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So, I was in a pickle, and I had to go play by myself. I booked a show for The Traditional Fools, and I forgot to ask them, and they couldn’t do it. I was like, there’s no way…But musically, I’ve always appreciated the music that’s come out of there. And it just seemed like a different kind of city than LA. And also, I was a big fan of the music that’s happened there. I had to just stick it out and really just figure things out for myself. It’s a bit too far away to just flip out and go home to mom and dad. It would maybe have been a slower process of finding myself, I guess. For me, I could have gone to LA and have been an hour away from my family. San Francisco is a special place to kids in Southern California, kids everywhere.
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I played drums first – I was always the drummer. What made you decide to pick up a guitar?īlack Flag, just “Nervous Breakdown”. And I probably gave you a way too detailed explanation. And then I got into noise rock…And now I just listen to all that stuff. I got into garage music later, which is funny, because it was all backwards…I found The Kinks, and The Sonics, The Mummies when I was 16 or 17, super late in the game. And right around that time, there was that resurgence of dance punk…Gang of Four, The Pop Group and The Rapture, back when The Rapture was a noisy dance punk band…that record Echoes came out, and I was super into that.
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I got the New York Noise comp when I was 14 or 15, and I was super down with that. And then I got into the Contortions and No Wave…DNA, this band called The Dance. That was me.Įventually, I got into Black Flag and the Germs and all that punk stuff, The Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks. I would take my headphone off and be like, “I’ll have the California roll bleeeehhhhh” and put it back on, all pissed off. I was a super psyched weird little 12-year-old kid with a hood on and headphones everywhere…out to eat with their parents with headphones – that kind of kid. I started off on Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Cream, and Black Sabbath when I was 12. I was getting into skateboarding and surf stuff in middle school, so I started listening to Dick Dale. It was a weird bend of Guns and Roses and Louis Louis. My dad was really into oldies like the Beatles, oldies radio…all the 50s Doo-wop and 60s hits, all up into the sort of psychedelic stuff. My mom was actually super into hair metal, which is pretty rad, like Thin Lizzy. What did your parents listen to around the house? It’s a normal, small town…suburban style. So, you grew up in Laguna Beach – what was that like? I know a little about beer, but I’m definite not a…beer dude, you know? 2012 alone has seen the release of three new LPs (that you kind of have to listen to), Hair, a collaboration with Tim Presley of White Fence, a recorded album with his touring band, Slaughterhouse, and Ty’s own record – Drag City’s Twins, out today. Then came Melted, followed by last year’s Goodbye Bread. The track came from Ty’s sophomore endeavor Lemons, released in 2009. I first found out about Ty Segall when I heard “Cents” – I was really into it. (“I’m going to say no thank you to the Kelso Pilsner,” he says after a sip.) Since I clearly lack any knowledge or natural skill in beer description/terminology, I’ll leave you with Ty’s top three: the Weihenstephan Wheat Beer, followed by the Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold and the Old Speckled Hen. So, basically, I put 12 different kinds of beers in Ty’s face, and between questions, he had a taste and told us what he thought. And when I was asked to go “beer tasting” with Ty Segall, in my mind it involved an imaginary beer expert, casually walking us through the drafts, educating us on the grand history and process of beer making. Eat & Drink Featured Music NYC Photos 0 12 min readĪll words: Ryma Chikhoune, all photos: Alyssa Lesser