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Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Chris DeMakes (Less Than Jake)

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Episode 248 - Less Than Jake frontman Chris DeMakes joins the show! Known only as "Chris from LTJ" for his whole career, Chris DeMakes is now broadening his horizons with custom songs, a new book, solo stuff and an AWESOME new Podcast "Chris DeMakes a Podcast" where he discusses songwriting with guests like Mark Hoppus, John Feldmann, Laura Jane Grace and more! Also, we discuss LTJ's devotion to their fanbase, touring with Bon Jovi, and his take on the horns on "Hello Rockview". Brought to you by Miller High Life - The Champagne of Beers - Enjoy Responsibly! millerhighlife.com Also brought to you by Manscaped. The best in Men's below the belt grooming. Get 20% off and Free shipping with code LSS over at manscaped.com ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Oh, I'm going to be. Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast lead singer syndrome that's what it's called

0:45.3

it's been called that for almost five years can you believe it we're coming up on

0:50.4

the five year mark. It's exciting stuff. Today we have an awesome episode, part two of a two-part special with the co-front men of Less Than Jake.

1:06.0

Today we have Chris DeMakes, I guess kind of the more main singer of the band and this dude you know he's not just Chris from

1:17.9

less than Jake anymore he's doing a bunch of stuff outside the band which is really great to see including an

1:26.7

awesome new podcast if you like this podcast you'll love his I'm sure especially if you're a musician yourself if you're interested in songwriting

1:36.7

Check it out. It's called Chris de makes a podcast. He's had some mega guests on including Mark Hoppis that's really really cool

1:47.1

so yeah it's awesome that he's doing that and I just recorded an episode with him yesterday where I talk about

1:56.7

the Silverstein song My Heroin which has a pretty interesting story and a lot of stuff

2:02.2

have actually you know never got to spend

2:05.2

a whole bunch of time talking about and, you know, I've mentioned it so many times on the show

2:11.8

why I love the podcast format,

2:15.2

especially when it comes to talking to musicians,

2:19.0

because the classic 20 minute interview or magazine article of a couple pages, you just don't get enough out of it, you know, to just really learn anything new about the artist.

2:35.0

So that's why I absolutely love this format,

2:38.6

why I think this show brings something to the table,

2:41.7

and definitely why Chris's show also

2:44.4

bring something as well so yes make sure you check that out

2:49.0

and we got a great episode before Before we get into it though, a couple of things,

2:55.5

a couple new things.

2:57.2

So I have started a twitch channel.

3:01.2

And I remember back in the day I had Matt from Trivium on the show and I actually you know he

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