Ep008: Robert Kassees (Repeat After Me/Red Light Fever)

Robert from Repeat After Me and Red Light Fever comes by, talks crayons and high grade vinyl and the abject immediacy of writing, arranging and recording songs with complete strangers. All this, free tattoos on Friday the 13th? and more! More T’s for extra hotttness….

00:00:00 Tilts – Ozark Bowtie (opening theme)
00:04:10 Repeat After Me – The Volcano

00:08:35 Interview with Robert Kassees of Repeat After Me
New record “Mapmaker”, Crayon themed album covers, post mortem vinyl releases

00:13:37 Repeat After Me – San Francisco

00:18:36 Robert Kassees interview part 2
Thoughts in leaving San Francisco, the recording process, Chicago (the band, not the city), weird Gwar Tangent, Cheap Trick, classic rock, etc.

(Gwar – Carry On My Wayward Son as music bed)

00:35:42 Tilts – Titanium Falcon
00:39:21 Red Light Fever – You Wouldn’t Say Goodbye

00:42:51 Robert Kassees interview part 3:
Red Light Fever! Writing, arranging and recording a song in a single day with a pick up band of people that don’t know each other. The Red Light Fever project and how it fits into modern times, and what RLF actually is.

01:00:47 Red Light Fever – Illinois
01:04:14 Turbo Lightning – Oh Oh Oblivion!

01:06:48 How great were Happy Fangs? How lame is waking up early. Big Wheels race, “only in San Francisco”

01:19:23 Primes – Tetragrammatron
01:21:54 Tilts – Thomas Jefferson II

01:24:43 Science and Cosmos (the show ending), tattoos and do you get free tattoos on Friday the 13th?

01:33:50 Happy Fangs – That Activity
01:36:40 mclusky – To Hell With Good Intentions

01:39:05 Why Conan was completely wrong about mclusky and it made him stop reviewing records. More about Happy Fangs (DEAL WITH IT! NBD), The RV benefit

01:45:10 fugazi – Five Corporations
01:47:35 Minutes – Raise Our Fists Up

01:49:46 Protonic Reversal close, PRF BBQ Chicago, Conan is going to Chicago (the place, not the band)

01:52:00 Shellac – The End Of Radio (closing theme)