Episode 028: Lanemeyer w/ Chris Barker

Chris Barker is the reason I started playing music. We became best friends when we were 14, created Congress of Cow altogether which later became Lanemeyer. As you will hear in this episode, lanemeyer was a shit show. But this episode is more than just the oral history of Lanemeyer. It’s a conversation between 2 close friends over a few beers and some cheap chardonnay talking about the past 20 years. I’m not going to lie, this interview goes all over the place and is just about 3 hours long after I chopped 30 minutes off of it but I don’t care. I loved re-listening to it after I did the edit and I think this is the longest Chris and I have talked on the phone since we were in high school.
It’s the perfect bookend to this season and you’ll see why because here is what we talk about:
- How we found Flipside
- Doug Robinsons potty mouth
- My Mike Ziobro deli meat story
- Buying the wrong Blink’s first album
- How we first met
- Sandin Feuss kicking his ass in guitar
- His disgust for the Beatles
- My love for PM Dawn
- Our Coffee House show where we got kicked off the stage
- His fear of playing live shows
- The Face to Face w/ Guttermouth show at Tramps
- The Congress of Cow days
- Chris finding out about Static Prevails
- How he writes lyrics
- Our love for Spanish Love Songs
- Stories for the Big Screen
- Our revolving door of guitar players
- The moment he decided to quit the band
- the Sean Smith voicemail
- his stint at Drive Thru after he quit the band
- the midtown show in Orlando Florida
- Day at the Fair
- His bromance with Josh Humble
- Lots of randomness
- the song he wrote about my divorce
- And a ton more
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