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GRAMMY-winning heavy metal band Mastodon goes record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. Bill Kelliher, Troy Sanders & Brann Dailor share stories about playing Black Sabbath's final show, listening to Metric in the tour van, and some of their favorite albums by Clutch, Coil & Men at Work. Mastodon's ninth album Marrow Deep is out now via Loma Vista.
Mastodon's picks: • Coil - Love's Secret Domain (LP) • Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz (LP) • Rush - A Farewell To Kings (LP) • Cocteau Twins - Victorialand (LP) • Men At Work - Business As Usual (LP) • Metric - Synthetica (LP) • Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk (LP) • Barry Manilow - Greatest Hits Vol. II (LP) • The Cramps - ...Off The Bone (LP) • Björk - Selma Songs (LP) • My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (LP) • Clutch - Clutch (LP) • Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (LP) • I Prevail - Violent Nature (LP) • Weezer - Pinkerton (LP)
Featured Artist: Mastodon
Editor: Gabriel Wheeler Executive Producer: Rachael McGovern Producer/Director: Craig Miller Assistant Director: Derich Heath Cameras: Aaron Araki, Derich Heath Audio Recorded by: Patrick Emswiler Assistant Editor: Patrick Emswiler
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SPEAKER_03
Hi, I'm Bill Kelleher. My name is Troy Sanders. I'm Ron Daylor. We're from the band Mastodon and we're at Amoeba, and this is What's in My Bag. My first choice is uh a group called Coil, and this is their album Love's Secret Domain, which uh means LSD basically. This is firmly in the 90s, but um back then when I was uh putting a little piece of paper on my tongue and and going on an adventure, this was one of my favorite albums to listen to because I feel like obviously it's tailor-made for the experience. But you know, I found the doors of perception, I know where they are now, I don't need little pieces of paper, so when I put this thing on it, it immediately transports me to another universe, and it's an amazing album. I couldn't believe I found it here at Amoeba because I've been looking for it for a long time. Yay!
SPEAKER_00
Had to go with uh Blizzard of Oz, Ozzy's our first choice.
SPEAKER_01
Mr.
SPEAKER_02
Crowley! What went on in your head?
SPEAKER_00
We've all been fascinated by Ozzy and Black Sabbath our whole lives, especially this past year. After playing the final Sabbath show a year ago, and uh and then Ozzy's passing, we played Crazy Train before every live show we've done over the past year. But that's how we go. We just cannot honor and thank Sabbath and Ozzy himself enough for kind of you know creating the genre that we now call home. And so Ozzy forever, this is a no-brainer. Uh thank you, my fan.
SPEAKER_03
What was that experience like playing that show? Unbelievable.
SPEAKER_00
Unfathomable, nerve-wracking, um, equal amounts, extreme anxiety and unbelievable uh like pleasure.
SPEAKER_04
There was a lot of tension and anxiety until we played first, and then it was like, yay. That's what we did. We did it.
SPEAKER_03
We did screw up.
SPEAKER_04
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03
And we played Super Not and we nailed it, I think, and uh, and then we played for 15 minutes, and then I was in the audience with a beer and enjoyed the rest of the show until Ozzy came up, and then everybody started bawling and hugging and crying, and it was really, really incredible and a beautiful, uh, probably my favorite musical experience of my life.
SPEAKER_04
Rush a farewell to kings. When I was a kid, I think this was the first Rush album that I got, and this whole album is worth it just for the song Xanadu, which is 11 minutes and six seconds long. It's quite an adventurous piece of music, and I immediately gravitated towards that and learned it on guitar. Brings me back to uh, you know, my childhood and just being a Rush fan. I just saw Rush at Madison Square Garden for the first time. I never got a chance to see them. But uh yeah, this is an awesome record right here.
SPEAKER_02
How is the drummer?
SPEAKER_04
She was really, really good. Yeah, Annika rules. She was real, real good.
SPEAKER_03
This is one of my favorite groups, the Cocteau Twins, and this is my favorite album by far by them called Victoria Land. It's very kind of mellow and somber for them, and uh I just remember remember kind of maybe '93 or so I discovered it in the winter in Rochester, New York, and it was the stark winter conditions matched the vibe of this record perfectly. It's really, really beautiful. So check it out. It's good for like morning to get your day going. You know, I don't typically like to throw on deocide right away. So I just uh, you know, a little lubrication with uh with the Cocteau twins.
SPEAKER_00
So two years ago, uh our home was destroyed by a catastrophic flood, and we lost everything inside the home, including my family's record collection. So uh I have to kind of go back to day one. The first album that I bought with my own allowance money from blowing the grass was Minute Work, business as usual. Still on heavy rotation at my house to this day, at least digitally. Still one of my favorites. Minutework is still touring. I've been lucky enough to befriend the current band, uh including Colin Hay himself. He's an absolute sweetheart. So it's a full circle, lifelong love of music uh with Minute Work.
SPEAKER_04
This is a band called Metric. First discovered Metric. How do we discover Metric?
SPEAKER_03
I think it was during was it during Leviathan or blood nothing? I think it was Leviathan.
SPEAKER_04
We had it in our, I don't know how we got it. I think the cassette tape was stuck, came with the rental car. Yeah. But the old world underground records. That's all we listened to when we were making Leviathan. All we listened to.
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Say you would never give up PC.
SPEAKER_04
And it's very poppy and a woman's singer and a lot of keyboards, and I love it.
SPEAKER_03
And that record really kind of, I mean, we were on tour with Clutch and we decided it'd be a good idea to tour for like a month and a half before we recorded uh Leviathan. The soundtrack to that journey is nothing but metric. Metric, yeah, we'd listen to it every day.
