The Spent Poets - Information, Discography, Lyrics, Links (unofficial)

Books

• Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave by Bill Kopp
  • Includes interviews with Adam Gates and Matt Wallace
  • Official website: 415 Book, seee also the companion album
  • Bill Kopp's Twitter: the_musoscribe, Bill Kopps blog: Musoscribe
• Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool by Greg Prato in affiliation with Primus
  • Oral history including interviews with Adam Gates and Matt Winegar
  • Greg Prato's Twitter feed: gregpratowriter

Podcasts

• Primus Tracks
  • Links: Podcast home: Primus Tracks, Twitter: PrimusTracks, Patreon: Primus Tracks Patreon
  • Episodes of note:
    • 2020 May 12 - Michael Malloy Goes Winding Down (also mentions this website)
    • 2020 August 24 - Los Bastardos
    • 2021 March 29 - Drawn Into The Grapevine w/ Soya, Rory Dolan, Adam Gates, and some guy named Les Claypool
    • 2021 March 31 - Over The Electric Grapevine w/ Soya & Rory Dolan
    • 2021 October 11 - Inter-Album Interview: DJ Disk (includes brief discussion of No Forcefield
    • 2021 August 23 - Inter-Album Interview: Matt Winegar
    • 2021 September 13 - Inter-Album Interview: Derek Greenberg of Beanpole
    • 2023 May 8 - Holy Mackerel - Highball With Adam Gates
    • 2024 April 22 - No Forcefield
    • 2025 January 6 - NYE 2024 Recap
• Space Time Radio Cybercast with Nick Huston
  • 2011 October 6 - #12 Adam Gates / Madame Blavatsky Overdrive - podcast has been deleted. Anyone have a copy?

Interviews, Reviews, Newspapers, Magazines, Web, etc.

