King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

you're listening to KEXP at 90.3 FM in seattle streaming worldwide KEXP o RG i'm cheryl waters down here in the KEXP studios it's king gizzard and the lizard wizard welcome always such a pleasure to have you here you've had two records out since we last had you here a KEXP fishing for fishies and on friday the brand new album infests the rat's nest came out so excited to hear you play songs from that today it's king gizzard and the lizard wizard take it away [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Kunie king gizzard and the lizard wizard live on KEXP [Music] [Applause] [Music] listen [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] léna Seattle [Music] [Music] [Music] Leena Seattle [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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2017 well you had a record come out earlier this year fishing for fishies and infests the rat's nest just came out on Friday very exciting a thrash metal album stew I read somewhere that you said that you discovered metal music at a young age and then you wanted to play it but shredding was harder than you thought it was hard to play that music is that true yeah that's true I think I think that kind of music was maybe the first music that I haven't heard where I thought I love music this is sick this is cool and I think then getting a little bit older and getting into some other music and being inspired by different stuff and sort of almost forgetting about that kind of music and then coming back to it as an adult is really fresh it seems pretty fun I mean watching you all just do that last set everybody's definitely working overtime and Eric and Michael you are just like drumming at Mach speed and a lot of our listeners want to know how it is that you create those drum parts like how do those come together who takes the lead I don't know if it's different from album to album but I mean the precision with which you play together is so fun to watch he takes the lead I'll follow well yeah yeah I guess so yeah I guess with the drum parts I mean there's like a few there is like a few moments where me and Eric do different stuff but yeah mostly we just keep it the same keep it keep it tight tight loosely tight yeah Eric definitely keeping a close eye on you watchin where he's check-in my calves keeps it tight and then it somehow works out or anything but we've we've just been I mean we've yeah we've just been doing it for drumming together for a while now so everyone always asks like how we lock in so well but it's just from playing together so much that's all I can really say rats nests was pretty hard to put together cuz cabs basically recorded and rode all the drum parts first and finished the album and then we like all learnt it together as a group for Turing so that was um yeah we all kind of had to build our chops up get practicing every day because the the songs are so like hard and fast baby I was a fun challenge yeah Lukas you just got some bombastic bass parts on there it seems like you have a lot more leads than normal I don't know if it's just the style of music that makes it seem that way but it's fun it seems like everybody kind of turns to you quite a bit during this one and then you just fly in yeah yeah I mean yeah like Eric said it's really fun to play I think would Jerry played most the bass on the album I had some time off and I yeah like Eric said had to really just practice at home for weeks on my own before I could play all this guys are recorded yeah yeah it's kind of good to kind of be obsessive with an instrument again like just practicing every day at home because I probably haven't done that since I was like 16 or something so yeah it's been a fun challenge there's some grand themes on this record and you've always had such a great visual aesthetic I love the videos the videos are intense the music's intense the themes are intense tell me a little bit about what this record is about and also want to talk a little bit about making the videos for this cuz they're they're intense this records about a lot of things but I think more than any record were made before it's probably coming from a place of realistic stuff that's kind of going on in probably freaking people out at the moment and kind of extrapolating from there and seeing maybe where we're heading yeah that's that's kind of the main theme of the record and then it takes it to a place in the end that maybe is someplace in the future but yeah thinking about things that are going on on planet earth right now is really scary and its way scarier to me than any horror movie so that's that's the genesis so there's like these three horrific videos out now I mean the themes of them are pretty intense yet there they seem like you're sort of having fun making them as well talk a little bit about the videos and the visual style because you're working with a new artist on this one as well all right we worked with a friend John who's an amazing filmmaker and he's his observation on human nature which was something that I probably touched on in lyrically but maybe didn't say so succinctly that the interesting thing about humans is that we kind of going down laughing at the moment am I having a good