Episode 27: Dan Gedman
Dan Gedman might be the smartest dude I've ever had a sit-down conversation with, and he certainly has the deepest voice of any I can recall, which is a batshit combo if you're in to running metrics on how stupid you think you might be.
Whew.
What a chat, though. I've never gone into an interview thinking I'll be less prepared than my guest, but never did I imagine feeling dumber and less knowledgeable than a guest who didn't prepare at all! Yyyikes.
Anyway, Dan is a really awesome dude. He just is. I hate to distill it down to that, but -- if we're being honest -- that's all any guy wants...is to be known and remembered as an awesome dude.
Now, I'm obviously not married to Dan, and I'm not his business partner, but he has always been the nicest guy I run across. He's an A+ host with fine-tuned hospitality skills. He's a funny fellow, and -- well -- goddamn it if he doesn't know the shit out of his music.
Christ.
Dan's a son and a brother and a husband and a father to three and a business partner and a music-savvy cat, but he's also just...he's doing it right. I think. You know...from the outsider standpoint.
He runs this thing called Liquid9. I'm still not sure what they do. They might traffic Russian mail-order brides (Note: Joke! It's a joke! Take it easy...), but I think they produce music videos, among other sleek, industry kinds of things.
Regardless, Dan's for sure a have-back.
I felt humbled having him on, and -- while we covered a few records -- there're for sure more where that came from, and I'm legit' excited about what our next visit might look like. The ones we touched on today include the following:
Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan (1975)
Outlandos d'Amour, The Police (1978)
Tim, The Replacements (1985)
Copper Blue, Sugar (1992)
Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest (1993)
Illmatic, Nas (1994)
Heartbreaker, Ryan Adams (2000)
Is This It, The Strokes (2001)
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Bright Eyes (2003)
Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River (2005)
I'd be pleased as punch if you gave this conversation a listen. They don't get much better.
One final note: I fuck up a lot on this thing.
A lot.
It's hard to focus on the questions and listen to the answers and keep the thing moving and be aware of the time and of every thing you have said on every other episode.
Point being, I used to scoff like a little punk at podcasters for such things. And to hopefully make up for that, I want to point out my mistakes when I become aware of them. In this case, Dan wasn't the first guest with biological parents that're both still alive and together. Jason (episode #1) was, but...that was six months ago, and I'm an aging human.
I'm far from perfect. Really far. If you know that and listen anyway, praise be to ye.
Blessings.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro audio samples. They are both clips from "Next to You," by Poolside, off of their 2012 release called, Pacific Standard Time (c/o themselves).