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The Boomtown Rap http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress musings of a Perth malcontent Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Interview with Perth band, The Smokin\' Eldorados 19 Jan 08 Series of satirical interviews with a high-flying Perth mining boom beneficiary. Other satirical and comic interviews musings of a Perth malcontent Rolan Stein smokin eldorados, smokin eldorados interview, Perth podcasts, Perth boom, Boomtown Rap, no Rolan Stein rossb@arach.net.au Sourdough Rising – The Home Artisan Bread Baking Revolution http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=665 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=665#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:14:02 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=665 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=665 1 I used to love family holidays as a kid. Every year, weâd drive down to Busselton and stay at a cottage in a beach-front âresortâ called Glenleigh, named after the ownerâs daughters (yep, Glen and Leigh). They were enchanted summers. The old steam train in the park weâd clamber over until we became too old yet eyed off with enduring affection every time we passed it, the best pies I have ever tasted (still!), that endless mythic jetty, drive-in movies, raspberry squashes in frosty pilsener glasses from the Ship Hotel, and of course, sun sun sun, sand sand sand, sea sea seaâ¦these are cherished memories. If this post was about those good olâ days at Busselton, I could rattle away effortlessly for hours. But itâs not, so I wonât. Besides, it wasnât all good. There were the hated swimming lessons, and stingers that invaded the bay in such numbers as to ruin the beach on some days. There were family squabbles and annoying excursions to scenic locales that I saw as merely depriving us of valuable time at the seaside. The worst aspect of these outings was lunchtime. Never was one for sitting on rugs on the gravelly ground of some national park BBQ area, battling swarming flies and resentful bull ants while my unappreciated and often irritated mother doled out her elaborately prepared esky tucker. So irksome were these outings to me that I ended up with âissuesâ about picnics and families that remain to this day. One of the few upsides to those dreaded family excursions was the bread weâd buy in the then tiny towns of Dunsborough, Bridgetown and Augusta. They stood tall, those country loaves, domed crusts rising aloofly out of the ubiquitous white tissue paper the bakeries used as wrapping back then. On the way back to Busselton the car would be filled with an aroma that spoke in pure poetry of the treat to come after dinner that evening: homemade fig jam spread lavishly on thick slices of that beautiful pillowy white bread with unhealthy excesses of real country cream poured over. That was one of the great gastronomic experiences of my childhood. On the melancholy trip back to Perth and the looming beginning of a new school year, weâd stop in at the bakery in Capel or Boyanup to pick up a couple of their loaves â and when that was gone, that was it for another year. Back to tank loaves and sliced sandwich bread, and other unremarkable city bakery produce. Was that country bread really as good as I recall it? I cannot know, but I do know that many years were to pass before a truly revelatory bread experience set me on the road to bread obsession. It was 1983-84, during a year in Germany, when I came to understand what great bread truly was. I am speaking mostly of sourdough â naturally leavened bread, largely unheard of in Australia at that time. I returned to my home country singing the praises of the German bread in operatically emphatic tones. No one cared much to engage with me on this. Bread was just bread to most folk, it seemed. I probably would have felt the same without my German bread encounters. How do you appreciate great bread without having tried it? Whatever, no one shared my fervour. Fast-forward. Bakeries specializing in sourdough bread can now be found all over the country, but theyâre far from prolific. On this side of the country, the New Norcia bakery, originally a monastery bakery run by monks, has the highest profile, but it services a yuppie demographic and is positioned as a high-end boutique establishment that also serves up coffees and expensive pastries and lunches. Sourdough is a long way yet from establishing itself here as the quality bread of choice of the masses, as is the case in Germany and some [...] I used to love family holidays as a kid. Every year, weâd drive down to Busselton and stay at a cottage in a beach-front âresortâ called Glenleigh, named after the ownerâs daughters (yep, Glen and Leigh). They were enchanted [...] Barry Hall Interview (podcast): Big Bad Bazza on Brainsnaps, The Fev, Wayne and Cuz! http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=114 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=114#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 10:54:30 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=114 