The JON POOLE Interview | Pt 1 Cardiacs, 'Sing to God' and Zappa
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Check out this great interview with Jon:
• Talking Bass With Jon ...
Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College
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Jon Poole is amazing. The guitar solo in Fiery Gun Hand is easily one of the greatest ever recorded.
Totally agree. The live version from the Inside Tracks session is pretty great, too.
Sing to God is one of my favourite albums of all time. I remember being a teenage guitarist, who was learning about playing in key, and trying to learn all the chords from Dirty Boy. That song alone made me realise any chord can follow any other if it sounds cool.
Once at a gig some old left field music geek said all my key changes and odd chords were like Cardiacs. I’m forever chuffed someone spotted that influence on my playing as that band at the time didn’t sound anything like Cardiacs overall.
Great interview with a lovely bloke. Got into Cardiacs late, managed to see em live a couple of times, then had tickets for another gig that was cancelled due to Tim’s stroke. ‘Sing to God’ is an absolute masterpiece but think that the next album ‘Guns’ tends to get overlooked, I think it’s lovely, more relaxed and reflective.
IIRC there are sequenced drums on all but four songs on On Land And In The Sea (those being Fast Robert, Mare's Nest, Buds And Spawn and the mighty Everso Closely Guarded Line, so it's definitely not a case of only doing the "easy" ones! More down to budget I expect.) The programming is very good though, imagine doing all those tempo shifts on 1989 sequencers.
Brilliant, I met Jon once and he was such a lovely bloke. Fantastic musician and all round good guy
I've met him too - wondeful and funny person!
Great pair of interviews. Right up my street in terms of geekiness and proper insight into Cardiacs and other projects. Jon Poole makes me happy
What an interesting interview. Never thought Sing To Gods drums were programmed. Thought it was Tiny Bob Leith all the way.
Cheers Andy for arranging this, Jon is such an interesting bloke
Thank you. I'd never heard of Cardiacs till a few days ago and I saw it on your underrated bands. They are brilliant. Now I'm listening to everything I can. Of course, lots of my younger friends know them. I think it's because I was 60s and never liked the 80s much. I think they're going up there with Beefheart and Zappa. Wish I'd seen them live.
Groovy discussion.
Fab interview. Jon is massively talented and a lovely guy! Great to get to hear him talk about all this!
This is great! So happy for this deep dive with Jon! Thank you so much for this, headed to pt. II
This was great, looking forward to the rest.
At The Garage gig a few weeks ago... lovely to hear "JIM! JIM! JIM!" become "JON! JON! JON!" He done good, our kid
Great one! Can't wait for pt2...
Well done all and CARDIACS MEMORIES STILL CHERISHED
Thanks for releasing this interview! Jon seems like a very nice chap, and likely very cool to hang out with.
Some shocking facts in here as well (drugs and drum machine), but it doesn't ruin the album.
Great interview Andy
The reminiscing about influences, made me think that there must be all these musicians everywhere who may perceive that their large array of disparate influences are probably singular to themselves, but then you hear conversations like this and think…Huh !!! …these guys were into the same stuff as me ??? ( like it shouldn’t be possible lol).
This has happened to me before on some of your vids but tonight it was doubled up on, with the two of you at it lol
Cardiacs are the best band ever. Jon was great 👍 in the band, so many great ideas, compositions and arrangements on there. Sing to God is, indeed a musical document - an epic double record of the imagination. #cardiacs
Random Jon Poole, Sing to God (the greatest album ever made), FZ, plus his hat? I'm in!
you will not be let down....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Your channel is brilliant...love it! I'm a HUUUUGE Cardiacs fanatic so this will be gold for me. I'm a pal of Kavus too - he's the best.
BTW, have you seen the Jon Poole backstage hang with Tim, Kavus, Melanie (?)...its totally insane. Here: th-cam.com/video/gf7XyyXSgKc/w-d-xo.html
Excellent chat. Thanks both. My completely evidence-free fan theory about StG is that it’s a tribute to Frank Zappa (God/Dog).
Ahh, the great Random Jon Poole himself. I was introduced to him in a different way, being a massive Wildhearts fan.
Bit of research later, and learning about Cardiacs, I managed to find a copy of Sing To God in HMV. Oh, what a day that was. Musically very different to what I was interested in at the time, but never had a collection of songs spoken to me in that way before.
For months, Sing to God was the only album i listened to. Useful, having 2 discs......and I added to the collection. Ships and Irons, Guns, the Maresnest DVD, i wanted them all, and I was never disappointed! Mixed in with God Damn Whores' Lucky 13, and Ginger's projects through the years, I have a lot of Jon's music.