• 1986 May 4 - The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA - Darwin Was Right (Article reporting that John Berg joined Monkey Rhythm as well as details about his father)
• 1992 May 23 - Waterloo Region Record, Ontario, CA, page C9 - The Spent Poets (album review)
• 1992 April 26 - The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA - Poets Know It: They're Hot
• 1992 June 15 - People Magazine - Picks and Pans Review: The Spent Poets
• 1992 June 18 - The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey), page 61
• 1992 June 19 - Santa Cruz Sentinel - Review by Lore Sjoberg
• 1992 June 20 - New York Times - Review/Pop; Basement Verite And One-Worldism
• 1992 June 26 - Bay Area Music Magazine #324 - The Class of '92
• 1992 July 3 - Statesman Journal, Salem, OR - Group combines rock and poetry by J. Michael Stockman
• 1992 July 3 - The Oregonian, Portland, OR - Away from the spotlight, the beat still goes on by Marty Hughley
• 1992 July 3 - The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Religion is subject for some of Live band's puzzling poetry - Stephanie Simons
• 1992 July 11 - Los Angeles Times - The Spent Poets' Revolution
• 1992 July 16 - Orlando Sentinel - Wire Train on the Right Track (interview with Jeff Trott that briefly mentions his time in Monkey Rhythm)
• 1992 July 18 - The Indian Gazette - Spent Poets are truly weird by Betty Webb (Cox News Service)
• 1992 July 30 - Chicago Tribune - Spent Poets: Upbeat Rhythms, But Truly Strange Songs by Betty Webb (Cox News Service)
• 1992 July 31 - Daily Press (Newport News Virginia) - No moon in June for Spent Poets: Rock group digs deep into philosophy, art by Betty Webb (Cox News Service)
• 1992 August 10 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinal (WI), page 5 - Opening act steals spotlight from 'Live' by Dave Luhrssen - mentions the Poets as not playing the 8/9 show at Shank Hall, Milwaukee, "the San Francisco group has broken up"
• 1992 August 13 - Hartford Courant, page 65 - What's New - "The Spent Poets are off the bill..."
• 1992 August 17 - Hartford Courant - 'Live' bucks authority in convincing, spirited performance - mentions the Poets as being replaced by Last Tribe for the show at The Sting in New Britian
• 1992 August 31 - HITS, August 31, 1992, Volume 6, Issue 307, page 52- Poetry In Motion
• 1992 October - rockin' on magazine Vol. 21, page 30 - The Spent Poets
• 1992 October 9 - Entertainment Weekly - Hot college bands: 1992
• 1992 December 6 - The Gazette (Montreal, Canada), Page 48 - Up Close With The Spent Poets
• 1993 January 1 - Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), Page 29
• 1994 December 23 - Los Angeles Times - Seeking Pearls, He Finds a Gem: Drummer Josh Freese made a bid to join rock's hottest-selling band
• 1995 June - Addicted To Noise, Issue 1.06 - http://www.addict.com/issues/1.06/Features/Primus_Les_Claypool/page7.html - mirrored here Les Claypool reflects on the past - interview with Les Claypool describing how "Over The Electric Grapevine" is based on a real experience with Adam Gates
• 1996 July 15 - Indiana Gazette - Spent Poets are truly weird
• 1997 - Artist Direct - Slider Bio - includes quotes from Winegar and Freese
• 1997 April 26 - Billboard, Vol. 109, Issue 17, page 15 - A&M predicts 'Sudden Fun' at radio with Slider's debut album by Jim Bessman
• 1997 August 3 - SFGATE - Matt Winegar Bitter Over Slider's Fall
• 1997 August - CMJ New Music Monthly - Slider Hits The Skids by Tom Lanham
• 1997 September 22 - Primus with Beanpole concert review
• 2001 - Kalporz.com - A review of the first Spent Poets album in Italian http://www.kalporz.com/recensioni/spentpoets.htm - mirrored here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kalporz.com/recensioni/spentpoets.htm
• 2001 March 5 - Review of the No Forcefield show at Noise Pop Fest 2001
• 2003 - Livid Instruments - Interview with The Filthy Ape - interview with Adam regarding live visuals for Primus
• 2005 May 31 - porkcarbohidrates blog - Les Claypool Interview; Part 3 The Grape Vine - Les Claypool interview describing how "Over the Electric Grapevine" is based on a real experience with Adam Gates
• 2009 September 29 - Slug Mag - Matt Winegar profile by Brian Kubarycz
• 2013 April 7 - Palo Alta online - Shoptalk: Samyama is a lavishly adorned yoga studio (John Berg)
• 2013 July 17 - The Registry: Bay Area Real Estate - Yoga Sanctuary Rises in Palo Alto (John Berg), now paywalled - see archive.org: page 1 and archive.org: page 2
• 2018 May 30 - Stereogum - Sean Lennon Unearths The Weirdo '90s Recordings That Got Les Claypool's Imprint Dropped From Mammoth by Peter Helman
• 2018 May 31 - The Portable Infinite: Indie Music and Art - Beanpole Announce Unreleased LP + Share Track On Rolling Stone by Alexander Laurence
• 2018 May 31 - Live For Live Music - Les Claypool's Previously Unreleased Beanpole Album Will Finally See The Light Of Day by Kendall Deflin
• 2018 May 31 - Consequence of Sound - Long-lost recordings from Primus offshoot Beanpole to be released: Stream by Lake Schatz
• 2018 May 31 - Yahoo - Long-lost recordings from Primus offshoot Beanpole to be released: Stream by Lake Schatz
• 2018 May 31 - Monster Fresh - Chimera Music Resurrects Unreleased Primus Side-Project, BEANPOLE by Dead C
• 2018 June 1 - Behind the scenes of the Incredibles 2 cover for Parade magazine - features a photo of Gates at his day job
• 2018 July 17 - Rolling Stone - Hear Unearthed Music From Primus-Adjacent Nineties Project Beanpole by Christopher R. Weingarten
• 2018 July 17 - Billboard - The Music of Beanpole, Feat. Members of Primus & The Spent Poets, Finally Being Released Thanks to Sean Lennon: Exclusive Premiere by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• 2018 August 20 - BrooklynVegan - Primus offshoot Beanpole releasing "lost" album (listen to "Pumpkin Pickin' Time") by Bill Pearis
• 2018 August 29 - Bandcamp - How Sean Lennon Rescued Primus Side Project Beanpole from Oblivion interview with Derek Greenberg by Brad Cohan
• 2018 August 31 - Glide Magazine - Sean Lennon Helps Release Primus Offshoot Beanpole's Lost Album 'All My Kin' by Shawn Donohue
• 2018 September 11 - Spectrum Culture - Review - Beanpole: All My Kin - by Jedd Beaudoin
• 2018 September 13 - KTSW 89.9 - Beanpole: All My Kin Album Review by Tanner Meadows
• 2018 October 31 - relix - Beanpole: All My Kin by Mike Ayers
• 2018 November 14 - Dangerous Minds - Beanpole Is Here, With All His Kin interview with Adam Gates by Richard Metzger

Related Links:

• A Spent Poets Facebook fan group: https://www.facebook.com/The-Spent-Poets-207893829276639/
• the Spent Poets fan's special page (in Japanese): http://www.alles.or.jp/~yaz/spent/index.html. Some of the content is mirrored here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.alles.or.jp/~yaz/spent/index.html.

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