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=114 0 A little later than I would have liked, yes, but this is a scoop – so quiet down ye restless natives, for deliverance is finally upon ye. Here, now, exclusive to the Boomtown Rap, I’m proud to present for your entertainment and enlightenment an interview with big bad Barry “Brainsnap” Hall, conducted over the phone by yours truly a couple of weeks ago. During the interview, Bazz explains what those notorious brainsnaps are all about, but not only that – he has one during the interview! And it’s a doozy. So much so that he flung the phone (and other missiles) against the nearest hard surface(s) in his hotel room, and cut us off. I phoned him back once the rubble had settled. He then reveals the three illuminaries of the AFL whose counsel he has sought in learning to manage his anger, and gives us the good oil on Ben “Doof Doof” Cousins. Crack a VB, turn on yer speakers, make yerselves comfortable… Barry “Brainsnap” Hall interview (duration 6 minutes) [Intro music from song The Telephone Jive &#169 Ross Buncle 1993 - All rights reserved; "Doof doof" music is Svenson & Gielen's Twisted Energy (Radio Edit) - free download <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/users/id-t/torrent/Svenson___Gielen_-_Twisted_Energy__Radio_Edit_/e463f83d-aa7c-11dc-9ba4-00e0815f1831">here</a>]</ol> Related posts: <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=112>Why Has The Nanny State Forsaken Our Jocks?!</a></li> <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=99>Ben Cousins: Child of the Nanny State</a></li> <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=11>Flying High, Starring Ben Cousins â Solo!</a></li> <hr/>Copyright © 2010 <a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress">The Boomtown Rap</a>. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com so we can take legal action immediately. <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugins-provided-by-taraganacom/">Plugin</a> by <a href="http://www.taragana.com/">Taragana</a> A little later than I would have liked, yes, but this is a scoop – so quiet down ye restless natives, for deliverance is finally upon ye. Here, now, exclusive to the Boomtown Rap, I’m proud to present for your entertainment and enlightenment [...] Podcast From The Womb of the Boom (final) – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 4: Tax the Poor, Not the Rich!) http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=111 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=111#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:35:33 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=111 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=111 0 Now, for your delectation, the final podcast in this series of excerpts from my interviews with Perth mining company executive and boom beneficiary, Mr Hilton Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas. Here, Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas identifies the 3 virtues he considers essential if you want to “get on in life” – which I presume means heaving home seriously fat bacon, like him. Yet, as he tells it, life for the triple income salary earner does not always go down as smoothly as a 1990 Grange. Take tax time, for example – a nightmare for those in the top tax bracket. And patently unfair, according to Hilton. He contends that the Rudd government has it all wrong, wasting foreign aid on corrupt and inherently hopeless countries like Papua New Guinea and East Timor, while failing to compensate Australians like him with tax breaks for his efforts in providing much-needed local rental accomodation with his multiple investment properties. Not that he is a bigoted political conservative. Indeed no. He praises Rudd’s razor gang’s reported targeting of aged pensioners’ and carers’ allowances, pointing out that unlike him, these people do not “add value” to the community, and probably spend their pensions and allowances irresponsibly anyway. For all his success and contribution to building this fine city in the mighty world resource capital of Western Australia, I came away from my interviews with Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas sensing that he is wasting himself on Perth’s small stage. A bloke with his qualities deserves a place in the global spotlight…but I cover this in my wrap-up at the end of the podcast. Have a listen and you’ll agree that no reasonable person could challenge my conclusions. Hilton Interview Part 4 (final): Tax the Poor, Not the Rich (duration 5 minutes 50 secs) (Intro music from song When Surfin’ Was #1 &#169 Ross Buncle 1993; All rights reserved)</ol> Related posts: <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=110>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 3: The Secret of Success)</a></li> <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=109>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 2: Lifestyle)</a></li> <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 1: Job and Home)</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=5">Perth â More Brass Than Class</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=48">Dark Side Of The Boom</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=50">Rent With Angst – The Real Victims of the Home Affordability Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=82">Is There Something Fishy About Perth Price Increases?