259: Kid Congo (The Pink Monkey Birds, The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Guitarist and vocalist Kid Congo Powers has been a key member of several paradigm-shifting bands such as The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Bad Seeds. Over the past fifteen years, he's also led his own excellent band, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. Kid tells Joe about: growing up in a Chicano family in Los Angeles; how he became obsessive about music before ever playing an instrument, ultimately becoming president of The Ramones Fan Club; learning to play guitar in The Gun Club; his parents' experience at a Cramps show; "growing up" in Berlin; sobriety; how the current pandemic evokes AIDS-era PTSD; and the process of writing his memoirs.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:15.1	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:18.0	During the age of social distancing,
0:20.4	we're recording remotely and releasing episodes
0:22.8	every day.
0:38.3	I was trying about Today's guest Today's guest is Kid Congo Powers is a guitarist and vocalist who played a key role in paradigm-shifting bands,
0:58.0	such as the cramps, the gun club, and the bad seeds.
1:03.0	For the past several years, Kid has led his own excellent band, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds.
1:10.0	He spoke to me from his home in Tucson, where he's nearing completion of his memoirs.
1:16.6	And now my conversation with Kid Congo Powers. All right. All right. All right.
1:35.1	All right.
1:37.8	Hey.
1:40.6	Hey, kid.
1:41.1	How are you?
1:41.7	Yeah, I can hear you.
1:42.4	Good.
1:43.0	Okay, good, good, good.
1:44.3	Okay, good. Good, good. Okay, good, good.
1:45.4	Good, good.
1:46.4	I'm doing okay.
1:49.4	Good, good, good.
1:51.7	Just, uh, hanging around.
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