Episode 70: Sk8bar
Brandon and Jesse Rock were kind enough to trek down to K.C. from St. Joe so we could (of course) talk a little bit about some of their favorite records, but also so that we could cover what is currently their lives, Sk8bar.
What is Sk8bar, you say?
Well, I'm glad you asked.
It's a skateboard shop, a bar, and a live music venue at 501 Francis Street in St. Joseph, Missouri.
You can find their Facebook page here, their Instagram here, or you can give them a holler after 5 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday at 816-609-0507.
Please check them out, give them a follow, keep an eye on their live-show calendar, and put it on your own calendar to go see a gig at their joint.
Here are Jesse's selections:
Little Wheel Spin and Spin (1966), Buffy Saint-Marie
Townes Van Zandt, self-titled (1969)
The Day the Country Died (1983), Subhumans
Babes in Toyland's Fontanelle (1992)
And here are Brandon's:
VI (1987), Circle Jerks
Sub Society's No Legs to Stand On (1989)
13 Songs (1989), Fugazi
Type O Negative's Dead Again (2007)
I really enjoyed meeting these two and talking music with them, but there are a few notes about this interview that seem pertinent enough to make.
For starters, the sound on their end isn't amazing. My setup is geared for one-on-one interviews, so I had to figure out where to seat two guests, and keep my fingers crossed that their shared mic would be sufficient, which it darn near wasn't. So, I apologize if you have to strain to hear them. The second piece is that we kind of found a window in which to sit and chat late in the game, so my prep for the conversation was not up to par. And perhaps as a result of feeling frazzled about pulling things off, I fumbled during Jesse's list and essentially skipped over her Subhumans record almost entirely. My apologies to both Jesse and Subhumans for that.
Nevertheless, a good conversation between a still-somewhat-novice podcast host and a pair of badass-but-soft-spoken business/life partners. What they're doing is rad and I'm grateful they stopped by.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to either the promo or the intro/outro audio. They are from a track called, "Equinox" by Liquid Soul off of their self-titled 1996 debut (c/o Music from Mars), and from, "You're the Kind of Girl" by Lee Fields & The Expressions from 2012's Faithful Man (c/o Truth & Soul Records), respectively.