</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=90">Boomtown Lament</a></li> <hr/>Copyright © 2010 <a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress">The Boomtown Rap</a>. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com so we can take legal action [...] Now, for your delectation, the final podcast in this series of excerpts from my interviews with Perth mining company executive and boom beneficiary, Mr Hilton Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas. Here, Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas identifies the 3 [...] Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 3: The Secret of Success) http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=110 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=110#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:09:00 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=110 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=110 0 In this, the third and penultimate post in this podcast series, successful mining company executive Mr Hilton Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas (now there’s an acronym!) reveals why he is thriving from the Perth boom and points an accusatory finger directly at those who are not. Don’t get mad, busted bum boomtime battlers – get wise! Listen in and take careful note of all Mr Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas has to say. In essence, he claims that anyone can do as well as he has and if you’re one of the have-nots, it’s your fault. So take responsibility, get yourself a personal coach, read Rhonda Bryne’s The Secret, set your goals, visualise, action your plan and hold on for the ride to riches. Simple? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Ignore this podcast at your material and spiritual peril. Hilton Interview Part 3: The Secret of Success (duration 5 minutes 40 secs) (Intro music from song When Surfin’ Was #1 &#169 Ross Buncle 1993; All rights reserved)</ol> Related posts: <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=109>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 2: Lifestyle)</a></li> <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 1: Job and Home)</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=5">Perth â More Brass Than Class</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=48">Dark Side Of The Boom</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=50">Rent With Angst – The Real Victims of the Home Affordability Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=82">Is There Something Fishy About Perth Price Increases?</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=90">Boomtown Lament</a></li> <hr/>Copyright © 2010 <a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress">The Boomtown Rap</a>. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com so we can take legal action immediately. <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugins-provided-by-taraganacom/">Plugin</a> by <a href="http://www.taragana.com/">Taragana</a> In this, the third and penultimate post in this podcast series, successful mining company executive Mr Hilton Casey-Urqhuart-Newton-Thomas (now there’s an acronym!) reveals why he is thriving from the Perth boom and points an accusatory finger [...] Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 2: Lifestyle) http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=109 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=109#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:45:49 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=109 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=109 0 After a frustrating delay due to technical issues, the podcasting wrinkles have been ironed out smooth as Hilton’s blue business shirt. So, on with the Hilton interviews. Hilton, you’ll recall, is one of the legions of mining company employees who have struck serious paydirt in the boom city of Perth, Western Australia. For those who have just tuned in, in the initial podcast of this 4-part series (see previous post), we learnt that Hilton is a mining company executive in his thirties living his dream as Manager of Documents. Not for him the sweat and grime of the open-cut mines of the far North – Hilton’s office is in a high rise block in St George’s Terrace. Commuting between there and his fine seafront home in the nouveau opulent Perth suburb of Iluka, Hilton enjoys a lux lifestyle with his wife and 2 kids. Wine cellar, Yallingup holiday house, top of the wozza 4WD with a chrome bullbar to die for (and indeed, that’s your guaranteed fate if you’re in a car hit side on by this baby) – Hilton has it all. If the boom has passed you by, if you are one of the unfortunate battlers shelling out $450 per week for a shitty 2-bedroom house in some suburban wasteland, despairing that bills, food and other essential family living costs take the rest of your pay and