, New Jersey. So that's where, actually, where he ended up, you know,
2:29.1	recording a lot of famous stuff as well. And his studio is still there. I haven't been to
2:33.7	Anglewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Right. Hackensack was where his parents lived maybe, and that's famous stuff as well and his studio is still there haven't been to angling cliffs in
2:34.5	jursy right hackensack was where his parents lived maybe and that's where he started
2:39.1	in yeah he did start there i tell one thing off the bat i'll tell you uh is that i'm not a jazz
2:47.1	historian and i'm not a historian in general so like I'm I'm not going to be the best person
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