Kreative Kontrol - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Love this show! Vish has the best in-depth artist conversations. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be and independent artist, just listen to a few episodes of this show. Great conversations that are interesting whether you know the band or not.. Vish has great taste and only interviews artists he’s actually interested in. He does his homework, and is adept at getting folks to open up. And he’s hilarious. Great back catalogue as well.

Fantastic lineup of guests but some of these conversations, like the one with Ira of Yo La Tengo, are so awkward you can feel the tension over the airwaves. The conversation was mostly a one-sided rant by Vish about various concerns that bothered him. The funniest part was when he brought up children’s entertainers in the context of longevity which even Vish seemed to quickly understand was irrelevant at best, insulting at worst. In general I would like to hear more of the guests speaking about their music and less of the host’s myriad and largely irrelevant stories, rants, and otherwise.

I agree with some other reviewers - great guests, but the interviews need improvement. They could be so good if Vish would just pull it back a bit. Stop talking about yourself so much. Stop saying every thought that comes in your mind. Stop telling us who your famous friends are. Stop stepping on your guests’ answers and even your own questions. Just ask questions and let people talk! I appreciate this podcast and am hopeful it can get better.

Vish is such a great host and has cool guests and awesome conversations. Artists from any music genre, comedy writers and performers, what else?!
Keeps getting better.

While you might be enticed to listen due to the long list of quality guests, be forewarned that Vish (the host) likes to talk about himself. It sounds like he rationalizes the show as “a conversation,” but topics are often brought to a standstill while Vish jams in multiple personal anecdotes that are tangential to the topic. If you find Vish interesting, there’s a lot here for you. If you are interested in hearing from one of his guests, you’ll have to wait around for them to get their turn.

Many of these interviews are interesting in spite of the interviewer. The host seems to struggle to cede the spotlight to the guests. Instead of questions unfolding organically from the interview, many of these interviews seem to follow pre-planned and often disjointed outlines that often reveal more about the host than the musician being interviewed.