Thollem: “In Fact, We’re Improvising Right Now”

This is an interview with Thollem McDonas, recorded on the Lava Lamp Lounge Patio on 27 September 2018.

This program is sponsored by J Jean Portraits, & Peggy’s Vegan Hot Sauce. For more information about our sponsors, follow the link. We are also now a part of the They Might Be Giants Dial-a-Song Network!  This week’s TMBG DAS is, “Re-PETE Offender.”

Topics Include:

Touring and the practical aspects of being on the road, living on the road for over a decade, activist throughout his youth, the interconnectedness of everything, “The Hundredth MONkEY Generation, Difference Between Everything Anarchist Can-Do Whether or Not the Cops Will Let Us Bicycle Band,” rebelling in different ways as you get older, improv & anarchism, composition vs. improv, being creative at times and in ways that aren’t traditional, Bob Bucko Jr. & Personal Archives Records, being human, Rent Romus & Edgetone Records, an impending Nels Cline collaboration, working with Sarah Lund, grew up with punk & Jazz in San Jose in the early ’80’s, collaborating with Andy Kaufman through dreams in 2002.

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