Chris Robinson
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Podcast Appearances
And kind of understand this us versus them thing.
idea, you know what I mean?
Or vibe is something that's inspiring and something that is like, you know, I was always interested in counterculture, you know?
And anyone, again, that's like why the algorithm maybe isn't as perfect or it never will overtake everything because there's always going to be the one person who's like, I'm going this way.
That's not enough for me.
You know, the deep dive people.
And so we kind of found ourselves in the crosshairs of
The Cramps, we were in the Cramps, the Gun Club.
And then REM comes around, their first record, Chronic Town.
And so my dad and my mom and dad had a lot of records, maybe 250 records, 300 records, you know?
which was a lot of records back then.
Bluegrass records, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs records, or Moe's Allison records, Jimmy Reed records, Johnny Guitar Watson, and then they had Buffalo Springfield records.
I mean, that's a big... I mean, for millions of people, but something as a kid that I knew no other kids would go... You guys want to come over and listen to records?
I'm going to put on the times they are changing.
Again, that would be a reason to get beat up.
But that kind of stuff catapults us into... Then punk rock comes along and it's like, oh, anyone can do this.