Nick Hexum

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521 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Nick Hexum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You just have to follow curiosity and do what you think is cool.

If you're too worried about what everyone thinks, you're going to lose your originality and that authenticity.

Yeah, no, that's right.

He says audience comes last because you will...

dilute your creativity.

If you're, I wonder if they're like this quarter, that quarter, whatever, like you just have to make what's cool to you and follow that curiosity.

It's going to be bland.

There's no surfing Nebraska.

From the beach boys, like growing up, I loved this whole like idea of LA and surf culture and beach.

I mean, I,

I was lucky enough to get to travel a ton with my grandparents, so we would go to the Caribbean and Hawaii and beaches a lot.

So I already loved it, and I just knew that's where I wanted to be.

And then also the punk rock that was coming out of L.A.

was really cool.

There was Fishbone and the Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction that were just blowing up right when I got there, and I was like, this.

And that's kind of where the hybrid music started.

I know you said that we were one of the first bands, but they were the actual first bands, but we took it to a new way.

We were probably the first band on the radio that was combining rap and rock.

Yeah, well, I think it was just a little frustrating because –

linking up with the right people, you know, there was like these, the Recycler and Musician's Connection magazines.

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