SPEAKER_04
We never got sick of it. It was just like this is awesome.
SPEAKER_03
We'd put something else on and be like, put the metric back on. Yeah. We'd just be all singing along in the comfort food. Yeah. It kept it light and fluffy. This is a Jeff Buckley album. A lot of people really like Grace, but this is the one for me that's like my favorite. After he passed away, they got uh hold of stuff he was working on. You know, it wasn't a finished record. I think the first few songs are are like, they sound close to being done, but as it moves on, it's got a it's got just a whole bunch of really beautiful songs, and I'm and I just absolutely love this. And he even does a cover of Back in New York City, which is off of one of my favorite albums of all time, The Lamb Lies Down in Broadway by Genesis. So when I heard that, I was like, hey, me and Jeff, we got something in common. We both like early Genesis. What a cool dude he must have been. I wish I could have hung out with him.
SPEAKER_00
I'm taking this opportunity to go back and kind of do album number one as my family rebuilds our relationship with vinyl. So uh the minute work was for myself and um uh for my wife Jeze Barry Manilo.
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A road to gonna cross again.
SPEAKER_00
And this record, this is a good one, as a as a child, she would practice kissing. Barry Manilo to this album cover. I do want to. You need to we need to start from the beginning. Rebuild, rebuild the vinyl collection. I mean, if we're going back, we're starting we're going back to the beginning. So uh this is for her, so she can continue practicing, even though her kisses have become great. I think I owe a lot of gratitude to Barry himself. Yeah, and the this format because it's large, it's mirror-like. Look at those uh smoldering, smoky eyes. We're starting, so this is for Jessica. Barry Manilo.
SPEAKER_03
I'm a Barry Fanilo. I don't know if you guys know that.
SPEAKER_04
This is an album by the Kramps called Off the Bone.
SPEAKER_00
You better die when I show up.
SPEAKER_04
When I discovered punk rock, my whole world changed. And the Cramps were one of those bands that took me on a different journey, different path than like my normie friends, I guess, who were listening to Van Halen and doing scales or practicing guitar all day. I was like, I can't play any of that stuff, I'm gonna go down this rabbit hole. And I I really enjoyed Dick Dale and a lot of surf, surf rock, surf music. This is kind of like rockabilly surf music, but super evil. Like if uh like if Elvis was born in hell. I'm a mana six tears, nana sixty.
SPEAKER_03
I have a Bjork album, Selma Songs. That's a soundtrack to the movie that she was in Dancer in the Dark.
SPEAKER_02
Sleepy hat. Sleepy hook.
SPEAKER_03
If you haven't seen that movie, it's really incredible and very disturbing. We're all big Bjork fans. We got to meet her one time at the K West in London, and our guitar player Brent told her that her jacket was on upside down. She came at when she was doing her uh a cappella tour. And they all came in and they were all singing uh Bon Jovi covers at the bar, and she asked me if she could meet Carrie King, and I went over to Carrie King and I was like, Bjork wants to meet you, and he was like, I don't care. And I was like, But I really wanted to meet Bjork, you know what I mean? So I was like, dude, she's right there. And he was like, Oh yeah, okay, how you doing? That was a good time. Anyway, Bjork.
SPEAKER_00
Going back for album number one, this is for my daughter when she was very young. Uh, about 20 years ago, our band signed to Warner Brothers, and one of our first bands that we befriended uh that put an album out right when we did, were these guys from New Jersey called My Chemical Romance. And this album was her first uh eye-opening experience to rock and roll. She traveled the country now to see them all over the place, and uh, we played many shows with them. Super cool dudes, glad they're out there doing again. But this was uh was her first album, so this is for Haley Jane.
SPEAKER_04
This is the 1995 self-titled clutch album. This is some kind of remastered audiophile version with two records and a new uh new artwork and stuff like that. The original one had like a moonscape and it just said clutch. And when I first discovered clutch, the energy and the simplicity of the of the riffs on the record before this, no one was doing what they were doing. But when this record came out, it was even more stripped down, and the guitars weren't weren't as distorted, they were almost like clean guitars, and the drums were simplified. And I remember being at the uh at the metal house where me and Braun used to practice with our band Lethargy in Rochester, and someone got this and put it on, and we were just all sitting around like probably smoking a joint listening. And uh it it really fortified the power of the riff.
SPEAKER_03
Blonde Redhead, one of my favorite groups, and this came out in 2000. It's called The Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons came out in 2000 when I had first moved to uh Atlanta and I went through a breakup, and this is what my breakup album. This and uh White Pony from the Deftones, but but this one was like put it on and get sad. Mission accomplished mission accomplished, guys.
SPEAKER_00
For my uh final family members first album. Uh what's in my bag is uh a band from Detroit called I Prevail. They're super heavy. My son is super into heavy metal, and took me to see them live a month ago, and they crushed it, and they invited us back, and they were super cool. And uh I like it when heavy bands tour and are fucking cool. So uh this is for my son Yuri Blue, and this will be his first record. And uh so this is I Prevail.
SPEAKER_04
This is a band called Weezer. Never heard of it. Never heard. Second album, Pinkerton. Much much different, much darker. I'm a sucker for uh catchy choruses and uh like big sing-along choruses and uh like pop pop rock. This was a darker, darker album, but still poppy and sing-alongable, if that is a word. Great record. Now I can have it on the vinyl and listen to it in its purest form. Uh yeah. So there it is.
SPEAKER_03
Weezer's great. Yeah, we love Weezer.
SPEAKER_02
Chicken moating makes me follow all that night. Thank you guys. Thank you. This was so great having you in today.
