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Mark McGrath on Sugar Ray, His No Jumper Fandom, Sugar Gay & More
Podcast |
No Jumper
Publisher |
No Jumper
Media Type |
audio
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Hip-Hop
Interview
Music
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Entertainment News
Music
Music Interviews
News
Publication Date |
May 31, 2024
Episode Duration |
02:10:02
Mark McGrath sits down with Adam, for a delightful and hilarious deep dive interview about his career, his extensive No Jumper knowledge, and more!   / therealmarkmcgrath   ----- 0:00 Intro 0:15 How the "losing hearing" rumor started on a red carpet, he said it as a joke and it went viral 2:55 Mark won the jeopardy rock trivia at one point: "I dont like to brag but yes" lol 3:30 Being called a one hit wonder w their song "Fly" 5:00 "I loooove music Adam22!" and by 8th grade he tried to figure out how to become a musician full time 6:50 Adam says by way of Nu Metal he went to Hardcore and Metal, Mark says Fred Durst would be happy to hear that 8:15 First album with Nicole Eggert n*ked on the cover, they had to make a statement coz there was so much competition 9:01 Nirvana is directly responsible for Sugar Ray success 10:18 In the 90s you could lie to labels, no social media to counter anything 11:14 The Shrinky Dinx, they started the group to drink beer and play old songs 12:23 Growing up in Newport Beach, Mark was in awe of reggae, he was breakdancing too! 12:54 Changing their name to Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray never trademarked his own name, Mark says he can use it anytime tho 13:00 They told the label they were bigger than they were and 500 songs recorded, one thing led to another and they got signed by Atlantic for 1M 14:43 They set themselves apart by making a music video on a VHS in a pizza box and sent it to every label 15:55 Mark calls Adam the Joe Rogan of the Zesty Disciples 17:27 Adam is really locked in when he interviews ppl which is amazing 18:46 Howard Stern influence + Meat Puppets, one of Kurt Cbain's favorite band, they were gonna record one of Howard Stern's song called “Psychedelic Bee” 20:30 They pulled up to a college while on tour, they recorded the song that day, sent to their manager thru Fedex and that was it, couple weeks later the manager tells them "leave all your shit in Wyoming and come here to be Howard Stern" 24:50 The Fly appeal, they toured for 2 years with that song alone 27:20 Mark briefly gets emotional talking about the music memories with his mom 29:21 Mark said he hated Fly at first, he wanted to make it heavier like Deftones or Korn, when he heard the original version, super singy/lame and he was like "This aint it, I quit!" 35:00 Mark on getting Supercat on the song, turns out David Khan was super friend with him, called him, and boom! Came to the studio 37:20 They went huge overnight, Mark was ready for it! A dream come true 41:05 You got a tramp stamp? Mark says "I do...! Why WOULD YOU BRING THAT UP!" Mark shows the tattoo 41:51 Mark says Mr Cartoon is kinda the interview that brought him to No Jumper 44:45 How ppl love to hate Limp Bizkit but secretly love them, they're back on the road as we speak 47:15 Feeling the business pressure, labels needing singles, and growing as songwriters 53:45 Mark says King Yella is compelling and Ben Baller is full of it 57:15 The Sugar gay incident, it was a pre-grammy/Oscar party w Madonna 59:32 Ppl outside were already talking kinda crazy to the attendees, and Mark didn't like it, Mark says "I stayed on bid'ness" 59:00 Madonna says Mak walk me to my car, they walk out, he was feelin himself a little bit, as soon as Madonna drives off, he turns around to ppl calling him a F etc, Mark blacked out 1:02:15 Mark praises Desto Dubb! 1:08:00 Mark actually called Pharell for a song to find more success, Mark didnt like the song tho, years later Blink 182 told him Pharell tried to give him the same exact song 1:12:00 Mark points out who can and cannot snitch: “G FACE is "DOOOOONE!!" 1:20:15 Being a host at Extra, Mark asked Al Pacino about Britney/Kevin Fed and he turned him down saying: "You're better than that!" and walked off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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