Coffee, pastries, a quiet patio at a café in Brooklyn early on a Saturday afternoon in late June, and a conversation with one of the most essential musicians and affable guys in indie rock, Ty Segall. Other than it being a little too hot for only 12:30pm, what is not to like? Well, only the news, and one giant cloud that on this otherwise very sunny day hangs over not so much our meeting, but the country in general. Twenty-four hours earlier, a Donald Trump-packed U.S. Supreme Court did what millions had feared, and struck down Roe vs Wade, the landmark decision which for nearly 50 years had affirmed a woman’s right to an abortion. When the news came down, Ty and his Freedom Band–Ben Boye, Emmett Kelly, and longtime Laguna Beach homies Mikal Cronin and Charles Moothart–were in Philadelphia. A day later, Segall is still, mostly, at a loss for words. “It’s just so sad. And terrifying, and horrible,” he offers. “I didn’t even want to play yesterday. And it’s a hard one. Sometimes I just don’t know what to say.” The Philly show did go on, as did one hours after our interview, at Brooklyn Steel. While Segall stayed silent on the matter from the stage–he’s long made a point of barely speaking at all during live performances–there was plenty of escapism and fury to be found in the music, for a crowd likely looking for both. “It’s hard to find your place, as a person on stage,… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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