Reining Australian psychedelic rock overlords King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard just recently dropped in Office Hours with Tim Heidecker, where members of the group weighed in on jam bands Phish and Goose. The look followed Gizzard concluded a U.S. “residency tour” with a three-hour marathon performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
Guitarist Joey Walker and bassist Lucas Harwood appeared on the Tim & Eric star’s video podcast as agents of the band, though frontman Stu Mackenzie and drummer Michael Cavanagh were on the initial call sheet. While Cavs bailed out early on the previous night, Stu didn’t withdraw his name from contention up until about 5 a.m. that early morning, letting the remainder of the band understand through a group chat that he wasn’t rather camera-ready. That, nevertheless, didn’t stop Joey and Lucas from “smashing on his door for about 15 minutes.”
In Stu’s lack, Walker functioned as a mouth piece for the band for this uncommon irl media look. Together with Harwood, they revealed a couple of nuggets of expert KGLW understanding, consisting of that the band has a complete rap album that will never ever see the light of day. As for tasks fans will really get to hear, they dropped some breadcrumbs on the band’s alluded-to however yet-unannounced 25th studio album, which is seemingly “90%” completed.
“It’s gonna be different,” Walker discharge, keeping in mind that the album is the yin to the yang of the group’s latest offering, the whip metal double LP PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation. As far as concrete information, all the band members let loose was that they broke out the modular synthesizer for this next disc.
But fans waiting to hear more King Gizzard music requirement to look no more than the Office Hours look, as Walker and Harwood made up a tune on-site with Heidecker, who is likewise an artist with an erratic brochure to his name. After an inquiry about whether the band would ever make a Beach Boys-esque album to display their singing abilities, the bandmates put their layered consistencies to the test, singing together with Heidecker on a tune about the previous night’s gig.
“Last night we played at the Hollywood Bowl / The place was hardly half full / We’re not the kind of band you hear on the radio / But last night we played at the Hollywood Bowl.”
As the interview injury down, a call from fan Joshua Levy triggered Heidecker to ask Gizzard if they had beef with any bands, particularly tossing out Connecticut indie-jam quintet Goose.
“Goose requested a green room at our Red Rocks show,” Harwood revealed.
“Those motherfuckers,” Heidecker—who is the hardest on Goose of anybody in the room—snapped back. “For them to congregate?”
(For what it’s worth, the President of AEG Rocky Mountains, Dan Strasburg, has actually mentioned that he—not Goose or its management—tried to establish a VIP seeing location for the band.)
Levy chimed in with the assertion that Phish frontman Trey Anastasio didn’t even request a green room, to which Walker reacted, “Actually no, fuck Trey Anastasio,” a declaration that was later on revealed to be in jest.
In reality, the Aussie psych-rockers are not too called into the American jam scene. Contrary to what Heidecker had actually heard, they are not fans of Phish, a misunderstanding Walker credits to the substantial overlap in the Venn diagram of King Gizzard and Phish fandom. They are, nevertheless, Trey Anastasio’s preferred band, something he has actually asserted on many celebrations consisting of to their faces.
“We met Trey recently and he was a lovely, lovely person,” Harwood mentioned prior to Walker chimed in, “We’re his favorite band.”
“He says that to everybody,” Heidecker quipped. “He said that to Toad the Wet Sprocket.”
Though they aren’t knowledgeable about the musical element of the jam band world, the band knows the comparable cultural phenomenon they represent to their fans. The group trips prodigiously, providing a unique setlist every night—with Mackenzie presuming regarding examine Setlist.fm to guarantee the band never ever duplicates a tune from the previous time they went to a city.
“It’s that kind of American pastime of the jam band I feel like has resonated with us here in the States,” Walker observed. “It’s crazy that people just follow us around for the whole tour.”
Check out the complete King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard look on Office Hours Live, with the Goose/Phish section start at 58:30.
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