TY SEGALL TOUR HISTORY SERIES
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Uploading a fifty-three second “taste edit” entitled ‘Take My Medicine’ to bandcamp, the outfit whipped up a frenzy of excitement with their aggressively skuzzy sound, before vanishing offline.

The first, Broken Bat, featured Steven McDonald ( Redd Kross, OFF!), and Dale Crover ( Melvins). Who ever really wants a holiday? 2015 saw Ty Segall form not one, but two supergroups. Marking the first time Ty and Mikal would release music together, The Epsilons formed the basis for a lifelong creative connection that continues to be fruitful to this day.

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With a music video parodying ‘Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County’ – a reality TV show filmed in their hometown – the group demonstrated Ty Segall’s format-trashing tendencies from an early age. The band put out two albums together: a self-titled debut, and follow-up ‘Killed ‘Em Deader ‘N a Six Card Poker Hand’. The Epsilons’ grunge punk sound was what first brought Ty (and, indeed, the rest of the band, who went on to form Charlie & The Moonhearts, now called Moonhearts) to the attention of the public. However it wasn’t long before both Ty and Mikal continued to greener pastures.įorming The Epsilons together, Ty exchanged drums for guitar and took up vocals, cementing himself in the role of the ever-charismatic frontman. Calling themselves The Love This, the outfit consisted of Ty on drums, Mikal on saxophone, and another friend switching between bass guitar and synth.

Taking up drums at the age of thirteen, and getting his first guitar at fifteen, Ty Segall formed his first band with then high school friend – and now long time collaborator – Mikal Cronin. Sure, by the time we reach the end of this feature, chances are that Ty Segall could have a new band in the studio, another on tour, and a new solo record being saved to floppy disk, but until any of those are confirmed, there’s a wealth of old material to gently wade through, as we take a look back on Ty Segall’s non-stop history through garage rock n’ roll. Since ‘Emotional Mugger’ came out very recently indeed, we elected to do the diving for you. But with a musical history richer and more condensed than arguably any other artist of his standing, the challenge is its own reward. As such, diving into his back catalogue is a bit like entering a maze: there are countless directions to take, and all manner of tangents to veer off in not to mention a very strong chance of running in circles. When he’s not recording solo material or working with his much-celebrated band Fuzz, Ty has a seeming inability to sit still.

TY SEGALL TOUR HISTORY SERIES

“He is a collective of people wearing masks.” Given that the guy has eight solo albums, who knows how many EPs, and a seemingly endless series of bands, collaborations, and side projects that doesn’t stop bloody growing, that statement would explain an awful lot. “Ty Segall doesn’t actually exist,” the musician once admitted in an interview with SYFFAL. Never one to stick to convention, the artist has been performing and releasing music for over a decade – and there’s an incredible amount to show for it.

Whether he’s announcing his latest album by mailing out copies on VHS tape, releasing an EP pressed on a ‘playable pair of 3D glasses’, or lending his guitar and vocal proficiency as backing to The Kinks’ Dave Davies, Ty Segall is easily one of the most productive artists around.

Ty segall tour history