009: Troubadour from Smyrna ft. Dan Spencer

[Dan Spencer - “Fat Vampire”]

00:03 — Camo and playing with studio musicians in Nashville

00:09 — Touring and festival circuit

00:19 — Songwriting and cutting through infinite options of music

[Even Oxen - “The Goat Lamb of God”]

00:28 — Beard oil IPA Calvinism

00:34 — The pain of selling gear, youth group bands, Tooth & Nail Records, and the Psalters

00:44 — David Bazan, Mark Driscoll, and ragequitting Christianity

00:50 — Jeff Hatrix and Zakk Wylde finding God and Varg getting dunked on by teenagers

01:02 — Not taking yourself too seriously in music and comedians opening for bands

[Ozzy Osbourne - “Hellraiser”]

01:15 — Touring and noise tables

01:17 — Church in Twelve Steps and the funeral home

01:35 — Dan’s first band, Pumpkinseed, driving across the country, and genociding desert mice

01:46 — Misfits as a “Christian band”, Kryst the Conqueror

01:51 — Musicians being more open about faith

02:03 — Christian transhumanists

[Dan Spencer - “Eternal Platitude”]

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Links

Dan Spencer Bandcamp

Dan on X

Dan on IG