Episode 10: Jason Gerken
Jason Gerken is one of my favorite human beings on the planet and I barely even know him.
As I was telling the guest from Episode #9, it feels like every episode I do is my new favorite conversation, and this one was no different.
It takes a lot of courage to say yes to doing an interview about your life and your music and it takes even more to show up and see it through. I can't exactly say why, but I just had a hunch that our conversation in this one would be a hoot, and it did not disappoint.
Jason has been behind the Shiner kit for some time now, and it was exciting to learn about the other projects he's participating in as well.
He chose -- without hesitation -- Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -- as his badass record, and that blew me away twice (once with how quickly he responded and the second time for how completely unaware I was that this record is so packed full of non-hit gems).
Anyway, Jason and I touched on the local-music scene, back pain, lotus poses, beer being what's for dinner, record labels, bein' on tour, not being a mixologist, the whiskey-in-a-cup kinda bartender he is, Bandcamp, squirting, and STDs. And other stuff, too.
Find Shiner stuff at shiner.net and him on the 'Gram as @meatsuit_jasongerken. Thanks for viewing and/or listening. Pass the episode on to a friend, eh?
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio intro/outro. They are samples of "Un Simple Histoire," by Thievery Corporation (from their 2002 The Richest Man in Babylon album) c/o ESL Music, Inc., and "You Wish," off of Nightmares on Wax's In a Space Outta Sound (from 2006) c/o Warp Records Limited, respectively.