Local musician/DJ/engineer Andrew “Buck Wilders” McCalla has been getting a lot of attention as of late for producing excellent recordings by the likes of the Warble, the Dirty Streets, the Oscars, Girls of the Gravitron, Tanks, the Ultra-cats and a litany of others.
We’ve already got a story on McCalla in this week’s Flyer, but there was a ton of interesting interview material that we weren’t able to fit in the paper. Here are a few select outtakes from our conversation with McCalla:
On developing an interest in music:
“When I was young, my best friend’s older brother inherited his father’s record collection. It was all classic rock stuff. I would hear him playing those records all the time and was really drawn to the music as well as the vinyl itself. As soon as I got a wiff of Jimi Hendrix and the like, my musical taste started to bloom. The older music stuck out pretty hard compared to the commercial hits of the ’80s that I was surrounded by. I then started a pretty extensive cassette collection of ’60s rock. At 15 my mother gave me her old turntable and record collection. I then started going to thrift stores, Nostalgia World, River Records and Shangri-la Records in search of wax. The better records I found, the more hooked I got. Now I’m a full on music junkie.”