But Sing to God. Thats the best album of all time, in my opinion.
Oh yeah, I once got a high five, mid song, from Jon during a Silverginger 5 gig. That brief touch improved my own bass playing by 329%. True. 😊
Absolutely brilliant.
Can't wait for this!
amazing interview thanks for doing it!!!
Great interview - Jon's a good bloke (and an incredible musician!). The idea of him and Mike Keneally in the same room makes my head explode!
I've been waiting for this video like a child waiting for Santa Claus. Finally it's here!
Just bought "Best of It Bites" on the back of this.... loving it. Thanks.
I'm getting the feel this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
(from which we could all get great conversations about all kinds of wonderful stuff - nerds' only of course - but that's what this channel's for 😊)
Worthy of Laudation . . . Bravo!🎩
Can;t wait!
fully agree with your thoughts on Dirty Boy Andy, incredible, incredible song
That's exactly right about the Englishness and the soulfulness. It's great to hear prog that isn't just detached and heady.
What fun watchin' you two bouncin' off each other. Great interview!
I bought Jon's CD of Zappa music when it was only available by mail order, and the cover of that CD traumatized me for life. 😂😅😂
Indeed although the content was so good I bought the CD years after owning it on cassette, which I also still have!
Yaaay!!!
Must be something about being born in the late 60s (as was I). Completely on board with what was said about 79-82 . Loved the same artists mentioned here and many more. Also still adore the God Damn Whores/Jon solo LPs as much as those All Spectacular crazies from Kingston (RIP Tim/Colvin/T.Quy).
I think that long after we've all gone to the starry skies, in 100s of years. Tim Smith will be viewed like Schubert, a composer never really known during his lifetime, but actually one of the true greats.
Came here after the "most underrated bands" video. Had a change to listen some songs as well. These guys were unreal.
Cardiacs are in the fine tradition of suburban English surrealness alongside Frank Sidebottom\The Freshies and Graham Fellows.
The English Aesthetic emboddied
IQ are fab I Bet you could write a book about them
Curious how they got connected with the band Napalm Death ? Great cover of 'to go off and things'. Tredici Bacci done a great cover of Tarred and Feathered too.
They shared a manager in the '80s. Mark Walmesley. It was he who arranged for the Mares Nest live concert film to be shot in the afternoon at Salisbury Arts Centre, with Napalm Death recording theirs the same evening (released as Live Corruption)
Hello everyone, Willie from The Dowling Poole send me to place the following link:
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(Show must go on)
It was fun listening to you both, looking forward to Pt 2
Sometimes I feel I'm like those teenagers.... (not talking about feeling young at 57... )
Is this the beginning of a possible start of a build up to a resergance of Jon Poole?
Nice talk.
Glad to see your wife let you out of the cellar and can enjoy a bit of sunshine.
🙏
"That magic thing when things come together." ... In hollywood when a shooting session transcends... they call it "God made it click!" ... kind of ironic. Lack of ego... that's the whole point of Cardiacs I think. Generosity... heart.
Mint
There was never much info for fanboys like myself about Cardiacs. To this day I still don't know what Tim did the rest of the time. Did he and Jim have ordinary jobs for instance?
Jon Poole, a musical Virtuoso no doubt, and his contributions to the band invaluable, but I can’t help but feel that he seems to try to undervalue Tim’s core musical identity and it’s necessity for Jon’s output being so significant. Listening to most other Poole bands or projects, the difference in quality and intrigue is stark.
Once again, love Jon’s playing and he’s a true wizard, but this is just something I noticed and it irked a bit. I could be overplaying it in my head though, because then again he was talking about Sing to God in particular. Peace and love.
I can't help but feel that you're wrong.
Peace and Love? Cock and balls more like
Hi Jordan, just dropping by to say, knowing Tim for 40 years, and Jon for 30 or more, you're an absolute dick. There's no point in trying to explain to an utter clod how profoundly hurtful these remarks are to Jon, who lost his close friend in such terrible circumstances, or indeed that he would obviously see them, but I couldn't quite bring myself not to let you know, what an utter prick you are. "Peace and Love"
I cannot image a world where Jon would want to try and undermine Tim's identity. What a bizarre idea
Yeah, you’re probably right. Funny how states of mind can influence how we perceive certain things at times. Cheers!
Sorry to disabuse you but 55 year old English men thinking that 1979-82 was the best period of pop era ever..... is not a surprise!!! (Guess how old I am).
Cheers for the nostalgia!
Great interview if only the interviewer would may be shut up a bit.
Love ya Mr. Poole! Thanks for the interview! :)
Our pleasure!