![]() ![]() After earning a degree in media studies, Segall - born to an artist and a drummer in 1987 - continued to play music and built hydroponic grow shelves almost a decade before cannabis was legalized in California. ![]() ![]() This was around the time Segall serendipitously ended up playing the first of his one-man band sets, clubbing his way through fairly rudimentary but super fun garage-rock songs on guitar and drums simultaneously.ĭwyer’s delight seeing a very young Segall playing his distinctive strain of garage-punk resulted in his (first) self-titled solo record, released on Dwyer’s Castle Face Records and again on cassette through vaunted garage label Burger Records. ![]() As legend has it, psych/garage/art-punk lynchpin John Dwyer - at this point in time, a longtime San Francisco resident - caught a Traditional Fools set and saw their drummer play with a stick lodged in his cast, pounding away at his kit with a fractured arm. He was a record store regular, playing music in bands (like Episilons, with longtime friend and sometime collaborator Mikal Cronin, a very talented musician in his own right).Īfter moving north to San Francisco for college, Segall quickly became a fixture in the city’s quickly growing and historically weird garage-rock scene, playing in damn near half a dozen bands as well as writing and recording his own songs. Long before settling into a very productive career as one of underground(-ish) rock music’s brightest and most singular talents, Ty Segall was a child surfer, a self-described teenage drunk, a foil for for the unscripted MTV series that made his hometown of Laguna Beach a rich kid punchline instead of the haven for hippies and artists he knew it as - he and his friends used to throw water balloons at camera crews to combat boredom. To commemorate this garage-rock triumph, Martin Douglas has decided to reevaluate one of his favorite records of the 2010's. Last week, Ty Segall's magnificent third solo album celebrated ten years of existence. ![]()
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