time as we go down and I think that's was the main general theme of all the videos I can absolutely see that when you describe that well I put some questions out to our fans or your fans of the ban on KEXP social media we got a huge response and I thought it'd be fun just to kind of ask some of those of course the biggest question that people ask over and over is you know what your the next theme is I mean you've covered so many different genres and do you think about that in advance or do you think boy would super be fun if we could tackle this one next or dive into another sound usually songs usually are in either one or two phases where either finishing a wreck good or we're starting everything at the same time and I think at the moment we're starting everything at the same time we have a bunch of different songs kind of floating around that maybe don't fit together a handful that maybe feel like they could be on the same record but I think it's important for us sometimes to just be open and just let ideas come and then to kind of see where they fit a little later on well I can't wait to see what comes up next people have asked what's been your hardest record to record whether creatively or practically and or conversely or along those same lines I mean the easiest or the hardest to record it might be different for everyone let's say I would say fishies hardest to record hardest because we we wrote it in a kind of super improv way and we recorded all these loose disparate kind of jams it didn't really have that much structure and then we kind of tried to turn them into succinct songs it's hard to do that we did similar things sketches I think and probably a similar thing with quarters but we let those records meander a lot more whereas the fishies we wanted to make a lot more concise it was it just took a long time does anyone else have thoughts on that I can vouch for that but I probably say a technical level um probably public-owned - on land it's in terms of like a challenge to ourselves as to like how - I don't know navigate that kind of mathy time signature worlds without making it kind of overtly I don't know kind of cold or something which I feel like can happen with music like that kind of burying those kind of ideas or like wacky time signatures within a song and then making it have groove or like kind of melody and feel and then maybe on a couple of listens lady just realized oh wait that's actually kind of crazy what they're doing I know that was kind of a fun challenge a lot of people asked about that one also the complexity of that some people especially around that record Polliwog polygons don't want less are curious how long it takes to write a record I imagine it's different for all of them yeah definitely different for all of them and always across over that's interesting to know so boy you're never the living in just one world sometimes were just finishing a record but we've don't think we've ever stopped and made a record from start to finish without kind of working on the one previous or the one coming up all the two coming up or let's you know there's always sons on every record that have been around for a year or two or more unsurprisingly the second most commented on question was please come to where we live Indonesia South America Chile Brazil Argentina come to Pensacola Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finland will you visit Mexico again Egypt people are dying for you to come and to see you live really is a transcendent experience but you're going to new places every year it seems expanding your tours all the time what are some of the most fun places that you've been to in the last few years and some of the most fun venues that you kind of have played for the first time Japan recently we all fell in love with Japan it was a pretty amazing experience did Mexico last year that was fresh yeah we kind of do crying do one tour a year where it's just more of a holiday and we only do like you know a few shows and kind of spend like a couple weeks there so Japan was like that and so as Mexico lost to you yeah someone wants to know who takes care of the Zanzibar jam while you're on tour as dead oh yeah dock studio did it summer hey Alice stood yet oh I didn't mean to bring things down are there any pre-show traditions or rituals that the band does I saw a bit of stretching in the hallway Eric yeah definitely few stretches always been straight annotation mindfulness sit down a group and meditate for Eric discovered meditation maybe two or three weeks ago he talks about everyone talks about a lot in the zone and their body and minds connected past the playlist does that yeah we've also been dancing to Ambrose's past a playlist he has made a playlist that he always puts on when he makes pasta and it's really good place mid 20th century it's a high American rock music really good the pasta playlist you should post that online everybody else that's the next thing by the way secret someone asked I want to hear about the larger movement that you're creating through flightless records how the label get started and how do you choose the artist for the label you've had some pretty great people on flightless yeah I guess we just pulled out stuff that we like I suppose it's kind of it always