Walter Schreifels (Quicksand, Rival Schools, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today)

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode 72 - Huge episode! Gorilla Biscuits guitarist / Quicksand singer / Rival Schools singer / Youth of Today bassist Walter Schreifels joins the show. A wearer of many hats since starting Youth of Today in the mid 1980's, Walter discusses the early days of New York Hardcore, how he got the confidence to transition from guitar player to lead singer, and the move to a major label for Quicksand and Rival Schools. Also discussed are his new super group Vanishing Life and his other project Dead Heavens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.2	You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. I'm going to Happy Monday everyone.
1:18.0	Welcome to another episode of Lead Singer Syndrome.
1:25.0	As always, I am your host, Shane Told.
1:28.0	It is so good to have you.
1:29.0	Welcome to my podcast, where I talk to other lead singers about what it's like to be the front man or front woman of a band and this is perfect because to quote the guest this week lead singers are awesome and speaking of the guest this week, we have a very special episode, very special guest. I speak with Mr. Walter Shrifles of, oh boy, how do I do this? Youth of Today was his first band in New York.
1:55.0	He played bass.
1:56.0	He went on to form Gorilla Biscuits where he played guitar and was a songwriter.
2:01.0	Then he went on to be the lead singer of Quicksand and later on after that rival schools.
2:07.8	So he has a very, very massive career with so much material, so much to talk about and I'm a huge fan.
2:15.0	And it's hard, you know, when you talk to somebody that has this much material out there
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