Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Feb 16, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min · 16 segments
Make yourself comfortable and settle in for another wonderful episode of Rockonteurs. This week we welcome an avid listener of the podcast to the show, the wonderful Billy Duffy. Billy is armed with…
Billy DuffyGuest
Guy PrattHost
Gary KempHost
It's like you were kind of better at it than then, in that it wasn't spandex and it wasn't the hair.
Because you had that punk past that gave you a kind of, I don't know, sort of superior license.
There was definitely a certain deference to bands with our kind of background, like, you know, and in America and...
We did go to Los Angeles quite early on when we first went because America was a bit slow for us.
We had some sniffs from record labels and they showed up and did the whole thing and nobody ever bit until we did the second album and then Seymour Stein came.
And we had dinner with Seymour and we had a fantastic meal at the studio and we were recording the love album and Seymour came over and we were like, oh, we got to be on Sire.
It's like you were kind of better at it than then, in that it wasn't spandex and it wasn't the hair.
Because you had that punk past that gave you a kind of, I don't know, sort of superior license.
There was definitely a certain deference to bands with our kind of background, like, you know, and in America and...
We did go to Los Angeles quite early on when we first went because America was a bit slow for us.
We had some sniffs from record labels and they showed up and did the whole thing and nobody ever bit until we did the second album and then Seymour Stein came.
And we had dinner with Seymour and we had a fantastic meal at the studio and we were recording the love album and Seymour came over and we were like, oh, we got to be on Sire.
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