About this episode

Ira Elliot of Nada Surf returns to discuss The Knack's album 'Get the Knack' and various music-related topics.

Ira Elliot of Nada Surf returns! Ira rejoins us to talk about “Get the Knack” from The Knack. Plenty of other discussion including wearing shirts of your own band, post Beatles albums, Ringo, Bambi Kino, the other music of 1979, the Chipmunks, David Naughton, and why Bruce Gary should be talked about WAY more. What a drummer! Check out Ira and Nada Surf at: http://www.nadasurf.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Castbox, iHeartMedia, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Additional content is found at: Facebook.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast or twitter @podcastrecords or IG at instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast/ or join our Patreon at patreon.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast

People in this episode

Host: Ben Montgomery

Guest: Ira Elliot

Topics covered

• music discussion
• album analysis
• drumming
• 1979 music scene
• band culture
• influential artists

Keywords

• Nada Surf
• Get the Knack
• Ira Elliot
• Bruce Gary
• 1979 music
• drumming
• band shirts
• post Beatles
• Chipmunks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nada Surf, Chipmunks

Books & works: Get the Knack

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