Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
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Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
In this one Rob introduces me to the genre of synthwave. Much of our discussion revolves around the Rise of the Synths documentary, highest possible recommendation btw.
https://youtu.be/usnW-CsFVwI
00:00 Intro
1:17 start, getting into buying synths
11:46 reading books vs listening to audio books
26:11 Severance on apple tv, identifying with your job, and asking kids “what they want to be?”
50:30 My background and philosophy on teaching
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1:12:05 synthwave, what it is, early exposures to it, a tangerine dream story, and cultural watershed moments for the genre
1:33:48 Perception of 80s music/culture in the 90s and a look at synthwave subgenres
2:00:32 More on the abstract nature of what makes synthwave so special: heart on it’s sleeve and somehow not pretentious.
2:19:20 John Carpenter is cool af, the 80s were the first decade of prevalent home media, and riffing on some music theory stuff
2:36:47 movie music, The cutoff between synthy 80s and grungey 90s, nostalgia as a musical motif, first blood, and vhs disproportionately represented 80s movies.
2:57:08 crazy ass Jean Michael Jarre concert, and riffing on the playlist
3:15:10 summary, “maybe the lyrics to nightcall are about synthwave itself”
*I was wrong, Spielberg did Hook BEFORE jurassic park and schindler's list
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YWvhdzqZ3G7Zud7fhyDwx?si=PNEdbJ9yRDazSMmp8eKG5g&utm_source=copy-link
The Richard Wooten Podcast
Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
