Too Much Effing Perspective: Rock ‘n’ Roll Re-Creation: Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker
Carrie and Corin reflect on whether it’s better to get electrocuted than to cover your mic with someone’s sock.
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Too Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – An OSHA of Emotion
Split a side laughing at this painfully funny Quick Tap (short episodes with short stories for short attention spans)
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: The Old Man’s Amy Brenneman – Running Away From Robert De Niro into the Lap of Jeff Bridges
Actor Amy Brenneman goes all method on us when she recounts her stories of Hollywood and Patti Smith.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Comedian Fred Armisen – Live From New York. And Chicago. And Portlandia.
Fred Armisen tells us his all-time favorite drummer joke; and how he nearly became road kill during a Portlandia sketch.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – Bowie
In this episode filled with close encounters of the Bowie kind.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: 311’s Nick Hexum – The 411 on 311
311 singer/guitarist Nick Hexum cruises through a mosaic of stories like the time his entire band nearly combusted like a gaggle of Spinal Tap drummers.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: This Is Spinal Tap’s 40th Anniversary! Our Tap 11 Moments
On March 2nd, 1984, This Is Spinal Tap hit the theaters to universal acclaim including *Two Thumbs Up* from Siskel and Ebert.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Less Than Jake’s Chris DeMakes — Winning the Rock ‘n’ Roll Lottery
Less Than Jake frontman Chris DeMakes doesn’t ska-daddle when we ask him about his band’s obsession with Pez dispensers
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Rock ‘n’ Roll Re-Creation: Dan Wilson — 3-Time Grammy-Winning, Super-Semisonic Songwriter
To celebrate Dan Wilson’s third Grammy Award (for Country Song of the Year with Chris Stapleton), we’re revisiting our conversation where Dan opens-up on how the demo version of Adele’s “Someone Like You” made it onto her album.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: The Police’s Stewart Copeland – Conducting a Sting Operation
The Police drummer waives his rights and confesses to fracturing Sting’s rib over a copy of the New York Times.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Devo’s Gerald Casale – Uncontrollable Urges, Pink Pussycats & Space Junk
Jerry cools our swelling, itching brains with his tales about the time David Bowie wanted to produce Devo.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – Spectacular #Fails
Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Tay-AI-Lor Swift: Eras Errors
Alex and Allen take a look back at the top 5 Spinal Tap Moments from last year’s biggest music event — Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: It’s All Relative – Family-Fueled Spinal Tap Moments
Tis’ the season for FAMILY…sometimes too much effing family
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – Sex Lies and Videotape
Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Avenged Sevenfold’s Johnny Christ – Heavy Mettle
Opening for Iron Maiden in Italy; why his band nearly broke up while simultaneously touring Europe with Metallica and Guns N’ Roses; and what a smokin’ barbecue the late, great Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul threw at his Texas compound.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Comedian Rebecca Corry – The Pitfalls and Pit Bulls of Comedy
Rebecca gets our tails wagging with stories of the time she auditioned for Mad TV with Kristin Wiig and Melissa McCarthy.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – Momma and Poppas
Need a quick infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Don’t miss TMEP Show Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Rock ’n’ Roll Re-Creation: Old 97’s Rhett Miller
On this TMEP Show Classic, Rhett Miller talks about his “Most Messed Up” Spinal Tap Moments.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Big Thief’s Buck Meek – Buck Stops Here
We steal a few moments with Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek who tells us about the time his band recorded an album on a Texas pecan plantation.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Quick Taps – Like a Rolling Stone
In this rock-solid episode, you’ll hear three stories from three different artists who all got “stoned” by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Comedian Rhys Darby – The Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever
Actor, comedian, and author Rhys Darby holds a band meeting about the day a pack of wild children nearly murdered him at a New Zealand Christmas parade.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Ahmet Zappa – Mother of Re-Invention
Ahmet Zappa, musician, writer, and producer, shares stories from his life, including an incident where he insulted Salman Rushdie at Eric Idle’s dinner party, viewing Elvis Presley’s collectible mole, and the reason for him not being re-invited to Conan O’Brien’s late-night talk show.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Nirvana’s “In Utero” – 30th Anniversary Special
We celebrate the release of “In Utero” — 30 years ago on September 21, 1993.
Read moreToo Much Effing Perspective: Rock ’n’ Roll Re-Creation: Public Enemy-Producer Bill Stephney
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, we’re spinning this TMEP classic with Def Jam Records’ original president and co-producer of Public Enemy’s “Yo Bum Rush the Show.”
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