Ep.59 - Lucas/Heaven “These Guys Were Real Freaks”

The Rawkwardness Podcast

On today’s episode, Rose, Terence, and Tony talk to Texas-born, genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Lucas/Heaven about public libraries, the cultural significance of DJ Screw and his screw tapes, and information theory as it relates to music. We got some good stories about the Houston music scene in the 2000s, and a 3 week psychedelic life journey that opened him up to writing.

Lucas/Heaven on BandCamp, Spotify, and Instagram

Drank - TPain Cover

KCRW Today’s Top Tune - Every City Has a Rhythm

Grandfather Child on Spotify - Ride That Train

Heaven the Dude on SoundCloud and Spotify

Rawkwardness on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube

Fat Tony on SoundCloud and Spotify

Satin Hooks on Spotify

The Turkeys - they had rules: wouldn’t play unless there was a keg, all the songs had to do with turkey - Party Fowl, Get Basted in the Face - Butt Rock

LA Public Library Resources

LA Central Library

Peavey Bass

Tejano/Conjunto music in the garage

Santana, War, Hall & Oates on the roadtrip - favorite bands

Bird and the Bee Hall & Oates tribute album

Stan Getz

Sade, Anita Baker

1991 was an incredible year for music: Pearl Jam - Ten,

Nirvana - Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Weezer - Blue Album

Geto Boys

Master P and Cash Money Millionaires

DJ Screw - important to Houston music - slowing down/diabolical

Got big selling tapes out of his house - made people custom mixtapes, “Screw Tapes” - folk music, in a way

The Screw Shop - in Houston - a ton of CDs of his

University of Houston has an archive of DJ Screw! - the librarian who organized that inspired him to become a librarian!

Sippin ‘Lean

Alvin & the Chipmunks speeding up tape

Relic guitar that got past around the Houston scene - BC Rich Warlock he played that only in this band

Joe/Yppah

Double Wish - Fever Dream (favorite alt rock band in OC) - Yppah remix

Saw The Boredoms at the La Brea Tarpits - 88 drummers on 8/8/08

Sacred Steel (movie) - steel guitar in gospel music - House of God Pentecostal Church

Harmonium - Terence’s music

Robert Ellis

Geoffrey Muller

Chet Faker, Com Truise

Love AC/DC and the slash

Information theory - data transforms into information and that transforms into knowledge

Every Breath You Take by The Police

Forgotify - an index of tunes on Spotify that have zero plays

Echo Park Rising

Scribble in Highland Park