cut you out of the possibility of ever owning your own home…well, chin up. This series of podcasts is for you! At the very least, you have the opportunity to vicariously live the high life just by listening to Hilton. This is your glimpse through the keyhole into the life you could have had if only you’d bought that cheap Denmark acreage on the inlet for 30K back in 89, if only you’d been left a fat inheritance like some of your lucky friends, if only you’d saved a little harder, worked a little longer, been born earlier, or later, or whatever… There’s hope for you yet. In podcasts to come, Hilton lets us in on the secrets of his success, and reveals the qualities that have launched him to the elevated position he now occupies. Listen and learn, my boom bomb-out buddies. In this podcast, though, Hilton focuses on his lifestyle. He outlines the reasons he and his wife Glenyss (yes, that’s the spelling) identify as a “modern couple”. In so doing he divulges his surname, which takes hyphenation to a new level. This excerpt also covers the following: <li>Modern parenting for the corporately ambitious</li> <li>Where and how often the Perth yuppie boom family eats out</li> <li>Family holidays for time-challenged boom professionals</li> <li>Why stay-at-home mums have no right to expect a future in the workforce</li> <li>Eagles vs Dockers</li> <li>Hilton’s compassion for Ben Cousins</li> <ol> Hilton Interview Part 2: Lifestyle (duration 7 minutes) (Intro music from song When Surfin’ Was #1 &#169 Ross Buncle 1993; All rights reserved)</ol> Related posts: <li><a href=http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108>Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 1: Job and Home)</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=5">Perth â More Brass Than Class</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=48">Dark Side Of The Boom</a></li> <li><a href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=50">Rent With Angst – The Real Victims of the Home Affordability Crisis</a></li> <li><a [...] After a frustrating delay due to technical issues, the podcasting wrinkles have been ironed out smooth as Hilton’s blue business shirt. So, on with the Hilton interviews. Hilton, you’ll recall, is one of the legions of mining company employees [...] Podcast From The Womb of the Boom – A Perth Boomer Tells His Story (Part 1: Job and Home) http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:53:25 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=108 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=108 6 If youâve spent any time on this blog, youâll be well familiar with my attitude towards this bloody Boom and the ways it has changed Perth. While the mainstream media was blasting headlines at us week in, week out, about the explosion in real estate prices and hyping up Perth as the new glamour capital of Australia, some of us were recoiling in despair. One of my primary motivations for beginning The Boomtown Rap was to vent at the changes and distortions I perceived the Boom was wreaking in my home city: infrastructure groaning under the strain of a sudden, massive influx of national and international migrants seeking a piece of the Boom action, rocketing house prices pushing the dream of home ownership out of reach of average income earners, then rents following suit as demand outstripped supply. Then thereâs the mass yuppification that’s filleted the already shrivelled soul out of the place (and worse, turned previously affordable holiday retreats down south into the exclusive provinces of the well-heeled). A plethora of cashed-up wankers in shiny new 4WDs. Full car parks at the best metro beaches from 9.30 on ripe summer mornings. Buses at peak hours leaving commuters stranded as they whoosh pass full to capacity. A vacuum of unskilled and semi-skilled labour as the young â understandably â flood north, spurning the traditional tertiary education route through to qualifications that were once a ticket to employment security and good income. And why wouldn’t they, when the mining companies stoking Chinaâs rabid iron ore smelters are handing out big bucks to virtually anyone in the right age bracket willing to fly in/fly out and skill ‘emselves up in company-paid courses of mere weeks in duration? My sense has long been that the Boom was bestowing rewards on its beneficiaries far out of proportion to their worth, while the rest of us, whose incomes remained unchanged while living costs soared, went backwards. Result? A growing underclass that makes a mockery of our cherished myths of egalitarianism and a fair go. Not to mention the disintegration of the Australian Dream of home ownership for far too many of us. The chasm between haves and have-nots has widened too far to bridge. The Boom has handed us a city divided as never before, with future implications that are national and potentially dire. I note that the mainstream media is finally starting to acknowledge the dangers and negative fallout from the Boom that the few party-poopers like me have been harping on about for many months. What can ya say but DUH! But thereâs no place for arrogance here. Iâd rather be proven