Getcha Some Productions Podcast Episode 63
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In this episode we discuss:
Special Guest: James Carrancio
We started off talking about cigars. The consensus is that cigars look cool but they do not taste cool.
Jim moved to Brooklyn to pursue stand-up comedy, nine years ago.
Both art forms tell you about the world in a way that you can sit back and not have to think about it.
“When I was eight or nine, my mom sat me down and made me watch a whole bunch of George carlin.”
George Carlin & Bill Hicks are on Jim’s Comedy Mt. Rushmore. Right now his favorite working comics are Bill Burr, Tom Segura and Nate Bargatze.
His song, I’m dead from his new album lost boy is about 80s slasher flicks from the point of view of the victims. The jumping off point for that song was Friday the 13th part five I believe. It shows that he did a lot of research before starting to write that song.
As Jim goes through his list of musical influences, I noticed it spans a very wide range of genres. His mom was the first real influence on him because she always listened to B105 the oldies station, I guess that it’s an upstate New York radio station.
His first real exposure to music was the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cook and those types of artists. In fourth grade he loved hip-hop like Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G. But by the eighth grade he listened to nothing but punk rock. In high school he transitioned to Screamo and Grindcore. He always had a taste for the Pop Punk and Indie Rock genres. By the time he started writing songs himself he was really listening to a lot of Johnny Cash and Elvis.
You can pinpoint the moment when he thought, that’s what I wanted do!. He was watching the Elvis 1968 come back special and Elvis was performing the song Trying to get to you. On the official recording Elvis keeps the song pretty mellow throughout. But in the live version he really starts growling his vocals in the second verse. That was the moment when Jim said, this is what I want to do.
Lost boy album has a very live sound. It is very much a an old-school americana/blues style record with a very live sound. Jim says that through his life he’s been struggling to record music well and it was because he was taking the official recording route of recording each part separately and using overdubs to get the clarity. It wasn’t until this record did he decide, with the help of Josh Salant, that he would go for a live sound and it worked. The album sounds and feels great.
“I’m one of those people that will randomly write down their top 10 Bob’s Burgers episodes. It’s like, OK good, now I know what those are.”
His favorite song of all time is Bring it on Home to Me by Sam Cooke. A more recent one is Duff Thompsons’s The Long Haul. The last one is Twain & The Deslondes’ Run Wild. Those are a couple of bands on Mashed Potato Records in Nashville.
Jim mentions Cut Worms and Sean Rowe as artists who he thinks have crafted melodies that he wishes he would’ve written.
Jim did not have very conventional tastes throughout his musical life. He really didn’t get into the Beatles until very recently. As an example, when everyone was listening to the Foo Fighters, he was listening to Orchid, Panthers, Saetia and Pig Destroyer.
“As far as mainstream rock, I just got into the Beatles two years ago.”
“I’m a bit of a contrarian and didn’t want to listed what everyone else was listening to when I started forming my musical opinions.”
“Cheerleaders would walk by my car in high school while I was blasting these ridiculous bands and they would look at me like I was from another planet because I am.”
Josh has two albums in the works and an EP which he is refreshing from 2015. He’s moving to Rhode Island very soon and he needs to go back this much contact as possible before he moves so he has a sister release schedule when he gets to Rhode Island since he’ll basically be starting from scratch when he gets there. One of the albums is very much like a lost boy. The other album is going to be more indie rock and more electric sounding.
We ask Jim how he came up with the band name Man Made Hills he was actually performing at the porch Stan festival in Governors Island when a friend of his commented that the hills that they were looking at we’re actually man-made.
“I’m just a privileged white dude living in a prewar building in Brooklyn with two cats and a bank account but I’m still singing the blues.”
“Whatever just comes out is what I do. I never really set out to write a particular type of song.”
“I think once I realize how fucked up my childhood was I thought, ‘I can write about that!’”
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