just started with gears being the first band and then I guess like the mailbox and a few other bands that kind of well made up of friends in the same music kind of scene but now it's definitely grown into like its own kind of fully fledged things which is real cool and yeah kind of just always on the lookout for new stuff I guess mainly Melbourne bands cuz the the scene is so incredible and there's so much great stuff so I'm kind of always just trying to go to gigs when I'm back home and listening to stuff yeah I don't know it's I guess if I like it I'll sign it someone was asking ask Eric if flightless is hiring and I saw that you had the band a lot of work to do there stuffing vinyl on line the other day you posted a cool video of everyone putting together the new record on vinyl so I guess you've probably got all the stuff you need yeah we're a band this big from all we're always trying to grow and um I think we've got yeah we've got enough for the our space at the moment maybe if we get a bigger warehouse we can add some more people one day someone else said after the infamous 2018 flightless crash when everyone tried buying their reissue vinyl that you sent out stickers with each vinyl that says Giz best confirmed and they said well we ever find out if there is an overarching goods first over albums are we just reading too much into it because there is it sold for doubt the last album is already written we like wrote it yeah it was all can save 10 years ago when we start the band endgame as well wait for it on that know when or where is the nonagon movie we were promised choice was choice juicy he's hiding he someone's trying to hog he's try to make posters across inator well we ever hear cookie sing live I'd love to hear his smooth vocals give the man a microphone yeah we want to do like take it mark away again how am I getting seven answers at once when will Joey be releasing his own side project I want to get juicy with that record whenever it breaks the light of day who knows it may never happen someone's waiting to get juicy with that I'm actually curious about this question as well what did you do with the people vulture after filming the music video that was one of my fantasy the good story taken by know we took Atticus first yeah we first took it on a boat to Tasmania and we set it up at a show at a festival there's kind of like an Arts Festival and they asked we could bring it so we worked out because its massive it's really hard to carry worked out put it on a van and then travel it on a boat over to Tazzy and got it back and then we took it AG is fast I think we just put it in the crowd and like all the fans like grabbed it and use it and then apparently it's like in a fans like basement it's in that garage that's what we heard but we haven't seen it since it just got taken after this that's a hot rod you know if you have it who did those amazing acrobatics oh the big fig wasp that wasn't that was um that was actually kooky you put out like a call for those somebody had to like source that it's quote was a cold whooshing whooshing that's the style what is it his name is Tyler I think Danny oh the guy who directed it aloud directed with Jase he he just sourced was like a martial artist who could just do a crazy stuff he had hidden trampoline and he was doing it was really cool I bet you've got a stay nimble and kind of warmed up to be able to do that that was insane he was free someone asked who's the dad in the band I know Lucas is literally a dad the dad of the band it's too he's been a dad of the band long before you became a dad making smoothies being nice make copies for everyone that's where they make me breakfast Rose thanks someone says just because I'm curious who's the best swimmer in the group Lucas I was forced into competitive swimming for me young hmm thanks Graham bottom by Lucas's parents run a swimming school really alright yeah I quit a long time ago Ambrose you have a go to skateboarding trick boarding trick frontside docks docks law and all I got taken to the knob to the nod well Jerry has a few of his own he's made up over the years yes I'm gone crossbones no not particularly I don't know flip thanos slice and kickflip okay finalists Fandango nom nom is there a king gizzard board it seems like there should be I've been trying to get on the merch table for years but come on listen charge of merge it's it's Jason slow boarding company skateboard company went bankrupt but um now he's just got ten thousand boards and he's like hi I'm Neil hand-paint every year anyone wants to buy and there's a lot of boards sitting there you can paint some King gizzard artwork on them get those on the merch table and finally what our future plans forgives fest we actually I think we're gonna do it in 2020 the next one will be in 2020 because we're going to Asia in November so um yeah he's fast 2020 Caitlyn I am taking a year off yeah I'm taking a year off to UM let the grass grow and let Eric's hair grow back my hair grow back and yeah yeah well thanks it's super fun always to see all of you pleasure thank you thanks jxd discover new music get listener powered KEXP o RG

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Length: 37min 20sec (2240 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 25 2019