wrong in my predictions of a bad moon rising over Boomtownâs tomorrow. Actually, Iâve been criticised for my unrelenting bleakness. A couple of particularly stupid and hateful types have labelled me stupid and hateful, and indeed, I may call half-empty where sunnier souls cry half-fullâ¦so let me make amends this instant. In the interests of balance, I present for you a positive perspective on the Boom. No, not mine (gimme a break!). I refer to the podcast below, which features my recent interview of an employee of one of the mining companies, to whom I shall refer by his Christian name, Hilton. Hilton is one of those boomers (boom boomer, not baby boomer) who is doing very nicely. In his thirties, he is drawing a triple figure income as a senior employee with one of the big mining companies â and without sweating a drop in the dusty open cut treasure troves of the big bad north. Hilton works in the air-conditioned comfort of an office block in St Georgeâs Terrace. [...] If youâve spent any time on this blog, youâll be well familiar with my attitude towards this bloody Boom and the ways it has changed Perth. While the mainstream media was blasting headlines at us week in, week out, about the explosion in [...] Podcast: Smokin’ Eldorados Interview http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=94 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=94#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:30:25 +0000 Rolan Stein http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?p=94 http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=94 0 <a rel="attachment wp-att-96" href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=96" title="The Eldorados live"></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-95" href="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=95" title="The Smokinâ Eldorados"><img src="http://theboomtownrap.perthpunk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/wp-long-pic-eldorados.jpg" alt="The Smokinâ Eldorados" /></a> “â¦and then I looked back at Rod and he was on his back. Heâd fallen over and was still playing, and thatâs when I decided I should grind my guitar up against my amp and just do feedback for a while and just lose myself in that and look up and see whatâs happening with this train wreck of a gig. And we got off and everyone said it was great !! “ Thus spake Matthew De la Hunty during an interview I did with The Smokinâ Eldorados a couple of weekends ago. Matthewâs anecdote says quite a bit about the band â yet could give a very wrong impression (paradoxes are everywhere with these guys). The Eldorados are not an anarchic neo-punk outfit re-treading the now-worn trail of wild rockers blazed by much-aped visionaries like Iggy Pop and his legendary band from Detroit, The Stooges. The Eldorados areâ¦well, the Eldorados. But the idea that shaped their songwriting and performance ethos did come from the Stoogesâ classic second album, Funhouse, which was apparently the product of a creative firestorm in the studio, the band having written no material in preparation. (Aficionados who wish to argue the veracity of this claim may direct their missives to Rod Radalj, whose source is Stooges guitarist Ron Ashton â listen to the podcast and youâll get the details from Rod direct). So, weâre talking musical extemporisation here. Not new â jazz bands typically work this way â but the Eldorados are different. Traditionally, members of a jazz band take turns in soloing, but there is no such individual foraying with the Smokinâ Eldorados: for these guys, itâs all about the song, not the player. Theirs is a truly collaborative art. There is no place for individual egos in the band, but the collective ego is huge â as it should be. Iâve never encountered a more complete band. In a creative sense, these guys live for each other. Thatâs mighty rare. Comparisons with jazz finish with the extemporisation modus operandi. Essentially, the Eldorados are a rock band. But rock bands are always jamming, you say â whatâs so unusual about these dudes? Well, such sessions are usually forgettable â a type of performance art, if you will, not generally meant to live beyond the moment. Most band jams are messy affairs. The Eldoradoâs âjamsâ are, in fact, spontaneous songwriting sessions. And the band works no other way! Commonly with rock bands, someone brings a song â or at least a song idea – into the studio and the band works on it. The Smokinâ Eldorados NEVER operate like this. All their songs are written as a band, in the performance moment, out of nothing, so to speak. Someone just starts and the rest dive in. Yeah, Iâm banging on â Iâm sure youâve got the point. I have to admit to some incredulity here. As a songwriter myself, accustomed to structure and building songs in isolation, I can hardly conceive of trusting entirely in the band and the collaborative process as these guys do, with absolutely zero [...] “â¦and then I looked back at Rod and he was on his back. Heâd fallen over and was still playing, and thatâs when I decided I should grind my guitar up against my amp and just do feedback for a while and just lose myself in that and [...]